CHAPTER XXVI
"Wang Dazhu!" Li Han shouted as he looked at the positions of the Japanese troops opposite. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Here!"
Hearing Li Han's shout, Wang Dazhu rushed to the side of Li Han and immediately ran.
In the past two days, he has a lot of grievances, because it is a cavalry, basically he has not caught a fight, watching the other company commanders fight vigorously, and they have all won a lot, Wang Dazhu is envious at the same time, he only feels that he is on fire in his heart, and regrets that he became the commander of this cavalry company in the first place.
"I know you've been impatient to wait, now is the time. You take the soldiers of the cavalry company to kill through the back door, kill the devil's artillery, and I will let the artillery platoon support you. ”
Li Han said that although the cavalry is powerful, the devil on the opposite side has a heavy machine gun squadron, and the terrain of Niujiabao Town makes it impossible for the cavalry to set up a position, and the advantage cannot be revealed.
If you let the cavalry go up at the beginning, you will have exhausted the cavalry company, and it is estimated that you will not even be able to get close to the position of the devils.
Now it's different, the devil has been disrupted by the fourth battalion, and the heavy machine gun squadron has also been exposed, and it is firing at Wang Wei's heavy machine gun company at the moment.
At this time, even if you find that the cavalry is coming, it is too late to turn the spearhead. Besides, Wang Dazhu is not a fool, and he led the cavalry to rush to the position of the devil's machine gun.
Now the biggest threat to the fourth battalion is the devil's two infantry guns, this guy is the nemesis of mortars, forcing the soldiers of the artillery platoon to change places after firing a few shots.
On the contrary, the devil's infantry artillery can fight as much as they want, even if Xu Hu and they know the location of the devil's artillery position, but because of the range, it is basically hopeless to destroy them.
So Li Han has been thinking about how to kill the devil's artillery position, and it is best to capture even two infantry guns, so that he can save tens of thousands of oceans.
Because whether it is a mountain artillery or a field artillery, even if it is a 75 mm caliber, it will cost at least tens of thousands of oceans, don't look at Li Han is quite rich now, but all the belongings are worth a few field artillery.
Although the Type 92 infantry artillery is not as good as the regular mountain artillery or field artillery, it is also a small field artillery, and it is still much stronger than the mortar.
In order to make Wang Dazhu's action go smoothly, Li Han also called Xu Hu, just to determine the specific location of the devil's artillery position.
"Battalion commander, the devil's artillery position should be in the northwest direction, near the exit on the other side of the town."
After all, Xu Hu is an experienced artilleryman, and no one in the entire fourth battalion is more powerful than him in artillery operations. Xu Hu only pondered for a while, and quickly marked the devil's artillery position.
"Very good, Xu Hu, you really have a few shots, if Wang Dazhu and they successfully end the devil's artillery this time, you will be the commander of the artillery company in the future." Li Han said happily.
"Battalion commander, it's actually not difficult to judge, the devil's troops were attacked by us before they could be deployed, and their artillery had to place the artillery positions outside our range in order to avoid the blows of our mortars, and the town of Niujiabao is so large, so the range of options is much smaller."
Xu Hu was very excited when he heard that he was going to be promoted, and he worked harder to introduce Li Han.
Of course, this is also human nature, Xu Hu has been an artillery officer in Tang Yulin's army for five or six years before he is a platoon commander, and now he has been following Li Han for less than a month, and he may be promoted to company commander, can you not be happy
Knowing the general location of the devil's artillery position, Wang Dazhu quickly set off with the cavalry company.
In the northwest of the town, in a clearing surrounded by trees, in the middle of the clearing, dozens of devils were busy.
Some were debugging sights, some were moving shells, and a devil officer who looked like a commander was shouting loudly. The small position was filled with smoke, and from time to time a cannon would let out a roar and shoot a shell out of the shell.
In the center of the position, two infantry guns were lined up, and there was about a squad of devils on the periphery who was on guard. Due to the remoteness of this position and the fact that it was in the rear of the Japanese position, the defense force was relatively weak.
Of course, it was also because Captain Yekan was brewing a counterattack plan, and at this time there were really no more troops to protect his artillery.
Wang Dazhu and a few guards quietly approached the position of the devils, but their actions were not discovered due to the cover of artillery fire. When Wang Dazhu saw that there were only a dozen guards in the devil's artillery position, he knew that his opportunity had come.
"Kill!"
There were still more than 100 meters away from the devil's artillery position, and as soon as Wang Dazhu gave the order, more than 100 heroes of the cavalry company began to charge, and the distance of more than 100 meters was only a matter of one or two minutes for the cavalry company.
Wang Dazhu held a saber and rushed to the front. The devils in the position were busy, and the sudden shouting of killing stunned these devils.
They couldn't put bayonets on the cannons, and even if they could, it would be too late for time, and a large area of shining sword shadows had already been killed in front of them.
More than a dozen little devils in charge of guarding the artillery positions were eliminated as soon as possible, and the corpses were trampled by war horses.
The artillery lieutenant was under his command to fire at the position of the opposite Chinese army, and this time the Imperial Japanese Army was attacked by the Chinese army, resulting in heavy casualties, and His Excellency the captain was very angry. So the artillery lieutenant was instructed to personally command the artillery and inflict maximum damage on the Chinese army.
