The battlefield at this moment belongs to the confrontation between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army.

The firepower of the two sides was originally based on the fact that the independent regiment was now well-equipped and had sufficient ammunition, not counting the dozen or so artillery pieces carried by the devil's artillery squadron. (The artillery squad under the Devil's Brigade naturally doesn't count.) ）

The 1st and 2nd Battalions had an even superior firepower disposition than the Japanese.

According to the firepower configuration standard of the Japanese infantry squad, that is, the smallest combat unit commonly used by the Japanese army.

The standard strength of a squad is between fifty and seventy men.

The main firepower was concentrated on the three light machine guns and three grenadiers.

And this is still a strong army combat squad of the Japanese army.

For a second-rate Japanese combat unit like the one in front of him, which was used to stay in the county town for public security, a squad was equipped with less than three light machine guns and grenadiers.

And what about today's independent regiments?

With the rapid development of equipment in the past year or so, the regiment's repair shop can still produce some munitions on its own, plus the equipment obtained from frequent battles with the Japanese army, and the 57th Regiment of the Jinsui Army.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the Separate Regiment, today's light machine guns and grenadiers can be attached to the squad combat units.

In other words, a squad of twelve soldiers will be equipped with a light machine gun, and a 50 cannon, and the range of the 50 cannon with the cartridge pack is farther than the grenadier of the devil.

In addition, some reinforced squads will also be equipped with a grenade launcher, six grenades, or a Jinzao submachine gun.

The first battalion led by Wang Leihu and the second battalion led by Shen Quan were the two veteran battalions of the independent regiment.

The firepower configuration in the battalion is the most powerful, and this time it is the five hundred elites in the battalion who rushed to fight, and originally wanted to eliminate the Japanese puppet army by suppressing the firepower.

The firepower at hand of the fighters can almost be said to be armed to the teeth.

At the beginning of the firepower exchange between the two sides, Nobuyoshi Mishima and Hideo Murai, the captains of the devil brigade, were also taken aback.

The firepower of the Eighth Route Army was so strong that it was suppressed for a while, and his imperial troops could not raise their heads.

If it weren't for the fact that the two brigades had strengthened an additional artillery squadron, carrying more than a dozen artillery pieces, including infantry guns and mountain artillery.

Nobuyoshi Mishima and Hideo Murai even suspected that with the powerful firepower of the Eighth Route Army in this ambush, they could inflict heavy losses on the imperial troops who came to help.

"Most of them are the regular army of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and the firepower configuration of this independent regiment belongs to the top team in the Eighth Route Army!"

The devil's adjutant, who was crawling not far from Hideo Murai, said.

Hideo Murai had an idea and immediately gave an order for the grenadier detachment to quickly throw smoke bombs at the position of the Eighth Route Army.

The smoke bombs that were quickly projected soon emitted billowing smoke from the positions defended by the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Independent Regiment.

Hideo Murai's purpose was clear, to use smoke to cover the view of the Eighth Route Army's attack, so as to weaken the offensive nature of the Eighth Route Army's strong firepower.

Then take the opportunity to quickly assemble the artillery of the artillery squadron that was disassembled and carried, and bombard the fortifications of the Eighth Route Army with the help of artillery, press the covering team up, and use the advantage of strength to eliminate the Eighth Route Army in front of you in one fell swoop.

But Hideo Murai couldn't help but underestimate the reaction speed of Shen Quanyu and Wang Leihu, these two veteran battalion commanders of the Eighth Route Army, as soon as they saw the devil using smoke bombs, they knew what the devil had in mind.

Shen Quan shouted: "Artillery, immediately throw smoke bombs, grenades and grenades are ready to attack!" ”

Wang Leihu's side followed closely and made a similar command.

Isn't it just a smoke bomb!

You little devil has it, our independent regiment also has it, and our independent regiment also has signal flares to guide artillery strikes!

If you throw smoke bombs, then we will treat them in the same way.

The devil should also be destroyed here, and take the initiative to use smoke bombs, once the troops are shrouded and the vision is blocked, it will be more convenient for the cavalry company to raid.

The grenades fired by the two sides began to be mixed with smoke bombs.

After a large number of smoke bombs landed, the smoke quickly dispersed, and soon enveloped the fortifications of both sides.

All of a sudden, in this plain area surrounded by mountain peaks, two thick clouds of smoke shrouded the two positions, separated by two or three hundred meters.

And within two or three hundred distances of the two sides fighting, there were puppet soldiers lying on the ground.

The puppet army commander who was at the rear of the puppet army camp and was responsible for leading the team secretly complained.

The Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army clashed with each other, both of them were uncles, but they were bitter to his puppet army troops, and they were in the midst of the firepower exchange between the two sides, and they didn't dare to get up at all.

The devils are not afraid of accidentally hurting their puppet army.

Not to mention the Eighth Route Army, flying bullets, you can never guess when it will come and pass over your scalp.

If the head is raised slightly, the small life will be gone.

