At the head of Zhongshan Village, there is a calm.

Seeing that the two squadrons in the vanguard did not encounter any resistance, they successfully entered Zhongshan Village.

Matsuda, the captain of the devil brigade who had been worried, breathed a long sigh of relief.

The war was urgent, and Matsuda was not allowed to think too much.

If it were ordinary, he would have been able to think of it.

Since the Eighth Route Army had set up ambushes on both flanks in advance, how could they leave this village that could be used as a fortification for them to be a little devil in vain?

The battle at the head of the village suddenly began, just after the two squadrons of the Japanese vanguard entered the front village.

Shen Quan's deployment tactics were very simple.

The soldiers relied on the houses, courtyard walls, tunnels, and tunnels in the village to fight curtain battles and tunnel battles with devils.

At the head of the village, Shenquan has already set a trap.

The second battalion has half a battalion of troops, and it lurks in the hidden tunnels, tunnels, houses, and low ditches in the area of the village head.

The soldiers' way of playing is very simple, after approaching, they will surprise with firepower from a distance, and attack the light with darkness, and completely entangle the devils of the two squadrons that came in first in the village head area.

Warriors are deliberately equipped with weapons that can burst out in close combat.

For example, Jin made submachine guns.

For example, the shotguns that were originally produced by the Independent Regiment Repair Institute, and the pump-action shotguns that he got from John.

Barge guns, concealed light and heavy machine guns, gun grenades, and more.

With these equipment, which are especially suitable for close combat, in hand, when the battle broke out suddenly, the devils of the two squadrons that entered first immediately tasted the bitterness.

One bullet after another hidden in the shadows suddenly rained down, and the little devil who was caught off guard didn't have time to dodge.

The sneak attack of several shotguns in the face, the projectiles that shot were like splashing ink, and there was no possibility of dodging them within twenty meters.

In the blink of an eye, gunfire erupted from all over the village.

The lives of the devils of the two squadrons that entered the village were constantly harvested like leeks.

As for the Japanese troops outside the village who had not yet entered the village and retreated while returning fire, they were covered by the houses and buildings at the head of the village, and they did not know the specific situation inside, but they heard fierce gunfire in the area at the head of the village.

Matsuda's face was ugly and terrible, and he knew that he had been fooled again.

There is indeed a trap set in advance by the cunning Eight Roads in this village.

The terrain is open, and there is no other place to hold on to it except for the Zhongshan Village in front of you.

The firepower of the troops of the Eighth Route Army, who were fighting on both flanks with the help of tunnels, was too fierce.

Matsuda had no choice, and after realizing that there was an ambush by the Eighth Route Army at the head of the village, Matsuda immediately ordered:

"Attack the village with all your strength and quickly occupy the village!"

Matsuda thought very well, since the Eighth Route Army had troops to set up an ambush in the area at the head of the village in advance.

He only needs to plan his plan, forcibly seize the position at the head of the village, and then rely on the village to counterattack the Eighth Route Army troops outside the village.

"Fire!"

Boom –

In the process of hasty retreat, the Japanese army still did not give up such sharp weapons as artillery.

These guns are not only a drag during evacuation, but also the most powerful firepower in combat.

In the area at the head of the village, there were two squadrons of Japanese troops entering in advance and intertwined with the troops of the Eighth Route Army.

The devil Matsuda was so angry that he was afraid of being injured by mistake, and he couldn't give the order to bombard the area at the head of the village.

Therefore, the guns could only be pointed at the Eighth Route Army troops in the tunnels on both flanks outside the village.

The power of more than a dozen artillery pieces was quite amazing, and in an instant, the tunnels on the left and right wings of the thousand fell into a sea of artillery.

Fortunately, the soldiers were well prepared and built the tunnels on both wings.

In order to avoid damage caused by the shock wave caused by the explosion of shells falling into the tunnel, a fortification consisting of multiple V-shaped trenches was dug as much as possible.

There is a simple anti-artillery fortification in the tunnel - cat's ear hole.

This is a compulsory course for the independent regiment when training the soldiers on how to dig trenches and fortifications since the end of the battle of Lijiapo.

Kong Jie clearly stipulates this:

Whenever there is more time to construct trench fortifications in advance.

The combat performance of the fortifications that can be built must be diverse, not only to defend against the enemy's frontal fire assault, but also to have a certain anti-artillery capability.

Just like the tunnel fortifications in the two wings of the moment.

