Chief of Staff Zhang Haidao: "Division commander, I see almost, it's time to fight back, now the attention of the devils has been attracted, and if we continue to fight like this, it will be bad for us, the bullets of the machine gun are now only more than 3 percent, if the machine gun bullets are all gone, and there will be other accidents later, we will not be able to do it, we must always leave a little." ”

Li Lixin shook his head and said: "Wait a little longer, when the attack of this group of Japanese troops is over, go back and exchange the next group of Japanese troops to attack, that is the time for us to counterattack, because when the Japanese army enters the army to exchange attacks, it is when they are the weakest, and we can launch an attack at this time, so that we can be sure to defeat the Japanese army in one fell swoop." ”

Deputy division commander Yang Maolin said: "At this time, why haven't these Japanese troops withdrawn to replace them?"

Li Lixin scratched his head and said, "Who knows? ”

At this time, Zhang Haidao: "Look, the army behind the Japanese army has been dispatched. ”

Li Lixin and Yang Maolin were stunned, and then immediately picked up the binoculars and looked in the direction of the Japanese position, only to see a large number of Japanese troops coming out of the position and advancing forward.

In fact, Oshima Hisashi had long wanted to replace the 18th Brigade and let the rested 6th Brigade attack again, because the 18th Brigade had fought too long and suffered too much loss, but the 18th Brigade had captured two heights of the People's Army in a row, and now it was attacking the A3 position of the People's Army with all its might, and it was about to break through the left flank position of the People's Army with the strength of one brigade, and replacing the 18th Brigade at this time would probably damage the morale of the 18th Brigade, so Oshima Hisunao originally planned to wait for the 18th Brigade to capture the A3 Heights and establish a full success, and then withdraw them, and the attack of the 18th Brigade was blocked in front of the A3 position, Oshima Hisunao had no choice but to withdraw the 18th Brigade in advance and send the 6th Brigade to continue the attack.

Originally, the exchange of troops was to withdraw the attacking troops to their positions and then the new attacking troops to attack from the positions, which was of course the safest way to prevent the enemy from launching a counterattack while the offensive and defensive forces were switching. However, the main position of the Japanese army is about 7 kilometers away from the A3 position, and it will take at least half an hour to go and go, which will give the People's Army time to breathe and adjust, and Oshima Hisanoo thinks that the defenders of the A3 position should be the end of the strong crossbow at this time, and the army only needs to add a little more force to take the A3 position, so at this time, the People's Army must not be given any respite, so Oshima Hisanoo decided to take the risk of alternating the offensive and defensive forces in front of the battlefield, so as to ensure that the interruption time of the Japanese offensive is controlled within 10 minutes, of course, Oshima Hisanoo also believes that the People's Army is now unable to counterattack, or even if there is a counterattack, with the well-trained Japanese army, they were able to resist.

"Ordered 82 mortars to be ready, target 2500 meters. ”

Looking at the Japanese troops gradually approaching the KPA position in the distance, as well as the Japanese troops retreating from the attack, Li Lixin also issued his own orders to the KPA positions on the left and right flanks.

The maximum firing range of the 82mm mortar is 3,200 meters, but the actual effective range is between 2,200-2,600.

It is true that the Japanese army has undergone rigorous training, and even though it is switching between attack and defense on the battlefield, it is still in good order and each performing its own duties. The retreating soldiers very consciously separated to the two sides, leaving the middle position to the army that took over their own attack, so that the army could stagger and not appear to crowd each other and block the advancing and retreating armies.

If this alternation continues, it will take only 10 minutes at most for the Japanese army to complete the alternation of advancing and retreating troops, and immediately launch another attack on the KPA position.

But at this moment, the KPA's counterattack finally began, because the place where the Japanese army carried out the army rotation was exactly within the range most desired by the KPA, so the KPA naturally would not let go of this fighter, so the 2nd Regiment of the left flank position immediately ordered to shell the Japanese army.

At this time, the 82 mortars, which had been silent on the battlefield for more than 3 hours, finally won the opportunity to raise their eyebrows, desperately pouring shells into the Japanese army, often the previous shells had not yet landed, and the shells behind had been discharged.

Because the troops advancing and retreating at this morning are alternately between them, although they are separated independently, they also invisibly squeeze each other's space, whether it is the advancing or retreating army, the queue has become very dense, so after the shells fall, the lethality has also been fully exerted, and the Japanese soldiers within a radius of 10 meters of the shells have all been blown up to the point of flesh and blood, broken bones and tendons, and the explosion is dense for a time, and the human voices are screaming.

