Chapter 202: Shoot a Shot First
No one, whether bombing or shelling, would have carried out their own men at a distance of 200 meters from the enemy's battle line.
The first thing to stop was the bombing, but the planes didn't hit the other side of the river, because it was full of explosive kites. Depending on the situation, it is dangerous to be 100 meters away from those flying kites.
Therefore, when the Japanese approached within 100 meters of the line of defense along the river, the shelling and bombing stopped at about the same time. The artillery extended its fire and launched an attack on the loess position on the other side of the river.
At the same time, small-caliber mortars, grenadiers and machine guns were fired almost simultaneously.
This is the firepower that directly supports the infantry charge, and it is also the most annoying firepower.
Hu Yang, who suddenly appeared and glanced at the Japanese soldiers who were rushing towards him, only to attract the blow of the devil's crooked machine gun.
The sound of bullets passing by at close range sounded, and the bullets landed near the single pit of the poplar, causing the soil to jump up and down.
In this case, Populus euphratica took out the earthen periscope of the miscellaneous barracks.
It was just a foot long and looked like a cigarette pouch, and a lens with a circle on it was installed in the corner of the front end. Through the lens at the end of the eye, you can see the scene outside, and you can also roughly measure the distance.
Shell casings and bomb craters were almost one on top of the other, and the mutilated bodies of soldiers were on the edge of those craters.
Although there are casualties, the casualties of the overall position are still not large. After all, one person and one pit, as long as they are not directly hit by artillery fire, the possibility of killing and wounding is not great.
"Poof"
The sound of sniper-gun shooting sounded not far away, and Hu Yang was a little envious of the well-concealed attacker. The guy looked like a pile of grass, but if you looked closely, you could tell it was a person.
However, what Hu Yang never expected was that there was a sudden sound of grenadier ammunition falling.
"Grenadier ......"
With his eyes on the periscope, he stared at the sniper who had just fired. The falling grenadier ammunition exploded and the turf exploded, lifting up the black dirt inside.
The haystack didn't move, and Populus didn't want to think about it.
But then the haystack squirmed like a snail, and then left his hiding place, probably to some other sniper position that had been prepared long ago.
I don't know the situation of the snipers, Hu Yang just saw the machine gunners and grenadiers of the Japanese soldiers, and from time to time suddenly stopped attacking.
Silent sniping is really the most difficult to guard against on the battlefield.
He heard someone in the sniper team arguing with Zhang Sixing about whether he needed a muffler.
Hu Yang felt that there was no need to argue at all, and when he was attacked by a sniper on the battlefield, everyone wanted to find the position of the sniper. But if you don't know the direction of the bullet, then by the time you look at it, the smoke and dust caused by the shot will already dissipate.
If you can't find a sniper, you can't move forward smoothly, and all the grenadiers, machine gunners, including the heralds, will not be safe.
With a sigh of relief in his heart, Hu Yang observed the battlefield, and at this time, the infantry attacking by the Japanese had already entered the range of him and his men. But he didn't move, thinking about Zhang Sixing's explanation,
"Get closer, get the enemy closer and fight. Don't rush to pull mines, but stay when they're most useful. ”
After four days and four nights in the Sixing warehouse, he knew that the steel helmet mine was a sharp weapon used against the marching brigade, and now was not the time to use it.
The closer the Japanese got to their own front, the slower they became, and the Japanese, who were close to the front of their positions, began to dig trenches.
This is not a good sign, if the Japanese really set up a battle line there, and then deploy machine guns and grenadiers to pose too much threat to Hu Yang and his men.
Helplessly, Populus Hu had no choice but to give up the plan to put the enemy closer to 30 or even 20 meters before firing, and made a sharp sound when he held his breath and blew the whistle.
With the sound of the whistle, the soldiers in the single-pit battle line poked their heads out one by one and opened fierce fire at the Japanese soldiers a hundred meters away.
The rifle fire of the 38 big cover was almost instantaneously suppressed, and even if the crooked handle faced the semi-automatic fire of hundreds of box guns, there was no advantage at all.
On the plains, it is difficult to conceal the intentions of the commanders of both sides, especially when one side is cheating.
Jason with a walkie-talkie on his back at the moment. Raul was floating in the air about 150 meters.
Of course he can't fly a delta wing, but it's true that this thing is bold enough.
The man Zhang Sixing flew with a delta wing on his back, and this thing really flew on a sturdy kite.
Especially when Zhang Sixing is not here, this thing wants to do something, and no one can stop him.
Even in order for the Japanese not to pay attention to him, he wrapped his head with a cloth of the same color as kite cloth, so as to cover his yellow hair like grass.
What has to be applauded for him is that so far the Japanese have not discovered this guy who was tied to a kite and flew into the sky. And in the sky, he can still rely on walkie-talkies to command the battle below.
"Gasoline cannon, bombard those little devils for Lao Tzu, angle three, shoot a cannon first."
In order to improve the durability and accuracy of the gasoline drum cannon, Zhang Sixing made a number of improvements to it. For example, the lower part of the gasoline drum is tightly wound with a hemp rope and watered before beating.
The twine expands and tightens automatically when exposed to water, and it can also cool down the gasoline cannon. In addition, the shell casing, which can spin, improves accuracy. On top of that, the gasoline barrel cannon can adjust the firing distance according to the angle of fire.
Of course, the requirements for home-made weapons should not be too high, and on the premise of ensuring safety, it is not difficult for people with a little mechanical common sense to improve some accuracy.
The so-called "firing angle three" has a firing distance of about 150 meters at a maximum range of 300 meters for gasoline barrels. However, the warhead of the gasoline barrel cannon is too light, so such shots are often inaccurate.
However, there is really no need to expect too much from the accuracy of the power of the home-made 200-millimeter heavy gun.
With Hansen in the sky. Raul gave the order, and the gasoline barrel cannons arranged along the river rang out continuously.
Amid a series of dull "surging and puffing" sounds, five kilograms of explosives flew directly to the trench where the Japanese were digging more than 100 meters away.
Before the Japanese shovels could dig a shallow pit in the ground, the large explosives bags fell to the ground.
The "boom" explosion was quite in the style of a 200-millimeter gun, especially the gunners of gasoline barrel cannons, who were now becoming more and more accustomed to this kind of weapon.
They can even roughly estimate the time when the shell will hit the ground, and then truncate the lead-fire-cable based on experience. It can reduce the impact of the explosion on the ground and increase the killing range.
The most important thing is that if it explodes five or six meters in the air, there is no need to worry about the craters that can be used by the devils to dodge bullets.
When he saw the fireballs that exploded one after another in the crowd where the devils were digging, Hu Yang temporarily put his mind at ease. The corners of his mouth were blackened by gunsmoke, and his shaggy beard grinned,
"Hmph, now I understand, within two hundred meters in front of Lao Tzu's position, no one can dig a pit if they want to."