Chapter 60: Fight to Fame
"Xiaoshan, you said that this ghost weather, the fog is heavy, and you can't see people more than 100 meters away, and the enemy suddenly rushes out, what can you do?"
In the trench below the machine-gun fortress, two soldiers of the second squad of three platoons of a company were cowering behind the sandbags that had been built, looking ahead.
"I don't know, if you set it on fire in the countryside, it will definitely be able to burn out a vision of more than 100 meters." Hou Xiaoshan moved the Huaxia-style rifle in his hand, changed to a more comfortable position, checked the ammunition storage hole under him where the grenade was placed, and relaxed a little nervously.
Hou Xiaoshan is more monkey spirited, and his cousin Wu Peiqiang is more honest and burly, both have inherited the blood of two father and son, and the two have been together from school to soldiering.
As he was talking, he saw that two hundred meters in front of the position, a burst of fire suddenly lit up, and several large fires lit by gasoline instantly dispersed the fog in the distance, and the front of the position, which was originally less than 100 meters in sight, finally provided the soldiers with a shooting depth of 200 meters.
With his right hand, he raised the steel helmet on his head, and Wu Peiqiang's right hand crutch touched his cousin, "I said Xiaoshan, after this battle, you have to solve that girl." I saw that the grandchildren at the technical school were not things, and maybe one day I would fool my little brother and sister away. ”
"Don't worry, cousin, you don't know my luck. Not only did the bullet bite me, but when I carried it back with a strip on my shoulder, the girl would definitely not be able to run away. Thinking of his ambition, Hou Xiaoshan subconsciously touched a booklet in his arms. It is the biggest regret of his life that he did not get admitted to the military academy because of his poor eyesight, and the infantry textbook in his arms was borrowed from the library, although it was not a textbook used by the Huaxia Military Academy, but the old man in the library told himself that John Fuller, the author of this book "A Brief Discussion on Infantry and Mechanized Warfare", is a powerful person.
He felt that he was ignorant and could not understand many things in the book, but he understood one thing: In infantry warfare in the new era, the most powerful and advanced weapons should be concentrated to the greatest extent to inflict maximum damage on the enemy's vital forces.
Eight meters away from him was a 21-year-old light machine gun, a light machine gun that could fire Huaxia-style rifle bullets. In his opinion, perhaps the most concentrated heavy machine guns are also in line with the Fuller's point of view.
"It's the same, when you were training, you didn't even break a little skin, and the last time you fought bandits, you snatched the credit from the sniper pistol with one shot and blew up the head of the family."
"The first company is on alert, and the enemy is rushing at once."
Wei Yuanlun, the commander of the 11th Division, is a guy who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it, and speaking of which, he still has something to do with Wu Xuexian. When he was still the battalion commander, he was ordered to exterminate Wu Xuexian, but as a result, after more than ten years, the bandits were not exterminated, not to mention, his officials became bigger and bigger.
"Damn, Miao Renyi's dog said, he actually let Lao Tzu take the lead." Wei Yuanlun had a big bald head on his head, and two Mauser pistols pinned to his thick belt. Grabbed the telescope on his chest, but unfortunately there was a fog ahead, and he couldn't see anything, "Adjutant, how is the result of the reconnaissance." ”
"Reporter, the person who reconnoitred just now came back and reported that the enemy had dug a lot of trenches and was burning gasoline to drive away the fog." Unlike Wei Yuanlun, this adjutant is a truly qualified graduate of the Military Academy, a graduate of the Infantry Department of the Yunnan Army. "Master, I think this Zhang Shusheng has already taken precautions, it is better to take advantage of the foggy weather and rush over in one go, as long as you enter the city, Miao Renyi's people will follow, they will be the turtle in the urn."
"How many heavy machine guns does the other side have, and does it have any artillery?" Although Wei Yuanlun is a bit of a king, it is not an ordinary person who can start by suppressing bandits, at least as a division commander, he still knows the power of heavy machine guns and cannons.
"I didn't see any heavy machine guns, I didn't find any artillery, the fog was too big, and the binoculars could only see some light machine guns similar to those equipped by the elite troops under the Tang Overseers."