The maximum rate of fire of the 82 mortar can reach 16 rounds per minute, but on the actual battlefield, it can generally be 8-10 rounds per minute, so that 32 shells can be used up in 3-4 minutes, so in less than 5 minutes, the 2 mortar units of the 82 regiment fired a total of more than 700 rounds of 82 mm shells, basically covering the Japanese troops of the alternating 2 wings.

Originally, the advance and retreat of the Japanese army were in their own way and in an orderly manner, but after being hit by such intensive artillery fire, they could no longer maintain their composure, so some people ran back, some people dodged left and right, and the advancing and retreating teams were inevitably in chaos.

The KPA on the left flank rushed out of the defensive position and advanced towards the Japanese at the beginning of the shelling, and by the end of the shelling, the KPA had already approached the Japanese less than 300 meters and immediately launched a charge against the Japanese.

At this time, the Japanese army was completely chaotic, and although there were individual Japanese soldiers or small groups of Japanese troops who were stubbornly resisting the attack of the People's Army, as an army as a whole, the Japanese army was completely unable to organize effective resistance, and even the white-knuckle warfare that the Japanese army had always been proud of was not enough to match the opponent of the People's Army, and as a result, countless people were killed and wounded, and corpses were ambushed all over the field.

On the right flank, although the Japanese army also carried out the alternation of attack and retreat on the battlefield, because the right flank was not the focus of the Japanese army's attack, and it was not in a hurry to maintain the offensive, so it was far away from the place where the alternation was carried out, about 3.2 kilometers away from the right flank position, which was exactly the range limit of the 82 mortars, and the People's Army did not rush to shoot artillery, but waited for the Japanese army to complete the alternation, and the attacking troops entered about 2500 meters, before opening the artillery attack, and did not run out all the shells, only half of them were used. Subsequently, the KPA also fought its way out of its position and launched an attack on the Japanese army.

Although only half of the shells were fired, it still dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army, and the formation was also disorganized, but it was still able to maintain a part of the organization, but the KPA on the right flank did not directly rush up to engage in close combat with the Japanese army, and still maintained the range of the rifle, so that the KPA grenadiers and 60 mortars also had room to play.

Although the power of the grenadier and the 60 mortar is smaller, but the advantage is that the firepower is more intensive, and now the two sides are completely in the field, without the slightest cover, so the lethality of the grenadier and the 60 mortar can also be fully played, not to mention that the firepower of the People's Army is not weak, at this time the advantage of the general-purpose machine gun is also reflected, and it can act with the synchronous soldiers, and the Japanese army was also beaten with heavy casualties. Originally, before the two sides engaged, the Japanese army was already in some confusion after a bombardment, but now it has been hit by heavy fire from the People's Army, and the chaotic trend is also out of control. Seeing that the Japanese army was completely in disarray, the KPA launched a final charge against the Japanese army.

At this time, Lieutenant General Hisunao Oshima, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, was completely stunned, and he could see very clearly the battle between the left and right formations, and the fierceness of the fire of the KPA artillery greatly exceeded his imagination, and the artillery pieces on each position were probably not less than 5 0, and it was not impossible to even reach 7 0 guns. But how could the People's Army have so many artillery pieces? If three or 40 artillery pieces can be concealed without being strong, but 1 0 0 artillery pieces cannot be hidden, how exactly are the scouts scouting? Thinking of this, Hisunao Oshima hated to shoot all the scouts.

But now Oshima Hisunao did not have time to hold the scouts responsible, because the Japanese troops on the left and right flanks could not resist the reaction of the KPA, and now it was only because of the large number of Japanese troops that blocked the KPA's breakthrough path that they could not attack the Japanese position, but it could not be stopped for long, after all, the Japanese troops on both flanks had been defeated.

At present, in the position of the Japanese army, there is only one wing that has just been withdrawn from the battlefield on the right flank, and the number is only more than 2 0 0 0 0 people, once the People's Army highlights the containment of the Japanese troops on both flanks and launches an attack on the Japanese position, whether the Japanese army can resist it, Oshima Hisinao's heart has no bottom in his heart. Of course, at this point, it is impossible for the Japanese army to break through the defense line of the People's Army, and now we can only see how to end this battle with dignity.

At this time, someone had already suggested to Hisunao Oshima that he should retreat quickly. But Oshima also knew that if he retreated now, not only would he lose the battle completely, but also that the defeated troops on the left and right would inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and if he held his position, there would still be a glimmer of hope, because now the defeated soldiers had returned to the position, and if he could try his best to contain the defeated soldiers and try his best to hold the position, as long as he could withstand this round of attack by the People's Army, the Japanese army might be able to end the battle in a more dignified way.

But at this moment, I saw another army rushing out of the KPA position, and from the middle of the battlefield on the left and right flanks, it went straight to the Japanese position.