Chapter 196: The Battle of Annihilation of the River Dam (3)
"Boom" the Japanese troops rushed into a distance of 20 meters, entered the dead end of the mortar shooting, the remnants of the grenadiers opened fire under the embankment, and the rifle machine guns fired upwards and fired at the non-commissioned officers and men of the preparatory battalion on the embankment position. Several of the grenadiers fired by the Japanese troops at close range hit the positions of the preparatory battalions on the embankment, and there was a brief confusion in the positions of the preparatory battalions.
The Japanese were killed and wounded by the intensive fire of the reserve battalion in the previous battle, and the whole squadron lost nearly half of it, and the remaining more than 90 people, scattered under the embankment, fired at the reserve battalion along the slope, and launched an inverted arch, several assault groups, under the cover of light machine guns, laboriously climbed up the slope and climbed upward.
"Grenades!"
The preparation camp was condescending, and the Japanese army was arching on its back, which was already at a disadvantage, and it was the best time to use grenades.
Several Japanese assault groups that climbed the slope were hit by the infantry machine gun fire of the second and third companies, fell backwards, and rolled down the embankment, and the rest of the Japanese troops who wanted to continue to launch an assault saw that the feint attack was difficult to succeed, so they no longer continued to attack, but scattered under the embankment, and fired at the preparatory battalion above.
The Japanese grenadiers and rifle machine guns sometimes hit the bullets, which caused certain casualties to the preparations, and the preparatory battalions were condescending, and they took out a large number of grenades prepared in advance and threw them down, and the grenades flew towards the Japanese troops below the embankment by the height.
"Boom, boom." Dozens of grenades exploded one after another, the Japanese troops located below the embankment were raided by grenades, the dense shrapnel and the narrow space under the embankment caused the Japanese army to produce a large number of casualties in a short period of time, after the first round of grenade explosions, more than 20 people were killed and wounded, the weapons dropped by the wounded Japanese soldiers, screamed under the embankment, some of the Japanese wounded soldiers really couldn't bear the pain, broke free from the comrades around them, and ran towards the direction of the back to the embankment crying, originally under the embankment can still avoid the firing boundary of the preparatory battalion, Now running in the opposite direction happens to be a live target.
After a burst of gunfire, the suffering of the wounded Japanese soldiers was permanently resolved.
The preparatory battalion is still throwing grenades downward, but the effect is not as good as at the beginning, the Japanese army quickly dispersed the formation while paying casualties, and the remaining more than 70 people no longer attacked with the preparatory battalion, under the command of Cao Chang and the officer, they quickly changed their tactics, all lined up in a row, leaning on the slope below the embankment, the preparatory battalion was above the embankment, and the Japanese army leaned on the slope below, and the deployment of the Japanese army just made everyone hide in the shooting blind spot of the preparatory battalion.
After a few gunshots, there was a short silence on the position, the Japanese troops below no longer took the initiative to return fire, several soldiers continued to throw grenades, a few because they were thrown too far, did not cause damage to the Japanese troops, and the other threw a small force, after flying down an arc, smashed to the embankment and rolled down, the Japanese troops located under the embankment reacted very quickly, and even risked upwards to pick up the grenades that rolled down and threw them back, and the grenades that were thrown back exploded in front of the embankment position, fortunately there were no casualties.
"Everyone threw grenades!" Zhang Wei shouted, and the position of the preparatory camp gradually became quiet, and on the battlefield, there was only the sound of the river flowing slowly.
Zhang Wei briefly observed the corpses of the Japanese soldiers on the battlefield, the Japanese soldiers were killed by the preparatory battalion when they were in vain, and in the attack after landing on the shore, dozens of corpses were left in front of the position, all of which were the results of the killing and wounding of rifle machine guns and mortar grenadiers, and roughly estimated that at least 60 Japanese troops were hiding under the embankment.
"Come on, get me a steel helmet and a cloth hat!"
The surrounding soldiers roughly understood what Zhang Wei wanted to do, and handed Zhang Wei the steel helmet and German-style cloth military cap of a fallen soldier to Zhang Wei, Zhang Wei put the military hat under the steel helmet, used the Zhongzheng gun to resist the steel helmet, and stretched out of the position, but the position was a certain distance from the front of the embankment, and the body of the Zhongzheng rifle was short, and the steel helmet could not be exposed.
"Sir, use this." Li Changgui handed Zhang Wei the Liao-made 13-style rifle in his hand, which was made with reference to the 38 guns and the Mauser 98 shot, which was much longer than the Zhongzheng rifle.
"Thank you."
After taking over Liao Shisan, Zhang Wei stretched out the steel helmet again, the steel helmet was just exposed, and there was no movement below, Zhang Wei continued to probe forward, revealing the German-style cloth hat under the brim of the steel helmet.
As soon as the cloth cap under the brim of the "bang" helmet was revealed, a bullet from a 38 rifle hit the steel helmet into the sky.
"Damn, it's really strict." The devil below is ghostly and ruthless, Zhang Wei exposed the steel helmet and he didn't fire, knowing that Zhang Wei was hooking him to shoot, and when the cloth hat was exposed, it meant that there might be a real person under the steel helmet, so the devil below fired.
"Someone, call the commander of the second and third companies, as well as the squad and platoon commander of the heavy machine gun company." Is the devil just nested in the shooting corner and in a stalemate with the preparation camp, can't it be consumed like this.
Mu Chao and Zheng Yiqun walked over along the position and came to Zhang Wei's side.
"There are at least sixty devils below, all of them are leaning on the slope, which is our shooting blind spot, and we must find a way to kill them."
"Battalion commander, the grenade is thrown out in an arc, let's not throw it hard, send someone to climb forward, and roll down the slope directly." Zheng Yiqun said in a deep voice.
"No, the Japanese army is scattered and leaning under our position, the queue density is not dense, and the power of the grenade will be greatly reduced at this time, not to mention that if it is thrown down the slope, not only is it inefficient, but the thrower has to climb out for a distance and throw it on the top of the embankment, and as soon as he rises, the Japanese guns will come." Mu Chao shook his head.
Several people looked at Zhang Wei, all waiting for Zhang Wei to come up with an idea, what Mu Chao said was indeed reasonable, the Japanese are now sticking to the slope and not shooting, and the preparation battalion can't hit them because of the shooting dead ends, and the grenades along the embankment are laborious and laborious, and they are easy to suffer casualties, so it is definitely not possible, and the Japanese troops below still have light machine guns and grenadiers.
"What Mu Chao said makes sense, throwing grenades is time-consuming and laborious, these devils below still have grenadiers in their hands, we can't hit him, if they fire, the grenadiers will shoot in a curl shot, but they can hit us, what we have to do now is to drive the little devils away from the shooting blind spots below, and then say anything."
Several people all nodded, what is needed now is a method.
Zhang Wei looked in front of the embankment: "Forcing them out, relying on grenades is not at all, the night is long and dreamy, we must kill them as soon as possible, we use two platoons of troops to rush down from both sides of the position, the Japanese army will inevitably open fire and return fire, and the whole will also move out of the shooting corner, at this time, the brothers in all positions will throw grenades at the Japanese army who are out of the shooting corner, and the platoon that is impacting on both sides should not fall in love with the battle, and do not get twisted with them, once the Japanese army has a shooting corner, quickly retreat." ”r