Chapter 9: The Battle Is Over
Zhuo Fei grabbed the gun, shot the gun, killed people, and then returned the gun and left, the whole process was smooth, without the slightest feeling of dragging mud and water, concisely like doing a small and inconspicuous thing in daily life. At this time, the guerrilla soldiers on the side were all stunned to look at the corpses of the Japanese soldiers who were shot by Zhuo Fei, and they had not yet woken up from the deep shock brought to them by Zhuo Fei's shooting of the devil soldiers with a short gun just now. It can be said that until now, these warriors have never seen anyone with a higher killing efficiency than Zhuo Fei.
Zhuo Fei just reacted naturally from his own heart, but he didn't know that his actions made Ma Changhe, who commanded these guerrillas, secretly suspicious. Ignoring the reprimanding of Zhuo Fei for killing the prisoner, he grabbed Captain Zhao, Ma Changhe motioned to Zhuo Fei, who had already turned away, with his eyes, and then asked in a low voice, "Old Zhao, where did this kid come from?" I look at that kid's skills, but it's not simple, could it be a spy sent by Lao Jiang? Captain Zhao, who was also dumbfounded, looked at the corpses of the ghost soldiers all over the ground, and then looked at the back of Zhuo Fei who had left, as if he wanted to say something, but just opened his mouth to say: "Old Ma ......" but stopped, sighed again, and stopped talking. If Zhuo Fei was a guerrilla, then his act of shooting the prisoners just now was definitely a violation of the military regulations of the Eighth Route Army, but Captain Zhao knew that Zhuo Fei was not one of theirs, and when Zhuo Fei shot the Japanese prisoners just now, he was also cheering up in his heart.
Seeing the corpses of these Japanese soldiers on the ground, Captain Zhao thought of Li Qiang and the others who had already died, and then reached out and gently wiped the tears from his eyes, and said in a low voice: "Old Ma, I know what you want to ask, are you blaming that kid just now for being too ruthless?" Shaking his shoulders and shaking off Ma Changhe's arm on his shoulder, Captain Zhao continued, "You didn't think about Li Qiang and them who had already sacrificed? And those student babies who were beaten to death by the little devils? Compared to the little devil, I don't think that kid did anything wrong. ”
Ma Changhe opened his mouth to say something, but after thinking about it, he didn't make a sound, and then just nodded slightly. The independent guerrillas rushed to pick up Captain Zhao and his party, this was an order issued by the superiors, although I don't know how important these people were to Captain Zhao and the people they escorted all the way, but Ma Changhe also saw the sacrifice that Captain Zhao had made, not to mention that Li Qiang was still his own subordinate, and the whole squad did not leave a single living mouth, so he could also understand Captain Zhao's hatred for the Japanese soldiers at the moment.
At this time, the students who had fled here under the cover of Zhuo Fei were also found by the guerrillas, and when they saw their classmates and teachers dying at gunpoint of the Japanese army, some of the students finally cried. Seeing that Captain Zhao was still alive, Er Niu and Da Mengzi, who were ordered to escort these students to escape, were overjoyed, and then immediately helped the injured Huzi to come over, and the three of them saluted Captain Zhao in turn.
Zhuo Fei didn't sit around with the students, he just retrieved the 38 rifle he had just dropped and sat alone and sat far away. Zhuo Fei wanted to continue to study the magical light curtain, but at this time, there were people walking around here, so Zhuo Fei had no choice but to sit cross-legged and wipe the newly acquired 38 rifle. The 38 rifle in Zhuo Fei's hand was no longer the one he used to shoot the Japanese soldiers before, it was the best one he selected from the dozen or so rifles on the scene when he was simply cleaning the battlefield.
The Japanese 38 rifle issued by the Japanese army used the Arisaka rifle cartridge with a caliber of 6.5 mm, and compared with other rifles of the same period, the caliber of the 38 rifle was weak, and even the caliber of the pistol could not be compared. At the same time, the German Mauser rifle had a caliber of 7.92 mm, the Soviet Mosin-Nagant rifle and the American Springfield rifle were both 7.62 mm, and the British Lee-Enfield rifle was 7.7 mm, all of which were larger than the Japanese 38 rifles.
Caliber stool means that the lethality of the bullet after the chamber is large, this is the consensus of many people in the army during this period, in fact, when it comes to the straightness and accuracy of the bullet after the chamber, I am afraid it is still necessary to say that the Japanese 38 rifle is in the forefront. It's just that Zhuo Fei came from later generations, and the caliber of rifles in various countries in later generations has been adjusted to the extent of small-caliber, and the small-caliber rifle is not only to allow soldiers to carry more ammunition, but also to ensure the stability of the rifle in shooting, the larger the caliber of the rifle, the greater the recoil when shooting.
Compared with bolt-action rifles in other countries of the same period, the Type 38 rifle has even more advantages, firstly, long range, secondly, high accuracy, and simple manufacturing. Let's talk about the range of the 38 rifle first, the scale range of the 38 rifle is as high as 2400 meters, and the effective range is 460 meters. In actual combat, highly trained Japanese soldiers can often shoot a single target at a distance of about 300 meters, and a group of targets within 700 meters.
