Chapter 149: Attack! (1)

Zhang Wei raised the telescope, in the telescope appeared sporadic figures of the Japanese army, the specific number he did not know, but from the visual estimate of the number of people will not be much, the Japanese army from the hidden green gauze tent drilled out, using the periphery of the green gauze tent as a position, the hillock that had just opened fire was in the center, and the flat ground extending on both sides was used as the two wings of the defense, Zhang Wei could not estimate the exact number, and could only judge by the tentative attack. X

Zhang Wei was indeed a little too careful, the Japanese army opposite him did have only one squadron of troops, the Japanese army's war horses and wounded were all hidden in the green gauze tent, more than 100 people took the small high ground outside the green gauze tent as the commanding heights, and arranged the only two heavy machine guns, and the rest of the people were deployed along the flat ground on both sides of the high ground, and the Japanese military dug improvised trenches in the flat ground before the Japanese military, so the arrangement was quickly completed, two Type 92 heavy machine guns occupied the commanding heights, and four crooked handles were flat on both wings, supplemented by more than 100 Type 38 horse guns, The Japanese army quickly formed a front-line defensive position, and while doing a good job of defense, the Japanese army drew out the 32-type cavalry swords around them, ready for white-knuckle combat at any time.

"The strength of the devil is not clear, I am ready to take a company to attack first, depending on the situation! I need your armored vehicle assistance, brother! Zhang Wei said to the commander of the mechanized search platoon, and Qiu Wei, who had organized the troops, was also listening.

"Cheng, Camp Commander Zhang, I listen to you."

"Qiu Wei, the first company will go first, and the whole company will organize an attack, this time it is to cooperate with the armored vehicles, and I will also go up, first, to find out the reality of the Japanese army, and second, to gain time for the second and third companies and the whole column behind to react and deploy."

"Understood."

Zhang Wei pointed to the four armored vehicles: "When we attack for a while, we need the brothers on the armored vehicles to support us with machine guns, and the firepower of the Japanese army in this guy should not be too strong, and as soon as the machine guns appear, they will fire and press them!" After a while, four armored vehicles lined up, let's prepare a battalion company to open a skirmish line in the back to attack, remember, you must follow up the armored vehicles, don't open the distance, the light machine guns of each squad can shoot between the stagnation and the march of the armored vehicles, listen to the command specifically, understand no! ”

The search platoon commander and Qiu Wei understood what Zhang Wei meant, and quickly began the final preparations for the attack, the search platoon commander got into the armored car, and commanded the four vehicles to turn the front of the car and form a line, and the first company also formed three straggler attack lines behind the armored car in a platoon unit, and all rifles were equipped with bright bayonets.

After that, Zhang Wei ordered Mu Chao's second company to move forward and make a defensive posture towards the Japanese army, Zheng Yiqun's third company did not move in place after the rectification, and the main force of the column behind the barrier, Zhang Wei thought to himself, at this time, Qiu Qingquan should also make corresponding countermeasures against the main force of the column.

"Attack!" Zhang Wei issued the first combat order after the repair, Zhang Wei leaned behind the platoon commander of the search platoon, and in order to unify the contact, the platoon commander of the mechanized search platoon simply opened the door of the armored car.

The soldiers of the first company were armed with bayonet-mounted Zhongzheng rifles, and the light machine gunners were armed with Soviet-style Depp rotary machine guns.

The armored vehicles began to advance, and the company behind them also slowly advanced in three skirmish lines, at this time the two sides were about three hundred meters apart, and neither of them reached the firing range and effective range. The leader of the Japanese cavalry squadron located on the small high ground was a little panicked, his troops were originally on standby, but he didn't expect to run into this squadron, there were armored vehicles and infantry, if it was still according to the conventional firing distance, I was afraid that it was not completely close, and the enemy's troops were about to rush up.

