For a time, artillery fire suddenly flew on the position.

Caught off guard, although the volunteers had been well hidden at Liu Lang's request, and there were not many exposed, there were still many people who were hit by the dense flow of bullets and flying shrapnel, and fell in the trench screaming. The positions of several light machine guns, which were still desperately spewing flames just now, also rose from several puffs of gunpowder smoke and violent explosions.

The sound of downward firing from the position suddenly became sparse.

Seeing that the firepower of the Chinese resistance was suppressed, and the remnants of the Japanese troops who were prostrate on the ground in front of the position were ready to move again, while organizing people to drag their wounded soldiers to some dirt bags and other natural bunkers, some Japanese troops actually began to wave their sapper shovels and desperately dig up field individual bunkers on the position.

Seeing them like that, not only did they not have the intention of taking the opportunity to retreat, but they also planned to hold on and wait for their reinforcements to arrive before attacking. In terms of this will to fight alone, this Fourth Division is stronger than the wretched waste ridiculed in the history of the wild.

"Order them to continue to suppress fire while the frontal position guarantees their own safety, and the positions on both flanks do not allow the Japanese to approach a distance of 200 meters at any cost." Liu Lang looked at the battlefield seven hundred meters away, his face remained unchanged, and he continued to order.

As a result, the gunfire on both flanks of the No. 1 position suddenly became fierce, and the Japanese offensive in the flank attack was also embarrassed. However, the gunfire on the frontal position was not as fierce as before, and several light machine guns were also suppressed by grenadiers and infantry guns.

"Brothers, let's hide Lao Tzu and then beat him, and bury my head in Lao Tzu." The commander of the third battalion walked through the trenches with bloodshot eyes and hunched over, dripping blood in his heart and roaring angrily to his soldiers.

How could he not feel distressed? Don't look at the fact that he killed at least thirty little devils in an offensive just now, creating a great record, but the losses of his three battalions were also not small.

In the frenzied retaliation of the Japanese army, two light machine guns with meritorious service were directly hit by grenades from grenades, and while the shooter and the deputy shooter were killed by the explosion, the light machine guns were also distorted and turned into a ball of scrap metal. If it weren't for the other two machine guns that dodged quickly, the third battalion would have only been left with rifles. Anyway, the last two light machine guns of the third battalion will not be taken out again until the last moment.

The casualties were also heavy, and at this moment, at least a dozen people were swept away by heavy machine gun bullets. THE CONSEQUENCES OF BEING SWEPT BY THE 7.7MM CALIBER BULLETS OF THE TYPE 92 HEAVY MACHINE GUN BASICALLY REPRESENT DEATH IN THIS ERA OF LACK OF MEDICAL TREATMENT. There were also 17 or 8 soldiers who were wounded by flying grenades and shrapnel from infantry artillery, and in the first wave of the Japanese offensive alone, he almost lost a platoon of troops, and the casualties were even a few more heavy than those of the Japanese army.

Seeing this situation on the battlefield, the face of the captain of the Japanese infantry brigade in the distance finally eased greatly, "Yo Xi, the people of China have run out of donkey skills, order the Yanagawa squadron to continue to speed up, concentrate all the light and heavy machine guns to continue to suppress the position of the people of China, and tell them that whoever can plant the flag of the imperial army on the position of the people of China, His Excellency Nagumo Dazuo will personally wear the Order of the Golden Eagle on him." ”

Yes, after seeing that the Chinese position was firmly suppressed by their own firepower, the ambition in the heart of the Japanese infantry captain grew like a weed in spring, and he began to dream of success in the first battle again.

After previous fire reconnaissance, he had seen that there were no heavy weapons on the Chinese position, except for four light machine guns and one heavy machine gun that had never been revealed. As for the massive number of grenades thrown like raindrops just now, in his opinion, it was more like the desperate fight of the Chinese peasant rebels, and he did not believe that the Chinese could still have such a fierce grenade offensive as just now, and now only a dozen grenades were occasionally thrown out, which has shown the lack of follow-up of their ammunition storage.

The 4th Division, which had just been included in the Kwantung Army, was not like the other Kwantung Army divisions that had participated in the Battle of Rehe two years earlier, and they had not fought since the Russo-Japanese War, especially against the Chinese army. The 20th Infantry Wing had fought in the Northeast and China, but the 20th Infantry Wing was too lazy to bother with those poor scum who had some pistols and rifles.

Come to think of it, even if these Chinese peasants in Rehe were a little better equipped than them, they were not much stronger.

