Chapter 9: The Ghost Gate
The long, terrible screams filled the city of Taierzhuang, which was hit by a Japanese artillery shell, and the Chinese soldiers who had just thrown grenades.
In the smoke of the explosion, shrapnel flew in all directions. Having never been well trained, they did not know how to dodge such ferocious fire.
The thick-eyed and big-eyed recruits crouched in the rubble at the head of the city, curled up as much as they could, muttering and begging for the Buddha's blessing.
"Okay, good fried ......"
The Japanese infantry, who had just retreated by the grenade, were behind their concealment, looking at the fire on the top of the city and shouting hello. They hated the people in the city, and they didn't know where they got so many grenades.
The thunderstorm just now made these retreating Japanese soldiers feel palpitations until this moment. The Chinese soldiers at the head of the city, they threw stones instead of grenades. It feels like I'm almost picking up the box and pouring it down.
The grenade rain just now caused them a considerable number of casualties. It was also the first time since they began fighting with the Chinese army that they encountered such a ferocious "grenade rain" from the Chinese army.
Also, compared with the grenades that were common in China at this time, the terracotta grenade was really too simple to be a simple weapon.
After Li Zongren got the design drawings and instructions, he organized the production according to Jin Tao's instructions. He mobilized the villagers in the countryside extensively through the government, and gave all the producers a wooden mold that could quickly produce the shell in large quantities. To put it bluntly, if you can beat adobe, you will use clay and iron sand to make the shell.
When it is concentrated, it is a porcelain shell, and when it is burned, it is a grenade.
If you want to talk about the manufacturing cycle, it is more than 10 times faster than a wooden-handled grenade. After all, this time Li Zongren gave full play to China's greatest advantage - manpower, and as long as there is soil and firewood, he can burn unearthed porcelain. Porcelain and gunpowder, which are pure Chinese specialties, are as much as they want. Li Zongren also asked the peasants in several nearby counties to make shells, and he organized people to refine them in large cellars, and then installed fuses and explosives.
Just think about it, how such a production scale and process will not form a "thunderstorm" in the city. In just two months, Li Zongren held 3 million grenades and another 2 million "hail personnel personnel bombs" in his hands.
Even if it weren't for the lack of supply of explosives, the number of these things would have to be doubled. At this time, Li Zongren's only regret was that he did not listen to Jin Tao's words and filled the grenade with granular gunpowder. Although it is less powerful, the number of such weapons in his hand may be doubled several times.
One may wonder how it is possible to create such a number of weapons.
After reading the above production process, please believe in the simplicity of the clay grenade process. All Li Zongren did was mobilize millions of people in nearby counties. In those rough hands, this yield is really not worth mentioning.
If he listened to Jin Tao's words and used black powder to load the grenade, the number would have to be increased by at least 5~10 times. If the brick making machine can be transformed in time and mechanized production can be carried out, because of the simplicity of the process, the number is not easy to estimate.
I can only guess how about a 100-fold increase in the number of fuses and explosives if the number of fuses and explosives is sufficient.
When Li Zongren got the first batch of clay grenades, he looked at the porcelain shell in surprise, and even threw it to the ground a few times. Who would have thought that the strength and toughness of ceramics with the addition of hemp would be more than three times higher.
Li Zongren was not a scholar, and at this time, the Chinese, who often did not eat enough, did not pay much attention to the characteristics of these things, and then learned about their scientific side. The reason why I mention it here is that when you see Chi Youjun's grenade in the future, you will understand why you say this!
As the shelling ended, the Japanese soldiers, who were hiding under the city, once again swarmed towards the collapsed gap in the city wall.
They were joined by Japanese tanks close to support, and their machine guns and artillery were desperately suppressing the Chinese defenders at the top of the city.
And the soldiers at the head of the city, at this time, according to the pre-plan, dragged the sacks of the bunker and ran up to repair the gap in the city wall.
"Woo Woo ......"
The bullets fired by the Japanese soldiers under the city immediately flew over the sides of these warriors with a "whoosh" sound. One soldier fell, and another soldier stepped up, dragging the blood-stained sack and bending over, running desperately towards the place where it had been bombarded.
"This fights him. Mom can't fight like this anymore, and tell the people in the city not to fill in the gaps. The little devil dared to rush from there, and used a grenade to beat them hard. Tell them that Lao Tzu has thousands of boxes of grenades there, waiting for them to throw them away! ”
The regimental commander Wang Guanwu shouted at his subordinate communication soldiers, and looking at the figure on the head of the city that flashed in the red smoke formed by the firelight, he changed the battle order. He was a reinforced regiment in the 31st Division of Chifeng City, responsible for the defense of the entire Taierzhuang.
