Zhou Tong personally followed the second company with this 37 infantry gun, and only stopped and prepared cautiously until a position more suitable for firing this kind of direct-aim artillery. Although the power of this Taisho 11-year-style 37 flat-firing gun is a little smaller, its weight is very light. With one cannon, four people can easily keep up with the troops.

And just when Zhou Tong was ready to fire, the good luck of the second company had already come to an end. Just when the second company had already touched the distance of less than fifty meters from the main pillbox of the puppet army on the top of the mountain. The puppet army sentry on the top of the mountain found this group of uninvited guests. found that the puppet soldiers who were not moving far away were wrong, and shot directly without saying a word.

Although this gunshot did not pose any threat to the second company, it was like pouring a scoop of cold water into a pot of hot oil, and the outskirts of Pingchuan, which had been calm before, instantly became lively. Although the puppet soldiers in the main bunker did not know which direction the enemy was attacking at the moment, the machine guns in the main bunker had already been fired blindly.

The people who garrisoned Pingchuan Town were all descendants of Wang Tieshi. Almost all the officers above the squad level are either related to him or are the children of his family. These were loyal to him, but there were only a few military talents among them. In addition, the Japanese army did not pay too much attention to the training of these puppet soldiers such as the puppet garrison.

The attitude of the Japanese is very clear, you are to replace the under-armed Japanese army, not to make you a truly well-trained force. Although these pseudo-garrisons are tightly controlled, they still retain a lot of training skills. Therefore, the technical and tactical level of these pseudo-garrisons is much worse than that of those regular armies who surrender to the enemy.

The lineage belongs to the lineage, but to be honest, these hardcore henchmen of Wang Tieshi are really not good at military quality. In particular, Wang Tieshi's main force suffered great losses in the previous battle of Ludong. Now the supplement is mainly based on recruits and captives who were released back by the Eighth Road, and their quality has declined to a certain extent.

There was movement on the opposite hill, and they didn't care about it, they just opened fire. As for where the situation is on the other side, no one is observing it at all, and they are simply fighting indiscriminately. Although the surrounding area of the battle was dusty, the real results of the battle were none.

As the main fort on the hill on the right flank started, the puppet army on the hill on the left flank also opened fire regardless of it. It's just that this group of puppet troops with all the grass and trees is fighting, although the machine gun fire is fierce. But the problem is that the direction of their firing is not the direction of the second company's sneak attack at all. Directly at the mountain pass, the blind shot did not take into account the consumption of bullets.

At almost the same time as the puppet army sentry fired, he knew that even if he was not discovered by the puppet army sentry, he was about to approach the area around the puppet army bunker. In order to ensure that the shooting area is open, the weeds have been cleared, and the second company commander has no concealment. The shell gun in his hand, after shooting the one directly, was preparing to find a hidden puppet army sentry to knock him down.

The shot he fired was like a signal, and the soldiers of the second company, who had been advancing on the cat's waist before, quickly rushed forward under the cover of two machine guns. At a distance of fifty meters, there were hardly any difficulties for the fighters of the second company. What's more, the puppet army was only alarmed, and they haven't found out what happened.

The troops who rushed forward within ten seconds, after two soldiers split the barbed wire with broadswords, rushed in and smashed into the bunker group of the puppet army. At this time, he finally realized that the enemy was coming from behind, and the puppet soldiers who were about to rush out to resist were directly knocked down by two light machine guns fired at the first time by the second company and a platoon.

The remaining puppet army couldn't resist and simply retracted into the bunker. But then the * that was thrown into it by the second company was blown up again. And under the attack of the remaining two platoons of the second company that rushed from the two flanks of the puppet fortifications, this puppet army simply gave up resistance and raised their arms to surrender under the situation that the puppet army had no way to enter the sky and the ground.

Just after the second company rushed up the hill on the right flank, after being busy on the hill on the left flank for a long time, the puppet army that finally determined the target performed much better than the puppet army on the hill on the right flank. After discovering that there was something wrong with the hill on the right flank, the large-caliber machine gun in their hands quickly turned the muzzle and swept directly towards the hill on the right flank.

However, because the height of the hill on the left flank is slightly lower than that on the right flank, in order to provide fire support for the puppet army here. The puppet army on the hill on the left flank did a rather stupid thing. They carried the thirteen-millimeter machine gun, plus a light machine gun attached to it, from the inside of the pillbox to an improvised fortification made of sacks.

But Zhou Tong's mortars had already been aimed at this side, waiting for them to bring out the machine guns. Their medium-caliber machine gun fired only a dozen rounds before being blown up into the sky by two* shots. At the same time, the defenders on the hill on the left flank were killed and wounded.

Seeing this, the remaining light machine gun shooter directly dropped the machine gun in his hand. With the other puppet soldiers who were not killed, they hugged their heads and ran back to the bunker. However, although the fire on the hill on the left flank was suppressed in the shortest possible time, the puppet army in Pingchuan Town, which had already been alarmed, was not slow to react.

And the tactical level of the puppet army in the town, although it is really not very high. But at least in terms of the speed of reaction, it is quite fast. The * that came from the town of Pingchuan fell on the head of the second company and around the main fort on the hill on the right flank in a very short time.

The puppet army in Pingchuan Town, at the same time, gathered more than 50 people to rush out of the town in the shortest possible time. Under the leadership of several officers, they carried a heavy machine gun in a hurry, and under the cover of the town's fighting, they launched a fierce counterattack on the right flank hill.

