Chapter 294: Equipment Gets Out
More than 100 devil soldiers quickly advanced towards the trench, and twelve heavy machine guns suppressed the fire inside the trench.
The fire of the first company of the 1st battalion was completely suppressed, and the ten light and heavy machine guns did not have any room to fight back at all.
The troops of the 1st Company are the most well-equipped, and all their weapons and ammunition are equipped with the headquarters of the commander of the 2nd Theater of Operations.
Even if Sun Weiguo commanded the independent regiment troops before, there was no such strong equipment in the company-level troops.
It is no exaggeration to say that not to mention in the troops of the Eighth Route Army, even in the troops of the Jin Sui Army of Yan Xishan's lineage, there is no company-level unit with such equipment.
Not a single heavy machine gun, nine light machine guns, nine grenadier canisters, and a regiment of the local troops of the Eighth Route Army would have such weapons and equipment.
This is also the reason why Sun Weiguo proposed that the Second Theater Commander's Department give three battalions of equipment, but in the end they only provided one battalion of equipment.
In Yan Xishan's view, the equipment of this battalion can completely equip a regiment.
Wang Tieniu in the trench had a blue face, and he shouted and cursed loudly, but the recruits were not at all what he could command at this time.
The veterans tried their best to reassure the recruits, but most of the recruits were beyond the reach of the veterans.
Several recruits dropped their weapons as the Japanese heavy machine guns fired, and they lay on their stomachs in the trenches and wept bitterly.
"Boom, boom!" The artillery staff officers who were acting with Satoshi Matsumoto had already begun to contact the artillery in the town.
Four mountain guns fired, and shells began to fall around the trenches.
The three recruits turned pale with fright when they heard the sound of shells exploding, and the three recruits immediately stood up, and they wanted to run back to the village.
Fortunately, several veterans quickly came to their side and pressed them directly under them.
The devil soldiers were getting closer and closer to the trenches, and the devil soldiers of an infantry squad were less than a hundred meters away from the trenches.
In the center of Xiaohan Village, in the battalion headquarters of the first battalion, the battalion commander Yin Jin held a telescope to observe the battle in front of him, and his brows furrowed tightly.
Yin Jin has been fighting with Sun Weiguo for several months, and he has been promoted quickly, but he has commanded the troops to fight a lot of tough battles.
"It's a complete waste of such weapons and ammunition to the first company, Company Commander Li, the machine gun company shoots, blocks the Japanese attack troops, the communication soldiers, and runs to tell Wang Tieniu of the first company, and when the battle is over, give me all the weapons and equipment of the first company, they are not worthy of such weapons and ammunition."
Seeing that the ghost soldiers, who were only more than a hundred people, were about to rush into the trenches, Yin Jin launched a rage in the camp headquarters.
You must know that the troops he commanded before did not have so many light and heavy machine guns, but a company of more than 100 people under his command could stop the attack of a wing of the Japanese army.
Now the Japanese army is only sending less than a squadron of troops, and it is about to take the well-equipped and well-guarded trenches, which makes Yin Jin how not to be annoyed.
When the battalion headquarters saw that Yin Jin was angry, they didn't dare to say anything, and the signal soldiers immediately ran towards the trench.
Li Jiaxin received orders, and he began to command three infantry guns to shoot.
Fearing that there would also be problems with his machine gun company, Li Jiaxin personally adjusted the firing angle of the three infantry guns.
Three grenade shots were fired, and Li Jiaxin held a telescope to carefully check the effect of the shot.
The three grenadiers of the Japanese army, which were covering the charge of the troops, began to fire dumbly, and the three grenade shotguns accurately hit the target.
Seeing the remarkable effect, Li Jiaxin began to adjust the angle of the infantry gun again, and the artillerymen fired grenade shots again.
This time three grenades hit two Japanese light machine guns, and the other shell missed.
At this time, the three Maxim heavy machine guns of the machine gun company also began to shoot, and one bullet after another quickly fired towards the devil soldiers.
The ghost soldiers who rushed in front were caught off guard and were beaten into a sieve by heavy machine gun bullets on the spot, and seven ghost soldiers fell to the ground.
The guns fired at the battery inflicted a certain amount of casualties on the Japanese troops, but the Japanese attacks continued.
"Order the artillery to carry out suppressive fire on the village." Satoshi Matsumoto immediately gave the order.
After the artillery staff officer received the order, he began to get in touch with the mountain artillery squadron in the town by radio, informing them of the location of the target for firing.
In Zhengjiazhai Village, Sun Weiguo on the roof held a telescope to observe the garrison of the company, and the expression on his face couldn't help but change.
"There are too many recruits, and the veterans can't lead these recruits at all, the regiment commander, the troops still need to be trained." Zhao Lerong said softly.
Sun Weiguo didn't say anything, he slowly put down the binoculars, and after hesitating for a while, Sun Weiguo still decided to go to the front line to direct the battle in person.
This was the first battle of the 1st Reserve Regiment, and Sun Weiguo had to ensure victory in the battle.
At the same time as the battle took place in Xiaohan Village, there were also battles in Dahan Village and Wanmutan Village.
However, the battle here is completely different from the battle of the first company, the second company of Yue Wu who attacked Wanmu Tan Village, their face enemy was only an infantry squad of the Japanese army, and the strategy adopted by Yue Wu was to hit the grenadier to suppress the opponent's firepower, the veterans charged with the new soldiers, and the platoon commanders and squad leaders supervised the battle in the back.
Huang Guohua's strategy was to divide the troops into several combat groups, which were operated by a veteran with two recruits, and the rest of the recruits were to act as feints, led by platoon commanders and squad leaders.
The 2nd and 3rd Companies were doing fairly well in battle, they dealt with relatively few Japanese troops, and the two company commanders made full use of the value of the veterans.
The equipment of the second company was very good, and although there was a certain shortage of weapons and ammunition in the whole company, they still had enough grenadiers to suppress the Japanese firepower.
All four grenadiers were deployed to the battlefield by Yue Wu, and the grenadiers suppressed the Japanese firepower.
"Be careful that the fourth platoon and the third squad don't have light machine guns, if the light machine guns are destroyed, the soldiers of the third squad will not let you go."
"Old drunkard, hurry up and show Lao Tzu a hand, don't let the devil soldiers destroy the rifle, we even use Hanyang to make many soldiers."
"You rookie egg anxiously ran to the front, didn't you see your squad leader lying down?"
Yue Wu, who charged with the troops, held a shell gun in his hand, and he kept shouting.
Under the command of Yue Wu, the attack of the second company was progressing rapidly, and the four grenadiers easily suppressed the fire of the light machine guns.
The veterans moved in front, the recruits followed, and occasionally the recruits fired indiscriminately into the village.
Often at this time, the veterans will curse loudly, and even beat people.
But in any case, the troops of the second company began to gradually enter the village of Wangtan Village.