The moment the bullet hit the Japanese Tianling Gai, Tie Zhu seemed to see the opponent's milky white brain spurting out. His throat felt sweet and he couldn't help but vomit it out...
This was very different from hunting roe deer in the old forest. Tie Zhu's mind went blank and he was so stupid.
5 squad leader Chu Dapeng pulled Li Tiezhu out of the trench. At the same time, several machine gun bullets hit the place where Tiezhu was lying.
Chu Dapeng came from Chujiazhuang, deep in the Dabie Mountains. He and company commander Chu Xiong came from the same village. The two were almost naked playmates growing up.
They joined the Red Army together, survived the Long March together, and even saved Chu Xiong's life when they were crossing the grass. They are true veterans.
When the Japanese machine gun team set up the machine gun, he had a premonition that the new recruit in his class was in danger, and took action in time to save his life.
Tiezhu is a good seedling!
"Tiezhu, just kill a roe deer! Hurry up, the Japs are coming! If you don't kill them, they will kill you!"
After Chu Dapeng finished his sentence, he stopped forcing Tie Zhu. He stuck out his head and shot a Japanese sergeant. The sergeant fell down.
Chu Dapeng casually pushed a bullet in and continued to look for the target.
In the distance, a Japanese grenadier ducked his head out of a bomb crater, observed the machine gun firepower of the Eighth Route Army, adjusted the angle of the grenade, gave a thumbs up, and simply took aim.
He casually took over a Type 91 grenade from the deputy shooter. This grenade is dual-purpose. It can be thrown with bare hands or thrown with a "Type 10" grenade. It is very effective against machine gun fire.
Chen Lei, the machine gunner of Class 5, did not realize that he had been targeted by the Japanese grenade launcher and was being beaten by the Japanese.
He had already fired a bucketful of bullets and killed at least three or four Japs. The firepower of this crooked light machine gun was really average and kept jamming.
If you want to avoid jamming, you need to spend a lot of effort on maintaining the bullet, and you have to apply oil in advance.
The crooked machine gun uses a special bridge clip to feed ammunition. There are five bullets in one bridge clip. Up to 6 bridge clips can be installed in the magazine at a time.
This kind of bridge clip is easy to jam when feeding bullets, so the assistant shooter needs to oil the bullets and bolt from time to time, which is very troublesome.
The Eighth Route Army did not have special machine gun oil, so it could only use vegetable oil instead. It relied heavily on the assistant shooter, otherwise it had to oil the bullets in advance.
Chen Lei, who had used up all the bullets, took an oiled five-round clip from the deputy shooter's hand and skillfully put it into the bucket...
At this moment, the Japanese grenadier took action. When his grenade was about to be loaded into the shell, Chu Dapeng's gun rang!
The Japanese grenade hand fell down and the grenade slipped into the grenade. Fortunately, he moved the grenade a little when he fell.
The inevitable grenade was shot away, and Chen Lei saved his life, but he had no consciousness at all and continued to load his bullets.
Li Tiezhu also adapted and took up the gun again to join the battle.
This time he targeted the Japs' machine gunner. The old Japs' machine gun fire was so vicious that Squad 5 could hardly lift their heads.
Squad leader Chu tried once, but failed to hit him. He was also hit in the right shoulder by a Japanese machine gun. Fortunately, it was a penetrating injury and it was not serious. He continued to fight.
Tie Zhu was a natural marksman. When hunting with his father, he could hit fleeting pheasants with an unrifled musket.
The Japanese machine gunner's machine gun also jammed at a critical moment. In order to remove the jam, his head unconsciously stuck out part of it...
Tiezhu was waiting for this moment, and he decisively pulled the trigger. The bullet flew through the Japanese helmet at high speed, and the hole in the helmet was instantly filled with a red and white liquid, meeting Amaterasu.
His deputy shooter had just pulled the machine gun and was shot dead by an iron pillar.
Chu Dapeng, who secretly observed Tie Zhu, showed a happy smile on his face...
"Ta-ta-ta!"
Chen Lei's machine gun fired again, and two more Japanese were knocked down with one burst of fire!
The Japanese finally couldn't hold it anymore and began to cover and evacuate alternately. Chen Lei's machine gun kept chasing the Japanese and knocked down another old Japanese.
The first round of the Japs' attack was repulsed. A strengthened team of more than 60 Japs who participated in the attack suffered heavy casualties. Only about 20 of them returned, and all of them were injured.
The Seventh Company also suffered 11 casualties, including 4 who were killed and 7 injured. Chu Dapeng, the 5th squad leader, was also injured, but he did not take it seriously and continued to fight.
The Japanese's first attack was more of a tentative attack. To Captain Yasuda's surprise, the imperial army suffered dozens of casualties. His squadron had suffered more than half of its casualties since leaving Anping City.
Of course, some lightly wounded people can still continue fighting after being simply bandaged. The lethality of the 38-type rifle bullets is really average. Sometimes it just drills a hole, which does not affect the battle at all.
After a tentative attack, he had a general understanding of the strength of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side.
"Your Excellency, Captain, the Eighth Route Army opposite is about one company in strength. It has two Taisho 11-year-old machine guns. They are all equipped with imperial light weapons. There are no heavy machine guns. They are well-trained. They should be the main force of the Eighth Route Army!"
Yasuda promptly reported the enemy situation he had on the battlefield to the captain. This is also a good tradition of the Japanese. Their grassroots commanders have very strong reading ability on the battlefield.
After listening to the information brought back by Captain Yasuda from the front line, Major Taniguchi felt more confident. This was consistent with the information he had.
The strength of the Eighth Route Army is roughly the same as what he has grasped, which means that the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Liuzhen is here. As long as the troops are concentrated to eliminate this Eighth Route Army in the field, then Liuzhen will be the meat on the chopping board - you can eat whatever you want. !
The Eighth Route Army fighting the Imperial Army here was Taniguchi's favorite way of fighting. It would be troublesome if they went into the mountains to fight guerrillas.
"Yasuda-kun, the commander of the Eighth Route Army opposite is actually stupid enough to fight a positional battle with the imperial army. Then we must seize the opportunity and wipe out the main force of the Eighth Route Army in one battle. The security war in Liu Town will be over!"
"The next round of attack will still be under your command. I will reinforce the first squadron of Watanabe Squadron for you, and I will also give you the machine gun squad. Use the power of thunder to capture the Eighth Route Army's position in one fell swoop!"
After figuring out the strength of the Eighth Route Army, Taniguchi was ready to make a big bet!
After repelling the first round of Japanese attacks, Li Qing prepared to implement his retreat plan.
The mission of Squad 5 is to delay and cover. Even if they feign defeat, they cannot retreat in a swarm, but must alternate cover.
"Old Li, if we retreat in such an orderly manner, will it alert the Japanese?"
"Lao Zhang, don't worry about this. Our Eighth Route Army always fights when we win, and withdraws when we can't win. This is in line with the norm."
"When the Japanese are pressing forward in a big way, let the puppet troops who come anyway run away first, and then we also retreat when we see that the situation is not good, leaving the first platoon of Class 3 and the second platoon of Class 5 to cover. This is in line with a normal retreat!"
Zhang Yu thought about it. If it was too fake, it would arouse the suspicion of the Japanese.
"Old Li, just follow the plan you proposed!"
