Predator Reborn

Chapter 264 Battle for the Highlands

Just when Wang Deli was secretly proud, the Second Regiment had already mobilized all its light and heavy firepower to the front line. 12 heavy machine guns were lined up in a row, plus dozens of light machine guns, and all 9 grenades were carried over.

Just wait for the commander's order to eliminate the hundreds of Japs in front of you.

"Okay, start the attack, grenade launcher, use up all the grenades we brought. Machine gunner, don't save bullets for me, just fight with all your might. I want to wipe out this group of Japanese devils and give our soldiers who just died in battle

Let's take revenge..." Looking at the light and heavy weapons behind him, the regiment leader snorted coldly and ordered.

"Da da da..." First, dozens of light and heavy machine guns behind them opened fire, and the dense tongues of flames immediately hit the puppet troops on the position unable to raise their heads. Just these two Japanese soldiers were lying in the bunker, avoiding the flying missiles.

When the bullets were fired, the nine grenade launchers placed behind the machine gun position opened fire. As soon as this weapon, which was extremely lethal to infantry, appeared, it immediately made the puppet troops howl like ghosts and wolves.

Because the position occupied by Wang Deli was very narrow, he gathered about 500 soldiers in a circular formula less than 100 meters long. With such a dense deployment of troops, a random grenade would take away at least several puppet soldiers.

The puppet soldiers were in dire straits now. They were lying on the ground, with grenades falling continuously, leaving them nowhere to hide. They stood up straight and fought back, not to mention that as soon as they showed their heads, the flying bullets would immediately hit them.

They would be beaten into a hornet's nest... In less than a few minutes, the 500 puppet troops had dropped sharply to more than 300.

Looking at the soldiers who continued to die in battle, and seeing that his loyal confidants were getting fewer and fewer under the attacks of the Eighth Route Army. Division Commander Wang Deli couldn't help but regret for a while, but it was already too late. Because the nearly a hundred Eighth Route Army soldiers he had just killed were destined to

He has no choice today. The only choice he can make is to die in battle.

"Brothers, hold on, we all have blood debts with the Eighth Route Army. Even if we are caught and captured by the Eighth Route Army, we will not escape death. It is better to fight with them today and fight for one person.

Enough money, fight two people to earn one...Brothers, kill for me..." Wang Deli finally used his last resort, threatening his brothers with death to sacrifice their lives for him. At the same time, in order to show that he would die

With determination, he took the lead and stuck out his head, took his own pistol and started to fight back. But strangely enough, Wang Deli fired all the bullets in one shot, but he did not suffer any injuries.

Maybe everyone thought the division commander's words made sense. Maybe they were inspired by the division commander's example. In short, seeing their division commander fighting for his life in person. Those puppet soldiers who had been through life and death with Wang Deli picked up their weapons one after another, regardless of the flying bullets and

The grenades kept falling and they began to fight back.

Slowly, the machine gunners of the Eighth Route Army also began to suffer casualties. However, due to the Eighth Route Army's condescending position and geographical advantage, the puppet army's losses were obviously several times higher than those of the Eighth Route Army.

While the machine gunners on both sides were shooting at each other, the commander of the second regiment and the infantry lying on the ground were not idle. Under the cover of intensive firepower from machine guns and grenades, the soldiers lay on the ground and slowly attacked the puppet troops.

The circular fortifications were touched. Within a few minutes of the two sides shooting at each other, the soldiers, led by the regimental commander, had crawled to a place less than 50 meters away from the puppet army position.

"Comrades, grenades..." Seeing that the puppet troops had entered the attack range of their own grenades, the regiment leader ordered loudly without any hesitation. At the same time, he took out a captured Japanese weapon from the waist of the guard behind him.

He pulled out the safety of the grenade, slapped it on the butt of his gun, delayed it for three seconds, and threw it towards the position held by the puppet troops.

"Boom..." The grenade delayed by the regiment commander undoubtedly exploded above the puppet army's position. The huge lethality of the Japanese grenade killed all the soldiers within a radius of nearly 5 meters in an instant.

