1231. The Takagi Brigade does not want to attack bloodily
After a short period of adjustment, the Japanese army began the next round of attacks, and Sangou rarely saw the Japanese fighting like this, completely without the cautious skirmish attack behind the previous three-plate axe.
Rather, the mortars and heavy machine guns constantly attacked the three dogs and their positions, and then a large number of soldiers pressed on the stragglers in several waves, without prelude and temptation, and it was hard at the beginning.
For such a pure infantry attack, the soldiers of the third battalion were commonplace, and they were in a hurry to counterattack, just waiting for the Japanese army to gradually approach.
When the distance of 300 meters was reached, the three heavy machine guns of the 789th Company of the three small mountain bags roared angrily, and the heavy pointed bullets of the 24th of the people were ragingly harvesting the Japanese straggler forward troops.
The Japanese army did not expect that the Chinese army was already running out, and the reinforcements were so fierce, so the captain of the first brigade of the 214th Wing, Takagi Shaosa, ordered the mortars and heavy machine guns to move forward, specifically to combat the light and heavy machine gun fire of the Chinese army.
The Takagi Brigade is now running out of infantry artillery shells, and the air-dropped ammunition that was promised has not come, so it can only use up the last mortar shells.
Because of the death order of the Japanese army, it is necessary to take this group of positions at dawn tomorrow, open the Hongqiao, and flank the Chinese army position at Guanqiao.
It's afternoon, that is, there is only half a day's day, and the mortar shells that he originally wanted to keep are not going to be left behind.
At night, the mortars could hardly hit, and by tomorrow they could no longer hit this position, and he estimated that he would have to be replaced, so he would not spare these mortar shells now.
As soon as the Japanese mortars began to strike accurately, the heavy machine gun positions of the 789th Company were blown up in smoke.
Even with the protection of the bunker, the mortar shells could not penetrate at once, but the shock waves, shrapnel and smoke created hindered the accurate launch and strike of the 24th.
At the same time, the Japanese army's 92 heavy planes also moved forward to an area of 450 meters, and just on the edge of the rifle range, the three 92 heavy planes of the machine gun squadron fired suppressively at the three hills of the third battalion.
The 92 heavy machine was mainly aimed at the squad light machine guns of the 3rd Battalion, and after such a firepower adjustment, the Japanese Takagi Brigade once again regained the initiative on the battlefield.
The stragglers in front of them have now begun to continue to advance, but when they entered the three-hundred-meter area, they were already in a very dangerous area, and most of the devils were crawling forward.
But the speed of this creeping advance is a bit slow, sometimes it is necessary to cross positions and choose the next hiding point, the group cooperation of the detachment, and the covering riflemen are firing, etc.
Takagi was very anxious, according to this turtle speed, to take these hills, it is estimated that it will be possible to reach the top of the mountain until the evening, so he constantly urges the squadron leader in front to speed up the attack.
The devil stragglers in front did not dare to act rashly, because after passing the three-hundred-meter area, it was the world of grenades, and this thing was no different from grenades.
Now all the light and heavy machine guns on the positions of the Chinese army have been suppressed, and only sporadic rifles remain, but these rifles are very accurate and unfast, that is, the sound of one shot at a time, but the effect is very terrifying, and at first glance it is the work of veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time.
When the stragglers in front of the Japanese army moved to a concealment point, they were often hit, and if they did not die, they would be wounded, after all, it was a rifle bullet with super penetrating power, and within a range of 300 meters, they would be injured immediately.
The casualty rate of the devil's skirmishers is constantly rising, but Takagi feels that this is a normal phenomenon, how can there be a war without bloodshed, and he can afford this casualty figure.
But the next one, he couldn't bear it, that is, the devil skirmish line was constantly hit by the sharpshooters of the third battalion, the first line in the front section was slow to advance, and the stragglers in the second and third lines in the back kept moving forward, and now they were squeezed.
The distance between the three lines was strictly maintained at a distance of more than fifteen meters, but now the three lines are almost one, and the distance between them is less than five meters.
Moreover, the three lines have now squeezed into a dangerous area of about 200 meters due to the constant urging of the officers behind them, and the stragglers at the front have still not solved the position of occupying the main concealment and cover.
The three dogs are on the small hill bag in the middle, and they can see clearly without binoculars, how can the tactical literacy of the Japanese army be so bad now, it's too unusual.
However, this is indeed a great opportunity for the three battalions, and the three dogs gave an order, and the grenadier groups of the three companies were in full swing, and more than a dozen grenadiers were already ready to move, just waiting for this tormenting order to come.
Only the sound of puff and puff was heard, and one after another grenades rose into the air, and most of the grenades fell in the middle of the three straggler lines of the Japanese army.
Suddenly, the explosion on the line of the Japanese stragglers suddenly broke out, forming a barrage of a wall of fire, blowing up the devils to the point of blood and flesh and blood.
The power of grenades and grenades is about the same, and the radius of destruction is about 10 meters, and the straggler line is originally at least 15 meters apart from the front and rear, and at least 10 meters from the left and right according to strict tactical requirements.
At most, a grenade or grenade can kill or injure one or two people.
But this time, the devils actually ignored the iron laws on this battlefield, and boldly squeezed together several lines, throwing grenades down, and there were at least four or five devils in the effective killing area.
Takagi was now in distress to death, and the casualty rate was not a sporadic number caused by an attack with rifle bullets, but a large number of casualties.
Almost half of the stragglers of a small squad were now all disabled, and nearly half of them were killed on the spot by the five rapid-fire grenades of the third battalion, and the rest were either injured and fell to the ground, or they were so beaten that they could not stand it and did not dare to move on the ground.
Letting the seriously injured comrades-in-arms around them cry for help, these stunned devils didn't know how to rescue them, but this saved their lives.
Because at this time, the sharpshooters on the three hills of the third battalion were waiting for the smoke to dissipate, and the devil ambulance personnel appeared in the crosshairs, including the ambulances, who were all targets.
Before the smoke cleared, the Japanese retaliatory mortars came up, and the overwhelming mortar grenades exploded on the three mountain packs.
Only the soldiers of the third battalion could not stand the beating, and relatively large casualties began to appear, and some soldiers lying on the breastwork were killed and injured by mortar shells that fell in the trenches.
There was no way, everyone hurriedly lay on the ground to avoid the shells, while leaving a few observers to pay close attention to the position, after all, the shelling of this mortar shell will not last long, unless the devil has an arsenal.
Sangou couldn't help but scold, the devil of the dog day, it's not that there is no ammunition, why are there so many mortar shells, fight like this, see how long you can hold on.
It was true that it could not last long, and the mortar shells of Takagi's brigade had almost exhausted the last of their stocks in these few minutes of retaliatory rapid fire.
However, it was also these dense mortar grenades that helped the stragglers, who came to their senses and quickly pulled the wounded to withdraw from their positions, dodging the desperate bullets of more than three battalions of sharpshooters.