Section 139 Counterattack on Gao'an XXXV

The Japanese commander could not help but be in high spirits as he saw the assault troops approaching the enemy's defensive line step by step, and if he could really take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to capture this place in one fell swoop, it would really be a great thing, not to mention that at least it would reduce the losses greatly.

Fifty paces away! The sound of machine gun fire finally rang out from the positions of the Nationalist troops, who had not yet spoken. Although the attacking Japanese soldiers had tried their best to keep their bodies low, the fire of the machine guns was too strong, and the thirty rounds in the magazine were shot in the blink of an eye when the theoretical rate of fire reached 500 rounds per minute, and it was also difficult for people to react at all. At the same time, several* bombs whizzed from improvised positions and exploded almost simultaneously beside the Japanese soldiers, causing an immediate setback to the Japanese offensive.

However, seeing that the opportunity was just around the corner, the follow-up Japanese troops, led by the officers, stepped on the corpses of their comrades and rushed over.

"Boom...... On the Japanese artillery position in the distance, the artillery commander seemed to sense the urgency of the situation at this time, and immediately commanded all the mortars to fire a salvo....... At this time, they no longer care whether they will accidentally injure friendly troops, and now is the critical moment of hand-to-hand combat, if they can't take the opportunity to kill into the position, they are afraid of heavy casualties, it will be unimaginable.

The machine gun magazine was empty, although a few rifles were accurate in marksmanship and amazing in lethality, but two fists were hard to defeat with four hands, and a few rifles could not stop the Japanese army that was almost filling in here with human lives, not to mention that the Japanese artillery fire was as sharp as it had been continued, although the number was not large, but after a few test firings, it completely enveloped the forward position in it. One after another, the shells made several soldiers who were concentrating on shooting have no time to react, and they are engulfed in artillery fire.

The Japanese commander who was on the front line was overjoyed when he saw this, and without hesitation, he brandished his saber and rushed to the front first, and was the first to take the lead in the battle that had caused them great losses. At this time, after the continuous bombardment and bombing, coupled with the ferocious strafing of the machine guns in the distance, there were only three or four lucky soldiers of the Nationalist Army left behind the improvised fortifications.

The explosion of * immediately drowned out the shouts of the Japanese soldiers, and also made the excited Japanese commander fall before he could see the victory. After the follow-up Japanese took the position, they were knocked down by a dense burst of bullets before they could be happy, and at a distance of about twenty paces behind this line of defense, a machine gun and several rifles shot them mercilessly. The distance between them was too close, and the Japanese army was not mentally prepared, and by the time they reacted, a squad in front of them was gone.

Kada Yong, who was watching the battle from a distance, received a message from the leader of the front-line squadron, which made him very anxious, and also made his eyes look at the battlefield in front of him very vigilant. Their offensive is not fierce, and the effect of the attack is also very good, however, the battlefield in front of them is like a quagmire, the further forward it is, the more difficult it becomes, and what is worse is that no one knows where the end of the quagmire is, and no one knows how deep this quagmire is.

Kada Yong couldn't help but think of the First Brigade that had been wiped out, and thought of Saburo Hiromoto, who was known for his prudence and resourcefulness, and the battle in Jinggangling, what happened to cause the First Brigade to be wiped out in such a short period of time? Are you repeating the mistakes of the First Brigade now?

Time was ticking, and more and more Japanese troops were on the offensive. As the number of fallen soldiers along the way increased, the Japanese squadron leader who commanded at the front couldn't help it. Along the way, they had already captured five lines of defense, and the enemy on each line was a squad of about ten people. These enemies were completely different from the ones they had encountered before, and after the five lines of defense were defeated, they did not find a single retreat, and even the wounded people were holding * to fight with them to the end, and each line of defense was not conquered until the enemy was killed, and after such a siege of the five lines of defense, more than half of his squadron had already been killed.

In other words, such a casualty ratio means that they are no longer even combat-ready. However, judging from the current defense line of the enemy army with a squad as a group, they can still fight, especially after losing so many people, he is even more eager to lead his troops to fight all the way to the end until the enemy army is completely killed.

However, the squadron leader was blinded by the gore in front of him and had forgotten to observe the situation around him, and before he knew it, as they continued to attack, they had advanced a distance of nearly one hundred and fifty paces. Just as the Japanese army continued to attack the sixth line of defense, there was a sudden burst of earth-shattering shouts of killing on the hillside, and countless soldiers of the national army poured in like a tide from the side of the hillside, with momentum like tigers.