"Boom, boom, boom..." As the regiment leader fired the grenade, the soldiers took out the grenades and threw them at the puppet army's position. Almost all of the more than a thousand grenades were thrown into the puppet army's position.

Fortifications, the smoke generated by dense grenade explosions instantly covered the puppet army's positions, and when the explosions sounded, the gunfire on the puppet army's positions almost stopped.

You know, more than a thousand grenades were thrown into a defense circle that was less than 100 meters long and ten meters wide. In other words, at least two grenades fell on almost every square meter of the position. I think it can

There must be only a handful of soldiers who survived such an intensive grenade attack.

"Commander, blow the charge bugle, all of you, bayonets on...charge..." Seeing that the Jaap's position was completely filled with smoke, and there was almost no retaliatory gunfire, the second regiment commander decisively arrested

Seizing the opportunity, he issued the order for the troops to attack.

"Come on...kill..." the soldiers roared, got up from the ground, and rushed towards the smoke-filled puppet army position one by one with red eyes.

There is no doubt about the outcome of the battle. When the soldiers rushed into the smoke-filled puppet army position, there were only less than 50 defeated soldiers left in the entire position except Division Commander Wang Deli, facing the Eighth Route Army's charge team of nearly a thousand people.

Everyone finally put down their weapons, and even the proud Wang Deli put down his weapons and ammunition and surrendered to the Eighth Route Army.

In this way, the entire battle of annihilation against the puppet army, from the sound of the first cannon to the end of the last gunshot, took less than an hour. One or two regiments of the puppet army were completely annihilated, and some of them were killed.

More than 900 people, including 120 seriously wounded, were arrested. As for the seizures, all the ammunition and materials stored by the puppet troops were seized, including half of the mortar company's equipment.

As for the first and second regiments of the third division, as well as the cavalry battalion. Among them, the cavalry battalion suffered 34 casualties and 20 serious injuries. The first regiment suffered little losses, with less than two platoons lost. The second regiment suffered heavy losses, but the losses were

Most of the soldiers died in front of Wang Deli's position. Among them, 124 were killed and 23 were seriously injured, which amounted to the loss of an entire infantry company.

Seeing the captured puppet soldiers one by one, they were escorted to the place where the prisoners were guarded by soldiers from the first and second regiments. Liu Hua, who had been paying attention to the battle situation, finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Damn it, little devils, it's finally your turn now.

..." Liu Hua said to himself.

"Chief of Staff, immediately send a report to Political Commissar Chen Revolutionary Chen on the outside of the ambush circle, asking him to immediately organize militiamen to enter the position, guard the prisoners, and clean the battlefield. The first and second regiments of the third division will immediately assemble to prepare to reinforce the rapid reaction brigade and eliminate the Japanese army.

Bantian Alliance." Liu Hua ordered loudly.

"Yes, division commander..." After saying that, Chief of Staff Li Qing began to make arrangements.

Sure enough, in less than a few minutes, countless fellow villagers armed with various weapons poured out from the back of Shenxian Mountain. After a few minutes of defense changes, the two main groups quickly replenished the ammunition lost in the battle and headed towards

Reinforcements came to the Sakata Regiment position where a fierce battle was going on.

At this time, Colonel Sakata was very depressed. A regiment of troops was actually ambushed by the Eighth Route Army. This was something the Empire had never encountered since its invasion of China. Just when Colonel Sakata ordered the Chief of Staff: Order the No. 1 troops on the four highlands.

A large brigade immediately opened fire to cover the main force as they broke out of the Eighth Route Army's encirclement. A burst of earth-shaking explosions rang out, scaring Captain Bantian into a cold sweat. He thought that the artillery shells carried by his artillery brigade had been detonated by the Eighth Route Army.

"Ah... Baga, your Excellency, Wing Commander, our First Brigade is finished." The Chief of Staff, who was just about to turn around and order the radio to send a report, was also attracted by the violent explosion and followed the sound of the explosion. Only the First Brigade was in sight.

Violent explosions occurred almost at the same time in the four occupied highlands. The huge air wave generated by the explosion overturned an unknown number of Imperial soldiers.

What happened next made Colonel Sakata know that the entire battle was a trap set by the Eighth Route Army. Because, just at the moment when the four highlands exploded, violent gunfire was heard from the four highlands. Look carefully.

Look, you can clearly see that the imperial army, which has fallen into chaos, is being swept away piece by piece by the intensive firepower of the Eighth Route Army. It is retreating steadily and has no room to fight back, let alone reinforce itself?

"Baga, we were fooled. The Eighth Route Army wanted to ambush us... Baga..." Seeing that the imperial troops on the four highlands were quickly submerged in the Eighth Route Army's ranks, he held up his binoculars.

The commander of the regiment, Colonel Sakata, who was observing the enemy's situation, turned pale, and beads of sweat began to fall. A brigade of troops, a brigade of elite imperial troops, were all inexplicably destroyed in less than ten minutes.

The jade was broken into pieces in the hands of the Eighth Route Army.

"Baga...I want the Eighth Route Army to pay with blood..." Colonel Sakata clenched his fists and said with a pale face.

"Order the Second Battalion and the Third Battalion to immediately charge to the four highlands under the cover of the artillery battalion. We must recapture the highlands and avenge the fallen Imperial warriors..." Colonel Sakata shouted to the surrounding people.

The captain ordered. But he didn't know that one bad news after another would soon reach his ears.

"Hi..." After receiving the order, the three captains immediately turned around and ran towards their own troops under the cover of the guards. However, the Bantian Regiment was indeed a Japanese field regiment. Faced with the intensive artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army,

Although a lot of soldiers were lost, there was no chaos in the entire soldier organization. Under the intensive machine gun fire of the Eighth Route Army, the two captains quickly mobilized four squadrons of counterattack forces.

Heavy machine guns were set up by the Japanese army, and grenade launchers began to fire grenades at the Eighth Route Army positions one after another in the hands of the Japanese army. The 12 mountain cannons of the Japanese artillery brigade and the six attached mountain cannons totaled 18 mountain cannons.

, under the organization of the soldiers, they quickly lined up and completed the preparations before the bombardment.

As the Eighth Route Army re-occupied the highlands, when accepting the mission, they knew that the positions they were holding would surely become the object of competition for the Japanese army. When the time came, the Japanese army would definitely occupy these four commanding heights to provide fire cover for their main force.

, highlighting the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, after wiping out all the Japanese troops on the high ground, the soldiers did not stop at all. They began to use various tools and various available things to build defenses, including the corpses of more than a hundred Japanese who were killed on the position.

, the soldiers did not let go, and they all piled up at the edge of the trench. In the words of the soldiers, asking them to take bullets for themselves was an atonement for the crimes they committed in China. There is another more important thing.

The reason is that after the Japanese army sees these corpses, their artillery can be restrained.

Returning to Xu Bin who had just occupied the high ground, after wiping out all the Japanese troops on the high ground, Xu Bin did not feel any melancholy, because he knew that as long as the Japanese army knew the news that the high ground was lost, they would fight back desperately to meet their own battle.

is the real beginning.

"First company commander, immediately build a position on the spot and dig along the Japs' original position...Second company commander immediately count the results of the battle and report the losses. Hurry up. The Japs don't have much time for us." Xu

Bin anxiously ordered to the two company commanders beside him.

Seeing the two company commanders taking the order and leaving, Xu Bin began to carefully observe his current situation and terrain. He raised his binoculars and saw that although his unit's machine guns and artillery were shooting wildly at the Japanese positions, except for the initial surprise attack

Other than that, the current effect is basically minimal. Many Japanese soldiers have been slowly gathering under the leadership of commanders at all levels. More importantly, the Japanese artillery brigade has been slowly moving. It is obvious that

He and the two companies behind him were about to face a very fierce battle.

