[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 387: United-level Charge (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

"Da Da Da"

As the most ferocious reaper of life on the battlefield, the power of the machine gun is unquestionable. Since the first battalion did not withdraw the heavy machine guns when it withdrew, after all, it takes time to build a machine gun position, in order to save time, the first battalion left all the eight remaining heavy machine guns in the whole battalion, plus the 12 heavy machine guns of the second battalion, and now a full 20 heavy machine guns are now arranged in the forward position.

The dense bullets carried the hatred of the soldiers to the Japanese puppet army, and the huge lethality suddenly interrupted the offensive of the Japanese army that had just launched a charge, and seeing the surrounding comrades constantly being knocked down by the terrifying bullets fired from the opposite side, even the Japanese soldiers who boasted of being armed with the spirit of bushido were afraid.

There is no way, maybe many Japanese soldiers are indeed not afraid of death as they say, but this battle has lasted for several days and nights, not only the Eighth Route Army is very tired, but the Japanese army is also a little unable to support it. After all, even if the Japanese army is armed with bushido, they are also composed of people, not monsters, and continuous combat will inevitably greatly reduce the morale of the troops, not to mention that the Eighth Route Army has not been able to defeat the Eighth Route Army after so many days of fighting.

Moreover, the bullets on the opposite side were too dense, and more than 500 Japanese puppet troops were repulsed after only half of the charge, and Fukugen Daisa, who was supervising the battle behind him, was extremely angry, and immediately ordered the squadron leader who had just commanded the battle to be withdrawn.

However, Fuyuan Dazuo knew very well that once the battle began, there would be no chance to stop, and a single blow was the key to quickly achieving good combat results, and the more it dragged on, the more unfavorable the battle situation would become, so Fuyuan Dazuo immediately continued to order the troops to launch an attack on the position of the second battalion.

At the same time that the 20th Wing of the 19th Brigade of the Japanese Army launched an attack on Houhe, the main force of the 19th Wing launched an attack on the riverside defense line in Xinghe City, and the 33rd Wing of the 30th Brigade launched an attack on the Nanguan position, and the battle for the entire Xinghe County became more and more intense.

In Xinghe City, Yang Chengwu's pressure was extremely great, and the battle for several days was heavy casualties, and the three main regiments in Xinghe City plus the troops directly under the city totaled more than 10,000 people, except for the cavalry regiment and the county-level organs that were not suitable for defensive operations were withdrawn by Yang Chengwu to Daqingshan, the rest of the troops stayed in the city, so it was not wrong for Sugiyama Yuan to announce that he had surrounded the main force of the 93rd Division of the Eighth Route Army.

If Xinghe is lost and his headquarters is annihilated, although the 93rd Division cannot be said to be annihilated, more than half of the casualties are by no means a big deal.

But history has pushed him Yang Chengwu to this cusp, all he can do is stick to it, and believe that the good partner who can repeatedly create miracles can create miracles again.

At the Nanguan position, the 19th Wing of the Japanese Army had spent two days and two nights with the 275th Brigade and a regiment. At that time, the Japanese army could not make a breakthrough after a whole day and a half of consumption in Houhe, so the headquarters of the 16th Division ordered the 19th Wing to wade across the river from the lower reaches of the Erdao River and go straight to Nanguan in an attempt to make a breakthrough on the southern front.

But unfortunately, although the Japanese idea was good, it was stubbornly resisted by the 275th Brigade and a regiment. Because the Japanese army on the southern front not only had powerful infantry, but also large-scale field artillery, Wang Tao, the commander of the 275th Brigade, directly moved his brigade headquarters to the forward position, putting on a posture of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat.

Compared with the narrow terrain of the Houhe position, although the terrain of Nanguan is higher, and the Japanese army is in an unfavorable state of attacking from the back, the terrain here is relatively open. The east-west position spanned two kilometers long, and the Japanese army could devote at least one reinforced brigade at one time, if not longer.

On such a long front, as long as the Japanese army made a breakthrough at one point, the entire defense line could be broken, so the 275th Brigade not only put all the troops of a regiment on this front. At the same time, the guard battalion, engineer battalion, and artillery battalion directly under the brigade headquarters were all placed 150 meters behind the first-line position in Nanguan, and then the second line of defense was reorganized. Once there is a problem in the first line of defense, the troops of the second line of defense will immediately make up for it, and once the first line of defense is lost, all the troops can withdraw to the second line of defense and continue to fight.

