Rise From Eight Hundred

Yes, as a grassroots commander in the bureau, Tang Dao had no way and no way to know what the main force of the Japanese army would do several kilometers away, so he was destined to have little time to dawdle with these devils here.

If the Japanese army sent a sufficient force to rescue, he would have to evacuate first. Once the battle lasted until dawn, the Japanese mountain artillery and infantry artillery would not be vegetarian.

Wanting to reduce casualties and rely on superior firepower to grind 200 Japanese soldiers to death here was destined to be just wishful thinking.

There was also news from Lei Xiong and Leng Feng that the two infantry companies encountered a group of Japanese troops while approaching each other.

So, the two infantry companies took the lead in attacking the Japanese army from both wings and suppressed the Japanese army in a rice field.

However, the Japanese army seemed to be quite large in number, definitely more than an infantry squadron, with more grenade launchers and light machine guns than ordinary infantry squadrons, and even heavy machine guns. Under the desperate counterattack of the Japanese army, for a while, the two infantry companies could not make any progress.

Leng Feng and the first company, who first encountered the Japanese army, did not act too aggressively because they knew that Lei Xiong and the third company were nearby. They left a gap in the direction of the main camp. The three infantry platoons built positions in a triangular shape. The fire support platoon stayed behind the infantry position, which could serve as both fire support and reserve troops. They completely blocked the right wing of the Japanese army with a standard field formation. The Japanese army did not want to be attacked from both sides, so they had to either continue to move forward or retreat.

After a brief shock, the Japanese army, which was suddenly hit, quickly opened its formation and confronted Leng Feng's first company. This was also the pride of the "strongest division on the surface of the earth" that supported them to be fearless in the field battle with the Chinese army.

Self-confidence is the temperament of an army, which can undoubtedly increase the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in battle, but pride is destined not to be. Too much pride often turns into "stinky" with arrogance.

The five minutes of fighting with the first company caused the Japanese army to lose its last chance of escape, and the third company led by Lei Xiong also surrounded them.

Lei Xiong's strategy was slightly different from Leng Feng's. He personally led two infantry platoons to attack their left wing, while Qian Dazhu led an infantry platoon with a fire support platoon to block their rear.

Two mortars and a heavy machine gun were all placed on the rear wing of the Japanese army. In front of them were four infantry squads desperately digging individual bunkers.

This was the advantage of superior strength, which could encircle the Japanese army, but it was also a dangerous tactic of taking advantage of the situation.

The 80 people led by Qian Dazhu not only had to bear the last desperate impact of the Japanese army in the encirclement, but also had the possibility of being attacked by the Japanese reinforcements from the rear.

One careless move, but the person in charge of the encirclement became the one being surrounded.

Lei Xiong's combat style was always open and sharp, but he would not regard the life of the 80 people as nothing. The second group of the special operations team that was active nearby was sent by him to a farther place to scout the movements of the Japanese reinforcements. If the main force of the Japanese army was found, this three-person team would issue a warning to Lei Xiong's troops in the form of a diversionary attack.

This tactic requires a high level of skill. The three were the elites selected from the independent battalion, but after all, there were only three people, and they had to attack the Japanese army that was a hundred times or even hundreds of times their number. In anyone's opinion, it was a tactic that was almost suicide, but Lei Xiong did it.

Not only did he believe in the combat effectiveness of the special operations team, but he was inspired by the special tactics of the Tang Dao harassing the 36th Infantry Brigade for several days. On a small-scale battlefield, especially with the night as a protective color, the special tactics based on individual actions have unexpected power.

Just like mosquitoes to elephants, no matter how strong the elephant is, facing the uninterrupted harassment of mosquitoes, it can only lie in the mud in the end, relying on covering the skin with mud to increase resistance, and has never evolved a long tail as a bat.

This is a special tactic that Tang Dao is ahead of this era. Lei Xiong used it very decisively and flexibly, and he is worthy of the title of the first army captain of the 88th Division.

That was also a reinforced Japanese infantry squadron. It seemed that the Japanese army had sent at least 400 people, but this was definitely not the original intention of the Japanese commander. No one would think that only 400 people could solve the flank, and people with an IQ of 50 would not do so.

After Tang Dao received the message from the battlefield 800 meters away, he was more determined to solve the Japanese army in the battlefield in front of him within 20 minutes.

Within ten minutes, Morita Shinji lost 70% of the grenade throwers and most of the shooters in the 9 light machine guns. Although most of the equipment such as grenade throwers and light machine guns have not been damaged, not everyone can be a well-trained grenade thrower and shooter. Even if ordinary infantrymen hold those equipment, they can't play 50% of the performance of the equipment.

