Chapter 268: Japanese Counterattack (Part II)

"Comrades, enter the position" Xu Bin shouted loudly to the more than 100 soldiers around him, holding a light machine gun and running towards the position not far away, and the soldiers followed closely behind the battalion commander. Although the soldiers had just seen the artillery fire of the little devils several times, everyone was still stunned by the scene in front of them at this time. Because, after the baptism of artillery fire, the entire top of the mountain has been completely blown up by artillery fire. A bunker that had just been piled out of sandbags was nowhere to be seen at this time. The warriors stepped on the soft and hot ground and quickly came to the edge of the highlands.

At this time, the offensive of the Yue army had already begun. Under the cover of countless light and heavy machine guns, the army all over the field, like a swarm of locusts, slowly crawled towards the top of the mountain. What surprised Xu Bin even more was that the two flanks of the position had also sent a squadron of little devils to attack. It is obvious that the little devil wants to eat the Eighth Route Army on the mountain in one fell swoop and occupy the high ground.

"Battalion commander, the little devil is really enough to look down on our battalion, hehe, he actually sent a large group of troops. Battalion commander, you just give the order, we have already eliminated the little devils of the three squadrons, and it is already enough. Let's earn one now, give the order, battalion commander" The second company commander looked at the dense army in front of him. said with a disdainful face.

"Battalion commander, you can give the order" The more than 100 soldiers behind him listened to the words of the second company commander and followed.

"Comrades, very good, you are all good. Now I order, the commander of the second company, you take two squads of fighters, five light machine guns, and defend the left flank of the heights. A company and a platoon leader, you lead two squads and five light machine guns, defending the right flank of the position. The rest of me defended head-on. Remember, the people are in the position, hold on to the last person," Xu Bin ordered loudly.

"Yes, the men are in position, and they will not retreat," the soldiers shouted in unison. Under the leadership of their respective commanders, they quickly arrived at their respective positions.

Due to the fierce artillery fire of the devils, and the sacks in the hands of the soldiers have been exhausted, the entire surface of the position is almost completely covered by thick floating soil. Therefore, in the face of hundreds of little devils, the soldiers did not build fortifications again, but just looked for a slightly deeper crater, and directly lay down in the crater, and began to check their weapons and ammunition, or reload the weapons in their hands

At this time, only the sound of loading bullets and the sound of soldiers loading bullets could be heard in the quiet position.

"Boom" finally a grenade exploded, breaking the quiet position. A grenade fired from a grenadier from a little devil grenadier fell on the position. Immediately after, one after another, countless grenades began to explode on the positions continuously. And the soldiers lying in the crater, the first time they heard the grenade explosion, almost all stopped what they were doing together, clenched the various weapons in their hands, began to hold their breath, and quietly aimed at the little devil who was getting closer and closer.

"Hit" When the little devil entered the range of 200 meters, a huge roar sounded from the position. Immediately afterward, countless tongues of fire erupted from the still-quiet position. More than a dozen tongues of fire began to reaper the lives of the little devils in front of the position.

At this time, the captain of the devil brigade also seemed to be crazy, and in the face of the dense fire on the top of the mountain, he did not let the soldiers stop and fight back. Instead, he ordered the grenadiers around him to continuously eliminate the firepower points of the Eighth Route Army, and then drove the troops to continue to charge. The army in front was defeated, and the latter continued to make up.

In less than a minute, although the little devil was knocked down almost half of the strength of the squadron. But Xu Bin, who was guarding the position, also suffered huge losses. So far, it has been less than a minute since the start of the fight. There are already four machine-gun fire points that have been hit by grenadiers from the little devils because of the untimely transfer.

Faced with the dense grenadiers of the little devils, Xu Bin began to constantly shift his machine gun position, constantly pulling the trigger at the most dense places of the little devils. However, there were too many troops of the little devils, and coupled with this attack, the second captain issued a military order in front of Wing Commander Sakata Daisa.

So, although so far, the Imperial soldiers who fell on the offensive road have exceeded the strength of two squads. However, he also achieved rich results, because he had already attacked a distance of 100 meters in front of the position of the Eighth Route Army, and more importantly, the firepower of the Eighth Route Army at this time was less than half of what it was before the war. There is another important reason for the captain to charge regardless of the losses, that is, although his second brigade suffered a lot of losses in the battle just now, after all, there are still nearly 700 troops, and the captain does not care about the loss of more than 100 people.

"Yo Xi, there are not many people in the Eighth Route Army, now is a good opportunity for our imperial army to make meritorious contributions, for the sake of the empire, kill and give, and destroy the Eighth Route Army in front of you" Seeing that the machine gun fire of the Eighth Route Army was once again killed by the grenadiers of his own brigade, the captain couldn't help the excitement in his heart, raised the command knife in his hand, and encouraged loudly.

"Kill and destroy the Eighth Route Army" Hearing the shout of the captain, the soldiers also shouted excitedly, holding their rifles with good bayonets, and charged the position even more unscrupulously.

