Chapter Seventy-One: The Battle of Yixian (5)

Under the volley of Zhang Wei's troops, the Japanese army finally retreated outward, and only half of the more than 100 people who attacked the neighborhood remained, and the neighborhood was silent again.

In the battle just now, more than 50 Japanese soldiers were killed, and the officers and men of the independent company took advantage of the terrain to resist stubbornly, and only more than 20 people were killed or wounded. The soldiers did not move, they still held their respective positions, the gunfire not far away came, it was the defense area of the third battalion, it is said that the Japanese army in the third battalion is not as much as Zhang Wei's side, and it should have retreated, but the gunfire is getting louder and louder.

Zhang Wei felt that the situation was not good, and sent two people to rush over to take a look, in the defense area of the third battalion, the Japanese army not only did not retreat, but captured several defenders' houses, occupied the commanding heights and the defenders to shoot, the third battalion was newly defeated outside the city, and now several civilian houses have been lost, the commander of the third battalion is in a hurry, and organized several counterattacks.

The charging soldiers were all repulsed, either killed in the streets, or pinned down outside the buildings after rushing over, and finally died heroically.

Zhang Wei saw that the situation was not good, he was defending, in case the third battalion collapsed, his own perseverance and sacrifice would have no meaning, and the Japanese army could completely come from the flank.

"Let's go, Erli, take your mortar squad, signal corps, and let He Kun's platoon come with me!"

Forty men crossed the street and began to move slowly towards the defense area of the third battalion.

In the defense area of the third battalion, the Japanese troops who occupied several small buildings began to use this as a base to fight with the defenders. Upstairs set up crooked handles, sweeping at the defenders rushing over the block, the defenders' charging road was completely within the firing range of the Japanese army, a few crooked handles finished a few bridge clamps, the smoke from the muzzle of the gun had not yet dispersed, and the bodies of the officers and soldiers of the third battalion were scattered all over the block.

A few stragglers dodged the crooked handles and rushed to the pile of tiles downstairs to hide, and the Japanese troops on the lower floor pressed them with rifles. Unable to even counterattack, he could only raise the gun high, lay it horizontally on the pile of bricks and tiles, and shoot blindly in the general direction of the Japanese army.

Boom - Two grenades were fired, and the Japanese grenadiers on the lower floor began to fire, and the two grenades were fired, and all the stragglers hiding behind the bricks and rubbles were killed.

The assault of the third battalion failed again, but it did not stop, and a group of rushing soldiers appeared in the block, and the light machine gunners did not want to die, and directly put their guns on the street and fired them at the Japanese troops in the building.

"Holy shit, I'm fighting with you!" The Heavy roared and fired, and the cartridge casings with the smoke fell to the ground with a clanging sound.

Then the Japanese bullets took away the brave machine gunner, and the rest of the men once again charged.

Zhang Wei took He Kun's platoon of forty people, sneaked all the way to the vicinity of the third battalion's defense area, and witnessed an attack of the third battalion, the Japanese army obviously had an advantage, light machine guns and grenadiers, coupled with the quality advantage of the Japanese army, the Japanese army completely suppressed the officers and soldiers of the third battalion.

In terms of numbers, the number of these Japanese troops is less than what Zhang Wei dealt with just now, the officers and soldiers of the third battalion used their lives, but the gap is too big, Zhang Wei looked at these two small buildings, and already had a way in his heart, at this time it is most useful to use mortars, he ordered He Kun's platoon of infantry to touch forward, as hidden as possible, Dong Erli's mortar jumped the angle to the lowest, and waited for Zhang Wei's order to open fire. The infantry also had to prepare to throw grenades, and the grenadiers in each infantry squad agreed to act with Dong Erli and fire together.

Zhang Wei grabbed the gun and rushed to the small ditch in front of the building, He Kun's people are also hiding here, two buildings, Dong Erli will give them a rapid shot at the fastest speed, plus the grenadier, I believe that the devils inside will be very cool.

In the ditch, more than 30 people lined up, and the bombardiers who had prepared in advance had already opened the shell cover and pulled the fire rope, Zhang Wei glanced at the mortar squad and the three grenadier groups behind him, raised his hand, and signaled them not to fire.

Zhang Wei waited for the third battalion to attack again, and he was unprepared, so that he was attacked on both sides.

On the street, the corpses of the officers and soldiers of the country have occupied a small half of the street, but this does not make them succumb, a shout of kill, the soldiers of the two squads rushed up again, and then the sound of machine guns and the explosion of grenadiers, the third battalion also fought this time, took out the only remaining heavy machine guns, and began to fight at the opposite building, hundreds of rounds of bullet chains well covered the charging soldiers, at least this time there were many fewer people who died on the street.

Those who rushed over were still scattered and hid in the bricks, ready to rush forward.

It's time, Zhang Wei waved his hand, and the 82 mortar rang out, the first shell went directly through the window, and then there was a loud bang in the building, the shell smashed on the wall of the building and exploded, and some Japanese soldiers were directly killed in the building, followed by the attack of the grenadier canister, but the power was much less. After the first one was hit, it was the second building, almost copying the shelling of the first one.

After the explosion, there was a brief vacuum on the battlefield, which was soon broken by grenades. Zhang Wei rushed out, He Kun Platoon also rushed out, and it was the bombardier who hit the head, each with a bundle of cluster grenades in his hand, and threw it to the second and first floors, and after an explosion, the team split into two and rushed into the two buildings.

Zhang Wei put the Zhongzheng gun on the ground and took out his shell gun, this kind of battle, the rifle is too troublesome, he adjusted the shell gun to the rapid-fire mode, and entered the building, there were several Japanese corpses, and some were not dead, fell to the ground and wailed, and the soldiers behind Zhang Wei gave him two shots.

Touching along the stairs, Zhang Wei didn't hear any movement. But he still decided to be on the safe side, took out a grenade, in order to prevent the devil from throwing back, Zhang Wei pulled the string and held it in his hand for three seconds, after the explosion, Zhang Wei rushed to the second floor with people, and before the smoke dissipated, he heard a ghost screaming around him.

When he opened his eyes, Zhang Wei saw an intact Japanese soldier in front of him, and the two of them held guns at the same time, but unfortunately Zhang Wei's gun was faster, and three shots hit the Japanese soldier, understanding him, on the other side, two soldiers and a lightly wounded Japanese soldier scuffled together, and was finally solved by another person with a bayonet.

Killed these two Japanese soldiers, there are no living devils in this building, the soldiers of the third battalion also rushed in at this time, there are about a dozen Japanese soldiers in the building, less than two detachments (squads) of troops, three light machine guns, two grenadiers, blocking the three battalions several attacks.

It was not so smooth in the other building, Zhang Wei heard the gunshots and ran over there with people, and went upstairs, He Kun and they had already settled the battle.

"Company commander, there are three devils throwing grenades on the second floor, and the brothers didn't hit it with great difficulty, so they took light machine guns and went up, and the grenadiers fired one shot diagonally before hitting them." He Kun said.

"What about the casualties?"

"Three dead, two lightly wounded."