Chapter 409: Confrontation
In the early morning, there was no longer the silence of the past, and the smoke that gradually disappeared in the distance had already told the soldiers at the front that the little devil had finished breakfast, and it was time to invite the little devil to eat a gun. The fighters began to make a final check of the equipment they were carrying.
The company commander of the regiment was on the position, urging the soldiers to lie on their stomachs, and did not hear the order that no one should shoot, and as the order was given, the atmosphere in the air became tense.
The camp of the little devil has been assembled, and the little devil is announcing the final battle order, but the commander of the little devil does not let the Japanese immediately attack the Chinese army. The first wave of tentative attacks must of course be handed over to the puppet army.
Ma Wanzhong lay in the lookout hole and looked at the Japanese soldiers who were covering the sky in the distance, without the slightest expression on his face, as if he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.
Under the supervision of the Japanese army, the puppet army began to attack the first line of defense, and the Japanese army followed, and their main task was to urge the puppet army to thunder for them.
Sure enough, when they had just entered the distance of about 500 meters of the first line of defense, the puppet army stepped on the traps arranged by Ma Wanzhong in advance, these traps were mainly made of bamboo sticks, and as long as they stepped on the traps, they basically lost their combat capability.
When the first trap was stepped on, under the painful wail of the puppet army, the attacking Japanese puppet army was only a short panic, under the supervision of the Japanese army, the puppet army continued to move forward, and the puppet army stepped on more and more traps, but the Japanese army was not injured at all, and the wounded of the puppet army were immediately dragged away from the battlefield.
When the puppet army advanced two hundred meters, the first line of defense finally rang out sporadic gunfire, and as the gunfire rang out, the casualties of the puppet army began to increase sharply. This is the result of sharpshooters on the first line of defense, most of the owners of the sporadic gunfire are veterans who have experienced more than two battles, and some of them are the apprentices of Zhang Cuihua's apprentices, although Zhang Cuihua died, but his marksmanship has been passed down through his apprentices.
"Bang"
With the gunshot, a Japanese soldier about 300 meters from the forward position fell, which was the first Japanese soldier to fall in the whole process, but he did not die, but his shoulder was pierced by a bullet, and he lay on the ground and wailed.
The offensive formation of the puppet army began to panic, and no matter how the Japanese army urged them behind them, they were unmoved, only concerned about saving their lives.
The gunshots still rang out, and these sporadic gunshots caused a lot of pressure on the Japanese puppet army, which was mixed together, and it was no longer a matter of supervision and supervision, and at this time they could only rush forward. At a distance of about two hundred meters from the position, the Japanese commander who commanded the charge finally sensed that the situation was not good and ordered a retreat.
In the first tentative attack, the Japanese army did not lose many casualties, and the puppet army as a thunderbolt did suffer heavy casualties, and most of the puppet soldiers had bamboo sticks on their feet, so they could not participate in the battle at all.
"Cover the distance of three hundred meters of the forward position with artillery fire, and blow up all the traps laid by the Chinese for me!" The commander of the Japanese army had already seen the traps laid by Ma Wanzhong in his binoculars, and in his eyes these traps were just a piece of cake.
"Boom Boom"
The artillery of the Japanese army, having received orders, began to bombard the traps in front of the Chinese positions. Ma Wanzhong looked at the impact point of the Japanese artillery shell in the binoculars, and thought to himself that fortunately he did not rush to lay mines, otherwise he would have been blown up by the Japanese artillery before it had any effect.
Fifteen minutes later, the Japanese finally stopped the shelling, and under the urging of the little devils, the puppet army once again launched a charge against the Chinese positions, but this time there was no Japanese supervision behind them, but heavy machine guns set up by the Japanese army. The commander of the Japanese army said that these heavy machine guns were providing fire cover with them, but the puppet army knew in their hearts that these heavy machine guns were still seven or eight hundred meters away from the Chinese position.
The puppet army had no choice but to bite the bullet and start charging forward, and they did not have lively support, because the puppet army knew very well in their hearts that they had come to test the firepower of the Chinese position.
Ma Wanzhong, who was in cover, also knew in his heart that the puppet army was here to pave the way for the little devil. A regiment of soldiers firmly held on to the position, and when the puppet army was at a distance of three hundred meters, there were still sporadic gunshots on the position, but there was no trap, and the speed of the puppet army's advance this time was obviously accelerated.
"Bang Bang Bang"
The crisp soft sound continued to sound, and the puppet army got closer and closer to the position, and when it was still about two hundred meters away from the position, the gunfire on the position gradually increased, but the gunfire was still very sparse.
The sparse gunfire was not enough to suppress the offensive speed of the puppet army, and the commanders at all levels on the Chinese positions just quietly watched as the puppet army got closer and closer to their positions, a hundred meters, eighty meters......
At a distance of fifty meters, the Chinese soldiers on the position were waiting for this opportunity, the gunfire was loud, it was still only the sound of rifle gunfire, but the dense firepower and the distance of dozens of meters were enough to make the charging puppet army suffer a big hardship.
