Predator Reborn

Chapter 306: The End of Itagaki Division (3)

"Boom, boom, boom..." Another burst of intensive shell explosions rang in my ears. The little Japanese who had just escaped the first round of artillery fire and survived. Before he could react from the shock, he was once again hit by intensive artillery fire.

covered.

After several rounds of artillery fire, the smarter little Japs had already dropped their grenade launchers and escaped from the position that had been plunged into a sea of ​​fire. Only a small number of soldiers withdrew with their grenade launchers.

Out of the mortar shooting range. As for the remaining Japanese soldiers, they became victims of the Eighth Route Army's intensive artillery fire, just like the grenades in their hands.

"Baga...how could this happen? Where did the Eighth Route Army get so much artillery fire? Hurry. Heavy artillery brigade, fight back immediately. We must destroy the enemy's artillery positions." Seeing that the Eighth Route Army actually used such dense artillery fire to fight back, the United Nations

The captain, Nagano Yuichiro, was not only surprised but also surprised. He gave a loud order to the captain of the heavy artillery brigade who was also in shock beside him.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Captain. I will immediately order the heavy artillery brigade to fight back. I will destroy the enemy's artillery positions and let them taste the power of my heavy artillery brigade." Major Ichiro Ichiro, the captain of the brigade, who reacted from the shock, quickly replied.

He rushed towards his heavy artillery position.

But he didn't know that it would take at least several minutes until his heavy artillery brigade received the order to fire, turned the heavy cannons around, and finally fired. And just these few minutes were enough for the soldiers to fire.

After five rounds of artillery fire, these artillerymen immediately took up the mortars and retreated to the rear of the position without any hesitation. Only a smoke-filled and empty artillery position was left, allowing the Japanese army to

Heavy artillery bombardment....

"Woooooo..." Just when the soldiers couldn't withdraw from the artillery position, in less than a minute, a harsh whistling sound came from the sky. A heavy artillery shell hit directly with a huge whistling sound.

Arrive at the artillery position just now.

"Boom..." A deafening explosion sounded, and the soldiers lying hundreds of meters behind the artillery position felt the earth tremble slightly. And with the explosion of the artillery shells, the artillery position that was flat just now began to explode.

Under the huge power, a huge deep pit immediately appeared.

"Oh my god, these 150mm howitzers are really powerful. No wonder the division commander repeatedly asked to save these heavy artillery and all the shells as much as possible." After admiring the power of the explosion of the first shell of the Japanese heavy artillery, I lay down on the position.

Commander Sun Xingbang couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

At this time, there was indeed another scene on the Japanese army's position. Seeing that the first shell of his heavy artillery brigade hit the target, almost every kid began to cheer. Even the Japanese commander Yuichiro Nagano couldn't help but admire it.

"Yoshi... Mr. Shao Cun is indeed an excellent artillery commander. Such a powerful howitzer was actually in his hands, achieving the first hit rate. Yoxi, order the heavy artillery brigade to attack the enemy's artillery position immediately.

When conducting an artillery fire coverage, the enemy's artillery must be completely destroyed." Yuichiro Nagano nodded with a smile and ordered.

Immediately, under the order of the commander, the Japanese heavy artillery brigade fired five rounds of artillery fire before stopping. A total of 60 heavy artillery shells fell on the small artillery position. When the smoke cleared, it was still a flat artillery position.

After being baptized by the Japanese heavy artillery, I now looked like an injured patient, with one-meter-deep craters everywhere all over my body...

"Yo Xi, the shelling effect is very good. Now the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army has become completely in ruins. Chief of Staff, what is the loss of our army in the shelling just now." Through the telescope, he saw the artillery position full of craters.

The commander of the regiment, Colonel No Yuichiro, nodded with satisfaction and asked the chief of staff beside him.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Wing Commander, the situation is very bad, the losses of the troops are very serious..." the chief of staff replied, lowering his head.

"Nani, I want specific casualty figures. Now we have less than 1,800 heroic imperial soldiers left, and we cannot lose any more." Nagano Yuichiro frowned and asked.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Captain. In the shelling just now, a total of 84 Imperial soldiers were shattered, and 24 were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness. In addition, there are only 15 grenade launchers left in the regiment that can be used. The remaining

The grenades fired can only average ten rounds per grenade..." The chief of staff lowered his head and did not dare to raise his head.

"Bagya Road... the cunning Eighth Route Army. But fortunately, in the shelling just now, our heavy artillery brigade has destroyed the enemy's artillery position. In other words, in the next battle, we will not be attacked

Artillery fire from the Eighth Route Army." The regiment leader quickly reacted from his anger. Thinking of the violent artillery counterattack just now, he felt excited and regained his previous confidence.

However, he didn't know that in the counterattack just now, his heavy artillery brigade carried out random bombings at the empty artillery positions, which did not cause any damage to the artillery in the first division. Only two of them

The heavy artillery shells missed the target and hit by mistake, causing dozens of casualties to soldiers in one division.

