Chapter 318: Thunder in the Silent Night (continued)
The sound of a grenade explosion at the southern end of the Hutuo River Railway Bridge woke up the little devils at the northern end of the bridge. Vertex. Fastest updates
The two devil sentries at the north end of the bridge, after hearing the grenade explosion, their first reaction was to turn their heads to the south end of the bridge to look.
As soon as they saw that the Eighth Route Army had gone on the railway, blown up the pillbox, and controlled the southern end of the bridge, the two devil sentries scolded "Baga" in unison, picked up their rifles, and loaded the bullets.
The 38 big cover has a long range and high accuracy, and the little devil's marksmanship is particularly good, but it is also wishful thinking to hit the Eighth Route Army at the southern end of the Hutuo River Railway Bridge. Two devil sentinels, this is purely a natural reaction of cultivation!
The two little devil sentries shot decisively, although they didn't know where the bullets flew, but they played the role of a second alarm. The Japanese troops in the pillboxes on both sides of the bridge were awakened, and immediately pounced on the machine guns, and soon opened fire and counterattacked.
After all, it was night, the visibility was low, and after the Japanese soldiers in the pillbox woke up, the conditioned reflex was average, and the machine gun fired a string of tracer bullets at the first time, illuminating the battlefield!
The tracer bullets swept across the night sky, and the eyes of the little devils in the bunker were straight: sure enough, it was the Eighth Route Army that touched the railway and occupied the southern end of the bridge!
A devil warrant officer grabbed the phone and shouted "Moxi, Moxi"!
The infantry cannon carried by the third company of cavalry fired!
Just when the second and third platoons blew up the bunkers on the east and west sides of the south end of the Japanese railway bridge on the Hutuo River, a shell flew out of the chamber, and with a "boom", it crossed the Japanese pillbox and exploded. Vertices M. updates the fastest
It's a test shot, and it's a long shot!
Then, another explosion sounded, the second shot came closer, and the shell exploded in front of the Japanese pillbox!
The third shot, after the shell flew out of the barrel, it flew impartially and squarely into the largest Japanese pillbox on the east side of the bridge on the other side of the river.
The 92 infantry cannon is indeed a sharp weapon for infantry combat, once the soldiers master the infantry gun horizontal shooting technology, the Japanese army's pillboxes and turrets are nothing in front of the Eighth Route Army!
Across the Hutuo River, this infantry gun, reinforced by three companies, named the Japanese pillboxes on the opposite bank, and destroyed the three pillboxes in a short time.
The Japanese pillboxes on the west side of the north end of the bridge should all be facing west, so as to prevent the Eighth Route Army from attacking the Hutuo River Bridge from the west. However, when the Japanese army built the bunker, it may have taken into account the factors of the Eighth Route Army in case of a sneak attack on the bridge and touching the bridge, and one of the three bunkers on the west side of the bridge was built to be two stories high, and there were shooting holes on all sides of the second floor, which could form a cross fire with the machine gun fire in the bunker on the east side of the bridge to block the bridge deck.
Just now, when the Japanese pillbox on the east side of the bridge opened fire, the large pillbox on the west side of the bridge also opened fire, and machine guns and rifles fired hard at the bridge, suppressing the row that was touching the north end of the bridge. Vertices M. updates the fastest
The two heavy machine guns of the three machine gun platoons were carried to the bridge by the soldiers, and they were erected on the tracks, and they opened heavy fire on the Japanese pillboxes on the west side of the north end of the bridge, covering the crawling advance of the platoon.
Wu Peng saw that the devil's bunker had become an obstacle, so he immediately ordered the infantry artillery to be brought up and bombarded by Lao Tzu!
The biggest advantage of infantry artillery is actually that it is lightweight, the whole gun is only 212 kg, manpower and animal power can be towed forward, and it can also be disassembled and transported, and the requirements for roads are almost zero, and it can participate in infantry combat unconditionally.
The soldiers of the artillery squad quickly pushed the infantry gun onto the railway, and with the help of the cover of the protective deck of the infantry gun, they pushed the gun all the way to a place only 500 meters away from the Japanese pillbox, and then aimed directly at the gun!
At such a close distance, even a test shot was exempted, and the cannon was fired directly!
Hearing the sound of "boom", the second floor of the Japanese army's large pillbox was directly lifted!
They thought that the Chinese regular troops in North China had been driven south of the Yellow River or in the mountains, and those guerrilla forces had no artillery, so the pillboxes and artillery towers built by the little devils were all brick and wood structures, and they were naturally unlucky to encounter the main force of the Eighth Route Army equipped with infantry artillery.
An infantry cannon that can shoot horizontally becomes the nemesis of the little devil's bunker!
The artillery fire destroyed the Japanese pillbox, and a platoon rushed to the north end of the bridge, pounced on the devil's bunker, and reopened the guns for those devils who were lucky!
The Hutuo River Railway Bridge connects Zhengding in the north and Shijiazhuang in the south, which are all key parts of the heavy garrison of the little devils. It won't be long before the Apex M. update at the earliest, and the Japanese army's ironclad patrol vehicles and reinforcements will arrive.
Wu Peng didn't hesitate at all, and urged him to hurry up and hurry up, and quickly lay explosives bags on the bridge!
After the training in Leling, the combat skills of the main force of the previous detachment in the east were further improved, and the cadres and soldiers learned to use explosives bags. In addition, at the time of departure, each company of the cavalry battalion was supplemented with three engineers who specialized in explosives, laying explosive packs and pulling wires, which was very slippery.
