Chapter 61, Rough Counter-Sniping
"What's going on?" Lu Qiang, who was struggling to nibble on compressed biscuits, noticed that there was some commotion on the front line, and immediately grabbed a soldier who ran past and asked.
"Report, it was a devil sniper who shot a black gun, and 5 comrades have been killed." The warrior who was pulled stood up before replying.
"What? Devil sniper?! Lu Qiang was surprised, when did the devil's sniper come over? Of course he knows that the devil is a sniper, after all, the devil has always been based on the concept of saving ammunition, striving for a bullet to destroy an enemy, and how could he not use a sniper with such a good weapon. Therefore, the Japanese army was also one of the few countries that developed snipers after World War I.
"Devil sniper?" Lu Qiang was suspicious, and soon asked, "What about our snipers?" ”
"I'm going to find them now." The soldier replied.
"Then you go." Lu Qiang let the person go, and at the same time his brows were tightly locked, the devil actually came to the sniper, which is not easy to deal with.
The most effective way to deal with snipers on the battlefield is often artillery fire, which includes all the direct fire available to front-line troops such as the main guns of armored vehicles, individual rocket launchers, and artillery. However, this does not mean that snipers are useless in counter-sniper operations, in fact, people who are professionally trained in sniping can use reverse thinking to quickly assess the possible hiding places of opposing snipers and guide direct-fire artillery to carry out fire sweeps.
Snipers were sent to look for the snipers of the devils, although they were called snipers, they were actually just precision shooters, not snipers in the real sense. However, because of the training, in terms of observation, it is higher than the average soldier, and the snipers of this era are not snipers, they are just precision shooters, there is no camouflage uniform and no auspicious clothing, and the camouflage is much worse, the weapon is to install a scope on the rifle with higher accuracy, resulting in low accuracy, and the Type 97 sniper rifle is only suitable for hitting targets within 300 meters, some well-trained snipers may be far away, but it should not exceed 600 meters.
It is not a simple matter to find one, or more Japanese snipers within a radius of 600 meters, except for the relatively empty frontal battlefield, there are dense forests on both sides, withered grass, and the highest is more than one meter high, which is the most suitable for Tibetans, which makes it difficult to find.
Looking at such a deep withered grass, Lu Qiang also thought about setting fire to the mountain, but when he thought of the consequences, he still forgot it, after all, once it was lit, in winter, the fire was not easy to control, and once the scope expanded, the consequences were unimaginable, so setting fire to the mountain was crossed out of his mind at the beginning.
By creating a decoy to induce the Japanese snipers to shoot continuously, a group of snipers can roughly determine that there are 9 to 12 people on the opposite side, and the positions are also drawn, roughly eight or nine are not far from ten, the positions of the enemy snipers are all found, and then they are handed over to the artillerymen.
A number of dummy dressed like real people were placed in the position, riddled with bullet holes. "These dogs are so ruthless." In the trench, a soldier looked at the battered dummy, scolded, and at the same time was a little afraid, if he was this dummy...... I shuddered at the thought of it. Then I changed the place and lifted the dummy again, and after waiting for a short time to hear the gunshot, I felt that the dummy was shocked, and I knew that the dummy was beaten by the devil again, so I put it down, rested for a while, and continued in another position.
"All artillery in position!" Far in the rear, on the position of 152mm and howitzers, one by one the artillerymen trotted to their positions, and at the same time one person also carried a shell, which was to be fired later.
There are 5 people per gun, which means that each gun will also fire 5 shells later, and 50 guns will be 250 shells, which is more than enough to cover those targets.
"Bang~~!" A shell is pushed into the chamber, rubbing against the wall of the chamber to make a sound, closing the bolt, tightening the gun rope, and waiting for orders.
"Launch!" At the sound of an order, the artilleryman who was pulling the gun rope back hard, "Boom! With a loud bang, the shell was fired, and under the impetus of gunpowder, it spun in the direction of rifling and flew into the sky, and then opened the bolt, picked out the hot shell, reloaded, and continued to fire.
The Japanese army, who was lying on the top of the hill and still bearing the damp and cold, couldn't help but be excited in their hearts, it was very hot, they didn't want the opposite branch to be so 'easy to fight', and those wastes actually said that it was difficult to fight, which really disappointed the empire's expectations of them.
"Smack!" Pulling the trigger, a bullet hit a 'person' who was leaking half of his body, and that 'person' also fell, "It's worthy of a China/pig, it's easier than killing a pig." The little devil muttered.
"Huh~~Woo"
The cannonball rubbed against the air and made a terrible scream, the sound came into his ears, and the word 'cannonball' immediately appeared in his mind, "boom~~" The cannonball exploded seventy or eighty meters away from him, the explosion sound was deafening, and the shock wave of the explosion could not reach him because of the trees, but he could still feel the shaking of the ground.
