Chapter 70: The Offensive and Defensive Battle of Yixian (4)

The Japanese army gradually entered the line of sight of the defenders, Qiu Wei platoon and Hao Zhong platoon were ambushed in the buildings on both sides of the street, and the soldiers in the front saw the Japanese soldiers walking in, and used gestures and spoken words to convey information to the soldiers behind, layer by layer, until Zhang Wei's ears.

Zhang Wei was lying on the window, observing the Japanese army with a telescope in the window on the second floor, the Japanese army had just entered the head, and the tail was still from the outside, Zhang Wei had to wait until he was halfway in, and then fire together, cutting off his team.

The streets were covered with gravel and deer barbs and other shelters that had been dropped in advance, and the streets were quiet and scary, and the Japanese soldiers were furious.

The defenders hid under the corridors and windows, the soldiers on the ground floor did not dare to move, and some of the soldiers on the high-rise buildings were ready, the safety of light machine guns and rifles was turned on, and they slowly aimed at the Japanese troops on the street. Some soldiers pulled out prepared cluster grenades.

More than 100 Japanese soldiers, half of them have walked into the street, Zhang Wei returned upstairs, signaled Dong Erli's mortar squad to prepare, the mortar squad lying on the roof carefully lifted the gun carriage, and after placing it on the cement balcony, Dong Erli nodded at Zhang Wei.

"Let's fight." Zhang Wei said.

The Japanese soldiers on the street were still watching around, and a single 82 mortar shell smashed into the ranks, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

"There are enemies!"

Qiu Wei platoon and Hao Zhong platoon opened fire at the same time, and the Japanese troops who were still in a state of confusion were hit by crossfire from upstairs and downstairs, killing and wounding a large number of people.

The Japanese were indeed well-trained, and in Zhang Wei's telescope, they quickly got out of the panic and defended on both sides, and the defenders began to suffer casualties.

In Qiu Wei's defensive line, a squad guarded a two-storey shop, and the squad leader commanded a light machine gun and a few weak soldiers to shoot down on the second floor.

Someone on the first floor was killed. The deputy squad leader and two riflemen removed the bodies of the dead, and the Japanese troops had already taken advantage of this opportunity to rush in.

"The devil is coming, hit him."

The soldier and the deputy squad leader raised their rifles and killed the soldiers who rushed in, and the other soldier also fired a shot outside, not knowing if he had killed the devil. Suddenly, several Japanese soldiers came out and rushed into the room, three people killed a Japanese soldier in a panic, and finally fought hand-to-hand with the Japanese army, falling into hand-to-hand combat means that it could not be stopped, the Japanese army took advantage of this opportunity to rush inside, and finally, the deputy squad leader pulled the grenade, and after the loud noise, the people upstairs also knew that the Japanese army rushed in.

The machine gunner walked to the staircase with the machine gun, and there was a shuttle below, and the three Japanese soldiers who rushed in front were killed and rolled down the stairs.

"Squad leader, what should I do?"

"What else can I do, fight?"

The squad leader threw a grenade, regardless of whether it was blown up or not, the five riflemen turned the gun obliquely and hit the below, the Japanese army was pressed and did not dare to advance, so they could only shrink on the first floor, and finally used the method of throwing grenades, and a Japanese soldier threw a grenade with his life, but was kicked down by a kick from upstairs, and killed his own people.

The six defenders, blocking nearly half a squad of Japanese troops, the Japanese non-commissioned officers under command had no choice but to let the soldiers continue to throw grenades upstairs. It's a pity that the machine gunner upstairs started firing again, and the machine gun and rifle blocked the staircase at the same time, and the grenade just didn't work.

The Japanese army tried to let people rush up, three or four people squeezed up at the same time, this time the national army upstairs was a little panicked, in the panic, a rifleman was killed by the Japanese soldiers on the stairs, and the others hurriedly returned fire and sent these people to the west sky,

In less than 20 minutes, half a squad of Japanese troops lost nearly 10 people in order to attack the second floor, but they couldn't hit it, and there were only corpses and blood of Japanese soldiers on the stairs, and bullets and grenades from the upper floors had to be placed from time to time.

The Japanese troops on the street were not having a good time, some of them tried to break into the building, and the other part was on the street and fired at the Nationalist troops on the building, fighting for a long time, causing only a few casualties to the Nationalist army, while the Nationalist army, which occupied the geographical advantage and local firepower, brought great casualties to the Japanese army.

The streets are full of corpses of Japanese soldiers, Hao Zhong commanded light machine gun fire on the second floor of the building on the street, the machine guns kept swimming, the Japanese army fought for a long time and did not kill them, this kind of terrain, they did not dare to use grenadiers, it was simply dumb to eat coptis.

"Two forces, open fire, scatter them." Zhang Wei must now carefully command the cannon, in case he beats his own people, he will be a god. Dong Erli carefully calibrated and loaded a cannonball, and the cannonball flew out and hit the middle of the Japanese army, another bloody flight.

The Japanese army was not without progress, in the Hao Zhong platoon defense area on the opposite side, the Japanese army finally captured a small building after paying the price of more than a dozen people, and a large number of Japanese troops hid in order to escape, and used this as an advance position, and began to attack the stronghold of Hao Zhong platoon.

In the house adjacent to the small building, a squad of Hao Zhong's platoon was desperately resisting, and the bullets pierced through the thin walls, and the crooked handles on the opposite side pressed them so that they couldn't raise their heads.

"What should I do, squad leader?"

The squad leader looked at the three corpses in front of him, and a bold idea suddenly popped up in his heart.

"Don't panic; Withstand, grenadier ready"

"Squad leader, what is that thing going to do in this place" The soldier put the gun flat on his head, and without aiming, fired a shot at the opposite side.

The grenadier group got the order and quickly crawled over.

"Is there a way to fight?"

"I'll try, but squad leader, before we fight, you have to throw a few grenades and blow him up!"

Okay

Five grenades were thrown, a cloud of smoke exploded between the two houses, and within a few dozen seconds the grenadier stood up and aimed the barrel at the opposite side in an almost horizontal direction, firing it, and the grenade flew out, grazing the edge of the wall and entering the opposite room.

With a loud bang, a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed in the surrounding area, and the original shelter became the Shura Hell, and several Japanese soldiers who couldn't bear the pain ran out howling and ran around the street. The defenders put an end to their suffering with bullets.

Zhang Wei saw that the Japanese army had captured Hao Zhongpai's house, and if he wanted to fight back, he had to blow it up with a mortar, so he asked Dong Erli to risk hitting his own people and fire, but at the critical moment, there was no way.

As soon as the Japanese relieved themselves from the bombardment of the grenadiers, 82 mortar shells followed, and three rapid fires crashed down the roof, and the bullets and bricks took the lives of the Japanese soldiers. Hao Zhong's men took this opportunity to step up their counterattack, and the machine guns and rifles were fired, and after a period of severe beating, the Japanese soldiers in this room were either killed, wounded or fled.

After half an hour of fierce fighting, more than half of the more than 100 Japanese soldiers who rushed in were left, and some were wounded. Crackling gunshots, the Japanese army began to retreat, and some Japanese soldiers who had captured some of the buildings also retreated, and the battlefield situation was completely biased towards Zhang Wei's side.

When the defenders saw that the Japanese were about to withdraw, the guns in their hands were more diligent, the light machine guns on the commanding heights blocked the retreat of the Japanese troops, and the soldiers at the bottom used crossfire to continuously kill and injure the retreating and lone Japanese troops.

The machine guns roared, and the bullets hit the ground, splashing slag and rubble.