Chapter 406 The Japanese Army Suddenly Changed Its Tactics

The Japanese artillery bombardment continued, and from time to time huge smoke and dust were raised from the positions of the Nationalist troops on the hill on the right. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

"I'm going to pull our team up?" Shen Chong asked Huo Xiaoshandao.

Huo Xiaoshan didn't say anything, but at this time, he was concentrating on observing the situation on the battlefield.

In the valley, there were scattered corpses left behind by the Japanese attack, and not many Japanese soldiers died in battle.

Huo Xiaoshan stretched out his hand to the side, and Xiao Shisuo hurriedly handed over the binoculars, he caught up after Huo Xiaoshan and the others touched the Japanese army's observation post.

Huo Xiaoshan used the telescope to observe the lower left, and after a while, he suddenly said to Shen Chong, who had been waiting for him to reply, "We haven't fought the Japanese artillery yet, right?" ”

"Huh?" Shen Chong's eyes lit up, but then he asked, "Is it too late?" ”

Huo Xiaoshan pointed to the lower left and said: "It should be in time, you and the fat man will take more than eighty people to disguise themselves as Japanese soldiers and walk backwards from there, it is estimated that the Japanese army's mountain artillery should be in the position of eight or nine miles, four." ”

"Good!" Shen Chong rubbed his hands excitedly.

"Wait, you and the fat man use their brains more, I don't think this Japanese army will be able to capture this mountain for half a while." Huo Xiaoshan shouted to Shen Chong, who got up and ran back, and said again, Shen Chong agreed, and then rushed down the mountain.

Huo Xiaoshan found through observation that although the valley in front of him was very wide, the Chinese army guarding the hill occupied a condescending position.

Obviously, the Japanese army also knew that they had no geographical advantage and did not want to have too many casualties, Huo Xiaoshan estimated that the Japanese army that attacked just now was a small group of less than 100 people.

At this time, the Japanese artillery fire did not stop, and it was clear that they hoped to inflict more casualties on the defenders through the shelling before launching a charge.

And if the defenders have a way to avoid bullets, then this kind of battle will really not be able to tell the winner for a while.

More than 20 minutes later, when the soldiers of the remaining two companies had also climbed the hill on this side, another round of Japanese attacks began.

Sure enough, the number of Japanese attacking troops was not large, that is, eighty or ninety people, and they began to maneuver from Huo Xiaoshan, which was more than 400 meters away from the defensive position of the national army from the lower left.

Huo Xiaoshan did not give the order to shoot, but gave an opposite order: wait and see.

He ordered the veterans who were platoon commanders to begin explaining the tactics of attacking the Japanese positions to the recruits based on their own combat experience and this good opportunity to be a clear observer, and to strive to improve themselves in the process.

Huo Xiaoshan did not forget, his recruits had not experienced a few battles with the Japanese army, and there was no white-knuckle battle in positional warfare, Shen Chong had already led the team to touch the Japanese artillery, and they couldn't fight too early here.

Therefore, it is rare to have such an opportunity to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight here, so that the recruits can familiarize themselves with the tactics of the Japanese attack.

So, under the separate explanations of Huo Xiaoshan and those veterans, the tactics of the recruits attacking the Japanese infantry positions became clear.

Taking the Japanese attack as an example, the Japanese began to maneuver more than 400 meters away from the position of the Nationalist army to be attacked.

Their attacks were never blind, and they had carefully observed the battlefield before attacking.

The machine gun group of the Japanese squad in front of them began to fire suppressively at the national firing point after entering the first firing position, and the attacking groups immediately maneuvered to the first hidden point on the battlefield that had been observed.

When they reached the first hiding point, they began to fire and fired, covering the machine gun crews behind them to maneuver forward.

After this cycle, all the Japanese fighters stopped 200 meters from the Nationalist position, and all the firepower was deployed, clearing the exposed firepower points on the Nationalist positions and the densely populated areas on the main strike positions.

