Chapter 248: Attacking the Fortification (3)

Qiu Wei's first company was finally attacked by Japanese machine-gun fire, and the officers and men of the first company had tried their best to evacuate the battle formation to the best extent, but they could not withstand the ferocity of the first round of machine-gun fire of the Japanese army, and inevitably suffered losses in the face of the Japanese crossfire.

"Hold on, disperse, and return fire!"

Qiu Wei shouted in the center of the ranks, and at the same time, the platoon commander and squad leader of the first company also issued the same tactical order, the first company had already expected the deployment of the Japanese position, and all the squad and platoon leaders knew that certain casualties were inevitable. The infantry platoons of the first line quickly lay down and dispersed, and the two platoons in the rear were deployed in turn, and the originally extremely fast charge was slowed down by the Japanese fire net, and the various grenadier groups lay on the ground, ready to shoot.

"Da-da-da-da-da." At this distance, most machine gunners could not identify the target of the shooting, so they only fired suppressively, and the light machine gun group stopped advancing after setting up the machine guns, and the rifle group in charge of the assault was half-bent over, and some were prostrate on the ground, attacking with guns.

"Boom." After the explosion of the shooting of the Soviet-style turntable light machine gun, the grenadier group of a company fired a grenade, and the grenade threw at the Japanese ballade position, the Japanese fortress, and the 89-type grenadier in the hands of the first company was difficult to deal with, relying on the six curved grenadiers could not knock out the Japanese fortress, nor could it effectively stop the machine gun fire in the Japanese fortress, so they simply did not hit the fortress, and all came to hit the Japanese foxhole.

The first company was now under the cover of artillery fire, plus its own firepower, all of which was used to suppress the Japanese foxhole positions, and as for the pillboxes, they were completely lost to the battle defense artillery.

"Shoot, shoot continuously!" A company of grenades had an attack effect, the grenades fell in the Japanese ballade position, after the continuous explosion, the shrapnel seriously interfered with the Japanese army's shooting, the worst thing was that a grenade threw directly along the top of the foxhole, a Japanese rifleman was blown to pieces, and the artillery suppression of the national army has not stopped, the foxhole has been quite difficult in the face of artillery fire, and now with the suppression of the light machine gun throwing grenades, the Japanese troops in the foxhole can not carry out effective shooting at all.

Most of the Japanese foxholes were riflemen, and there were a small number of light machine gun groups and grenadier groups, and the constant grenades and shells made most Japanese soldiers unable to concentrate on shooting, and the rifles could only crouch down to avoid bullets after one shot, and the light machine guns only dared to shoot point-out, and the grenadiers were shot in the trenches or pits by the shooters completely by experience.

The rhythm and accuracy of the shooting were seriously disturbed, and the foxholes, which were supposed to cooperate with the forts, were now suppressed by the artillery fire of the national army and the fire of the attacking infantry, and the Japanese corporals hid in the foxholes and yelled at the soldiers around them, ordering them to shoot continuously and strengthen their firepower, but in the face of such shells and grenades, how could they shoot continuously?

The rifle is okay, and the light machine guns in the foxhole, as long as they make a few short shots, there is a possibility that they will be knocked out by the grenadiers.

The resistance on the entire Japanese straggler position is far from what the Japanese army planned, for no other reason, the artillery cover of the Chinese army and the infantry firepower of the first-line attack are too strong, according to the experience of the Japanese army, no Chinese army will carry out artillery bombardment at the same time when the infantry attacks, the weapons of the Chinese army are too poor, and a division with a mountain artillery battalion can be called an elite division.

After the sound of machine gun fire, the soldiers of a company will fall, and the soldiers of a company will attack the foxhole with the fire in their hands, and march with difficulty under the fire of the fortress.

The firepower of the two armies was exchanging firepower from each other, and in front of the Japanese positions were a series of positive and oblique lines of fire, some from the Japanese positions to the reserve battalions, and some from the reserve battalions to the Japanese positions.

The first company was about 150 meters away from the Japanese position, and after the second company was attacked, Mu Chao organized the second company to follow the first company, advancing with the same tactics, and concentrated the light machine guns in the second company to cover the advance of the first company.

After the Japanese opened fire, the second company also suffered casualties, some stray bullets crossed the first company, hit several stragglers of the second company, and a grenade fired by the Japanese in the straggler pit position did not adjust the shooting distance according to the distance of the first company, and hit the top of the scalp of the soldiers of the first company, and smashed into the infantry formation of the second company, causing seven or eight casualties in the second company.

Compared to the first company, which was attacked, the losses of the second company were small, there was a certain distance between the two companies, and the Japanese machine guns mainly stared at the people of the first company, and for the machine guns in the fortress, face to face,. The closest person is the one who needs to be killed the most.

The fierce gunfire in the distance was transmitted backwards through the air, Zhang Wei stood outside the position of the preparatory battalion, the first and second companies in front had already rushed out, and the Japanese army was on fire, led by Zhang Wei personally was Zheng Yiqun's third company and four battle defense guns, two 82 mortars composed of infantry and artillery mixed troops, after the first and second companies rushed out, they did not immediately follow up, but were still in the trenches and behind the trenches to hide and wait.

Zhang Wei did not dare to guarantee whether the strength of the Japanese position was exactly the same as he estimated, once there was an accident, the infantry attacking on the front line was defeated, then the battle defense artillery that followed the infantry would be unlucky, if the Japanese army took advantage of the situation to counterattack, the transfer of the battle defense artillery was not as convenient as the infantry, maybe it would be the end of personal death and artillery destruction!

Now, the first and second companies have rushed out, the battle situation on the front line, Zhang Wei observed through the telescope, the attack of the first company has entered the bottleneck period, or the Japanese fortress has begun to play a real role, the crossfire composed of machine guns inside kills, blocking the infantry of the first company, and then, relying on the infantry alone, it is impossible to make any big progress, the battle defense artillery and mortars behind him should be on!

"Brothers, the brothers and the little devils in the front of the company are fighting, the devil's machine gun fire is very fierce, now, it's time for us to go!"

"Everyone, under the cover of the third company, follow up in turn and rush over!"

Zhang Wei nodded at Zheng Yiqun, and the soldiers of the third company behind him jumped out of the trench and advanced along the attack route of the first and second companies, in the team of the third company, the two mortars of the 82 mortar platoon advanced together with the infantry of the third company, although the 20-year-old 82 mortar is not a suitable company-level mortar for the national army, but the portability is much stronger than the 37 battle defense artillery of the combat defense artillery company.

The barrel of the 82 mortar and more than a dozen shells, a squad of people can carry it on their bodies, and the mortar platoon is to further suppress the Japanese army's foxhole position.