A round of artillery fire from the devil smashed down, and because of the defense of the tunnel, the casualties caused to the two wings of the Eighth Route Army were extremely limited.

Matsuda, who ordered the cannon to be fired on the other side, also discovered the situation and smashed a round of shells.

In the tunnels on both wings, the firepower of the Eighth Route Army was only slightly sluggish.

After the smoke of the shells cleared, the firepower of the Eighth Route Army poured down again, and there was no intention of weakening it.

Matsuda was stunned and ordered to continue firing.

What he can do at this moment, the most powerful counterattack against the Eighth Route Army, is these dozen artillery pieces in front of him.

He intended to suppress the firepower of the Eighth Route Army in the tunnels on both flanks through the artillery attack of the artillery squadron, so as to cover the main force of the brigade to quickly enter Zhongshan Village and take the front fortifications of Zhongshan Village.

But how can it be so simple?

Just after Matsuda gave the order, more than a dozen artillery pieces of the devil were preparing for a new round of shelling.

The ten M2 type 60 mortars ordered by Shen Quan finally showed their edge.

With the help of the previous Japanese artillery strikes, the artillery positions of the devils had already been completely exposed, plus they stayed in place and carried out fire strikes on the fortifications on both flanks.

The artillery positions of the devils are not on the move, and this is simply a good target.

The forward artillery observation post relayed the news of the devil's artillery position one by one.

Ten 60 mortars quickly corrected the shooting of Zhu Yuan, and then opened fire under Shen Quan's order.

Boom –

Ten 60 mortars showed considerable power, and the shells exploded in the area of the artillery positions behind the devils.

Shen Quan, who commanded the firing of the artillery, saw the results of this round of artillery fire from the telescope, and while applauding, he felt distressed in his heart:

What a good artillery, it won't be long before the surname Shen will be lost, but don't blow up too much!

If it weren't for the conditions, Shen Quan would even want to keep a shot and directly surrender the dozen or so artillery pieces to survive.

Of course, the reality is that that's almost impossible.

The little devil is not stupid, if you don't blow up his artillery, he will bombard you with artillery.

In order to prevent the artillery from being captured by the Eighth Route Army, the little devils will even concentrate on blowing up the artillery at the last moment.

Therefore, it is not very difficult to completely capture an undamaged gun from the devil pistol.

And what Shen Quan has to do at this moment is to challenge this difficulty.

Ten 60 mortars, after a round of shelling, the devil's artillery position was dealt a heavy blow.

The devil artillerymen who were originally firing at the positions of the Eighth Route Army on both flanks were blown to pieces.

At this time, if you look down from God's point of view.

Thanks to the artillery of the devil's squadron, which was previously covering the attack of the main forces towards Zhongshan Village.

At this moment, the dozen or so artillery pieces were slightly separated from the main force of the Japanese army.

There is a distance of more than two hundred meters.

There were less than a squadron of devils left around a dozen guns.

The previous round of artillery bombardment commanded by Shen Quan temporarily paralyzed the devil's artillery position.

Taking advantage of this short gap, in the tunnels on both wings, the soldiers who were closer to the artillery positions of the devils, under the command of the commander, suddenly rushed out of the tunnels and launched a strong attack on the artillery positions of the devils.

I saw the second part - the plan to seize artillery positions.

Shen Quan ordered the soldiers in the village head area to stop leaving their hands and attack with all their strength to suppress the firepower of the Japanese army.

Six heavy machine guns, which had long been buried in concealment, suddenly appeared.

The main theme of the battle no longer revolves around those six-zero mortars.

The 50 small cannons equipped with a large number of soldiers also showed unparalleled lethality.

The grenades fired by the gun grenade team also played a role on this battlefield.

It is often able to quickly and accurately knock out the machine gun fire of the devils covering the infantry charge.

As for the devils of the two squadrons that entered the village first, when the soldiers attacked with the help of powerful melee weapons, the casualties had already exceeded seventy percent at this moment.

The old devil Matsuda didn't expect this.

He believed that his vanguard was fighting the Eighth Route Army in a hot battle.

can take advantage of the entangled Eighth Route Army and lead the main force to take Zhongshan Village in one fell swoop.

So when the main force of the Matsuda Brigade charged towards the fortifications at the head of the village and was running halfway down.

Shen Quan arranged six heavy machine guns at the head of the village.

Plus more than thirty light machine guns.

There is also the fire of 50 small guns, 60 mortars.

Together, they poured down towards the oncoming devils.

