I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 283 The Militia Brigade Attacking

First, a group of militiamen carrying wooden boards rushed down from the position behind them.

They ran to the edge of the trench, took off the wooden boards on their bodies and laid them on the trench.

Then they jumped into the trenches, with two people carrying a short one-meter-long board.

The two of them set up the long board as the pier of the simple wooden bridge.

Then, the soldiers armed with semi-automatic rifles and shields (bullet-proof steel plates) rushed out of the position.

Then followed closely by soldiers holding hoes, engineering shovels and sacks.

Next came the light and heavy machine gun groups, the mortar group, and the disassembled Type 92 infantry gun.

The infantry battalion was the last to go over. The trench bunkers had not been dug properly, and if the infantry had gone over too early they would have become targets.

The artillery set up an artillery position behind a small woods.

Commander Cheng and Commander Ye were observing the enemy situation from their respective positions.

They looked through binoculars at the militiamen who had passed by first.

I wonder what the use of the "shields" they are holding is?

Those militiamen stuck all the "shields" in their hands into the ground. I wonder what they want?

I saw the soldier behind come up and put something down.

Then, under the cover of the "shield", they retreated together, retreating more than a hundred meters.

Nobutsu Sakata was trying his luck in the tent when he saw his chief of staff coming in.

"Sakata-kun, the sentry just reported that the Eighth Route Army has begun its attack.

But their vanguard stopped for a while 300 meters in front of this position, and then retreated. "

When Nobutsu Sakata heard that something was happening with the Eighth Route Army, he quickly got up and went to the observation post of the tent to check.

At this time, the morale of the Japanese army had dropped slightly, and it was freezing cold here, so they couldn't dig fortifications at all.

Many Japanese soldiers were squatting in a one-foot-deep pit, guarding against sudden attacks from the Eighth Route Army.

Fortunately, they had just piled the excavated soil in front of the trench.

Although it’s not deep enough, the Japanese are short!

The height of two feet above and below indirectly provided protection for the Japanese.

But this posture was too uncomfortable, and many Japanese soldiers simply lay on the ground, ready to shoot.

I was so tired and sweaty when digging the soil just now, so I stopped now.

When the February breeze blew in northwest Shanxi, the Japanese soldiers were almost frozen into human-shaped popsicles.

Looking at the retreating Eighth Route Army soldiers, they first stopped every thirty meters and then slowly retreated a distance of two hundred meters.

"Da da da... da da da..."

Under the command of a Japanese squadron leader, a Type 92 heavy machine gun opened fire.

After two short bursts of shots, the shields of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side were obviously not damaged.

In a place where the Japanese couldn't see, the Eighth Route Army soldiers holding shields were shocked and shook their arms.

A militia soldier's wrist was red and swollen, but fortunately it was not broken.

However, the impact of the heavy machine gun bullet also injured his wrist.

Behind the shield, there is an iron bracket for support.

Unfortunately, he was stuck by a stone and the bracket was not lowered in time, which caused him to be injured.

Nobutsu Sakata: "What? What material is this shield made of?

It can actually block the bullets from a heavy machine gun from 300 meters away?"

Looking at the Eighth Route Army soldiers, they retreated five hundred meters away and lay down on the ground again.

Sakata Nobutsu: "Haruta-kun, send a squad of Imperial warriors to check the area 300 meters ahead.

What tricks did the Eighth Route Army play in that place ahead? "

After a while, under the order of Chief of Staff Chuntian, fourteen Japanese soldiers sneaked to the front to investigate.

In the militia headquarters at the back, Shi Muqiao was still observing with a telescope.

"Where is Deputy Commander Lu now? It's been twenty minutes now, right?

Why haven't the six militia battalions he led reached Cangyun Ridge yet?

He doesn't have any heavy weapons, so why is he running so slowly?

Wait until he comes over and see how I criticize him."

A combat staff officer smiled and said, "Commander-in-Chief, Deputy Commander Lu is still seven or eight kilometers away from us."

Only twenty minutes had passed, how could he have come so quickly? "

Shimuqiao: "What's the situation outside now? Are the two regiments ready? Is there any news about Captain Li?"

Staff Officer: "Commander, the Type 92 infantry guns are ready and the mortars are ready to fire at any time.

I just received a telegram from Captain Li, saying that the vanguard of our new regiment will arrive in twenty minutes."

The two regiments of the Eighth Route Army will begin to deploy in a roundabout way after our artillery bombardment.

Shimuqiao looked at Fourteen's Japanese soldiers approaching the position he had set up.

He said seriously, "It's too late. Notify Captain Li and Lu Shan to come. I'm drinking and eating meat here.

If they come late, they won't even get to drink soup, so just don't be jealous of me."

Shi Muqiao brought the detonator over, and when the Japanese were two meters away, he pressed the detonator's lever hard.

Under the watchful eyes of the soldiers of the Sakata Regiment, dozens of explosive packs exploded at the ground 300 meters away.

By the way, the fourteen Japanese soldiers were blown into the sky.

Then the broken limbs and arms fell to the ground like broken sacks.

As the explosive pack exploded, Shimuqiao picked up the phone and shouted loudly: "Artillery Battalion, fire at me."

In an instant, all the artillery pieces of the independent battalion were aimed at the newly built fortifications of the Japanese.

As the Eighth Route Army's artillery shells came at a rapid speed, countless Japanese officers were shouting, "Artillery attack, lie down."

In the circular fortifications that had not yet been repaired, the Japanese soldiers tried to keep their bodies as low as possible.

Everyone relied on their luck to avoid the flying fragments of the shells.

"all……"

"Bakayaro, this is the Oerlikon 20mm machine gun. I've heard that the Chinese army is equipped with it.

I just didn't expect that this machine gun could also be used to attack infantry and fortifications.

Even though the imperial army is so rich, they only put it on warships.

Or it could be used for air defense operations on the Soviet border in the northeast.

Such an expensive machine gun, instead of fighting against planes, is used to attack infantry?

Mr. Chuntian, are all the Eighth Route Army soldiers so rich?"

The militiamen of the Shimuqiao Lianzhuang team have now begun to take action.

They took advantage of the fact that the Japanese soldiers were lying down and dared not look up, and the infantry quickly moved to a position of 300 meters.

With the help of the big holes created by the dynamite packs and the loosened soil, they desperately dug horizontal trenches.

All the Browning heavy machine gunners, completely disregarding the risk of sacrifice, set up their heavy machine guns at a distance of 300 meters.

With the help of the powerful machine gun, they followed the gaps in the broken Japanese fortifications.

More than twenty Browning 1919 air-cooled heavy machine guns fired fiercely into the circular fortifications.

At this time, the heavy weapons of the Sakata Regiment had been basically destroyed, and they had no chance to fight back.

And their infantry, in the midst of a hail of bullets, could not even think of firing back, let alone raising their heads.

It had already been discussed that the sound of the cannon would be the signal for the regiment to attack.

Commander Cheng and Commander Ye, each with two main battalions, rushed towards the two sides of the Sakata Regiment's position.

This kind of scene has always occurred when the Japanese army attacks the Chinese army.