Because of the terrain restrictions, the hilltop position is not large, the width is not more than 300 meters, the depth will not exceed 30 meters, and the main position with a radius of 9,000 meters can be placed on an infantry company of 160 people.

According to Okazaki Shoichi's understanding of the Chinese army, it is good to have 3 to 4 light machine guns in this infantry company's position, and if there are heavy machine guns to help, it proves that this army is already the elite of the Chinese army.

Obviously, six light machine guns appeared on the Chinese position at once, which is equivalent to two in a platoon, which is already close to the Japanese army's own light firepower configuration. There may still be something hidden, but there shouldn't be many, and Okazaki Shoichi never believes that the light firepower of the Chinese army will comprehensively surpass the Imperial Japanese Army.

His 4 heavy machine guns, 10 light machine guns, and 10 grenadier canisters can absolutely suppress the opponent's firepower in an all-round way in terms of firepower, and coupled with the skillful military qualities of the cavalry under his command, Okazaki has the confidence to capture 80 percent of the main position of the old pass at this moment.

At the same time as the main position received fire, the Japanese troops on both flanks also began to attack tentatively, but the offensive mode was mainly to shoot at each other.

I have to say that the arrogance of the Japanese army does have his arrogant capital, although the barrel of the standard 38-type cavalry rifle equipped with this group of cavalry is shorter than that of the 38-type rifle for infantry, and the firing range is nearly 100 meters, but the marksmanship of the Japanese army is really good.

At a distance of more than 300 meters, they still fired from the back, but they hit extremely accurately, and one was accidentally bitten by their bullets, and the front position of the first battalion of the 772nd Regiment in charge of the right flank position, within five minutes of the two sides starting to shoot, five people were wounded in a row, and one person was seriously wounded on the spot by a bullet in the head.

Although three of them were wounded by ricocheting bullets from a heavy machine gun and four light machine guns fired by the Japanese army, two of them were actually hit by Japanese rifles.

And the condescending result of their whole company was only to wound two Japanese criminals, and they were rescued by the rest of the Japanese soldiers and dragged behind the boulder for treatment.

This made the officers and men of the first battalion and one company of the 772nd Regiment, who had the advantage of the terrain and the advantage of numbers, but also suffered a lot of losses, and their faces were somewhat unbearable.

Who are they? Half of them are veterans who have experienced a whole year of strategic shifts, rushed out of the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, and have gone through countless battles, and they are the elite of the elite. Although there have been failures, but it is either because the enemy has superior forces or the enemy has superior firepower, even if it is a failure, the enemy's losses are much more painful than theirs.

It can be said that they have never fought a battle in which they would have suffered losses when they had superior forces.

But a group of little devils, the number is far inferior to them, not to mention, there are only a few light and heavy machine guns, and they even have a 5 to 2 record, which is really unbearable.

The most different thing between the red army and the ordinary national army is that they attach great importance to the honor of the troops, which is also the first battle between the 386 Brigade and the little devils since the establishment of the Anti-Japanese United Front, how can they fight so badly? If it spreads, wouldn't it make the chief lose face and be laughed off by the friendly troops?

As a result, the platoon commander asked the company commander for battle, and the company commander asked the battalion commander for battle, hoping to lift the military order issued by the regiment commander before the war that only half of the machine guns were allowed to fire, and that the regiment headquarters had strengthened the two mortars given to the battalion headquarters and that no artillery could be fired without an order from the regiment headquarters.

As soon as the mortar fired, it could kill the heavy machine gun that was firing frantically and almost suppressing most of the position, not to mention that the Japanese soldiers were hiding in bunkers hundreds of meters away.

Without the suppression of the little devil's heavy machine gun, with their marksmanship, the little devil would definitely not dare to shoot at them so unscrupulously, and the soldiers of an infantry company in the front-line position were convinced that the little devil was by no means their opponent by relying on infantry shooting alone.

That's also their self-confidence from fighting with the bald boss for a long time.

What's more, they no longer have to worry about the lack of bullets this time. As soon as they arrived at the position, Regiment Commander Liu of the Independent Regiment sent a full 50,000 rounds of machine rifle ammunition, and each of the more than 2,000 people in the regiment had 20 rounds of ammunition out of thin air, plus the 50 rounds of ammunition issued by each infantry before the war, which was unprecedented wealth. Even nearly 10,000 rounds of ammunition and a pile of less than 100 people have heaped this group of little devils to death.

But Regiment Commander Ye, who had been sitting in the front-line command headquarters, was as heavy as water, scolded the commander of the first battalion who came to ask for battle, and went back to command the battle with a red face.

Commander Ye drove away the commander of the first battalion who came to ask for battle, and continued to observe this small group of Japanese troops with obvious intention to contain the Japanese army, his face became more and more solemn.

This was not the first time that the Red Army had fought against the Japanese invaders, as early as half a month earlier, the 115th Division had ambushed the baggage squadron of the Itagaki Division at Pingxingguan. The battle report showed that the annihilation of more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers was extremely brilliant, but the 115th Division also suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and suffered a battle loss of almost 1 to 1.

This is already extremely strong for the hundreds of thousands of national troops who fought in Hebei but lost consecutive battles. It can also be regarded as the most glorious battle fought by the Chinese army since the Battle of Shanxi.

But as a senior commander, Commander Ye has a new understanding of the combat power of the little devil. The 115th Division is almost the elite, it is the elite who have participated in the strategic transfer and have experienced a hundred battles, and they also occupy geographical advantages, but they have a draw with the second-line troops of the Japanese army whose strength is far inferior to them, which shows how strong the combat effectiveness of the little devils is.

