Chapter 114: Fighting (4)

The Japanese advance of the assault seemed to see the tragic image of the Chinese army after attacking the position, and the impact speed was faster, but the shells that fell afterwards completely fed them.

Each regiment of the Northeast Army had an 81-mm mortar company and a 37-gun company of flat-fire guns, and when the defenders saw the Japanese rushing in, they loaded the shells and began to fight.

"Boom, poof." The sound of 81 mortar shells and 37 flat-fire shells intersected, these well-made equipment made in Mukden really made them cool once, fragments flew all over the sky, the Japanese army suffered thirty or forty casualties, plus the light and heavy machine guns in the hands of the Northeast Army, the troops in front were almost unable to attack, the Japanese army had no way, if the artillery cover was still there, even if there were enough infantry guns, the situation would not be like this.

"Retreat to both flanks, the frontal enemy fire is too heavy." The Japanese squadron leader on the front line ordered that in the direction of the main position, the Northeast Army did not want to shoot artillery and guns, and even rifles did not want to die, and the deflated Japanese army began to spread out to both flanks.

Zhang Wei's independent company position, at this time did not appear a large number of Japanese troops, the Japanese army is not capable of all the attacks now, but some stragglers are slowly approaching, and the soldiers of the independent company see that the position next to them is so brotherly, and their hearts are drumming.

"The devil is coming, and the devil on the right is crushing this way." Qiu Wei pointed to the opposite side and said, Zhang Wei looked at the Japanese army opposite, about a hundred meters away from him, which was exactly the shooting distance, and the 37th artillery squad of the Northeast Army next to him also pulled the fire rope and made preparations to fire.

"Move to the right and rally your attack." More than 100 Japanese troops who retreated from the front of the Northeast Army position, and the strength of a squadron, saw that Zhang Wei's independent company's position was not moving, so these more than 100 people touched it, and soon, a squadron quickly completed the formation change and spread out in front of the position of the independent company. There was a dry trench on the left front of the independent company, and Zhang Wei looked at that dry trench, which was deep enough and connected to the flat ground, and the Japanese army would inevitably use it.

The frontal Japanese army really divided into a part and entered the trench, Zhang Wei's independent company had long been ready for battle, and the Japanese army was not charging fast, and attacked forward at a relatively slow speed.

"Listen to my order to fire, remember, hit the charging infantry first, and the friendly flat-fire guns will also hit the infantry, don't care about the ditch, wait for my order, and then deal with them."

"Yes," everyone replied in unison, and went down to their respective platoons to direct the battle. The artillery squad of the Northeast Army beside Zhang Wei began to adjust the angle of fire, and with the slide of the handwheel, the elevation angle of the artillery was adjusted to a negative angle, because Zhang Wei's position was almost level with the ground, counting the height of the artillery carriage and bunker, the shell hit out in an arc, and it had already been blown away when it landed, so in order to let the shell ground and explode, the gunners immediately adjusted the angle to negative.

The Japanese army divided a part of them into the trench, Zhang Wei could guess their thoughts, the Japanese army may still feel that they have a lot to do, and want to use this ditch as a cover.

"Leave him alone, get ready to shoot." The Japanese army's team of more than 50 people was divided into four groups, which was a typical detachment assault tactic, and Zhang Wei and they were used to seeing it. scholar

The soldiers maintained good shooting discipline and did not shoot in advance. When they reached 100 meters, Zhang Wei first pulled the trigger, and the whole company fired together.

The dense raid firepower surprised the Japanese army, who thought that there was a cheap place to take advantage of.

The anti-aircraft artillery squad of the Northeast Army followed the infantry and opened fire, 37 shells were fired at a negative angle and smashed on the ground, and the shrapnel from the explosion knocked down the Japanese troops around them, and the flat-fire guns and machine rifles were enough to withstand their attacks.

Zhang Wei knocked down a Japanese soldier, and now the Japanese army was forced to stop, shoot in place, and try to break through.

The gunpowder smoke produced by the shooting of the 37th flat-fire artillery squad exposed the position of the artillery squad, and the light machine gun fire of the Japanese army began to shift to this side, and the bullet hit this side, and a bullet flew past Zhang Wei's steel helmet, and he quickly squatted down in surprise. The artillery squad next to him was not so lucky, and two soldiers were hit by bullets and fell to the side, losing their breath at first sight.

"Hurry up and shift your position!" Zhang Wei also ordered the grenadiers to focus on suppressing the Japanese light machine guns, and the Japanese army's crooked handle was very shrewd, and after fighting a bullet bucket, he shifted his position, and finally four or five grenadiers stared at it at the same time, so he did not tell him to run away.

After a fierce battle, less than 20 of the more than 50 Japanese soldiers who were fiercely returned fire remained, and Zhang Wei commanded the return fire while staring at the devils in the trench, and the 40-odd Japanese soldiers in the trench did not move.

"Everyone, pay attention, after repelling these devils, carry out blockade shooting on the dry trench!" The Japanese army on the front retreated unexpectedly, where to retreat? Naturally, it was the closest and "safest" dry trench to them.

The independent company waited for the retreating Japanese army with guns and artillery, and there was a detachment of more than a dozen Japanese troops at the front who did not retreat, and it seemed that they stayed behind to cover and suppress it. These dozen Japanese soldiers killed and wounded many officers and men of the independent company by covering fire, and Zhang Wei came to the 37th flat-fire artillery squad, and they were preparing to shoot after transferring their positions.

"Fight those Japanese soldiers who stay behind to cover, and leave those who run away for now."

"Good!" With the assistance of Zhang Wei, the 37th artillery squad fired seven or eight shells, with the infantry machine guns and grenadiers of the independent company, and finally killed more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who stayed behind to cover, and when the battle was over, Zhang Wei roughly counted it, counting those who were killed during the retreat, the Japanese ran about 20 of them, all of them were nested in the dry trench, plus the original Japanese troops in the ditch, there were probably more than 50 people, and the Japanese army attacked their own positions and lost nearly 40 people.

Zhang Wei asked the search squad to go down and ask about the losses of each platoon, and more than a dozen were killed, and more were injured, but because there was a position, most of them were slightly injured, He Kun's platoon, killed a squad leader, and was shot through the head by the 38 cover when shooting, and died on the spot.

What we have to do now is to deal with the Japanese troops in the dry trench, and the Japanese army still thinks that they can fight, so they did not retreat at all, but just stayed in the ditch, but unfortunately, today is different from before, and their entire wing cannot be attacked.

"Order Qiu Wei's platoon, and I, to go out with the 37th flat-fire artillery squad, He Kun and Hao Zhong to stay in the trenches, and give all the grenadiers and light machine guns of their two platoons to Qiu Wei's platoon."

Zhang Wei said to the soldiers of the search squad, and the soldiers counted along the trenches, and then notified the order. The flat-firing artillery squad was quickly ready, and without unloading the guns, the whole squad directly raised the guns in a low posture and advanced, and Qiu Wei's platoon did not have time to change its equipment, so he simply asked the light machine gun group and grenadier group of the other two platoons to come over. Zhang Wei took these dozens of people and slowly climbed out of the trench, and the soldiers carried out according to their daily training.

"Ah, my legs." There was a scream, and the Japanese soldiers in the trench fired, but there were only two shots, killing a corporal, and another was hit in the thigh and fell to the ground howling, Zhang Wei tried not to listen, and the wounded soldiers could only stay where they were.

At this time, no one can care about him.