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Chapter 511 Chapter 510, The Results of the 385th Brigade
Chirp chirp...boom boom boom...

As the whistling sound came from the sky, artillery shells of all sizes exploded in the Japs' ranks, making the entire valley bright for a moment. That was the flash of the exploding shells!
The 385th Brigade had not only 9 120mm heavy mortars, but also 32 82mm mortars and more than 4 grenade launchers from 300 main regiments! So many shells fell from the sky and exploded in the enemy's ranks, enough to form a 3-kilometer-long explosion belt! Moreover, it was a very dense explosion belt!

Moreover, this kind of explosion was not a one-time thing, but a series of bombings, which gave the Japanese three rounds of carpet bombing!
It is said that when you have more war resources, you can choose more ways to fight! The simplest truth is that if you are poor, you can use tactics, and if you are rich, you can bomb me!
As the arsenal continued to produce, the 129th Division, which was close to the water tower, naturally received a large amount of war resources first! As the first two brigade-level units with numbers in the 129th Division, the 386th Brigade and the 385th Brigade, they were naturally given priority for replenishment!

Today, with a large number of artillery shells in his hands, Brigade Commander Chen, when he received the task of ambush the devils, had already made the decision to consume a large number of artillery shells to deal with a large number of devils! This is why the mountain artillery can be temporarily put down, but the mortars and mortar shells must be brought over!

So, on this dark night, after confirming that all the Japs had entered the ambush circle, Brigade Commander Chen, who had established his brigade headquarters on the northern mountain, waved his hand and let the artillerymen give full play to their power!
As mentioned above, the location of the Japanese is the river valley section from the entrance of Nanweiquan Village to the Sanchakou intersection, and the river valley is very straight, with a distance of more than 3 kilometers. Another point is that the Nanweiquan River flows along the river valley from northwest to southeast, with the western half of the riverbed close to the south and the eastern half close to the north. There is a stone bridge in the middle connecting the mountain roads on both sides.

To be more specific, the river valley is not narrow, but it is definitely not wide either. The average span is 350 meters, which is just the best shooting distance for ambushes on both sides. Another point is that because there is a river here, in this 350-meter river valley, except for the riverbed and mountain roads, the rest is farmland.

In other words, the artillerymen can personally go down this afternoon to test the distance and drop from their gun positions to the mountain road, and then assign each combat unit the explosion points they need to control, so that they can fight a prepared battle!

And the course of the battle tonight proves that doing so is indeed an extremely effective method!
Boom, boom, boom... The explosions lasted for half a minute and then ended. Each artillery group fired three shells with satisfaction.

As the artillery bombardment ended, the soldiers who were still holding their guns felt that the entire battlefield seemed to be quiet for a moment! The gunfire stopped, the artillery fire stopped, and even the Japanese had no firepower to fight back! In this quiet atmosphere, a loud charge suddenly came from the mountains in the north!

"Nothing to say, charge forward, fight hand-to-hand, and kill!" The two ambushing regiments each had a pre-arranged assault team. Now when they heard the charge, the soldiers rushed out of their hiding places without saying a word, picked up their guns, and rushed towards the mountain road where the Japanese were!
Unlike the hand-to-hand combat that took place during the day, although there were many people in the charge tonight, the shouting was not loud, and there was more of the sound of feet stepping on rocks and soil.

The soldiers were not stupid. The louder they shouted during the night charge, the more bullets they would attract! Didn't you see the comrades holding torches for lighting? The torches were not held in their hands, but tied to the top of a three or four meter long wooden pole, sticking out to the side! The purpose was to prevent the remaining Japanese soldiers from shooting at the light!

Rumble... With dull footsteps and the sound of the charge horn, the commandos finally approached the mountain road where the devils were. At this time, it was no longer the time to hide their bodies and voices, but the time to raise their guns and fight the devils to the death! So, I don't know who started it, but the shouts of killing suddenly rang out! This was the shouting of more than a thousand soldiers, and this sound directly overwhelmed the sound of the charge horn and the occasional sound of the Type 38 rifle.

Puff, puff... The torches moved forward, illuminating the remaining devils. Soldiers with bayonets stepped forward one after another, piercing the devils' bodies with white knives in and red knives out. Blood spurted out.
Amid the Japs' unwilling and desperate cries, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army completed one killing after another, allowing the Japs, who had been devastated by three waves of artillery shells, to once again feel the enthusiasm of their comrades!

Time passed little by little, and under the illumination of torches that seemed like will-o'-the-wisp fire, the front line of hand-to-hand combat gradually opened up and converged. Finally, all the soldiers stopped their actions, leaving only the torches swaying in the night wind, flickering and illuminating everything around them.

"769th Regiment, 1st Battalion, 1st Company, gather here... 769th Regiment, 1st Battalion, 2nd Company..." The soldiers began to line up, while the soldiers of the 14th Regiment came running from the east with a large number of torches, lighting up the entire mountain road and allowing everyone to see the bodies of the Japanese soldiers scattered on the mountain road and in the farmland on both sides of the mountain road. Of course, there were also bodies of puppet soldiers, but not as many as those of the Japanese soldiers.

"Grandpa Eighth Route Army, don't shoot, we surrender..." At this time, in the farmland beside the mountain road, some puppet soldiers actually made heart-wrenching shouts, as if they would die if they shouted softly.

"There are still puppet soldiers hiding? We were careless, careless..." In the annoyance of the soldiers, the company instructor led the soldiers to receive the prisoners. By the way, under the identification of the puppet soldiers, they fished out some Japanese soldiers who were almost frozen to death from the river. This was winter river water, and the Japanese actually jumped in with their clothes on...

"Today's battle took us several days to rush here from the defense zone. It took us two hours to run here from Liaocheng Township. It took another two hours to set up positions and arrange sentries... and the total fighting time was only about 40 minutes, mainly because we were delayed in capturing prisoners at the end!"

"Then we have to spend at least three hours collecting spoils and digging pits to bury the devils..."

"Of course, we don't need to report all of this to the headquarters. What we need to report is that our unit has completed the task of blocking the enemy, annihilating 1976 Japanese troops, 328 puppet troops, and taking prisoners..."

(End of this chapter)