Chapter 492: Medium Scheme
The artillery position of the 5th Brigade of the Independent Field Heavy Artillery Regiment was spread out on the west bank of the Feihe River on its back, and it was in a narrow shape from north to south, with the length of the entire artillery position being about two kilometers from north to south and the width of more than one thousand meters from east to west.
If you think that the cannons are all placed in rows like film and television dramas, then you are wrong.
In fact, the construction of artillery positions is strictly exquisite, first of all, you have to ensure the development of firepower, secondly, you have to consider concealment, and then you have to consider mobility, and you have to evacuate after the battle, right? Restricted by these conditions, it is impossible for the gun emplacements to appear in rows like in film and television dramas.
In real combat, the dispersion of gun emplacements was large.
Therefore, the area of the heavy artillery brigade is very large.
Therefore, don't think that there are more than 8,000 people in the heavy artillery brigade, but in fact, the density is only 0.004 people per square meter, that is, 4 people per 1,000 square meters, considering that the two infantry brigades belonging to the heavy artillery brigade have to stick to the periphery of the artillery position, so the personnel density of the entire artillery position is even lower.
At this moment, the north, west, and south directions of the entire artillery position are brightly lit, and more than 5,000 devil artillery are digging tunnels in full swing, and only the east side next to the Feihe River is relatively silent.
Although the water level of the Fei River has dropped in recent days due to continuous sunny days, the water level is still high compared to the dry season, and at the same time, the water surface is much wider than during the dry season, when the water level of the Fei River is more than a kilometer wide from east to west.
Because of this, Eiichi Kameda dared to focus the main focus of the defense on the remaining three directions, leaving only a small amount of defensive strength to the east.
The garrison force assigned to the east is already small, and it is even more sparse when it is spread out to the two-kilometer-wide front, so the devils only set up a guard every 100 meters on the west bank of the Feihe River as a guard.
However, on the stone bridge across the Hi River on the northeast side of the position, Kameda Eiichi placed an infantry squadron and a heavy machine gun squadron, because not only is there the only stone bridge across the east and west, but even the headquarters of the heavy artillery brigade, ammunition depot and parking lot are also near the stone bridge, which is a key object of protection.
An infantry squadron plus a heavy machine gun squadron, plus a dangerous point like the stone bridge, is more than enough to defend against the attack of ordinary troops, but it is a little powerless to guard against the attack of the wolf's tooth squadron, because the wolf's tooth will not attack from the stone bridge stupidly.
Because of the lack of troops, the devils only set up dozens of sentry posts on the west bank of the Feihe River, about one sentry every 100 meters, and every five sentry posts built a sentry tower seven or eight meters high.
Each watchtower was also equipped with a searchlight, which was fired back and forth for a moment.
Such a defensive measure is not imtight, but it is still not enough for the Wolf Tooth squadron.
At more than four o'clock in the morning, it is the darkest time before dawn, and a row of reed poles with slightly raised heads suddenly floated on the water surface of the Feihe River.
The row of more than 100 reed poles slowly slid under one of the guard towers, and the searchlight on the guard tower also shone on this row of reed poles, but the devil sentries guarding the guard tower did not notice it at all, and let the row of reed poles continue to move downstream along the west bank of the Fei River.
Downstream of that watchtower is the headquarters of the Devil's Heavy Artillery Brigade.
At a certain moment, when the searchlight on the watchtower turned to the east bank of the Fei River, when the entire west bank became pitch black, the row of reed poles suddenly disappeared into the water, and then one after another, black shadows emerged silently from the turbid river water and came ashore one after another.
When the searchlight on the watchtower turned back again, shining on the west bank of the Feihe River, the more than 100 figures who had already landed on the shore fell down one after another, and the grass-green military uniforms on their bodies perfectly blended with the wild grass on the west bank of the Feihe River, and the devil sentries guarding the watchtower still did not find anything abnormal.
When the searchlight on the watchtower turned to the east bank of the Fei River again, the row of more than 100 figures quickly got up from the weeds again, and then quickly divided into two groups, one group went straight to the headquarters of the heavy artillery brigade and ammunition depot in the northwest, and the other group went straight to the stone bridge in the southeast.
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Kameda Eiichi personally sat in charge and commanded the devils of the 2nd Heavy Artillery Wing to dig a tunnel south of the position, but after digging for more than an hour, he did not dig a single tunnel.
At this time, Kameda Eiichi sensed that something was wrong.
No, the soil on the west bank of the Feihe River is loose and easy to dig, it stands to reason that several tunnels of the Independent Regiment should have been dug in front of their positions a long time ago, and the tunnels on both sides should have been dug through a long time ago, how could it be that the two sides have not met until now? Didn't they dig deep enough?
However, Kameda Eiichi quickly overturned this judgment, and the tunnel was deep enough.
Well, there is only one explanation left, the independent regiment on the opposite side is actually not seriously digging tunnels.
The independent regiment is just for show! Just for show? Why would they do it? Thinking of this, a huge question mark floated in front of Kameda Eiichi.
