"Boom boom boom"
A swarm of grenades blossomed among the puppet troops, sending shrapnel flying across the battlefield, causing no blind spots and blowing up a large area in an instant.
The full name of the Japanese melon grenade is the "97-style" grenade. It is the Japanese standard grenade. It uses yellow explosives, fragments to kill, and has a killing radius of 7 to 10 meters. It is a grenade with good performance.
The biggest feature is that after pulling out the safety, you have to knock it on a helmet or a stone before throwing it out. When it explodes, it can produce a large number of fragments, and the killing effect on unprotected targets is very obvious.
The disadvantage is that the stability is not high, there is only a delay fuze of 4 to 5 seconds, and the timing of the explosion cannot be effectively controlled.
It is not as good as the German long-handled grenade, but it is much more effective than the domestic imitation long-handled grenade.
The Seventh Company seized a large number of Type 97 grenades. Because they resemble a cantaloupe, they are commonly known as cantaloupe grenades. They are deeply loved by soldiers and are a must-have for killing Japanese soldiers!
With just one round of grenade kills, the puppet troops suffered heavy casualties. The others were quickly defeated. The soldiers of the Seventh Company just sent them off with rifles.
Li Qing didn't want to waste too much ammunition on the puppet troops, so he just drove them back instead of killing them all.
Erkui was very lucky. Several brothers around him were stunned, but he was not even injured at all. When retreating, he followed up with the large army very cleverly.
"Da da da…"
The machine guns of the Japanese war team rang out, and the unprepared puppet troops fell in large numbers!
"Taijun, please do well..."
Ma Mingyuan begged Yasuda for mercy in pain. Those who fell were all his old brothers.
"Baga, those who retreat will die!"
Yasuda warned the puppet soldiers fiercely.
After the supervising team killed and wounded more than a dozen people, the remaining puppet troops wisely turned around and continued the attack. These puppet troops became rats in the bellows - neither advancing nor retreating.
Erkui had already understood that if he entered, he would be wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, and he would have to bear the name of a traitor if he died;
Retreat, it's not worth being killed by the Japanese!
"Fight!"
Erkui made up his mind in his heart!
The more the remaining dozens of puppet soldiers rushed forward, the more frightened they felt and the slower their steps became.
"Hurry up! Damn it! If you offend the imperial army, everyone will die."
Wang Mazi, the only surviving officer in the puppet army, loudly scolded the puppet army that he was a hardcore traitor.
We have already entered a range of 100 meters, and the Eighth Route Army may shoot at any time. With just a few dozen of them, apart from consuming some bullets from the Eighth Route Army, they can't make any waves at all.
"Bah!"
Wang Mazi fell down very unwillingly, and Er Kuiyi shot him with a black gun.
The other puppet soldiers looked shocked...
"I'm rebelling. I don't want to die but join in with me!"
After Erkui finished speaking, he lay down on the ground and shouted loudly:
"Uncle Eighth Route Army, we surrender, don't shoot!"
The better-sighted ones among the puppet troops also fell down...
The Japanese's machine guns rang out, and those who did not lie down were mopped down. Now the others also lay down reflexively.
"Uncle Eighth Route Army, please be kind and give us a word and we will surrender!"
Erkui lay on the ground, and the Japanese machine gun bullets whizzed past his head. He was so frightened that his voice changed.
"Put your guns down and crawl over here!"
Li Qing decided to be more cautious and not let them bring guns.
Upon hearing this, Erkui and others dropped their guns and fled towards the Eighth Route Army's position. In the process, several more people were mowed down by Japanese machine guns.
"Papa pa pa"
The puppet battalion commander Ma Mingyuan was slapped hard several times by Yasuda.
"Bagayalu!"
Yasuda responded to the scolding, but he did not dare to push the puppet soldiers too harshly.
"Ma Sang, these people have extremely bad consciences. You must personally lead the attack, otherwise they will all die!"
In order not to force the remaining puppet troops to rebel, Yasuda withdrew the supervising team.
