The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2407: Living Towards Death (XV)
With a "bang", the Type 38 rifle suddenly fired, breaking the silence of the night.

But then the sound of the rifle fire was suppressed by the dense "bang bang bang" sound of box gun fire, and several Japanese soldiers who had just appeared at the edge of the trench fell in the hail of bullets.

The commando team of Xu Weiyan's battalion was eventually discovered by the Japanese army when they were still dozens of meters away from them.

The sounds of gunfire, explosions and roars were instantly mixed together, and both the enemy and us were trying our best.

For Zhu Weiyan’s battalion, this night attack was their last chance.

Of course, they can also choose to abandon the battle and keep the company.

But they have already suffered casualties in two companies, and now they only need one last step to defeat the enemy. Can they hand over such an opportunity to others? Impossible!
For the Japanese troops guarding Houersai, most of their squadrons had been wiped out. They knew that tonight would be the so-called decisive battle of the Imperial Japanese Army, so they would also fight to the bitter end.

Both the enemy and us are like trapped beasts that have been exhausted. If they don't have the strength to struggle, then they will bite. If they don't have the strength to bite, then even humming a few times in a dark corner can also enhance the power of the army!

"Protect the battalion commander!" his guards shouted beside Xu Weiyan.

"Why are you protecting me? Just rush up!" Xu Weiyan shouted angrily.

Xu Weiyan was the battalion commander, and this time he came here in person with the suicide squad.

He came here to fight, not to need protection. Besides, is that stupid? Gathering in a group during a battle like this? Wouldn't that just be attracting hatred?
It turned out that when Xu Weiyan was a company commander, he led his troops to the front line in person, but this was the first time after he became a battalion commander. He hadn't experienced this kind of life-and-death situation for a long time.

The box gun in his hand was "bang bang", and just as he was about to lead the way into the Japanese trench, he shouted: "Grenade to clear the way!"

The Japanese fired flares far away, so the light on the mountain was limited, and the trench was naturally pitch black.

Therefore, it is safest to throw the grenade into the trench first.

Just as grenades exploded in the trenches, hundreds of soldiers in the rear rushed towards the Japanese positions with guns in hand. They were the last remaining people in Xu Weiyan's battalion who launched an attack on the Japanese army.

The Japanese army was prepared for a surprise attack by the Chinese army, so they would fire flares from time to time.

However, they focused too much attention on the front of their defensive position. By the time they discovered that Chinese troops were approaching from the flank, the enemy and our side had already entered the range of hand-to-hand combat.

But how could Xu Weiyan and his men engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army in the dark of night? As a suicide squad, they were mostly equipped with grenades and box guns!

In the dark night, grenades are always more useful than rifles, and box guns are far better than bayonets in close combat. The suicide squad has been fighting with the Japanese army.

However, Xu Weiyan didn't know that while the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it, in a small forest on the left wing of the Japanese position, a group of Japanese soldiers were staring at the fight between the two sides.

There were more than ten Japanese soldiers, and they set up four light machine guns. However, the muzzles of the light machine guns were not pointed at the positions that had been captured by the Chinese soldiers, but at the front of their positions.

The Japanese army had been prepared for a sneak attack on the Chinese army, and this grove was one of the positions they opened up in the cover of night.

The reason they did not open fire was that they were already preparing to attack the follow-up forces of the Chinese army, that is, the nearly one company of officers and soldiers from Zhu Weiyan's battalion who were rushing out of their hiding place.

The Japanese did not believe that the 20 or 30 Chinese soldiers who rushed up could take down their positions, and they were also waiting, waiting for the subsequent Chinese troops to rush forward a little further. The reason was that the bushes there were a bit dense, and the Japanese hoped that the subsequent Chinese troops would rush to a place where the bushes were relatively sparse, and they would open fire with several light machine guns, and with their other forces, they could severely inflict heavy damage on the enemy in front of them.

However, these Japanese soldiers hiding in the woods did not know that the principle of "the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind" also applied to them.

At this time, a group of Chinese soldiers were not far from the woods where the Japanese troops were hiding, only a few dozen meters away. They were Meng Lingdong's group.

The Japanese army thought of adding a hidden defensive position on one side of their defensive trench, but these hidden Japanese troops were eventually attracted by the battle on their left wing. At the same time, they had to take into account the follow-up forces of the Chinese army rushing upwards, and did not notice Meng Lingdong and his men who appeared in front of them.

The Japanese position was already in chaos, and at this moment, just behind the last batch of soldiers rushing out of Zhu Weiyan's battalion, Shang Zhen, Xiao Boji and his men also appeared, with their rifles and light machine guns aimed at the top of the Japanese position.

However, Shang Zhen and another soldier did not use guns. Instead, they each held a grenade launcher on the ground. There were already soldiers beside them stuffing grenades into the grenade launchers.

Xu Weiyan personally led a suicide squad of more than 30 people to attack the Japanese positions, and the rest of the people used the sound of grenade explosions as a signal to attack the Japanese positions.

Since the grenade could explode on the Japanese position, it meant that the suicide squad had already been entangled with the Japanese army. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhu Weiyan's battalion would of course use its remaining forces to capture the Japanese position.

Shang Zhen and Xiao Boji and their supervision team were still behind as support and cover force.

According to their combat habits, even if they were given the task of defending or attacking a position, they would find a way to refuse it. It is even more impossible for them to interfere now.

Just as the soldier acting as an ammunition handler was preparing to load the grenade launcher, Meng Lingdong, who was already close to the small woods, discovered something was wrong.

Finally, he discovered a metallic luster in the gap of the grove. It was the barrel of a Japanese light machine gun sticking out from the bushes in the woods!
How close were they to a small forest? They were only about ten meters away from the forest.

As for why they were not discovered by the Japanese troops in the woods, on the one hand, it was indeed because the attention of the Japanese troops was drawn away here.

The sounds of gunfire and explosions blocked the Japanese army's hearing, but even though their attention was drawn away, they still had residual vision, and this was where Meng Lingdong and his men were lucky.

The slope here was a bit steep, and in order to avoid being discovered by the Japanese army, Meng Lingdong and his men all crouched down.

After discovering the enemy in the woods, Meng Lingdong stretched out his left arm and made a pause gesture, then he lay down and turned his head. When he turned around, he saw the shining eyes of the soldiers who had also stopped.

He couldn't speak, but that didn't stop him from opening his mouth and making the shape of a "devil".

He was afraid that the soldiers didn't understand, so he made the gesture of wiping his neck with his left hand.

Meng Lingdong waited for a while, giving the soldiers time to digest his intention. Then, regardless of whether the soldiers understood it clearly or not, he turned around and waved his left hand violently, then he jumped up and rushed into the woods!
The soldiers rushed forward!
Meng Lingdong stared closely at the darkness in the grove. Now he could clearly see the barrels of four Japanese light machine guns in the woods, but at this moment an accident happened!

The Japanese devils were right in front of them, and Meng Lingdong and his team also ignored the movements around them, but at this moment.

Just to the right of Meng Lingdong and the others, a ball of bright light suddenly burst out, a light that was incomparably brighter than anything else in the dark night.

The light was so bright, like a small sun suddenly appearing in the dark night!