Two occupy fourteen chapters of mountain artillery

My residence was arranged in a tunnel two rooms away from the regiment headquarters, and I could feel the care of Commander Zhang and others, because I knew that they were all three or four people in one tunnel, but I was able to occupy one by myself. It is said that even the head of the regiment Zhang does not have such treatment, because he also shares a tunnel with the deputy head of the regiment. Not only that, Regiment Commander Zhang also arranged a small soldier for me to be a service soldier.

I think this should be the compensation made to me by Regiment Commander Zhang, Wu Qiming and others because they transferred me from the original army and felt indebted to me! Although I didn't pay much attention to it, then again, this transfer not only allowed me to go directly from a resting life to the front line, but also demoted me directly. It doesn't matter if I'm demoted, I don't care about the big and small officials, but if the soldiers don't know the situation, they may think that I made some mistake to be demoted!

This is honor, this is what soldiers care about the most, and of course I will not be an exception.

The pit is not big, only a dozen square meters, but it is very clean. A 'bed', a lamp, a table, two chairs, and a boiling kettle that is rarely seen on the front line.

"Staff, chief of staff," the orderly asked in a low voice beside him, "Are you still used to living?" What else do you want? I'll figure it out for you

"Don't do it!" I shook my head and smiled, "That's good, thank you on my behalf, Captain!" Let's just say I'm satisfied! "Wrong!" The orderly responded excitedly, and rushed out of the pit like a gust of wind. It didn't take long for him to run back and shout at the mouth of the tunnel: "Chief of Staff, if there is anything, just shout, I'll be there next to you!" ”

After a while, he ran away again.

Looking at his lively appearance, I couldn't help but smile in my heart, how much this is like me in college! At that time, I also liked to run around and visit the various dormitories, especially the dormitories for girls."

The orderly, called Xiaodao, was only twelve or thirteen years old. According to Wu Qiming, he was an orphan. He has long regarded the army as his home. I always want to go to the battlefield to fight, but I can't help but not have a rifle high, so I play with a dagger in my hand all day long, and imagine that the dagger is a big knife to fight the enemy. The warriors called him a sword.

It's just a child, and I suddenly have an inexplicable sadness in my heart. A child of his age in modern times may have just graduated from elementary school! But he doesn't know how many years he has been on the battlefield, he has grown up with bullets and blood since he was a child, and it is no wonder that he thinks about killing people with knives all day long.

I sat down on the 'bed' and covered my hands with the quilt, and fatigue and drowsiness soon took over my consciousness. After more than three months of peaceful life, I couldn't adapt to this battlefield at once. Now when I think about the continuous battles that I did not sleep for several days and nights on the battlefield, I feel a pang of fear in my heart. So much so that I don't even understand how I survived in the first place.

To my chagrin, I couldn't sleep well that night, even though the 'bed' arranged by the knife was very sleepy and comfortable. The sound of gunfire and cannons outside the tunnel always rang out inappropriately when I was just falling asleep. This made me stay half-asleep until the next afternoon when Wu Qiming called me to get out of bed, and he kept opening his mouth!

What a torture! I couldn't help but complain in my heart, I knew that I was going to go to war so soon, and I wouldn't go back in the first place. It is also avoided that the rear is not adaptable, and now it is not suitable for the battlefield!

"What? Didn't you sleep well last night?. Looking at my 'spirit' sluggish appearance, Wu Qiming couldn't help asking.

"Well, no! Slept well! ”

I don't want Wu Qiming to know that my nephew's head is this moral 'sex', that will make people laugh. But then he yawned uncontrollably.

"I'm not used to it." Wu Qiming laughed: "What's so embarrassing about this. We were all like this when we first came up, and after a few days we got used to it! ”

"Hmm!" I nodded helplessly, and followed Wu Qiming into the regiment headquarters.

At first, I thought the chief of staff was just an idle position. Staff officer, isn't it just that when the regiment commander encounters some incurable diseases that cannot be solved, we give him some suggestions for staff officers, right? Isn't there a saying? The staff officer does not have a commander, and the fart does not make a sound! The meaning of this may be that the chief of staff has no real power! But when I really became a chief of staff and took over the work of a staff officer, I found out that this was not the case.

Volunteer troops are generally divided into four parts, the headquarters, the political department, the logistics department and the equipment department. If you are in the regiment, it will naturally be the regimental headquarters. The chief of staff is directly responsible for the military work of the whole regiment, and his main responsibility is to sort out combat information, provide information to the regiment commander and put forward certain suggestions.

In other words, there are so many combat units and positions on the battlefield that the regiment commander cannot command them alone. The task of our chief of staff is to form a link between the regimental commander and the combat unit. All information sent from combat units has to be collated and screened by us, and orders from the regimental commander are communicated to combat units through us. In this case, we also have to play a role in assisting the regimental commander in decision-making, and even when there is no time to take care of it or the military situation is urgent, we can also give orders to direct the battle.

