Chapter 60: Encounter (3)
The commander of a battalion led his troops to charge, there is no doubt that they were again subjected to crossfire from the Japanese, but this time it was better, some soldiers who had experienced the first attack knew the general location of the Japanese firepower, and they took refuge elsewhere, and they were able to shoot in an organized manner, this time the Japanese were not as easy as last time, and only killed less than twenty Chinese soldiers in one round.
Closer, at the closer point, Zhang Weimao whispered in the grass, all the soldiers, including the independent company and the platoon of the 4th Division, were all ready to attack, Zhang Wei and their front was a gentle slope, slower than the position in front of Hushan.
At Zhang Wei's signal, Dong Erli had already taken out an artillery shell and stood by on the spot.
It's getting closer and closer, Zhang Wei and they even saw the faces of the officers and soldiers who charged, closer, closer, it's time!
"Release", Zhang Wei shouted, Dong Erli let go of his hand, the shell slid into the chamber of the mortar, the primer was ignited, and smashed into the Japanese high ground with skyrocketing anger.
Firing was the signal to attack, Zhang Wei stood up and ran away, and the soldiers behind him shouted and followed Zhang Wei to kill him.
The Japanese army was still dealing with the 4th Division troops in front, and suddenly a few mortar shells hit accurately, and the area on the top of the Tiger Mountain Heights was not so large, and a few shells came down, damaging a heavy machine gun and half a detachment (squad) of the Japanese army.
"There are enemy troops on the flanks."
When the Japanese army was beaten by Zhang Wei like this, they immediately became dizzy and hurriedly changed the direction of defense.
Zhang Wei and his officers and men rushed directly to the gentle slope and stepped forward to attack, preferably taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese army did not react, and rushed directly to the high ground, the grenadiers straddled the rifles diagonally, and with the cooperation of the deputy marksman, they loaded and fired, and several grenades were thrown into the high ground with a beautiful curved trajectory, and the light machine gunners found a good position on the gentle slope and suppressed the fire upward.
The figure of the Japanese army finally appeared, several devils appeared, looking down at the officers and soldiers of the independent company, and the Japanese troops who were urgently transferred began to block Zhang Wei and them, and the crooked machine guns and 38 guns began to fire, and the independent company suffered casualties, and nearly ten soldiers were hit by bullets, fell down the slope, and rolled down.
Zhang Wei held the official shot while shouting the fire support of Dong Erli and the grenadiers. Dong Erli hurriedly opened fire, and Zhang Wei and the others risked being hit by their own people and rushed up fiercely.
As soon as Dong Erli hit these cannons, the Japanese troops were also suppressed at once, and the return fire was stopped, and the machine gunner of the independent company directly put the gun on the shoulder of the deputy shooter and fired in an oblique upward posture. Although there were officers and soldiers in the team who were constantly defeated, the overall offensive was quite smooth, and the platoon of the 4th Division rushed with Zhang Wei's independent company.
A few grenades from grenadiers flew overhead, Zhang Wei knew that when he arrived at the place, he took out a grenade and signaled the soldiers to prepare, and the soldiers behind Zhang Wei and the closest to him learned from the company commander to take out the grenade.
More than a dozen grenades flew out and were dropped on the top of the Tiger Mountain Heights. Zhang Wei hurriedly squatted low to avoid accidental damage from shrapnel, and after a violent explosion, the officers and men of the independent company climbed to the top of the hill and jumped into the Japanese position.
Zhang Wei jumped up, there were several corpses on the ground, and several Japanese soldiers in the distance were rushing to this side, Zhang Wei fired two shots in succession, covering the soldiers to enter the high top.
"Kill!" The officers and soldiers fought with bayonets.
The Japanese army was attacked on both sides and couldn't take care of it at all, so the 4th Division seized the opportunity to rush upwards and narrow the distance, and the commander of the first battalion ordered to throw grenades, and the dust blown up by the grenades was used to impact upwards, and at the same time hit several Japanese troops, and the attacking troops had climbed the immediate slope and attacked to the top.
