Chapter Fifty-Eight: Blowing Up and Paralyzing Zhengtai Road
Rabbits bite when they're in a hurry!
Although the fighting will of the soldiers of the 109th Division is not as good as that of the permanent division, after all, they are also aggressors armed to the teeth. The little devil on the ironclad patrol car who was lucky not to be killed by the heavy machine gun on Straw Hat Mountain, jumped off the train, got under the carriage, climbed onto the edge of the railway, and resisted stubbornly with 38 big covers and grenades.
The little devil has good physical strength, throws grenades far, and his marksmanship is so good, he can shoot a gun. For a time, it was one or twenty devils who jumped off the train, and they actually brought a lot of casualties to the first company.
In this way, the first company still went through the whole training in Yuxian County, and its tactical skills improved rapidly. If it were to be replaced by other anti-Japanese troops, one or twenty devils would shoot one shot each, and one or twenty people would have to lie down. Let the little devils fight for a few minutes, and the attacking troops will have to lie down in a large area, and it is normal to cripple a company.
Seeing that the little devil was stubbornly resisting, Xiao Siming was furious, and ordered a company to concentrate machine gun fire to suppress the devil, and ordered each squad and platoon to set up the grenadier canister, clear the little devil who shot along the road, and asked for a rifle from a soldier and began to strike accurately. Several methods were all used, and the stubborn devil remnants were solved as quickly as possible.
That's it, from the time the Japanese sentries saw through the camouflage to the present, the first company has suffered 22 casualties!
Since Xiao Siming fired the first shot at the Tibetan Mountain Temple, because of the sniper and ambush tactics used, the firepower of the independent battalion was very strong, and the battle was victorious, all of which had zero casualties, creating a miracle. Today, due to the camouflage of the Japanese army, the surprise attack turned into a strong attack, and in a short period of time, there were 22 casualties in a company, which made Xiao Siming fully appreciate the cruelty of war!
Every second counts on the battlefield, and Xiao Siming has no time or possibility to be sad, so he immediately ordered the Gaoping dual-purpose guns and Gaoping dual-purpose machine guns on the guard carriages of the Japanese military columns to be dismantled and strengthened to the second and third companies, preparing to attack the ironclad patrol vehicles and armored vehicles that drove from Pingding or Shouyang.
The second and third companies were also interspersed in place at this time, but they did not have explosives packs, just infantry guns that could be placed flat, and Xiao Siming was worried that they would not be able to stop the Japanese army's ironclad patrol vehicles.
Since yesterday afternoon, the Japanese army has stepped up the railway and highway patrols between Shouyang County and Yangquan. Two ironclad patrol cars patrol the railway, basically every hour, passing by the stone measuring station. The Japanese highway patrol passed by here every half hour.
The fierce gunfire at the station was heard far away. It didn't take long for the Devil's Highway Patrol in the direction of Yangquan to the east to drive over, with two motorcycles at the head and an armored car behind them.
This group of devils should have heard the gunshots and rushed to reinforcements. There were still more than 1,000 meters away from the station, and the machine guns mounted on motorcycles and armored vehicles by the little devils swept away towards the railway.
Zheng Xiuchuan, deputy battalion commander, led the second company to hide at the head of the wolf's nest village, which was 500 meters away from the station, and the muzzles of the 92 infantry guns and the Gaoping dual-purpose guns that had just been transported were all aimed at the road.
What Zheng Xiuchuan didn't expect was that the heavy machine gun commanded by Mu Guangyao, the captain of the heavy machine gun team on Straw Hat Mountain, opened fire in front of them, and the two motorcycles in front of the armored car were set on fire at once, and the little devils in the car were also beaten into a hornet's nest.
Heavy machine gun bullets hit the armored car of the little devils, and a spark sparked!
Zheng Xiuchuan looked carefully, the steel plate of the little devil's armored car should not be thick, if he really concentrated heavy machine gun fire and beat it at one point, maybe he could penetrate it! Of course, the armored car of the little devil is in rapid motion, and it is impossible for the heavy machine gun to beat it at one point, so it is impossible to penetrate it.
Zheng Xiuchuan, who didn't want to let the heavy machine gun waste bullets, immediately ordered the cannon to be fired!
Two infantry guns and two high-level dual-purpose guns were all fired!
This is flat fire and is easy to aim. All four guns hit the target, and the Japanese armored vehicles were instantly turned into wreckage!
After making a contribution in the first battle, Zheng Xiuchuan was so happy that he grinned and said to the artillery captain Zhao Xiuchuan: "Old Zhao, the cannon is still powerful!" After a while, the little devil's ironclad patrol car came, and you aimed at me! Don't be reluctant to shell! ”
Zhao Xiuchuan opened his mouth and said, "You know a hammer!" Fighting armored vehicles is not an ordinary shell, it is an armor-piercing shell! The shells are precious, and it is difficult to capture and replenish them if they are missing! ”
Zheng Xiuchuan immediately understood that the Chinese army in North China did not have tanks and armored vehicles, and the Japanese artillery was definitely equipped with fewer armor-piercing shells.
The Japanese army's 92 infantry guns are not equipped with armor-piercing shells, and it is okay to use ordinary shells to hit the armored vehicles and light tanks of the little devils, but I am afraid that it will not work to hit the Japanese army's ironclad patrol vehicles!
Zheng Xiuchuan hurriedly said that since armor-piercing shells are so rare, they have to be spared, and the infantry artillery will not be fired for a while, and the Japanese army's more powerful artillery will be used!
Zhao Xiuchuan said that this cannon is called Gaoping dual-purpose gun, and the machine gun is called Gaoping dual-purpose machine gun, which can be used as an anti-aircraft gun and anti-aircraft machine gun, and can also hit armored protection targets.
