The first step of the plan was successfully completed, but Qi Zhiyuan did not pause. After signaling to the correspondent behind him, he immediately reported his progress to the instructor and the deputy company commander who was in charge of the feint through the walkie-talkie, without any pause.
The troops used the communication trenches built by the Japanese army to penetrate deep into the Japanese positions and penetrate towards their targets.
However, the smooth beginning does not mean that the subsequent operations will always be smooth. The 28th Regiment did not feel comfortable taking precautions because of its depth. In order to beware of the Anti-Japanese Alliance's tactics of penetrating a little to achieve a breakthrough and then attacking across the board,
The vigilance of its deep troops is quite high.
Just when Qi Zhiyuan led his troops and quickly moved in the direction of his goal along the all-inclusive communication trenches built by the Japanese army in the position, before they had gone more than 50 meters, the Japanese army in a heavy machine gun fortification in front of them was the first to discover it.
Something is wrong.
When the sentry walked out of the fortification to ask for the password, the soldier from the vanguard of the Sixth Company who collided head-on with him opened the bayonet on his rifle and stabbed him to kill him. From the sound of his body falling to the ground and the lack of a reply, he immediately felt something strange.
The Japanese troops who came did not hesitate at all because they were deep in their position. The machine guns and rifles in the fortifications came over along the communication trenches at almost the same time.
Unexpectedly, the Japanese machine gun fortification actually designated the traffic trench as one of the shooting targets. They were unable to prevent themselves and were blocked by the Japanese machine guns in the narrow traffic trench with almost no concealment. Almost all of the soldiers in the advance class fell to the Japanese army.
under machine gun fire.
Looking at the Japanese machine gun fortifications that were spraying heavy rain of bullets in front of him, Qi Zhiyuan, who knew that his good luck had come to an end, was about to launch rockets directly from one of them, so that if necessary, he could strike first and destroy the enemy in front of him, which was blocking the advance.
Heavy machine gun fortifications of the route.
However, because the Japanese army discovered something was wrong, they opened fire first. The soldier who was shot in the chest and died immediately picked up the rocket launcher he dropped. Using the cover point formed at the corner of the Japanese trench, he aimed at the machine gun fortification that blocked the movement of the troops.
pulled the firing trigger.
For Qi Zhiyuan, since his whereabouts have been exposed, there is no need to hide it anymore. How to solve the immediate trouble as quickly as possible is what Qi Zhiyuan should consider most. Otherwise, if the delay is too long, the entire
The troops are in danger of being blocked here.
Qi Zhiyuan is very aware of his current situation. As a small unit that has penetrated into the Japanese army's positions, although his actions are key to the entire group's subsequent operations, they are also relatively isolated and helpless. During the entire operation, it is difficult for him to
Get support from brother troops.
The ghosts may have been awakened by the sound of machine gun fire at this time. As soon as the gunfire rang out, it was no longer possible to continue covert operations. The most important thing now is that we must get through here quickly before the Japanese reinforcements arrive. Otherwise, once
When Japanese reinforcements arrived, not only were the two platoons unable to complete their mission, they were likely to be surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese troops.
It must be said that the reaction speed of the Japanese army is absolutely top-notch. Here Qi Zhiyuan had just used a rocket to solve the Japanese machine gun fortification blocking the way in front of him. Type 38 rifles and Taisho 10 rifles rang out in front of him and behind him.
The crisp firing sound of the one-year-old light machine gun, and at the same time, one round after another of illumination bombs also hit the sky at the same time.
He heard gunshots coming from two directions at almost the same time, as well as loud shouts from the Japanese army and the sound of troops running. After clearing the machine gun fortification in front of him, Qi Zhiyuan threw the rocket launcher to the correspondent and the troops behind him.
Not daring to stop at all. After roughly calculating the direction, he led his troops to fight against the Japanese troops rushing towards them.
The battle at this time has transformed from a frontal offensive and defensive battle into a battle of infiltration and counter-infiltration in the trenches. In this battle, the Japanese Army's Type 38 rifles, Taisho Type 11 light machine guns and Type 92
The long-range shooting function of the heavy machine gun is basically useless. Moreover, the too long gun body is too bulky in the relatively narrow trench.
In this kind of battle, the Anti-Japanese Alliance's submachine guns and automatic rifles seem to be on the right track. The intensity of their firepower is far beyond what the Japanese army can match with a single-loaded manual rifle. When you hear the sound of gunfire, come and stop it.
The Japanese soldiers were subjected to intense firepower from automatic rifles and submachine guns, resulting in heavy casualties.
And the Type 11 light machine gun it is equipped with, in this kind of close-range shooting, its continuous firepower is no match for the squad machine gun equipped with seventy-five rounds of drum ammunition. Although it has an absolute advantage in numbers and
He kept launching counterattacks as if he was risking his life, but it was difficult to stop Qi Zhiyuan's attack.
It's just that for Qi Zhiyuan and his men, although they currently have a clear advantage in the scene, their absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers prevents them from effectively fundamentally alleviating the current situation. The more they attack the surrounding people,
The more troops the Japanese army gathered, the greater the resistance to charging forward.
After realizing that it was difficult to stop the opponent's attack with infantry alone, the Japanese army not only mobilized a large number of troops to besiege this small unit with only two platoons, but even used mortars and grenade launchers to attack the Sixth Company.