The 275th Brigade Headquarters and the First Regiment Headquarters, Wang Tao was nervously watching the battle outside, since the morning the Japanese army has carried out four charges on the Nanguan position, and all of them are at the brigade level, although the headquarters repelled the attacks of the Japanese puppet army again and again, but the casualties are extremely heavy.

The three main battalions of the 1st Regiment have been reduced by a third, all three battalion commanders have been wounded, and the 2nd battalion commander has been withdrawn into the city. In addition, 17 company commanders on the front-line positions were killed and wounded 3 and 6, and the platoon commander and squad leader were killed and wounded innumerable. And Wang Tao saw all this in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, if this battle continued to be fought like this, his two main regiments would probably all be explained here today.

According to incomplete statistics, the 275 Brigade has been attrition by at least one-third in the battles of the past few days, and this is not counting today's battle.

What's more, early in the morning today, Wang Tao felt that the Japanese puppet army on the opposite side seemed to be crazy, and every attack seemed to be with the determination to die. Thinking of the telegram sent by the commander before, Wang Tao suddenly understood that the Japanese army was jumping over the wall in a hurry.

"Report, the forward troops of the Japanese army have been assembled again, and the scale has reached an unprecedented wing level, and the commander of a regiment requests to use secret weapons!"

After hearing the report of the operational staff officer, Wang Tao was silent. In fact, the so-called secret weapon in the mouth of the commander of the first regiment is the antiaircraft machine gun equipped by the air defense battalion of the Suicha Military Region; to be honest, the antiaircraft machine gun is a luxury, and all the antiaircraft machine guns of the more than 100,000 troops of the Suicha Military Region add up to more than 50, of which 38 were dismantled from the Japanese fleet, and the remaining 20 or so were captured by the Japanese army.

And these anti-aircraft machine guns were uniformly equipped by the military district headquarters into two air defense battalions to deal with the Japanese air raids. Originally, the air defense battalions were mainly deployed in Guisui and Jining, but because Xinghe was in the county with the highest frequency of Japanese bombing for a long time, Ma Zheng deliberately transferred one of the air defense battalions to Xinghe.

When the Japanese army was besieging the city, Yang Chengwu deliberately asked the air defense battalion to withdraw from the city, after all, these anti-aircraft machine guns were too precious, and it was extremely difficult to replenish them once they were defeated by the Japanese army.

Yang Chengwu was later transferred to the Suicha Military Region, and he did not know that this anti-aircraft machine gun could not only fight planes, but in fact it was more effective in fighting tanks and infantry, so he strongly requested that the air defense battalion be left in Xinghe City.

However, there is only one air defense battalion, and Wang Tao feels that good steel should be used on the blade, so he has been letting this battalion sit on the cold bench in the back a few days ago. Wang Tao always felt that it was really necessary to use the air defense battalion as a last resort, and exposing the air defense battalion too early would not only bring huge casualties to this unit, but also fail to achieve a surprising combat effect.

Wang Tao knew this truth, and Lin Zhijian, the commander of the first regiment, also knew this truth, so no matter how hard he fought a few days ago, he did not ask for the use of the air defense battalion. However, the situation is obviously different from the past, and in the past, the Japanese attack was often on the scale of a squadron, and the maximum was not more than one brigade.

But now one wing was dispatched to attack at one time, which was unprecedented, which showed that the Japanese commander on the opposite side had received a death order from his superiors and decided to press all the chips in his hand.

After pondering for a while, Wang Tao said in a deep voice: "It seems that the little devil is ready to fight hard, then pull the air defense battalion up, success or failure is here!" Tell Xue Dabiao, let him give Lao Tzu a good beating, there will be a reward for playing well, a pound of stuffy donkeys, if you can't beat it, you will see you! ”

"Yes!"

After receiving a call from the brigade headquarters, Xue Dabiao, commander of the air defense battalion, immediately ordered the headquarters to immediately enter the positions that had been built in advance, then adjust the firing range, and wait for the Japanese troops to send them to the door.

Since the anti-aircraft machine guns had a far range above ordinary machine guns, the position of the anti-aircraft battalion was not on the first line, but on a gentle slope between the first line of defense and the second line of defense. From here, not only can you easily see the attack area of the Japanese puppet army below, but it also does not affect the defense of a regiment, and the shooting conditions are very good.

The 28 anti-aircraft machine guns of the anti-aircraft battalion had long been delivered to the positions, covered with camouflage nets all the time. As soon as the fighters were stationed in their positions, they removed all their camouflage and began to install ammunition and adjust their equipment, so that as soon as the Japanese appeared within their limited range, they would inevitably have no return. (To be continued.) )