Chapter 405: Counterattack
Sudden ...... Sudden ......!
After letting go of the puppet army that hit the front station, with the order of He Zhendong in the Nanshan position, the only 92 heavy machine gun of the independent detachment preemptively struck and swept into the vanguard of the Japanese army in an instant with accurate long point fire.
And as the heavy machine guns fired, six light machine guns on the ridges on the north and south sides joined the attack.
Within half a minute, the dense rain of bullets was like cutting wheat, and more than 30 Japanese soldiers were overturned in an instant.
Suddenly ambushed, the forward troops of the Japanese army were beaten almost out of formation before they could see the enemy clearly. As for the puppet army, they were completely frightened, just running around like headless flies.
In the rain of bullets, the puppet army finally instinctively began to flee after dropping more than a dozen corpses.
Seeing this scene, the face of the Japanese soldier Shaozuo, who was pulled off the horse by his subordinates, instantly turned the color of pig liver.
"Baga...... machine gun cover, grenadiers immediately suppressed the enemy on the hill! Toast gives! ”
A captain officer who broke free from pulling him, Okazaki Shaosa fiercely pulled out his family heirloom katana, and shouted to command the more than 100 Japanese soldiers who followed him to launch a counterattack.
Hearing the hoarse roar of the captain, the two Japanese squad leaders immediately drew their command knives, stood up and rushed forward with a howl, trying to meet the Japanese squad that had been disabled.
At the same time, with a few muffled sounds, the devil grenadiers also began to fire grenades at the hill two hundred meters away under the cover of machine guns.
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"Heavy machine guns shift positions! Fast......! ”
Almost at the same time as the devil grenadier began to be fired, He Zhendong, who was lying in the trench and commanding, gave the order for the heavy machine gun to be transferred.
Although the heavy machine gun only fired 60 rounds of ammunition from two bullet plates, He Zhendong no longer dared to let the heavy machine gun continue to fire in place.
Boom ...... Boom ......
As the heavy machine gun was just transferred, grenades gradually covered the heavy machine gun position just now.
In the dense explosion, the two soldiers who helped carry the gun carriage were the last to transfer, and they were directly swept aside by the air wave of the explosion when they couldn't dodge, and one was killed and one was injured.
"Qi Baoshan......! Suppress the enemy's grenadiers, fast! ”
Finding that the soldiers were hit by the bombardment of the grenadiers and couldn't raise their heads, He Zhendong immediately began to call out loudly, urging Qi Baoshan to quickly counterattack.
Hearing He Zhendong's shout, Qi Baoshan, who was observing at the front of the position, finally instructed an observation post to say a few words, and then ran back to the mortar position with a puff of smoke, and carefully adjusted the firing angle of the Japanese Type 94 mortar in his hand.
Taking a deep breath, he picked up a ninety-millimeter shell that had been loaded with propellant and sent it into the muzzle with his own hands.
Boom......
With a slight shock to the ground, a ten-pound mortar shell whistled out of the muzzle.
After a short delay, a flame rose near the trench where the grenadiers were hiding.
In the deafening explosion, the Japanese captain glanced at the black smoke from the explosion more than ten meters away and immediately realized something.
"Captain lie down, the enemy is shelling the grenadier squad!"
Rushing forward in a few steps, the Japanese captain pushed Shaozuo, who was still half-squatting and commanding the battle, to the ground.
At the same time, at the grenadier position not far from them, four dull explosions were heard in a row. Among them, several grenades were detonated on the spot, causing some Japanese machine gunners in the vicinity to be tragically affected.
In just a few seconds, the eight grenadier soldiers, along with the seven or eight devil soldiers around them, were all blown up in a blur of flesh and blood.
And as the grenadier squad was completely annihilated, the Type 92 heavy machine gun on Nanshan clucked again.
Heavy machine guns mixed with light machine guns swept in, and the Japanese troops attacking in front were once again suppressed on the ground and could not move.
"Withdraw...... Evacuate! ”
Seeing this scene, the Japanese captain also knew that it would never be pleasing to him if he continued to attack strongly, so he pulled Empress Shao Sakura, who was cut on the head by a bullet, to retreat.
Soon, after dropping seventy or eighty corpses of the Japanese puppet army, the forward of the devils gradually withdrew from the sight of the independent detachment.
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Retreating to a mile away, the Japanese Okazaki Brigade stopped at the roar of the captain.
Sitting on a stone on the side of the road, Okazaki asked the doctor who accompanied him to bandage his wounds while pulling the map handed by the lieutenant, spreading it out and confirming the location of the ambush.
"Signal Corps, send a report to the wing!
Urgent report, Okazaki Brigade was ambushed by the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the area of Jiajiazhuang, the intersection of Yixian and Qin counties, and fierce battles broke out.
It has now been ascertained that the enemy has more than 500 troops, and is equipped with heavy machine guns and mortars, and is definitely the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the Jinnan area.
Unable to avoid the enemy's escape, Okazaki's brigade decided to suspend the plan to sweep in the direction of Jianshan and immediately organize troops to encircle and suppress the enemy's main force. ”
After the words were closed, Okazaki, who had finished bandaging, stood up and looked at the dozen lieutenants in front of him, and quickly arranged the combat mission.
Soon, the Japanese puppet army brigade assembled in the back was reassigned to the task.