However, at this time, the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield did reach the time of life and death. After a few minutes of fighting, there were less than 40 troops left on the entire heights, and the heavy fire in the hands of the fighters was basically destroyed by the grenadiers of the little devils. However, what Xu Bin feared the most happened when his right wing could no longer hear a single gunfire in the violent grenade explosions.

"Xiao Wang, bring five people to reinforce our right-wing position, and resolutely can't let the little devils rush to our position" Seeing that there were less than forty troops left on the position, and then looking at the silent right-wing position, Xu Bin gritted his teeth and ordered to a platoon commander beside him.

"Yes, battalion commander, you five come with me, get ready to charge with grenades" Under the leadership of Xiao Wang, the five soldiers followed closely behind. However, the five fighters who walked to the right flank position, did not see the fighters who were holding here, but they ran into a confrontation with the little devil who had just rushed to the position.

"Throw a grenade" Seeing the little devil looking at himself and the five soldiers around him in astonishment, Xiao Wang hurriedly shouted loudly and threw out the grenade that he had held in his hand early.

"Boom, boom, boom" Several violent grenade explosions exploded in the pile of little devils, blowing down more than a dozen proud little devils. However, just as he was about to enter the position with five warriors, the follow-up troops of more than a hundred little devils appeared in front of them again. In the face of the more than 100 follow-up people of the little devil, there must be no time to fire and block.

"Comrades, fight bayonets, rush with me" The six people raised the rifles that had been loaded with bayonets in their hands, and under the leadership of the platoon commander Xiao Wang, they rushed to the devil pile without any hesitation. However, after all, the strength of the Eighth Route Army was limited, and in less than half a minute, six grenade explosions sounded in a row in the formation of the little devils.

"Yo Xi, they are real soldiers" Seeing that only six Eighth Route Army soldiers in front of him had caused no less than 20 casualties to his squadron, the squadron leader who led the team couldn't help but praise. However, he did not relax in any way about his task.

"Warriors of the Empire, the Eighth Route Army has now become the end of the crossbow, let us rush to their positions, destroy them with bayonets, and avenge the fallen Imperial warriors. The squadron leader of the Yue Army, who had already rushed to the high ground, saw the frontal position of the Eighth Route Army less than a hundred meters away from him, raised the command knife in his hand, and ordered loudly.

"Kill to give" may be to see that there are really only a few dozen people left in the Eighth Route Army on the position. Hearing the order of his squadron leader, the little devils with a hundred people left roared in unison and rushed towards the frontal position that Xu Bin was holding.

"Battalion commander, battalion commander, our right flank position has been occupied by little devils, and the little devils have already rushed over from behind us." The battalion commander Xu Bin, who was frantically pulling the trigger, heard the voice of the communicator who was loading himself with bullets next to him, and couldn't help but be stunned, and turned his head to look in the direction of his right flank. Sure enough, more than a hundred little devils were holding bright bayonets and rushing towards their backs.

"Comrades, now that we have been surrounded by little devils, all of us are bayonets, fight one by one, and defend the position to the death" At this time, Xu Bin couldn't care about anything anymore, so he picked up a rifle next to him and began to load the bayonet. And the less than 20 soldiers left around him also followed Xu Bin, stopped shooting, replaced the guns in their hands with the devil's 38 big cover, and waited for Xu Bing's order.

Just as Xu Bin was about to order the soldiers around him to rush out, suddenly, a familiar charging horn sounded behind him, followed by countless soldiers who shouted and killed the sky, holding a rifle with a good bayonet, rushed out from behind the high ground. At the same time, in the middle of the stormtrooper there was the sound of mortar shells exploding. A few mortar shells landed accurately in the formation of the little devils who were charging behind him. Suddenly, the neat storm formation was immediately torn apart by the shells. And then there was the dense machine-gun fire behind the little devils.

Because the little devil was charging from behind him at this time, and the troops who came to reinforce also launched a charge behind the little devil, the dense bullets were harvesting their lives little by little at the end of the little devil's team.

"Comrades, our reinforcements are coming. Rush, destroy the little devil in front of you" Seeing the reinforcements, Xu Bin couldn't help but feel excited. Throw down the 38 big cover in your hand and pick up the light machine gun that you left aside. He began to pull the trigger on the little devil who was getting closer and closer, and several dense tongues of fire shot at the little devil who couldn't reach him from the front.

Soon, in the process of Xu Bin and the reinforcements coming to flank the front and back, a hundred little devils were wiped out in less than two minutes. At this time, the second brigade of the Yue Army, which was charging from the front, had already rushed to a place less than 20 meters away from the position of the Eighth Route Army. The little devils at the front of the line began to throw grenades at the position.

"It's not good, the little devil is rushing up, comrades, rush with me" Hearing the grenade explosion behind him, Xu Bin, who was about to talk to the commander of the first battalion of the three regiments who came to reinforce, shouted loudly at the soldiers around him. Regardless of whether it was his own troops or not, he rushed to the position just now with everyone.

"Prepare the grenade," Xu Bin commanded as he charged to the soldiers behind him. At the same time, he himself pulled out a grenade from his waist.

