Major General Fujita faced the captain's expectant eyes and firmly vetoed: "No, we failed in the first battle and lost nearly two squadrons. If we carry out indiscriminate bombing on the battlefield just after the attack was frustrated, the troops will definitely think that we are facing the Eighth Route Army. The blocking position has no choice but to use this strategy of killing a thousand enemies and damaging eight hundred, which in turn affects the morale of the troops."
"Unless absolutely necessary, we must not cover the battlefield with artillery fire at the risk of accidentally killing our own people."
"Deploy two more infantry squadrons and two companies of the Imperial Alliance Army to join the battle."
"There will be more mortars attacking the blocking positions. Although their power is not as powerful as the mountain artillery, their rate of fire is fast. As long as there are enough numbers and enough shells fired, a blind cat can kill a mouse and severely damage the Eighth Route Army blocking troops. Reduce the combat pressure on offensive forces."
"Deploy more grenade troops to join the battle. They can attack the Eighth Route Army hiding behind bunkers at close range."
"Mortars, heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, and more than a thousand offensive troops, jointly launched a general attack. I don't believe that they can't even take down a blocking position."
Seeing that the captain was still a little unwilling and wanted to fight for it again, Major General Fujita continued: "There is another purpose in sending out infantry to storm the blocking position."
"By blocking the blocking troops on the position and ending the battle with bayonets, they will have no chance to destroy the tunnel entrances and exits on the position. We can take the opportunity to enter the tunnel group built by the Eighth Route Army here and gather the troops hiding in the tunnels to annihilate them. "
"If indiscriminate artillery fire covers the battlefield, the Eighth Route Army, which has suffered heavy losses, will definitely give up its position. Instead, it will have time to destroy the tunnel entrance and exit before leaving. It will be difficult for us to enter the tunnel again."
"We can dig..." the captain suggested struggling.
Major General Fujita asked angrily: "Do you think the Eighth Route Army hiding in the tunnel are fools?"
"When we dig out the entrances and exits of the tunnels, they will definitely continue to use explosives to destroy the tunnels we find. Do you think it is them who destroy them faster or we dig faster."
"Don't forget, these tunnels are all five or six meters underground. We have limited time, and tens of thousands of elites cannot be dragged here by the Eighth Route Army forever."
"If we want to capture Taipingzhuang quickly and complete the strategic goal of raiding Chenzhuang, we must attack by force."
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"As long as we can block the Yizhong Eighth Route Army in the plain area southeast of Chenzhuang, we can afford to lose two infantry brigades."
"Judging from the sound of exchanges of fire, the Eighth Route Army defending the second blocking position had at least one reinforced battalion. We annihilated them all at the cost of two squadrons and captured the blocking position. We did not lose.
"The total number of troops of the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong does not exceed 10,000. If we continue to fight at a one-to-one casualty ratio, we can win this large-scale sweep and eliminate the serious threat to the North China Front."
The brigade commander's military orders must be implemented. Even if the brigade commander wanted to fight for it again, he had no way to refute the reason Major General Fujita just said.
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"Da da da……"
Wei Dayong personally held a crooked gun and shuttled back and forth on the battlefield, charging wherever there was a defensive loophole. In less than five minutes, he used up all three magazines. Not even ten little Japs died in his hands. Seven or eight.
"Boom...battalion commander, get down..."
A mortar shell suddenly sounded beside him, and the guard's screams reached his ears at the same time. Before he could make any reaction, the guard had thrown him down in the trench and used his body to block the incoming shell from behind. scrap.
A stream of hot blood quickly flowed to Wei Dayong. Wei Dayong quickly shook the guard lying behind him: "Xiao Wang, what's wrong with you? Wake up quickly..."
The guard remained motionless, stretched out his index finger to explore his nostrils, and his face was immediately filled with anger. He gritted his teeth and cursed: "You little devil, I'm going to fuck your grandma..."
As he talked, he got up from the trench, set up a crooked pole, and fired at the two little devils fifty meters away.
After a long shot, he put away his crooked handle and bent over to change his position.
"Battal Commander..." Instructor Chen Fei suddenly chased after him. His right arm was tied with a bandage. Blood was constantly seeping out, and his face became pale due to excessive blood loss.
"The Japanese artillery fire is getting stronger and stronger, and more and more heavy machine guns are suppressing us. The casualties of the troops have exceeded 200. If the fighting continues, I am afraid that the new recruits in the team will collapse."
"I believe in the soldiers I have trained..." Wei Dayong didn't even look back. He rushed to a nearby shooting position and started setting up the machine gun. He answered while pulling the trigger.
A Japanese squad leader directly in front fell down at the sound.
After the shooting, put away the gun and continue to move to the side.
"Boom boom..."
Two mortar shells exploded at the same time not far away. One of the shells hit the trench. The two soldiers were blown over together. The earth that had been burnt by the artillery fire flew everywhere, and the hot air waves swept towards him at the same time.
He raised his eyebrows and ordered as he walked: "We really can't let the little Japanese mortars continue to explode."
"The Japs didn't send out field artillery and heavy artillery to deal with us, which shows that they are worried about indiscriminate artillery fire coverage and are worried about accidentally injuring their own people by artillery fire. Then we have more ways to avoid artillery fire."
"The machine gunner continues to shoot, specifically targeting the little Japs behind the puppet troops. He will kill as many as he can."
