Chapter 115: Windfall
Perhaps the artillery platoon was preparing for battle, and before the second wave of the enemy's attack, it came to the positions of the one, two, and two companies with the four mortars in the platoon and reported to the commissar.
"Report to the political commissar, the regiment commander orders us to listen to your command now, and ask the political commissar to give orders." As soon as he finished speaking, he remembered the sound of explosions in the town of Measuring Fish, and looked at the platoon commander of the artillery platoon in front of him, and the political commissar immediately understood the intention of his partner.
"Okay, the artillery platoon will immediately build a position, and when the enemy reunites, as long as the enemy is close to the position 300 meters, he will fire at me, and where there are many devils, I will blow up it."
"Yes, resolutely complete the task." After saying that, the artillery platoon commander began to build a position with four mortars.
At this moment, a shirtless devil appeared in the political commissar's telescope. Looking back, the artillery platoon was nervously building a position, boxes of mortar shells were neatly stacked behind the four mortars, several fighters were loading fuses, looking at the skilled soldiers, the political commissar nodded with satisfaction.
"Peng..."The sound of four mortar guns being ejected reached the ears of the political commissar, and in less than a few seconds, four shells fell from the formation of the devil's charge, and several devils were thrown high by the air wave of the shell explosion. As the cannon sounded, the devil seemed to speed up the charge.
The political commissar ordered, and the heavy firepower, mainly four heavy machine guns, was immediately fired, and the devils in the field of vision were knocked down one after another, and the shells continued to explode in the enemy's formation, with heavy machine gun bullets in front and the explosion of shells in the back, and the devils were pressed dead two hundred meters in front of the position.
One of the grenades fell into the position, and the two fighters fell crookedly in the trenches.
The political commissar saw the two soldiers who fell to the ground, and hurriedly raised the binoculars to look at the enemy's position, it turned out that the two devils used the corpse of a devil as a cover, erected grenadiers, and fired grenades at their own positions, and in a while, several grenades had fallen on the position, "Order the artillery platoon to kill the devils' grenadiers immediately." ”
"Company Commander Wang (Wang Hong) ordered the six grenadiers of two companies to also fire grenades at the devil's position, and I don't believe it." Soon, several grenades began to fall on the devil's position. Finally, in this situation of pressing and beating, the leader of the devil squadron couldn't stand it anymore, and once again ordered the troops to retreat, and the fighters left several corpses of devils again with heavy machine guns in the space of the devil's retreat.
Seeing that the devil retreated, the political commissar nodded with satisfaction, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to quickly count the casualties of the troops.
The regiment commander stood at the command headquarters, saw the retreating devils, nodded with satisfaction, at this time, the regiment commander received a telegram from the brigade commander Liu Hua, the troops had withdrawn from the Jingcheng coal mine, and were now on the way back to the base area, because the troops were carrying a large amount of materials and equipment, the speed of the march was very slow. Order a regiment to delay the devils for another 2 hours to give the main force enough time to win. …… Looking at the telegram in his hand, the head of the regiment, Sun Xingbang, finally had nothing to worry about, and he could slowly realize his plan. The regimental commander put down the telegram, picked up the topographical map of the town of Surveying Fish, and began to launch orders.
"Order the third and fourth companies to lie in ambush on the mountain beam east of the town entrance, and the troops will transfer four heavy machine guns to you, and arrange the positions by themselves. The 5th Company was ambushed south of the mountain pass, and the 6th Company and the 2nd Regiment were ambushed on the east side of the road. Send a report to the political commissar that when the devils attack next, after a certain amount of resistance, let the devils break through, and after the devils break through, they hear the gunshots on the mountain at the entrance of the town, and immediately launch an attack on the town of Shiyu, and the artillery platoon will be under the command of the regimental headquarters and will be rebuilt immediately. ”
According to the order of the regiment commander, several companies immediately moved, and at this time, the army in the town of Measuring Rain also took action, and the captain concentrated almost all the army, including baggage troops, artillery... All of them picked up their rifles, formed into four squads, and were preparing for the final charge.
After receiving the order from the regiment commander, the political commissar immediately understood the strategic intention of his partner, which was to completely annihilate the remnants of the army in the field. Now that he knew the intention of the regiment commander, the political commissar also actively cooperated, "Order the soldiers, shoot at me as long as you see the devil for a while, and then slowly stop shooting one platoon after another, giving me the false appearance that we are short of bullets, and when the devil is close to 100 meters, give up the frontal position, shrink to both sides of the position, let the devils all stand out, and then the second company will follow me, and the first company will hide on the spot, and I will attack the fish town."
The political commissar said to the platoon commanders of several companies in front of him, and when he saw that everyone nodded and understood his words, he asked everyone to return to the position to command the battle.
Since the artillery platoon has been rebuilt, the only heavy fire that can be suppressed by the one, two or two companies that can be suppressed is the four heavy machine guns on the position, and two of the four heavy machine guns ordered by the political commissar have begun to fire intermittently, and the remaining two, according to the orders of the political commissar, have been transferred, giving the enemy the false appearance that our army is short of ammunition.
