Anti-Japanese Jagged General

Chapter 170 Can't count on it (second update!)
There were more than 160 people in a recruit company and a main platoon, but only 80 people left the position alive in the end, and all the others died and stayed in the position.

"Your Excellency, Captain, the Eighth Route Army... The Eighth Route Army on the ground ran away again!" The captain of the second squadron ran over and reported with a frustrated face.

Seeing that the captain was about to get angry again, the squadron leader hurriedly said: "However, we killed many people in the Eighth Route Army. According to a close visual inspection, there were more than seventy corpses of the Eighth Route Army on the ground. It must be that the rear troops of the Eighth Route Army knew that they were fighting. If you don't win, the battlefield will collapse!"

After hearing this sentence, the captain's mood really improved a lot, and he didn't get angry anymore. He directly ordered: "Then why are you still standing there? Order the troops to continue chasing them. It won't take too long to wipe out so many of them in one battle." , the Eighth Route Army we hunted down will be completely wiped out by us!"

Under the leadership of Feng Tao and Yan Song, hundreds of Japanese troops stopped and went, and left the Shangjie stronghold for nearly eight kilometers in less than two hours.

Zeng Quan, who was lurking near the Shangjie stronghold, ordered his troops to secretly surround the stronghold without saying a word, waiting for the opportunity to attack.

At this time, nearly [-] Japanese troops returning to the west of Laiyuan City, harassed by Ma Qingyun's troops from the [-]rd Battalion and [-]st Company, finally bumped into the blocking position of the [-]st Battalion.

"Sure enough, the reconnaissance team is right. At least one battalion of the Eighth Route Army is stationed here!" Looking at the defense line with a width of more than 200 meters 200 meters away, the Japanese army captain Qiushui Shaozuo said solemnly.

Then he began to issue orders: "All artillery fire. After 5 minutes of artillery coverage, heavy machine guns cover, and the First Infantry Squadron launches an attack. Fight for an attack to break through the Eighth Route Army's defense line and reinforce the west of the city!" The words lined up, and as soon as Qiu Shui's order came out, six shells rushed out of the barrel and flew towards a battalion several hundred meters away with a scream.

"Boom..." Soon, violent explosions exploded in the camp.

Under the light of the fire, Qiu Shui clearly saw that several Eighth Route Army soldiers were blown out of the trenches.

"Heavy machine guns are in place, the first squadron is ready to attack!" Major Qiushui ordered loudly with his eyes shining brightly.

Similarly, Wang Ping and Zhang Qing, both Wang Ping and Zhang Qing, stared at the battlefield with binoculars at the headquarters of the First Battalion, which was less than 50 meters away from the area covered by the artillery fire.

As soon as the devil's shelling started, Zhang Qing issued a series of combat orders.

"The devils have many cannons, and the gunners are well-trained. Reckless fighting is definitely not the way!"

"The mortar platoon will immediately counterattack and fight guerrilla with the devil's artillery. We must not let the devil continue to bomb our infantry with shells!"

"The infantry artillery platoon is ready to fight, and it specializes in attacking devils and attacking troops."

"The attacking force has a large number of people, and it is easy to aim at a scattered range. It will cover a large area with one blow, and there is no need to constantly adjust the shooting angle!"

As soon as the three mortars fired, they gave the devil a five-round rapid fire.

There were a total of fifteen shells, no matter how poor the quality of the gunners, in the end three shells hit the Japanese artillery position, directly overturning a mortar, killing and wounding seven or eight gunners.

The devils reacted quickly without changing their positions, and adjusted the muzzle according to the trajectory of the shells flying over on the spot to counterattack.

In less than half a minute, five shells smashed towards the position of the artillery platoon of the first battalion with a scream.

The explosion of the first round of shells has not completely stopped, the second round, and even the third round of shells rushed out of the barrel.

The generous devil gunner fired a full ten rounds of rapid fire before stopping.

Just when they thought that the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army had been razed to the ground, and the mortars were also blown into scrap iron.When they were about to adjust the shooting angle of the artillery and continued to bombard the Eighth Route Army's blocking position, another series of screams that made their faces change came to their ears.

"Baga, what's going on, why does the Eighth Route Army still have mortars!" A squad leader of the artillery who knew the shells were flying towards them, his expression changed, and he shouted loudly.

"Boom boom boom..." He was answered by three violent explosions.

While the buzzing sound from the explosion was still echoing in their ears, the screaming sound came to their ears one after another.

"Rapid fire again, immediately find the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army, counterattack, destroy them, hurry up!" Another team leader ordered very anxiously.

In less than 20 seconds, fifteen shells exploded around them.

This time, two mortars were directly blown over, and many gunners were killed and injured.

Of course, the reaction speed of the Japanese army was also faster than before. Less than ten seconds after the shelling stopped, three shells rushed out of the gun bore and hit the gun platoon.

At this time, dozens of gunners disassembled the mortar just now, carried it on their shoulders, and prepared to shoot at the next position.

But the speed of the shells coming was too fast, as soon as the screeching sound reached their ears, the explosion sounded behind them.

The three gunners fell to the ground screaming, dying.

"Retreat quickly, don't care about them, evacuate here immediately!" The heartbroken platoon leader shouted.

A dozen or so people ran forward for another seven or eight meters, and three explosions followed and reached their ears.

This time, only one gunner fell to the ground, and his entire back was directly blown to a bloody mess.

"Continue to retreat, rush to the next artillery position to counterattack, revenge!" The platoon leader's eyes had turned red, and he continued to shout.

In the end, two mortars were saved.

Without saying a word, the platoon leader directly ordered his subordinates to counterattack with artillery.

When the shells from both sides came and went, constantly consuming the opponent's strength, Shao Zuo Qiushui's face immediately became more dignified.

He frowned and ordered: "The artillery can't count on it for the time being. The heavy machine guns cover, and the infantry charges. Tell the attacking troops that there is no mortar cover, but the grenades in their hands are not vegetarians. They must press the Eighth Route Army to attack!" "

A total of three heavy machine guns fired, and more than 100 devils rushed to the battlefield.

"Captain, the devils are attacking!" Zhang Qing said to Wang Ping with questioning eyes.

"Fight as you like! I'm just here to watch the battle, so don't ask me!" Wang Ping said angrily, his eyes never leaving the binoculars, staring at the battlefield.

Zhang Qing, who had a lot of confidence, did not hesitate, and directly ordered: "Small artillery squad, watch the devils for me with heavy machine guns!"

"Heavy machine guns, designed to hit the grenadiers exposed by the devils, and the others to fight the infantry. The infantry artillery platoon waits for orders, fire at any time to support the infantry!"

A total of nine grenadiers fired at the same time. With the advantage of numbers, the nine grenades that fell from the sky blew up a heavy machine gun to misfire.

"Baga, how come the Eighth Route Army is equipped with so many grenade launchers!" Shao Zuo Qiushui cursed very dissatisfied.

But no one answered his question, and Qiu Shui, who was bored, ordered directly: "What are our grenadiers for? Fight back immediately. Should we wait for the Eighth Route Army to blow up all our heavy machine guns! Also, Bring up all the grenadiers of the Second Squadron, we must suppress the firepower of the Eighth Route Army before attacking!"

(End of this chapter)