"Well, just a few vigilantes, a few light machine guns to scare the bandits are enough, at best a bit of a heavy machine gun, as for the artillery. Lao Tzu only has a dozen cannons under his command, what can he have with a militia group. ”
Wei Yuanlun crossed his hands on his hips and ordered his adjutant to record the battle order: "The first and second regiments are only for Lao Tzu to charge, and the third regiment is left as a reserve." Artillery batteries and mortars bombarded Lao Tzu together. ”
With an order, Wei Yuanlun's 11th Division quickly moved into action, and this unit, which had been fighting with the bandits for many years, still had some combat effectiveness, and began to charge with the regiment as the formation.
Everyone felt that this was a battle without suspense, rushing out in the fog, and the other party was just a militia with a shotgun and a cannon, and maybe they could catch lunch after fighting the county seat.
The baggage company in charge of artillery transportation had already pulled the artillery unit to the position with pack horses, four 75mm field guns whose rifling had been smoothed, three mountain guns, and a few Han-made mortars of 81mm caliber, which was all the belongings of the 11th Division.
"Huh~-"
When the first shell flew from the position of the 11th Division, a militia scout holding a camouflage telescope in the extreme distance also picked up a thick and bulky intercom beside him, "Flying Fox report, Flying Fox report, the enemy artillery position is in the ...... direction"
"Whew......"
When the first cannonball roared over the city wall and smashed into a grocery store in the county town, the battle of Xundian officially began.
"Report to the division commander, the special forces have discovered the enemy's artillery position!" A communications staff officer quickly walked into the lobby of the militia's temporary headquarters at the county government office with a document in hand.
"Order the artillery battalion to open fire, and at the same time have the scouts cooperate with the calibration."
"Yes!!"
When the first shell flew overhead, Wu Peiqiang, like all the soldiers of the first company, hid in the trench, and when he heard the explosion from the city behind the shell, he knew that the cannon had been overhit.
"Xiaoshan, you have to be careful later, these are not bandits, they are regular troops." Wu Peiqiang pulled the bolt of the gun with a loud bang, and as soon as the cannon rang out, the enemy would immediately come up.
"Xiu ......" followed closely behind the first field artillery shell, and several more shells flew in, two of which still fell into the city, and one shot hit the city wall, and the old city wall was blown up with rubble, and after the smoke dissipated, a crater of more than two large bomb appeared on the stone wall of the city wall.
"Boom!!" With a loud bang, a 75mm field artillery shell landed on the second defensive position, and in the huge explosion, the fragments produced by the shell explosion instantly scattered in all directions.
Although there were trenches that blocked the power of the shells, the shells, after blowing up a few sandbags, blasted three soldiers into the air, causing the first casualties of the shelling.
"It's over, dead man!" Hou Xiaoshan shrank his head, eager to hide his whole body under the steel helmet, this is the first time that the militia troops have experienced the baptism of artillery, compared with the previous airburst bombs that were close at hand, the three lives that were alive just now instantly turned into flying corpses, all of which signified: the terrible war has begun.
"Do it according to the usual training, artillery is not terrible, the more afraid of death, the easier it is to die." Company Commander Gu Tianfeng was the first to shout, and then on the nearly 300-meter defense line, each company commander also began to reprimand his soldiers.
"Miao Renyi, this dog said, bullying us didn't have a cannon, right?"
Zhang Shusheng slammed his fist on the table, picked up the special steel helmet hanging in the war room, and walked out of the temporary division headquarters with a wave of repulsion: "Lao Tzu wants to see the artillery battalion blow up these dogs into the sky." ”
Before he had reached the city wall for staff officers and signal corps, and had specially strengthened the observation bunker, he heard a rapid whistling of cannonballs flying behind him.
"Woo Woo ......"
Listening to the density of shells, there were at least five 105mm caliber heavy guns and a dozen 75mm field guns together. According to the position of the enemy 11th Division received by the artillery battalion, the careless enemy 11th Division would not have thought that just one fire per artillery would usher in a counterattack by the militia artillery battalion.
Lying on the observation mouth of the city wall, through the telescope, Zhang Shusheng could already see that the enemy began to emerge from the col 200 meters in front of the company's position.
In his previous life, he had often seen a salvo of hundreds and thousands of cannons fired in a certain battle, but he had no intuitive impression of how much destructive a salvo of 20 guns could produce.
