147.Chapter 147: Mortars and Snipers
Looking at the soldiers who fell one after another in the smoke, Captain Fan almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoEven in the populous eleventh district, these fighting backbones are not so easy to replenish. What's more, he is not the only force in the entire eleventh district, and under the watchful eye of many powers, you can imagine how difficult it is to pull up a team with combat effectiveness.
When Xiao Cai was arranging the blocking tactics, he once reported through the radio that he had left a machine gun near the highway, and just now Captain Fan was still wondering why this machine gun had not fired. At that time, he thought that the battle ahead was tight, so the machine gun was temporarily transferred.
An officer of Xiao Cai's level has the right to temporarily decide on the deployment of firepower on the battlefield, and there is no need to report to his superiors to use the support weapons assigned to him, so although Captain Fan felt regretful and missed the opportunity to annihilate Ye Tianlong, he didn't think much about it.
But at this time, he was suddenly attacked by side-fire fire, and Captain Fan immediately realized that the machine gun that suddenly opened fire was probably left by Xiao Cai.
So in a fit of rage, he snatched the radio station from the hands of the people around him, turned it to Xiao Cai's channel, and yelled.
There was no echo on the radio as expected, which made Captain Fan instinctively feel that something was wrong. He jumped to his feet in a rage and scolded, "Knock out that machine-gun position for me." ā
Compared to the frontal machine gun position, the side-firing fire is obviously more annoying, so Captain Fan has to give priority to Zheng Yu.
But Ding Chen's choice of position is very ingenious, from Zheng Yu's position, the road is looking down, and there are natural tree barriers. And if you want to shoot from the road, whether it is a rifle or a machine gun, the angle of fire is very limited. To pose a threat to Zheng Yu, the shooter must move to the road, but in this way, he will be exposed to machine gun fire from Ye Tianlong's side.
As a result, after losing four or five more men on the road, the machine gun position was not knocked down, and Captain Fan and his men were firmly suppressed on both sides of the road.
After finding that there was no way to achieve a frontal breakthrough, Captain Fan finally calmed down and ordered the 3rd Infantry Brigade, which had just arrived, to leave the road and go around the mountains to attack behind the machine-gun position.
No sooner had the 3rd Infantry Squadron left than the machine-gun platoon finally came out of breath. As the most powerful support firepower in this battle, the men of the machine gun platoon were also tired enough, and at the beginning, because of the wrong angle, they could not suppress the opponent's 12.7mm machine gun, and had to move again after just deploying.
It was easy to knock out the heavy machine gun, and Ye Tianlong led people to break through from the mortar position. The artillery platoon had to move its position again, and only had time to fire two shots at the fleeing caravan, and the men had already run down the road to the back of the mountain. Although the mortar can hit a high parabola, it is useless to not be able to observe the impact point. Therefore, the men of the artillery platoon had to carry the cannon again and move the position, and there were not a few shots in this hour, and the plow was buried in the pit.
Seeing the mortars coming, Captain Fan did not wait for the third team to succeed in a detour, and immediately asked them to shell the machine gun positions on the mountain.
Zheng Yu didn't know that danger was coming at this time, he had such a good time playing machine gun for the first time, it was the time of elation, if it wasn't for Rogge who kept reminding him to save bullets, he would have already run out of a box of bullets.
Even so, the first 200 rounds of ammunition were already 7788. Rogge was busy figuring out how to change the magazine, so he didn't notice that someone was hiding under the highway to observe him.
At this time, Ye Tianlong finally reluctantly let his team members recover the structure, and the top soldiers team during the retreat also connected with Li Xiang and was bringing them over, and everything seemed to be developing in a favorable direction.
The observation of the mortar was relatively simple, and the artillery platoon commander simply looked at the target position and bent down and ran back. He had two mortars, just enough for covered firing, not even for school firing. However, in order to make it easier to observe the impact point, he still asked the two guns to mistime their firing.
After adjusting the shooting of Zhu Yuan, the artillery platoon commander ran back to the side of the road, hid in the grass and raised his binoculars to observe the effect of the shelling. On the two gun emplacements behind him, the deputy platoon commander took over from the gun commander and gave the order to fire.
The firing of the mortar is very simple, after the barrel is adjusted, the loader puts the head of the shell upwards into the barrel, the body of the shell falls and hits the base to ignite the gunpowder, and the shell flies out, and there is neither a firing device nor a shell on the gun, and at this distance, there is no need to attach a medicine bag.
Hearing the order of the deputy platoon commander, the two loaders each picked up a mortar shell that had been assembled, and the loader of the first gun held the shell with both hands, put it on the barrel, and as soon as he put his hands down, the shell fell into the barrel.
At this moment, there was a sudden popping sound around him, and a bloody flower bloomed on the gunner who was holding the gun, and his body fell to the ground, and the mortar in his hand also fell.
Several artillerymen screamed almost simultaneously and fell to the ground. The shells that had already been successfully fired in the barrel did not stop firing because the barrel of the gun turned over, but still stubbornly drilled out of the barrel, and then hit the back of the artillery platoon commander who was half-squatting not far in front and paying attention to the impact point of the projectile, and exploded with a bang. The flying fragments enveloped the nearby area of more than ten meters.
Captain Fan was lying on the side of the road and looking forward, planning to wait for the side-firing fire on the mountain to be cleared, then let one of his machine guns move to the opposite side of the road, form an angle with the machine gun on his side, and cover the mortar to continue to knock out the fire point on the front position, but he didn't expect that the shell that should have flown over his head actually exploded behind him, he only felt that his arm was numb, and the telescope in his hand had fallen to the ground.
Captain Fan turned his head to look at the artillery position shrouded in gunsmoke, and couldn't help but be stunned, the guard who had been following him had already shouted: "Captain, you are injured, doctor, doctor." ā
Captain Fan pushed away the guard who was holding his arm, jumped up and shouted, "What's going on." ā
At this time, another guard also jumped up, reaching out to push him, and shouting, "Beware of the explosion." ā
Before the words fell, the guard's body suddenly shook, and a large cloud of blood mist poured out of his chest, and his body fell softly on Captain Fan's body.
Captain Fan was taken aback, instantly understood what was happening on the artillery position, and shouted, "Sniper." ā
Snipers are a profession with a long history on the battlefield, as early as World War II, they have appeared on the battlefield in large numbers, and after World War II, they have developed rapidly in professionalism. But after the drastic changes in the world line, in this day and age, it is already difficult for ordinary soldiers to understand what this term represents.
So when Captain Fan fell to the ground holding the guard who sacrificed his life to save his life, several soldiers around him were still stupidly confused about the situation.
So Captain Fan was fortunate enough to see another of his subordinates being shot in the head, and at the same time understood that he had been targeted by this mysterious sniper.
After being hit one after another, the soldiers finally reacted and lay down and hidden. Captain Fan rushed to the side of the road and was firing at the enemy, grabbed the machine gun, turned and fired at the place where the sniper might be hiding.
But the woods were silent, and there seemed to be nothing in them, as if the sniper who had just created the chaos didn't exist.