Chapter 459: Ambush
Everyone was ready and waited quietly, and soon a reconnaissance team composed of dozens of puppet troops walked by on the road.
The reconnaissance of the puppet army is much rougher than the fire reconnaissance of the devils, they don't have so many bullets, and at most they can put two shots on suspicious hills.
It's a bit of a shame to say that they are reconnaissance, but in fact they are thundering for the devils, so these puppet soldiers are trembling, afraid that the enemy will suddenly jump out of somewhere and directly destroy them.
The overly nervous group of puppet troops, when they reached this boundary range, had a better effect than Zhang Yunfei expected, and immediately relaxed, they didn't even glance at the shallow ditch where they were ambushed, and rushed forward directly along the road.
They were frightened, they didn't feel anything when they were nervous, but now they suddenly relaxed, hot and tired, their hot throats and eyes were about to smoke, they were all in a hurry to rush to the county border, but they took a short rest and prepared to enter the new city boundary.
This group of puppet troops really didn't have any scouting intentions, they walked really fast this way, they almost didn't run, and soon walked out of the ambush circle of the New Ninth Regiment, and ran excitedly towards the county border.
On this hot day, they want to rest for a while, this group of puppet troops is about to run to the county border, and the large army of the Japanese puppet army is late.
There are people blocking the thunder in front, and the large army came here, and they didn't mean that there was any danger, and this group of devils was very bad, they walked behind the large army of the puppet army.
So even if it is an encounter, it will be borne by the security army first, which is the experience of the devil to deal with the eight roads.
The eight roads are short of ammunition, and their attacks are all three-plate axes, a round of stormy raids, and after you are stunned, it is time to rush up for a white-knuckle battle.
The greatest casualties were often at the beginning of the attack, when the Eighth Route poured out almost all of their firepower.
Yoshida Masanobu had been fighting in southern Hebei before, and had just been transferred to Xiangyuan to take charge of the defense of this newly occupied area, so he naturally knew the Eight Routes very well with this set of tactics.
As long as the Imperial Army did not suffer heavy losses at the beginning of the war, even if it was attacked, it would have the capital to counterattack.
As for the casualties of the security army, it doesn't matter if the casualties are large, these guys are all watching people put down dishes, as long as the imperial army does not collapse, they will not collapse until they fight.
If the imperial army can't resist, no matter how many of them there are, they will collapse in an instant, and they will definitely not hold out for a second longer than the imperial army.
With so many shields in front of him, Yoshida Masanobu was very relieved to go.
When the unsuspecting Japanese puppet army all entered the ambush circle, Zhang Yunfei waved his hand and ordered the mortar to fire, and the shooting Zhuyuan was set in advance and calibrated countless times, without test firing, it exploded directly in the Japanese puppet army formation.
At the same time as the mortar was fired, the machine gunners of the ambush troops in the shallow ditch in front also pulled the trigger on the ranks of the Japanese puppet army, and for a while, the battlefield was full of gunfire.
In the face of the rain of bullets swept over, the Japanese puppet army was beaten in a daze at the first time, and Yoshida Masanobu, who was hiding on the spot, was relieved about this, such a situation was too familiar.
Looking at the eight roads that were rapidly advancing in the distance, the corners of Yoshida's mouth rose slightly, and the eight roads were just these two moments, and their ammunition base was not enough for continuous firepower output.
But to his astonishment, the eight-way shooting did not stop as he expected, and the firepower did not diminish in the slightest.
And the eight roads that rushed up from behind did not really rush up, they just approached to find cover, joined the battle, and the firepower of the fire did not decrease, but increased.
At this time, he was really confused, what is the situation, why didn't this guy come in a routine, and now he is really a little panicked.
In the face of the continuous fire attack of the Eighth Road, the security army and the imperial army suffered huge casualties, and this section of the road was too open to be ambushed.
But the ambush was really successful, and the open shooting range, the Japanese puppet army was difficult to hide, so they could only lie on the bare road to counterattack.
Although this can reduce the chance of being hit by bullets, if the firepower of the eight roads is insufficient, it can still resist by paying a little casualties.
But in this situation, the machine gun bullets of the Eighth Route are as if they don't need money, and in the face of continuous fire, lying on the ground will have no effect.
In the face of the dense firepower network, there are always bullets that will hit the imperial army and the security army lying on their stomachs, and these eight roads are really prepared.
What's even more infuriating is that this group of eight roads is willing to seek the near and far, and aims a lot of firepower at the imperial army, and abandons the security army that is closer.
They obviously also knew the urine nature of the security army, so they would specialize in the imperial army, and in such a short period of time, the imperial army had already suffered more than a dozen casualties.
What's even more speechless is that the only heavy machine gun he brought was accurately hit in the first round of eight-way artillery bombardment, and he resisted so far with emotion, and it was scrapped without firing a shot.
If Balu continues to have this kind of firepower, he basically won't have much power to fight back, and it is only a matter of time before he is named one by one and is eliminated.
The combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army was limited by weapons and ammunition, and when there was sufficient ammunition, the combat power was fully released.
Yoshida Masanobu also realized that the situation was not good, and tried to gather people and resist, but unfortunately he only had a squad of devils in his hands.
In the chaotic battlefield, not many puppet soldiers still care about his identity as a prince, except for the puppet army who is close to him and has to listen to his orders, the other puppet soldiers pretend not to hear, and try to lower their bodies as much as possible, hating to bury themselves directly in the ground to avoid bullets.
Taijun is really crazy, such a fierce firepower, and let people carry out a counter-charge, isn't this sent to someone to shoot a target, and a fool will listen to his order to send him to death.
At this time, Zhang Yunfei had more than a dozen machine guns in his hand, and when he was deployed, he also achieved dense cross-fire and no dead ends.
As soon as more than ten machine guns were unveiled, coupled with sufficient ammunition, supplemented by an open firing range, and a distance of more than 100 meters, the casualties caused in a short period of time were amazing.
The devil's individual soldier quality and squad cooperation are very good, but in the face of real superior firepower, it is also the same.
Before the war, Zhang Yunfei explained that Tie Dan needed to focus on taking care of the little devils, and the riflemen in the assault team were all deliberately selected soldiers with better shooting skills.
In his troops, there are not many real sharpshooters, but the fighters with high accuracy from a distance of 100 meters can still be assembled.
Under the suppression of enemy fire, they can shoot undisturbed, and the lethality of so many accurate shooters is also not to be underestimated.
The devil's grenadiers tried to set up grenadiers to attack the machine guns of the New Ninth Regiment, but in the face of so many accurate shooters, they couldn't fire a single shell at all.
In the past, the Devil Grenadier could hide behind the Devil rifle and calmly clear the firing point, because they stayed far away and it was difficult to be hit by the rifle.
Now they are at the front desk, so close, and there is no cover to hide, such an obvious target, under the care of the key, if they still can't hit, then there are ghosts.