A magazine of 30,000 rounds, you call it Hanyang

The Fourth Battalion had no long-range attack weapons, and their positions could hardly provide them with any protection from the fierce enemy artillery fire.

If the Japanese sent a large force to charge under the cover of artillery fire, the Fourth Battalion would undoubtedly be defeated.

Temporary retreat is the most correct choice at this time.

Taking advantage of the dust rising from the battlefield to cover their view, Zheng Kaixuan led the soldiers to run back quickly towards Wangjiaping Village.

Their position was only a little over a thousand meters away from Wangjiaping. If they ran at full speed with their equipment, they could reach the position in less than ten minutes.

"Boom..."

At first, the Japanese did not know that the 4th Battalion had retreated. They set up mortars and continued to bombard the 4th Battalion's positions.

It was not until a few minutes later that the Japanese infantry battalion captain saw the Eighth Route Army troops running wildly in the distance through a telescope, and realized that Zheng Kaixuan had retreated.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The four mortars began to adjust their firing angles and fired at the retreating Eighth Route Army.

During the retreat, Zheng Kaixuan ordered the soldiers to run in separate groups, two in a team, three in a group, and the formation was particularly dispersed.

Moreover, most of the soldiers had already run several million meters away, beyond the 2,800-meter shooting range of the Japanese mortars.

The Japanese fired a few shots, but seeing that they could not hit the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion, they had to give up temporarily.

Zheng Kaixuan led the Fourth Battalion to successfully retreat to Wangjiaping Village without any danger.

Only after arriving in the village did Zheng Kaixuan breathe a sigh of relief.

There are dozens of houses in Wangjiaping, most of which are old stone houses with very strong walls, which can provide great shelter for the soldiers.

Relying on the houses in the village to build a defensive position will definitely have a much greater chance of success than being exposed in trenches in the wild.

"Bagaya road!"

The Japanese infantry captain originally thought that there must be at least two regiments of the Eighth Route Army that could kill his vanguard so easily!

After all, he felt that the Eighth Route Army was extremely poor and had no heavy firepower. He felt that the Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness was definitely not as strong as the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army.

But when he saw clearly that there were only more than a hundred Eighth Route Army soldiers retreating from the ambush trench, the Japanese captain was completely stunned.

His eyes widened in surprise, and a goose egg could almost fit in his mouth.

I almost dropped the telescope in my hand.

"What? They only have over a hundred people? When did the Eighth Route Army become so powerful?"

Then he began to get angry.

"Bagayalo! How dare you stop the locust army with just these few people? You're dead!"

As he spoke, he mounted his warhorse and raised his command sword.

"go ahead!"

The Japanese army began to advance rapidly.

This time, they learned from the lesson that the previous vanguard did not explore the way, and sent out a dozen Japanese cavalrymen on horseback to search and explore the way in the wilderness.

Afterwards, several Japanese infantry companies, including the battalion headquarters, immediately followed and approached until they were less than a thousand meters away from the village entrance before stopping.

Several Japanese artillerymen immediately set up mortars.

"Kill him!"

The Japanese captain drew his command knife and gave the order to charge.

Two Japanese infantry companies, formed into five-man squads, rushed towards the village holding Type 38 rifles.

The distance is less than a thousand meters, and it only takes a few minutes to rush forward.

At the entrance of the village, Zheng Kaixuan and the Fourth Battalion were ready.

When the Japanese infantry rushed to a distance of about 500 meters from the village entrance, Zheng Kaixuan waved his hand.

"Brothers! Hit me!"

"Da da da da da da..."

"Da da da da da..."

…………

Eleven machine guns, six of them fully automatic, roared simultaneously.

Bullets rained down like raindrops from many corners of the village entrance, sweeping towards the Japanese.

Some Japanese soldiers rushing in the front were shot and fell to the ground. In a blink of an eye, dozens of the charging Japanese soldiers were killed by the Fourth Battalion. Faced with such fierce firepower, the pace of the Japanese soldiers' charge suddenly slowed down.

