Chapter 1552: Traps Everywhere (First Update!) )
"Sir, the Eighth Route Army has gone up to the mountain beam in front!" The captain of the brigade who ran to the side of the chief of staff suddenly reported.
This is an open area, surrounded by dozens of meters of good hills, unobstructed, four hundred meters in front of the sudden emergence of a nearly 100-meter-high mountain beam, the mountain road is cut off, blocking in front of everyone, becoming the highest altitude of this highland.
Nearly 300 Eighth Route Army, carrying guns and cannons, climbed up the mountain beam with all their might, and the speed was very fast, and they were afraid that if they ran slower, they would be stuck by the devils chasing behind them.
"Could it be that the Eighth Route Army wants to defend the high ground?" The chief of staff made a bold guess.
"This can't be?" The captain asked suspiciously.
"They have less than three hundred, we have almost a thousand. If you continue to run, you may still be able to escape. Once the stubborn position is surrounded by us, the Heavenly King Lao Tzu will not be able to save them when he comes, and can only be destroyed by us. ”
"It's impossible for the Eighth Route Army not to know this, after being chased for so long, they have long figured out our strength, and they will definitely not throw themselves into the net and find their own death."
"No, it's possible!" The chief of staff interrupted abruptly, and then analyzed with a serious face.
"If I'm not mistaken, the more the Eighth Route Army runs, the more open the surrounding terrain becomes, and the more they can't avoid our pursuit, so if they keep running, they will definitely die."
"I finally came across a high ground that I could defend to the death, and I definitely didn't want to miss it."
"Defending the high ground, waiting for a miracle, breaking through when you have the opportunity, and then running away, maybe the chances of being chased and killed by us all the way and escaping are higher."
"If we take 10,000 steps back, even if we can't run out, holding on to the high ground can cause us a lot of casualties before we die."
"In the words of the Chinese themselves, this is called dying well and not suffering losses."
When the Japanese army chased to the foot of the mountain, the Eighth Route Army all climbed to the top of the mountain.
As soon as the forward troops were about to rush to the high ground, heavy machine gun fire rang out, and several soldiers were beaten into a sieve head-on......
Seeing this scene, the chief of staff was even more convinced of his judgment and immediately ordered.
"The forward troops immediately retreated, and the Eighth Route Army really intended to defend the high ground."
"They are armed with heavy machine guns and mortars, the forward units have no heavy weapons, and there is no difference between a rash assault and a death sentence."
After saying that, he raised his binoculars and looked around.
There were three small mounds of earth next to the high ground, and they quickly came into the field of vision of the chief of staff, and his eyes lit up and he continued to order: "Do you see these three small hills around?" Although it is not as good as the high ground occupied by the Eighth Route Army, it is better than being pressed by the Eighth Route Army at the foot of the mountain. ”
"The heavy machine gun and mortar units immediately divided their troops into the mountains to suppress the Eighth Route Army on the high ground and provide fire cover for the attacking troops."
"Imperial Army, Third Squadron, prepare for an assault immediately."
"As soon as our mortars and heavy machine guns went off, we immediately went on the offensive."
More than 100 gunners and machine gunners carried their equipment to the dirt bags, and although they were very tired, none of them gave up.
The battle of the Eighth Route Army on the high ground was over, and they all wanted to race against time to take the high ground as soon as possible and withdraw to the county seat.
"Boom ......"
An explosion suddenly sounded on the high ground.
The moment the black smoke rose into the air, a machine gun team was blown up on the spot, a total of five machine gunners fell to the ground, two were silent on the spot, and three people lay on the ground screaming......
"What's going on?" The chief of staff looked at the black smoke on the mountain bag and asked with a puzzled face.
"I don't know!" The captain shook his head and immediately ordered his subordinates next to him to go up the mountain to check it out.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
The explosions rang out again, one after the other, and in the blink of an eye, several highlands were shrouded in black smoke and filled with gunsmoke.
The scout ran back two minutes later: "It's a mine...... Sir, the Eighth Route Army planted mines on the mountain bags. ”
"And they were all mines that we had never seen before, and they exploded after they flew above our heads, and they exploded in a large area, and the heavy machine gun and mortar units suffered heavy casualties and almost lost their combat effectiveness."
The chief of staff reacted suddenly: "Bageya Road, I know why the Eighth Route Army is here to defend the high ground." ”
"In addition to waiting for a miracle to happen and killing some of us before we die, we also set up this place as a battlefield in advance and hit us hard."
"But they forgot that we have an absolute superiority in troops, and the odds of victory are in our hands if we fight for attrition."
"Officers at all levels control their troops, and we can't mess around."
"Even if we don't have high ground, we don't have heavy machine guns and mortars, we can still kill them."
"The troops continue to attack ......"
Huang Sheng stood on a dirt bag more than 1,000 meters away from the battlefield, and his face blossomed with joy when he saw puffs of black smoke rising from the high ground.
This is the first time he has used a bouncing mine against a devil.
Although it is difficult to see the specific results of the battle, the reaction of the Japanese army has already explained everything.
Like a living devil and a lost dog, he retreated to the foot of the mountain with mortars and heavy machine guns, and no longer dared to hit the idea of a few high grounds.
"Battalion commander, more than 900 Japanese puppet troops are all gathered at the foot of the mountain, as long as we occupy a few high ground around the devil from the back, they will become turtles in the urn, and they can't escape if they want to."
"Order the second and third companies, the guerrillas, and the guard platoon, to act immediately and occupy the three heights that the devils have just abandoned as quickly as possible."
"The engineer platoon followed, get out all the mines that haven't exploded yet, don't hurt our own people."
"Boom...... Dadada......"
Gunshots, explosions, symphonies rang out on the battlefield.
More than 100 devils and nearly 200 puppet troops rushed to the hillside, wanting to take the entire highland in one battle.
Not to be outdone, the Eighth Route Army shot down from the top of the hill like no money to hit the attacking troops.
There were too many Japanese puppet troops, densely packed, and wolves approached the top of the mountain. The entire gentle slope is less than 300 meters long, and there are quite a few shrubs and stones in the middle that can hide people.
After losing more than 100 people, the attacking troops finally rushed to a position seventy or eighty meters from the top of the mountain.
As long as the troops rushed forward another thirty meters, they were able to throw grenades to the top of the mountain.
Dozens or hundreds of grenades exploded at the same time, and the Eighth Route Army on the top of the mountain with its steel and iron bones would also be blown into a pile of minced meat.
The idea of the chief of staff is good, but the reality is cruel.
"Boom ......" two explosions in a row sounded in the middle of the attacking troops.
The chief of staff could see at a glance that the black smoke was not blown up by the shells, and when he saw the fallen corpses around the bullet impact point, he suddenly thought of the bouncing mine that his subordinates had just reported.
"Oh no, we've been tricked!" The chief of staff came to his senses completely, but it was too late.
In addition to ordinary mines and bouncing mines, the garrison regiment also arranged several chain mines, and the chain mines were sandwiched between them.
This bombing was incredible, and the Japanese troops within a radius of several tens of meters were either killed or wounded.
"Retreat! The attacking troops will immediately retreat! The chief of staff shouted bitterly as he watched one of his subordinates die tragically!
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