Chapter 256: Forcibly crossing the Yuanshui
Time was quietly passing, and Hai Zhizhi and Li Fan, who were the first wave of charge, had already put the raft into the river, and all the soldiers were loaded with bullets and bayonets, ready for battle. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The time that passed finally came to the scheduled time for the attack, Lu Daoyuan picked up the phone and said, "Order, the attack begins!" ā
As soon as the words fell, the two artillery battalions and one heavy artillery battalion, which had already stuffed the shells into the barrels, violently pulled the gun ropes in their hands, only to hear a dull roar, and the meteor-like fires violently tore apart the heavy night and flew towards the Japanese positions on the other side of the river.
At this moment, Hai Zhizhi and Li Fan shouted, and all the departments began to board the ship, and the sappers rowed quickly towards the Japanese position across the river!
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Behind the Japanese position was a village, and a large number of Japanese soldiers were sleeping in the houses in the village, only to see a large caliber shell coming in from the roof, and many Japanese soldiers were torn to pieces while still sleeping.
Similarly, on the guard positions at the front, dozens of mountain artillery guns bombarded their positions, and explosions roared throughout the positions.
"Boom"!
Hearing a loud bang, a Japanese soldier who had just run out of his clothes was directly blown up by a shell, and the dense shrapnel blurred his flesh and blood in the chest.
The explosions continued, and some of the heavy machine gun nests on the Japanese positions were taken care of, and shells whistled in, and the entire Japanese forward positions were devastatedly bombed at the beginning.
In the depths of the Japanese position, there is a reserve artillery position, dozens of mountain guns are parked here, and behind them are some tents of the opponent's shells, the same, a series of meteors shot into these tents, a huge explosion one after another, and the huge fire can be seen by Lu Daoyuan on the other side of the river!
The first round of attacks caused huge casualties, and the Japanese troops hurriedly turned on their searchlights and shone towards the river, only to see hundreds of fishing boats and rafts on the river speeding towards them.
However, the Japanese soon found out that they were making a fool again, and in the moments that these seven or eight searchlights were lit, they became the target of mortars on the riverside!
A series of small-caliber shells whistled and flew over again, and in the roar, all the searchlights of these Japanese soldiers were shattered, and the surrounding Japanese soldiers were also locked and bombed by artillery!
The Japanese army panicked, hurriedly entered the forward position, opened fire, and in the panic, a series of machine guns also fired aimlessly and frantically across the river!
Fortunately, the bomb shield was deployed before, and the Japanese machine-gun fire did not have a good effect, but exposed the continuous machine-gun fire again, and the mortars on the front quickly locked it on, opened fire fiercely, and one shell roared into it, and the Japanese position exploded again, and many Japanese machine guns and fire points were seriously damaged in the firelight.
At this time, Haizhizhi and they also reached the center of the river, and some machine gunners on the front bullet shelter board set up Czech light machine guns against the firing holes and began to shoot fiercely at the Japanese positions.
The Japanese positions were exposed to the sky, but the Japanese had limited vision and hurriedly fired a flare into the sky, but they were in a hurry and could not effectively organize the troops crossing the river.
Zhao Jianying put down the binoculars and said, "Fire!" ā
As soon as the words fell, the mortars that had been prepared for a long time opened fire fiercely, and the soldiers in the field also fired at the forward positions of the Japanese army from the side.
A frontal attack was all right, but the Japanese never thought that another unit would appear on their flank to attack them who were defenseless on the flank!
Under the effect of containing each other, the Japanese army's blocking did not have much effect, but was passive everywhere, and when Haizhizhi's assault force was only more than 10 meters away from the other side of the river, our artillery once again concentrated its firepower on the forward positions of the Japanese army, and covered Haizhizhi's attack.
At the same time, Zhao Jianying on the mountain also ordered the troops to charge and directly attack the forward positions of the Japanese army, in this case, the Japanese front line was quickly unable to resist and showed signs of collapse, Haizhizhi They were not attacked too fiercely, and they had already reached the other side of the river and quickly disembarked to charge the Japanese position.
Seeing that Hai Zhizhi and the others had already landed on the opposite bank, Lu Hai hurriedly spoke: "Order, all troops speed up, and the whole regiment crosses the river!" ā
"Yes"!
In this case, Li Jian also resolutely ordered the 32nd Regiment to cross the river on the whole line, and the entire Yuan River was full of troop transport rafts and fishing boats braving the rain of bullets and bullets, and a steady stream of troops quickly crossed the river towards the other side of the river.
