The two different sounds of the Type 92 heavy machine gun and the crooked light machine gun were intertwined, and the machine gun bullets greatly improved the hit rate in the close-range firing, and the bullets pressed the position of a company, and the rhythm of fire of a company of return fire was gradually disrupted, and the casualties of the soldiers began to increase. Ｘ

"Squad leader, I can't fight."

In the defensive position of the first company, a squad of soldiers squatted in the trenches, and the debris caused by bullet hits kept falling from the trenches overhead, and the Japanese bullets hit the trenches more, and it was difficult for the soldiers of this squad to raise their heads and return fire. The squad leader didn't speak, gathered the rifle above his head, stretched out of the trench, pulled the trigger, and fired a blind shot, as did the light machine gunner, who fired without exposing his body outside the trench, and with it a great reduction in accuracy.

Due to the close firing of the Japanese machine gun fire, this kind of scene can be seen everywhere on the position of the company, and the casualties caused by the company to the frontal Japanese soldiers plummeted, disrupting the rhythm of shooting, and the soldiers of the company who could not shoot continuously could only find the Japanese firepower to return fire or shoot blindly, and some soldiers squatted in the trenches and threw grenades.

"Assault!" Machine gun fire and grenadiers suppressed a company's position, the pressure of the Japanese rifle group dropped sharply, under the order of Jun Cao and the squad leader, quickly launched an attack, at this time the main damage to the Japanese army was two heavy machine guns from the right flank of the second line position, the two machine guns were located behind the first line position, the bullets fired by the Japanese heavy machine guns were difficult to hit accurately, so these two side-firing heavy machine guns maintained the continuity of fire, and the bullets killed and injured the charging Japanese troops.

A rifle group was just about to approach the first-line position, and one person was hit by a heavy machine gun bullet fired from the side, and two grenades flew out of the position, and the shrapnel from the explosion spread to the remaining two, and the shrapnel and the smoke screen caused by the explosion were sandwiched together, and the heavy machine guns on the three positions stepped up their fire, swept left and right to increase the killing surface, and the bullets also entered the smoke screen produced by the grenade explosion.

After the explosion, there were three more corpses on the ground, and the same was true around them, the heavy machine guns fired from the side had a large killing area, and with a company of bullets fired from time to time and continuous grenades, it was not easy to attack.

Zhang Wei was next to the heavy machine gun, witnessing the Japanese army being blocked by the side fire of the heavy machine gun, although the Japanese army suffered a lot of casualties at this time, but still moved forward with iron determination, and kept moving, few people took the initiative to take the initiative on the position of a company, only intermittent shooting, continuous only grenades.

It was difficult to rely only on the explosion and the fire of two sustained heavy machine guns as a pillar, and the Japanese squadron almost all entered the range of 100 meters, and it was difficult to stop the Japanese attack on its own, and with the cover of the Japanese grenadiers, although it was difficult for the Japanese to attack and advance, the casualties of the first company were already not small.

In the position of a company, a corporal opened the line of fire of the grenade, and the grenade with white smoke flew out quickly and fell in front of the Japanese army, and the surrounding Japanese troops rolled to both sides to avoid shrapnel.

"Damn!" As soon as he lay down, the grenade had exploded, and the sandbags piled up around played a role, weakening the explosion and blocking the shrapnel, the corporal lay down in the deep trench, fortunately the trench was dug deep, and the fortifications were well done, the grenade explosion only caused the corporal to be wounded in the lower leg and temporarily unconscious, and the grenade blew up the sandbags after the fortifications and piled them on the corporal's body, blocking the passage of the trench, and the surrounding soldiers quickly crawled over to clean up and treat.

"Fire, brethren hold on." Qiu Wei walked around in the trenches, organizing the soldiers to fight back as best they could, so as not to cause confusion, as long as Zhang Wei's order was not given, the position must be in the hands of all his might.

Zhang Wei looked at the front line, the Japanese army in front of it continued to advance under the cover of strong firepower, the position of the first company could only delay as much as possible and could not be completely blocked, the left flank of the third company position, the outflanked Japanese army was about to approach, and now it was necessary to do everything possible to protect the position of the first line and the first company, and prepare to deal with the Japanese army outflanked by the left flank.

"Guards, go to the mortar position and order them to concentrate their firepower, hit the Japanese troops in front of the position of a company, and open fire with all their might."

Support the positions of the first company with mortars, delay the Japanese troops on the first line with all their might, and then concentrate the forces of the left flank of the third company against the Japanese squads outflanked by the left flank, block them, and prevent them from threatening the positions of the reserve battalion in two directions at the same time.

"Boom, boom, boom"

The mortars located behind the positions of the first and third companies sprayed shells, and in a burst of rapid fire, seven or eight eighty-two mortar shells fell in front of the positions of the first company, causing a large number of casualties to the Japanese troops who were assaulting on the first line, and the explosion caused the Japanese covering fire to be suspended, and the officers and men of the first company took the opportunity to stand up from the trenches and take this opportunity to pour fire on the Japanese troops in front of the position.

"Brothers, take advantage of the devil's illness, ask for the devil's life, fight!"

A company of officers and soldiers who had been holding back for a long time burst out with a rapid rate of fire, and the rain of bullets hit the Japanese army in front of the position after the first round of mortar shelling, and the Japanese army paid a heavy price under the double blow of shells and bullets, and Captain Sakamoto's second squadron up to this time, the casualties added up to not a full squad, but also seven or eight out of ten.

The mortars gave a strong support to the first company, the tug-of-war situation on the front-line position was improved, the balance that was originally tilted towards the Japanese army gradually returned to a state of equilibrium, the shelling continued, and the first company and the Japanese army in front of the battle continued to attack evenly matched.

Zhang Wei's goal has been achieved, now it is necessary to deal with the Japanese army outflanked by the left flank, after the battle began, the Japanese army outflanked by the left flank has not blatantly launched a surprise attack, but the left flank continues to approach the left flank position of the third company, Zhang Wei from the point of view of strength, it seems that there is a squad, the purpose of the Japanese army, may be to outflank the reserve battalion with a small force on the left flank, and then let the frontal assault troops attack at the same time, breaking through the position of the reserve battalion in one fell swoop.

The tactics are good, but it is a pity that the Japanese army underestimated the combat effectiveness and firepower of the front-line troops of the preparation battalion, and the basic combat quality of the veterans of the first company after so many battles is not much worse than the average level of the Japanese army, and many of them are veterans of the former teaching corps, and the combat quality is naturally not bad, and the light and heavy machine guns of the preparation battalion are completely equipped, and the firepower is not bad, and the original tactical purpose of the Japanese army will inevitably not be smoothly realized.

Zhang Wei came to the left flank of the position of the third company, and the heavy fire deployed on the left flank had two heavy machine guns, and Zheng Yiqun strictly carried out Zhang Wei's order and did not let the troops on the left flank of the third company open fire.

"How's it going?" Zhang Wei patted Zheng Yiqun on the shoulder to show encouragement.

"Battalion commander, there are about fifty or sixty Japanese, they didn't fire, they just kept touching forward, they should be trying to get around from the left."

"The abacus played well, but unfortunately underestimated the combat effectiveness of the first company, and ordered the three companies to prepare for battle!" r