Chapter Ninety-Eight: Prelude to the Counteroffensive (4)

This 92 infantry gun, along with 35 shells, belonged to Zhang Wei. Without him, this thing was shot down by Zhang Wei and them, not to mention that Zhang Wei had made a great contribution, and Chen Chunyi naturally turned a blind eye to this cannon.

Zhang Wei shook the crankarm shaft of the cannon body, Dong Erli was also slightly interested in this gun, but when he was blindly fiddling with the high and low engine turbines, he was no longer interested in this gun.

"Let's play with mortars."

Zhang Wei did get this infantry gun. But the 82 mortars that had just been assigned to them were quickly taken away, and Dong Erli's mortar squad became a grenadier squad again, and Zhang Wei didn't care if he liked it or not.

"Pull this cannon for me, and the shells."

"Company commander, I won't use this thing, what are you pulling for." Dong Erli said in surprise.

Zhang Wei patted him and said angrily: "You don't need Lao Tzu to use it yourself, this guy, there is no difference between lifting to the highest angle and 82 force, two people can carry a cannon, ranging or something, you don't need a rangefinder at all, you can aim with a tube, and those machine guns in Shanghai were shot down by this cannon." ”

When Dong Erli heard this, he was no longer reluctant, and hurriedly led people to push the cannon outside, in the battle just now, only a few soldiers in the independent company were slightly injured, all thanks to the earthwork.

Nanqiao and Luofeng, after the capture, the Japanese army in Lanling was like a small island hanging in the open sea, a group of ownerless souls. The Japanese troops in Lanling, Liuzhuang and Aigo are probably the strength of one brigade, which can also be said to be three squadrons.

After sorting out the troops after the attack, the 4th Division's troops advanced to Aiqu and Lanling, while the Japanese troops in the area of Liuzhuang were surrounded by the 52nd Army and could not advance or retreat. Just waiting for the signal to attack, the troops of the 4th Division and the 52nd Army were to attack at the same time to completely destroy these Japanese troops before the general attack of the Tang Army.

On the afternoon of April 2

The Chinese army on the front line from Lanling to Aiqu was preparing for the final purge battle before the general attack, and the headquarters of the 52nd Army and the 4th Division where Zhang Wei was located in front of them took out almost all of the money they had in the past few days, and the general attack was coming, and the various units of the Tang Army carried out the last ammunition supply, and the mountain artillery battalion of the 4th Division and the field artillery battalion of the 52nd Army received a rare supplement since the start of the war.

Zhang Wei and the 23rd Regiment, responsible for the attack is the attack of the first line of Aiqu, this attack, Zhang Wei plans to use the infantry artillery that has just arrived, in the advance position, Zhang Wei and Dong Erli's mortar squad is trying to be familiar with this artillery, Zhang Wei quickly learned the basic operation of this cannon with the knowledge and memory of later generations, the people of the mortar squad hold shells, and their main job is to help shoot and send ammunition according to Zhang Wei's instructions.

"Wait a while for the 23 troops to rush up, let's follow up and help them pull out ideas."

"Understood!"

At three o'clock in the afternoon, with the opening of the 52nd Army Artillery Battalion, the Chinese army's offensive in the area of Lanling and Aiqu had begun, followed by the 4th Division Mountain Artillery Battalion, and the Bofors Mountain Artillery of the 4th Division Mountain Artillery Battalion was better than the Japanese 38th Field Artillery of the 52nd Army Field Artillery Battalion. In the case of rapid fire, the shelling effect of the naked eye is even greater than that of the artillery of the 52nd Army.

The first to launch the assault was the officers and soldiers of the 52nd Army, the brothers rushed over with rifles loaded with bayonets, and the Japanese troops in Liuzhuang were not relieved by the shelling, and they saw the Chinese soldiers who were pressed by the black, and the defenders were actually more than a squadron, and they organized a panic to fight back.

The Japanese army's return fire caused casualties to the Chinese soldiers, and some people began to fall continuously, but today's Chinese troops, not the Chinese troops who were beaten, began to fight back locally. The morale-boosting officers and soldiers were not frightened by the corpses of their comrades, but bravely rushed over. Pushing all the way and attacking all the way, it is simply not something that a squadron of Japanese troops can stop.