According to the plan, the two regiments of Lu Hai and Li Jian took the lead in the attack to open the passage for the whole army, but in order to prevent the Japanese air attack, they had to speed up, so they had to quickly cross the river in a short time and completely occupy the forward positions of the Japanese army, only in this way could they guard against the Japanese air attack.
The Japanese army at the front has been torn open, and now the task is to occupy the Japanese fortifications, which is the real tough battle.
These fortifications were used by our army before, and the Japanese army naturally stationed in these fortifications after occupying Changde, and in order to prevent the Chinese army from counterattacking, these fortifications were also transformed and processed, but there was no permanent fortification for a short time.
At that time, they did not have submachine guns such as field brooms, and the weapons used were still Belgian 79 rifles and captured 38 caps, so they could only put bayonets on the chamber to avoid being too close to shoot quickly.
In today's film and television dramas, all kinds of weapons are dazzling, our army has everything in the submachine gun or something, and the bullets are completely sufficient, and some directors even let the soldiers of the whole company or even the whole regiment be equipped with submachine guns and hold submachine guns to fight hand-to-hand with the Japanese army, which can't help but laugh, the Japanese army charged up, the submachine gun was so fierce that the firepower was enough to sweep them into a sieve, send their bushido spirit to see the emperor, and rush down with a short submachine gun to fight with them, is it the humble virtue of our Chinese nation for 5,000 years?
Seeing this, I can't help but feel that it is really rare for this Japanese army in China to hold on for eight years under such fierce firepower from China. In fact, submachine guns only entered China through American assistance in the later stages of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and they were equipped with the Chinese Expeditionary Force and some descendant Central Army at the beginning, and there were no miscellaneous armies, not to mention our uncle of the Eighth Route Army?
Thomson submachine guns are known as "field brooms", and they are invincible in trench operations because of their rate of fire and ferocious firepower, but the 58th Army does not have these high-end weapons, they can only hold rifles to gradually sweep the trenches, and shoot at a little distance, and at close range, they can only fight bayonets and hand-to-hand combat!
In this way, casualties are inevitable, and the Japanese army is also known for its tenacity, and the forward positions are attacked and lost, but they will not break and flee, but will continue to fight in the deep tunnel trenches, and once the situation improves, these Japanese troops are likely to launch a counterattack, so this war is now the real beginning!
The Japanese troops who reacted also used the bulletproof holes in the trenches to build firing points to fight back tenaciously, and even directly arranged some machine guns at the corners of the trenches.
On the battlefield at this time, Zhao Jianying attacked from the left side, two battalions of Hai Zhizhi and Li Fan attacked from the front, and more than 1,800 people from the three battalions fought to the death with the Japanese army in these trenches.
Half an hour had passed since the start of the battle, and the sky was already dark, but the attack on the front was still continuing, after all, the Japanese army was stationed here with the strength of two brigades, and it was extremely difficult to occupy a place of shelter within an hour.
But if you don't speed up the speed, it is very likely that the Japanese planes will come at dawn, and in such a situation, the losses will become even more heavy or even beaten back.
At the same time, Li Juan's first battalion had also successfully crossed the river, and once the river was crossed, the two battalions of more than 1,000 people launched an attack on the front line of the Japanese army again.
The two battalions that launched the attack did not use the tactics of adding fuel, but launched an offensive from both sides to attack the Japanese pit from the side, and the pit on the side was not attacked, and naturally there were no people of their own inside, Lu Hai hurriedly said: "Mortar preparation"!
"Fire attraction!" Lu Hai said.
Saying that, everyone threw a few grenades at the side position and opened fire, and soon the Japanese counterattack guns had already sounded, and then many Japanese machine gun firepower was exposed, and Lu Hai ordered: "The mortar has all the machine guns ended!" ā
"The rest, grenades ready, charge after the shelling!"
"Yes!"
A moment later, the mortars that locked onto the Japanese fire point began to shoot, and one shell after another whistled in, and some Japanese soldiers who were ambushed in the tunnel were blown up in the roar, and the fire was also dumb, at this time, Lu Hai resolutely ordered: "Grenades!" Charge! ā
As soon as the words fell, hundreds of grenades spun and fell into the Japanese position.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
At this time, a pair of infantry began to charge in, and some of the Japanese soldiers who were blown up were stabbed to death in the trenches before they could react...
(To be continued.) )