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Chapter 42 The Devil is Coming (2) (Please read on)
The main intersection out of Yangcun Mountain.

The second combat group of Yamamoto's special forces also launched an attack. Faced with the enemy's fierce firepower, the squad of soldiers in the first line of defense at the village entrance could not withstand the intensive firepower of more than a dozen submachine guns of the Japanese. The firepower of the defense line composed of Hanyang, Zhongzheng and Type 38 rifles was not as strong as that of a single Japanese soldier, and the first line of defense was broken.

However, the first line of defense was not sacrificed in vain. They bought time for the second company's layered defense. The second line of defense consisted of a platoon and a Type 99 light machine gun.

Only then did they manage to temporarily hold off the Japanese second combat group.

On a rocky hillside, Kong Jie commanded the first company to launch a grenade counterattack. Based on the position information exposed by the Japanese soldiers' shooting, the front soldiers of the first company threw out more than 20 grenades at once, blowing up the area with smoke.

However, Kong Jie discovered during his observation that the Japanese still had more than a dozen fire points launching counterattacks one after another.

This means that the wave of grenades just now did not cause much damage to the Japanese!
The combat proficiency of this group of Japanese devils was incredibly high, and Kong Jie was shocked!
After knowing that the Japanese were about to fire a shot, he immediately changed his hiding position!
In contrast, there were no more than twenty soldiers in his most elite company who had such experience.

"Captain Zhang, organize the front-line soldiers to attack with a three-second delayed air-blast method. The Japanese are hiding behind rocks, and we can't reach them by throwing grenades directly!" Kong Jie said loudly.

This rocky hill is full of large and small stones, making it difficult for the enemy to attack us, and it is also difficult for us to attack the enemy.

The terrain is fair for both sides.

If you throw a grenade directly and it falls into the gap between the rocks, it will be of little use.

However, Kong Jie commanded the airburst grenade, which required a very high ability to grasp the timing of bombing. It usually took six or seven seconds for the grenade made in the border area to explode, with a delay of three seconds, which was almost the time it exploded when thrown over the enemy's head.

However, due to the uncertainty of time, if the grenade was not thrown by the soldiers in the first row who engaged the enemy, it might explode on their own people!
So Kong Jie had to command Captain Zhang to organize the front row to drop bombs.

As a result, there were indeed a series of muffled groans and screams from the Japanese soldiers. Although there were not many, the effect was much better than the direct bombing just now.

Taking advantage of this time, Kong Jie led the machine gun platoon to a huge rock at a high point on the rocky hill!
Having been stationed in Yangcun for some time, Kong Jie was not familiar with the surrounding terrain, but he was familiar with most places.

This pile of rocks was formed by rocks that fell from a landslide on the mountain. One of the rocks was wide enough for two people to lie side by side, and it was more than one meter higher than the entire field. Kong Jie led the machine gun platoon to occupy this high point and suppress the enemy.

The idea was good. The squad leader of the machine gun platoon took the lead in carrying the machine gun up, aiming at the flashing fire and firing continuously to suppress the fire. The effect was indeed good at first. But the good times did not last long. Soon a grenade landed on the boulder!

The Japanese grenade launcher!
Fortunately, the squad leader saw the situation was not good, and saw the trajectory of the grenade launcher in the dark. He held the machine gun and rolled off the boulder, barely avoiding the Japanese grenade attack!
However, as a result of the roll, a huge rock nearly 3 meters high fell down, and the squad leader broke his leg and was unable to move for a while.

When Kong Jie saw this situation, he was so anxious that he kept stamping his feet, but for a moment he was in a dilemma of not knowing what to do. He had a military advantage of ten times that of the enemy, but he couldn't make use of it in this place. He couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

But it is impossible to retreat now. After passing the rocky hill, Yang Village is down. The hillside in the middle has no shelter and is mainly simple terraced fields, which are completely exposed to the high attack range of the rocky hill.

So there is no way back.

Kong Jie felt like he was in a dilemma. The advantage in numbers turned into a disadvantage in this special environment, and the Japanese had to sacrifice several soldiers every time they counterattacked.

The gap in combat proficiency is also magnified in this environment.

In an instant, Kong Jie's troops were attacked passively, and soon, the casualties reached more than 40 people!
On the other hand, judging from the firepower points of the counterattack, the Japanese still had at least twelve or thirteen of them. In other words, after fighting for half a day, the elite troops of the independent regiment suffered more than forty casualties in exchange for two or three casualties on the Japanese side!

Kong Jie had never encountered such a huge exchange ratio.

The fighting strength of this group of Japanese devils is even stronger than what Ren Zhong originally said!
Kong Jie remembered Ren Zhong's words. Not only did he completely believe them, but he also felt that Ren Zhong had underestimated him.

The rapid gunfire from the village entrance made Kong Jie extremely anxious.

Due to poverty, although three lines of defense were set up at the entrance of the village, they were just simple trenches and no visible or hidden bunker-like defensive positions were dug.

Such a line of defense basically does not have much advantage when facing the short-range artillery coverage formed by the enemy's superior grenade launchers.

Even if they gathered together, they would only be killed. The second company responsible for defending the village entrance was under great pressure!
The Second Company Commander, Chang Shanhe, saw that the number of men in his first row was decreasing at a visibly high rate. He felt heartbroken but did not lose his mind. He continued to provide support to the first line of defense.

The intersection here was wide and on the same level as the Japanese, so the Japanese's superior firepower was fully utilized in the attack. Chang Shanhe ordered a row of people to take turns to cover each other and retreat to the second line of defense.

He personally commanded the only two Type 99 light machine guns in the company to provide support, but the machine guns had to move to another position after firing two rounds. The flames spewed out by the machine guns in the dark night were the best targets. Chang Shanhe saw with his own eyes that after his soldiers in the first line of defense trenches fired, they were immediately counterattacked with grenade launchers. The speed and accuracy were unprecedented in his life.

This group of Japs had much higher tactical proficiency than the Japs in the Yuping City gendarmerie.

"Second platoon leader, there is one person every 10 meters in the second trench. Order the comrades to fire two shots before changing positions to avoid the Japanese grenades. The machine gun squads will move around on both sides to suppress the Japanese. We have to hold out for at least two hours to give the regiment commander and his men enough time to wipe them out. This group of Japanese are elite, and it will probably be difficult for the regiment commander and his men to wipe them out completely."

Even though the enemy was at the doorstep, Second Company Commander Chang Shanhe did not lose his composure.

This arrangement was not intended to achieve success, but to delay the Japanese and prevent the current group of Japanese from breaking through the defense line and joining up with the Japanese coming up the mountain behind.

Now they have trenches and familiar terrain to use. Even though the Second Company's weapons and firepower are far inferior to those of the enemy, it has several times more manpower than the Japanese. Sniper rifles and grenades are useless at long range, but they can still kill the Japanese at close range.

The second company commander ordered his men to fight in a mobile manner. The Japanese grenade launchers and sharpshooters lost their targets for a while and began to grope around in confusion.

In the dark night, the Japanese were not familiar with the terrain of Yangcun. They knew where the pits were and where the earth and rocks provided cover. The soldiers of the Second Company knew them all and they moved to another place after each shot. Even though their marksmanship was quite poor, the cold guns made the Japanese dare not get close.

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