"The devil is having sex!"
Luo Ying almost watched the Japanese artillery shells hitting the Independent Battalion's position. He didn't even try to hide, because there was nothing on the surface position for them to explode, it was all floating soil and bomb craters;
The defenders of the independent battalion are all in the tunnel, and the reserve team is also in the tunnel on the reverse slope of the slope. Let alone an artillery brigade, even an artillery regiment can't do anything to them.
The soil layer above the reverse slope tunnel is at least ten meters, and they have no way to deal with naval guns and aerial bombs, let alone the 75mm field guns of the 12th Regiment.
The area of Shangganling is not much larger than Liujiapo. It relied on tunnel fortifications to defend the position for forty-one days. Although the Independent Battalion was not as good as them, the enemy's firepower was much weaker than that of Yingjiang, so Luo Ying firmly believed that the Independent Battalion could hold its position. .
"Come on, little devils, I'm waiting for you!"
Now that the fight has begun, Luo Ying's eyes have become extremely determined. They have no way out...
The Japanese artillery preparations had been going on for a full hour, and many of the gun barrels were red. The already dilapidated surface position was full of craters, like the surface of the moon.
As the Third Battalion of the 23rd Regiment set out to take position, Major Okazaki pulled out his ancestral katana and yelled with the strength of squatting:
“Warriors, the time has come to serve His Majesty the Emperor, rush to the battlefield and kill all the Chinese;
Kill the chicken and give it to me! "
"Itaiya!"
Thousands of Japanese soldiers chanted slogans in unison, and then rushed out like wild horses running wild, running very fast in pairs of bandy legs. Major Okazaki rushed to the front, showing his majesty.
On the Liujiapo position, a harsh copper whistle sounded, and groups of soldiers rushed out of the reverse-sloping tunnels, and then entered the core position through hidden communication trenches;
The outer three lines of defense were flattened by Japanese artillery fire and were no longer worth repairing, so Luo Ying simply gave up.
This time they withdrew their defense line directly to the inner three lines of defense. From the outside, these three lines of defense could not be seen at all, they were just a barren and barren slope;
There was nothing, not even the trenches could be seen, so the Japanese did not use this place as the focus of the bombardment, and almost no shells fell on it.
The trenches were covered with wet wood, and then covered with a layer of soil. They were kept very tightly hidden, and the position was relatively completely preserved;
Luo Ying sent out the third reserve company and the baggage company. After they entered the position, they gently pushed open the exit, then moved away a few logs covering the trench, and a single soldier pit came out.
The Japanese starting position was at least five or six hundred meters away from the core position of the independent battalion, so the soldiers had plenty of time to restore their positions;
When the Japanese rushed to the outer three positions, they began to slow down because no one could guarantee that there were no defenders inside.
The three outer trenches are about two hundred meters away from the three inner trenches. This distance is also very particular. Two hundred meters is exactly the optimal killing distance for machine gun fire.
Luo Ying hid the six Maxim heavy machine guns of the machine gun company on the commanding heights on both sides, and built solid earthen bunkers with wood;
Although it cannot withstand the blows of 75mm field artillery, it is no problem to block mortars and grenade launchers. The 92nd Infantry will not be able to destroy the bunker unless it hits directly.
These six heavy machine guns happened to be deployed with three on each side. Two precious mortars and two thunder cannons from each company were concentrated together, all in the hands of Luo Ying's battalion headquarters;
It will not be used unless absolutely necessary. Once used in advance, the secrets of the thunder cannon may be exposed, affecting the mission of the thunder cannon platoon, and the gain outweighs the loss.
Two hundred meters away, the Japanese had already reached the core of the three outer positions. It was still empty, with not a single defender on it;
The Japanese separated a squadron to guard the position, and the remaining three squadrons began to move towards the three inner positions.
This was not because they discovered Luo Ying and the others, but because this was Liu Jiapo's control point. They had to take it into their own hands before they began to cooperate with the Japanese in the tunnel to clear out the remaining soldiers of the independent battalion.
Major Okazaki became more confident after rushing into what he considered the core position. He had already seen that the Chinese were no longer capable of holding the surface position;
What he wants to do now is to further control the commanding heights in front, and then send people down to the tunnel to clear out the remaining enemies as planned.
The other three squadrons had already gone to occupy the commanding heights. He followed the remaining squadron and said proudly to the squadron leader Kazuo Hoshino:
"Hoshino-kun, can you imagine that there are a bunch of rats hiding under us? Have you ever dug a mouse hole when you were a child?"
Hoshino Kazuo was already eager to give it a try. He took over the captain’s words and said:
"Of course I did. I'm still an expert at picking out mice. In the rice fields after the autumn harvest, not a single mouse can escape my grasp."
