The Japanese army is best at using artillery fire to cover infantry charges, and uses long-range firepower such as machine guns and mortar grenades to carry out sneak attacks from the sides and rear. This offensive formation and firepower configuration look good, but it is not impossible to crack it.
Tang Cheng, who was lying in the trench, was thinking about the small victory just now. Although they discovered the enemy a little late, their machine gun cooperation was very good. They used strong firepower to get close to the Japanese army, which was exactly the way to defeat the Japanese army.
The only weapon for attacking.
After finding a way to crack the crack, Tang Cheng immediately fell into deep thought. It was a good idea to use strong firepower to attack the Japanese army at close range, but Tang Cheng could not guarantee that when using strong firepower to intercept the Japanese infantry, his machine gun firepower would not be blocked.
The Japanese mortars or grenades were hit and destroyed. Once they were destroyed by Japanese artillery fire when they got close to the enemy, the fierce Japanese infantry would definitely take advantage of the situation and rush into the position. The only thing they could do was wait for Tangcheng.
It was a brutal close combat, and close combat was exactly what the garrison was least good at.
"Why did I forget it?" Tang Cheng suddenly stretched out his hand and patted his head. Xie Bo's notebook contained relevant records. In addition to strong firepower interception, there is another magic weapon for dealing with infantry charges.
That is landmines. Tangcheng does not have landmines, and even the 173rd Division in the adjacent position does not have landmines. However, Tangcheng has grenades. In Xie Bo's notebook, it is recorded that grenades are used instead of landmines. Although grenades are not as powerful as landmines
, and Tang Cheng has never seen the power of landmines, but he believes that what Xie Bo recorded in his notes will definitely not be false.
The soldiers who were sent out to collect ammunition brought back a dozen intact 38-type rifles, hundreds of rounds of rifle bullets and some Japanese grenades. Tangcheng asked people to separate the grenades separately and send them to Liu Yangyang. "Go and follow."
The regiment leader said, we exchanged these grenades with him for grenades, and later captured the grenades and sent them to them." The two soldiers sent by Tangcheng to Liu Yangyang's side left with the captured Japanese grenades.
Before leaving, Tangcheng Qian Dingzhu Wan gave many instructions.
More than thirty grenades were brought back by the two soldiers sent to Liu Yangyang. These were some of the grenades that Liu Yangyang had blackmailed from Zhou Yuan's 173rd Division in the morning using the incident in Tangcheng. The weapons of the garrison were obtained from the grenades.
All supplies had to be obtained from the provincial capital through Ge Kunshan's connections. When the Japanese army came, Ge Kunshan disappeared. Without Ge Kunshan, the garrison also lost its way to obtain ammunition supplies. Liu Yangang only had the ammunition he needed.
It can rely on the hard work that Lao Xu saves in daily life. If there is no case that Jin Dapeng was imprisoned in Tangcheng as a handle, the garrison may not be able to survive today's war due to the lack of medicine.
"Don't worry, wait, wait until it gets dark. Sending people out now will only lead to death." In addition to the grenades he concentrated here, Tangcheng now has almost 70 grenades, and he plans to send one-third of them
Er's grenades were placed at the front of the position as a safeguard to prevent the Japanese army from easily breaking through the position. After winning a battle with minimal casualties, the guilt in Tang Cheng's heart gradually faded away as he watched everyone proceed in an orderly manner according to his ideas.
After setting up the defense, the nervousness and timidity in Tang Cheng's heart had been swept away unconsciously.
The battle is still going on, but Tangcheng is increasingly able to conclude that the Japanese army will launch a surprise attack tonight, and the target of the surprise attack is likely to be its own position. The entire front is exchanging fire, and only some sporadic Japanese stragglers appear here in Tangcheng.
The sound of firefights in the distance and the sudden explosions no longer interested him. Several observation posts were left as usual, and Tang Cheng asked his soldiers to squat in anti-gun holes or trenches to recharge their batteries.
Rui, waiting for the Japanese attack at night.
I didn't feel it when I was standing, but now Tang Cheng, who was squatting in the trench, was hungry and tired. The little food he was forced to eat by Lao Xu had already been completely digested. Now Tang Cheng
Cheng felt that he could eat half a cow. The battle had not affected the position where Tangcheng was stationed. Not only Liu Yangyang, who had been fighting fiercely with the Japanese army, was surprised, but also Zhou Yuan on the main position. Zhou Yuan even
I sent someone over specifically to have a look.
"I don't need your help. I just need to hold the position until dark." Tangcheng proposed to allocate some men from his own position to support Liu Yangyang, but Liu Yangyang refused. The Japanese attack in the afternoon was mostly carried out by small groups of troops.
For the Lord, although it was difficult, Liu Yangyang felt that he could still hold on. These people in Tangcheng had been regarded as a reserve team by Liu Yangyang. Once the Japanese army attacked at night, Tangcheng and the others would become Liu Yangang's biggest support.
"Boom" a ball of red flashed before Tang Cheng's eyes, and he woke up suddenly. Tang Cheng, who was squatting in the trench, was covered in cold sweat. He actually fell asleep. He fell asleep when the entire defense line was attacked by the Japanese army. He woke up.