This kind of incisive combat should not be too cool.

At a glance, a large number of devils rushed over.

Due to the suppression of the firepower of the Eighth Route Army on both wings, the area in front of us is limited and the terrain is open.

The devils simply didn't have time to pull out the skirmish line, and they didn't have any cover to rely on.

The two sides clashed suddenly.

It can be said that the Eighth Route Army slaughtered the Japanese army unilaterally.

The soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, who were equipped with light machine guns, mostly fired in continuous long bursts on weekdays, in order to seek a high hit rate and destroy the enemy.

How can you take care of so much at this moment?

Seeing the devils rushing over like a tide, they directly set up light machine guns and carried out non-stop continuous rapid fire.

The machine gun spewed tongues of fire frantically at a rate of nearly two hundred rounds per minute.

The bullets in the magazine kept empty.

Constantly changing magazines, the ammunition hand reloading ammunition was busy with sweat.

The second ammunition hand counted the time, and every two minutes, quickly took out the spare barrel and replaced the barrel of the light machine gun, which was already hot.

It is guaranteed that the machine gun can continue to be put into operation.

The flying bullets poured down as much as possible towards the devils in the team cluster.

Under such a firepower attack, the fortifications laid by the soldiers at the entrance of the village are like a bottomless abyss at this moment, no matter how many devils there are, they all accept their lives as ordered.

Looking at the rapid tragic casualties of the Japanese troops, Matsuda, the captain of the devil brigade commanded in the rear, was stunned.

He immediately realized that the soldiers of the two squadrons that he had entered the village first were already very lucky at this moment.

Turning his head, he sensed the attack of the troops of the Eighth Route Army on both flanks of the tunnel, trying to take away the artillery of the Imperial squadron.

Matsuda urgently adjusted his deployment and ordered the rearguard troops to quickly return to support the artillery position.

After capturing the artillery, the area of the head of Zhongshan Village was bombarded with the help of artillery.

Destroy all the powerful firepower fortifications laid by the Eighth Route Army at the head of the village.

Looking at the situation in front of him, the two vanguard squadrons that entered the village had been eaten by the Eighth Route Army.

Matsuda no longer has to worry about accidental injuries under artillery bombardment.

…… Shen Quan, who was prostrate on the roof of a house and observing the situation of the Japanese army, immediately noticed the reinforcement of the devil's rearguard to the artillery position.

Considering that the rear guard of the devils was still seven or eight hundred meters away from the village fortifications at this moment.

Shen Quan immediately shouted: "Heavy machine gunner, leave the devils in front of you alone, suppress the devils' rearguard troops, spread in depth, and shoot overlapping!" ”

This is a unique combat tactic of a heavy machine gun proposed by Kong Jie.

Unlike the previous shooting method of hitting targets visible to the naked eye, shooting in a near-straight line at close range.

This unique heavy machine gun tactic is designed to hit targets from a distance that are not even visible to the naked eye.

The way is simple.

When operating, the heavy machine gunner tilted the muzzle up slightly.

It is used to shoot areas that are far beyond the range of a rifle or even invisible to the naked eye.

When firing from the back, due to the influence of the recoil and barrel vibration, the group of bullets fired in bursts of the heavy machine gun will actually form a longitudinal cross-section of the conical striking surface, and after landing, an oval striking area will be generated.

This area is called the "dispersion firing zone in depth".

The depth of the heavy machine guns scatters the firing area overlap to increase the lethality, ensuring that under the almost raindrop of bullets, even from a considerable distance of fire, it can still inflict large casualties on the enemy.

Figuratively speaking, it is like holding a basin of water and splashing water towards a distant area, and the scattered raindrops are constantly overlapping to ensure that there is hardly any surface in the spilled area to avoid the water droplets.

The soldiers were ordered to quickly raise the muzzle of the heavy machine gun, and after the bullets poured down, the rearguard unit, which was preparing to support the artillery position, was swept away one by one by the heavy machine gun bullets coming from the back.

Shen Quan also commanded several 60 mortars, shelling the area between the devil's artillery position and the rearguard troops supporting the past.

In order to block the approach of the Japanese rearguard units to the artillery positions.

This exchange lasted less than two minutes.

The soldiers in the tunnels on both wings suppressed the fire of the devil's artillery position with the help of 50 small cannons.

With the help of heavy machine gun fire at the head of the village and the fire of the 60 mortar, they quickly seized the artillery position of the devils......

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