Ma Mingyuan personally led the remaining more than 300 puppet troops to charge twice. Each time, they retreated with dozens of casualties. The Imperial Association Army had already suffered nearly half of its casualties.
Taniguchi saw that the heat was almost there, and if he forced the Imperial Alliance Army to attack again, he would force these rubbish to rebel. Although he looked down on these puppet troops, he did not want to consume all the Imperial Alliance Army.
"Yasuda-kun, withdraw the Imperial Army, and the remaining Imperial Army should go up. Let Balu and Masang see the bravery of the Imperial Army!"
"Hey, the Imperial Army will win! Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"
Yasuda took the order and left!
Yasuda Squadron was the first to take the field. Previously, Yasuda Squadron had suffered more than 40 casualties, and about 150 of them were still able to fight. Some of the lightly wounded were able to return to the battlefield after being simply bandaged.
The Taniguchi brigade was equipped with two Type 81 mortars. Relying on the two guns for artillery preparation was of little use, so Taniguchi simply delegated it to the Yasuda Squadron as supporting firepower.
Therefore, Yasuda Squadron's first round of attack consisted of an infantry squad plus a mortar squad, more than 60 Japs, and the commander was the squad leader, Second Lieutenant Miyashita.
The two mortars were used by the Japanese to deal with the defenders' machine guns.
Miyashita pulled out his command sword and ordered loudly:
"Gate める!"
The Japs in the Taniguchi Brigade are all old Japs who were among the first batch to fight in China. I haven’t added much yet. They are all veterans who have undergone several years of training and have very high tactical literacy.
Their attack was very methodical and completely different from the swarm of puppet troops.
Their team consists of 4 detachments, each detachment is an attack group, with 8 riflemen rushing in front and 4 machine gun crew members trailing behind.
The grenade unit directly under the squad followed in the middle and was protected by the riflemen of the entire squad. Once the opponent's firepower point was exposed, the machine gun team would suppress the fire. The grenade team took the opportunity to launch grenades and knock out the opponent's machine gun fire.
This is the team tactic commonly used by the Japanese. One trick can be used everywhere. The Central Army's tactics are rigid when using machine guns. They will often be knocked out by the Japanese grenade after a few bursts of fire.
In positional warfare, the techniques and tactics of both sides are not on the same level.
The team tactics of the Seventh Company were improved by Chu Xiong based on the "three-three system" of later generations. This set of tactics can effectively restrain the Japanese team tactics.
To deal with the Japanese, we should try to avoid positional warfare as much as possible!
Miyashita's team formed a standard skirmish formation. The soldiers were one to two meters apart. Even if a grenade was dropped, one or two Japanese would be hit, which would minimize casualties.
The little devils of Miyashita's team bent their waists very low when charging, ready to lie down and fight back at any time. They were very difficult to deal with.
In order to increase the killing effect, you can only hit it closer!
Miyashita charged forward cautiously. These Eighth Route Army troops were too calm. The more they advanced, the more panicked he became. He always felt like a pair of hunter's eyes staring at him, like a ray of light on his back.
Miyashita's feeling was really good. At this time, at the Eighth Route Army position more than 80 meters away, Li Tiezhu, a new soldier of the 5th Platoon of the 7th Company, was aiming at him with the sight of the 38 rifle in his hand.
This is the first battle Li Tiezhu participated in. His family is from Lijia Village and has made a living by hunting for generations.
He has been hunting with his father since he was a child, and has developed good marksmanship. His father also joined the militia company of Lijia Village and was a squad leader.
Li Tiezhu told himself again and again in his heart that these are beasts, not humans...
"Baba!"
Lee Sin's gunshot is an order!
When Miyashita heard the gunshot, he lay down on the ground reflexively. Unfortunately, his reaction was still a little slow.
Li Tiezhu's gun fired!
A 6.5mm bullet accurately hit Miyashita's Tianling Gai——
Tie Zhu was going to hit him between the eyebrows!
Miyashita fell down very unwillingly...
