Chapter 70: The Machine Gun Squadron is gone

Although it is no longer fashionable to put platoon guns, the effect of the platoon guns organized by Li Han is still very good, and the first round of counterattack of the devils ended after a few rounds of platoon guns, and after dropping dozens of corpses, they hurriedly retreated. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Fortunately, Yamashita Yoshio did not think about taking the enemy's position once, he made full use of this time, worked overtime to carry out civil engineering work, and after the attacking troops retreated, the medium machine gun position and mortar position were repaired.

Yamashita Yoshio's heart was also in his stomach, and with the protection of the heavy machine gun, no matter how many people in the Shina army were, he never thought of rushing in front of him.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ā€

The devil's mortar and grenadier were fired at the same time, and the screams of shells breaking through the air were endless, and one shell after another flew into the positions of our troops, and with the sound of explosions, our soldiers were constantly hit by shells.

"Da! Da! Da! ā€

Twelve Type 92 heavy machine guns did not stop for a moment, frantically pouring these bullets on the soldiers on both sides of the road

Of course, the 2,000 people under Li Han's command were not jealous, and light and heavy machines, guns, grenades, and mortars also greeted the devil as if they were desperate. In terms of light weapons alone, they were not much worse than the Japanese army, but the gap in artillery was relatively large.

The two armies scuffled together, and people kept falling, but the rest of the men kept charging.

"Boom! Thundered! ā€

The Japanese infantry artillery and mountain artillery also joined the battle, and a loud sound like a landslide and a crack in the ground rose, and the devil artillery carried out a fierce artillery bombardment of the position of Li Han's ambush and the positions of the two sides, and the continuous shelling caused great casualties to the Japanese brigade.

In order to avoid continuous damage from Japanese artillery fire, Li Han had no choice but to order his troops to rush to the road and engage the enemy in a face-to-face hand-to-hand battle.

With Li Han's order, the soldiers rushed out of the position with a shout, and Yamashita Yoshio immediately understood Li Han's intentions.

Although white-knuckle combat is what Imperial warriors are best at, this time Yoshio Yamashita chose to refuse. He ordered the heavy machine-gun squadron to block the fire with all their might, making sure that not a single person was allowed to enter his defensive circle.

Is he blind or not, the number of the Chinese army rushing down from both sides of the road is at least 2,000, and he has only a few people. At this time, fighting with the Chinese army with bayonets, only a fool would do that, Yamashita Yoshio can become the captain of the Shaozo brigade, and his IQ should be no problem.

Of course, the charging troops are not something that Yoshio Yamashita can stop if he wants to, the devil has a heavy machine gun, and Li Han also has it, and the grenadiers and mortars are not inferior to the two infantry squadrons of the 13th Brigade.

Although the devils have already built a machine gun position, after all, the time is too short, the position is very simple, and most importantly, the location of the machine gun position is not hidden.

The squadron leader of the heavy machine gun squadron is not unaware of this problem, the problem is that the troops of the Imperial Army were ambushed by the enemy!

In this case, being able to erect a heavy machine gun is already burning incense, where to find a position that is both hidden and does not affect the machine gunner's line of sight!

It was precisely because of this objective flaw that the machine-gun position was quickly dealt a devastating blow.

At the beginning of the charge, Li Han also divided the main attack force and the feint attack covering force in a regular manner, and each squadron leader launched an attack in accordance with the predetermined direction.

The leader of the devil's machine gun squadron also saw the move, and divided the machine gun squadron into three squads, each squad, with four machine guns, responsible for suppressing the attack of each squadron of the anti-Japanese brigade.

Although Li Han's move made the devil's position bloom everywhere, each squadron could not form an absolute advantage over the devil's single direction, and the devil's shells continued to fall among the attacking troops, resulting in a stalemate between more than 2,000 people of the anti-Japanese brigade and 3 or 400 devils.

After realizing the power of the devil's artillery, Li Han had no choice but to order the troops to come out of the trenches and rush down to get mixed up with the devil's people, but it was not so easy to get on it.

So Li Han changed his tactics, and there were everywhere to turn into fixed-point breakthroughs, and under his unified command, all squadrons marched in unison.

In this way, the scattered devils soon couldn't resist, and the soldiers suddenly killed the edge of the devil's temporary position.

The squadron of devil heavy machine guns began to exert their might, how could they make the warriors of the empire suffer in terms of firepower with more than a dozen heavy machine guns.

So the three squads met again, and twelve heavy machine guns were concentrated and opened fire on our charging soldiers.

It's a pity that this time the devil machine gun squadron not only failed to make new contributions to the imperial army this time, but ushered in a catastrophe.

Because Li Han had already gathered all the grenadiers and mortars of each squadron together, the purpose was to take out the devil heavy machine gun squadron that was the most harmful to his own troops.

Thirty or forty grenadiers and seven or eight mortars of different calibers fired at the devil's machine-gun position at the same time, and hundreds of shells and grenades fell into the machine-gun position.

