Zhang Wei led Dong Erli and 15 artillery squad soldiers to the regimental ammunition supply station "menacingly", and the lieutenant colonel quartermaster was busy counting the ammunition, which seemed to be used to replenish Zhang Wei's reinforced company.

When the quartermaster saw Zhang Wei coming, he also put down the work in his hand. Zhang Wei gave a big salute to the military quartermaster, indeed, it is not easy to get these weapons together now, and he still has a request for help.

"Company Commander Zhang is here, this is to supplement your weapons, take it away, five Czech-style, twenty rifles, the German goods are gone, there are more than a dozen brand-new Zhongzheng made in Gongxian County, and there are also seven or eight boxes of bullet grenades."

"Sir, are there any 82 mortars?" asked Zhang Wei as he approached the quartermaster. In fact, he wants 60 mortars more, and the current Jinling 82 mortars of the national army are good, but they are too big and heavy for company-level units, but unfortunately the national arsenal can't make imitation French 60 guns now, so Zhang Wei has to retreat to second.

"Mortars? What do you want this thing for, why don't you care if I want mountain artillery, the mortars that were broken by the battalion in front can't be replaced now, why do you want this thing from a reinforced company? ”

Lack of weapons, Zhang Wei glanced at the quartermaster embarrassedly.

The quartermaster of these three regiments is also a good person, and when he saw Zhang Wei's expression of "pitiful," he felt a little unhappy.

"Okay, okay, I'll give you ten more mid-formal, but there's more."

I didn't lead the mortar, but I was content to lead these, but unfortunately the mortar's support firepower was gone, and then this Dong Erli squad leader had to be the infantry squad leader. Zhang Wei and Dong Erli carried back the weapons and ammunition and returned to the concealment department.

The weapons and ammunition were divided, one hundred rifle rounds per person, filled with cowhide cartridges, and four grenades were also loaded into the quadruple grenade pouches on the side waist. The people were also full of food and drink, and the reinforcement company seemed to have regained its spirit, and everyone took the initiative to put their bayonets on their guns, and the once defeated soldiers now regained the elite momentum of the national army, and everyone wanted to compete with the Japanese army again.

Zhang Wei saw that the team had regained its spirit, and thought to himself that he, the company commander, should also cheer up the team.

"Brothers, we just laid it out, battalion commander, dead; Battalion attached, dead; The deputy battalion commander also died. There are only a few heads of garlic left in the infantry battalion of more than 400 people", "We, Yu Qing, want to avenge the brothers, and it is natural for us to be soldiers to eat food and carry guns to fight." Today, let's fight with the dog's day! ”

"Fight" More than a hundred men shouted in unison, and the flames of revenge appeared in everyone's eyes.

Boom, boom, the Japanese army's mountain artillery began to bombard again, and the main position of Purple Mountain became a sea of fire, and some of the recruits of the newly expanded regiment of the teaching corps had begun to throw away their weapons and run out of the position, and they were greeted by machine gun shells from the battle team.

Zhang Wei and the others were still watching nervously in the concealment department, and the herald of the regimental headquarters ran over: "Quick, Company Commander Zhang, the regiment commander orders you to immediately go to reinforce the position of the third battalion." ”

Zhang Wei picked up his Zhongzheng rifle, and the original Mauser had been thrown away. "The whole company has it, reinforce the position of the third battalion, and the second platoon of one platoon takes the lead", and the third and fourth platoons advance behind the palace to reinforce the position of the third battalion!

The soldiers quickly got up, picked up their weapons and rushed up the ridge.

The position of the third battalion was in a state of stalemate, and a hole had been torn open, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers rushed into the main position, and the soldiers of the third battalion fought hand-to-hand, from time to time there were national soldiers who were stabbed to the ground, and there were also Japanese soldiers who jumped into the trenches.

Da Da, the surprise attack of the reinforced company caught the Japanese army off guard, and before they could react, the Japanese troops outside the trench fell under the random gunfire. Zhang Wei jumped into the trench with twenty rings, and swept at the Japanese troops in the trench, and the two unlucky guys were killed and fell to the ground. He Kun and Qiu Wei took their respective men and horses to clear the Japanese troops in the trenches with Zhang Wei, and the third platoon and the fourth platoon cooperated with the third battalion to solve the Japanese troops who were fighting hand-to-hand.

Zhang Wei's surprise attack caught the Japanese army off guard, and they retreated one after another, at this time the only remaining 82 mortars of the third battalion and the 75th infantry gun reinforced by the regimental headquarters also opened fire to help the battle, and the soldiers of the reinforced company and the third battalion were killed or rushed, and the Japanese troops who broke through were quickly defeated and retreated, and were killed and wounded by artillery fire on the way back, which can be described as heavy casualties.

