The Japanese mortars rang incessantly, and the fires were in a series of flashes on the original machine-gun positions on the front position of the Third Battalion Mantou Mountain.

Soon after, the stragglers of the Japanese advance began to move forward again, and under the flares, the devils nested and jumped around the line of fire at the front of the position like fleas.

The 3rd Battalion concentrated most of the excellent marksmen of the 7th Company in the frontal position, and took advantage of the stability of the formal rifle as the prototype of the sniper rifle to start hunting and killing the Japanese stragglers.

Marksmen such as Xiucai, Chen Yanxin, and Ma Zhaokai, with a secondary shooter, and a few rifles per person, quickly used the crosshair to lasso the fleeting target, and decisively pulled the trigger, almost three or four shots could hit a devil.

Such a high hit rate was very terrifying, and in the War of Resistance, even the Japanese infantry, who had excellent archery skills and saved bullets, had to consume an average of hundreds of rounds of ammunition to hit a Chinese soldier.

As the elite unit of the 74th Army, each combat infantry has at least one base number of rifle bullets, which is generally about one hundred and twenty rounds.

According to Xiucai's extremely high hit rate, each person can shoot thirty devils in a small and medium-sized battle.

Of course, this is just a numerical reasoning, which is unrealistic in reality, first of all, devils will not be so stupid, constantly sending people to Xiucai and sending them to death at gunpoint.

At present, we have not yet encountered a large corps of equal strength in battle, and basically the Chinese army is defending, retreating, fighting more and fighting less, guerrilla and so on, and it is difficult to encounter a large number of charging Japanese infantry in such a battle.

Besides, in the face of the continuous escalation of weapons, the Japanese army will no longer rely on crowd tactics to fight for positions like Lushun fought the Russian army in the past.

Unless it is a last resort, such as a position that the Japanese army considers very important, it must be taken, and at least three battalions have not yet been encountered.

The enemy that the third battalion is facing now is generally at the squadron level, and there are very few at the brigade level, so after Xiucai and they shot more than a dozen people, they couldn't stand it, and they definitely had to take measures.

Just like tonight, the Japanese army attacked Mantou Mountain, in terms of troops, at least at the brigade level, but because the width of the position is not large, the strength cannot be spread, and it can only be the input of a squadron.

Therefore, after Xiucai and they sniped more than a dozen or twenty devil stragglers, the devils really began to be anxious, and there were only about 200 people in a squadron of them, so dead, they couldn't afford to die, it is estimated that they will be shot after dawn tomorrow.

The leader of the devil's squadron saw that the mortars just now "eliminated" the light and heavy machine guns of the Chinese army, and now these rifles are popping up sporadically.

Normally, these sporadic rifles could not threaten their skirmishers at all, but now it seems that they have indeed encountered the elite troops of the Chinese army.

Such accurate marksmanship, and it is a group, it is indeed rare, from the sparse gunfire, the devil squadron leader heard the composure and disdain, and their own people kept falling in front of the position, which showed the horror of the opposite force.

The Japanese squadron leader originally wanted to call a large number of excellent shooters to suppress the opponent, but because at night, the opponent's shooters were in hidden corners, and this effect was not obvious.

Even if the counter-shooting can suppress the Chinese army, it is estimated that it will take a lot of time to screen, shoot, game, dodge and other troublesome things.

In this way, time will pass quickly, and it will be difficult to complete the tasks assigned by the superiors, so this squadron leader adopts simple and crude tactics.

It is the suppression of light and heavy machine guns, especially the 92 heavy machine, on the battlefield of infantry, in addition to artillery shells, it is the king of bullets, and can rule the entire battlefield of light weapons.

Just now, the mortars had "wiped out" the light and heavy machine guns of the "Chongqing Army," and the Japanese squadron leader believed that now the 92 heavy machine guns and light machine guns did not need to be afraid of the Makqin heavy machine guns that no longer existed on the other side.

As a result, the Japanese machine-gun squadrons were assigned to the machine-gun squads of various infantry squadrons, and under the orders of the squadron leader, they began to frantically strafe and suppress the rifle fire points that were sporadically lit up on Mantou Mountain.

For a time, almost no one on the forward positions of the Chinese army dared to raise their heads and shoot back, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the devil stragglers who were dormant in front began to move forward rapidly.

For the three battalions who stubbornly defended the hill or position, such offensive and defensive tactics had been practiced many times, and for some veterans, the actual combat had been fought countless times.

For the battalion commander Luo Zhicheng, such a battle is about to be tempered, according to his own strength and weapon projection distance, the power of the match, plus the assistance of the terrain, how much firepower and troops can withstand the attack, you can calculate it with your eyes closed.

Now that the light and heavy machine gun fire points of the Japanese army have finally been boiled out, the cunning devil began to want to spy on the firepower of the third battalion, thinking that the fire point of the detectives had been killed by mortars, and now he was finally willing to show the machine guns.

Luo Zhicheng waited for this time, this time he specially did not call the mortars of the machine gun company and the mortars of the Japanese army to shoot at each other, first at night, and neither side could see the other's firing point, which was a blind fire.

There is no light at the mortar launchport, the trajectory of the grenade cannot be distinguished at night, the firing point cannot be calculated, if the mortars of both sides fire at each other, it is equivalent to a blind fist, and it is difficult for both sides to hit each other, and there is no effect.

Moreover, there is also a counterproductive effect, once the Japanese know that the third battalion has mortars, the first side will find and determine that there are at least battalion-level units of the Chinese army in this position.

The armies of both sides now know each other's firepower very well, and for the Japanese army, if they find a Chinese army with light machine guns, they can judge that there is at least one squad of people, because the squad machine guns will be equipped with the elite units of the Chinese army.

In the local general troops, it is difficult to say that there are light machine guns, but there is generally a platoon, and at worst there is a company of men.

If there is a Chinese army with heavy machine guns, there is generally at least one battalion, or machine gun company, which is also directly under the infantry regiment, and in the elite troops, it is at least a battalion-level unit.

If there is a mortar, it is certain that there is more than one company, at least a battalion, or even a regiment, and if there are flat-fire guns and mountain artillery, it is a brigade or division-level unit.

If it is the sound of a barge gun in the water, it is either a death squad of the Chinese army, or a guard unit of a certain senior official.

Therefore, in terms of concealment of troops, Luo Zhicheng still doesn't want the Japanese army to know too early that they have a battalion of people on their side, even if there are heavy machine guns before, if they are not exposed much, it will also give the devil an illusion, and the Chinese army will have one or two to help.

Therefore, mortars must not be exposed prematurely, as soon as this is exposed, the light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army will not be easily exposed, and the machine gun fire points of the Japanese army cannot be knocked out, and this battle will not be easy to fight.

Finally, like boiling lard, the Japanese army's light and heavy machine gun fire points were boiled out, and the Japanese army thought that the third battalion had no machine guns, and moved their machine gun positions forward.

Don't miss out on this opportunity.