Chapter 207: Capturing the Soil and Fertilizer Plain Alive! (4)
The tank accelerated while firing, and rushed towards the Japanese position at a very close distance, and the Japanese rifle machine gun shells hit the frontal armor of the tank, but failed to cause fatal damage to the tank, and it was about to rush into the Japanese position.
The damage of the infantry machine gun to the tank was almost zero, and the Japanese captain in command hurriedly ordered the Japanese soldiers to organize manual blasting to destroy the incoming tank, there were no suitable anti-tank weapons in the front-line position, and the infantry could only be organized to blast in an emergency, and the gray-black tank was only less than 20 meters away from the Japanese position, and after the order of the Japanese commander was issued, soon there were bold Japanese soldiers holding the grenades that were tied up, jumping out of the trench, ready to blast the tank, and the Japanese soldiers who rushed out had just jumped out of the trench, Two people were targeted by sharp-eyed tank machine gunners, and as soon as they climbed out of the trench, they called the machine gun bullets to knock them over.
The remaining seven or eight Japanese soldiers, holding grenades, rushed frantically towards the chariot.
"The devil wants to blow up the tank and cover the tank!" The moment the Japanese jumped out of the trench, the infantry behind the tank also spotted the Japanese army, and the infantry of the preparatory battalion could also know what this group of Japanese was going to do, and immediately opened fire to hit the Japanese infantry.
The Japanese infantry who rushed out was already holding the heart of death, and the distance of less than twenty meters was very short for those who accelerated and ran, but on the way straight over, the tank machine guns and the infantry behind the tank kept strafing the fire.
The Japanese army howled and charged, all of them did not bring any infantry weapons except for blasting grenades, and a string of DT machine gun bullets from the tank machine gun penetrated the bodies of the first three people, and the machine gun bullets passed through the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, creating a cloud of blood mist in the air, and the remaining four people were not affected by the death of their comrades, and still rushed forward.
The infantry fire from the rear of the tank flanks passed through the gap between the three tanks and shot towards the Japanese army, and the soldiers of the 46th Division on both flanks were also shooting at the Japanese infantry exposed outside the trenches, and the infantry fire on the front side and both flanks knocked out the only few remaining infantrymen, only one wounded Japanese infantry frantically avoided the infantry fire and rushed forward, the machine gun shooter in the tank turret saw that this crazy devil was coming with a grenade, and had to reduce the speed of the car, slammed the trigger of the machine gun, and the bullet casings smashed on the hull next to the machine gun, A string of bullets hit the body of the Japanese soldier, but the Japanese did not seem to care about the damage of the bullets to themselves, and the corpse fell four or five meters in front of the tank, and the smoking grenade rolled down in front of the tank with the momentum of the Japanese corpse falling.
"Reverse the car!" The tank commander in the car saw the grenade of the Japanese army, and immediately ordered to reverse, the driver quickly slowed down and reversed, and bursts of black smoke from the rear of the tank came out of the emergency reversing, and the other two tanks next to him also reduced their forward speed when they saw this.
"Boom" exploded, the cluster grenade dropped by the Japanese army just exploded in front of the tank, and when it exploded, the infantry of the reserve battalion behind also lay on the ground, and the Japanese grenade injured a tank in front of it, and the shrapnel produced by the explosion injured the front of the tank, and a shrapnel hit the driver in the lower right of the tank, fortunately, it was not fatally wounded.
"How?" The commander on the turret lightly stepped on the driver's head with his right foot, and the driver looked up at the commander: "It's okay, minor injuries!" After speaking, he shook his arm, shrapnel hit the arm, and did not cause fatal injury, there were several small holes around the observation seam of the car body in front of the driver, which seemed to be broken by small shrapnel, and the commander saw that the driver was fine, so he was relieved, and saw that the driver could still fight, so he ordered to move on.
The driver drove at full speed, the tracks of the tank continued to move forward, and the other two tanks, seeing that the bombed vehicle was not seriously damaged, followed suit, and the machine guns on the turret roared again.
