Predator Reborn

Chapter 265 Battle for the Highlands (continued)

The soldiers who reacted picked up their engineering shovels and began to dig on the basis of the original official business. However, the situation on the position at this time was beyond everyone's expectation. Due to the fierce Japanese shelling, the surface of the entire position was almost

It was all a layer of floating soil. When the soldiers dug a shovel of soil, the soil next to the trench immediately rolled down. It could not play any role in reinforcing the trench unless there were sandbags here.

However, this is a battlefield, where do you get so many sandbags? Besides, the Japanese attacking troops are getting closer and closer, and the dense heavy machine gun bullets have reached the heads of the soldiers. There is no time at all. Look.

As a squadron of Japs advanced another 50 meters under the cover of a heavy machine gun, Xu Bin, the battalion commander, began to become anxious.

Just when Xu Bin was helpless as he watched the little Japs getting closer and closer, the bodies of the Japs that had not been blown up on the battlefield gave Xu Bin a great inspiration.

"Comrades, stop digging. Use the corpses of the little Japanese to build trenches for me. Come on, why are you still standing there? The little Japanese are about to come up..." Xu Bin, who had reacted, ordered loudly. Although the soldiers did not know how to use it.

The corpse of the little Japanese was still a little uncomfortable, but no one said anything in the face of the enemy. Soon, the corpses of the Japanese were dug out of the floating soil one by one by the soldiers and piled up on the edge of the position.

There were heavy machine guns and light machine guns. Under the orders of commanders at all levels, they were mounted directly on the little Japanese's body.

Finally, a defense fortification composed of the corpses of the little Japanese was completed by the soldiers. At this time, the little Japanese had advanced to a place less than 50 meters away from the position. Maybe it was because there was no gunfire from the Eighth Route Army on the high ground, or maybe it was because

The attacking Japs believed too much in their artillery units. Seeing that the high ground was already in front of them, and not a single bullet was fired. Everyone speeded up the charge. Even the squadron leader of the Japs had a smile on his face and waved his hands.

With the command knife in his hand, he drove his men to speed up the attack and occupy the high ground in front of them.

"Comrades, get down. It is forbidden to fire without my order..." Battalion Commander Xu Bin stopped the soldiers who wanted to open fire and ordered loudly. After hearing the order, the soldiers immediately lowered themselves knowingly.

His body was loaded with bullets, ready for a surprise attack on the little devil.

Finally, the little Japanese ran to a place only 50 meters away from the position. Seeing that the nearly 200 people had no regard for their own troops at all, they lined up in a dense formation and rushed toward him swarmingly.

As he came over, battalion commander Xu Bin had a smile on his face.

"Comrades, beat me hard..." Xu Bin roared loudly, holding a crooked light machine gun he had just captured, placing it on a bunker made of Japanese corpses, and frantically pulled the trigger.

When the soldiers around him heard the order, they all stuck out their heads and fired bullets from their rifles at the little Japs who were close at hand.

In an instant, a dense rain of bullets composed of 5 heavy machine guns (two of which were captured in the recent counterattack) and more than a dozen light machine guns, immediately stunned the little devils. One after another, the little devils were attacked.

The dense bullets knocked them to the ground, and the Japanese who wanted to fight back were killed one after another. At this time, the entire position was completely a one-sided massacre, yes, a massacre.

The little Japanese's dense attack formation, facing the airtight bullets, had basically no room to fight back except being cut layer by layer. Lying down...impossible, in such a small attack surface, and

Without any cover, he could lie down and retreat... even more impossible. The little devil took pictures of the dense formation, almost running and charging, although the lives of the soldiers in front were constantly harvested. But

, the soldiers behind still didn't know why and continued to charge. In this way, the retreating and charging soldiers would inevitably collide with each other, further exacerbating their demise.

