Chapter 53: Adjusting Tactics

"Let's go, change places, pull out those grenadiers" Seeing that the Japanese mortar position turned into a sea of fire, Ye Kong took the rifle and the two snipers pretending to be wounded and straggled, and began to move towards the Japanese grenadiers. Compared with the Japanese mortar, the grenadier is more dexterous, it not only moves fast, but also can use the Japanese grenade as ammunition after the grenade is finished, and the Japanese soldier who is skilled in operating the grenadier can also fire ammunition on the move, and the whole is the existence of the mobile battery.

Kessler also discovered the explosion of the Japanese mortar position, and after receiving the order from Zhao Zhi to report with a walkie-talkie, Kessler redeployed the light and heavy machine guns. It's just that there are too many Japanese troops attacking frantically, and Kessler's machine gunners are also fighting very hard, with casualties every minute. Seeing that Ye Kong knocked out the Japanese mortars, Zhao Zhi, who stayed in the trenches, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, if he couldn't defeat these Japanese soldiers before the large number of pursuers from behind arrived, there was only a dead end waiting for all of them.

"Let's go, let's go up too" Zhao Zhi threw the light machine gun to the ammunition man beside him, but he picked up a wounded mercenary and climbed up the trench on his back, Eugene and the others were the same, carrying the wounded mercenaries in the trench and waiting for death on their backs, and even those mercenaries who died in battle were all groomed and carried on their shoulders by them. "If you don't want to die, follow us" Seeing that the guerrillas were still standing in the trench in a daze, Zhao Zhi reluctantly turned around and shouted, and they followed up to the trench as if they were waking up from a dream.

Zhao Zhi's group only had more than 20 people, even if they added those wounded mercenaries and guerrillas, there were only about 40 people, and at this point, they couldn't stop the scattered Japanese troops by relying on two light machine guns and more than a dozen submachine guns, so Zhao Zhi, who had changed into Japanese military uniforms, searched for grenades on the corpses of Japanese soldiers while walking. The guerrillas even stripped off the Japanese army's uniforms to make a wrapper, which was full of Japanese-style grenades they had looted, and their eyes were almost out of sight.

"I can't see that you national soldiers still know that the corpses of your own people are much stronger than the national army units I have seen" The female guerrilla leader with a 38 rifle looked around and asked Zhao Zhi, seeing that it meant that she wanted to dig out some news from Zhao Zhi's mouth, but Zhao Zhi only cared about observing the terrain and ignored her inquiries at all. The martyrdom of the Japanese mortars made the Japanese search team attacking the middle of the mountain lose their confidence, and the offensive that was originally quite fierce came to an end, and many Japanese soldiers simply hid behind the corpses of their comrades and opened fire, never following the officers to charge again.

"Let's go, go to the Japanese artillery position" Zhao Zhi looked around and set the target on the Japanese mortar position where the explosion had just occurred. After the Japanese mortar was killed, several craters appeared, and those craters were undoubtedly the best hiding spots in the unobstructed halfway up the mountain. Relying on two light machine guns and plenty of grenades, Zhao Zhi was confident that he would hold out until Kessler routed the Japanese troops from the top of the hill, maybe they would hide in the craters on the flanks, and he could beat the Japanese when they broke up, so that they could escape faster.

Zhao Zhi and the others were wrapped in the uniforms of the Japanese army, and those guerrillas also put on the uniforms of the Japanese army when they searched for grenades, although they were not too far from the Japanese troops in the rear, but this was the battlefield, who had the kung fu and recognized their faces one by one, so Zhao Zhi and his party touched the mortar martyrdom position without danger. As Zhao Zhi guessed, the momentum of the mortar position explosion looked quite large, but because the Japanese mortars were scattered, the explosion caused by the shell explosion only destroyed 4 mortars and most of the shells, but a mortar and two boxes of shells in the far corner of the position were preserved intact, if it were not for the loss of the Japanese artillery, this mortar might have been fired a long time ago.

"Sir, there is still a mortar that can be used, but the bracket is deformed, I hold it with my hands" Yu Dazhi churned out another mortar from the messy position, but its lifting rod had become like a twist. Zhao Zhi demonstrated to the mercenaries in the Geyue Mountain training camp how to use their hands to make a support frame to visually measure the coordinates of the artillery shell when the mortar parts are damaged and the barrel is intact.

"Contact Kessler, launch a counterattack after 12 cannon shots, and crush the Japanese army in one go" Zhao Zhi ordered Tang Lei, who was carrying a walkie-talkie, to contact Kessler, but he took Eugene and Yu Dazhi to fiddle with the two mortars. The female guerrilla leader, who had never used a mortar, also approached and wanted to see what was going on, but was driven back to the crater by Yu Dazhi under the pretext that it was dangerous and that the target would be exposed by the large number of people.

After missing the first two shells, Zhao Zhi and the others readjusted the coordinates and fired the remaining 10 shells, and Kessler, who was squatting on the top of the mountain, counted the number of shell explosions, waiting for the time to finally launch a counterattack. Kessler, who was thinking of evacuating, had been transferred to the hill since he received the order from Zhao Zhi using a walkie-talkie, and all the responders guarding the road behind the mountain were transferred to the top of the mountain, plus the original machine gunners and more than 40 light and heavy machine guns under his command, he had more than a dozen Thomson and Garland in his hands, as for the snipers assigned to them, after receiving Zhao Zhi's order, they had long been hidden on the mountain, if it weren't for the snipers to suppress the grenadiers of the Japanese army, the casualties of Kessler's machine gunners would have been more than one percent.

"Fire, fire, fire" After mentally counting the sound of the 12th shell exploding, Kessler shouted and pulled the trigger of the heavy machine gun in his hand as he watched the Japanese troops in the middle of the mountain be blown into a mess by the falling mortars. Originally, because of the limitations of the terrain on the mountain, Kessler only arranged more than 20 machine guns, but now in order to counterattack, Kessler naturally put out all the light and heavy machine guns in his hand, and more than 40 tongues of fire suddenly burst out after Kessler's order, completely blinding the Japanese army who was suffering from the enemy on the back.

The Japanese search team was saddened, they did not expect that this cunning Chinese army would have such strong firepower, and the Chinese army, with such multiple weapons, would definitely not be a small force. According to their understanding of the weapons configuration of the Chinese army, this cunning Chinese army should be at least a division, and it is also a regular descendant of the national army, otherwise their commander would not have equipped them with so many light and heavy machine guns, it seems that they have fallen into the trap of the Chinese people and stepped into the ambush circle set up by the Chinese army.