The 4th Battalion of the Independent Regiment defends the commanding heights on both sides of the road.

The 4th Battalion Commander Zhang Dabiao set his battalion command on a mountain with the widest view on the right, and there was a huge rock above the head of the battalion, which was a natural shelter.

It can effectively avoid the killing of Japanese firepower.

The direct firepower of the Japanese army was also blocked by the mountains and could not be blocked by the shelter.

Of course, everything has advantages and disadvantages. There is no good thing in this world that only takes advantage but does not pay the price.

Although the command of the 4th Battalion can effectively avoid the Japanese army's curved firepower and direct firepower, the movements of the Japanese army in the middle valley cannot be seen.

But this is not a problem for the 4th battalion.

Because the defense of the middle valley and highway is under the responsibility of Shen Quan's 2nd Battalion.

Their 4th battalion only needs to defend the commanding heights on both sides of the valley and ensure that the 2nd battalion is not attacked from behind.

The valley was full of fun just now, and Zhang Dabiao was still able to calm down and leisurely sucked the Hard Gate against the rock wall, but his guard Yang Erniu was extremely anxious.

Yang Erniu would occasionally look out.

When you see that the Japanese still haven't come up, you will sigh.

Then he said with some concern: "Battlefield Commander, this Japanese devil will not let the 2nd Battalion be finished, right?"

Don't laugh, Yang Erniu thought so. He was really worried that the Japanese would be killed by the 2nd Battalion.

The ambush in Changning Town brought about a strong illusion from the soldiers of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army that killing Japanese people seemed to be no big difference from cutting melons and vegetables.

So Yang Erniu was really worried that the Japanese would be killed by the 2nd Battalion.

In a sense, this is undoubtedly a kind of blind self-confidence.

But blind confidence is also confidence. A skilled commander can correctly guide this confidence, and turn the troops under his command into an invincible army of tigers and wolves!

Why do troops who win more battles often have high combat effectiveness? This is the fundamental reason!

Because of the victory of many battles, the officers and soldiers became more enthusiastic, and they felt that no one in the world was their opponent. In the future, no matter what kind of opponent they met, they would be psychologically overwhelmed.

Zhang Dabiao is undoubtedly a clever commander.

So he did not laugh at Yang Erniu, but just said, "Eniu, don't be anxious, the Japanese have something to beat you!"

"I'm afraid it may not be." Yang Erniu shook his head and said, "It seems that the one who comes back this time is only one brigade, right?"

Zhang Dabiao said: "It's the same brigade, the 3rd brigade is different from the 9th brigade. The 9th brigade had already let our independent group get disabled."

"There are only four brigades in total."

"Estimately, there may not even be 4,000 people."

"And there are no artillery, engineers, baggage soldiers, etc."

"But the 3rd Brigade is a complete independent mixed brigade."

"Not only are the five infantry brigades intact, but the artillery, engineers, baggage brigades and brigade headquarters are basically intact, and the entire brigade has at least seven or eight thousand people."

"Even seven or eight thousand pigs are enough to kill 2 battalions for half a day."

"What's more, there are seven or eight thousand Japanese? So you don't have to worry, you can fight if you have any war."

Yang Erniu was relieved and was about to sit down and smoke a cigarette. Out of the corner of his eyes, he suddenly saw a team of Japanese appearing on the opposite ridge.

"Battery Commander, there are Japanese devils!"

Yang Erqiu was immediately excited.

Zhang Dabiao also rolled over and got up, then raised his telescope.

With the perspective of the telescope, Zhang Dabiao could see more clearly.

I saw about a small team of Japanese infantry climbing to the top of the mountain opposite.

Judging from this situation, the Japanese were preparing to detour behind the 2nd Battalion from the top of the mountain, and then despair from a high point to cooperate with the Japanese attacking along the valley road to eat the 2nd Battalion.

"Dog god, the Japanese are so cunning." Yang Erniu said, "He actually came around from the top of the mountain."

Zhang Dabiao could only roll his eyes, your mother, this is also called cunning? This is just a basic operation, okay?

The real cunning one is Staff Wang. The "side firepower" tactic proposed by this dog-dog is really powerful!

At that moment, Zhang Dabiao stretched out his hand and said, "Erniu, give me the gun."

Yang Erniu quickly handed over a 38-large cover.

Zhang Dabiao pulled the bolt and pushed a bullet into the chamber.

Then put the gun on the rock wall, aim at the Japanese 1,000 meters away from the opposite side and pull the trigger.

Zhang Dabiao aimed at a Japanese flag bearer carrying a plaster flag on a bayonet on the opposite ridge.

After the gunshots, the Japanese flag bearer responded... and squatted down, and dozens of Japanese soldiers following the Japanese flag bearer also knelt on the ground.

The next moment, fifty or sixty tongues of flame bloomed on the waistline of the ridges on both sides of the valley.

However, the 12 Type 92 heavy machine guns and 54 light machine guns deployed by the 4th Battalion opened fire.

66 light and heavy machine guns fired violently at the same time, and 66 dazzling tongues of flames were like flame whips in the hands of the god of death, violently thrusting towards the Japanese who were advancing forward along the ridges on both sides.

In an instant, the Japanese fell on the ground like wheat cut by a sickle.

The effective range of the light machine gun is only six or seven hundred meters, and the ballistic scattered area exceeding 800 meters can no longer be seen, but the accuracy is insufficient, so the quantity is used to make up.

The huge barrage of fire formed by more than 50 subsets of the crooked handles is enough to make up for the lack of accuracy.

Therefore, facing such dense barrage, the Japanese infantry advancing forward along the ridges on both sides of the valley fell one by one, and half of them were injured or killed in a blink of an eye.

The remaining Japanese quickly retreated as soon as they saw that the situation was wrong.

The second attack of the 3rd Japanese Brigade was disintegrated again.

Looking at the few Japanese who retreated and looking at the dozens of Japanese lying on the ridge, Yang Erniu couldn't help but say, "Damn it, Staff Wang's method is really useful."

"Can machine gun firepower be used like this?"

Zhang Dabiao was also very impressed, really admired.

I remember when Wang Yan first told him about side fire power, he was quite dissatisfied.

Otherwise, if the team leader supported him, he would not have adopted it at all. But when I look back now, it is really unreasonable that the team leader supported Wang Yan so hard.

The dog-good Staff King is really not simple!

He is worthy of being an elite from the Central Military Academy!

...

A few hundred meters away, inside the command post of the Independent Regiment.

"Hahaha, the second wave of the Japanese attack was repelled again." Li Yunlong put down his telescope and turned to Wang Yan and said, "Staff Officer Wang, you are so damn good at this side firepower. "

"The Japanese who were advancing along the ridge just now was beaten up by the 4th Battalion."

Wang Yan smiled and said, "Captain, this is nothing. The method of using side firepower was actually invented by the Japanese. In the first stage of the Battle of Songhu, the Kuomintang suffered a great loss in the Japanese side firepower!"
Chapter completed!