Chapter 1196: Hold your ground
"Brothers, kill back and retake your position!"
Seeing this group of murderous officers and soldiers holding guns at them, these defeated officers and soldiers quickly understood that if they did not regain their positions, they might not die at the hands of devils, but at the hands of their own people.
Someone clicked the bullet and rushed back, someone took the lead, and soon the rest of the chaotic rout soldiers turned around and rushed back to kill.
Seeing that these officers and soldiers who had retreated had all been killed, instead of fighting with them and insisting on retreating, the company commander breathed a sigh of relief.
"The first company and the second company also go up and take the position back!"
"The third company is responsible for covering the left flank, the fourth company is responsible for the right flank, and the machine gun company is supporting the fire."
Seeing that the situation was stable, the blacksmith, the commander of the first battalion, also gave an order in an orderly manner.
Their first battalion had lost a lot of strength in the battle of Baoying, and now the number of people in each company was as high as one hundred and twenty-three, and as few as eighty or ninety, and they had not yet had time to replenish them, but now they had to go up hard.
The companies moved quickly, and the brethren followed closely behind the brethren of the patriotic battalion and rushed towards the position.
After a burst of artillery fire, about an infantry squadron of nearly 200 little devils had already rushed into the position in the dark.
The devils thought that they could easily occupy this position, just like occupying the outpost position, maybe they would be able to attack Huaiyin in one go at dawn.
But what the little devil didn't expect was that the defenders reacted so quickly, and before they could gain a foothold as soon as they rushed into the position, the blacksmith led the brothers to launch a counterattack.
"Kill!"
The brethren stepped on the fluffy dirt blasted by the shells, through the choking smoke of gunpowder, and pounced on the devil.
"Shoot!"
Seeing that the Chinese army launched a counterattack so quickly, the devil soldiers were also slightly surprised, and they rushed to shoot one after another.
"Whoosh-"
The bullets pierced through the smoke like dazzling streamers and shrouded the other side.
"Puff ....."
Many people had just fired one shot, and before they could shoot a second shot, blood splattered from their chests and they spasmed and fell into the dark trenches.
For a while, bullets rained down, blood splattered, and the devils were lying on the spot in a panic and shooting, trying to suppress the counterattacking guerrillas.
The officers and men of the guerrillas who charged erupted into earth-shattering shouts of killing, turned a blind eye to the whistling bullets, and rushed forward one after another.
"Dadada....."
The devil's machine guns were also set up, and they opened fire on the charging brothers, and the brothers were cut down like wheat.
"Boom! Bang! ”
However, the devil's machine gun roared for less than a minute, and the mortar of the machine gun company that was providing fire support in the rear shattered the devil's machine gun fire support point.
"Grenades, throw!"
Soon, the charging brother rushed into the distance where the bombs were dropped, and one grenade after another threw grenades and grenades at the devil.
"Hidden!"
Seeing the grenades flying over one after another, the devil soldiers were immediately frightened, and they all did standard dodge moves.
But with a roaring volley of explosions, a wave of scorching air swept through the hot fragments.
No matter how standard the devil's dodge tactics are, many explosions are volley explosions, and the covering blow makes the devil soldiers wail for a while.
"Kill!"
The brethren pounced on the little devils with their bright bayonets, and more than a dozen little devils who were lying on the trench and shooting were immediately stabbed over by the guerrilla brothers who jumped into the trench.
The little devils in the back kept aiming and shooting, but on the front of the left and right flanks, more guerrillas rushed into the trenches and fought with the devils.
The devil had to give up shooting, and engaged in a white-knuckle battle with the officers and men of the guerrillas on the position, and for a time the sword was shining, the blood was raging, and the roar and screams were mixed together.
"Eight Ga Ya Road!"
The commander of the devil, Yamaguchi Akamatsu, was so angry that he was so angry that he saw that there was a white-knuckle battle with the Chinese army on the gunsmoke-filled position in front of him.
"Yours, reinforcements!"
"Hey!"
Soon, another wave of little devils with bayonets rushed towards the melee position.
"Order the cannon company to block the little devil!"
The blacksmith of the battalion commander cut off the head of a little devil with a single sword, and despite the blood sprayed all over his face, he turned his head to a brother with a bayonet behind him.
The panting brother answered loudly, and ran around several fighting regiments towards the position of the machine gun company.
Soon, the Type 92 infantry guns and grenadiers of the machine gun company roared angrily, and one after another high-explosive shells rained down on the devil's reinforcements.
In the scorching explosion, those little devils who were howling and wanted to rush to the position for reinforcements were suddenly blown up, and their stumps and broken arms flew sideways, and they couldn't rush up for a while.
The commander of the devils, Yamaguchi Akamatsu, quickly angrily asked the artillery to return fire, and they came with several 75mm mountain guns this time.
These mountain guns launched a retaliatory bombardment against the position of the machine gun company, and for a while, the scorching shells continued to sweep over the heads of the people in the melee, and shrouded towards the other side, blowing up many places into a sea of fire, and black smoke billowed out.
The blacksmith's battalion was a battle-hardened force, and although the current attrition of the troops had greatly reduced their combat effectiveness, they were becoming more and more brave and would have the upper hand in the melee.
When the first battalion of blacksmiths was fighting with the little devils in the forward position, the second battalion led by Wu Changqing also came up in time to reinforce.
The 2nd Battalion also suffered heavy losses in Baoying, and now only half a battalion remained, and they launched an attack on the flank against the devils in order to cope with the battle of the main position.
The devil's flank was threatened, and the little devil who was fighting with the blacksmith on the position had to retreat for fear of being surrounded by them.
Although the white-knuckle battle between the brothers and the little devil only lasted for more than ten minutes, the fighting bayonet consumed a lot of physical strength, and the brothers did not dare to pursue, and after chasing the defeated devil and firing a random shot, they retreated.
"Quick, hold your ground!"
The position had been bombarded by the artillery fire of the little devils, many of the trenches had collapsed, the machine gun trenches had been razed to the ground, and the blacksmith commanded the brothers to rearrange the various supporting fire points.
The devils were repelled by the blacksmiths, and they were naturally unwilling, and after half an hour of artillery preparation, more than 200 devil infantry came up again under the cover of mountain artillery.
It's just that this time they were not as easy as before, in front of the powerful firepower network built by the officers and soldiers of the first battalion, the devils who screamed and charged arrogantly were like papier-mâché, and they left dozens of corpses without even touching the trenches of the position, and had to retreat again.
The two sides fought fiercely until dawn, and the blacksmiths firmly controlled the positions outside the city, but the devil's firepower was strong, and after only two hours of fighting, the blacksmiths and their strongest fighting company were only two squads left.