Half an hour later, the 52nd Army regained Liuzhuang and completely annihilated the defenders.

At this time, the 23rd Regiment was stuck with the Japanese army, the reason was very simple, the Japanese position in front of it was not as flat as Liuzhuang Zhuangli, the Japanese army all went out to fight, relying on the hills outside to build a defensive line, the main force of the squadron was shooting at the attack force of the 23rd Regiment, although the casualties of the Chinese soldiers were greater, but in this kind of attrition, the Japanese army undoubtedly suffered losses.

"Ready to shoot!" Zhang Wei and the soldiers of the mortar squad pushed the 92nd infantry cannon and concealed it behind the infantry, and the few infantry in front of them staggered slightly to make way for the artillery.

A soldier had preloaded the shell, and now only Zhang Wei needed to shoot the cannon. The soldiers of the 23 regiment launched several assaults in platoons. As a result, they were all repulsed and could only shoot at the Japanese on the ground. The most lethal was naturally the light machine guns of the Japanese army.

"Crooked handle, crooked handle!" Zhang Wei said, and at the same time, he was cheering himself up. Operate the artillery according to common sense and the memory of later generations, now at this distance, you can poke chopsticks, Zhang Wei shook the rocker, the turbine of the high and low engine and the worm box were lowered in height, and finally, the gun body aimed at the position of this crooked handle in an almost horizontal direction.

"Ready!" Since there was no time to build the artillery fortifications, in order to reduce the backseat and displacement of the artillery, two soldiers held the tripod, and the other two simply sat on the hoe at the end of the rack. The barrel was facing a machine-gun position not far away. Dong Erli pulled the fire rope and waited nervously on the side.

"Put!"

The recoil generated by the H-92 infantry cannon still caused the gun to displace, although the displacement was small, but for the soldier who used the body as a buffer. After the muzzle of the gun passed the orange flames, a 70-mm grenade flew out, and due to the lateral displacement and the instability of the human cushion, the shell deflected a little to the right and hit the Japanese position, but the scattered shrapnel and the shock wave of the explosion were enough to kill the crooked handle.

Yes, this machine gun turned into scrap metal.

Zhang Wei happily opened the bolt and withdrew from the hot cartridge.

"It seems that the advantages of latecomers are really good, hehe." Seeing that the Japanese machine guns were killed, the soldiers of the 23rd Regiment rushed up, at first there were three or four foxholes outside, but they were killed by the national army almost instantly, and as for the main line of defense, it has long been mired in hand-to-hand combat.

The two armies were strangled together, and more than a dozen Japanese troops, completely outmatched by the superior Chinese army, were quickly eaten and wiped out. Bump - With the sound of a gunshot, the last stubborn Japanese soldier was killed. Some of the soldiers in the position were very excited, and they couldn't wait to rummage through the weapons and belongings of the Japanese army, and some sat on the ground panting for breath, and only the boss could still stay vigilant.

Dong Erli and the soldiers of the mortar squad were applauding, after all, it was Zhang Wei and their shelling that played a role, but Zhang Wei couldn't be happy, he always felt wrong.

The sound of bullets breaking through the air was heard, and a large number of Chinese soldiers in the position were knocked down, and as soon as they heard the gurgling gunshot, they knew that it was the Japanese army's Type 92 heavy machine gun, mixed with the crisp sound of the 38 rifle. The Chinese soldiers were in a mess, and some of them ran in a panic, but this could only increase the target for the Japanese army.

"Don't move, get down!."

"Don't look for death!" Junior officers and veterans stabilized the troops, and the soldiers began to look for sources of fire. Zhang Wei caught these Japanese soldiers in the telescope, they hid under the hills, relying on a dead end, with oblique fire, strafing at the Chinese army, most likely a heavy machine gun detachment!

The Chinese soldiers began to shoot back, but unfortunately due to the dead angle and terrain, the bullets were all hit in the soil, and the company commander in front scolded his mother angrily.

"I can't beat it!" The Czech machine gunner shouted as he fired, and in front of him were the remains of two soldiers who had just tried to storm.