Chapter 32: The War Makes Women Go Away
"Head Liu, the little devil seems to have noticed-"
"It's not that I seem to be aware of it, but I definitely notice it! Let's flare it! ”
"Yes!" Lin Bing responded, escaped from the flare gun, and fired a red flare.
Dalong, the position of the mountain artillery regiment, Gan Qinling heard the sound of "chewing", and raised his head in surprise. During the day, the color signal of the signal flare was not very strong, but Gan Qinling still accurately judged that this was the red signal flare that required him to fire his own cannon.
Dalong is only about 1,200 meters away from Guantian. The distance was too close, originally, according to Liu Kui's prior discussion with him, the best time to fire the cannon was when the Niangzi regiment began to retreat and the Japanese army began to pursue. In that case, he would be able to control the shells to fall a little further back, thus cutting off the retreat of the Japanese army. As long as the mountain artillery regiment can blow up the ranks of the Japanese army, Liu Kui can launch a counterattack and then turn around and counterattack.
Now, everything is messed up.
Although he was a little puzzled whether the signal flare was fired by mistake, Gan Qinling still insisted on the agreement with Liu Kui to "see the signal and send the cannon", of course, in order to avoid accidental injury, before giving the order to open the cannon, he ordered the scale to be adjusted up by one scale.
A total of twenty-three cannons of the mountain artillery regiment fired in unison, and although the sound caused by it was not earth-shattering, it was enough for the little devils to be frightened.
As several mortar shells flew out one after another, many devils wanted to get up to observe the effect of the shelling, but when they heard the sound of artillery fire coming from the opposite side, they hurriedly lay down tightly, and they didn't even dare to raise their heads.
The first to achieve the results was the Japanese army, several mortars fell down, and two female soldiers fell in a pool of blood in a wail because they were hit.
"What!" Liu Kui is furious! Not to mention that an ambush battle in Hao Lu was in vain, he actually forced him to dispatch artillery in advance, and the order of the battle had been completely disrupted.
As a matter of fact, if the combat effectiveness and fighting will of the troops can be guaranteed, he can still adhere to the combat plan originally formulated. However, considering the uneven combat effectiveness of the troops, some of the recruits did not have the will to fight at all, so he had to use artillery to form a visual fire suppression, so as to maintain the morale of the troops.
As dozens of shells exploded in the Japanese array and behind the array, he shouted: "Fight!" Then, half-crouching, he picked up the sniper rifle he had received from a female soldier and fired.
"Bang bang bang-" Immediately after him, the gunfire rang out like beans. What made him laugh and cry was that a few minutes later, about thirty or forty meters, fifty or sixty meters away from the ambush position, there were still a few fireballs flashing - but I don't know which female soldiers threw grenades.
"What!" Seeing this, he had to scold again, and then a feeling of wanting to cry without tears welled up in his heart.
The round of firing lasted about five minutes, and the female soldiers used up all the bullets in the magazine. As for what they achieved, well, it seems that they also killed a few devils. Of course, it is not known whether the blind cat hit the dead mouse. After all, there are still nearly two hundred veterans among the female soldiers in this regiment.
Before going down the mountain, as the direct commander of the women's regiment, Lin Bing was full of expectations for the next performance of the troops. However, when the battle really started, she realized that the distance between the original expectation and reality was so great. This made her face flush after the first round of shooting, and she didn't dare to look at Liu Kui.
Liu Kui was not surprised—the effective firing range of the Weiqing-style assault infantry was only 500 meters, of which the submachine gun was only 300 meters. The devil was still two hundred meters away from them, and he was lying on his stomach at this time, and the effect of this round of shooting can be imagined. However, his original intention in launching this round of attacks was not to kill and injure many enemies. He did this just to get the female soldiers into the role as soon as possible.
After collecting his emotions, he suddenly shouted loudly: "Okay, stop!" Now, let the little devil get closer and fight again! Rest assured, the little devil will lose this battle! We have artillery from Commander Gan to provide fire support, but the little devils don't. They can only be beaten passively! ”
The female soldiers stopped shooting one after another, and of course, more people had to stop, because after the excitement just now, they suddenly realized that they didn't know when there were no bullets in their guns - they were just frantically pulling the trigger.
Li Xiaochun emerged from behind a tree, and when the grenade hit, she realized what a serious mistake she had made. One of the two female soldiers killed by the grenade was still her squad leader, and she usually took care of her. But now, seeing the mutilated body of the squad leader, facing the angry eyes of her comrades, she cried bitterly: "I, I suddenly want to relieve myself." I, I don't want to. ”
Before the female soldiers joined the Cadet Army, they didn't think about fighting, which once made their blood boil. However, when the war really came, when their comrades-in-arms and even sisters paid for it, they found that the cruelty of war was still far beyond their expectations.
The artillery of the mountain artillery regiment was still roaring, because there was no need to worry about retaliatory shelling, the artillery played to their heart's content, hitting more and more accurately, and the threat to the Shirakawa brigade was also increasing. Faced with an overwhelming firepower advantage, Shirakawa had no choice but to keep his soldiers lying down.
This gave the female soldiers of the Women's Regiment who participated in the battle for the first time time to change roles.
Hua Ming and other instructors enlightened the soldiers according to the situation, and slowly turned their fear of Japanese devils into hatred for the enemy.
"We are now soldiers! You don't know what it means to be a soldier, do you? Zhang Qin's sacrifice is valuable, and it is precisely because of their fear of sacrifice that the little devils have not been able to realize their attempt to destroy China so far! Sisters, the hatred of the country and the family, and the hatred of Zhang Qin and their families, all have to be avenged by us. Some people say that war makes women go away? For what? Are we women born weak? I don't agree with this point of view - although we can't change our identity as women, we can make those who look down on women know the truth through our own efforts, we can also become a qualified cadet, and we can also kill devils! Sisters, why should we be considered weak? It's because of our own performance! Now, let's take out the courage that a student soldier should have, and use the steel guns in our hands to change the world's opinion! We women are not weak, and we can also be seen as contributing to the anti-Japanese cause......"
Hua Ming's words are actually a bit incoherent. However, it didn't matter, when the anger in the eyes of the female soldiers began to burn, she knew that her words had worked! Women may be weakling, but now, they are first and foremost a cadet!