Horida Katsumi slapped Harada Jiro from the middle left, and after the beating, the severe discomfort caused by the bumps was finally relieved.
"Baga, in the face of a mere two companies of Tubal Road, nearly 200 excellent Locust Army soldiers were killed or injured. The Imperial Locust Army has been completely disgraced by this trash of yours!" Horuchi Katsumi scolded Zhongzuo angrily. road.
"Hey! Hey!" Harada Jiro's face was red from being slapped, but he didn't dare to complain at all.
Facing the traditional superior pleasure of the little devil, if Jiro Harada does not want to be incorporated into the commando team, he can only endure it.
In fact, he couldn't imagine that having a heavy machine gun squad and an artillery squad could not defeat the Tubal Road on the opposite side.
Although the opponent's equipment is somewhat unexpected, it is still much weaker than Jiro Harada.
So Harada Jiro has nothing to quibble with.
"Trash! Assemble your troops immediately. This time I will take down this group of thugs in one fell swoop!" After finally feeling relieved after the slap, Horuchi Katsumi said murderously from the left.
"Artillery, keep the distance between mountain artillery and infantry artillery and aim at that damn hillside. As long as Tubal Road dares to fire artillery again, it must be destroyed immediately with covering artillery. All mortars must be withdrawn from the enemy's shelling range and aimed at Tubal Road. For the hilltop position, carry out three rounds of covering artillery strikes first!"
After understanding the situation, Horuchi Katsumi had no intention of playing hide-and-seek with Wang Xilai and the others. He neatly withdrew the artillery out of Wang Xilai's attack range and used his own artillery's advantage in range to re-establish an artillery position.
Speaking of which, Harada Jiro was also carried away and kept competing with Wang Xilai for proficiency.
Of course, the terrain also affected him. To exit Wang Xilai's range, he had to go around a mountain. He could no longer visually adjust the artillery target, which greatly affected the flexibility of the artillery.
However, after Horiuchi Katsuki came to the left, he made up for this shortcoming due to his absolute advantage in numbers.
With two mountain cannons from the artillery squadron, two 92 infantry guns from the brigade, and four 90mm mortars from two infantry squadrons, the number of artillery units was more than doubled.
A total of 14 artillery pieces are already qualified to conduct a brigade-level battle.
This is an important reason why Katsumi Horiuchi is the captain of the center left squadron, while Jiro Harada is only a lieutenant squadron leader. The resources they have are different, and the pattern is naturally different.
With the change of Horuchi Katsuki, Shen Quan and Wang Xilai faced the most difficult moment at the same time.
On Chen Quan's position, faced with the bombardment of more than a dozen artillery pieces, several shells fell into the trench, and more than a dozen soldiers who could not dodge died on the spot.
From a purely artillery point of view, compared with similar artillery from Desan, France and even Maojia in the same period, although the Little Devil's 92 infantry gun is quite different, it is still a weapon with strong lethality against infantry. .
Facing a fixed target, even if there was an obstacle in the middle, the artillery observers of the little Japanese quickly made plans to bombard Zhu Yuan.
But far away from Wang Xilai's sight and range, Wang Xilai was completely helpless when he saw the position being bombarded fiercely.
And based on a battlefield intuition, Wang Xilai decided to move his position immediately.
The back-and-forth with Harada Jiro made the little Japs understand the hillside relatively well, and he probably knew several locations suitable for mortar deployment.
Although the Japanese artillery brought by Jiro Harada earlier suffered heavy casualties, the observers were basically unharmed. After all, they could leave their positions for some distance.
Following the artillery fire of the Japs, Jiro Harada, with the remnants of the Second Squadron and the First Squadron who had recharged their batteries, assembled nearly 300 Japs to approach Shenquan's position again.
This time, Harada Jiro divided the team into 5 waves and launched the "Pig Rush Tactics"!
The frontier uses crooked machine guns and grenade launchers to cover and divert firepower. Two groups of little devils alternately cover and charge to the death!
Relying on the crooked machine gun in the temporary bunker at the front, the charge team closely following the little devils provided fire cover. The grenade launcher followed the machine gunner and continuously fired grenades to attack the exposed firepower of the Shenquan forward position.
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When the little devil's charge was launched, there were more than a dozen crooked machine guns and more than a dozen grenade launchers, which instantly killed most of the reinforcements that had just been added to the first line of defense of the fifth infantry team.
Especially the soldiers who had just arrived to reinforce the Sixth Infantry Division and were inexperienced in defense. At first they were a little panicked when they saw the Japs charging, so they took the lead. However, as soon as their guns fired, the Japs below knew their position and soon they were A grenade was thrown from a grenade.
Faced with such a precise attack, the infantry unit a hundred meters away now has few means of counterattack. Apart from machine guns and rifles, grenades are simply not enough!
"Don't be anxious, don't shoot, wait until the Japs are 20 meters behind the position before fighting back!" In the first trench, the survivors of the fifth infantry unit shouted loudly.
"Squat down and don't show your head. When the little Japs get close, use a grenade to greet them!"
As the veterans began to take command, the soldiers in the first trench finally calmed down and began to pack up the grenades on their bodies and put them in convenient places. Some even had a grenade string wrapped around their hands, ready to drop the bomb at any time.
Sitting in the trench, the strong smell of blood was everywhere. It stands to reason that the recruits should panic.
But after training and ideological education, no matter whether they are new soldiers or veterans, it doesn't matter about life or death at this moment.
On the contrary, the sacrifice of their comrades aroused their anger for revenge. Everyone wanted to kill one to get enough money, and kill two to get a profit!
Listening to the beast-like howl of the Japs getting closer and closer, the soldiers in the first trench braced themselves and waited for the moment to drop the bombs.
The little Japanese's machine gun no longer flew over the head, but went to the upper line of defense. The experienced soldiers knew that the time to drop the bomb was coming soon, and their arms began to strain when they threw themselves on the trench.
"Grenade, throw it!" someone yelled.
Suddenly, the more than 20 surviving soldiers threw more than 20 grenades together, followed by the second round and the third round!
More than 70 grenades formed a line of defense, almost consuming the first group of charging Japs!
However, the Japs did not flinch. The second group of Japs counterattacked with melon grenades while still charging in the face of the grenades, as if the Japs killed in front did not exist.
Such a bloody death charge cost a lot of casualties, but the first line of defense was broken through by the little devils!
The second and third lines of defense faced indiscriminate bombardment by the Japs' mortars and the fire cover formed by more than a dozen machine guns and grenade launchers. They had little chance to provide much fire support to their comrades on the first line of defense.
The little Japanese counterattacked with more than 50 cantaloupe grenades, half of which fell into the trenches. The defending soldiers of the fifth and sixth infantry squadrons had no chance to escape this time.
Seeing that the position could no longer be defended, Shen Quan smiled miserably.
He didn't expect that when he came to the Dagushan guerrillas with luxurious firepower and equipment, his first battle would be his last!
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