"Good! Played beautifully. Chen Chunyi shouted, although it was very strange why the Japanese troops were suddenly chaotic, but they finally attacked, and the first battalion was almost killed or wounded. Chen Chunyi called the signal corps.
"Pass the order, with all the 2nd Battalion and a company of the 3rd Battalion as the mainstay, launch an all-out attack, take the Hushan Heights, and the rest of the units will follow up one after another and fight up!" gave a categorical order, Chen Chunyi took the lead and walked out, this time he also had to go to the front line.
On the top of the mountain, it has fallen into hand-to-hand combat, the Japanese defenders originally only had two infantry squadrons plus half a machine gun squadron and a mortar detachment, a total of only more than 300 people, and there were casualties in the previous tug-of-war, and now the 4th Division and Zhang Wei's men are all attacked, and they can't withstand it at all.
Zhang Wei stabbed a Japanese soldier to death with a bayonet, and then he didn't fight, took out a shell gun and began to fight. Even an 81 mortar was dropped.
Now is the time to beat the water dogs, at first it was the Chinese army attacking on the back, and now it is the Japanese army You run from the top down, and the people of the 23rd Regiment and Zhang Wei joined forces and shot at the fleeing Japanese army.
Behind him, a louder shout of killing came, it was the main force of the 23rd Regiment led by Chen Chunyi who launched a charge, and the 23rd Regiment arrived at the place only to find that the hill had been taken down, and could only shoot a dozen lone Japanese soldiers.
Zhang Wei looked at the people around him, and the commander of the first battalion of the 23rd Regiment was also looking at Zhang Wei, and hurriedly ran over, grabbed Zhang Wei's hand and hurriedly thanked him. This enthusiasm made Zhang Wei unacceptable.
"Brother, thank you, you are from that part, the 89th Division?" The commander of the first battalion asked.
"No, we are ordered to be assigned to the unit of Chief Tang to fight, the number is the independent company of the 200th Division, today we were stopped by the brothers of the 4th Division on the railway, and when we heard the gunshots here, we came over to fight, which is a small matter."
After listening to this, the first battalion commander smiled, and after a few polite sentences, the two sorted out their troops separately, and the first battalion commander also sent a squad to take over the main force of the 23rd regiment. The commander of the first battalion himself personally went to Chen Chunyi to report the battle situation.
In the battle of Hushan just now, most of the Japanese defenders can be said to have been annihilated, and there were more than 200 corpses scattered on the ground, and it is estimated that there were 30 or 40 people who ran away.
The losses on the side of the national army are very large, Zhang Wei's people are okay, it is a sneak attack, five dead and four wounded, there is no way to die, and the people of the 4th Division have to help treat it, fortunately, the injuries are not serious.
The 4th Division was miserable here, losing nearly a battalion of troops before and after, and in the second attack, the first battalion also suffered seventy or eighty casualties, and the total casualties after the two attacks reached more than 300 people, plus the losses of other troops of the 23rd Regiment, the entire regiment suffered more than 500 casualties in order to take the Hushan Heights!
This is still in the case of Zhang Wei's sneak attack, if there is no Zhang Wei, the casualties will only be more disparity, 500 people for more than 200 casualties of the Japanese, on the surface it seems to be a relatively acceptable proportion, but once replaced on the battlefield, it is not acceptable to ordinary people.
On the road leading to the attack, on the gentle slope leading to the high ground, the high ground was full of corpses and wounded soldiers of Chinese officers and soldiers, lying horizontally and vertically, some of them were beaten and could not see their human shapes, and some were blown to pieces.
The follow-up troops of the 23rd Regiment were rescuing and carrying the wounded, checking whether there were any people in the pile of corpses who could still breathe, and they could save one by one.
Blood stained the steel helmets and weapons of the fallen soldiers, and these soldiers proved the indomitability of the Chinese soldiers with their lives.
Chen Chunyi looked at his battlefield and looked at his soldiers, and wanted to cry in his heart, just after a day of fighting, it became like this, an infantry battalion was almost crippled, how to fight the next battle?