Chapter 67 The same position, different styles of play
"Arranging a few tricks, the troops retreat immediately, and the Japanese cannons are all set up. Once we are exposed, we will be bombed. It is not cost-effective!" Tang Yufeng made a decision after a brief analysis.
Although the castle with two light machine guns hidden is strong enough, it cannot withstand the continuous strikes of the mortar.
Moreover, they are independently built on the top of the beam. Once they are targeted, the machine gunners are easily blocked in the castle and cannot get out of it.
And even if the castle is out, they need to be exposed to the ground for more than ten meters before entering the beam top position. It is too dangerous. If a shell hits nearby, they can be reimbursed.
The captain only left two light machine guns for himself, saying that he could not take risks with them.
Jinshan is very big, with enough positions inside to deal with the Japanese, so there is no need to fight to the death here.
The Japanese army began to attack five minutes later, and the vanguard troops were holding guns and attacked the beam head with caution.
The gunners and heavy machine gunners all stared at the top of the beam without letting go of any movement.
As long as the Eighth Route Army emerges from above, they will definitely counterattack immediately and provide fire cover to the offensive troops.
Disappointedly, the vanguard troops rushed to the top of the beam without any attack.
Major Fujita's face looked very bad. He carefully prepared an attack but failed to catch anything, as if he had punched the cotton.
The culprit that caused all this was Captain Fukuda.
If he hadn't reminded himself that there was an Eighth Route Army blocking position on the top of the beam, he had suffered a great loss here, and Fujita wouldn't have been so cautious, and the enemy would have mounted a mortar and heavy machine gun without seeing it.
If this incident is spread, I will definitely become the laughing stock of several surrounding captains and be labeled as a turtle.
He glared at Captain Fukuda fiercely and prepared to order the troops to continue moving forward.
"Boom...boom..."
The sudden explosion blocked the order that Magistrate Fujita had already reached his mouth.
Captain Fukuda felt very uncomfortable standing beside him, frustrated and angry.
When he attacked, the guerrillas intercepted him heavily, causing him to lose his troops.
Why is it that the captain’s turn to attack and there is no one else in Liangding? Are the guerrillas cheating on themselves?
Captain Fukuda felt even more and more uncomfortable when he saw the captain glaring at him.
I originally wanted to remind the captain to leave a good impression on him and make meritorious service, but the good impression was not left, which made him even more dissatisfied with him.
After feeling uncomfortable, Captain Fukuda's heart became colder.
The reminder just now not only did not make me guilty, but also further offended the captain. There will definitely be no good results after returning.
Fortunately, a few explosions came from the beam at this time, like a life-saving straw, allowing Futian to see hope again.
The attacking troops were attacked, which shows that there were indeed guerrillas on the top of the beam.
The reason why I didn't intercept the attacking troops head-on just now was that I was afraid of the mortars and heavy machine guns brought by the captain, and then retreated second by the second, and chose to use thunder to attack the attacking troops.
Futian also suffered from the loss of thunder here, and reacted quickly and instantly understood Tang Yufeng's combat ideas.
He quickly explained to the captain who was frowning: "It's a thunder..."
"Sir, what exploded just now must be the thunder left by the guerrillas before retreating."
"The Imperial Army brought mortars and heavy machine guns. They dared not block us head-on, so they could only use boom to consume our troops."
Two minutes later, a second lieutenant ran back from the battlefield, and his statement was exactly the same as Fukuda's explanation.
Major Fujita looked at Fukuda with a more kind look: "Yoxi, it seems that the last defeat in the battle is not nothing for you."
"Since you know the combat style of the Donghui Town guerrillas better than us, you will follow me in the next attack and give me advice at any time."
Captain Fukuda was happy and quickly replied: "Thank you, sir, for giving Bei Zhi this opportunity. Bei Zhi will do his best to assist the chief to eliminate the Donghui Town guerrillas!"
As soon as the Japanese and puppet troops arrived at the second line of defense of the guerrillas, Captain Fukuda came over and reported to Major Fujita as if he was seeking credit.
"Sir, the guerrillas have built two defense lines on the mountain ahead. The first defense line is halfway up the mountain, and the second defense line is on the top of the mountain."
"When Beizhi attacked last time, the guerrillas voluntarily gave up their positions just after a short stay on the mountainside position and deliberately gave up their positions to Beizhi."
"Because the guerrillas arranged the positions, the offensive troops inevitably gathered together."
"At this time, the guerrillas defended the top of the mountain to throw grenades and grenades at the mountainside positions at the same time. Because the terrain advantage lies in their hands, the attacking troops were completely in the range of grenade killing. In less than half a minute, at least three hundred grenades and grenades were killed, and the attacking troops were almost destroyed..."
Although the guerrillas were their opponents, Major Fujita was still amazed and Fukuda couldn't help but sigh as soon as he finished speaking.
"What a great opponent!"
If Captain Fukuda had not reminded him, he would have suffered the same loss when he came up.
But now it's different.
With Futian reminded me, I will definitely not make the same mistake again.
"Architecture, heavy machine gun troops, are ready for combat as before."
"The second team of the first squadron of the infantry will launch an attack, and the offensive formation must be dispersed to weaken the killing of the grenades on the offensive forces."
"All grenade launchers from both squadrons participated in the battle and followed the attacking troops."
"If the guerrillas repeat the same trick, continue to hide on the top of the mountain and attack us with grenades."
"Except for artillery soldiers using mortars to strike the Eighth Route Army on the top of the mountain, all grenade launchers joined the battle and fired grenades at the Eighth Route Army positions."
"The terrain advantage lies in their hands. Although the infantry cannot throw grenades to the top of the mountain, we have grenade launchers, and they can easily launch grenades to the top of the mountain and kill our opponents."
Eating a cup will bring wisdom. With Fukuda's help, Fukuda will definitely not suffer a second loss on the same problem.
But this battle does not mean that the Japanese won.
Because the guerrilla commander has been replaced by Te Tang Yufeng.
Compared with Zhou Cheng, he is better at using terrain to fight guerrillas with his opponents.
Compared with the first line of defense, the defense line here is stronger, especially the machine gun castle. The covered soil and logs on the top are twice as thick as the castle on the first line of defense, which means that after they are attacked by mortars at the same time, the castle here can last longer.
More importantly, the castle here is connected with traffic trenches.
When the machine gunners evacuate the castle, there are traffic trenches as bunkers and do not need to be exposed to the surface of the position, so that their chances of being killed will be greatly reduced.
Of course, Tang Yufeng would not give up such a good thing before he could use it.
He decided to rely on these castles and use machine guns to fight a guerrilla war with the Japanese.
Chapter completed!