The most intuitive thing is that after the militia shells flew over a distance of more than four miles and hit the hill where the enemy's 11th Division artillery company was located, the enemy's artillery sound until the end was only the short mortar sound of "tom to......m tom".
The soldiers of the special forces Flying Fox squad put down the binoculars in their hands, and the artillery positions on the hill in the distance had been destroyed, and dozens of shells would be completely destroyed without knowing it, and the artillery company of the enemy's 11th Division, which had almost never suffered an artillery battle.
He picked up the heavy radio equipment behind him, although this equipment was a little heavier, but it was better than the advanced communication equipment, and in the whole of China, it was the first to introduce instant communication to the battlefield for small troops.
"Fox King, Fox King, I'm a flying fox. The target has been accurately destroyed. ”
"Company commander, the enemy is coming." The communication soldiers beside Gu Tianfeng had the sharpest eyes, and they were the first to spot the enemy who had just come out of the fog 200 meters away, these legged, their clothes were tattered, and most of them were holding Hanyang, and the speed of the impact was very fast, as if they wanted to hit the defender by surprise.
In the eyes of the soldiers of the 11th Division, this was an easy cluster charge, as long as they broke through the city wall, Zhang Shusheng's militia would be finished.
"Heavy machine gun squad fire!" At a distance of 200 meters, Gu Tianfeng didn't have to hesitate, he directly ordered a heavy machine gun to fire, if he put it at a distance and then hit, the bullets fired by the opponent's running could actually threaten the militia soldiers in the trenches.
"Da ......", "Da ......", "Da ......", "Da ......", "Da ......", "Da ......"
The six machine-gun forts of the first company were strengthened to open fire instantly, and the principle of the militia group's firepower allocation was to concentrate superior firepower to strike at the enemy, and when the logistical pressure was not great, the names of soldiers should never be exchanged for bullets.
For the enemy's 11th Division, which had a rather weak artillery force, it was most realistic to destroy the enemy with heavy machine-gun forts designed in a concentrated volta.
Heavy machine guns, which have been replaced with metal chains, are fired with a shuttle and a shuttle with the cooperation of three people, and with the cooperation of the shooter and the ammunition supply, the heavy machine gun bullets are fired. In the misty weather, a tongue of fire more than a foot long poked out in front of each of the lying fortresses, and the 7.92mm large-caliber heavy machine gun bullet drilled into the enemy's body in just an instant, tearing the forward bodies into two directly, and some unlucky ghosts were even pushed down again by the bullets that had just penetrated their own people, making a big hole, or taking away part of the body.
"Aim, hit me!!"
Gu Tianfeng pulled out his Mauser pistol and was the first to fire, although the distance of 200 meters was more difficult for a pistol, but then a volley of Huaxia-style rifles became another hypnotic messenger in addition to the heavy machine gun.
"Bang ......"
The Mauser rifle was powerful enough to reach a few hundred meters away, and at a distance of less than three hundred meters, it was used by this group of soldiers who had been trained for several years and often hit the enemy accurately with the first shot. Some were even hit by two or three bullets at the same time.
Slightly later than the heavy machine guns and rifles were reinforced to the battalion mortars of the first company, and the six 81mm mortars were tommed with three rounds of rapid fire.
"Boom!"
At such a close distance, the infantry of the 11th Division had no place to hide, and within 300 meters of the front of the open position, there was not even a single grass, and only a short cannon sound was heard, and they were hit by the range of mortar shells fired in a curve.
The bomb exploded, the lethal effect within the radius of the explosion was quite satisfactory, there were corpses flying everywhere, as well as stumps and broken legs, there were not even cries of pain, and the front of the dense position was full of corpses flying sideways.
A battalion of the enemy's 11th Division, which rushed to the front, almost lost a clean sheet in just one minute.
The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, standing behind the fog gradually dissipating, Wei Yuanlun trembled and lost his binoculars, just now, one of his own battalions, a battalion charge, was swept by heavy machine guns, bombarded by artillery, and accurately shot by rifles one by one...... A battalion, in a few minutes, died cleanly, and there were only dozens of people who fled back, so close to the distance, if the other side did not have enough soldiers in the front-line position, it is estimated that none of them would be able to run back.
