Chapter 47: Hellfire
Even without the help of flares, snipers can easily find those hidden firing points placed by the Japanese in the inner circle of the position, and the gun flame is the best target guidance. A salvo of more than a dozen snipers, the Japanese machine guns that kept spitting out the rain of bullets were dumb several times, and the snipers' accurate shooting skills were fully apparent at this time, and with the number of times the snipers changed the magazines, there was a leak in the firepower network in the inner circle of the dense Japanese position, and there was more than one place.
"Let's go, let's go, let's withdraw to the next trench" You went back and forth for a while, none of the Japanese officers were gone, and their mortars were not fired, and Zhao Zhi, who felt a little bored, gave the order to retreat. According to the route that had been set long ago, at the moment when the flare was silenced, Zhao Zhi and the gathered mercenaries took the opportunity to retreat to the second trench, and the tide-like Japanese puppet army chased over and poured into the trench that Zhao Zhi and they let out.
Just when the Japanese army wondered why the opponent suddenly retreated, a majestic shout suddenly sounded in the trench 20 meters away, and with that shout, dozens of grenades flew over. The night was dark, but the bonfire that Zhao Zhi lit when they retreated made it convenient for the mercenaries to throw grenades, "Nani? "The steel helmets of the Japanese soldiers smashed by the grenades that fell into the trenches in mid-air clanked, and this trench was only 100 meters full of people, even if some Japanese soldiers found out that it was a grenade that smashed their heads, only a very small number of people got into the anti-artillery holes, and many more people did not have time to find suitable concealment.
The American-style grenade that fell into the third trench exploded, and the sky-high flames rose from the trench, and the flames were mixed with fragments of dirt and corpses, and the explosion pushed dozens of Imperial Allied soldiers who rushed from the inner circle of the position backwards. In the firelight, the Japanese puppet soldiers with rifles poured towards the rats that came out of the holes, and their density was such that even a person who touched a gun for the first time could hit the target with his eyes closed.
The elite defeated mediocrity, the planned victory over the unorganized, and the mercenaries played their true colors of being cheap and not taking advantage of the bastards, and after the first round of grenades caused great casualties to the Japanese puppet army, they continued to throw another round of grenades. The effect of this round of grenades was unexpectedly good, and the Japanese soldiers who had escaped the first round of grenade bombardment were again enveloped in flames, and almost at the same time as the explosions stopped, the wails of the Japanese soldiers came from the third trench full of blood and gunsmoke, "Kobayashi Shaozo has been blown up"
At this time, the Japanese army completely lost its mind, and the death of the commander was the greatest shame of a Japanese army, because the Japanese army used the surname of the commander as the daily number of the unit, and after the death of the commander, this unit could only be reorganized or revoked from the shame of the number. Zhao Zhi heard the howl of the Japanese army, and at first he didn't understand what was happening, but with a burst of crying and the Japanese army's crazy wolf-like attack, Zhao Zhi finally figured out what was going on.
"Retreat immediately, don't fall in love with war" Looking at the Japanese troops rushing over densely, Zhao Zhi gave the order to retreat, and the mercenaries who hastily fired a few shots immediately retreated in an orderly manner. But the third trench filled with the flames of war began to sound the wail of the Japanese army: "Kobayashi Shaoza is dead!" We want to avenge Kobayashi Shaoza" Zhao Zhi regretted while listening to the wails of the Japanese army, regretting that he should not have transferred the machine gun to the periphery of the position earlier, this dense Japanese charge formation, as long as there are two machine guns in his hand, Zhao Zhi can kill more than 100 Japanese soldiers here.
Groups of Japanese soldiers simply ignored the bullets fired by the mercenaries, and swarmed in the direction of Zhao Zhi's retreat, the sound of American-made guns made the purpose of the Japanese army more clear, and the Japanese soldiers of the entire defense line were like sharks smelling blood, rushing forward and rushing to the defensive line that Zhao Zhi had no choice but to lay. "Keep the fire contact, the whole squad slowly retreats, alternate cover, can't let the Japanese stick to us" Under the urgency of the situation, Zhao Zhi didn't care about the rules he had set and began to order loudly.
There were too many Japanese troops who were eager for revenge, but fortunately, the firing rate of Thomson's submachine gun and Garand rifle was several times that of the Japanese army's Type 38 rifle, but even so, the Japanese army that had the advantage of numbers and was eager for revenge actually forced Zhao Zhi and them to retreat two trenches in a row, and when Zhao Zhi and the Japanese army that pursued them completely separated, Zhao Zhi and nearly 100 of them were actually pushed out of the outer positions by the Japanese army. In just ten minutes of firefighting, Zhao Zhi and the others suffered more than a dozen casualties, but fortunately, the mercenaries' skills were not bad, among the dozen people who were shot, only one died on the spot, and the others were all minor and serious injuries.