The puppet army charged forward under the urging of the machine gun behind the buttocks, but the short distance of fifty meters became the most insurmountable obstacle in their lives. In just a few minutes, more than half of the charging puppet troops were killed and wounded, and only rifles were still firing on the position, not even a single grenade was thrown.
The puppet officer did not give the order to retreat, thinking that he had not received an order from the Japanese army, so he could only let the troops continue to charge. At this distance without any cover, the puppet army lay down and began to crawl forward.
At the moment when the puppet army lay down, the position suddenly became quiet, and there was no gunfire. The lying Japanese troops crawled forward, getting closer and closer to the position, but they could not get too close, if they were still lying on the ground at a distance of thirty meters, as long as the defending Chinese troops threw grenades, all of them would be reimbursed in a few minutes.
With the order of the puppet army officer, the puppet army suddenly jumped up from the ground. Immediately afterwards, dense gunfire sounded again on the position, and the Chinese soldiers on the position had already filled the chambers with bullets, waiting for the moment when the puppet army suddenly broke out.
"Bang Bang Bang"
The puppet army that had just erupted was instantly hit by the oncoming bullets. At this time, the puppet army officer who commanded the charge also saw the retreat order given to them by the Japanese, but he never had a chance to retreat again, and the moment he just stood up and charged, a bullet came at him and killed him with one shot.
The puppet army still retreated, leaving more than a hundred corpses and wounded on the forward position, and the Japanese army did not care about the lives of these puppet soldiers at all, and had no intention of rescuing them.
"Don't shoot, save some bullets, the lives of the puppet army are not worth the money of bullets!" On the position, a company commander stopped the recruits who were still shooting at the retreating puppet army.
In a very simple encounter, the Japanese commander did not expect that the individual combat effectiveness of the Chinese army was not inferior to that of their Imperial Japanese Army.
"Order the puppet army to be ready for the next charge, this time covering them with smoke bombs!" The Japanese commander did not get the results he wanted, and once the fire deployment of the Chinese troops on the position was not exposed, his artillery could not play any role at this time.
The puppet army knew that their task was to test the firepower deployment of the Chinese army on the position, especially the deployment of heavy firepower, otherwise the Japanese army would always order them to attack, but the Chinese army on the opposite side obviously thought that the Japanese army would do this, and at this time, the puppet army in the middle could only follow the orders of the Japanese.
Again and again...... I don't know how many times the puppet army has been tried, and the forward positions are full of corpses, but the Chinese army greets them with grenades in addition to rifles, and the heavy firepower is not exposed at all.
The Japanese commander really couldn't stand it, and if it continued like this, the puppet army would not be able to test the firepower deployment on the Chinese army's position for a day, and the time would only be wasted.
"Order the 1st Brigade to attack from the front, and the 2nd and 3rd Battalions to attack from both flanks to contain the enemy's firepower! Half an hour of preparation time. "The commander of the little devil is not going to continue to consume.
The Japanese army, of course, did not care about shells for the sake of their warriors of the Great Japanese Empire, and tons of shells poured down on the first line of defense. The soldiers hiding in the bunkers had solemn faces, they knew that the next fight was not the puppet army, the little devil was going to move seriously.
"It seems that the commander of the little devil can't sit still!" Ma Wanzhong listened to the deafening sound of the cannon, and thought silently in his heart.
The little devil's shells bombarded for half an hour, but the commander of the little devil did not know that there was nothing wrong with the Chinese position, the heavy sedimentary rock was comparable to steel, and the soldiers were hiding in the bunker and were not scathed except for feeling the shaking of the whirlwind of the sky.
"Signal soldier, pass the order, wait for the little devil to come up and greet him vigorously, no need to save bullets!" Ma Wanzhong asked the signal soldiers to give orders.
On the forward positions, under the command of officers at all levels, the gunfire was heavy, and many invisible firepower points suddenly appeared, causing considerable casualties to the attacking Japanese troops.
The little devil's attack in the morning soon reached Hu Guoshan's ears, and at this time Hu Guoshan had just fallen asleep and rested for a while, when he heard the soldiers report that there was a violent explosion in the direction of the station, and he knew that the Japanese army had attacked.
Hu Guoshan did not panic, in addition to their full preparation, he believed in Liao Fan more, and their trust in Liao Fan had reached a blind state.
"Commander, I heard that there has been a fight?" Zhao Caizhu asked.
"It's up to us next!" Hu Guoshan's expression was very heavy, maybe it was because he was too tired in the past few days.
"Do you want to arrange for the soldiers to go out to reconnoiter now?"
"Don't worry, wait for noon, let the soldiers rest for a while and conserve their strength!" Hu Guoshan glanced at his watch, it was only eight o'clock in the morning, and many soldiers had just fallen asleep, and the fatigue of a day and a night had already made the soldiers very tired.
The day of the gourd set was very quiet, and the cicadas and birds were singing in the deep mountains in the distance, which did not disturb the rest of the soldiers at all.