Chapter 623: Little Melon
And this time, the supreme treasure wants to take Xiao He to bury the mines on this Lingming Mountain are the ones he has recently summarized according to the mine warfare used by his ancestors in the War of Resistance Against Japan, plus he also developed some melon grenades by the way, ready to use them all at once in this big war, so that the soldiers were shocked by them at once.
I still remember the most difficult years during the War of Resistance Against Japan. What happened in the Jiaodong anti-Japanese base area at that time. At that time, Japanese bandits continued to encroach and sweep up our anti-Japanese base areas. In order to smash the enemy's encroachment policy and intensify the struggle against the enemy in the border areas, the military region specially transferred a number of cadres from the main force to organize and lead the militia forces in various localities. At the same time, a group of militia backbones were also trained to learn the skills of using landmines, and called on people to wage mine warfare against Japanese bandits.
Huangcun was an important stronghold of the enemy at that time. Opposite to Huangcun, across a mountain pass, there is a Zhaojiazhuang, which is the edge of the base. Under the direct leadership of Director Lei of the District Armed Forces Committee, Zhaojiazhuang and several nearby villages formed a militia to defend themselves, and people used native weapons to wage-for-tat armed struggle against Japanese bandits with modern equipment.
Landmines, one of the militia's favorite weapons, affectionately called "iron watermelon". "Iron Watermelon" constantly brings victory and confidence to people. "If there are fewer devils, we will do it, and if there are more devils, we will turn around, hide in the dark and shoot cold guns, bury mines and watch from afar, so that the devils will be beaten and bombed, and not a single figure can be seen."
"Rifle plus mine", which was a very successful combat experience at that time. The militia gave full play to the role of their existing weapons and created stone mines with their own hands, so that mine warfare was carried out extensively and became a mass campaign to kill the enemy. Flexibly and skillfully "live" mines in light of different enemy situations, terrain, timing, and the enemy's laws of action is the basic experience of mine warfare.
People summarize this experience in four sentences: "False and real, true and false, dead thunder is used and blooms everywhere." "The enemy was unwilling to lose, and after suffering several losses, he specially moved sappers from Qingdao, destroyed the militia's mine array, and entered Zhaojiazhuang for the first time. The enemy wantonly burned, killed and looted, inflicting heavy losses on the masses. However, the militia did not lose heart, and they further studied and improved the mine technology. In another battle, he smashed the enemy's mine-raising plot, and then used earth-chemical mines to win the victory against the mines.
In the wheat harvest season of 1944, the enemy took advantage of the opportunity of the joint defense militia to rush to harvest at night, secretly attacked Zhaojiazhuang, and abducted some villagers. The enemy tried to use the bandits' method of kidnapping to coerce the militia to lay down their arms, and threatened that if they did not accede to their demands, they would let the arrested villagers walk in front of the "mopping-up" procession and "kick the mines." The militia, together with the Eighth Route Army, decided to plan the plan. So the mine array was skillfully arranged, and when the crowd was pedaling, the mine exploded in the enemy group. After a tense battle, the captured masses were finally rescued, the invading Japanese invaders were annihilated, and the victory against the sweep was achieved.
It was such a singing and crying mine warfare that allowed the militia to achieve great results in the War of Resistance against Japan. So the Supreme Treasure was inspired by this, why couldn't they also make some of these thunders? You must know that this earth mine can even be made by militiamen who couldn't read a few big characters at that time, let alone a high-achieving student like him. After reading the encyclopedia, it is not easy to build these mines.
With the help of the founding disciples Xiao He and Zheng Ze, Supreme Treasure set out to develop landmines. At the beginning, the mines he developed were similar to those used by the military and civilians in North China to fight the Japanese army during the War of Resistance Against Japan. In the early days of the war, homemade mines were usually filled with black powder, which did not have the earth-shattering power of modern film and television dramas. This kind of crude mine is used like a cannon battle, and the Japanese soldiers who are bombed only become "stove princes", burrowing out of the smoke in the dark, and may not be killed.
The first few times the Supreme Treasure developed the landmines, the effect was similar to what they described, and later the big stones on the mountain inspired him to develop the earth mines, that is, mines made of stones. Due to time constraints, it was impossible for Supreme Treasure to spend a lot of time refining so many iron containers that could contain gunpowder, so he used the most stones in the Wuyue Mountains as containers. In fact, such mines are very powerful, and no one can see anything unusual when they are thrown on the side of the road. However, this is also a very headache for demining in the future, so Supreme Treasure has done a good job of map marking and limiting the amount of landmines when planting mines this time, and he and Xiao He only planted more than 20 mines, which is enough to deal with these children who go up the mountain without knowing the truth.
Supreme Treasure knows that as early as the establishment of modern New China, there was a bloody ** army, which has been in a state of extreme lack of weapons and equipment. However, ** people are not intimidated by the difficulties, they try to improve their equipment by all means. In addition to the seizures, the technicians also made a large number of self-made weapons, which played an irreplaceable and important role in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation.
Another kind of supreme treasure borrowed from the achievements of these ancestors to develop is the grenade. For example, in the past, the Soviet government had the ability to make its own grenades, and its products were called "Soviet grenades", and some people called them "Red Army grenades". The Celestial Empire also made this grenade from the Central Soviet District Arsenal, which was shaped like a chayote, with one large and round end and the other small and blunt.
Our Red Army fighters affectionately called the "little melon" because of the shape of the grenade. The economic and technical conditions of the Soviet government at that time were extremely difficult, so the structure of the cast grenades was simple and the surface was rough, and the materials used were also "adapted to local conditions", and they were used whatever they had at hand, so the "little melons" were made of copper and iron, large and small, and of course the weight was uneven.
Although the "little melon" is not good-looking, it is one of the most stable sources of weapons for the Red Army, and has repeatedly become the "anchor of the sea" in battle.
This is also the method that the Supreme Treasure can only use on a small scale to create powerful weapons using the only copper and iron ore resources on a small scale.
No matter how powerful the enemy is, as long as the time comes, the Supreme Treasure will lead this climbing team over the cliff and steep face, occupy the commanding heights above the mountainside, and smash it with grenades from a high position. The "little melon" that rained down could completely defeat the defending enemy, and the defense line of 300,000 soldiers was also broken.
Before leaving, the Supreme Treasure distributed two grenades to each person, so that the total amount was six hundred, and when the time came, they were thrown to the foot of the mountain, and you can imagine how powerful it was.