Chapter 125: The Battle of Xiangtangpu (4)
A few minutes after the order was given, a loud charge horn sounded in front of the headquarters. The sound of the trumpet was the order, and the elite battalions assembled on the various hills rushed down the hill under the cover of heavy machine guns and mortars. The whole formation is like an arrow, and the tip is pointing straight at the road.
Liu Hua stood at the command headquarters, looking at the road where Xiangtangpu was located, countless arrows along the way were advancing rapidly under the dense fire of light machine guns, although every step forward, the soldiers had to pay a certain price. But none of the fighters stopped for fear of casualties. Every living soldier turned the grief of the sacrifice of his comrades into hatred for the devil, the machine gunner in front fell, and the soldier in the back picked up the light machine gun and continued to charge......
Morita Nakasa was stunned to look at the squadron that rushed down from the top of the mountain, under the fierce fire of nine light machine guns, the Yue army under the mountain was completely pressed and could not raise its head, only a few machine guns, a few rifles to provide the Yue army with this limited fire suppression, of course, these limited firepower, at most, can only cause painless casualties to the charging Chinese soldiers.
"Baga, shrink your position immediately, shrink your position quickly, block the charge of the Chinese army, fast, shoot, shoot." Morita slashed the timid clerk next to him with a knife, and shouted loudly at the army next to him. The devils who got the order, seeing the bloody corpses of the soldiers next to them, had to start fighting back under the threat of their respective squad leaders, and the formation of the soldiers' charge was suddenly disrupted, and more than a dozen soldiers fell in a pool of blood.
Seeing the enemy's fierce fire, the battalion commander shouted loudly, "Communicator, call headquarters, ask for artillery support, quickly." Looking at the soldiers who kept getting shot, the battalion commander shouted eagerly.
Since the Reading Brigade had captured a large number of radio stations, in order to facilitate communication on the battlefield, almost every main attack battalion was equipped with a radio station for calling for artillery support. Soon, the artillery observers, who followed behind the charge formation of the 2nd Battalion, reported the coordinates of the shelling to the artillery battalion, and in less than a minute the sky remembered a whistling sound.
"Boom, boom, boom" six shells fell on the devil's position, and suddenly, a rain of blood was set off, and the position that the devil had managed to organize was blown up at once.
"Keep charging." Seeing that the devil's position was blown up by artillery shells, the battalion commander immediately seized the opportunity and continued to launch a fierce charge.
Hearing the order, the fighters jumped to their feet and continued to charge. The nine light machine guns, which had just been re-magazined, once again swept towards the devil's position with a dense rain of bullets.
"Baga, immediately shrink your defenses and seize the high ground." Seeing the chaotic formation, Morita immediately shouted and shouted when he saw the middle [***] team not far away, and moved to a high ground next to him with the guards, and the rest of the Japanese army followed, fighting back while transferring.
Soon, the second battalion rushed to the front of the position that the enemy had just occupied, and with the continuous explosion of grenades on the enemy's position, the fighters roared and rushed to the position where there were no devils, and the battalion commander soon discovered the high ground where the devils were sticking.
"Comrades, the devil has escaped, rush with me!" As he spoke, he took the lead in rushing towards the devil's follow-up troops, and a rain of bullets hit the ground in front of the battalion commander, and several soldiers couldn't dodge and were shot again.
"The commander of the first company led the troops to outflank the left flank, the commander of the second company outflanked the right, and the third company and I carried out a feint attack on the front, attracting the enemy's firepower, and sending a report to the headquarters asking for artillery support." The commander of the second battalion quickly gave the battle order.
The two company commanders who received the order led their troops to the two flanks, and the third company continued to charge under the leadership of the company commander. However, under the order of the battalion commander, as soon as he came into contact with the devil, he immediately retreated, causing no casualties at all, but he successfully attracted most of the devil's firepower and provided a favorable opportunity for the outflanking two companies.
Captain Morita lay behind a big rock and carefully observed the Chinese soldiers in front of the position, at this time the devils trapped on this hill had a total of two squadrons of troops, almost all of them were elite imperial troops drawn from the front line, but there were too few heavy weapons, if only in the face of the charge of the Chinese infantry, Morita believed that with the ammunition in his hand, it would definitely not be a problem to hold on to this hill for a day, but he was afraid that the [***] team would open the way with artillery fire
However, he was afraid of what would come, and the artillery battalion that received the report from the second battalion commander for help immediately transferred a thunderbolt and a mortar platoon. "Platoon Commander Wang, immediately build an artillery position. Especially the thunder, let the devils taste the power of the artillery made by our Eighth Route Army. The battalion commander excitedly ordered the artillery platoon commander next to him.
