Three minutes is not a long time, and a short time is not a short time.
But on a battlefield where fighter planes are fleeting, three minutes may mean a dramatic change in the situation of the battle.
This is the battlefield in front of you.
After finally surviving for a minute, he unexpectedly appeared on the battlefield again.
Like a lost dog, the attacking troops suddenly began to turn around and retreat.
On the defensive line that the garrison had just occupied, a large number of figures suddenly appeared, rushing out of the position with guns in hand, and rushing toward the attacking troops in a dense and dense manner.
The "dong dong dong..." sound that made him feel nervous also stopped, and more than a dozen tongues of fire disappeared instantly, as if they had never appeared.
"Da da da……"
The familiar sound of machine gun fire soon sounded, and tongues of flame appeared on the battlefield again.
Before Colonel Takahashi could breathe a sigh of relief, his face became tense again.
Although the flames that appeared in the night were all familiar light machine gun flames, there were many of them, twice as many as the anti-aircraft machine guns just now.
The guard battalion, the third battalion, had more than forty light machine guns held in the arms of the machine gunners and used as submachine guns, assaulting and firing at the same time.
The remaining little Japs wanted to turn around and block the Eighth Route Army's counterattack.
But there were too few of them, and all the heavy machine gunners and gunners were lost.
Heavy weapons lay on the ground with no one using them. The bullets fired by two to three hundred rifles failed to form a fire net and were defeated by dozens of machine guns in one hit.
After a few dissatisfied teams who voluntarily stayed behind were overrun, no more little Japs turned around and showed off their talents.
He ran quickly towards the station, fearing that he would be overtaken by bullets fired by the Eighth Route Army if he ran too slowly.
"Failed..."
Colonel Takahashi had a sullen face and had to accept this fact, and then began to clean up the mess and minimize the losses of defeat.
"Artillery unit, fire immediately to intercept the Eighth Route Army's counterattack force."
"Chief of Staff, immediately organize troops to establish a defense line here and respond to the retreating troops."
"Boom boom boom..."
After staying up for more than a minute, the long-lost sound of gunfire finally sounded behind me.
Nearly twenty artillery shells fell from the sky and exploded in the middle of the counterattack troops of the garrison.
Fire splashed everywhere, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and dozens of soldiers were blown away on the spot.
The offensives of the Guard Battalion and the Third Battalion had to be suspended, and the soldiers exposed on the surface of the position jumped into the trenches and bomb craters around them to avoid artillery fire.
Li Hao shouted with a look of pain on his face: "Those little devils are better off."
"Order the guard battalion to retreat, and the third battalion will continue to advance along the communication trenches to recapture all the positions we lost yesterday."
After looking at the time, he continued to order: "It's about two o'clock in the morning, and there are still four hours until dawn."
"Captain Huang, you immediately organize local troops, guerrillas, and reserves to enter the positions and repair the destroyed positions."
"Time is limited, so we definitely can't build it as solidly as before the war."
"I require that each line of defense be built with three anti-gun holes to hide an infantry platoon."
"Then there are the communication trenches, ensuring that every communication trench is unobstructed to facilitate the retreat of the troops."
"After daybreak, each defense line was stationed with a platoon, equipped with more grenades and landmines. After the Japanese artillery preparations were completed, they first laid mines on the position, then engaged the enemy, brought the little Japs closer to attack, and directly greeted them with grenades."
"Each soldier is given three grenades. After throwing them, he retreats from the traffic trench. No one can be reluctant to fight."
"There are nine lines of defense in total. Each line of defense will be defended for twenty minutes and thirty Japanese will be killed."
"It will take at least one morning and three hundred soldiers for the Japanese to attack here and continue to attack our remaining defense lines."
"There are still nine lines of defense behind us. The Japanese will definitely not have a chance to break through all of them before dark."
"As long as there is still a line of defense in our hands after dark, the troops can continue to attack the Japanese army at night under the cover of darkness."
Huang Sheng became more and more excited as he listened.
Li Hao's order opened his mind and he was full of confidence in tomorrow's battle, and he shouted excitedly.
"Don't worry, captain, the Japs will never be able to capture the position we just recaptured without losing two squadrons."
At the Japanese military station, Colonel Takahashi stood in the headquarters tent with a sullen face and said nothing.
Several officers from the brigade and above stood in two rows, all with their heads lowered and not daring to look at the regimental commander.
The tent door curtain was suddenly opened, and the chief of staff walked in with a few pieces of paper, his face looking very ugly.
"Have you done all the statistics?" Colonel Takahashi asked, staring at the chief of staff who walked in.
"Hi……"
The chief of staff stopped three meters away from the wing leader and answered with his head lowered, not daring to look into his eyes.
"Tell me, how many imperial troops did we lose tonight..." Colonel Takahashi asked bluntly.
More than a dozen people in the tent looked at the chief of staff at the same time.
After hesitating for a long time, the chief of staff mustered up the courage to answer: "The entire garrison stationed on the first line of defense was destroyed."
"The two squadrons defending the second line of defense were also completely destroyed, and only 23 people managed to escape."
"Only 359 people from a fully-equipped brigade of reinforcements were withdrawn, and all the others were wiped out or missing."
"A total of two mortar squadrons, two heavy machine gun squadrons, and four infantry squadrons were lost. In addition, four infantry squadrons suffered more than half of their casualties."
"The artillery participating in the battle also suffered considerable losses. A total of two mountain guns, one infantry gun, and one field gun were destroyed, and 59 gunners were killed."
The Chief of Staff's voice became softer and quieter as he spoke. After he finished speaking, the originally quiet tent became completely silent.
Apart from everyone's gasping, there was no other sound.
Colonel Takahashi was about to be furious.
Not only was the victory gained during the day yesterday not preserved, he also lost nearly two brigades, losing his wife and losing troops.
Coupled with yesterday's losses, nearly half of the imperial troops under his command suffered casualties.
The price is too high.
More importantly, after paying such a heavy price, he was still running around in circles, blocked by the garrison and unable to advance or retreat at the edge of the base area.
"boom……"
Colonel Takahashi punched the table next to him, his eyes were red and red, as if he could spit fire.
After looking at his subordinates one by one, he gritted his teeth and cursed: "Baghe Yalu, we must avenge this."
"Pass my order to the troops, take time to rest, and begin the attack at dawn tomorrow morning."
"The heavy artillery brigade and the tank brigade are all participating in the battle. I want to completely destroy the positions in front of us so that the Eighth Route Army will have no positions to use."
"The Imperial Association Army, which is cooperating with the operation, will also participate in the battle tomorrow, cooperating with the Imperial Army to break through the Eighth Route Army's defense line and advance into their base area."
At the third battalion command post, everyone was immersed in the joy of winning the battle.
Huang Sheng took the statistical list and reported excitedly.
"Captain, we found a total of 1,356 corpses of little Japs on the battlefield, plus the little Japs who were blown into pieces by thunder cannons. We will kill at least 1,500 little Japs tonight."
"In addition, a large amount of weapons and ammunition were seized, including a total of 12 intact mortars, 14 heavy machine guns, 78 crooked light machine guns, 59 grenade launchers, and 638 rifles."
"The remaining weapons were all destroyed, and there are no statistics for the time being."
"The ammunition was all carried by the little Japs. Because we used a large number of mine cannons and anti-aircraft machine guns, many Japs were killed before they had a chance to shoot, or were killed by us after a few shots. Most of the ammunition they carried was seized by us.
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"Preliminary statistics show that there are more than 130,000 rifle bullets, more than 3,000 grenades, nearly 20,000 heavy machine gun bullets and more than 500 mortar shells."