Although it has been taken very seriously, as soon as the battle is engaged today, the little devil gave the 772 regiment a dismissal, so that Commander Ye once again realized the combat power of the Japanese invaders. It was even more terrifying than he had imagined.

This time, they are not yet completely dependent on fire equipment.

In fact, in terms of equipment, the equipment of the 772 regiment is not bad.

The equipment of the 772nd Regiment naturally cannot catch up with the independent regiment, but because of a batch of light and heavy weapons donated by Liu Langhadapu, the 772nd Regiment can be regarded as drinking a little soup, divided into two heavy machine guns and 4 light machine guns, plus the original light and heavy weapons, it can barely reach the configuration of one infantry battalion, one heavy machine gun, six light machine guns and two mortars, even if it is compared with the small Japanese army responsible for containing them in front of them, it will definitely not lose.

However, in terms of rifles, they were a little inferior to the Japanese army. The old-fashioned Hanyang-made firing range is not only inferior to the 38 big cover of the Japanese infantry, but even the 38 type cavalry gun is a little worse, plus the Japanese army has several machine guns to cover and its own marksmanship is extremely accurate, which is also the reason why the Japanese army has an advantage even if it shoots from the back.

In the binoculars, the three light machine guns that were allowed to fire only fired two shuttle bullets, and a few grenades flew up and down from top to bottom, accurately exploding at a place where the firing point was only two or three meters.

If it weren't for the fact that the machine-gun bunkers were fairly well repaired with sandbags, several machine-gun shooters would have been killed or wounded, and the machine guns would have been destroyed.

However, as a veteran, the machine gun shooter and the assistant shooter, who were more sensitive to the sense of crisis, also quickly moved with the machine gun and ammunition, and sure enough, within a few seconds, the slightly adjusted Japanese grenadier came again, directly blowing up the sandbag fortifications.

Commander Ye couldn't help but take a deep breath, if he didn't have mortars or other long-range weapons to suppress the little devil's grenadiers and heavy machine guns, this battle would be completely unfought.

This small group of Japanese troops will only wait until the Japanese army arrives in a big way. In the distance, with the help of Japanese artillery, the infantry launched an attack after a round of indiscriminate bombardment that blew the position into a mess. And at the close range, the grenadiers with accurate strikes will strike at the remaining points of fire with precision. Once you've finished shooting all of your fire, you'll let their light and heavy machine guns cover the line with their skilled and individual infantry assault.

Relying only on the rifle fire in the hands of the infantry to counter the machine rifle bullets that they poured like a torrential rain, there was simply only one way, to fill with human lives, until the defenders were dead and wounded, or the army was discouraged because of the casualties and had to retreat.

It can be said that it was this skirmish that made the 772nd Regiment, which was also full of self-confidence, realize the strength of the Japanese army.

Very strong.

However, this is also the result of the 772nd Regiment receiving Liu Lang's military order to shrink its strength. Otherwise, when the two 82 guns were forced to open fire with all their might, and several light and heavy machine gun points of the little devils were sent to the sky, it would be terrible for these Japanese troops who were still coaxing the red troops who were not bad at shooting on the mountain.

It's just that it scares them away.

What the 772nd Regiment has to do now is not to expose all its strength and fight to the death with the little devils on both wings, but to hang them like fishing, waiting for the last opportunity to finally annihilate them.

And all this must be after the main force of the Japanese cavalry wing on the main position of the old pass has completely bitten the hook.

At the same time, in the direction of the main position of the old pass.

The six light machine gun firing points that had been exposed were taken care of by 10 grenadier canisters, and more than 40 grenades blew up the location of the light machine gun firing points.

Ye Zihua, who is also dealing with little devils for the first time, also secretly inhaled cool air, if it weren't for the fact that the machine gun shooters were all veterans who fought against the Japanese invaders in the Battle of the Great Wall for more than 2 months, after firing two shuttle bullets, they would hold the gun and hide in the anti-artillery hole specially reserved for them ten meters away, if it wasn't good, only this round of grenade attacks, these 6 light machine guns would have to lose more than half.

However, according to Liu Tuanzuo's pre-arranged fishing strategy. Two of the six light machine guns were still withdrawn from the battlefield as originally planned, and were withdrawn to the slightly rudimentary anti-shelling anti-slope tunnel halfway up the mountain. Only 4 machine guns were still swimming and firing, dealing blows to the Japanese who were testing the firing point.

The Japanese army was not in a hurry to launch an all-out attack, but kept probing, testing the deployment of fire on the hilltop position.

Ye Zihua was also very patient, and it was not until more than half an hour after the two sides had fought for more than half an hour that he took out the "last" heavy weapon, a Makqin heavy machine gun that was ambushed between the rocks and topped with logs.

In order not to scare the Japanese army away, the first battalion of the Independent Regiment not only removed all the "Hitler chainsaws", but even used the ordinary national army standard equipment for heavy machine guns.

Relying on the protection of fortifications, the heavy machine gun fire point ignored the strafing fire of the Japanese heavy machine guns, and fired wildly at the Japanese feint squad, killing at least four little devils who did not have enough cover and were forced to move.

The Maxim heavy machine gun, with a rate of fire of 500 rounds per minute, at a range of 400 meters, can be called an infantry's nightmare, no matter how fast it runs, it is useless.

But Shoichi Okazaki did not show the slightest trace of frustration, but showed a triumphant smile.

The Chinese's hole cards are all out, but he still has his hole cards out yet?

A 70 caliber infantry gun was pushed out, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the heavy machine-gun bunker of the separate regiment.