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Chapter 1,241 Fighting in the Night

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    "Command the troops, prepare for battle, and follow my orders to launch flares." Xia Yang said.

    The poisonous gas at this time has gradually dissipated.  But under the shroud of darkness, the entire mountain range was still invisible.

    As time went by, the Japanese demolition troops also approached the rock wall.  Start climbing again.  This time they wanted to take advantage of the cover of night and the help of poison gas bombs to try again to destroy the group of bunkers on the rock wall.

    The attacking Japanese infantry was only about 200 meters away from the position on the top of the slope.  A little further, about thirty meters away, was the limit of their advancement.

    The several times they had charged before were suppressed by the machine gun fire network on the rock walls on both sides of the hillside, and they could not take another step forward.

    At this moment, they were walking on this mountain road shrouded in darkness, and from time to time they would step on the corpses of Japanese soldiers dumped here.  The further we go, the more Japanese corpses there are.

    It has only been two days, and they have already left hundreds of corpses here.  Such casualties were quite heavy for the Fifth Division.

    The distance was getting closer and closer, and the Japanese soldiers saw that there still seemed to be no movement on the position in front.  In the darkness, they could only hear their own footsteps and their own breathing in the gas mask, and there was no more unnecessary sound.

    ¡°Swish, swish, swish!!¡±

    At this moment, a whistling sound suddenly reached their ears.  Before the roar came, there was a burst of light that cut through the darkness.

    Dozens of flares were launched into the air at this time.  The fiercely burning magnesium strips easily illuminated the entire sky.

    Also illuminated were thousands of Japanese soldiers advancing quietly on the hillside, as well as soldiers of the Fourth Army holding guns in their positions and aiming at the Japanese troops ahead.

    "Fire!!!" Xia Yang shouted into the walkie-talkie, and more lights appeared in the dark night.  That was the flames ejected from the muzzles of light and heavy machine guns and rifles.

    The dense rain of bullets covered the heads of the Japanese troops in an instant.

    Resistance was expected by the Japanese army, but what they did not expect was that the enemy's firepower was not reduced at all.  Even stronger than during the day.

    "Charge!!" the Japanese commander shouted loudly, waving the saber in his hand.

    It¡¯s just that because of the gas masks, the soldiers couldn¡¯t hear his voice and could only see the waving command knife.  Then they roared and began to advance quickly with their rifles raised.

    At this time, the soldiers of the Fourth Army on the position were using their rifles to shoot at the Japanese troops charging below.  In the bunker groups on both sides, fierce machine gun fire completely covered the heads of the Japanese troops.

    The Japanese heavy machine gun positions and mountain artillery below also began to exert their power at this time.

    Their mountain artillery is mainly used to bombard the positions on the top of the slope, because their small-caliber mountain artillery cannot shake the hard bunker group and can only bombard the mortar firepower on the top of the slope, as well as the infantry firepower inside the position.

    Because of the fierce firepower, the soldiers on the hillside suffered very serious losses.  Due to the ferocious artillery fire and heavy machine gun firepower of the Japanese army, many soldiers were killed and wounded, and many others were destroyed by shells.

    But on the other side, life was even more uncomfortable for the charging Japanese troops.  Because they were completely exposed to heavy machine gun fire from the side, they could only take cover next to some craters and rocks.

    And above their heads, the mortar squadron's shells kept falling around them.  The shells of these mortars are very powerful, and the lethal steel balls are a nightmare for the Japanese army.  As long as one is killed by these shells at a medium or close range, one will either lose one's life, or one's entire body will be blown up by the steel balls, leaving no good place.

    The Japanese troops showed great resilience at this time. Even when faced with fire from the flanks, they kept passing through bomb craters, even under the cover of the corpses of their own comrades, to attack the position on the top of the slope.

    Where they had charged, a large number of Japanese corpses were piled up there.

    The two sides were fighting in the dark, like two giant beasts with their fangs desperately biting each other.  Although they were both covered in blood, no one wanted to admit defeat in advance.

    This fight lasted for more than an hour, and some of the Japanese charging troops had even reached the position.  However, because the subsequent troops were suppressed by firepower, they were unable to advance, and??Annihilated on the battlefield.

    After fighting until dawn, the Japanese army finally realized that continuing like this would only increase casualties, so they chose to retreat temporarily.

    Their night attack still ended in failure. Seeing the troops retreating from the mountain like a tide, Itagaki Seishiro's face was very solemn.

    At this time, he couldn't help but think that if his tank troops could enter the mountains, they would be able to take down these positions very easily.  After all, the tank's thick armor plate is enough to withstand enemy heavy machine gun bullets.

    Thinking like this, he seemed to have thought of something.  So he immediately said to the Chief of Staff Nishimura Riwen next to him: "Nishimura-kun, I have an idea, please see if it is feasible."

    When Nishimura Rion saw the retreating troops, he also realized that the mountain in front of him was a very hard nut to crack.  At this time, after hearing Itagaki Seishiro's words, he hurriedly asked: "What do you think? Your Excellency, the division commander, you might as well tell me."

    Itagaki Seishiro said: "The reason why it is difficult for us to capture the position in front of us is mainly because the cross-fire network formed by the heavy machine guns in the bunker group makes it difficult for our army to attack from the front.

    If we can avoid and block the firepower net of these heavy machine guns, wouldn't we be able to complete the breakout of the enemy's position?  "

    Nishimura Toshion said: "Armored vehicles? But our armored vehicles and tanks can't drive into the mountains." (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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