But this really deceived the captain of the devil brigade, originally the captain of the devil brigade was ready to dispatch a mixed squad composed of logistics and artillery to the front to block the bullets, and the rest of the troops followed up, after hearing the intermittent gunfire on the position of the [***] team, he immediately changed his decision, with the mixed squad as the first echelon, the second squadron as the second echelon, and the remaining personnel of the brigade headquarters and the first squadron as the third echelon, and all of them launched a charge together.
Maybe the captain's guess was really right, it didn't take long for the intermittent machine gun sound to be gone, and at this time, the mixed team of the devils had rushed to more than 200 meters in front of the position, "hit" With the order of the political commissar, several machine guns began to fire intermittently, but just like that, the mixed team of the devils also fell dozens of people, with the continuous return of fire by the army, the light machine guns of the two companies ceased fire one after another under the order of the political commissar, and the guns of the soldiers slowly thinned out.
The captain of the squad who "rushed" the devil stood up and shouted loudly, and then, dozens of devils stood up, dodged the bullets, and while charging, the two companies were now only left with a company's rifle to carry out limited return fire, and the remaining fighters began to move, and finally, the devil reached a place of 100 meters. "The troops will retreat immediately." The commissar immediately ordered.
Soon, one of the remaining companies, on the orders of the commissar, quickly withdrew from the frontal positions and moved to both sides.
Seeing that there was no gunfire on the Chinese position in front of him, the captain who followed the team couldn't help but be overjoyed, it seemed that the [***] team really had no bullets. "Kill...," the captain commanded in a loud voice, and the remaining squadron quickly rushed to the empty Chinese position. Seeing the empty positions of the Chinese soldiers, the captain did not find anything strange. Because the current captain doesn't want to do anything, he just wants to quickly join up with the defenders of the Jingcheng Coal Mine. The army did not stop long, quickly passed through the position, and drilled into the pocket arranged by the regiment commander.
Subsequently, the commander of the second company followed closely behind the army with the whole company.
Seeing that more than 300 people in the army and his party drilled into the pocket they had arranged without any vigilance, the regiment commander was excited. "The sixth company, the two companies of the second regiment immediately approached the road, the three four companies were ready for battle, and the gunfire of the commander of the fifth company was the clarion call for the troops to attack." The regimental commander immediately ordered.
The captain led a group of troops to run quickly on the highway, and he didn't notice that several Chinese companies were surrounded on both sides of the road, looking at the mountain pass in front of him, the captain was excited, because after the mountain pass, the Jingcheng Coal Mine was in sight, "Speed up." The captain ordered.
A gunshot of "bump" shattered the captain's white dream, and the captain fell to the ground with a face full of disbelief. It was the regimental commander who fired the shot, and as the regimental commander's gunfire rang out, the four heavy machine guns on the mountain beam immediately followed and opened fire. Four tongues of fire immediately cut four gaps in the dense formation of devils, and a group of grenades fell from the sky and landed in a panicked group of devils.
"Tick tock" has not been loaded with the soldiers on the other side of the road, seeing the devils lying down, they immediately launched a charge, a row of grenades thrown over, as the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the soldiers have rushed to the devil's eyes. Looking at the devils who retreated their bullets one after another, the soldiers did not have any mercy, Shang Tang, aiming, firing, and then loading, aiming at the soldiers who were running wrote the same action, as long as they looked at the devil lying on the ground with a little abnormal movement, there would be a few bullets on his body immediately.
And the political commissar, who had been lying in ambush outside the town with a company, heard the gunshots, and immediately ordered to stand one by one and rush to the town, but what caught the eyes of the soldiers was corpses everywhere, and the crater suddenly rang out a burst of gunfire, and several soldiers who rushed to the front immediately fell in a pool of blood.
"Lie down," he shouted loudly. It turned out that the injuries of the devil's mobility in several time zones were left behind. Looking at the sparse gunfire on the opposite side, the sister was not polite, a few grenades were fired, and the opposite side soon quieted down.
The battle on both sides ended in a very short time. The two informed each other of the results of the battle, and at the same time, Liu Hua, who was marching rapidly, also received a good report from a regiment, but as soon as he thought of the large number of reinforcements from the devils who were about to come, he immediately ordered a regiment to retreat quickly with the captured, and return to the base area with the main force.
Just two hours after the two troops withdrew from their positions, a large number of enemy reinforcements began to arrive at Jingcheng in a steady stream, but they were left with only the corpses of devils and the coal mine that had been blown into ruins.
The commander of the 40th Brigade of the Devil's Commander-in-Chief saw the battle report, although he was furious, but when he thought of the nervous soldiers on the front line, he was still unwilling to withdraw the reinforcements. However, Liu Hua returned to the base area with a large number of materials and personnel all the way, and met with the political commissar who came to meet him.
(To be continued)