With a wave of his hand, Emmons' French mortar men, who had been waiting for him to see the sweat, also entered the battle. Nearly twenty mortars simultaneously opened fire on the Japanese landing fleet, which was immediately met with return fire from the shipboard guns of the little devils. The shells whistled back and forth for about a quarter of an hour, and the first devils waded into the water to attack the defenders.

Mortars were not used for sea attacks with little effect, and the Japanese wading landing appeared to be quite smooth. Li Jiansheng and Emmons soon realized this, and they both agreed that they would stop the shelling and instead order their men to prepare for battle.

When the order to prepare for battle was conveyed, many French soldiers became nervous, many of them were breathing heavily, their tongues were sticking out their lips from time to time, and the hand holding the trigger trembled slightly, as if they would be pulled down at any time. Cao Bixiao and other teaching regiment students became the reassurance of the French soldiers at this time - he opened the safe, took out the grenade on his body and put it in front of him, and said to the French soldiers on the left and right: "Don't be nervous, we have laid mines, wait for the Japanese army to step on the mines!" ”

A group of devils waded out of the water, and they immediately lay on the ground to set up firing points, and soon five machine-gun positions were erected. Here, the distance from the fortifications of the defenders is only about one hundred and fifty meters. At this distance, it is actually possible to start a sniper, but considering the really unbearable marksmanship of the French officers and soldiers, Cao Bixiao proposed to Emmons earlier to get closer and fight. The French army was relatively well disciplined, and without the order of the commander, everyone could not hold back from shooting, but there was sweat on their foreheads, it was Emmons, and his breathing became heavy.

More devils rushed to the beach, and after accumulating the size of a squadron, Iwamura Sabei, who was far away from the command boat, gave the order to attack. The order was conveyed, and a Japanese soldier on the beachhead raised his command knife, and the devils of the two squads lined up in a skirmish line to launch a tentative attack.

The Type 92 heavy machine gun and the crooked sub-machine gun rang out, mixed with the whistling of grenades - the most characteristic Japanese grenadier fired.

The sound of gunfire sounded, and the French soldiers couldn't hold their breath even more, Cao Bixiao reminded when he saw this: "Don't panic, you haven't passed the mine array yet!" ”

Emmons nodded, turned to the left and right and said, "No one is allowed to shoot without my order, and those who violate the order will be punished by military law!" ”

As soon as he finished saying this, a grenade exploded five or six meters behind him, and a shrapnel hit his helmet, startling the guards around him. The guard pounced on him in hindsight, making Cao Bixiao laugh.

"Duran, you're slow!" Emmons scolded, a little embarrassed to glance at Cao Bixiao.

Cao Bixiao glanced at Emmons, whose face was a little pale, and said, "It's nothing, once the battle starts, we will give priority to attacking the Japanese grenadiers and machine gunners!" ”

The Japanese offensive was focused on the west, and to the dismay of the French, it was they themselves who had requested the defense of the western position at the beginning of the assignment of the defensive direction.

"Did the Japanese see something? Knowing that we are easy to bully? The colonel next to Emmons said to him, and was rewarded by Emmons with a big eye: "Since you are on the battlefield, don't be lucky, victory belongs to the brave, this will never change!" ”

The major gritted his teeth and remained silent, while several French soldiers beside him looked at the position of the Cadet Army, and there was still a look of envy in their eyes.

Cao Bixiao noticed this, and could only shake his head and smile bitterly. Emmons simply ignored it, lest he be upset.

The defenders did not move, and the Japanese were more cautious. They hunched over and slowly advanced with their guns raised, and only a minute or so passed, as a devil stepped on a mine and was blown up into the sky, they all lay on the ground, and they didn't dare to move again.

The gunfire became more intense, but because of the presence of the minefields, it was all just a futile momentum.

"up a passage with a grenade!" The devil army Cao is also brave and strategic, and gives orders to his opponents. Hundreds of grenades were thrown out of the air, and the explosions rang out one after another, Emmons couldn't help it, and he said to Cao Bixiao: "Fire, don't let them blow up the passage!" ”

Cao Bixiao: "Don't worry, wait." ”

"Still wait!?" The colonel said.

Cao Bixiao: "If you want to fight, you must repel this wave of enemy attacks, otherwise what's the use of just scaring them back?" The Japanese army is coming from a long distance, don't look at their huge momentum now, in fact, the troops they bring are limited, and we kill a group of them and a group of them are a few. Don't you see? This Japanese attack was tentative! ”

Emmons glared at the colonel and shouted, "Listen to Captain Cao, remember, we are students now, understand?" ”

The colonel saluted and closed his mouth.

The Japanese army used more than 100 grenades to blow up a passage about five meters wide in front of the French position.

When they rushed to a distance of only about fifty meters from the fortifications, Cao Bixiao glanced at Li Jiansheng, who was not far away, and waved his hand: "Fight!" "I pulled the trigger first.

Cao Bixiao aimed at a ghost grenadier early, and the devil fell down in response to a bullet in the head, startling several ghost soldiers around him.

"Da Da Da-" The six Hatch Chase 1914 heavy machine guns of the French army were immediately put into battle, and four or five of the devils who rushed to the front fell at once. A large number of F1 grenades were thrown by the French soldiers, explosions rang out, and the sequence of the Japanese attack was disrupted.

Faced with the fierce sniping of the defenders, the devil army Cao was not afraid, he half-squatted on the sand and waved his knife and shouted: "Lie down!" Fight back! The devils lay on the ground and raised their guns to shoot back, and soon, the French army suffered a large number of casualties.

Under Emmons's command, only one regiment of troops was reequipped with Cadet Corps standard weapons. This regiment was Emmons's treasure, which he hid in the rear as a reserve, and now this regiment defending the front line uses the old equipment of the French army itself. The battle had only been going on for about ten minutes, and the weaknesses of the equipment were exposed. The French usually did not maintain enough equipment, and many guns were not durable in battle, and soon jammed. Many French soldiers were busy repairing their guns after finding that the guns suddenly did not go off, and they were killed by a shot in the head by the Japanese army without paying attention, and in just ten minutes, more than 50 French soldiers were killed, which greatly damaged their morale.

"Sir, my gun is jammed!" A soldier shouted at Emmons, sweating profusely.

Emmons gritted his teeth and roared: "If the gun is jammed, then fight with grenades, and when the grenades are gone, then prepare for white-knuckle combat!" Those who retreat die, and only by holding their positions can they live. Got it?! ”

The soldier was silent, put his gun on his bayonet and placed it beside him, and turned to the grenade tactics wholeheartedly.

(Old Poison: Three Watches)