Chapter 43: The Night Battle
"Enemy attack!" The shouts of the soldiers spread throughout the village, and Fujita emerged from the houses, and one of his men came and reported: "Report to the captain, it's the harassing team that is rushing towards us on bicycles, you can be sure!" ”
"Herald, order the squadrons on both sides to move closer to this side, and the squads will enter the position and prepare to counterattack!" Fujita was excited, and finally let himself run into it, the purpose of he could lead the team to rush forward was to find them first, but he didn't expect those people to take the initiative to attack without knowing whether they were alive or dead!
"Click", Luzon jumped off his bicycle and propped it up, raised his submachine gun and began to fire at the village, while the rest of the team also half-crouched and fired. "Bang bang bang!" Lines of fire were fired at the village, and soon the machine gunners began to open fire, and the fire of nearly fifty soldiers was spectacular in the dark night.
The Japanese soldiers were so overwhelmed by the sudden fire blow that they couldn't raise their heads, "Artillery, prepare to open fire!" Shoot! Shoot! Fujita brandished his katana and shouted in the back, the Japanese soldiers were of good individual quality, and soon braved the line of fire to raise their heads to fight back, and soldiers were constantly hit. The terrain is empty, there is no decent cover on either side, a few can find small dirt slopes or grass, and most of them are half-crouched on flat ground to shoot. The Type 30 rifle is a single-shot rifle of the 19th century, with a slow rate of fire and a short range, and Luzon deliberately chose to fire outside its range, and as a result, the weapons of the special forces can hit the enemy, which is the prerequisite for the kite-flying tactics.
"Withdraw!" Luzon shouted, the time is almost up, the Japanese will soon open fire, and the fact that their rifles can't hit doesn't mean that the 37mm Krupp rapid-fire guns can't hit. The team quickly got on their bikes and turned to run, this wave of attacks caused limited damage to the Japanese troops, and now it depends on whether they will come out in pursuit.
Of course, Fujita will not let them go, even in the dark of night he ordered the pursuit, such an opportunity is let go and there will be no more, besides, the other two squadrons will soon come over, and these people must not be allowed to escape while the night is dark.
The Japanese soldiers shouted "board load" and raised their guns in pursuit, ran less than 200 meters, and vaguely saw the enemy stop, and then another rain of bullets swept by, and the Japanese soldiers fell dozens of people again. Fujita was so angry that he screamed, seeing the enemy riding his bicycle and fleeing again, he hesitated a little, and learned from the previous battle that the range and rate of fire of the weapons in the hands of his soldiers were not as good as those people, and he did not have cavalry, coupled with the night, it was futile to continue the pursuit. What to do?
The special combat team made a decision for Fujita, they saw that the Japanese army stopped, turned around and fired again, this is already outside the range of the Japanese artillery, and there is no need to worry about being hit. In this way, Fujita was in a dilemma, so he could only order to continue the attack, and when he reached the ambush site of the second squadron, there were only more than 250 people left in this Japanese squadron, and this was because the accuracy of the special operations team's shooting at night had not caused them more casualties.
"Attack!" Seeing that the enemy had gone around behind a small dirt slope and stopped sniping again, the Japanese stopped outside the firing range and began to attack in formation. This is the preset battlefield, Luzon and the others are no longer retreating, the small dirt slope has been dug out in advance, and the team members have entered the sniper position, waiting for the Japanese to attack.
"Be careful, wait until the Japanese are two hundred meters into the cannon before they can fire, I don't want to scare them away!" Luzon instructed. The night was already dark, and it was difficult to see clearly, but fortunately, the artillery had already demarcated the direction of the shelling in advance, and then it was only necessary to fire at the intended target.
"Captain, the Japanese army is too far away to see clearly!"
"Flares, one shot at a time, fired continuously!" Luzon did not want to shoot blindly in the black light, and the flares would also illuminate the direction of the attack for the enemy, but in general it would be beneficial to their side. Moreover, there are nearly 100 people in the second squadron here, and the soil slope is narrow, which can easily cause accidental injuries.