So, it is only possible to fire in advance. In his impression, once the squadron encounters strong firepower when attacking, the intensity and elasticity of the attack are usually greatly reduced, and his subordinates are mounted infantry, and the combat skills of the infantry, he thinks that he is not weaker than the soldiers of those infantry wings.

There is no way, it must be fired in advance!

"The heavy machine gun fires in advance, and after the heavy machine gun fires, the squads must also prepare to fire in advance!" The squadron leader gave his combat instructions, and the Japanese soldiers and squad leaders quickly passed on the orders one by one.

The attacking team of the first company advanced fifty meters, and seeing that the Japanese had not yet opened fire, Zhang Wei shouted at the car door, ordering the armored car to accelerate appropriately, and the driver gave a larger throttle, and the speed of the armored car and the infantry of the company increased.

The Japanese heavy machine gunners on the small high ground pinched their sweat and aimed their guns as far as possible at the infantry of a company and hit the armored vehicles, but they were not sure.

Two hundred meters! Fire! The squadron leader gave the order to open fire, and the heavy machine gunner pulled the trigger and began to spit tongues of fire at the attacking squadron.

"The Japanese opened fire!" Zhang Wei bent down and approached the armored car, the bullets clanged on the body of the armored car, and at the same time, the MG13 light machine gun on the armored car also began to fire, and the machine gunners quickly found the Japanese heavy fire point located on the small high ground, and the four machine guns fired fiercely at the small high ground.

"Oops!"

When rows of seventy-nine machine gun shells hit the high ground, the Japanese squadron leader already realized that the situation was wrong. This guy is **, it's not easy to deal with! Due to the armored vehicles, the area of fire against the Japanese army was greatly reduced, and it was really uncomfortable for the Japanese machine gunners.

The infantry of the first company finally suffered casualties, and the two infantry of the first skirmish line next to Qiu Wei were hit by heavy machine gun bullets from the Japanese army and fell to the ground heavily, and there were also sporadic casualties in the back.

Some of the infantrymen opened fire with rifles and machine guns in their hands, trying to attack the Japanese heavy machine guns on the high ground.

"Qiu Wei, steady!" Qiu Wei nodded, and repeated Zhang Wei's words to the soldiers, the armored car accelerated, the distance between the two armies gradually narrowed to one hundred and fifty meters, the Japanese cavalry guns and crooked light machine guns finally began to fire, and the flying bullets hit the armored car body, flying past the infantry, sometimes some infantry were hit, some were injured and fell to the ground, and some were killed on the spot.

"Hurry up, speed up, lunge!" Zhang Wei knocked on the armored car, the platoon commander in the car understood, urged the driver to speed up, four armored cars rushed over, the infantry of the first company of the impact speed also accelerated, in the face of the Japanese reinforced cavalry platoon fire, several machine gunners of the first company stopped the pace of advance, set up the gun on the spot or spread outward, set up the gun to shoot, and the deputy shooter prepared a spare cartridge.

A company of infantry fire cover return fire begins! Depp's turntable machine gun spewed out strings of bullets, suppressing the Japanese troops on both sides. At the same time as the casualties of the infantry of the first company increased, casualties began to appear on the Japanese positions.

The machine guns on the armored vehicles constantly suppressed the Japanese heavy machine gun crews on the high ground, the two heavy machine guns had changed shooters twice, and the ammunition men next to them were repeatedly hit.

On the flat positions on both sides, the line of fire consisting of crooked light machine guns and cavalry guns tried to stop the advancing ** infantry, and now it seems that it will not be easy.

A string of bullets fired by machine guns and rifles hit the flat position of the Japanese left flank, kicking up a puff of dust, a 79 caliber rifle bullet hit the neck of the Japanese riflemen, blood burst out, dyeing the clothes of the surrounding Japanese soldiers blood red, and the other two Soviet-style 7.62 mm light machine guns knocked out a shooter with a crooked light machine gun, and one penetrated the steel helmet.