Chapter 797: The Impact of Firepower
"Di-di-" The first trumpet in the night sounded from Wei Jianxing's commander.
As a result, the horn sounded together with the horn of the national army, which was hundreds of meters long, and the horn sounded together.
This was followed by a barrage of mortar grenadiers from the attacking units towards the front area.
At the same time, there was the earth-shattering shouting of killing, and the "artillery fire" attack of Wei Huo's "coalition forces" was launched at the same time as the charge.
There are two mortars in the battalion directly under the battalion, but they are not brought behind the enemy, and Wei Jianxing's 30th regiment also has a mortar company, plus the grenadiers of the battalion directly under it, these have become the artillery support for their counteroffensive today, although the power is a little less, but these artillery grenades must be fired.
The grenadiers fired at a close distance, 60 meters away, and the mortars fired at a distance, a distance of 100 meters, and then both types of artillery fire quickly extended forward.
These are all planned in advance before the attack, and it is not okay not to extend them. Because the infantry charge and the artillery attack are carried out at the same time, if the artillery fire does not extend quickly, the mortar is better, and if any combat unit hits too fast, the shell will fall on the head of its own people.
Wei Jianxing came at 8:30 to a distance of 100 meters from the front of the position, he naturally wanted to observe the entire battlefield situation before giving the order to attack, just when the attack time was approaching, he really saw that there was a Japanese flare in front of his left and then there was a flipped pillar of light like a windmill across the night sky, and then he heard the sound of gunfire.
He naturally knew that it was the area he had assigned to Huo Xiaoshan's direct battalion, but he really couldn't figure out what was going on there, not to mention that he didn't have time to think about it, because the time he had set for the attack at nine o'clock had arrived.
So he gave the order, and his trumpeter blew the trumpet.
And at the moment when the trumpet sounded, the soldiers of the battalion directly under the battalion, who had already touched the big mound, threw several grenades to the side of the mound, and the more than a dozen people with box guns in the explosion rushed out first.
The Japanese flare hit really just right, if they had hit earlier, they would have been discovered by the Japanese reinforcements coming from the other side of the mound, and if they had fought late, then they really wouldn't have had a chance to find an extra forty or fifty meters forward.
At this time, they were like a wedge into the front line of the Japanese army, and they were now facing the enemy on three sides on the left and right in front of them, but the shooting of the box guns in their hands was converged with the grenades smashed from the rear, and the Japanese army was caught off guard.
The difference between the two fronts was only a few dozen meters, and as soon as the Japanese army was able to do this, the follow-up troops of the directly subordinate battalion rushed up, so the Japanese army in the dark had no time to organize an effective resistance, and the combat unit of the directly subordinate battalion rushed straight into the Japanese defense line like a sharp arrow.
In the darkness, seeing the streamers of bullets on both sides, soldiers of the direct battalion were constantly shot and fell, but then the explosion of grenades sounded.
Before the battle, Huo Xiaoshan had already explained to all the soldiers in his direct battalion that this night attack was to go and not retreat, and the Japanese army must be killed back, killing them in fear, and retreating as far as possible.
The battalion distributed all the box guns in the hands of the first sixty soldiers, and this melee weapon once again played a key role in this night attack.
Huo Xiaoshan asked each commando to carry as many magazines as possible during the battle deployment, and asked to spare no bullets, so during the charge, there were always soldiers who fired in bursts.
This was done in order to maintain the firepower of the rapid assault, and Huo Xiaoshan also hoped to reduce the casualties of the soldiers.
The national army is not the Eighth Route Army, and the ammunition is still relatively abundant.
And Huo Xiaoshan's battalion directly under the theater is known as the battalion directly under the theater, and it is indeed convenient to be close to the water in terms of ammunition supply.
In Huo Xiaoshan's concept, ammunition is for consumption, but soldiers are not, they are the most valuable resource in war.
It was under this operational concept that the commandos of the battalion rushed to the front of the entire counterattack front by rushing forward 50 meters at the beginning.
"Divide the troops!" As Huo Xiaoshan shouted, the soldiers holding box cannons in the front assault team cut horizontally to the two wings, and he was in the middle of the assault queue, so he led the follow-up troops to become the vanguard.
The team of the directly subordinate battalion rushed too fast, and the direct battalion had already protruded more than 100 meters from its own front at this time, but the soldiers who were separated to the left and right were helping other units.
