Chapter 205: Punishment (II)
The recoil of the mortar is not large, and the firing is simple, so once the firing unit is determined, the rate of fire is very high, which can theoretically reach 2-3 seconds 1 round, of course, the current soldiers cannot achieve such a high rate of fire on the real battlefield, and the People's Army does not deliberately pursue a high rate of fire, but it can still ensure that it can shoot 1 time within 10 seconds, and in just 2 or 3 minutes, more than 100 shells were fired into the village.
For the residents of the village, it is as if they have experienced hell, because of the hot climate in Java, so the houses are mostly wooden structures, and the roofs are basically covered with wooden planks and thatch, so the walls of such houses cannot block the shock wave of the shell explosion and scattered shrapnel, and the roof cannot prevent the shells falling from the sky, and the result is either the wall is blown open by the explosion, or the shells directly penetrate the roof and fall into the room and explode. And it quickly ignited the wooden structure of the house, igniting a fire.
Although in the previous battles, the Suka tribe lost a total of more than 400 people, but it was the Suka tribe that took the initiative to attack, and the operation mode of the people's army rescue, the entire Suka tribe never thought that their tribe would be attacked. Therefore, the whole tribe was unprepared, and was completely stunned at once, and many people did not understand what was going on, and some people even thought that the gods were angry and condemned the whole tribe, so they hurriedly knelt on the ground and made accusations, and the results can be imagined, some were hit by shells on the roof, fell into the room and exploded to pieces, or were hit by shrapnel from the explosion outside the house, and even were trapped in the burning house and burned alive.
At this time, there were fires in many places in the whole village, and the light of the fire illuminated the situation in the whole village very clearly. KPA soldiers who were ambushed outside the village could also see the remnants of the shelling in the village and the sound of villagers crying and wailing. One platoon commander muttered, "It's miserable, it's really miserable, there are a lot of women and children." ”
When Li Lixin heard this, his heart couldn't help but move, and through the faint light of the sky and fire, he could see that many soldiers had unbearable looks on their faces. This does not mean that the soldiers of the People's Army are cautious and soft-hearted, because these soldiers are all veterans of the People's Army, and they can be regarded as battle-hardened, although they cannot be said to be murderous, but each soldier has at least two or three lives in his hands, so he will never be unable to see the dead.
Of course, the KPA fought on Chinese territory before, and it was impossible for the KPA to encounter enemy civilians, but foreigners and expatriates doing business in China were not harmed by the KPA, and at most their finances were confiscated.
Moreover, in the political education of the People's Army, soldiers are educated with higher moral standards, and they prohibit soldiers from bullying and oppressing the civilian people, burning, killing, looting, and other behaviors, including the enemy's civilian people, so that the soldiers can not only understand the implementation of military discipline, but also establish a relatively lofty faith, which is conducive to raising the morale of the People's Army and maintaining the cohesion of the whole army, and has indeed played a considerable role.
But this time, the negative effect of this kind of moral education appeared, because this time the operation was definitely aimed at civilians, although a certain explanation was made before the battle, so that the soldiers knew that these indigenous civilians could also be considered soldiers, so before the battle, the KPA was sure that there was no psychological burden. But when it came to the actual battle, the soldiers found that there were still old people, women, children, and young children among the civilians they had attacked, and these people could not be considered soldiers. This is contrary to the previous education of the fighters, so it is certain that many fighters have some doubts at this time.
Although Li Lixin is a modern man, of course he will not mechanically respect this kind of morality, but other soldiers do not have such thinking ability as he has, if he does not explain to the soldiers in a timely manner, it will not only have a great impact on this battle, but may even shake the foundation of the People's Army.
And at this moment, I only heard Zhang Guoping say loudly: "What's so miserable, if you want me to say that it's good to kill, none of these Javanese people are good, they all deserve to die, usually Javanese people like to bully us Chinese the most, and when Javanese people attacked our Chinese villages and towns, they didn't let go of our Chinese women and children, so I will never be soft on killing Javanese." ”
Li Lixin was also very happy when he heard this, Zhang Guoping's words were at the right time, because it was very timely to pull hatred at this time, so he said: "Everyone listen, now is the battle, everyone should not think too much, just carry out the order, and after the war is over, we will slowly discuss and summarize." ”
Everyone listened, although they still didn't understand it, but they now have a belief in the traverser that is close to blind obedience, and listening to Zhang Guoping's words just now did arouse the anger in the hearts of some soldiers, so there were not many emotions of resistance.
