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Unlike the Japanese position, which was in a state of despair, the officers and men of the Independent Regiment were jubilant at this moment, watching the brothers of the artillery company have a clear division of labor and cooperate with each other, and soon launched another round of attacks, they could not help but admire it in addition to excitement. These artillery brothers are not simple, not to mention the previous mountain artillery, a cannon requires the coordination of a squad of soldiers, I heard that this is the minimum staffing. Now this simple grenadier is also a group of two to cooperate with each other, only to see their cannons set up guns, loaded with ammunition, busy but orderly, with the commander's order, neatly bombarded the enemy position.

This time, they finally saw the shells that blew up their heads in the past. These shells are not big, almost the same as *, but they need to be equipped with something like *. Not to mention, it was these small changes that allowed the *, which could only attack a distance of thirty or forty paces, to attack the enemy army three hundred paces away at once, and formed a rather dense offensive. This kind of covering attack, both offensive and defensive, is quite sharp, and is often more effective against dense infantry charges than heavy machine guns.

After witnessing this large-scale attack, Shi couldn't help but sigh greatly, with the help of such weapons and equipment, it is really twice the result with half the effort to fight, if the national army can also have artillery as powerful as the Japanese army, where will it retreat step by step under the attack of the devils? Two years ago, in the Gao'an counterattack, under the powerful artillery attack, it broke through the devil's defense line and took Gao'an in less than half an hour, and that battle has already explained the problem.

In the blink of an eye, the grenadier had attacked four or five waves in a row, and the stone saw that the mountain range in front of him had almost been washed by the shells, and he couldn't help but say to the tall sledgehammer: "Sledgehammer, it's up to you next." ”

The tall and burly body of the tall sledgehammer was like an iron tower in the dark night, and when he heard the words of the stone, he grinned rarely: "Give me half an hour, and we'll see you on the top of the mountain!" After that, he came to the front of the team with a group of guards, and there was no need to do any mobilization at all, what to say, the soldiers of the second battalion already clearly knew the battalion commander's thoughts, and the soldiers of the second company who had already prepared took out their bayonets and put on the barrels of their guns, and then quietly followed behind the tall sledgehammer and slowly touched the mountain in front.

Gao Sledgehammer personally led the first wave of the attack, and after the rare artillery support, Shi also wanted to seize this opportunity to hurt the Japanese army at once. For this reason, he deliberately used the 2nd Battalion, which had not yet participated in the battle, as the main attack, and the 1st Battalion and the regimental headquarters battalion as a reserve to prepare for the next few waves of offensives.

The second company has more than 160 people, belonging to the standard infantry company of the national army, although the veterans in the company are not as many as the first battalion, but the tall sledgehammer itself is proficient in training, strict military discipline, only from the point of view of the order and prohibition and the mental state of the soldiers, the second company is even above the three companies of the first battalion, the whole company launched an assault attack, and there was no sound in the dark night, and the strictness of the overall military discipline can be seen. Soon, they advanced to a distance of about one hundred and twenty paces at the front of the ridge under the leadership of the battalion commander Sledgehammer.

This is a very sensitive distance, and experienced veterans can already accurately hit the target at this distance, but some soldiers who are not rich in combat experience and have weak mental quality, even if they can usually hit the enemy at such a long distance, but under the influence of the tense atmosphere of the battlefield, they often cannot play at the usual level. Another point is that it is dark at the moment, although there is moonlight, but at such a distance, it is completely dark. The mountains on the opposite side can still make people look at the outline and approximately, and on the flat ground, it is directly a black eye.

Ten grenadiers were erected, and one of them adjusted the angle slightly, and then suddenly threw a cannonball, only to see a small cannonball draw a wonderful arc and suddenly explode in front of the mountain, and the light of the explosion could make people vaguely see the situation there. However, it seemed that the shell was a little crooked, and it was very calm in all directions, and the tall sledgehammer saw nothing. In this case, he was not in a hurry at all, and waved his hand lightly, signaling a grenadier on the other side to fire.

"Boom" was another explosion, accompanied by a burst of confusion at the front end, and vaguely, they seemed to hear the shouts of the Japanese soldiers, as if someone had been injured.

"Fire" The tall sledgehammer roared, and immediately only a few sounds of "bang bang ......" were heard, and the explosion of "boom boom" was heard immediately afterward, and the artillerymen who had been waiting for a long time immediately fired shells and bombarded the place where the enemy had just made a noise. The night was dark, they couldn't measure the range, in fact, the grenadier didn't need such complicated procedures, whether they could hit accurately or not was completely based on feeling, depending on the experience of the shooter. Although the officers and men of the Second Company had been trained for a long time and their basic skills were indeed good, they did not do this kind of pointing, but fortunately, the numerical superiority brought into play, and under the bombardment of seven or eight shells, it covered a range of nearly forty or fifty meters in front and behind, and for a time the place where the noise was made was hit frantically.

