Huo Xiaoshan didn't want to follow the 173rd Regiment to carry the Japanese artillery fire, so he naturally had his plan, and he planned to attack the Japanese position at night tonight.

He first reconnoitred the terrain and retreated when he encountered the Japanese army, and then walked forward after joining the large army, and then met the Japanese army.

Although the location where the enemy and the enemy met was random, it was not beyond the scope of Huo Xiaoshan's reconnaissance, and he naturally knew the surrounding terrain where the two sides were.

He remembered that the terrain was more complicated sixty or seventy meters diagonally in front of the Japanese position, and there was a wooded area, although it was not large, but it was just right to serve as a pedal for launching a surprise attack on the Japanese army.

So he came with his party in the middle of the night.

Daytime. Shen Chong was looking at the terrain with him, so he naturally knew that he became the leader of the team.

When approaching the woods, the spears and knives were scattered and the spears and knives were first touched in and searched, and it was very good, the Japanese army did not put a guard post here.

Then, Huo Xiaoshan's brigade naturally followed suit.

Everyone was cautious in the darkness, because even the slightest sound could alarm the Japanese troops on the other side.

Huo Xiaoshan's arrangement for the Japanese offensive position was that Shen Chong and they could touch the grenades with a box cannon and a grenade on the body, and then the large troops rushed in, while he was a cold gunner with good marksmanship and Zheng Youjian's grenadiers behind for fire support.

However, the men he brought with him tonight were different from the ten men during the day, because the soldiers he brought with him this time were all box guns with wooden boxes.

Everyone has their own strengths, but those who can shoot accurately with rifles may not be accurate when they shoot box guns, Huo Xiaoshan naturally knows that there are not many opportunities for cold gunners to shoot at night, so they must grasp it.

The box gun has the advantage of being able to fire continuously without reloading within 20 rounds, and of course it can also be fired continuously, but Huo Xiaoshan told everyone when arranging it should not be fired continuously, what we have to do is to condescend to point out at a fixed point, because we still have machine guns on both wings.

In battle, the position of the machine gun is generally placed on both sides of the charging route, so that it can not only form crossfire on the enemy but also avoid accidentally injuring the soldiers who charge on their own.

Huo Xiaoshan's plan could not be said to be incomplete, but if things could go according to plan without any accidents, it would not be a battle, but a drill.

Just when Huo Xiaoshan and the more than ten people behind their hall had just entered the woods and had not yet reached the cover position at the edge of the woods, the situation appeared.

In the dark of night, I heard the sound of a cannon in the direction of the Japanese position, but it was the Japanese who shot a flare into the sky.

At this time, most of the people in the directly subordinate battalion in front had already used the terrain to hide themselves, and although Huo Xiaoshan was still standing, the Japanese army did not find them due to the obstruction of the woods.

However, the soldiers of the 173rd Regiment had advanced to a distance of about 100 meters from the Japanese army, but they were caught by the flares.

When the flares, which were a little brighter than the bright moon, cast the light down, it was a large gray group of Chinese soldiers who were lying on the ground in a hurry.

"Rush forward!" Shen Chong shouted, he was the first person to react on both sides of the enemy, and if the sneak attack failed, he could only attack.

He rushed directly with the box cannon in hand, and the spearmen behind him instantly followed.

Almost at the same time, more than a dozen light machine guns on the two wings of the battalion immediately rang out.

Bullets like wind and rain instantly covered the forward positions of the Japanese army.

Compared with the Japanese army, the direct battalion had a first-mover advantage in firepower, because they had already entered the pre-war state, and the gun was on the shoulder and the trigger only needed to be pulled.

On the contrary, the Japanese army's reaction was slow after all, although they were only one second or two seconds slower, but this time difference of two seconds was enough for Shen Chong to expand their results.

When the Japanese found that there was a squadron on the opposite side, the machine guns naturally rang out, and several soldiers of the 173rd Regiment who were lying down fell down.

