Chapter 179: Anti-Outflanking
Outflanked from the left flank, the Japanese troops were about a small detachment, detouring towards the left flank of the third company, and from the results of observations, it seems that they did not carry heavy firepower, and the left flank of the third company's position was deployed with two heavy machine guns in addition to the basic defenders. X
"Put the Japanese in, and the whole position opens fire at the same time."
Zhang Wei's order was very simple, the platoon commander of the left flank of the third company quickly ordered the soldiers to prepare to fire, the two heavy machine guns were also ready to fire, the Japanese squad outflanked in front of the formation broke into the left flank in a standard battle formation, the squad leader led the squad in the center, and the three infantry squads were in a triangular formation, one was in the front to rush to meet the enemy, and the other two were in the rear, attacking the left flank of the third company's position.
The attack of the Japanese squad was very bold, and the whole squad directly crossed the position of the first company and the line of oblique fire of the third company, and outflanked the left flank of the third company, and the officers and men of the third company on the left flank turned their guns with the movement of the Japanese squad, and the soldiers who threw grenades prepared a large number of grenades in the trenches.
"Hit!"
The Japanese squad launched an assault, as soon as the two heavy machine guns on the left flank of the third company fired, the assault detachment led by it lost most of it, and the latter two detachments also suffered casualties under the blow of rifle and light machine gun fire, and the grenade throwing group that was ready for grenades threw a large number of grenades, and the shrapnel produced by the explosion exploded a ** smoke screen in front of the left flank formation, for a Japanese army, such firepower was really difficult for them, and suffered such casualties, the Japanese squad could only temporarily stop outflanking, but they didn't want to give up, so they simply stopped on the spot, Maintain the original formation and fight against the left flank position.
The remaining Japanese troops of the assault detachment were in direct contact with the left flank position in front of the fire, and then later, the two detachments set up light machine guns to cover the shooting, after a burst of shooting, the Japanese army did not make any progress except for a few more dead people, the light machine guns on the left wing of the three companies and the heavy machine guns formed a line of fire, blocking the entire Japanese squad at a very close range, the left wing of the third company suffered five or six casualties in the battle, all from the rifle, the Japanese army's shooting skills were good, and the three companies had many recruits, in this case it was natural to suffer.
The Soviet-style light machine gun fired two rounds of short-point fire, and the bullets were fired at the Japanese troops, killing a Japanese soldier who was crawling forward, and another soldier who commanded the light machine gun to fire behind the assault detachment was hit by a machine gun bullet in the center of the steel helmet and was killed on the spot.
Zhang Wei's side, a rifleman of the third company was hit in the head by the Japanese rifle bullet, and fell backwards in the trench, two soldiers dragged the body away, Zhang Wei's Japanese assault in front of him was fruitless, and he could only rely on the shooting to cause casualties to the third company, the most important thing is the frontal position, for this group of outflanked Japanese soldiers, it is a good strategy to drive ducks.
"Someone, tell the second company commander to bring a platoon over for reinforcements!"
Mu Chao, the commander of the second company, received the order, and immediately led a platoon with the strongest combat effectiveness of the second company to the left flank of the third company's position, Zhang Wei planned to drive away this group of outflanked Japanese troops, the defenders of the left flank of the third company could not easily pull out to fight, and the actual combat experience was not enough, so it was more appropriate to transfer a complete new platoon from Mu Chao's second company, so that they could jump out of the trench and fight a counterattack to expel these flies.
"Throw the grenade first in a while, you take a platoon out to counterattack, just drive it away, don't seek total annihilation."
"Yes"
The light and heavy machine gun fire on the position continued to fight, the rest of the riflemen took out the grenade and threw it out, the grenade exploded near the Japanese squad, after more than a dozen explosions, Mu Chao took a complete infantry platoon along the left flank of the position to fight out and counterattack the Japanese army, the Japanese army just raised its head, and saw dozens of Chinese soldiers suddenly rush out, some of them still held grenades as usual, the counterattack force closed the distance and threw the grenades, bayonets and bullets were used together, after a period of fighting, the Japanese squad with heavy losses finally retreated, and its roundabout tactics are also pointless.
Mu Chao's second company's counterattack troops suffered little losses, and retreated into the position of the third company, Zhang Wei ordered Mu Chao to retreat to the rear and take the second company, Mu Chao originally wanted to take this platoon to support the third company's operation, but in Zhang Wei's opinion, it was not time, the Japanese army in front of the company's position was difficult to progress under the blow of mortars and heavy machine guns, although the casualties of the first company began to increase, but it was still within an acceptable range, after driving away the Japanese troops who were outflanked by the left flank, the firepower of the left flank of the third company could also support the first company, therefore, after a short counterattack, Zhang Wei sent Mu Chao back to the rear concealment.
The battle situation in front of the first company's position was still deadlocked, and the heavy machine-gun fire on the mortar position and the third company's position gave the first company the maximum fire support, killing and wounding the Japanese troops, and at the same time forcing the Japanese army to form a continuous suppression of the first company's position.
Captain Sakamoto, the Japanese captain who led the team, was quite angry, and stepped up to urge the infantry artillery squadron in the rear to advance and open fire, in fact, all the four infantry guns that participated in the close shooting were pushed up, but due to the mortar fire, the observation was affected, and after the two sides had been fighting for so long, the Japanese infantry artillery observers finally calculated the approximate position of the heavy machine guns and the firing of the first company's position.
"Fire!" After the four 92 infantry guns advanced, they fired shells one after another, and the gunners hid behind the artillery shields to avoid possible stray bullets.
After the explosion of the infantry shells, they blew up the sandbags piled up in front of the position, and the shrapnel scattered and hit the bodies of the soldiers of the company.
"Damn, the bullet is gone, it's on!" The machine gun squad leader endured the severe pain of the wound, cursed angrily, and looked to both sides, and the few remaining soldiers of the squad all fell to the ground, and the blood-stained bullet boxes were scattered at the bottom of the trench.
The leader of the heavy machine gun squad did not have to go to the battlefield, but yesterday on the position of the third company, the Japanese army blew up his heavy machine gun, and also killed several of his old brothers. Zhang Wei ordered them to go down to rest, it was he who took the initiative to ask Zhang Wei for this errand, and took the broken half of the heavy machine gun and a few soldiers who were not dead to the first company of positions, and now, these soldiers are also gone because they followed him to the position.
The machine gun squad leader barely supported himself on his knees, picked up the ammunition box under the trench with one hand, and used his body to resist the body of the heavy machine gun made of loss, and struggled to open the magazine box, unhook the bullet chain, send it into the ammunition supply port, and load it to prepare for firing.
Stood up, stabilized the gun, held the handle of the machine gun, and pulled the trigger of the heavy machine gun, the heavy machine gun that was blown up and riddled with holes began to shoot again, the loss of stable support and the serious injury of the machine gunner made the trajectory of the bullet extremely unstable, but in the face of the advancing Japanese army, the continuous machine gun fire also caused several casualties.
The Heavy used all his strength, straightened up, pulled the trigger with all his might, and blood was left on his head, and he shot completely on instinct.
"Boom" A 92nd infantry shell hit his battle position again, and after the explosion, next to the flesh, there was only a scrapped broken machine gun and a mutilated military uniform badge accessories.
The squad leader of the second platoon and the fourth squad of the machine gun company of the 200th division of the army... r