Chapter 821: Killing Chickens with a Knife (Second Update!) )
"Company commander, the devils are attacking!" The second platoon commander reminded.
The long-awaited attack finally came, but the company commander was not happy at all.
The devil's caution is reflected here again.
Dozens of figures appeared outside the village, lined up in a line of skirmishers, slowly approaching the village.
But less than one-third of these people are real devils, and the rest are all puppet soldiers, obviously here to test their own reality.
Not only that, but the devil artillery is all in place.
Mortars, infantry guns, mountain artillery, erected in different positions according to different ranges.
If he exposes the light and heavy machine gun firepower for the sake of these dozen devils and two dozen puppet soldiers, these artillery pieces will definitely open fire immediately and destroy them, and then his gains will outweigh his losses.
Thinking of this, the company commander could only give up his idea of wanting to completely annihilate the Japanese army and test the attacking troops.
He ordered in a low voice: "All light and heavy machine guns are retreating into the village, and the riflemen are left to fight, so that the devils will not be able to detect our reality and find our firepower!" ”
After speaking, the company commander also replaced the box gun with a rifle, lying on the earthen wall, and aimed at the devil army Cao in the middle of the attacking troops.
When the puppet army at the front was less than fifty meters away from the earthen wall, the company commander decisively pulled his rifle.
"Bang...... Bang bang bang ......"
Gunfire rang out from the earthen wall at once.
Although there were no light and heavy machine guns, more than 200 rifles fired together, and they still played out the posture of machine guns.
More than 30 Japanese puppet soldiers were killed and wounded in the blink of an eye, and all the living were lying on the ground and shooting at the Seventh Company.
"Woo woo woo ......"
As soon as the second bullet was fired, before the bolt could be pulled, the screech of the cannonball across the sky was heard.
The company commander was blinded, which he did not expect.
Artillery is definitely used to attack valuable targets, remove the light and heavy machine guns yourself, and the targets are gone.
I didn't think that the devil would be willing to use artillery against a group of infantry.
His face turned white instantly, and before he could speak, an explosion sounded in his ears.
Black plumes of smoke rose from behind the earthen wall not far away.
Under the light of the fire generated by the explosion, the picture of several soldiers being blown away was clearly visible to him.
"Hidden, everyone hidden!" The company commander shouted anxiously.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
A series of more violent explosions suddenly rang in his ears, interrupting the company commander's order.
Several obviously thicker black pillars of smoke rose into the air along the earthen wall, and under the light of the fire, the earthen wall next to the explosion point had been blown into a pile of dirt, and there were several large gaps in the earthen wall that stretched for several hundred meters.
The bullets fired by the Japanese puppet army seemed to have eyes, and they all concentrated into a few gaps and flew into the village!
A few fighters who couldn't dodge were instantly beaten into a sieve.
"It's mountain artillery and heavy mortars, they can destroy the earthen walls that help us!" The company commander shouted in a lost voice, and his heart suddenly rose to his throat.
Just ordinary mortars, the earthen wall can also protect everyone and protect most of the soldiers participating in the war.
The addition of mountain artillery and heavy mortars directly made this matter unknown.
They can destroy dirt walls.
The fact that several fighters were killed in an instant at a few gaps and notches is the best proof of this.
But the devils don't care about this, their purpose is to eliminate the Seventh Company. The worse they beat the Seven, the happier they were.
The first round of explosions was not over, and the screaming of the second round of shells across the sky had already reached the ears of the company commander.
At this time, the fool also understood that the little devil was determined to kill the chicken with a knife this time.
The commander of the seventh company lay on the ground with his head in his hands, and he suffered for five minutes before the continuous explosion in his ears stopped.
After shaking his head and shaking off the floating soil covering it, the company commander's face turned pale just by looking around.
The battlefield was too tragic.
Hundreds of meters of earthen walls are littered with gaps.
At least one-third of the more than 200 fighters fighting on the front line of the earthen wall are hiding in these gaps.
With the earthen wall gone, they certainly couldn't have died well, and they fell around the gap in various postures, motionless.
The company commander knew that they were finished, and his heart ached, but he did not forget the little devils who were eyeing him outside the village.
They are the ones who caused it all.
As soon as they were able to kill chickens with knives and shell aimlessly shell riflemen, no one knew what more ruthless means they would use to attack them next.
Therefore, the first line of the earthen wall can no longer be guarded, and he ordered in a hurry.
"Retreat, everyone retreats into the village...... Fast...... We didn't defend here, and went directly into the village to fight with the devils in the streets. ”
The team of more than a hundred people, bent over, had just begun to retreat, and the attack of the Japanese puppet army began.
Two platoons of more than 60 puppet soldiers rushed to the front, and more than 30 devils followed closely behind to supervise the battle, forming a straggler line and quickly approaching the village.
The deputy company commander hesitated for a moment and reminded: "Company commander, the devil has started to attack, do you want us to fight here again." ”
"The Japanese puppet army has dispatched a full 100 people this time, and it will definitely not open fire during the exchange of fire like just now, and even blow up its own people."
"As long as we put them close to fight, we will definitely be able to catch them off guard, inflict heavy damage on them, and avenge the soldiers who died just now."
The squadron leader of the district squadron was also eager to try.
He also lost one-third of his subordinates in the bombardment just now, and his morale and combat effectiveness were greatly affected, and he urgently needed a victory to take revenge and boost the morale of his troops, who had just fallen.
The company commander shook his head and replied: "No, everyone has entered the village, and there can be no more fighting here." ”
"Although the devils dispatched nearly 100 people, most of them were puppet troops, and the devils were hiding at the end."
"If the devils really fired during our firefight, they would definitely die as the puppet soldiers at the front."
"Do you think the devils care about the lives and deaths of those dozens of puppet soldiers?"
"If we can exchange the lives of dozens of puppet soldiers for dozens of lives in our garrison regiment, I believe that the devils will definitely rush to do it."
After the Japanese army outside the village attacked the position and confirmed that the garrison regiment they were going to deal with had been surrounded in Dongzhuang, Commander Shaozo rushed directly here, intending to personally command the troops and destroy the opponent.
The method of killing chickens with a knife was decided by him.
Although the Imperial Army was not rich enough to squander artillery shells, it could still support one or two high-intensity operations.
Now the opponent has been surrounded by his own group.
As long as the next battle is successfully fought, the troops will have no other battles to fight in a short period of time, and there will be enough time to wait for replenishment.
So Shao Zuo made a decision to kill chickens with a knife.
Fight quickly and take out your opponents with minimal casualties.
"Sir, the attacking troops have rushed fifty meters outside the village, and there is no movement in the village, it must be that the artillery fire just now has worked." A lieutenant squadron leader stood next to him complimentingly.
"The Eighth Route Army guarding behind the earthen wall just now must have suffered heavy casualties, and then was forced to retreat into the village, and saw with his own eyes the picture of the Eighth Route Army being blown up when the earthen wall was destroyed." Not to be outdone, another squadron leader complimented.
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