Chapter 162: The second line of defense is lost

The shelling lasted for half an hour, ploughing the entire position under the hillside, the bunkers were again broken in the shelling, and the trenches were mostly buried by debris.

"Get into cover! Hurry up!! ”

At the moment when the shelling was over and the Japanese had already launched a charge, voices shouted in the traffic trenches.

The soldiers quickly rushed out of the communication trench and rushed to the position, simply clearing the debris and wood, and when the Japanese were still 100 meters away from the position, the gunfire on the position rang out.

The burst of dense gunfire suddenly blocked the pace of the Japanese army's charge, and when they were not close to the ice lake area, they fell like wheat, and the corpses that were turned over and dragged flat last night were raised again, and the tongues of fire sprayed out on the entire front, and in the bombardment of the opponent's grenadiers, in the equally dense bullet splashing of the opponent, the barrage woven with bullets firmly pushed the Japanese drama back more than 100 meters, leaving several stacks of corpses.

"Keep the shelling!!"

Junrokuro Matsuura ordered calmly.

As the Japanese retreated, the artillery that had been adjusted long ago roared again. Patches of shells flew down the position with a seeping whistle, kicking up a sky of dust and black smoke.

The explosion was so violent that the fighters had to bury their heads under their arms, cover their ears, and lean against the base of the crumbling bunker wall.

The shelling lasted only one round, and then the howls of the Japanese charge were heard again. So close, the Japanese abandoned the use of grenadiers, and just held their guns and charged the positions as fast as they could.

"Clear the trenches!"

The machine gunners shouted and pulled the trigger.

The riflemen and loaders rotated the sapper shovels to quickly clear the trenches while the machine gunners were firing, ripping out the buried bullets and moving the fallen comrades aside.

Field ambulance crews weave through the trenches to keep the minor wounded warm and carry the seriously wounded off the line of fire.

The Japanese charge still failed to reach the frozen lake, and was blocked behind the piles of corpses, and the charge stopped again in the splatters of flesh and blood.

Junrokuro Matsuura, who was in the distance, saw the situation in the telescope and immediately ordered another shelling, ignoring the fact that his troops were only about 100 meters in front of the position.

The booming explosion filled in the trenches that had just been dug out of shape. As soon as the shelling ended, the soldiers shook the debris and frozen soil on their heads, picked up the machine guns pressed under them, and at the moment when the Japanese troops had just stood up and the charge had just begun, the music of death was played.

With the sound of the machine gun, the grenadier with a small number of digits also sounded, and a projectile flew to the most dense place of the Japanese army, and then the fire of the explosion rose one after another, instantly tearing apart all the living or dead Japanese soldiers within a few tens of meters close to the ice lake, and the churning blood mist made the visibility in front of the position almost zero, and also blocked the Japanese army again.

"All artillery fire support!!"

Dong Ku yelled.

"Beat these bitches hard for me!!"

After receiving the order, the commanders of all the artillery positions did not have time to put the phone on the phone, so they roared and gave the order.

Tom tom!!

The artillery of the position behind the bunker rumbled, all mortars and 92 infantry guns fired a salvo, the shells instantly covered the position of two or three hundred meters in front of the position, clouds of smoke rose, and the corpses of Japanese soldiers flew everywhere, torn to pieces in the fragments of shells.

No matter how fierce the Japanese army was, they had to retreat under such intensive artillery bombardment. The charge, which had been scorched for half an hour, finally retreated on all fronts.

"Artillery fire extended!!"

Dong Ku yelled again.

With the extension of the artillery fire, the previous scene was repeated, the shells chased the fleeing Japanese soldiers thousands of kilometers away, and in the roar, countless corpses were left along the way.

In the smoke of gunpowder, a big Zuo held a telescope and said: "Your Excellency, the fire of grenadiers and machine guns on the opponent's position has been significantly weakened. ”

"They can't keep up with their ammo?"

Junrokuro Matsuura also noticed this detail and blurted out.

"It should be, such a dense charge, although they repelled the charge, but obviously reluctantly!"

Another major general put down his binoculars and said in agreement.

Before his words fell, in the smoke of gunpowder, figures emerged from the distant position.

"Are they going to charge?"

All the Japanese generals who saw this scene were puzzled. Does this force still have the ability to launch a counter-charge?

In confusion, one of the big ones saw the situation and shouted, "They have no ammo!" ”

Sure enough, everyone then saw these figures running to the corpses in front of the position, and began to quickly collect bullet magazines and grenades, and one person was holding a large bag.

"Organize a charge!!"

Junrokuro Matsuura gave the order to charge without hesitation.

The brief calm of the battlefield was once again broken by the shelling, and the shells whistled and flew towards the position, and then the Japanese troops who had just retreated launched another charge.

"Oh yes! Fortunately, Lao Tzu ran fast! ”

One of the fighters muttered as he ran down the trench towards the traffic trench.

"Hurry! It can't withstand another round of shelling! Fast forward to the traffic trench!! ”

"Retreat!!"