The box gun, which was used as an assault weapon, was gone, but the firepower of Huo Xiaoshan's battalion was not weak, but increased, because Huo Xiaoshan followed by more than a dozen Czech light machine guns.
There is no doubt that this is still the embodiment of Huo Xiaoshan's combat concept in this battle, using firepower to increase the speed of attack and reduce casualties among soldiers.
However, Huo Xiaoshan's change of formation with machine guns was timely, because under the order of Anan Wei's night attack, the Japanese army had already begun to assemble but had not yet entered the front-line position, because the time they set for the night attack was ten o'clock, but it was an hour later than the Chinese army.
They were first attacked by a sudden barrage of mortars and grenadiers.
The firepower of the mortar, which belonged to the battalion of the National Army, naturally could not be compared with the heavy artillery, but there were always mortar shells that exploded precisely when they fell on the assembled Japanese troops.
So just when the Japanese army was blown up and staggered in all directions to avoid shelling, Huo Xiaoshan's directly subordinate battalion came up and killed it, and it was the more than ten light machine guns that opened the way.
As soon as the trigger was pulled, the light machine gun trembled in the hands of the soldiers of the battalion directly under it, and the bullet was imprecise but terrifying.
In fact, in this kind of night battle, even the light machine gun can't be set up, because you may not be able to see where the enemy is.
Between the houses, in the alleys, and beside the fortifications that had been blown up by the Japanese army, there was the sound of Czech light machine guns "suddenly".
Huo Xiaoshan, but at this time, they had already entered the position that Wei Jianxing's regiment was forced to give up yesterday.
The Japanese troops opposite the battalion were completely blinded, because the battalion attacked too quickly, and it was actually a way to cut a way in the assembled Japanese troops.
In this case, the Japanese rifles basically did not work, because the soldiers of the direct battalion had already rushed into their middle.
Although the Czech light machine gun, which can fire in bursts and shoots, is not accurate in the starting point, it is by no means able to withstand the extremely slow rate of fire rifle.
During this attack, Japanese light machine guns also rang out, but they were only fired for a moment before they were dumbfounded by the cold gunners.
After the attack began, the cold gunners of the battalion also charged forward, but the target of their charge was a few buildings dozens of meters ahead.
Just when Huo Xiaoshan and the others were charging, the cold gunners took the human ladder to the room, dozens of rifles were pointed at the opposite side, whenever there was a Japanese gunfire flashing in the darkness, not only the bullets of the charging soldiers of the direct battalion were fired, but also the fatal blow of the cold gunners.
In fact, the Japanese troops opposite the 10th Division were also very tired after being stubbornly blocked by the 29th and 30th regiments one after another, and the casualties of the Japanese army in these days were also huge.
Remember, it wasn't just the officers of the Chinese army who took the lead, but the Japanese army as well, and eight squadron leaders were killed in a single wing during the Japanese attack on the outskirts of Changsha.
The direct result of the death of the grassroots officers was that the newly appointed officers and subordinates lacked tacit understanding and were not familiar enough, and there were only a few teams of the Japanese army that were good at night fighting, but at this time they were preparing to attack the Baishaling National Army position on the flank of the 10th Division.
Therefore, the chaotic battle in the dark night completely caused the Japanese army to be chaotic.
At this time, the Japanese army listened to Huo Xiaoshan, the sound of machine guns of the Chinese army in their direction, and they had already penetrated deep into their own flank, and saw the bullets flying indiscriminately on the flanks, and the grenades were thrown indiscriminately in front of them, and the impact of Wei Jianxing's regiment was equally resolute, so they were naturally afraid of being outflanked, and finally a team could not stand it anymore and began to break back and retreat.
At this time, there were soldiers of the battalion who deliberately shouted in Japanese in the dark night, "Retreat, fight again during the day!" "The defeat has appeared, the morale of the army has been shaken, the herd mentality of the group has arisen, the first team to escape has a second team to follow, and then the Japanese army on the front finally collapsed as a whole and retreated.
The Japanese soldiers thought it was right, we were right, why did we have to fight at night with the planes and artillery, then we went back to fight during the day.
So the original attack and defense turned into flight and pursuit, and after an hour, the Japanese finally began to flee for their lives.