Zhang Wei put down the smoking twenty rings, next to him was the corpse of a Japanese corporal, he wanted to use a knife to hack Zhang Wei to death, but unfortunately, the knife was not as good as a gun, and he was the one who died.

"Solid Defense"

After consolidating the fortifications, after Zhang Wei gave the order, he glanced at the position, the corpses of the national army and the Japanese army fell horizontally on the position, and the corpses left by the Japanese army inside and outside the position were about 80 bodies, in fact, the Japanese army suffered more than 20 casualties in the raid just now.

More than 80 people, most of the strength of the squadron. The losses on the side of the Nationalist army were even greater, with only more than 200 people left in the 3rd Battalion, and more than 100 casualties in this attack, while Zhang Wei's reinforced company suffered more than 20 casualties in the reinforcement battle. The loss ratio is barely close to one to one, which is to teach the corps, and if you change to other troops, the casualties will be greater.

The injured third battalion commander grabbed Zhang Wei's hand: "Brother, thank you so much, without you, I'm afraid our battalion brothers would have to break." ”

"It's alright, sir, are they all brothers?" Zhang Wei replied very politely.

The commander of the third battalion pointed into the distance: "Look, how about giving you the high ground on the west side, I really can't draw people at hand." Zhang Wei glanced at the western highlands, the terrain was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there was a hill next to it. This battalion commander was also benevolent and righteous enough, he did not send himself to the main position as cannon fodder, and gave the best highland to the reinforcement company, and the remaining Sanyin officers and soldiers were all strengthened to the main position.

"Yes, listen to the chief's arrangement."

The reinforcement company of more than 100 people, soon entered the fortifications, for solid defense, there are a lot of guns and ammunition left after the battle between the two sides in the position, Zhang Wei let people collect, but unfortunately most of them are rifles, the machine gun is only a Czech light machine gun and a crooked handle that was blown in half, and the four platoon commanders under his command all want to take this light machine gun. Zhang Wei thought about it, but decided not to give them to them, but to assign them to the search class.

Now the defense line of the teaching corps is already in jeopardy, and the defenders of Nanjing will not be able to hold out for long, and when Commander Tang's retreat order is issued, the whole army will be in chaos, and he does not want to go down to the pass to grab the ferry, and it is more likely to break through from the front to survive, and the search squad must take the lead as the vanguard at that time, and give them light machine guns, which is much more useful than delegating them to the infantry platoon.

He Kun walked over with a bag of things and said to Zhang Wei: "Lianza, the brothers found a grenadier on the corpse of the devil, and a bunch of things that look like cannonballs, what should you do?" ”

Grenadier canisters? Zhang Wei was overjoyed, he was worried that there was no mortar, and it was not bad to have a grenadier, Zhang Wei happily took the thing, and instructed He Kun to say, "This kind of grenade canister grenade, take as many as you have in the position, and bring me all the grenades of the little devil." ”

Zhang Wei glanced at the grenadier in his hand, it is a ten-year model, the caliber is 50 mm, the barrel is composed of a launch canister, a wholeer, a handle lead and a bottom plate, when firing, the base is pressed against the ground, the handle is tightly gripped, and the position of the grenade in the barrel is adjusted according to the distance. Use the vent to adjust the amount of gunpowder gas to control the firing distance. When firing, the ground is pressed against the bottom plate, and the lead is pulled down, which is equivalent to the trigger, and the spring in the shank rod after releasing the lead wire drives the firing pin, and then hits the primer under the grenade, so as to fire the grenade.

The grenadier canister can not only fire the special Type 89 grenade, but also the Type 91 grenade and smoke bombs used by the ordinary infantry of the Japanese army, and the killing radius of the Type 89 special grenade can reach 10 meters, which can be described as a sharp weapon for the Japanese infantry detachment.

The Japanese army had two grenadier detachments for each infantry squad, and it was tried and tested against the machine guns of the Chinese army, while the corresponding infantry detachments of the Chinese army used curved firearms: Type 27 50mm grenadiers and Type 28 25mm grenades, which could not be mass-produced until 1939.

Of course, this thing is not without shortcomings, compared with mortars, it relies more on the experience of the shooter, and the requirements for the quality of soldiers are relatively high.

But now Zhang Wei and they don't have to choose, so they can only use something.

Zhang Wei put down the grenadier and shouted at Dong Erli: Dong Erli, come here, you don't have to be a rifleman in your class.