Reinforcements from both sides were put into the battlefield almost at about the same time, and fierce fighting continued, but the machine-gun and mortar units of the KPA battalions took great risks and set up positions on the battlefield.

Fortunately, at this time, most of the battlefield was under the control of the People's Army, and the area where the two sides were engaged only occupied less than half of the position, so the machine gun and mortar units could still find space to arrange their positions, but they were also very close to the battlefield, because they were machine gun positions, and some were even less than 30 meters away from the battlefield.

In the army units of the People's Army, the proportion of machine guns is very high, which is of course the reason why the East China government took the lead in manufacturing general-purpose machine guns, so the machine gun company under the battalion has a total of 18 general-purpose machine guns, 2 machine guns form a position, a total of 9 machine gun positions are arranged, and after the machine gun positions are arranged, the machine gunners also immediately began to strike at the Japanese army.

Although the two sides were engaged in hand-to-hand combat at this time, it was not a melee, and the general array of the two armies could still be clearly distinguished, after all, both sides were strictly trained armies, not a rabble. Of course, the machine gunner did not carry out continuous strafing, but used a 3-point short fire method to shoot at the more concentrated places of the Japanese army, although this shooting method reduced the lethality, but the accuracy of the shooting was greatly improved, and it could also reduce the accidental damage to their own side. Therefore, the participation of machine guns in the battle immediately caused considerable casualties to the Japanese army.

However, the Japanese army soon reacted, and immediately attacked the machine gun position frequently, and the People's Army also paid great attention to protecting the machine gun position, because it was a new People's Army that joined the battlefield, and it was completely arranged with the machine gun position as the core, so it did not give the Japanese army an opportunity to take advantage of, there were several local battles, and the Japanese army was only 2 from the machine gun position. 30 meters away, but it was blocked by the KPA death, unable to get a step closer, on the contrary, the machine gun team of the KPA under the cover of the army, taking advantage of the close distance between the two sides, frequently killed Japanese soldiers with short point fire, and a machine gun team is composed of 6 people, in addition to the machine gunner and archer, the other 4 people are equipped with rifles, although it is only a short barrel *, but at a distance of tens of meters, it is completely sufficient, sometimes the defense line is broken, and it can also be held up for a while.

But the Japanese army was also a battle-hardened army, and after finding that they could not fight hard, they quickly found the weakness of the machine-gun position. Since the position of the machine gun position is generally relatively high, the machine gunner must also fully expose the shoulder and chest to shoot, which is a fairly obvious target on the battlefield, of course, if it is on the general battlefield, the machine gun position is often more than 200 meters away from the opponent, and the machine gunner often changes positions, so it is better. But now some machine gun positions are only a few dozen meters away from the enemy, so many Japanese soldiers have also aimed at machine gunners, and also hit many machine gunners. Due to the fact that they are machine gun positions that are closer to the battlefield, some will sacrifice 2 or 3 machine gunners in a row.

However, despite this, the machine gun team of the People's Army still firmly held its position, and when the machine gunner was killed, the machine gun deputy immediately came up, and when the deputy was killed, the second deputy was on top, anyway, there were six people in a machine gun team, and as long as they were not all killed, someone would always come up to ensure that the machine gun's strike strength remained unchanged. Of course, the machine gun crew will not be beaten invariably, and will use the method of constantly changing their position to deal with the Japanese army.

The two armies fought fiercely for nearly an hour, and the Japanese army was finally outnumbered by the People's Army because of its firepower, and gradually became a little unable to support it. In fact, the Japanese army did not want to strengthen its firepower, but the Japanese army was equipped with heavy machine guns such as Makqin and Haqikaisi, which were extremely inconvenient to carry, and there was no place for the Japanese army to arrange positions on the battlefield. The KPA controlled more than half of the positions, and although some of the machine-gun positions were located in the forward positions, half of the machine-gun positions were located in relatively safe positions in the rear, and the Japanese army obviously did not have this condition.

On the other hand, after more than 2 hours of fierce white-knuckle fighting, the soldiers of the People's Army gradually learned how to give full play to their advantages in firepower in white-knuckle combat, in fact, in daily training, the People's Army has a large number of exercises in white-knuckle combat with Type 96 pistols, * * but in the past, the opponents of the People's Army were bandits and rogues, not only the combat effectiveness was extremely poor, but the fighting spirit was also insufficient, and the accumulated experience was not enough to deal with the Japanese army.

According to the requirements of the People's Army's white-knuckle warfare, the soldiers who use the Type 96 pistol must fight and retreat on the battlefield, keep a safe distance of about 10 meters from the enemy, and other soldiers must also actively protect them, but in the battle with bandits, as long as they can kill 2 or 3 bandits with the Type 96 pistol at close range, dozens of bandits can collapse and escape, so they are not good enough to protect the Type 96 pistol soldiers and keep a distance, but the bandits' combat effectiveness is too poor, so there is no big problem, so no one cares too much.

