Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Battle for Position

A hundred or so people roared and shouted, and rushed to the occupied positions without hesitation.

The two 50.2 mm mortars of the artillery platoon fired pitiful artillery suppression, and the high-explosive grenades exploded on the Japanese positions. The Japanese began to organize a counterattack, and the 6.5 mm bullets fired from the Type 38 rifle easily passed through the human body, and people continued to fall on the way of the charge.

Grenades fell into the crowd from top to bottom, and the sound of explosions rang out in the ears, bringing up debris of dirt.

Chen Yu stepped over a fallen corpse and raised his rifle to aim.

'Bang! ’

A Japanese soldier with his body sticking out of the trench and throwing a grenade was hit, and the grenade in his hand fell into the trench, and a few seconds later an explosion sounded.

It is not far from the halfway point of the mountain to the top of the mountain, only more than 50 meters, after a short exchange of fire. We re-entered this lost position, and everyone screamed at the Japanese to find an attack, or raised their bayonets, or suppressed them with their Stenn submachine guns.

Chen Yu accompanied the crowd to rush into the Japanese position, quickly pulled the bolt to withdraw and reload, and raised the gun to shoot at the Japanese monkey rushing towards him. The Japanese soldiers, who were generally only 1.45 meters tall, held a Type 38 rifle about the same height as themselves, and stabbed the Chinese army with a bright bayonet.

The Japanese army was in a team of three, closely following the tactics of the infantry drill, while the Chinese army rushed forward in a haphazard manner, without any rules to speak of.

Next to him, a young soldier was fighting with the Japanese soldiers, and the two rolled from the trench to the trench, looking for everything they could use beside them, guns, bayonets, stones, rice bowls, and steel helmets······

Shooting the bullet in the rifle, Chen Yu pulled out the pistol on his belt, shot the bullet in the magazine at the Japanese soldier next to him, and replaced it with a spare magazine to continue shooting.

In close combat, we have the Type 77 rifle with a very fast rate of fire, and the Stern submachine gun for hand-to-hand combat. Although this plumber's masterpiece has many problems, it can be used in this kind of melee combat.

'Bang Bang Bang~~~'

Shooting the bullets in the spare magazine and killing two Japanese soldiers, Chen Yu changed into a rifle and joined the white-knuckle battle.

Rushing to the military cao holding the command knife in front of him, Chen Yu dismantled the bayonet and threw it at the Japanese military Cao, and quickly picked up the butt of the gun and smashed it. The huge strength made Jun Cao Hu's mouth numb, stepped forward sideways and raised the long knife in his hand to slash, Chen Yu raised his rifle to block, and then held Jun Cao's hands with the knife desperately, and pushed him back fiercely.

Chen Yu didn't know where the strength came from, so he pushed General Cao into the trench behind him with all his might, a trench more than one meter high, plus Chen Yu's weight. Jun Cao's back hit the trench, and his hideous face showed a trace of pain.

Falling into the trench, Chen Yu grabbed the hands of the Japanese soldier Cao, and leaned sideways and pressed his knee against his mandible.

'Click'.

The opponent's mandible was broken by Chen Yu with his knee, and the whole person passed out, snatching the command knife in his hand, Chen Yu stabbed him in the chest. Warm blood splattered out, staining Chen Yu's face bright red.

Crawling out of the trench, he reached out and wiped the blood from his face.

‘hai~~~pu! ’

Spit out a mouthful of bloody spit, Chen Yu looked at the Japanese soldiers who were wandering in front of him. It was a very young young man, with a slight fluff on the corner of his mouth, and when he saw Chen Yu kill his commander, he trembled and raised his bayonet and shouted.

"Onboard!"

Pushing away the bayonet that stabbed him in the chest, Chen Yu kicked over the young Japanese soldier private, his hideous face and his face was covered with blood, and the young Japanese soldier decisively threw away the 38-type rifle that was even higher than himself and ran backwards.