At this time, the shelling of the rear of the Japanese army began again.

The first round of shelling was all-out fire to knock out the entire frontal fire of the national army.

The second round of firing was concentrated on one side of the defensive position, resulting in an imbalance in the number of defenders, which forced the defenders to move their soldiers to the small number of soldiers in the areas where the losses were small, so as to make up for the lack of defensive strength.

In the process of maneuvering, the defenders did not always have communication trenches, so this part of the force became a target for the Japanese infantry to shoot.

From 200 meters, the Japanese army used the method of creeping forward to enter the distance of 100 to 50 meters from the defenders, and then began to charge with all their strength until the defenders engaged in white-knuckle combat, so that the tactical organization of the Japanese infantry attack was completely completed.

Such an opportunity is rare, because no unit will stand by and watch its allies being attacked by the opposing side.

Therefore, this is also an extremely rare opportunity for Huo Xiaoshan himself to "observe" on the spot, after all, he has not fought much in positional warfare, although he has a rough judgment of the offensive tactics of the Japanese infantry before, how can he be as intuitive as this.

More than half an hour later, the Japanese attack ended in vain.

The Nationalist troops on the hill on the right were very tenacious, and it was obvious that they had mastered the law of the Japanese attack to some extent, and at the moment when the Japanese army launched a charge of about 100 meters, a fire point composed of more than a dozen light machine guns suddenly appeared on the originally silent position, and the rifles were free fire.

The superiority of the defenders' superior firepower was unmistakable, and by the time the Japanese had reached a distance of fifty meters, more than half of the Japanese had already lost more than half of their men, so the remnants of the Japanese had to retreat.

The position of the hill where the Quartermaster Office is now located is exactly in the middle of the distance between the Chinese and Japanese sides in front of the battle, and the distance between the position of the Japanese army and the hill defended by the Nationalist army is outside the firing range.

And only when the Japanese attack happens to pass through here will it enter the firing range, and the soldiers of the quartermaster department are very unwilling to see the defeated Japanese troops retreating from their range like this, but Huo Xiaoshan does not give the order to shoot, although they are itchy but helpless.

Half an hour later, the Japanese artillery bombardment rang out again, once again smashing the defenders' positions into a miasma, so in the sight of everyone in the quartermaster's office, the Japanese troops preparing to attack reappeared.

At this time, a few veterans of the quartermaster department were already laughing, because as a bystander, it was clear that the combat quality and tactical coordination of the Japanese soldiers were indeed very good, and the cross-cover during the attack was really seamless.

Judging from the operational patterns that they had just summed up as spectators, the Japanese attack was exactly the same as the first one they had seen, until they were prostrate to a distance of 100 meters from the defenders' positions.

"It's time for them to charge again." A veteran onlooker muttered.

But at this moment, the abnormal change suddenly happened, the Japanese soldiers lying on the ground did not move, and the shelling that had already died down began again!

In the roar of artillery, four huge clouds of smoke and dust exploded from the defenders' positions.

Not good! Huo Xiaoshan said secretly.

Why is it not good, because he has also used such a defensive method by the defenders, that is, in the artillery bombardment before the Japanese attack, the defenders were actually not in the defensive position, but hid in a position dozens of meters behind the defensive position.

They would wait until the Japanese assault had stopped before rushing to their positions, thus avoiding Japanese fire.

And the sudden shelling of the Japanese army at this time was supposed to be the time when the defenders were maneuvering to the position, and the cunning Japanese commander actually guessed this!

Huo Xiaoshan hurriedly turned the telescope to look at the defenders' position, "boom boom" was another round of shelling, at the moment when the mountain collapsed and cracked, Huo Xiaoshan could already see from the telescope that there were Chinese soldiers thrown up by the explosion of the air wave!

At the same time, the soldiers of the quartermaster department couldn't help but let out a low noise, and in the place where the Japanese army launched an attack in the lower left, another group of Japanese troops appeared, and this group of Japanese troops already had a squadron!