Chapter 697 Mortar Breaks the Enemy
Eight Japanese infantry squads and nearly three infantry squadrons maneuvered back and forth in front of the positions of the 4th and 8th Battalions, and the snipers opened fire on them, but three of the nine snipers of the 4th Battalion alone were killed.
Later, Zheng Guanzilin's 4th Battalion tried to have the sharpshooters of each squad shoot at the Japanese riflemen, but when the results came down, Zheng Guanzilin immediately canceled the order.
Although there are also a lot of sharpshooters in the new Second Brigade troops, there is a little gap between these sharpshooters and the devil soldiers.
Except for a small number of sharpshooters who can take the advantage, most of the sharpshooters are suppressed by the devil soldiers, if they continue to fight hard like this, I am afraid that all the sharpshooters in the fourth battalion will be exhausted, and they will not be able to eliminate all the devil soldiers in front of the position.
The officers and men could only watch the little devils maneuver back and forth in front of the position, looking for the weak points of their position, and they were on high mental alert.
After all, no one dared to guarantee that the devil soldiers in front of the position would suddenly launch a fierce attack on the position.
"What the hell is this little devil doing, can you give a happy word, if you want to fight, start fighting, if you don't fight, withdraw if you don't fight, what is this, Lao Tzu's eyes are going to be red and swollen, these little devils are really not things, they always engage in these indiscriminate methods."
"Platoon commander, what are we hesitating about, light and heavy machine gun grenadier mortar rifles hit a base bullet shell, I promise to be able to destroy more than half of the devil soldiers in front of the position, and if it continues to be consumed like this, this spiritual head will be consumed."
"Staring at the little devils, and not letting them find out, if they find out, one shot will cost me my life, I would rather attack the little devil directly, than defend like this, it's too a waste of mental head and physical strength."
The officers and soldiers on the battlefield began to complain one after another, they felt that it was not worth it to passively consume physical strength and mental strength in this way, and it was better to fight directly with the devil soldiers.
But how do they know that what the devil soldiers hope most now is that all the firepower points on the position are exposed, and they can use artillery to solve them.
Although all parts of Binh Dinh County were reinforced by the troops of the New 2nd Brigade, even in the strong fortifications, they could not resist the continuous fire of artillery.
What's more, the Japanese troops not only had a large number of artillery, but they also had planes that rushed to support the battle at any time.
"The battalion commander, the brigade commander ordered, the mortars fired freely, and immediately after the shot, the positions were shifted."
One after another, orders began to be transmitted to various positions, and two infantry battalions and two machine gun battalions received orders one after another.
THE INFANTRY BATTALION WILL HAVE ONE 60MM MORTAR PER COMPANY, AND THE MACHINE GUN BATTALION WILL HAVE SIX 82MM MARS.
The 82MM mortar is one of the few artillery pieces that can be mass-produced in China, and this mortar was a sharp weapon for Chinese troops to kill the enemy in the Anti-Japanese War.
AS SUN WEIGUO CONVEYED THE ORDER, TWELVE 82MM MORTARS FROM TWO MACHINE GUN BATTALIONS AND SIX 60MM MORTARS FROM TWO INFANTRY BATTALIONS BEGAN TO OPERATE.
Hikaru Kokuri was the second lieutenant of the 3rd Squadron of the 4th Squadron of the 1st Mixed Brigade Infantry Detachment of the 1st Mixed Brigade, and at this time he was directing his troops to maneuver back and forth in front of the position of the 4th Battalion.
Three infantry squads had been maneuvering in front of the position for a long time, and Hikaru Ogurikawa was also quickly judging where the weak point of the Chinese troops was.
"Squad leader, I think the left should be the weak point of the Chinese army's defense, in the previous rifle shooting, there were only about eight rifles on the left, but there were more than ten rifles on the right, if we launched a fierce attack from the left, we would definitely make progress."
A Japanese squad leader came to Hikaru Kokurikawa, and the squad leader said in a firm tone.
"The fire on the left is weak, which just means that they are likely to deploy light machine gun fire points on the left, and the rifle fire on the right is very strong, which means that there are no light and heavy machine gun fire points here, you immediately take your troops to maneuver on the right, and the light machine guns will shoot at the position to test their firepower."
Hikaru Ogurikawa immediately gave the order, and the Japanese squad leader immediately saluted and quickly moved forward.
But just after Kokurikawa Hikaru gave the order, the voice of "Dangdang Dang" began to sound, as the leader of the second lieutenant team, Kokuri Kawa Hikaru had fought with the Chinese troops, and he knew the Chinese troops very well about the weapons and equipment of the Chinese troops.
"QUICKLY HIDE IT, IT'S AN 82MM MORTAR!" Hikaru Ogurikawa immediately gave the order.
"Woohoo!" The sound of cannonballs crossing the air sounded, and the ghost soldiers immediately fell to the ground, and the expressions on their faces became solemn.
"Boom!" One by one, the shells began to fall on the ground, the shells began to explode, shrapnel flew everywhere, and the dense shrenchnel made the devil soldiers have no dead angle to dodge at all, and the shrapnel hit the body of the devil soldiers, and the ghost soldiers began to scream in pain.
Kurikawa Hikaru was lying on the ground, but a shell fell less than five meters away from him, Kurikawa Hikaru first felt a pain in his leg, he knew that he had been hit by shrapnel, but just when he wanted to check the condition of his leg, a piece of shrapnel hit him directly in the forehead.
Second Lieutenant Squad Leader Hikaru Kokuri was killed on the spot by shrapnel from mortar shells, while eight of his infantry squad were killed and six wounded.
After the shell exploded, the opposite position became silent, and the Japanese Type 92 infantry guns began to quickly counterattack.
But the mortars have already begun to shift their positions, the mortars can quickly maneuver, and the places where the mortars fire are always transferred by traffic trenches.
After the Japanese infantry artillery fired, the mortars had already been transferred.
When the devil soldiers were active again, the mortars continued to start firing shells.
After firing hundreds of shells in a row, the eight Japanese infantry squads paid the price of more than 100 casualties, and the Japanese troops had to temporarily withdraw.
SIX 60MM MORTARS, TWELVE 82MM MORTARS, DID NOT PAY ANY CASUALTIES.
The tentative troops of the 1st Brigade of the melee were again repulsed, and the infantry on the position could not help but give a thumbs up to the artillerymen.
The battle here in Donghui Town was fought on a small scale, and as the main force of the 4th Cavalry Brigade returned to Zanhuang County, the 1st Brigade of the Mixed Combat did not launch a fierce attack on Donghui Town in the absence of armored detachments and the cooperation of cavalry units.
However, in Zhixi Town, which was defended by the first battalion of the first regiment, the Japanese 114th Division and the independent mixed third brigade began to launch a fierce attack on Huang Gang's first battalion.
Unlike the situation here in the 1st Brigade of the melee, the 114th Division of the Japanese Army can be described as strong, and they can't wait to show it.
After the 114th Division and the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade reconciled, they began to launch several group charges against Zhixi Town.