Chapter 64: Counterattacking Longshan (3)
On the Longshan position, the Japanese army's brigade artillery squad, two 92 infantry guns, was ready to fire, and now the guns were filled with shrapnel shells. The Japanese commander gave the order to open fire in advance, and the gunners chose the direction with more people, that is, the direction of the 24 regiment.
Boom, after two crisp cannon shots, the shells exploded in the ranks of the 24th Regiment, the screams came one after another, the prefabricated fragments and steel balls were scattered everywhere, many officers and soldiers of the 24th Regiment were blown up by the shells and turned into bloody people, lying on the ground wailing, and some soldiers were frightened and stayed in place, not knowing the charge. The role of the veteran is reflected, and he even kicks the ducks in the back.
"Hurry up, you're like a punch with those on the ground."
"Don't you want to eat the guns of the Warlords?"
The recovered soldiers continued to charge, and other Japanese firearms also opened fire at this time, such as crooked handles, Type 92, grenadiers, and rifles and grenades in the hands of the infantry, trying to kill and injure the Chinese soldiers by all means.
The ranks of the 24th Regiment were suddenly thwarted, and the 2nd Battalion of the 23rd Regiment was not much better, and was also killed and wounded by Japanese fire.
Zhang Wei fired a shot, and now in front were two infantry companies of the 2nd Battalion, and the other company was in front of Zhang Wei's right side.
"Grenadier ready!"
The grenadier groups of three squads took out grenadiers and grenades and waited until a distance of two hundred meters. They will be ready to launch, there are bullets flying everywhere, Zhang Wei and they rushed to the end, there is no loss so far, on the side of the 24th regiment, after the troops rushed into a distance of 200 meters, they have been shooting at the Japanese in the same place, and they have not been able to continue to advance.
The 24th Regiment dealt with the Japanese firepower fiercely, then the Japanese troops in front of the 23rd Battalion of the 23rd Regiment would naturally shrink, and it seemed that the firepower was only two or three crooked handles and a heavy machine gun, and the heavy machine guns continued to spit out tongues of fire, knocking down a large number of soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, but they could not block the impact of the 2nd Battalion at all, in order to block the 24th Regiment, the Japanese commander transferred all their grenadiers to the side of the 24th Regiment, and the firepower advantage was gone.
"Shoot them with a machine gun! Throw me a grenade when you get close! The second battalion commander shouted.
The officers and men of the second battalion used their weapons to shoot at the Japanese army, while slowly approaching the Japanese position, and on the way to attack, people were constantly knocked down, Zhang Wei's people also suffered casualties, a stray bullet killed the corporal of Xu Yi's platoon, and the other soldiers were panicked, and the defects of not having experienced regular warfare were immediately revealed.
Zhang Wei and Xu Yi pressed the formation, and finally did not let the situation worsen.
The Japanese army could not resist the impact of the 2nd Battalion at all, even if they fired desperately, it only increased the casualties of the 2nd Battalion, and the distance was quickly compressed to more than 150 meters, and the soldiers could even see some Japanese faces.
Zhang Wei's men began to prepare grenadiers, Xu Yi personally went to a squad to direct the launch, the three grenadier groups were lined up, and the grenades were loaded under the cover of the soldiers of each squad, and the light machine guns in the squad also fired suppressively at the Japanese positions.
"Hit it when it's ready!"
There was no salvo, whoever installed it would fight, with a whoosh, two grenades flew out and hit the Japanese positions, the third and fourth shots learned the previous lesson, the grenadiers readjusted the distance and bearing, this time the grenades hit directly in the trenches of the Japanese army, and several Japanese soldiers were killed on the spot.
"Infantry assault." Zhang Wei shouted, and Xu Yi was silently learning on the side. Needless to say, the officers and soldiers of the 2nd Battalion in front of them began to rush forward, and the Japanese fired a few shots, and they fell into hand-to-hand combat with the Chinese soldiers.