The results and losses were quickly tallied up. The second company commander came to Xu Bin's side and spoke without saluting.

"Battal Commander, a reinforced Japanese squadron was completely wiped out by us. A total of 42 of our soldiers were killed and 12 seriously injured. They have all been carried down. Now there are 310 people in the two companies who can continue to fight. In addition, we captured the little Japanese heavy soldiers.

2 machine guns and 6 light machine guns. In addition, the two mortars of the Japanese were not blown up. They were all captured by us. We also found a hole where the Japanese had hidden ammunition. There were a lot of bullets and

Artillery shells..." the second company commander replied.

"It seems that the kid is quite well prepared. Since the kid has sent us all these things, let's collect them all. Hand over the two mortars and all the shells to the artillery platoon. Fire all the heavy machine guns and light machine guns.

Send them to the frontline positions. When the time comes, we will rely on these things to fight the Japanese. We must not waste any of them." Xu Bin was nervous when he heard that the captured spoils included mortars, heavy machine guns, and a lot of ammunition.

His brows finally relaxed. You know, with the addition of these weapons, this battle will be much easier to fight.

"Yes, battalion commander, I'll do it right away..." After saying that, the second company commander ran towards the first company that was building a position. At this moment, the company had assembled below Xu Bin's high ground.

A squadron of Japanese troops with a total of six heavy machine guns were lined up and placed less than 400 meters away from the front line.

"Woooooooo..." Suddenly, a whistling sound came, followed by a violent explosion 20 meters behind the high ground where Xu Bin was.

"No, the Japs are about to launch an artillery attack. This is a test firing by the Japs... Comrades, retreat immediately, leave behind the guard posts, and move them all to the back of the high ground... Hurry..." After hearing this

When the mountain exploded, Xu Bin, the battalion commander, was the first to react and gave a loud order. Upon hearing the order, company and platoon leaders at all levels also reacted immediately and retreated with weapons, leaving an empty high ground for

The little Japanese artillery shows off its power.

Sure enough, just as the last soldier withdrew from the high ground, another louder and longer roar came over, and four artillery shells accurately landed on the position the soldiers had just constructed, setting off a sea of ​​broken limbs and clods of soil.

Of course, these stumps and broken arms were all from the corpses of the little Japanese. The soldiers hid in the trenches that had been dug in the back mountain, checking the weapons in their hands and admiring the fireworks that the Japanese army set off for the soldiers for free.

Perhaps in order to capture the high ground at once, or perhaps because the Japanese thought they were carrying too many artillery shells, the entire bombardment lasted for more than ten minutes. In these ten minutes, more than 200 artillery shells fell in this area.

On the high ground of less than one kilometer, a cannonball fell almost every few square meters.

Just when the little devil thought that the Eighth Route Army on the top of the mountain had been almost wiped out by his own artillery, the soldiers of a squadron that had already been assembled, under the command of the squadron leader, were covered by six heavy machine guns, less than four meters from the high ground.

A charge was launched from a hundred meters away.

"Batalion Commander... Battalion Commander, the Japs are coming..." As soon as the Japs' shelling stopped, the sound of the warning sentry was heard on the top of the mountain.

"Comrades, enter the position immediately. The Japanese have begun to attack. The artillery platoon has set up an artillery position on the spot to provide fire support at any time." Xu Bin ordered loudly and was the first to rush towards the position that had been blown into ruins.

However, when everyone rushed to the position, they were all stunned by the sight before them. The entire position, including the trenches the soldiers had just dug, had been completely destroyed by the Japs' artillery fire, and only

There are only a few traces of the trenches dug by Lever. More importantly, even a security squad left on the position now has only four people left. As for the remaining soldiers, needless to say, they have all been sacrificed by the fierce attack of the little Japanese Lever.

Under gunfire.

"What are you still doing in a daze? Set up a position immediately..." Looking at the stunned soldiers and then seeing that a squadron kid in charge of the attack had advanced to a position 300 meters in front of the position, the battalion commander Xu Bin couldn't help but cursed loudly.

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