All the machine guns in the open bunkers on the inner side of the frontal blockade ditch also fired almost at the same time. To the surprise of almost everyone, there was more than one large-caliber machine gun in the hands of the Pingchuan puppet army. In the main pillbox in front of Pingchuan, there was actually a large-caliber machine gun. This is all information that has been gathered before, and there is no such thing at all.

This large-caliber machine gun and two heavy machine guns, combined with mortars, blocked the entire Pingchuan front. and cover the puppet army under the cooperation of two light machine guns at the foot of the mountain, and constantly launch counterattacks on the right flank of the mountain. The number of machine guns exposed by the Pingchuan puppet army made Zhang Zijian wonder if this Wang Tieshi transferred all his machine guns to Pingchuan?

The puppet army under the mountain reacted quickly, far exceeding Zhang Zijian's previous expectations. Zhang Zijian, who had already taken the guards up the mountain at this moment, saw the reaction speed of the puppet army. Immediately understood that the puppet army was deploying troops on duty, as well as artillery fire on duty. Otherwise, with the tactical literacy of this puppet army, their reaction speed would definitely not be so fast.

Seeing the second company that had captured the hill on the right flank, the * who had been beaten from the town couldn't raise their heads when they suppressed it. Zhang Zijian said to Zhou Tong beside him: "Old Zhou, can you knock out the main fort in front of Pingchuan, otherwise the third company will not be able to reach the attack position at all." The two machine guns in that main fort had almost no dead ends in their firepower. ”

Hearing Zhang Zijian's order, Zhou Tong estimated the shooting distance, shook his head and said, "Deputy Commander Zhang, the distance is too far." The 37 flat-firing gun in our hands can't reach that side at all, and it has already exceeded the effective range. If my mountain cannon is still there, there will be no problems. ”

Before Zhou Tong's words fell, two mountain shells suddenly fell on the hill on the right flank. The dust that was blown up, and the disgraced Zhou Tong smiled bitterly: "It's really whatever you say, but now we are suffering from shells." Grandma's, this Wang Tieshi is so strong, and he even brought mountain artillery. ”

Hearing Zhou Tong's complaint, Zhang Zijian, who was also disgraced, raised his telescope and looked inside Pingchuan Town and said: "This is a problem with intelligence, at least we have not been able to fully collect the intelligence of the puppet army." The strength of the enemy forces in Pingchuan Town has not changed much at present, but the firepower has at least doubled. ”

"Old Zhou, you have to think of a way. If we continue to fight in this situation, our troops will not be able to rush forward at all. Even if they rushed up, the casualties were too great. And if such a stalemate continues, and the surrounding puppet army comes to reinforce us, then not only will we not be able to complete the goal, but we will also be in a dangerous situation. ”

After Zhang Zijian said this, Zhou Tong looked at the main pillbox in front of Pingchuan in front of him, which was spitting fire, and after several charges under the mountain were repulsed, he simply retracted the puppet army in Pingchuan Town. Gritting his teeth, he said to the instructor behind him: "You command the mortar, and use all your strength to suppress and cover me from the front." ”

After that, he took the shell gun in his hand, turned around and took the flat-firing gunner beside him, carried the 37 flat-firing gun, and quickly ran down the mountain. Zhang Zijian, who didn't hold him, hurriedly shouted to the stunned artillery company instructor and the second company commander beside him: "Hurry up and fire to cover them." ”

Hearing Zhang Zijian's shout, the second company commander, who had already taken out the Jinzao heavy machine gun that the puppet army had deployed here from the captured main fort, personally copied the knife and went into battle. He took the heavy machine gun, aimed the muzzle at the firing hole of the main fort in front of Hirakawa, and pulled the trigger directly.

Hit the main fort with a dense number of six or five bullets, ignoring the * that fell around him and the mountain shells that came from time to time. At the same time, the second company also concentrated all the light and heavy machine guns, and kept firing at the fortifications of the puppet army at the entrance of Pingchuan Town, trying to suppress the firepower of the main puppet army.

The platoon commander of the artillery company also immediately turned the muzzle, followed by the roughly determined puppet artillery position, and came up with a four-shot rapid fire. His idea is very simple, that is, he really can't suppress the four mortars of the puppet army, but he also reduces the number of times they fire as much as possible, and he can't control the rest.

As a personal disciple of He Huizhang, it should be said that the basic skills of this platoon commander are still excellent. After the four rapid fires were fired, the artillery fire on the opposite side was noticeably stagnant. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhou Tong, who had already rushed down the mountain, took the flat-fire gunners and ran all the way directly to a not wide drainage ditch that he had been optimistic about, regardless of the bullets coming from the opposite side.

But at a distance of less than three minutes, the gunners around Zhou Tong were half killed or wounded. There were only four fighters left who rushed into the drainage ditch with him, and only five shells were left with him. The remaining shells, along with the fighters who carried them, fell almost all on the way to the charge.

Ignoring the distressed Zhou Tong, he quickly turned the muzzle and aimed at the shooting hole of the main fort. He knew that in the face of the main fort that was more than one person high, the Sanqi flat-shooting cannon in his hand, which was only *, could not penetrate at all. If you want to suppress the fire of the opposite main fort, you can only enter through the firing hole.