Volume 1: The Battle of Songhu Chapter 39 (I)

Although Ken Okazaki has extremely keen battlefield insight and realizes that the hard bone of Meigang is not easy to gnaw, he can only attack hard, because the wing captain gave the captain a death order to the captain, and the order given by the captain Ito Yoshimitsu to the Okazaki squadron is to take the mountain at all costs.

If you can't take the mountain, Ken Okazaki will wait for seppuku to apologize.

However, Ken Okazaki, an old devil, still has some brains, due to the terrain restrictions, the Japanese army can only put in a maximum of one reinforcement squad at a time, and it is obviously impossible to take the mountain in one go with only such a small number of troops, so it is necessary to find a way to move the fire support team behind the ridge line and give direct fire support to the infantry

To put it bluntly, if the Japanese army can use the ridge line as a natural cover, set up light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers and mortars, then it can form an overwhelming firepower advantage over the national army on the hilltop platform, and then put in the infantry to launch a continuous strong attack, then it will not be a problem to eliminate the national army on the hilltop platform.

However, it was not easy for the Japanese army to move the fire support team behind the ridge line, because the Chinese army had dug a large number of foxholes between the trench fortifications in the middle of the platform and the ridge line at the edge of the platform.

The reason is very simple, these foxholes are only 50 meters away from the edge of the platform, and the nearest is only about 10 meters, the infantry hiding in the foxholes can only rely on grenades to carry out targeted removal of the Japanese army's support fire behind the ridgeline, the Chinese army has always attached great importance to the grenade throwing training due to the lack of heavy weapons, not only the throwing distance is long, but also the throwing is accurate, Okazaki Qian suffered the loss of the national army's grenades in the battle of Songhu, but he does not want to touch the head again.

If you want to clear the infantry in the foxhole, the key is to cross the 50-meter death line! Ken Okazaki firmly believed that as long as the soldiers of the Imperial Army rushed into the foxhole, the infantry of the Chinese Army would have only one way to die, and after the Battle of Songhu, a large number of veterans of the Chinese Army had been killed, and the newly replenished soldiers were no longer the opponents of the Imperial Army soldiers.

This has already been proved in Chunhua Town on the Southeast Front of Nanjing.

At that moment, Ken Okazaki called his three squad leaders to him, and ordered the 2nd and 3rd squads to charge to the top of the mountain in turns, but it was strictly forbidden to cross the ridge line, and each team was only allowed to show its head behind the ridge line and must withdraw immediately, and the 1st squad was hidden and waited 20 meters below the ridge line.

Okazaki Ken's abacus is very fine, just now he judged from the sound of gunfire that the national army on the top of the mountain only has Czech light machine guns, and there is no Makqin heavy machine gun, according to the experience gained in the Battle of Songhu, the imitation of the Czech army of the Chinese army is obviously not as good as the original Czech, about every two hundred rounds of ammunition have to replace the barrel, Okazaki Ken calculated that this short interval of more than ten seconds of firepower!

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After more than ten minutes of silence, the crisp "click" of a Czech light machine gun sounded again on the summit platform.

Xu Nineteen poked his head out of the main trench, and saw that Xiao Ri was only showing a small face behind the ridge line and immediately retracted back, and then another Xiao Ri Ben came up, and then immediately retracted, although the six Czech light machine guns on the front position of the Nineteenth Brigade fought happily, but there were few Xiao Ri Ben who really collapsed.

The black blind man scratched his head and asked puzzledly, "What is Xiao Ri Ben singing?" ”

To put it mildly, those Czech light machine guns have already finished firing a magazine, and a Czech light machine gun can hold 20 rounds of ammunition in one magazine, even if it is two or three short points, the duration of the fire is only seven or eight seconds, taking advantage of the short gap between the machine guns and the hand to change the magazine, a few days without the soldiers still can't hold back, and rush up over the ridgeline.

Fortunately, the machine gun operators of the 19th Brigade were all veterans of a hundred battles, and they changed their magazines in less than two seconds, and shot a long point, and those Japanese soldiers were stacked and fell to the ground, but those Japanese soldiers were also fierce enough, and they still threw six melon grenades towards the main battlefield fifty meters away before falling to the ground.

Xiao Ri's grenades were also thrown very accurately, and six grenades actually hit two machine gun positions, two machine gun guns, and four bullet gunners were either killed or injured, and it is not known whether the machine guns were damaged.

The black blind man was so angry that he stomped his feet, but Xu Shijiu faintly guessed Xiao Ri's intentions

Xiao Ri probably judged from the gunfire just now that the 19th Brigade did not have heavy machine guns, so he wanted to use the Czech light machine gun to replace the barrel of the gun for more than ten seconds to intermittently attack the raid? Xiao Ri had made a mistake this time, the 19th Brigade not only had Czech light machine guns, but also four Maxim heavy machine guns, but they didn't fire just now

This is also Xu Shijiu's consistent style, and the firepower in a defensive war will never be used up at one time

At that moment, Xu 19 sent the black blind man over and ordered the heavy machine gun platoon to prepare for a rapid attack.

