Chapter 30: Night Attack
'Bang! ’
The crisp sound of gunfire entered the position, and Chen Yu, who closed his eyes and took a nap, immediately opened his eyes and woke up Master Mai, who was sleeping next to him after drinking.
"All enter the position, on alert!"
At the sound of an order, those who did not sleep woke up those who were asleep, and those who could not sleep had already entered the position.
Hearing the sound of gunfire, the artillery platoon on the anti-slope of the position immediately fired a flare. In the dreary night of the rainforest, the flares obscured the night, pulled the position back to dawn, and magnified the nervousness of everyone.
Four or five hundred meters in front of the position, a Japanese squad of more than 40 people hooked their waists and slowly attacked the position. The flares exposed their movements to the defenders, and the sentry in charge of the guard pulled the trigger before dying, warning those in the position with their own lives.
Seeing that they were discovered, the Japanese soldiers did not sneak up, stood up and began to charge. Shells fell in the sky, the two Type 92 infantry guns aimed their guns here for the first time, the high-explosive grenades exploded on the position, the Japanese grenadiers fired smoke grenades to cover the sight of the defenders to cover the infantry charge, and the people on the position pulled the bolts and aimed their guns at the Japanese troops.
Chen Yu also pulled the bolt of the gun: "Don't fire the heavy machine gun first, be careful of the Japanese shelling." ”
Cui Yong, who pressed his hands on the stimulator, looked solemn, and silently withdrew his position to hide in the trench anti-artillery. He knew what this Maxim heavy machine gun represented, it was half of the lives of the brothers on the position, and if it was blown up by Japanese artillery fire, it would not be a part of the loss of the position.
The Japanese army advanced to more than 100 meters, and Master Mai made a cameo appearance as a herald, and the artillery platoon began to provide artillery support to relieve the pressure of the Japanese attack. As two 50.2 mm mortars fired grenades, fire also opened on the position, and two light machine guns began to fire in short bursts, moving the firing point after two magazines.
The light machine gun that fired and shifted strangely made the Japanese grenadier operator very angry, adjusted the firing limit, and after firing one round of calibrated shells, as soon as the second round of shells was fired, he was severely reprimanded by the commander of the attack.
The grenades carried by the Japanese grenadier group were limited, and several rounds of strikes were ineffective, and it was estimated that they could use grenades. However, the use of grenades as artillery shells was also flawed, and the range was only about 200 meters, so that the Japanese grenadiers had to be suppressed by infantry fire.
Chen Yu ran in the trench to direct the defense, and the high-explosive grenades fired by the Type 92 infantry guns fell on the position, and some people were constantly blown away, or a large pile of dirt and rubble was blown up. The positions were filled with the wails of the wounded, the sound of rifles firing.
Walking to the heavy machine gun, Chen Yu kicked Cui Yong, who was hiding in the trench, and picked up the telescope that was soaking in Master Mai.
"If you're dead, if you're not dead, go to the position, stare at the machine gun on the opposite side, and I'll give you the direction."
Cui Yong got up and urged the bomb feeder, opened the safety and pressed it on the initiator.
In front of the position, the smoke bombs fired by the Japanese army made people return to southern Yunnan, and the dense fog that would appear at any time.
"Flares."
"Flares!" Hong Ting lay on the ground and shouted.
A dozen seconds later, a flare was lifted into the air, pulling the smoke and darkness back into daylight.
"Eleven o'clock in front left, three hundred and twenty meters, Japanese machine gun crew."
With Chen Yu's reported direction, Cui Yong bared his mouth and began to shoot. The bullet chain kept being torn out of the ammunition supply box, the thick tongue of fire was extremely bright on the position, and the bullets that were rapidly ejected swept by, and the Japanese machine gun team lying in the crater was torn to pieces by the bullets fired by the heavy machine gun.
"Immediately move to the reserve firing point, hurry up!"
