On the high ground, the Takeda Brigade, more than 490 officers and soldiers of the whole brigade, guarded in the trenches that had just been captured, looked down the slope, watching the dense Chinese troops under the hills, preparing for battle, not only the front, the back, the flanks, all of which were the figures of the Chinese army, from the top of the high ground to the straight line below was only more than 30 meters.
But for the soldiers of the Takeda Brigade who were at the top of the high ground at this time, this short distance seemed to be two insurmountable spaces, and the eyes of everyone looking at the Chinese army below were very complicated.
More than 490 officers and men, to be precise, from the captain of the brigade Takeda Masayuki down, 494 officers and men, these 494 people, Zhang Wei's teaching brigade, in coordination with the friendly 65th Regiment do not know how much effort and methods have been expended, forcibly consumed a fully equipped infantry brigade, these 494 people are trapped on this small high ground, surrounded by more than 2,000 Chinese troops.
They did not have any heavy firearms, heavy machine guns, and infantry guns in their hands, all of which were captured and destroyed by Zhang Wei's teaching brigade, and there was not even much spare ammunition, so the Takeda brigade, which had no choice, could only rummage around for weapons and ammunition in the positions they had just captured.
The baggage, baggage trucks, and trucks of the Takeda Brigade were also taught to be lined up by the sappers of the brigade, and what was even worse was that the Takeda Brigade had problems with even the most basic communication radio.
The radio station that accompanied the attack was hit by a stray bullet from the second battalion of the 65th Regiment and could not be used any longer.
It can really be said that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the ship was late and encountered a head wind, and the luck of the Takeda Brigade was simply terrible.
Of course, it may also be because of my good luck in the past, I won consecutive battles and saved up to pay off my debts today.
Despair, in Takeda Masayuki's heart, there are only these two words, in fact, when the teaching brigade launched a surprise attack on the infantry artillery position, Takeda had a feeling that the general trend had gone, and the whole battle was changing too fast, he didn't expect that things would get to this point at all, until Takeda linked the two days of fighting together, he vaguely felt that his troops were in a plan, from the beginning to the present, it was the strategy of the Chinese army.
Now trapped on the high ground, no ammunition, no support, no communications, no food and grass, Takeda, there is no longer any luxury and intention, only to carry, and there is no other way.
"Captain, the enemy is about to attack."
The adjutant of the brigade said to Takeda Masayuki with a bitter face, the atmosphere in the trenches was extremely depressing, and it was really difficult for people to have any positive thoughts.
"Have you packed all your weapons and ammunition?"
asked Takeda.
"More than 40 rifles, four light machine guns and two heavy machine guns, bullets and grenades from the corpses of the enemy, as well as water and food that could be found, were recovered and distributed to the soldiers."
The Takeda Brigade had no choice but to fight the weapons and equipment discarded by the Nationalist Army, and to search for usable rifles, light machine guns, bullets, and grenades from the corpses of the fallen Nationalist soldiers as spare ammunition.
This method is really useful, the Takeda Brigade just fought an attack battle, but also a rout battle, the Chen Fake Hua Battalion that was beaten down was a strong battle and retreated, and there was not enough time to destroy the weapon, so the loss of weapons in good condition accounted for a lot, so the Takeda Brigade Tao replaced a batch of light and heavy weapons left by the second battalion of the 65th Regiment, of which two were still usable Type 24 heavy machine guns, which became the only firepower pillar in the hands of the Takeda Brigade.
Now, the Takeda Brigade can only watch as the Chinese army below surrounds it, and has no capital to counteract and harass attacks.
"Okay, let the soldiers prepare for battle."
Takeda said, his tone full of sadness.
The sad atmosphere was also permeated among the Japanese soldiers, the Japanese soldiers squatting in the trenches, except for the wails of a few wounded soldiers, no one spoke, those wounded soldiers were generated when they launched an attack on the high ground, the high ground was taken, but these wounded soldiers could not be sent, the Takeda brigade could only put these wounded soldiers in the trenches, give them some water to drink, and then issue a bayonet to each person, and let them fend for themselves.
Jun Cao and Wu Chang roamed the trenches, holding long-handled grenades found from the corpses of the Nationalist soldiers, and distributed them to the Japanese soldiers squatting in the trenches in turn.
"One for each person, don't take more, hurry up" The Japanese soldiers, very reluctantly, took the long-handled grenades from the hands of Cao Chang and Wu Chang, many of the grenades still had warm blood on the wooden handles, and it was a good thing to send ammunition, but the soldiers of the Takeda Brigade couldn't laugh at all, holding the grenades captured from the corpses of the Chinese army, and the pathos was even stronger.
"Arm as soon as you're done" The soldiers and the commanders did not want to see the negativity of the soldiers, and after distributing the grenades, they immediately urged the soldiers to go to the defense, and cheered up the soldiers in the trenches in the name of the emperor and the military spirit, so the 494 soldiers of the Takeda Brigade lay down in the trenches, and deployed in the direction of the Chinese army, respectively.
The only heavy firepower was two Type 24 heavy machine guns captured from the 2nd Battalion of the 65th Regiment, which were deployed on the high ground one after the other, and the same was true for the infantry, divided into two parts, one for the front and the other for the rear.
The three infantry battalions of the 65th Regiment surrounded the front of the Takeda Brigade, Zhang Wei took the teaching brigade to block the rear road of the Takeda Brigade, and the rear of the high ground that was ready to attack, during the attack, the 75th Mountain Artillery Platoon and the mortar company attached to the regiment, as well as the captured artillery temporarily used by the Teaching Brigade, will provide fire support.
The 65th Regiment and the Teaching Brigade, the two units worked together and attacked at the same time, attacking the Takeda Brigade.
"Captain, do you want to fire?"
asked Dong Erli, the mortar platoon leader, looking very excited.
The two captured 92 infantry guns were ready to fire at any time, and the infantry shells captured from the Japanese were unpacked and piled next to the infantry guns.
Zhang Wei on the side is the same.
In the position left by the Japanese army, Zhang Wei looked at the remnants of the Japanese army on the high ground in the distance, and there was an indescribable sense of refreshment in his heart.
In the trenches, the officers and men of the teaching brigade got on bayonets, and in the first-line position, the ZB37 heavy machine guns of the heavy fire squadron, together with the three Type 92 heavy machine guns captured from the Takeda brigade, lined up, raised the muzzle of the guns, and aimed at the high ground, and the soldiers were full of morale.
"Shoot me" "Yes" "Two shots of shrapnel, target, high ground ahead, put" "Boom" Two seventy-millimeter shrapnel flew along the arc to the top of the high ground.
"Two grenades from seven or five, target, the top of the enemy's high ground, put" On the opposite side of the teaching brigade, in front of the Takeda brigade stationed on the high ground, two 75-mm Bofors mountain guns, after the infantry guns of the teaching brigade opened fire, with a larger cannon sound, projected 75 grenades.
"Boom Boom" The Japanese troops on the top of the high ground first heard the sound of shells rubbing against the air.
Then, it was destroyed.
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