Chapter 246: Attack
Even if they are fully prepared, it is not easy to take down this group of Japanese puppet troops, and they must also divide a part of their troops to block reinforcements.
Zhang Yunfei sent the Ninth Company, which was less effective in combat, to block the reinforcements of the Japanese puppet army that might attack from Dale.
Their strength is only 400 people, it is not easy to annihilate this group of Japanese puppet troops in a short time, now he only has the strength of two formed companies in his hands, once the battle is deadlocked, the surrounding Japanese puppet army will arrive as quickly as possible, maybe there will really be a big problem.
Now I can only hope that Wang Zhengyi can drag his own river-sealing camp, or if they also rush over, it will be really troublesome.
Looking at the Japanese puppet army transport team in the telescope slowly approaching, Zhang Yunfei was also hesitating, and when he gave an order, the blessing and the misfortune were unpredictable.
"Lao Zhang, this enemy has too many troops, our forces and occupy an absolute advantage, once the battle stalemate, the surrounding Japanese puppet army will soon surround it, which is not a good situation for us." Yang Junwei on the side reminded him.
"Yes!" Zhang Yunfei nodded as if he had received a reminder from his instructor.
His instructor has a serious lack of experience in the front-line troops, but he is still very good at doing things, and he did not try to interfere with Zhang Yunfei's determination.
Zhang Yunfei appreciates this point the most, many people always like to interfere with others, always impose their own ideas on others, and only remind them from the side.
"Lao Yang, in this situation, we have to fight, otherwise the situation will be even more difficult, if we don't eat the other party, our situation will become more and more passive, even if it is worth taking a risk."
It is one thing to know the enemy's movements and soldiers, but it is another thing to meet them in person, seeing so many enemies made his confidence a little shaken, and Yang Junjie's reminder made Zhang Yunfei make up his mind.
Now they have no way out, and they will only become more and more passive.
Zhang Yunfei raised the binoculars again, looked at the Japanese puppet army transport team that was slowly walking into the ambush circle, and said to Li Ergou beside him: "Tell Company Commander He and Company Commander Sun to let go of the scouts in front of them and concentrate all the firepower to fight their brigade, and tell Li Da Tobacco Bag, don't save me ammunition, give me a fight to the death, and leave us a limited time to destroy the enemy." ”
After Li Ergou hurriedly ran to inform He Jicheng, Sun Zhiqiang, Li Da Yanbao and others, Zhang Yunfei said to Tie Dan not far away: "Tie Dan, when the battle starts, you will aim at the machine gunners of the puppet army for me, and give Lao Tzu a hard beat, and others will let their machine guns sound, this time we will win with firepower." ”
After giving the order, he raised his binoculars and looked at the ambush positions of the two companies, so as not to make any mistakes.
In the first round of surprise attacks, they must kill as many enemies as possible, which is directly related to the success or failure of the next battle.
A squad of ten puppet army scouts walked at the forefront of the team, and the formation of the follow-up Japanese puppet army was also very open, and they slowly walked into the ambush circle of the third battalion.
The whole team was scattered in a defensive formation with the baggage carriage as the center, although the Japanese puppet army of this team was very lax, it was impossible to forget even the most basic marching rules, and it was impossible for this situation to appear in reality when they were crowded together like a swarm.
Seeing that the other party gradually entered the ambush circle, Zhang Yunfei knew that there was no way to retreat now, and finally raised the shell gun in his hand and gave the signal to fire.
With the sound of Zhang Yunfei's gunshot, the road connecting the Xinqing Highway sounded a dense gunfire, and the Seventh and Eighth Companies, concentrated all the light machine guns and rifles, and under the cover of the heavy machine guns and two light machine guns of Li Dayan's firepower squad, they opened heavy fire on the transport team of the Japanese puppet army.
The whistling bullets and the dense firepower beckoned like the Japanese puppet army in the formation.
Although the formation of the Japanese puppet army was very open when it was marching, although the vigilance of the team was not high, it was not defenseless, at least the defensive position was sufficient.
However, the first round of intensive heavy machine gun fire under Zhang Yunfei's department, and the frantic strafing of bullets, still knocked down twenty or thirty puppet troops in the first wave of blows.
Despite the sudden blow, the puppet troops in front of them did not panic much, but each looked for a hiding place, began to counterattack the ambush position of the third battalion, and began to organize a small force to carry out a counter-charge, trying to break the siege of the ambush of the eight roads.
