War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 488 I can’t care less!
"Liu Gener! Liu Gener!"

Liu Gener led his troops to charge up when Chang Zhan took the Tuanchengkou hill. If he had not charged up, the position would have lacked heavy firepower support.

"Here I am!"

Liu Gener was checking a Czech-style gun. When he turned the gun over, the muzzle fell off, and there was a cut at the part where it fell off, which was caused by artillery fire... The gun was considered useless.

That made him angry, and when Chang Zhan came over, he yelled at him: "You guys are firing at full warehouses without paying attention. You all know that I like Czech-style guns. Look at what has happened. Almost all the light machine guns left by the 84th Division on the battlefield have been blown up!"

"Look at what you picked." Chang Zhan laughed out loud, squatting next to him and said, "If the shells in the warehouse can be that accurate, why would we still need to fight the Japanese? It's amazing to make shells."

The two brothers were talking intimately, but Chang Zhan asked in a low voice at this critical moment: "Do you have any backup plan?"

Liu Gener raised his head: "Stay!"

Only then did Chang Zhan nod.

"battalion commander!"

"The devils are coming!"

Chang Zhan quickly stood up and lay down on the edge of the trench, holding up the telescope and looking down the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, the Japanese began to attack. The sergeant of the machine gun squad covered his helmet with one hand and ran forward with a tool box in the other. When he reached the bunker, he quickly lay down. Behind him were two men carrying ammunition boxes. Wherever the sergeant in front lay down, they would lie next to him. Further back came the people carrying machine guns. Finally, a soldier ran up carrying a tin bucket with oil in it.

“It’s still the same thing.”

Chang Zhan muttered.

Wang Yu paused and asked, "Which one?"

"The machine gun positions were moved, and the skirmish lines were deployed. Under the cover of the machine guns, the skirmish lines rushed upwards. The movements were standard and the marching speed was fast, exactly as it was drawn in the Infantry Drill Manual."

"Just wait and see. Soon the Japanese infantry skirmishers will rush to the slope that can be used as a cover and crawl forward in a semi-lying posture..."

Wang Yuzhan asked curiously, "Have you read the Japanese Infantry Drill Manual?"

"That's no problem. But I don't recognize the Japanese characters on it...but I can recognize paintings." In fact, he couldn't recognize many Chinese characters.

Before Chang Zhan could finish his words, the Japanese infantry had already deployed their skirmish line after the machine gun group was ready, and used smoke grenades from the 11th year of the Taisho period, causing white mist to rise on the battlefield under the night sky.

"Don't do anything!"

Chang Zhan quickly moved the telescope in front of him and said to most of the Northeast Army of the 67th Army beside him: "Listen to the command of your company and platoon leaders, and don't scare the Japanese."

"Old Chang, why is there fire in the smoke?" Wang Yu was a little confused.

"That's white phosphorus!" Chang Zhan explained, "The Japanese are not only cruel to us, they are also cruel to their own people. They use 'love work' to cheer them up and use white phosphorus smoke bombs to cover them. It seems that the death of their soldiers has nothing to do with them."

"Fuck these bastards!"

White phosphorus is poisonous, but the Japanese still used it as a smoke bomb. This is why in many video materials, both Japanese and German-equipped divisions were equipped with gas masks. Another reason is the poison gas bombs they used.

But this time, the Japs' tactics changed!
The skirmish lines that were supposed to be spread flat on the mountains turned into small snakes slanted on the hillside. They looked like skirmish lines, but every time they found a cover to stop, everyone would quickly return to the team in a split state and continue to rush forward in a column mode.

This tactic was specially designed by the Japanese for our battlefield. In real history, our army's weapons had poor penetrating power, while the Japanese army had accurate shooting skills. Often when you fired at the front of the enemy, the soldiers behind them could kill you in an instant with just a wave of their hands, or at worst could force you back into the bunker with bullets.

Just like what was said in the movie "The Regiment Commander", they conquered half of our country's territory with the help of such tactics. It was definitely not the type of strategy where they would just blindly rush up the hilltops when they saw them. There were even cases where they took cover on the hillsides and engaged in fierce fire with our soldiers!

"beat!"

As Chang Zhan watched the Japanese gradually approaching, he issued a combat order when the two sides were about 150 meters apart. In an instant, gunfire rang out on the battlefield!
boom!boom!
Da da da da da da!

"Company and platoon leaders must keep a close eye on their own men. They are not allowed to expose our full firepower. The firepower must be deployed according to orders. Machine gunners who are not allowed to fire must stay in the trenches. No one is allowed to show off!"

Da da da da da!
Chang Zhan looked down the hillside. According to his visual range, the Japanese had only sent two squadrons of troops at most. It was clearly a tentative attack due to the underestimation of the firepower configuration on the top of the mountain. How could Chang Zhan let you find out the truth? He had to kill your people and prevent you from getting any information, and make you mistakenly believe that the information you got was all true!

"Everyone's eyes widened. This is at least two squadrons of Japanese soldiers. Squadron! Do you understand what I mean?"

As Chang Zhan shouted, a young man at the side shouted: "Grenade launcher!"

