Chapter 159: Bloody Battle
As the coordinates of Dong Ku were reported, all the individual mortar observers repeated loudly, and then more than two dozen guns fired in unison, and the shells accurately landed around the retreating armored vehicles, and in the loud bang, three armored vehicles were hit in weak spots, igniting a raging fire.
The Japanese soldiers in the car fled for their lives, rushed out of the car with flames all over their bodies, howled miserably, staggered to the ground, and after a while, they burned and sobbed.
In the second round of strikes, with the report of the coordinates of Dong Ku, the shells fell again, and only one of the remaining three armored vehicles escaped in the flames, blocked by the billowing smoke, and desperately fled back.
"Coordinates, 68... 167, potency shot! ”
Dong Ku didn't care about the armored car that escaped, and quickly reported them one by one according to the more than forty coordinates he had just calculated.
Rumble!
Dozens of shells landed around the two mortars, and the furious blast wave overturned the artillery bunkers stuck out of the wood, shattering the two mortars along with the artillery.
Less than a minute after the explosion ended, a Japanese soldier reported to Junrokuro Matsuura: "Your Excellency, the ballistics have been calculated, and their positions cannot be covered by bombardment. ”
"For what?"
Junrokuro Matsuura stared suspiciously at this Osa.
"Each of their guns ranged from fifty meters apart and occupied the entire defensive line."
"Whoosh ......"
Junrokuro Matsuura was stunned. Then he asked puzzledly: "Then how did they manage to make the shells fall almost at the same time?" ”
"I haven't figured out why ...... yet"
The big one hung his head.
Just as Junrokuro Matsuura listened to the report, the loud roar did not stop, and three rounds of shelling in a row destroyed ten of those scattered artillery pieces, so that the remaining ones that had not been hit were transferred one after another, and the shelling on the Japanese side finally stopped.
With the end of the shelling, the battlefield fell silent, and the fierce fighting, which lasted for about two hours, instantly cooled down, and the battlefield was dead silent except for the smoke of gunpowder still wafting in the wind and the smoke of burning armored vehicles.
The brief silence did not mean the end of the battle, only that a bigger outbreak was brewing.
Junrokuro Matsuura pointed to the map and ordered: "Make a detour to both sides, concentrate all the artillery fire, and break through a little in the middle!" ”
Following his order, the troops assembled behind the mountain split into two groups and made a detour to the sides. In the middle of the mountain pass, the army is constantly gushing, densely standing at the foot of the mountain.
Dong Ku saw the situation here in the telescope, and he knew that the test was coming.
Sure enough, just after they had lunch, the Japanese army began to move.
"The cannons fire freely!"
With the order, those individual mortars on the position opened fire one after another, and after the first coordinates were reported, there was almost no need to move, and the shells would not fall together under the bombardment of a single artillery.
Shells roared through the crowd, and the corpses flying everywhere still did not stop the Japanese advance.
1,000 meters, 800 meters, 500 meters...... The Japanese army advanced steadily, as if they were going to use the wall of flesh to block the bullets and take the position.
"Grenadier cover shot!"
With the commander's order, the grenadiers that had been prepared for a long time rang out, and the hail-like grenades flew towards the Japanese troops not far from the foot of the mountain, exploding in the crowd and tearing apart pieces of life.
It seems that this attack hurt the Japanese army, and in the explosion, the Japanese soldiers fell to the ground one after another.
As the Japanese army lay down, the sky suddenly darkened, and with a scream, crow-like shells flew over.
"Hidden!!"
A shout rang out, followed by a thunderous fall of shells.
The violent explosion wiped out all the protrusions on the position, and the twenty or thirty-meter-long logs flew everywhere in the explosion, breaking one after another, and the bunkers were in a mess everywhere in just a dozen seconds.
The soldiers were suffocated in their chests and their ears were buzzing at the heavy artillery fire. But they could do nothing but cling to the base of the bunker and holding their guns.
Dong Ku quickly calculated the opponent's artillery position, and then reported the coordinates one by one, and in the roar on the position, the tom tom shelling sounded, and the shells were like birds returning to their nests, whistling and falling on one artillery position after another, causing an earth-shattering noise, and a hundred meters away in one round, and an artillery position disappeared.
However, the opponent's artillery positions were too many, and they did not pay attention to the lock-on attack on this side, and at the moment when the shelling appeared on this side, several positions concentrated their fire on this area to attack.
After the second round of cluster attacks on this side, the dense shells fell around the artillery positions, and although the shells on the positions were placed in safe positions, the artillery did not have time to move away, and most of them were overturned to the ground and even damaged in the roar.
In just one round, only the 92 infantry artillery positions and those scattered thirty or so mortars remained in the artillery on this side. All the other positions were destroyed, and there were few working guns.
As soon as the artillery fire on this side weakened, the Japanese shells rained down on all positions near the mountain pass.
The huge wave of the explosion destroyed the wooden bunker, destroying most of the original one-meter-high bunker wall, leaving it less than one meter high, and the wood was still horizontal.
