The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2299 Hidden Infantry Artillery

At dusk, the Japanese army stopped their attack.

Far away from the Qingfeng Mountain position, some Japanese soldiers began to retreat, dragging the bodies of their comrades.

That position was no longer reachable by rifles, and the few Japanese soldiers killed there were mostly killed by heavy machine guns on Qingfeng Mountain.

During these two days of fighting, the Japanese army successfully used infantry artillery to blow up the heavy machine gun positions of the Chinese defenders.

The Japanese army couldn't understand why the Chinese defenders brought out two heavy machine guns today.

The Japanese troops who were advancing towards the foot of Qingfeng Mountain at that time happened to rush into the fire coverage of heavy machine guns.

Since the heavy machine gun only served to provide fire coverage and not precision strikes, only five or six Japanese soldiers were killed in total.

However, the death of those five or six Japanese soldiers was not a good look at all. In just a moment, their flesh and bones were blown away by the heavy machine gun bullets.

The heavy machine gun positions of the Chinese defenders had already been destroyed by the Japanese infantry artillery. How could they have thought of sending two heavy machine guns to them?

For this reason, the Japanese army had to interrupt the infantry attack and once again use infantry artillery to suppress the heavy machine gun positions there.

To use the words of later generations, the Japanese army had the upper hand but could not score any points. Although they had the advantage in firepower, they could not occupy the Qingfeng Mountain position, so their goal of attacking could not be achieved.

More than six miles away from the Qingfeng Mountain position, blue smoke began to rise. It was the Japanese cooks starting to cook.

At this time, on the Qingfeng Mountain position, the officers and soldiers of the 224th Regiment were looking at the two mortars in surprise.

"Should we fire a cannon at the Japs? Maybe one can overturn their cooking pot!" a soldier suggested.

"Don't be silly. Who can fire a cannon so accurately? Besides, we only have more than 20 shells in total." said a man who was guarding the two mortars. His name was Xiao Duzi.

Xiao Boji came with his men to reinforce the 224th Regiment after burning the Japanese troops.

The two heavy machine guns that fired in the afternoon and the mortars that haven't fired yet were all brought by him.

Of course, the Japanese army didn't know that the Chinese had added two more mortars, let alone that the two heavy machine guns had not been destroyed by them.

The reason was that after Xiao Boji came up, he changed the positions of the two heavy machine guns and did not place them in the position where the 224th Regiment originally placed the heavy machine guns.

There was a small forest there. Since it was destroyed by Japanese artillery fire, it must have been discovered by the Japanese.

After Xiao Boji came up, he did the opposite and set up the heavy machine gun directly on the rocks where there were no trees. When he found that the Japanese army launched another attack, he opened fire directly, and then they withdrew the heavy machine gun.

In this way, we naturally avoided losses on our side, but saved the lives of a few more Japanese soldiers.

It was the idea of ​​their regiment commander Zhou Jingyong to let Xiao Boji bring heavy machine guns and mortars for reinforcement.

The reason why Zhou Junyong asked Xiao Boji to bring people up was naturally to help the 224th Regiment and also to show off.

He knew the 224th Regiment very well, but he didn't believe in their regiment's combat effectiveness at all.

So he wanted Xiao Boji to take the weapons captured from the Japanese army and show them to his companions. What's more, they had just burned the Japanese army and won another victory.

In the battle in that valley, they killed more than 70 Japanese soldiers. Although this result was not great, it made the Japanese army look bad.

However, what Zhou Jingyong did not expect this time was that they did not seize many weapons from the Japanese army.

Although the diary was burned by the raging fire, when the attack failed, some weapons were damaged during the retreat!

As I said, both the enemy and us are learning about war in war, and the Japanese army does not want the Chinese army to fight them with weapons produced in their Great Japanese Empire.

"You guys beat the Japanese and burned them, so why did you get burned?" The battalion commander of the 224th Regiment, who was in charge of defending the position, asked Xiao Boji. Xiao Boji's hair was now a little burnt, and his body was covered in mud.

"Hehe." Xiao Boji smiled embarrassedly, "I just brought people and drove the carriage. I piled some firewood behind the Japanese and hid in the puddle I found in advance.

But who the hell would have thought that the wildfire would be so fierce!

It roasted me so badly. If the fire doesn't go out, I think it will boil the water in the puddle, and I will be ripe!"

"Is there such a thing?" the battalion commander asked in surprise.

Of course the battalion commander knew Xiao Boji. To be honest, they were all from the same division. A division had three regiments, a total of nine company commanders and three battalion commanders. How could they not know each other?

If we were to say who the person in Zhou Jingyong’s group is the one the battalion commander is most optimistic about, it would be Xiao Boji.

After all, last year, the news that Xiao Boji joined the suicide squad to snatch the body of Commander Zhang had spread throughout the army.

"Now is not the time to talk about this. After we drive the Japanese away this time, Captain Lu, you can go ask the people in our regiment. They are better at bragging than me." Xiao Boji said with a smile.

What the little dustpan said was so interesting that everyone around laughed.

"Did you see where the Japanese artillery position is?" After everyone finished laughing, Xiao Boji asked the battalion commander.

"We knew the approximate location two days ago, but today the Japanese hid the guns." Captain Lu said, "I didn't know why at first, but when I saw you guys bringing up the mortars, I knew the reason."

The Chinese military often refers to the Japanese Type 92 infantry gun as a "ghost gun."

The "ghost" in this ghost cannon does not mean Japanese devils, but means cunning thieves.

First, the Japanese Type 50 infantry gun was extremely small. With the shield, it was only about centimeters. If the shield was removed, the gun would only be about centimeters.

The entire gun weighs about 400 pounds. After it is disassembled, more than ten people can carry the gun around.

Even after the cannon is assembled, several soldiers can still push the cannon forward and backward.

Because the Type 92 infantry gun is very small, its mobility is particularly strong.

The shortest range is one hundred meters, and the longest range is about five or six miles.

Moreover, the cannon has a large firing angle and can move up, down, left, and right to about 90°.

The reason why Captain Lu said this was probably because the news that Xiao Boji was using mortars to fire sulfur bombs had already been reported to the Japanese army.

As for the range of the mortar gun, although it could not catch up with the Japanese infantry gun, it was actually not much different.

It is estimated that the Japanese army was worried that their infantry artillery would be fired upon by the Chinese army's mortars, so they either built a cover for their artillery or hid behind some mound of earth.

Since the Type 92 infantry gun was too small, it was understandable that the Chinese defenders could not detect it.

Xiao Boji brought the mortar up with the idea of ​​using the mortar to attack the Japanese infantry artillery.

But now they couldn't find the Japanese artillery positions, so there was nothing they could do. He wouldn't waste the precious mortar bags on smashing the Japanese devils' rice pots!

Well, now we can only rely on Shang Zhen to destroy the Japanese artillery positions.

But Xiao Boji didn't know at this time that Shang Zhen was also thinking about how to destroy the Japanese artillery positions.

Hiding in the woods on the side of the enemy, he discovered the Japanese artillery position, but the problem was, as mentioned earlier, the Japanese had moved the two guns.

Originally, the two cannons were close to their current position, but now they moved to the right side of the battlefield and became farther away from them.