Chapter 246: Attacking the Fortification (1)

The first and second companies took the lead in breaking out of their positions and rushed to the Japanese positions with bayonets, and as the two most elite companies of the reserve battalion, the task of direct attack naturally fell on them.

The first company took the lead, the second company followed, and they advanced in battle formation, and the rest of the troops of the reserve battalion would not move until the first and second companies all rushed out of the position, and only when the two forward companies were thoroughly deployed, the attack of the reserve battalion would be guaranteed. At the forefront was a company, the strongest and most complete formation, three infantry platoons in platoons as a unit, launched an attack straggler line, a company commander Qiu Wei led the company headquarters in the center of the unit to follow.

"Quick, disperse, disperse!" Qiu Weiwei shouted, before he personally led a platoon to launch a feint, the loss is not small, for the Japanese defense has the most direct and intuitive understanding, a platoon of troops to attack the past and suffer heavy casualties, a company of more people, spread in front of the Japanese position density will only be greater, so he constantly ordered to urge a company to expand the formation as soon as possible, after the expansion, Qiu Wei still ordered the troops to increase the distance, the original tactics, the distance between individual soldiers and squads in the face of the extremely dense machine gun fire of the Japanese army is difficult to advance, Having learned the lesson of the first feint, Qiu Wei will only let them continue to increase the distance. The squad and platoon commanders of the first company cooperated with the company commander Qiu Wei in the march, and the soldiers changed formations with the shouts of the officers, Qiu Wei had conveyed the general firepower of the Japanese army to the squad and platoon leaders before the war, and the squad and platoon leaders would give it to the soldiers, the more veterans, the more profound their understanding of the battlefield situation.

Under the battle command of the company platoon commander, the soldiers continued to increase the distance between individual soldiers, the distance between individual soldiers was three to five meters in the past, but now, it has been continuously increased to four to six meters, and the distance between individual soldiers, combat groups, and infantry squads is increasing.

The shouting and killing were everywhere, more than 100 bayonets were shining in front of the Japanese formation, and Mu Chao's second company behind the first company, compared with the first company, there were not many veterans, and the combat experience was not as good, so Zhang Wei arranged the second company in the second echelon, and the second company commander Mu Chao had done his best to organize the troops, due to casualties and the quality of the soldiers, the organization of the battle formation was not as good as the first company, and the strength of the whole company was only two complete infantry platoons.

Mu Chao, the commander of the second company, knew that his company's combat effectiveness was poor, and in order to give the troops a good start, he rushed to the forefront with a Zhongzheng rifle with a bayonet. The strength of the two companies was deployed one by one, attacking the Japanese position, the artillery bombardment of the mountain artillery in the rear continued, and the six mountain guns of the mountain artillery battalion opened fire regularly, ensuring that while the infantry of the battalion was preparing to charge, there were falling shells on the Japanese position.

After heavy shelling of the Japanese positions, the fortress, which was the core of the defense, was not damaged, and the foxholes and part of the standing firing trenches were destroyed. There were three Japanese soldiers stationed in the central fortress of the position, a standard three-person combat group remained in the fort, after the shelling weakened, a Japanese rifleman came to the front of the fort firing port, the cannon smoke dispersed, and then there was an earth-shattering shout of killing, the Japanese soldier poked his head outside, and a group of soldiers wearing M35 steel helmets and carrying bayonet rifles rushed to kill him.

"Enemy Army!" The other two Japanese machine gunners who were also in the fort heard the sound, pushed open the simple wooden door and sandbags in the rear of the fort, and at the risk of being killed by shells, they leaned down and walked to the communication trench, and rushed to the Japanese anti-artillery fortifications.

Two Japanese soldiers rushed to the hidden anti-artillery hole, one was killed by shrapnel, and the remaining one risked his life to rush through the communication ditch, the main Japanese force and spare ammunition were hidden in the anti-artillery hole, and the machine gun shooters of some of the forts were also in the anti-artillery hole.

"The enemy is coming, the enemy is coming!" The Japanese soldier was running in the trenches by the communication ditch and shouted to inform the Japanese troops in the various anti-artillery holes.

"Boom!" The Japanese rushed through about half of the distance of the trench, a mountain artillery shell exploded next to the trench, four or five shrapnel hit his body at the same time, the whole body was knocked off a third, the Japanese army after being hit was still in a state of running, with the remaining momentum running a few meters, and then the body fell into a hole in an anti-artillery hole.

Now the Japanese positions are being shelled, and the infantry of the national army is also fighting, and all the troops are taken out to set up defense, there must be a lot of casualties under the shelling, if the defense is not deployed, the attacking national infantry will not be blocked, the Japanese officers in the anti-artillery hole urge the soldiers to enter the position, quickly deploy, the artillery fire on the position is still the same, although the Japanese army's will to fight is tenacious, the phenomenon loves this situation, the Japanese soldiers have to hesitate for a while.

The corpse of the Japanese soldier who had just come to report was still blocked at the door of the anti-artillery hole, and the blood that burst out from the corpse sprayed the faces of several Japanese soldiers in the cave.

Several Japanese soldiers in an anti-artillery hole ignored the shouts of the officers outside, and were stunned when they saw the blood.

"Yaga, go and arm!" A Japanese corporal held a 95-style command knife, kicked open the corpse of the Japanese soldier at the entrance of the hole, and shouted viciously to the Japanese soldiers in the hole, several Japanese soldiers wiped the blood with their sleeves, picked up weapons, and drilled out of the anti-artillery hole, a few people did not go far, a shell just fell on the hole of the anti-artillery hole, half of the shrapnel entered the anti-artillery hole, and the corpse that fell at the mouth of the anti-artillery hole was injured a second time, turned into a mess of flesh and blood, and the Japanese soldier who came out of the anti-artillery hole at the latest was also hit in the back by shrapnel.

On the entire Japanese position, under the non-stop shelling of the national army, the Japanese defenders drilled out of the anti-artillery holes and concealed fortifications, and entered the position under the continuous artillery fire, for most of the Japanese troops in the position, this shelling was the most ferocious artillery bombardment after the launch, in the previous shelling, the bombardment of the Japanese position by the mountain artillery was not large, and the density was not high, but some improvised fortifications were blown up, and what the army suffered today was the bombardment of the six mountain guns regardless of the loss of shells, and in the process of entering the position, the Japanese troops were constantly hitA small number of shotguns became the most effective weapon to kill and injure the Japanese army, and the Japanese army desperately entered the fortress, foxhole and standing fire fortifications.

The safest thing is the fort, unless it is unlucky, there is shrapnel along the muzzle of the machine gun, basically, as long as they enter the fort, the Japanese are safe.

In order not to be hit by shrapnel, most of the Japanese soldiers who hid in the foxhole curled up in the pit to reduce the area of evacuation, even so, there were still one or two people who were hit by the scattered shrapnel, and the worst was the Japanese army behind the standing firing fortifications, the only barrier was the chest wall in front of them, in addition to the chest wall, the head and back were exposed, and it was the most casualties.