Chapter 253: Group Charge
The strength of the attack again, the platoon of the second company was forced to retreat after killing five soldiers, the battlefield situation was still the original stalemate, the soldiers were shooting at the Japanese army in the same place, Zhang Wei rushed over with the third company, which was regarded as a shot of strength for the first and second companies, but due to the excessive loss of the previous attack, the first and second companies still failed to take the opportunity of the reinforcements of the third company to fight.
Zhang Wei crawled forward and found Qiu Wei who was commanding, Qiu Wei's face was covered with blood, and his military uniform was also full of blood, obviously leading people and Japanese soldiers to fight bayonets.
"Qiu Wei, what's going on?" Zhang Wei handed Qiu Wei the kettle and asked loudly.
Qiu Wei poured saliva: "Battalion commander, the devil's firepower is too strong, the two of us fought several times in a row, and we were all counterattacked back." ”
"The devil has infantry artillery!"
"I understand, how many casualties?"
"I didn't have time to count, the two dead and wounded together are almost more than a platoon."
Zhang Wei made a preliminary observation of the battlefield situation, the first and second companies failed in attacking the Japanese foxhole, and now the two armies are firing at each other, the Japanese ballade is the first line position, and there are infantry standing firing trenches and artillery positions in the back, and the infantry artillery mentioned by Qiu Wei must be the 92nd infantry artillery of the Japanese brigade, and the artillery position was built at a long distance to support the Japanese ballade on the first line.
A rough estimate of the current Japanese firepower, machine guns and grenadiers, counting those riflemen, the Japanese army in the foxhole position also has at least two infantry squadrons, the Japanese army has deployed so many people near the foxhole, the density of firepower and troops is of course extremely large, with the strength of the first company and the second company of two infantry companies, it is really difficult to get in.
"How did you fight?"
"The devil's firepower is fierce, I and the second company commander organized several platoon-level attacks, at most two infantry platoons were used, the second company commander was staring at the front, just hit it once, the dog's reaction was fast, the butt was not hot, a bombardment, and then the infantry counterattacked, did not hold, and withdrew."
"Okay, you go and call Mu Chao over, we have to think of a way together to take down this position."
"Yes"
Qiu Wei sent someone to the front to find Mu Chao, just a company retreated, by the second company for the main attack, Mu Chao is in front of the command, Zhang Wei wants to call these company commanders, a total of a total, according to this way of play, with a platoon, two platoons or even most of the company, this position will definitely not be able to be taken.
Mu Chao half-bent over and ran over, everyone was exposed in front of the Japanese position, the maneuver must be as hidden as possible, the soldiers were either lying on their stomachs or bent over, the Japanese army had foxholes as a support, and the officers and soldiers of the preparation battalion did not even have time to build individual simple shooting fortifications, and in the process of shooting at the Japanese army, soldiers were constantly hit by the Japanese army.
"Battalion commander!" Mu Chao climbed to Zhang Wei's side.
"Come, Mu Chao, now we must find a way to quickly open a breakthrough in the Japanese position, otherwise if it continues to be consumed, we will lose all our efforts."
"Yes, we can't even organize a few attacks, the devil is betting all his money on this position."
Zhang Wei then asked: "Your second company has just finished fighting, what is the specific situation of the firepower of the Japanese army on the front line?" ”
"There are light and heavy machine guns, not very many of them, there are many rifles and grenadiers, and the Japanese have a dozen rifle platoons, and their firepower is not much worse than that of light machine guns."
"What about the distribution of troops?"
"Dense, there are people in every foxhole, and the trenches behind are also reserves, we just entered them, and their reserves rushed up immediately with bayonets, and they didn't even have time to react."
Based on these circumstances, Zhang Wei can completely judge that the Japanese army concentrated all the main forces near the foxhole, and at the same time there were a large number of reserves, although the fortress was all destroyed, but the main strength of the Japanese army was still there, and the number of Japanese troops in the position did not need to attack their reserve battalion troops.
But today is different, the Japanese army's strength and firepower are intensive, and the troops sent by Qiu Wei and Mu Chao cannot effectively attack the Japanese position, even if they enter, the Japanese reserves will quickly enter the counterattack.
It has to be said that the Japanese commander's reaction speed was very fast, and it took a long reaction time and judgment time to adjust the strength of the entire position to one place, and the Japanese commander obviously judged early on that the foxhole would be attacked by a key point, and quickly concentrated the main force in the foxhole position.
With one, two platoons or even two companies to attack, it is obviously impossible to take the Japanese position, Zhang Wei is facing the main force of a Japanese brigade to hold, the number of attacking troops is small and cannot be taken at all, the current plan, if you want to open the opening, you have to let the Japanese army have no time to react, there is no time to use the reserve to counterattack, enough time for the preparation battalion to gain a firm foothold after attacking.
He has a total of three infantry companies in his hands, and the only way is to leave no reserves, pull the three companies forward, and engage in a group charge! There may be a lot of casualties, but if you continue to use the company platoon to attack, the casualties will only be greater than the whole battalion charge, the distance between the reserve battalion and the Japanese front-line position is very close, and the soldiers of the reserve battalion who are close to the first line can see the expressions on the faces of some Japanese soldiers, and the distance between the two sides is close, which is also advantageous, that is, the time to bear fire when the group charge will be greatly reduced, which can reduce casualties.
Rely on a large-scale charge to tear a hole in the Japanese position, and then notify the friendly troops of the two battalions in the rear to start attacking, completely crushing the Japanese position! This is the best way, and the only way.
"Come all here!" Zhang Wei called the three company commanders together.
"Now relying on the attack of the company and platoon, it is impossible to take the Japanese position, I decided to charge the whole battalion, attack it, and then blow the trumpet, let the friendly troops follow up and defeat them."
Mu Chao nodded: "It's only like this, even if a company rushes up, it's hard to beat it down, it's better to have a long pain than a short pain!" ”
Qiu Wei and Zheng Yiqun had no opinions, unified the caliber, Zhang Wei ordered the troops to start moving, three companies in the current position to prepare for the attack, before the attack to suppress the fire, the Japanese army is now very fierce, since the whole battalion charge, then we have to concentrate firepower to suppress the Japanese army.
The light machine guns of the first and second companies were used in a centralized manner, and basically each infantry squad of the first and second companies had Soviet-style turntable light machine guns, and the light machine guns of the two companies and the six eight-nine grenadiers of the first company were used in a unified manner, and the fire was concentrated in order to hit the Japanese army fiercely and prepare for the charge.
"Boom Boom" six 50-caliber grenadiers began to shoot at the Japanese positions without careful aiming, and the dense grenades fell on the Japanese positions, and then, more than a dozen Soviet-style turntable light machine guns burst out into continuous gunfire, firing a line of machine gun fire, and for a time, the Japanese positions were beaten into dust......