Chapter 695: The Temptation of the Squad
At ten o'clock in the morning of June, the air began to become scorching, and a large number of devil soldiers began to appear in front of the position of the new Second Brigade in Donghui Town.
Sun Weiguo transferred two machine gun battalions and two infantry battalions, he was preparing to launch a diversion attack on the first brigade of the melee, so as to prevent the first brigade from sending troops to follow the fourth cavalry brigade back to Zanhuang County, but Kunomura Momoyo was not a simple Japanese commander after all, he took the lead in launching an attack and disrupted Sun Weiguo's plan.
The detachment leader of the infantry detachment of the 1st Brigade of the Mixed Combat is Hideaki Okamoto Nakasa, and the deputy detachment leader is Namijiro Araki Shaosa, and the two officers are currently deeply trusted by Momoyo Kunomura.
In this infantry detachment operation, the detachment leader Hideaki Okamoto personally commanded the first and second melee teams to attack on the front, and the deputy detachment leader Nanjiro Araki commanded the third melee team to start a detour from the left side.
TWELVE 105MM FIELD GUNS, TWELVE 75MM FIELD GUNS, AND EIGHT 75MM MOUNTAIN GUNS PROVIDED AMPLE ARTILLERY SHELLING, AND AFTER THE SHELLING WAS OVER, THE JAPANESE TROOPS BEGAN TO PULL OUT A LONG LINE OF SKIRMISHERS, AND AT THE FRONT OF THE JAPANESE TROOPS, TWO INFANTRY SQUADS WERE MARCHING FAST, AND THEY WERE GOING TO ENTER THE FRONT OF THE POSITION IN ADVANCE FOR FIRE TESTING.
The two captains of the 1st and 2nd Mixed Battalions personally led their troops to attack, and the machine gun squadron and artillery squadron to which the brigade belonged set up artillery positions and machine gun positions in different positions, and the grenadiers and light machine guns followed the covering infantry.
In order to more effectively command the troops, the first battalion to the fourth battalion of the independent regiment were renamed the fifth battalion to the eighth battalion, and at the same time, the machine gun battalion of Ye Jiangkai of the first regiment was renamed the first machine gun battalion, and the machine gun battalion of Liu Yong of the independent regiment was renamed the second machine gun battalion.
At present, Zheng Guan Zilin's 4th Battalion and Xiao Yan's 8th Battalion are deployed on the periphery of Donghui Town, and the two battalions have drawn out a 5,000-meter defensive range, and within the 5,000-meter defensive range, the village is the support point of the first defensive position they garrison, and it is often reinforced with light and heavy machine guns and mortars in the village.
Liyu Village is located two kilometers outside Donghui Town, where the headquarters of the 4th Battalion of Zheng Guan Zilin is located, where the 13th Company of the 4th Battalion and 16 companies of an infantry gun and a Type 92 heavy machine gun are deployed.
At this time, an infantry squad of the Japanese army had entered a position less than 400 meters away from Liyu Village, and the devil soldiers began to pause for a short time, and the Japanese squad leader began to deploy fire to his ghost soldiers, and at the same time replenish the ammunition of each devil soldier.
When they received the order of the Japanese squad leader to continue advancing, the devil soldiers began to slowly march to the front, the light machine guns had been deployed to cover behind the bunker, and the nine devil soldiers were holding rifles, under the command of the Japanese squad leader, alternately covering the advance.
This infantry squad was part of the 1st Mixed Combat Brigade, and they had come to test the fire of the new 2nd Brigade in Liyu Village, so as to provide targets for the artillery behind.
After advancing to a distance of 300 meters, the eight devil soldiers began to lie on the ground to cover, and the light machine gun shooters erected behind began to follow up with light machine guns.
The Japanese troops cooperated tacitly, they had skilled tactical movements, and if they boldly launched fire suppression at this time, they would definitely expose the target and be attacked by the Japanese artillery.
The company commander of the 13th Company was not attracted by the devil soldiers, he stood calmly in the trenches, silently watching the advance of the devil soldiers.
"Two hundred meters away, order each platoon of snipers to kill the devil soldiers." When the Japanese infantry advanced to a distance of two hundred meters from the position, the company commander of the 13th company immediately gave the order.
With the company commander's order, three snipers from the 13th Company began to shoot at the target with sniper rifles.
Bullets were fired, and the three ghost soldiers who were advancing with rifles were immediately knocked to the ground.
When the Japanese squad leader saw that the enemy position was firing, he immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing, and at the same time, the light machine guns covering in the rear also began to fire at a point to suppress the fire on the position.
However, the 13th Company's defensive range was 800 meters, and the Japanese only put in an infantry squad to test their firepower, and they were obviously at a disadvantage.
As soon as the Japanese light machine gun shooter fired five bullets, they came under concentrated fire from the snipers, and the light machine gun shooter was killed on the spot.
With a "snap", the leader of the machine gun team was still holding a telescope to look for a target, and a bullet hit him directly through his telescope.
The team leader fell to the ground, and the co-shooter, knowing that he was being targeted, immediately shifted with a light machine gun in his arms, and the ammunition man followed with the ammunition box.
"Bang bang", the crisp sound of the Type 38 rifle sounded, and the two bullets hit the body of the deputy shooter and the ammunition hand respectively.
The Japanese infantry squad was less than 200 meters from the position of the 13th Company, but four devil soldiers and three riflemen of the machine gun group were shot.
The remaining ghost soldiers shot at the position indiscriminately, and their eyes looked at the Japanese squad leader.
The Japanese squad leader waved his hand in frustration, and the devil soldiers began to retreat to the back.
The captain squadron leader of the first squadron of the first battalion of the melee saw that the infantry squad he sent out did not achieve any results, and the expression on his face became a little annoyed.
The first squadron of the first squadron was to admit the task of fire testing, but the first squadron did not bargain for anything in front of the position of the first battalion of Zheng Guan Zilin, and they paid the price of more than 20 casualties, which made the captain squadron leader of the first squadron a little annoyed.
The first melee brigade did not achieve any results, and the second melee brigade did the same, the two teams that tested the positions of the fourth and eighth battalions respectively did not attract the new second brigade troops to expose their firepower, but they paid a lot of casualties.
The two captains of the Shaosa Brigade were ready to storm the position, but Hideaki Okamoto, the commander of the infantry detachment who commanded the operation, did not dare to be careless.
He knew that once his troops launched a strong attack, then all the hidden fire points on the position would definitely be fired, and then the casualties of his troops would become very large.
Without knowing the situation of the other party's position, Hideaki Okamoto couldn't think of any good way for a while, but Hideaki Okamoto was very good at asking, and he immediately used the radio to get in touch with the brigade commander Nagano Village Momoyo, and he reported the situation here to Kunomura Momoyo.
Hideaki Okamoto was able to be promoted to the army lieutenant and become the commander of the infantry detachment of the 1st Brigade of the Mixed Warfare, which has something to do with his personality.