Take the grenade launchers for example. After being strengthened, there were 9 grenade launchers, which were originally the most feared weapons by the firepower points of the second company. At least three light machine guns in the firepower points on the top of the hill and on both wings of the wilderness were injured by shrapnel because of the precise bombardment of the Japanese grenade launchers. The light machine gun firepower points had to move their positions immediately after firing a magazine at most, and could not form a sufficiently effective continuous suppression firepower.

But when the precise shooters of each squad and the two mortars fired wildly at the Japanese grenade launchers and killed most of them, the power of the Japanese grenade launchers dropped sharply, and there was even an outrageous bombardment of grenades that deviated from the position by 30 meters.

But that also scared Heizi. The grenade that deviated from the infantry position exploded less than five meters away from him, and the shrapnel that burst out made his helmet clang. If there were no follow-up grenades bombarding him, he would have thought it was an attack by the Japanese grenade launchers against him.

But obviously, that was just the result of an ordinary Japanese soldier who was forced to shoot.

That was the fifth position that Heizi had moved to. Heizi, who had fired more than 200 rounds of bullets continuously, almost never fired for two minutes in a fixed position. The Japanese had no way to deal with this fire output "big brother" who kept moving in the gaps of the battlefield.

So, when the threat of the grenade launcher was gone, the three light machine guns and the heavy machine gun on the top of the hill began to fire without scruples.

"Da Da Da!"

Four long flames that splashed out in the night swept across the wilderness wantonly, and any infantry who dared to raise their bodies 30 centimeters were within their attack range.

After all, the brave were a minority. When these few brave men showed the fierce firepower of the Chinese side at the cost of their lives, most of the Japanese troops were honest.

They could only be forced to lie down behind various natural or temporary individual bunkers dug at the cost of their lives, and endure the unscrupulous firepower coverage from the Chinese soldiers they looked down upon.

Morita Shinji's originally cold and stern face was already covered with dirt, which was caused by sweat, gunpowder and dust.

He might have thought that the combat effectiveness of this group of Chinese elites was not weak, but he never thought that under the same number of troops, he was completely suppressed and had no power to resist.

As his own firepower point counterattack ability weakened, Morita Shinji knew that he had to do something, otherwise, if he let the restless Chinese approach his defense line, he might not be able to hold on until the arrival of reinforcements.

But what should he do? Take the lead in launching a charge and force the Chinese to retreat to their defense line? But that would cost at least twenty people, and the Chinese equipped with continuous-fire submachine guns and Mauser pistols were not vegetarian.

Damn Germans! Major Morita Shinji, who had rich combat experience, had never hated them so much. If they hadn't dumped these cheap automatic firearms to the Chinese in large quantities, why would he not dare to use even the tactics he was best at?

The Japanese commander was struggling and hesitating, but Tang Dao had already given a decisive order.

The two infantry squads crawled forward until they were about 30 to 40 meters away from the Japanese army at the bottom of the slope.

"Everyone, throw bombs!" Yang Xiaoshan, who led the infantry squad to the approach, roared.

More than a dozen long-handled grenades emitted blue smoke, and in the pale white light of the flares, under the pale gaze of the Japanese infantrymen, they fell into the first line of defense of the Japanese army.

"Dodge the bullets!" The Japanese sergeant's almost broken roar was as panicked as if he was watching a wooden stick about to poke his eyes, and his voice was out of tune.

Obviously, his panic and fear were based on facts.

"Boom boom boom!" The smoke and dust produced by more than a dozen grenades annihilated the position.

But that was only the first wave.

More than 18 Chinese infantrymen threw all the four grenades they carried at the fastest speed.

The power of more than 70 grenades exploding on the Japanese position was almost equivalent to them being hit by a mortar battalion with full firepower.

The continuous explosions, even the Chinese soldiers more than 30 meters away were hit by scorching air waves, not to mention the Japanese positions?

The painful screams almost drowned out the explosion of the grenades.

Without a shelter, crawling and lying down alone can only avoid 60% of the shrapnel at most.

Moreover, because of the experience in the lonely mausoleum, the independent battalion has also developed the skill of "air burst bomb".

The grenade with a fuse should be kept in the hand for two seconds before being thrown out. The grenade with a delay of six seconds will have a 60% chance of exploding in the air.

That is absolutely fatal to the Japanese infantry crawling naked in the simple bunker.

"Kill!" Yang Xiaoshan roared.

Kill him while he is sick!