But the problem was that the Japanese machine guns were aimed at the 173rd Regiment in front of them, and they did not find that another squadron had already touched a place dozens of meters under their noses, and when the machine guns of the directly subordinate battalion rang out, they wanted to turn the muzzle but it was too late.

So the Japanese machine guns were instantly dumbfounded, and Shen Chong and they had already rushed up like the wind, but the short time of fire suppression just gave Shen Chong time for them to sprint dozens of meters.

The battalion brigade immediately followed, and suddenly there was a loud shout, the explosion of guns and grenades became a ball, and the battalion directly under it had already torn a hole in the Japanese defense line, and then it rushed forward and spread out on both flanks and began to attack in depth.

The fire support points of the Japanese front were disabled, and they were no longer able to suppress the attack of the 173rd Regiment in the front, and as soon as the enemy's firepower was weak, without waiting for the officer's call, the men of the 173rd Regiment jumped up from the ground with a shout and rushed towards the Japanese defense line with a shout.

The lamp had burned out by this time.

And at this time, in the woods where the direct battalion launched an attack, Huo Xiaoshan and the more than ten cold gunners had already gone up the tree!

The tree was an ordinary poplar, and the trunk below was no thicker than a person's waist, and it could not be climbed up to a height of three or four meters.

Not because they couldn't go up, but because if they went up again, the trunk would be so thin that people would shake when they moved, and now they had raised their guns in front of them, but they were going to shoot at them.

Huo Xiaoshan was already stepping on the branches, leaning against the trunk of the tree, holding the box cannon in both hands, pointing the muzzle forward, "Fight!" He shouted, and the muzzle of his box gun erupted in a cloud of gunfire, and a bullet flew condescendingly towards the spot in front of him where he had just seen.

When the cold gunners followed Huo Xiaoshan and began to shoot, there was a burst of artillery fire directly below them, and nearly 20 grenadiers from the battalion directly under the tree fired a salvo into the depth of the Japanese army.

Naturally, it was impossible to measure the distance in the dark night, but what Huo Xiaoshan wanted was to use grenadiers to cover the artillery fire, as long as the grenadiers were shot into the approximate hiding place of the Japanese troops that he had obtained based on his daytime view of the terrain, and Shen Chong, as the head of the assault, would definitely not be able to attack that position now.

The "tom tom" cannon sounded, this was the second round of shooting, but the twenty grenadiers extended the landing of the grenade forward by another ten meters.

The "tom tom" cannon sounded, the third round of firing, and the landing of the grenade extended back again.

At this time, the cold gunners on the tree had already fired five or six shots, and the Japanese army did not expect that the squadron would touch this forest for a sneak attack, let alone that the squadron would be on the tree!

For both sides, the glitter of the muzzle of the gun when it fires a bullet in the dark is the best object to capture.

Standing high above the trees naturally gives a better view of the Japanese fire, whether it is a single-shot rifle or a light and heavy machine gun spitting tongues of fire.

So when these cold gunners saw a gunfire on the opposite side, they shot a shot, and then all the cold gunners jumped directly from the tree, and their clothes were scraped and they jumped down.

The reason is very simple, they see the guns of the Japanese army clearly, and the Japanese army looks at them equally clearly.

Don't underestimate the five or six guns that the cold gunners put on the tree alone in this short period of time, in this short period of five or six shots, they have already knocked out a number of five Japanese light rifles, and even the fine teeth can be sure that they used the box gun to dumb a heavy machine gun that the Japanese army has arranged too far forward.

The Japanese soldiers had just woken up from a dream and swept their machine guns towards the woods, and the branches of different thicknesses and the swept leaves rained down on the heads of the cold gunners who had just stood or fallen to the ground.

But this is no longer important, the important thing is that the Japanese troops who had just organized a counterattack were deprived of fire support points by their accurate shots.

Shen Chong's assault team was in the middle of the battalion brigade in front of the middle, and most of the 173rd Regiment was already like an overwhelming torrent that once again rushed into the deep defense line of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army had lost the opportunity to strafe the Chinese soldiers attacking in groups with machine guns.

The enemy and the enemy have been completely strangled together, and the dangerous night battle has begun.