Sometimes the puppet army still has combat effectiveness, and their ranks are mixed with devil commanders, and this combat effectiveness is immediately different.
Suffering a sudden blow, their reaction and response were still good, but this was not a good thing for Zhang Yunfei's third battalion.
The puppet army did not have a scattered, organized counterattack, which was even more difficult to deal with, and it would take more effort and time for them to defeat this group of enemies.
In the face of the puppet army that launched a counter-charge under the command of the devil, the grenadier of Li Dayan's pouch also fired directly, and the grenades were accurate. fell on the position of the puppet army, and with the blockade and suppression of the machine guns, the puppet army that counter-charged was driven back to the road.
The heavy machine guns began to fire at the puppet troops who were driven back to the road, and with their firepower, it was not easy to suppress the opponent's firepower.
But for this group of puppet troops, it is much easier, but this will not last long, if they are not in urgent need of taking down the other party as soon as possible, they will not use ammunition so wantonly.
There was no fixed supply, and if the ammunition could not be captured, their ammunition would be one less than one, which was a fatal wound to the Eighth Route Army.
Moreover, the devil's battle is very tenacious, and it is not easy to capture their ammunition and weapons, and the defeated devils have a tradition of destroying their own weapons.
So many times, fighting with devils, the consumption is generally greater than the capture, in order to make up for the ammunition gap in this regard, many times the Eighth Route Army has to find it back from the puppet army.
This is why the Eighth Route Army likes to find trouble with the puppet army, which is forced by a special environment.
In fact, if the devils want to be formed, they need a little less, and they don't need money and salaries, and the devils will at most produce some captured weapons and ammunition of the Chinese army.
Therefore, killing the puppet army actually does not serve much purpose to weaken the strength of the devil, at most it can get a supply of guns and ammunition.
Zhang Yunfei doesn't like white-knuckle battles, the previous Pingchuan detachment was like this, and the current third battalion is the same, and the white-knuckle battles carried out by skilled devils are basically a lose-lose battle.
Moreover, the devil's three-eight big cover gun body and long bayonet are often too dominant in white-knuckle battles.
Although white-knuckle combat in their team is the most important item in the training subject, whenever possible, Zhang Yunfei will not easily fight white-knuckle combat with devils.
So even if they are fighting the puppet army now, Zhang Yunfei is also suppressing it with firepower first.
Of course, they can only have a slight advantage in firepower by fighting the puppet army, and naturally there is no need to engage in white-knuckle combat.
Moreover, the puppet army did not have grenadiers, mortars and other weapons that posed a great threat to light and heavy machine guns, so they fired more unscrupulously.
The firepower suppressed the other party's painful shooting, which has always been the patent of devils, and now that they have such an opportunity, they will naturally not let go of this opportunity to beat the water dogs.
Human habits are very terrifying, and the devil's attack has always been in the posture of a tactical group, opening up the skirmish line to attack, and this tactical group must be closely connected with rifles, machine guns, grenadiers, and even infantry guns behind them.
And now the devil is driving the puppet army to attack in a tactical group formation, but unfortunately the puppet army is not a devil, and it does not have the skillful coordination ability and various light and heavy fire support.
This set of tactics they came up with is a bit nondescript, although it has such an effect, but compared with the real devils, it is too bad.
The key point is that the puppet army has no heavy firepower, and the marksmanship is also very good, once it is dispersed in small groups, this is a bit of a pitfall.
As soon as the intensity of the firepower drops, it will be difficult to hit people.
Why does the Eighth Route Army like to put a row of guns, not because they like it, but because the marksmanship is too inferior, only a dense row of guns has a probability, and it hits an area, and it can also blind the enemy.
And the puppet army's marksmanship and eight-way are only half a catty and eight taels, their tactics of dispersing groups as a unit, it is a clever tactic for devils who are very effective in marksmanship, but for the puppet army with extremely smelly marksmanship, this is a rotten tactic.
The most important thing in war is to save oneself and strike at the enemy, and in this way of dispersing the stragglers in small groups, the survivability is not there, and the attack power is weak.
The puppet army itself was suddenly ambushed, and it was inferior to the Eighth Route in terms of equipment and firepower, and now it has used such lame tactics, and the decline is even more obvious.
This group of puppet soldiers only has three machine guns, but their machine guns are not usable at all, and Tiedan's reconnaissance platoon and Li Da's grenadier are all staring.
