Guns rang out and cannons roared on the battlefield.
No matter who is in this environment, vision, hearing and even psychology will be affected.
Using military uniforms to identify ourselves and the enemy is simple and crude.
The men in gray military uniforms were fleeing on Tubal Road, leaving many bodies behind, and were retreating to the second cliff.
Tubal Road's plan is very clear, it should be to use the cliffs and sloping hills on the mountain ridge to block the attack.
The second, shorter cliff ahead, perhaps should be called a ridge, is the second line of defense of the Eighth Route Army.
The lowest point is no more than one person tall, and anyone who runs fast can probably jump up to it.
A large area was blown down again, and the captain behind did not issue new orders to the attacking teams in the front.
The attacking Japanese soldiers' minds were buzzing, and they seemed to have lost the courage to continue charging down the cliff.
The sound of gunfire gradually became sparse.
Only the smoke that is constantly being carried away by the mountain wind is rolling...
Both the offense and defense had their own thoughts, and seemed to be waiting for a storm.
The Japanese infantry did not advance early after occupying the first line of defense on Tubal Road.
They are waiting for the next attack.
After being bombed twice in a row, the Japs learned a lesson and everyone understood.
Under the ridge ahead, the despicable Tuba Road must have buried two more big mines!
In addition, engineers once again discovered trip mines in the bushes.
A mine explosion on Tubal Road resulted in the casualty of one squadron. The offensive lieutenant had to order a pause in the attack. This time he was much smarter and asked the infantry to cover the engineers and crawl forward among the rocks to clear the mines.
The observers were waiting for the smoke to clear from the Eight Route Positions on the cliff so that they could conduct a more comprehensive observation.
The medical team temporarily organized by the brigade is busy carrying the fallen and injured warriors back!
The machine gun positions are also moving forward.
On the Eighth Route Army, it was a different scene.
Hu Yi's expression seemed a little expectant, and his frowning face was no longer calm.
There were still injured people who were hurried out of the smoke on stretchers carried by soldiers.
It wasn't until Old Bandit Qi emerged from the smoke, clutching his chest, that Hu Yi's expression changed.
The mood of anticipation became vivid as a result.
An imperceptible smile appeared on his face for the first time.
Old bandit Qi brought many people with him!
"Don't worry, the devil is unaware..." Qi Laoqi didn't get too close to Hu Yi. He knew what he was worried about, so he added: "I won't eat or sleep with you for the past two days..."
Hu Yi nodded and squeezed out three words from between his teeth: "Thank you for your hard work..."
Qi Lao Qi looked away from Tian Sanqi and others who were busy in the bushes, and nodded to Hu Yi: "Hey, we don't seem to have much explosives, so use them sparingly..."
Hu Yi waved his hand, and Qi Lao Bandit and his party immediately took steps and quickly moved away to the top of the mountain ridge.
Hu Yi continued to look at the increasingly faint smoke.
In the field of vision, the desolate mountain ridges shrouded in gunpowder smoke seemed to be shaking under the blue sky.
The voice of the observation post kept ringing: "The enemy is three hundred meters away, pay attention to the artillery..."
Fighting under a quilt is the only one in the Nine Battalions.
The voice from the observation post sounded again: "Everyone, retreat to the cliff immediately..."
call out...
Before he finished speaking, a shell suddenly screamed in the sky and approached quickly...
Immediately afterwards, machine gunfire rang again, but this time it seemed not dense and irregular.
Hu Yi leaned behind the stone and stared at the pocket watch in his hand.
The hour hand points to three o'clock in the afternoon, and the minute hand coincides with twelve o'clock.
The Eighth Route Army has a unique habit. Commanders like to go to the front line to command in person. The first reason is the lack of telescopes, and the second reason is that many commanders do not even train battlefield observers in the team.
No one has any objection to Hu Yi not being on the front line.
Boom, the artillery shells exploded in the bushes dozens of meters in front of the position...
The Japanese learned their lesson and did not directly bombard the Ninth Battalion position.
The target seemed to be aimed at the bushes in front of the low cliff on the eighth road...
One round after another, artillery shells cleared the road for the Japanese infantry to begin their attack.
The shells continued, and the mountain ridges that had just dispersed were once again shrouded in gunpowder smoke.
Tian Sanqi took the time to crawl to Hu Yi's side, stood up and leaned on the stone: "Batalion Commander, the Japanese have seven or eight heavy machine guns and more than twenty crooked guns. We only have six machine guns. They have mortars." We also have tens of thousands of cartridges. Although our firepower is not as good as the Japanese, the enemy is in the open and we are in the dark. We are in an advantageous position and are on the defensive side. How about... going to a head-on confrontation with them this time?"
As soon as Hu Yigang stretched out his legs, Tian Sanqi jumped away: "Did I say something wrong? Aren't you just confronting the Japanese head-on now?"
