"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Under the guidance of the observer, the artillery shells landed accurately on the Zhijun position on the 103 Highlands. The soil, turf, and bushes were uprooted by the explosion airwaves along with the light of the fire. Gravel, stumps, and limbs were thrown into the air. The smoke and dust waved wantonly.
In a banyan forest 600 meters above the plateau, Lu Liangchao glanced at his watch and said with a smile: "Old Qiao, look, it's already 11:14 in the morning. Time flies so fast. It's almost lunch now." It’s time.”
Qiao Yu put down the telescope and smiled knowingly, "Oh, then our attack time is just right. The artillery fire on the mountain is fierce. I think in forty minutes, our third battalion will be able to capture the 103 heights. By then, Have lunch at the Zhijun’s position.”
However, Lu Liangchao felt that it would not take forty minutes, "In my opinion, we won't need that long. We just received news from the regiment headquarters at the foot of the mountain. Four highlands, including 105, 101, 107, and 105, have been captured by our other troops one after another. The enemy’s awareness of resistance is very weak.”
While the two were talking, the two infantry companies of the Third Battalion also took advantage of the cover of artillery fire to quietly arrive about 400 meters away from the Zhili Army's position.
The two companies quickly hid in the mountainous plains covered with shrubs, grass, and short trees, and eight M19 60mm mortars were left here.
The remaining two infantry companies serve as reserves and are on standby in the banyan forest 200 meters behind. After all, mountain divisions do not rely on human sea tactics to fight.
The second company commander at the front of Pingye put down his telescope, spit out the thatch in his mouth, and issued an order to the soldiers of his company to move forward.
"Everyone, our goal is the high ground ahead. We must capture it at all costs. The mortars will stay here to provide us with fire support later. The remaining people will continue to advance forward covertly!"
Taking advantage of the fact that the Zhizhi army on the high ground was crying for their fathers and mothers after being bombed, these more than 400 soldiers were well-trained, lowered their bodies alternately to cover and guard, and were dispersed in a line formation among the thatch, quickly advancing towards the high ground.
This distance was quite far. The Patriot Army was wearing camouflage uniforms and moving among the green vegetation. Their concealment was extremely good. In addition, the Zhili Army was under indiscriminate bombardment by artillery and did not notice anything strange outside the position.
When the advance reached 200 to 250 meters, they had entered the effective combat zone. The soldiers quickly used the squad as a combat unit to form three combat groups to advance. This is the so-called three-by-three tactic.
Among them, the 12-man infantry squad was divided into a 4-man machine gun team, a 4-man shooter team, and a 4-man assault team. Each team formed a triangle attack formation as a whole.
Each machine gun team quickly found a variety of shooting positions that had good shooting views and were covered by shrubs, grass, and rocks.
"You bastards, move quickly and clear the firing area!" Under the urging of the deputy squad leader, the two deputy shooters of each machine gun group quickly assisted the machine gunners in setting up the general-purpose machine guns in the group.
Within two minutes, 32 machine gun teams from two infantry companies were dispersed 200 meters outside the Zhizhi Army's position, setting up their MG42 machine guns and standing ready.
Stopping with them were 32 shooter groups. The soldiers in each shooter group were equipped with Liu-style semi-automatic rifles with magnification scopes.
The three combat groups have a clear division of labor. The assault group is responsible for the attack, the machine gun group is responsible for fire cover, and the shooter group is responsible for precise suppression.
The shooter team leader took out his binoculars, observed the smoke-filled high ground, and told the soldiers: "We must cooperate with the machine gun team. After the shelling is over, the commando brothers will launch an attack. You must follow my guidance and shoot. High Anyone on the ground who dares to show his head will be shot dead as soon as possible."
"Yes, team leader!"
The two groups cooperated after the bombardment, which suppressed the Zhizhi army on the high ground and opened up a safe path for the assault group to attack.
The assault team is all equipped with STG44 assault rifles. Their goal is to quickly capture the high ground under the cover of the rear machine guns and shooter teams.
"Keep quiet, commandos, come with me!" Under the leadership of each squad leader, 32 assault teams continued to press closer to the Zhili Army's position.