But against the Japanese army it was completely different, because no matter how many Japanese soldiers were killed, other Japanese soldiers would still rush upwards one after another, and even more, at the beginning, the KPA was very unaccustomed to this tactic, and there were many squad leaders, and the squad deputy was killed because there was no extreme time to retreat, or the protection of other soldiers was not extremely extreme. However, with the gradual development of the war, the soldiers of the People's Army gradually adapted to the Japanese army's charging tactics that were not afraid of life and death, and began to apply what they had trained in peacetime to actual combat, and gradually became handy. In this way, the Japanese soldiers who only relied on their courage and blood naturally could not resist, and they were squeezed by the people's army, and constantly retreated.

After the distance was widened, the KPA was able to give full play to its advantage in firepower, and the Japanese army was naturally more difficult to resist, and was finally pushed out of the position by the KPA. Although the Japanese army was unwilling and wanted to fight back, the KPA's machine-gun positions finally began to exert their power, and the tongues of fire sprayed by each machine gun were intertwined into a tight fire net, sprinkling bullets on the Japanese soldiers like a dense rain, and ruthlessly harvesting the lives of Japanese soldiers.

At the same time, the KPA sent a battalion of machine-gun units to reinforce the firepower. Because Luo Yue watched the battle situation through the aerial shooting of the drone, he saw the changes in the battle situation at a glance, and when he found that the victory machine appeared, he immediately ordered Yi Xun to send another battalion of machine gun troops to go up immediately.

It should be said that this machine-gun unit was indeed very timely, and when they ascended the 203 heights, they did not care about choosing a machine-gun position, but set up machine guns on the edge of the position to shoot, so that the firepower of the People's Army was immediately doubled, just when the momentum of the Japanese counterattack was stopped.

At this time, the Japanese army finally couldn't support it, and they retreated back one after another, withdrawing from the 203 heights, and the machine gun unit took the opportunity to pursue and shoot for a while, and the mortar unit could finally show its skills, chasing the retreating Japanese army, and carried out several rounds of artillery bombardment, which also caused some casualties to the Japanese army.

At 11 o'clock in the afternoon, the KPA finally succeeded in capturing Heights 203 and obtained this key point for attacking the Battle of Arthur.

And Luo Yue also immediately ordered to immediately set up positions on the 203 heights, occupy key points, in case the Japanese army recaptured the position, and pulled 6 guns from the regimental artillery battalion to the high ground, on the one hand, to strengthen the defense of the position, on the other hand, it is also to occupy a condescending advantage, shelling other high grounds

At 12 o'clock, the Laohugou Mountain position was also broken by the People's Army, at this time only the Dadingshan position and the North Sun Ditch position were still in the hands of the Japanese army, but from the overall situation, the 203 Heights had been captured by the People's Army, and the high point on the battlefield was obtained, and the other two positions could be shelled on the high ground, so it was only a matter of time before these two positions were captured.

But at this moment, the Japanese launched a counteroffensive on the 203 heights.

Of course, Nogi Noshinori knew the importance of the 203 Heights to Lushun, and he had promised Dashanyan that he would guard Lushun for 1 month, and it was only half a day, the 203 Heights were lost, and the 203 Heights were lost, and Lushun would definitely not be able to last for a month, and he must have no shame to see Dashanyan, so Nogi Noshinori immediately organized troops in an attempt to launch a counteroffensive and recapture the 2 0 3 Heights while the People's Army had just occupied the Heights and had not yet gained a stable foothold.

Before the attack, Nogi Noshinori ordered the artillery regiment to open artillery bombardment on the 203 heights. Because the fundamental reason for the Japanese army's loss of the 203 Heights was that the KPA's naval large-caliber naval guns bombarded the 2 0 3 Heights, completely destroying the defenses on the 2 0 3 Heights, so Nogi Noshinori also wanted to do the same, first carry out a wave of artillery bombardment on the 203 Heights, and then launch an attack. Although Nogi Noshinori did not have large-caliber artillery in his hands, there were still a few 152-mm guns, which were considered large-caliber in army artillery, and there were no decent fortifications on the 203 heights now.

Of course, Nogi Noshinori also thought that as soon as the artillery fired, it would reveal its position and be hit by the KPA's artillery, which would be supported by the fire of the KPA's warships. However, at this time, it can only take a risk, and Nogi Noshinori also thinks that as long as the artillery bombardment is not long, and the retreat at the extreme time, there is still a great chance to avoid the blow of the People's Army, and it will take a certain amount of time for the Bijing People's Army to observe its own artillery position, so Nogi Noshinori set the time of the artillery bombardment at 10 minutes and the retreat time at 15 minutes, which is completely sufficient.

So after Nogi Noshinori gave the order, the artillery regiment also immediately opened fire and launched an artillery bombardment on the 203 heights, although they were all small and medium-sized guns, but after all, they were superior in number, so the momentum was quite amazing.

However, less than two minutes after the artillery regiment opened fire, a shell with a whistling shell fell to a place less than 200 meters on the southwest edge of the artillery position, and a fierce explosion occurred from a distance, and on the artillery position, the shaking of the earth and the strong wind formed by the blast wave of the explosion were clearly felt; and about 40 seconds later, another shell fell, and at this time, only about 60 meters away from the artillery position, more than 10 soldiers near the landing point of the artillery shell fell to the ground, and two guns were knocked down.

About 30 seconds later, a sharp sound of breaking the air sounded continuously, and more than 10 shells fell from the air towards the Japanese artillery position.