The bombardment lasted for 15 minutes and finally ended. Before the soldiers could take a breath, the forward observation post sent a warning that the Japanese had begun to attack.

Regardless of the mud covering their bodies, the soldiers got out of the individual artillery pits one after another.

"Arm up, arm up! If you're still panting, move quickly!"

"The people who are crawling in the trenches should hurry up and get there. I can move all the other stuff in the trenches to the trenches!"

"The machine gunners set up their firepower points. The two in front and one in the back should spread out. Don't hold fire with all your strength and pay attention to ammunition consumption."

The rain kept falling, but there was a surge of people in the position. Under the command of various officers, the soldiers quickly lay down on the trenches and took their positions. They were not afraid even if the raindrops drenched their bodies.

The heavy rain brought inconvenience to the defense, but it also increased the difficulty of the Japanese attack. The Japanese offensive troops marched hard on the muddy road, and occasionally one or two slipped and fell in the mire, making the scene somewhat chaotic.

Bu La had thrown away his cigarette butts a long time ago. At this moment, he was lying in the single soldier's pit, holding up a telescope and watching. The scene under the mountain was extremely blurry due to the cover of rain, and it was impossible to see clearly where the enemy had rushed.

"It's not spicy. Have the landmines been laid?"

At this time, Meng Fanle and his men came to the front line. Their first glance was hazy, and the situation ahead could not be clearly seen.

Bula looked back at him, wiped the rain off his face and said casually: "It's all buried. We've also sent people over to the three-pronged trousers fortification, but I'm afraid we won't be able to hold it for long with just two platoons..."

"What three-pronged pants? That's called a Y-shaped fortification. You must have been masturbating while attending the lecture." Meng Fanyi rolled his eyes at him speechlessly.

There is an open space at the intersection of Shuangfeng Mountain, but it has become the weak point of the entire position. If the Japanese army attacks the two hills and then concentrates its forces to attack the middle, it is easy to drive straight in and threaten the rear of the army.

However, the terrain here is flat and there are not many things that can be used as cover. If there are too many defensive troops, they will become easy targets for the enemy. If there are too few, they will be ineffective, which makes people very uncomfortable.

So Meng Fangli thought about it and decided to use a type of fortification that Liao Mingyu had taught before: the Y-shaped defensive position.

Setting up this kind of defensive position is very simple. The only information you need to know is the overall defensive position and the enemy's attack direction. A Y-shaped position can be defended by one platoon.

The defensive position of the first squadron is 60 degrees from the defense direction, the defensive position of the second squadron is 80 degrees, and the defensive area of ​​the third squadron is 300 degrees. A platoon command post is set up at the center and apex of the position.

If you look at the entire position from the air, it looks like the shape of a Mercedes-Benz logo. The long defense line extends in three directions from a central point. The trenches on each defense line are not connected. A two-person defense is constructed every 30 meters in the squad defense position.

Fortifications, or a group of two to four people fighting positions, using machine guns, rocket launchers, mortars and other firepower to form a solid defense system.

The two ends of each defense line are rifle positions, the position near the center is the artillery and anti-tank position, and the position near the top is the machine gun position. The main shooting direction of the machine gun is also the main defense direction of the infantry squad.

When the enemy attacks the position, he has to face two infantry squads at the same time. No matter which direction he attacks from, he will be attacked by cross fire and side attacks from the two squads.

Moreover, each two-person defense fortification is relatively far apart, and even large-caliber artillery shells cannot destroy both positions at the same time, which further increases the overall survivability of the defense line.

In particular, the Y-shaped defensive position on flat terrain can implement 360-degree circular defense, eliminating the need for detachments to move to reserve positions or auxiliary positions under enemy fire.

However, the tops of the three Y-shaped lines are the weak points of firepower in the entire position. If the opponent concentrates its forces to attack one place, it is likely to break through the defense line. Minefields and fake fortifications are set up at each vertex to confuse and block them. The role of the enemy.

A well-trained and disciplined infantry platoon can easily disrupt the enemy's attack by using the Y-shaped defensive position. With various weapons and equipment, it can even block enemy forces several times their size.

Meng Fan set up a total of two Y-shaped positions at the intersection of Shuangfeng Mountain to limit the threat of the Japanese army to this area to the greatest extent, and at the same time, he did not need to allocate too many troops. It could be said to kill two birds with one stone.

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"Ha Ya Ku! Machine gun suppression, grenade team preparing..."

"Kill!"

The scene in front of us gradually became clearer. The Japanese forwards had rushed to 120 meters outside the position, but what was surprising was that the Chinese on the position had not opened fire yet, and they did not know what medicine was being sold in the gourd.

However, the Japanese Army Cao who led the charge could not control that much at this time. Seeing the attack distance, the machine gun team and grenade launchers in the team quickly established shooting points, and the remaining big soldiers charged forward non-stop.

"Boom! Boom..."

One or two hundred meters is the distance at which the grenade launches its power, and the Japanese have begun to use grenade launchers to bombard the ground to cover their charging companions.

Skilled shooters can even achieve precise strikes at this distance with an error of less than 1 meter, but this requires a lot of experience and skill on the part of the soldiers.

Years of war consumption have slowly reduced the number of elite soldiers on the battlefield. The Japanese army has long lost its glory, especially in the lower ranks of the army, where there are not many real battlefield veterans.

As a result, these grenade shooters now cannot point where to hit like their predecessors, and the support effect they bring is also greatly reduced. After all, grenade launchers are not something new recruits can afford.

"Hold still! Don't even shoot, let the little devil get closer and then shoot!"

"The injured should be carried to the back. If they are bitten by another shell, they will be broken into pieces!"