In fact, dealing with these garrison brigades does not require so much trouble at all, but the Mountain Division units responsible for attacking the highlands still perform to the highest standards.
In the banyan forest, Qiao Yu clearly observed through the telescope that dozens of commandos were approaching the predetermined position 130 meters away from the Zhili Army's position.
He ordered the signal soldier on the side: "The fire in our third battalion is almost in place, and the artillery shells are also bought with money. Let the artillery finish the bombardment."
The signal corps quickly used the walkie-talkie to convey the order to the artillery at the foot of the mountain, "This is Department 03, calling department. Please stop the bombardment of Highland 103. Repeat, stop the bombardment of Highland 103 immediately!"
After receiving the order, the sound of artillery gradually stopped.
At this moment, the rugged 103 Highland Zhijun position had been plowed by thousands of artillery shells, and there was smoke everywhere and a smoky atmosphere.
The wailing sounds of many wounded soldiers gradually became clearer, and soldiers gradually climbed out of the artillery pits.
Several officers in tattered khaki clothes dug out their fat and big-eared regiment leader in a panic from a crater filled with loose soil and shook him vigorously.
"Commander, the artillery fire of the Patriot Army is too fierce. Brothers have suffered heavy casualties. Among the thousands of people, less than 300 can get up now. Let's retreat quickly!"
The dark-faced leader opened his eyes in confusion, spat out the soil in his mouth, and glanced around.
Seeing the mutilated limbs, corpses, and wounded soldiers all over the ground, there were expressions of horror on their faces. However, when they saw the several heavy machine guns on the ground that had been blown to pieces, there was a very distressed expression on their faces.
"Damn it, you idiot Brigadier Li, who on earth said that the Nationalist Army wouldn't attack the mountain!"
"The three heavy machine guns we just supplied were blown into parts by the Patriot Army, along with their original base."
Because the garrison brigade like them belongs to the old local armed forces and is not the direct line of the warlords, their equipment is ridiculously poor.
As a garrison brigade, don't daydream about heavy weapons such as artillery. If you want to equip you with a few more heavy machine guns, you have to move around a lot.
As for the equipment of the warlords' garrison in front of them, how bad is it?
Let me tell you, some of their soldiers don't even fit into the old slides with smooth rifling.
When the soldiers on the side saw this, they were so anxious that they almost cried, "Commander, let's retreat quickly. There are not many people in our regiment now. The National Guard Army is probably going to attack soon. If we don't retreat, we will have no chance!"
"You are my good captain. Keep the green mountains here and don't worry about running out of firewood. We are in a hurry to run away before the Patriot Army comes up!"
I have to say that what this soldier said was really accurate. Taking advantage of this period of time, dozens of assault teams had quickly moved to a position 50 meters in front of them.
A Zhijun soldier stood up and scratched the dirt and grass roots on his head, but he saw hundreds of fast-moving figures in front of the position.
"The Patriot Army touched... bang!"
But before he could finish his words, a 7.62 round of ammunition penetrated his chest.
"Soldiers, take the high ground and charge!"
Under the leadership of each squad leader, the commandos bent their waists and lowered their heads, lined up in several columns, and continued to charge towards Highland 203 with high spirits.
"Click! Click! Click!"
The machine gunners behind them controlled the MG42 general-purpose machine gun in a prone position. Under the command of the deputy squad leader, they carefully fired at breaking points through the shooting space reserved by the assault troops.
However, the final result showed that all the tricks they did were just a waste of ammunition.
A soldier from the shooter team used the sight on the gun to search for the enemy at position 203 for a long time, but could not find even half of his head. He couldn't help but feel suspicious, "Team leader, why doesn't this enemy soldier show his head? Is this a scam?" "
The shooter team leader put down the telescope, as if he didn't believe it. He quickly wiped his eyes, picked up the telescope again and observed it for a while, and then replied helplessly: "I don't think they are cheating, because they seem to be raising a white flag. Choose to surrender!"
Now it was the soldier's turn to be confused, "Ah, team leader, it's over before we start fighting?"
