Bright Sword: Develop alone, bring back an artillery regiment

Chapter 541 The treacherous Kihide Abe, Wang Chengzhu suffered a small loss

Norihide Abe held up the binoculars to observe the bombardment effect of the 2nd Independent Artillery Battalion. In the field of view of the binoculars, he could only see in the flames that many Eighth Route Army machine gunners were blown out with their weapons.

Seeing this, Kihide Abe couldn't help grinning at the corners of his mouth, revealing a cruel smile.

Sure enough, the gang of damned Tubalu wanted to set up an ambush here, but unfortunately, I am not a sack like Fengwu Yamashita, but a flower of a famous general of the Empire, and an expert in mountain warfare of the Empire of Japan!
the other side.

At a commanding height on the hillside, Wang Chengzhu set up the temporary headquarters of the Second Independent Regiment on the reverse slope of the hillside, while he himself climbed to the top of the hill to observe the enemy's situation.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the sound of a "hurricane" shell attacking suddenly came from his ears.

"It's shells, monk be careful!"

Wang Chengzhu immediately rolled to the right, rolled four or five meters away, and hid behind a rock.

And Monk Wei flew backwards, and fell into the grass on the reverse slope of the hillside.

Almost at the same time, a cannon suddenly fell from the sky and landed on the position where the two were just now, which was also the very center of the mountain top. It exploded suddenly with a 'boom', and immediately burst into a scarlet flame and set off a large area. gravel soil.

Some of the gravel and soil fell directly on the helmet on top of Wang Chengzhu's head, making bang bang noises.

The shell fell too close to Wang Chengzhu, less than 10 meters away. Fortunately, Wang Chengzhu was covered by rocks. Otherwise, even if he was not killed by the shell on the spot, he would be cut into blood hedgehogs by the broken shrapnel.

A few seconds later, Monk Wei climbed up from the reverse slope of the hillside with a worried face, found Wang Chengzhu and asked, "Head, are you alright?"

"Huh? Monk, what are you talking about? Louder, I can't hear you!"

Wang Chengzhu felt her head buzzing, even though he covered her ears with both hands just now, but because the shells fell too close, the violent explosion made her temporarily deaf.

Hearing this, Monk Wei became even more anxious: "Leader, don't scare me!"

Wang Chengzhu: "What did you say? Did you tell me not to go down the mountain?"

Monk Wei simply raised his voice loudly, approached Wang Chengzhu and asked, "Leader, are you okay?"

Monk Wei didn't dare to get close to Wang Chengzhu's ear, otherwise even if the other party's ears were not deaf, he might be deafened by him.

Because after a few seconds, Wang Chengzhu's hearing recovered a little, and he finally heard Monk Wei's words clearly, and said, "I'm fine!"

Immediately, Wang Chengzhu immediately ran to the edge of the mountain top to observe other positions bombarded by the devil artillery.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, but when you look at it, Wang Chengzhu's face, which was already full of grime, instantly became gloomy: "This stupid Kihide Abe is indeed an expert in mountain warfare, but I have underestimated him!"

Monk Wei who followed closely said with a surprised face: "Headman, why do you still have the prestige of a devil and destroy your own morale?"

Wang Chengzhu said seriously: "We can despise the enemy strategically, but we must not despise the enemy on the battlefield!"

"You see, just one round of shelling by the devil's artillery destroyed several machine gun fire points of our independent regiment, causing huge losses to our regiment.

And you have to know that this is still when our army did not fire and did not expose the firepower. "

"Obviously, Devil Commander Norihide Abe has a deep study of mountain warfare, and he can clearly infer where the opponent will deploy their firepower based on the terrain."

"Furthermore, the artillerymen of the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade are also very well-educated, and they can accurately lock the target with almost no test firing!"

"Such enemies are truly terrifying! Therefore, we must eat them in one bite in this battle!"

Wang Chengzhu's eyes revealed a fierce and murderous look, and he continued: "Monk, immediately send orders to the first battalion and the second battalion to change their original formation and deploy all light and heavy machine gun firepower to positions that are contrary to usual!

Also, remember to change places with one shot, and never stay in one place for too long! "

"Yes!"

Monk Wei suddenly agreed, then turned and left to convey the order.

Wang Chengzhu didn't dare to stay on the top of the mountain for too long, so he changed his position and continued to observe the enemy's situation.

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the other side.

At the Japanese attack position, Kihide Abe was still observing the battle with a telescope.

From the field of vision of the telescope, it can be seen that the 2nd Independent Artillery Battalion is still shelling our area where the [-]nd Independent Regiment may deploy machine gun firepower.

But unfortunately, the results of the follow-up shelling were much smaller, and almost no losses were caused to the Second Independent Regiment.

Of course, Kihide Abe didn't care, presumably the opposing commander saw their strategic intentions.

This instead aroused Kihide Abe's competitive heart.

Isn't defeating an Eighth Route Army commander who has defeated several major generals of the Empire more fulfilling than defeating an ordinary Eighth Route Army commander?

On the contrary, if the Second Independent Regiment did not make immediate changes after being bombarded, it would make Kihide Abe look down on it.

After several rounds of shelling, the 2nd Independent Infantry Regiment led by Akimitsu Takahashi had rushed to a position less than 500 meters away from the front position of the Second Independent Regiment.

Since both the enemy and the enemy had just arrived here, the Second Independent Regiment had no time to build defensive fortifications, so they could only rely on favorable terrain to launch a counterattack.

Therefore, the 2nd Independent Infantry Wing did not launch a tentative attack.

"Machine gunner, suppress fire!"

"Infantry, keep moving forward!"

The Devil's machine gunner immediately looked for a suitable position, set up a heavy machine gun and opened fire.

"Tu Tu Tu!"

"Tug-chug-chug!—"

There was a gunshot like popping beans, and a large rain of hot bullets immediately poured out, covering the mountain in front of it, splashing clouds of smoke and dust near the impact point.

Although most of the bullets were empty, some stray bullets still hit the soldiers of the Second Independent Regiment, bleeding profusely in an instant.

However, these soldiers gritted their teeth hard and did not cry out.

Soon, the soldiers of the stretcher team carried them to a safe position behind for rescue.

At a distance of 500 meters, it has actually entered the attack range of the Second Independent Regiment. Although the infantry cannot shoot accurately, it does not mean that the devils cannot be killed.

As for the machine gun, let alone.

However, Xu Hailang did not immediately order to fire, but let the artillery and grenadiers lock the firepower of the devil's machine gun first.

The Devil's machine gunners opened fire, providing effective fire cover for their infantry, but at the same time giving away their position.

Soon, the devils of the 2nd Independent Infantry Regiment approached to the position of 200 meters. They immediately changed their pace to run, and rushed to the forward position of the [-]nd Independent Regiment.

"Grambling team, artillery platoon, kill the devil's machine gunner first!"

"Each company, fully fire, hit me!"

Xu Hailang gave an order, announcing the beginning of the war.

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(End of this chapter)