Overall, this defensive position is in a trapezoidal shape and the troops are distributed very uniformly. The three most important mechanical vehicles are arranged behind the position, with two layers of defense lines, and are well protected. In addition, there are 4 machine guns on the two self-propelled artillery, two of which are Type 89 heavy machine guns brought by crossing, with a range of up to 1,500 meters and a power much greater than that of ordinary machine guns. They are all on the roof. Because the roof is high, they can be used as firepower support for the entire army. It is also considered a Chinese standard. Although there are no outstanding highlights and no obvious loopholes.

As soon as the People's Army's position was laid, Zhang Fangping received a notice from Huang Taisong that the Japanese army had launched an attack on the People's Army. Zhang Fangping looked up at the distance and saw that there seemed to be someone shaking in the dense forest ahead, so he hurriedly picked up his telescope. It turned out that they were all Japanese soldiers wearing gray and yellow military uniforms, and they could even see their appearance clearly. The distance was about 1,000 meters away.

It turned out that the Japanese army also understood that this place could basically be considered as the scope of the People's Army's control, so it must not fight here for a long time. It must be decided quickly. Therefore, the Japanese army did not even set up positions, but just arranged the army to hide in the jungle about 1,200 meters away from the People's Army, and then immediately sent two squadrons to launch an attack on the People's Army's positions with the help of the cover of the trees.

Zhang Fangping put down the telescope and felt quite moved. This was the 8x distance telescope he equipped when he was promoted to battalion commander, but this thing is indeed easy to use. You can find the enemy more than 1,000 meters away. No wonder the leaders often say that science and technology are combat power.

It turned out that Zhang Fangping used a telescope to be a binocular produced by Zeiss, a company purchased by the East China government in Germany. Although in this era, binoculars were expensive, they had a huge role in combat and were much stronger than old-fashioned monoculars. Therefore, the East China government still purchased a large number of batches, of course, all kinds of distances are available to ensure that each commander of a battalion or above unit can be equipped with one, battalion level 8 times, regiment level 12 times, and division level 16 times.

Although Zhang Fangping's telescope is only 8 times the distance, this distance is completely sufficient in the army battlefield. After all, the battalion commander does not need to command the overall battle, just fight the local battlefield where he is responsible.

After determining the distance between the Japanese army, Zhang Fangping immediately ordered the mortar troops to bombard the Japanese army.

There are now 24 60 mortars and 6 82 mortars in the People's Army. Of course, in the jungle terrain environment, 60 mortars are mainly used. Therefore, the People's Army's 24 60 mortars were distributed in two batches, and they took turns to fire and bombard the Japanese army.

Although in the jungle, trees provided a lot of cover for the Japanese army, greatly reducing the lethality of the shells. Some shells even hit trees and failed to fall into the target range, they still caused certain damage to the Japanese army. The Japanese army also knew that their whereabouts and location were discovered by the People's Army, so they also accelerated the speed of advancement.

After several rounds of artillery attacks, the Japanese army also advanced within 500 meters of the People's Army's position. At this time, the rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers and other weapons in the two frontier positions of the People's Army were also fully fired and launched a strike on the Japanese army.

For a moment, dense bullets roared through the forest, causing leaves to fall like snowflakes, and the broken tree pieces, broken branches and broken trees flew scattered in the jungle, mixed with the continuous screams of Japanese soldiers. The Japanese army was also surprised. This team of only more than 1,000 people actually carried so many machine guns and artillery, but this further confirmed the importance of these two large-caliber artillery. Otherwise, such an army would not be sent to escort. If these two cannons could be destroyed, it would definitely be of great help to the Japanese army. Therefore, although the Japanese army was blocked by the People's Army, the speed of advancement did not weaken, and they also shot while advancing. The terrain of the jungle greatly weakened the firepower of the People's Army, providing many convenient conditions for the Japanese army's attack.

After paying the price of nearly 100 casualties, the Japanese army finally advanced to about 200 meters away from the People's Army's position. However, at this time, the Japanese army was not in a hurry to attack. Instead, they looked for a place to hide, hide their bodies, form a front, and launched a fire with the People's Army. At the same time, the machine guns and 37-speed fire cannons were transported from the rear to strengthen their own firepower. They tried to suppress the People's Army's firepower in one fell swoop and prepare for a comprehensive attack on the People's Army's position.

After the Japanese army's front line was laid, the firepower increased greatly. Firstly, the number of Japanese troops was large, and the quality of soldiers was stronger than that of the People's Army. Whether it was shooting speed or accuracy, it was higher than that of the People's Army. In fact, when fighting in the jungle, the accuracy of shooting was more important; secondly, although the Japanese army's machine guns were not as large as that of the People's Army, they used Maxim heavy machine guns, and the rate of fire and power were much stronger than the general machine guns used by the People's Army. Moreover, the Japanese army had two 37-speed-fire cannons, but the 37-speed-fire cannons were direct-fire weapons, otherwise the Japanese army would use them to directly attack two self-propelled cannons.