"Throw" Just when he was about to approach the position with the soldiers, Xu Bin opened the safety of the grenade in his hand, delayed it for three seconds, and threw it down the mountain with the speed of his own running. When the soldiers behind him heard the order, they also threw out the grenades in their hands at the same time, and suddenly, more than 100 grenades crossed the position and smashed on the heads of the soldiers who were only a dozen meters away from the position.

The dense explosion sound of "boom" suddenly blew up almost all the troops who were charging at the front, and at this time, Xu Bin had already led everyone into the position. Under the cover of the smoke from the grenade explosion, everyone quickly found cover, set up machine guns, and began to pull the trigger on the Japanese army less than 30 meters away.

With the arrival of reinforcements, more and more machine guns began to join the ranks of the slaughter, and even the few mortars that had just been replenished with shells behind them were not far behind, joining the ranks of counterattacking the little devils.

"Baga! Where did the Eighth Route Army come from with such dense firepower, eight grid tooth roads, grenadiers, immediately eliminate these firepower points" Looking at the soldiers at the front, they were constantly knocked to the ground by the powerful fire that burst into the top of the mountain, and the captain of the army scolded loudly, ordering the grenadiers that pressed the formation behind the position to fire. He didn't know that now his attacking force was less than 30 meters away from the position of the Eighth Route Army, and if his grenadiers fired, wouldn't even he be blown up?

"Baga, retreat, retreat quickly" In the end, the captain of the Yue Army could no longer bear the taste of being pressed and beaten by all kinds of firepower of the Eighth Route Army. After losing more than a squadron of troops, the order to retreat had to be given.

However, the fighters did not miss this opportunity to beat the water dogs. However, after tasting the retaliation of the artillery of the Yue Army, Xu Bin did not let the soldiers rush out of the position and become victims of the devil's artillery. Instead, he ordered the artillery platoon behind him that had just been replenished with shells, together with three regiments and one battalion, to reinforce three mortars, and there was a burst of indiscriminate bombing against the team that the little devil was retreating, leaving behind the corpses of a squad of soldiers again.

However, the captain of the second brigade of the retreating army couldn't help but be furious when he learned that he not only did not make a single contribution, but also let his brigade lose hundreds of troops in vain. However, seeing the remaining 400 troops under his command, he had gone crazy, and the captain who had lost his mind once again ordered his brigade to prepare for the charge. Then it was a request for the artillery brigade behind him to carry out indiscriminate shelling of the heights.

Of course, just when the little devil's attacking troops began to retreat, Xu Bin had already quickly retreated to the back of the mountain with the reinforcements coming to the top of the mountain, leaving the little devil with an empty position.

"Chief of Staff, I was scared to death just now, just a little bit close, and the position was occupied by the little devils, it's really hanging." Seeing that the little devil had left the corpses of almost two squadrons and retreated in embarrassment, Liu Hua, who had been paying attention to the position, breathed a sigh of relief and said to the chief of staff who was also nervous beside him.

"Yes, I didn't expect the fight to be so fierce, and there were only a dozen people left in the two companies in the end. When the time comes, you must ask Xu Bin for credit. The chief of staff replied.

"Commander, the shelling of the little devil has started again, it seems that the commander of the little devil will not hit the south wall and will not give up, so we will accompany him to slowly weaken its forces." Seeing that the shelling of the devils had begun again, the chief of staff continued.

"Hehe, the chief of staff is right, this is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone. Besides, now there is the main force of one of our battalions on the top of the mountain, and with the two squadrons in the hands of the little devils, they can't help them. Let's sit at the headquarters now and wait for the best time to launch a general attack! Liu Hua said with a smile, calmly sitting on an ammunition box at the headquarters.

And at this time, a situation attracted the attention of Chief of Staff Li Qing

"Haha, Commander, this time the little devil will shed his skin if he doesn't die, come, come and see, what good thing did I find?" Seeing the scene of the telescope, the chief of staff, who has always remained calm, said with a rare smile.

"Eh, what's a good thing" Liu Hua knew that the chief of staff must have discovered some fighter plane, so he hurriedly walked out of the command headquarters, picked up the binoculars, and looked at the position of the army.

"Where" Liu Hua asked while searching.

"Commander, look at the artillery position of the little devil, the little devil has sent us artillery," the chief of staff said with a smile.

Hearing this, Liu Hua hurriedly looked at the devil's artillery position. I saw that the little devil's 18 cannons of various kinds were lined up in two rows, and the shells were constantly happening towards the high ground, and there was no change, "Chief of Staff, the artillery position of the little devil has not changed" Liu Hua asked suspiciously.

"You are taking a closer look, the defensive strength of the artillery position" Under the reminder of the chief of staff, Liu Hua looked over again. Sure enough, the defensive forces of a squadron on the artillery position of the Japanese army were moving back and forth. In less than a moment, the strength of about two squads was assembled, and under the leadership of a devil officer, they made a detour to the flank of the high ground.

(To be continued)