It was like a magnitude seven or eight earthquake that had occurred in the machine-gun position, and the ground had sunk several meters, and the entire machine-gun position was full of stumps and broken arms, and there were only puffs of gunpowder smoke rising into the sky.

Dozens of the remaining devil machine gunners ran out one by one as if they had lost their souls, their steel helmets and uniforms covered in charred dirt, covered in blood and scraps, and they didn't know whether they were their own or the flesh of their dead comrades.

The attack on the devil's machine-gun position was very successful, and the machine-gun position, which did not do any concealment, was shelled by Li Han's long-planned shelling, and all twelve heavy machine guns were destroyed, and there were less than fifty people left in the machine-gun squadron of more than 170 people.

After the artillery was finished, they immediately dispersed, and each returned to its own formation, so as not to be wiped out by the devil's artillery squadron.

"Rush up and kill the devil!"

"Kill!"

The devil's machine gun position was killed, and the artillery on the position could not stop the all-out attack of thousands of our army with only a few mortars, and the shouts of the mountain and tsunami squad rang out, and hundreds of soldiers, holding their rifles, rushed to the devil in front.

The cavalrymen who had been hovering near the battlefield also took the opportunity to attack, and hundreds of horses joined the battlefield with a rumbling sound.

Witnessing the destruction of the machine gun squadron by the Chinese army, Yamashita Yoshio's face suddenly turned blue and purple, without the help of the heavy machine guns, the Chinese army would soon be mixed with the soldiers of the imperial army, and at that time, the infantry artillery and mountain artillery squadrons were about to lose their effectiveness.

And the reason why he Yamashita Yoshio dared to use three or four hundred people to fight against more than 2,000 people of the Chinese army was to rely on the superior combination of artillery, machine guns, and grenadiers to carry out a suppressive blow to the Chinese army.

However, he soon discovered that this Chinese army was also equipped with a lot of grenadiers and mortars produced by the empire, and Yamashita Yoshio, in addition to scolding the friendly troops for their incompetence, asked the warriors of the two artillery squadrons to work harder and exert some strength to kill the Chinese artillery as soon as possible.

The two trump cards of infantry artillery and four mountain artillery could not be used, and in terms of the number of soldiers, the Chinese army had an absolute advantage, so how could this battle be fought, so Yamashita Yoshio was ready to retreat.

Although theoretically, the ratio of casualties between the devil troops and the Chinese army can reach three to one, five to one, seven to one, or even higher, but that is all caused by the strong firepower of the Japanese army.

Many people only know that our casualty ratio is much higher than that of the Japanese army, and how many people know that the ratio of the devil's artillery to the Chinese army can generally reach tens to one.

Their planes and tanks can be outnumbered by hundreds or thousands of units in the Nationalist army, because the vast majority of local Chinese troops simply do not have these two things.

Take the Sichuan army as an example, when they first went out of the Sichuan Anti-Japanese War, let alone saw tanks, many soldiers didn't even know what tanks were.

Although Yamashita Yoshio looks down on the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, he is now in a compelling form, and if he does not retreat, not only may he be wiped out, but his own life will also be lost.

Unlike those brainless low-ranking officers, he doesn't just know how to shout the slogan 'Long live His Majesty the Emperor' to charge, and Yamashita Yoshio sees his own life as more important than the emperor's life.

The battlefield was not chaotic, but it was chaotic, and Yamashita Yoshio quickly gave the order to retreat. Of course, he also knew that it was impossible for the thousands of Chinese soldiers behind him to let himself leave.

So he casually ordered a squadron leader to stay behind with more than a hundred devils to block the enemy, and he himself led the remaining more than 100 imperial soldiers, and the remnants of the lost machine gun squadron to the artillery side, where there were more than 500 imperial soldiers, enough to deal with any situation.

At the same time, Yamashita Yoshio also ordered the devil squadron, which was responsible for protecting the artillery, to quickly come and join him. At the time of departure, the three squadrons were strong and strong, and more than a dozen military vehicles could not sit down, so everyone walked on the ground.

Now retreat, the advantage of fewer people is manifested, a hundred people, six military vehicles are enough.

Although many cars were blown up by the Chinese army, Yamashita Yoshio still managed to collect six military vehicles very easily. What surprised Yoshio Yamashita even more was that he found an intact armored car.

Considering the strength of the enemy, Yamashita Yoshio felt that the strength of the blocking force was still a little weak.

The original intention was to leave the remaining soldiers of the machine gun squadron behind, after all, there are survivors of a squad in the machine gun squadron, and after taking the gun, it is also a not weak combat force.

However, when Shao Zuo saw that these soldiers were all stunned and depressed, he was completely dead.

These soldiers had lost the spirit of the Imperial warriors, and it was clear that they had not recovered from the explosion of the machine-gun position, and they were afraid that it would be a disadvantage to stay.

After thinking about it again and again, Yamashita Yoshio Shaozo finally divided two cars and piggybacked on these remnants of the defeated generals.