So I remembered that when I was the regiment commander, the regiment headquarters could still operate as usual while I was sleeping, and the soldiers could still get correct battle orders, which should be all due to Jiang 'Chun' Zeng": The credit of the chief of staff! Of course, if there were any major battle decisions, Gang Si Gan would have agreed with the regiment commander.

That's what I'm doing now. This is not? Telephone calls and telegrams were constantly handed to me, and after a while, my eyes were 'dazzled' and 'confused'. I have to admit that I am not a very competent staff officer, and I don't know what I should do when Wu Qiming, Chen Suiheng and other staff officers are busy. Even if I get the information in my hand, I don't know whether to directly order it to be solved, or whether I should transfer it to the regiment commander and let him make decisions.

For example, in this one, the front-line troops reacted that they could not make a fire to cook at the tip of the position, and the soldiers had poor physique for eating fried noodles for a long time, and many people suffered from night blindness, which affected their combat effectiveness to a certain extent!

Is this a small thing or a big thing?

Let's say it's a big deal, which troops on the front line are not like this, it's good to eat fried noodles, and what is there to complain about? Think about how many people we starved to death back then!

Let's say it's a trivial matter, in fact, this will indeed affect the combat effectiveness, if you have night blindness, you can't see things at night and are like a blind person, in case you lose the battle, you will be held responsible,"

When I was in a dilemma, Wu Qiming took my telegram casually and immediately gave an order like a machine gun: "Inform the logistics department to deliver a hot meal to the front-line soldiers every night." Then send some soybeans and mung beans so that the soldiers can give birth to bean sprouts in the tunnel to solve the problem of night blindness."

"What? Let the fighters give birth to sprouts?. I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this, this method can be said to be simple and practical, after the soldiers get the beans, they only need to water them, and after two or three days, they can eat fresh bean sprouts. But "Why can't I think of it?"

Alas! It seems that 360 lines are the champions of the line, and this staff officer has to work hard to do a good job.

"Staff Officer Cui!" At this time, Regiment Commander Zhang walked up to me, handed me a telegram and said, "This is the telegram that the division headquarters has just sent us. The superiors do not agree with your analysis last night, they always feel that the US military will attack from the direction of Xishan and Douliu Peak."

"Hmm!" I nodded, which was completely expected by me. Because even if I didn't know history, I wouldn't believe that the U.S. military would have given up the Xishan and Douliu Peaks, which were convenient for their mechanized troops to deploy, and chose Shangganling to attack.

In fact, two days before the Battle of Shangganling in history, there were two puppet troops who came to surrender to Cheng and "confessed" that the enemy would launch an attack from the direction of Shangganling, but our army still regarded this information as "Jiang Gan's dedication to the book" and did not take any action. So bold and unfounded like me," guessed. "Naturally, I can't get the attention of my superiors.

"There is no real information, and it is reasonable for the superiors not to agree." Political Commissar Liu Ruifeng 'interjected' and said, "In fact, we are just guessing, and we are not sure yet. All we can do now is prepare for this battle as if the enemy would attack in our direction! ”

"That's right". Regiment Commander Zhang nodded in agreement: "This will only be good for us, and even if the enemy really attacks in our direction, we will not be caught off guard."

"Staff Officer Cui, what do you think? The commissar was a careful man, and when he saw that I didn't speak, he asked. "Hmm". I replied a little helplessly, "I was thinking, what can we do to prepare?" Do you want to send more men to the heights of Sukekou and Zhao7? These two heights are so large in total, and the tunnels can accommodate a few companies at most, and it is impossible to send more manpower upwards. It may be possible to increase strategic substance, but this will not actually increase combat effectiveness. And

After a pause, I continued: "And I think that a very important point in the defense of the tunnel is the artillery, because if necessary, our army can abandon the surface position and retreat to the tunnel, and when the enemy occupies the surface position, we will use artillery to knock them down fiercely!" But now, all our artillery is facing in the direction of the Western Mountain and the Douliu Peak

"Hmm! That's a real problem." Hearing this, Regiment Commander Zhang couldn't help but say with his eyes shining: "Give up the surface position and retreat to the tunnel, and then use artillery to knock the enemy down!" That's a great idea! Or Staff Officer Cui, you know a lot about fighting in the tunnels, and we haven't thought of such a way of fighting."

"Staff Officer Cui!" Wu Qiming also put down what he was doing when he heard this, and asked suspiciously, "When you built the tunnel fortifications on the Aokou Heights and the Blade 7 Heights, did you think about using this method to attack the enemy?" ”

"Listening to Wu Qiming's question, I realized that I had inadvertently used a tactic of the volunteer soldiers just now.

At the beginning, the purpose of the Volunteer Army to build tunnels was mainly to avoid the bombardment of American planes and artillery, and later gradually developed into anti-slope tunnel fortifications in order to meet the needs of the battlefield. However, allowing the soldiers to avoid the tunnels and use artillery to kill and injure a large number of the enemies who occupied the surface positions was only used in desperation after being 'forced' into the tunnels by the enemy during the Battle of Shangganling.