Moreover, the People's Army's positions were temporarily arranged, and there was no time to dig trenches or fill mud and sand bags. They could only rely on natural bunkers such as trees, shrubs, and rocks. The defense of such positions was extremely limited. Therefore, after the Japanese front line was arranged, the casualties of the People's Army increased greatly, and the firepower was gradually suppressed by the Japanese army.

At this moment, on the roofs of the two self-propelled artillery, a total of 4 Type 89 heavy machine guns began to fire, providing fire support to the positions ahead.

The Type 89 heavy machine gun uses 12.7 millimeter bullets, and its range and power are much greater than ordinary machine guns. Although it is not as good as the 37-speed gun, the speed of the machine gun is much faster than that of the 37-speed gun. Moreover, there are 4 in total, and the forests have greatly weakened the effect of blocking this machine gun bullet. Smaller trees will even be interrupted in half or penetrated. Therefore, after these 4 heavy machine guns were added, the firepower of the People's Army suddenly increased greatly and was destroyed in succession.

The two machine gun points of the Japanese army, and the two 37-speed guns of the Japanese army, did not dare to stay on the front line anymore, but retreated more than 200 meters, and did not dare to fire freely. After a few guns, they had to change the location, which naturally greatly reduced its power. Therefore, in the firepower competition between the two sides, the People's Army once again gained the upper hand, but after all, it was a fire exchange in the woods, which still had a certain hindering effect on the firepower, and the People's Army did not completely suppress the Japanese army.

Seeing this, the Japanese army no longer pursued firepower suppression and immediately launched an attack on the People's Army's positions again, trying to close the distance and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the People's Army. Despite the efforts of the People's Army to block, the Japanese army's determination to attack was very firm, and with the help of the hidden trees, it gradually approached the area of ​​the People's Army's defense line of about 50 meters.

Generally speaking, when you arrive in this area, the attack is almost successful, and the defense side should be ready to engage in hand-to-hand combat. But for the People's Army, this distance is not enough. The soldiers threw * to the Japanese army. Just at the People's Army's position, a series of explosions sounded, forming an almost uninterrupted explosion line. The soldiers equipped with Type 96 pistols also fired continuously to make up for the gap in the explosion.

Moreover, the distance between the two sides was closer, and the trees were greatly reduced, and the blocking was much less. Therefore, the Japanese soldiers were killed by the bomb and were hit by bullets. Although the Japanese army's fighting spirit remained unabated and the charge was still brave, the number of people who were put into the attack was not enough, and they did not expect that the People's Army could maintain such powerful firepower at this distance. Finally, they could not withstand and retreated. Only a few soldiers rushed to the position of the People's Army, but because the number of people was too small, they were all annihilated by the People's Army.

At this time, the Japanese army also realized that although the number of people in this People's Army was not large, it was not easy to deal with. Therefore, the Japanese army also changed its tactics. Since it was difficult to win the frontal attack, if it was not visited, just attack from the flanks. So the Japanese army sent another squadron to attack from the left side of the People's Army. As a result, it was known that the flanks of the People's Army were also tightly defended, and the Japanese army could not find an opportunity to take advantage of, and eventually returned in disgrace.

Although the Japanese army suffered two consecutive attacks failed, and the number of casualties exceeded 300, the Japanese army also discovered a loophole in the People's Army's defensive positions, that is, the gap between the front and flank positions was too large, exceeding 500 meters. Although this range was within the strike distance between the front and the side, it gave the Japanese army an opportunity to take advantage of. After all, it was better than attacking the People's Army's positions in the front.

So the Japanese army immediately adjusted their tactics and dispatched two squadrons to attack the left front and left flank positions of the People's Army, in order to restrain the attention of the People's Army's positions, and to send another squadron to insert from the front and flank positions.

This move was indeed effective. After the Japanese army broke in, although they were also faced with frontal and flanking positions, they were restrained by the attacking Japanese army and it was difficult to concentrate firepower to attack the Japanese army. Therefore, they could only cause certain damage to the Japanese army, but they could not stop the Japanese army from entering at all.

The Japanese army broke through almost 200 meters in the gap between the People's Army positions, with only a dozen casualties. Moreover, the two huge self-propelled artillery were just under 300 meters in front of them, and there were several carriages around them. The Japanese soldiers couldn't help but feel energetic, but at this moment, gunfires around the two self-propelled artillery sounded densely.
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