"I'm using you to expose my true colors!"

Chang Zhan wanted to show off, but he was defeated by his comrades from his old company. The people around him were shooting and laughing, as if fighting was not painful at all.

"But what this guy said is right. A squadron of the Japanese has nine grenade launchers. Nine!"

"The guys with good marksmanship in each company don't have to do anything. Just keep an eye on the grenade launcher and shoot down any one I see. Do you understand me?" "Yes!"

The number of people in a Japanese infantry squad was 54, but there were six squads among these 54 people. Although only three of them had machine guns, that was not the firepower that our army could contend with at the beginning of the full-scale war of resistance.

Our army's platoon-level organization at the same level had only thirty people. That is to say, the Japanese had a numerical advantage at the same level of combat organization, despite having better equipment and higher-quality soldiers. This was also the main reason why the Kuomintang and our army suffered heavy casualties at the beginning of the full-scale war of resistance in official history. We were in a stage of overall backwardness.

But what about the 217th Regiment?

The number of troops was completely overstaffed after the 67th Army joined. It was not just an ordinary overstaffing, but had reached the brigade-level establishment of a miscellaneous army. The people led by Chang Zhan were equivalent to a regiment when Xu Chaoyang first became the regiment commander. There was no loss in terms of numbers.

Not to mention the equipment!

In addition, Chang Zhan was very familiar with the Japanese, so even if the enemy's tactics had changed slightly, he still had confidence.

"beat!!!"

boom!boom!
Da da da da da da!

Bullets were flying down the mountain, but the soldiers of the 217th Regiment did not throw a single grenade or use a single rifle grenade, and they just kept fighting the Japanese invaders, but they were not at all inferior. Xu Chaoyang did not bring weapons to every one of them, not only did he bring them, but he also gave them the best of the entire regiment... The problem was that Wang Yuzhan seemed to have sensed something from Lao Chang's attitude towards ammunition consumption... He actually began to get a little nervous, and he felt that he should be able to defend this regiment for a long time!

……

At the bend of the slope at the foot of the mountain, Miura Toshiji was looking at the battlefield through a monocular telescope, his face tense and his teeth clenched!
He saw this troop attacking the mountain just now. They were firing rifle grenades and various machine guns like crazy, and throwing grenades desperately. It was impossible to figure out their strength at all!
Now that the Tuanchengkou hilltop has been taken over by this group of people, they have started pretending to be poor at this moment!

Do you think you are smart? Do you think the Japanese are stupid? Do you think no one can see such an obvious tactic of luring the enemy?
He watched helplessly as the soldiers he had sent up the mountain to test the firepower were beaten down the hillside one by one...but he felt that he had seen through the other party's dirty tricks...

"Give me the order!"

"Call the artillery position and order them to bombard Tuanchengkou again!"

"Yes!"

The soldier behind Miura Toshiji rushed to the phone, but when he picked up the phone, he didn't hear any sound at all, not even the noise of electricity, it was as quiet as...

"Report! The telephone lines may have been destroyed by the enemy!"

"Then send a messenger!!!"

"Yes!"

……

Outside the artillery position, a Japanese soldier rode a horse and rushed quickly across the mountain slope. There was only a mountain between him and the artillery position. As long as he bypassed the mountain bend, he could convey the order at that moment...

"Hi!"

Suddenly, a figure jumped down from the grass on the hillside and knocked the Japanese soldier off his horse!

The next second, the fifth platoon leader quickly rode on the Japanese soldier, quickly pulled out a dagger from his waist, grasped the handle with both hands and stabbed him directly - puff!

The little Japanese soldier was shaking with pain as he held his wrist with both hands, but the fifth platoon leader twisted the blade with all his strength until the other soldier's extremely tense expression suddenly relaxed. Then he leaned forward to press the handle of the knife and pushed the blade completely into the Japanese soldier's body...

"Hahaha……"

When the fifth platoon leader fell off the Japanese soldier gasping for breath, he was scared. He was afraid that the Japanese soldier would shout while fighting with him, and he was also afraid that he would not act fast enough and the gun would go off. However, the result was good anyway, as the Japanese soldier was dead.

"Platoon leader!"

The people in the woods rushed down, some were leading horses, some were dragging corpses, and some were supporting the fifth platoon leader. There were at least seven or eight people busying around here, and two or three were holding guns to guard behind them.

"Did the gun go off? I was a little dazed when I was killing someone just now..."

"No sound, don't worry!"

The soldier helped the fifth platoon leader up and quickly helped him into the woods. Then he said, "Platoon leader, we can hold out against one or two waves, but what if the Japanese send a full-scale unit?"

The fifth platoon leader waved his hand and said, "I can't worry about that anymore. We'll just have to defend as long as we can."

The fifth platoon leader was out of ideas. It was impossible for him to lead his platoon to attack the Japanese artillery position. He also had to complete the task assigned by Chang Zhan. So he simply broke up the troops and made each squad into a group to guard the main traffic arteries outside the artillery position. He would not allow any messengers to get close... At least, this could delay the time for a while.

　Wait a moment.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)