Chapter Seven: Man Jianghong (Six Ups)

Zhang Songling was a little disappointed in his heart, but the head of the old Gou regiment had said it to this point, and he couldn't keep up with his boss anymore. Grinning, he sneered and suggested: "Then I'll teach someone how to use a grenadier!" I wasted so many grenades this afternoon, and I finally got a little bit of a way! ”

"Gather all the grenadiers of the battalions and hand them over to this little fat man tonight! Let him take everyone and sharpen his guns in battle! Lao Gou nodded very happily, and then shouted instructions to the officers under his command.

"Good! Then please Commander Zhang! All the officers responded in unison, and they all felt that Zhang Xiaopang was refreshing and generous, and he was definitely worth befriending. In fact, even if Zhang Songling didn't take the initiative to ask for help, they had already thought of letting their grenadiers come over to apprentice. Although the grenadier thing looks simple, it is used well, and it can definitely withstand a small artillery, and it is still a curved type, and there is no shooting blind spot. It couldn't be more convenient for fire suppression, especially against enemy light machine guns, which are simply "chickens eat grasshoppers!" ", one eats a quasi-child.

In the past, the 26th Route Army rarely captured the grenadiers of the devils, and occasionally got one, and there was not enough supply of 91-style grenades, so none of the officers had any extravagant hopes for it. Now the pits under the double-ring trenches in Walnut Orchard are piled up with boxes and boxes of Type 91 grenades, and anyone who wants to maximize the power of the grenadier will really be kicked in the head by a donkey.

"And!" Before Lao Gou announced the dismissal of the meeting, Zhang Songling hurriedly added, "If you go to touch the devil's artillery position, ask the villagers if they know the specific location." Didn't we bring in dozens of people in our trenches today? Before they left, send someone to ask. If you really can't do it, just give more money. Anyway, as long as someone is willing to lead the way, it is better than looking for it ourselves! ”

"Okay, you kid really can!" Even Lao Gou didn't expect this section, and several other officers even mentioned it. Hearing Zhang Songling say it in time, everyone turned their eyes to him again, and raised their thumbs high, "How did this head grow?" It's like a gold bar in it. Compared with you kid, the heads of several of us are carved out of elm pimples! ”

"Otherwise, how can people graduate from high school, you haven't even finished elementary school!"

"Then I can write a few words! Unlike some people, except for their own names, everything else is smeared! ”

The officers joked and teased each other as they worked together to complete the plan for tonight's night attack. Someone had already been ordered by Lao Gou to find the villagers who jumped into the trenches during the day to take refuge, promised heavy thanks, and asked them to point out the location of the devil's artillery. But most of the villagers were frightened by the devils, and would rather hide in the mountains to endure humiliation and steal their lives from now on, rather than risk leading their own soldiers to find the little Japanese devils to take revenge. Only an old man surnamed Meng quietly glanced at the person sent by Lao Gou when the other people were not paying attention.

"Since everyone doesn't know where the devil's cannon is, let's hurry up and go home while it's dark. Don't go directly to the north of the mountain, the devil's camp is over there, and they have seen it, and they have to arrest you back. To the west and south, there are paths for grazing sheep. Although it is narrow and steep, and there is a valley next to it, you don't have to worry about encountering devils! Xiao Lizi, the guard who went to find the guide on Lao Gou's orders, was also a clever ghost, guessing that Meng Laohan was afraid that someone would tell him later, so he smiled and began to persuade the people to leave the camp.

"Where (we), where (we) are (here) happy (can)?" The villagers who had survived looked at each other, not knowing whether to go down the mountain immediately or stay in the camp to avoid the risk.

"You can go. We will hold out here for one more day at most, and we will also evacuate on our own initiative. At that time, I couldn't take care of everyone. Our head of the group said, give each of you two cans to take on the road to eat, the fish tastes very good! Xiao Lizi nodded, and while explaining the reason to everyone, he asked someone to bring two large wooden boxes.

