Chapter 71 The German Mule and Horse Convoy
Yang Mingzhi looked at the two girls with a fierce look. Needless to say, star fruit is tired, and Natasha's situation is a little better. They stood upright in front of them, looking like they were waiting for orders.
Indeed, what awaited them was an order. "Now I'm separating you from the junior camp, Besica, you're the observer, Natasha, you're the shooter. The two of you are a sniper squad and will be under my direct command. ”
Star fruit nodded. "Husband, I listen to you."
"No, we're in the battlefield, and you're going to call me sir." Yang Mingzhi didn't talk nonsense with his smiling wife, he looked at Natasha, "How is it, what do you think of my decision?" ”
"Yes, sir!" Natasha knew that soldiers had to obey orders, but that way, she was on the front lines of the battle. The girl couldn't help but wonder: "Sir, is this first battle, I have to fight with regular soldiers?" ”
"Yes. Are you scared? ”
"No, absolutely not." Natasha hurriedly waved her hand, "Since I can destroy the enemy, I will do my own thing." ”
Yang Mingzhi was very satisfied, and couldn't help patting the girl's weak shoulder. "Very well, Bessica, Natasha, you guys will be lying next to me when the war begins. Wherever I point, you shoot. ”
Snipers, these special operations soldiers are often able to give the enemy a huge psychological shock. Especially the snipers hiding in the woods, the elusive bullets can suppress the entire moving company.
But Yang Mingzhi's plan was another one - to hunt down the officers. No matter how good the quality of the German soldiers was, without the officers, they would probably have become a rabble. Perhaps the quality of the German troops attacking at the front is outstanding, but in the rear, the combat effectiveness of the second- and third-rate German troops is bound to be low.
Just as the troops were resting before going into the night, scouts in the distance reported that a German convoy was moving down the road.
Yang Mingzhi immediately became nervous, his troops were completely unprepared for battle, and to make matters worse, many fighters had unloaded their heavy backpacks and were nibbling on the bread they had carried. It was a luxury to get them into battle right away.
"It's all quiet! Enemies are coming! Yang Mingzhi beckoned to the people around him, and the herald ran all over the rest place to deliver the commander's orders.
There was a German convoy coming, were they the target of the attack? The commander ordered everyone to remain calm, and anyone who made abnormal noise was dealt with by military law afterwards.
Yang Mingzhi set an example, and the junior officers and the vast number of soldiers lay down in the forest one by one. The bushes gave good cover, and Yang Mingzhi held a telescope and looked at the road meticulously. The road through the forest winds and turns, and he keeps an eye out for a corner.
"Five hundred and sixty meters away, I want to see what the enemy is like." He was talking to himself, with a thatch in his mouth.
Beside them, star fruit and Natasha had already taken up arms, and they obeyed the orders of their superiors, ready to shoot accurately at any time.
Machine gunners and mortars took up makeshift positions just in case, and their reactions were still fast. If you encounter the enemy, you can still achieve great results by firing immediately.
At this moment, the scouts in huge thatched hats were also quiet, and they turned off the radio and quietly observed the German convoy. Soon, the enemy drilled out of the corner, and Yang Mingzhi saw that it was a mule and horse transport team.
"The Germans are really still using horse-drawn wagons to pull supplies, as the history books say." Yang Mingzhi thought, this time to see how many people there are in this German army, so as to estimate the future ambush warfare.
At this moment, the Germans were completely unaware that there were thousands of enemies lurking in the forest not far away. They swaggered through the wagons, which were loaded with a large number of ammunition boxes. The consumption of ammunition at the front was very large, and the train transportation was harassed and sabotaged by the Soviet partisans, and the Germans had to order a large number of horse-drawn carriages to participate in the transportation.
Yang Mingzhi estimated that the strength of this escort team was more than a battalion, and more than 500 people escorted 20 carriages, each of which was loaded with a large amount of supplies. Look at those wooden boxes, they should be ammunition. There were also sacks of sacks, which were probably flour, after all, the staple food of the German soldiers was also toast.
The ranks of the German soldiers were in good order, their main weapons were rifles, and the whole team had only four machine guns.
As he watched closely, Yerentina crawled over. "You just let them go?"
Yang Mingzhi turned his head, and this person's face was full of unwillingness.
