Chapter 237: The Beacon of Heaven Section 4 Secret Weapon
The most difficult bone to gnaw is not here in Matouguan, the remnants of the first and second brigades of the Qingshui Wing in the wolf rush are not the most difficult devil troops to take, and the first line of Longmen Mountain in the southeast is the most fierce battlefield. Nandaozui was the first to start the encirclement and annihilation battle, and Liu Da Ass got up early in the morning to take the position of the devils at the mouth of the river valley before the devil's plane came, but the two attacks of the 17th Regiment failed!
The devils have not been idle since they retreated into the valley at night, they have been building and strengthening fortifications, they have used everything they can use, stones, pebbles, empty ammunition boxes loaded with river sand, stripped off the clothes of soldiers killed in battle and wrapped in sand, and even in some sections simply used dead people and the corpses of mules and horses as shelters!
In the early hours of the morning, the 17th Regiment organized two small groups of troops in the east to try to go down the river from the rock wall, and launched an attack from behind the main position of the devils, but the devils deployed several machine gun fire points and sniper points under the rock wall on the west side, and flares were fired from time to time on the main position at the mouth of the river valley, and there was really nowhere to hide on the bare rock wall, and the soldiers who came down the rope became the live targets of the devil's machine gunners, and the casualties of the troops were too great, and the east finally gave up the operation of breaking into the river valley.
It seems that the devil just intends to hold on here, Liu Da Ass judged that the devil specified that he wanted to wait for dawn, as soon as their plane arrived, he would choose a breakthrough direction, judging from the battlefield situation, the devil would not return to the open river beach to climb the mountain beam in the west, and go to the devil who went west, they could only take the north road, or go to the direction of the water fort.
But now the devil is like a turtle retracted into a shell, and the eight roads, who lack heavy weapons, will not be able to take it for a while!
At ten o'clock in the morning, it was learned that the 20th Regiment had already engaged the enemy in Pandaogou. Commander Yang went to Matouguan. Liu's big ass decided to eat this part of the remnants of the river valley as soon as possible. Then he sent troops to the west to fight.
The task of attacking the mouth of the river valley was handed over to the 1st Battalion of the 17th Regiment, which summed up the failures of the first two storms from the rock wall in the east, and specially prepared two secret weapons for the devils, one was a four-wheeled platoon cart and the same was a chili noodles.
Let's talk about the use of this chili noodles first, mix the chili noodles and pepper with bran and basil grains rubbed off, and then mix some black powder from the cannonball, put it in an earthen jar and seal it with straw paper. Set aside medicinal twists, dried red peppers are always available in the army, whether it is boiling water or eating for warmth in winter.
There are dozens of these things, a large slingshot made of tree branches, a dead corner of the firing boundary that the enemy's machine gun can't hit in the river valley, light a medicine twist, tighten the bowstring, and shoot the earthen pot into the river valley with a bang! After landing on the ground, the earthen jar fell to pieces, and the medicated twist on the pepper noodles mixed with gunpowder also ignited, and the sparks jumped to the ground. A puff of white smoke is rising!
The white smoke smelled spicy, and my throat hurt and I was crying. The eyes are so piercing that I can't open them, and the skin is itchy and itchy.
The slingshot on the inside of the east and west river banks fired hundreds of chili bombs into the river valley in one go, and the entire river valley was filled with white smoke, and the Japanese soldiers had nowhere to hide and nowhere to hide, so they listened to the dry coughing sound of tearing and pulling one after another!
When the Devil is plagued by the Pepper Bomb, another secret weapon comes into play! Just the kind of four-wheeled cart that can be pushed by hand and can also be pulled by mules, a few people hold the handlebars, the front of the car, and load sandbags on it, which is used as an earthen tank, and get four cars from the front team, and load the sand and soil at the foot of Longmen Mountain, a group of five people, four people are in charge of the cart, and one person is in charge of shooting and throwing bombs.
When the pepper bombs were fired on the riverbank, the four wheelbarrows set off, squeaking and pushing towards the mouth of the valley on the pebbled riverbank, stumbling and not pushing fast, and at the same time, the commander of a battalion led more than 300 soldiers to follow these vehicles in a fan shape, and slowly approached the mouth of the valley.
