Rise From Eight Hundred

The Japanese army is very experienced. From the gunshots and bullet trajectories just now, they analyzed that these should be German submachine guns and bolt-action single-shot rifles commonly used by Chinese soldiers.

More importantly, the Japanese army judged that there would not be many defenders on the high ground at the top of the mountain, at least not as many as the smoke rising everywhere on the high ground.

This can only be said that the Chinese are deliberately setting up a false formation.

For soldiers who have been on the battlefield for a long time, this is a manifestation of guilty conscience.

Although it may be a trap set by the Chinese, the desperate situation of not advancing or dying made the Japanese commanders and infantrymen choose the former.

The Japanese infantry attacked very resolutely, with 8 people on one side and 16 people on the other side, approaching the mountain position in two directions.

The old abacus, who was observing the movements of the Japanese army through the shooting hole, had an extremely bitter face.

I don't know what kind of big shot was carried on the stretcher. These three Japanese squads were actually reinforced squads. The light machine guns and grenade launchers they were equipped with were not the two light machine guns and two grenade launchers that a squad should have, but each squad was equipped with one light machine gun and one grenade launcher.

Except for the grenade launcher operator of the vanguard squad who hid, several people from the two squads behind also hid behind the light machine guns.

Although I couldn't see the grenade launchers they were carrying, for veterans like Lao Suanpan who had fought against the Japanese countless times, this tactical behavior meant that they had long-range attack firepower.

To be honest, if there were no grenade launchers, even though there were more than 40 Japanese soldiers, the three men of Lao Suanpan had a semi-automatic rifle, a sniper rifle and a submachine gun with sufficient bullets. They were a complete firepower team. Relying on fortifications and the advantage of the high terrain, they could completely suppress more than 40 Japanese infantrymen in the valley.

Even if there was enough time, the three of them could shoot and kill the Japanese soldiers who had few shelters one by one in the valley.

However, when the Japanese army had grenade launchers, even up to three, everything became different.

For the three Chinese soldiers, every time they fired a shot, they had to find a new position, otherwise, the grenades fired by the Japanese grenade launcher would tear them to pieces.

Sandbags and stones may be able to block rifle and light machine gun bullets, but they cannot block grenades thrown from high altitude by grenade launchers similar to small mortars. Wan

That is to say, although the three light machine guns set up by the Japanese army were conducting fire reconnaissance on various positions on the top of the mountain, the three Chinese soldiers were most concerned about the Japanese grenade thrower hiding behind the rocks and waiting to fire on the high ground to find the approximate position of the opponent.

"Squad leader, you and Potato are moving, and I will take care of the immovable ones." Yang Bicheng's steady voice came from the other end.

"Okay, Potato, did you hear me? Aim at the devils coming over. Everyone be careful, at most five shots, and then I will change my nest." Lao Suanpan shouted loudly.

Although the Japanese army has short legs, they attack very quickly under pressure. While talking, they are only 50 meters away from the foot of the mountain, and the straight-line distance from the top of the mountain will not exceed 120 meters at most. The khaki figure is clearly visible among the stones and bushes.

The semi-automatic rifle in Potato's hand spoke first, "Bang! Bang! Bang!" Almost without a break, he pulled the trigger and fired five bullets in a row, knocking down the two devils who rushed to the front.

At the same time, Lao Suanpan's submachine gun also began to fire, facing the Japanese light machine gun that had found its target and turned its muzzle to fire, and fired all 32 bullets in the long magazine at the position of the 16 Japanese soldiers who attacked the most in one breath. Regardless of his own results, Lao Suanpan dragged his gun with one hand and quickly rolled away from his position, and then rolled and crawled to a depression ten meters away.

The experience of dozens of battlefields saved his life. Wan

Before the army sergeant could cover his head with both hands to avoid the possible grenade explosion, a grenade exploded only six or seven meters away from the sandbag, and the dirt and grass roots blown up by the grenade, which was no less powerful than a hand grenade, fell on Lao Suanpan.

If this damage value is not even a fart for the soldiers on the battlefield, then the four consecutive grenades flying over represent the determination and ability of the Japanese army to kill the opponent in one fell swoop.

The previous one was at most a test shot, but the accuracy of no more than six meters was enough to scare any opponent.

The next four grenades even estimated the possibility of the opponent leaving the battle position. In addition to two explosions within two meters of the original position where Lao Suanpan was staying, the other two extended three meters to the left and right, and were only four meters away from Lao Suanpan's current position.

That is to say, Lao Suanpan was lying low enough, otherwise, even if he was not blown away by the air wave generated by the grenade explosion, he would be blown into a blood gourd by the broken shrapnel.

The Japanese grenade launcher has the reputation of being the most hated branch of the Chinese army machine gunners, and it is indeed not a lie.

There are three groups of Japanese grenade launchers, and Potato was also attacked by grenade launchers, but because he was a single-shot rifle, he was only bombarded with two grenades. Wan

Obviously, the Japanese army was extremely cautious about Lao Suanpan's fierce submachine gun. Not only did they use at least two grenade launchers to take care of it, but they also fired five grenades in one breath.

"Potato, are you okay?" Old Abacus shook his head, which was a little dizzy from the huge explosion. He didn't even bother to check whether he had been injured by shrapnel, and shouted loudly.

In this kind of battlefield where extreme tension leads to a surge in adrenaline, soldiers sometimes don't even feel pain. Many times, they don't know they are injured until they touch blood.

Adrenaline can be used as a painkiller to relieve the pain of soldiers, but on the other hand, it also has a fatal weakness. Soldiers will lose too much blood without knowing it, so experienced soldiers will check if they have wounds after dodging a round of attacks instead of relying on pain alone.

"Bah, the dog bomb is really accurate, and it blew my mouth full of mud." Potato's full-blooded voice came, which made Lao Suanpan's heart put down for the time being, and turned his eyes to himself to confirm that he was not injured.

He didn't ask Yang Bicheng, who had been silent all the time, and there was no need to ask.

Yang Bicheng is no longer the same as before. As long as he shoots, the Japanese grenade launcher will die. Wan

The precision shooters in the infantry squad are specially trained by the Four-Line Regiment to deal with important targets such as Japanese grenade launchers and light machine gunners.

They are like hunters hiding in the dark, and they always harvest the most valuable prey.

This is not because Tang Dao's vision is so advanced, but the inevitable product of all Chinese armies forced by reality. It is not unique to the Four-Line Regiment. Even the Eighth Army, which was extremely short of ammunition in the past, would not hesitate to spend ammunition to train sharpshooters to reduce the damage of grenade launchers to its own side.

The only difference is that the training of precision shooters in the Four-Line Regiment is almost abnormal, both in terms of consumption and training methods.

In non-wartime training, a sergeant who serves as a precision shooter in an infantry squad shoots more than 100 rounds of live ammunition every day.

And the requirement is that without a scope, the eight-ring hit rate is 80%, and the range is more than 250 meters. With a scope, the nine-ring hit rate is more than 80%, and the range is more than 300 meters.

Take off the military uniform, the thick calluses on the shoulder sockets and elbows are the most prominent signs of the precision shooters of the Four-Line Regiment. Wan

Yang Bicheng, after receiving a major stimulus to remove his natural shortcomings of cowardice, is simply a talented soldier.

Whether it is nerve reaction, target capture and shooting talent, he is the first-class choice in the Four-line Regiment.

The biggest reason that allowed Lao Suanpan to muster all his courage to attack an infantry squad was not the terrain and fortifications, but the existence of Yang Bicheng.

Although Yang Bicheng has not reached the level of Niu Er who can snipe targets at a distance of 500 meters, he has also successfully sniped two Japanese grenade throwers at a distance of 380 meters. When Wei Dong came to ask for people, Li Jiujin was extremely reluctant, but in the end he agreed because of the tragic battle of the Iron and Steel Company at Lao Shushan.

The old abacus, who turned his eyes back to the battlefield, grinned. No wonder the Japanese grenade thrower fired five grenades at him like crazy, as if his mother had died.

Although the 16 Japanese soldiers in his shooting direction were more than 2 meters apart, they carefully maintained their marching speed and relied on natural stones and other objects to avoid attacks from the hilltops as much as possible. However, at a distance of 120 meters, the MP28 submachine gun that was completely in range fired 32 rounds of bullets in three seconds, causing damage comparable to that of a heavy machine gun.

At least four Japanese soldiers were hit by 9mm Luger bullets, or more precisely, by the modified standard Luger bullets of the Sihang Regiment Arsenal. Although they were all 9mm standard, the power of the 9mm submachine gun bullets modified at the suggestion of Tang Tuanzuo was much higher than the original bullets. Wan

The arsenal led by Teacher Xiao He, with the help of the batch of machinery and materials brought back by Tang Tuanzuo from Linfen, started to produce several types of bullets required by Tang Tuanzuo in May, including 9mm standard submachine gun bullets.

Slightly different from the dum-dum bullet, which is easy to bend and deform, the front of this 9mm bullet, which has a small amount of powder but is enough to ensure a straight trajectory of 140 meters, is hollow. Although the penetration of hard fortifications has decreased, it is terrible if it hits a person.

The hollow front will cause the bullet to expand after encountering an obstruction, making the wound several times larger than the bullet area, and it will often get stuck in the body, causing a larger range of tissue damage and bleeding. Even if it does not hit the vital part, "it will be half dead."

The most fatal thing is that this bullet is a submachine gun bullet. As long as you are unfortunately shot, it is often not a one-shot job.

The fallen Japanese soldiers may not have been hit in the vital part, they are still rolling in the grass, but in the eyes of the old abacus, they are already dead, and the large amount of blood loss will take their lives within five minutes.

In other words, it will not take five minutes, and the huge wound will hurt them to death.

The Japanese army was fierce and cruel. No one stopped to care about the four wounded soldiers who were doomed to die. They continued to attack resolutely under the cover of their own grenade launchers. Wan

Perhaps because they felt that the six casualties in the first round of the Chinese attack were too heavy, under the order of the re-established commander, five more Japanese infantrymen responsible for covering the rear rushed out, basically making up for the previous losses, and the number of Japanese infantrymen participating in the attack was as high as 23 again.

Of course, that also meant that the Japanese army had basically no infantry except the six machine gunners and six grenade launchers responsible for covering the rear. They basically came out in full force, and even the two infantrymen who had been guarding the stretcher next to Yamamoto participated in the attack.

The Chinese old man who was forced to lead the way was forced by the Japanese army to hide behind a stone in front of the machine gunner, including his little wild boar.

From this point of view, the Japanese army still had great hope of rushing out of this valley, and they needed a living guide.

If they were really desperate, with the brutal nature of the Japanese army, not only would the old man die, but even the Chinese wild boar would not be spared.

Of course, the Japanese army was helpless now that they had almost put all their infantry into the attack.

They had no time. Wan

If they didn't fight hard, they might not have the chance to fight hard in the future. The three light machine guns and three grenade launchers were very powerful for the few Chinese on the top of the mountain, but for the main force of the Chinese, they were nothing. The 82 mortars they were equipped with could blow them into pieces from a kilometer away.

A kilometer away, the sound of gunfire gradually became sparse, which meant that the Chinese were almost killing their group of "brave" compatriots.

The strong sense of crisis was like an invisible yoke, strangling the necks of dozens of Japanese soldiers, getting tighter and tighter, making them extremely frightened.

The crisis of losing six companions in a row seemed insignificant under this inexplicable fear.

They had to rush to the position as soon as possible, kill all the Chinese, and then escape.

The Japanese army's sense of crisis was very accurate.

The front of the No. 6 position 900 meters away was already full of Japanese soldiers.

For the infantry of the Fourth Regiment, which had a large number of automatic firearms, the Japanese infantry who started the "board charge" without sufficient artillery support was a pure suicide tactic.

