The strong shock wave generated by the explosion of the cannonball was like a sledgehammer, hitting Zhou Wu's chest all at once, almost suffocating him.
Just when Zhou Wu was about to lose his support, the shelling finally stopped, and he immediately got up and walked through the smoke to the position that had been blown up by the shells.
At this time, the fat man's face was covered with soot, and he was directing people to dig up the earth desperately to dig out the brothers who were buried under the soil.
After a period of scrambling, those who had been buried in the earth by the shell explosion were finally dug up, but unfortunately a few of them had stopped breathing because they had been buried for too long.
Seeing Zhou Wu braving the artillery fire to come to the position, the fat man didn't understand it very much, and said: "Brigade seat, don't you still believe in my Lao Liu's ability, although there are many little devils, but if you want to pass through our regiment's position, you have to have some blood first." “ Zhou Wu said: "Lao Liu, don't take it lightly, looking at the posture of the Japanese army, they may have to launch a large-scale charge later, and the brothers must be prepared, so as not to be caught off guard." ” The fat man immediately ordered everyone to enter the position, and the position was in shambles, everyone hurriedly sorted it out, then loaded the bullets, and stared at the place in front of them that was still filled with gunsmoke.
Zhou Wu picked up the binoculars and looked at the opposite side, and through the smoke of gunpowder, he saw a scarlet plaster flag swaying, and countless devils behind him were rushing towards the position in a scattered formation.
At this time, the fat man was busy deploying troops on the position, everyone opened the safety of the weapons, loaded the bullets, unscrewed the caps of the grenades, and several mortars also adjusted the shelling angles, and the loaders were waiting for the shells to be in full swing, just waiting for the fat man to give an order to open fire.
The devil is getting closer and closer, and Zhou Wu can see the face of a devil officer in the telescope, only to see him wielding the command knife in his hand fiercely, driving a large number of devils forward.
Suddenly, about 300 meters away from the position, the devil picked up his speed, shouted slogans in his mouth, and rushed towards the position frantically.
The little devils all stared at them with blood-red eyes, holding a three-eight cover that was longer than their bodies, and howled and pounced.
The fat man took out the box cannon on his waist and fired a shot into the air, which was his signal to fire.
In the next second, various weapons spewed out hot tongues of fire, and the mortars began to roar, and the shells accurately fell into the devils, setting off bursts of flames and smoke into the sky.
The Japanese troops who were charging were suddenly hit so hard that they immediately crawled on the ground, set up machine guns and small steel cannons to return fire, and at this time many bombers appeared in the sky and were rushing towards the side of the national army.
Zhou Wu tightened when he saw the scalp of the plane, and hurriedly asked: "Fatty, is there an air defense position here?"
"There are several anti-aircraft machine gun positions, but the anti-aircraft guns are all in the howitzer battalion, so I didn't have time to get them."
When the fat man saw the plane, he was also nervous.
He regrets it very much now, if he had brought a few anti-aircraft guns from the howitzer battalion, he should not have to worry about this little devil's bomber.
Now, they have to resist the Japanese infantry on the ground and deal with the bombers in the sky, and they are in a very dangerous situation.
After a while, the Japanese bombers flew over the position, and the three anti-aircraft machine gun positions arranged by the fat man began to strafe wildly.
Although there were no anti-aircraft guns to help this time, the devil's bombers were obviously afraid of the anti-aircraft fire below, and kept pulling up and down again to avoid the bullets that came in.
A few planes were annoyed by the anti-aircraft machine-gun positions below, so they simply dropped their bombs, twisted their buttocks, and of course the unaimed bombs could not hit the target, and all those bombs were thrown on the mountain, except for a few broken stones, the rest were useless at all.
At the same time, the infantry on the ground suddenly got up and launched a final charge towards the positions of the national army.
The speed of the devil's advance was quite fast, and the machine guns of the national army were also very violent, and some soldiers ran out of bullets, and they didn't have time to reload the bullets, so they picked up the medium rifle next to them and continued to shoot.
The national army desperately used the weapons in their hands to shoot at the devils who came up, and the little devils kept changing their formations, getting up and running a few steps for a while, and then crawling on the ground, using the 38 big cover and light machine guns in their hands to return fire.
Bullets flew around the position, grenades kept exploding, and countless little devils fell in front of the position, but the devils behind were unmoved, still sprinting towards the position with their heads bored.
In the face of such a crazy and fierce attack by the little devils, the first regiment and the second battalion of special agents who had just joined the independent brigade played with majesty and fighting spirit, and no one escaped from the battle.
Those Guangxi soldiers not only had excellent fighting bayonet skills and were not bad at fighting positional warfare, but also knew how to make full use of the cover in the trenches to evade the enemy's firepower, and they were all able to fight with ease.
With the passage of time, the Japanese army intensified its offensive, and batch after batch of devils continued to rush to the Niushou Mountain position, large and small artillery shells continued to explode on the position, and the national army that held the position suffered great casualties.
At this time, Zhou Wu suddenly doubted his judgment, could it be that Niushou Mountain was really the main direction of attack of the Japanese army, otherwise there would be no way to explain why so many little devils were biting here, and the left and right flanks of the position had not moved at all.
At this time, Zhou Wu was very entangled, he wanted to immediately mobilize the second and fourth regiments to rush to reinforcements, but he just wanted to pick up the phone and put it down again.
Zhou Wu always felt that the Japanese attack was very mysterious and intriguing, and they must have carefully surveyed the terrain here before attacking.
Judging from the geographical location of the entire Niushou Mountain, the terrain here is the most dangerous, even if the Japanese army breaks through the first line of defense, they will definitely not take advantage of the second line of defense.
Before the war, the fat man made full use of the characteristics of Niushou Mountain that was first wide and then narrow, and spent a lot of effort to arrange a criss-crossing firepower network in the narrowest second line of defense.
With so many Japanese troops, if all of them poured into the second line of defense at once, they would be greeted by a storm of firepower.
If the devil had known the terrain here before the battle, he would definitely not have made such a low-level mistake.
Unless they really don't know anything about the topography of Niushou Mountain, but this possibility is almost zero.
As early as a few years ago, there were Japanese ronins here, and they must have conducted detailed reconnaissance in such a dangerous strategic position.
The only plausible explanation is that the main direction of the Japanese attack is not here, even if their commander is confident that the terrain is not enough to stop the advance of the warriors of the Great Japanese Empire, but it will not take so many people to capture a position.
Once the front-line position is breached, then these three or four thousand devils all have to be crowded together, isn't it obvious that they will be sent to death, normal people will not do stupid things, unless the Japanese commander's brain is broken. t1706231537: