Chapter 25: An Incredible Accident
Fan Yu snuffed out the cigarette butt, put his finger on the trigger of the 38 big cover, and followed the aim of the baseline, aiming the crosshair at the devil team on the road.
On the highway, led by three large trucks, more than 300 devils marched in a formation to Luozhuang, bringing smoke and dust billowing on the dirt road.
Taking a deep breath and then exhaling heavily, Fan Yu calmed the tension in his heart.
Although I have fought with the devil several times, this time the form of the battle is different from the past.
In the battles he participated in before, the Eighth Route Army had an absolute advantage in strength, often several companies to ambush a team of devils, and the distance was very close, and at the beginning of the battle, they rushed up to fight bayonets, and completely gave full play to the advantage of numbers.
And this time, it was the same force to fight with the devil, and this was Fan Yu's first time.
When blocking half a brigade of twelve devils, this task was very difficult, and this group of devils was also equipped with infantry guns, and they were an elite group of devils, but fortunately, the comrades around him gave him confidence.
All the soldiers of the Seventh Company are veterans who have been in the army for at least three years, and there are even some who have been transferred all the way from Xiangdong, a large transfer of more than 25,000 kilometers.
Now, each of these soldiers is equipped with a well-made 38 large cover, and each of them has more than 200 rounds of ammunition in his pocket. Well-armed and well-armed, with plenty of ammunition, these veterans will be able to display amazing combat effectiveness.
In this blocking battle, the seventh company was in reserve.
Boom Boom Boom ·
Da Da Da ·
In Fan Yu's thoughts, the devil had already walked into the ambush position of the second battalion and the first and second companies, and the two companies opened fire together, and the dense firepower poured out towards the devil, and the devil was embarrassed for a while.
But the elite is worthy of being the elite, the devils demonstrated a classic ambush reaction to Fan Yu, at the beginning of the attack, under the fire of machine guns and mortars, the devils were suppressed, but they reacted extremely quickly, looking for cover on the spot to hide, machine guns suppressed ambush fire, and the infantry artillery completed the reaction within ten seconds, and launched an artillery bombardment on the high ground on both sides.
From the march to the completion of the defensive transformation, it only took more than ten seconds for this group of devils, and Fan Yu was amazed by the smooth movements - when can the soldiers on his side have this level? With such a quick response, even the seventh company, which was all veterans, couldn't do it.
At the same time, he also felt a tight heart, I am afraid that this battle is not so easy to fight.
With excellent marksmanship, skilled combat movements, and good coordination, coupled with the fire support of infantry artillery, the devil quickly broke away from the ambush fire circle, and only left less than ten corpses.
After getting out of the ambush circle, the devil couldn't wait to launch an attack after more than ten minutes of repair, and it was a group attack.
It seems that this group of devils is eager to pass through here and support the ambushed devil brigade in Luozhuang in the distance.
But the more you try to pass, the less you can't.
"Cheer me up, the devil is coming up soon"
On the positions of the first and second companies of the second battalion of the 786th regiment, the two company commanders had solemn faces and went back and forth in the position to boost morale.
The battle just now made the two realize that this group of devils is by no means easy, in the face of the dense fire of four 60 mortars and more than 20 light machine guns, they successfully withdrew from the ambush circle in less than ten minutes, this group of devils is definitely elite.
Although I don't want to admit it, the quality of the devil's individual soldiers far exceeds that of the Eighth Route Army. In this short ten-minute engagement, more than ten fighters were killed, and several others were seriously wounded.
Fortunately, there is a geographical advantage! And there is also a company of reserves!
The two company commanders comforted themselves in their hearts.
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Holding a telescope, the captain of the devil brigade, who had just ordered all the attacks, stood next to a 92 infantry gun, with a solemn face.
As a captain of the Shaozo Brigade, he had a lot of combat experience, and although he was not able to go to the permanent division because his background was not tough enough, he still commanded a brigade independently, and it was a brigade that had experienced a front-line battle.
He was a middle-level officer with real power, and his actual position in the army was higher than that of some of the big leaders at the front.
Not long ago, I received a telegram from Luo Zhuang asking for help, and the telegram indicated that the situation was critical and urgent for rescue.
He knows very well what is stationed in Luozhuang, there is no need to mention the security army, he can defeat it by sending half a team at will, as for the so-called imperial army brigade, it is all old and sick, and its combat effectiveness can be described as extremely low, which is simply a shame on the face of the Japanese Empire.
It's just that the combat effectiveness is low, but this brigade is still an imperial soldier trained in bushido, compared to the Eighth Route Army wandering in the rear, it is still a strong army, he really didn't expect that he would urgently ask for help when the war started only half an hour.
After scolding and scolding a "group of rice buckets", he hurriedly led a brigade of more than 300 people to support, Luo Zhuang is very important and must not be lost.
He thought that there would be a blocking force halfway through, so he was precautionary in his marching deployment, and he would be distracted when passing through every area that was prone to ambush, but he really didn't expect that the ambusher's firepower was so strong, and in the less than ten minutes of engagement just now, the enemy's firepower was beyond his imagination.
One rifle, more than twenty machine guns, and four mortars... This firepower was much more powerful than the so-called regular armies he had fought before.
In particular, the four mortars, although the caliber was not large, but the rate of fire was very fast, and the shells projected in one minute were close to fifty, and the enemy shells seemed to be extremely abundant, and in a few minutes of engagement, the enemy threw more than hundreds of shells.
Just because of these mortars, curved firepower, intensive bombardment, in just a few minutes of fighting, more than half of the team casualties, if it was not for his timely use of 92 infantry guns to suppress the enemy's machine gun fire, the casualties of the troops are definitely more than that.
As for the enemy mortars, the infantry artillery was powerless due to the angle of fire.
So after completing the simple trimming, he launched the whole attack as soon as possible.
The enemy has artillery firepower, and in this mountainous section, the use of mortars is far more effective than that of infantry artillery, and it is necessary to destroy the enemy's artillery at close range, otherwise it will definitely not be possible to break through the enemy's position.
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The three devils hid behind a large rock and took advantage of the fire to attack the top of the mountain.
"Over there, over there, a few devils have touched it"
The machine-gun sub-shooter shouted Wow Wow.
Dadada···· The head of the gun was turned around, and the muzzle of a Czech machine gun burst into flames, and the condescending angle of fire made it easier to shoot, and the machine gunner was a veteran, so it was easy to suppress the devil's attack.
One of the three devil soldiers had fallen in a pool of blood, and the other two had hidden behind a stone bunker, one of them covering his bloody thigh.
One magazine was emptied, and the secondary shooter quickly replaced it with a new one.
Puff puff...
"Heart" · · The counterattack of the devil in the distance also came at the same time, several bullets accurately hit the vicinity of the machine gun, and the soldiers around the machine gun could only lay their heads to avoid the devil's shot, but the machine gun assistant shooter was inexperienced and reacted a little slower, his hat was knocked off, the bullet also grazed his forehead, and blood flowed down his cheek.
Fortunately, the injuries were not serious and did not affect the battle.
"Grenadier, go"
Under the cover of machine-gun fire, behind the stone bunker on the hillside, one of the devils took out a grenadier and stuffed a grenade into the canister. But this scene was discovered by the awakened veterans, and an early warning was issued in time.
Without thinking, the crowd ran around the bunker.
Boom...
The grenade grenade was not very lethal, but the second-in-command was a beat slower and was overshadowed by the aftermath of the explosion.
After the aftermath dissipated, the machine gun shooter veteran hurriedly rushed over and touched the nose of the deputy shooter recruit, the breath was still there, and the wound on his head was only a little bloodstain flowing, and there were no wounds elsewhere.
"Dog's luck is so good, not even the skin is broken"
The veteran scolded.
"Squad leader, am I not dead?"
The recruit co-shooter woke up, still a little dazed.
"If you're not dead, come over and change the magazine"
"Hurry up next time, do you want to be a sudden devil with a machine gun?"
The veteran continued to curse.
After being exposed, the devil grenadier team was also quickly destroyed, and the mortar array observer at the top found the devil, and more than a dozen shells completed the covering shot, and several devils, including the grenadier team, were killed.
