After Ye Zifei, who was located 500 meters behind the first line position, observed the movement of the Japanese army from the telescope, he had already ordered in advance all the 60 troops on the front line that could cover the positions of the Japanese army to assemble and prepare for artillery bombardment.

The biggest disadvantage of the 60 is that the shells are slightly smaller and less powerful, and the effective range of 1,500 meters is slightly shorter, but because it is a mountainous operation, the problem of insufficient effective range basically does not exist at this moment, because the Japanese artillery cannot hide thousands of meters away from the mortar and fire like in the plain area. It's not impossible to move back, but I'm afraid that before their artillery can set up their guns in a suitable place, thousands of Chinese officers and soldiers who are pursuing them from the rear will arrive, and at that time, the artillery will become the vanguard.

Ye Zifei believes that Liden Xingdazuo is not so stupid.

Of course, Koi Dengxingichi was not so stupid, and he left no more than 10 minutes for the artillery squadron to prepare. Every night for a minute, the main Chinese forces that were about to arrive behind him made him feel like a man. He had to open a passage in the shortest possible time for more than a thousand Imperial troops to escape.

Therefore, the Japanese artillery at the rear could only put up artillery on two seemingly suitable hills 800 meters in front of the Chinese army's defensive line, and their only hope was that the Chinese had no artillery.

Apparently, they were disappointed.

The power of one 60 guns was slightly insufficient, but the front line could cover ten of the 60 guns that had already opened fire for five minutes. The 60-high gun muzzles, which could reach an angle of fire of up to 85 degrees, could even shell the Japanese infantry who had reached the foot of the hill and began to attack upwards through the dense bushes.

And the 60 with a total artillery mass of no more than fifteen kilograms, together with their gunners, like most of the infantry, hid behind mountains that infantry guns and mountain artillery could not bombard.

The officers and men of the 1st Battalion, who had fought at least two large-scale mountain offensive and defensive battles with the Japanese army, had already placed the main infantry force and machine guns behind the hill below the top of the mountain long before the Japanese began to prepare for the attack, leaving only three or four observers on the position at most. The mortarsmen, who had been ordered to prepare for the artillery bombardment, had already carved out a flat area on the uneven hillside with individual sappers for mortar fire.

This is the biggest advantage of 60 force, just find an open space where you can stand people, and you can launch. At this point, the Japanese infantry artillery and mountain artillery were far inferior. The 50-millimeter grenadier is no problem in terms of mobility, but the range of 500 meters and the power of a grenade are far less than 60. Moreover, one 60 guns are not powerful enough, so what about the 10 guns that are shelled together?

The answer is, the same dick explodes!! The effect of the shelling is definitely not inferior to the full-speed shelling of two mountain guns.

This kind of company-platoon-level fire support artillery can shoot more than 20 shells in one minute, and 10 guns can shoot 200 rounds.

Since the cannonballs he carried were not as rich as before, Ye Zifei only ordered that each cannon was only allowed to fire five rounds, but that was also fifty shells! On average, twenty-five shots fall per hill.

From the moment the first mortar shells fell on the positions of the Japanese artillery, the Japanese artillery began to hide. After several days of bloody battles at the old pass, although they were artillerymen, they did not personally experience the fear of mortars in the infantry, but they knew that once the Chinese had artillery, it would not be a matter of one or two, but many. Correspondingly, since there are shells coming, it is not one or two, but many.

If they take the 60 forced with the most equipment of the independent regiment, one artillery can run with a cannon weighing more than ten kilograms, or even the heavier 82 forced with a maximum of two people, and they can also flash people while carrying it. But it's a pity that the Type 92 infantry gun, which is known as the lightest, has a gun body plus a gun mount of more than 200 kilograms, not to mention the more than 500 kilograms of Type 41 mountain guns, there are more than ten people, they don't want to move even half a meter on the top of the bushy mountain.

As a result, the Japanese artillerymen took care of themselves and flashed first, either jumping down the mountain, or looking for a suitable pit to nest in place. As for the precious mountain artillery infantry artillery, then, it is better to leave it to fate!

