Chapter 57: The Battle of Nanling Blockade (9)

  At this moment, the eyes of all the soldiers on both sides of the battlefield were focused on the two highlands. The three rows of soldiers lying on the ground began to move, and 15 snipers, under the command of Wu Zijie, aimed their guns at the two companies of Shanxi soldiers in front of them, including their machine gunners and all the platoon leaders.

  "Fire at will, company... Bang! Bang!" With the order from Captain Wu Zijie, 15 rifles fired almost simultaneously, shooting a neat volley of gunfire at the Jin-Sui army's position 100 meters away.

  "Ahh..." As the sound of gunfire rang out, the Jin-Sui army's position, with only two companies and 24 soldiers, immediately echoed with the cries of the soldiers. More than a dozen soldiers fell to the ground without warning, under the muzzles of the enemy guns. Of the 24 soldiers, nearly half were killed instantly, leaving behind more than ten soldiers who stared blankly at the cold corpses beside them. In that instant, they descended into chaos. Quickly dropping to the ground, they grabbed their rifles slung over their backs and began firing randomly in all directions.

  "Bang, bang, bang..." However, just as the remaining dozen or so Shanxi soldiers were firing from the ground, 15 snipers had already prepared for their second shot. Another chaotic round of gunfire erupted, and another dozen or so Shanxi soldiers fell, almost losing their combat effectiveness.

  "Comrades, charge! Destroy the enemy's artillery company, blow up their big guns... Kill!..." Seeing that the two companies of enemies in front of them had lost their combat effectiveness, Wu Tao, who was temporarily in command of the guard platoon, did not hesitate at all. He loudly ordered the soldiers who were already ready to go into battle. At the same time, he also raised his submachine gun and jumped up from the ground, charging towards the artillery position of the Jin-Sui Army 300 meters away.

  "Rat-a-tat-a..." Just a moment ago, it was still a quiet meadow, but in this instant, more than 70 fully armed Red Army soldiers suddenly emerged. They charged towards us together, and what's more, in the hands of these Red Army soldiers, six light machine guns and dozens of submachine guns fired bullets that poured down like rain onto the nearby artillery position and a company of Shanxi Army infantrymen who were reinforcing our side.

  "Charge... kill..." Two rows of warriors, closely following the machine gunner's body, shouted and charged towards the Jin-Sui army's artillery position. In front of the dense firepower network of the warriors, a reinforcement company of the Jin-Sui army had not run out of tens of meters before being swept away by half of its troops. The remaining dozen or so soldiers, hearing the whizzing sound of bullets flying past their ears and seeing the corpses lying in the blood pool, no longer had the courage to continue charging down, and began to retreat one after another.

  While nearly a hundred artillerymen on the enemy's artillery position were in a state of panic when the infantry was attacked for the first time, when two companies of Red Army soldiers launched a charge, the soldiers next to them fell one after another under the Red Army's sweeping fire. These soldiers immediately turned from panic to rout, abandoning their weapons and fleeing the artillery position as fast as they could.

  In the warriors' crazy sweep, nearly a hundred Jin-Sui army artillery companies, after abandoning more than 20 corpses, fled in disarray from the artillery position. While two teams of warriors only paid less than one team's casualties and occupied the enemy's artillery position.

  Snipers and all machine gunners took cover, the rest of them carried three mortars, as much ammunition as they could carry, preparing to retreat... Looking at the dozens of Shanxi-Suiyuan artillery personnel retreating. When seeing the remaining half-battalion of Shanxi-Suiyuan soldiers around the artillery position, who had already begun to gather under the command of the battalion commander, preparing to counterattack. Commander Wu Taoming wisely ordered the soldiers to stop pursuing and prepare to retreat.

  "Hurry, move the ammunition, prepare to retreat..." Right away, in a series of commands. Except for the sniper squad and the machine gunners who were providing cover, everyone else carried boxes of shells and quickly retreated from the artillery position. The nine mortars left on the position were then, under the command of Lieutenant Rohuaisheng, each stuffed with a hand grenade that was about to explode.

  "Boom, boom, boom..." A burst of explosions sounded, and the nine mortars instantly turned into a pile of scrap iron. The soldiers quickly retreated from the artillery position that had become a wasteland under the cover of snipers and machine gunners, and drilled into the nearby mountains.

  Yang Yaofang, the commander of the Shanxi Provincial Defense Headquarters, looked at the less than 100 Red Army soldiers who had launched a surprise attack on his artillery position and was indeed powerless to do anything about it. At this time, all the troops under his command, including his own guard battalion, were fully engaged in attacking the mountain top special operations battalion.

  "Damn it, my artillery company..." Seeing his own artillery position, in a burst of explosions, several mortars were all reduced to a heap of scrap iron. Division Commander Yang Yaofang clenched his fists tightly and cursed fiercely.

  "Orderly, inform Regimental Commander Fang that even if we exhaust all our troops, we must capture the Communist army's position. I want to cut down these Communists with my own hands." Seeing two heights already engulfed in fierce battle, and thinking of his two regiments lost in succession, as well as a artillery regiment just lost, Division Commander Yang Yaofang shouted loudly.

  With the order of their superiors, the Shanxi-Suiyuan army also started to fight desperately. Seeing the dark gun barrels of the division's guard battalion behind them, they looked up at the sparse rain of bullets shot out by the Red Army on the mountain top. These Shanxi-Suiyuan soldiers chose to attack, under the command of their desperate officers, and launched a more fierce attack against the Red Army on the mountain top.

  "Captain, it seems that the Shanxi Army is starting to get desperate... Shouldn't we send in the reserve troops?" Deputy Instructor Huang Zhengqing, who had just delivered a batch of ammunition to the front line, stood beside Zhang Hua and anxiously reminded him as he watched the Shanxi Army's increasingly fierce attack.

  "Alright, order the 3rd company, new recruit company and heavy machine gun platoon to reinforce the two high grounds immediately. Artillery platoon, take out the enemy's heavy machine gun position for me. After destroying the enemy's heavy machine gun position, launch an artillery attack on the enemy's commando team. Old Huang, organize all the personnel of our special operations battalion who are still capable of fighting and get them ready to launch a final strike against the Shanxi-Suiyuan army below at any time." Zhang Hua commanded loudly.

  "Commander, you want to launch a counterattack..." Upon hearing Zhang Hua's order, Huang Zhengqing's eyes lit up and he asked excitedly.

  "Now, the Jin-Sui army at the foot of the mountain has lost nearly a thousand men. More importantly, they have lost the support of artillery fire. If our artillery company can destroy their heavy machine gun positions, we will have an absolute advantage in firepower and be fully capable of launching a counterattack. If we're lucky, we might even be able to launch a decisive battle and eliminate the enemy before us." Zhang Hua replied with a smile.

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