Glancing at the place where the smoke and dust were rising, it was where one of his comrades-in-arms was, but under the blow of this heavy artillery, the chances of that comrade-in-arms surviving were zero, "How did the Shina/people know his location?" He was a little puzzled, "Discovered?" No way! Just by their gang of branches/pigs...... Wait, the enemy doesn't seem right. Through the scope, he found that the people exposed on the opposite position were very wrong, and he couldn't say exactly what was wrong, but he just felt that something was wrong.
"Dummy?!" He exclaimed, and now he finally understands that the people who have been beaten on the other side are dummies, they are luring themselves to be exposed, and then bombarded with artillery, just like the comrade-in-arms just now, who was blown to pieces by the sudden shell, and if he can't do it, he must retreat, and the people are too insidious.
"Huh~~Woo!" By the time he discovered the conspiracy on the other side, it was too late, because the shells from behind had already arrived, one after another, "Boom! "A 152mm shell exploded next to him, after which ...... There was no more than that, because he had been torn to pieces and flying all over the sky.
"Boom, boom, boom!!" The whole hill was covered by artillery fire, and the broken wood stumps were splashed everywhere, and the shells exploded, and the dust stirred up rushed straight to a height of 8 or 9 meters, and the red bullet skin was splashed everywhere by the explosion, like a dart.
"Yes, that's good." Lu Qiang took the binoculars, looked at the mountain covered by artillery fire, and nodded with satisfaction.
The 250 shells were gone, and the hill was already a mess, and all the thatch that was originally tall and overgrown with trees was now blown away by the shells, and the splashed clods of earth buried their remains under the soil, and the whole hill looked bare, leaving only craters with a diameter of three or four meters, and there was still a trace of green smoke in the craters. A broken Type 97 sniper step was exposed, half buried in the dirt and half pointed diagonally to the sky.
Witnessing the power of the enemy's artillery again, Ueda Takashi imagined in his mind that if those shells hit his round body, then ~~ shuddered when he thought about it, and at the same time he mourned for the 11 snipers for two seconds. Anyway, it's not his subordinates, but he borrowed it, and if he dies, he dies, and he doesn't feel heartache.
But the only thing that makes him angry is why China's weapons and equipment are better than his, such a good weapon in China's hands is simply a waste, and they should be allowed to operate it, so that they can speed up the holy war and establish Greater East Asia/Co-Prosperity Sphere in one fell swoop.
The sniper was solved, Lu Qiang breathed a sigh of relief, the sniper gave a lot of pressure, and now it was covered by a burst of artillery fire, and it was useless if it didn't die, and it could no longer be a threat to them. Now I just need to concentrate on dealing with the Japanese army on the opposite side, and I don't know when they are going to attack, so I really want to cover it with artillery fire!
If it weren't for the fact that he wanted to train his troops and make his subordinates more familiar with the battlefield, Lu Qiang would have covered the Japanese army on the opposite side with artillery fire, aircraft bombing, and tank charge.
Lu Qiang's idea is that the Japanese army has a large number of people, first hide in the fortifications, hit the enemy with intensive firepower, wait until the devil is wiped out for a while, charge at Butan, reduce the number of casualties, and let the soldiers feel the atmosphere of the battlefield.
Lu Qiang's thoughts, the devils don't know, they saw that Lu Qiang actually used so many heavy artillery bombardment in order to deal with a few snipers, it can be concluded that the other party must not lack weapons and ammunition, with their artillery, it can hit themselves, but they don't know why they don't bombard themselves with shells, but confront themselves, there must be some conspiracy in it. Ueda Takashi touched his chin and thought evilly.
After the devil's indecent sniper was eliminated, both parties quieted down, and Lu Qiang gathered a group of high-level officials and held a simple meeting, which was to let everyone stay vigilant and prevent the devil from engaging in any conspiracy, the devil is very treacherous. And the devil also had a meeting, Ueda Takashi told his guess, and everyone was shocked, his little life had been pinched in his hands, which increased the idea that they wanted to fight the other side.
For a while, both parties were calculating each other in their nests, maliciously speculating, as for those little soldiers, they were quietly waiting for the storm to come.
On the other side, the Fourth Army, because of a telegram, gathered all the strength of the three regiments of the first detachment, and marched to Lu Qiangbian in a hurry, preparing to give him a blow from behind the Japanese buttocks and explode his chrysanthemums.
"Hurry up, hurry up!" Wearing cloth shoes, running on the wet ground, leading the team was the famous Commander Chen/Yi.