The Japanese artillerymen were wise and hid quickly. More than 20 shells blew up the top of the mountain into a sea of fire and debris, and even overturned the heavy infantry guns down the mountain, but not many of the hundreds of people in an artillery squadron died in several rounds of shelling in succession. No more than twenty men, and at least three more were crushed to death by an infantry cannon rolling down from the top of the hill.

There were not many deaths, but there were a lot of artillery losses, and the two infantry guns were swept down the mountain by the air waves, and the barrels of the guns were deflated, it is estimated that even if they want to repair them with a small hammer, it will be two months later. One of the two mountain guns was blown away, and it was estimated that if you wanted to open the cannon, you would have to use a living person as a gun mount. Even so, it would take five or six minutes for the only two remaining infantry guns and one mountain gun to open fire, and more importantly, the mortars who did not continue to fire did not say that they would withdraw, they were still waiting for them to be resurrected, and then continued to open the round, and at least two artillery observers stared at the artillery observer and stared at the artillery observer a kilometer away.

Looking through the binoculars at the bloody abuse of his artillery position by the Chinese, the carp Dengxing showed a strange flush on his face comparable to that of a dead man. According to the model of the ancient Chinese Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the next moment, it was obvious that the Japanese army should vomit blood. The idol-style young marshal of thousands of girls, Zhou Dadudu, was spurted with blood and was killed by Luo Guanzhong's Zhuge military master with the halo of the protagonist.

Obviously, Liden Dazuo's heart was still relatively big, and he actually suppressed the boredom that surged up in his chest like a tidal wave, and issued a military order to the front-line commander to continue the offensive and not retreat. It's like Liden Dazuo finally made an appointment with a girl in modern times, and his pants were taken off, but he found that the other party was 。。。。。。 It's a male. The cannon I made an appointment with tears in my eyes will be fought! Koto Daisa's face flushed with a strange flush was certainly not ashamed of going through the back door anyway.

He thought, I'm afraid, that the previously scheduled 200 casualties are not enough to deal with.

The big-hearted Liden Dasa looked ahead with red eyes and a red face, but the baggage soldiers at the front of the charging queue were not only stunned at the moment when their artillery fire stopped, but also turned all the women of the Liden Dazuo family who gave the order not to retreat a thousand times in their hearts.

Yaga's! What about the artillery cover that was said? Why did it wither? Or at this juncture, this is the rhythm of sending a few brothers, no, hundreds of brothers to the muzzles of other Chinese!

It can only be said that the military quality of the Japanese army is really not low, not to mention the main infantry on the front line, and even this group of baggage soldiers belonging to the second-line soldiers, they have analyzed the predicament and danger they are about to face at this moment.

The mountains here are not high, and the highest altitude will not exceed 100 meters, and the small hills of seventy or eighty meters high, with the ability of these Japanese soldiers with short legs but definitely stocky, even if they carry guns and grenades and wear big leather boots, it will only take a minute or two.

However, that was when no bullets would fly from the top of the mountain, and what if there were?

Then, not to mention a minute or two, but a minute or two, can they climb to the top of the mountain like marmots in the thick bushes that can almost submerge their heads in a height of more than a meter?

If the 6 heavy machine guns of the half heavy machine gun squadron 400 meters behind him could be a little more powerful.

The guns were gone, and the heavy machine guns had to be put into play, and at least four of the heavy machine guns set up at the various makeshift fortifications in the mountains began to roar and fire at the fortified positions as far as the eye could see from the top of the mountain. Before the enemy target is found, it is covered with firepower to shoot, which is already very rare for a heavy machine gun squadron that has always been very economical in bullets, and this is obviously also a hurry, if you don't attack this hill, what will you do with saving bullets? Is it left to the Chinese?

Some of the stunned Japanese troops regained some confidence, just like the Saint Seiya developed by the future island country, more than 160 Japanese soldiers who began to burn in the small universe roared angrily at the squadron leader who led the team: "Onboard!" , also shouted "onboard" and rushed to the hillside.