"Miao Renyi, I'll your ancestor!" Wei Yuanlun slammed a fine fine porcelain teacup next to him to the ground, and in anger, he pulled out his pistol and wanted to kill, but he couldn't find a shooting target, and he ran out of a pistol magazine in an instant.
"Shizuo, Miao Renyi's dog lied to us, what is it just a vigilante group of shotguns and bird guns, this is a fucking heavy machine gun, and a cannon, the marksmanship is more accurate than anyone else, no matter how you look at it, it is an absolute fucking elite army." The adjutant also cried with a sad face, the change in the battle was too frightening, and he originally thought that he could take advantage of the chaos by relying on the large number of people to rush over, so he did not carry out a fire test, and as a result, a battalion was planted.
Even if there is no fire test, it should not die so quickly, there are so many heavy machine guns that it is like no fucking money, and killing people is like cutting wheat. What's even more infuriating is that he personally ran to reconnoitre, and there was no trace of heavy machine guns on the position at all.
"Master, medium, middle. The other side was on fire, the fire was fierce, and the fortress was full of heavy machine guns, and those dogs said that the guns were worse than our sharpshooters, and they ...... "The battalion commander who escaped with his life struggled to run in front of Wei Yuanlun with a bloody face, and before Wei Yuanlun raised his pistol, he fell down one by one.
"Shizuo, shot in the abdomen, he ......"
Wei Yuanlun put away the pistol, he planted it this time, but Miao Renyi's dog said don't think about it easily, if he planted it himself, he had to pull him to plant it together.
"Send someone to inform Division Commander Miao, just say that the two battalions of the headquarters are fighting a bloody charge, although they broke through the enemy's frontline position, they lost Jiucheng Renma, the losses were extremely heavy, and the morale plummeted, so they can only defend on the spot for the time being, let the elite under Division Commander Miao try to attack."
Wei Yuanlun deliberately exaggerated the battle damage, no matter what Zhang Shusheng on the other side was, he made up his mind not to rush, he was originally the commander of the slippery head division, how could he be wrong again and again.
"Smack!"
Miao Renyi threw the telegram file on the table with a fierce face: "This Wei Yuan theory is a fucking seed." ”
"Don't be angry, this Wei Yuan theory has always been like this. He has been fighting with Wu Xuexian's thief leader for a few years, but nothing else, but his ability to deceive is strong. Otherwise, it would not have been a battalion to a division. The adjutant picked up the telegram document and dusted off the dirt from it. Since he is greedy for life and afraid of death, then let's go up. ”
"Humph! Lao Tzu still doesn't believe it, just a few militia groups can block a division, this dog's Wei Yuanlun and Zhang Shusheng, I don't think they have to live until tomorrow. ”
Miao Renyi, who kills people like hemp and never blinks, actually moved with killing intent in a single thought. Gu Pinzhen can be killed, but Wei Yuan's theory is really not taken into his eyes.
"Order, the whole division advances, with the first brigade as the vanguard, and must take the Xundian City Gate before the follow-up troops arrive." Miao Renyi put on his cloak, took out a pistol, and rushed out of the division headquarters first. ”
"Each class reports the damage!"
Seeing that it was so smooth, Gu Tianfeng repelled the enemy's battalion-sized cluster charge, and he couldn't help but be extremely excited, and shouted loudly, I don't know how many of his subordinates were injured.
"It was reported that two people in the first squad were hit by stray bullets, three soldiers in the third company behind them were directly hit by shells, and four others were injured."
"Well, well, let the hygienist treat the wounded immediately, and the rest of the personnel are on guard in case the enemy charges again."
Gu Tianfeng knew that he didn't look at how good he was fighting now, but once he was rushed over by the other party's crowd, he would definitely be defeated, and he would not even have time to rescue.
Zhang Shusheng put down the telescope in his hand and couldn't speak for a long time. Just now, under his own eyes, his own troops killed a battalion of the enemy on the col in front of that position.
Hundreds of people on the other side were killed by heavy machine guns and mortars, as well as extremely accurate Huaxia rifle fire, without even having a chance to escape.
The heavy firepower building plan that he has been carrying out finally achieved incredible results on this day.
Not to mention that the enemy can't believe that because he despises the militia, he can't believe that even he can't believe it.
"It turns out that killing people on the battlefield is so easy!"
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(To be continued)