The commander of the artillery battalion, Xu Xu, also didn't want to eat rice and be protected, in case the 70-caliber shells could be fired, maybe he could help Lao Ran a lot, and helping him was equivalent to helping himself.

So Lao Xu went non-stop to choose the location of the mountain artillery array, and then led his subordinates to start digging the artillery array.

Traditionally, artillery is the opposite of the infantry, and when marching, the artillerymen sit on towed trucks with cannons and enjoy the treatment of senior officers.

Sometimes they will tease and laugh at the infantry who walk like a dog, in addition to deep envy in the eyes of the infantry, there is fierce jealousy, and there is endless regret, why didn't he choose to be an artilleryman back then?

But as soon as they arrived at the destination, the hard work of the artillerymen immediately showed itself, and the infantry dug some foxholes, and some simply lay on the ground and waited for food.

The artillery, on the other hand, had to dig an artillery array, which was really not dug by people, and some artillery positions had to dig out a small pond as big and deep.

After digging out of breath, they have to immediately unload the cannon, pull the cannon into the artillery array, load the cannon for testing, etc., if the artillery array is on the mountain, it is even more exhausting, and more than a dozen dozens of people shout and pull the heavy cannon up the mountain.

I really couldn't pull it, so I could only dismantle the cannon and lift, pull, and carry it up one by one.

Often, the infantry had finished eating and resting for most of the day, and the artillery was still doing the dirty work hard. This is still the artillery with towed vehicles, if there were no trucks during the Anti-Japanese War, the artillery would have to walk.

Like Lao Xu, the Zhishan Artillery Battalion of their division belongs to small and medium-sized artillery, and there is no truck to pull it, firstly, the army is poor, and there are not so many truck supplies, and secondly, the truck target is too large, and it is always on the front line, and there is a great chance of being bombed by devil planes.

Therefore, Lao Xu and they generally use mules and horses, but each mule and horse also has an upper limit of camel strength, and it is generally about 300 catties of camels, so their mountain artillery has to be dismantled from the camel.

If there are fewer mules and horses, or they are sick and killed, the rest can only use people to camel, and the camels will not move and pull them away, so many of the artillery during the Anti-Japanese War were not killed, but were tired and died on the road.

Now considering that there may be bombs dropped by devils' planes and bombarded by artillery, Battalion Commander Xu scattered several cannons, one in each direction, so as not to be killed by someone with one shot.

In addition, the artillery array and the fortress were combined, because Lao Ran and his second battalion reinforced several layers of sandbags and wood on the top of the fortress to make a simple bunker.

Now build the artillery emplacement near the fort bunker, smash the back door of the fort a little, and in the event of an air attack, immediately pull the mountain artillery into the fort bunker.

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It took most of the day to finish these things in the battle, and the previous attack of the devils was completely supported by Lao Ran's second battalion in front.

That is to say, the devil tank that came just now, Lao Ran and hundreds of them just deepened and strengthened the trenches and bunkers, and there was no time to dig the tank trenches, so the devil's tank went straight to the forefront of the position.

The tank moved its body, found the most comfortable position, and fired at the fortress and trenches, although the power of the 37 guns was a little smaller than the infantry guns, but for the infantry, it was also irresistible, everyone could only nest in the trenches first, and let the devils open fire.

If the devil's tank only stared at one of the fortress's gun holes and fired cannons, it is estimated that Lao Ran would not be able to stand it and ask people to go up and fight with the devil tank, but the proud devil tank soldiers did not do this.

Maybe they don't feel the need to do this, their tanks can sweep the Chinese soldiers, just run over the positions of the Chinese people, and even firing artillery is redundant and wasteful.

After all, they were the North China Front of the Japanese Army, especially the Sakagaki Fifth Division, and in the face of the Chinese troops in North China, they hardly encountered decent resistance, so they naturally had the idea of underestimating the enemy.

The devil thought so, so he did so, and after firing a few shots symbolically, four or five tanks rumbled towards the central position of Tingzitou Village, and the infantry behind the tanks also followed the tanks.

Guarding the eastern position of the main position of Tingzitou Village was the second battalion and the third company, and it was in this company that Qin Guogang and Tan Yizhong were in this company, each with a platoon of people, lying in the deep trench.

The observers on the side kept reporting the distance of the tank, 100 meters, 50 meters, 30 meters, and everyone could feel the shaking of the land because of the tank.

It's 30 meters, and the devil infantry behind the tank has already begun to throw grenades into the trench, and if they don't fight back, they will be beaten passively.

Qin Guogang gave an order: "Throw a grenade!" ”

The whole platoon threw out the first batch of grenades, this grenade is not to blow up the tank, this single grenade can't blow up the tank, this batch of grenades is the devil behind the bomb tank.

A batch of grenades began to detonate behind the tank, and the devil hurriedly lay down to avoid shrapnel, but the tank did not need to dodge shrapnel, and did not notice that the infantry behind him was now lying on the ground, and continued to move forward.

This is the problem of the combination of infantry and tank, the tank does not have the protection of the infantry behind it, and it is very dangerous to move forward alone, and it is easy to get caught in the entanglement of the opposing infantry, and it is impossible to prevent sudden cluster grenades from all directions.

It is estimated that the devil's tank does not have much attention to the combination of Butan, or it is just to despise the Chinese soldiers, and they are old and impostors, when they see the tank, it is not a word "escape".

You must know that Qin Guogang and Tan Yizhong are veterans who participated in the Battle of Songhu, and they have long learned the power of devils' tanks in Shanghai, and they have also accumulated some experience in infantry fighting tanks.

At the moment when the devil lay down to avoid the grenade, the tank drove forward for another ten meters by himself, and it was only in this ten meters that the tank was killed.

Qin Guogang divided the personnel into several groups, one group was still throwing grenades to cut off the devil infantry behind the tank, and one group threw grenades around the tank, and the smoke from the explosion surrounded the tank.

The devil's tank soldier is still laughing at the soldier and wants to blow up the tank with a grenade, is his head caught in the door panel? If you don't clip enough, then press it with our tank tracks.

Of course, Qin Guogang knew that this grenade couldn't blow up the tank, but he still had to do it, in order to play the role of a smoke grenade and cover the real attacker.

The most lethal opponent of the tank came, the cluster grenade, several attackers with five or six grenades tied together, taking advantage of the smoke, in different directions on the tank's visual blind spot, attacking at the same time and pounced on the tank.

In fact, the deadliest nemesis of the tank is the battle defense artillery, the armor-piercing shell of the 37 battle defense gun, against the thin tank of the Japanese army, like hitting the infantry with a rifle, or even easier than hitting the infantry.

To fight an infantry in flexible movement, you must have superb marksmanship and experience in order to hit the enemy, and it normally takes hundreds or thousands of bullets to hit a devil.

And the 37 battle defense gun, basically only a few shells, can hit a tank, the tank in the march, no matter how flexible, is not as good as the infantry, and the 37 gun is a little heavier than the rifle, but lower than the tank, it is still much more flexible.