Chapter 43 Anticline Position
Xiao Siming was the commander of the independent battalion and the commander of this blocking battle, and he should have returned to the command position of Nianzigou after the observation. However, he was worried that the unit had just completed its training, that there were many new soldiers, and that he would suddenly encounter a strong enemy under great psychological pressure, so he temporarily stayed on the position.
No matter what kind of unit it is, as long as the commander is present, he is not afraid of danger, and his command is determined, and the cadres and soldiers do not panic, they will be able to give full play to their combat effectiveness.
The current situation is like this, as soon as he saw Xiao Siming on the position, whether it was a cadre or a soldier, whether it was a veteran or a recruit, he was immediately reassured, and when he aimed, his heart was not panicked, his hands were not shaking, and his head was naturally accurate.
Mountain artillery, infantry guns, grenadiers, 92-type, 96-type, Czech light and heavy machine guns, including the Jin-made rifles used by the soldiers of the third company and a platoon, and the Jin-made submachine guns used by the squad leaders, in the eyes of Xiao Siming, who has crossed the soul, they are all old antiques that should be entered into the military museum. But in the current era of the Anti-Japanese War, those are all good weapons. However, Xiao Siming was a special operations elite before the crossing, and among the various firearms at this time, he liked to use the 38 big cover. Because this shot is far away and accurate!
The little devil is attacking, and he is attacking upwards along the hillside, ten percent of the combat effectiveness cannot be exerted by two percent, for Xiao Siming, this scene is similar to fighting the devil when playing the game, there is a gun!
Stretched out his finger to measure the wind speed, Xiao Siming directly pushed the bullet and loaded it, aiming at a devil lieutenant who was kneeling on one knee, holding a command knife, and shouting "kill and give", "Horn hook", a blood hole appeared on the devil lieutenant's forehead, his body fell back, the command knife in his hand fell on the grassy slope, but the corpse rolled down.
One shot was fired, Xiao Siming had a feeling, and the second shot hit a devil officer who was crawling on the edge of a ditch. That guy, leading two grenadier groups, is preparing to set up a grenadier position!
This time is different from the sniping in the mountain behind the Tibetan Mountain Ancestral Hall, Xiao Siming has three companies and a platoon commanded by Wang Meng, a fire support platoon, and a heavy machine gun platoon, and he also has a guard squad and a signal communication squad, the total strength is actually equivalent to a company of the general army, and the firepower is much more powerful than a company of the general army, there are two Type 92 heavy machine guns, three Czech light machine guns, three Type 96 light machine guns, five grenadiers, and enough ammunition, so he doesn't need to deliberately fight the machine gunners and grenadiers of the devils. Machine gun fire will not let them go.
What Xiao Siming has to do is to name the little devil officer and disrupt the command of the Japanese offensive detachment!
After the five bullets were fired, he was about to press the bullets, and a 38 cover was handed over next to him. Xiao Siming saw that it was a soldier in the guard squad, so he said, "You give me a bullet", picked up the gun and turned it on again.
Someone loaded the bullet, Xiao Siming just shot and shot, and the design speed was fast.
As he was fighting, he heard the soldiers around him shouting: "Battalion commander, the little devil is coming from the north!" ”
Xiao Siming saw that one or twenty little devils had really come up from the northern hillside, and they were still followed by little devils scattered behind them.
Xiao Siming didn't dare to slack off, turned the muzzle of the gun, and with a "horn hook", knocked down the little devil who was walking in the front and was about to climb the mountain beam.
After firing five shots in a row and knocking out five little devils, Xiao Siming shouted: "Wang Meng, adjust the machine gun and kill the little devils in the north!" ”
When the machine gun bullets swept towards the remaining little devils in the north, Xiao Siming was looking for the bad luck of the devil officers again.
The devil officers within a distance of 500 meters, as long as they are exposed, they will not be able to escape Xiao Siming's sniping, and they are basically bleeding from the top of their heads and falling on their backs.
Xiao Siming's style of play, don't talk about the little devil, even the old devil can't stand it! If there is no army led by an officer, if it can still maintain a continuous attack, it is not called a troop, it is called a god team!
The little devil's attack wave comes and goes quickly. Similarly, Xiao Siming and Wang Meng commanded the troops to rush to the position and fight fiercely, and the speed at which they retreated to the bottom was also fierce. Just like that, as soon as the troops withdrew into the communication trenches, the position just now was completely covered by the artillery fire of the little devils.
This time, the devil fired a full ten minutes of artillery, and then the heavy machine gun slipped on the opposite mountain beam, and the bullets were windy and windy, like Xiao Siming and the position they had just withdrawn.
Listening to the sound of the devil's cannon and machine gun, Wang Meng took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit one for Xiao Siming, smoked one himself, took two puffs, and said: "Battalion commander, you can't stay on the position, you should go down and deploy the second company, how can they fight!" ”
Xiao Siming smoked a cigarette, pondered for a while, and said, "No hurry! Remove the observation post and hold on to the anticline position. After a while, we let the little devils occupy the surface positions above, and when they just rushed up, we concentrated machine guns, submachine guns, shell guns, and grenades, and gave them a fire attack to teach the little devils a lesson. After the anti-slope attack, we insisted on blocking again, and we quickly withdrew from the position, and after retreating to the village of Nianzigou, you walked along the ditch to the inside, and then went up the mountain, concealed and waited, ready to meet the first battalion that went to bomb the devil's artillery position, and at the same time support the second battalion in the battle, to prevent the little devils from bypassing us from the north to sneak attack us. ”
After Wang Meng sent someone to inform the observation post to come back, he told Xiao Siming that the devil was ruthless, and the shells didn't need any money, and they all hit the ditch on the side of the mountain beam. It's strange, why don't the little devils use gas bombs?