Seeing that the chariot was not damaged, Zhang Wei ordered the whole battalion to continue the attack, and the officers and men of the stalled preparatory battalion rushed forward.
The tracks of the chariots ran over the corpses of the blasting Japanese soldiers, and with all kinds of bullets that came in, they accelerated the impact, and rushed through the Japanese defense line, and several Japanese soldiers were crushed to death when the tanks broke through.
"Rush over, it's our turn!" Zhang Wei saw that the chariot had broken through the first position of the Japanese army, and the next thing was the infantry assault, the officers and soldiers of the whole battalion together with the friendly troops on both wings shouted and rushed into the defensive position of the Japanese army, the Japanese army was broken through the position by the chariots, and there was chaos, and the Japanese brigade in front of the prepared battalion had almost no organized defense, and the chariots rushed into the Japanese troops in the position to flee elsewhere, and only the two wings were not broken through by the chariots The position organized firepower, causing a lot of casualties to the attacking 46th Division. But for the troops that had already rushed very closely, the attack on the Japanese positions was a foregone conclusion.
The officers and men of the preparatory battalion rushed into the Japanese position at the breakthrough opened by the tank, and there was no decent resistance at the breakthrough at all, and a small number of Japanese soldiers inside were either crushed to death by the tank, or were killed by the officers and men of the preparatory battalion who rushed into the position.
Except for the killed, the rest of the Japanese troops all ran to the positions on both flanks, in the trenches and the soldiers who were preparing to rush into the position of the battalion fought fiercely, and some of them still fired at the troops of the 46th Division who were about to rush into the position on both wings, and the Japanese troops on both flanks in the trenches were mainly fighting with the first company and the third company, Zhang Wei was surrounded by the second company, and the 46th Division could immediately break in, in order to expand the breakthrough and let more troops rush in, Zhang Wei ordered Mu Chao's second company to expand to the two wings and hit the Japanese firepower on the first line of the two wings.
The first and third companies fought with the Japanese in the trenches repeatedly, the second company spread out to the two flanks in the position, attacking the Japanese infantry on both flanks, and the Japanese troops on the two flanks and the first line of the breakthrough were still fighting the troops of the 46th Division in front of them, causing them great casualties, and several remaining temporary bunkers were spewing tongues of fire in the back, constantly killing and wounding the officers and men of the 46th Division.
"Knock out those fire points and front-line infantry that block friendly forces, and hand over the Japanese troops who have passed the breakthrough to a company or three companies to deal with, quickly!" Under Zhang Wei's command, the 1st and 3rd companies confronted the Japanese in the trenches who had been crushed and routed at the breach, and Mu Chao's 2nd company reinforced friendly forces along the first-line positions against the semi-concealed bunkers firing at the front.
Zhang Wei and Mu Chao took the second company, part of them used infantry machine guns to suppress the Japanese troops on the front-line position, disrupted their shooting rhythm, reduced the pressure on the two battalions of the 46th Division, and prepared to knock out the two concealed bunkers of the Japanese army, these semi-concealed bunkers built with civil engineering can block infantry machine gun shells and a small amount of explosive shrapnel, Zhang Wei originally planned to use the tank to knock out the two bunkers, after the chariot broke through, two bunkers had been knocked out with tank guns, and there were two bunkers equipped with heavy machine guns.
The fire of the tank machine gun has been suppressing the two bunkers that are firing, and a few rounds were fired with a tank gun before, but the effect is not very good, the Japanese troops in the heavy machine gun bunker are still firing fiercely, because it is semi-hidden, less than half of the bunker is exposed, and the bunker firing port is completely facing the front, plus the sandbags piled up around, so even if the two bunkers were shelled, they were not completely destroyed, Zhang Wei estimated that they only killed some people.
Zhang Wei asked the second company to send out a platoon to kill the two bunkers under the cover of the tank machine guns, the firing ports of the Japanese bunkers were open in the front, and the infantry on the way to outflank from the side and rear would not be attacked by machine gun fire, and the biggest threat was to outflank the Japanese infantry who might be hiding behind the bunkers after passing over.