Chapter 62: A Powerful Offensive

Now rushing here is the heroic 201 Brigade of the 500th Division that fought the main attack in the Battle of Xinyang.

Wang Dazhu led his brigade and replaced the reconnaissance company as soon as it came up. Just kidding, fighting this kind of positional warfare is what his main brigade should do, how can these scouts do such menial work?

The soldiers of the 201 Brigade, who rushed to the position of the city gate, quickly took over the position of the reconnaissance battalion. More and more warriors entered the city, and a group of troops drove in from outside the city gates. How could the position maintained by the last 100 people of the reconnaissance company accommodate the thousands of soldiers under Wang Dazhu? After the position was consolidated, the warriors who entered the city immediately launched an attack on the enemy in front of them, first occupying the position corresponding to the number of troops, which became the first tactical objective to be accomplished at the moment.

Wang Dazhu, as the first general under Gao Quan, his troops were naturally considered to be the first main force of the 500 Division. Gao Quan has always intended to let the 201 Brigade recast its past glory, and has focused on all aspects of the weaponry and soldier composition of this unit.

In Qian Sixi and Zhang Erxiao's troops, they are now basically based on the heroes of the green forest recruited several times before and after as the backbone, and those regiment commanders are also the owners of several mountains with outstanding strength at the beginning. The two main commanders of the 201 Brigade are both genuine ** officers, all of whom have the identities that can be used, and Gao Quan wants to build the 201 Brigade into a regular army through and through.

With Gaoquan's policy and substantive support, can the combat effectiveness of the 201 Brigade be poor? The devils on the opposite side are only more than two squadrons at best, and Wang Dazhu has thousands of elite soldiers under his hands, how can he put those hundreds of devils in his eyes?

"Fire! Let the devils taste the shells of our army first! Wang Dazhu waved his hand heroically, and first decided to give a generous gift to the devils opposite.

The artillery of the 201 Brigade is not comparable to the three grenadiers captured by the reconnaissance company. The artillery company in the brigade is equipped with three battle defense guns, plus the three howitzers carried by the artillery company attached to the division artillery battalion, these six heavy guns, plus more than a dozen mortars, are indeed enough for the devils on the other side to drink a pot.

The roar of cannons resounded in the sky, and the combination of smoke, fire, loud noise, and vibration intertwined into a sonata of death. With the flickering of the firelight, in the decant of blown up mud and rocks, there were occasional devils with incomplete limbs doing all kinds of difficult twists and turns in the air.

There is no heavy artillery in the devil's squadron, and the infantry artillery is generally equipped with the brigade, although there are two squadrons here, the devil's artillery squadron has not yet come up, and all the artillery fire of the devils adds up, and there are only nearly twenty grenadiers.

How can these light artillery pieces withstand the heavy artillery bombardment of our army? In front of the heavy artillery of our 201 brigade, the parry of the devils' grenadiers seemed so weak, and the grenadiers that were incomparably accurate just now seemed to have lost their accuracy. After fighting for a long time, we didn't even touch the edge of our army's artillery position, and the devil's grenadier was killed by our artillery.

"Rush!"

As soon as the artillery bombardment ended, Wang Jiantang issued an order to attack his troops. On the other side, Liu Xing's 503rd Regiment also launched a charge against the devils at the same time. The position here at the city gate is guarded by troops of the special service battalion, and the soldiers of the 201 Brigade can charge forward boldly with confidence!

The devils had just been bombarded by a ** artillery bombardment of our army, and before they could recover their senses, the two main regiments of our 201 brigade rushed up from the left and right! The devils want to organize another fire attack, but it's too late! There were a few machine gunners who reacted quickly, and just after firing a few shots from the machine guns, they were killed by our snipers one by one. Since the 201 Brigade is the main brigade of the 500th Division, can the unit not be equipped with snipers? The snipers who roamed in all directions of the battlefield easily disintegrated the possible counterattacks of the devils.

Because Gao Quan has always attached great importance to the development of snipers and this branch of the army, in the battles encountered by the 500 Division, there were almost few soldiers who fell under the machine gun fire of the devils in large numbers, and there was no such scene as the demolition team holding the explosive bag and rushing up to blow up the enemy's machine gun without forgetting their lives.

Whenever we encounter a difficult machine-gun fire point, whether it is a machine-gun position or a bunker, as long as there is an enemy machine gun blocking our army's offensive line and causing casualties to our soldiers, snipers will inevitably appear at the right time to open the way for our soldiers to charge.

Hu Jiang is a member of the snipers in the 201 Brigade, and he is also a member of the ** regular army, and joined the 500 Division when he was fighting guerrillas on Jigong Mountain. Because of his outstanding marksmanship, he was favored by the discerning and talented brigade seat Wang Dazhu, and was specially transferred to the reconnaissance battalion for training for three months, and after he came out, he had a professional sniper rifle with a scope and became a member of the snipers of the 201 brigade.

Snipers generally do not have a fixed position in battle, when the superiors do not ask them to take down a point, or kill a fixed target, they follow the large army to look for targets at random, find out where there is any intractable problem, come out to solve it.

Now Hu Jiang was lying on the roof of a two-story building more than 200 meters away from the city gate, carefully observing the situation on the battlefield through the scope. It was a nice location, one of the best lurking spots he had spotted at a glance once he entered the city. Don't look at this building as low, but from here you can look down on the entire battlefield near the city gate. Lying here, Hu Jiang had already killed three grenadiers and a heavy machine gun. The devils still haven't figured out where the bullets came from.

Two regiments of our army, like pincers, launched a forcible attack on the devils from both sides. The devils simply can't stop the powerful offensive launched by thousands of soldiers of our army. Under the rain of bullets from our soldiers, the devils threw their corpses on the ground, turned around and ran. Between a glorious death or a humiliating retreat, the samurai of the heroic Emperor of Japan did not hesitate to choose the latter.

There are hundreds of devils, although many have died under the severe blows of our army, but there are still one or two hundred who survived. These two hundred devils are not all smart and clever enough to know that retreat is the way to survive, there are always a few people who think that their lives are greater than others and their luck is better than others, and they do not know how to withdraw to seek survival, but there they are frantically making the last resistance, delusionally wanting to become the hero of the Japanese people.

The soldiers of the 504th Regiment rushed forward. The devil in front of him is dead and fleeing, and there is no one who is resisting with a gun anymore, as long as he runs over, he can occupy the position of the devil just now!

Seeing that he was about to step on the dead bodies of the devils more than ten meters away, suddenly, a fierce gunfire rang out, and a machine gun in the middle of the devil's corpse sprayed out the fire snake!

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