Afterwards, Tang Cheng felt pain all over his body. The gunshot wounds last night, the scratches in the camp in the afternoon, and all the scars all over his body caused burning pain in his sweat, making Tang Cheng, who was covered in cold sweat, unbearable.
"Boom! Boom!..." Suddenly there was the sound of artillery shells piercing the air overhead, and the Japanese mortars began to attack. This sound sounded safe in Tangcheng, because their impact points were far away.
It was fine in the trench. Although he knew it was safe, Tang Cheng still put his German-style steel helmet on his head, then threw himself on the trench and looked at the 173rd Division position next to it. The impact point of the artillery shell was where the 173rd Division was stationed.
At the main position, because of Jin Dapeng, Tang Cheng did not have a good impression of the 173rd Division. Looking at the fireballs that rose up with the explosion, Tang Cheng felt a little gloating about the misfortune.
"Boom! Boom!..." As the explosion sounded, the 173rd Division's position was filled with smoke. The Japanese soldiers almost stepped on the explosion point and rushed up. The fire of those Japanese soldiers could be felt in Tangcheng hundreds of meters away.
Brave and fierce. After the volley of gunfire, a round of grenades was thrown. This has become the custom for the Japanese troops to fight. Dozens of grenades exploded, knocking down a large area of Japanese soldiers who rushed forward, and there were dense explosions.
Completely disrupted the Japanese offensive formation.
"Come on!" While the remaining Japanese soldiers were stunned by the grenades, a shout of killing rang out from the forward position of the 173 Division. Hundreds of soldiers of the 173 Division roared and jumped out of the trenches to kill the Japanese soldiers in the smoke.
Tang Cheng, who had no good impression of the 173rd Division, did not expect that these guys would be so bloody. They overwhelmed the Japanese attack with just one countercharge. The thirty or forty Japanese remnants who were in despair had not yet recovered from the grenade explosion.
When he came, he was devoured head-on by soldiers from the 173rd Division.
The pig attack is a commonly used offensive formation by the Japanese army. The attacking Japanese army will often form several formations to attack the enemy's defense line in sequence. The counterattack soldiers of the 173rd Division only knocked down the first two formations of the Japanese army, waiting for them to crash into the Japanese army.
In the third wave of attacking teams, their advantage was running low. "Kill!" Just when Tangcheng thought it was time for the 173 Division group to return to their positions, they shouted again and fought with the Japanese army. Everyone
They are all trading life for life. They don't care about the bayonet stabbing themselves. They only know how to swing the bayonet in their hands towards their opponents.
"I'm taking a step ahead. My brothers who are alive can help me burn some paper so that I can be a rich man when I get down there." Shouts like this kept coming, and one after another the soldiers of the 173rd Division who were scarred and unable to fight anymore raised their bells.
The grenade flew into the Japanese army, causing rounds of blood and flesh to fly. The Japanese army's third offensive formation was torn apart, and the two heavy machine guns placed on the flanks of the 173rd Division also began to roar, and the Japanese army
Three entire waves of attacking combinations were completely defeated, and some Japanese soldiers even began to turn around and flee.
The Japanese army retreated, and the tyrannical attack was repulsed by the more tyrannical blockade of the 173rd Division. Tang Cheng, who was lying in the trench, felt exhausted. He huddled in the trench and gasped for air. His face was gray and black.
Tears flowed out with white marks. The tragic scene just now was all seen by Tang Cheng. None of the more than 100 people of the 173rd Division who rushed out of the position to fight the counterattack came back alive. Maybe when they rushed out of the position, they
You don't have any intention of continuing to live.
After this wave of Japanese attacks were repelled, there has been no movement. As night fell, the garrison position became silent. Both warring parties hid in their respective positions and licked their wounds. Tangcheng looked around at the dark surroundings.
In the night sky, he sat down in the trench and took out dry food and ate the cold pancake. Tang Cheng's tears were still flowing, and the tears fell down his gray-black face, but Tang Cheng himself didn't care.
During the day, the soldiers of the 173rd Division who were determined to die reminded Tangcheng of the few Japanese veterans at the Jiekou position in Shanghai. Although the scale of the two battles was different and the situations of the battles were different, the ending was the same. 1
Thinking of the way those soldiers pulled out the tabs of grenades and pounced on the Japanese army, Tang Cheng felt a stab of pain in his heart. It seemed that the Japanese troops, who were at a disadvantage in terms of combat effectiveness, could only gain the upper hand in the battle with the Japanese army by using this method.
"Bang!" "Bang! Bang!" Flares exploded continuously above the head, and the pale death light suddenly spread all over the position - the Japanese army attacked. Uncharacteristically after nightfall, the Japanese army did not make a sneak attack but chose to face the night battle. "Get ready.
Fight! Prepare to fight! The Japanese army is coming!..." Tang Cheng hunched up in the trench and ran on his hands and knees, patting every soldier he saw. Although he learned these from Liu Yangyang, Tang Cheng
Now I do it very naturally.
The cold light of the flare dissipated, but the expected Japanese troops did not appear. There began to be yelling and cursing in the position, mostly cursing the Japanese soldiers for giving birth to children without sex and other slang words. If you don't come now, it doesn't mean you won't come for a while.
Tang Cheng, who was highly nervous, strictly ordered his soldiers to distract themselves. Everyone had loaded their ammunition and was waiting for the Japanese army to appear.