The enemy was right in front of them. This thought also made them swing the shovels faster.
Behind them, smoke bombs were continuously launched, drowning their sight and also the sight of the Japanese army.
The Japanese machine gunners were still on the position at first, looking for the Eighth Route Army that happened to show its head to send troops, but now they are no longer doing this.
Because the smoke bombs rose up, completely covering their field of vision.
At this time, the Japanese commander at the front organized several squadrons of troops and planned to take advantage of the smoke screen to launch an attack on the Eighth Route Army.
He immediately submitted this combat plan to his commander Yoshijiro Xiangzu.
After seeing this combat plan, Xiangzu Meijiro almost didn¡¯t think too much and thought it was very good and he could try it.
But Meijiro Xiangzu also warned him that if he encounters the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side and rushes towards their defensive positions with the retreating troops, he must open fire without hesitation and must not show any mercy, even if their Some of the bullets fired by the machine gunner will inevitably fall on the bodies of his comrades.
This is the coldness and cruelty that a field commander must possess.
After the combat plan was confirmed, the Japanese infantry organized a charge and began to prepare.
Those Japanese soldiers carried a lot of grenades and bombs with them.
Some of them are already ready to carry bombs with them and die with the enemy at the beginning of the battle.
The Eighth Route Army who were digging trenches were not just holding shovels, they also had troops responsible for covering them.
Most of these people are armed with submachine guns and rifles, thereby enhancing their ability to fight at medium and close range.
They followed the soldiers digging trenches. Once the Japanese army used infantry to attack them, these soldiers would immediately open fire with their rifles.
There was a lot of smoke surrounding the area, but the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were all focusing on the smoke screen ahead.
Even in this smoke screen, they can't see much.
At this moment, a burst of dense footsteps came, getting closer and closer to them.
The commanders and fighters of the Eighth Route Army immediately became nervous.
They knew very well that this must be the enemy's attacking troops, and they planned to launch a counterattack against them.
In any case, they are not fools. After hearing the footsteps, someone shouted: "The engineers and soldiers are all pulling back, the combat troops are moving forward, fix the bayonets!!!"
They roared and poked their rifles out of the trench amid the smoke screen.
As soon as they got into battle formation, the little Japanese troops rushed out of the smoke screen.
At this time, the Japanese army was only more than ten meters away from them.
In such a thick smoke screen, if you want to see the location of the two sides, you can only see the distance of more than ten meters, or even only two or three meters.
Seeing the enemies rushing out of the smoke screen, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army immediately raised their rifles and began to fire at the Japanese troops.
There are automatic rifles and submachine guns, which are comparable to light machine guns in terms of fire suppression at medium and short range.
Not only these, but also some squad machine guns, also at this time, roared at the Japanese charging troops.
The Japanese army was not ambiguous. They threw the cluster grenades and bombs they carried directly towards the area where the Eighth Route Army was located.
Here, some Japanese soldiers had just raised their cluster grenades, but before they had time to throw them out, they were knocked to the ground by bullets fired by the Eighth Route Army.
At this time, these cluster grenades will give a big gift to the Japanese soldiers coming behind.
After hearing bursts of gunfire and explosions, the Japanese commanders and fighters in the rear knew that their troops were engaged in combat with the enemy.
However, now they don¡¯t know which side has the advantage between the enemy and their own soldiers in the smoke screen.
They can only tell which side has more fierce firepower from the sound of gunfire.
If there are more gunshots from them, it means that their battle this time is relatively smooth, and there are not that many enemy troops guarding the trenches.
If there are more gunshots from the enemy, it means that the troops they have invested are not sufficient, at least in this period.In terms of strength, it is inferior to the enemy.
"With a smoke screen, nothing can be seen. In such a chaotic battle, the courage of us soldiers, the courage of warriors, is even more tested."
??Xiangzu Meijiro put down his telescope. Under such visual conditions, he could not see anything. Naturally, he could not make any adjustments to the attack according to the shape of the battlefield.
There is no way of knowing even when they should increase their troops and when they should let the reserve troops enter the smoke screen.
But at this time, amid the smoke screen, the bloody fighting entered a white-hot stage.
The Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army in the smoke screen had no time to empty their magazines before they had to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
These soldiers of the Eighth Route Army have got rid of their initial malnutrition after receiving sufficient food supplies.
Especially for the soldiers of the Independent Regiment, their commander Li Yunlong is the best at getting some supplies for use. Therefore, when they are fighting, even if they encounter other troops who do not have much meat to eat, the food of their Independent Regiment is average. Not too bad either.
This point was already confirmed during the Red Army¡¯s Long March.
Precisely because of this, in terms of physical strength, the soldiers of the independent regiment are not weaker than the Japanese army on the opposite side.
Even the skills of both sides in bayonet fighting are not much different.
Most of the current independent regiment soldiers are experienced veterans.
They have withstood the test of war, and at the same time, they have mastered a lot of stabbing skills in daily training.
Precisely because of this, when the Japanese troops jumped into the ditch and fought with them with bayonets, these Eighth Route Army soldiers, instead of retreating, roared angrily, started to raise their rifles, and started fighting with the Japs' troops.
The Japanese soldiers stabbed forward again and again with the 38-gauge rifles in their hands, but the Eighth Route Army soldiers opposite them did not feel the slightest fear as they expected.
On the contrary, these Eighth Route Army soldiers used some very skilled stabbing techniques and took advantage of their weaknesses to kill them and retreat. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com