The flares flew into the sky, shining a clear picture of the Japanese troops who were forming a group, they did not attack immediately, but they did not retreat either, they just stood where they were, and it was not until ten minutes later that Luzon discovered their purpose - the Japanese squadrons on both sides had finally arrived, and they wanted to gather all their forces before they began to attack.
"The second squadron is responsible for the left and right directions, and the third or fourth squadron of the first squadron serves as a reserve to guard the rear, and we play a big game!" Luzon was so excited that the Japanese army, which had less than a thousand men and backward equipment, was like eating itself, impossible!
There were shouts around the position, and under the light of the flares, you could see the Japanese soldiers attacking in front of the position, on the left and on the right, they were in a neat formation, straight up and rushed over, and the shells fell on the position of the special combat team, kicking up smoke and dust, that is, the Japanese pushed several rapid-fire guns over, but the power was too small, and did not cause damage to the team members lying in the foxhole.
"Artillery, fire, knock out those rapid-fire guns!" Even if the power is small, Luzon could not stand it, and the shells of rapid-fire guns were borrowed and fell on the position in a row, and it could reach ten pieces a minute.
"Boom!" The shells of the Type 92 infantry guns accurately hit the Japanese artillery positions, they did not expect that these people would still have artillery, and the artillery positions were set too far forward, and they were solved by five infantry guns in two rounds of shells.
The loss of artillery made Fujita chuckle in his heart, the frontal battlefield was not optimistic, although the enemy position was small and had been surrounded, but they had strong firepower, not only artillery, but also machine guns! You must know that even among the coalition forces, the machine guns are not very well equipped, and the rain of bullets fell on the bodies of the soldiers, and they fell in pieces, and the attack distance of 200 meters was not half of the heavy losses. "Keep attacking, don't retreat!" Fujita shouted, the artillery has been lost, the firepower is not comparable to those people, can only rush in and win in close combat, with the courage and melee ability of the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire, will easily defeat those enemies, and then their advanced weapons will be their own!
Luzon uses three consecutive rounds to control the submachine guns in their hands, although these special combat personnel have not experienced much actual combat, but after coming out of the steel base, they are already veterans of a hundred battles, their psychological quality is stable, their ability is superb, submachine guns, machine guns, etc. are used in three consecutive bursts of fire, while ordinary soldiers play a rate of fire that is not weaker than machine guns, and the accuracy is higher.
"Is Little Japan looking for death? It seems that without the baptism of the First World War, the army of this era has not yet learned how to attack positions with machine-gun defense. Luzon shot slowly and methodically, and at the same time, he still sighed that the Japanese bullets hit the vicinity of the foxhole, splashing dust, but they couldn't hurt the soldiers inside. This was only a simple version of the offensive and defensive battle, and the Japanese army also suffered a lot.
I had to admire the courage of the Japanese soldiers, who had already fallen two-thirds of them when they rushed into the 100 meters around the position, and they were still shouting forward with high morale, as if they could not see the fallen comrades and flying bullets around them. Their running speed was very fast, and the team members gave up the way of saving bullets, and the firepower was fully fired, and the density of firepower suddenly increased greatly.
"Grenades!" The Japanese army had already entered a distance of thirty meters, and a grenade with a wooden handle flew out of the foxhole, which exploded in the ranks of the Japanese army, and the damage caused by the grenade was not small, the closer the Japanese army got to the position, the denser the formation, and one grenade could cause damage to five or six soldiers.
"Ahh The Japanese army was getting closer and closer, and Luzon could even see the white teeth of the Japanese soldiers. "Da da da", after firing the magazine in the gun, there was no time to replace it, Luzon took out his pistol and killed the Japanese soldier who jumped up and was about to fight with him with a bayonet, and finally entered the melee phase.