"Tuanza, what should I do now? The firepower on both sides was too fierce. ”

The puppet lieutenant lay dead on the ground, his mouth almost pressed against the dirt and shouted.

The puppet army commander gritted his teeth, he knew that if he didn't make up his mind again, once a decisive battle broke out between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army, the puppet army in the middle of them would be more than lucky.

"There's no way, tell the brothers, if you don't want to die, just crawl out from both sides of the ground for me, as long as you climb out of the fire coverage of the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army, we will be safe."

"Yes!" The adjutant hurriedly replied.

It's just that the firepower coverage of the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army is too large, and if you just crawl forward as if you are squirming forward against the ground, it is too slow.

As time passed, seeing that the smoke bombs thrown by both sides completely enveloped each other's positions, the pseudo-legion commander noticed that the firepower of both sides was weakened, and shouted: "Run!" ”

Survival is in danger.

The puppet legion leader shouted, beckoned the guards around him, and fled sideways to the right side together.

The other puppet soldiers saw that they had a chance to live, and they didn't care about anything else, so they scurried to follow, and some even lost their weapons.

To say that the judgment of this pseudo-legion leader is really good.

The smoke completely shrouded the positions of the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army, and after the vision of both sides was temporarily obscured, the firepower of both sides temporarily stopped.

The commanders of both sides were well aware that in the immediate situation, continuing to fire was just a pure waste of ammunition.

It was during this gap that the puppet army commander gave the order, and the puppet army troops, which were originally sandwiched between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army, quickly withdrew from the two wings, but a large part of them escaped, and some of them were shot down by the bullets fired by the two sides in the process of getting up and fleeing.

As for whether it was the Eighth Route Army or the devils, it is unknown.

At the same time, just after that large cloud of smoke completely enveloped the Japanese troops.

Sun Desheng and Chen Dalian, who had long been hiding at the foot of the surrounding mountains and observing the battle situation between the two sides with binoculars, immediately issued a combat order.

A stormtrooping detachment of eighty lightly armed cavalry led the attack.

The cavalry warriors of the stormtrooper, who had long been ready to attack, spurred their horses in silence, and the sore war horses snorted lowly, and under the cover of the deafening sound of cannons, they rushed out like a silent arrow.

The pincer teams on both wings quickly followed.

The 80 cavalry of the stormtroopers did not line up in a row, but after rushing out, they quickly opened the offensive line in an almost fan-shaped formation, and rushed towards the artillery units of the Japanese army, which were behind the ranks and were about 200 meters away from the front-line combat units.

At this time, the artillery unit behind the devil was also shrouded in smoke under the bombardment of long-range smoke bombs deliberately commanded by Shen Quan and Wang Leihu.

Under the cover of artillery and smoke, the devils of the artillery units in the rear of the Japanese army did not notice the cavalry units that were attacking from the back for a short time. Gu simmer

On the contrary, some puppet troops who took the opportunity to escape from the two flanks were the first to discover the cavalry units of the Eighth Route Army that had suddenly attacked from the back of the Japanese army.

The war horse galloped, like a lightning storm, and the old war horse, which was recuperating and recharged, seemed to feel the fighting spirit of the owner on horseback, and under the speed of the explosion, the speed per second was even close to twenty meters.

The distance of seven or eight hundred meters was reduced by one-third in an instant.

The puppet legion leader was full of horror, and he immediately realized the cunning of the tactics of the Eighth Route Army, and in the frontal positional battle, there was a cavalry surprise attack.

But let him yell, in this noisy environment, the voice was only faintly and indistinctly transmitted.

On the other side, the captain of the devil brigade, Nobuyoshi Mishima, commanded the brigade to which he belonged, took advantage of the smoke to cover the fortifications of the Eighth Route Army, covered it with grenadier fire, and after a round of shelling, he directly gave the order to charge.

Hideo Murai tacitly commanded the remaining forces as a reserve force while moving forward.

When the battle broke out, the front of the puppet army was only about 150 meters away from the Eighth Route Army.

The front of the Japanese army was about 300 meters away from the Eighth Route Army.

So these 300 meters is the charging distance after the Japanese attack is launched.

Mishima Nobuyoshi, who has a considerable bushido spirit, was sure that with the cover of smoke bombs, with only a charge distance of 300 meters, his attacking troops were enough to break through the defenses of the Eighth Route Army before the smoke was blown away by the wind.

After all, it was a flat plain in front of him, and the fortifications built by the Eighth Route Army were only some low and shallow earth ditches, and there was not much defense at all.

On Shen Quan and Wang Leihu's side, after the smoke bombs covered the Japanese fortifications, the two battalion commanders issued an order for a ceasefire.

Shooting blindly is just a waste of ammunition.

Even though the independent regiment is now equipped with more equipment and ammunition, the soldiers, out of their usual habit, still want to break a bullet in half.

The grenade and bombardment teams quickly prepared for position.

In the sudden cessation of fire, the fighters kept their ears close to the ground, listening to the approaching steps of the devils.

300 meters, 200 meters, 150 meters......