Zhao Xiuchuan is worthy of being a specialized artillery cadre, and he may have listened to the lectures of our army's artillery talents who returned from studying in the Soviet Union, and he knows a lot!
As the two of them spoke, the rails on the railroad began to tremble slightly!
Zheng Xiuchuan jumped to the ladder road in a few steps, climbed on the track, listened to the track with his ear, jumped up and shouted: "The devil's ironclad patrol car is here!" Get ready for battle! ”
Sure enough, about 5 minutes later, the shadow of the little devil's ironclad patrol car appeared in the distance.
This time, Zhao Xiuchuan did not let the infantry artillery open fire, and let the two Gaoping dual-purpose guns attack the Japanese ironclad patrol vehicle.
The ironclad patrol car is a train, and it is impossible to leave the railway tracks, so it can only drive upright towards the stone measuring station.
The power of the armor-piercing shells used by the Gaoping dual-purpose cannon was reflected, and the two shells drilled into the devil's ironclad patrol car one after the other, and with the sound of two dull explosions, the devil's ironclad patrol car jumped and fell crooked on the side of the railway.
Take advantage of your illness and kill you!
Seeing this, Cao Ming'an, the commander of the second company, shouted "rush", and commanded the troops to kill him, and the grenade flipped down the shooting hole to the devil ironclad patrol car on the side and threw it violently, and the little devil inside who was dizzy and blew it up and couldn't die again!
After dealing with the devil road patrol team and ironclad patrol cars that came from the east, the artillery captain Zhao Xiuchuan, who already had some experience in fighting ironclad cars, left the deputy captain Zhao Fu to cooperate with a platoon of the second company to continue to monitor the enemy situation in the east, and he hurried to the position of the third company to command the devil road patrol team and the ironclad patrol car from the west.
As soon as the gunfire stopped, the baggage brigade, engineer team, recruit team, and battalion department led by Wang Lushui drove over to rescue the wounded as soon as possible, and sent them to the field ambulance station established by Wang Dao, the director of the field hospital, behind Straw Hat Mountain.
The bodies of the martyrs who died were also transferred to the back of Straw Hat Mountain, and taken away when the troops retreated.
This area is an enemy-occupied area, and there are many devil strongholds and traitors, and they will soon know the news that the stone measuring station was attacked by the Eighth Route Army. After these reports are reported, the devils will definitely send planes to bomb before dark. Moreover, once the main force of the Japanese army in the air at Nianzigou learned that the Eighth Route Army had attacked and occupied the Shishi Station, it was likely that they would turn around and go south and go all out to find and annihilate the independent battalion that had caused them heavy casualties.
Time waits for no one!
Xiao Siming immediately ordered the engineer captain Sun Zhicheng, the deputy captain Tong Ming, and Meng Decai to hurry up and carefully search the devil barracks at the devil's station, the military train, and the devil's den village to see if there were any explosive bags!
The Devil Army was full of ammunition and supplies, and there were no explosives packs. The little devil has planes in the sky and tanks and artillery on the ground, and he has taken advantage of the firepower on the battlefield in North China, and the Eighth Route Army is fighting guerrilla warfare, and the Japanese army does not need to let the soldiers carry explosive bags to blow up the fortifications of the Eighth Route Army, so there are no explosive bags on the military column at all!
However, a lot of explosives bags were found in the warehouse of the stone measuring station, and there were quite a few, which were full of cars, which should be used by the little devils to open the mountain when they were preparing to repair fortifications or roads.
It's easy to do with an explosives pack!
Xiao Siming immediately ordered the engineer team to blow up the Taohe Bridge and paralyze Zhengtai Road!
The engineer team went to blow up the Taohe Bridge, and the devil highway patrol from the direction of Shouyang also arrived in a hurry, and their ending was the same as the Japanese patrol from the direction of Pingding, all of which were beaten into pieces by machine guns and artillery!
When the engineer captain Sun Zhicheng, deputy captain Tong Ming and Meng Decai rushed to the Taohe Bridge with the soldiers, they found that the bridge was an arch bridge made of reinforced concrete and mountain stones, which was extremely strong. Moreover, the troops did not have the tools, and it was impossible to place the explosive package on the arch under the bridge deck to blow it up, so they could only blow up the bridge deck!
As long as the bridge deck is blown up, and the little devil does not repair it for a period of time, Zhengtai Road will not be open to traffic!
Sun Zhicheng, Tong Ming, and Meng Decai led the soldiers to clank and drank!
Our army has been in a state of logistical insecurity for a long time, and there is a shortage of materials, Sun Zhicheng and the others are not even willing to throw the rails of the devils, so they first use the tools they found in the devil's station to pick up the road nails, separate the rails from the sleepers, and lift all the rails on the bridge to the west end of the bridge.
After a loud bang, Sun Zhicheng ran to the bridge deck to see that only one big hole had been blown up, and it was still far from being blown up, so he gritted his teeth, increased the number of explosive packs, and carried out multi-point blasting!
After laying the explosives bag again, Sun Zhicheng asked the engineer team to withdraw to the west end of the bridge to hide, and himself, Tong Ming, and Meng Decai personally lit the fuse, and then ran back to the west end of the bridge quickly and climbed under the railway embankment to hide.
Boom, boom, boom, after a series of explosions sounded, the entire deck of the Taohe Bridge was blown away, and only a few piers were left standing there alone in the cold wind!
Sun Zhicheng got up, raised his hand and wiped it on his face, wiped off the dust splashed on his face caused by the explosion, and then said "withdraw" and led the engineering team to the station to carry the loot.