Failing to kick the idiot Tian Sanqi, Hu Yi said in a cold tone: "The Japs have attacked twice. How many of your men are left?"
"Isn't that... didn't the team left by Ma Liang add another one?"
"Destroy all the Ma Liang platoon, then ask Li Xiang to borrow another platoon, and finally ask Mule to borrow another platoon. Do you plan to destroy all the borrowed troops?"
Tian Sanqi looked embarrassed: "You can't blame me. Ma Liang is not here, Li Xiang wants to guard against the Japanese in the south, and Mule is willing to go to the front..."
Hu Yi warned: "When fighting, you must use your brain..."
Due to the limited width of the mountain ridge from east to west and many areas covered with bushes, the Japanese did not have many troops that could really be deployed on the frontline battlefield.
The enemy's current strength is almost five times that of the Ninth Battalion.
There are only about 200 numbers in the ninth battalion, and if one is sacrificed, one will be missing.
Although most of the Japs in the east canyon were lured away, the remaining squadron could still make the Ninth Battalion walk away without food.
There is also a squadron of Japanese soldiers guarding the south side.
Not to mention that there is nearly a large group of Japanese troops attacking in the north.
The firepower of the two sides is greatly different. The combat effectiveness of the Ninth Battalion is definitely not as good as that of the Japanese. The only thing that is better than the Japanese is that the Ninth Battalion now has nearly a hundred shell guns in its hands!
Using automatic weapons to bolt rifles against the Japanese would naturally be an advantage, but unfortunately, the shell gun bullets were already in short supply.
A hard fight is definitely not optimistic. Unless it is a last resort, Hu Yi is not willing to fight head-on with the Japanese until his head is bloody.
There is another problem. Until now, Japanese planes have not strafed or bombed the mountain ridge!
Tian Sanqi thought for a long time and finally understood something: "Batalion Commander, do you want to delay it until dark?"
"Think again."
Tian Sanqi still didn't seem to understand what Hu Yi was thinking: "After dark, we are still surrounded by the Japanese..."
Hu Yi reminded: "Didn't the Japanese in the west valley leave?"
"Ah, you mean... let's wait until night and sneak from the west cliff into the valley to break out to the west?"
"Ma Liang used to lead people to climb mountains at night. Don't tell me that you haven't even practiced."
"Hey, battalion commander, did you expect that today would happen?"
"Get out of here quickly..."
Hu Yi looked at Tian Sanqi's back: "Remember to live until dark..."
Hidden in the bushes behind the cliff position was a platoon of Ma Liang Company.
The Japs were bombarding the front of the battlefield with a blanket of shelling. The veteran platoon leader's scalp was numb: "The Japs are really fierce in firepower. They even hit this open area with artillery shells..."
The soldiers next to me were muttering...
"Hehe, it seems that the little devil is still afraid of death..."
The veteran platoon leader reminded again: "Everyone has heard clearly. After the shelling is over, we must move quickly. Before the smoke clears, we can sneak into the bushes below to ambush the Japanese. If anyone dares to cough, I will dig up his family's ancestral graves when I turn around..."
"Platoon commander, don't worry, who doesn't know the importance of such a big thing..."
"In my opinion... Tian Sanqi's company is almost half gone. We have to be careful when we go down..."
"They are so stupid that they don't know how to use a shell gun..."
"Didn't you see that the injured old bandit brought people up?"
"You know what the heck, the Japanese machine guns suppressed them too hard. Whoever takes the lead will die..."
"Then how will we fight later?"
"If you hang out with the Japs, the Japs' machine guns won't even hit their own people, right?"
"But...platoon leader, we only have twenty rounds of ammunition..."
The veteran platoon leader was actually in a mood to laugh: "Haha, if you have fired twenty rounds of bullets and still haven't beaten back the oncoming Japanese, then quickly crawl back on the ground. At that time, our machine guns will fire back. Remember this clearly." Come on, don’t just enjoy beating the Japanese. Anyone who dares to stand up and be beaten by your own machine gun deserves to be..."
"But, I want to get another pair of military boots from the corpse of the Japanese..."
Some things are difficult to change once they become a habit.
For example, the shell gun only has ten bullets in the gun plus ten bullets stuck in a bridge clip on the body.
It's not satisfying at all.
So many soldiers were in a bad mood.
There's no way around it. It's hard to get bullets for shell guns. Most of the bullets sent to the base area are 792 bullets.
Some soldiers began to think about using rifles after firing the shell guns...
Five Czechs are hidden behind stones on the ridge.
After the ambush begins, the machine gun team will fire at the Japanese infantry with all its strength, covering the soldiers who were ambushed under the ridge to withdraw...
(Change first and then change...)
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