Under the cover of the smoke screen, the devils launched a strong attack.

Shen Quan and Wang Leihu breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, as the two tiger generals of the independent regiment, the two of them had never taken the little devil in their eyes.

At the moment, the little devil is determined to eat himself in one go.

Is this worth it?

100 meters, 80 meters, less than 60 meters......

"Hit-"

Shen Quan and Wang Leihu successively gave the order to open fire.

Although the field of vision is still obscured by smoke, at such a close distance, it is enough to shoot blindly, and the bullets that are fired can always hit the enemy.

Moreover, there are gun grenades with a range of about 150 meters, which completely fills the gap in fire between the grenades and the 50 small guns.

The soldiers of the grenade and grenade throwing teams who were waiting for the day immediately launched a counterattack.

The positions close to the side of the Eighth Route Army, within zero to fifty meters, were all within the throwable range of grenades of the fighters of the bombing team.

The fighters have long been familiar with grenade throwing, and even though the bombing team was later equipped with a lot of grenades, they never fell behind in the grenade throwing skills.

The fighters of the specially trained bombing team were able to easily throw grenades from a distance of 30 meters, or even more than 40 meters.

Two hundred fighters, each with four grenades, all threw them in less than twenty seconds.

A total of 800 grenades were smashed out like a dense raindrop in a fan-shaped impact surface.

At this time, the Japanese troops who were attacking in the vanguard were still shrouded in smoke, and they only rushed in the direction of the position where the Eighth Route Army was located.

In an instant, it was within the range of the grenade.

At this time, although the field of vision is blocked, the grenade is thrown collectively, and under the power of covering a large area to kill, there is no need for any accuracy.

The devils who rushed to the front of more than a squadron suffered more than half of the casualties in the first round of explosions.

It was almost a one-sided slaughter.

The Eighth Route Army's tactics of throwing grenades under the cover of smoke caught the charging devils off guard.

Under the fierce blow, there was no need for the devil commander to give an order, and the devils who were still under the shroud of the gradually dissipating smoke were timid, and they all began to retreat.

The retreating devils soon found themselves in the range of the soldiers' guns and grenades, once again showing a one-sided slaughter.

A ghost squadron leader who retreated exclaimed, "Your Excellency, the enemy's firepower is really fierce, our army has suffered heavy casualties, and we can't break through the position for the time being!" ”

Nobuyoshi Mishima didn't care about the casualties of his brigade, and turned his head and shouted at Hideo Murai who was not far away:

"Murai-kun, the Eighth Route firepower is fierce, we have to use the advantage of the artillery to let the artillery completely plow the fortifications of the Eighth Route Army several times before launching an attack."

"Good!" Hideo Murai responded.

After the order to retreat was given, the devils of the Mishima Nobuyoshi Brigade retreated like a tide, and the entire brigade was only attacked in the smoke, and the total casualties were more than one-third.

The cold wind, which was not too violent, but was always ongoing, quickly diluted the smoke from the smoke bombs.

The obscured view of the surroundings gradually became clearer again.

At this time, there was no longer a need for vision, and the stormtroopers and pincers of the cavalry company, which were rapidly approaching from the back, were already less than 300 meters away from the rear defensive camp of the Japanese army.

At this distance, in less than twenty seconds, the cavalry of the stormtrooper can break through.

Nobuyoshi Mishima and Hideo Murai naturally left defensive forces at the end of the team, responsible for guarding the security of the back and protecting the artillery positions in the rear.

As soon as the smoke dissipated, the cavalry rushed over like crazy, and the Japanese were caught off guard and were all shocked.

The pincer team, which followed the stormtroopers from both flanks, consisted of some cavalry and some three-wheeled motorcycles, could keep up with the speed of the stormtroopers.

The cavalrymen had machine guns in their saddles, and in the passenger seat of the three-wheeled motorcycles, machine gunners also mounted light machine guns to strafe the Japanese troops to cover the stormtroopers' attacks.

The soldiers of the artillery group of the pincer team that followed quickly quickly dismounted and fought, and in an instant, they set up a 50 small cannon and shelled the guards at the rear of the Japanese army to cover the stormtrooper attack.

A series of tactical moves are performed in one go, as fast as lightning.

Only the devil guard unit at the end of the entire Japanese puppet army team reacted in time, suppressed the firepower of the pincer team, and counterattacked.

Hideo Murai and Nobuyoshi Mishima, who were at the front of the team, also heard the sound of fierce fighting from the guards, and they suddenly woke up.

The Eighth Route Army came to attack the east and west, and it turned out that the deadly surprise attack was on the back.

The cavalry unit of the independent company made a surprise attack on the cavalry that took Qu County a year ago.

Among the information obtained by the Japanese army, the cavalry unit of the Independent Regiment was mentioned, and Hideo Murai and Nobuyoshi Mishima also knew about it.

The two of them were surprised in their hearts, no wonder Balu dared to have the courage to launch a blocking battle on this terrain, which pressed the point of attack on this cavalry.

The war between the two sides has intensified......

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