As long as the puppet army's machine gun goes off, grenades or bullets will always come as promised, and now the puppet army's machine gun is like a death curse, whoever touches it will die.
The puppet army simply beat itself up, they completely suppressed the other party, and the counterattack of the puppet army did not pose much threat at all.
The devils who commanded the puppet army were also a little confused, they couldn't understand how the situation could have become like this, it was easy for the troops to disperse, and it was not so easy to concentrate in the rain of bullets.
Their scattered tactics, under the opponent's superior firepower, were named, and at first they could still counterattack with the Eighth Road, but now they are unable to organize any counterattack, and can only be suppressed on the road and passively beaten.
One of the puppet army's three light machine guns had been blown up, and the other two were also suppressed by the machine guns and grenadiers commanded by Li Dayanbao, and they could only counterattack sporadically.
And under the key care of Tiedan's reconnaissance platoon, the machine gunners are changed one after another, and no one dares to take over the puppet army now, the machine gun is directly thrown aside, and the puppet army is far away from it, which is too frustrating, whoever approaches it will die.
The transport team of the Japanese puppet army had no power to counterattack, Zhang Yunfei controlled the initiative on the battlefield here, and they suppressed the Japanese puppet army on the road and could not move.
They suppressed the Japanese puppet army's convoy, but this guy relied on the hidden point, lying on the ground and still stubbornly counterattacking.
This group of puppet troops has the pressure and command of the devils, it is really a big change, they have all arrived in this field, and they still have not collapsed.
Of course, they can hold on, not entirely because of the threat and command of the devils, but also because they believe that as long as they support themselves for a while, reinforcements will come soon.
The puppet army is looking forward to the arrival of reinforcements, but Zhang Yunfei, who has the initiative in the battle situation, is very anxious, and now every minute of delay may change the situation of the battle.
The so-called worry about what will happen, but the situation on the battlefield around him happened quickly, although he had been mentally prepared, but the change in the battle situation still surprised him a little.
They were besieging the transport team, and in the direction of Dale around, dense gunfire sounded, and it should be that the Ninth Company and the other party's reinforcements were handed over.
The sound of guns and cannons from Da Le's side clearly told Zhang Yunfei that there was not much time left for them to solve the enemy they were facing.
The reinforcements were not like these transport escort troops, they did not have much light and heavy firepower, and judging from the density of the gunfire that came from the rushing force, the intensity of the attack on the Ninth Company was not light.
According to the information collected by Zhang Yunfei and the information sent by Wang Zhengyi through Zhang Dadao, there are about two companies of troops stationed in Dale this place, and there is also a mortar.
The puppet army is also different from the puppet army, some Kuomintang troops who have surrendered into formations, they have no shortage of light and heavy machine guns, and even mountain artillery and other weapons.
And the puppet army in Xincheng is formed by local people, and the firepower configuration is a grade worse, and there are not even heavy machine guns, but at least two mortars are also used to install the façade.
At least in the firepower configuration table of the Eighth Route Army or the devils, the status of mortars and heavy machine guns is comparable.
But at the moment, the gunshots came from the direction of Dale, and Zhang Yunfei heard the explosion of shells mixed with it.
The Ninth Company itself was composed of recruits and guerrillas, and now they were facing several times the enemy's attack, and Zhang Yunfei did not know how long they could hold out.
He then looked at the remnants of the Japanese puppet army in front of him who were stubbornly resisting by relying on the terrain as a bunker.
There wasn't much time left for him now, and he couldn't afford to spend it so slowly.
Zhang Yunfei had to bite and ordered everyone to attack on all fronts.
Ignoring the consumption of ammunition, the light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers of Li's big tobacco bag platoon began to desperately suppress firepower, clearing the way for everyone's charge and reducing the casualties of the charge.
Although Zhang Yunfei hates white-knuckle battles, many battles at this time end in white-knuckle battles, and now he needs to solve the problem urgently.
In order to draw out his troops to take over the situation, now he can't care about anything else, and now that they are fighting in this position, the ammunition consumed is also unbearable for him, if he didn't know that ammunition replenishment can be obtained in the transport team, he wouldn't dare to play like this.
You know, now their ammunition reserves have bottomed out, and most of the fighters are out of ammunition.
It's a very cool fight, but the consumption of this ammunition is also painful.