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Instructor Cao thought about it and felt that there was nothing wrong with it. Although a lot of ammunition was consumed in this battle, the results were also great. In the past, if a battle could kill a small squad of the enemy, it would be considered a great victory, and at least the casualties of hundreds of people on their side would be enough to achieve this.

In the past, ammunition was in short supply and the soldiers could only fight with their precious lives. Now we have more than enough ammunition and it's time to engage the enemy with bullets.

Although we consumed a lot of ammunition, the soldiers' marksmanship improved significantly, so it was not a loss at all.

It was already noon at this time, and the Japanese captain decided to let the troops have lunch first. After the meal, the soldiers would have plenty of physical strength to launch the second attack.

Upon seeing this, Battalion Commander Jiang also ordered some soldiers to rush to repair the positions that had been blown down. It was estimated that the Japanese would launch a more fierce attack next, and the positions were everyone's amulets.

At the same time, compressed biscuits transported from Wuyi County were distributed to the soldiers to replenish the physical strength consumed in the battle.

Yi Dachuan received two compressed biscuits and a boiled egg. This was the rule of the Second Battalion, and only sharpshooters were qualified to eat eggs.

In just a few moments, the sharpshooter Yi Dachuan killed three Japanese devils. Just for this achievement, he was rewarded with an egg, and the other soldiers were all convinced.

After lunch, he repaired several of his positions by himself. This kind of thing needs to be done personally and according to one's usual habits, otherwise it is easy to cause problems on the battlefield.

In the afternoon, Captain Qinggu received a telegram from the division headquarters, asking them to break through the Eighth Route Army's blocking positions in front of them and rush to Wuyi County as soon as possible.

According to intelligence obtained by reconnaissance aircraft through high-altitude reconnaissance, the county seat of Wuyi has not been lost yet, but it is already in danger and its future may be at risk.

Yamashita Tomotake commended Terauchi Isamu greatly and even promised that as long as he could defend the county town, he would be promoted to major or even lieutenant colonel after the war.

On the other hand, he urged the support troops to rush there as soon as possible at all costs. He did not want to take the responsibility of losing the county.

After Terauchi Yong hung up the phone, his heart was filled with bitterness: "It would have been better if I had done this earlier. Now it's too late. Now that I've chosen this path, I can only go on with gritted teeth."

The attack in the afternoon was much more fierce. The Japanese captain directly sent out two fully-staffed squadrons, using squads as combat units, and continuously attacked our front-line positions.

The two companies on the position were immediately caught up in a bitter battle, and casualties were rising sharply. Seeing this, Battalion Commander Jiang had no choice but to dispatch the first battalion's grenade launchers for support. About ten grenade launchers fiercely bombarded the Japanese attacking forces.

As soon as our soldiers got the grenade launchers, they learned how to load and fire. As for aiming, it depends purely on personal experience, which is currently difficult to master in a short period of time.

Faced with this situation, Captain Liu also thought of a good solution.

As the saying goes: "If you don't have enough skills, you can make up for it with quantity."

Our soldiers' firing skills are not good enough, so we can just gather ten grenade launchers together, led by an experienced veteran, and have all the grenade launchers fire in one direction.

The killing range of the grenade launcher's special grenade is 5-8 meters. If ten grenades are fired in a covering manner, even if some of them miss the target, the damage caused in a certain area is still considerable.

Especially when the Japanese are using the pig-rush wave-style attack, this kind of coverage bombing can achieve miraculous results.

Of course, it does have disadvantages. It consumes a lot of grenades in a short period of time. After all, one round is ten rounds, and five rounds is fifty rounds.

According to the previous ammunition reserves, it is estimated that the entire battalion has less than 100 rounds combined, and they can only be used at the most critical moments. How could there be such a luxurious waste?

But now the First Battalion has been allocated 500 special grenades for grenade launchers, so they will definitely not feel sorry for using them, and the effect is very significant. They can immediately make the enemy cry for their parents and suffer heavy casualties.

When the Japanese saw this situation, they knew that if they continued to follow their previous tactics, the losses would be huge. The enemy did not dare to gamble on how many grenades our troops had.

With no other options, the Japanese front-line commander could only order his troops to retreat and reorganize to continue the attack.

In this way, time passed by minute by minute. In one afternoon, our army repelled four attacks of the Japanese in succession. However, the two companies on the current position had suffered almost half of their casualties.

The Japanese were still very powerful at this time, especially the Type 92 infantry gun equipped by the enemy. When the two armies were fighting, the damage to our positions was really too great.

In response to this situation, Commander Liu ordered all troops of the First Battalion to withdraw to the second line of defense for rest, and the Second Battalion took on the defense mission.

Their main task now is to delay time. There is no need to fight the Japanese on the front line, which also weakens the enemy's firepower advantage.

It was almost dark at this time, so both sides stopped fighting and prepared to fight again tomorrow.

For safety reasons, the Japanese captain fired a flare into the sky every half an hour to prevent the night attack tactics that the Eighth Route Army was good at.

However, Captain Liu had no plans for a night attack at this time. After all, although a night attack could gain some advantages, it would also result in heavy casualties.

To make an inappropriate analogy: when our troops were short of ammunition before, the casualty ratio between the enemy and us in positional warfare was about 1:4. If it was a close combat at night, we could control the casualties to about 1:2, with the enemy being 1. This was already a great improvement.

But if we control the casualty ratio to 2:1, and the enemy is that 2, then going into a night battle or close combat would be a bit of a brain problem.

When the Japanese flares were raised again, illuminating the entire area, Captain Liu said with a bit of disdain:

"Lao Wang, how much do the Japanese want us to launch a night attack? They are firing flares one after another as if they were free. When can we do the same as them?"

"Captain, the Japanese were frightened by our previous night raid. They are already paranoid and paranoid."

"They don't think about it. Now that we have sufficient ammunition, who would want to launch a close-range night battle, which would cause huge casualties? In the past, we had nothing and had no choice but to fight for our lives."

"Now we have a better option. We can use the ammunition and fortifications to easily kill the enemy. Any normal person would know which choice to make."