Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

At this time, the New 600st Regiment led by Ding Wei was at least meters away from the Japanese army.

This was the safe distance that Hongjie and Ding Wei decided on after discussing it before the battle, in order to block the Japanese Type 89 grenade launcher.

Because the effective range of the Japanese Type 600 grenade launcher is only about meters.

Beyond this distance, the Japanese grenade launchers could not exert their power at all.

In addition, Kong Jie asked Ding Wei to lead the troops to help, so he naturally would not let his old comrade suffer any loss.

So before the battle, Kong Jie specially reinforced the soldiers of the New 1st Regiment with more than a dozen Type 50 mortars that were modified from the independent regiment's small arsenal.

In fact, the main body is still the Japanese Type 89 grenade launcher.

However, a front tripod was added, the barrel was lengthened, and more propellant bags were added to greatly increase the shooting accuracy and range.

Ding Wei had heard about this from Li Yunlong a long time ago.

My old comrade Kong Jie is very different now. I don’t know how he suddenly became enlightened.

Not only is he smart in commanding operations.

He even has a lot of military skills.

Li Yunlong once said that he had personally seen Lao Kong making cannons by hand in the newly built repair shop.

These weapons of war, including the seven-man-carried wooden-handled grenades and directional anti-personnel mines, were all made by Kong Jie.

Now, Ding Wei's New 1st Regiment has also received help from the Independent Regiment and learned the production technology of seven-man wooden-handled grenades and directional anti-personnel mines.

These new weapons were also produced within the regiment.

Ding Wei and Li Yunlong naturally had to hold Kong Jie, a gold nugget who was able to assemble weapons and equipment, in high esteem.

So after getting the news from Kong Jie this time.

Ding Wei immediately led the main force of the regiment to reinforce.

A fierce battle between the two sides is about to break out.

As a veteran who had been through many battles, Ding Wei had rich combat experience. He ordered the artillery soldiers to use the dozen or so modified Type 50 small cannons with extended range that Kong Jie had reinforced to completely suppress the Japanese grenade throwers.

——This is a new type of artillery fire proposed and trained by Kong Jie.

Each bombardment team consists of two members.

One observer and one gunner.

The observer is equipped with a ranging telescope and the gunner is responsible for shooting.

The observers quickly locked onto the Japanese army's high-value military targets, such as artillery and machine gunners and commanding officers, through telescopes.

The gunner adjusts the angle of fire based on the coordinates provided by the observer.

After such an artillery team was officially created and put into actual combat, the effect was indeed amazing. It was much more efficient than a single gunner attacking.

The power is fully demonstrated at this moment.

Under the bombardment of more than a dozen modified 50mm small cannons and seven or eight 60mm mortars, the Japanese grenade throwers hiding in the team were screaming in pain.

At the same time, the soldiers relied on field fortifications to set up light machine guns and even a few heavy machine guns.

Needless to say, these heavy machine guns were also provided by Kong Jie to reinforce the New 1st Regiment.

In this regard, Ding Wei could only sigh.

Mr. Kong is really wealthy now.

Not to mention the distant past, after the complete annihilation of the Japanese Army's Namwon Battalion in the base area, quite a few heavy machine guns were seized.

Therefore, despite the backward equipment and scarce ammunition of the Eighth Route Army, when the War of Resistance Against Japan just broke out, a main force regiment did not even have a few heavy machine guns.

Kong Jie could now easily take out three or four heavy machine guns to enhance the firepower of the new regiment.

Boss Kong is even more generous.

"My old comrade is here to help me, so I can't be stingy. If this battle goes well, I will reinforce your New 1st Regiment with these artillery and machine guns as a reward for your help."

When Ding Wei heard this, his eyes widened in surprise.

In his impression, this old comrade who had always been honest and a little bit stupid was now so arrogant?

But I have to admit that they do have this foundation.

There was a sudden burst of gunfire.

The Japanese soldiers who had finally escaped from the village were all covered in artillery fire.

The old Japanese soldier Hei Teng hastily ordered the artillery and machine gunners to fight back.

However, the effective range of the Type 600 grenade launcher equipped by the Japanese was less than meters.

The enemy's Eighth Route Army clearly took advantage of this flaw and placed artillery with a longer range outside the effective range of 600 meters.

damn it!

Colonel Kurofuji couldn't help but curse, if it wasn't for the artillery team at the rear of his 113th Regiment being ambushed by those damn Eighth Route Army.

With large-caliber artillery at hand, how dare these Eighth Route Army soldiers act so rampantly?

Unfortunately, that is all in the past. At this moment, the Japs had completely lost their artillery advantage and were instead suppressed from all sides by the artillery of the Eighth Route Army.

The Japs felt more and more frustrated as they fought.

Colonel Kurofuji had originally chosen this relatively open area in order to avoid the ambush of the Eighth Route Army, but now he could not find any cover at all and became a sitting duck for the Eighth Route Army soldiers hiding behind the fortifications.

The Japanese soldiers were beaten back by the machine guns and artillery fire of the New 1st Regiment before they could charge forward.

The Japanese artillery fire couldn't reach us.

Seeing his companions falling one after another, he was extremely anxious but could do nothing.

Colonel Kurofuji's eyes were red from the fighting, as he thought that his 113th Regiment was fully equipped and had a strength of nearly 4000 men, which was a strong army. However, in less than an hour, nearly half of the troops in the village were lost.

The casualties are increasing rapidly. If we continue to fight like this, the last 2000 troops will probably be exhausted.

But the firepower of the enemy's Eighth Route Army was really fierce.

And they relied on the field fortifications built in advance.

The Eighth Route Army troops behind them, who had stronger combat effectiveness and more fierce firepower, soon chased up and formed a pincer attack from the front and back.

For a time, the Japanese soldiers who were unable to take care of both ends complained bitterly.

When the casualties quickly approached half.

Colonel Kurofuji looked around and saw that of the 4000 soldiers that had originally been so powerful, only less than a battalion was left.

I can't rush out, and I can't retreat.

Realizing that the situation was hopeless, Colonel Kurofuji was completely desperate. He ordered the signalman to contact the headquarters again. In the communication, he stated that the 113th Regiment had decided to die in honor in order to serve His Majesty the Emperor.

Subsequently.

Long live, long live—

The Japanese soldiers howled and launched a suicidal "Banzai" charge under Hei Teng's command.

At the same time, the battle on Lijiaopo Heights was about to enter a fierce stage.

Under the sophisticated tactics of earthwork and digging and advancing.

The soldiers dug tunnels and advanced rapidly, approaching the field fortifications built by the Japanese army in the central area of ​​Lijiaopo Heights, less than 30 meters away.

In Li Yunlong's words, at this distance even a woman could throw a grenade into the Japanese's circular fortifications.

As for the reinforcements the devils called for...