The first squadron was temporarily placed in the rear to protect the artillery due to heavy casualties in the encounter, while the remaining two squadrons were each reinforced by a company of puppet troops and engaged in counterattack operations against the enemy.
At the same time, in order to strengthen the firepower of the attacking team, the two heavy machine gun squads accompanying the army were divided into two, and they were quickly deployed according to the requirement that each attacking squadron strengthen two heavy machine guns, ready to support the Japanese troops on the hill at any time.
Finally, in view of the fact that the enemy was equipped with long-range weapons such as mortars, it was inevitable that the baggage team would encounter danger, and after all the personnel replenished half of the base ammunition, the remaining 1.5 base ammunition and a large amount of supplies and sundries were arranged by Okazaki to immediately return to Jiajiazhuang, which had just passed, to stand by.
After arranging and after more than 20 minutes of careful reconnaissance, Okazaki finally gave the order to attack.
This time, the Japanese army learned the lesson of being flanked by the enemy on both sides of the official road just now, and abandoned the way of attacking from the official road. Coupled with the fact that the independent detachment occupied two isolated hills, Okazaki, after careful consideration, finally adopted the tactic of monitoring the enemy on the southern mountain with half of his forces, and the rest of his troops to attack behind the peaks on the northern side.
Okazaki's idea is very simple, since the Eighth Road divides the troops into two hills, then he will take the opportunity to break them down. In this process, if the enemy on the hill on the south side dares to come to support, then the troops on standby can take the opportunity to launch an attack and annihilate the opponent.
At a quarter past two o'clock in the afternoon, a well-prepared attack began under the bombardment of the 92 rifle guns.
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In the rumbling explosion, the old immortal slightly picked up a branch that had broken and burned due to the shelling, put it on the pipe and took a calm puff.
Comfortably exhaled a puff of smoke, looking at the group of recruits of the fourth company who were pale in the shelling around him, and the old immortal hehe Yile.
"Ge Laozi drips...... A group of cowards, it's not for you to go down the mountain to attack, what's so nervous. ”
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At this moment, Lu Baichuan suddenly appeared from the smoke of gunpowder, and bent all the way to the old immortal's side.
"Brother, I'm really right for you, this little devil looks like he's going to attack from behind us."
Wen Yan patted the dirt on his military hat, and the old immortal took a deep puff of his pipe.
"Devils, devils, that's better than ghosts. They have just suffered losses on the road, and it is a sure drop to go around to the attack.
Hey, don't shoot, it looks like the devil is coming up. ”
Hearing the sound of the cannon stopping, the old immortal knocked his pipe on the stone beside him, and then grabbed his favorite Chinese rifle and stood up.
"Baichuan, you go and ask all the people of the fourth company to come to the rear mountain position, and it is enough to leave a squad in front to monitor the official road."
"Good ......."
The words were closed, and the two separated one after the other, Lu Baichuan went to call his soldiers, while the old immortal went to find Xizi who was at the forefront of the position.
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Less than a minute after the end of the shelling, a puppet army company, with the "cooperation" of a small group of Japanese troops, slowly walked out of the woods on the other side of the mountain.
Walking cautiously down the hill and through the valley, more than 100 Japanese puppet soldiers lined up in a scattered formation, and launched an attack on the positions held by the second and fourth companies.
Seeing the Japanese puppet army approaching, the commander of the second company, Kiko and Shishi, who were at the front of the position, immediately shouted out of the trenches and prepared to meet the attack of the Japanese puppet army.
Since the position defended by the 2nd and 4th Companies was said to be a mountain peak, but the actual height was not high, as soon as the devils began to climb through the valley, the distance between the two sides quickly shortened to less than 150 meters.
Seeing this scene, the old immortal pulled the bolt of Lao Zhongzheng's gun and pushed a seventy-nine bullet up.
"Gua babies, stabilize my ......."
Gently turning on the trigger safety, the old immortal squinted at the shadow under the mountain, and kept telling the soldiers around him.
And with the rapid approach of the Japanese army, Kiko's second company was a little better, because most of them were veterans who had been in the army for a while. But compared to it, Lu Baichuan's four companies are much worse. In the tense atmosphere, not only did many people obviously begin to show fear, but even the hands holding the gun began to tremble.
At this moment, for the vast majority of the soldiers of the Fourth Company of the Independent Detachment, this is almost the first major battle they have experienced since joining the Eighth Route Army.
As time passed, the attacking Japanese puppet army forwards gradually approached a distance of 100 meters from the position.
Seeing that the time was almost up, the old immortal decisively pulled the trigger.
Bang...... In the midst of the gunfire, a devil machine gunner who was advancing with a crutch machine gun shook his whole body, and then fell to the ground on his back.
Da Da Da ...... Da Da Da ......!
The next moment, under the roar of Czech and crooked machine guns, rows of dense bullets swept down, and the Japanese puppet troops at the front fell down the hillside in rows.
Suddenly attacked, the Japanese puppet army immediately fell down on the hillside in a hurry, and at the same time, they also began to quickly organize a counterattack.
And just after the Japanese puppet troops fell down one after another, on another hillside more than 300 meters away, two Japanese 92 heavy machine guns also suddenly opened fire, and the fierce fire was directed at the position of the independent detachment.
In the gurgling call, the Japanese army's dense and precise bullet rain came abruptly, repeatedly plowing out smoke and dust on the position.
…… To be continued, thank you for your support!