Chapter 466: Frontier Warfare (3)
The officers and men of the three battalions of the security regiment rushed to the position of the 18th Brigade outside the northern city
By the time several battalions of the security regiment hurried to the position a few kilometers away, the devil attack force had already broken through the second line of defense of the 18th Brigade.
At this time, the devil rushed to the position and was searching around the position, killing the surviving wounded soldiers of the 18th Brigade.
It didn't take long for the second line of defense to fall into the hands of the enemy.
The 8th Wing of the Devils quickly established defensive and firepower points several kilometers around the position, preparing to gather forces again and take the last defensive position of the 18th Brigade in one fell swoop.
From the very beginning of the attack, the devil did not have a trace of mud and water in the offensive, and the attack became more and more fierce every time, and it was completely a rush of punching and rushing.
The officers and men of the 18th Brigade were not good at night fighting, and their firepower was far from that of the 8th Wing.
The two sides fought, and the 8th Wing of the Devils successfully captured the two defensive fronts of the 18th Brigade at a cost of nearly 500 casualties.
The casualties among the officers and men of the 18th Brigade were even more tragic, and the two regiments guarding the position were crippled by the enemy, and more than 2,000 people were killed and wounded in this battle, and two regiment commanders and dozens of key officers were killed.
In the face of the onslaught of the Japanese 8th Wing, the 18th Brigade lost two lines of defense, and Zhao Dashan, as the brigade commander, lost his square inch in anger.
After Zhao Dashan, the commander of the 18th Brigade, calmed down, his mind turned quickly, thinking about how to defend his position against the enemy.
In the current situation, even if the 18th Brigade organizes its forces, it is impossible to regain the lost positions.
Then again, even if the soldiers of the 18th Brigade bravely recaptured the position, however, they had no fresh troops, how could they hold the position.
Zhao Dashan, commander of the 18th Brigade, thought again and again, and in order to hold the last defensive line of the position, he had to shrink his forces in order to consolidate the firepower and defense of the position.
Not only that, Zhao Dashan, commander of the 18th Brigade, led his guard company to fight in front of the front line in order to stimulate the fighting spirit and morale of the officers and men of the brigade.
"Brothers, the last line of defense must not be lost, even if you take your head, you have to go up, if anyone dares to escape, Lao Tzu will dig the ancestral grave of his family for the eighteenth generation!!"
"We live and die with the brigade to hold our positions, and the Japanese want to occupy the positions unless they step over our corpses!!"
The remaining 1,000 officers and men, inspired by the brigade commander Zhao Dashan, were suddenly full of will to fight, and not a single soldier admitted it.
The last defensive position of the 18th Brigade was established around a village called Stone Village, and the total length of the defensive line was about a kilometer long.
Stone Village is called Stone Village because the walls of the houses in this village are basically made of stones or pebbles, and the defenders can use these sturdy houses as defensive shelters.
The officers and men of the 18th Brigade moved out all the ammunition in stock under the order of the brigade commander, and each soldier concentrated on the medicine and stood in their respective combat positions with resentment in their hearts.
Some soldiers also had detonators and explosives tied to their bodies, ready to fight to the death with the Japanese invaders, and live and die with the position!
The commanders of the 8th Wing of the Devils also knew that the last defensive position of the 18th Brigade was the most difficult to break through, so the Devils mobilized a number of mortars and heavy machine guns.
As soon as the devils established defensive positions and fire positions, they quickly launched artillery bombardment.
"Tom !!"
Dozens of mortars fired a salvo, the sound of shelling continued, shells flew out of the barrels quickly, and the air was full of fire.
Seconds later, a dense rain of shells poured down on the Stone Village.
"Boom, boom, boom!!"
Falling shells exploded all over the village, and shrapnel and debris from the shells were scattered everywhere.
"Heart fire, pay attention to concealed !!"
The stone defenders hid in the fortifications, hiding from the artillery fire and shnelage raging around them.
Because most of the fortifications on the position were stacked with stones and earth, the defense was so strong that it was difficult for enemy mortar shells to destroy the defenders' fortifications.
The defenders hid in the fortifications, the strong bunker fortifications blocked most of the power of the shells, and the defenders did not cause many casualties.
The devil soldiers fired more than 100 shells, and the number of casualties of the defenders was less than 100, and most of the wounded were some minor sputter wounds.
While the devil artillery suppressed the defenders with killing, at the same time, some devil artillery began to use incendiary bombs.
If the opposing defender's bunker fortifications are too strong, incendiary bombs are indeed more lethal than normal shells.
"Tom !!"
The shelling of the artillery positions of the devils in the distance sounded again.
Rows of incendiary bombs exploded around the village, and explosions rang out one after another.
As soon as the cannonball hit the ground, it burst into a blazing flame.
When the flames met the incendiary objects, they intensified and turned into raging fires in an instant.
The village was surrounded by firelight, and the thatch on the roofs of dozens of houses was burning.
In the blink of an eye, the village was filled with burning flames, and the spreading flames ignited into the bunker fortifications.
Some of the soldiers dodged the bombardment, but they did not escape the terrible incendiary bombs.
"Ahh......h
A group of soldiers caught fire and hurried out of the bunker fortifications of civilian houses.
The soldiers who were scorched by the flames screamed in pain, some of them rolled on the ground to put out the flames, and some of them hurriedly took off their clothes.
The incendiary bombs were so terrible that in a few moments, dozens of soldiers died tragically under the incendiary bombs.
The defenders of the 18th Brigade in the village took their weapons to avoid the surrounding fire and quickly moved their positions.
The devil fired a wave of incendiary grenades, followed by several flares fired into the air by the devil artillery.
Flares lit up the sky over the village, and the devils gathered more than 1,000 troops and immediately launched an attack on Stone Village.
"Imperial soldiers, occupy the positions in front, ducks and chickens give !!"
"Imperial soldiers, capture the positions in front, and give the ducks and chickens to !!"
The devil took the weapon, bent down, maintained the offensive tactical formation, and charged up quickly.
As soon as the officers and men of the 18th Brigade saw the devils rushing over, they relied on the favorable terrain and launched a counterattack one after another.
"Sudden !!"
"Da !!"
"Tom !!"
More than 1,000 defenders opened fire, and the sound of gunfire for several kilometers near the village was deafening.
"Devil, come if you don't want to die!!"
The defenders roared angrily, and they slammed bullets and cannonballs into the crowd of charging devils.
The bullets and shells that flew out caused more than 100 casualties to the charging devil soldiers.
In the face of heavy firepower, the rest of the devil soldiers were not timid at all, and the enemy moved around and continued to attack with the help of nearby covers......
The officers and men of the 18th Brigade fought fiercely with the devils, and soon after, the cavalry battalion was the first to rush to Stone Village.
As soon as the officers and men of the cavalry battalion came up, they threw themselves into the position, and they guarded the position together with the officers and men of the 18th Brigade and resisted the attacking devils together.
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