"Let's just think I let them go on purpose, and now we are likely to pay a great price for doing it. When we're ready, add some traps to the battlefield, and it's time to attack a new convoy. ”
It sounds reasonable, and besides, the Germans are going farther and farther. Yerentina half-knelt in anger, "Berekov, don't let me down. ”
"Of course, how could I disappoint the comrades of the NKVD." Yang Mingzhi scratched his head and snorted, and in the next second, his eyes sank, "Now it's time for us to make combat deployments." ”
The Germans had already left, and they categorically would not march at night (the roads in the forest were very rough, and there were not many German trucks).
The officers urgently assembled, and Yang Mingzhi issued a combat mission.
"The first company commander, the second company commander, you two companies go to the opposite side of the road, set up a blocking position, and the machine gunners occupy the commanding heights."
"Yes!" The two spoke in unison.
"The mortar unit followed our three companies and set up artillery positions behind our company."
"Yes, sir."
"What about the grenadier representatives?!" Yang Mingzhi asked.
"Here."
"Well, you take the grenadiers with you, and you all camouflage, and you must be covered in thatch and lie in ambush in the grass. Sixty percent of the grenades for the whole army will be distributed to you. Once the war starts, it must all be thrown out in two minutes! “
In this way, the orders of the regular troops were transmitted.
"Okay, let's do it!" Yang Mingzhi patted Ye Evgeny on the shoulder, "You even have the secret weapon in your hands, this time you will see the actual combat effect." Give me a good performance! ”
Evgeny made a standard military salute, and the next second he bowed to his troop station.
"What about us? Sir! What does our militia do? ”
Yang Mingzhi looked at this person, he was Ninelli, and it was this person who led the way when he entered the swamp.
"Your militia is participating in the battle for the first time, as a strategic reserve, and when our main forces are under pressure, you are involved in the battle. Both men and women participated in the fighting. All junior soldiers are served as reserves. ”
Yang Mingzhi knew that if this group of militiamen, who had hardly conducted tactical training and had only conducted target training, really regarded them as regular troops, they would inevitably suffer heavy casualties after the battle. Because they are mobilized soldiers, their quality in all aspects is a mess. Those female soldiers, no matter how many targets they shoot on weekdays, are useless, because only a few people with strong hearts can keep their composure in the rain of bullets, like a soulless war machine, firing steadily.
The sun began to set, and more than fifty people with sapper shovels gathered on both sides of the road.
According to Yang Mingzhi's plan, every ten meters, a pit will be dug on both sides of the cement pavement, and 20 will be excavated. Cluster grenades will be buried in the pit, along with some bottles of gasoline. This is Yang Mingzhi's "man-operated mine", the hemp rope is connected to the fuse of the grenade, and the rope is more than 30 meters.
The machine gunners also quickly set up positions, especially at both ends of the entire ambush area, where there were more machine gunners. Yang Mingzhi's troops were armed with a number of semi-automatic rifles, and submachine guns were also widely used.
This battle will have to be fought quickly, with a lot of firepower to be put into a very short period of time, and the ammunition consumption will be enormous. But as long as good results were achieved, it was enough to knock out a battalion of German baggage troops and rob them of their goods, which would have dealt a heavy blow to the Germans.
Night crept in, and the troops controlled the lights. The call of the owl, the rustle of the leaves in the breeze, and the eerie dripping. The troops carried enough radios on their backs, and the scouts set up a post one kilometer away from the ambush site to report on the situation every half hour. At the same time, the ambush position here, most of the fighters slept in the position.
On the one hand, the radio corps received information from the scouts, and on the other hand, it sent reports to the swamps. For the convenience of information transmission, a signal relay unit, a platoon of soldiers escorted a radioman to hold on to the outskirts of the swamp.
The night seemed to be very safe, and Yang Mingzhi slept with his arms on his pillow. He slept on a bed wrapped in a blanket of leaves. Before that, his wife and Natasha actually hugged each other and slept together.
"Xiao Tao, you and your comrades-in-arms are like sisters, you are sisters, and you have to have your own responsibilities." Yang Mingzhi silently thought, if his wife also became a sniper, it would not be impossible. Of course, these two people must be under their own direct control, and the sniper order must be issued by themselves.