Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

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After the battle started, both the enemy and the enemy were extremely cautious about the use of artillery. The Japanese army set up multiple artillery positions in the city.

The explosion of artillery shells in Changzhi City attracted the attention of both sides.

Xing Zhiguo just came back from patrolling the forward position: "The mountain artillery company just shelled the Japanese artillery positions in the city. The sound just now should be the sound of shells exploding!"

"I saw that Meng Youzhi of the Mountain Artillery Company did a good job. He was able to blow up the enemy's artillery position through a city wall. You really have two brushes!" Zhou Weihan put down his binoculars and said with a smile.

Immediately picked up the phone and said: "Take the artillery battalion reconnaissance station, Chen Feng? Increase the bombardment of artillery fire, and the artillery battalion clears the outer fortifications as soon as possible!"

"Old Zhou, I turned around just now. I have started to build positions while shelling in four directions, shortening the attack distance with the Japanese army. After the shelling is over, I can launch an attack!" Xing Zhiguohui reported.

As the Japanese army's mountain artillery on the north side was blown up, the mountain artillery company shelled the enemy's fortifications for 240 minutes, and a total of [-] shells fell into the enemy's fortifications.

The gunpowder smoke on the fortifications has not yet dissipated. One regiment and one battalion were divided into three groups. The first company of taxis moved along the northeast side, the second company was in the middle, and the third company launched a tentative attack on the northwest side.

On the northeast side, a company of more than a hundred soldiers advanced rapidly in a skirmish line, and soon entered the smoke, and they were less than [-] meters away from the Japanese position.

Suddenly, a ball of flames appeared in front of the formation. Seeing this situation, the leader walking in the front row of the offensive line trembled in his heart, and suddenly shouted: "Everyone lie down!"

In an instant, violent bullets were shot from the Japanese army's position, and several soldiers who could not avoid it were immediately knocked down.

A platoon leader lay down on the ground, turned around and shouted: "Everyone lie down, lie down, the enemy still has heavy machine guns!"

A company of machine gunners quickly began to fight back, and when the smoke cleared, two blockhouses stood impressively on the northeast side of the Japanese position, and the surviving dozens of Japanese and puppet troops were all concentrated near these two blockhouses.

Although the mountain artillery company continued to bombard the Japanese fortifications outside the city, the mountain artillery was a curved fire after all, and the effect of attacking bunkers and artillery towers was not as good as the infantry artillery and field artillery on the other three sides.

In addition, Ikeda Jiro, an old devil, is a real fool. The bunkers outside Changzhi City are all buried in the ground in the lower half, and the upper half is exposed on the ground, and the outside of the bunkers is covered with thick soft loess.

On the one hand, it forms a natural camouflage. On the other hand, even if the shell hits, it may be embedded in the soft loess, so that the shell cannot be detonated.

Before the Eighth Route Army encircled the Japanese and puppet troops on the fortifications outside the city, they were busy with this except for strengthening the fortifications.

The two bunkers with a distance of more than [-] meters are the corners of each other. A heavy machine gun inside and a crooked handle form a crossfire to shoot at the soldiers. In addition to scattered shooting outside the bunker, a company of mortars Cannons were unable to counter effectively.

"How come there are still two bunkers that haven't been blown up, the first row is responsible for the left one, and the second row is responsible for the right one, send people up to blow up the bunkers for me!" shouted the commander of the company behind.

"Yes!" The two platoon leaders in front responded.

"Erlin, you go, machine gun cover! You three get ready!"

Er Lin, who was called by a platoon leader, threw his rifle on the ground without any hesitation, accepted the explosive package handed over by his comrades in arms, and then resolutely rushed towards the bunker.

Under the cover of three light machine guns, the enemy's firepower outside the bunker was temporarily suppressed, and Er Lin rushed towards the bunker with heavy machine guns on the left.

The little devil in the bunker with the heavy machine gun saw someone rushing towards the bunker, grinned grinningly, and immediately charged at Erlin with his gun.

A string of heavy machine gun bullets hit the ground at Erlin's feet, raising bursts of yellow smoke. Erlin leaped sideways, striding east, with the bullets chasing after him non-stop.

Several precision shooters in a row aimed their guns at the little devil's machine gunner at the same time, and several shots fired in succession, only to see the little devil's machine gunner's forehead and neck were punched with blood holes.

And Erlin took advantage of this respite and ran forward a few steps, and then hid in a shell crater by instinct, and then a grenade from an [-]-type grenade exploded behind him .