After knocking out a machine gun group on the opposite side, Cui Yong didn't care about anything else, and ordered the deputy shooter and ammunition crew to start disassembling the heavy machine gun.
'Bang! Boom! ’
Within a dozen seconds of running out, two grenades landed at the firing point just now. And Cui Yong has already moved to the reserve firing point and began to assemble heavy machine guns for short burst fire to provide fire suppression for those on the position.
Looking at the shells that kept falling on the road of the Japanese attack, Chen Yu waved his hand and called Hong Ting: "Go and ask the artillery platoon to leave some shells for me, the bastard treats my shells so badly, I'm not afraid of exploding!" ”
"Yes, sir." Hong Ting carried a rifle and ran non-stop to the artillery platoon.
Chen Yu lay behind the sandbag and raised his rifle to shoot.
The machine gun team of the Japanese army on the opposite side was targeted by heavy machine guns, and Cui Yong's guy was a chicken thief, and he fired short bursts before discovering the machine gun team on the opposite side, and once he found the fire of the Japanese machine gun, it was a fierce shot. The Japanese machine gun crew was hit by him and could not provide fire support, and the grenade canister also ran out of grenades, and the range of firing grenades was only 200 meters, which was not enough to heavy machine guns.
The Type 92 infantry guns on the opposite side carried out shelling from time to time, looking for the heavy machine gun that was constantly changing the firing point, but after firing several rounds of artillery fire to no avail, they simply stopped looking.
Losing the role of grenadiers and machine guns, it was difficult for the Japanese to destroy the heavy fire support on the position, and the night attack ended up leaving behind a dozen corpses and retreating. The defenders on the position saw that the Japanese guns were sparse, and finally there was no fire and stopped shooting.
Chen Yu was not at ease, so he asked the artillery platoon to fire a flare, and found that the Japanese army had retreated before he settled down.
This time, without Chen Yu's orders, Hong Ting immediately arranged forward sentry posts, ordered the soldiers to take turns to rest, and began to repair the position to treat the wounded.
Master Mak walked up from the artillery position on the anti-slope, picked up the flask and poured it hard, and he didn't know how much wine he coaxed from the British, and he still hadn't finished it.
"Captain, once again we have repelled the attack of the Japanese monkeys."
Chen Yu frowned tightly and said: "Next time it won't be so easy, the Japanese army has already figured us out through several attacks today." They had suffered very little artillery fire from the position next door, but it was strong, and having occupied it, they knew that new reinforcements were coming to support it.
Next time their main attack direction is here, Missimissi's side will be much easier, but I don't know if we can stand up to it. ”
Master Mai saw Chen Yu's worries, took out the wine jug and handed it to him.
"Don't worry, we'll fight them off just like we did this time."
"No way."
"Why?"
Chen Yu took the bottle and took a sip, the aroma of whiskey was fragrant, and the group of British gentlemen would really enjoy it, it was estimated that the wine was shipped from the British mainland.
"We only have more than 50 soldiers left who can be put into battle, and this is still with artillery, more than half of us are killed, and it is an accident that this improvised infantry company did not collapse and escape, and I can't think of a situation where we will be able to block the Japanese attack next time."
Master Mai looked at the soldiers on the battlefield dementedly, the death rate was more than half, what Chen Yu said was that it was a blessing in misfortune that this improvised infantry company did not collapse. The Japanese just got support today, and we're suffering casualties all the time.
The Japanese army has attacked three times from the beginning to the present, and Chen Yu had said before when he resisted the first tentative attack with He Shenzhi in the main position, that the position would be occupied within three attacks.
Who knows when the next Japanese offensive will begin, maybe in half an hour, maybe dawn, maybe tomorrow morning······
"Bang~~~"
'Bang ······'
Hundreds of meters away, the Japanese army appeared in front of the position again, and suddenly there were explosions and gunshots, which pulled everyone on the position back from the relaxation just now, and the fire of the explosion was so dazzling in the dark night.