1160. Japanese reinforcements are coming
The 104th Brigade of the 20th Brigade of the Japanese Army independently rushed to Qiangongling, and after rescuing the 102nd Brigade, it did not immediately launch an attack on Qiangongling. ranw?enw?w?w?.? r?a?n?w?e?n?a`com
The tanks and cavalry units of the Japanese advance stopped slowly, settled the 102nd Brigade, and waited for the follow-up infantry to come up. This gave the 152nd Regiment and the Field Supplement Regiment a chance to breathe.
The 3rd Battalion quickly occupied the Japanese Qiangongling position, leaving the 9th Company to guard, and the rest of the troops all retreated, transporting the wounded soldiers to their original Jigongling position.
The Ninth Company left observation soldiers and outposts at the front of Qiangongling, and the remaining soldiers moved to bunkers and hiding caves, while the Field Supplement Regiment also sent a company of men to Qiangongling to defend the core position together.
The rest of the troops spread out to the two flanks and set up an anti-Bazi formation, pinning down the main force of the Japanese army and not daring to attack Qiangongling with all their might.
In the afternoon, the Japanese army began to bombard the Qiangongling position, and there were probably at least a dozen planes raining down bombs around the small Qiangongling.
At the same time, destructive bombardment was also carried out on the surrounding middle ** positions, and Japanese mountain artillery and howitzers also shelled these positions.
The shelling lasted for nearly half an hour, and the shells ploughed back and forth, turning the position upside down, and many soldiers were killed and wounded in the bombardment.
Under the shrouded smoke of gunpowder and the jamming artillery bombardment of the Japanese army, the vanguard of the Japanese army began to launch a tentative attack.
The tanks were still in front and the infantry were behind, and the cavalry did not make a sortie this time, and the Japanese machine guns fired short bursts at the ruined positions of Qiangongling, firing several rounds in tandem to test and search for fire.
In the face of an enemy armed with a powerful industrial and military industry, China seems to have become accustomed to being submissive in this unequal war.
When the Japanese artillery bombarded them, the troops were in the rear, and most of the people could hide in bunkers and hiding holes, so they hid in them, and those who had nothing to hide had to resign themselves to fate.
You bomb at your disposal, but your shells can never occupy the position, and in the end it is necessary for the infantry to be dispatched, when the Japanese army dispatches the infantry, the middle ** immediately comes out from various hiding places and takes the lead to occupy the position.
When the Japanese tank was about to arrive at Qiangongling, the battle defense gun of the 152nd Regiment rang out, which made the tank troops of the 104th Brigade of the Japanese Army very depressed.
Didn't this 102 brigade say that it had blown up the medium ** battle defense artillery here, how could it still be there? But now it's too late to verify, so I can only fight hard.
This time, the anti-aircraft artillery was not set up on Qiangongling, because the fortifications on this mountain were almost blown up, and there was too late time, and it took time to transport it, and finally it was to transport this artillery up the mountain, the target was too big, and it would be targeted by the Japanese artillery.
The battle defense artillery was pulled from the flank, and on the right side of Qiangongling, the first battalion of the 152nd Regiment formed an oblique crossfire, which of course became a cross with the heavy machine-gun fire of Qiangongling.
This angled angle does make it much more difficult to shoot and aim, but if it hits, it will cause great damage to the tracks and armor on the side of the Japanese tank.
Therefore, when the flank of the first Japanese tank was shelled, it immediately turned around and turned to the direction of the position of the first battalion, that is, to the left of the direction of the Japanese attack.
The first shell of the anti-aircraft artillery did not hit the Japanese tank, it was similar to a comparative shot, but it was only not far away, but the Japanese tank reacted quickly, and immediately realized that it was the anti-aircraft artillery from the left flank.
This is the sworn enemy and nemesis of their tank crew, three of the four tank vehicles immediately gave up the attack on Qiangongling, and the one on the far right, due to the distance, continued to advance to the Qiangongling position.
This greatly reduced the pressure on the Ninth Company on Qiangongling, and immediately used a Min-2 or 4-heavy machine gun to face the Japanese tanks, waiting for them to enter the 300-meter area and start firing at each other.
Tao Wei, the platoon commander of the fourth platoon of the ninth company, was in charge of a mortar squad and a heavy machine gun squad for this platoon, plus an ammunition squad.
Now the mortars are aiming at the machine gun group behind the Japanese infantry, and the heavy machine guns are aimed at the tank, and everyone is nervously making preparations.
In particular, this heavy machine gun group, if it did not hit and penetrate the Japanese tank, it had to face the tank's 37-caliber artillery, and as long as it was hit and shot, everyone would have to go to the west.
Even if the Japanese tank was hit with a steel-core armor-piercing projectile, it still had to face the Japanese brigade artillery, that is, the 92nd infantry gun, which was even more powerful, and if it was hit, it would not even be able to find the bones.
Therefore, in the face of these powerful firepower, the heavy machine gun squad can be regarded as living to death, or even going to death.
There is no way to fight, anyone can be sacrificed, those infantry with rifles, it seems that any other firepower except pistols can hit them, they are the bottom of the battlefield food chain.
At this time, the battle defense artillery in the position of the first battalion of the 152nd Regiment was under tremendous pressure from three to one, and the three tanks began to shell the battle defense artillery in a zigzag shape.
This kind of competition of direct-fire guns was like firing between the enemy and the enemy in the infantry squadrons before World War I, firing at each other unguarded, to see who was shot first.
Although the battle defense artillery was hidden in a bunker, it was difficult for this bunker to resist the concentrated bombardment of the Japanese tank guns, and now it has been hit by several shots.
In the smoke and dust of artillery fire, several gunners of the battle defense artillery were released, and they put together all their strength and concentration to quickly aim and adjust the data.
With the order of the gun commander, one after another 37 shells whistled out, and there was no time to see if they had hit, and they continued to fire rapidly.
Three moving guns (tanks) versus one immobile cannon will soon be decided.
After each of the anti-aircraft artillery destroyed and damaged a tank, he himself was hit by multiple shells, the entire bunker was blown open, and all the members of the anti-aircraft artillery team were martyred.
The head of the 152nd regiment, Liu Guangyu, was so angry that he kept scolding his mother, and Lao Tzu's baby was reimbursed like this, but now it's not a lot of scolding his mother and complaining.
Unable to defend so passively, the 1st Battalion, under the orders of the regimental commander, began to send troops to the left flank of the Japanese army and began to flank in a roundabout way, distracting the strength of the Japanese cone-shaped tactics.
On the frontal battlefield of Qiangongling, the Japanese tanks proudly ran over the forward fortifications at the foot of the mountain, and the nine companies of these outposts had all been abandoned, and their troops were withdrawn, all of them went up the mountain, and they were concentrated for use.
When the Japanese tanks drove over the foot of the hill, they began to exert force on the gentle slope, and just when the belly appeared, the heavy machine guns of the fourth platoon of the ninth company opened fire at the right time.
The tank is the same as the turtle, the belly defense is still relatively weak, and the armor-piercing steel core bullet of this Min's second and fourth heavy machine gun instantly came with a long point shot.
Except for the first few missed bullets, under the fine-tuning of the machine gunner, almost half of the remaining chain of bullets hit the belly of the tank.
The ammunition hand made the bullets in the chain in advance to arrange them at intervals, several steel-core armor-piercing bullets, and several heavy-pointed bullets, so it is necessary to match them.
Now the armor-piercing shells were concentrated a little bit and instantly pierced the belly of the tank, and then the heavy pointed shells that followed also hit the bottom of the tank.