Chapter 40: The Battle of Hengyang (Mortar Company)
After Li Yuan explained that the commander of the first battalion took five people, one of them carried five rifles and went out, just as night began to fall, which was the most suitable for this kind of private transaction.
Li Yuan took advantage of the fact that everyone was starting to prepare dinner, and ran out alone for more than two hours, and when he came back, he happened to meet a battalion commander and them, so they went back to the camp together.
The first battalion commander saw that Li Yuan was carrying a large package, and the heavy weight was not light, so he asked, "Why did you kid go and change such a big package?" ”
"It's nothing, it's nearly 2,000 rounds of 38 big cover bullets, don't ask how it came about." Li Yuan said with a smile, in fact, these are all bullets in his own space, anyway, he can't use them, so it's better to take them out for everyone to use, and he can kill a few more devils.
"Yes, all we are worried about leaving is the 38 big cover, the bullets may not be enough, you kid will find so many bullets, Niu Pi!" The commander of the first battalion happily took the bullet, because the bullet was so heavy that he almost fell on his heels.
Several people returned to the camp, Li Yuan quietly gave the small package in his hand to the battalion commander, and made some glass collision sounds, "Battalion commander, this is a good thing, give everyone a bite at night." ”
When the battalion commander opened it, it turned out to be six bottles of liquor in glass bottles, without any labels on them, but judging from the transparency of the glass, it was obviously worth a lot. For those who are soldiers, there is no one who doesn't like wine, and the first battalion commander is even happier when he sees it.
More than 100 people divided six bottles of wine, and one person only drank a sip, but this is the height of the second pot head liquor in later generations, and after a sip, the entire esophagus is hot from the throat to the stomach. Everyone was a little enthusiastic, there was nothing to say all night, and everyone had a good night's sleep.
Early the next morning, that is, on June 28, everyone was awakened by the artillery fire of the little devils, and this time the artillery fire of all calibers of the little devils launched an attack, covering saturation bombardment from far and near. In the south of Hengyang City, as the main battlefield, the artillery fire is particularly fierce! The devils made full preparations before opening the artillery, and all the pillbox fire points received the focus of artillery fire, and the shells ploughed back and forth on the position over and over again, and only the first round of shelling destroyed nearly 60 percent of the fortifications on the position.
Li Yuan and the others all sat at the door of the window, looking at the gunpowder smoke over the south of the city, and they could still hear the dense gunfire and shouts of battle on the front line from such a distance.
On the street at the gate, there were constantly whole groups of soldiers carrying weapons to rush to the front line, and more wounded were constantly withdrawn from the front line, and the entire south of the city had become a huge flesh mill, and the soldiers on both sides were thrown into it and were stirred to pieces.
Li Yuan's more than 100 people, as well as some of the scattered soldiers who had settled in the surrounding residential areas, were all gearing up, but they could only stay in the house and were not allowed to go out, and there were gendarmes guarding the door. They all watched as their robes continued to rush to the front line, and the only order they received was to stand by and wait for reorganization.
On the battlefield, the offensive and defensive sides fought back and forth, and the position in the south of the city changed hands several times, and after the first attack, the devils who launched the attack again could only step on the corpse and attack upward. With the cooperation of aircraft and artillery, the little devil launched wave after wave of offensives like a tide, but they were stubbornly resisted by the defenders.
The battle lasted for a whole day and a night, and Li Yuan and the others stood on the side of the road for a day and a night, and finally at dawn on June 29, the command headquarters sent people over to start reorganizing them.
After several inquiries, the defenders of Gaoling and Stop Soldier Hill were all killed and sacrificed as recorded in history, and none of them survived, and their positions were lost. The defenders of Wuguiling were attacked by devil gas bombs, and everyone was poisoned and died, becoming a place of death. Zhangjiashan in the south of the city is the most tragic, the reserve 10th division stationed in the place has repeatedly fought for positions with the devils, so far, the position has been controlled in their hands, and Li Yuan will be added to the 10th division as a reserve!
It took half a day to cobble together the people of the two battalions, the first battalion commander still did his old job, and gloriously became the battalion commander of the independent first battalion, Li Yuan was the deputy battalion commander and the commander of the first company, which was full of their own old brothers, and the other second and third companies were brought together by stragglers from other units.
Because Li Yuan still had several artillery soldiers who could use mortars, their company was simply accepted as a mortar company, so they allocated ten mortars and corresponding shells to Li Yuan and them, and directly rebuilt the artillery company of the 10th Division on the spot, because all the mortars had been sacrificed before.
The commander of the first battalion with the remaining two companies and the independent second battalion were sent directly to the Zhangjiashan position, and Li Yuan was in a slightly backward position to provide some poor artillery support to the forward position.