Xiao Siming said that it is now the west wind, blowing from the west to the east, and the devils can only harm themselves if they release poison gas bombs.
Wang Meng was going to let the grenadier team shoot out all the poison gas bombs of the little devils they brought, so that the little devils could drink a pot.
Xiao Siming stopped him, saying that he was not in a hurry, and when the little devil occupied this mountain beam, rushed to Nianzigou Village, and attacked the highest point to the west of Nianzigou that the second company held, it would not be too late to fight. The ditch is relatively deep, and when the little devils enter the ditch, the forces will be further concentrated, and the effect of poison gas bombs is better.
As he spoke, the whistle sounded at the observation post.
Wang Meng yelled "go to the position" and rushed out at once.
Suddenly, on the anti-slope position behind the mountain beam, light and heavy machine guns were mounted, rifles were mounted, and the soldiers took out two grenades and put them in front of them, just waiting for the little devil to rush up the mountain beam.
The anticline position is strictly a trap laid out with a net of fire!
Because our army did not take advantage of the gap in artillery fire just now to rush to the position to block the attack, the little devil finally successfully climbed the mountain beam. As a result, as soon as the little devil who rushed up the mountain beam caught his breath, he didn't even bother to track down where the defenders were running, and the light and heavy machine guns and rifles on the anti-slope position opened fire.
The distance was so close, the firepower was so fierce, the little devil who had just rushed up the mountain beam was beaten and fluttered and lay straight to the ground.
At this time, there was no term anti-slope position on the Japanese army's infantry drill code, where could the little devil defend against the hand of the Eighth Route Army!
The shooting continues, the killing continues, and the funny thing is that the little devil in the back doesn't know the situation on the mountain beam, and is still crawling up the mountain beam in front and back, and he is a live target when he shows his head!
The distance between the devil's artillery positions on the opposite mountain beam is even farther away, and it is even more difficult to see what is happening on the mountain beam, so naturally they will not open fire!
It wasn't until the corpses of those newly emerging devils were hit that the corpses rolled down one after another that the devil commander on the opposite mountain beam understood that there was a trap!
I understand that there are traps and can't open artillery, there are still warriors of the imperial army on this mountain beam, and the devil commander will not let the artillery shell indiscriminately unless it is absolutely necessary!
This anticline counterattack is the coolest battle Wang Meng has fought since joining the army! Later, in his memoirs and reminiscences, Wang Meng described this battle in detail, saying that this battle was to tempt the Japanese army to take the initiative to climb the mountain beam as a target.
This counterattack from the anticline position ended when the devils behind took the initiative to retreat.
After the devil retreated, Xiao Siming originally wanted Wang Meng to hold on for a while, but as soon as he saw the layers of devil corpses on the position, he knew that the little devil had suffered a big loss this time, and the next revenge must be very ferocious, so he immediately ordered Wang Meng and them to transfer, and even the guns and ammunition left by the little devils on the position were not allowed to be picked up by the soldiers.
Fortunately, the withdrawal was timely, otherwise, Wang Meng and they would not have been able to withdraw!
As soon as Xiao Siming and Wang Meng withdrew with their team into Nianzigou Village, Japanese planes came. This time, the little devil made a bloody investment, and a group of four planes launched a continuous bombing and strafing on the mountain beams, including Nianzigou Village, all of which were frantically retaliated by the Japanese planes, and all the houses were bombed. Fortunately, this is a mountainous area, and the villagers' houses are made of stone except for the roof, foundation and walls, otherwise they will definitely burn to the ground!
When Xiao Siming arrived at the position of the second company, the reconnaissance platoon led by Wang Quanyou had already joined the second company. The cavalry correspondent who went to Nanlou Village to report to Ye Changgeng also returned, and the news brought back was bad news, the Japanese army in Shouyang and the Japanese army in Pingding had already been dispatched, and they rushed to Yuxian in two ways, and the eighth and ninth brigades of the three detachments had begun to block and retreat while fighting.
The correspondent brought back the orders of Zhou Jianping and Liu Daosheng conveyed by Ye Changgeng, ordering the independent battalion to block the sluggish Japanese army in the area of Nianzigou, cover the transfer of the masses and local power in Yuxian County to the area of Shangshe, and evacuate after dark. After the independent battalion broke away from the Japanese army, it had to resolutely insert itself into Zhengtai Road, mess up the rear of the devils, and force the Japanese army to retreat along the railway.
Zhou Jianping also reported that after the three detachments and the guerrilla brigade led by Chen Yisheng and Han Chunde withdrew from the county seat, they temporarily went to the Shangshe and Xiashe areas to rely on the mountainous areas to conduct guerrilla attacks. After the situation is stabilized, the main force of the 4th Division will be transferred to Pingshan County, and the independent battalion will go to Pingshan County to rendezvous after completing its mission.
After listening to the correspondent's report, Xiao Siming's mood suddenly became irritable. Because the situation of the three detachments is the same as that of the independent battalion, there are too many recruits, and the weapons and equipment of the three detachments cannot catch up with the independent battalion, it is impossible to withstand the frontal attack of the devils. In addition, their tactics are not as flexible as their own tactics, and after this battle, the losses of the three detachments may be great.
What's even more terrifying is that as soon as the three detachments of blocking troops withdraw, the little devils will not only take the county seat of Yuxian County lightly, but also surround and copy the back road of the independent battalion, and this battle will not be able to fight!