628. A life-and-death situation at stake
As mentioned in the previous chapter, the commander at the regimental level and above, without a physical advantage, can slash and kill the wolf-like devil combat soldiers with a little old experience alone?
It's a joke! really went to the front line, not to mention that he could kill the devil, and even he couldn't protect himself.
Although it is a good thing for such a large commander to lead the troops to charge forward and boost the morale of the soldiers at the bottom, even with the protection of the guards, it is inevitable that they will be killed by the enemy.
A random stray bullet is enough to kill a person, the commander is also a person, and he will die after being shot, even if he is a soldier, he knows that he wants to save his life, doesn't the commander know what this means?
Therefore, Regiment Commander Yang's insistence on the command post is not a manifestation of greed for life and fear of death, but a very correct choice, just like the current Brigade Commander Wan, even in extreme danger, he must stick to the command headquarters.
Commander Yang, who had no troops to send, had no choice but to arm the command headquarters and logistics handymen and go to take the place of the guard company, so that the guard company could divide two main platoons and go to the brigade headquarters to support Brigade Commander Wan.
The division commander's phone and the brigade commander's life are very important, and now these two things are combined into one, and it is even more important, I would rather my regiment headquarters be killed by devils, but also keep the brigade headquarters safe.
Commander Zhang of the 184th Division slowly learned that the devil was the center of the night attack and the upward attack at the foot of the mountain, so he slowly calmed down.
If it was during the day, when Division Commander Zhang faced hundreds of devils who broke into the hinterland of Yuwang Mountain to bloom in the center, plus the devils on the periphery launched a general attack, it would be really a bit troublesome.
But at night, he is not very afraid, firstly, he knows his soldiers very well and is good at melee night combat, and secondly, because of the uncertainty in the night, the devil will definitely not dare to attack in a big way, and if there is a miss, there will be huge losses.
As long as the Japanese army does not attack with all its might, these hundreds of little devils are still sure to be killed, and the key now is to see if the forward positions can withstand several waves of Japanese attacks.
Once it can't stand it, let the Japanese army break through the forward position, press and advance to the hinterland of the main position of Yuwang Mountain, and join the small group of Japanese troops in the center, the difficulty of clearing and suppressing will increase several times.
Even if it will endanger the defense of the entire Yuwang Mountain, the headquarters of each brigade and regiment will be hit, and once the command system is destroyed, then this Yuwang Mountain will not be able to hold it.
Therefore, the top priority now is to first keep the command system unblocked, then step up the elimination of the devils who broke through, and finally join forces to reinforce the defenders in the forward positions and fight back against the attacking enemy together.
In addition to Brigade Commander Yang of Wan, the most painful thing now is Lao Duan, who is facing a powerful enemy offensive, and they are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of personnel and firepower, and their positions are precarious.
There is no way, if there is no order to retreat, you can't escape without permission, you have to die, you have to die on the battlefield, you have to die under the guns of the warlords, it is simply a great shame, and most of your life's hard work, blood and sweat, and reputation have all been in vain.
Anyway, Hengzhi is a death, just before he died, he killed a few devils, Lao Duan ordered everyone to throw grenades desperately, fortunately, last time I exchanged infantry guns for fifty boxes of grenades, and there were more than thirty boxes of useless.
There were less than a hundred people in the whole company, but all of them threw up grenades, and the effect was amazing, especially at night, although the devils now fired a large number of flares in the sky.
But there is still night, plus the smoke after the grenade explosion, in the smoke and night, grenades continue to fly down, which makes the devil's shock team have a lot of losses and psychological fear.
As soon as the grenade explodes, the killing radius is as much as five or six meters, and the good quality can reach about ten meters, which is just like a small cannonball, and the devil is a skirmisher impact, and he can't withstand such a dense grenade attack.
But the grenades are not inexhaustible, although the devil is anxious, because his night attack troops are now connected with the defenders, and if they don't rush up to join them now, they will be killed if they are late.
But now listening to the gunfire, the night raiding troops on the hill are still in the limelight, grenades and flower machine gunfire are constantly ringing, and the grenades of the defenders here are exploding intensively.
The devil simply lay down and let the defenders throw it, see how long you can throw it, and when you run out of grenades, I am rushing, Lao Duan saw that the devil did not move, and had to order his subordinates not to throw grenades stupidly.
But as soon as the grenades stopped, the devil immediately began to leap forward, and the machine gunners and riflemen of the Eighth Company began to fire back, and the devil's heavy machine gun also bit up and suppressed.
Fortunately, the Eighth Company still has a few base grenades, and the grenadier soldiers fired grenades according to the fire point of the devil's 92 heavy machine, which was about as powerful as a grenade, and killed two devils' machine guns at once.
Fortunately, the frontal battlefield is not very wide, and the devil's forces cannot be used, so they can only use a small number of stragglers to leap forward and charge, but under the blockade of the defenders' rifles, machine guns, and grenades, the devils are not moving fast.
It's also important to note that the devils in the center are attacking upwards with almost all their might in order to achieve their goals, and if they attack downwards, the effect will be very different.
Once the defenders' forward positions are attacked by the enemy, they will soon be unable to hold and will be broken through by the devils, so that the devils can at least get the defenders' forward positions together.
But the formulation and implementation of tactics in the war is often a kind of gambling, and the devil made such a big move tonight, the purpose is to take Yuwang Mountain in one fell swoop, not just the forward position.
Once there is a small opportunity to make a big one, they will go all out, which is the common trait of all gamblers.
Now the devil's night raid commando already feels that he is about to reach the peak of Yuwang Mountain, and it is just a little way, just like a gambler who feels that he is about to play a good hand, he will not give up easily.
It was also the psychology and tactics of the devils that allowed the defenders' forward positions to breathe, plus the entire division moved, and all the reserves were dispatched.
When the Eighth Company was about to be unable to bear it, seeing that the devils were about to rush into the trenches, the Sixth Company of the Second Battalion suddenly rushed from behind, and in one fell swoop knocked down the devils who had just emerged.
In terms of abundance, Lao Duan immediately filled in some key positions, plus the ammunition brought by the Sixth Company, especially grenadiers and grenades, which could withstand for a while, so that Lao Duan finally took a breath.
Just now, Balian was almost about to fight hand-to-hand with the devil, once he was entangled by the devil and couldn't pull the distance to block the attack, the second and third waves of people behind the devil would pounce on him in large numbers.
At that time, the Eighth Company will be torn apart by the murderous devils.
At this critical moment of life and death, the Eighth Company once again managed to save these dozens of rotten lives, and the command post of the brigade headquarters and regimental headquarters on Yuwang Mountain has encountered an even more difficult moment.