Chapter 860 forcibly crossing the blockade ditch

The search and attack platoon sent by the 1st Battalion of the 13th Regiment of the Sect reached the north side of the blockade ditch, and the little devils on the opposite side did not move. Only then did Shen Nantang know that the little devil was indeed an elite, and he was beaten like that by the artillery regiment, he was able to calm down like this. Cannons, small cannons, and light and heavy machine guns must have been set up, waiting for the Eighth Route Army to roar towards the blockade ditch

It was a dark night, and as soon as the little devils retreated, it was not easy for the artillery observers who were lurking in the north of the blockade ditch in advance to discover the specific location of the devils, and it was difficult to guide the artillery to accurately shell. It was precisely because of this that Shen Nantang asked the first battalion to send a platoon to conduct a tentative search attack, the purpose of which was to expose the target of the devils and allow the brigade artillery regiment to use artillery fire to disperse the main force of the devils.

Since this trick was useless, Shen Nantang immediately changed his tactics and directly ordered the two infantry artillery companies, the flying thunder artillery company, the heavy machine gun company, and the anti-aircraft machine gun company of the fire support battalion to advance forward, set up positions, first give the devils a burst of fire reconnaissance, and ordered the three infantry battalions and the battalions of the supplementary regiment to approach the blockade ditch in concealment, and prepare for a forced breakthrough.

Shen Nantang's judgment was very accurate, the commander of the 36th Wing, Fuji Sueyoshi Daisa, had rich combat experience, and he shrank his troops back and waited for the Eighth Route Army to attack the blockade ditch before suddenly entering the position to block the Eighth Route Army. In Fujii's thoughts, relying on his powerful firepower and the accurate shooting skills of the Imperial soldiers, the blockade ditch and the opposite side of the blockade ditch will definitely be covered with corpses on the dirt road. As long as the two sides are in a mess, it is impossible for the artillery of the Eighth Route Army on Maling Mountain to shell, unless they don't want the lives of their own soldiers. In Fujii's impression, it seems that the Eighth Route Army has never done this

The Ninth Division has been fighting in Central China for a long time, and apart from participating in the heavy army group's sweep of Shandong, it basically has never played against the instructors of the Eighth Route Army. Last time, he was counterattacked by the armored group of the Eighth Route Army on the north side of Longhai Road, east of Niushan Town, which made Fuji Isueji Daisa know the strength of the Eighth Route Army, so he also became cunning.

Just now, under a burst of artillery bombardment by the Fifth Brigade Artillery Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, Fujii Sueyoshi Daisa had already woken up, knowing that the Eighth Route Army was coming to ask for the life of the main force of his 36th Wing again, and a vicious battle was just around the corner. Therefore, Fuji Sueyoshi Osa did not panic, crawled on the ground two hundred meters away from the blockade ditch, stared at the wolf-like eyes, and stared viciously at the movement on the other side of the blockade ditch. He calculated clearly that the artillery bombardment of the Eighth Route Army did not completely destroy the pillboxes, there were two pillboxes to support, and his main force could carry out fire blocking without moving on the spot at a distance of 200 meters from the blockade ditch, as long as the attack started, under the cover of artillery fire and machine guns, the main force could quickly move forward, quickly enter the position on the blockade ditch, and gather and annihilate the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side of the blockade ditch. As long as the attacking troops of the Eighth Route Army were severely damaged, they could leave a small unit to monitor, and the main force retreated again to avoid the artillery bombardment of the Eighth Route Army. After fighting a few times in this way, you can withdraw to Xin'an Town and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

Fuji Isueyoshi Daisa thinks according to the common sense of normal positional offensive and defensive warfare, but unfortunately what he encountered was not an ordinary Chinese army, but the Fifth Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and a series of surprises were waiting for him

Shen Nantang ordered the start of fire coverage, teaching two companies of infantry artillery and one company of flying thunder artillery of the 13th Regiment to fire at a distance of 1,000 meters from the blockade ditch, artillery shells, explosives bags flew across the night sky, landed in the blockade ditch, and opposite the blockade ditch, the explosions one after another, shocked people's eardrums.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the heavy machine gun company, anti-aircraft machine gun company and three battalions of the fire support battalion of the 13th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army began to quickly and covertly approach forward and establish machine gun positions. In particular, the bazooka groups of three battalions took advantage of the darkness to move quickly. At a distance of only 200 meters from the blockade ditch, the warriors began to crawl forward in a low posture, apparently to deal with the devil's bunker.

Historically, the thunder cannon used by our army in the Huaihai War was simple to make, and the firing range did not exceed 1,000 meters. Now, thanks to the improvements of the artillery command and the military-industrial department, the firing range has been greatly increased, and it is perfect for dealing with the deep positions of the little devils.

In this fight, Fujii Sueyoshi Osa couldn't sit still, because although the accuracy of the shelling of the Flying Thunder Cannon has been improved after improvement, it is not a cannon with rifling engraved in the chamber of the cannon after all, and to be honest, the accuracy of the shelling is still problematic. That is, because of the low precision, Fuji Sueji Yoshiosa and his little devils who were hiding 200 meters behind the position suffered a lot, and the explosives that fell down did not last long, some fell on the devil's blockade ditch position, and some fell on the head of the little devil who was hiding. Not to mention the position that fell on the blockade ditch, there was no one there except the devil's monitoring post, and it could only blow up a fog formed by clouds of dust. The explosives bag that fell on the top of the devil's head was terrible, and with an explosion, the little devil was bleeding, and the nails and wires in the explosives bag flew in all directions, and the little devil who was crawling on the ground couldn't hide if he wanted to.

Fujii Sueyoshi Daisa decisively ordered the artillery to open fire and destroy the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army.

