Chapter 267: Counterattack firepower is ferocious, and the devil loses the first battle!
In the line of sight, Wang Chengzhu's artillery counterattack in the city of Wei County was blatant, and it bombarded the Japanese artillery positions outside the city.
Matsui Ishine was so annoyed by this situation that he had ordered Fujita to hide the artillery position in a depression with a dirt slope in front of it. However, the artillery counterattack of the new regiment in the city has already succeeded a lot.
"Your Excellency General, Fujita Jin reports that the two artillery brigades under his command have lost five artillery pieces so far, and one of them has also been blown up and cannot be used. At the moment, there are still ten more guns that have been mastered out of five! Matsui Ishine's brows furrowed, and the voice of Shadow Sazhen Zhao sounded in his ears.
Turning his head, he saw that it was Kagesa Zhenzhao who reported to him the losses of the artillery unit!
Hearing this, the corners of Matsui Shigen's mouth twitched, although he expected that the number of artillery in Li Yunlong's hands in the city of Wei County would not be small. But judging by the opponent's artillery counterattack, the number of its artillery is at least greater than that of Oda Masakazu's mastery. Moreover, what he returned was the artillery that the Japanese army itself was familiar with: the Type 92 infantry gun!
Matsui estimated that most of the artillery currently in Li Yunlong's hands had been captured from imperial forces.
After thinking about it, the 2nd Division and the 6th Division, which were completely annihilated by the new regiment, Matsui Ishone was no longer angry about this artillery.
Anyway, it's against the handle!
"Order Fujita to susu, command the artillery unit, suppress the enemy's artillery fire, and cover the advance of the attacking troops." Picking up the binoculars and looking at the attack on Zhang Dabiao's troops and a He Yongjie army, Matsui Shigen waved his hand.
"Hay, Your Excellency." Seeing this, Ying Zuozhen was also quite helpless.
At this time, Oda Masakazu, who was in an artillery battle, was trying to command the Japanese artillery to counterattack, and tried his best to suppress Wang Chengzhu's artillery fire.
On the frontal battlefield, Fujita Shin commanded the 29th Infantry Brigade and the 18th Infantry Wing to launch a fierce attack on Zhang Dabiao's defensive position with a murderous spirit.
"Boom, boom, boom!!" Oda Masakazu worked hard to suppress Wang Chengzhu's artillery fire while bombarding Zhang Dabiao's defensive positions, but most of them used mortars to cover the attacking devil infantry at close range.
At this time, Zhang Dabiao stood in the bunker battalion headquarters, carefully observing the Japanese attack team in front through the observation port.
"Order the first company to defend the front, the two flanks two companies, and the third company to prevent the devils from attacking in a roundabout way. The mortar detachment was brought up and the fighters were covered by close artillery fire. Zhang Dabiao ordered to a staff officer beside him.
"Understood, battalion commander." Meng Rongxuan, a staff officer of the first battalion, smiled and immediately adjusted his deployment.
At this time, nearly 4,000 devils of the 18th Infantry Wing of the devils attacked the blocking position of the first battalion with two infantry brigades, and mobilized all the remaining forces of an infantry brigade and the wing in the direction of the two wings to outflank the two flanks of the blocking position of the first battalion, so as to contain the reinforcements of the defenders in the direction of the two wings to the frontal position.
But at this time, there were more than 2,000 people in the first battalion, and all of them were veterans. The devil Oda Masakazu organized his artillery to bombard the positions of the first battalion, and the casualties caused to the soldiers of the first battalion were negligible. You know, the soldiers of the first battalion have built anti-artillery holes in their respective trenches. Hiding in it, even if the devil's artillery fire turned the position of the first battalion upside down, there were not many casualties to the soldiers of the first battalion.
The murderous devil soldiers of the 18th Infantry Wing, under the command of wing commander Takeuchi Taneki Daisa, divided their troops and launched a fierce attack.