There was no moment of rest on the battlefield, the devils launched a desperate long live charge, and finally were repelled by the defenders of the 10th Division This time, the commander of a battalion with people was smashed in the trench by a retaliatory artillery fire of the devils as soon as he went up.
Before parting, Li Yuan handed over all the 38-type rifles and bullets in his company to the battalion commander, and also gave half of Thomson***, anyway, they won't need these guns for a while in the second half, so it is better to let them go into battle to kill the enemy.
Upon entering the artillery position, the scattered mortar parts and corpses proved that the contest between the attacking and defending sides was not limited to the infantry. Li Yuan immediately began to teach the artillerymen to build artillery fortifications on the anti-slope plane, and also instructed the rest of the soldiers to dig and build anti-artillery trenches, and store the shells and mortars separately in case they were served by the devil's artillery fire.
This time, Li Yuan himself was not idle, he picked up a shovel and dug quickly, and from time to time scattered shells fell nearby, and the roar directly scared everyone into lying in the trench that had just been dug not deep. However, there is no need to urge, one by one, the hands and feet are fast, and they are afraid that their anti-artillery trenches are not deep and thick enough.
The shelling lasted for about ten minutes, and the repulsed devils had already been put in order again, and while the artillery fire had just stopped, they rushed up to nearly a brigade of devils.
Due to the ten more mortars, Li Yuan simply arranged for the artillerymen to disperse with a platoon of people to hide in the trenches to teach them how to use mortars, and the other two platoons were scattered on the left and right flanks to prevent the little devils from sneaking up.
At present, the war is not tense, there is no need to concentrate fire for the time being, he himself carried a cannon and a few shells, and started his performance alone on the huge artillery position.
Because of the assistance of the life detector, Li Yuan can quickly calculate the range and elevation angle of the mortar, so many people's charge, no matter how much you pay attention, there will be people crowded together, and this is the target of Li Yuan's mortar!
Shout! Rumble! With one shot, it immediately scored 60 points, for a total of 5,580 points, including the 200 points from the previous two days.
Li Yuan quickly adjusted the mortar a little, aimed at the direction that had been prepared a long time ago, and then fired another shell. After the cannon was discharged, Li Yuan picked up the mortar and ran away, ran for a hundred and ten meters in one breath before stopping, and when he looked at the system, it was 50 points in the account, 5630 points, and he didn't care about being happy, so he began to set up the mortar, took out the life detector, searched for the next shelling target, and then, boom!
At first, the devils didn't pay attention to the shells, but as the troops approached the defenders' positions, they realized that something was wrong with the mortar.
It's very rhythmic to fire two shots and stop, huh! Rumble! Shout! Rumble! Each shell was able to accurately hit the place where the people gathered, setting off a bloody rain. As soon as they noticed, the mortar on the opposite side had already fired 4 rounds of 8 shells, directly killing nearly a squad of devils, causing great losses!
The captain of the devil immediately put down the binoculars and asked the herald to find his artillery squad and take out the arrogant mortar as quickly as possible.
The devil's artillery is still very efficient, and immediately two *** infantry guns were drawn out to deal with Li Yuan.
Although Li Yuan has repeatedly succeeded here and won countless killing points, the cumulative amount has reached 6680 points, but when the shells of the first artillery *** infantry gun whistled, he was still keenly aware that something was wrong. Li Yuan picked up the mortar without hesitation and flew directly into the nearest trench.
Rumble!
The cannonball exploded directly above Li Yuan's head, and the clods of earth and rubble that were lifted up crackled and smashed all over him, almost not being buried alive.
", you're being targeted!" Li Yuan turned over, and after checking that there was no problem with the mortar, he howled and said, "Old Wu, how many churches are there?" ”
Lao Wu was the leader of those artillerymen, and replied in a trench not far from Li, "You think everyone is as fast as you can get started, and this has to be practiced with that cannonball, how can you let them practice at this time!" ”
"Let's set up the artillery, a few of you will help them adjust the cannon, adjust it to 300 meters, two shells per person, wait for my order, go out of the trench together, and shoot a salvo!" Made, the little devil dares to up! ”
When Lao Wu heard this, he immediately understood what it meant, and took a few of his subordinates to debug the mortars one by one, and told the soldiers who used it several times before telling Li Yuan that he was ready.
Li Yuan stared at a large number of light points on the life detector, until a part of the straggler line in the vanguard began to cross the 300-meter grid line, he picked up the mortar with one hand and climbed out of the trench first, "All the people who operate the artillery come out, two shots per person, and return to the trench after the fight!" Listen to my command to fire collectively! ”
The temporary mortars who were summoned by Li Yuan climbed out one after another, all of them veterans knew how to find the best line of sight, and they also opened up a distance to ensure that the shells could land with the greatest lethality. After everyone waved their hands to signal that they were ready, Li Yuan also saw the large army of devils charging appeared on the 300-meter line!