Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 540

Chapter 540 Captain Ironhead (Part 1)

In fact, the moment Shinji Morita was killed with one shot, the encounter was destined to end in suspense.

The Japanese army, which lost its top commander, still has a certain ability to counterattack, but it has lost its most important decisiveness.

If Major Shinji Morita was still alive, he would definitely issue a retreat order when he found that the Chinese had resolutely charged towards the position in an attempt to resolve the battle in the shortest possible time.

As long as a small infantry team is left to fight fiercely with the opponent, he and most of his elite subordinates still have a chance to escape into the wilderness.

Because this area is too big, even if Tang Dao has already asked two infantry platoons to be surrounded by two wings in advance, due to the strength of the troops, there is still a wide enough space.

The flares carried by Tang Daobu are limited. When the moon breaks into the dark clouds again, darkness will become the best cover for the Japanese army.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing as Morita Shinji died.

The Japanese troops on the left and right wings did not receive any military orders from 200 meters away. Although they were suppressed by the Chinese army, they could only resist with all their strength.

Until Tang Dao personally led four infantry squads and used a wave of grenade bombardment to charge the entire army, smashing the most important corner of the Japanese triangular position in less than two minutes.

The Japanese troops on both wings were shot wildly by a heavy machine gun and four light machine guns from the top of the hill. Only then did they realize that the Chinese who blew the charge horn had already killed the 1st Infantry Squadron on their rear flank.

Major Shinji Morita was missing. Whether it was attacking, retreating, or continuing to fight on the spot, there was no order issued through the hand-cranked siren.

Hand-cranked sirens are an extremely important tool for Japanese infantry squadron-level units. The squadron commander basically uses the sound produced by this tool to issue tactical instructions to three infantry squads on a battlefield under heavy artillery fire.

Of course they didn't know that Major Shinji Morita was fatally shot by the most talented sniper marksman in their opponent's camp. The squadron leader who accompanied Shinji Morita personally commanding the 1st Infantry Team together with the signal soldier carrying a hand-cranked siren, In that wave of covering attacks involving nearly 80 long-handled grenades, he was hit by a grenade fragment that exploded in the air and died on the spot.

From that moment on, they were on their own.

However, by the time the two Japanese infantry squads woke up, it was already too late.

A heavy machine gun with a rate of fire of 500 rounds per minute and an effective range of 1,000 meters was more than 200 meters away, blocking their escape route from a high position.

The only grenadier who could pose a threat to it was almost completely killed and wounded, and any infantryman who picked up a grenade and wanted to attack it almost became a key target of the Chinese side. Whether it was a rifle or a machine gun, the dense flow of bullets As a result, the new grenade launcher who was still in the test-firing stage hardly survived for more than half a minute.

The most trustworthy heavy firearms of the imperial infantry, light infantry, turned out to be a reminder.

After paying the price of seven or eight people in a row, no one even picked up the grenade due to the ferocity of the Japanese army.

You may lose your life in a shootout with the Chinese, but you will definitely lose your life with that thing. Choose one of the two, how simple a choice it is? Not all Japanese are tough.

Like the iron head, that is because the iron head does not hit the steel plate.

Now, they collide.

Speaking of iron heads, there are also iron heads in China.

As the commander of the fire support company, Cheng Tietou was originally ordered to follow three infantry companies with three machine guns and six heavy machine guns at a distance. He only waited for the three infantry companies to reach the front of the Japanese artillery position. If the sneak attack failed, Entering the critical stage, the machine guns and heavy machine guns under his command will open the charge channel for the entire army.

However, because night attacks must be kept absolutely quiet, even if the packhorses are muzzled, they cannot be guaranteed to be safe. Therefore, large objects such as machine guns weighing nearly 200 kilograms can only be carried on the shoulders of the machine gunners.

Don't look at the 20 people in a cannon squad, plus the artillery shells and the cannon crew's own equipment, the average weight on each person's head is nearly ten kilograms.

This speed of travel is obviously not comparable to that of infantry companies that have removed other burdens and left only weapons and equipment.

So, no matter how good Tietou was, he and his fire support company still fell 1,300 meters behind the three infantry companies.

