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Yang Village, at the mouth of the mountain road.

The Second Combat Team of Yamamoto's Special Forces also launched an attack. Facing the enemy's fierce firepower, the soldiers of the first line of defense at the village entrance couldn't withstand the concentrated fire from the Japanese devils' dozen submachine guns. The firepower of the defense line composed of Hanyang rifles, Zhongzheng rifles, and Type 38 rifles was not even as good as that of a single Japanese soldier. The first line of defense was breached in response.

However, the first line of defense did not sacrifice in vain. They bought time for the Second Company's layered defense. The second line of defense had a full platoon plus a light machine gun.

This barely managed to hold off the Second Combat Team of the Japanese devils temporarily.

On the hillside's rocky area, Kong Jie directed the First Company to launch a wave of hand grenade counterattacks. Based on the position information revealed by the Japanese devils' gunfire, the forward soldiers of the First Company threw out more than twenty hand grenades at once, causing smoke and gunpowder to fill the area.

However, Kong Jie observed that there were still a dozen or so Japanese firepower points firing back intermittently.

This meant that the previous wave of hand grenade attacks had basically not caused much damage to the Japanese devils!

The combat skills of these Japanese devils were surprisingly high, Kong Jie thought with a jolt!

He knew that the Japanese devils immediately changed their hiding positions after firing a shot!

In comparison, no more than twenty soldiers in his most elite First Company had this kind of experience.

"Company Commander Zhang, organize the front-row soldiers to use a 3-second delayed airburst attack. The Japanese devils are hiding behind rocks, and throwing hand grenades directly won't hit them!" Kong Jie said loudly.

This rocky area was full of large and small stones. It was not easy for the enemy to attack them, and it was also not easy for them to attack the enemy.

The terrain was fair to both sides.

If hand grenades were thrown directly, they would fall into the gaps between the rocks, which would not be very useful.

However, the airburst hand grenades directed by Kong Jie required an extremely high ability to control the throwing time. The Border Region-made hand grenades generally took six or seven seconds to explode. A 3-second delay meant that they would explode almost when they were above the enemy's head.

However, due to the uncertainty of the time, if it was not thrown by the soldiers in the first row who were in contact with the enemy, the hand grenade might explode above their own people!

Therefore, Kong Jie had to direct Company Commander Zhang to organize the front row to throw grenades.

As a result, there was indeed a burst of muffled groans and screams from the Japanese devils. Although there were not many, the effect was much better than throwing grenades directly just now.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Kong Jie led the machine gun platoon to a high point on the rocky area where there was a huge rock!

Having been stationed in Yang Village for a period of time, Kong Jie could not say that he knew the surrounding terrain like the back of his hand, but he was clear about most places.

This rocky area was formed by stones that had collapsed from the mountain. Among them, there was a stone wide enough for two people to lie side by side, and it was more than a meter high. Kong Jie led the machine gun platoon to occupy this high point to suppress the enemy.

The idea was good. The first squad leader of the machine gun platoon took the lead in carrying the machine gun up, set it up on top, and kept firing to suppress the flashing lights. At first, the effect was indeed good. But it didn't last long before a grenade landed on the boulder!

The Japanese devils' grenade launcher!

Fortunately, the first squad leader saw that the situation was not good. Seeing the trajectory of the grenade launcher in the dark night, he rolled off the boulder with the machine gun and barely dodged the Japanese devils' grenade attack!

However, this roll, falling from a boulder nearly 3 meters high, also broke the first squad leader's leg, and he couldn't move for a while.

Seeing this situation, Kong Jie was so anxious that he kept stomping his feet, but for a moment, he was in a dilemma where he could do nothing. He clearly had a ten-fold advantage in troops over the enemy, but he couldn't use it at all in this place, and he couldn't help but regret it.

But now it was impossible to retreat. After passing the rocky area, Yang Village was below. This hillside in the middle had no cover, mainly just simple terraced fields, completely exposed to the high-angle strike range of the rocky area.

So there was no way to retreat.

For a time, Kong Jie had a feeling of being in a dilemma.

The advantage in numbers, in this special environment, turned into a disadvantage, causing several soldiers to be sacrificed in each counterattack by the Japanese devils.

The gap in combat skills was also magnified in this environment.

In an instant, Kong Jie's troops were passively beaten, and in a short while, the casualties were as high as forty people!

On the other hand, judging from the firepower points of the Japanese devils' counterattack, there were at least twelve or thirteen of them. In other words, after fighting for a long time, the elite First Company of the Independent Regiment suffered more than forty casualties in exchange for only two or three Japanese devils!

Due to poverty, although three lines of defense were set up at the village entrance, they were just simple trenches and did not form defensive positions like bunkers.

Such a line of defense basically had no advantage when facing the short-range artillery coverage formed by the superior enemy's grenade launchers.

Even gathering together would only be sending people to their deaths. The Second Company, which was responsible for the defense of the village entrance, was under great pressure in an instant!

Seeing the number of soldiers in the first platoon decreasing at a visible rate, Company Commander Chang Shanhe was heartbroken but did not lose his mind, and continued to provide support to the first line of defense in a piecemeal manner.

The road here was wide and on the same plane as the Japanese devils. The Japanese devils' offensive firepower was brought into full play. Chang Shanhe ordered the first platoon to alternately cover the retreat to the second line of defense.

He personally commanded the company's only two light machine guns to respond. However, the machine guns had to be moved after firing two bursts. The fire spewed out by the machine guns in the dark night was the best target. Chang Shanhe personally saw his soldiers in the first line of defense trenches immediately attract grenade launcher counterattacks after firing, the speed and accuracy of which were unprecedented.

This group of Japanese devils had far superior tactical skills than the Japanese soldiers of the Yuping City Gendarmerie.

"Second Platoon Leader, one person every ten meters in the second trench. Order the comrades to change places after firing two shots to avoid the Japanese devils' grenades. The machine gun squad will move around on the left and right to suppress the firepower. We must hold off the Japanese devils for at least two hours or more in order to leave the commander and the others with sufficient time to wipe them out. This group of Japanese devils is elite, and it will probably take a lot of effort for the commander and the others to annihilate them completely."

Even though the enemy was at hand, Company Commander Chang Shanhe did not lose his composure.

This arrangement did not seek to achieve great success, but to hold off the Japanese devils and prevent the group of Japanese devils in front of him from breaking through the defense line and joining up with the Japanese devils coming from the back mountain.

Now that there were trenches and familiar terrain to use, even though the Second Company's weapons and firepower were far inferior to the opponent's, their manpower was several times that of the Japanese devils. Long-range attacks with cold shots and hand grenades were useless, but they could still kill the Japanese devils at close range.

The Second Company Commander ordered his subordinates to conduct mobile warfare. The Japanese devils' grenade launchers and snipers lost their targets for a while and began to grope around.

In the dark night, the Japanese devils were not familiar with the terrain of Yang Village. The Second Company soldiers knew exactly where there were pits and where there were covered earth and rocks. They changed places after firing a shot. Even though their marksmanship was much worse, these cold shots made the Japanese devils dare not approach rashly.

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