Chapter 188: The 27th Army's Sweeping Attack

Zhang Wei and the officers and soldiers of the preparation battalion, while resting, while waiting for orders, Zhang Wei thought to himself, the preparation battalion will not be used under normal circumstances, after all, there are so many infantry units, not worse than their battalion, but if the chariot is dispatched, they will still have to go up, the preparation battalion has at least fought the infantry coordination, not to mention that other troops have not fought, there are still a lot of recruits in the army, and there is a good chance that they will be defeated. X

When Qiu Qingquan contacted and negotiated with the 27th Army, the 27th Army first sent a batch of ammunition, and a batch of supplies were distributed to the assault column, and the preparation battalion naturally accepted the infantry ammunition and part of the supplies. The ammunition sent was all good things, Zhang Wei asked Qiu Wei and them to check and collect, and when they opened it, they saw that it was really a generous shot.

"Battalion commander, there are 300 grenades, as well as 5,000 rounds of 79 heavy pointed bullets and 20,000 rounds of 79 light pointed bullets, all of which are German goods." Qiu Wei pointed to the more than a dozen boxes of ammunition that had been opened on the ground, several of the ammunition boxes were marked in German, and two big letters S were written on the outside of the boxes with a white paint brush, ss, which means that these boxes were filled with heavy pointed bullets, and Zhang Wei was familiar with this ammunition box.

The remaining light-pointed bullets are all domestic ammunition, as well as a batch of grenades produced by the Gongxian Arsenal.

"Five thousand imported seven-nine heavy pointed bullets? This thing is generally for light machine guns and heavy machine guns, and it is wasted for rifles, and the light and heavy machine guns in our hands are all Soviet, and the caliber is not universal. ”

"These imported heavy bullets should be the batch that our corps stored in Nanjing, and a large number of them were sent to the Sichuan warehouse before the start of the Nanjing fight."

Zhang Wei nodded, no wonder it looked familiar, he had seen it when he was in Nanjing before. In order to make preparations for the reorganization and replenishment of training in advance before the defense of Nanjing, the Teaching Corps transported a large number of weapons and ammunition stored in Nanjing to the weapons warehouse in Sichuan for later use, and at the same time set up three new regiments to train and prepare for war in the rear.

"The light bullets and food are all handed out to the brothers, and I don't know when we will have to fight again."

"Yes"

Not long after the assault column arrived, the attack of the 27th Army of the main force quietly began, the vanguard was the 271st Regiment of the 136th Brigade of the 46th Division of the 27th Army, the regiment commander Peng Yuexiang ordered the whole regiment to attack and advance in the direction of Sanyiji, sweeping the outlying strongholds of the Japanese army, Peng Yuexiang was attached to the lieutenant colonel regiment of the 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the original teaching corps, and the lieutenant colonel regiment was attached to the ** equivalent to the deputy regiment commander, and the Nanjing post-war troops were reorganized, and Peng Yuexiang deserved to be the commander of the 271st Regiment.

At six o'clock in the evening of May, before it was dark, the soldiers wearing German-style steel helmets, under the supervision of officers at all levels, swept and advanced in the direction of Sanyiji, and the first battalion and one company of the 271st Regiment in the vanguard, as the vanguard company of the battalion, lined up in the front and launched a marching search formation, and the three platoons were arranged in an inverted triangle formation, pulling the net to search.

There are more than 100 people in the whole company, and the recruits account for about 60 percent, and the rest are veterans of the teaching corps after the Nanjing breakout, and after the Nanjing War, the teaching corps only collected more than 4,000 people in Chuxian County, Anhui Province, and most of the casualties of the whole corps were promoted, and a small number of these veterans were promoted to platoon commanders, and the rest were promoted to squad leaders or machine gunners of various infantry squads.

As the elite troops of the past, most of the veterans of the breakout had the intention of fighting to the death with the devils, and the rifles of the whole company were loaded with bayonets and opened up the search formation.

"Bang bang" two crisp gunshots, and a soldier was knocked to the ground.

"There's an enemy attack!" The veterans in the team immediately fell to the ground and shouted to the whole company, just after the sound of rifles, the company that was attacked by the surprise has not all finished lying down, many recruits in the company are still standing stupidly, not far away from the orange-red muzzle flame, crooked light machine guns spew out tongues of fire, strafing the company, more than a dozen soldiers were caught off guard, were knocked to the ground, or killed or wounded.

The light machine guns in the hands of the veterans of the company of "Da Da" were the first to launch a return fire, and the light machine guns from the original Czech factory opened heavy fire on the Japanese positions, and the riflemen also began to shoot.

"Scattered."

The company commander ordered the whole company to disperse in formation to reduce casualties, and the main force of the battalion behind heard the gunfire and accelerated their speed to support the first company.

After a period of firing, the main force of the battalion around the company and the troops in the regiment advanced one after another, reinforcing the company to fight, and the Japanese firepower was quite sparse, and there was no artillery fire, the 271st regiment quickly judged that this was just an outpost battle, and ordered the troops to prepare to charge and annihilate this group of Japanese troops.

A platoon of two Belgian-made heavy machine guns sent by the battalion's heavy machine gun company suppressed the Japanese position in advance, and the newly supplemented imported heavy machine guns fired heavy pointed bullets of 79 caliber at the Japanese position, and the fierce fire set off a burst of smoke in front of the Japanese position, and some Japanese soldiers were hit by machine gun shells and were killed on the spot.

"Charge!"

Kill! The first company as the vanguard, after a burst of light and heavy machine gun suppression, the whole company quickly launched a charge with bayonets, the Japanese rifle and light machine gun fire caused certain casualties to the attacking troops, but it was difficult to stop the attack, the first company rushed into the Japanese position after paying the price of ten people, the two sides started hand-to-hand combat, it took less than five minutes, the company completely annihilated the Japanese army.

There were only fifteen corpses in the position, that is, about the strength of an infantry detachment, and the highest position among the corpses was a military officer, and all the weapons captured were rifles except for a crooked light machine gun.

Obviously, this was arranged by the Japanese army on the periphery for the delay squadron, and immediately afterwards, the 271st Regiment continued to advance and conquered several Japanese positions in a row, and like the first position, there were not many corpses in the positions.

These small battles were outpost battles in themselves, and after paying a few combat casualties, the 46th Division basically cleared out the small Japanese strongholds on the periphery of Sanyiji.

It is said that it is a small stronghold, that is because every time a piece is struck, the Japanese troops inside are pitiful, and they rely on simple fortifications, and even some dare to shoot after digging a few individual pits on the spot, these Japanese troops basically belong to the same unit, and even the task of the same squadron and this squadron is to delay the ** squadron in the outermost periphery, and all the forces are scattered.

The outer defense of the Japanese army cannot rely on these alone, in addition to these small strongholds, there must be a stronger and more troop peripheral defense line behind it.

The small-scale engagement between the Chinese and Japanese armies continued, and the large-scale siege had not yet occurred, and both armies were actively preparing, just before Zhang Wei and them came, they strengthened a battalion of the 10th Artillery Regiment of the 27th Army in place, this battalion was a German-made fifteen-life heavy artillery, and the Japanese army also passed through the Yellow River crossing, and received a new batch of supplements, including a large number of weapons and ammunition, medicine,