"The Eighth Route Army has sharpshooters!" The little devil in the bunker was furious, and the deputy shooter stepped forward to push away the dead little devil's body, trying to control the heavy machine gun to continue shooting.

Unexpectedly, a row of precision shooters had been staring at the firing holes. The deputy shooter had just touched the weight of the heavy machine gun when the gun rang and fell to the ground again.

At the same time, taking advantage of the flameout of the heavy machine guns inside the bunker and the suppression of the enemy's fire outside the bunker, a row of three 50mm mortars fired three salvos and quickly launched artillery strikes against the Japanese and puppet troops outside the bunker.

"Boom boom boom!"

The grenades from the mortars kept exploding near the bunker. Although the strong bunker couldn't be helped, the Japanese and puppet troops outside were immobilized by the three light machine guns, which was a disaster.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Erlin raised his courage, grabbed the explosive bag in his hand and rushed towards the little devil's bunker.

Seeing that the bunker was close in front of him, Erlin pulled the fuse on the explosive bag, stuffed his hands along the shooting hole, and then rolled towards the far away bunker.

"Boom!" There was an explosion, and the little devil's bunker instantly turned into a ball of fire.

"Come on, comrades!" A platoon of leaders shouted, and dozens of soldiers in a platoon charged towards the enemy's position.

As the soldiers rushed, they threw more than [-] grenades into the trenches outside the bunker, and then strangled the few remaining enemies to death.

"Erlin, Erlin, wake up!" The soldiers on the side carried Erlin into the trench, trying to wake him up.

"Ahem!" Erlin opened his eyes, and then cursed: "Damn it, who slapped me just now!"

Everyone turned their gazes to the leader of the first row, only to see the leader of the first row stare: "Do you need someone to help you to the back to rest?"

"No platoon leader, I'm fine!"

The situation in the second row was even smoother than in the first row. The blasters took advantage of the discontinuity of the Japanese army's crooked sub-machine guns to successfully blow up the bunker.

In the daily training of each regiment of the independent detachment, if there is no artillery support, how to blast the enemy's fortifications is an important training.

The blasting process of the first row was a perfect example. When all the members were suppressed by the enemy's firepower, the point of breaking the game was Erlin, the blaster.

And the leader of the first platoon chose Erlin to play because Erlin was usually the top player in the platoon, the backbone of the battle, and he had to be on top when necessary.

As soon as Erlin moved, he instantly absorbed the firepower of the heavy machine guns in the bunker. A row of light machine guns and mortars took the opportunity to suppress the Japanese and puppet troops in the trenches, and the precision shooters aimed at the little devil machine gunners.

If Erlin was knocked down, the following three blasters would rush out of the trench again from three directions. Fortunately, a row of soldiers had been training a lot on weekdays, and with the tacit cooperation, they successfully blew up the Japanese bunker.

At this time, one regiment and one battalion fully occupied the first fortification on the north side of Changzhi City, and then the soldiers of the heavy machine gun company quickly followed up. After arriving at the trench, they quickly launched an offensive towards the second position.

At the same time, with the [-]-type infantry artillery and the [-]-type field artillery that can be used as direct-pointing artillery, the Japanese bunkers in the east, west, and south directions were taken away one after another, and the other three directions launched offensives one after another.

It was past ten o'clock in the morning, inside the headquarters.

The first and second regiments called one after another and reported their current achievements.

"Tell the soldiers to go all out and take down the second Japanese position outside the city. I have already told Chen Feng that the artillery battalion will provide sufficient artillery support to the infantry!" Zhou Weihan said happily.

"It looks like the battle is going well?" Xing Zhiguo asked.

"Smooth, very smooth, according to the current progress, I hope to win Changzhi today!"

Xing Zhiguo nodded, and then said: "Comrade Weiguo sent a telegram to annihilate the reinforcements coming from Pingshun at the junction of Pingshun and Changzhi. There are more than 120 Japanese troops and more than [-] puppet troops!"

Zhou Weihan was not surprised that Zhou Weiguo had such a record. Among other things, the firepower configuration of the three guard companies was comparable to that of the entire Tainan Military Region, except for the reconnaissance company.

"We have to prepare for the future. Fighting Changzhi is to make wedding dresses for the national army, but taking Pingshun is our own. Tell Zhou Weiguo to contact Pingshun's local armed forces and take Pingshun in one fell swoop!" Zhou Weihan said in a deep voice.

(End of this chapter)