This Xu Rui, is he playing some conspiracy?
Just when Kameda Ying couldn't figure it out, a dull gunshot suddenly sounded in the direction of the brigade headquarters behind him, because the two sides did not fire at each other at this time, but were only digging a tunnel at the end of the tunnel, so this gunfire seemed very abrupt, and the distance was far enough.
This sudden gunshot, like a thunderbolt, exploded in Kameda Eiichi's brain.
Kameda Eiichi's IQ is actually quite high, and the moment he heard the gunshot, he had already thought of Xu Rui's true intentions, striking the east and the west, damn it, this is the sound of the east and the west!
In an instant, Kameda Eiichi hurriedly ordered: "Baga, we have been tricked, we have been hit by the voice of the Shina people, go back, go back to the gun position, go back quickly, go back quickly......"
The nearby devil artillerymen who were busy sweating profusely looked at Kameda Eiichi with a confused face, obviously a little unable to react, the tunnel was dug well, why did he have to return to the gun position?
Kameda Eiichi immediately jumped to his feet and roared: "Go back to the gun position, quickly go back to the gun position, go back!" ”
At this time, those confused devil artillerymen finally reacted, and hurriedly threw down the sapper pickaxes in their hands one by one, and even the military uniforms thrown aside didn't have time to put them back, and one by one they turned back and ran to their respective gun positions shirtless, and ran faster than rabbits.
However, no matter how fast they ran, it was already too late.
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The gunshot just now was an accident.
One of the devil's guns is a combat unit, and it has a gun commander, usually a second lieutenant.
Although Eiichi Kameda sent most of the devil artillery to dig tunnels outside the position, the commander of each cannon did not leave, but stayed to guard their respective cannons.
This is also related to the strict and almost perverted military regulations of little Japan.
Because the military regulations of the Japanese army clearly stipulate that the cannon is in the person, if the cannon is lost, all the devils in the entire combat unit must pay compensation for the lost cannon.
Historically, there was such a matter in the anti-Japanese base area in central Hebei.
An artillery squad of the devil lost a Type 92 infantry gun, because there was no way to go back to the errand, so he had to find the Eighth Route Army to spend money to buy it, of course the Eighth Route Army did not sell it, and finally the devil artillery of this squad was shot, yes, it was shot, there are not many devils who really dare to commit suicide by cutting their stomachs, most of the devils were shot by the gendarmes in the end, otherwise when the devils committed suicide by cutting their stomachs, they would not have to send gendarmes to guard with guns.
Each of the devil's cannons has a gun commander, and it is relatively secretive, and the wolf's tooth squadron was shot by the devil's cannon commander at close range when it passed the gun position of one of the cannons.
The gunshot of the devil artillery commander ruined the operation of the wolf's tooth squadron, Leng Tiefeng originally wanted to unknowingly touch the command outside the headquarters of the heavy artillery brigade before making a move, so that the chance of success would undoubtedly be greater, but this sudden gunfire ruined his good deeds.
But it doesn't matter, because they're deep enough into the devil's position.
The commander of the devil cannon aimed at the cold iron front at the front of the line, but the first shot in the dark was not accurate, and when he pulled the trigger again, the southern-style pistol was jammed, and the veteran was also fatal, so he was lucky to pick up his life.
The devil artilleryman hurriedly threw away the southern pistol, and when he tried to pick up the rifle, he had no chance.
Leng Tiefeng had already rushed into the gun position with one arrow step, and the 38-style bayonet in his hand stabbed viciously according to the ghost cannon commander's vest, and the devil cannon commander just bent down to pick up the 38 big cover, and one couldn't dodge and was immediately pierced through the heart by Leng Tiefeng, and immediately collapsed to the ground with a scream.
However, the death of this devil artillery commander is also worth it, because the shot he fired just now has alarmed all the devils in the entire heavy artillery brigade, and the next moment, several gun positions dozens of meters away rang out at the same time, and along with the sound of gunfire, there are also balls of muzzle flames blooming.
Anyway, it has been exposed, and the wolf fang squadron simply no longer hides its traces.
As soon as Leng Tiefeng gave the order, the GI, the Siberian Tiger and the Big Python immediately each took a fireteam, each with two hand-held imitation Czech light machine guns, and fired fiercely at the front, and the firepower of the front gun positions was immediately completely suppressed, and the assault team of the Wolf Tooth Squadron took the opportunity to rush forward and pounce on the gun positions one by one.
The snipers of the sniper squad quickly dispersed, each looking for a sniper position.
As soon as the wolf's tooth squadron started, Sun Changhe's side also opened fire.
Sun Changhe's guard platoon also participated in the surprise attack this time, their task was to seize the stone bridge and clear the way for the advance of the main force of the independent regiment, compared to the wolf tooth squadron, the task of the guard platoon was easier, after all, the devils guarding the stone bridge, the fortifications were arranged outward, and in the face of a sudden attack from behind, there was a lack of adequate defensive protection.