Just after the shelling, the two sides seemed to have reached a tacit understanding. There was no next move and they began to remain silent. However, the soldiers who had just escaped the enemy's shelling did not give up this advantageous time. During the Japanese shelling

After it was over, he immediately climbed out of the bunkers and trenches where he was hiding and began to continue digging trenches.

As the width of the trenches increased, more and more soldiers joined in digging the trenches. As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers. With thousands of people digging desperately, the entire trench was finally completed before dawn. One mountain cannon after another.

, the field artillery was pushed by the artillery through the wide communication trench into the trench less than 50 meters away from the Japanese defensive position. Mortars were set up directly at the forefront of the entire position. Teams of teams served as

The attacking soldiers, under the leadership of their respective commanders, held rifles with bayonets fixed and lurked in the trenches.

In short, at this moment, all the soldiers in the entire first division were quietly standing in their combat positions, waiting for commander Sun Xingbang's attack order.

"Commander, it's going to be daybreak. In two hours, the Japanese army will have plane support. We must get together with these little devils before the Japanese planes arrive, so that their planes can't function.

Any role." Wang Degui, who stood next to Sun Xingbang and served as the temporary chief of staff, looked at the increasingly brighter sky and reminded Sun Xingbang, who was silent next to him.

"Order all artillery units at the front to bombard the enemy's defensive positions for ten minutes. Ten minutes later, all troops will begin to attack. After occupying the current position, hold on to the spot..." Sun Xingbang ordered loudly to the correspondent beside him. Then,

This order was conveyed to the ears of more than a dozen commanders via telephone.

"Boom, boom, boom..." In an instant, the Gongcun battlefield, which had been silent for less than 4 hours, immediately erupted with the sound of shelling. Countless mortars and grenade launchers followed Sun Xingbang's order.

Under the command, artillery shells immediately began to pour into the Japanese position not far away. Especially the 12 mountain field guns of the artillery battalion, facing the Japanese position very close at hand. The barrel of each cannon, under the control of each gunner, almost

It was a complete draw. At this time, it was the right thing to use bayonets on the cannons.

Facing the Japanese army's position only a short distance away, almost every artillery shell fired would set off a rain of blood on the Japanese army's position. Under the intense artillery fire of the soldiers, those little Japanese who stood firm in their fortifications had no choice but to wait for death.

, almost all the remaining soldiers knelt in their trenches, begging for the protection of Amaterasu.

Since this attack only occupied part of the Japanese army's positions. Therefore, as the commander, Sun Xingbang did not waste the few artillery shells in his hand. The shelling only lasted less than ten minutes before stopping. What followed was the movement to

At the forefront of the position, dozens of heavy machine guns fired.

Under the suppression of the soldiers' dense rain of bullets, those Japanese soldiers who had survived the recent artillery fire faced the dense rain of bullets and looked at the heavy machine guns around them that had been blown into a pile of parts. Their faces once again showed fear.

His expression. Although the roars of his commanders were constantly heard in his ears, not many soldiers dared to stick out their heads and shoot.

"Da da da... ah ah ah..." The intensive firing of heavy machine guns and the screams of soldiers after being shot continued to undermine the remaining confidence of the Japanese army. The regiment commander returned to the headquarters

Colonel Nagano Yuichiro was extremely anxious when he saw the sight of the telescope, but he was helpless.

Because in the shelling just now, almost all of his grenade launchers were lost. What he didn't expect was that the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side still had so much artillery fire... Seeing his defenses, under the Eighth Route Army's intensive artillery fire,

Under the blow, he fell into a sea of ​​fire, and he was really helpless.

"Your Excellency, Captain, let the heavy artillery brigade fight back... Otherwise, our position will be destroyed without an attack by the Eighth Route Army." Looking at the Imperial Army in the fortifications under the heavy rain of bullets from the Eighth Route Army's heavy machine guns,

Soldiers, without fire suppression, were constantly shot and fell to the ground. The chief of staff suggested anxiously.

"Baga...Chief of Staff, didn't you just see the power of our heavy artillery? If we shelled the Eighth Route Army positions, our own positions would also be affected. No, absolutely not, we can't use our own artillery fire.

Kill and injure your own soldiers. Order the imperial warriors on the front line, as the most elite soldiers of the empire, to use their courage to fight to the end with the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side and hold their position." After hearing what the chief of staff said, the captain immediately objected.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Wing Commander..." The Chief of Staff turned around to convey the order.

"Tick tock... charge... comrades, charge... kill the Japanese..." Just when the chief of staff left the headquarters, the sound of the Eighth Route Army's unique charge horn came from the front line.

Then came the deafening shouts of killing. Countless Eighth Route Army soldiers, with rifles already loaded with bayonets in their hands, rushed out of their positions under the cover of intensive heavy machine gun fire, and rushed towards their endangered position.

"Baga... Bageya Road... The Eighth Route Army has launched a charge... Order all soldiers to start counterattack immediately, quick, counterattack..." Looking at the groups of Eighth Route Army soldiers, the commander also began to become anxious.

, roared loudly to the staff behind him.

