War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 249 Beat him!

"Wang Tuan!"

"The devil's plane!"

At Xifengkou, a soldier suddenly pointed to the distant sky, and Wang Changhai immediately stood up behind the leeward parapet.

When he looked in the direction the soldier pointed, he saw more than ten planes flying over the northeastern heights of Xifengkou...

next second!
boom! boom! boom! boom! boom! boom!
On the entire ridge, almost at intervals, a ball of explosive flame would rise up, with billowing black smoke;

The whole series of explosions seemed to have been planned in advance. They continued on the top of the mountain and on both sides of the mountain, bombing out balls of fire as if to flatten the mountain.

"Little devil, I'll fuck your ancestors!!!"

Wang Changhai stood on the city wall and shouted at the top of his voice, but it still couldn't eliminate the pain from the bottom of his heart!
The soldiers defending the high ground northeast of Xifengkou were all from his 217th Regiment. They were living people. How could they withstand such a bombing?
Besides, how wide can the ridge be?

Where can you let the soldiers hide?
But, they are soldiers, and they serve to defend their country. If they are not allowed to serve at this time, who will?
Wang Changhai's heart felt like it was being carried by Sun Wukong and rolled over for thousands of miles. From the initial heartache, he turned into helplessness as he watched the Northeast Heights in front of Xifengkou being bombed, because he had no way out because he had no air superiority.

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Northeast Highlands.

Xu Chaoyang, who was lying on the gentle slope at the bottom of the hill, was looking up at the sky and laughing. He had been prepared for this bombing. He had seen similar things twice in Xiaojieji and Dashuyingzi. If he was still unprepared and foolishly let his men defend the high positions and get bombed, wouldn't that be crazy?
Therefore, Xu Chaoyang had his men collect the corpses early in the morning and place the remains of the Japanese devils and the bodies of the fallen soldiers of the first battalion in a lying position on the top of the Northeast Highlands. He also placed the unused guns that had been seized last night next to the corpses. He didn't believe that when a plane passed by at high speed, there would be time to distinguish whether the people lying below were corpses or living people.

At the same time, Xu Chaoyang ordered all the soldiers of the first battalion to retreat to the gentle slope. They had been preparing since dawn and had been exposed to the mountain breeze on the gentle slope for more than two hours. Their cheeks were almost frozen.

"First Battalion, take your positions!"

"For those whose fortifications were not properly prepared, we continued earthworks in the craters created by the bombings, and based on the craters, we expanded the fortifications to both sides."

"Listen up, everyone! No one is allowed to show their heads!"

"Hurry up!"

Xu Chaoyang led his men back to fight again. The Japanese's cleverness could not save them from their rigidity. Once the tactics that had achieved great results were formed, especially when facing the same opponents, they would become arrogant and conceited, and it would be difficult for them to continue to seek change. This led to the tactics of artillery bombardment and infantry charge being still in use in the later period of the War of Resistance.

But once we have figured out their strengths, it will not be a matter of competing with you in weapons and equipment. Just a set of not-so-new "Tianlu Tactics" can incinerate countless devils.

"Hurry up, everyone!"

"Didn't the battalion commander say that? We should take advantage of the warm soil from the bombing and dig trenches in the bomb craters. We should fill in the gaps that we couldn't dig last night. Hurry!"

Qu Yong shouted and spat on his hands, then picked up a shovel and dug with the ordinary soldiers. For a while, the entire Northeast Highlands was covered in dust, and the soldiers were all covered in dirt.

"Chaoyang, can the plane go back?" Xu Chaoyang was amused when he heard Chang Zhan's question. He patted him on the shoulder and said, "Just put your mind at ease!"

"We don't even know where the Japanese got the planes from. How did they get back here?"

"How long will it take to replenish fuel and ammunition?"

"I wish he would fly back right now!"

Chang Zhan asked incomprehensibly: "Why?"

Xu Chaoyang explained, "The plane has already dropped all its bombs. Even if it flies back, what can it do? At most, it can fly low and use the machine guns on the plane to shoot. So why should we be afraid of it?"

"When the time comes, we can let them have a good look at how we kill the Japanese soldiers. It will be good enough if we don't ask them for the money!"

Xu Chaoyang glanced at the mountain where there was no movement at all, and said in a deep voice: "What I am most worried about now is not this. I am afraid that the enemy's aircraft bombing and the coordination between the infantry and artillery will be too close, and the artillery shells will hit us before we can finish building the fortifications."

Last night, after Xu Chaoyang captured the Northeast Highlands, he had his men start digging fortifications on the top of the mountain. The problem was... they couldn't dig any further.

This is the top of a mountain. The cold mountain wind and the accumulated snow made it freeze in the blink of an eye. The Japanese had occupied the top of the mountain for such a long time but had not dug any decent trenches, not to mention that they had just recaptured the Northeast Highlands.

Xu Chaoyang saw that the soldiers digging fortifications had curled their shovels after digging them, so he simply ordered everyone to stop and not waste their energy. Anyway, as long as the Japanese sent troops, whether it was bombing by planes or artillery bombardment, the hilltop would be worn out, so it would be better to wait until they finished bombing, maybe they could make use of the craters.

That's right, after Xu Chaoyang asked his men to set up the Japanese's small amount of sandbag fortifications, he also had them put all the corpses on the mountain next to the fortifications. He then led his men down from the top of the mountain to the gentle slope, and stayed on the back of the mountain, ready to listen for any sound.

To be honest, if the Japanese had rushed up quietly at this time, the Northeast Highlands would have been lost. However, Xu Chaoyang was too familiar with the tactics of the Eighth Division. He had traveled all the way from the Northeast to Inner Mongolia with the Eighth Division, and he didn't know whether they were finished.

Sure enough, at dawn, the Japanese planes arrived and dropped bombs along the top of the mountain, but the mountain was shattered and only corpses were lying there. The most that Xu Chaoyang's soldiers could do was get their faces covered with dust.

He was really bold, he didn't even send anyone to the top of the mountain!
But this was just the beginning. The Japanese were not only powerful in air bombing, but also in the coordination between infantry and artillery. Even if all the artillery shells of the entire 14th Brigade were fired at them now, Xu Chaoyang would not find anything new.

"Battalion Commander, the devils!"

As Xu Chaoyang expected, the Japanese appeared at the foot of the mountain just after the air bombing, but they were so arrogant that they did not fire at the top of the Northeast Highlands!
Instead, they took advantage of the residual heat from the air bombing and sent out densely packed infantry.

This group of infantrymen lowered their heads and crouched, while shifting the machine gun and grenade launcher positions, they split into two groups and rushed down the hillside of the northeastern heights!
Xu Chaoyang stood on the top of the mountain and watched the Japanese infantry approaching. He had long forgotten the fear he felt yesterday when the cannon fired at him. He also felt a sense of heroism rising from the bottom of his heart. He turned around and shouted, "Where are the guys!"

The soldiers who were working on the top of the mountain to tidy up the Type 92 infantry guns that had been withdrawn yesterday were pushing the wheels of the gun carriages to stabilize the positions. When Man Guangzhi responded, "Battalion Commander, my platoon's three Type 92 infantry guns are ready!", Xu Chaoyang pointed at the enemy machine gun position that was being moved and shouted, "Beat him!"

　One chapter left a little later.

　　
　
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