"Kill..." Xu Bin roared angrily and kept pulling the trigger... He wanted to take advantage of this favorable opportunity to kill as many of the little devil's active forces as possible. However, after all, the little devil in front of him was

It is a well-trained field force. Although it faced a dense rain of bullets and lost nearly half of its troops, the remaining little Japs were still under the command of lower-level commanders, imitating the Eighth Route Army on the ground and using the skills of their comrades.

The corpse stood in front of him and he began to fight back. More importantly, the six heavy machine guns of the little Japanese who served as cover saw his soldiers lying down one after another and got out of the way of shooting. They opened fire one after another and began to suppress the fire.

Although there were only more than a small group of Japs in front of the soldiers. However, the Japs' precise marksmanship still caused huge casualties to the soldiers. The machine gunners who were shooting were hit by the Japs one by one, and a rifleman stuck out his head.

His hands were bruised and his head was bruised. In less than a few minutes of shooting, more than a platoon of troops had been lost on the position. On the other hand, the Japanese army, because they were well-trained, were all veterans on the battlefield, with only a dozen

A soldier was hit by a barrage of bullets from the soldiers.

"Order the artillery platoon to carry out indiscriminate artillery fire 50 meters in front of the position, quickly..." Seeing the constant casualties among the soldiers, Xu Bin ordered decisively and decided to use his artillery in advance, with a total of 5 mortars.

Cannon, give the little devil a head-on blow.

"Yes, battalion commander..." After receiving the order, a correspondent who followed Xu Bin closely braved the bullets flying above his head and began to crawl towards the artillery platoon position behind the mountain. Seeing that his correspondent was safe

After climbing to the rear of the high ground, battalion commander Xu Bin breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the machine gun and continued firing.

"All, all, all, all!" Finally, five dull sounds rang out from the mortar position behind the high ground. The dull sound of the shells being ejected was particularly clear amidst the fierce gunfire. Immediately afterwards, there were five violent blasts.

The explosion exploded in the hidden position of the Japanese army.

"Boom, boom, boom..." The violent explosion immediately knocked the little Japanese hiding behind the corpses of their comrades off their feet. The artillery platoon at the back of the high ground seemed to no longer worry about the shells after capturing the Japanese artillery shells.

After being shot, just as the shells exploded, five more shells shot out of the barrel, flying toward the Japanese position in a beautiful arc above the heads of the soldiers.

"Boom, boom, boom..." Suddenly, the entire Japanese position was completely enveloped by the artillery fire of the first battalion, and the casualties began to increase sharply.

"Baga...where did the Eighth Route Army get so many mortars, artillery, and our artillery? Why not fight back...Grenade, where are our grenade, fight back, fast, cover fire...

." The Japanese squadron leader lying behind the bodies of his comrades saw the soldiers around him being bombed to the ground. He cursed loudly and ordered the communications soldiers around him to call for artillery support from the artillery brigade.

But he didn't know that the mortars equipped by the artillery platoon of the first battalion were direct-fire artillery, and the artillery positions were built on the back of the high ground. Almost all the artillery equipped by the little devils were mountain cannons, which could not hit the Eighth Route Army's artillery positions.

Above. I can only watch the offensive squadron struggling under the shelling of the Eighth Route Army, but I can only worry.

The Japs' grenade launchers really wanted to fight back, but above Jiuzi and the others, a dozen light and heavy machine guns from the Eighth Route Army formed an airtight fire net. As soon as they showed their heads, they would be hit.

Just when the squadron leader finished issuing the order, several grenade launchers who had just emerged were hit and fell into a pool of blood. The remaining grenade launchers were so frightened that they retracted their heads. Five rounds

No matter how much his squadron leader yells and curses, he just doesn't raise his head.

"Okay, good fight, I want to give credit to the artillery platoon...:" Seeing the more than a hundred little Japs in front of the position howling like ghosts as they were bombed by five of their own mortars, I couldn't help shouting excitedly. At the same time,

, the machine gun in his hand did not stop shooting. As soon as the little devil showed his head, he would immediately be fired by at least one machine gun.