The battle was carried out in this scorching situation, although it was inexperienced, but with superior firepower, the blocking Eighth Route Army still had a slight advantage. It was only as the 92 infantry gun joined the battle that the form suddenly took a sharp turn.
The high-speed direct fire of the infantry artillery can perfectly suppress the machine gun position, in the bombardment, the machine gun was suppressed one by one, and lost the fire support of the machine gun, the position was suddenly torn open several holes.
With a gap, the devil immediately invested a large number of infantry to break through the position along the gap, although the mortar stopped it with all its might, but this time the devil was determined and charged with a large number of pigs with dense firepower.
"Seven companies, let seven companies participate in the battle"
The commander of the 1st Company of the 2nd Battalion, who was in charge of the command, gave the order.
"Fire"
The hustle and bustle on the battlefield suddenly increased dramatically.
The three mortars and five machine guns of the seventh company immediately joined the battle, and in the face of the sudden increase in firepower, all the charging devils were caught off guard, and they were immediately killed and wounded, and at this time, the forward of the devils had already charged to a distance of thirty meters from the position, and this distance was the time for the grenade to pop out of the field.
"Grenade Preparation"
All the fighters pulled out a grenade from their waists, unscrewed the back cover, pulled the lead, and threw it in front of the position with all their might.
The rain of bullets composed of hundreds of grenades instantly caused a series of explosions to appear in front of the position, filling the entire position with gunsmoke, and none of the devils who came to attack could stand.
And with the addition of the veterans of the Seventh Company to the battle, these veterans with outstanding marksmanship condescended to the devils and began to roll call, and the devils in the rear also fell in pieces.
"Yaga"
Seeing a scene, the captain of the devil team was stunned.
In the attack for more than a long time, a full hundred samurai fell in front of the position, especially the last wave of grenades, and most of the team was directly killed. Moreover, the enemy's mortar fire did not stop from beginning to end, and the shelling was continuous, from the beginning of the battle to the present, high-speed shelling has been maintained, and he visually fired at least a thousand shells from the opposite side.
"Is this really the Eighth Route Army?"
The captain of the devil brigade stared at the guerrillas behind the bunker in the distance, and he knew the gray military uniform, which was the military uniform of the Eighth Route Army.
Originally, he thought that the artillery bombardment of this group of Eighth Route Army would never last, so he launched a full-scale attack at the beginning, but the facts told him that this group of Eighth Route Army had no ammunition and that the dense firepower was stronger than that of the Imperial Army.
Dense machine-gun fire, continuous shelling, and more than 200 rifle firepower supplements... In the battle, which lasted for more than a time, the enemy's firepower has always been stable and superior to the imperial army.
The captain who was at a high level of zero, superior in firepower, made tactical mistakes, and misjudged the form of the captain was already difficult to ride at this time, and the troops lost more than half of them, and even retreating was an extravagant hope.
Smack...
"The Fourth"
In the field of vision, a devil fell straight down, Fan Yu pulled the bolt of the gun, aiming at the next devil, at this time he wiped and found that there seemed to be few devils still standing. In front of the position was a corpse of a devil, although the infantry guns in the distance were still firing, but in the face of the scattered ambush troops, one firepower seemed to be a drop in the bucket.
"Is this a win?"
The corpses of the devils scattered all over the ground showed that the devils had been defeated, and despite the fact that the facts were in front of him, Fan Yu was still a little incredulous.
"Rush..."
At this time, the soldiers of the first and second companies rushed out of the bunker with their guns and charged at the devils, and the seven mortars also began to extend forward to continue to suppress the devils.
"Incredible"
"This is a job done."
After finally finding the last target, Fan Yu increased his kill count to five, and looked at the comrades who were charging towards the devil, he shook his head, and didn't know what expression to show for a while.
When the task blocks twelve devils, then defeating the devils can be regarded as completing the task!
After two hours of fighting, the three companies responsible for blocking not only completed their tasks, but also routed the Devil Brigade that came to support, and the Devils fled in a hurry after leaving nearly 200 corpses, while the Eighth Route Army suffered less than 100 casualties.