Zhang Wei rushed forward with a bayonet, Xu Yi followed him with people, such a good opportunity for actual combat could not be wasted, as soon as Zhang Wei rushed up, there were a few Japanese soldiers left in the trench, Zhang Wei shot and killed one, and the rest were stabbed to death by the soldiers of the 2nd battalion.
Xu Yi looked stunned, and said that it was a good stab, so many people were killed by the 2nd battalion that went up first.
The Japanese defense line began to waver, the 23rd Regiment first captured the position, and dealt with the Japanese troops of the 24th Regiment on the back of the enemy, Zhang Wei rushed directly over, and the Japanese army heard the gunfire behind them only to find that the position had fallen, this time, Xu Yi's people did not miss it.
"According to the combat group, a team of three, deal with the devils."
The Japanese army and the Chinese army from the flank started a fight, Zhang Wei smashed a Japanese soldier with the butt of his gun, which was blocked by him with a 38 gun, Zhang Wei stretched out his foot and tried to kick him, but this Japanese is also a shrewd man, and he also blocked Zhang Wei's foot with his foot.
After the two kicked each other, the situation did not change, Xu Yi suddenly rushed out, gave the devil a rifle butt in the back, Zhang Wei put away the gun and stabbed, and the bayonet pierced the stomach of the Japanese soldier.
There were fighting soldiers everywhere, Xu Yi's platoon carried out Zhang Wei's order very well, and the Japanese army fought in a group of three, although each group was constantly stabbed down, but these soldiers had obviously calmed down, and cooperated with each other to fight back, and the Japanese army also fell four or five.
The attacked Japanese army had no way to hold the position, and the officers and men of the 24th Regiment poured into the Japanese position like crazy, and the extreme strength advantage made the Japanese army deflated to the extreme.
The bold and the Chinese army fought hand-to-hand, the timid had already retreated, and the two 92 infantry guns in the distance were blown up by the Japanese themselves, one was blown up by the Japanese themselves, and the other was still unharmed, and the artillery either fought with the Chinese army or ran away.
Zhang Wei seized the opportunity, shot and assassinated, killed two Japanese soldiers, and by the time he pulled out his knife again, the Japanese troops inside had already been cleared. The Chinese army completely broke through the Japanese defense line with extreme superiority in troops. Some of the troops began to pursue the battle, Zhang Wei led Xu Yi's platoon to rush along the retreating route of the Japanese army, and began to block and shoot at the retreating Japanese troops on a high ground, and the officers and soldiers of the 24th and 23rd regiments opened fire one after another.
On the Longshan position, the Japanese left more than 200 corpses, as well as a complete infantry gun. Most of the Japanese troops were killed in hand-to-hand combat after the Chinese army broke through the position, and the Chinese army also paid a lot of price in the attack.
The 24th Regiment suffered the heaviest casualties, being bombed by shrapnel grenades, with nearly 300 casualties, and the 2nd Battalion of the 23rd Regiment and Zhang Wei's people suffered more than 100 casualties, most of them were from the 2nd Battalion, and Xu Yi's platoon had a total of six dead and three wounded. The 12th Brigade defeated the Japanese troops in the Longshan position with more than 400 casualties, of course, it was not completely annihilated, and more than 80 Japanese troops in Longshan fled to the area of Dangshan and Luofengshan, where they joined a squadron.
After the war, the officers and soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield, Zhang Wei asked Xu Yi's people to take two more grenadiers and a bunch of grenades, and no one else said anything, after all, Zhang Wei's grenadiers played a big role just now.
In the division command post, Chen Daqing shouted hello, and Shi Jue, the commander of the 12th Brigade, was on the side, his face was very bright, and his 12th Brigade had won successive battles since the battle, completely overpowering Ni Zuyao's 10th Brigade.
"For the sake of opening, your 23 drawings are good, the first to open the opening, they seem to have used a small cannon? I don't know where it came from? ”
Shi Jue hurriedly replied: "I don't know if it's a lowly position, our army is not equipped with small mortars and grenadiers, so I will ask for clarification and greatly praise the meritorious officers and soldiers." ”
The person who used the "small cannon" was naturally Zhang Wei and his men.