Here we go!

Hearing the first gunshot, Ma Rongshun, who was assigned to the reserve platoon, stood on one side of the commanding heights, staring at the entire battlefield.

The condescending vision allows him to see the entire battlefield clearly.

With the sound of a gun from the regiment commander, I saw that on the left and right sides of the road, the first battalion, the second battalion, and the artillery company of the independent regiment, a total of thirteen large and small positions, burst out in unison with fierce muzzle fireworks.

A total of 54 Czech-style, plus 138 38 large covers, and six positions within 100 meters of the road, barge guns also joined in the strafing, a total of more than 350 guns of various kinds, firing a dense bullet like an overwhelming spark, completely covering the devils on the road from beginning to end.

Ordinary bullets are not clear, even at night, only tracer bullets can show traces in the air - Ma Rongshun remembered this knowledge he learned after joining the Eighth Route Army.

In his field of vision, the bullets were like Martian rain, hitting the dirty road, stirring up dense dust, and even obscuring the formation of some devils.

The devil fell down in pieces like wheat harvesting.

Da Da Da ·

Bang Bang Bang · ·

At this time, the dense sound like fried beans reached his ears.

The speed of sound transmission is much slower than light, the former is more than 300 meters per second, and the back is 300,000 kilometers per second—Ma Rongshun once again remembered the cultural knowledge taught in the army.

Just a second or two after the bullets covered the devil's formation, a series of explosions suddenly rose on the road, covering the entire devil's formation that was more than 400 meters long from beginning to end.

The fire of nine 60 mortars, twenty-seven grenadiers arrived.

Light artillery such as grenadiers and mortars have a much slower muzzle velocity than bullets, and they are all curved firepower, and the trajectory is an arc - another piece of knowledge came to Ma Rongshun's mind.

So even if they fired at the same time, the bullets came first, and the mortar shells and grenade grenades were about a second late.

"Understood."

The knowledge taught in the army in peacetime allowed Ma Rongshun to understand the situation in front of him.

From his point of view, whether it is a 60 mortar shell or a 50 caliber grenade, the explosion power is not large, compared with the 75 mountain artillery he saw in February, the explosive fireball is much smaller.

The range of gunsmoke and the size of the crater are also far from the same.

However, the killing and wounding of artillery shells mainly relied on shrapnel - this is a point that the regiment commander and battalion, company, and platoon commanders repeatedly emphasized to them as soon as they joined the Eighth Route Army.

The head of the regiment often said.

The advantage of the Devil 75 mountain cannon is that the projectile is heavy, 14 kilograms, and it is very powerful, and it can destroy simple civil fortifications, so to fight against the devil, the fortifications must be strengthened as much as possible, and the anti-artillery holes cannot be saved.

However, the effective killing range of mountain artillery fragments is actually not large.

Taking the 41-type mountain gun, which is the most equipped with the devils, as an example, the effective killing range of its shells on the flat soil is only an oval range of 30 meters long and 15 meters wide.

And 60 mortar shells, 50 grenade grenades, although the projectile is very light, the former is only three catties, the latter is only one and a half catties, and simple civil fortifications can easily block it.

But the killing range of 60 mortar shells is a circle of fifteen meters, and the killing range of 50 grenadier grenades is a circle of twelve meters.

At the training ground of the Yangcun Independent Regiment, there are actual positions, so that the soldiers can intuitively feel the killing range of various artillery shells, as well as for training concealment under artillery bombardment.

Compared with the devil's 75 mountain artillery, the difference in the killing range of the two sides is not large.

Even if the Devil's Mountain Cannon has more fragments because of the heavy shells, the effective killing range is pinched, and the killing effect is better.

But the explosions in front of me were too dense - dense, small explosions one after another, and in a short time, the entire devil formation on the road was covered from beginning to end.

Enough quantity to suppress quality!

The words of the head of the regiment once again came to Ma Rongshun's mind.

If it were him, he would rather face the shelling of two devil mountain guns than face the dense firepower at the moment.

However, don't underestimate the devil's mountain artillery, the advantage of the barrel cannon is accuracy and range, which mortars and grenadiers can't catch up with - this warning also appeared in Ma Rongshun's mind.

Thinking in his heart, Ma Rongshun still looked carefully.

The devils on the highway were like being harvested by more than a dozen strong men armed with big scythes, and they fell down piece by piece, and many devils were blown out by the explosion.

So, what should you do if you encounter such an ambush yourself?

Seeing that the devil had suffered heavy casualties, this thought came to Ma Rongshun's mind.

He remembered what the regiment commander had said, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

Just when Ma Rongshun was trying to recall the regiment leader's teachings, the reaction of the devil in the apricot ditch also made him recall it clearly, because the devil's series of responses were exactly the same as what the regiment commander said.

Ma Rongshun saw clearly,

In the face of the dense firepower network of more than 300 guns, nine mortars, and 27 grenadiers of the independent regiment, although the devils on the road suffered heavy losses in a single shot.

In just a few minutes, nearly seventy devil corpses were left on the road, which were dead devils, and a large number of devil wounded, adding up to more than a hundred.

In the first round, more than half of the devils were killed.