The devils were choked by the white smoke and their throats were hot, and their eyes were stinging, and the soldiers at the mouth of the valley rubbed their red and swollen eyes and found a few strange guys lined up on the river beach, and the more they rubbed their eyes, the more painful they became, and they washed them with some water, and set up their machine guns and fired at these unknown objects with tears!
The only remaining few cannons also kept firing at the river beach, the soldiers of the carts were covered with two layers of wet quilts, the shells continued to explode around the platoon carts, the shells were whizzing around, the bullets hit the sandbags and popped, and soon two carts were directly hit by the devil's shells, and the frame was blown apart, and the soldiers on the cart were either killed or wounded, and the remaining two carts did not go in a straight line, and suddenly walked in a zigzag pattern.
Another platoon car was blown up into the sky by a shell that fell on the front of the car, and five soldiers were crushed under the overturned platoon car, and the battalion commander was a little anxious, ignoring the locust devil machine gun bullets and the shells flying all over the sky, ran to the last car, and worked hard with the soldiers to speed up the charge! Some people work harder, and although the car is bumpy, it can run much faster!
The bank of the river was not idle, the pepper bomb was finished, and the bundles of bundles tied with wild artemisia seeds and dry branches were lit and ejected into the river valley, this work was done by those fellow villagers, the technical content was not high, everyone could play the slingshot, hundreds of people had a good division of labor, a bundle of trees, a set of ignition, and a pull of the slingshot!
Just when the slingshot pulls the leggings, more than ten pairs of gaiters were broken! The torches kept falling into the valley, and at first there were devil soldiers rushing over and picking them with their guns, and the more they fell, the more they fell, and it was too late to extinguish them! The torches that fell to the ground smoked white smoke from the pepper noodles scattered from the earthen jars just now, and the whole river valley was like a heavy fog, and the white smoke drifted everywhere along the northwest wind!
The last platoon car finally rushed out of the artillery coverage of the devils, rushed to a place dozens of meters away from the forward positions of the devils, the wheels were cushioned on a large cobblestone, and the axle could no longer help bumping and broke! The whole car was crooked on one side and overturned on its side on the river beach.
The devils are in the forward position at the mouth of the valley There are two heavy machine guns in the central position of the fortifications, and there are three light machine guns on both sides, more than 70 devil soldiers are on the front line, although most of them are choked by the thick smoke of pepper noodles, but they still shoot desperately, no one dares to slack off, and their lives are at stake!
But the thick white smoke still blocked their vision, the devils didn't see too clearly the people behind the crooked car, a battalion commander and two fighters hid behind the car, and the other three soldiers were lying behind large pebbles, the devils swept a few magazines of bullets to this side, to see that there was no movement, then turned the muzzle of the gun to the rest of the river beach.
The commander of a battalion shouted, and several men drew their grenades almost simultaneously and threw them vigorously, and by the smoke of the grenade explosion, the six warriors ran like goats on the cobblestone river beach! In the blink of an eye, he rushed through the last few tens of meters, and suddenly pounced in front of the devil's position!
The commander of the first battalion has not yet stood firmly, and by the inertia of the forward pounce, he threw the grenade into the devil's fortification, and after the body landed, the grenade just exploded, and the earth and stones splashed out of the fortification, and there was no time to hesitate, and as soon as his hands hit the stone wall more than half a person high, the person jumped in!
Two of the other five fighters were hit by side-fired machine gun fire on the way to the last few tens of meters, one was killed, one was wounded in the leg, and the other three, like the battalion commander, threw grenades and jumped into the devil's position!
The forward position of the devils is a stone wall more than half a person high built with stone sandbags and the corpses of soldiers, and behind it is a trench more than a meter deep, connecting the machine gun positions and various support points.
Two of the four people were stabbed by the devil's bayonet at that time, and the position of the battalion commander and the soldier closest to him was blown up with a grenade just now, and one or two devils in front of him jumped off the trench in an instant and fought together!
As soon as the gunfire of the devil's position stopped, the soldiers who had slowly moved to the periphery of the devil's position less than 100 meters immediately quickly maneuvered from their hiding place to the mouth of the river valley, and Liu Da Ass also went down to the south of the river beach at this time, and personally commanded the three heavy machine guns of the 17th Regiment to go out to a distance of more than 500 meters to block the devil's firepower point! (To be continued......)