Seeing that the mood of the troops had been stabilized temporarily, Li Lixin was relieved, so he no longer hesitated, and immediately raised his flare again and fired a red signal flare, which was a signal for the mortar to stop firing. Subsequently, combat troops were ordered to launch an attack on the village of Utina.
So the KPA fighters attacked the village of Utina in platoons with bayonet rifles in their hands, while the members of the original farm guards were scattered into each platoon and fought with each platoon.
Although the number of attacking troops was not large, less than 200 people, the villagers had already been blown up by the shelling, and there was still resistance there, and even if a few people wanted to fight to the death, they were alone, and they had no weapons, so they could not cause any trouble to the KPA at all, and the whole battlefield turned into a one-sided massacre.
The soldiers of the People's Army are still better, although they do not resist the order to attack, but after all, they are politically educated, so they generally only attack young men or those who attack them, and sometimes find that they are attacking women or children, and they will show mercy to their subordinates, and only use * The beating always left them a life, and the members of the farm guard were not so good, they were not politically educated, and they had accumulated some grudges with the local natives, some of them even had a deep grudge, and then they finally waited for the opportunity to retaliate, and naturally they would not let go, and at this time there would be mercy, so that men and women, old and young, killed people when they saw them, and some people even stabbed them to break off their bayonets.
Li Lixin, of course, couldn't care about the others, and after the attack began, he took a platoon of fighters and several members of the original farm guard to the house of the Sukka tribal chieftain. In fact, Li Lixin and others don't know which one the chief's residence is, because the scouts have not entered the village to reconnoitre, but from the pictures taken by the drone, the scale of a house in the village is obviously larger than other houses, it is estimated that it is at least about 300 square meters, and there is a large courtyard of 100 square meters in front, and it is located in the center of the village, which is likely to be the chief's residence, and the local Chinese also believe that this residence is the chief's residence nine times out of ten, so it has become the only target in this assault operation。
The scale of this village is not large, so it is not long, Li Lixin and other people came to the door of this residence, only to see the door open, the people inside are noisy, people come and go, the front and exit are continuous, it seems to be very chaotic, it turns out that in the shelling just now, this house suffered a total of 3 shots, it is the most artillery in the village, not only caused more than 10 casualties, but also several places on fire, at this time many people are busy fetching water to put out the fire, it seems so chaotic.
Li Lixin led the way into the gate and came to the courtyard, and at this time, the people in the courtyard also found them, and suddenly there was a burst of screams, some people threw away the buckets and crockpots in their hands and ran towards the houses, and some people took sticks and flat shoulders and rushed towards Li Lixin and others. Li Lixin held a gun in both hands, opened his bow left and right, and shot continuously, knocking down 3 or 4 people in a row, and the other soldiers also raised their guns to shoot, killing more than 10 people in a blink of an eye, and the rest of the people also fled into the house when they saw that the situation was not good.
However, before they had time to close the door, Li Lixin led a team of soldiers to break into the house, shot indiscriminately, killed a few people, and then divided the troops into squads. Although the guard squad has only 9 people, everyone is equipped with a 96-type pistol, and in this small space, the firepower is stronger, so the group passed through a courtyard, only to see that in a large room, dozens of people gathered, some men and women, some people were holding knives and guns, some were carrying large bags and small bags, among which there was also a fat man, who was commanding.
As soon as he saw the People's Army coming in, the fat man's face suddenly changed greatly, and he hurriedly ordered the people with weapons to come up to meet him, but under the random guns of the People's Army, more than a dozen people fell to the ground and died, and the others were so frightened that they threw down the weapons in their hands and scattered.
Li Lixin had already stared at the fat man, because he guessed that he was a chieftain or an important figure in the tribe, so while others were in chaos, he immediately led a few people to catch up and grabbed his shirt. only heard the sound of "stabbing", and actually tore the placket of his clothes and broke out of Li Lixin's control. When Li Lixin saw it, he couldn't help but be angry and laugh, raised his hand and shot the fat man's thigh, the fat man screamed, and immediately fell to the ground, rolling over, but he couldn't run anymore.
By this time, everyone else had run away, except for two women, whose legs were weak because of fright, and they were lying on the ground and unable to move. And a few of them were wrapped on the ground and shook open, revealing gold, silver, jade, and other objects.
Li Lixin then called a Javanese Chinese and asked him to ask the identity of the fat man, but after asking a few times, the fat man only let out a scream like killing a pig, and did not answer at all, and then asked the two frightened women to determine that the fat man was indeed the chief of the Suka tribe, Lin Dihan. So Li Lixin immediately went over, raised his hand and shot him dead.