Chapter 21: Ambush (5)

The Japanese second lieutenant who was commanding the mortar hissed and waved his command knife, and after a few soft sounds of "tong", "tong", "tong", "tong", the artillery position of the Japanese Kawada Brigade rose up from the smoke produced when several regiments of artillery were discharged, and a few seconds later, the blocking position of the 1st company on the opposite side "rumbled" into a piece, and a large cloud of smoke mixed with splashing earth spread out. After the continuous use of pig assault tactics to no avail, Kawada ordered his mortar team to bombard the opposite blocking position, and a group of Japanese soldiers who were forced to assault were slowly crawling against the ground with the help of artillery fire.

Allen, the commander of the 1st Company, was a professional soldier who had served in the Polish army, and it happened that the army he was in was a field regiment, and he couldn't be more familiar with the Japanese artillery fire to cover the infantry assault. "Tell the artillery, three rounds of rapid fire, you must kill the mortars of the Japanese army on the opposite side" Counting the mortars transported by trucks, Allen has a total of 18 American-made 100mm mortars and 6 Japanese-style 60 caliber mortars, the reason why Allen has not let his artillery start is that he wants the Japanese to open fire first, if you want to block the Japanese army here and defeat them, it is extremely important to defeat the Japanese army's long-range firepower.

Strong firepower strike has always been the most important thing for Thunder, with the arrival of the ordnance aided by the United States in Zhangwu County, there are also a large number of senior sergeants from the U.S. Army who came to the Thunder Advance Base, although these people may not be as capable of fighting individually as the senior mercenaries under Zhao Zhi, but these sergeants are familiar with American equipment and firearms, especially in artillery attacks and infantry artillery coordination, these U.S. sergeants can be called masters. Naturally, the Jewish artillerymen, who had been trained day and night by the sergeants, were no better than their own families.

The mortars under Allen began to return fire, a puff of smoke rose, and the dense mortar shells like raindrops drowned the Japanese mortar positions in them, and before the explosion disappeared, two rounds of shells hit the 1st Company. "1 platoon left flank, 2 platoon right flank, heavy machine gun fire" The Japanese artillery fire finally died down, and Allen urgently ordered his soldiers to fire back and suppress the Japanese troops who touched it. Bullets rained down again from the trenches of the 1st Company, and under the heavy gunners' fire that was not at all consumed, the Japanese troops who had climbed against the ground were crushed in the open field.

"Tell the 3rd platoon, start whack-a-mole" Looking at the Japanese soldiers who were suppressed in front of the position by machine guns, Allen's face showed a strange smile, whack-a-mole was the first term to come out of the mercenaries. As soon as it was decided to start the construction of an airport in Zhangwu County, Zhao Zhi ordered his mercenaries to attack everywhere with a small group of Jewish troops, and the captured Japanese-style weapons were filled with a warehouse in Qinglongping, and with the expansion of the scope of mercenary attacks, more and more Japanese-style equipment and weapons were captured.

Later, in order to reduce casualties, the mercenaries' means of suppressing the Japanese army with strong firepower, and then using portable grenadiers to eat the Japanese troops suppressed by firepower little by little, Zhao Zhi jokingly called the mercenary's combat mode whack-a-mole, and over time, the new term whack-a-mole was accepted by everyone, Allen called people to fight whack-a-mole at this time, just to use the Japanese-style grenadier sent by the truck to kill the Japanese army who was suppressed in front of the position.

The three platoons, who had been squatting in the trenches, took the bloodstained grenadiers and ammunition from the quartermaster's hands, and each found a suitable position for grenadier bombardment. The Jewish Legion was a unit formed by Zhao Zhi to respond to the German army against the Soviets, but they first had to face the Japanese army in China, so in their daily training after arriving in Zhangwu County, the skilled use of Japanese equipment and firearms accounted for a large proportion, so the Japanese grenadier was no stranger to them.

"Left, a little more left, Depley, you missed again" The little man Murray was lying in the trench with two Japanese-style grenades, and kept nagging about Depley, who was bombarding the Japanese army with a grenadier, and the number of Japanese-style grenadiers captured from Xiangtangpu was insufficient, and the Jewish soldiers in the 3rd platoon could only take turns to play whack-a-mole, but the number of Japanese-style grenades captured was very large, which was enough for the 3rd row of these ratcatchers to fight whack-a-mole.

"Eight Grids, these hateful fellows, are the warriors of our empire rats?" Maybe it's because of the gods and ghosts like the heart of the rhino, Kawada actually thought of the mouse as well, but his heart was angry and Allen's heart was more happy. The Japanese troops who were suppressed in front of the position by machine guns were extremely miserable, and the order to retreat on Kawada's side had been issued, but not to mention that the retreat was not enough to raise a gun to shoot, and the artillery of Kawada's brigade was knocked out by Allen's side, and the Japanese troops who came out to attack had lost their long-range fire support, and they were now in a dilemma, and they could only let Allen eat them little by little.

