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Chapter 222 Westbound 5

After the fierce artillery fire preparation, the 155th Division originally thought that under such fierce artillery fire, there should be very few enemy troops guarding the station, so they adopted the attack method of group charge.

Since automatic weapons and modern artillery were put into the battlefield, large-scale group charges meant to die. The Guangdong army has rarely fought since the Northern Expedition. Although officers and soldiers continued, in the face of Japanese machine guns, grenade launchers and precise artillery fire, the 155th Division, the 1st Battalion was blocked 500 meters away from Luowang Railway Station, and the positions were killed and injured.

The first battalion rushed twice in a row, and both of them ended in failure. The 155th Division changed from a strong attack to a stalemate with the enemy.

The commander of the 155th Division was at a loss when a staff officer suddenly thought that there was Li Qinglin's fifth company in the team. The 52nd Army had a reputation for fighting tough battles, so Li Qinglin and others might have good offensive methods.

The 928th Regiment was placed behind as a reserve team, and Li Qinglin and his team were stationed in a small village several miles away with the 928th Regiment.

After receiving the order, Li Qinglin immediately brought the fifth company to the front. In order to figure out the enemy's defense arrangement, he ordered the first row to conduct a tentative attack.

The first row rushed out quickly under the leadership of Xiao Liuzi. In front of the officers and soldiers of the 926th Regiment of the 155th Division, the third squads of the 5th Company, the third squads of the 5th Company were doing an offensive exercise on them. The three infantry squads and the combat teams of each squad covered each other. They bent down and jumped up layer by layer. The soldiers used terrain and land objects to cover firepower, sometimes serpentine maneuvers, sometimes leaping forward, sometimes rolling in, and sometimes crawling forward.

This kind of squad and platoon attack did not seem to be fast, but it was extremely effective. One row quickly advanced about a hundred meters. Only then did the Japanese army guarding the station realize that this was a completely different army than before. Their machine guns and grenade launchers were all fired at one row, trying to block one row in the distance.

Since Xiao Liuzi and his friends rushed out, Li Qinglin carefully observed the enemy's firepower configuration with a telescope in his hand. After a period of observation, he really saw the difference between this Japanese army.

The Japanese army opened gun holes on the walls of solid buildings such as stations and box offices, and built fortifications with sandbags on relatively high grounds such as platforms. The train carriages left on the railway due to traffic being cut off were also transformed into fire fortresses for the activity.

However, Li Qinglin discovered that the biggest threat to the national army was the bullets shot from above. Some Japanese soldiers climbed to the station and the rooftops of the box office to build machine gun fortifications; what was even more bizarre was that some Japanese machine gunners climbed to about a dozen big trees two hundred meters outside the station, and they hid in thick leaves and shot from a high place.

Under this cross-fire, a large-scale group charge is to die!

In order to reduce casualties, Li Qinglin immediately ordered Xiao Liuzi's row to retreat. After he came back, he counted the number of people. Although no one in the row was killed, three were injured, and one of them was still very serious.

To reduce casualties during the charge, the first thing to do is to eliminate these machine gun fire points.

Regarding the machine gun positions on the roof of the station and on the platform, Li Qinglin immediately contacted the 1st Battalion of the 926th Regiment and asked them to use mortars to shoot. For the enemy machine guns on the big tree, Li Qinglin decided to concentrate all the Czech-style companies and use machine guns to eliminate the machine gunners on the enemy tree.

Each squad of the 52nd Army was basically equipped with a Czech style. Li Qinglin immediately gathered eleven machine guns in the entire company and divided each machine gun into specific shooting targets.

Fifteen minutes later, the mortars of the 155th Division began to shoot at the enemy's machine gun fortifications at the station.

At the same time, Li Qinglin shouted: "Beat!"

The 11 machine guns of the fifth company fired almost at the same time, and bullets shot towards more than a dozen big trees like wind.

The tentative attack just now was very short, and Li Qinglin only knew that there were Japanese machine guns on these trees. The Japanese army arranged a specific number of Japanese and which tree they were placed on. Li Qinglin was not completely sure, so he regarded all the trees as targets.

Now the national army with superior forces is besieging the advancing Japanese army, and the shooters do not need to consider saving bullets, so each machine gun fired four magazines before temporarily stopping.

After the machine gun stopped, Li Qinglin waved his hand to order Zhang Ergou and said, "Second Platoon, attack!"

Zhang Ergou rushed out immediately with the second platoon, and the soldiers of the 5th Company once again performed a squad and volleyball team tactical offensive performance in front of the 926th Regiment.

When Zhang Ergou's second platoon advanced for 100 meters, he heard a crooked machine gun on a tree. This time, there was no need for Li Qinglin to give the order, and eleven Czech styles opened fire at the same time. The big tree with the Japanese army was beaten to pieces, and the Japanese machine gun was completely dull.

The mortar shooters of the 926th Regiment were also very successful. After several rounds of shooting, the Japanese firepower on the roof and on the platform was completely suppressed, and the Japanese machine gun firepower was intermittent. Under the cover of artillery fire, the second platoon quickly advanced under the row of trees, which was about 200 meters away from the Japanese army.

"Follow up!" Li Qinglin ordered.

The remaining people in the fifth company immediately took it as the unit, passed the Japanese firepower network through continuous leaps, and moved to the bottom of the row of big trees one after another.

The subsequent troops of the Fifth Company carried shovels and picks with them. As soon as they arrived at the site, they immediately looked for favorable terrain and started working nearby after lying down.

The near-force operation is that infantry uses the simple tools they carry to dig single-person bunkers under the enemy's firepower. The training of the 52nd Army is very regular, and these veterans from the 52nd Army quickly dug up one by one lying bunker after another. After expanding the scale, after a while, the single-person bunkers were formed.

While digging bunkers, the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Company also had to keep a close eye on the enemy to prevent the enemy from raiding, so this kind of close-killing operation is very tiring.

When the Fifth Company continued to expand the bunker and prepare to dig into a trench, the first battalion commander of the 926th Regiment came up with his soldiers. With his firm request, Li Qinglin handed over the position to them and retreated with the Fifth Company's men.

Zhang Ergou's second platoon was killed and injured in five people during the attack, one of whom was killed in battle, one was seriously injured, and three were slightly injured.

The dead in the battle have been carried down, and two seriously injured soldiers have been sent to the field hospital. The five minor injuries are not very serious. After treatment on the battlefield of the 155th Division's military medical doctors, they have now returned to the team.

After sorting out the team, the 5th Company returned to the garrison. The wonderful performance of the 5th Company on the battlefield had long been spread throughout the 928th Regiment. Therefore, as soon as he returned to the barracks, he was surrounded by the officers and soldiers of the 928th Regiment. The soldiers who had never been on the battlefield were still surrounded by the soldiers of the 5th Company and chattered and asked nonstop.

This small-scale battle is nothing to the veterans of the fifth company. However, the brothers of the miscellaneous troops who were taken over a few days ago were the most excited. In the past, these miscellaneous troops often defeated battles, but today this time they succeeded to truly see what the main force is. This victory with extremely small casualties is enough to make them proud of being a company like the fifth company.

The people from the 928th Regiment kept asking, and these people kept answering. In their exaggerated description, the fifth company became invincible heroes.
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