The section of trench occupied was opened with direct artillery fire.
The Japanese army has put on a desperate posture to eliminate this small force that the Japanese army considers to be a nuisance even though it is not yet known what the real purpose of their infiltration is. No commander will be willing to do so.
In the hinterland, there is an opponent's army. Although this army is small in size, it does not have many troops.
Whether it is Colonel Masataka Kaneoka, the captain of the 28th Regiment of the Japanese Army, or Major Gu Zhonghaizhi, the captain of the First Battalion of the 28th Regiment in front of Qi Zhiyuan, they all know clearly that if this small unit is allowed to continue to toss within itself, I am afraid that
It will bring fatal damage to the entire defense line. These two guys still understand the reason why a thousand-mile embankment was destroyed by an ant nest.
Although its infantry suffered heavy losses in the narrow confines of the trenches they built in front of the Sixth Company, which had the advantage of individual firepower, they were unable to capture this small force. However, the Japanese mortars and mortars deployed behind them
The grenade launcher posed a serious threat to the Sixth Company.
Looking at the mortars and grenades that fell into the trenches from time to time, the threat to the troops became more and more serious, and the artillery fire became more and more fierce. In the Japanese trenches, the room for maneuver was too narrow. Qi Zhiyuan
He gritted his teeth and ordered the two platoon leaders to immediately leave the Japanese trenches. If the Japanese trenches were used, all the troops in the two platoons might be trapped here.
Qi Zhiyuan was very reluctant to make this choice. Judging from the gunshots of the Japanese troops around him, Qi Zhiyuan clearly judged that the Japanese troops gathered around him were at least in a reinforced squadron, and their reinforcements were still coming one after another.
Moreover, the Japanese army not only brought in 90mm mortars, but also used 150mm heavy mortars.
Due to the huge disparity in troop strength, the heavy weapons produced two rocket launchers and a general-purpose machine gun that the instructor insisted on bringing in, and there were almost no heavy weapons. Without the cover of the Japanese trenches, the troops of his two platoons were very weak.
It was easy to be dispersed by the Japanese army.
But if we continue to rely on the trenches, the mortar shells fired by the Japanese troops who defend this section of the trenches will become more and more fierce and the caliber will become larger and larger. There will be blocking forces in the front and pursuers behind them, and the Japanese troops will also appear to be outflanking the troops on both sides.
, once they are blocked there, I am afraid that with the few troops at hand, the Japanese army will not even need to fight, they will be able to consume them all with only artillery fire.
And for Qi Zhiyuan, there is another very important reason for breaking away from the cover of the Japanese traffic trenches and attacking forcefully. It is that the traffic trenches built by these Japanese soldiers are so damned. Not only are they built in all directions, but they are also divided into many twists and turns.
There are so many branches. People who are not familiar with it may easily get confused. Only the devil knows where those branches lead.
It must be said that the Japanese army still has a certain talent for building fortifications. Not only are the various fortress groups distributed throughout the Manchurian-Soviet border well-constructed with various passages extending in all directions, but the field fortifications here are also well-built. Traffic trenches, multiple firepower points,
Various hidden fortifications complement each other. Once a certain point is attacked, reinforcements can directly use multiple communication trenches to quickly reinforce and carry out front and rear pincer attacks on the attacking troops.
The traffic trenches are built as densely as a spider web, with various trenches connected to form a complete set of defenses. And after painstaking camouflage, many traffic trenches are basically impossible to detect using aerial reconnaissance. Following the communication trenches built by the Japanese army, although it can
Arriving at the combat area designated by the regiment, it is easy to run in the wrong direction.
Only the devil knows that the communication trenches built by the little devils all lead in that direction. Many of the communication trenches looked like they were going forward, but after a circle, they found that they were back to the distance. Not counting all the direct firepower mobilized by the Japanese army,
Desperately trying to suppress the Sixth Company, which was advancing through the communication trenches. In order to gain time, they also had to escape from the Japanese communication trenches that could easily mislead their direction of advance.
At this time, Qi Zhiyuan, who had already heard the rumbling artillery fire from the attack area of the 25th Regiment in the front and the main attack of his right-wing regiment, knew that he did not have much time left. If he still used the Japanese traffic trench to advance, he might not wait until the main force came over.
When I was there, I was still spinning around here.
Qi Zhiyuan, who was determined to break away from the Japanese army's communication trenches, was forced to give up the only position he could use. However, he had no intention of making it easier for the Japanese troops who were attacking him from the front, left and right. Qi Zhiyuan, who was embarrassed by the Japanese army's use of trenches extending in all directions, adhered to
With an attitude of not being a gentleman without revenge, he decided to retaliate against the Japanese troops who were encircling him.
Under the cover of machine guns and rocket launchers, before leaving, he quickly arranged the mines he had recovered from the Japanese minefields, plus a few phosgene shells that the squad leader who accompanied him in clearing mines had privately fired, plus all the grenades carried by the troops.
I found a minefield that was not too small in scope. I returned the headache I had when I was in the minefield to the Japanese army intact.
As for his own troops, they temporarily replaced them with Japanese Type 97 grenades that were collected from Japanese corpses and seized from an ammunition storage point in the Japanese trenches. Anyway, my troops are all familiar with this type of Japanese hand grenades.
Neither of them likes to use it very much, but when the grenades you equip are more suitable for laying out minefields, this kind of grenade is also good as an emergency item.