1155. A head-to-head battle of various weapons
Mortars and heavy machine guns, carried by mules and horses, also quickly entered the predetermined position, installed and commissioned, and the Japanese troops did not set up barbed wire and obstacles at a distance of 400 meters.
Perhaps it was the Japanese army's contempt for the Chinese army, or that there would be this kind of thinking of underestimating the enemy in the troops chasing behind, and they would not have thought that the retreating Chinese army would carry out a large-scale counterattack.
Only at a distance of 300 meters were a number of snake-bellied barbed wire barricades, some of which had been blown up by the 75 mountain guns.
However, the mountain artillery of the division's artillery battalion has always been withdrawn immediately after a few shots, otherwise the enemy's planes and artillery will follow.
Sangou knew very well that the artillery battalion could only fire artillery for ten minutes, and even if there were no enemy aircraft artillery, our artillery supply would not be able to keep up with the continuous shelling for half an hour.
However, for the Chinese soldiers, this is already a very high salary, after our mountain artillery began to extend and interfere with the shelling.
The demomen of the 3rd Battalion, who had already assembled on the 300-meter line of the Japanese position, quickly approached the Japanese outpost after blowing up the remaining barbed wire barricades with grenades.
The bunkers and trenches of the Japanese outposts were now in shambles, bombed by mountain artillery and full of potholes, and the few remaining bunkers, and some devils were digging out of the dirt to prepare to resist the attack of the Chinese infantry.
The first thing that came into their eyes was the squad demolition soldiers of the Chinese army, these demomen with rifles on their backs, holding blasting canisters and explosives bags in their hands, crawling and leaping into the craters.
The light machine guns in the Japanese outpost immediately shouted, and they strafed these Chinese soldiers who were the first to rush over, and the few demolition soldiers who rushed to the forefront were caught off guard and swept to the ground.
The squad machine guns of the three infantry platoons of the Ninth Company in the back also immediately fired at one or two machine guns in the Japanese outpost position, and vigorously suppressed them.
The smoke of gunpowder had not completely dissipated, and the forward positions of the Japanese army had already turned into a dense burst of gunfire, and the Japanese 92 heavy machine in the main position also provided assistance to the bunker light machine guns in the outpost position at this time.
The confrontation between the weapons of the two sides suddenly escalated, and the mortars on the side of the 9th Company also immediately fired at the enemy's heavy machine guns, and after a few correction rounds, the mortar shells gradually approached the enemy's 92 heavy machine gun nest.
The Japanese army's 92 heavy machine gun crew also began to panic, but there was no way, they could not evacuate their positions without receiving the retreat order from their superiors, not to mention that this 92 heavy machine was the main fire support of the front line.
Without evacuating, they waited to be bombed, and finally, after several shots, a mortar shell hit the hapless machine-gun crew.
With a loud bang, the heavy machine gun was instantly blown into the sky, and the disintegrated parts flew around, and most of the gun crew members were killed.
Among them, the main shooter was blasted into the sky along with the machine gun, and was torn apart by the air current, and a rain of blood accompanied by broken bones and flesh and organs fell.
Once the Japanese heavy machine guns were destroyed, they lost their strong fire support, and only a few light machine guns and rifles remained, as well as flexible grenadiers.
The existence of these can't be underestimated, once the fight starts, it will still be dead, but under the suppression of the machine guns of the Ninth Company and the heavy machine guns of the machine gun company behind them, most of the devils can't make a strong counterattack.
The key now is that the Chinese soldiers have entered the 200-meter area of the position, and the grenadiers of the Chinese and Japanese armies are flying against each other in the sky, and loud noises are sounding on the position.
Under the suppression of machine gun fire, the various demolition teams braved the fire of grenades, constantly leaped forward, entered the vicinity of the enemy's bunker, pulled the blasting canister and stuffed it into the firing hole of the bunker.
With a loud burst of explosives, most of the bunkers in the Japanese forward positions were blown up, and the machine guns in the bunkers were also blown up, and as the fire weakened, the infantry of the Ninth Company launched a charge.
Originally, the three skirmishers were now constantly compressed due to the rapid charge, but under the fire of the squad leader's submachine gun that was shooting while charging, the fire on the Japanese position became more and more dense.
At this time, the Japanese front line was in an emergency, and the infantry artillery in the rear began to shell over, and the 70-caliber shells with a sharp whistling sound swept through the air, and exploded loudly at the front of the position, causing bursts of mud to shoot into the sky.
To get entangled with Japanese soldiers before the Japanese infantry artillery began to shell them, this was the combat mission that all infantry companies understood before the war.
Because the Japanese aircraft artillery does not have the reaction speed of this piece, only the infantry artillery of their brigade will quickly counterattack, and if they want to seize this time, they will force the Japanese army and kill with the devils, and the Japanese artillery will lose its effectiveness.
The rumbling of the artillery in the back even more accelerated the speed of the infantry's charge, and now it is the pawn who crosses the river, and he cannot retreat, but can only move forward, and the faster the better, the more he can save his life.
However, most of the mortars and heavy machine guns immediately began to move their positions when the Japanese infantry artillery smashed over, and the position was moved forward, the further forward the safer it was, and the Japanese infantry artillery would not be stupid enough to blow up their own positions.
At present, all kinds of weapons on the position are taking turns, firing straight and curved, rifle and machine gun bullets, grenades, mortar shells, and even shells from the 92 rifle guns, constantly flying sideways randomly in the position.
People are constantly falling, there are devils, there are also Chinese soldiers, and the first wave of the ninth company has now almost lost nearly the number of casualties of an infantry platoon.
But the sacrifice was worth it, because by this time the front-line stormtroopers had already pounced into the trenches in the Japanese position.
Soviet-made Bobosha submachine guns, as well as American-made Thomson Chicago typewriters, in the hands of various sergeant squad leaders, began to sweep the trenches.
The soldiers who followed also followed behind the squad leader, sweeping the staggered trenches, bullets, bayonets, butts, and sapper shovels all came, beckoning to each other.
As soon as a gap was opened in the position of the devils, the second wave of the seventh and eighth companies immediately poured in, and a large number of Chinese soldiers entered the position, and the Japanese army began to gradually lose its ability and retreat to the second line of defense.
"Stick it up, you can't be distanced by the enemy."
The commanders of the three infantry companies of the third battalion issued orders almost at the same time, and the members of each squad also struggled to stick to the devils who were about to retreat, and would rather not be in a hurry to kill the lone devils, but also to go up first and stick to most of the devils.
At this time, the Japanese infantry artillery could only fire shells helplessly and lonely, hitting the front of the position, and could not hit the position, but their two infantry guns were not alone soon.
Because the artillery battalion of the 51st Division had moved to another artillery position at this moment, pulled out two guns, and quickly measured the range according to the parabola of the Japanese infantry artillery shells.
After making a fixed point, two 75 mountain guns suddenly carried out a round of rapid fire on the Japanese infantry artillery position, and the 75 caliber mountain artillery shells were not only a little larger than the 70 infantry artillery shells.