At this time, I brought it up, and it was a few months earlier.

"I guess I used it when I fought the enemy before!" After thinking about it, I replied, "I have been fighting the enemy with the fortifications for a long time, and I will occasionally use this trick. This allows the enemy to attack or not! If you attack them, you are worried that we will use artillery to bombard them in a 'chaotic' manner, and if you don't attack them, you can only stare down there! ”

What I said is also true: "Pinglambu, I did use a tattoo tactic in the battle of Saddle Mountain. It's just that under the aura of Xi Gang's ace troops who have defeated many enemies, this tactic has not attracted much attention.

"And the artillery can also work with the fighters in the tunnel!" Commander Zhang is worthy of being a person who has fought in battle, and he quickly thought of another benefit, he said excitedly: "This is equivalent to the preparation of artillery fire before the charge, after a burst of artillery fire beats the enemy dizzy, our army can come out of the tunnel and attack everywhere, which is much faster than an ordinary charge!" ”

"That's true!" Wu Qiming also nodded in agreement: "The US military is much more advanced than us in terms of weapons, and its will to fight is not tenacious, and it has always been afraid of 'hand-to-hand' combat with us. In this way, we can easily get together with the attacking US troops, so that the enemy's modern equipment cannot play a role, so as to achieve the goal of attacking the other with the advantages of the enemy! ”

"It's good, it's good, but then the political commissar said in embarrassment: "As Staff Officer Cui said, the direction of all our cannons is pointing to the West Mountain and Douliu Peak!" Moreover, in order to avoid the enemy's bombardment, the artillery of our army is basically hidden in the tunnel fortifications, and it is not possible to change the orientation in a moment and a half! Once the war starts."

"Yes! We have cannons! Head Zhang clenched his fists and said, "Have you all forgotten? We still have twelve 'guns' in our hands, don't we? ”

"Mountain artillery?" Listening to Wu Qiming, he couldn't help but say suspiciously: "But the regiment commander, those mountain cannons are all captured from Chiang Kai-shek, and it is a question whether the small Japanese-style mountain artillery can be fired."

"What? Japanese-style mountain artillery? "I couldn't help but feel dizzy when I heard this, and I couldn't help but think of the mountain artillery used by the Japanese army in World War II. Although the weapons and equipment of this era are not very advanced, they are not enough to rely on such old-fashioned weapons!

"Liao is better than nothing!" Head Zhang said with a smile: "Thanks to that Yang cannon, he has been reluctant to throw it, and now he may be able to play a role!" ”

"Yang Qingyuan!"

"Here!"

Regiment Commander Zhang immediately ordered: "Immediately set up several suitable locations on the main peak of Wusheng Mountain to build artillery positions, divide the twelve 'doors' mountain guns in the regiment into parts for me and move them up, and all the muzzles of the guns are aimed at the high ground and the 5 ugly 7 high ground!" "Yes!" Yang Qingyuan answered, turned around and went to make arrangements.

"Captain!" After Yang Qingyuan left, Wu Qiming raised another doubt: "If the enemy really attacks Wusheng Mountain, then with the powerful firepower of the US army, a burst of artillery preparation will blow up all the telephone lines connecting the regimental headquarters with the concave 'yin' high ground and the sudden 7 high ground." Although it is possible to send a communications corps to connect the telephone lines, the fighter planes are fleeting, and I am worried that the front-line troops will suffer losses because of the loss of command."

"Send a cadre to the front line to command!" Head Zhang replied without thinking about it.

"Captain!" Wu Qiming added: "This cadre must be very familiar with tunnel operations, otherwise it is very likely to be counterproductive."

As soon as Wu Qiming said this, both Head Zhang and Political Commissar Liu turned their eyes to me.

"What?" Listening to Wu Qiming's words and looking at everyone's eyes, I couldn't help but be stupid.

How do I think they're putting on a show to give me what it seems.

With such a song and harmony, I was 'forced' to the battlefield in just a few words?

That night, when it was dark, I packed up my bags and walked towards the high ground with Xiaodao and Wu Qiming.

Originally, I didn't want to go with a knife, because I knew very well what was waiting for me on Shangganling. But the knife didn't agree, and said that he would follow me up. I thought about it, anyway, there is still a period of time before the Battle of Shangganling. Take him up for a few days, and then just find an excuse to send a letter or something to let him come back. So I didn't object anymore, this coke broke this little guy, and he couldn't close his mouth with a smile all the way!

Wu Qiming quipped: "This little guy has been a service soldier for several years, and he has never had the opportunity to go to the front line, this time he can be regarded as the right person!" ”

Hearing Wu Qiming say this, my heart is behind. Because I know that even if you are a regiment-level cadre in the Volunteer Army, it is normal to look at the terrain on the front line. Let's take the current head of the stone regiment, Zhang Tuan, who once had an itchy hand in Shangganling, and personally took a rifle to the high ground to shoot a cold gun! So there is only one reason why this knife has never had a chance to be on the front line, and that is the fifth battle Chapter 94 Mountain Artillery (21:10)