The soldiers of the Fourth Army in the position hid in their respective cat-ear holes amid the roars of the commanders and veterans.
"Japanese artillery fire!! Everyone should fucking hide!!"
Their leader, while roaring, curled up his body into the cat's ear hole.
During the fierce bombardment by artillery like the Japanese army, the entire position was shrouded in smoke and flames.
Two brigades of Japanese offensive troops were deployed on the front.
Because the only place that can really be attacked is the semicircular defensive position of the Fourth Army near the bridge, they cannot deploy more troops on the front.
The two brigades are in tandem, and the combat troops in the front are responsible for the first wave of offensive.
The Japanese troops behind are reserve troops.
This bombing lasted for a full twenty minutes.
The entire Fourth Army position looks like a muddy road that has been repeatedly run over by cars. You can see potholes everywhere, as well as some corpses that were blown up by Japanese artillery shells.
The leader of the militia group dusted himself off and shouted: "Is there anyone alive? If so, please let me know."
"Tuanzuo, here it is."
¡°Tanzuo, I¡¯m alive too.¡±
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The soldiers responded loudly.
"Get into a defensive position for me!"
The leader of the militia regiment roared, picked up the rifle in his hand, and rushed forward along the traffic trench with his soldiers.
They charged forward while roaring.
Until they entered the defensive positions ahead, these soldiers built their own shooting positions, machine gun positions, etc. on the pitted positions.
At this moment, in the darkness ahead, the roar of the Japanese army also came from the front.
¡°Three hundred meters away!!!¡±
The scouts in front used infrared night vision devices to report to their rear the distance between the Japanese attacking troops and their positions.
¡°Two hundred meters away!!!¡±
The scouts at the front quickly updated the data again.
After the leader of the militia heard this, he couldn't help but cursed: "Damn it, these bastard little devils don't have long legs, but they run pretty fast."
As the voice fell, one illumination bomb rose up at this moment, and the illumination bomb flashed with white light, flying to an altitude of tens of meters in a dazzling halo.
The Japanese machine gunners, using the field of vision provided by the flares, immediately began to suppress the defensive positions of the Fourth Army in terms of firepower.
Like a heavy rain of bullets, they fell on their defensive positions.
When the bullet fell on the position, there was a burst of dust.
¡°One hundred meters!!!¡±
The scouts in front shouted and fired a signal flare into the air.
The moment the signal flare was launched into the air, the soldiers of the Fourth Army in the trench began to fire bullets from their guns at the Japanese army.
The Japanese soldiers who had advanced only a hundred meters were not surprised when faced with the sudden arrival of machine gun bullets.
These Japanese soldiers, under the orders of the commander, dispersed into small teams and looked for bunkers.
It¡¯s just that these are all plain areas, and the so-called bunkers are actually more craters left by their previous artillery bombardments.
The firepower of the Fourth Army on the position at this moment is not very fierce, and many hidden machine gun firepower points have not been exposed.
In previous battles with the Japanese army, they had already discovered that when the Japanese army on the opposite side started to attack, they would not really charge at full speed towards their reconnaissance, but would wait for the Japanese army to charge at full speed before attacking. Fire and shoot.
The Japanese troops on the front were waiting for the mortar firepower from their rear to carry out precise strikes on the enemy's heavy machine gun firepower points.
But now the enemy has very few heavy machine gun fire points exposed, and the mortar firepower behind them is very limited even if it can kill the enemy.
However, the Japanese army is now anxious to attack and no longer cares about so much.
After marking the firepower points of the Fourth Army, the troops in the front immediately began to guide the troops in the rear to attack.
With the arrival of Japanese mortar fire, several machine gun firepower points of the Fourth Army suddenly went silent.
This is not because the Japanese mortars are more accurate, but because they have enough mortars that several cannons can fire shells at one fire point.
As long as one of the shells hits, it can suppress the machine gun firepower.
Seeing that the machine gun fire of the Fourth Army on the opposite side was muted, the Japanese soldiers crawling in the crater immediately launched a charge towards the Fourth Army's position.
This time, the firepower of the Fourth Army did not immediately shoot at the Japanese army.
They were waiting in the trench, waiting for the Japanese troops to come closer.
Until the Japanese troops began to charge, and when the troops in front reached a position of thirty meters, the leader of the militia group roared: "Molotov cocktails!!!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers who had been prepared immediately threw a large number of Molotov cocktails out of the trench.
Along with the Molotov cocktails, there were also cluster grenades.
After flying in the air for a period of time, the thrown incendiary bottles and grenades exploded.
The Japanese soldiers who were charging forward were immediately blown away as soon as they came close to this area.
As for the flames of those burning bottles, after they burst out, they formed a wall of fire.
The burning materials inside were all napalm. The Japanese soldiers obviously did not have much experience in dealing with this napalm.
"After many soldiers were covered with napalm, they subconsciously wanted to reach out and slap them.
¡°The result of this was that in the process of beating the flames, the burning napalm reached more places on their bodies.
This caused the flames to burn more violently on their bodies, igniting all the clothes on their bodies and the hair on their bodies.
Soon these Japanese soldiers will turn into burning men, rolling in pain and wailing on the ground amid bursts of roars.
When a large number of Japanese soldiers were injured under such flames, the Japanese attack momentum in front was immediately curbed.
¡°Everyone, keep charging, go through the flames!!!¡±
The commanders of the Japanese army will not pay attention to this. What they need is to do everything possible to break through the enemy's defense line as quickly as possible.
They cannot stop their attacks just because of these incendiary bombs and grenades.
At this moment, the Japanese mortars no longer dared to continue their bombardment.
Because the troops charging forward are too close to the defensive positions of the Fourth Army, if they continue to bombard, the shells they fire are likely to fall on their own people. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com