Although it is night, which affects the observation effect, the devil artillery has roughly calculated the direction of the artillery position from the situation of teaching the artillery of the 13th regiment to open artillery, and the four mountain guns and eight infantry guns of the devil directly opened fire.

When Shen Nantang saw that the devil artillery opened fire, he hurriedly ordered the artillery to move their positions. Fortunately, the infantry artillery was not heavy, it was easy to transfer, and the four fighters lifted up and left, which avoided major losses. That's it, the little devil's shell still knocked the two infantry guns to the ground.

As soon as the little devil artillery opened fire, the artillery regiment of the 6th Brigade of Jiao on Maling Mountain finally had a goal. Without waiting for the devil artillery to further expand the results, the shells of the Eighth Route Army fell like hail. This hit is a three-shot salvo, where can the artillery position composed of four mountain guns and eight infantry guns of the little devil escape the blow of an artillery regiment

After eliminating the devil artillery, Shen Nantang no longer had any scruples, and ordered the two infantry artillery companies and the flying thunder artillery company of the fire support battalion to advance forward and re-establish their positions. This time, he's going to storm it.

Seeing that his artillery position was covered by the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, Fujii Sueyoshi Daisa was furious, and as soon as he saw the scattered soldiers of the Eighth Route Army advancing towards the blockade ditch in the night, he raised his command knife and ordered the light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers of the puppet army led by Tian Liu to seize the position and prepare for a fierce battle with the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, Fujii Sueyoshi Osa still dreamed of inflicting heavy damage on the Eighth Route Army by the blockade ditch

This time, the fire support battalion of the 13th Regiment of the 13th Regiment, including the infantry guns, grenadiers, light and heavy machine guns of each battalion and company, all opened fire, and flying in the sky were infantry artillery shells, grenades fired from grenadiers, and explosives bags fired by flying thunder guns, and machine gun bullets flying close to the ground, forming a huge fire network on the front 1,000 meters wide.

Seeing that the artillery and machine-gun fire completely covered the opposite side of the blockade ditch, Chen Dong, the political commissar of the 13th Regiment, said to the regiment commander Shen Nantang: "Regiment commander, the time for a decisive battle has come. You command here, I'll go to the front and organize the charge"

Shen Nantang didn't hold it, Chen Dong picked up his Bayi automatic rifle and rushed out. Shen Nantang, who was in a hurry, shouted: "Guard platoon, protect the political commissar"

Under the cover of fire, the first battalion of the 13th Regiment took the lead, followed by the three battalions of the engineer company, the second battalion, the third battalion, the supplementary battalion and the supplementary regiment of the 13th regiment. Shen Nantang had already thought clearly, since the little devil didn't fire and counterattacked, it meant that the little devil shrank back and was a certain distance away from the blockade ditch. Shen Nantang wanted to suppress the devil with firepower, and waved two regiments to break through the blockade ditch in one fell swoop.

The first battalion of the 13th Regiment is the sharp knife battalion of the entire Fifth Brigade, and the former battalion commander Qi Fengnian is a famous combat hero of the Eighth Route Army, who led the first battalion to make many military exploits. After Qi Fengnian was transferred to the commander of the Second Independent Regiment of Lunan, the instructor Ren Qionglin took over as the battalion commander, and the deputy battalion commander Li Dingnan took over as the instructor.

Ren Qionglin led a battalion to take the lead, and the soldiers bent over and ran forward quickly with guns in the night.

The 13th Battalion of the 1st Regiment is a veritable elite with a high level of training, and it is said that it is the first to attack, but it is definitely not a dense formation, and it is a target for little devils. I saw that the soldiers of the first battalion were divided into three echelons in an infantry squad as a unit, and rushed towards the devil's blockade ditch in an attack formation of an evacuated infantry squad.

At this time, the two remaining devil bunkers on the opposite side of the blockade ditch opened fire, and the machine guns screamed wildly, desperately intercepting the attacking team of the Eighth Route Army.

As soon as Ren Qionglin saw that the machine guns in the devil's bunker had knocked more than a dozen soldiers to the ground, pressing the soldiers unable to advance, he immediately shouted: "Lie down, crawl forward with heavy machine guns, block the Japanese bunker bazooka, knock out the bunker for Lao Tzu"

Several bazooka groups of the 1st Battalion set off early, and at this time they were crawling forward, and there was still a little distance from the effective range of 200 meters.

The heavy machine guns of the fire support company of the 1st Battalion of the Church have already established positions and are firing suppressively. As soon as the two pillboxes of the devils opened fire, without the order of Qionglin, several heavy machine guns aimed their muzzles at the devil's bunkers, and the bullets chirped, splashing sparks on the walls of the reinforced concrete bunkers. There were also bullets that went through the shooting holes, and the fire of the little devil's pillbox was intermittent.

Taking advantage of the heavy machine gun cover, several fighters of the bazooka group flew up and ran forward with bazookas. After running twenty or thirty steps, he fell to the ground, and when the machine gun in the little devil's bunker stopped, he got up and ran again. In this way, it did not take long to enter the range. As the two rockets dragged their bright tails towards the devil's bunker, the little devil's bunker was dumb.

Seeing that the devil's bunker was dumb, Ren Qionglin shouted: "Rush up and cross the blockade ditch"

The soldiers of the first battalion began to bend and run, and when they reached the edge of the blockade ditch, they slipped down the steep slope on the side of the blockade ditch, like dumplings, gurgling. Then, in groups of several people, they hit the ladder, climbed the blockade ditch, and began to seize the Japanese blockade ditch position.

At this time, the commander of the 36th Wing of the Japanese Army, Fuji Suekichi Osa, was already so surprised that his eyeballs were about to fall.

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