One by one, the tin cans were taken out and stuffed into the hands of the villagers. The villagers had just shared the canned food with everyone at dinner, and knew that it was a very delicious and rare thing, so they took it with great gratitude, and then left with their companions. Meng Laohan led his son to walk at the end of the line, and while everyone was not paying attention, his body shook and hid in the connecting passage of the two trenches. Xiao Lizi had been waiting here for a long time, and immediately grabbed Meng Laohan's arm and promised in a low voice: "Don't worry, you old man, we will never let you take risks." Just lead our men to the devil's cannon, and you can leave with your son. The fifty oceans promised to you just now can be cashed out before departure! ”

"Sir, I don't want the ocean. You give me a good gun, and five hundred rounds of ammunition are missing?! "Meng Laohan speaks with a typical accent from Handan, Hebei, although it is a little strange, but it is not as difficult to understand as Shanxi dialect.

Xiao Lizi was stunned, and instinctively wanted to ask why! Before he could say his questioning words, Meng Laohan had already preemptively added: "If you think that 500 rounds of ammunition is too much, 200, 100 rounds will do!" Sir, you will buy you for fifty dollars. I'm a hunter, if I had a good gun in my hand today, the child would not have died in the hands of the little devil! Hi! ”

He threw a punch on the wall of the passage, and the old man smashed the wall of the passage to the ground. His son stepped forward quickly, grabbed his father's arm, and said not a word, but his eyes spewed out two cold flames.

Neither father nor son shed tears, perhaps because they had already dried their tears, or perhaps because they knew that there was no point in crying at this time. But the fire of hatred in the eyes of their father and son made everyone who saw it tremble. Xiao Lizi couldn't help but shiver, and then responded very dryly, "Okay, what's wrong with that!" However, I can't make my own decisions about this matter, I have to talk to my head first. If he is willing to agree, Sensei says 500 rounds of ammunition, 1,000 rounds is no problem! ”

"Medium!" The old man nodded heavily, took his son's hand and walked out of the passage. "I'll go with you to see the head of the group, if he is willing to give us two good guns, my life is his!"

"Don't worry, wait for the others to go a little farther, a little further!" Xiao Lizi hurriedly stood in front of Meng Laohan's father and son, and asked the two not to be too frizzy. After the other civilians had come out of the trenches and scattered far away, they quietly led the two to the temporary command post of the regiment commander Gou Youde.

At this moment, the last thing in the hands of the secret service group is guns and bullets. Therefore, after listening to Meng Laohan's request, Gou Youde agreed without hesitation. In order to win over the elderly, he also sent someone to take a brand-new 38 big lid and personally demonstrated how to use it to Meng Laohan and his son. However, when Meng Laohan's son couldn't wait to come up to pick up the gun, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and he didn't let go of his hand for a long time.

"The children in the mountains are not educated, sir, don't be like him!" Meng Laohan hurriedly stepped forward, hid his son behind him, and made amends to Gou Youde.

"It's okay, hehe, it's okay!" Gou Youde smiled awkwardly and handed the 38 big gaier to Meng Laohan, "I saw that he was young, and I was afraid that he would take away the fire." You always hold it, the safety bolt is here, don't open it when it's okay! ”

Meng Laohan fell to the ground with a stone in his heart, took the gun, and thanked him a thousand times. Gou Youde smiled again, and ordered Xiao Lizi to take Meng Laohan and his son down to find Wang Tiehan, the commander of the second battalion, to make preparations. When the three of them were far away, they turned around and muttered to the air, "His grandmother's is actually a little girl." No wonder the two eyes are bright and the thief is bright! This old Mengtou raised a girl as a son, and he was afraid that others would not recognize him! ”

After muttering, he turned to Zhang Songling to see how he instructed the grenadier groups that had just been formed this morning on how to aim. The wounds on the latter's body had been re-bandaged by the hygienist, and his clothes had been changed from head to toe, and the whole person looked very clean and neat. Hearing Lao Gou's footsteps, he turned his head and greeted with a smile: "The head of the regiment is here, do you have something to do with me?!" ”

