Chapter 213: The Difficulty of the Arrow Section 3 Dare to be called the third
Fortunately, the teaching brigade is no longer the student soldiers recruited by Lao Gao when he first came to the 11 th Division, and those student soldiers have long since graduated and left the company, and the current teaching brigade is worthy of the name for training and promoting grassroots cadres, and the cadets are all backbone elements selected and recommended from the army, and only those with excellent military and political qualities are qualified to enter the teaching brigade.
To put it bluntly, most of them are squad leaders or something, these are all veteran oilers! There are a total of three units in the 11th Division, from Yang Bangzi to the logistics organs, etc., all of which have been given the green light, the special training camp is one, Yang Bangzi's guard company is one, and then there is this teaching brigade, from weapons and equipment to daily supplies, it is all special treatment!
Special treatment is not for raising idlers, to be eligible for the best weapons and ammunition to feed, you have to have special skills, soldiers do not rely on gimmicks, you have to rely on the head of devils to show special treatment!
It is recognized that the first in combat effectiveness is the special training battalion, followed by the guard company, and in terms of who is the third, but there are different opinions, many people support the reconnaissance company, so they are all selected from the whole army for the technical and tactical elite, it can be said that it is more difficult to enter the reconnaissance company than into the special training camp, the last time the special combat team that fought devils, the reconnaissance company became famous in the first battle!
There are also some people who support the teaching brigade, but the teaching brigade doesn't look at the talent, but every time they fight, they can't take their turn, and it's useless to ask for battle, Yang Bangzi said, the teaching brigade is Lao Tzu's treasure, and it is the establishment of cadres who train and lead soldiers, can it be easily sent to the battlefield? Therefore, there is always a teaching brigade that has no actual combat record, and this third special treatment is a bit unjustifiable.
Teaching the real combat effectiveness of the brigade, the part-time captain of the senior deputy political commissar had no bottom in his heart before, but the guns and cannons in the west were together. So far this hour's time. Teach the performance of the brigade. It's really worthy of that special treatment! Dare to call the third, it's not blown out!
At that time, as soon as the devils broke through the position of the guerrilla brigade at the bend of the river bank on the west side, they immediately divided their troops into two routes, suppressing the mouth of the West Village with firepower all the way, and cooperating with the friendly forces attacking the high ground on the north side all the way, and attacking the eighth road on the mountain from the southern slope.
On the defense on the north hill were the soldiers of the first detachment of the teaching brigade, no more than one hundred and twenty people, the standard company establishment. The captain of the first detachment was the deputy company commander who was transferred from the first battalion, the old Red Army from Shaanxi, who was slow to be promoted only if he didn't know how to read, and this time it was Yang Bangzi who transferred him from the first battalion by name.
Don't look at the fact that you don't know many words, but there is a set of wars, just kidding. It's been more than seven years since I carried a gun and eaten food, and I'm familiar with those routines if I don't know how to fight anymore!
As soon as the fellow heard the shot on the bank down the hill. Squinting at the hundreds of devils who rushed across the river densely from the opposite bank, and hundreds of devils from the west side of the river on the west side of his position, he immediately understood that the devils wanted to seize the entrance of the village, and at the same time capture the commanding heights of Beishan control, so that not only would the people in the village be surrounded if they could not withdraw, but the comrades who were moving would also have to be suppressed on the narrow river bank by the long-range fire of the devils.
The captain of the first detachment in the village is not worried, the other two detachments are still in Zhuangzi, but he is worried that his Beishan position will be attacked from both sides, that is to say, if the devil who rushed across the West River in the south turns his head and attacks him, it will be a two-front battle, and his own hundred or so people are not easy to defend.
Without waiting for the devil to divide his troops, the captain of the first detachment first separated the three squads under his command, a squad guarding the frontal position in the west, there is a slope of almost sixty or seventy degrees, and the vertical height is nearly 100 meters, it is not so easy for the devil to come up, and throwing more grenades is enough for them to drink a pot.
The south side is a gentle slope, here is originally a crop land planted by the common people, the slope is more than a mile wide to the halfway up the mountainside, just on the side of the west position, the terrain is gentle, and there are many ridges that can be used as cover, it is not easy to defend, you should put more troops, and the captain of a sub-team only put a team, and it is not down to the terraces to defend, so it is placed in the middle of the mountainside.