The artillery lieutenant listened to the meaning of His Excellency Shaozo, and it was better to send all the Chinese army into the sky with shells. Of course, as a professional artilleryman, the artillery lieutenant knew that this was unrealistic, and there had never been a campaign in the history of world warfare in which artillery alone could destroy all enemies.
Despite this, the artillery lieutenant still worked very hard, hoping to provide strong support to the group leader through the artillery under his command, and maybe after this battle, he would be able to be promoted to squadron leader.
The sudden shouting of killing sounded on the position, which shattered the dream of the lieutenant's promotion for the first time. The artillery lieutenant's heart immediately rose to his throat, and his eyes were round, but unfortunately the lieutenant's eyes were not big, and even if he stared out his eyeballs, they were not much different from usual.
There will be this reaction because His Excellency Lieutenant knows very well that due to the unfavorable situation at the front, there is only one squad of guards around his artillery position, and even if he adds his own artillery squad of fifty people, there are only about sixty people.
Moreover, the artillery does not belong to the field troops, and the combat effectiveness is only about the same as the baggage soldiers at best, and more than a hundred cavalry were killed at once, and the artillery lieutenant was dumbfounded, this is Amaterasu is joking with himself. But it doesn't seem to be funny at all.
Wang Dazhu, who was wielding this saber to kill the enemy, would not know the thoughts of the devil lieutenant, and he was holding back his anger outside the battlefield, and at this moment he was commanding the cavalry company into several squads to strangle the devil artillery back and forth.
The artillery lieutenant was taken care of for the first time because he was the commander, and several snow-bright sabers flashed in the cold light, and the sharp sabers slashed through the artillery lieutenant's neck, shoulders and other places, and in the blink of an eye, the artillery lieutenant was dismembered.
The cavalry company fought this battle very smoothly, the far one was hit with a gun, and the near one went down with a knife, because the momentum of the war horse charge had not yet passed, so the devil who was cut by the saber ended up a few times, either the head flew into the sky, or the body was broken into two knots from the waist, which was extremely bloody.
In this way, the superior cavalry rushed into the inferior infantry group, and these infantry, strictly speaking, were nothing more than artillery with low combat effectiveness. The outcome is unknown, under the cavalry slashing back and forth, within a few rounds of work, the devil's infantry artillery collapsed.
It didn't take long for the battle to end, more than 60 devils were wiped out, and two infantry guns were captured by the way, Wang Dazhu's mouth couldn't close with a smile, sweeping away the gloomy mood of the past two days.
From time to time, he glanced at the two well-parked black and bright cannons, and the boxes of shells were neatly placed, Wang Dazhu called a beauty in his heart, although their four battalions had a lot of heavy weapons such as mortars and grenadiers, but there was no heavy weapon like mountain artillery or field artillery.
It's a pity that he doesn't have artillery under him, otherwise he would have given the devil a few hits here, wouldn't it be even more lively.
After the soldiers of the cavalry company cleaned up the battlefield, Wang Dazhu led the cavalry company to begin to retreat, and the two mountain guns directly used the vacant war horses, anyway, the devil's 92-type infantry guns were not very heavy, and several soldiers could push and run, let alone use war horses.
Just when Wang Dazhu was on the way home, Li Han had already noticed that the devil was lacking in stamina, and the cannon suddenly crushed. Li Han realized that Wang Dazhu's side had succeeded.
Not only Li Han, but Xu Hu, who was more familiar with artillery, also discovered this situation, a bright light flashed in his eyes, without the suppression of the devil's artillery, Xu Hu aimed his target at the devil's heavy machine gun position, which was the biggest hurdle in front of the fourth battalion.
At the same time, Li Han's order also came, asking Xu Hu to suppress the devil's heavy machine gun and cover the attack of the troops, so Xu Hu threw off his arms and began to do it, and the eight mortars fired with all their might.
A few minutes later, the rumbling sound of artillery came from the machine gun position of the devils, followed by an earth-shattering explosion from the group of devils!
Li Han prepared a lot of shells for the artillery platoon, and each mortar had a reserve of 200 shells. In addition, Li Han said that he let go of the fight, so Xu Hu actually carried out ten minutes of continuous shelling this time.
The devil's machine-gun position was suddenly blown up, and the devil howled. If field artillery is the nemesis of mortars, then mortars are the natural enemies of heavy machine guns. During World War II, the vast majority of machine gunners died under mortar fire.
Receiving Xu Hu's blow, the devil's machine gun position immediately collapsed, six heavy machine guns were blown into scrap metal on the spot, and dozens of main and auxiliary shooters and ammunition men were killed on the spot.
Those who were lucky enough to not die were also injured to varying degrees, and all the machine guns were dumbfired, so to speak, until a suitable new position was found, the machine gun squadron of the devils was in ruins.
In a short period of time, the devils lost artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions one after another, and the firepower dropped to the lowest point, while on the side of the fourth battalion, guns and artillery were firing in unison, and the devils who were pressed by the powerful firepower could not even raise their heads.
Li Han knew that the opportunity to defeat the Japanese army had come, and immediately ordered the soldiers of the fourth battalion to attack on all fronts, and even Wang Dazhu, who was rushing back with artillery, received the order to attack halfway, leaving a platoon of soldiers responsible for protecting the artillery, Wang Dazhu ran to the center of the town with the remaining more than 100 cavalry.