Chapter 12: The Devil's Counterattack
"Nani, how dare the Eighth Route Army attack?"
In the Japanese command post, Sakata held a telescope and looked at the new mass that rushed out of the bunker in the distance, and suddenly his eyes widened, and his tone was thick with disbelief:
"Just their troops?"
"Our opponent, what are you trying to do?"
"I don't understand, this is not conventional, I can't understand their intentions" The staff officer was also confused.
"It's either a desperate and desperate charge, or a deceptive attack, and the enemy may have any conspiracy, but it's impossible to judge at the moment," Sakata said as he narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment.
The so-called deceptive attack, which generally uses the large-scale attack of the main force as a cover, covers the enemy's field of vision for real action, and is often used as a tactic of using small to gain a large amount.
However, Sakata was very confident in his troops, his wing was elite, fighting all the way from Songhu, experienced in a hundred battles, besides, they now had the advantage of firepower and troops, and the Eighth Route Army was just a grasshopper on a rope, unable to jump.
I don't know what wonderful tactics this Eighth Route Army commander came up with, interesting, interesting... Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth hooked and sneered: "Let's wait and see, with the little strength of the Eighth Route Army, the ants will shake the tree."
Suddenly, his eyes widened suddenly, and his voice was full of surprise: "How can the other party's firepower be so strong"
In his field of vision, on the opponent's position, a dense array of machine gun fire points suddenly appeared, the number of which definitely surpassed his full formation, and the opponent was unusual, maintaining continuous shooting, almost using light machine guns as heavy machine guns, and the bullets did not need money to fight, and for a time his attacking troops could not raise their heads.
"I actually dare to conceal the firepower, and, in terms of quantity, almost half of the firepower is hidden, it seems that I still underestimate the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side"
Although Sakata's surprise only lasted for a moment, he regained his composure, the reason why the light machine gun is called a light machine gun is because the light machine gun takes mobility as the first requirement, and its accuracy, range and fire continuity are not as good as the heavy machine gun.
If the opponent has a continuous fire network formed by dozens of heavy machine gun fortresses, then he is really a little worried, but dozens of light machine guns can only cause some trouble to his attack.
However, when Sakata saw the chaos when his two brigades attacked, he still frowned fiercely, and his tone was fierce: "These two guys, after the battle, they must be educated and educated fiercely, and they dare to make small moves on the battlefield."
Then, he put down the binoculars and sat down at the table of the Eight Immortals for a long time, leisurely looking at the map on the table.
His team seems to have absolute confidence.
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After the initial panic, after the weakening of the new group of machine gun fire, and the suppression of the suppressed, the devils of the Sakata Wing also showed the qualities that the elite devil division should have.
"Yaga, don't panic, assemble, assemble, converge with me"
One by one, the captain of the devil detachment held the 38 big cover with his plaster flag, waving and directing the subordinates around him to gather him, and beside him, several devils saw the plaster flag, and also approached the captain of the devil detachment, and formed a detachment to support each other, gradually delaying the offensive of the surrounding Eighth Route Army.
Devil detachment leaders generally use rifles, just like ordinary infantrymen, but the difference is that they have a plaster flag under the rifle bayonet, which is used to command their detachment on the battlefield.
In the era when there was no individual man-made communication equipment, on the battlefield, company commanders, battalion commanders, and even platoon commanders could rely on flags and communicators to communicate and command, but squad leaders could not.
Class command can only rely on gestures and voices, but in the face of wanton explosions, stray bullets flying on the battlefield, the actual command effect of this kind of command is very poor, no matter how loud your voice is, even if Zhang Fei is alive, I am afraid that it will not be as big as the explosion of artillery shells, as for gesture command, gunpowder smoke and explosion smoke also make the effect unsatisfactory, which is also one of the reasons why there are a large number of soldiers left behind on the battlefield, and the devil used a small plaster flag to solve this problem very well.
"Light machine-gun groups organize fire blockades, grenadiers, grenadiers, suppress machine-gun positions in the distance"
"Spread out, spread out, spread the wings, spread the stragglers"
"Smoke grenades, smoke grenades obscure..."
"The second squadron occupies the high ground on the left to establish fire cover, and the fifth squadron continues to attack"
The devil's perfect command system and training began to play a role, and the squad leader, squadron leader, and even the group leader performed their duties to command and correct the chaotic troops. The elite devil soldiers of the Sakata United are indeed elite, and after a few minutes of chaos, several scattered blocking positions have been established, which once slowed down the offensive momentum of the new regiment.
Soon, the Japanese army's reasonable light weapons began to play their systematic advantage, and the new attacking troops began to suffer heavy casualties. And as time passed, the originally dispersed devils even organized several squad-level groups, which once resisted the impact of the new group.
The commandos led by Zhang Dabiao are always at the forefront, and they have attacked a distance of more than a mile, at this time, the front and both wings of the commando are devils, almost in a situation surrounded on three sides, fortunately, the devils on both wings are still in chaos and can be ignored, but the devils in front have been organized and formed a cluster, which has caused huge pressure on the commando.
Finally broke up the devils, Zhang Dabiao naturally would not let the devils form a cluster, once the devils completed the assembly, they would either fall into a group bayonet battle, or fall into a tug-of-war, which was extremely unfavorable for the new group, so he quickly issued a new order.
"Concealment in place, grenade, delay two seconds, straight ahead, throw"
The commandos who jumped from cover to cover at high speed, made a sudden stop, and all of them pulled out a huge grenade from their waists, pulled the lead, and then silently recited it in their hearts for two seconds before throwing it at the devil.
In the sky, a grenade suddenly flew up.
Seeing the grenade, the devils did not hesitate at all, lying down, concealing and concealing, they were all old devils, and some even crawled out of the pile of dead people, and the battlefield reaction was amazing.
With a two-second delay, the thrown grenade exploded as soon as it landed.
Boom Boom Boom ·····
More than forty explosions sounded, accompanied by the screams of a large number of devils.
"Go on, throw"
Zhang Dabiao was not in the slightest hurry, and continued to command the commando grenade attack.
More than forty large tumors flew out, accompanied by a dense explosion.
"Yaga, what kind of grenade is this, so powerful"
Looking at the subordinates who were blown away, looking at the team that was pushed down by the shock wave, a squadron leader who was busy directing the collection of troops suddenly widened his eyes.
The frontal blocking assault team is a cluster of devils of two squads, the leader of this devil squadron has just gathered these devils, more than a hundred devils did not panic when they saw the grenade, according to their previous experience, rolled to the back of the ditch, behind the rocks, curled up, and some even hid directly behind the stump and lay on their stomachs.
The enemy's grenades are not powerful, so don't worry, just dodge casually... This is a common idea among devils.
However, the grenades that appeared this time were far from the 40-gram charge of the previous Gong grenade, nor the weak black powder charge, but 170 grams of explosives each.
What's even more terrifying is that the weapons produced by the system are of the highest quality, so in fact, the grenade is filled with high-purity black gold, which is 1.5 times more powerful than yellow explosives.
Calculated is that the explosion range of each grenade is comparable to six Gong cluster grenades.
For a while, the devils in front of the assault team were dizzy by the strong blast wave, and dozens of devil soldiers were killed and injured alive, and the blocking group that had finally been organized collapsed again in an instant.
"Go on the offensive"
Seeing that the devil was blown up, Zhang Dabiao waved his hand and took the lead in rushing forward.