"Battalion commander, don't worry!" Li Weiguo patted his chest and reassured.

Li Jichang smiled and didn't say much, but called a few company commanders to tell him something.

"It's 5:45 now, and in fifteen minutes, our artillery will carry out a ten-minute artillery bombardment of the Zhangwushan heights defended by the Japanese army.

As soon as the shelling began, our soldiers were to begin the attack, trying to get 150 meters away from the positions of the Japanese troops.

As soon as the shelling is over, go on the offensive!

Our artillery fire can only buy us ten minutes, so I hope you can hurry! ”

"Yes!"

Several company commanders nodded and said in a deep voice.

"Let's go down and prepare, if we can attack the Japanese position, we don't need the 118th Regiment to intervene, understand?"

The three company commanders soon went down, while Li Jichang was holding a sniper rifle and making final preparations.

As soon as 6 o'clock arrived, the 18 guns of the artillery battalion located in the rear (12 Soviet-style 76.2mm field guns and 6 Japanese 94-type mountain guns) began shelling for only 10 minutes.

It's not that the 40th Division didn't want to carry out longer artillery coverage, but that the ammunition could not support the consumption of such a massive artillery bombardment.

They don't have a lot of shells, and if they consume too many shells because they attack this one position, how will the rest of the battle be fought?

"Boom, boom!"

The rumbling sound of artillery sounded over the Japanese positions at Zhangwushan, and from a distance, the Japanese positions were mostly covered by artillery fire from the artillery battalions.

In the panic of the Japanese army, the two infantry battalions of the 119th Regiment had already gone up, taking advantage of the opportunity of artillery fire, one by one bent down and quickly ran towards the bottom of the high ground.

With just a few more battles, this tactic will become more and more proficient.

To tell the truth, the fighting style of the 40th Division made the soldiers of the 104th Division very unaccustomed, and the ten minutes of shelling was not a long time, but taking advantage of this opportunity, half of the attacking troops had already entered less than 150 meters from the forward positions of the Japanese army.

As soon as the artillery stopped, under the cover of light and heavy machine guns and mortars, the soldiers of the 119th Regiment attacked the hill with their waists bent.

After Li Weiguo raised his gun and killed a rising Japanese soldier, he hid under a fallen tree and loaded his bullets to find the next target.

"Wei Guo, on the left, get rid of that devil heavy machine gun!"

Hearing someone shouting next to him, Li Weiguo hurriedly showed his head and looked to the left front, where there was a Japanese machine gun position.

Their forward positions were blocked, and several combat groups were beaten back, with nearly ten dead and wounded.

Li Weiguo did not hesitate, prostrate and moved to the left, and then the big tree hid its figure, and after finding a suitable firing position, he pulled the trigger towards the Japanese machine gunner.

"Bang!"

With a single gunshot, the Japanese soldier fell under his gun.

At this time, the Japanese army did not panic, and the deputy shooter next to him quickly took over, and Li Weiguo didn't think about it, so he shot down again.

After the two sub-machine gunners who took over the shooting were killed, the Japanese realized that the Chinese army had snipers.

At this time, Li Weiguo basically didn't have time to aim, and basically shot at the Japanese army in that direction by feeling.

This is the feeling of the gun when the gun hits too much, and the feeling is to grab the gun casually and hit it accurately.

When the third Japanese machine gunner was killed, the Japanese retaliation came.

At the first two shots, the Japanese did not know where the bullets came from, but the third shot allowed Li Weiguo to reveal his position, and soon a large number of bullets and a few shells flew over.

Li Weiguo is not the same stunned as he was now, and after firing the third shot, he rolled to the side.

Sure enough, as soon as he rolled away, a lot of bullets landed where he had been hiding before.

The trunk of the tree was riddled with holes, and if he hadn't shifted his position, he would have been injured even if he didn't die.

It's just that what he didn't know was that at this time, someone was already eyeing him, and he was still a Japanese sniper, this person was named Takeshita Masaichi.

However, unlike snipers in other countries, Takeshita Shoichi's hiding position is indeed a bit funny, because it is in a tree.

In many sniper manuals, it is not recommended that snipers climb trees or towers, which are sniper points that are not easy to evacuate despite having a good view, but the Japanese prefer to tie snipers to trees to snipe.

This was done to ensure that even if you were shot and wounded, you would not fall off the tree and would continue to fight until you died. As a result, the tree has become the most fixed sniper point, and the sniper who takes over will climb the tree to loosen the tie for the previous one, and then let the other party tie himself up again before leaving, this tactic is very crazy and can be called a suicidal fire point.

Takeshita Masaichi was such an existence, he had been on a large tree that could only be hugged by several people, and the dense foliage made it impossible for the Chinese army to detect him.

The main sniper of this kind, the Chinese army is also seeing it for the first time!

Who would have thought that in the Chinese army as a precious sniper (in fact, only the 40th division has it), who let him do this, isn't this looking for death?

It's basically a one-off.

However, the Japanese were not afraid, because with their marksmanship, they could find such a sniper at will.

Originally, Takeshita Masaichi was not aware of Li Weiguo's existence, because the dense branches and leaves also affected his vision somewhat.

However, after his comrades below shouted that there were snipers in the Chinese army, he began to look for Li Weiguo's traces.

Li Weiguo did not know that he was being targeted by Japanese snipers, and after his previous position was exposed, he changed positions and began to look for the next target.

And this allowed Takeshita to find the existence of Li Weiguo.

"Stupid Shina man!"

At this time, after Takeshita Masaichi found Li Weiguo through a telescope, because he was condescending, he had a sense of God's perspective.

After all, Li Weiguo is also a sniper with some experience, and when he was looking for a target again and preparing to shoot, he suddenly had a feeling of being targeted.

He was a little skeptical that he was hallucinating, but he was very sensitive to this kind of breath as he was on the line of life and death.

Could it be that the Japanese army had snipers?

Thinking of this, Li Weiguo quickly retracted his neck and took the binoculars to find the location of the opponent's sniper, but there was no trace for a long time.

No?

Did you really hallucinate?

Just when Li Weiguo let down his guard and picked up the gun again to shoot his target, he just raised the gun when he felt a flash of fire reflected off the big tree in front of him.

How is it possible to reflect the light of fire in a big tree?

Could it be a sniper of the Japanese army? But how could a sniper hide in such an easily exposed place?

Almost at the same time as Takeshita Masaichi fired, Li Weiguo lowered his head, and soon felt a chill in his head, a bullet almost flew against his scalp, and also knocked his hat away.

Feeling a burning sensation coming from his ears, Li Weiguo subconsciously touched it and saw that it was blood.

Apparently the bullet had grazed the scalp of his ear, and if he had been any slower, it might have been over.

Escaping death, he lay on the ground panting loudly, shouting loudly to his comrades next to him.

"The devil has a sniper, and it's on that big tree!"