Chapter 136: Mortars

At this time, the soldiers also reacted, and quickly carried back the bodies of the soldiers who had died at the mouth of the tunnel, and then two soldiers soon took over.

The movements of the soldiers did not drag the mud and water, and they did not shout at the sacrificed soldiers like in TV and movies. On a real battlefield, we don't have time to do that, and we don't have time to grieve. If you insist on doing this, there will be only one result, and that is to lose the fighter.

The warriors don't need to be 'excited', because watching their comrades fall beside them is enough to make them hate the enemy to the core. The warriors will not grieve for the fallen warriors, because they themselves are ready to sacrifice at this time.

"Let me come!" I patted one of the fighters lying on the ground and motioned for him to give me his place.

"Chief of Staff...... "The soldier was just about to object, but I was glared at by me, and he didn't dare to say anything anymore, so he reluctantly got up and walked around the corner.

I lay down in the soldier's place, smelling the smoke and blood in the air, and feeling the sticky 'dampness' on the ground, and I couldn't help but wonder in my heart.

The place where I was lying was at least a dozen meters away from the mouth of the tunnel, how did the puppet army use to drop the bomb to such a deep place?

Hand grenade? Explosive 'medicine' packs?

It's almost impossible, not that their wrist strength is not enough, it's not that they don't throw grenades far enough, but with the mutual support of our tunnel mouth, the puppet army has no way to get close to our tunnel mouth, and there is no way to throw the grenade into our tunnel at the right position and at the right angle. Just like the U.S. troops stationed here, they could only drop grenades and explosives bags about one meter at the mouth of the tunnel......

So what could it be?

In addition to grenades and explosives 'charge' packs, there are only cannons. Mortars are 'fired' and cannot reach such depths in narrow tunnels. That...... It's just a recoilless gun, yes, it's a recoilless gun!

I looked back at a deep pit that had been blown out of the tunnel wall behind me, and the more I felt that my assumption was correct.

It is impossible for the enemy to 'shoot' at the mouth of the tunnel with a recoilless gun, and the fighters stationed in the tunnel will not give them such an opportunity. So how did they 'shoot' the shells in?

At this time, I suddenly thought that the US military hung the searchlight and lowered it from above, and I couldn't help but suddenly realize that they put the recoilless gun flat from above, and then used the rope to pull the trigger to trigger it!

So I slowly straightened up with my rifle under the suspicious eyes of the soldier beside me.

I've also used recoilless guns, and I have to load one shell after one shot. That is to say, after the puppet army has finished firing a shot, it will have to hoist the recoilless gun back and reload it. Now, I'm just waiting for the puppet army to hang it down again.

The reason why I had to stand up was because this was the only way to 'shoot' the bullet down the long barrel of the recoilless gun into its bottom.

After waiting for a while, I didn't see the puppet army hoisting the recoilless gun down. So I began to doubt my own thoughts, after all, it was all my guess, and it was unknown whether it was correct or not.

But I am willing to wait for my own speculation, I believe that it will not be easy for the puppet army to hang the recoilless cannon down, because they must always maintain the balance of the recoilless gun, and also keep the muzzle of the gun always aimed at the mouth of the tunnel, and in the process, they must also be careful not to let the rope tied to the trigger be subjected to too much force, otherwise all their efforts will be useless.

These are not an easy task for the puppet army that is not prepared in advance, so they need time.

So I still stood in this position in the tunnel and waited gradually, this posture was undoubtedly a big target for the enemy outside the tunnel, as long as I 'shot' a bullet outside the tunnel, I could easily hit me. So the soldiers around me all looked at me with suspicious eyes......

I ignored their gaze and stood there motionless waiting.

Suddenly, I saw several 'shadowy' shadows passing over the mouth of the tunnel. Outside the tunnel, the smoke and dust cover the sun, and the light is dim, so these 'shadows' can be said to be almost imperceptible. But I had prepared beforehand, so I noticed them.