But the surviving devils reacted very quickly, looking for cover on the spot as soon as possible, and if there was no suitable cover, they released smoke to obscure their vision.

The movement was much faster than the 400-meter hurdle he ran with his bare hands.

"Awesome."

"When I go back, I'll have to train hard!"

Ma Rongshun feels that he has trained very hard, but now it seems that it is far from enough.

After finding cover, the devil began to fight back.

At the beginning, the devil's sporadic counterattacks were ineffective and threatening.

But gradually, the leader of the devil squadron and several squad leaders began to organize and concentrate troops, relying on the ditches and potholes on the side of the road, establishing defensive positions, and organizing counterattacks.

After less than ten minutes of confusion, the devils completed the assembly of their troops, set up temporary positions, and fired grenadiers and crooked machine gun fire at the surrounding ambush positions, and even suppressed three ambush positions close to the road.

So far

The rate of casualties of the devils also decreased suddenly.

Separate regiments also began to suffer casualties.

Such a change was completely beyond Ma Rongshun's expectations.

After learning about the number of machine guns and grenadier canisters arranged by the Independent Regiment this time, especially after seeing the dense formation of the devils, he thought that the squadron of the devils would be destroyed and annihilated by the independent regiment with ferocious firepower.

The battle can be over quickly.

But unexpectedly, although the devil suffered heavy casualties in the first wave of firepower of the Independent Regiment, he actually withstood it.

subsequently

Ma Rongshun even saw that in the middle of the Xingzigou Highway, the leader of the devil squadron had organized nearly thirty devils, pulled away in a large straggler line, and began to counterattack an ambush.

This set of reactions of the devils is exactly the same as what the regiment commander said, the way to deal with it after an ambush - lie down, hide on the spot, find suitable cover, organize a counterattack to suppress the enemy's firepower, and then concentrate troops to launch a counterattack, it is best to choose a direction with slightly more complex terrain, because there are natural bunkers.

The most important thing is to gather troops, and the more troops, the stronger the counterattack.

The counterattack launched by the devil in the middle of Xingzigou also made Ma Rongshun deeply understand the importance of the three-posture prostrate - during the counterattack, the devil used the standard three-posture prostrate, which was much faster than him.

You must know that the devil is feintting, that is, the devil is under the slope and crawling upward.

At the moment when Ma Rongshun was worried about the direction of the war,

I saw that a round of dense shells suddenly fell in the middle of the counterattacking devil team, and the machine guns of several surrounding positions also gathered fire on this group of devils, and immediately pressed back the devil's counterattack.

During this period, that Wang Xikui shot at the devil squadron leader many times, trying to kill the devil commander, but the devil squadron leader was very slippery, either hiding behind cover, or jumping at high speed and irregularly, firing three or four shots in a row, but he didn't hit.

After several defeats, Wang Xikui also shifted his target to suppress a few devils who tried to assemble a mortar abandoned in the middle of the road.

The follow-up battle also opened Ma Rongshun's eyes and deeply understood the knowledge that the regiment commander usually taught.

After the first round of counterattack was repulsed, the devils quickly organized a second round of attack, but still quickly repelled mortar fire and dense machine-gun fire, and suffered heavy losses.

During this period, the fighters on the follow-up positions, under the command of the regiment commander, began to shrink the encirclement.

Seeing this, the devil who had suffered two losses finally realized the situation in front of him, and he no longer had a hard head, but continued to concentrate his forces, broke through the siege forward, and prepared to run away.

But there were mines transformed from German-made grenades in front, and the first wave of breakouts was blown back by mines, and the second wave of devils changed direction and broke through backwards, but in the face of intensive mortar fire, they were once again beaten back.

In the third wave, the devils broke forward again, but they were still beaten back.

The devil on the road is like a leather ball, kicked over by the independent regiment.

Five consecutive waves of attacks and breakouts were repulsed, however, after a short break, the little devil launched the sixth round again.

The ferocity of the little devil made Ma Rongshun staggered.

But more than half of the casualties were killed and wounded in one shot, and the subsequent five consecutive waves of attacks failed, and the devil's remaining troops at this time were less than twenty people, and almost everyone was wounded.

Ma Rongshun could see that the sixth wave of the devil's offensive was already at the end of the crossbow.

It was also at this time that the leader of the devil squadron, whose physical strength had obviously decreased, was found by Wang Xikui and killed with one shot.

Without a commander, the devils were suddenly in chaos, and the sixth wave of breakthroughs also collapsed, and on the way to retreat, the devils fell one after another, and in the end, there were less than seven devils still standing.

The encirclement is shrinking further,

A few minutes later, when the last devil was shot dead by the regiment commander, there was no devil who could stand on the apricot ditch.

"Clean up the battlefield!"

Although separated by a few hundred meters, Ma Rongshun seemed to hear the voice of the regiment leader.

The soldiers began to clean up the battlefield, and in the face of the devils everywhere, everyone was not ambiguous, whether they were dead or not, either they fired a bullet at a distance, or they waved with bayonets.

Captive?

The regiment commander has to emphasize almost every day that unless the devil takes the initiative to surrender, he will kill it first.

Distance

The regiment commander, the guard guard, Monk Wei, also returned with the guard platoon.