The Japanese army had been bombarded for a long time, and now they were shelled at such close range in vain, which suddenly made them unable to bear it anymore. The two mountain guns belonging to the brigade had already knocked out most of the shells in the afternoon, and for Zhidushu, this moment was far from the critical time, so he naturally would not call it easily, and the mortar platoon directly under the brigade was assigned to the command of the second squadron on the front line at this moment, and the second squadron leader could not bear to order to return fire.

The range of the Japanese mortars is far farther than the grenadiers, but in the case of losing the lead and limited vision, they can only return fire according to the position of the enemy, the distance of more than 100 paces, it is quite difficult to adjust from the shooting, and there is no obvious reference, it really makes the artillery adjust for a while, fortunately, the quality of the Japanese artillery is really excellent, even in this case, it still accurately launched a counterattack, and several mortars aimed directly at the position where they just fired.

Although the units of the national army lacked artillery, the experience of such artillery striking each other was lacking. But they have been accustomed to being hit by the devil's aircraft and artillery in the past few years, and they have learned a lot of experience from this kind of strike, knowing that the devil's artillery is sharp, where do they dare to stay in place and wait for the devil's artillery to strike? After a round of shelling, they had continued to advance forward, trying to take advantage of the artillery attack they had just taken advantage of to open a gap.

"Boom"* fell one after another, and the flames of light that rose into the air illuminated the steps of the soldiers of the Second Company. This discovery also made the Japanese troops stationed under the mountain ridge shocked, and they did not dare to hesitate any longer, and opened fire violently. At this time, the soldiers of the artillery company in the distance also received the order of Ou Zhanpeng to shoot again, aiming at the machine gun position in the distance, dozens of grenadiers fired shells frantically, and in the blink of an eye, the Japanese machine gun that had just fired was drowned in it.

The Japanese troops who had been hit by the attack could not bear it immediately. In the afternoon attack, they had already lost a lot of manpower, and what was even worse was that the total annihilation of the third brigade left a shadow on their psychology, which dealt a heavy blow to their original self-confidence. Now in the face of the enemy's powerful artillery attack, where can they calmly deal with the enemy when they lack experience in facing artillery? In particular, the successive waves of artillery attacks caused a large number of casualties to them, so that all of them were in danger and had no intention of fighting. Under such circumstances, the officers of the second company, who took advantage of the chaos to kill, quickly and sharply passed through the dangerous area of more than 100 steps under the command of the tall sledgehammer and broke into the edge of the Japanese position.

If it was daytime, facing a small number of enemy troops, the Japanese army would definitely grit their teeth and desperately want to annihilate them. It's a pity that it's night, and when their hearts are on the verge of collapse, the Japanese soldiers have no tenacious will and passion for fighting, and seeing the enemy break through the position, all they think about is the scene of the third brigade being strewn across the field. Under this series of blows, the Japanese army collapsed in vain.

Naodushu, who was watching the battle situation at the bottom of the mountain next to the pavilion on the top of the mountain, couldn't help but be dumbfounded when he saw the forward position collapse instantly, and watched the soldiers of the second squadron rushing to escape up the mountain by the light of the fire, his eyes were black and he almost fainted. He opened his mouth to curse a few words, but in vain he found that he couldn't even speak at this moment.

The staff officers on the side reacted very quickly, seeing that the brigade was frozen there and did not react, they also picked him up and left. In the dark of night, in such a situation of collapse of the front, it is almost impossible to turn the tide of the war again, and now the only way is to retreat, withdraw from the battle in the shortest possible time, and regroup after the distance has been opened.

On the Hengshan Ridge, a rare scene immediately appeared, the strength of a large Japanese army collapsed under the charge of a company of the independent regiment, and the Japanese troops who did not know the situation thought that a large number of enemy troops had been killed in front of them, and when they saw the friendly troops retreating, they ran away for fear of falling behind. The ordinary infantry was fine, the light and heavy machine gunners and artillery were down. On such mountain roads, their main force of transportation is human and animal power, but in this case, where do they find mules and horses? Seeing that those infantry had already rushed out of the distance, they could only reluctantly give up these hard-to-transport artillery, throw off their arms and run away, no matter what, it is better to save their lives first!

When Gao Da Hammer rushed up to the pavilion on the top of the hill with the soldiers of the second company, looking at the discarded weapons and equipment and enemy corpses all over the mountain, they couldn't help but be a little incredulous about the situation in front of them. The devil just ran away? This kind of rout and escape, they have not encountered it, but in the past, friendly troops were defeated by the devil and fled, losing their armor along the way, but the situation in front of them was reversed, and it was actually the devil who collapsed under their attack, this is really the first time they have encountered such a scene, in other words, others told them that they would not believe it, but at this moment it really happened in front of them.