Here it comes!

I whispered to myself, knowing in my heart that those 'shadows' were recoilless cannons hanging from a rope. So he tightened the rifle in his hand and lifted it even higher.

I had to explode the shells in the chamber before the puppet army opened fire, otherwise I and the soldier lying next to me would be blown up like the two soldiers just now. And I also know very well that I only have one chance. If I couldn't hit with a single shot, the impact of the bullet would have caused the recoilless cannon hanging from the rope to shake violently. At that time, even if the puppet army didn't open fire, it would be more difficult for me to 'shoot' the bullet through the barrel than to climb to the sky!

Suddenly, a recoilless gun appeared in front of me. But perhaps it was because of the enemy's inconsistent coordination that the barrel of the gun appeared in front of me with the muzzle facing downward.

I heard the soldier "oh", and it seemed that it was only then that I understood how the enemy had driven the shell into our tunnel, and then I made another "hmm", and soon understood why I was standing with my gun in my hand. All of a sudden, all eyes were on me.

I flicked my index finger on the trigger twice, but didn't shoot, because it wasn't time to shoot. The recoilless gun had its muzzle pointing downward, and I had no chance to hit the shell inside. I'm not in a hurry, because I believe that the puppet army will not open fire at this time. If they want to inflict casualties on the fighters in the tunnel, they will inevitably level the muzzle of the cannon......

So I just waited with bated breath and waited...... Until the cannon body trembled slightly, the muzzle of the black 'hole' and 'hole' was aimed straight at me.

I've had the experience of being pointed directly at the head with someone else's gun, and it was a very uncomfortable feeling, as if my life was already in someone else's hands. It is certainly not a pleasant thing to have your life in the hands of others. But being directly aimed at the head by someone else's muzzle, this is still the same time......

I can't tell what it feels like, but I only think about the flames spewing out from the muzzle of this black 'hole' and 'hole', and the scene of myself being blown to pieces.

In order not to make this happen, I just aimed at it and pulled the trigger......

"Boom!" With a bang, a ball of flame exploded in front of me, and in the bright red flames, fragments and parts of the recoilless cannon flew in all directions.

I didn't dodge because I knew it would be too late to dodge if shrapnel 'fired' at me. No matter how fast a person moves and reacts sensitively, there will be no bullets that are fast and shrapnel that will fly fast.

However, fortunately, the recoilless gun exploded outside the tunnel, and most of the shrapnel that it radiated and "shot" out of the four "shots" were blocked outside the tunnel, and a small number of them flew into the tunnel and "shot" on the tunnel wall because of the angle, which made us safe and sound in the tunnel.

"Good! Well played! As soon as the explosion subsided, the cheers of the soldiers rang out in the tunnel.

"Holy shit!" Gao Yongxiang spat out and scolded: "These puppet soldiers will also use this method to destroy our tunnels, and the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, Chief of Staff!" I'll immediately inform the other tunnels of this situation, and we'll fight these puppet soldiers in your way! ”

"Hmm!" I nodded.

The corners of most of the tunnels on Shangganling are only a dozen meters away from the mouth of the tunnels, and I believe that the soldiers will still be able to hit the shells in the enemy's recoilless guns at a distance of more than ten meters. And there are not many recoilless guns in the hands of the puppet army, and if they fight a few more times, they won't be able to use this method.

But the so-called Tao is one foot high and the devil is one foot high, and the puppet army realizes that this method does not work, and will soon think of other methods. So I'm not just worried about this, but I don't know what other 'tricks' the puppet army will come up with. The fact that they were able to come up with the method of 'shooting' with recoilless guns in such a short period of time is enough to prove that they are more troublesome and vicious than the US military!

Sure enough, the ensuing truth was exactly what I imagined.