The bullet of the Type 38 rifle has a straight trajectory within 400 meters. It uses the Arisaka 6.5mm half-bottom edge bullet, which has a very stable flight at medium distances and can accurately hit targets at medium distances. In actual combat, the Type 38 rifle has a record of shooting enemy troops at a distance of 800 meters many times, which is not inferior to the M1903 rifle of the US army at that time, and the Mauser K98 rifle of the German army.
Secondly, because the caliber of the 38 rifle is small, the recoil force when shooting is much smaller than that of bolt-action rifles in other countries, and to a certain extent, the recoil force when shooting the rifle will determine the accuracy of shooting. In addition, the length of the 38 rifle has reached 1.275 meters, and after the bayonet is added, the overall length of the 38 rifle will reach about 1.7 meters.
This length is longer than any other rifle in the world, and it has an unmatched advantage in close combat. The Japanese army has always attached great importance to assassination training, and all units at the grassroots level have assassination instructors, and the assassination skills of Japanese soldiers are also relatively good. With the addition of the 38 style, which is a sharp weapon for stabbing, the Japanese army will have an advantage in hand-to-hand combat. Zhuo Fei has only been in this era for a few days, and the people he has come into contact with are these people, compared with the miscellaneous weapons of the guerrillas, the Japanese-style 38 rifle is already his best choice.
Of course, Zhuo Fei also hopes that he can get an American-style Garand rifle, in front of the extremely powerful Garand, all bolt-action rifles can only be scum-like existence, even the German Mauser rifle, which is known as the strongest in the world. In the face of Garand's stormy rate of fire, bolt-action rifles are outdated when they pull the bolt once they shoot, and even the most elite veterans don't want to face Garland's shots when they use bolt-action rifles.
Of course, this is just Zhuo Feifei's imagination, all he has to do now is to wipe his rifle, and the cowhide satchel taken from the Japanese second lieutenant has become Zhuo Fei's trophy. He was not a guerrilla, so naturally he had no idea that all the seizures should be returned to the public, not to mention that the bullets and grenades he found from the corpses of those Japanese soldiers were all in his satchel. After wiping the rifle with the torn rags of the Japanese military uniform, Zhuo Fei reached out and massaged his twisted ankle, but his eyes kept looking around, secretly observing these guerrillas.
Like Li Qiang and the others, it can be seen that the equipment of these guerrillas is also extremely poor, and the heavy machine gun that has suppressed the fire of the Japanese light machine gun just now should be the only heavy weapon of this guerrilla force. A figure wearing the uniform of the Eighth Route Army suddenly appeared in Zhuo Fei's sight, but Zhuo Fei's face did not appear with the overflowing smiles of other students, on the contrary, Zhuo Fei's eyes were hidden with astonishment and ridicule.
Almost the same mind as Zhuo Fei, Captain Zhao, who was talking in a low voice with Ma Changhe, couldn't help but frown secretly when he saw this person, this is not an area controlled by the guerrillas, and such an outfit will probably cause trouble even if it encounters either the Japanese army or the national army. Ma Changhe noticed Captain Zhao's abnormality, so he followed Captain Zhao's line of sight and glanced at the visitor, and then lowered his voice and said that the person's surname was Xu, and he was the political commissar of the guerrilla army newly sent from Yan'an.
Political Commissar Xu, who strode over, had never seen Captain Zhao, and when he saw the two of them talking together, he thought Captain Zhao was a member of the guerrillas, so he just glanced at Ma Changhe and asked, "What about the students you escort?" Also, what about the casualties of the troops? ”
Since the other party didn't want to ask what Captain Zhao meant, Ma Changhe didn't take the initiative to introduce, but Zhengse pointed to the students gathered behind him and said, "Political commissar, you don't have to worry, they are all safe now." However, when we encountered the devil just now, three students and a teacher were killed by the machine gun of the little devil, and we also had more than 60 casualties ......, and Li Qiang and they were all killed. As soon as Ma Changhe said this, Political Commissar Xu had already bypassed him and Captain Zhao and walked towards those students and teachers.
Seeing that Captain Zhao had a cold face, Ma Changhe smiled very embarrassedly, and persuaded in a low voice, "Old Zhao, don't mind, there is no way, after all, it is the political commissar sent to us by the superiors." Although he has the smell of a petty intellectual, he has done a good job in the overall situation, otherwise his superiors would not have sent him to us. ”
Ma Changhe's original intention of saying this was just to relieve the embarrassment, but he didn't expect that the more he said this, the more anxious Captain Zhao's heart became, and only three of the few subordinates he brought out of Beiping were left, and Li Qiang, who was close to him, was also sacrificed. Originally, this was nothing, where would there be no dead in a war, but the performance of the political commissar Xu just now who treated himself as nothing made Captain Zhao already cold.