On the Jinqin Highway (Jincheng-Qinyang Highway), more than 100 large trucks of the guard regiment were moving forward along the winding road.

The special feature of the Guards Regiment over the other 42nd Armies was not how advanced their equipment was, but the fact that the Guards Regiment had a motorized infantry company in its convoy, with a total of 12 side three-wheeled motorcycles.

Of course, these side three wheels were captured devils, but Zhang Mingyu ordered the arsenal to make some changes to these side three wheels.

To make it faster and more stable on the road, the most important thing is to add a five-millimeter-thick steel plate to the position of the machine gunner in the back seat, so that the machine gunner will not be so easy to sacrifice when shooting.

In the past, when fighting with devils, Zhang Mingyu found that although the devil's motorized infantry was stronger, its protection ability was not very good.

The Heavy who sits in the rear of the car has a lot of machine gun fire that can be used to suppress it, but because of the difficulty of moving due to sitting in the side bucket, and the lack of shelter around the side fight, it is often the first target of the enemy.

was directly sniped in the side three buckets, and Zhang Mingyu's invention just added a small steel plate around the side bucket, leaving a vacancy in the middle of the steel plate for the machine gunner to shoot forward, as long as the machine gunner does not stand up, unless the sniper with superb marksmanship, it is almost impossible to kill the machine gunner in the car body.

In this way, even if they are ambushed, the machine gunner will often have time and preparation to jump out of the side fight, and then find effective cover under the cover of the infantry, set up machine guns, and suppress the enemy.

So far, no one including Xu Wen has understood the benefits of Zhang Mingyu's improvement, and it has blocked most of the machine gunner's field of vision.

However, in the later battles against the native country, the already mechanized [***] generals discovered the benefits of this small change.

In particular, the motorized infantry assault group was full of ambushes on the mainland, and this small steel plate saved the lives of thousands of machine gunners.

After a four-hour long journey with the head of the motorized infantry company, Zhang Mingyu and the guard regiment finally arrived around Wuzhi Town, which is located in the southeast of Qinyang, and 10 kilometers ahead is the Laotian'an Station on the north bank of the Yellow River Bridge in Zhengzhou.

While the guard regiment bypassed Qinyang, Lai San commanded the 3rd Division to launch an attack on the 8th Division of the puppet army in Qinyang County. The entire county town of Qinyang suddenly burst into gunfire, and the shouts of killing were deafening.

However, Zhang Mingyu did not stay in Qinyang for long, after all, the Third Division had more than 30,000 officers and soldiers, occupying an absolute superiority in strength and firepower. If you can't even take down Qinyang County, which is only guarded by thousands of devils, then there is no need for Lai San, the commander of the third division, to do it, and I am afraid that he can only go to the cooking class to be a gangster.

To get back to the point, after the guard regiment arrived in Wuzhi Town, Zhang Mingyu immediately sent a motorized infantry company to reconnoiter the Laotian'an Railway Station, which is only a small station on the way, and the train generally does not stop, and will only stop here when it encounters special circumstances and needs to add coal on the way.

Although the station is small, the station is fully equipped, just like a small town, there are shops, taverns and various stalls, of course, these taverns and shops are all opened by the expatriates, and they only provide supplies to the army in the station.

The army stationed an infantry squadron and a military police unit here, and the so-called military police force was served by some retired old devils and some retired personnel who were somewhat disabled but had not lost their combat effectiveness.

Some of the retired veterans are generally around 40 to 50 years old, and some of them have little combat effectiveness, and some are in their twenties and thirties, but because they have suffered minor injuries to their hands or feet, their combat effectiveness is not very strong.

The entire squadron has more than 180 people, has three infantry squadrons, a machine gun squad and an artillery squadron, and the average age of the squadron members is between 18 and 25 years old, and they are well-equipped and combat-ready.

Of course, this well-equipped unit is only relative to other [***] troops, if it is equipped with all the Taiyuan ** sand submachine guns, it is estimated that it is not even a third-rate army.

Of course, this is just a set-up, just according to the equipment analogy, a battle in addition to the equipment factor also has many other factors, and people are the most critical factor in determining the outcome of the battle.

