Chapter Forty-Nine: Layers of Resistance
"Get on the horse" Zhao Zhi, who was riding on horseback, couldn't help but say that he dragged the woman onto the horse, and Yu Dazhi and the others also pulled the remaining guerrillas on the horseback, and the Japanese soldiers on the top of the mountain had already rushed down the hillside, and they couldn't go away if they didn't go. The guerrillas who were dragged on horseback saw that their female captain was silent, so they all shut their mouths, and while the Japanese encirclement was not yet completed, Zhao Zhi and they rode their horses along the route that had been selected long ago and galloped towards Zhangwu County.
Zhao Zhi and the others escaped smoothly, but Takeda Dingsan, who was standing on the bank of the river, vomited blood, and the heavy weapon formation he brought out from Yuncheng was almost lost, and the strongest brigade he specially transferred to protect the heavy weapons also suffered heavy casualties. In other words, his 225th Infantry Wing had already lost most of its heavy weapons and nearly 30% of its strength before it reached its destination. Looking at the tragedy on the other side of the riverbank, Takeda Dingzo's lips trembled, the heavy weapons formation that was still standing on the tidal flats just now had become a mess and bloody at this time, huge craters were scattered on the tidal flats one after another, while Takeda Dingzo's mountain artillery and infantry artillery were twisted and scattered everywhere.
"Report to Dazuo, the attackers escaped, but they seem to have two groups of people" Shaozuo, who came back to report the pursuit, recalled with some uncertainty what he had just seen on the slope. "A group of well-armed attackers ran out of a trench, looking at the generator they left behind, it should be the national army, and a group of people with poor equipment, it should be Tubalu, but the direction they fled was Zhangwu County"
"Yaga" Takeda Ding held the command knife and slashed at the air a few times with a hideous face, as if those attackers were right in front of him, "Order the Kawasaki Brigade to stay in the aftermath, and the other troops will immediately assemble and rush to Zhangwu County, I want to wash Zhangwu County in blood and pray for the imperial soldiers who broke the jade" After the panic, the Japanese army quickly assembled under the command of the officers and marched rapidly in the direction of Zhangwu County. Most of the people who died in the explosion just now were their fellow villagers, so these Japanese soldiers were holding back the fire in their hearts, and now there was the commander's order to slaughter the city, and the Japanese soldiers in the queue were red-eyed and looking forward to killing Zhangwu County as soon as possible.
"Head, the scout in front has sent a message that the vanguard of the Japanese army is coming" Kessler, with his majestic build, was lying on his back in the bunker basking in the sun, and one of his machine guns and ammunition men in charge of walkie-talkies crawled down the shallow ditch. Kessler, who was armed with a machine gun, was temporarily transferred from Zhangwu County after Zhao Zhi learned that there was a brigade of Japanese soldiers in front of the 225th Wing as search spearheads, and they chose to dig holes and hide underground in the same way as Zhao Zhi. Kessler naturally knew how many people there were in a Japanese brigade, so he put the machine guns he brought from Zhangwu County and set up several lines of defense along the route of the Japanese army, and waited for the Japanese search team to be the leader to throw himself into the net.
The big explosion on the other side of the rocky beach, how could the Japanese brigade, which was only a dozen miles away from the search mission, not hear it, if nothing else, the infantry wing that was crossing the bridge behind should have been attacked. The Japanese brigade that was frightened by the attack also slowed down, for fear that it would also be attacked, but it couldn't always be grinding foreign workers on the road, and after contacting the infantry wing by radio, the search team resumed its marching speed and went straight to Zhangwu County. It's just that they don't know that there are dozens of fierce gods hidden in front of them, and they are waiting for them to go over and die with loaded machine guns.
"Fire, fire" Kessler uncharacteristically saw that the Japanese army entered the firing range and ordered to fire, and the non-stop spraying gunfire shot the Japanese soldiers to their heart's content, but the good times did not last long, Kessler watched the machine gunners replace the third magazine, and hurriedly beckoned the machine gunners to retreat. Although the confused machine gunners secretly cursed a few words, they still withdrew according to Kessler's command, carrying their machine guns and ammunition. Sure enough, Kessler had just withdrawn from their positions when the grenadiers and mortar shells of the Japanese search team fell down, and the machine gunners realized that Kessler had ordered them to retreat for fear of retaliatory fire from the Japanese.
Hearing the sound of shooting from the opposite side, they stopped, and the Japanese soldiers lying on the ground all looked up, and just saw Kessler and them retreating through the smoke of gunpowder. Seeing this, the Japanese soldiers who did not know the depth chased after them, but the distance between Kessler and them remained at more than 150 meters, and such a distance could not kill even the rifle bullets fired by the veteran soldiers of the Japanese army. "Da Da" Several firing points suddenly appeared on the mountainous area of the flat river, and the water-like bullets poured in, knocking down the Japanese troops who were rushing to pursue Kessler, and before the Japanese grenadiers could shoot grenades, the fire points in the flash fire suddenly disappeared again.
Seen from mid-air, the avenue leading to Zhangwu County was full of retreating machine gunners and reluctantly pursuing Japanese troops, and whenever the Japanese soldiers desperately shortened the distance between them, they would always shoot machine gun fire at them from nearby, and before the Japanese troops could react, those machine gun firepower suddenly disappeared. For a full hour, the Japanese search team had traveled no more than two miles, and more than 30 percent of the soldiers were killed and wounded by the enemy's machine guns.
Kessler's hand is called layer by layer blocking, which was taught to them by Zhao Zhi when he was in the training camp of Geyue Mountain, this kind of combat method can only be used when occupying a favorable terrain in mountain warfare, and it must also have strong fire support, if it were not for Kessler's hands as many as 30 light and heavy machine guns, he would not dare to disperse his forces to resist the Japanese army in this way. Kessler used machine guns to carry the Japanese army layer by layer, not to use the terrain to weaken the Japanese army's strength, but to use such a tactic to provoke the Japanese army and lure the Japanese army to chase after him, only in this way can Kessler lead the Japanese army into the ambush circle he set up for them, and all the heavy machine guns in Kessler's hand are waiting on the slope in front.
The Japanese soldiers, who were still unaware of it, fell behind Kessler and were chasing after them, but suddenly they heard a terrible whistle on the slope in front of them, and the turf on the slope was lifted in an arc, and more than a dozen muzzles of guns in the black hole were emerging from the arc. Kessler tried his best to ambush the Japanese army's search team, and if the machine guns were too much, they would scare away the Japanese soldiers, and if there were too many machine guns, there would be danger to the machine gunners under him, so Kessler remembered what Zhao Zhi had said about the layers of blocking, so he concentrated all the heavy machine guns on the last line of defense, and used strong firepower to defeat the Japanese army here at one time.