The only infantry gun of the Japanese army actually persisted for a long time, bombarding the Chinese position with fourteen shells, and even blew up a light machine gun fire point together with two light machine guns. Otherwise, the Japanese infantry might have been finished earlier.

The Chinese mortar fired sixteen shells before it killed the infantry gun hidden under the cover of a protruding cliff.

The battle position chosen by the Japanese artillery was very tricky. It could not defend against direct-aiming guns, but it was well protected against curved guns. It was a pity that they overlooked one point after all. No matter how hard the rock was, it would loosen after being bombarded for a long time.

The thousands of pounds of rocks that were collapsed by the shells fell and hit the Japanese artillery and infantry guns, even the hard steel of the gun barrels was flattened, not to mention the fragile human body.

Without the infantry guns, it is unknown whether the 92-type heavy machine guns were finally killed by mortars or fled in fear. Anyway, at the most difficult time for the Japanese infantry, they lost the support of the heavy machine guns that were still roaring.

Therefore, the remaining fifty or sixty Japanese troops could only rely on a few grenade launchers for cover firepower, which obviously could not suppress the firepower on the position as before.

How exaggerated is the firepower of the MP28 submachine gun with full firepower combined with the semi-automatic rifle?

According to statistics after the war, Hill No. 6, which had 18 soldiers, fired 4,000 rounds of various types of bullets in less than 20 minutes of combat time, an average of 220 rounds per soldier.

In the past, it would have been enough to fight three large-scale battles, but here, it was fired by an infantry squad in 20 minutes.

Of course, the two MP28 submachine guns emptied 12 long magazines, and the two light machine guns and the heavy machine gun responsible for supporting them fired more than 2,000 rounds of bullets, accounting for the vast majority, but the other ten or so infantrymen fired more than 1,600 rounds of bullets with semi-automatic rifles, which was also amazing enough.

In the absence of sufficient artillery cover on both sides, the number of bullets represents the attack power.

No matter whether the Japanese army charged forward or fell to the ground to avoid, as long as they entered the 100-meter firepower range, they would basically be injured or killed.

Then, accompanied by the gunshots behind them, the nearly 30 Japanese remnants who were still crawling in front of the position were completely desperate. Wan

The reinforcements drawn from the second company finally arrived.

The two infantry squads that arrived one after another had more than 35 people. Not only did their total strength exceed that of the lingering Japanese army, but they also formed a pincer attack from the front and back.

The second lieutenant platoon leader who received the red flare fired from the position of Lao Suanpan finally understood the Japanese's trick of "escaping from the shell". They cruelly abandoned the main force in exchange for the survival of a few people.

The second lieutenant platoon leader knew very well that even if it was a few people, it was too many for the three-man team over there. Otherwise, with the old Suanpan's experience, he would not have fired the two red flares he carried.

In a hurry, he ordered the other high grounds to withdraw half of their troops to support the two wing positions. He wanted to kill these Japanese troops in the shortest time so as to support Lao Suanpan and Potato.

Potato, that kid, is one of the symbols of the Steel Company.

After all, in the entire Steel Seventh Company, even the company commander Wei Donglai was lying unconscious in the medical team, and only the little boy Potato went to the position they had been stationed. Wan

Holding the figure covered with blood and mud alone, I don't know how many soldiers of the Fourth Battalion were moved.

In a sense, potatoes are a flag, a living flag.

The anxious second lieutenant platoon leader arrived with 22 soldiers. A total of more than 70 Chinese soldiers attacked more than 30 Japanese soldiers on the slope under the cover of heavy machine guns, mortars and grenade launchers.

The original attackers and defenders were magically exchanged.

However, the defenders at this time did not have any positions or fortifications, and even could not take out decent suppressive firepower--light machine guns. There were only about 30 bolt-action single-shot rifles in total.

The Chinese soldiers approaching them from three directions were crushing in terms of both manpower and firepower.

In a few minutes, the battle will be completely over. Wan

Perhaps, before the battle is over, two infantry squads will quickly reinforce Lao Suanpan and his men.

I just don't know if it's too late.

Everything depends on how hard the Japanese troops fight.

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