Before the shells fell, the Japanese artillery shells had already begun to evacuate, and when the soldiers who had gone out to grab bullets entered the trenches and ran into the communication trenches, the Japanese shells fell.

The loud roar filled the position with gunsmoke and frozen soil, and in just one moment, the artillery shells annihilated the entire position.

The Japanese troops in front of the artillery flashed and made loud noises, steadily advancing, and the distance of 1,000 meters was quickly completed, and at a position three or four hundred meters away from the position, they were crouching and assembling and waiting for the artillery bombardment to end.

The Japanese were pouring shells as much as they could, and in just a few minutes, several truckloads of shells turned into fireworks, which also made the position as soft as a sandy beach, and the soft soil was full of heat and smoke, and not even a shadow of the trenches could be seen.

"Goo-dong!"

In the bunker on the hillside, a veteran of the Northeast Army swallowed his saliva. The Japanese artillery bombardment was so severe that if they had been holding on there just now, even if they were not killed, they would have been buried alive.

"Brother! It's up to you! ”

The veteran swallowed and patted a comrade from the Independent Brigade next to him.

"Brother, you've been working hard for two or three days, it's time for us to top the top, let's rest later, don't worry, a little devil can't get by!"

The veteran of the Northeast Army of the Independent Brigade said proudly as he clutched the 38 big cover in his hand.

"Blow up the traffic trench!"

"Blow up the traffic trench!!"

The shouts were transmitted in the last trench at the moment when the Japanese shelling stopped.

The Japanese howled at the moment when the shelling stopped, and without the need for grenadiers, they rushed towards the icy lake that they had been unable to cross.

When they stepped on the corpses of their comrades and stepped onto the frozen lake, the moment they stepped on the bombed position, in the loud roar, the communication trenches that connected to the top of the hillside were lifted into the air, so that the Japanese troops who had originally stepped on the position and were ready to continue to expand the results along the covered communication trenches stopped and quickly consolidated their positions. At this point, the second line of defense of the advance army was taken 'easily' and the position changed hands.

Junrokuro Matsuura didn't have much excitement when he saw the soldiers standing on that position, if such a dense artillery fire covered couldn't take the opponent's position, then he could apologize.

"Give up the detour and concentrate on the breakthrough of the volume!!"

"Artillery positions moved forward!!"

He gave orders one by one, and did not let the soldiers charge needlessly. Because, the vanguard of the newly formed 16th Division has already arrived, and in two hours at most, the artillery shells and the entire division will be in place. At this time, if the opponent abandons the last line of defense, then even if they have an advantage in fighting in the snow, they will not be able to withstand the pursuit of a few divisions and regiments on this side.

The battlefield was suddenly quiet.

The Japanese moved down the hillside, and the artillery moved forward with it. Tanks could not move through those stumps, but mortars did not delay. As for the 92 infantry guns, it was enough to follow the road directly to the position of the open point.

At this time, Junrokuro Matsuura's command post was also moving forward, but instead of following the advance, he and several generals and staff officers looked at the items piled up on the snow.

"There are so no Russians in the corpse?"

Looking at these fragments of the shattered corpses, the faces of the people who were obviously shina, the fragments of underwear and clothing that only Chinese have, the calves that were not thick with sweat hair, the yellow skin, all the generals raised this question mark.

"Could it be that the Red Party of Soviet Russia is entangled with the army of local people?"

A large Zuo picked up a piece of cloth and said as he observed it carefully.

A staff officer put down the crooked handle that had scrapped the barrel of the gun in his hand and said: "It is possible, or it is a question of where the army here came from, there is no trace of the entry of the army at the border, and tens of thousands of people are obviously not Soviet Russian soldiers who came from the border, and you see, the weapons here are all from our Great Japanese Empire, and there are no Soviet Russian weapons." ”

"Could it be that the Russian squad is just a tinder?"

Junrokuro Matsuura's eyes narrowed.

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General, I propose whether to send a team around the distance and into the mountains, so as to prevent the Soviet Russian team from escaping."

"Nope."

Matsuura Junrokuro glanced at the speaking Osa and said: "It's been two days, our flank moving team has been sniped by them accurately, it is difficult to march in the snow, far less fast than they have skis, even if they send a team, it is not enough for them to eat, or concentrate on biting their main force, and when it is defeated, then divide the troops to pursue." ”

The commander's decision caused several staff officers to shift their attention to the assault, and soon, in the cold wind, the plan for the assault was taken.

Just as they were studying the plan, the grenadiers on the top of the hill sounded tom, and the dense grenades flew from the top of the hill to the rear of the position five or six hundred meters away.

"They're going to take back their ground!"

The generals in command at the front shouted one after another, and then the grenadiers began to roar.

The grenades staggered through the air, but unfortunately they were attacking from the back, and the grenadiers could at best hit the ice-covered bunkers above, and they could not reach the bunkers at all, but the grenadiers on the hills, in a condescending situation, could completely cover the positions below.