The soldiers in the position were not stupid. They lay quietly in the trench and held the rifles in their hands calmly. They remained motionless even if the enemy exploded with joy.

The medical soldiers rushed back and forth, because from time to time one or two unlucky ones were injured by the shells. They quickly stepped forward to treat the wounded soldiers and quickly lifted those seriously injured soldiers who could not move away from the battlefield.

The sound of pouring rain was accompanied by the clatter of footsteps in front of the position. The Japanese had now rushed to a place less than 60 meters away from the position.

"Prepare!"

Wow...

The sound of bullets being loaded was heard endlessly, and the soldier at the forefront of the position silently took out the grenade and held the drawstring in his hand.

"Now, let's go!"

Chichi... The grenades with green smoke were thrown out by the soldiers with all their strength. The demolitionists stared ahead. They had seen the little Japs entering the range and immediately pressed the detonator. Then there was a burst of ear-piercing explosions. A pot exploded within fifty meters in front of the position.

The grenades with green smoke were thrown out by the soldiers with all their strength. The demolitionists stared ahead. After seeing the little Japs entering the range, they immediately pressed the detonator, followed by a burst of ear-piercing explosions.

A pot instantly exploded within a meter's range.

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"Excuse me, why don't you fire cannons for Mo Zi? I'm going to kill all the second battalion!"

Bu La asked loudly, and his anger could be felt even through the walkie-talkie.

The battle had been going on for almost three hours now, and almost half of his second battalion had suffered casualties, but the mortars behind them hadn't even let go, which made him very dissatisfied and confused.

The walkie-talkie soon came back with Meng Fannie's reply: "Listen to me, the Japanese haven't used their full strength yet, and the attacks from behind will only become more and more fierce. We can't expose our strength too early. Pull back. I will immediately

Let a battalion take over from you."

"Where are your balls? You bastard, your lids are dripping!"

Bu La put down the walkie-talkie angrily. He was not afraid of the powerful Japanese attack, but felt sorry for the brothers who died in the battle.

To borrow Meng Fan's words, you don't need to get too close to your soldiers. It's best not to get to know them, because what you're afraid of is that when you get to know them well and become brothers, this brother will be separated from you in the next second.

, that feeling is not pleasant at all.

Meng Fanliao, who had long understood the truth, never went to the grassroots to interact with the soldiers. Instead, people like Bu La and Mi Long liked to mingle with the soldiers, but they were also under the greatest pressure in this difficult defensive battle.

After this battle, I don’t know how many familiar people I will never see again, just like the veteran who handed me spicy cigarettes before the war. He was talking and laughing one moment, but turned into a pile of rotten meat on the ground the next second.

Someone has to carry out your orders, and sometimes you have to send someone to take a shot even when you know you are going to die. There is no way... There is no way in which people will not die in a war. The battlefield is so cruel.

No matter what people thought, the battle had to continue. In addition to the frontal attack on Shuangfeng Mountain, the Japanese once again sent two squadrons to attack the Y-shaped defensive position at the intersection of the hillside.

There are many fortifications there. The Chinese built many bunkers and trenches to protect the perimeter, and also used a large number of sandbags to make low walls to confuse the enemy's sight.

Without much hesitation, the commander immediately issued an attack order. In his opinion, this defense line was full of loopholes. Although the opponent had built a lot of defense fortifications, it made no sense at all from the layout point of view, and the terrain was open and there were no

In depth, it is estimated that a wave of charges will end the battle.

Before that, he first called the regiment's artillery to blast the area. Although the artillery shells exploded violently, the position was extremely quiet, as if there were no people inside and there was no movement. Those who didn't know thought that the Chinese had given up here.

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The commander didn't care so much. After the bombardment, he immediately arranged for two teams to open up a line of skirmishers and press forward steadily.

The Japanese soldiers were very cautious and marched steadily in formation because the behavior here was too strange.

The smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated, and the thick smoke on the battlefield made their vision blurry. However, they were almost entering the position but did not see a single Chinese counterattack. It seemed that there was really no one inside.

"boom!"

"Ahh!!"

Until an explosion broke the tranquility. A soldier won the jackpot. He stepped on an S-type mine that had been buried here for a long time. The ricocheting missile exploded in the air one meter above the ground, and hundreds of steel balls were fired.

It was fired horizontally in all directions at a fatal speed, mercilessly killing every Japanese soldier within a range of about ten meters.

At the moment of the explosion, five or six little Japs fell to the ground, clutching their thighs or crotches. They screamed one after another, and their expressions of pain were full of fear.

"Ah...it hurts!"

"Dasked! Save...save me!"

The shouts and tragic scenes of his companions frightened the surrounding soldiers. One kid took two steps back because of fear, but unexpectedly stepped on a hard object.

"Click!"

The sound like the sound of hell made the little devil's hair stand on end instantly, as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and a chill spread throughout his body from head to toe.

He didn't dare to lift his legs. He heard that if he stepped on a landmine, it wouldn't explode as long as he didn't lift his feet. Just when he wanted to call out to his companions for help, there was a strong upward force coming from under his feet.

The German S-type mines will explode when the time comes, whether you lift your legs or not.

From stepping on it to exploding, just three or four seconds didn't give the little devil any more time to react. He could only watch helplessly as the thunder that broke through the ground turned into a ball of fire in front of him.

"boom!"

The kid who bore the brunt of the attack was blown to pieces on the spot, and the steel balls that flew in all directions also took away two of his comrades.

"Don't move! Squat where you are!"

"Captain, what should we do?"

The team leader was shocked. They had unexpectedly entered the minefield unknowingly. The soldier's questions made him feel even more stressed, but he could not stay here at this moment, because staying for one more minute would increase the risk.
To be continued...