After "snapping" and separating from the Japanese army, Zhao Zhi snatched a sniper rifle from the sniper next to him, glanced at the Japanese army's position with a scope, and then pulled out the signal gun on his waist and shot a red signal flare into the sky. The signal flare that rose in mid-air triggered a new round of Japanese attack, and the dense bullets shot at the place where Zhao Zhi and them were lying down, and the crisp sound of gunfire when the Japanese 38 rifle was fired became a scene. Thanks to Zhao Zhi, when they came to touch the camp, they dug a shallow ditch here, otherwise this level of barrage would be enough to send Zhao Zhi and the mercenaries around him to hell.
"Open the cannon, open the cannon immediately" Seeing the red signal flare in the air, Xiao Ziyun, who had been waiting for the signal in the rear, shouted at the top of his voice, and the task given to him in Zhao Zhixin's plan was to immediately order the artillery team to fire the cannon according to the established coordinates after seeing the red signal flare. When Bob bombarded the Japanese ammunition reserve point with the 92 rifle gun in the afternoon, the mortar crews under Zhao Zhi also took advantage of the fire to loot a few shots, and took advantage of the good sight during the day, the mortar gunners marked the positions of several Japanese trenches, and the red signal flare meant to ask the mortar salvo to fire at the open land before and after the third trench on the periphery of the Japanese army.
A white smoke rose from the mortar positions of the "Tong", "Tong", and "Tong", and the mortar shells that rose from the barrels flew to the Japanese positions 600 meters away, and the dazzling flames rose from the "boom" and "boom" and "boom" Japanese positions, and Zhao Zhi's scope could clearly see the Japanese troops twitching in the fireball. "Conceal, fast forward trench concealment" The mortar shells fired by the Jewish gunners just intercepted the Japanese puppet troops who rushed over into two sections, and those close to the inner circle of the position retreated, and the artillery on this side only jumped into the second trench and rushed towards the first trench.
Holding their own weapons, leaning down and running wildly with their heads buried, in the deafening explosion, the Japanese troops who were intercepted by artillery fire into the outer defense line could only hide in the first trench as much as possible. Although this is the outermost trench of the forward position, it is far enough away from the landing point of the enemy's artillery bombardment, and the shrapnel from the mortar explosion cannot hit the first trench 50 meters away. The ghost who had long been awakened by the explosion was crouching in his headquarters at this time, looking through the observation window of the headquarters at the position ahead.
The headquarters covered with logs and the rear soil layer should be the safest place, it is estimated that even 75 mountain artillery can't beat here, and the ghost ghost has just sent another Shaozuo squadron leader from the command headquarters, because the previous Kobayashi Shaozo, who was responsible for pursuing the enemy, has been killed, and the soldiers on the forward position cannot be leaderless, only a planned and organized defense can defeat the enemy, otherwise tonight will be the day when all the jade of their ghost and underworld brigade will be broken.
"Your Excellency Nakasa, the enemy's artillery fire is very accurate and fierce, and our troops attacking the outer line have been intercepted in half by artillery fire, I ask for artillery support, at least one round with artillery fire, and give my squadron some time to rush over" A staggering footstep came into the headquarters of the ghost near the country, and Shao Zuo, who had just been sent to the front by him, came back. The open field between the third and fourth trenches was a hell of death, and his soldiers were desperately trying to rush through, but the corpses and stumps on the ground had completely covered the soldiers' path, and each burst of shells would take the lives of several soldiers.
"Bang" Before the ghost could answer, a green signal flare rose in mid-air, and the shelling that was still roaring just now suddenly stopped strangely, except for the groans of a few wounded soldiers and the whirring of flames on the lonely position, all of them poked their heads out suspiciously to look at the darkness in front of the position. "Boom" A mortar shell exploded on the Japanese position, and in the open space between the second and third trenches, "hidden, hidden, enemy artillery fire moved forward" Experienced Japanese veterans looked at the landing point of the shell and shouted at the top of their throats.
The landing point of this shell is only 30 meters closer than the artillery bombardment just now, with the shouting of the Japanese veterans, the Japanese puppet soldiers crowded in the second trench began to rush to the outermost first trench, and the selfish guy drilled into the anti-artillery hole in the first trench early, everyone knows that the shell just now is just a test shot, it is used for calibration, and the next moment there may be dozens of shells to be hit, and the safest place at present is the anti-artillery hole.
"Nani?" Drilling into the anti-artillery hole, a guy felt as if his feet were hung by something, but before he could figure out what was hanging on his feet, a huge ball of fire came out from under his feet. "Boom" "Boom" Several fires came out of the first trench, and then there was a series of rumbling explosions, as if the sky-high flames that came out of hell engulfed the entire trench, and the scorching flames were not only mixed with the heart-rending screams of the Japanese puppet army, but also mixed with a smell of meat, even Zhao Zhi, who was dozens of meters away from the trench, smelled it.