"There is a way to fight! Just now it was not ripe for mortars to join the battle. Now it is!" Liu Senyun answered with certainty.
Jin Yunian suddenly realized and shouted: "Company Commander, what you mean is: use mortars to hit the enemy's heavy machine gun positions. Their heavy machine guns will not be able to shoot at us so unscrupulously. We can then block the Japanese and puppet troops head-on under the cover of the artillery squad."
Attacking troops, good idea!"
Surprisingly, Liu Senyun shook his head and rejected it!
"No, we won't attack the Japanese heavy machine gun positions, but directly attack their attacking troops!"
"What you said before reminds me that unless we have a way to injure the Japs, the casualties they will suffer from a small fight are nothing compared to rescuing Lingqiu City. They will ignore us and continue to reinforce Lingqiu City.
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"On the way here, I have been thinking about a problem. How can we injure the Japanese soldiers and make them feel the pain, so that they have to stop and deal with us, which will delay their time to reinforce Lingqiu!"
"Finally, I thought, there is only one way, and that is to kill a large number of their combat troops!"
"Think about it, if we kill only a few combat troops, even if they arrive in Lingqiu City in time, their role will be very limited!"
Just when Liu Senyun was about to continue talking, the guard squad leader spoke.
"Company Commander, the Japs have begun to attack, and an entire infantry squadron has been dispatched!"
"Well done!" Liu Senyun's face quickly returned to seriousness and he ordered in a deep voice!
"There's an infantry squadron just up here. The little Japs really think highly of us!"
"The artillery squad, aim at the foot of the mountain. As soon as the Japanese offensive troops enter the strike range, they will fire. Each time they fire five rounds, they will fire rapidly. Then they will move to a new artillery position and continue to fire!"
"The grenadiers of each platoon's fire squad also fired, and as soon as the Japanese troops rushed to the foot of the mountain, they would launch grenades!"
"Each grenade team must move to a new position after firing two grenades before they can continue shooting!"
"Our grenade can hit the Japanese attacking troops, and the grenade equipped by the Japanese attacking troops can definitely hit us. And their grenadiers are definitely more powerful than ours. We want to use grenade to kill more
The little devil must not be locked by their grenade!"
"Otherwise, not only will we not be able to kill the Japanese, we will not even be able to save our own lives!"
Jin Yunian asked: "Then how do we fight? The enemy's offensive firepower is too fierce, and the soldiers have no way to show their faces!"
"There are also mortars that the Japanese used to shell us just now. Although they haven't fired yet, they will definitely fire when we counterattack later to hit us from the sky and cover their attacking troops!"
"We won't move!" Liu Senyun replied!
"All the riflemen are hiding and preparing grenades. When the enemy breaks through the interception of mortars and grenade launchers, we will explode with grenades without showing our heads! If there are still enemy soldiers alive who can break through the interception of our grenades, the light and heavy machine guns will be fired again!"
"Only by bringing the enemy closer and killing them, preferably under our noses, can we minimize the threat posed to us by the enemy's heavy machine guns and mortars!"
Jin Yunian suddenly understood and replied: "I understand, company commander!"
"In close combat, the Japanese will worry about accidentally injuring their own people through artillery fire, and then they will not dare to fire!"
"But this is also very risky. When the enemy approaches, the grenades they are equipped with can be thrown at us, causing a lot of damage to us!"
Liu Senyun replied seriously: "The solution to this problem is also very simple, that is, we are faster than the Japanese! Before they throw out the grenades, our light and heavy machine guns will beat them into pieces!"
The Japanese army attacked the position and saw that the attacking troops were almost at the foot of the mountain, but there was still no movement halfway up the mountain.
Everyone’s tense nerves instantly relaxed!
"Boom boom..."
At this moment, two artillery shells suddenly exploded in the middle of the attacking troops!
Under the darkness of night, the fireball from the explosion instantly illuminated the surrounding area!
At least three imperial soldiers fell to the ground under the gaze of the captain!
The captain's face dropped and he cursed loudly!
"Bageya Road, I didn't expect the Eighth Route Army to be equipped with mortars!"
"The artillery squadron will counterattack immediately. Use twice the number of mortars to kill them!"
"Boom boom..."
While waiting anxiously, two rounds of artillery shells continued to hit the middle of the attacking troops at the foot of the mountain. Soldiers continued to be bombed and fell on the offensive road!
The captain saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart!
Liu Senyun was right. The only thing that made the captain heartbroken about the entire mopping up force was that the combat troops suffered too many casualties!
The troops are deep in the base of the Independent Regiment, and the Eighth Route Army may appear from everywhere and launch a fatal blow to them!
If the combat troops suffer too many casualties, even if they successfully return to Lingqiu to aid, they won't be able to help the brigade commander much!
If you're not lucky, safely evacuating the independent regiment's base area will be a problem!
Of course, we are still far from suffering heavy casualties among combat troops.
But as the commander of the entire army, he had to take precautions and try to avoid such accidents!
"Rumble..."
Several dull shelling sounds finally sounded behind him, and the captain's tense nerves suddenly relaxed!
He believed in the strength of the artillery under his command. The same number of artillery fires could suppress the Eighth Route Army, not to mention that he dispatched twice the number of mortars!
But the good mood lasted only a few seconds and then disappeared.
"Boom boom boom..."
The explosions among the attacking troops did not stop, but became more and more dense!
"What's going on? Aren't the artillery counterattacking? Why are the attacking troops still being bombed?"
The adjutant frowned and stared at the battlefield, reacting quickly!
"Sir, that's not an artillery shell explosion, it's a grenade fired from a grenade. The Eighth Route Army guarding the mountain pass is also equipped with a large number of grenade launchers!"
This time the captain did not curse, but coldly snorted and ordered: "Playing with grenades in front of the imperial army, these Eighth Route Army soldiers are a bit green!"
"The attacking force is equipped with six grenade launchers. They will definitely counterattack on their own! But it's not enough. Order the First Squadron to gather all the grenade launchers to reinforce the attacking force!"
"I want the Eighth Route Army to know that the Imperial Army is the ancestor of grenades!"
"Hi!" the adjutant replied immediately!
The Japanese army responded quickly, and the grenades were thrown at the mountainside as if they were free!
However, what surprised the captain was that the grenade that hit the attacking troops' heads did not disappear!
Not only that, the sound of shell explosions that stopped for less than two minutes also started!
The power of artillery shells is several times that of grenades, and it is highly lethal. If a cannon shell hits the middle of the attacking troops, it will definitely achieve victory!
Seeing this, the captain became angry again.
He yelled: "What do artillerymen do? Why haven't we killed those two mortars yet?"
"The casualties they caused to the attacking troops were too great. The artillery continued to fight back. I will give them another chance. This time I must kill them!"
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