Just as Zhang Wei saw, the position of the 3rd Squadron was under heavy attack by the Japanese army, and the Japanese commander who commanded the attack on the position on the left side of the road.
Captain Masayuki Takeda of the 1st Brigade gave up attacking the position of the weaker 2nd Squadron and instead attacked the main force of the stronger Teaching Brigade out of consideration for the overall situation.
And the commander of the Japanese army, who commanded the attack on the main position, would not be stupid to make a move to abandon the weak and attack the strong.
The two positions in front of him, the village and the position of the third squadron on the periphery, were obviously the positions of the third squadron that were easy to fight, so in the specific attack, he focused on the positions of the third squadron.
The Japanese troops attacking the 3rd Squadron were under the cover of artillery fire step by step, and had already advanced to a distance of less than 50 meters in front of the position of the 3rd Squadron.
One of the squad leaders of the 3rd squadron of the "put" squadron held his wounded shoulder, brandished a bayonet, and commanded the opening of fire.
The five 79 Zhongzheng rifles fired a burst of guns, and the guns were shot in rows, which can be traced back to a hundred years ago, and are still useful in the training and operation of the teaching brigade, especially when the marksmanship is not as good as the Japanese army, and the intensive shooting of the rifle is very effective in improving the lethality of the rifle.
This round of guns went out and knocked down three charging Japanese soldiers, who tried to rush into a trench in front of them, which was a rare hidden area in front of the open position of the third squadron, but unfortunately they were just one step away, and the guns of the platoon killed these three people.
The bodies of three Japanese soldiers were planted next to the trench.
"Prepare to withdraw the bomb," the squad leader ordered with satisfaction and ordered.
The five soldiers who were instructed to shoot hurriedly pulled the bolt of their rifles, unloaded them, and stocked them with new ones.
Before the whole operation was completed, a 92nd infantry shell hit as if it had eyes, and exploded on this position impartially.
With a bang, everyone was drowned in the smoke from the explosion of this shell, the smoke dissipated, and six corpses lay down in various parts of the position, the shooters who were still shooting the platoon just now are all corpses, all the corpses have blood holes on them, if it was an ordinary grenade, the damage caused would never be so great.
It's a pity that this is a grenade shrapnade with prefabricated fragments, and no one in the vicinity will be spared, as long as it is hit by the fragments, the lightest is also incapacitated.
More intense artillery bombardment fell on the positions of the 3rd Squadron, and the Japanese infantry took advantage of the situation to accelerate into the trench in front of the 3rd Squadron's position "Captain, Captain Zheng's side was blown up too badly."
Li Shaoyan said anxiously, the fierce battle situation in the direction of the third squadron can be seen clearly here, the battle line of the Japanese infantry is getting closer and closer, the Japanese army's overall attack on the straggler line is a few dozen meters away from the first line of trenches of the third squadron, and the Japanese troops in the vanguard have even set up machine guns in the ditch in front of the position and shoot at the third squadron.
The change in the situation on the battlefield in front of the position of the 3rd Squadron was only 10 minutes before and after.
"Can't wait, Shaoyan, call the 82nd mortar platoon to carry out cover shooting in front of the position of the 3rd Squadron, and the signal corps will go and tell He Jinhai's engineer platoon to prepare" Li Shaoyan didn't say much, took out a flare gun made by the 21st Arsenal, fired a shot into the sky, and a red signal flare flew into the sky.
Zhang Wei took the signal corps and rushed back to the village to find He Jinhai and his engineer platoon, Zhang Wei planned to use artillery to support first, and then let the engineer platoon go up according to the specific situation after the shelling.
He could not rush to use the reserves, and now it was an infantry brigade that was fighting against the teaching brigade, and he had to be careful.
The battlefield situation of the 3rd Squadron was very bad, and it withstood the most intense artillery bombardment and attacking forces, and the Japanese front that hit the 3rd Squadron was farther forward than the one that attacked the villages.
In the village, Dong Erli's mortar platoon of the heavy fire squadron was nervously on standby, and the two 82 mortars were arranged in the standard mortar position, and the red signal flare was the signal to fire.
"Release" Dong Erli waved the command flag in his hand, and the two 82 mortars opened fire, firing a rapid fire in front of the position of the 3rd squadron.
The artillery shells smashed on the Japanese troops on the front line in front of the 3rd squadron, and there were also falling bullets in the ditch, and the rapid fire projection ability of the 82 mortar was very strong, and the gunner played with his life to load the shells into the barrel, and knocked out more than 20 shells in two minutes, so that the Japanese army also tasted the taste of shelling.
As long as Zhang Wei's order did not come, Dong Erli's mortar platoon would maintain fire support in front of the position of the third squadron.
In this round of shelling, the Japanese army naturally suffered a lot of losses, and the casualties of the first-line impact were heavy, and the Japanese troops who fired at the 3rd Squadron in the ditch blew even greater losses, and several 82 mortar shells smashed into the ditch in front of the position of the 3rd Squadron, and the more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who hid in it and shot were all killed, except for a few lucky ones.
The Japanese troops, who were about to make a breakthrough, were deflated in front of the positions of the 3rd Squadron due to mortar reinforcements from the village.
"Phew" Zheng Yiqun got out of the concealment and spit out the slag in his mouth, and the support from the mortar platoon gave the third squadron a chance to breathe, and the soldiers who were pressed and couldn't raise their heads reorganized to resist.
Zheng Yiqun, the squadron leader's current predicament, represents the current third squadron, they fought very bravely, and the Japanese army would leave corpses every time they took a step forward.
Squadron Leader Zheng Yiqun took the lead in commanding the operation, so the soldiers of the whole squadron worked very hard.
It's just that the Japanese artillery bombardment and heavy machine gun fire were too fierce, and in the end, the brothers of the 3rd Squadron were once forced to hide from the shelling in the hidden part of the trench, and most of them were in the hidden department.
"Rack up the machine gun, hurry up" The soldiers of the 3rd Squadron, like their squadron leader, withstood the fierce shelling, one by one, like ground rats, covered in dirt, hiding in the concealment department, and the Japanese fire was suppressed, and the soldiers took this opportunity to quickly drill out and continue to take up the position.
In the battle just now, the 3rd Squadron suffered a lot of losses, and the positions were scattered with the corpses of nearly thirty dead soldiers, not counting those that were shattered by shells.
The soldiers of the 3rd Squadron carried the concealed heavy machine guns to the positions and resumed their return fire, and the dull gunfire of Czech light machine guns, ZB03937 heavy machine guns and 79 rifles once again rang out on the positions of the 3rd Squadron, and the soldiers barely consolidated the defensive line with firepower.
Under the resistance fire restored by the 82nd mortar of the teaching brigade and the infantry of the 3rd squadron, the Japanese army fell short.
It's just a little bit, but it still stops in front of the position of the third squadron, it's a little bit closer. ：。
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