223. Chapter 38
Xia Yifan commanded the artillery squadron and the machine gunners and grenadiers drawn from each squadron to lie in ambush on the mountain ridge in the south, and once the battle in the north began, use light and heavy weapons to block the bandits from coming to the north.
Soon after dawn, bands of bandits came from the south. These bandits are accustomed to being scattered, walking staggeringly, and the formation is very chaotic, and it is clear at a glance that there is a lack of regular army training.
Liao An stayed with Xia Yifan, responsible for monitoring the bandits in the south, he put down the binoculars and said: "Instructor Xia, the devils didn't give the bandits clothes, and the weapons are primitive, it seems that the devils haven't paid attention to them yet." Xia Yifan stared at the south with a telescope and replied vaguely: "Yes!" ”
In the early morning in the mountains, the grasshoppers that had just woken up were startled by the sudden crowd and flew around, and the frogs hiding in the grass also stopped their cries and fled in panic. Liao An's mountain beam is a hundred meters high, overlooking the below, the bandits' figures are extremely blurred, like rivers slowly flowing westward, can't help but wrinkle their brows, and said: "There are many bandits, and they are all extremely fierce, if they are desperate to work for the devil, then it is really our fierce enemy!" ”
Xia Yifan put down his somewhat sore arm and said helplessly: "Everyone has their own ambitions, what can be done?" Liao An shook his head, picked up the binoculars again, and after about ten minutes, he suddenly said: "Instructor Xia, look at the west, the bandits are not leaving." ”
Xia Yifan turned his head and saw that some of the bandits were sitting and some were lying down, and he shouted, "Could it be that you are waiting for the Shibata Brigade to fail?" Liao An said: "Very likely." Xia Yifan suddenly had a thought in his heart: "If the bandits are waiting here, wouldn't it be better for the north and the south to fight together?" He turned around and ordered the correspondent to telegraph the situation to Liu Hui. A few minutes later, Yoo Hui sent a message asking him to wait for the telegram. Xia Yifan adjusted his deployment slightly, and then began to wait for him.
As Yu Lan expected, the Shibata Brigade entered the mountain from that valley mouth and advanced south with a heavy load. Liu Hui looked at the devils who were getting closer and closer, a happy smile appeared on his face, and said to the correspondent: "As soon as the battle starts here, you will immediately telegraph to Instructor Xia and shell the bandits." The correspondent replied, "Yes." ”
Twenty minutes later, Liu Hui saw that there was only a devil transport team left behind, so he raised his shell gun and fired three shots into the air. In an instant, more than 400 team members threw down more than 400 grenades, which exploded in less than three miles long, and a billowing smoke rose all of a sudden, like a black dragon enveloping the devil. More than 400 grenades were dropped, but the smoke was mixed with sand, blades of grass, blood, and stumps of flesh flying everywhere.
The devil never expected that something fatal would be dropped on the high mountain, because the formation was too concentrated, and because of the huge lethality of the grenade, before he could react to what was going on, most of them were killed and injured. Captain Shibata was riding a tall horse, and was attacked by numerous shrapnel and killed along with his mount. The bottom of the mountain is flat, and the devils have no hiding place at all, and after each member of the team on the mountain throws ten grenades, there are not many devils left.
Xu Zhihong's special forces team and two heavy machine gunners were arranged in the northernmost part, and they specialized in fighting devils according to Liu Hui's requirements. As soon as the battle began, two machine gunners pulled the trigger and screamed to spray bullets at the devils. Xu Zhihong looked at the devil running back and shouted, "Machine gunner, give me control far away, don't worry about the closer." ”
The 110-man transport squadron and 118 mules and horses of the devils immediately became the targets of Wang Hu, Li Ziqian, Ba Xiaozi and others. Wu Yan killed a devil for the first time since she learned to shoot, and she was so excited that she kept shouting in her mouth. The dwarf squinted one eye and crooked his mouth to shoot at the devil in the distance. When Li Ziqian was fighting, he suddenly felt a person lying next to him, looked sideways, and immediately shouted: "You go down for me." ”
Xu Ya didn't seem to hear it, and as soon as the bolt of the gun was pulled, she raised the gun and hit it. She was really good at the head, and she knocked down a devil with the first shot, and shouted happily: "Brother Qian, I killed the devil!" Li Ziqian pressed a big hand on her head and said, "Don't look up, beware of stray bullets." Xu Zhihong saw that there were fewer and fewer devils, and shouted: "Pay attention to the bullet box, aim and then fight." ”
The two battlefields in the north and south were almost twenty miles apart, and the battle in the north had begun, and no sound could be heard in the south. Xia Yifan was anxiously waiting for the call order, and shouted loudly: "Fire." ”
Sixteen cannons fired in sixteen directions in a fan shape. Eight heavy machine guns fired bullets in eight directions. Sixty-one crooked machine guns and sixty-three grenadiers were responsible for approaching the point. More than 70 members of the 1st Squadron were responsible for throwing grenades.
Thundered...... Da Da Da ...... The voices came and went, and in just a moment, the south of Liantai Mountain presented a sea of fire.
The panicked bandits were running around in the sea of fire, some were smashed into a sieve by bullets before they could run a few steps, some were blown up in the air by flying shells, and some were simply stupid, their eyes were terrified, and they stood motionless in the smoke.
Zhang Bao held the telescope in his hand, shouting for extension for a while, and moving left and right for a while, firmly controlling the bandits who were trapped. At first, he just watched, but later, he snatched a crooked machine gun and shouted, "Brothers, take revenge!" Call me! Kill them all......" bullets burst and swept down one bandit after another.
Under the sudden blow, the two battlefields in the north and south were firmly controlled by Liu Hui and Xia Yifan. In the face of powerful firepower, the guns in the hands of the enemy became embellishments, and even if they fought back, they were fired indiscriminately, and there was no threat at all. The battle in the north took only ten minutes from start to end, and Liu Hui saw that the corpse below was no longer human, and ordered the evacuation of the mountain beam. The southern battlefield was under a dense network of firepower, and the remaining bandits had been swimming in the sea of fire, unable to rush out, and unable to fight back, so they could only wait for bullets and shrapnel to fly on them.
It turned out that after he sent the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments away one after another, he sat in a sedan chair carried by four people, with a one-foot-two-inch long dry eye bag in his mouth, and walked slowly down the iron stone peak in the middle of the garrison regiment. After walking four or five miles, I suddenly heard a piercing scream in the air, and when Zhang Bald looked up, the explosion resounded in the sky, and then the earth shook and the mountains shook.
Zhang Wumao rolled down from the jujube red horse and shouted, "Dad, we have been ambushed." Zhang Bald got up and circled, gently landed beside Zhang Wumao, and said, "Intercept the brother who ran back and ask what is going on." ”