A squadron of Japanese infantry at the foot of the hill, armed with machine guns, grenadiers and rifles, also fired desperately at the top of the hill to cover their own vanguard.

Although strategically, these heavy soldiers were cannon fodder to test the firepower of the Chinese defenders and consume their ammunition, the Japanese did not say that they did not have the ambition to attack the mountains in one fell swoop.

Looking down from the mountain, more than 160 Japanese soldiers in khaki military uniforms were running wildly in the bushes despite the tree branches cutting their faces and hanging their torn military uniforms, like hungry wolves who had only found a gluttonous feast, like the bushes on a calm lake showing ripples.

It can be said that the cannon fodder of the Japanese army at this time has completely burned their own small universe, from the bronze level all the way to gold. After all, the toad also wants to eat swan meat, cannon fodder, and also wants to counterattack!

As long as they can give them a minute, they can rush to a position more than twenty meters from the top of the mountain, throw the grenades on their bodies, and then, with bayonets, have a white-knuckle battle with the Chinese that they like to show the martial prowess of the Imperial Japanese Army.

The Japanese army's decisive long live charge reappeared on the battlefield with full momentum.

It is a pity that the officers and men of the first battalion, one company and two platoons of the independent regiment guarding this hill did not give them this opportunity.

The fire of the Japanese army was very fierce, the fire of four heavy machine guns, six light machine guns and six grenadiers was indeed fierce, and they could not raise their heads at all, and they did not even extend the muzzle of the gun out of the fortifications.

Or rather, they didn't plan to shoot at all.

The infantry of the independent regiment generally has two choices for individual heavy weapons ---- grenades, one is the long-handled grenade commonly used by the national army, which has a larger charge and can be thrown farther, and can also be tied together to blow up strong fortifications and even armored vehicles; The other is the individual grenade developed by the independent regiment itself, which has a slightly smaller charge and a short throw distance, but it is light in weight and small in size, and it is the best individual weapon in defensive warfare.

And this battle was destined not to be a pursuit battle but a blocking battle from the very beginning, so most of the officers and soldiers chose to carry individual grenades, and each person carried more than 6 on average.

The second platoon responsible for defending this hill is Cen Changqing's infantry platoon, in the battle of Jiuguan, the second platoon can be regarded as the infantry platoon with the highest battle damage in a company, the infantry squad of the old monkey is almost lost, and the other infantry squad is also half lost, only one firepower squad is available, and the platoon deputy is also seriously injured and admitted to the field hospital, so the battalion deputy Ye Zifei temporarily transferred a complete infantry squad from the third company as a reserve to enrich the second platoon, and now the infantry strength has reached 22 people, and the machine gun shooters and mortarists of the fire squad are basically complete, With the addition of him, the platoon commander and the signal corps, there were 38 officers and men on the entire hill.

In addition to 6 mortarmen and ammunition men hiding behind the hill for fire support, there were 32 infantry on the entire hilltop.

The 32 people did not rashly shoot at the Japanese army with their guns, and they did not even shoot at the Japanese cannon fodder, which was obviously completely like a rabbit. They just, taking out a grenade, pulling the lead, and throwing it down the hill.

It didn't take much effort, and the condescending advantage would have caused the individual grenade to fly to the hillside fifty or sixty meters away, and the lead in five seconds burned just right.

Only two pieces were thrown per person, and there were 64 pieces on the entire hillside. The gold-level "wild wolves" that were running wild in the small universe were directly blown up into "rabbit paper" that encountered natural enemies, whether they arched into the dense bushes in the style of covering their ears and stealing bells, or continued to run upward in resignation. The shrapnel from the 64 grenades will blow the fragile branches of the bush and pierce the more fragile human body.

At least 50 or 60 people were injured and maimed in this grenade battle, and many were killed on the spot.

And the four heavy machine guns that did not hesitate to fire at the expense of bullets also lost their previous arrogance, in order to be able to get them in one fell swoop and not leave them a way out, Liu Jinzuo, who was responsible for providing fire support to the second platoon, had already commanded four mortars to aim at them for a while.