The reinforcements from both sides were almost devoted to the battlefield at about the same time, and the fierce battle continued. However, the machine gun and mortar units of the People's Army battalion risked great danger to arrange positions on the battlefield.

Fortunately, most of the battlefields were under the control of the People's Army, and the areas where the two sides fought accounted for less than half of the positions. Therefore, machine gun and mortar troops could still find space to arrange positions, but they were also very close to the battlefield. Since they were machine gun positions, some were less than 30 meters away from the battlefield. Fortunately, other soldiers of the People's Army also paid great attention to protecting the machine gun positions, and they were not attacked by the Japanese army in the chaos.

Among the People's Army's army, the ratio of machine guns is very high, which is of course because the East China government took the lead in manufacturing general machine guns. Therefore, the battalion's machine gun company has a total of 18 general machine guns, and 2 machine guns form a position, and a total of 9 machine gun positions are arranged. After the machine gun positions are arranged, the machine gunners immediately began to attack the Japanese army.

Although the two sides were conducting close-range hand-to-hand combat at this time, it was not a melee, and the overall array of the two armies could be clearly distinguished. After all, both sides were army-trained and not a mob. Of course, the machine gunners did not conduct continuous strafing, but used 3-point short shooting to shoot at places where the Japanese army was more concentrated. Although this shooting method reduced lethality, the accuracy of the shooting was greatly improved, which could also reduce the accidental injury to their own side. Therefore, the participation of the machine guns in the war also caused considerable casualties to the Japanese army.

However, the Japanese army quickly reacted and immediately attacked the machine gun positions frequently. The People's Army also paid great attention to protecting the machine gun positions. The People's Army, which was newly joined the battlefield, was completely arranged with the machine gun positions as the core, so it did not give the Japanese army an opportunity to take advantage of it. There were several local battles. The Japanese army was only 2 or 30 meters away from the machine gun positions, but they were blocked by the People's Army and could not get closer. On the contrary, under the cover of the army, the People's Army's machine gun team used the close distance between the two sides and frequently used short-point shooting to kill Japanese soldiers. Moreover, a machine gun group consisted of 6 people. In addition to the machine gunner and the archer, the other four people were equipped with rifles. Although it was only a short barrel, it was completely enough at a distance of dozens of meters. Sometimes the defense line was broken and you could still hold it up for a while.

However, the Japanese army was also a battlefield-lived army. After discovering that they could not fight hard, they quickly found the weakness of the machine gun position. Since the position of the machine gun position is generally relatively high, the machine gunners must completely expose their shoulders and chests to shoot, which is a very obvious target on the battlefield. Of course, if it is on a general battlefield, the machine gun position is often more than 200 meters away from the opponent, and the machine gunners often change positions, which is better. But now some machine gun positions are only a few dozen meters away from the enemy, so many Japanese troops are also aiming at machine gunners to shoot and hit many machine gunners. Because of those machine gun positions closer to the battlefield, some will sacrifice 2 or 3 machine gunners in succession.

However, despite this, the People's Army's machine gun team still firmly held its position. The machine gunners were killed, and the machine gun deputy immediately rushed up. The second deputy was killed. Anyway, there were 6 people in a machine gun team. As long as they were not all killed, there would always be people coming up to ensure that the machine gun strikes remained unchanged. Of course, the machine gun team would not be beaten unchanged, and they would use the method of constantly changing their positions to deal with the Japanese army.

The two armies fought hard for nearly an hour, and the Japanese army finally lost their firepower to the People's Army and gradually couldn't support it. In fact, the Japanese army did not want to strengthen their firepower, but the Japanese army equipped with heavy machine guns like Maxim and Hachikas, which was extremely inconvenient to carry, and there was no position on the battlefield for the Japanese army to arrange positions. The People's Army controlled more than half of the positions. Although some of the machine gun positions were set up in frontier positions, half of the machine gun positions were still located in relatively safe positions in the rear. The Japanese army obviously did not meet this condition.

On the other hand, after more than two hours of fierce hand-to-hand combat, the soldiers of the People's Army gradually learned how to give full play to their advantages in firepower in hand-to-hand combat. In fact, in daily training, the People's Army has practiced a lot of 96 pistols in hand-to-hand combat. However, in the past, the People's Army's opponents were bandits and bandits. Not only were they extremely poor in combat, but they were not strong enough in fighting spirit, and the accumulated experience was not enough to deal with the Japanese army.

According to the People's Army's hand-to-hand combat requirements, soldiers using Type 96 pistols must fight and retreat on the battlefield, maintain a safe distance of about 10 meters from the enemy, and other soldiers must also actively protect them. However, when fighting with bandits, as long as they can kill 2 or 3 bandits with Type 96 pistols at close range, dozens of bandits can collapse and escape. Therefore, they are not doing well in protecting Type 96 pistol soldiers and keeping distance. It is just that the bandits' combat effectiveness is too poor, so no one cares too much.