"All the grenadiers hit the Japanese machine gunners and grenade launchers."
"The riflemen are waiting in hiding, ready to fight the Japanese with bayonets."
"Distribute all the box cannons and bastard boxes we collected before, and shoot the Japanese with cold guns while fighting with bayonets."
"I heard that the Kwantung Army attacking us on the other side is the most powerful Kwantung Army among the Japanese. I will definitely let them die before they leave today, so that they can have a good taste of the power of our Eighth Route Army."
Wei Dayong has martial arts and likes to fight in close combat with the Japanese the most.
As a result, the Second Battalion was the one with the most training among all the troops in the Yi Zhong base area.
But this does not mean that Wei Dayong is very reckless in fighting. When he encounters the little devils, he wants to confront them head-on, with his bayonet red.
Maybe because he spent too much time with Huang Yu and being close to Zhu Zhichi, he became more and more fond of using his brain.
In the past, when fighting against Japanese soldiers in northwestern Shanxi, Huang Yu equipped his troops with a large number of pistols in order to overcome the enemy's advantage in fighting with bayonets. When fighting with bayonets, he would shoot at the enemy soldiers, disrupting their bayonet fighting formations, and then rush forward at a very small cost. End the battle quickly.
Although this style of play cannot be said to be victorious in every battle, it is very effective.
After arriving at the Yizhong base area, the terrain here was not suitable for head-on confrontation with the Japanese, so the troops rarely fought with the Japanese with bayonets.
But Wei Dayong has not forgotten this style of play.
Over the past few months, the entire battalion has collected hundreds of box guns that other troops did not want. Including box guns equipped by cadres above the deputy company, there are more than 110 box guns.
Facing the menacing Kwantung Army, Wei Dayong's first thought was to see if this bayonet fighting method would be useful to them.
The Japanese and puppet troops advanced more and more fiercely, and the counterattack firepower on the blocking position became weaker and weaker. The proud Kwantung Army took it for granted that the Eighth Route Army suffered heavy losses under the artillery attack and was unable to fight anymore.
The offensive momentum immediately became more and more powerful.
"Kill me..."
There were less than 500 little Japs left in the follow-up attack force plus the first wave of attack force. Like a group of hungry wolves asking for the smell of blood, they rushed into the blocking position, and the bayonets in their hands pierced the chest of the machine gunner at the same time.
In the blink of an eye, more than twenty machine gunners and assistant shooters were stabbed to death.
Wei Dayong held the crooked handle in his arms and used it as a submachine gun, aiming at the three Japanese who were coming towards him and firing.
After shooting the bullets, he threw the machine gun with all his strength and hit a Japanese soldier beside him. He easily pulled out the cannon from his waist, loaded the bullet, pointed at the Japanese soldiers swarming over and pulled the trigger.
Wei Dayong was very good at stretching out his hands. He had killed several Japs with just one move and immediately became a key target of the Japanese army.
At least ten Japs were coming towards him, which looked very scary.
But he had no fear at all. As soon as the bullets in the cannon were empty, he inserted it into his waist, pulled out the ghost-headed sword on his back, and attacked the Japanese head-on.
"Pah, pah, pah... pah..."
He waved the sword and just blocked the bayonet coming from the opposite side. The sound of pistol shooting sounded beside him. The little devil in front of him who was about to take action again fell to the ground with four bloody holes in his chest.
Wei Dayong knew without thinking that this was the work of the guard platoon, and he cursed with an unhappy look on his face.
"You idiot, who asked you to shoot?"
"The devils have all been shot to death with pistols, why should I kill..."
"Xiao Zhou and Xiao Li stay here, while the others are dispersed by me to help other soldiers, continue to advance forward, end the battle quickly, retreat to the tunnel, and prevent the Japs from indiscriminately covering us with artillery fire."
The Japanese and puppet troops were attacking the position, and Major General Fujita was raising his head to see clearly what was happening on the battlefield.
However, this was a plain, and his location was relatively low. There was a trench separated from the battlefield. All the excavated soil was piled on both sides of the trench, forming two earth beams more than half a meter high, which blocked his sight.
No matter how you stand on tiptoe, you can only see the heads of the enemy and ourselves, but not the specific battle situation.
But he was in no hurry.
The offensive force also has more than 400 elite troops who are known as the best in the world. It is not difficult to use bayonet against a regiment of Chinese troops, let alone a battalion of the Eighth Route Army.
But it didn't take long for the smile on his face to be replaced by seriousness. As time passed, even the serious expression disappeared and slowly turned into solemnity.
A sudden order: "Mortar units, mountain artillery units, and heavy artillery units immediately cover the battlefield with indiscriminate artillery fire. Fire now, faster."
"The attacking troops have lost. Now we can fire artillery to blow up some Eighth Route Army troops who had no time to retreat. Otherwise, their deaths would have been in vain."
The chief of staff didn't know where Major General Fujita came from with this judgment, but he was not sloppy at all in executing the order. In less than twenty seconds, the mortar unit closest to them joined the battle.
After more than ten seconds, the mountain artillery troops and the heavy artillery troops also joined the battle one after another.
Looking at the second-line blocking position once again shrouded in artillery fire, Major General Fujita's hands holding the telescope couldn't help but tremble, and he was obviously very angry.
