War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 705: The Reaction Speed ​​of the Japanese Main Force
"Wake up..."

"Everyone wake up..."

"Shh!"

The company commanders and squad leaders of each company went through the mountain corners to wake up the soldiers one by one, and told the soldiers who had just woken up: "Hurry up, the battle is about to start, don't stretch your arms or twist your waist, no one has the time to take care of you."

In an instant, in the mountain cave, the Northeast Army of the 67th Regiment were stamping their feet, stretching their waists, and some were yawning towards the sky in the middle of the night.

"okay!"

Zhu Rong, who had never closed his eyes, turned around and shouted in a low voice, "Move out!"

The next second, countless Northeast Army troops who had traveled thousands of miles from the Northeast to Shanxi rushed towards Zhongzhuangpu. This was the last Northeast Army troop in Xu Chaoyang's hands.

In the second half of the night, when the 67th Regiment was heading towards Zhongzhuangpu, Zhu Rong was right about one thing: Zhongzhuangpu was indeed a village, a village under Qianfoling Township, Hunyuan County, which in turn belonged to DT City. As long as the 67th Regiment blocked this road and waited for Xu Chaoyang to capture Tuanchengkou and Lingqiu, they could advance to attack Hunyuan and Datong, or retreat to prevent the enemy from reinforcing.

The troops defending this line, namely the Hunyuan, Dajianshan, Zhongzhuangpu and Xihekou lines, were none other than the 11th Regiment under the 9th Brigade of the 5th Division.

To be precise, it was the Zhongshan Battalion under the 11th Regiment.

Zhongshan is the devil's surname, not a place name. In the eyes of outsiders, the devil's troops are divided by region, such as the Chahar Corps and the Central China Expeditionary Army, but in the eyes of their own people, they are divided by the surnames of the troop commanders, like the Tanimoto Squadron.

This time, Zhu Rong encountered the ace main battalion under the 11th Regiment of the 9th Brigade, which was rich in combat experience and was supposed to have fought fiercely in the Shandong battlefield!

These guys don't even give you a chance to touch the whistle...

"Password!"

At the entrance of Zhongzhuangpu Village, the patrol team had just entered the village. The reconnaissance company came to scout out the sentry and hid in the woods next to the village along the hillside. The Japanese soldier just saw a black shadow swaying in the moonlight and immediately blurted out the word "password"!

However, he didn't even listen to the other party's response. He raised his gun and pulled the trigger - bang!

He just shot him directly.

This devil reacts really quickly!

He figured out the whole thing almost instantly. First, the patrol team had just entered the village, so it was impossible for another patrol member to be forgotten outside the village. Otherwise, the patrol leader was an idiot. How could he not know that the team was short of people? Secondly, it was even more impossible that it was a secret sentry. A secret sentry would not be placed next to the open sentry and machine gun position at the entrance of the village. What was the point of the two sentries overlapping?
At this time, there was a shadow flashing. Whether it was a wild beast in the mountains or a human figure, it would be okay to fire a shot. At most, the superiors would come down and scold him. But what if he didn't fire this shot? What if the enemy sneaked up? The news that came just before dinner said that the 18th Group Army had launched an attack in this direction. Now the entrance of Tuancheng was in chaos. How could he not be careful?

"beat!"

Snapped!
The reconnaissance company was not accommodating. When they were supposed to be on their way to find the sentry, they were shot and killed. They raised their hands and fired back. The two sides were separated by a distance of 70 or 80 meters, and they exchanged fire on the spot.

Da da da da da da!

The Japanese machine gun position at the entrance of the village fired at the dense forest, and the flaming muzzles knocked off the dry tree bark one after another.

"damn it!"

Zhu Rong started cursing when he heard the gunshots from behind, and immediately ordered, "First Battalion, take over!"

A battalion of soldiers launched a machine gun position transfer from the other side while avoiding the firing range of the two sides. All the machine gun groups in the battalion were like the enemy's machine gun groups. They carried and lifted the machine guns to the bottom of the low slope next to the village. After the machine guns were properly arranged, the Type 99 rifle and the Pheasant Neck rifle were being assembled and opened fire first - da da da da da!
The Japanese soldiers at the machine gun position simply hid behind a sack with their heads tucked in. They didn't even look up even though the bullets kept blowing up dust on the sack and breaking the hemp rope on the sack.

This kind of double-layer sack defense is very effective in defending against bullets from ordinary machine guns. At least when the Japanese don't show up, the Type 99 light machine gun can't have the same effect as the Oerlikon. The machine gun position is still impregnable to ordinary firearms.

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!" "One squad takes the commanding heights on the rooftop... The rest of you follow me to the village entrance and use the walls of the houses as cover to counterattack on the spot. Counterattack!"

……

On the far hillside, the young political commissar looked at the watch on his wrist and turned to Zhu Rong and said, "Captain, one and a half minutes."

He was talking about the time it took from the first gunshots to the time the supporting troops were fully deployed at the entrance of the village.

Zhu Rong sneered and looked at the entrance of Zhongzhuangpu Village and said, "These are the real elite Japanese soldiers, and they are the elite Japanese soldiers who received the defense information in advance."

"Grenade launcher, go!"

The regimental-level troops of 217 are not equipped with artillery, and lack weapons for targeted strikes. But the 67th Regiment is different. They are troops coming down from SH. When they were in SH, they had grenade launchers in their hands, plus the spoils of war on the battlefield in Shanxi. Even without the support of the 217th artillery battalion, they can still launch targeted clearing firepower.

In particular, the grenade launcher's ability to strike machine gun positions is beyond words. When this thing and the Type 92 infantry gun fire at machine guns on the battlefield, it's really... crisp.

Two grenade launcher teams, totaling six people, rushed forward. The two teams took positions behind the reconnaissance company and the first battalion respectively. One group hid in the woods, and the other hid under the slope. They only occasionally showed their eyes to take a look. The rest of the time, the Japanese could not even see their shadows.

When the grenade launcher team was ready, the artillery of the former Northeast Army raised a thumbs up at the machine gun position they were about to attack without a scissor mirror, locked the target by adjusting the upward angle of the muzzle, and dodged backwards. Next to him, a soldier carrying an ammunition box opened the lid of the ammunition box, revealing a full ammunition box of Japanese grenades...

Spray!

Spray!

Spray!

Spray!

These Japanese grenade launchers captured from the battlefield are interchangeable with the Japanese Type 10 grenades. The grenades can be used as artillery shells and there is no need to purchase separate artillery shells. They are very convenient to use.

In this case, the grenade launcher group fired two rounds in a salvo, and four shells were sprayed high into the air...

It landed directly on the edge of the machine gun positions on both sides - boom!

When the first grenade fell, the sacks on the machine gun position were blown up half a meter high. The strong impact directly knocked down the defensive fortification wall built with sacks...

"beat!"

The machine gunner seized the opportunity and started firing, pulling the trigger towards the collapsed fortifications - da da da da da!

The moment the bullet swept past, the second grenade just landed on the ground - boom!

In the gaps between bullets flying on the battlefield, a flame shot up into the sky!

"on!"

The battalion commander waved his hand forward, and the soldiers of the first battalion rushed forward the moment the enemy's firepower weakened...

Thug, tug, tug, tug!

chug chug!
At the same time, the heavy machine gun that had just been set up on the roof of Zhongzhuangpu fired.

The political commissar of the 67th Regiment snatched the Type rifle from the soldier next to him, raised the sight and took aim, then knelt down with the gun in hand and pulled the trigger towards the place where the fire was coming from - bang!

A gunshot!
(End of this chapter)