Picking up the rifle on the ground, Chen Yu pulled the bolt to check the bullets in the chamber, aiming at the back of his head as he fled.

'Hook ~ Smack! ’

A 6.5mm Saka bullet shattered his steel helmet, and he fell to the ground at the moment of running, and his body twitched a few times before he lost his breath.

Picking up the grenades of the fallen Japanese soldiers on the ground, Chen Yu threw them at the three Japanese tactical squads, and the grenades exploded at their feet. The first soldiers who rushed to the position had not yet gained a foothold, and the Japanese counter-charge had already begun to bear fruit.

Their tactics were rigid, but they were a complete victory against us who had no tactics to speak of.

Hiding in the trench to reload his M1911 pistol, he stepped out of the trench with a Type 38 rifle. Seeing that the second group of soldiers was about to rush into the position, and a few old oilmen were slowly moving back, Chen Yu raised his pistol and hit them at their feet.

"Those who retreat from the battle, slash!"

Chen Yu's face was full of blood: "If we retreat, our morale will also retreat, and we will no longer be able to rush to the position." Give it to me! ”

Several old oilmen glanced at each other, and saw that Chen Yu was covered in blood, and he was the first soldier, gritted his teeth and raised the spear in his hand and rushed towards a Japanese tactical group.

"The Heavy is dead? Fire suppression! ”

"What's it called, come on."

"Fire suppression."

Cui Yong, who was carrying a heavy machine gun, took the lead, looking at the chaotic position and having no time to assemble a heavy machine gun, snatched the light machine gun of a person next to him, and fired a short shot at the Japanese with a gloomy face.

'Da Da · Dada······'

The roar of machine guns began, the second group of soldiers also moved into position, and under the new fire suppression and personnel superiority, the Japanese began to slowly alternate cover the retreat. The infantry led by Chen Yu all rushed into the position, and under the suppression of machine gun fire and submachine guns, the Japanese army was beaten and did not dare to continue the counter-charge, and retreated down the mountain.

Chen Yu picked up a Type 77 rifle on the ground and shot at the retreating Japanese troops.

"Assemble heavy machine guns, light machine guns continue to suppress fire. Tell the artillery to start extending the fire, and not to stop the shelling until I give the order to do so, unless the bore of the gun is blown up. ”

"Yes." A sergeant answered, turned and ran to the back of the hill and shouted at the artillerymen.

Filled with bullets, Chen Yu ran to the forward position with his gun. Some people here have already started shooting behind the sandbag fortifications, and Chen Yu has also joined in the shooting.

The two mortars also began to shoot extendedly, Cui Yong also assembled the heavy machine gun, and several people carried the heavy machine gun on the fortification. The water-cooled Maxim heavy machine gun began to spit out tongues of fire, and the light machine gun began to fire long bursts, not caring about the hot muzzle.

One after another spare magazines were replaced, and the overheated barrel was replaced by two. The magazines of the Makqin heavy machine guns were also changed several times, and it was not until the remaining dozen Japanese soldiers hid in the jungle that the gunfire on the position stopped.

Chen Yu grabbed a soldier at random and said, "Tell the artillery platoon to stop shooting." ”

"Yes."

The position was recaptured, and one Japanese squad was repulsed, leaving only a dozen or so to flee in panic. Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Chen Yu lay in the trench and closed his eyes and gasped.

He opened his eyes suddenly, stood up and began to give orders.

"The veterans organized the people below, immediately built fortifications, cleaned the position, brought up the ammunition on the back mountainside, and beware of the Japanese counterattack."

The position was recaptured, and Master Mai carefully climbed into the position with the radio on his back, with an uncontrollable smile on his face.

"The position was recaptured, and we succeeded."

Chen Yu sat on a Japanese corpse, took out a half-pack of cigarettes from his pocket, lit one himself, and handed one to Master Mai. The rest, along with matches and cigarette cases, was given to the young warrant officer who was organizing the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and the man smiled, with a childishness in his eyes that did not belong to the battlefield.