In the trenches, the wounds of the fighters were quite serious, and although there were not many deaths, the wounded abounded, most of them were hit by shrapnel and sawdust.
With the continuous bombardment of artillery fire, the Japanese troops climbed up on the ground, howled, and advanced on all fronts. The mountain pass is even more important, and the Japanese army is as dense as sardines. They just want to fill it with people, and if they can't shoot and kill the position here, they will break into the position, and as long as they are close to each other, the massive number of people on this side will all rush up, making it difficult for the enemy to get rid of and parry.
At the moment when the artillery fire stopped, the Japanese army had already rushed to a distance of only 200 meters from the mountain pass, and the mountain was also halfway up the mountain, and they were about to break through the whole line.
"Junrokuro Matsuura" stood on a dirt bag at this time, holding a telescope and looking at the battlefield in the distance, a little proud. As long as the position is broken, the main force of the other side will have no way to run, and it will be a great credit to eat this Soviet Russian squad.
"Grenades ready, throw!"
The artillery fire stopped, the trenches quickly cleared the broken wood, treated the wounded, and as the enemy approached, orders were quickly passed along the trenches.
Those who were intact or lightly wounded, after quickly taking measures to keep warm and stop the bleeding, gathered their grenades around them.
None of the machine gunners were at this point, and the grenadiers were quietly preparing.
100 meters, 80 meters, 50 meters...... The hideous faces of the Japanese soldiers are faintly visible.
"Hit!"
Dong Ku, who left the command post and entered the position, shouted loudly, raised his hand and fired a signal flare, and then raised his hand to throw the grenade into the sky.
As the signal flare lifted into the air, a black shadow flew out of the silent position, which bloomed like fireworks above their heads as the Japanese troops desperately charged.
The bombardment exploded into pieces, and in the firelight, the shrapnel intertwined and collided, like a torrential rain, and smashed into the Japanese troops below, and almost at the same time, the grenadier canister tom sounded, and there was no need to even aim and range, as long as the position was shot. The machine gun played the music of death in the sound of explosions, and the dense barrage crushed the rushing Japanese troops, so that the tide that was still rolling forward just now was immediately contained, and then there was a situation of rolling in place.
In the trenches, except for the machine gunner and the grenadier canister, the hands of the others did not stop moving, and the grenade did not stop as soon as the explosion began, and the throwing continued for two or three minutes in a row, and when the arms were sore, they picked up their guns one after another, half-crouched behind the broken bunker, and began to shoot at the Japanese soldiers a hundred meters away.
Looking at the front of the position, stacks of Japanese corpses were piled up, and in the temperature of more than 30 degrees dripping into ice, the blood flowing did not freeze, but was steaming, flowing along the gaps between the corpses.
Although the Japanese army was fiercely blocked, the charge did not stop, and when the front was emptied more than 200 meters and the corpses were stacked, they still went forward without fear of death.
In the dense gunfire and explosions, the Japanese troops were pushed back by bullets and grenadiers for more than 100 meters. The corpses left behind were already uncountable, and the position reached the foot of the mountain, full of corpses.
This is not a siege, this is a bullet with flesh and blood!
Looking at the position, the barrels of the machine guns were red, and the bullet casings and empty cartridge chains were piled up, forcing the loader to clear the trench while the machine gunner was firing.
At the same time, the movement went to both sides, and the Japanese troops intending to encircle were subjected to heavy sniping.
In the snow, they themselves had difficulty walking, and with the fighters falling in pieces, they "charged" three or four hundred meters in a row, leaving thousands of lives, and did not see a human figure, apparently the opponent's firing distance was more than five hundred meters.
Junzi and Liu Hai were each in charge of one side, each with two thousand sniper fighters trained in Weihu Mountain, harvesting the lives of Japanese soldiers from a long distance in the snow. Although the battle was not fierce, the number of casualties was not slow, and in just twenty minutes, the enemy advanced less than five hundred meters, and five or six thousand corpses were about to be thrown down on each side.
"Yaga!!"
The brigade commander who led the team was furious, and he vaguely guessed that the previous reinforcements and the third division of Baoqing were probably more than lucky. With such a dense and accurate long-range strike, let alone the brigade in the heavy snow that is difficult to walk, even the division and regiment cannot escape the doom of being worn out.
As the casualties continued to increase, the charge could not be charged, and the heavy weapons could not be carried, and it was difficult to find the opponent's figure and was passively beaten, the two brigades dropped their bodies and retreated back to the base camp along the same road.
After they cleaned up the battlefield, they did not evacuate, but were still deployed on the flanks, but only sent 500 guns and ammunition back to the camp one after another.
In front of the position, the Japanese army charged continuously for nearly 20 minutes, and the huge casualties finally stopped the offensive, and the people also retreated to the position like a tide.
The enemy retreated, and the shelling followed. Although at least ten artillery positions were removed by the 92 infantry guns on this side, the opponent's artillery still had the spare strength to cover fire.
With the violent explosion of the roar, the bunkers of the position were equated with nothing in the furious shock wave. Dong Ku also had to give the order to temporarily leave the trenches and find a shelter to avoid shelling.