"Good! Let's go and assemble our troops now! Go down and prepare for the sky! Always ready to provide fire support to the infantry! Xu Wen nodded. (Note: Li Changkong is the commander of the machine gun battalion.) "Yes! Li Changkong and Ma Bukun stood up at the same time, and immediately happily took the order and turned to leave.

About half an hour later, the artillery of the machine gun battalion was prepared, and this time it was used to hit the devil's turret, but the machine gun battalion did not take out all its belongings, but only took out two improved 82 mm direct-fire mortars.

In this half an hour, the soldiers of the third battalion were not idle, and with the help of the engineer company, they quickly dug the trench and advanced the assault trench to less than 500 meters from the devil's turret.

500 meters, greatly shortening the time for the soldiers to charge, which can greatly reduce the threat of devil machine gun fire to the charging troops.

This time, the three battalions attacked from the south, and the three battalions and one company were responsible for the assault team, and the two hundred soldiers of the first company had already quietly moved through the communication trench to the assault trench three minutes earlier.

The commander of the first company is a veteran transferred from the first division, and he served as a squad leader in the original unit, although the officer is not big, but his temper is not small, and even their battalion commander Ma Bukun has to give him three points, but this kid also has some proud capital, not only accurate shooting, but also excellent kung fu.

Looking at the entire third battalion, there is really no one who can beat him, as the so-called art master is bold, in the army, bullishness is also a kind of ability, because you must have the capital of bullishness.

The soldiers of the company squatted in the trenches one after another, and they did not dare to raise their heads, after all, this was within 500 meters, and the devil sharpshooter could shoot the head with one shot, not to mention that 500 meters was within the absolute effective firing range of the devil's light and heavy machine guns.

Just when the company commander was impatient and wanted to scold his mother, the artillerymen finally took action. Since the effective range of the mortars was 3,000 meters, the artillerymen set up their running in the bud rice field two kilometers away from the artillery tower.

There are three pillboxes and a turret in the south, and several artillerymen decided to hit the turret with the largest target first, after all, the target is easy to aim, and knocking out the turret first can cause heavy losses to the devils, after all, there are the most devils in the turret.

Soon the two improved direct-fire mortars were aimed at the target, and as the two main gunners loaded the shells, two clusters of scarlet fire flew out of the muzzles of the guns and went straight to the military turret two kilometers away.

The "boom" shell accurately hit the artillery tower of the army, but it happened unexpectedly, the devil's artillery tower was not blown up as expected, and after the shell touched the outer wall of the turret, it exploded, leaving only a small hole in the outer wall of the turret, but obviously the explosion of the shell was not able to blow up the outer wall of the turret.

When this situation occurred, several artillerymen were dumbfounded, and they aimed their mortars at the pillboxes below, and the two shells flew out again, but the result was the same.

Still unable to shake the pillboxes and turrets of the army, the artillery company commander scolded unbelievingly: "Fuck it!" As he spoke, four or five shells were fired in a row, and the shells landed on the devil's bunker and only blew up the base cement, and could not hurt its foundation at all.

At this time, the commander of a company sat in the trench, listening to the artillery stop firing, but he still didn't see the battalion commander give the order to attack, and couldn't help scolding: "Damn, why didn't this stupid big black coarse give the order to attack." ”

At this moment, a soldier hurriedly ran over, quickly bent down and ran in front of a company commander, and then whispered: "The battalion commander has an order, the assault operation is canceled, and the troops return to the same place to standby." ”

"His grandmother's! What the hell is the stupid big black rough? "Scolding and scolding, the first company commander, as an iron-blooded veteran, still resolutely implements the orders of his superiors, after all, as a soldier, it is his duty to obey orders.

Five miles away, the headquarters of the Guard Regiment.

Ma Bukun, commander of the third battalion, and Li Changhe, commander of the machine gun battalion, entered together, and Li Changhe took the lead in standing up and said: "Tuanza, it's not good." ”

"What's wrong? The position was taken down? Xu Wen asked.

"It's not! Our artillery simply could not destroy the gun towers and pillboxes of the devils. Li Changhe said with a bitter face.

"yes, according to the frontline fighters, the shells hit it like it tickled." + The third battalion commander Ma Bukun also nodded.

"How can this be?" Xu Wen asked with a frown.

"I don't know, maybe the little devil reinforced it when he built the turret!" Ma Bukun and Li Changhe shook their heads at the same time.

"What about the group? If the artillery can't destroy the enemy's turrets, then we can't attack. Is it to send a telegram to the headquarters and ask the headquarters to send tanks or large-caliber artillery to reinforce it? Deputy head Shen Jun said.

"I'm trying, since the artillery can't destroy it, then order the infantry to organize death squads to rush up and blow up the dog's bunker." Xu Wen gritted his teeth and said.

"Yes!" Ma Bukun, the commander of the third battalion, stood up suddenly, and then turned around and strode away.

After returning to the front of the battalion, Ma Bukun immediately gave the order to attack the first company, and dozens of light and heavy machine guns in the whole battalion opened fire almost simultaneously to provide fire assistance to the first company.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise, and the dense bullets hit the outer walls of the pillboxes and turrets, knocking off pieces of concrete and cement, and some bullets jumped out of the sparks.