If the three infantry companies had to immediately launch a strong attack due to exposure or other reasons as soon as they arrived at the front line, then Cheng Tietou would definitely be subject to strict military discipline for being late. Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Independent Battalion has just formed. At least half of the fire support company is from the former Songjiang Security Regiment soldiers. If they only carry guns and the rigorously trained veterans of the Guards Army like the Sixing Battalion, They may be able to keep up with the high-speed march, but it is absolutely impossible to maintain this speed while carrying such heavy equipment.

Of course, Tang Dao also considered the actual situation of the fire support company. Without the help of pack horses, it would be impossible for them to keep up with the light infantry, so they deliberately postponed the assembly time by forty minutes, and at the same time, they also gave time to the continuous march. The infantrymen covering nearly ten kilometers had enough time to repair.

But unfortunately, no one expected to encounter the Japanese army halfway, a typical bandit encountering a child thief.

What's even more unfortunate is that the fire support company's field radio is out of order. Cheng Tietou didn't receive the order given by Tang Dao at all. Tang Dao, who has already entered the battle, certainly has no time to worry about whether the fire support company can rush quickly. Come on, without a fire support company, he must deal with the Japanese in a short enough time.

So, at the moment when the battle started, Cheng Tietou, who was panting and rushing with his subordinates, suddenly heard the faint sound of explosions coming from the distance. Even if he was as experienced in combat, he couldn't help but be confused.

I turned on the flashlight covered with a cloth and carefully compared the map, and then called the guide to confirm carefully that I had not gone to the wrong place. Only then did I dare to conclude that it was an encounter between my vanguard and the Japanese army.

According to the first reaction of a normal person, Cheng Tietou would naturally lead the fire support company to quickly move closer to the direction of the sound of gunfire.

However, Cheng Tietou was not the second lieutenant platoon leader who just followed orders. He knew that this was a battlefield, the vanguard could encounter Japanese troops, and there might be other Japanese troops here.

Although his fire support company is equipped with machine guns and heavy machine guns, if he loses the protection of infantry and encounters Japanese infantry, and there are no fortifications in this wilderness, his fire support company will be like the Japanese Sixth Heavy Artillery Brigade. The regiment was the same, even though it had heavy artillery, it was still killed by the advance regiment of no more than 2,000 people, leaving them defenseless.

In other words, an infantry company with a fire support company can almost function as an infantry battalion, but with only a fire support company, an infantry platoon can handle them.

The long-range firepower characteristics of fire support companies are destined to be only catalysts but not the main force.

So, the iron head is not so iron this time.

The entire army was immediately ordered to remain silent. The machine gun team quickly assembled the machine gun, loaded the shells, and hung the ammunition belt on the machine gun.

Captain Ironhead's caution saved him and the fire support company.

Within ten minutes, one of the three groups of scouts he sent came back almost crawling all the way.

Without waiting for his report, the distant gasps and the unique sound of big-leather shoes on the mud made the entire fire support company fall into silence.

That turned out to be Japanese.

Although the darkness blocks everyone's sight, the clearly audible sounds remind these Chinese soldiers who have experienced the battlefield.

The Japanese army was less than 50 meters away from them in a straight line.

The soldiers couldn't see their company commander's face, or even his figure, but they all turned their eyes to him invariably.

Attack or remain silent?

This may also be one of the most difficult choices Cheng Tieshou has faced in his life.

The attack can wipe out this group of unprepared Japanese troops, but what happens next? Then the Japanese infantry will crawl to the ground, and then use the width of the battlefield to spread out the infantry to reduce casualties, and then use grenade launchers to bombard clearly visible firepower points. Whether it is a machine gun or a heavy machine gun, continuous The firepower suppressed the infantry, and it was heavy and had little mobility.

If you fire, you will be blown up by the grenade. If you don't fire, you will not be able to suppress the Japanese infantry. The Japanese infantry will move forward. When they shorten the distance and enter the attack range of their melon grenades, that will be the entire fire support company. of hell.

But if there is no attack, where will these Japanese troops running at a small pace go? To support their colleagues? Could it be that he was going to watch these Japanese soldiers attack his comrades?

Facing the Japanese planes that swooped down from a high altitude and fired wildly with two airborne machine guns, Cheng Tietsou did not break a sweat, but on this winter night, Captain Tietou's forehead was dripping with sweat.

(End of this chapter)

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