Chapter 539: You can't give up halfway
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Fortunately for the Japanese troops, this wing rushed all the way to a hundred meters in front of the formation without being shelled.
In this case, all the Japanese troops realized that the defenders were left with no artillery!
The nearly 3,000 Japanese troops who launched the attack were as if they had been stimulated, and immediately became fanatical. Holding a rifle and a light machine gun, he rushed to the position of the Fifth Division with a fierce posture of not fearing death.
At this time, Yuan Lei, the commander of the Fifth Division, decisively issued an order to counterattack.
The defenders suddenly fired a dense fire, caught off guard, and killed and wounded one or two hundred Japanese soldiers at once.
Of course, the Japanese army was not vegetarian, and after a short period of confusion, it was immediately suppressed with more powerful firepower.
In particular, the heavy machine guns that provided fire cover in the back, two of them stared at the Fifth Division, and one hit them, and all of a sudden they pressed the heavy machine gunners of the Fifth Division to shoot.
In this case, they could only follow the order, shoot a few rounds at a position and quickly move away, not giving the Japanese a chance to aim at themselves.
The same goes for light machine gunners and riflemen.
However, there is a downside to this style of play. Because light and heavy machine gun fire could not be sustained, it was always intermittent. The blocking fire of the Fifth Division could not inflict a large number of casualties on the Japanese army at all, and it could only be regarded as tickling the sky.
No, a wing of Japanese troops, with a loss of less than 500 people, easily rushed to the front of the formation less than 50 meters.
In such a close exchange of fire, both the Fifth Division and the Japanese army thought of a powerful grenade that exploded a large area.
Both sides threw a shower of grenades at each other almost simultaneously.
After remembering the violent explosion, the positions of the Fifth Division and the Japanese attacking troops were all covered by thick gunsmoke.
As for the casualties, there is no doubt that they were all large.
But because the Japanese army was completely exposed in front of the position, the fifth division was basically lying in the craters of the trenches. It is certain that the casualties of the Japanese army must have been greater than those of the 5th Division.
After several rounds of grenades thrown by both sides in a row, the final Japanese offensive began.
There were less than 2,000 Japanese troops left, and they rushed towards the Fifth Division with rifles in their hands and in a completely lifeless posture.
At this time, the position of the Fifth Division also suffered heavy casualties.
Because the entire defense line was covered by gunsmoke, they did not know the situation of the Japanese troops dozens of meters away.
Therefore, on the entire defense line, except for a small number of riflemen with a high rate of bomb hits who continued to throw grenades according to their own feelings, the remaining Liaodong Army all held their rifles tightly, squatted in the craters of the trenches, and quietly waited for the arrival of the Japanese army.
After more than ten seconds of anxious waiting, the Japanese army with a rifle finally entered the field of vision of the Liaodong Army.
"All of them, the bullets are loaded, and after a round of guns, prepare to fight with the Japanese army!" The platoon commander of the company, who was scattered in the position, whispered an order as he loaded the pistol bullets he held in his hand.
Ten meters, when the Japanese army was about to rush to the front of the formation.
The platoon commander of the company holding the pistol, like a wild horse holding the reins, quickly rushed towards the Japanese army in front of him.
"Brothers, rush with me!"
Dozens of Liaodong troops around him immediately rushed out of the position with rifles.
Although in an attack a few hours earlier, a division of the Liaodong Army managed to eat up a Japanese infantry wing through close combat. After the news spread, all the Japanese troops had a new understanding of the Liaodong Army.
But a lot of thinking doesn't have to be changed by changing.
Seeing the Liaodong Army that launched a counterattack against itself, many Japanese soldiers had four words in their minds, and they couldn't measure themselves.
Therefore, the Japanese army, which was less than 2,000 people, not only did not fear, but rushed towards the position with a fanatical face.
At this time, the dogmatic infantry drill code once again harmed them.
When the two units were about to collide when they wanted to see it, the platoon commander of the company who rushed to the front raised his pistol and pulled the trigger on them under the stunned gaze of the Japanese soldiers.
Shots rang out, and several Japanese soldiers directly opposite immediately fell in shock and incredulity.
After quickly firing the bullets, the platoon commanders quickly took a few steps back, leaving room for the riflemen behind them.
As soon as the platoon commander retreated, the riflemen with rifles also fired.
After the rows of bullets flew out, the oncoming Japanese soldiers were immediately knocked to the ground in pieces.
In the blink of an eye, four or five hundred Japanese soldiers fell on the offensive road without blinking. After firing the rifled bullet, the rifleman no longer had time to reload the rifle. He could only ram the Japanese army with a rifle.
Soon, thousands of people from both sides were fighting together.
At the beginning, in the face of the Japanese army's iron triangle assassination formation, the soldiers of the Fifth Division, who accounted for a large proportion of the recruits, were beaten to the point that they had almost no room to fight back, and could only retreat in defeat and were constantly stabbed to the ground.
Fortunately, the platoon commander who had already changed his bullets at this time came in. As soon as they fired, the Japanese Iron Triangle assassination formation, which was still unstoppable just now, was punched out one by one, and even directly eliminated.
The officers and men of the Fifth Division, who were retreating one after another, immediately seized the opportunity to counterattack. But despite this, the casualties of the Fifth Division were still very large.
In addition to those who were killed by pistols, the rest of the Japanese soldiers who were stabbed to death with bayonets would find a way to kill a Liaodong soldier for his burial before they died. Soon, the small battlefield of engagement fell to the ground, with corpses from the Liaodong Army and Japanese, very bloody!
The battlefield was so tragic that Yuan Lei, who was watching the battle, couldn't help but tremble his hands, but he didn't order the reconnaissance troops drawn out by the second division to join the battlefield.
Yang Xingguo, who was on the side, couldn't help but persuade: "Division Commander Yuan, you have to think clearly, now let the second division reconnaissance troops go up, the battle can end in five minutes, and your fifth division can reduce casualties by hundreds of people!" ā
Yuan Lei shook his head and replied, "No, commander!" Since it is an elimination, it cannot be done halfway. Even if there are a few hundred more casualties, after this battle, the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Division will become stronger and stronger. ā
Yang Xingguo nodded and didn't say anything more! After thinking about it, he ordered Zhou Qiangsheng on the side: "Let your people set off immediately, bypass the frontal battlefield, block the reinforcements that the Japanese army may send, cover the fifth division, and destroy the Japanese army on the battlefield!" ā
To Yang Xingguo's surprise, this time, the chief of staff of the Japanese army did not send reinforcements.
Seeing that one of his wings had been killed to the ground, the battle was about to end.
The ruthless chief of staff decisively ordered Major General Watanabe to cover the battlefield with artillery fire, regardless of whether the enemy was or ours.
In less than half a minute, the scream of shells across the sky sounded over the battlefield.
Before Yuan Lei could understand, a violent explosion sounded on the battlefield of battle.
Yuan Lei's face changed, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "It's not good, the Japanese army even bombed their own people, it's too ruthless!" ā
"Inform the troops to return to their positions immediately and hide in the anti-artillery holes, and the rest of the Japanese troops will not care!" (To be continued.) )