The peddlers of the Fourth Division, which was regarded as an "outlier" by other divisions of the Kwantung Army, probably did not know that the Chinese army, due to its lack of heavy weapons, loved grenades. Whether it is the elite Central Army, or the poor and scummy warlords' miscellaneous army, including the "Called Huazi" Sichuan Army, which will wear straw sandals and carry the rifles and have been polished and bolted in the future, they will have to be tied with straw ropes, everyone must have at least four grenades stuck in their bodies, which is their most important close-range "heavy weapon".

Not to mention Sun Yongqin's department, which had sufficient gunpowder and could not produce other weapons. When they had nothing to do, they produced grenades. In order to cope with the Japanese attack, on the position, whether it was the No. 1 position or the No. 2 position 500 meters away, each soldier placed at least ten or more grenades in the individual anti-aircraft artillery holes dug around him, and he was definitely a wealthy grenade household.

With the commander's military order, the infantry squadron that had just dispatched two squads to attack and prepare to cover the frustrated attack and the colleagues who had withdrawn suddenly seemed to be beaten like chickens, not only the two infantry squads began to accelerate, but even the infantry squad that followed behind and was responsible for covering also began to accelerate.

Nearly 200 people from three infantry squads fiercely rushed towards the No. 1 position, plus nearly 20 Japanese soldiers who were still desperately digging field individual bunkers forty or fifty meters in front of the position, and the number of Japanese soldiers attacking in this wave was as high as more than 200.

At the same time, two infantry squadrons, with a total of twelve grenadiers, twelve light machine guns, and four heavy machine guns from a heavy machine gun squad of the infantry brigade, launched a comprehensive fire suppression of the front of position No. 1. Looking at that position, the No. 1 position was instantly in danger, crumbling in the wave of the Japanese offensive.

Sun Yongqin, who had been holding the telescope in the distance, did not put it down, his face became more and more difficult to see, he did not expect that the Japanese army would become more crazy after suffering such a heavy loss, and directly dispatched a whole infantry squadron to charge. Is this the hawker group ridiculed by Liu Tuanzuo?

In his opinion, this was no less than the ferocious counterattack of the remnants of the Eighth Division that he had encountered two years earlier. If it weren't for Deng Wenbu's cavalry attacking in time, I'm afraid that the army under his command would have disappeared long ago. Although he has been fighting against the Japanese invaders, he has never underestimated the strong combat effectiveness of the Japanese invaders. Even if he were to sneak up on a squad-level Japanese convoy, he would definitely not be less than a battalion of troops. If he encountered an infantry squadron of the Japanese army, he even dispatched a regiment of thousands of men at most to besiege it, but even then, he never had the record of completely annihilating a single infantry squadron of the Japanese invaders, and the Japanese infantry squadron of nearly 200 men could often hold out for five or six hours until their reinforcements came to the rescue.

"Order the Yanagawa squadron, pay attention to the mortars of the Chinese, but don't worry too much, our mountain artillery will give them enough support." Looking at his own soldiers, who had already approached the Chinese position within 150 meters, a smile appeared on the face of the Japanese infantry captain, and he continued to speak to the herald.

"Hey." The Japanese herald was ordered to go to deliver the order.

Yes, from the Japanese to the Chinese defenders themselves, were waiting for mortars. The number of 82 mortars supported by Liu Lang was regarded as the biggest killer weapon of Sun Yongqin's department, and it played an unimaginable role in repeated battles with the Rehe garrison. If it weren't for the presence of mortars, the 1st Mixed Brigade stationed in Rehe would not have been so distressed by Sun Yongqin's peasant rebels and asked for help from the Kwantung Army headquarters.

You must know that being harassed to the point of crying by a group of peasant rebels is the first time for all the Kwantung Army outside the three northeastern provinces.

The key is that this mortar is small in size and light in weight, but it is not small in power, and the Japanese infantry who only carries grenadiers is really no match for mortars unless they carry mountain guns. Several times transport convoys as high as one infantry squadron were attacked by the Chinese, that is, they were beaten by mortar guns, and if they were not quite strong in combat, I am afraid they would have held out for less than five hours until the arrival of reinforcements.

But now, with a longer range and more powerful mountain artillery, the Japanese army will not be afraid of mortars, and they are waiting for the appearance of Chinese mortars to destroy them in one fell swoop.

At that point, their 20th Wing's rapid-fire artillery squadron will be ready for action. Six 37-mm rapid-fire guns could tear apart any fire from the Chinese's positions that dared to resist.

In the tone that the Japanese like to say the most, the little devil, actually, is cunning and big.