"Kill me..." Finally, under the threat of the commander of the regiment, the squadron leaders, and the squad leader with their swords, the little devil finally stretched out his head and took out his rifle. He risked being hit by bullets at any time.

danger and began to launch a limited counterattack.

"Bang bang bang...ta da da..." Along with the messy sound of rifles on the Japanese army's position, intermittent machine gun fire sounded. The charging soldiers began to suffer casualties one after another. However, this situation was urgent.

In less than half a minute, after paying the price of some soldier casualties, the soldiers had rushed to within 30 meters of the Japanese position and within grenade throwing distance.

"Comrades, grenades...boom, boom, boom..." Under the command of the Eighth Route Army commander, groups of grenades began to fall on the Japanese army's circular fortifications, setting off patches of blood rain. Suddenly, under the dense fire of grenades,

Under the blow, the gunfire of the Japanese counterattack suddenly became much quieter. At this moment, the soldiers once again accelerated the speed of the charge. The last 30 meters of distance, under the rapid charge of the soldiers, only used

It was finished in less than half a minute.

"Charge... kill..." | In the blink of an eye, the soldiers rushed to the edge of the Japanese army's ring fortifications. Amidst bursts of shouts of killing, the soldiers raised their rifles and jumped into the ring fortifications.

Among them, the final hand-to-hand combat with the few remaining Japs began.

Soon, as a steady stream of Eighth Route Army soldiers joined the battle group, the few dozen little Japs left in the fortifications were quickly submerged in the wave of soldiers. Similarly, the same thing happened at several other charging locations.

The scene. The entire attack, from the beginning to the occupation of the enemy's position, ended successfully in less than 40 minutes.

As the battlefield slowly calmed down, the dividing line between the positions held by the Chinese and Japanese sides gradually became clear. In the circular fortifications with a radius of 2 kilometers, the front and back of the first division occupied a total distance of almost 800 meters, and

This 800-meter distance was divided into six different positions. The Japanese army was completely separated from the six fortifications occupied by the Eighth Route Army, and was not connected to each other, becoming a lone army.

"Reporting to your Excellency, Captain, the Eighth Route Army did not continue to attack after occupying part of our army's positions. Instead, they stood firm in the occupied fortifications of our army. Judging from their movements, it seemed that they were trying to eliminate the remaining positions of our army in the fortifications one by one.

Troops," the chief of staff introduced.

"Yo Xi, notify all the troops that can be contacted. Let them stand on the spot and fight to the death. Reinforcements from our main division will arrive within two days. Order all remaining reserves to occupy positions within a distance of the Eighth Route Army.

At a distance of 50 meters, build a defensive fortification again. We must hold on until the division reinforcements arrive." Colonel Yuichiro No, the commander of the regiment, ordered loudly.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Wing Commander. Wing Commander, are you going to send a request for assistance to your Excellency, the division commander immediately..." the chief of staff nodded in reply.

"Yo Xi, Chief of Staff, please send a telegram to the division commander immediately. Your Excellency, division commander, starting at 12 o'clock last night, our unit was besieged by the main force of the Independent Division of the Eighth Route Army. After about a day and night of bloody fighting, our 11th Infantry

With the assistance of the heavy artillery brigade, the regiment caused a large number of casualties to the enemy. However, due to the insufficient strength of our army, at eight o'clock this morning, our army's positions had been broken through by the Eighth Route Army in many places. Now, the two armies are

into chaos. Since the total strength of the Eighth Route Army exceeds 10,000, and with the support of a large amount of artillery fire, our 11th Infantry Regiment can only hold on for two days. We request the division commander for operational guidance... 11th Infantry Regiment

Regiment Commander, Colonel Yuichiro No. Chief of Staff, send the telegram immediately, quickly..." After dictating the telegram, the Regiment Commander signed his name on the telegram and ordered.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Wing Commander..." the Chief of Staff turned and walked towards the radio station next to him.

Compared with the chaotic Japanese military headquarters, the atmosphere in the temporary headquarters of the first division was obviously much better. At this time, Commander Sun Xingbang and temporary chief of staff Wang Degui were standing at the lookout, holding up the binoculars in their hands.

Carefully observe the chaotic positions of the enemy and ourselves.

"Haha, Counselor Wang, the forces of the enemy and ours are now completely mixed together. Even if the Japanese planes arrive later, they will not have any impact on us." Sun Xingbang said excitedly as he looked at the fierce battlefield.

"Yes, Commander, our top priority now is to control the pace of the troops' attack. At the same time, withdraw all the artillery units on the front line and save the artillery shells to launch the final general attack on the enemy." Staff officer Wang Degui suggested.

"Yes, what Staff Officer Wang said is very correct. Operation staff, immediately convey the words of Staff Officer Wang intact to the ears of every commander on the front line, as soon as possible." Sun Xingbang nodded with deep understanding and said to

The busy combat staff behind him ordered.

"Yes, Commander...Commander, here are the losses and the number of enemies annihilated just reported by each unit..." the combat staff immediately agreed. At the same time, he handed a piece of paper filled with a list to Staff Wang

in the hand.