Chapter 59: Sniper Warfare
At four o'clock in the morning, the soldiers of the reconnaissance squadron ambushed on both sides of the mountain road leading from Tieling to Beidaying sent a telegram from the intersection in the distance, and found a large force of Japanese troops approaching!
Lu Cheng, the leader of the reconnaissance squadron, looked at the telegram sent by the sentry in front and ordered the radio soldier to forward it to the regiment commander. And the deployment of combat readiness began.
Lu Cheng soon received a call back from Tian Zheng. He did not read the contents of the call back to the people of the squadron, but directly ordered to open fire!
The reconnaissance squadron of seventy-six people, divided into two parts, was ambushed on both sides of the mountain, and at this time the vanguard of the Japanese army had already walked over, and the large force had just reached the predetermined area when it was suddenly attacked by the reconnaissance squadron!
Seventy-six eighty-one bar automatic rifles, Lu Cheng ordered all of them to be adjusted into bursts, and at this time, like seventy-six light machine guns, all the bullets were scattered on the Japanese troops on the road down the mountain!
After three rounds of fighting, Lu Cheng ordered to change the strafing fire to point fire, and change the large-scale indiscriminate attack to the attack of a key single target!
The requirement for all members of the Wild Wolf Regiment to wear combat attire is that each soldier must carry at least a hundred rounds of ammunition! And the members of the reconnaissance squadron and the wolf's tooth special combat team, which are equipped with 81 bar automatic rifles, are required to carry at least five magazines full of bullets!
After the fourth magazine was fired, a large number of Japanese soldiers had fallen on the road down the mountain! Only a few soldiers who received non-lethal injuries and a small number of Japanese soldiers who reacted quickly and had suitable cover around them were fighting back sporadically. The Japanese soldiers in the back were looking for cover, organizing fire, and were setting up machine guns and grenadiers to counterattack, and a small group of Japanese troops, about the equivalent of a platoon, had touched the hill, preparing to attack the ambush position of the reconnaissance squadron from the side.
"Withdraw! A small team sets traps to give these little devils a try! At least twenty rounds of ammunition must be kept in each soldier's magazine! Prepare for sudden changes! ”
Lu Cheng said with an order. The soldiers above the two ambush positions of the reconnaissance squadron heard Lu Cheng's order and quickly began to evacuate in an orderly manner, with more than a dozen people on each of the two positions cleaning the battlefield and setting traps.
Each squadron of the Wild Wolf Regiment has three squads. The reconnaissance squadron was not expanded, so it still maintained a strength of about one company. Three squads, each equivalent to a platoon of troops. In this ambush battle, the second squad and the third squad each occupy a position, and the first squad is divided into three, one part is scattered to various key positions as sentinels, and the other two parts are each supplemented to two ambush positions to participate in the battle!
"Report to the captain, the vanguard of the Japanese army in the front has returned, and the remnants of the Japanese army in the rear have formed a flanking attack on our department! Our soldiers are running out of ammunition and cannot form effective firepower to break through! Please Squadron Leader instructs! The leader of the squad in charge of intelligence reported to Lu Cheng.
"The vanguard of the Japanese army is just a small team, there are no heavy weapons, all of them are 38 big covers! In terms of firepower cannot be compared with our weapons! But our lack of ammunition is also a problem! Tell the soldiers to concentrate ammunition supply to the soldiers with better marksmanship and block the enemy's returning vanguard! The rest of the personnel are waiting on the spot, and the regimental commander has already brought someone to help us! Supplies will arrive soon! Lu Cheng didn't seem flustered at all. Everything had been arranged in Tian Zheng's call back to him before!
Originally, according to Lu Cheng's idea, he would attack the enemy by surprise and withdraw from the battle immediately after he succeeded! Because after all, there is only one squadron, and it is only one of the enemy's brigades that has to ambush and attack, and the enemy also has light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers and other weapons, and there is also an armored vehicle and three 75mm mountain guns! Relying on the 81-bar automatic rifle in the hands of the reconnaissance squadron and the ammunition reserve of only five magazines per soldier, the enemy could only be surrounded by the enemy after a long battle, and the whole army was annihilated!
However, Tian Zheng's call back to him made Lu Cheng's heart very excited!
"The head of the regiment deserves to be the head of the regiment! It's a big deal! Lu Cheng thought secretly in his heart.
The soldiers at the front, who had just organized their ammunition, had already exchanged fire with the returning Japanese vanguard!
However, these soldiers who were the vanguard of the Japanese army were also some elite soldiers, and seeing that the enemy's firepower was stronger than theirs, they began to look for cover one by one, and fired sporadically with the soldiers of the reconnaissance squadron, forming a tug-of-war of confrontation! The soldiers of the reconnaissance squadron had already received Lu Cheng's order to save bullets, and all the Bayi bars were adjusted to a single-shot state, and these soldiers did not disappoint Lu Cheng. The training of the reconnaissance squadron is relatively strict, and the marksmanship of the soldiers is generally good, and the marksmanship of these selected soldiers can basically be described as sharpshooters! Basically, they shoot bullets that go away, or they hit the target and deal damage to the enemy! Either it is to hit next to the bunker of the Japanese soldiers, so that the Japanese soldiers do not dare to show their heads, so as to form a fire suppression support for their comrades!
The soldiers of the Japanese vanguard on the opposite side were secretly complaining in their hearts. As soon as the battle began, their squad leader was the first to be taken care of by at least five Bayi bars of the reconnaissance squadron soldiers who had already been ambushed on the opposite side! Five bright blood flowers bloomed from the body of the Japanese squad leader, who was already too dead to die anymore!
These Japanese soldiers who were in the vanguard were furious and wanted to use their outstanding individual combat ability to prove to the enemy who was the strongest on the other side! But they were very sad to find that as soon as they showed their heads, they would be accurately blasted open by the bullets from the opposite side! Some Japanese soldiers wanted to suppress the fire of their companions, but as soon as he was about to show his head, the bullets from the opposite side fell on the stones or tree trunks that were used as cover! These Japanese soldiers calculated that the enemy on the opposite side had to have a time to reload and then aim and shoot, so they took advantage of this opportunity to just show their bodies, and were immediately named by the rifles on the opposite side to go to hell to report!
They still don't understand in their hearts until they die, "Why can the enemy's gun be reloaded so quickly?" And don't they have to aim? ”
However, what they could never know was that the reconnaissance squadron on the opposite side was using an automatic rifle, and every bullet was fired, and there was no need to reload at all, and naturally there was no need to re-aim! Therefore, although the Bayi Bar was adjusted to a single-shot state, it still had a much faster rate of fire than these Japanese soldiers who used the 38 big cover!
The tug-of-war was still going on here, and the radio soldiers in the group assigned to the rear to observe the pursuit of the remnants of the enemy troops were sending a report to Lu Cheng in a safe low-lying place behind.
"The Japanese army entered the mountains to pursue the troops about the strength of a squadron! There was a squad on the opposite side of the sniper position, and the other two squads were coming at us! They are already approaching the trap and ask for instructions! "The telegraph operator had just finished sending the telegram when he suddenly noticed that he had been gently patted on the shoulder!