He asked the deputy captain to direct the battle of the two squads, and he himself led the third squad and the machine gun team to retreat more than 500 meters to the east along the southern position, almost parallel to the entrance of the village, and then used the slope ridge as a cover, slid down the slope, followed the bushes at the foot of the mountain outside the village, and returned to the south position to lurk.
The devils' attack on the frontal position of Beishan really did not go well, and the terrain was unfavorable to determine that they had to climb a long steep slope to the top of the mountain before they could see the defenders' position, although this way the devils were different from the usual devils, not the kind of squad level cluster rush method behind the skirmish line, but the point attack of a group of five, but it was still very disadvantageous in this terrain.
The devil's support firepower, in addition to the artillery position on the other side of the river, heavy machine guns cannot be erected on the mountain with such a large slope, providing suppressive fire of about 500 meters, set up on the bank of the river, and it is too far away from the eight-way position halfway up the mountain to play a role, so the devils can only rely on artillery fire after the infantry, with the support of light machine guns and grenadiers.
And the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army on the mountain also found that this group of devils was very fierce, and the artillery bombardment had not stopped, so they began to jump in from the hidden place, several people in groups and several people, and as soon as the artillery fire under the mountain stopped, the light machine guns and grenadiers were already in place according to the division of the area!
At most, one or two shots were fired at each firing point on the mountain, and two or three light machine guns and grenadiers would immediately hit them with blockade fire, and as soon as the firing point was suppressed, one or two groups of devils immediately rushed forward more than 10 meters toward the mountain, and as soon as the guns rang out on the mountain, the soldiers of the devils who jumped forward immediately lay down or looked for cover, and the machine-gun fire began to suppress the firing point just now.
After a few rounds, the devils actually approached a place only seventy or eighty meters away from the main position halfway up the mountain! This time the devil's artillery attack is even more fierce, and it seems that after this artillery fire is prepared, the devil should launch the most rear-end charge!
However, the eight roads on the mountain are all veterans, so in this case, two preparations should be made, one is to put the bayonet on in advance, and the other is to have more grenades at hand.
At least ten grenades per person, as soon as the devil's shelling stopped, they were ready, the lid was unscrewed, the strings were pulled out, the bayonets were loaded, and everyone in the teaching brigade had two bayonets, one on the gun and the spare one on the waist.
Sure enough, when the artillery fire was used to attack, the devils on the hillside advanced more than ten meters, and this will also form a formation, still a group of five, five or six groups in a cone, at a glance, they are ready to forcibly break a gap, and then tear the formation of the entire defense line.
The devils' machine guns and grenadiers fired! The sand and gravel on the position hit by the bullets were flying wildly, lying behind the sand bags, and the grenadier hit almost never deviated from the direction, and all of them smashed on the position! The deputy captain carried a gun and told him back and forth along the trench, don't show your head! Don't shoot! Wait until the devils are thirty meters away and then greet them!
So far, the crooked light machine gun of the captured devil attached to this squad has not fired, and the squad leader has placed the machine gun on the far right side of the entire trench, that is, the northernmost part, there is a small depression here, which is almost the shooting dead angle of the devil artillery under the mountain, put the machine gun here, a hundred meters away from the devil on the hillside, and the shooting coverage is at least forty-five degrees!
The machine gunner watched the devils jump up alternately in cover, lie down, jump, lie down, and when there were at most thirty meters left, let the deputy shooter blow the little horn in his hand, and the horn sounded! The machine gun shooters all covered the hot machine gun with their hands, but they were on fire!
At the same time, grenades and locusts flew down from the trenches, up and down the slope, and there was no need to shake them off at a distance of more than 30 meters.
The machine gun fired from one side, the grenade shells rained down, and in the blink of an eye, flames burst out on the slope below the main position, and the bullets rained down, and more than 100 Japanese troops instantly fell into the situation of being attacked on both sides! Standing, the shrapnel from the grenade explosion is buzzing everywhere, lie down, the machine gun condescending on the side is similar to the roll call, shooting the lying devils one by one! (To be continued......)