The Japanese infantry captain held a telescope in his hand and kept an eye on the situation on the battlefield.

Seeing that the infantry's charge was blocked, he immediately ordered the artillery to fire at Wangjiaping.

"Fire! Smash the Eighth Route Army's firepower!"

Four Japanese mortars attacked the machine gunners on the fourth battalion's position.

"boom!"

A Japanese artillery shell landed next to a machine gunner under Zheng Kaixuan. The huge force of the explosion blew the soldier and the loader next to him several meters away and fell to the ground.

The two soldiers were blown to pieces and died in the blink of an eye.

Zheng Kaixuan's eyes were bloodshot.

"Boom!"

At this moment, another shell flew over and landed next to another machine gunner from the Fourth Battalion. This machine gunner and several soldiers beside him died on the spot.

"Damn it! Japs! I'm going to fight you!"

Squad leader Yang Wanli was rather impulsive. When he saw his soldiers being killed by the Japanese, he picked up a machine gun and wanted to rush out to fight the Japanese.

"Yang Wanli, what are you doing! Come back quickly!"

Fortunately, Zheng Kaixuan was quick-witted and grabbed him.

"All machine gunners! Automatic riflemen! Quickly and continuously change your firing positions! Prevent being locked on by the enemy gunners!"

After Zheng Kaixuan finished speaking, he immediately stood up and quickly moved from the shooting point next to a low wall to another corner.

Yang Wanli also completed the transfer quickly.

"Boom!"

Just as they completed the transfer, the place where they had been hiding was hit by a Japanese artillery shell. The low wall collapsed and rubble flew everywhere, which made Zheng Kaixuan break out in a cold sweat.

"Damn it! It seems that if we don't destroy the Japanese mortars, we can't win this battle!"

The four mortars of the Japanese became the most critical factor in determining this battle.

Under the suppression of the Japanese mortar fire, the Japanese infantry continued to charge, and the Japanese machine gun squadron behind them was also preparing to enter the battlefield.

When the Japanese machine gun squadron and grenade launcher squad rushed to the front under the cover of mortars, the 4th Battalion could not withstand the intensive close-range firepower attack.

"We must destroy the Japs' mortars!"

Zheng Kaixuan thought of the system and decided to upgrade the Triumph Grenade again.

It wasn't that he forgot about the upgrade just now, but as the leader of a battalion, he was busy leading the entire battalion back to the village, arranging positions and commanding the battle, and he didn't even have time to drink a sip of water.

"The attack range of the level 6 Triumph Grenade is too short. I hope the level 7 can increase the throwing distance."

Zheng Kaixuan prayed silently in his heart, and then placed a pair of Japanese sergeant's shoulder straps in his palm.

"System, magically modified triumphant grenade."

[Ding, congratulations to the host, the magic modified accessories have been sent to the backpack, please check. ]

Zheng Kaixuan raced against time and nervously opened his backpack.

As he wished, the modified accessories this time turned out to be a dial indicating distance and two super-large springs that seemed to have more elasticity.

However, the maximum range on the scale did not reach 1000 meters, but only 800 meters!

Zheng Kaixuan couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

"System, use the shoulder badges of the Japanese spy sergeant to exchange for another chance to modify it."

[Ding, the magic modified accessories have been distributed to the backpack. ]

This time, what appeared in the backpack was not a dial and a spring, but a grenade shell that was larger than before and some exquisite accessories.

The size of this grenade is completely incompatible with the throwers currently used.

Moreover, time is extremely tight now. Every second of delay may affect the direction of the entire battle.

Zheng Kaixuan knew that the best way now was to use the thrower that could throw 800 meters away.

The thrower was not difficult to assemble, and he quickly replaced the spring and dial.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host, you have completed the seventh level magic modification of the Triumph Grenade.]

Now, the most critical issue is distance.

The level 800 Triumph grenade thrower can only fire 1000 meters away, while the Japanese mortar is meters away.

How to solve these 200 meters?

Zheng Kaixuan gritted his teeth and suddenly made a crazy decision.