"Okay, battalion commander, I promise, if you go down, the devils on the mountain will reimburse you half." Platoon Commander Wang also replied with a smile, and at the same time, the commanders and soldiers began to plant the thunder, and soon, a round explosive bag was put into the barrel. The non-artillery crews next to them hurriedly retreated.
"Ready, launch." The king shouted loudly, and a spark slowly moved towards the barrel. "Boom" The doctor ran and rang out, and the explosive bag was thrown high out of the gasoline barrel and flew towards the devil's position.
Morita requisitioned the telescope on the devil's position to observe the position of the second battalion from a distance, and saw that some soldiers had a gasoline drum placed on the position, and was puzzled.
"Nani" Morita has been given a bag of dynamite looking at the sky, getting closer and closer, closer and closer. Before the "Yaga, explosive pack" was finished, the explosive bag fell less than ten meters away from Morita "boom" An explosion sounded on the devil's position, and the entire position immediately shook, and even the soldiers far behind the position felt the shaking of the earth.
With the explosion of the explosive pack, Morita was suddenly shocked to sleep by the powerful shock wave, never to wake up again. In the entire devil's position, there was hardly a living person at a distance of 30 meters from the center of the explosion, and the army who was not affected in the distance was stunned to see the explosion in front of them, and even some people immediately knelt on the ground and prayed for the blessing of Amaterasu, but unfortunately, the artillery did not give them a chance.
"Quick, continue to load, retreat and ignite" Thunder roared again, and another shell landed on the devil's position, taking away the lives of dozens of devils again Soon, Thunder fired the 5 shells he brought.
"Comrades, rush, avenge the sacrificed comrades." Seeing the silent devil's position, the second battalion commander shouted loudly, and launched the final reunion with the triple to the devil's position, and the one, two, and two companies that got the order also launched a charge, and there were only a few sparse gunshots along the way, and the soldiers quickly rushed to the devil's position, but what came into view was not the extremely vicious devil soldiers, but countless devil corpses of various shapes, only a few devils were injured and fought back with the broken rifles in their hands, and they were quickly cleaned up by the soldiers.
"Clean up the battlefield." The battalion commander recovered from the shock and immediately ordered.
In this way, the strength of a squadron of devils was wiped out under the blow of five shells from the thunder, and almost no troops were expended.
Such a scene took place in every position of Xiangtangpu. Once again, an hour passed, and the gunfire on the battlefield slowly stopped, and the entire ambush battle lasted a full two and a half hours from beginning to end.
Liu Hua stood at the command headquarters and observed the entire battlefield. The development of the form was beyond his expectations, but he didn't expect that with the help of Zi Bang Tianlei, the battle went on so quickly, and more than 2,000 devils were eliminated by himself in this way.
"Order the soldiers to quickly clean up the battlefield, and take away all the enemy's broken weapons, we must implement our three-light policy, and don't leave a single bullet casing to the devil." After speaking, he put down the binoculars and walked towards the battlefield down the mountain, where there were soldiers cleaning the battlefield everywhere, some collecting ammunition from the devils, and some picking up scattered bullets on the ground, and cleaning the battlefield in an orderly manner.
In the distance, several cars with their backs detonated were still burning, and the explosions occurred from time to time. And the whole highway is full of craters blown out by bombs, burning cars, cars blown over by shells, corpses of devils...... In the distance, dozens of fully loaded cars were parked on the highway in a row. Seeing this, Liu Hua couldn't help but have his eyes shining. "Let's go, go over and look at the devil's ammunition truck, and see if there's anything good!" Liu Hua said excitedly.
The ambush was over, but in the face of the delivery of piles of ammunition and materials, coupled with the transfer of troops, it still took several hours, and these hours needed to be fought for slowly by blocking troops.
Not long after the battle, the captain of the devil brigade sent a report to the North China headquarters of the Japanese army. Hearing the report, the entire headquarters was shaken, you know, these ammunition supplies are enough to supply tens of thousands of soldiers on the front line for a month, if they are destroyed, then there will be no ammunition replenishment on the front line......
Soon, a telegram was sent from the North China headquarters to the various strongholds around Xiangtangpu, asking each stronghold to draw as many troops as possible to rescue the trapped Senmu Brigade, and to ensure the safety of this batch...
Of course, even if the headquarters does not send telegrams, the enemies of Licheng and Dongyang Pass will be dispatched. Li Cheng is less than an hour and a half away from Xiangtangpu, and if you march quickly. At the beginning of the battle, the earth-shattering explosion was clearly heard in Li Cheng, not to mention the Dongyang Pass stronghold that was closer to Xiangtangpu.
(To be continued)