Finally, when the artillery platoon fired the tenth round of artillery shells, the squadron leader Xiaojiazi could no longer hold on. Because in the shelling just now and the strafing of the Eighth Route Army on the top of the mountain, he once again lost nearly a squadron of troops. Now gather

Around him, there are only less than one squadron of troops with fighting capacity left. No, not a squadron, but half a squadron.

"Baga... this is simply a massacre... Hurry, retreat immediately... Hurry, retreat..." Finally, the Japanese squadron leader gave the order to retreat. He was suppressed by the soldiers for ten minutes.

When the little devils heard the order, they almost all breathed a sigh of relief. They took their weapons and slowly retreated to the back of the position, each one running faster than the other.

Seeing that less than half of the team was left, the Japs had withdrawn from the range of their machine guns. Battalion Commander Xu Bin dropped the machine gun in his hand. Seeing more than a hundred corpses of Japs lying in front of his position, Xu Bin also

He finally breathed a sigh of relief. Because he knew that he had almost wiped out one of the Jaap's squadron this time, and the Jaap would be honest for a while, but the Jaap still had a desire for revenge.

"Order, everyone should move to the rear of the position to rest, leaving one squad on guard. Retreat immediately..." Xu Bin ordered loudly. You know, the little devil is very retaliatory, even though he lost a squadron of troops.

, it will take a long time for the infantry to charge again, but the dozens of mountain cannons in the hands of the little devils are not just for nothing.

Sure enough, Japanese commander Colonel Sakata was furious when he saw that a squadron he was attacking had lost most of it in less than half an hour, leaving less than half of the squadron's troops withdrew.

In addition to committing suicide by caesarean section, the squadron leader ordered the two mountain artillery squadrons to carry out indiscriminate retaliatory bombardment on the high ground where Xu Bin held fast, killing as much of the Eighth Route Army's effective forces as possible and avenging the shattered imperial warriors.

However, he did not know that on the high ground that had just caused huge casualties to the Japanese army, at this time, except for a scattered and hidden security squad, there was no longer a single Eighth Route Army soldier to be seen. Even the bodies of the fallen comrades were all killed by the soldiers.

They moved to the back mountains and handed them over to the militiamen who came to support them.

"Battal Commander, in the battle just now, 34 people were killed in the first company, 18 were seriously injured, and one platoon was lost. Now there are 110 people left to participate in the battle. Weapons and ammunition were hesitantly seized a large amount of ammunition from the Japanese army, which is very sufficient. The second company lost 41 people,

26 people were seriously injured, and more than 90 people are still able to participate in the battle." After the two company commanders arranged for the troops to rest, they ran to battalion commander Xu Bin to report the losses.

"Well, let the soldiers seize the time to rest. As long as the commander does not issue a general attack order, the Japanese will never give up occupying this high ground. I think there will be more fierce battles in a while, so we must seize the time to rest. In addition, at the back

Search for as many sacks as possible among the militiamen, and use them to build fortifications later." Battalion Commander Xu Bin thought of the situation where there was nothing to build fortifications, and quickly ordered.

"Yes, battalion commander, I'll do it right away..." After the two company commanders finished speaking, they turned around and went to make arrangements.

Just as commanders at all levels arranged for the soldiers to make corrections, the Japanese's retaliatory bombardment began. Under the order of the commander of the regiment, Colonel Sakata, the free artillery shells continued to pour on the position, almost the entire highland was

Shrouded in gunfire from the Japs.

At this time, the battalion commander Xu Bin was not in the mood to enjoy the free fireworks in front of him. He was thinking about how to continue the battle for this high ground. Because now, he had just experienced the first charge of the Japs.

He lost one-third of his troops. And next time, the little Japanese will definitely not make the same mistake of underestimating the enemy just now, and will change his tactics. And what should he do?

Just like the tactics just now, push all the troops to the front line. If the little devil changes his tactics, his troops will not only suffer heavy losses, but may also lose their position. More importantly, in the battle just now, because of the little devil,

The Japs were all suppressed in front of their position by their own machine gun fire, so they had no chance to use the grenade. If the Japs used the grenade next time, how should they deal with this problem?