Okazaki Ken has been silently counting the number of magazines replaced by the national army's machine guns, and when the tenth magazine is about to be finished, Okazaki Ken draws his saber and presses it forward, and more than 70 Japanese soldiers of the 1st squad lying 20 meters below the ridge line jump up in unison, holding bayonets and following the squad leader Suzuki silently rushed forward.

Suzuki rushed to the ridge line of the mountain with more than 70 Japanese soldiers, and several Czech light machine guns of the national army on the summit platform rested one after another, and Okazaki Ken showed a smug smile on his face, as he expected, after firing ten magazines, the Czech light machine gun of the national army had to replace the barrel!

The Rising Sun Flag, which was picked under the bayonet, soon crossed the ridge line and appeared on the summit platform.

Captain Suzuki finally got a glimpse of the whole picture of the summit platform, which is a circular platform with a radius of about 200 meters, and the national army dug an irregular oval fortification in the middle of the platform, and there are large and small foxholes between the circular fortifications and the edge of the mountain.

Seeing these four earthen platforms, Suzuki's heart suddenly paused, as a veteran, he instinctively felt that these four earthen platforms were anything but unusual, and he didn't think about it at the moment and fell to the ground, Suzuki's alertness finally saved his life, almost at the same time as he fell down, the four earthen platforms spit out fierce tongues of fire.

It's a Maxim heavy machine gun! As soon as he heard the dull and sudden sound that made people tremble, Suzuki's face instantly darkened, these cunning Chinese people even left a secret hand! There are even hidden heavy machine guns!

Suzuki cursed hatefully in his heart, and when he looked up again, he saw that the Imperial soldiers who had crossed the ridge line of the mountain and rushed up had fallen down in rows, like weeds blown down by the wind, and fell to the ground in rows.

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Halfway up the mountain, Ken Okazaki's sinister smile had solidified on his face.

Suddenly, the roar of the Maxim heavy machine gun rang out from the top of the mountain, and could Kenyan Okazaki not understand what was happening? Judging from the sound, there are at least four Makqin heavy machine guns in the Chinese army, and in the face of the intensive strafing of four Makqin heavy machine guns, not to mention a reinforced squad, even a reinforced squadron is afraid that it will not be able to rush up!

Due to the obstruction of the ridge line of the mountain, Okazaki Ken couldn't see the specific situation above, but even if he thought with his toes, he could imagine the scene on the top of the mountain at this time, the more than seventy Imperial soldiers of Suzuki's squad were like sheep breaking into the wolf's den, being frantically slaughtered and killed by the Chinese army, and it was too late to order a retreat.

"Yaga Yalu, Yaga Yalu......" Okazaki Ken brandished his saber and frantically chopped the grass and trees around him, so as to dissipate the monstrous anger in his heart, until he cut a small tree with the thickness of his arm in two, Okazaki Ken calmed down a little, he knew that anger could not solve the problem, he had to think of a countermeasure as soon as possible, otherwise Captain Ito would never spare him.

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The massacre on the platform on the top of the hill was quickly over, and under the intensive strafing of four Makqin heavy machine guns, only a dozen of the more than 70 Japanese soldiers fled back

However, the little Japanese soldiers who had been brainwashed by militarist ideology were indeed fierce, and those who were killed on the spot were just killed, and those Japanese soldiers who were only injured all did not hesitate to knock their grenades, and then jumped into the foxhole, causing a lot of casualties to the officers and men of the 19th Brigade in the outer foxholes.

Gao Shenxing, who was hiding in a foxhole on the periphery, also almost landed, but fortunately, the Japanese soldier had been seriously injured, and he was pressed in front of him by Gao Shenxing at the moment of life and death, and he used Xiao Ri's body as a meat shield to escape by luck, but the shock wave generated by the explosion still hit Gao Shenxing for a long time.

However, the stragglers in the other foxholes did not have this skill, and in the continuous explosions, one after another veterans of the 19th Brigade were entangled with the Japanese soldiers and flew into the air, and when they fell again, they either lacked arms and legs, or were blown up to a bloody blur, wailing there while dripping blood.

Of course, the veterans of the 19th Brigade were not frightened, and the ferocity of Xiao Ri Ben had almost no effect on them, and before the smoke from the explosion dissipated, the veterans got up from the foxhole, and began to clean the battlefield with bayonets.

The stretcher team and the field ambulance team also came up quickly, and the seriously injured were carried down for treatment, and the minor injuries were bandaged on the spot.

Wang Yulan and Cao Jiao had already seen a lot of bloody seriously wounded people in Niushou Mountain, and they were much calmer at this time, but the student soldiers who were responsible for carrying the stretchers and the recruits of the engineer class were frightened by the bloody scene in front of them, and saw the severed limbs and stumps scattered everywhere on the battlefield, and they even vomited out the overnight meal

The little sapper Li Mu carried the stretcher, and as he walked, his legs fell to the ground with weak legs, and he retched, and the vomiting almost vomited out the bile, not to mention how uncomfortable it was.