Chapter 124: The Battle of Xiangtangpu (3)

In the face of a long defensive line, it is simply impossible to deploy all heavy troops for defense. In order to block the route of the devil's breakthrough. At least three heavy machine guns were placed on each hill along the way, and a large number of light machine guns were arranged between the hills.

Similarly, in order to divide and intersperse the tired devils, a battalion of mobile troops was arranged on each hill to recuperate and undertake the task of interspersing and destroying the army, the mortar group was used as the artillery support of the whole army, and the cavalry battalion was arranged in the mountain pass of Xiangtangpu as the last winning force to surprise the remnants of the enemy at any time. Two companies of baggage were arranged next to the headquarters as reserves, ready to reinforce the positions that needed reinforcements.

Thanks to the thunderstorm and the support of nearly 50 explosives bags along the way, Liu Hua was full of confidence in the 2,000 troops on the all-annihilation road.

"Commander, the main force of the army has begun to enter the ambush position." The chief of staff next to him reminded in a low voice. Sure enough, several cars of the main convoy of the army had already walked through the mountain pass with the smoke and dust rolled up, that is, the positions of the two companies of the 45th Regiment of the Second Regiment. Slowly drive into the arranged ambush circle.

Watching the enemy convoy march into the long-prepared ambush circle, Liu Hua was excited. The hands holding the binoculars couldn't help but tremble, and in the same way, everyone in the command headquarters looked at the huge convoy in front of them with their mouths wide open. For cars, although everyone in the command is familiar. But in backward China, it is impossible to see a fleet of so many cars, that scale, that kind of momentum... I can only say one word, which is shocking. Thinking of this, Liu Hua once again couldn't resist the temptation and began to reverie, thinking that his troops would be able to form a convoy in the future...

This section of the road can be said to be in the worst condition of all the roads along the way, and in the face of potholes, the army can only slow down. The entire convoy moved slowly between the mountains like an earthworm. Captain Moriki Nakasa was powerless in the face of slow speed, and after being caught in the dust outside the window, Moriki was no longer in the mood to enjoy the scenery outside the window, so he closed the window depressedly, closed his eyes, and began to rest. With his eyes closed, he had no idea that his life would be lost in a battle. Similarly, the Yue Jun outside the car was not alert at all, frolicking with each other, talking and moving forward, completely ignoring the hateful eyes on the top of the mountain.

The devil's cars drove into the ambush circle one after another, until the vanguard of the devil's convoy disappeared from everyone's field of vision, and the enemy's main convoy was not finished. Liu Hua was waiting, the soldiers were waiting, everyone quietly looked at the cars passing in front of them, held their breath, and aimed their guns at the army in the convoy.

Finally, the last car full of soldiers appeared in everyone's field of vision and slowly drove into the ambush circle. Finally entered, Liu Hua breathed a sigh of relief. The soldiers of the 45 two companies appeared in the binoculars, the soldiers were very smart, using the dust rolled up by the convoy, they hid their figures well, and quietly followed the last car, trying to kill the last car of the devil as soon as possible after the start of the attack, block the download road, and complete the important task of closing the door and beating the dog. And a company used the dust rolled up as a cover, and began to build simple fortifications on the road where the convoy walked, so as to block the devils who broke through at any time.

Everyone in the command put down their binoculars almost at the same time and looked at Liu Hua in the middle. Waiting for the commander to give the combat order, the operator took the phone and pricked up his ears, waiting for the commander's order. "Detonate." Liu Hua ordered loudly, and after speaking, he picked up the binoculars and stared at the road in the distance again.

The telephone operator, who heard the order, shouted into the phone loudly: "Detonate!" "Almost at the same moment, thunderous explosions rang out throughout the position, and the explosive packets buried at the foot of the hill exploded one after another. The ground under his feet was shaking, in Liu Hua's telescope, there was almost no firelight, only stones flying everywhere, and he could even feel a powerful shock wave, pushing down everything he encountered, and the devil who was close to the explosion point was thrown high at the moment of the explosion, but it was not the corpse that was thrown up, but the stump and broken arm that were blown up. The soldiers who were a little farther away were thrown far away by the powerful shockwave, and the lucky ones were only stunned, and the unlucky ones were shocked by the powerful shockwave and bled out. At the same time, more than a dozen cars could not withstand such an impact and fell crookedly on the side of the road...... The sound of the explosion was an order, and when the explosion was heard, nearly 100 light and heavy machine guns along the entire line opened fire on the enemy on the road, and at the same time, mortars and thunderbolts also joined the queue of attack, because the soldiers did not fall on the road in order to seize the materials and ammunition on the car, and they were slightly biased on the hillside next to the road, so that the lethality of the division was reduced a lot. Dense bullets, flying shells, bags of explosives with a loud whistling sound, constantly reaping the lives of the soldiers. In addition to the soldiers who died in the explosion at the beginning, those elite veteran devils have put up their rifles behind them, and in the shortest possible time, lying on the ground and constantly doing tactical movements, dodging the flying bullets, looking for cover that can be used to make their own figures, and at the same time, in the process of constantly rolling, they did not forget to pull the trigger and suppress the vitality of the mountaintop.