Major Okazaki nodded with satisfaction and said:
"I'll leave the task of digging out the mouse holes to you soon. We'll have plump roasted mouse meat for lunch!"
After finishing speaking, Major Okazaki laughed, his pride beyond words;
It's no wonder he was so proud. The other two brigades were fighting to death for a day, but he finally got an advantage. He occupied the Chinese position without a single blow and won the first prize. Kazuo Hoshino also laughed -
"Where is the sound of machine gunfire coming from on Bagya Road?"
Kazuo Hoshino threw Major Okazaki down, and then several stray bullets flew out almost close to their scalps.
Just when the two little Japs were feeling triumphant, the six Maxim heavy machine guns deployed on the commanding heights on both sides opened fire, firing dense large-caliber machine gun bullets at the Japs at a rate of 550-600 rounds per minute, which happened to form a formation. Six lines of crossfire swept down the three squadrons of Japanese soldiers who were preparing to occupy the commanding heights. In just a short time, the battlefield was covered with the yellow corpses of Japanese soldiers.
The Maxim heavy machine gun is known as the infantry meat grinder. The six Maxim heavy machine guns suddenly opened fire. The crossfire they formed was really annoying to the Japanese. Major Okazaki's heart was bleeding when he saw it, and he shouted:
"No! Come back all at once! Get down..."
It was a pity that no one could hear his voice. The charging Japanese were mowed down one by one, and then rushed forward with inertia until they were mowed down by the hail of bullets.
By the time they reacted, they had already suffered more than 30% casualties. The Japanese who reacted swarmed and began to rout, with machine gun bullets chasing them and mowing down the unlucky ones who ran slowly;
Only after the Japanese crawled back to the outer positions and lay down in the dense craters did the Chinese machine guns stop.
It couldn't stop anymore. Many machine guns had been fired, but the machine gunners had had enough of it. Many of them were numb from killing the Japanese, and one actually vomited...
"Damn it, you are a loser, you can kill a Japanese enemy, why did I bring a useless soldier like you? Don't call me one of my soldiers when you go out!
Those devils are not human beings at all, you just treat them like killing pigs, dogs and beasts! "
Guo Dong, the main shooter of the machine gun, lowered his head in shame. The squad leader was right. He himself felt ashamed, but he had never killed so many, at least dozens, and he vomited without restraining himself.
Guo Dong vomited out all the breakfast in his stomach, which was all the canned beef he had confiscated before. No wonder his squad leader scolded him in distress, saying it was a pity to waste food for the Japanese;
Major Okazaki was indeed vomiting blood. His brigade suffered two or three hundred casualties in just one time. Two or three hundred pigs could not be killed so quickly by the Chinese just standing there. The loss was too great and he would not be able to accept it for a while. .
He was so happy and sad that he never thought that this would happen to him. Just now he was thinking about making the first contribution, but the slap in the face happened so quickly. He was so angry that he cursed:
"Luo Ying, I, Okazaki, am not done with you!"
Also vomiting blood like him was the 23rd Colonel Anda. He was watching the warriors of the third group occupy the last Chinese position. Suddenly, a large number of Maxim heavy machine guns appeared, killing the warriors he had high hopes for like killing animals. He was knocked down the same way, and he was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot. He found that he seemed, maybe, probably had been fooled by Luo Ying again.
“Bagya Road!
fire!
fire! !
fire--"
The last sentence was shouted almost at the top of his lungs. Now he just wanted to use cannons to destroy the Chinese machine gun positions, otherwise the battle would not be fought.
The Japanese's anger was quickly vented, and the artillery shells from the field artillery brigade hit the machine gun positions of the independent battalion as if they were free of charge;
Immediately afterwards, the infantry cannons also pushed forward, aiming directly at the exposed bunkers and firing, blowing up the bunkers one by one.
Since the Maxim machine gun was too bulky and difficult to evacuate easily, the brothers in the artillery platoon had no choice but to give up. Under the rude instructions of the squad leader, they gave up the machine gun and lay down in the tunnel themselves, finally saving more than half of the gun. machine gunner.
Almost all machine guns and bunkers were destroyed. The Maxim heavy machine gun was very powerful, but its battlefield survivability was also very low. After a major war, several heavy machine guns in the machine gun company were lost, but their mission was completed. , and leave the rest to others.
"Itaiya!"
Seeing that the Chinese heavy machine gun positions were destroyed one by one, and the Japanese who had been beaten to pieces found a channel to vent their anger, they were all jumping like monkeys with excitement, which made Luo Ying in the headquarters sneer... .
"Come on, devil, this is just the beginning."
