The first team of the Kawashima Squadron was responsible for the first round of exploratory attacks, and the team leader was Second Lieutenant Ryuichi Hijiang.
It has three 13-man infantry detachments and a grenade detachment equipped with three grenade launchers, with a total strength of 54 people.
The heavy firepower is 3 crooked machine guns and 3 grenade launchers.
Three infantry detachments were arranged in two echelons, with the riflemen in the first platoon and the machine gun crew in the second platoon;
The grenade detachment is a separate echelon;
The rifleman and the machine gun team are separated by 60 meters, and the grenade launcher and the machine gun team are separated by about 30 meters.
Before 200 meters from the front edge of the Eighth Route Army position, the Japanese almost all advanced quickly with their waists straight, and there was a wide gap between each of them.
An exploratory attack is to find out the firepower configuration, and spreading it out can reduce casualties.
The combat distance between infantrymen is generally about 100 meters, and few people can hit a moving target at 200 meters.
Although the effective range of the rifle exceeds 300 meters, it is difficult for a normal person to see clearly, let alone hit a person, from 300 meters away without the help of external objects.
After the Japs' attack line was less than 150 meters away from the Eighth Route Army's defense line, the Japs began to become cautious, because at this distance, good marksmanship could hit the target.
Hijiri Ryuichi is a very experienced little devil. His command knife is used to convey instructions. He conveys the information to his team that they have entered the assault range.
All personnel bent down to minimize body contact, and were ready to lie down and fight back at any time.
After advancing another few dozen meters, the Eighth Route Army's position opposite was still silent, as if it was an empty position.
The person responsible for guarding the forward position is Li Qing, the platoon leader of the seventh company.
He placed only two squads on the first trench, one squad on the second trench, and three squads on the third trench.
Li Qing is located on the third line of defense, and the four machine guns and snipers on the second and third lines of defense also need to participate in the defense.
The few exposed machine guns are controlled by Li Qing.
The first line of defense is commanded by the first squad leader Zhou Yong. Regarding this exploratory attack by the Japanese, Li Qing does not intend to expose the firepower of the second and third trenches, and just leaves it to the first and second squads.
The Japs' skirmisher line had already reached a range of 80 meters. This distance was the best striking distance for machine guns and sniper rifles. Zhou Qing ignored it.
The Japanese could only bite the bullet and continue to advance. The further they advanced, the more frightened Bijiang Longyi felt. He simply did not believe that the Eighth Route Army would give up its position, so there was only one possibility:
The opponent wants to get close enough before hitting, without giving them any time to react.
Hijiro Ryuichi's pace gradually slowed down, allowing his soldiers to pass him, and he consciously moved closer to a machine gun group.
"Yours, set up the machine gun!"
Bijiang Ryuichi, an old devil, found a good excuse for himself and huddled back.
Gao Wancheng has been paying attention to the situation in the forward position with binoculars. Even he feels that the Seventh Company has placed the Japanese too close!
There were only two squads in the first trench. They were tens of meters apart, and they were in front of him in a few breaths. If he hadn't seen dozens of Japanese soldiers, he would have gone to the battlefield himself.
"This Li Qing is a little too brave!"
50 meters!
The beard on the enemy's nose could be seen clearly. They started to straighten up and sprint. At this moment, gunfire rang out!
The precise strikes of two machine guns and more than twenty rifles brought down twenty or thirty Japs in an instant!
50 meters, almost no miss.
The Japanese were in a state of upward attack again, literally sending their chests to the Eighth Route Army's bullets.
The slope of Chenjialing is not very steep. If the Japanese want to pass the highway, they must capture Chenjialing.
Ta-ta-ta!
Boom boom boom!
More than twenty grenades were thrown into the group of Japs again, and a large area of Japs was knocked down again.
Bijiang Ryuichi was about to command the machine gun to fight back when a grenade flew over and exploded on the side of the machine gunner. The flying shrapnel knocked the two Japanese soldiers to the ground. Bijiang Ryuichi was also injured by a shrapnel. Fortunately, he was not injured by a shrapnel. Nothing serious.
After the main grenade shooter of the second squad fired a grenade, he pointed the grenade at another group of Japs again. After a simple aim, he stuffed a grenade into the barrel.
boom!
The grenade hit the target again, and at least three Japs fell in a pool of blood...
Under the three-dimensional firepower of the Eighth Route Army, Bijiang's team was quickly defeated. The dozen or so survivors turned around and started running back. Bijiang's little devil ran as fast as a rabbit.
The first squad sniper fired two shots at him, but they were blocked by other unlucky people. Some people's lives were much greater.
Seven or eight members of Bijiang's team crawled back and escaped, and all the others were wiped out. The only result they achieved was to injure two Eighth Route Army soldiers.
Through the first round of competition, the Japanese roughly figured out the firepower configuration of the Eighth Route Army on the position:
There are at least two machine guns, two grenade launchers, and the rest are rifles. This is similar to the firepower configuration of a company in other Eighth Route Army.
The Japanese only had two infantry guns left, and the fire support they could provide to the infantry was very limited.
In the second round of the attack, the Kawashima Squadron was ready to put all its troops into the attack. A squad-sized attack would not be able to break through the Eighth Route Army's positions.
Before the infantry attack, the two infantry guns conducted artillery fire preparations for half an hour, focusing on taking care of the exposed machine gun fire points.
After the bombardment, the Kawashima Squadron launched an attack on the Eighth Route Army positions with the two remaining Goudou tanks in the way. They invested two tanks and a squadron at once. The Japanese were preparing to fight.
The slope of Chenjialing had no effect on the tanks. They rushed towards the Eighth Route Army position in a swaggering manner, and the machine guns on the tanks fired from time to time.
The Seventh Company did not have anti-tank weapons. Even if it was a thin-skinned and stuffed bean tank, the machine gun could not penetrate its more than ten millimeters of frontal armor.
They can only use cluster grenades to explode and kill them with human lives. This is the helplessness of agricultural countries against industrial countries.
This time, the first and second squads did not dare to put the Japanese too close, and started shooting from 100 meters away.
The heavy firepower of the second and third trenches also joined in the blocking of the Japanese.
The battle between the two sides has become intense, and casualties have begun to appear in the first row. The biggest threat is still the two bean tanks!
It can be said that they rushed up unimpeded, and bullets hitting them had no effect at all.
The Seventh Company had specially practiced tank fighting tactics, so the only way to deal with the bean tank was to bring it closer and then fight.
A row of dug trenches is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, which has a certain anti-tank trench effect.
When Zhou Yong saw the tanks rushing up, he left two demolition teams behind. The other personnel evacuated directly to the second trench through the traffic trench, leaving the first trench to the Japanese.
The machine gun fire in the second trench blocked the Japanese infantry, which caused a disconnect between the tanks and the infantry.
The reason why the tank is difficult to fight is that it is accompanied by infantry, and the death squads cannot get close to it and cannot blast it at close range.
The two Japanese tanks passed the first trench very arrogantly. Due to the blocking effect of the trenches, the speed of the tanks slowed down.
The soldiers of the demolition team did not hesitate to get under the chassis of the tank and quickly fired the cluster grenades tied to their bodies...
Just hearing the loud bang, the soldier Liu Xiaowu and the Japanese chariot died together.
The other tank saw that the situation was not good and was about to retreat. Chen Yang, the squad leader of the second squad, rushed into its chassis decisively. A few seconds later there was another loud noise.
The last chariot was also blown up. Chen Yang, a man from the Dabie Mountains, died with the Japanese chariot with his flesh and blood.
Every inch of mountains and rivers, every inch of blood!