Countless questions began to appear in Xu Bin's mind, and countless tactics were rejected by these problems. Xu Bing began to slowly sort out the tactics that the division commander had given him when he was teaching the team. He hoped to learn from these tactics.

In law, find a tactic that suits the current situation.

Finally, Xu Bin's frown relaxed. A very familiar tactic in later generations appeared in Xu Bin's mind. That is, when the attacker's weapons and firepower are stronger than his own, the defender should try his best to

The firepower should be configured to be heavy in the front and light in the back, while the soldiers should be light in the front and heavy in the back, and more than two defensive positions should be constructed on the blocking position....

"Correspondent, call the two company commanders over immediately, hurry up..." Xu Bin ordered as he looked at the high ground that was completely covered by Japanese artillery fire.

"Batalion Commander, what's the matter? Is there something unexpected that makes you so anxious?" The two company commanders quickly came to Xu Bin.

"Well, we just repelled the attack of a squadron of the Japs, and we also lost one-third of our strength. Later, the Japs will definitely attack again, and we will face a more severe battle. Taking advantage of the Japanese artillery bombardment

Let's talk about the process and discuss how we can continue the fight later. There is one principle, that is, no matter what, even if all the troops are wiped out, we cannot lose this high ground." Xu Bin said.

"Battal Commander, I think we should fight as we did just now. Although our losses were very serious, a Japanese squadron was wiped out by us after all." The first company commander suggested.

"No. We must not push our troops up at once. We just took advantage of the little Japs who underestimated the enemy and caught them off guard. More importantly, we have strong firepower and suppressed the Japs, so that their grenades were not used.

It has its due role. I think this time, the Japs will definitely change their tactics..." Before Xu Bin could speak, the Second Company Commander immediately retorted. After hearing what the Second Company Commander said, Xu Bin expressed his admiration

He glanced at the Second Company Commander. He was obviously very satisfied with the Second Company Commander's answer.

"Well, I also agree with what the second company commander said. It will definitely not work according to the pattern just now. Everyone is discussing..." Xu Bin said. After finishing speaking, the three of them fell into silence.

"In this way, we will follow the tactics given to us by the commander. We will allocate our troops with light weight at the front and light at the back. We will allocate firepower with light weight at the front and light at the back. We will use all our heavy weapons and only attack one platoon of troops at a time. Even if it is a little devil,

With their grenade launchers, they are not a particularly big threat to us... More importantly, we can arrange the main force to the second-line position. If the time is right, we can also fight an ambush against the Japs...

.What do you think?" Xu Bin said

"Good idea, battalion commander, I agree..." "I agree too..." After hearing Xu Bin's words, the two company commanders immediately agreed.

"Okay. Now I order, after the bombardment of the little devils is over, all the people will go to the position to build bunkers, and the little devils will launch a charge, leaving only two platoons of troops and all the heavy weapons. Each of our platoons will take turns to move in, and the remaining

The troops are hidden on the flanks and rear flanks of the high ground, forming a loose encirclement. If there is a chance, we will put the little Japs in and fight, and try to annihilate another squadron of Japs..." Xu Bin ordered.

"Yes, battalion commander..." Although the Japanese commander at this time thought that the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army in the four highlands was very terrifying, he still arrogantly believed that these Eighth Route Army just wanted to stop him and had no ability to completely annihilate his reinforced regiment.

After losing a squadron, Colonel Sakata was not discouraged and ordered a squadron to charge again. At the same time, he ordered the artillery to prepare for a retaliatory bombardment, which must destroy the Eighth Route Army's bones on the top of the mountain.

The half-hour shelling was over. When the soldiers walked up to the position, the entire position was really empty of corpses. But these corpses were all the corpses of the little devils. Stepping on the soft floating soil, the little devils made the Eighth Route Army realize again

What is artillery coverage...