The attacking Japanese troops were immediately stunned, and the Japanese machine gun squadron at the foot of the mountain that was suppressing the fire was also dumbfounded. Judging from their strength, they had every strength to compete with them before! Even if they attack first, it remains to be said whether their positions can be built so smoothly.

Kada Yong in the distance was dumbfounded, he couldn't believe all this and couldn't believe the facts in front of him. When he turned his gaze to the assault squadron again, his eyes were black and he almost vomited blood. The assault troops were unconsciously behind that hillside, just because of the previous suppression of the machine gun squadron and the lack of movement on the hillside, so that they almost ignored the existence of the enemy on the hillside, who would have thought that this was completely a trap laid by the enemy, a bait to lure them to the bait. From the very beginning of this battle, they had already fallen into the calculations of the enemy.

Kada Yong couldn't help but feel a chill in his back, he really couldn't imagine who the commander of the enemy army was, not only calculated that they would go to reinforce the auspicious charm, but also calculated the various situations that would appear on the battlefield, and actually dug such a big hole for them at the beginning of this battle.

In the face of the enemy troops rushing down by the mountain, just looking at the momentum of their impact, it made the Japanese give up the idea of resistance and turn around and retreat, they have lost half of their troops, and they are exhausted at the moment, although the scattered machine gun positions have a good geographical advantage, but in the previous stage of suppression, the ammunition is also about to run out, in this case, if they do not withdraw, it will really be all here.

However, sometimes you can't retreat if you want to, and since the tall sledgehammer finally lured the devil into the encirclement, where will it give them the opportunity to retreat? Just when the Japanese army sensed that the situation was not good and was about to turn around and flee, on the calm hillside, a burst of artillery fire sounded, and then the shells whistled in, exploding on the road of the Japanese retreat. Just as the Japanese army had just opened the way with artillery, the second battalion also directly blocked the retreat road of the Japanese troops with only six mortars, and in the successive explosions of shells, no one dared to run straight upright, not to mention the whistling shrapnel, even the shock wave generated by the explosion of the shells, which was enough to make people fearful.

Although mortars are far less powerful than field artillery and mountain artillery, artillery shells are artillery shells, and their terrifying lethality is truly terrifying.

Standing in the distance, watching the enemy still ambush the artillery behind the mountain, the captain of the third brigade, Kada Yong, had the urge to carry a knife and cut people, damn it, the people of China really deserve to die, the enemy is one ring after another, and his plan is so thorough that he has only seen it in his life, and the most hateful thing is that he, as the captain, actually knows nothing about it, and watches his troops fall into the other party's conspiracy. Before the enemy launched, watching the machine gun squadron suppress the top of the hill to the death, watching the assault squadron continue to advance, he was still rejoicing in his decisiveness, and now that he thinks about it, he really wants to cut his own belly.

Under the oppressive offensive of mortars, the Japanese army's retreat plan was abandoned halfway, and when they were ready to evacuate again after the explosion of the shells, the troops who rushed down the hillside had broken through into the enemy ranks, and the company that had been beaten by the Japanese army was also fighting back at this time, cooperating with the friendly troops to continue to rush and eat away at the Japanese army, and constantly avenge the blood hatred of the brothers who died before. Because of the panicked retreat of the Japanese army, because of their previous timidity, they became extremely passive when facing the imposing officers and soldiers of the national army, and even some Japanese soldiers turned their backs to the officers and soldiers of the national army, and the consequences were naturally self-evident.

This kind of completely unequal confrontation was already doomed at the beginning of the battle, even though many Japanese soldiers were unwilling to die like this and launched a crazy counterattack, but in the face of twice as many enemy troops as them, and in the face of an enemy who was stronger than them in terms of morale and combat ability, their counterattack undoubtedly became a counterattack before death, and soon the soldiers of the national army who came back to sweep were killed with bayonets and killed.

The Japanese squadron that served as a reserve and the Japanese squadron that were scattered to attack converged, and the two squadrons of nearly 400 foot soldiers faced such a grim situation and could not care about the consequences, and began to attack the front, if they did not attack again, the previous squadron may not be able to withdraw at all.