Flower machine guns, twenty rounds, grenades, these terms combined, it was a set of sharp weapons for trench warfare, and the remaining Japanese troops in the trenches all fell under the guns of the engineer platoon and the third squadron.
The two sides fired at each other at a distance from each other, and the Japanese all fell under intensive melee fire, while the engineer platoon and the third squadron paid the price of only six killed and eight wounded in the face-to-face fire.
At this point, He Jinhai and Zheng Yiqun cleared the Japanese troops in the trenches, and the only remaining gains of the Japanese army were reduced to nothing under the strong strangulation of the engineer platoon and the third squadron.
After knocking out the Japanese troops in the trenches, the engineer platoon and the 3rd squadron quickly recovered their positions, diverted their firepower, and attacked the Japanese troops in front of the position, the Japanese troops in front of the 3rd squadron were already very difficult, and the 82 mortars in the village were very difficult to risk the explosion of the artillery, and the transfer of fire from the engineer platoon and the 3rd squadron undoubtedly added fuel to their fire.
In particular, the veterans of the engineer platoon changed their offensive and defensive consciousness quickly, and after beating the devils in the trench with their front feet, they did not need to be reminded by the officers, and they stepped on the corpses of the devils with their back feet to shoot outside the trenches.
The soldiers of the 3rd Squadron were a little slower, and only entered the combat position and opened fire two or three minutes after the engineer platoon switched to attack, but this was enough, and the devils in front of the position kept retreating under the attack of the direct firearms and the 82 mortars in the village, and no matter how tenacious the fighting will and attack toughness, they could not withstand the attrition, and there were also problems in the maintenance of the attack formation and the skirmish line.
The Japanese army had already launched several assaults in a row, and their soldiers could not hold on to this style of play, and the officers and men in the position of the third squadron opened fire fiercely, completely crushing the Japanese troops in front of the position.
More than 100 Japanese troops, carrying heavy machine guns and wounded soldiers on their backs, hurriedly retreated under the fire pursuit and artillery fire of the positions of the 3rd Squadron Takeda Masayuki gritted his teeth and put down the binoculars, his key attack, the tactical purpose of breaking through in one fell swoop, like a fragile bubble, quietly burst in an instant, looking at the embarrassed retreating soldiers, Takeda decided to withdraw.
According to the current situation of the battle, the attack organized by his 1st Brigade was a complete failure, the direction of the 3rd Squadron, which had the greatest investment, was routed, and it was impossible to capture the position, and in the other directions of attack, on the right side of the road, and in the village position, Takeda knew that his men were even more unlikely to make a further breakthrough.
On the right side of the road, Mu Chao's second squadron resisted steadily, and the Japanese forces attacking Mu Chao's position strengthened part of the direction of the third squadron's position, and the strength declined.
The position at the entrance of the village on the left side of the road is also the same, and Takeda's men are powerless to break through.
"Pass the order down, all retreat" Takeda was unwilling and issued this retreat order.
Although the Japanese army was defeated and did not achieve its tactical objectives, it was "defeated but not defeated," unlike the frequent defeats of the Nationalist army, the Japanese army often lost battles, but it was also organized and not chaotic, and all parts arranged the cover and retreating troops in an orderly manner, alternately covered, and retreated one after another, and the attacking troops of the first brigade withdrew from the battlefield in only five minutes.
Zhang Wei witnessed the retreat of the Japanese army in the village, and the teaching brigade did not fight this battle easily, Zhang Wei did not organize a pursuit and redundant counter-assault, and after a period of fire pursuit, the teaching brigade also died down and ceased fire.
The Takeda Brigade withdrew under the fire of the Teaching Brigade, and the position was filled with smoke and a fierce battle ended.
The gunfire around him gradually stopped, Zhang Wei put down the binoculars in his hand, and stood up from the trench where he had been crouching for a long time, and he could still see the retreating Japanese troops in front of the position of the third squadron.
Occasionally, there was the muffled sound of a Zhongzheng rifle, followed by invective from veterans, and some of the recruits in the teaching brigade were still firing their guns because they lacked battlefield experience.
"Captain, the devil has retreated."
Li Shaoyan, the leader of the heavy firepower squadron beside Zhang Wei, had a black smoke on his face.
"Okay, let's beat the devil this time, consolidate the position, and count the casualties."
"Yes" Zhang Wei loosened his tense nerves, the losses of the Japanese army in this attack were definitely not small, the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in front of the positions of the squadrons were proof, he could be sure that the Japanese army would not attack in a short time, and after suffering such a big loss, the Japanese army would need time to lick its wounds no matter how much it could fight.
The teaching brigade also suffered a lot of battle losses, the position of the third squadron was broken in, almost destroyed, Zhang Wei after the Japanese army withdrew from the visual range, ordered the teaching to clean up the battlefield, consolidate the fortifications, and count the casualties.
The squadrons were summed up, and the whole squadron suffered more than 140 casualties, mainly concentrated in the second squadron and the third squadron, especially the third squadron suffered the heaviest casualties in the final battle, and on the officer side, two platoon commanders were killed, but there was no loss of platoon-level units in formation, and the backbone and shelves of each platoon-level unit were still there, and the combat effectiveness that could be maintained did not appear in the situation of the entire platoon being wiped out.
The subordinate squad units suffered heavy losses, but the overall situation was not bad, the losses of the squadrons were within an acceptable range, even the third squadron, which suffered the greatest losses, lost a platoon commander and nearly 50 soldiers were killed or wounded.
After the loss of casualties in the formation, Zhang Wei asked each squadron to reappoint platoon commanders, fill the vacancy of the dead platoon commanders, and concentrate on emergency treatment for the wounded.
After the battle, it was customary to count the casualties and belongings, and the teaching brigade was like this, and the Japanese army was no exception, after the 1st Brigade withdrew to the assembly area near the road, Takeda Masayuki ordered the casualty statistics to be counted, and the total casualties of the 1st Brigade in the attack on the position of the Teaching Brigade were more than 130 people.
The number of casualties of the Japanese army is about the same as that of the teaching brigade, and the exchange ratio is half a pound and eight taels, and this number is not a wound for the first brigade, but the morale loss brought to the Japanese army is extremely great, and the field attack under artillery fire has caused more than 100 casualties at one time, this kind of battle is not unprecedented, and it is also extremely rare.
The attack failed, but the morale of the 1st Brigade was dealt a great blow, and Takeda Masayuki never imagined that a field attack on the Chinese army would be defeated and that there would be so many casualties.
What's even worse is that without breaking through the positions of the Chinese army, the task of reinforcing Kunlunguang with the 1st Brigade of Takeda Masayuki is impossible.
On the contrary, the teaching brigade used certain casualties to delay the infantry brigade of the Japanese army, and insisted on blocking it on the Nanbin Highway, which was not only a tactical victory, but also reduced the pressure and delayed the siege of Kunlun Pass in the rear.
In the confrontation between the first brigade of the 21st Wing and the teaching brigade, Zhang Wei's teaching brigade won a slight victory.
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