In front of the Ekechun position, the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated, and there was still a bloody smell in the air.
Just a few minutes ago, artillery shells were exploding, guns were flying, and in front of the Ekechun position, 12 kilometers outside the ancient city, a duck-like fire pursuit was being staged.
The soldiers of the 1st Brigade of the 112th Wing, unable to withstand the heavy fire, retreated one after another, and the shelling of the six-pounder and two-pounder guns of the second-line positions became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
The 57-millimeter high-explosive bombs and 40-millimeter high-explosive shells, combined with the reinforced firepower of the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the first-line positions, finally reached the limit of the firepower of the 1st Brigade of the 112th Wing, and the defeated 1st Brigade began to retreat, and the battlefield was full of whistles from Japanese officers and Cao Chang commanding the retreat.
Fighting here from southern Burma, the Japanese army is accustomed to fighting with the wind, and has never encountered a fiasco in such a situation, the process of retreat will certainly not be smooth, the officers of the Japanese army, Jun Cao bowed down and whistled to order the troops to retreat, the Japanese soldiers were embarrassed in the smoke and rain of bullets and bullets to retreat, some people supported the wounded soldiers on the ground, and some simply ignored it, bent down and ran backwards.
On the battlefield, three infantry squadrons of the Japanese army, a heavy machine gun squadron, and an infantry artillery squad were mixed together, the infantry was busy retreating, and the remnants of the heavy machine gun squadron and the infantry artillery squad were even more embarrassed.
Needless to say, how difficult it was to take away the heavy machine guns under the intensive fire of the 2nd Supplementary Regiment, after a Japanese heavy machine gun detachment failed to try to take the heavy machine guns away in the line of fire, and most of the whole detachment was killed.
The Japanese in several other machine-gun crews wisely chose to abandon the heavy machine guns, bent over and turned around, and retreated with their bare hands and infantry.
Heavy machine guns and infantry guns, which were supposed to serve as cover fire, were now unable to function as they should, and became a useless pile of scrap metal.
On the positions of the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 2nd Supplementary Regiment, the soldiers applauded loudly, pulled the trigger, and opened fire on the retreating Japanese troops.
Qiu Wei, commander of the first battalion, even personally commanded the two 82 guns of the battalion's mortar platoon to fire rapidly, frantically taking advantage of the last opportunity to harvest human lives and obtain results.
The Japanese troops who fled backwards had no time to worry about anything else, so they could only suffer the rain of bullets behind their buttocks and retreat backwards.
"Ready to Place" In the forts of the front-line positions, the gun commander of the two-pounder gun shouted the order to open fire in a hoarse accent.
The "boom" gunner sat on the seat at the tail of the gun, pulled the tow rope, and an orange smoke came out of the muzzle.
"Reloading" As soon as the shells were discharged, the gunners latched the guns, refilled them with new shells, and with another loud bang, a shell was discharged again, and the gunners used the maximum rate of fire to project pursuit fire on the retreating Japanese troops, and the 60 guns, the 82 artillery groups, and the Liaozao 37-mm flat-fire gun groups on the positions were also like this, firing and attacking with the maximum speed.
The infantry machine guns in the hands of the infantry, due to the gradual distancing of the Japanese army, did not have a great killing effect on the Japanese army, but the six Browning heavy machine guns of the two battalions were excepted, the large-caliber heavy machine guns had a long range and obvious ballistics, and there was no problem in fighting the retreating Japanese troops.
The sound of guns and artillery in the front-line positions did not stop for a long time, until all the Japanese troops in front of the battle withdrew, and then, there was a tragic scene in front of the battle, the smoke of gunpowder mixed with the flesh and blood of the Japanese army, after the shells were burned, the whole battlefield was full of blood, and the dust and blood mist everywhere disappeared, and the stumps, flesh and blood and all kinds of Japanese equipment were piled up all over the place.
Because the Second Supplementary Regiment was equipped with a lot of heavy firearms such as anti-aircraft guns, mortars, and large-caliber machine guns on the front line, the lethality and destructive power of these things were much stronger than those of light weapons, so a considerable part of the corpses of Japanese soldiers were incomplete and fragmented, which added a touch of tragedy to the battlefield environment.
The Japanese soldiers who were not dead fell to the ground and let out a terrible scream, and the wailing sound fluttered on the battlefield, which made people feel terrible in their hearts, of course, this mad person was the Japanese army who retreated In the nearly 40 minutes of fighting time from the beginning of the charge to the withdrawal from the battlefield, the attacking 1st Brigade of the 112th Wing of the Japanese Army only rushed to a position more than 300 meters away from the position of the 2nd Supplementary Regiment.
The vast majority of the Japanese troops were suppressed by various heavy firearms of the 2nd Supplementary Regiment at about 500 meters, and all of them who took the initiative to attack were beaten back.
The first brigade of the attack had more than 400 men lying in front of the position of the 2nd Supplementary Regiment, three infantry squadrons, a heavy machine gun squadron and a 92 infantry artillery squadron, an infantry squadron and a 92 infantry artillery squadron were almost completely wiped out, the heavy machine gun squadron lost two-thirds of its ranks, and the other two infantry squadrons also suffered considerable losses.
The 1st Brigade of the 112th Wing went forward to attack and replenish the 2nd Regiment, losing more than half of its troops, more than 800 people, and even half of them did not return, and lost all the heavy machine guns and infantry guns.
The casualties of the Supplementary Second Regiment were negligible, and the attacking Japanese troops did not have long to organize effective counterattack fire, and the infantry guns and heavy machine guns were knocked out by the flat-firing guns of the second-line positions within five minutes, and the combat losses of the Supplementary Second Regiment can be imagined.
This battle, which caused the Japanese army to hit their heads and bleed, only lasted more than half an hour After the fierce battle, the officers and men of the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 2nd Supplementary Regiment, who had fought desperately for more than half an hour, could not help but cheer in the trenches, and the worse the scene in front of the battle, the greater their combat achievements, and many of the officers and men of the 13rd Battalion in the defense line were engaged in a close battle with the Japanese army for the first time, and when the Japanese army retreated, many soldiers who were still afraid of the Japanese army in their hearts had no fear after this battle.
Everyone cheered uncontrollably, and they won the first battle Inside the command post, Zhang Wei put down the binoculars, and the expression on his face was calm as usual, as if everything was expected by him.
A few kilometers away, there was also a person who silently put down the binoculars, and this person's name was Kozo Oharazawa. ：。
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