Chapter Seventy-Four: The Japanese Army Counterattacks
After the cannonball flew out of the barrel, it smashed towards the devil's turret with a scream. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zhang Bing is worthy of being an old artilleryman, even if it is the first time to shoot a mortar like this, he still accurately hits the target.
The roaring mortar smashed directly on the outer wall of the second floor of the turret.
After an orange-red fireball exploded on the outer wall with the sound of an explosion, the turret still stood in the middle of the stronghold like Tarzan. But with the help of the telescope, Wang Ping clearly saw that several cracks had been blown out of the outer wall of the turret, and many bricks and stones had also been blown off from the outer wall.
Despite the fact that the turret is a masonry structure, it is very solid. But after all, it is not a concrete structure, as long as several shells fall together at the same time and explode, the masonry turret's exterior wall will definitely be blown out of a large hole.
After coming to this conclusion, Wang Ping immediately ordered: "Platoon Commander Zhang, continue to fire the artillery in the same way, and use all the shells to shoot at the second floor of the turret, I don't believe that so many shells can't blow up the turret!" ”
Zhang Bing first smiled bitterly, and then took the order: "Battalion commander, this method of firing artillery of yours is not something that ordinary people would use. If the reaction is slow, the cannonball will get stuck in the chamber and explode, or it will directly hit the person who stabbed the cannonball! ”
"For the sake of safety, I'll come in person, and the others will learn first!"
After fine-tuning the mortar that had just been fired, Zhang Bing directly stuffed the shell into the muzzle of the cannon, and then fired the shell out in the same way.
"Boom!" The shell landed on the outer wall of the turret and exploded, but it was slightly off the beaten point.
But even so, the violent explosion still caused a lot of damage to the outer wall of the turret.
While blowing up a lot of masonry on the exterior wall, the cracks that were blown out just now became even bigger at this time.
"Just blow it up there, keep firing!" Wang Ping, who became more and more excited, ordered loudly.
"Baga, what's going on, how can the enemy have flat-firing artillery?" Looking at the turret in front of him, which had begun to crack out, Captain Nakata also panicked, and asked his subordinates.
"Captain, it's the Eighth Route Army that is attacking us outside, and I don't know why they have flat-firing artillery! However, their artillery positions are not far from our turrets, within the range of our machine guns! The team leader quickly replied.
"Then what are you doing in a daze? Let the warriors fight back immediately and knock out the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army, right away! Captain Nakata shouted.
As soon as the squad leader left, Nakata continued to scold: "What about the herald? Haven't contacted the Laiyuan City Headquarters yet? The Eighth Route Army is equipped with anti-aircraft artillery, so the Eighth Route Army attacking us must be the main force. The command must send troops to reinforce us immediately, otherwise we won't be able to hold out for long! Eight grid tooth road! ”
The herald, who was already ready to greet Nakata's anger, ran over and lowered his head and replied: "Captain, the telephone line connecting to the headquarters must have been cut off by the Eighth Route Army outside, and I can't contact the headquarters at all!" ”
"Baga, the Eighth Route Army definitely wants to annihilate us...... Rumble! Before the angry scolding could be finished, a violent explosion sounded on the outer wall of the turret. Nakata clearly felt the turret shake in the explosion, and then heard the sound of a large amount of masonry hitting the ground on the outer wall.
That's not all, there was a hole the size of a bowl on the outer wall of the turret where the shell hit, and through the hole, you could already clearly see the firepower point of the Eighth Route Army constantly firing at the turret.
Nakata was even more panicked at this time, afraid that he would die here before he really sat in the position of squadron leader.
The whole person was like an angry lion, roaring at his subordinates who were also panicked in the turret and ordered: "Baga, don't panic, immediately counterattack, block the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army with firepower, and shoot back immediately!" ”
What Nakata didn't see was that under the suppression of the absolute machine-gun fire of the independent battalion, although the devils were very combative, they were not afraid of death. In the counterattack commanded by the squad leader just now, seven or eight more people were beaten into corpses by the bullets that flew into the turret.
At this time, there were less than twenty devils left in the turret, and everyone was panicked and scared. Although Captain Nakata personally went into battle, holding the command knife, they forced them to counterattack under the fierce offensive fire of the independent battalion. However, it still didn't do much. A few seconds later, another explosion sounded on the outer wall of the turret.
The hole the size of the bowl mouth becomes the size of a basin at this time.
Not only that, but the fragments of the flying shells flew down the hole into the turret, killing the two riflemen.
"Baga, you can't let the Eighth Route Army fire again!" Captain Nakata said anxiously.
Then he subconsciously ordered: "The troops outside the turret will immediately counterattack, take the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army, and destroy the artillery, otherwise everyone will die here today." ”
The captain of the squad responsible for more than 30 devils outside, after receiving the order, subconsciously thought of the puppet army who stayed with him, and then he was ready to order the puppet army to rush to the front and use it as cannon fodder for the imperial army.
But just as he was about to give the order, several puppet army officers around him seemed to have discussed, and at the same time pushed back a few steps, so that Hou directly stood with his subordinates.
The squad leader doesn't need to think about it to know that the puppet army that shows loyalty in front of himself and the squadron leader every day is afraid before he even goes to the battlefield.
But in order to alleviate the casualties of the troops, he still gave the order for the puppet army to cooperate with the attack.
But after the order was issued, the puppet army did not move, including the company commander of the puppet army, who was loyal to the imperial army, also shrank behind his subordinates at this time, lowered his head, and looked like he had not heard the order.
The squad leader frowned, and directly took out his pistol and asked, "Wang Sang, didn't you hear my order just now?" ”
Under the order of the squad leader, the thirty or so devil soldiers happily discussed, and at the same time raised their rifles and faced the puppet army.
With the spicy nature that the Japanese army has always shown, if the puppet army still doesn't move, these devils will definitely shoot mercilessly.
"Taijun is angry, I will immediately let my subordinates start attacking!" The puppet army company commander, who was already afraid of the Japanese army to the bone, could only stand up hard, and then said with a flattering face.
"Yo Si! I'll give you half a minute, and in half a minute you have to attack. The team leader immediately showed a smug expression, and then ordered with a calm face.
Seven or eight henchmen brandished pistols and let out a loud curse from time to time.
It didn't take long for more than a hundred puppet soldiers to reluctantly rush towards the artillery position of the independent battalion with rifles under their pressure.
Wang Ping, who had never left the devil's turret with a pair of eyes, saw these Japanese puppet soldiers rushing over at a glance.
Then he drew two crooked handles to stop them.
At this time, an astonishing scene appeared.
After the two crooked guns shot at them, they had just killed and wounded five or six puppet soldiers, and the other puppet soldiers in front of the devil all lay on the ground motionless as if they had discussed it.
Wang Ping didn't know what the puppet army's purpose was, but as soon as they lay down, the devils behind them were exposed to the machine guns.
"Quick, fight the devils behind the puppet army and kill them all!" Wang Ping ordered with excitement.
"Da Da Da ......" two crooked handles immediately shot at the devil, and many riflemen also joined in at this time, and the devil who also didn't expect this scene was caught off guard, and was killed and injured seven or eight people at once.