The puppet 2nd Division, with the creation of oriental thinking, brought great damage to our tunnels in the subsequent war. They smoked with poison gas bombs and sulfur bombs, blocked the mouth of the tunnel with barbed wire or boulders, or drilled holes in the top of the tunnel to bury explosives and blast them. The U.S. troops were busy for five days and were helpless against us, and the puppet army blew up more than 30 meters of our tunnel in just one day.

I've never been so tired, and the puppet army outside the tunnel is like a bunch of flies to us, unable to drive away, unable to fight. After a whole day of busy work, after every fighter was anxious and paid for the lives of more than thirty fighters, it finally lasted until the evening.

"Chief of Staff! It's not a way to go on like this! Director Qin said with a frown.

In the tunnel, the scene of last night's joy was changed, and every soldier was silent and silent.

They are not afraid, they are angry. If this is a fight with the puppet army on the ground, those puppet armies are not our volunteer army's dish at all. But it is these puppet troops that the volunteer soldiers look down on, but now they have caused us so much trouble and casualties, where can the soldiers be convinced.

"That's ......" Miao Huaizhi stood up angrily and said: "Those puppet soldiers have found out our ventilation holes one by one and blocked them, and there are only a few left at the mouth of the tunnel, so we won't let those turtle sons suffocate to death!" ”

"It's not enough to suffocate to death!" Li Baocheng shook his head and said: "The tunnel project in Shangganling is very huge, and it is still connected to each other, and there are dozens of tunnel mouths. I think...... The more important problem is that after the mouth of the tunnel was blown up by the enemy, they lost their mutual support and cover, and they could not provide cover for the main peak of Wusheng Mountain. In this way, it won't be long before the enemy can attack the Five Holy Mountains with confidence! ”

"Hmm!" I couldn't help but nod my head.

Li Baocheng's analysis is correct, there is water and food in the tunnel, and it is not a problem to survive in it for ten days. But if the mouth of the tunnel is sealed by the enemy, we will not pose a threat to the enemy in this battle, and at the same time, we will lose the meaning of existence.

"How many pit openings are left?" I asked casually.

"Thirteen more!" Director Qin looked at the notebook in his hand and replied: "There is no loss of several pit openings in the No. 2 and No. 4 tunnels, and the two pits are very thick rock formations, and the puppet army can't drill and blast!" ”

"Chief of Staff, can you let your superiors think of a way!" Li Baocheng hesitated for a while, and then said helplessly: "There is our artillery unit in the direction of Wusheng Mountain, isn't it?" Only they can defeat these puppet armies that are destroying the tunnels! ”

I couldn't help but glance at Li Baocheng with some surprise, because I knew that the grassroots officers of the volunteer army soldiers generally would not ask their superiors difficulties or make demands. And now Li Baocheng, the company commander of the 45th Division's ace unit, would say such things, which is enough to prove that he has nothing to do about the current situation.

I shook my head helplessly and replied: "We have already reported the difficulties to our superiors, but the problem is that we do not know the exact coordinates of the location of the puppet army, the smoke and dust over Shangganling are very thick, and the artillery observers in the direction of Wusheng Mountain cannot see the enemy in Shangganling at all. In addition, the enemy could not use a few people to gouge the hole and blast, and it was difficult for our artillery fire to hit. If artillery is to work, only artillery fire covers! However, the loss of artillery shells covered by artillery fire is very large, once or twice is okay, and once the number of times is too much, the logistics will not be able to hold on. What's more, this will not kill many puppet soldiers, and once our artillery fire passes, the puppet army will come out of the bunker again, which is not a long-term solution! ”

"it!" Miao Huaizhi stood up and scolded: "We can't just let the puppet army pass over us, we must complete the task 'handed' to us by the superiors and stop the puppet army from continuing to destroy the tunnel!" ”

"Platoon Commander Miao is right!" Instructor Qin nodded and said, "But to say that, it's not easy to do!" Who would have thought that these puppet soldiers are like ghosts, they gouge holes in places we can't see, blow up along our tunnels section by section, and when they explode, they pile stones and barbed wire inside, what can you do with them? Our bullets won't bend, can they hit them? ”

"Huh!" Listening to Instructor Qin's words, I couldn't help but answer: "Bullets can't hit them, but mortars can!" ”

"What?" Listening to this, the soldiers were all stunned, and all of them turned their suspicious eyes on me.