Although the veterans easily dodged the flying bullets and hid under the car to return fire. But the machine gunners on the hill didn't seem to be targeting them at all, and many of them turned their guns on the slow-reacting baggage soldiers. As a result, nearly 1,000 heavy soldiers, artillery and other technical soldiers were almost killed and wounded under the explosion in front, machine gun fire in the back, and artillery shells in the sky, and only more than 1,000 troops were left on the position to resist, but it was these remaining 1,000 people who brought great trouble to Liu Hua.

Those soldiers who had dodged the first round of shooting, under the cover of their own people, slowly gathered together and began to confront the soldiers on the mountain with the help of cars. Slowly, the heavy machine guns were also used by the devils as a cover for their own people, and they were slowly erected, intact grenadiers, and heavy machine guns began to fire back, and the firepower of the fighters was suppressed a lot at once.

Liu Hua stood at the command headquarters and looked at the weakened machine gun firepower, and immediately became anxious, "Order, artillery, don't worry about the devil's ammunition truck, give me a hard blow" Liu Hua decisively ordered.

Soon, the artillery who received the order could no longer take care of it, and a group of dozens of shells fell on the road together, and eight explosives of the thunder fell into the devil's convoy with the sound of the howling wind.

The "boom boom" explosives package really had a different response, and a large area was blown up, and the devil's firepower could no longer be seen at a distance of dozens of meters from the house where the explosive package exploded. However, although the effect was good, with the explosion of explosive packets, the ammunition trucks on the road were also detonated.

Two of the shells happened to fall on the devil's ammunition truck, and in an instant, several shells on the ammunition truck were detonated, and the exploding shells threw the shells that did not explode far away, and the shells that ran out exploded again, and then detonated the ammunition trucks next to them, so that more than a dozen ammunition trucks exploded one after another, and the entire highway instantly fell into flames.

With the explosion of different ammunition trucks, the road was littered with bullets, grenades. The road of several hundred meters was completely overwhelmed by the air wave and fire of the ammunition explosion, and many devils hiding under the car were engulfed in flames before they could react, and those devils who even dodged the fire were killed alive by the flying bullets and grenades in a very short time, and there was hardly a living person in sight on the entire road.

Perhaps it was because the explosion of more than a dozen cars in a row was too shocking, and the blow to the devil was too great, and the rest of the army soon realized that the ammunition truck covered in quilts was not so safe, and maybe at any time a shell fell and sold themselves, all these people would have to go back to see the emperor. The devils who want to understand want to leave this dangerous zone that will take their lives at any time. But the Eighth Route Army on the mountain did not let them leave so easily. In the process of the transfer of the army, nearly 100 devils fell under the machine guns of the Reading Brigade

In this way, the positions of the two sides began to stabilize, and the soldiers of the Reading Brigade lay down in the trenches on the top of the mountain, while the soldiers who moved to the foot of the mountain began to confront the soldiers by relying on the blind spots of the fire one by one and the construction of firing points with the help of some heavy machine guns that had been snatched.

And just like that, the battle has been going on imperceptibly for almost an hour. According to statistics, almost a company of fighters has appeared on the Internet, and the casualty rate of machine gunners in particular has reached a very high level.

At this time, the captain of the devil, Morita Nakasa, was also anxious. When Morita heard the first explosion, he realized that he was surrounded by the Shina army, and he was full of confidence and wanted to command the troops to destroy these Shina soldiers, but he didn't expect that after a round of explosions, he lost almost half of his troops. Seeing the terrible casualties, Morita Nakasa, the captain of the brigade who was lying under the car to avoid the bullets, could no longer raise his confidence, and immediately sent a report calling for help to various places.

And he could only resist with the rest of the army, using the terrain of various oil flows to confront the Chinese army on the mountain, trying to hold out until reinforcements came to relieve the siege.

However, his wish was about to be frustrated, because Liu Hua could no longer stand this combat mode of shooting at each other and wasting ammunition, but not killing and injuring many enemies.

"Order, each battalion will launch a charge in 5 minutes, take advantage of the favorable terrain, divide and intersperse, divide the devils, slowly compress their positions, and destroy them one by one. Remember, in the face of a strong enemy, do not attack and cause unnecessary casualties. If the enemy has too many troops, surround me and I will mobilize mortars to support you. Immediately issue the order. Liu Hua decisively made the decision to charge.

(To be continued)