After the devils retreated, the company quickly reinforced the machine gun bunkers and corrected the transfer route. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the battle just now, the four machine guns that Zeng Jie arranged on both sides were not used. Originally, these four heavy machine guns were intended to give a surprise attack to the devils rushing up from both sides. Who knew that before these devils rushed to the front of the position, they were attacked by the mortar company, and they lost their armor and retreated in embarrassment.

Although these four heavy machine guns were not put into use just now, after seeing that the other machine gun crews were bombarded by devils, they also immediately prepared a spare machine gun position, and once the battle started, they could complete the transfer as quickly as possible.

Just when Liu Tianshu and Pang Fuyong were inspecting the construction of the machine gun battalion on the position, there was a roar of planes in the distance, and the faces of the two changed, they glanced at each other, and immediately shouted towards the position: "The enemy plane is coming, hide quickly." ”

Although the communication trenches and machine-gun fortifications crisscrossing the position at this time had begun to take shape, it was still unable to cope with the attack from the air, and the only way was to conceal it in advance.

The fighters of the machine-gun battalion heard the shouts and immediately covered the heavy machine guns with oilcloths glued with dead grass and hid in dugouts in the trenches.

It's just that less than a third of the bomb shelter has been dug and it is impossible to hide so many people, so many soldiers grabbed the tarpaulin used for camouflage around them and covered their bodies, and lay down in the corners of the trenches.

The devil's plane arrived in a blink of an eye, and then swooped towards the rocky hill, and the bullets fired by the plane cut through the hill like a sharp sword.

Fortunately, the fighters of the machine-gun battalion were trained in special anti-aircraft operations, and at this time they hid in the corners and tried to stick their bodies to the ground. A few unlucky fighters, hit by the rapid flow of bullets, fell in pools of blood without saying a word.

After the devil plane dived and shot at the rocky hill, it found that there seemed to be no figure on the hill, so it lowered the plane and searched carefully, but except for a few trench fortifications presented below, it seemed that there were no eight roads on the position at all.

However, the devil pilot still did not give up, and simply threw the bombs he carried towards the hills on both sides of the road, and in a blink of an eye, eight aerial bombs fell from the sky, and then an earth-shattering explosion sounded on the rocky hills, and a huge column of smoke instantly covered the sky.

Seeing that there was no figure running on the hill, the devil pilot said yes with satisfaction, and then swaggered back to the flight.

When Noeda saw that the rocky hill had been blown up in smoke, and that there seemed to be no eight roads on the hill through communication with the aircraft, Noeda ordered the 4th Squadron to prepare for the advance.

When the infantry was assembling, Noeda again ordered the artillery to bombard the rocky hill for the sake of safety.

The soldiers of the machine gun battalion who were hiding in the rocky hill knew that after the plane left, the devils would definitely use infantry artillery to bombard again, so they naturally hid in the trenches.

When the devil's shelling was over, Pang Fuyong shouted loudly and ordered the first company to enter the position and prepare for battle.

As for the second company, it was arranged on the main position behind the first company, however, they were only ready to go into battle at any time, but did not mount the machine guns.

After all, the machine gun battalion used the Japanese army's Type 92 heavy machine guns, and the big guys weighing more than 400 pounds were not easy to disassemble and tow away once they were erected, so most of the machine gun battalion's practices were to start the speed of the guns five minutes before the battle started.

As soon as the artillery bombardment of Noeda's brigade ended, its infantry rushed to a place less than 300 meters away from the position of the first company, but this time the devil became smarter, and when they reached 300 meters away, they immediately set up crane guns and threw bullets on the hill, while the infantry cautiously advanced forward.

At the same time, its grenadiers carefully followed, and when they reached a position of two hundred meters, they began to fire shells continuously towards the hill.

Seeing that the devil's infantry formation was very loose, Zeng Jie had no choice but to order all the heavy machine guns in the company to immediately fire at the rushing devil.

The remaining eight heavy machine guns of the whole company, four grenadiers focused on taking care of the devils, and four were responsible for blocking the charge of the devil's infantry.

The distance of 200 meters is exactly the effective attack range of the grenadier canister, and this individual weapon, which is much less powerful than the mortar, is the best weapon against the fire point of the field machine gun.

As the commander of the first company of the machine gun battalion, Zeng Jie naturally knew how powerful it was.

Because there were four heavy machine guns that were specially designed to deal with the devil's grenadier and the devil's heavy machine gun, its ability to intercept infantry attacks was somewhat weak, but fortunately, the mortar company was instructed by the observation post to immediately fire at the attacking devils.

Countless shells fell into the attacking group of devils, and the huge explosion immediately disrupted the pace of the devils' attack.

Zeng Jie saw this scene, and before he could applaud, there was the roar of planes in the air, and the two planes rushed towards the rocky hill like ghosts through the smoke of gunpowder in the air.

Zeng Jie secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good, but the machine gun in his company was in the midst of firing with the devil, and he couldn't transfer it at all.

Fortunately, after the devil's plane came, they saw that the Japanese army had rushed to the foot of the mountain, and the distance between them and the Eighth Road was less than 100 meters, so they were worried that the bomb would accidentally injure their own people, so they flew straight back.

