When the grenadier group was carrying out the fire attack mission of the early attack, their grenadier soldiers in the first defense position of the Japanese army were also returning fire.

It's just that they don't have many grenadiers under the arrangement of the first defense, that is, there are three or four grenadiers in the whole squad, and three or four grenadiers can't compete with the more than 20 people in the whole battalion of the third battalion.

Not only was they unable to resist, but they were even beaten to the point where they had nowhere to hide, and before they had time to withdraw, they were bombed several times, and at the same time, the barricades and barbed wire at the front of the Japanese army's first defense position were blown up.

There are also infantry machine gunners in the first defense, who were also very embarrassed, and the heavy machine guns on the second defense side wanted to support the first defense, but as soon as they fired, they were suppressed by the Chinese mortars.

Now that the Japanese infantry artillery was blown up by the 51st Division Artillery Battalion, there was no big killer weapon to confront the 152nd Regiment, so it could only hold its position and use the advantage of the terrain to make up for the slight disadvantage in weapons.

After the Japanese rifle artillery was bombed now, the only thing that could be used was the mortar, but it was stared at by the mortar group of the 152nd regiment.

The mortars of the machine gun companies of the 3rd Battalion were also used in a concentrated manner to deal with the frontal area south of the high ground of Xiamaxi, and the small artillery platoons and small mortars of the infantry companies of the 3rd Battalion were used against the Japanese heavy machine guns.

The long-range weapons were restrained and suppressed by each other, and when the power of the weapons was neutralized, all that was left was the infantry, and the infantry stormtroopers of the third battalion had already moved to the grenadier group, waiting for the moment of charge.

After Luo Zhicheng saw that the Japanese First Defense could hardly organize an effective counterattack and stop fire, he immediately notified the division bugler and sounded the horn of the attack.

Nearly a company of infantry launched a group charge in front of a frontal position that was a mile wide, and in the smoke and in the treacherous environment of bullets and shrapnel, the soldiers rushed forward one after another.

This time it was the turn of the Ninth Company to attack, although in the previous Ganshulong, the Ninth Company lost an infantry platoon, but now the small artillery platoon has also joined the ranks of the infantry, each of them is issued a rifle, plus a base number of bullets.

There were more than 100 people in three platoons, and although occasionally some people would fall down after being hit by stray bullets, most of them still rushed forward desperately without fear.

As long as a soldier falls, the health guard in the company will try to arrive as soon as possible, and if the injury is small, the soldier will take out a triangular bag or a medical bag to bandage it himself.

At present, the medical team of the battalion headquarters is also stationed next to the battalion command post, and the seriously injured soldiers will first be carried here to bandage or simply deal with them, and if they are serious, they will immediately ask the stretcher soldiers to be sent to the rear field hospital.

War is like a tightly functioning machine, every gear and every part is interlocked, so that it can operate normally and finally win the war.

And the current battle is a small part of this war, and on the surface it seems to be insignificant and irrelevant to the overall situation.

In fact, like the butterfly effect, any small change or better thing can have a profound impact on the final victory.

As the commander of the first battalion, Luo Zhicheng is now not only working according to his experience and ability, commanding operations, but also experiencing tremendous pressure in the war, learning and growing in the war.

The former Seventh Company and the current Third Battalion have been gathering the wisdom and wisdom of all commanders and fighters and seeking better and various combat methods.

But every new tactical experiment can be said to be a double-edged sword, sometimes failing, and failure brings sacrifice and bloodshed.

However, without these bloody lessons and the experience of failure, we would not have been able to achieve those successful tactics and achievements, and neither individuals nor the entire army would have been able to grow, and in the end we would have faced the danger of annihilation.

Just as the technical innovation of the grenadier has brought about a wealth of offensive tactics, it is also in the experimental stage, although good results have been achieved.

Because in the telescope, the soldiers of the Ninth Company entered the first line of the Japanese army in the flames of war, and they were already killed with the defenders of the Japanese army's first defense.

"Tell the 7th and 8th companies to leave a platoon on the left and right sides of the 9th company to protect the flank, and the rest of the infantry, all of them follow up and seize the enemy's first defensive position."

Luo Zhicheng grabbed the telescope with both hands, did not look back, and gave an order to the communications squad leader beside him, and the communications squad leader immediately dictated and repeated the order, and immediately explained that the exclusive signal corps contacted the seventh and eighth companies.

At present, the communications squad at the battalion headquarters is aimed at each company, and at least two signal corps are responsible for liaison, and the rest are responsible for the battalion headquarters of the regimental headquarters and fraternal units.

As the performance of the 74th Army has become more and more eye-catching, and the construction at all levels has become more and more regularized, the battalion headquarters is no longer as simplistic as before.

The regimental headquarters assigned the third battalion with adjutants, secretary secretaries, supply sergeants, intelligence sergeants, communication squads (including division commanders, communication soldiers, signal soldiers, radio transceivers, etc.), cooking soldiers, service soldiers, plus the former guard platoon, almost two platoon personnel.

The regiment commander Liu Guangyu has some opinions on the fact that there has been no deputy battalion commander in the third battalion, and he has said it several times, and he is also ready to send someone to take the position, but he was blocked by Luo Zhicheng.

Now it seems that there are already a few infantry platoon commanders who can trust the company commander, Luo Zhicheng decided to wait until the end of this battle, select a platoon commander to be the company commander of the seventh company, and then let the seventh company commander Xiucai be the deputy commander of the third battalion full-time.

This proposal had been privately told to the regiment commander Liu Guangyu before, and the regiment commander Liu also agreed, and he did not want any unfamiliar people to parachute in or meddle in his descendants.

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At present, the first defense of the core position of the Japanese army in Xiamaxi has been broken through by the 3rd Battalion and 9th Company, and the 7th and 8th Companies of the 3rd Battalion have also rushed into this gap, and quickly spread out to both sides and in depth to expand the occupied area.

In other positions, such as to the east and west, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 152nd Regiment were also attacking in full swing, with gunfire and smoke filling the entire position.

Seeing that the frontal position of the First Defense had been broken through, the Japanese army immediately organized troops to start a counterattack, but they were dealt with by the mortars and heavy machine guns of the three battalions of machine gun companies.

Most of the Japanese reinforcements were blown up halfway from the second defense to the first defense, and at the same time they were swept away by Soviet-style Maxim heavy machine guns.

If in most battles in Western armies, once the firepower loses support, or is suppressed and destroyed by the opponent, and the position is broken through by the opponent, the number of people is not superior.

The rest of the infantry will either retreat, and if they can't retreat, they will surrender on the spot, which is normal, and people will not think that escaping and surrendering is a particularly shameful thing, on the contrary, it is something that should be respected if they can save their lives.

But here in the East, war is no longer a pure war, but mixed with hatred, vendettas, etc., between peoples, rarely surrendered, and rarely accepted the surrender of the other side, only victory and defeat, life and death.