After the explosives pack was laid, Wu Peng gave an order, and the third company of cavalry quickly evacuated the bridge with the captured Japanese weapons and ammunition.
Wu Peng followed Xiao Siming to blow up the Ziya River Railway Bridge, and saw the blowing up of the Taohe Bridge on Zhengtai Road and the Luokou Yellow River Bridge on Jinpu Road.
The Hutuo River Railway Bridge is an important bridge in the northern section of Pinghan Road and an important object of protection for the Japanese army. Vertex M. is updated the fastest, otherwise, the little devils will not build a bunker here and send troops to garrison it!
The sound of gunfire had already reached the nearby stronghold, and the little devil warrant officer reported to the devils in Pingding County, and it didn't take long for two Japanese ironclad patrol cars to rumble over, and the light column of the car illuminated the railway in detail.
Two ironclad patrol cars drove to the Hutuo River Railway Bridge from the north and south, and the machine guns on the cars were splashing bullets like the wind, hitting the trees and grass under the darkness on both sides of the railway!
Without waiting for the little devil to jump down from the ironclad patrol car to observe the situation, Wu Peng ordered in a low and vicious manner: "Detonate!" ”
Three sappers pressed the detonator in their hands at the same time.
Suddenly, boom, just like a sudden thunder in the sky, there was a sudden thunder on the Hutuo River!
The water of the Hutuo River was more agitated than the sound of the explosion, and the water columns rose into the sky, forming a water curtain, and the reinforced concrete blocks, steel rails, sleepers, road spikes, and sand on the bridge deck stirred up by the big explosion flew all over the sky.
The two Japanese ironclad patrol cars no longer erupted tongues of fire, they were swept up by the explosion waves, tossed high, and flew in the sky, and then they were thrown down heavily and fell into the Hutuo River, once again stirring up a column of water to the sky!
Rao is Wu Peng has been tested by war for a long time, and when he saw such a big formation, his eyes were also round, and he couldn't help muttering: ", the explosives bag is a bit much!" ”
After muttering, Wu Peng didn't stay any longer, withdrew with three sappers, and after meeting with the third company of cavalry, he rode away.
After the third company started on the Hutuo River Railway Bridge, the second company also started on the Hutuo River Highway Bridge.
The Hutuo River railway bridge is too important, and the little devils are stationed at the center. The highway bridge is different, but a checkpoint is set up at the south end of the bridge, and the puppet army with a platoon of three devil instructors is responsible for checking passing vehicles and pedestrians, and there are no strong fortifications such as pillboxes and turrets.
To put it bluntly, in the eyes of the Japanese puppet army guarding the Hutuo River Highway Bridge, this is the place where they make money and bully women!
Compared with riding three companies to blow up the Hutuo River Railway Bridge, it is much easier to blow up the Hutuo River Highway Bridge by riding two companies.
The three Japanese instructors stationed at the Hutuo River Highway Bridge were all retired junior officers of the Kwantung Army, in their thirties, and they did not want to return to Japan to farm and work after retiring, so they stayed in the northeast. After the Lugou Bridge Incident, these guys put on their military uniforms again and acted as instructors of the puppet army, training the puppet army and controlling the puppet army.
The railway bridge usually does not have merchants traveling through, and if the little devils guarding the bridge want to make money and play flower girls, they have to force the maintenance presidents and pseudo-security chiefs of the surrounding villages to send them to them. If you don't want to, you will arrest people and extort money.
Highway bridges are different, and those who come from the south and go from the north have to cross the bridge. Although this is the war years, the Chinese all know that the little devil is a man-eating demon and has to hide, but some things can't be avoided, and the bridge must be crossed.
The puppet army guarding the highway bridge is a little better. Although they are also a group of bad sweet potatoes, a group of spineless goods, and some of the puppet army turned out to be bandits, but they are different from the devils after all, like the little devils who cut off the women's **** and stabbed the women's lower body with bayonets or wooden sticks, and pulled the children into two petals, the puppet soldiers basically didn't do it.
As the front moved forward, it had become the core occupation area of the Japanese army. The Japanese army also began to pay attention to rectifying military discipline, buying people's hearts, and consolidating its rule. Under normal circumstances, the little devils will no longer engage in the extermination of villages and towns in their core occupied areas, but will force the common people to implement the joint defense system of armor protection, pay food donations, and support the Japanese army's war of aggression.
That's it, the three Japanese instructors stationed at the Hutuo River Highway Bridge are still lawless, extorting money with one hand, and satisfying the ease of life with the other, which is much better than going back to Japan to be a policeman, a worker, a fisherman, etc.!
In the evening of that day, the puppet soldiers stopped a mother and daughter who were fleeing. As soon as the three devil instructors saw it, they ordered the mother and daughter to be arrested and began to have crazy fun!
When the second cavalry company attacked, the courtyard of a private house where the Japanese puppet army was stationed still resounded with the lewd laughter of the three Japanese instructors and the hoarse cries of the mother and daughter!
Solving this point of the Japanese puppet army, for the second company of cavalry, is a matter of picking grass and beating rabbits, which is a convenient matter.
When the explosion of the Hutuo River Railway Bridge sounded one after another, the explosion of the Hutuo River Highway Bridge also sounded!
The sound of explosions echoed in the night sky, far, far away.