"Captain!" "Captain!" The other brothers also stood up and respectfully saluted the leader. Gou Youde was so respectful that he felt uncomfortable, returned the military salute, and then commanded loudly: "Okay, it's rest time, don't fix these vain things!" I don't care! With that kung fu, you can learn more from Zhang Xiaofat to learn how to play a grenadier. They only touched it this afternoon, but the accurate head is not much worse than the grenadiers of the little devils! ”

"The head of the regiment has won the prize!" Zhang Songling was a little embarrassed to be praised, and waved his hand with a smile, "I'm just bold and fight a lot." So the more you fight, the more familiar you get! Brothers, if you are not afraid to waste grenades like me, you must be better than me! ”

"Alright, don't be modest, go on, I'll smoke a cigarette next to me!" Lao Gou waved his hand and interrupted with a smile. Xiao Liu, the new guard squad leader, obediently lit a lighter, lit a cigarette for the commander, and helped him sit against the trench wall. Lao Gou took a deep puff of his inferior cigarette and sighed with satisfaction, finally getting a moment of relaxation after a tense day.

With the regimental commander personally supervising by his side, all the members of the grenadier team were noticeably more focused. Zhang Songling first explained the principle of projectile in the simplest language, explained the relationship between the starting angle of the parabola and the distance spanned, and then supplemented in detail the shooting essentials he summed up in the afternoon according to the similarities and differences between the German-made mortar and the grenadier canister.

In fact, these two weapons are fundamentally the same kind in principle, and among the German-made mortars, there is also an ultra-light one, which is also called a grenadier canister. And because little Japan has always dreamed of annexing China, it has put more effort into grenadiers in view of China's poor transportation conditions and the lack of heavy weapons in the army.

The range of the grenadier of the little devil is not as good as the German 34 type 80-mm mortar, but it far exceeds the German grenadier canister. It is also lighter, fires faster, and fires both specialized grenades and grenades with a tinted spoon.

In terms of ease of aiming, the grenadier canister of the little devil is inferior to the German-made mortar. Although the principle of aiming is more or less the same, the Germans prefer to rely on tools rather than manpower, so all the sighting equipment on the mortar is readily available, and even if you don't know how to fire it, you can get the shell to the same position if you practice following the instructions. And the grenadier of the little devil, the accuracy depends entirely on the familiarity of the launcher with this weapon. Although it is also equipped with simple aiming equipment, it is basically not very useful. At least, Zhang Songling completely ignored the presence of the sight when shooting this afternoon.

"....... also, the muzzle of the gun must be stable when firing. Don't be in too much of a hurry, the more you can't target! While explaining, Zhang Songling demonstrated at the same time, knowing everything and saying everything. It took a full hour and a half to finish explaining the basic firing essentials of the grenadier. "The devil machine gun can't sweep at once, you first sneak a few glances at him, estimate the distance, and then push the grenadier out of the trench and swing it steady! Then I sneaked a few more glances at him and adjusted the angle. When you feel like you have it, pull the launch rod immediately! ”

"What do you do when it's windy?!" A soldier named Zou Ergou hesitated to ask.

"It gives me the impression that the wind doesn't affect it very much!" Zhang Songling thought for a while and replied quickly, "But there is no wind this afternoon." If it's a headwind, you can adjust the canister mouth slightly higher. The tailwind is slightly lower. ”

"What about the hillside, the hillside and the flat ground should be different!" Zou Ergou is obviously a very studious little guy, chasing Zhang Songling to get to the bottom of it.

"We're on the hillside right now, condescending to fight devils." Zhang Songling scratched the back of his head and continued to add. "The experience I just talked about is also about how we fight here! As for the flat ground, let's continue to summarize it in the future. The principle is the same, that is, the problem of angle adjustment. ”

Hearing that Zhang Xiaopang finally had a question that could not be answered, the brothers all laughed kindly. Just as he was triumphant, suddenly, the trench under his feet shook, and then a loud explosion was heard.