The mortar company received a report from the observation post in front and knew that the devil's plane had returned, so it immediately stopped shelling and dragged the cannon to hide in the forest.

It's a pity that the devil's plane was too fast, and in a blink of an eye it reached the top of the rocky hill, and just saw a few soldiers running into the woods with cannons, and immediately rushed over with murderous energy, and the machine gun bullets chased after them like two sharp arrows.

One of the fighters running behind was hit by a bullet before he could dodge, and the powerful kinetic energy directly shredded the warrior's body.

Subsequently, the devil plane chased over the woods, and saw that the Eighth Route Army had hidden in the forest, so he simply threw the bombs he was carrying directly into the forest.

A huge explosion sounded, a mortar group of the mortar company was unfortunately hit, and six fighters died on the spot.

Liu Tianshu was lying on the stone on the side of the gang, and when he saw the soldier constantly falling, his eyes were red, he stretched out the sniper rifle in his hand, and aimed at a devil officer wielding a command knife and directly hugged the fire, sending him back to his hometown.

Then, he moved the muzzle of his gun lightly, kept pulling the bolt, and in the blink of an eye, knocked the four devil soldiers running in front to the ground.

Seeing that the resistance of the Eighth Route on the opposite side was stubborn, Noeda ordered another squadron beside him to quickly enter the battle in a hurry.

All of a sudden, there was a loud gunfire on the rocky hill.

Shi Qiang and Chen Jian came back with the reconnaissance team, and saw that the devil's two 92 infantry guns kept firing shells at the rocky gangzi, and after discussing for a while, Chen Jian and Su Xiaopeng's squadron quietly moved forward from the forest, and Shi Qiang took Wang Dachun to prepare for the attack.

Around the Devil's artillery position, there are more than twenty soldiers to protect it, and Noeda's headquarters is less than five hundred meters away from the artillery position.

Seeing that the attention of the devils was focused on the front, Shi Qiang made a gesture of action to Jian Chen, who had moved to the designated position, and then with Wang Dachun and the first squadron, he suddenly rushed out of the forest, and the guns in his hands rained down on the devils who defended the artillery position.

At a distance of two hundred meters, they were killed by Shi Qiang and Wang Dachun in less than half a minute, and the devils defending the artillery position suffered heavy casualties and had to shrink back.

At this time, Chen Jian and Su Xiaopeng also began to act, they suddenly struck out from the flank, and stabbed the connection between the artillery position and the command post of Noeda Shaoza.

Noeda heard the fierce gunfire behind him, and when he looked back, he saw dozens of Eight Roads suddenly appearing and rushing towards his artillery position.

It's a pity that this squad just ran out of less than a hundred meters, just against Chen Jian and others who rushed over, the two sides had a fierce battle, the devil squad had more than 30 soldiers fell to the ground in a blink of an eye, and the rest of the soldiers saw that these eight-way marksmanship was extremely accurate, and they were very skilled in cooperating with each other, and they couldn't resist for a while, so they had to retreat.

When Jian Chen saw that he had repelled the devil's reinforcements, he did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but quickly approached Shi Qiang and them.

At this time, the devil who was responsible for defending the artillery position had been defeated, Shi Qiang and others rushed to the front of the artillery position, and a burst of random shots were fired, and the devil artillery had to abandon the infantry artillery and hug the head of the rat.

Seeing the devil fleeing, the two fighters immediately stuffed the burning grenade into the barrel of the gun, and then quickly retreated backwards.

When Noeda sent a squadron towards the artillery position, he saw that the two infantry guns had been blown open and their barrels were cracked, and they were obviously unusable.

Fortunately, when the artillerymen saw that the situation was not good, they dropped the guns and began to flee, and the losses were not large.

Knowing that his infantry artillery had been destroyed, Noeda stayed for a long time, and had to order the attacking soldiers to retreat back while preparing for defense in place.

Without artillery support, he knew that it was impossible for him to successfully capture the rocky hill in front of him.

At this time, he received a telegram saying that the Eighth Road, which had attacked Yongle Town, had withdrawn to the vicinity of the Dragon King Temple. Wing Commander Sasaki, after learning that his troops had suffered a lot of losses after a fierce battle with the Eighth Route for a long time, scolded him fiercely and told him to immediately stand in place and wait for instructions for the next step.

Although the Eighth Route attacking Yongle Town withdrew to the Longwang Temple, the Japanese troops in Jiping County in the west pursued behind, and to the east, the Sakai Brigade had advanced in the direction of Pingyuan Town. As long as the Noeda Brigade guards the Ferris Ridge and blocks the road to the south of the Eighth Road, the rest of the matter will be handed over to the Sakai Brigade to deal with.

After receiving the order, Sakai directed his troops to hurry by train, and by noon, they arrived at Chengou.

Liu Tianshu saw that the artillery position of the Yezhi Brigade was destroyed, and immediately guessed that it was the handiwork of Shi Qiang and Chen Jian, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Without artillery support, the Noeda Brigade is like a tiger with its big teeth plucked, and it is much easier to deal with him.

It's a pity that he didn't be happy for long, and he received a telegram from Liao Zhifeng. (To be continued.) )