The commander of the first company received the order and muttered: "Stupid big black is not stupid." Then he pulled the bolt of the ** sand submachine gun in his hand, and shouted to the soldiers around him: "Brothers, give me a hard beating!" The Demoman rushes up and blows up the devil's bunker! With that, he and the officers and soldiers around him stood up at the same time, turned around and poured bullets down on the military bunkers and turrets.

Tongues of fire rolled and spun like dragons and flew towards the pillboxes and turrets of the Yue army, and more than a dozen demoman soldiers took the opportunity to come out in several ways, holding explosive bags and rushing towards the gun towers of the Yue army.

The Demomen are professionally trained, walking on the line, lying down, and tumbling. Stand up. Coherent. But the machine gunners of the devils were not idle either.

Sensing [***]'s intentions, the Heavy frantically strafed the Demomen, and a dense rain of bullets instantly covered the Demoman's path.

The three Demomen were unable to dodge being hit by a dense rain of bullets and fell to the ground in an instant, blood staining the ground red.

By the time the Demoman rushed to a bunker at the front of the Devil, there were only two of a dozen Demomen left, and the two of them finally moved to the edge of the Devil's firing port, and were about to throw the explosive bag in their hands into the bunker, when the devil on the turret behind them found them.

Immediately turned the muzzle of the gun and fired a fierce fire at them, at this time, the two soldiers had just pulled the explosive bag, and before they could throw the explosive bag that was already smoking into the machine gun firing port of the devil, they were hit by the dense rain of bullets behind.

Unwillingly, he fell in a pool of blood, and at this time, "Boom! Two loud bangs rang out, and the explosive packs carried by the soldiers exploded, and the bones of the two fighters were instantly destroyed.

However, the explosives pack did not pose any threat to the Devil's bunker, and after the smoke passed, scarlet flames continued to emerge from the shooting hole of the Devil's bunker, and it was clear that a Devil machine gunner inside was desperately firing back.

Subsequently, the company deployed several blasting operations, but all ended in failure, the three small and one large tactics of the Yue army caused extremely terrible casualties to the infantry, and more than 30 demolition men had died tragically before and after the robbery of the Yue army.

The first company commander couldn't help but scold angrily: "Damn, this battle is really fucking aggrieved like this." Don't fight. ”

Ma Bukun, the commander of the third battalion, immediately ordered the troops to stop the attack, knowing that if he continued to fight like this, one of his infantry companies might not be able to take this stronghold.

Soon, Ma Bukun came to the regiment headquarters again, and said uprightly: "Tuanza, no, even if the entire guard regiment is filled in like this, it may not be able to take down Qianmotai Town, our artillery can't destroy the devil's firepower point at all, and the infantry can't rush up." ”

"It seems that the only way to report this is to the head office." Xu Wen said gloomily. Although Xu Wen is sincere in his meritorious service, it does not mean that he will risk the lives of his brothers, after all, the devil's turret cannot be moved, this matter is a major matter, and it must be reported in time, so as not to cause other brother troops to follow suit.

After making up his mind, Xu Wen raised his head and said to Chief of Staff Hu Ming: "Chief of Staff, you immediately go and send a telegram to the headquarters to report our situation here and ask the headquarters to give instructions!" ”

"Yes!" Hu Ming snapped upright, and then hurriedly turned around and left.

…………… Xinji County, at this time, Zhang Mingyu has already led the follow-up main force to arrive here, which is less than 50 kilometers away from Hengshui.

In the headquarters of the 42nd Group Army, Zhang Mingyu was standing in front of the map and pondering, when a signal soldier strode in with a telegram in his hand, and said uprightly: "General seat, the guard regiment is calling!" ”

"Huh?" Zhang Mingyu said awe-inspiringly: "Read! ”

"Yes" The signal soldier opened the telegram and read: "The guard regiment has called, saying that the pillboxes and artillery towers of the army have been reinforced, and the artillery of our guard regiment cannot destroy them at present, and the infantry has repeatedly charged several times but failed with heavy casualties, and requests instructions from the headquarters of the group army." Chief of Staff of the Guards Regiment Hu Ming. ”

"Mortars can't knock out turrets?" Ling Tianbao on the side asked in surprise.

"Returning to my sir, that's what the guard regiment said in the message!" The communications soldier replied.

"Okay, got it, you go get busy first!" Zhang Mingyu waved his hand.

"Yes!" The messenger snapped to his feet, then turned and walked away.

At the beginning of the war, Zhang Mingyu really didn't think of this problem, the devil actually strengthened the stronghold to the point that it couldn't even hit the direct-fire mortar, and it was conceivable that the ordinary small-caliber mountain artillery and field artillery could not shake it.

Ling Tianbao next to him saw Zhang Mingyu walking around with his hands on his back, and immediately said: "General seat, otherwise, if I personally rush to the front line to command, I don't believe that I can't take a few small turrets!" ”

"No, this time the little devil is obviously well prepared, before I come up with a way, we can't act rashly, and we can't let the brothers die in vain." Zhang Mingyu shook his head and refused, and then continued to fall into deep thought.

(To be continued)