Chapter 605: The Fluttering Golden Peony Flag
After Xie Yichang fell, there was a severe pain in his left abdomen, he was lying on the ground and did not lose consciousness, he turned his head to look at the position of his left abdomen, where blood was constantly seeping.
At this time, the orderly next to him also ran to his side to check his injuries, and at the same time shouted: "Health soldiers! ”
It didn't take long for the health soldiers under the company headquarters to bend over and trot, and the orderly soldiers and health soldiers worked together to drag Xie Yichang behind a stone.
The health soldier directly tore open Xie Yichang's military uniform, and after a brief look, he said: "Company commander, the bullet missed, but it only hurt the flesh and skin!" ”
The medical soldiers then began to use gauze to bandage and stop the bleeding, but it was limited to this, and the medical means were limited in these years, and the battlefield ambulance could only be bandaged one or two simply.
Xie Yichang listened, endured the severe pain and said: "It seems that my life is big, and I can't die!" ”
But even so, Xie Yichang knew that he could not continue to command the troops, so he turned his head and said to the deputy company commander not far away: "You come to take over the command and continue the attack!" ”
Xie Yichang was wounded, but his infantry company did not stop the pace of attacking, but continued to attack under the leadership of the deputy company commander!
The most rushed troops at the front, they were under very much pressure, but fortunately, the fire support in the rear was also effective, many and rapid-fire mortars provided direct fire support for this infantry company, and the heavy machine guns continued to strafe and suppress.
The continuous high-intensity strafing caused the temporary heavy machine gun positions to be filled with bullet casings, and the water pipe sleeve on the barrel directly emitted water vapor.
Not far away, a group of 80 mm rapid-fire mortar guns hiding in a trench was continuing to aim and fire, because the battle was fierce and the enemy troops on the hill also lacked obvious counterattack heavy firepower, so they did not even move their positions now, and directly continued to aim and shell.
The ammunition men behind and the baggage soldiers who were temporarily transferred from behind were constantly coming from the rear with shells on their backs to replenish them!
Although the rate of fire of rapid-fire mortars is ferocious, the consumption rate of shells is also extremely fast, and the number of shells carried by the artillery crew itself is limited.
With the strong fire support of the battalion headquarters, the soldiers of the second company finally rushed to the top of the hill and began to throw grenades at the enemy troops who were only twenty or thirty meters away, and took over the direct bayonet charge!
And from the moment the soldiers of the second company rushed to the top of the mountain, it basically declared the resistance of the enemy on the top of the mountain!
Many enemy soldiers saw that the position had been broken through, and many of them took the initiative to put down their guns and surrendered consciously.
The second company took the opportunity to expand its territory, and then covered and supported the battalion headquarters, and the other two companies also successfully rushed up.
At this time, Dr. Wen Zuoxin, who was in the rear, also saw the golden peony flag fluttering on the top of the mountain!
Seeing his own military flag planted on the top of the mountain, Wen Zuoxin finally breathed a sigh of relief!
Watching the battle from the rear, he was always worried that the casualties would be too great, which would lead to the failure of the front-line troops' attack!
But fortunately, a breakthrough was made at the front!
"Inform the division headquarters that our regiment has successfully captured the No. 6 heights of Jialiu, and will be turned to defense in the future, and welcome the arrival of artillery units!"
Wen Zuoxin continued: "Order the troops to immediately deploy the defensive line to prevent the enemy from counterattacking!" ”
The importance of the No. 6 Highland, the other party must also know.
Although the geographical advantage of Heights 6 is not as good as that of several other highlands in Heights A, once you successfully deploy artillery, you can still pose a major threat to the enemy's defense line.
It is impossible for the enemy army not to see this!
No, as soon as the golden peony flag on the red background on the top of the mountain floated up, there were many piercing whistling sounds in the sky, and then it fell on the top of the mountain.
This is an artillery counterattack by the enemy!
The enemy's artillery counterattack came very quickly, but although it was fast, the intensity of the artillery attack was obviously not good, and it is estimated that only a dozen artillery pieces launched a counterattack.
There are only more than 100 artillery pieces in the entire Zhenbei City, and many of them still need to block the Jinghe River to fight against the fleet of the Imperial Navy, and the artillery that is really used for land defense operations is estimated to be about 100.
The 100 guns were scattered over a width of about six kilometers, and not every place could be supported by enough artillery.
And after every counterattack, they have to be vigilant against the counterattack of the Imperial Army's long-range heavy artillery fire!
Of course, they have built difficult artillery position bunkers, but this kind of civil and stone bunkers have no problem dealing with small-caliber artillery, but it is relatively reluctant to deal with the bombardment of large-caliber artillery.
No, as soon as their artillery counterattacked, on a 150-millimeter cannon position three kilometers behind the rear of the 15th Regiment, artillery observers floating in hot air balloons immediately began to spot the defenders' artillery positions in the distance through binoculars, and then began to report the shooting of Zhu Yuan.
It didn't take long for the twelve 150-mm cannons that had been prepared for a long time to roar one after another!
Huge shells flew through the sky and landed in the positions of the enemy artillery, and although the first round of shelling did not hit well, the second and third rounds of shelling were soon carried out under the comparison of the balloons.
It didn't take long for the defenders' 75-mm field artillery positions with strong bunkers to suffer heavy casualties, the artillerymen suffered many casualties, and even a few 75-mm guns were staggered, and the remaining artillerymen were all scrambled to disperse and flee into the anti-artillery holes everywhere.
Once again, the Imperial Army relied on powerful long-range heavy artillery to suppress the enemy's artillery counterattack, which also bought the 15th Regiment more time to deploy the defensive line.
Wen Zuoxin's soldiers used the trenches dug by the enemy to further strengthen them, and put rapid-fire mortars and heavy machine guns on them to build a perfect defensive position.
About twenty minutes later, a wave of enemy troops launched a counterattack in a straggler formation towards the No. 6 Heights!
However, this wave of enemy counterattack of about 1,000 people did not even rush up halfway up the mountain, and was already suppressed by the rapid-fire mortar and heavy machine gun fire of the 15th Regiment.
It didn't take long for a 75-mm artillery battalion in the rear, also based on the firing elements provided by the front-line troops, to start shelling at a high angle, with shells crossing the hill and then exploding at the foot of the hill, many of which exploded directly in the air.
The shrapnel that exploded above the enemy's head still scattered along the trajectory of the shell and fell like a rain of steel, even on the enemy lying on the ground.