Seeing that the battle had just begun, and a battalion arranged at the head of the city had suffered such heavy casualties, he felt a little angry and a little regretful at the same time. Yes, it seems that the Northwest Army has never been so well supplied, because his division commander has only said one good news in all the bad news this time, and that is the grenades are open to supply.
Of course, the commander of the city guard, Wang Guanwu, didn't know where these "porcelain jars" came from, he just felt that he had suddenly become wider. The grenades were open to supply, which was really good news for the soldiers of the Northwest Army who were unauthorized to use grenades.
With the order of the regimental commander Wang Guanwu, there were no more soldiers in the city dragging sacks to fill the gaps.
Such a situation was very rare in the battle to defend the city in China, because the Chinese army, which was poorly armed and poorly equipped, often chose to fill it with men. But this battle has a very different way of fighting, that is, the gap in the city wall, as if no one cares.
"Charge...... Charge ......"
Undoubtedly, this brought some joy to the devil soldiers below, and the gap that no one repaired was the best way for them to break through the Chinese-style city wall. Therefore, despite the possibility that the shouts in the night might be exposed, one by one the infantry with bayonets in their hands, desperately rushed towards the gap.
It is true that there are already a few gaps in the walls, and this time no one has repaired them, but one by one they are just carrying bags full of grenades, and they are lying on top of them.
Is there anything cooler in the world than throwing a grenade down from the top of a person's head? The people lying low on the city wall will not be harmed by the Japanese tanks under the city because the remnants of the female wall are preserved. Throwing grenades is another silent way to attack. To put it mildly, even if the people in the city tried to bombard them with artillery fire, they couldn't find anyone anywhere.
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The Japanese soldiers, who were trying to cross the gap with their heads down and stepping on the unplastic drift of quicksand, which had been bombarded by artillery fire, suddenly felt as if a stone had fallen on their heads. But just as he was wondering, there was a loud noise under his feet.
Then the bodies of him and his comrades around him were blown up in the air together, and then flowed down the floating earth.
When he fell, he could see the sky.
From his point of view, there was a gap in the wall like a cliff. At this time, a grenade was falling from it, and it should not be described as a "swarm" grenade.
And this is the change in the way the defenders of the city head fight, one squad on each side of a gap, and then one person carries a bag of grenades, or one person drags a box of grenades, and throws them at the sight of people. Even as soon as the tactics changed, some people thought of "hail personnel personnel bullets" flexibly.
It has one more bomb trap than a grenade, and even the way it fires is pulled. There is not much difference from grenades, so there are people who use such weapons creatively. That is to dismantle the "bomb trap" and use it as a grenade. Although this thing can jump, there are some dangers, but it is okay to throw it far.
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————————————————————————————————————— turned out to be like this in the second half of the night, and the devil infantry rushed to the gap together. No matter how wide they pulled when they approached, they were bound to huddle together when they entered the gap. It's okay to get farther away, as long as you get closer to within 20 meters, there are rows of grenades and "hail personnel anti-personnel bombs".
The former is better, after all, its explosion is upward, and people who are estimated to be underground are often unharmed. But that's not the case with the "Hail Personnel Kill Bomb", no matter where it is thrown from, as long as it is relatively flat, it will definitely jump when it lands.
Maybe you can't feel the danger of "hail personnel bullets" when you open the skirmishers, and if you can't run out of them within 10 meters, no matter how many people are huddled together, whether they are lying on the ground or not, they all have to finish playing.
In the black, ballistic, and blazing night, no one counted the exact battlefield casualties. But here we can clearly say that in the state of the first night battle, the casualties of the Kuomintang troops at the head of the city were much less than the attacking Japanese soldiers.
For the first time, by dawn, the soldiers at the head of the city had not suffered enough casualties to have to be replaced by another battalion.
"Hey, after so many years of fighting, it's the first time I've fought so well!"
Early in the morning, the veterans lit their cigarette pouches. In his hand, he brushed aside the cigarette butts he had collected the day before, and then stuffed them into a tobacco bag and mixed them with the old tobacco leaves. Beside them, there were seven or eight boxes of empty grenades, which were thrown clean overnight.
It's just that behind them, there are more boxes scattered around.
The thick-eyed and big-eyed recruits who had experienced a night of fierce battles recalled the battle last night, and they didn't know if the cigarette in the cigarette pouch pot in their hands was extinguished.
Last night's battle can basically be said to be this pattern. When the devil attacks, he throws grenades, and after throwing grenades, he drills anti-artillery holes.
"That's how all battles are fought, I really want to know, how did the little devil get here?"
The soldiers at the head of the city, who were the commander of the city, no longer used any sacks to plug the gap. Their task is to throw grenades, and the number of ghost soldiers in the gap is the largest and densest, and throwing grenades in that place will maximize the effect.
Inside the city