Liang Jian: Lao Li, I'm really not a military expert

Lin Zhenhua issued another order: "Open fire immediately after the shelling begins to block the enemy's path. We must not let them break through the Lion King Ridge defense line!"

Putting the signal gun back on the belt around their waists, Lin Zhenhua and Li Sanwa each took a cannon and opened all the ammunition boxes. The two men began to aim at their respective targets and prepared to fire.

Lin Zhenhua aimed with his thumb and pointed the muzzle of the gun at the location of the Japanese officer. When the distance between the two sides was about 400 meters, he put a mortar shell into the barrel. With a bang, the shell flew out. Without looking at the effect of the explosion, he began to load the second shell.

The first shell fired did not fly towards the location of the Japanese officer, but instead flew towards the Japanese artillery position in the rear and hit a Type 92 infantry gun that the Japanese were setting up, directly blowing the infantry gun into the sky, killing and injuring two Japanese artillerymen, and achieving a good start victory.

Under normal circumstances, the Japanese artillery would have opened fire long ago, but the snow melted during the day, resulting in the road being covered in wet mud. When the weather turned cold in the evening, the mud froze into ice, which caused great trouble for the Japanese in setting up their artillery. It took a lot of effort to use an ordnance shovel to barely open up a small artillery position.

Lin Zhenhua fired six artillery shells in a row before using a telescope to look at the results. When he saw that six shells hit the Japanese artillery positions but none of them hit the command post of the Japanese squadron, he couldn't help but look at Li Sanwa, only to see Li Sanwa's face full of admiration.

"Captain, you are so accurate. The Japanese artillery position was hit by six of your shells, and not a single one missed. You destroyed an infantry gun and a mortar of the Japanese, and killed at least seven or eight Japanese soldiers."

Lin Zhenhua had no time to brag to Li Sanwa. Without stopping his movements, he slightly adjusted the angle of the gun machine, put a shell into the barrel of the mortar, and shouted: "Li Sanwa, you son of a bitch, don't look at me, hurry up and bombard the Japs, we don't have much time left, we have to destroy all the Japs' artillery within a minute, otherwise the Japs' counterattack will come soon!"

Lin Zhenhua's hands moved faster and faster. He put mortar shells into the barrel and fired them towards the artillery position of Ono Squadron.

"Baga! Get out of the way quickly! Move the artillery immediately and find a new position to set up the artillery. No need to calibrate, fire immediately to suppress the Chinese artillery firepower!" The captain of the artillery squad, Saburo Sakai, ordered loudly.

Taro Ono didn't expect that the artillery squad would be attacked by Lin Zhenhua and lose two artillery pieces. This made him yell frantically, "Baga Yalu! The damn Chinese actually launched an attack before our artillery was ready. Order Murakami's squad to launch an attack immediately and occupy the Chinese position!"

"Order the artillery squad to immediately find a suitable position, set up the guns, and bombard the Chinese's hiding place!"

Following the order from Captain Taro Ono, the artillery squad began to counterattack first. They took a rough aim and loaded the shells. The fired shells deviated from the intended target, but the splashes and smoke produced by the explosion briefly affected people's vision. Murakami's squad also took the opportunity to launch an attack.

"Kill it, attack it!"

When the third platoon leader Lu Xiaohai saw the Japanese infantry charging, he ordered: "Comrades, don't panic yet. Wait until the Japanese are 300 meters away from us before shooting. 350 meters, 340 meters, 330 meters, check the ammunition, 310 meters, the distance is there, shoot, beat the damn Japanese!"

As the machine guns at the main position of Lion King Ridge began to spew flames, the positions on the left and right sides were not to be outdone. Eight light machine guns blocked the attack route of the Japanese Murakami squad. In addition, the snow on the road had melted and had just frozen again, making it very slippery to walk on. The Japanese soldiers fell down accidentally and got bruised and battered. But some of them were lucky and escaped.

Captain Murakami waved his command knife and yelled frantically: "Baga Yalu! Keep charging and don't retreat! We must occupy the front position before night falls!"

Under the pressure of Captain Murakami, the Japanese infantry began a desperate charge in a skirmish line, but because the ground was slippery, the Japanese soldiers accidentally fell to the ground during the charge, and Captain Murakami's desperate shouting was of no avail.

"Mr. Ono, the muddy road has caused a huge obstacle to the operations of our imperial army. In addition, we have lost half of our artillery. We need to change our combat strategy. If we continue to attack like this, it will be difficult to occupy the Chinese defensive positions!"

Kojiro Hirata watched through the telescope as the attack was hindered and gave advice to Taro Ono.

Taro Ono was also very anxious. If it hadn't snowed, they might have occupied the Chinese defensive position by now. But now the battle had been going on for ten minutes and they were still 200 meters away from the front of the position and were completely suppressed by the Chinese firepower network.

Taro Ono observed the battlefield and saw the trucks behind him. He had an idea and gave an order: "Hirata-kun, I have a favor to ask of you. Please help me find a way to drive the two trucks behind me. I plan to use the trucks as mobile fortresses and launch a new round of attack by reversing them."

"Yoshi! Ono-kun's idea is very bold. I will place some sandbags in the carriage. Considering that the tires are likely to be strafed by Chinese soldiers, I will hang some sandbags at the back of the carriage. This will be safer."

Kojiro Hirata happily agreed to Taro Ono's request. He prepared four trucks at once, two of which were deployed in reverse mode and two in normal moving mode.

After Lin Zhenhua had used up all the mortar shells, he did not dismantle the mortar. Instead, he shouted to Li Sanwa and went to the blocking position halfway up the mountain. He picked up a submachine gun nearby and started shooting frantically at the Japanese.

"Comrades, fight hard and beat back this wave of attack from the Japanese!"

"Captain, we just destroyed only half of the Japanese artillery, killing and wounding more than 60 Japanese soldiers. One squad of the Japanese soldiers lost its combat effectiveness. Counting the one Japanese squad we killed before, the Japanese soldiers now have at most two squads left."

Lin Zhenhua was a little confused when listening to the report from squad leader Xu Dashu. When he looked through the telescope, he realized that the Ono Squadron in front of him was a reinforced squadron with 250 people. Excluding the more than 30 people lost during the mopping-up operation and the nearly two squads lost before, the Japanese now had only two squads left for combat.

"Damn it, we've finally run into a tough opponent this time. Everyone, cheer up. This group of devils in front of us is not easy to fight. There's no need to save ammunition. We must block the route of the devil's charge and never let them rush up!"