The blocking attack was so easy, this is something that Alan didn't expect, he originally thought that the number of Japanese reinforcements in Dongyang Pass was the majority, and his 1st company only had 300 people, in order to block these Japanese troops who rushed to reinforce the army, Allen thought of everything he could think of, but who would have thought that it would be such a situation now. Like Allen, Kawada on the other side is also resentful, once upon a time, the Japanese squad-level troops were chasing and fighting the troops at the level of the Chinese military camp company, why is the situation so reversed now?

Kawada was an officer with great battlefield experience, and the temporary defeat was only caused by the strong firepower of the 1st Company, and after losing nearly half of the squadron's strength and all the artillery, Kawada made a temporary adjustment of troops. Kawada sent a squadron of soldiers from both flanks to outflank Allen and them, and gathered the remaining squadron to feint from the middle to attract the opponent's firepower, all the light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers were concentrated together, and Kawada was placed in the middle as assault fire, and this is Kawada's tactics after adjustment.

The forces of the flanks and the forces of the feint attack in the middle are both one squadron, and if the opponent's firepower and attention are really attracted by the squadron of the feint in the middle, then the Japanese squadron outflanking from both flanks will become a killer move. If the feint in the middle goes well, then Kawada's forces on both flanks will take the initiative to attack and divert the opponent's attention, and at this time, Kawada's light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers in the middle will take the opportunity to fire with all their might, turning the feint in the middle into a strong attack, and taking advantage of the opponent's surprise to attack the opponent's position in one fell swoop. Kawada believed that the assassination techniques of the Imperial soldiers were unmatched and irresistible to the Shina people.

As the old saying goes, imagination is beautiful, reality is cruel, as soon as the troops outflanked by the two wings of Kawada set off, they were discovered by the observation posts arranged by Allen on both wings, in order to explore the deployment of the Japanese army, Allen rushed to Majiawa, and arranged a number of observation posts within a radius of several miles, naturally including the two wings of the 1st Company position. "Transfer 5 heavy machine guns to the two platoons arranged on both flanks and block them, I think the main force of the Japanese monkeys will still be placed in the middle lane" Allen still remembers what Zhao Zhi personally ordered before leaving, so as not to respond to all changes, no matter how cunning the Japanese army on the opposite side is, as long as the heavy machine gun in his hand still has bullets, the Japanese army will not be able to pass.

The combat method of strong firepower suppression has been ingrained in Allen's heart, especially his own husband also sent so many heavy machine guns and ammunition from Xiangtangpu in a timely manner, when this long-distance attack, Allen They have been made extremely big by these heavy machine guns and excess ammunition, and Allen, who hates these stupid guys, will never want to carry those spare bullets back to Zhangwu County again, so it is the right thing to consume bullets as much as possible.

"Kill to give" Allen's side waited and watched, the fire of the heavy machine gun gradually weakened, Kawada urgently ordered his squadron as a feint to attack immediately, dozens of shirtless Japanese soldiers carrying explosives bags shouted under the cover of machine gun fire and shouted that Wan Zai began to charge. Of course, these Japanese soldiers carrying explosive bags were not dead soldiers, but Kawada's powerful grenadiers, whose task was to find the right time to throw the explosives into the opposite position with the help of their companions and the cover of rear fire.

"These crazy Japanese monkeys, can they beat us if they strip naked?" Looking at the bare-chested Japanese soldiers in the telescope, the corners of Allen's mouth turned up high and showed a sneer. The Kawada Brigade had not rushed into the range of 50 meters from the 1st Company's trenches in the previous few advances, and when the cunning Allen was digging trenches, in order to strengthen the defense of the position, he collected some of the American-style grenades carried by his soldiers, and according to the method taught by the mercenary instructors in the training camp, the mines were planted within 30 to 50 meters in front of the position.

"Heavy machine guns stop firing, grenadier mortars fire to suppress the Japanese army, without my order, no riflemen are allowed to show their heads at will to fire, put them in and fight" The accurate shooting of the Japanese veterans left a deep impact on Allen, seeing that the Japanese troops on the opposite side had no way to take their positions, most of these soldiers who came to block with themselves were just young people who were not married, and Allen would not be stupid enough to let his subordinates fight with their lives.

The ceasefire of the heavy machine guns on Allen's side gave the Japanese squadron that was serving as a feint a glimmer of victory, and the Japanese troops outflanked from both flanks also exposed their positions in advance to attract Allen's attention. The intention of one side and the inevitable victory of the other side made the battle situation on the battlefield appear a strange scene, the Japanese troops who rushed to the tiger shouted in unison to launch a strong charge, but the opponent only used mortars and grenadiers to suppress the fire, seeing that the Japanese army had rushed to within 100 meters of the position of the 1st company, the other side only began to suppress the fire with rifles, and the heavy machine guns that had been spitting out bullets were dumb.