Chapter 238: Alternate Cover

The two men were under intense fire from the very beginning, and the machine-gun fire in the fort and the Japanese rifles in the foxholes formed a continuous line of fire, and they opened heavy fire at the position where they launched the assault, suppressing the two men to the death.

After a soldier rushed out seven or eight meters, a row of machine gun bullets hit him in the chest, a 38 rifle bullet hit his head, the soldiers around him saw that their comrades were killed, and rolled to the right after prostrating, and the Japanese bullets set off a burst of floating soil around the soldiers.

Carrying a rifle in his left hand, he threw a grenade in the direction of the Japanese pillbox that fired at the moment he got up, such a distance, of course, the grenade would not fall on the Japanese position, he wanted to use the explosion of the grenade to cover his own actions, and with the smoke and dirt from the grenade, he jumped up and rushed forward, as a veteran, he knew that he could only move forward at this time, and there was only a dead end to retreat, and when he charged, he deliberately ran to the outside of the pillbox closest to him, and he wanted to use the shooting dead angle of the pillbox's firing port, Dodge the machine gun fire that hurts him the most.

In the pillbox where he was shooting, the Japanese heavy machine gunner operated the Type 92 heavy machine gun to fire, and beside the machine gun shooter, there was also an 11-year-old light machine gun on standby.

The Eleven-Year Light Machine Gun crew immediately moved, and on the flanks of the pillbox, there was also another firing port.

The firing port on the front of the Japanese pillbox is very obvious, in order to clear the dead angle of fire, the Japanese sappers used a pickaxe and a wooden saw to open the firing port on the flanks of each pillbox, and the logs at the hidden firing port were dug and excavated when building fortifications, as long as the Japanese soldiers inside pushed outward, the log hole dug in advance would fall off, and the firing port on the side could be used immediately.

The roundabout soldier's roundabout action was just halfway through, just when he and his comrades around him thought that he had successfully dodged the nearest machine-gun fire, a burst of fire suddenly appeared on the side of the pillbox, and the Japanese light machine gun crew inside pushed away the camouflaged logs, a black hole hole was exposed on the side, and a string of light machine gun bullets were fired from the mouth, and the bullet penetrated the chest of the roundabout soldier, creating a cloud of blood mist in the air, and the second rifle group that launched the assault was all killed.

"The Japanese have perforations in the sides of the pillboxes!" Qiu Dawei, who was located in the third squad in the rear, shouted, after witnessing the death of several soldiers, he felt more and more the importance of Zhang Wei's feint, and the ability of the Japanese army to urgently build fortifications was simply not something that the national army could imagine.

There were about eight to ten bunkers of the Japanese army in front of him, and these bunkers built of logs and sandbags, if each of them had several firing ports, there were almost no shooting dead spots in front of the position, Qiu Wei felt a chill in his back, he wanted to find out the Japanese army's defense more clearly, only now that he had figured it out, he could kill fewer people in a large-scale attack.

"Grenadier cover!" Qiu Wei said to the platoon commander Liu beside him, after the first squad responsible for the attack launched a leap forward one by one, the second and third squads behind were also leaping forward one by one, although the second and third squads were responsible for the cover task, but in the attack, once the main attack squad opened the breakthrough, the two guard squads should use the breakthrough of the main attack squad on the Japanese position as the base point to rush into the Japanese position. So the second and third squads only need to complete the tactical maneuvers of cover.

Needless to say, the grenadier groups of the second and third squads have already begun to shoot, and the second and third squads have also paid the price of a few people in the rain of bullets from the Japanese army, and have been covering the front half of the attack with light machine guns, and now the Japanese firepower has increased sharply, and the grenadier groups of the two squads immediately took out the grenadiers and prepared to load and shoot.

Qiu Wei was with platoon commander Liu and a signal soldier, and near them was the third squad leaning on the platoon headquarters, and a few meters away from them was the grenadier group of the third squad, the grenadier shooter took out the grenadier and stood on the ground diagonally, while estimating the distance between him and the target, and the co-shooter on the side took out a few grenades from the grenade bag on his waist and prepared to reload, and another rifleman was shooting with a rifle covering the side.

The first-line assault squad suffered casualties, and it was already difficult to cover by light machine gun firepower alone, and grenadiers must be used, and the main shooter constantly adjusted the handwheel to indirectly change the projection distance of the grenadier, unlike mortars, there is no special sight, and it all depends on the shooter's experience and visual ranging ability to operate, so Zhang Wei deployed them to a company, because only the veterans of a company can use them as well as possible.

"Reload!" The main shooter adjusted the firing distance, ordered the sub-shooter to load the ammunition, the sub-shooter sent a grenade into the grenadier canister, the main shooter pulled down the trigger and let go, the trigger was loaded, and the firing pin in the grenade barrel was driven to hit the primer at the bottom of the grenade, and with a bang, a 50-caliber Type 89 grenade was thrown out, and the grenadier of the second squad on the other side also opened fire, and two grenades were fired at the Japanese position.

Qiu Wei immediately raised the telescope to observe the shooting effect, and when the Type 89 grenade canister was used to throw a special Type 89 grenade, the maximum firing range could reach 600 meters, and now the distance between the grenadier group and the Japanese position was only more than 100 meters.

One fell near the Japanese foxhole, and the 10-meter killing radius caused the individual soldiers in the Japanese foxhole to suffer, killing several people, and the other hit the top of the Japanese pillbox impartially.

The explosion blew up a burst of smoke, the sandbags were blown away by grenades, the entire pillbox was filled with sand and shrapnel from the explosion, the machine guns in the bunker stopped firing, and a squad of soldiers on the front line saw that the Japanese firepower was weakened, and launched an assault again, rushing up through the smoke, and just rushed out not far away, the Japanese pillbox that stopped shooting opened fire again, and it was oblique fire, knocking down the rushing soldiers.

Before all the Japanese pillboxes were fired, a cross-fire network was formed in front of the position, and with the Japanese riflemen in the foxholes, they withstood the attack of the national infantry.

"Damn, stop fighting, organize a retreat!" Qiu Wei watched a group of people fall in front of the pillbox, the Japanese army's fire was fierce, and the grenade was thrown directly on the pillbox, which did not cause any damage to the Japanese pillbox, and the machine gun fire in the pillbox blocked the front of the formation, and this was the case that the Japanese pillbox was not completely fired.

If the Japanese army used all its firepower, the consequences would be unimaginable, Qiu Wei sighed at the speed and rigor of the Japanese army's construction, and at the same time wrote down the general firepower configuration of the Japanese army with anger.

"There are eight or nine pillboxes, there are foxholes outside, the fortifications are relatively strong, and the grenadiers do no harm to them." Qiu Wei basically judged the situation, leaned down and waved his hand to the platoon commander Liu on the side, this was a signal to retreat, the squad leader of the second and third squads shouted the retreat password while retreating, so that the first squad on the first line could hear it, and the whole platoon completed the feint attack and retreated backwards.

"Tell the mortar platoon to prepare to cover the retreat of the feint troops!" Zhang Wei held the binoculars, lay outside the trench of the preparation camp in order to observe clearly, and said to the herald.