For example, in later generations, our Chinese People's Volunteers fought a big battle in Korea with the 18-nation coalition led by US imperialism, and the equipment of the volunteers was millet plus rifles, while the joint [***] was aircraft, artillery, tanks, and vehicles, and the individual firepower was far stronger than ours, and the coverage of one Thomson was stronger than two crooked handles.

However, the heroic Chinese People's Volunteers won this battlefield, defeated the strong with the weak, created an immortal legend, and established the glorious status of the Chinese Army as the world's first in one fell swoop.

Of course, this number one was only at that time, and it was hard to say whether a unit that had not fought in a war for decades was the first in the world or not.

To get back to the point, the motorized infantry company was ordered to rush to the Laotianan station to conduct reconnaissance, and the 12 Bian Sandou and 1 horse rushed to the front, and the infantry behind followed closely with neat steps.

The commander of the motorized infantry company is named Sun Xiucheng, who is a senior soldier in the old fourth platoon of the former guard battalion, and is now the captain and company commander of the motorized infantry company.

Sun Xiucheng sat on a side three buckets, personally holding a very improved Czech light machine gun and looking around with a cold expression.

To explain, in fact, although the whole regiment of the guard regiment is equipped with ** sand, but each infantry company and infantry platoon is equipped with a full amount of light and heavy machine guns, but the general infantry has replaced the official rifle with ** sand. Otherwise, in the event of a positional battle, there will not even be a long-range firepower, and it will not be a tragedy.

Less than two miles after arriving at Laotian'an Station, Sun Xiucheng ordered the motorcycle company to stop and said to a platoon: "Lao Liu, you take a few people to reconnoiter and touch the deployment of devil troops in the station!" ”

"Yes!" A platoon of elders Liu happily agreed, and immediately led a few soldiers to quickly touch Lao Tian'an.

After a while, a platoon leader came back with a few soldiers covered in sweat, and Sun Xiucheng stepped forward a little anxiously and asked, "How is it?" Have you figured out the situation on the site? ”

"I figured it out, there are about two squadrons of devils in the station, there is no puppet army, there are two artillery towers and five pillboxes in total." A row of elders Liu gasped and replied.

"Two turrets, four or five pillboxes?" Sun Xiucheng frowned suddenly, and said secretly: When he was the vanguard of the North China Battlefield Guard Regiment, Okamura Ningji repaired the artillery tower so that he couldn't even shoot a direct mortar, but he didn't know that the artillery tower and pillbox here were reinforced like the devils in North China.

Thinking of this, Sun Xiucheng said to the platoon leader: "Lao Liu, order the troops to assemble immediately, you take a platoon to attack from the left, I will take the second platoon from the right, and the third platoon will serve as a reserve, and bombard him with direct fire mortars!" ”

A row of elders Liu snapped up and stood upright, then turned around and waved his hand: "A row, follow me!" Yan Yan took a row and touched it from the right towards Laotianan Station.

Sun Xiucheng also waved his hand to the second-row soldiers behind him and said, "Brothers, follow me!" Yan Yan rushed forward with his troops.

Regardless of whether the bunkers here are wooden or reinforced, Sun Xiucheng has to give it a try, if there is no reinforcement, he will be able to take this small station with his own company.

Soon, Sun Xiucheng took the second platoon to the outside of Laotian'an Station, and he could already see the plaster flag on the devil's turret and bunker from a distance.

Fortunately, outside the station are barren mountains and mountains, and the grass is overgrown, which provides a better hiding place for the motorized company. Sun Xiucheng squatted in the grass and glanced at the two soldiers next to him who were shooting directly at the mortar, and the two soldiers willingly picked up the direct fire mortar on their backs and touched towards the devil's turret under the cover of the grass.

Although the effective range of the modified direct-fire mortar run is still about 2,000 meters, the accuracy is not as high as that of close range.

When the two fighters ran to the dead grass less than 300 meters away from the Devil's Gun Tower, the two soldiers quickly removed the direct fire mortar and shells from their bodies, only to see that one of the soldiers loaded the direct fire mortar with shells, knelt down on one knee and carried the mortar to his shoulder, and then aimed at the Devil's Gun Tower more than 200 meters away, only to hear the soldier say: "Okay"!

The fighter in the back pulled the fuse, "Boom! With a loud bang, a ball of flame erupted from behind the barrel of the cannon, and almost at the same time as the flame erupted, a dazzling tongue of fire had already flown out from the muzzle of the cannon, and then flew towards the devil's turret two hundred meters away with a long tail flame.

