297. The Battle of the Lookout Pavilion

On November 22, in the early morning, the devil's artillery bombarded the position of the national army without creativity, and the planes also came to join in the fun.

Although the supplementary company of the three dogs was hiding behind, under the enemy's almost indiscriminate artillery bombardment, everyone was also blown to ashes.

Fortunately, the fortifications of the 305th Regiment are relatively strong, and Commander Zhang is still good, and it is already very good that the recruits can do this; However, after last night's battle and the recovery of the lost position, Regiment Commander Zhang looked at the supplementary company differently.

Unexpectedly, this group of fritters still had two hits, and Regiment Commander Zhang asked the cooking class of the regiment headquarters to cook a good meal and a good dish, and gave it to the supplementary company in the morning.

For the ammunition replenishment of the three dogs, it is also a one-bite promise, and the rationing is preferred. Sangou couldn't help but sigh, it seems that respect on the battlefield is made by fighting.

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On the 22nd, the wing headquarters and heavy artillery of the Japanese division were also transported by train on the railway line, and the destructive power of the field heavy artillery was extremely great.

And now here, there is no manpower, no time, where can the underground tunnel be dug and made a light shelter, and the covering soil (wood, door panel) of the bomb layer is 0.4 meters to resist the fragmentation of artillery shells.

If you want to resist the least destructive 75 shells in a straight trajectory, you need 2.5 meters, but to resist the 75 and above grenades from the extended tube, you need a 6-meter middle shelter.

Six meters of soil cover is not a six-meter high pile of soil on the shelter, otherwise, it will become a reference for enemy artillery fire; The shelter is first dug down into a deep trench, and then dug in from the side of the trench, using the natural soil layer as a bomb shielding layer.

Digging out a six-metre-thick shelter in addition to the ground with timber or other materials that could be used to reinforce the fortifications is a huge undertaking that requires time to be earthworked, and to put good support in the hole to prevent it from collapsing.

The 305th Regiment did not have much time to dig fortifications, and it had to go through the initial survey of the firing boundary, find materials, demolish houses to clear the firing boundary, camouflage fortifications, dig a few more reserve positions and fake fortifications, and allocate manpower to dig the deepest ammunition shelter.

Now it has been bombed by enemy artillery for a few more rounds, so the soldiers of the three battalions at the front can only shrink into the light cover and resign themselves to their fate. If unlucky, a delayed grenade is fired, and all the Nationalist soldiers in the entire shelter will be buried alive.

If the grenade is shot down with the dual-purpose signal tube firing function, although it can only knock over a layer of soil, if the angle is correct, it can also shock the soldiers in the shelter department.

I heard that yesterday, a few recruits couldn't even eat, and some of them began to get sick and died at night, and everyone said that they were scared to death.

It's impossible, Sangou They know that these people were shocked to their internal organs, and they didn't die at that time, but the internal injuries slowly attacked, and they died like this.

Alas! There are many Chinese, cheap lives, poor national strength, not many people have read many books, or read modern subjects, in the face of more and more advanced weapons, as well as the tactical changes brought about by new weapons, can not keep up.

Maybe I can only use fatalism to explain and comfort, the number of lives is predestined, and I can't change it, and the practice of this life can only be practiced how to die a good death.

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I don't want to think about this, the current forward position of the third battalion of the 305th regiment can't withstand the bombardment of Japanese artillery and the attack of various combinations of light and heavy weapons of the infantry during the day.

The position that was fought back at night was taken away by the Japanese again, and the Eighth Company retreated again and went straight to the second line of defense where the three dogs were hiding.

This time, the Japanese army learned to be obedient, and did not follow the second line of defense as they did last time, but concentrated their firepower and first made a tentative covering blow to the second line of defense.

The 7th Company of the Reserve Force, which had been left there, was about to get up and fight with the devils, but a small cannon and heavy machine gun came and beat them to the ground again and did not dare to move.

As soon as the devil saw it, he saw that there was an opportunity, and then relied on the firepower set up on the first line of defense to suppress the national army, and began to launch a wavy charge again.

The devil held a bright bayonet and pressed it over, this kind of pressure was indeed very terrifying and uncomfortable for the recruits.

Some of the recruits couldn't stand it anymore and began to spread their legs and retreat, and were swept away by an extended shot from the devil's heavy machine gun; was so angry that Liu Desheng, the commander of the eighth company, kept scolding his mother and did not allow the soldiers to retreat.

And the veterans of the supplementary company knew that this was the normal tactic of the devil, and there was nothing to be afraid of, but they all lay on the ground calmly, and the dog-legged ones, who rarely spoke, squinted their eyes and watched the devil gradually press over.

Sangou spoke: Brothers, don't give me the prestige of being able to do it, don't rush forward with a bayonet at the beginning, the devil is very cunning, and will arrange machine guns to strafe everyone behind the side, we have to wait until the devil keeps getting closer, and then kill it.

Seeing that the devil was about to enter the 30-meter area, the three dogs called the machine gunners on the left and right, always paying attention to the machine guns behind the devil. Then shouted the first command: throw a grenade.

After hundreds of grenades flew out, the effect of the explosion in a short period of time was very good, and most of the first batch of devils were blown away, and then the light machine guns of the supplementary company began to strafe into the barrage.

After a few long bursts of machine gun fire, he immediately shifted his position, but he still stared at the devil's machine gun. The devil found out that he had been fooled, and he thought that the national army had run out or was pressed and did not dare to raise his head.

Now immediately start throwing grenades, or grenadiers, raining down on the position of the supplementary company, because the three dogs guessed that the devil would come like this, he had already told everyone to hide in the improvised bunker, so the devil's grenade attack had little effect.

Some of the recruits in the back were frightened by the bombs, and began to agitate and retreat one after another, and when the devils saw it, they formed an optical illusion again, and began to crawl forward, preparing to climb to the front of the position, climb down the trenches, and pursue the national army in the trenches.

Sangou's supplementary company was waiting for the devils to come, and when they saw that nearly half of the squadron's devils had turned into the trenches, Sangou gave an order, and there was another burst of grenades, which blew up the devils crowded in the trenches one by one.

The third platoon was responsible for throwing grenades, constantly throwing them at the front of the position, and several machine guns also began to constantly change positions and strafe, so that the people of the devil's squadron were cut in half.

They are generally pressed at the front of the position, they are generally still in the trenches, they are blocked by the first and second platoons, and they are also pressed by grenades and lie down in the trenches.

The mortars behind the devil did not dare to fight again, for fear of injuring the stormtroopers who had already rushed into the trenches; As soon as the commander of the eighth company saw that this was an opportunity, he took the people under his hands and followed the veterans of the supplementary company to kill into the devil pile together.

Everyone came from the trenches to the top of the position, and the follow-up troops of the devil also rushed up taking advantage of the fact that the national army could not fire machine guns.

The two armies launched a white-knuckle battle, if last night in the dark, many recruits could not see the faces of devils clearly, they could assassinate them, now during the day, many recruits can't stand it.

When they were fighting with the devils with bayonets, they didn't dare to stab the bayonets at others, they were so kind, most of them were peasants who were forced to resist, and many of them had never killed people, let alone killed people.

Although they went through simple training before going to the battlefield, training and actual combat are two different things, and the veterans of the supplementary company had to take them with them and constantly shout and teach.