But it is completely different to the Japanese army, because no matter how many Japanese soldiers were killed, other Japanese soldiers would still rush upwards one after another, even more. At the beginning, the People's Army was very uncomfortable with this tactic. There were many squad leaders and squad deputys who retreated because they did not have extreme times, or the protection of other soldiers was not extreme. However, as the war gradually unfolded, the soldiers of the People's Army gradually adapted to the Japanese army's charge tactics that were not afraid of life and death, and began to apply what they usually trained to actual combat, and gradually became easy to use. In this way, the Japanese soldiers who only rely on their qi and blood naturally could not stand it, and were squeezed by the People's Army and kept retreating.

After the distance was opened, the People's Army was able to fully utilize its advantages in firepower, so it was naturally more difficult for the Japanese army to resist, and finally all the positions were pushed out by the People's Army. Although the Japanese army was unwilling to accept and wanted to counterattack again, the People's Army's machine gun positions finally began to exert their power. The flames ejected by the machine guns were intertwined into a tight firepower net, sprinkling bullets onto the Japanese army like dense rain, and ruthlessly harvesting the lives of Japanese soldiers.

At the same time, the People's Army sent a battalion of machine gun troops to strengthen firepower. Because Luo Yue watched the battle situation through the air shooting of the drone, the changes in the battle situation were clear at a glance and as if they were watching the fire. When he found that the victory plane appeared, he immediately ordered Yixun to send another battalion of machine gun troops to go up immediately.

It should be said that this machine gun force was indeed very strong. When they climbed the 203 Highland, they didn't care about choosing a machine gun position. They set up machine gun shooting on the side of the position, which immediately doubled the firepower of the People's Army. Just as the Japanese counterattack was stopped.

At this time, the Japanese army finally couldn't support it, and they retreated and retreated from the 203 Highlands. The machine gun troops took the opportunity to pursue and shoot for a while. The mortar troops could finally show their skills and chase the retreating Japanese army and carried out several rounds of artillery attacks, which also caused certain damage to the Japanese army.

At 11 noon, the People's Army finally successfully captured the 203 Highlands and obtained the Guanjian point of the attack on the Lushun Battle.

Luo Yue immediately ordered to immediately arrange positions on the 203 Highland to occupy key points in order to prevent the Japanese army from regaining the position, and to pull 6 artillery artillery battalions from the regiment artillery battalion to the highland. On the one hand, it is to strengthen the defense of the position, and on the other hand, it is also to occupy a condescending advantage and shell out other highlands

At 12 o'clock, the Hugou Mountain position was also captured by the People's Army. At this time, there was only the Dading Mountain position, and the Beiyanggou position was still in the hands of the Japanese army. However, from the overall situation, the 203 Highland had been captured by the People's Army and achieved a high point on the battlefield. It could shell the other two positions on the highland. Therefore, it was only a matter of time before these two positions were captured.

But at this moment, the Japanese army launched a counterattack on the 203 Highlands.

Of course, Nogi Hashinomi knew the importance of the 203 Highland to Lushun, and he had promised Oyama Rock that he had to guard Lushun for one month. In just half a day, the 203 Highland was lost and lost the 203 Highland. Lushun would definitely not last for a month. He must have no face to see the 203 Highland. Therefore, Nogi Hashinomimi immediately organized troops, trying to launch a counterattack when the People's Army had just occupied the highland and had not yet stabilized, and regained the 203 Highland.

Before the attack, Nogiki Hidden ordered the artillery regiment to bombard the 203 Highland. Because the fundamental reason why the Japanese army lost the 203 Highland was that the People's Army's naval large-caliber naval guns bombarded the 203 Highland, completely destroying the defense on the 203 Highland. Therefore, Nogi Hidden also wanted to do the same thing, first launching a wave of shelling the 203 Highland, and then launching an attack. Although Nogi Hidden did not have large-caliber artillery in his hands, there were still several 152mm artillery, which was considered large-caliber among the army artillery, and there were no decent fortifications on the 203 Highland now.

Of course, Nogi Hadiden also thought that once the artillery fired, it would expose its position and be attacked by the People's Army artillery, because the People's Army had firepower support from warships. However, at this time, we could only take a chance. Nogi Hadiden also believed that as long as the artillery bombardment was not long and the extreme retreat was still a great opportunity to escape the People's Army's attack. It would take a certain amount of time for the People's Army to observe its artillery positions. Therefore, Nogi Hadiden set the time for the artillery to be 10 minutes and the time for the retreat was 15 minutes, which was completely sufficient.

So after Nogi Hinomi ordered, the artillery regiment immediately opened fire and launched artillery bombardment on the 203 Highland. Although they were all small and medium-sized artillery, they were defeated by the large number, so the momentum was quite amazing.

But less than 2 minutes after the artillery regiment opened fire, a shell fell less than 200 meters southwest edge of the artillery position, and an explosion occurred. On the artillery position, the vibration of the earth and the strong wind formed by the explosion shock wave were clearly felt; and about 40 seconds later, another shell fell. At this time, a place only about 60 meters away from the artillery position, more than 10 soldiers near the artillery position fell to the ground, and two artillery pieces were shocked.
Chapter completed!