In the blink of an eye, the tongue of fire hit the junction of the first and second floors of the devil's turret, and the armor-piercing blasting shell directly drilled through the wall of the turret that the devil had built with bricks and stones, and exploded inside the turret.

There was a loud bang on the ground, and a dazzling burst of fire erupted from the firing hole of the turret, followed by a series of small explosions, which triggered the detonation of grenades and ammunition in the turret.

Almost at the same time, there was a loud bang on the left, and it seemed that the second row had already succeeded. Immediately after that, the artillerymen took advantage of the fact that the devils in the bunker did not react, and fired several shells one after another, hitting the remaining bunkers accurately.

After the bombardment, almost all of the two infantry squads arranged in the turrets and pillboxes were killed, and one infantry squadron of the Shigeto detachment had been reimbursed two-thirds.

At this time, Sun Xiucheng picked up a Czech light machine gun, jumped up and shouted: "Brothers, rush me!" ”

"Rush! Kill....! The soldiers shouted in unison, followed by Sun Xiucheng and jumped up, rushing towards the Laotianan station.

Soon a deafening shout of a row of soldiers was heard on the left, and two infantry platoons plunged straight into Lao Tian'an like two sharp swords.

After hearing the sound of artillery and explosions, the military police squadron inside the station immediately panicked, and these retired soldiers, who had not fought for a long time, were scurrying around like a mass of scattered sand.

On the contrary, the infantry squadron, although the two squads arranged in the turret and pillbox were all broken, but the remaining squad and artillery squad were led by the squadron leader to resist by relying on the bunker in the station.

Soon the chaotic gendarmerie police force also joined in, and although the motorized infantry company had the advantage of firepower, the two sides were in a stalemate for a short time.

At this time, there was a burst of dense gunfire and deafening shouts from behind the devil, and it turned out to be the third platoon that had been reserved as a reserve, and under the leadership of the third platoon leader, it was killed from behind the devil.

Dozens of ** sand submachine guns fired a salvo at the same time, the scene was extremely spectacular, and some of the devil soldiers who were still pouting and lying behind the bunker and shooting at the motorized infantry company were suddenly beaten into a sieve.

Under the front and rear of the three infantry platoons, in less than half an hour, the remaining infantry squad and artillery squad of the Shigedo detachment were all wiped out, and none of them survived, but half of the military police squadron was captured alive.

Rather than being captured alive, it is better to say that they surrendered directly, and after the regular troops were killed and wounded, these devil soldiers immediately dropped their guns, raised their hands, and surrendered to the extremely brave squadron in front of them.

Sun Xiucheng held a light machine gun in both hands, kicked on the buttocks of a devil captive, and scolded: "The dog said, it's useless!" You also have today! ”

It turned out that this devil soldier was so frightened that he held his head in his hands and cocked his buttocks, but his crotch was wet, and he was scared to pee.

Sun Xiucheng's kick was quite strong, and he directly kicked the devil soldier out of the distance, and the [***] soldier next to him saw that there was a water trail where the devil soldier was lying just now.

I couldn't help but look up and laugh. The other devil soldiers cast a disdainful look at this comrade, and they all subconsciously stayed away from him, as if this comrade had embarrassed their imperial army.

At this time, a platoon of elders Liu strode in, snapped himself and said, "Company commander, a total of 270 people were annihilated in this battle. One hundred and seven prisoners were captured. Five of our brothers were killed and eighteen wounded! Twenty-three casualties! ”

"Hmm!" Sun Xiucheng nodded lightly and said, "Bury the fallen brothers well, and hurry up to rescue the wounded soldiers." ”

"Yes!" A long row snapped upright, and then turned to leave.

At this time, the third platoon commander also strode over with a light machine gun, and saluted Sun Xiucheng with a snap: "Company commander, there are more than a dozen shops and two taverns in this station, as well as a foreign company, all of which are run by devils!" What to do? ”

"The devil opened it? What the fuck can I do then! Rob it to Lao Tzu! Everything that can be moved is moved, and those that can't be moved are smashed and burned by Lao Tzu! Sun Xiucheng said with an awe-inspiring expression.

"Yes!" The three platoons were as long as a bull in heat, and they answered loudly, and then gladly took the order.

(To be continued)