"Got it!" The regimental commander Gou, who was still pretending to sleep with his eyes closed just now, was the first to jump up, stepped on an empty ammunition box, and looked out of the trench. Zhang Songling and others no longer discussed how to operate the grenadier canister, and they all followed the example of Lao Gou and climbed onto the edge of the trench with empty ammunition boxes.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" About two or three miles to the lower left of the group, grenade explosions followed. Immediately afterwards, there was the roar of the Makqin heavy machine gun, and the neighing of the devil's plague chicken's neck heavy machine gun. The cannonballs and bullets flew as they burst into flames, illuminating the rocks and dead trees on the hillside like the shadow of the devil!

Lao Gou's face quickly turned pale. Not an artillery position for the Japanese army! The artillery positions of the little devils are not so close! The first and second battalions could not have touched the devil's cannon so quickly! The only possibility is that Gong Ziqiang and Wang Tiehan encountered the little devil on the way, and the enemy and us immediately fought together.

"Report!" Xiao Wu, a signal soldier, hurriedly ran over and saluted Lao Gou, "Commander-in-Chief Huang of the Front Command is calling!" ”

"Read!" Lao Gou forcibly suppressed the worry in his heart and ordered loudly.

"I am glad to hear that the special task force of the 27th Division has conquered the Japanese army's Walnut Garden camp and successfully cut off the contact between the Japanese army south of the old pass and its rear. The front-line command specially decided to award 20,000 yuan to the head of the regiment, Gou Youde, and his warriors. A meritorious service has been reported to Nanjing, and the reward will be doubled later. It is hereby commanded that Colonel Gou Youde must lead his brothers in his subordinate to hold on to the walnut orchard for another three to five days. After our army has annihilated all the two Japanese wings at Guguan and Guangou, we will cooperate with friendly troops and ...... for the total annihilation of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army."

"grandma's!" Without waiting for Xiao Wu to finish reading, Gou Youde snatched the telegram, threw it into the mud pit. "At the critical moment, I ran to Taiyuan and found that there was a cheap place to take advantage of, so I wanted to eat a big fat man in one go! Hold on for another three days, Lao Tzu will have more than a thousand brothers, what will you hold on?! ”

Even if they didn't know how to command large-scale battles, Zhang Songling and others understood that the combat orders given by Deputy Commander Huang to the special mission were very unreliable. But now is not the time to keep up with the telegraph lawsuit, Gong Ziqiang and Wang Tiehan only sent veterans from their respective battalions to accompany them, in case they encounter large-scale devil soldiers, I am afraid it will be difficult to get out calmly.

"Commander——!" Li Qingfeng, the commander of the third battalion, ran over from the other end of the trench, his face full of anxiety, "I'll take the third battalion and bring Lao Wang and Lao Gong back!" Don't worry, Commander, I'll go right away! ”

"Come back!" Gou Youde snapped and stopped Li Qingfeng's recklessness, "How many devils they have encountered, are they new or the ones this afternoon, do you know?" ”

"I ....." Li Qingfeng was stunned by the question, hesitating and not knowing how to answer.

"I only have three battalion commanders under my command!" On Lao Gou's forehead, the green tendons jumped out one by one. It is unknown whether Gong Ziqiang and Wang Tiehan can return safely, and if Li Qingfeng gets in again, he, the head of the regiment, will completely become the commander of the light pole. Not only would the ensuing battle not be able to command flexibly, but the morale of the brothers would also be greatly damaged.

"I'll go! You don't need to bring too many people, one platoon is enough. Anyway, it's dark, and the little devil can't figure out how many reinforcements we've sent. As long as they can scare the little devils, Camp Commander Gong and Camp Commander Wang will definitely find a chance to get out! Knowing Lao Gou's dilemma, Zhang Songling stepped forward. The immature chubby face was full of confidence.

"You ......" Lao Gou's brow furrowed into a big pimple. The little fat man's words did make sense, but the little fat man was already injured, and he hadn't closed his eyes since last night.

"I'll go with Company Commander Zhang!"

"I'll go with Company Commander Zhang!"

Several company commanders and platoon commanders who came to invite Ying shouted in unison. Lao Gou's cheeks twitched a few times, he looked at Zhang Songling's white and immature face, and waved his hand resolutely, "Okay, Company Commander Zhang will lead the team to answer." Lao Li, draw two platoons from your battalion to him. Bring him all the light machine guns! ”