"Chief of Staff!" Instructor Qin asked puzzledly, "You mean, let our soldiers go outside the tunnel to set up cannons?" The enemy's fire is controlling the mouth of the tunnel, can this get out? ”

Instructor Qin's worries are also reasonable, although the mortar mount is not difficult, a few minutes is enough if the action is fast. But these maneuvers are to be carried out under the control of enemy fire, which is clearly impractical.

But that's not what I thought, so I shook my head and said, "Soldiers don't need to go outside the tunnel to set up artillery, because we are fighting the enemy who is destroying the opposite tunnel, which is the same reason that we support each other at the mouth of the tunnel." Even...... We didn't need to set up a cannon, so we held it up with our hands, ran to the mouth of the tunnel and fired a few shells at the opposite side and withdrew! ”

"Chief of Staff!" Li Baocheng couldn't help but be puzzled and said: "This is supported by his hand and has not adjusted the Zhu Yuan, not to mention that we can't see the enemy yet...... Can the mortar be accurate? ”

"We don't need to see the enemy, do we?" I replied: "If the enemy wants to dig an eye to destroy the tunnel, it must be directly above the opposite tunnel, so let's shoot a few shells at different angles in the direction of the tunnel mouth, and even if we can't hit it, we can scare those puppet soldiers half to death!" ”

"Coax!" As soon as the fighters began, they began to talk about it, although they had been rolling on the battlefield for many years, but they had never fought with a mortar in their hands as I said, so for a while there were different opinions, and many soldiers were skeptical.

The soldiers of the 45th Division did not know that I had participated in the vigorous cold gun and cold artillery movement, and I was very familiar with the opponent holding mortars to hit the enemy.

There is no need to say much about the cold gun, it is just a hidden sniper.

Cold artillery, if you use heavy artillery to fight, is very inappropriate. Because for our volunteer troops, every 'gun' is a lot of wealth, and it is very uneconomical to risk being discovered by the enemy by ballistic trajectory and then sending planes or directly bombing them with artillery just for the sake of annihilating a few enemies. So the fighters of the artillery units came up with a solution, which was to use mortars that could quickly transfer positions.

But later it was found that the speed of the mortar was not fast enough, and it was easy to be discovered by the enemy snipers and cause losses, so they simply did not even set up the artillery, directly supported it with their hands, and quickly fired a few shots in the direction of the enemy and immediately drilled back into the tunnel.

At that time, because I mainly organized cold gun operations, I rarely participated in this cold artillery operation, and I only watched the soldiers of the artillery unit fight in peacetime, but did not participate in it. I didn't expect this method to come in handy now.

"Chief of Staff, I think this method may work!" The soldiers discussed for a while, and then someone stood up and said: "There are more than a dozen 'doors' of mortars in our tunnel, and there are a lot of shells, because these days they are nested in the tunnel, and the gunners are worried that they will not be useful!" ”

"Yes! Chief of staff! Some soldiers said: "Anyway, we don't have any other way now, let's try it tomorrow, maybe it can really work!" ”

"I agree!" Li Baocheng nodded and said: "There are several well-known mortars in our company, and they have been shooting mortars for more than ten years. I think that even if they are allowed to fight with their hands, the 'fine' accuracy will still be there, and there should be no problem in scaring the puppet army! ”

"Good!" Seeing that the fighters had no opinions, I immediately ordered: "Order the mortar crews to be ready, and if necessary, they can also do some drills, and start the operation early tomorrow morning!" ”V