In the direction of the east and west flanks of the 1st and 4th Battalions, Fujita ordered the 34th Wing to each divide an infantry brigade to launch a feint attack on the positions of the defenders of the new 1st Regiment in the direction of the east and west flanks of Ul County, in an attempt to contain the reinforcements of the 1st and 4th Battalions of the new 1st Regiment on the two flanks.
With the continuous light rain in the sky, the onslaught of the little devils on Wei County officially began.
I saw that the two Japanese infantry brigades of the 18th Devil Wing were attacking head-on, with a total of more than 2,300 devil soldiers, armed with Type 38 rifles, attacking the frontal blocking position of the first battalion.
"Kill, for the sake of His Majesty the Emperor, for the sake of the Empire, rush me! Kill! ”
The commander of the 18th Infantry Wing, Takeuchi Taneki Osa, drew his samurai saber and slashed forward, roaring.
In an instant, the devil soldiers of the two Japanese infantry brigades were armed with Type 38 rifles, scattered to form a battle formation, and the cats rushed forward with their waists low.
I have to say that the devil soldiers of all the units under the jurisdiction of the 3rd Devil Division are very elite, and their combat quality is still very strong.
In the face of the new regiment that completely annihilated and ate the elite 2nd Division and the 6th Division, all the devil soldiers had no contempt.
"Made, the little devil is really cautious enough. Order the light and heavy machine guns, get ready to move, kill the devil! The commanders and fighters of the new regiment and battalion on the front line stood in the trenches, sneering and looking at the devils who were killing the cats not far in front, and smiled.
However, this kind of opponent is what the new regiment can afford, but if you want to break through the position of the first battalion and not leave one or two thousand devil corpses, you want to be beautiful.
"Company commander, the little devil is less than fifty meters away from us, can you fight?" At this time, next to the commander of the company in charge of the frontal blocking position of the first battalion, a soldier said in a low voice.
Throwing away a cigarette after taking a puff, the company commander roared angrily: "Brothers, give me a call!" ”。
With the line of sight, the Japanese army had attacked to a distance of less than 50 meters from the front of the frontal blocking position defended by the first battalion and one company, and the commander of the first company gave the order to counterattack.
First, the light and heavy machine gun fire points hidden in the positions on both flanks began to fire fiercely, and then the fighters in the frontal blocking positions operated submachine guns, and light and heavy machine guns launched a fierce counterattack.
For a time, the two Japanese infantry brigades of the 18th Infantry Wing of the devils who entered the ambush, and at least six or seven hundred devils who fell into them were completely covered by the intersecting fire nets.
The devil soldiers didn't even have time to shout out screams, and they were killed on the spot with a shuttle bullet.
The commander of the 18th Infantry Wing, who was in charge of commanding the positions of the 1st and 4th Battalions, was stunned from the binoculars, and waited until the chief of staff of the wing, Miki Jiro Shaosa, who was beside him, roared and reminded Takeuchi to plant trees, and the old devil was terrified and ordered the attacking troops to retreat.
The firepower of the 1st Battalion and the 4th Battalion of the New Regiment counterattacked, and the tongues of fire fired fiercely at the two Japanese brigades of the 18th Wing of the attacking devils, and the density of fire almost covered the horizontal surface of the attacking troops. With such a firepower counterattack density, even if the attacking devil soldiers lie down and hide, they can't avoid it.
"Eight Grid Tooth Road, order the 1st and 2nd Infantry Brigades to quickly retreat, retreat, and if you don't retreat, they will all die!" Takeuchi planted trees and shouted to the chief of staff urgently.
Miki Jiro Shaozo hurriedly replied: "Hai, co-captain!" Then he hurriedly sent someone to order the attacking devil soldiers to retreat.
And Matsui Ishine and Kagesa Zhenzhao, who were standing at the top with binoculars to observe the attack, both looked at each other, why is the defensive firepower of the new regiment too strong, right?
"Lost the first battle, and the rest of the battle is not good!" Matsui Shigen muttered to himself, he didn't expect the light and heavy machine gun fire in the first-line blocking position of the new regiment to be so ferocious, even Matsui Shigen saw the submachine guns in the position of the first battalion of Zhang Dabiao's department, and there were many light and heavy machine guns.