Chapter Ninety-Four: Rookie
The landing craft that had just docked and sent Li Ming and the armored car to the shore began to reverse and exit the dock, and several naval personnel untied the ropes attached to the wooden boat next to the pier. Tied to the back of the landing craft and then detached from the dock to make room for the two upcoming landing ships. By the time two huge landing ships sailed over, the Sakai Port Pier had already vacated a berth nearly 100 meters long.
The No. 1 and No. 3 landing ships slowly approached the pier, lowered the front tongue door, and the soldiers of two companies of the teaching team and one company of the army swarmed down and finished the formation on the pier.
Gao Jianguo, Li Ming and Qiao Haipeng walked in front of everyone. Gao Jianguo looked at everyone sternly, and said in a deep voice: "The artillery platoon formed two artillery firing positions, and six machine gunners chose favorable terrain at the Sakai Port Wharf to establish six machine gun blocking positions. The 1st Army Company was responsible for sweeping the storage area near the wharf, taking several key areas and handing them over to special personnel to strictly guard.
The first and second companies of the teaching team, the special combat team, and the Fujita squad formed the assault battalion, and Li Ming served as the commander of the assault battalion. Two jeeps to accompany your movements. Your mission is to sweep the area in the center of Sakai and the various fortifications, and after taking control of Sakai City, you will be responsible for the defense and security of Sakai City.
The officers and men of the Navy on the two landing ships organized a 90-man marine company to be responsible for the defense of the Sakai Port wharf and as the general reserve of our army, ready to support friendly and neighboring forces at any time.
If the situation is urgent, you can contact mortar positions and even naval artillery fire to provide you with artillery support, I don't care what means you use, I only need Sakai Port before dawn. ”
After listening to Gao Jianguo's words, everyone responded violently, and the commanders of their respective detachments began to prepare for departure as a team. Li Ming did not act immediately, but called several platoon commanders and members of the special combat team aside and studied the details of the next operation with them.
"Fujita, can you use those samurai you recruited now?"
Fujita bowed slightly, and said sternly in a blunt voice: "General, there is absolutely no problem, as long as the master needs it, they will die for the master at any time." ”
Li Ming nodded and said: "When the troops take control of that area, you immediately contact them, you are responsible for forming a daredevil's brigade, and you are the captain, responsible for assisting us in sweeping the complex areas in the city." But there is one thing you must remember. Don't take what you shouldn't take, don't do what you shouldn't do, if you can't control your hands, I'll chop your hands, and if you can't control the bottom, I'll castrate you. Do you understand what I'm saying? ”
"Hi ......"
As soon as Fujita heard that he was asked to be the captain of these samurai, he trembled with excitement. He bowed deeply and said with a cold face: "Please rest assured, General, if I find that they are against your will, I will cut them with a knife." ”
Li Ming nodded with satisfaction, and then he turned to the several platoon commanders of the teaching team and said: "You advance in turn in platoons, keep communication open at all times, and if you encounter complex terrain, you can let the Fujita squad act as an assault team to open a breakthrough for the troops." Try to let the soldiers of the teaching team experience some battles, such an opportunity can be regarded as an assessment of their training during this time. You also have to observe their situation and assess their abilities. ”
He said to Song Tao next to him: "The special combat team is at the back of the team, serving as the reserve of the assault battalion, once there is an emergency, you must be the first to do so."
Rush to help. You understand no! ”
"Got it!!"
Li Ming nodded, then waved his hand violently and said loudly: "Start acting!" ”
The detachments began to quickly form themselves and check the equipment on their bodies. Platoons march in two columns along both sides of the streets of Sakai City toward the central area of Sakai City. At this time, the sky was already slightly bright, and it was Wang Haiyang who was the first in the first row, and he was the squad leader of the first platoon. From this alone, it can be seen that the teaching team attaches great importance to him.
Being the class leader of this class is not something that anyone can do. This is the same character as the pacesetter of the entire teaching team. Wang Haiyang nervously raised his gun and carefully searched around along both sides of the street. Suddenly, there was a noisy sound in front, and Wang Haiyang immediately turned around and shouted: "Discover the enemy's situation......"
The row of soldiers behind Wang Haiyang heard his shout and immediately became nervous. It was their first time on the battlefield, and everyone was a little overwhelmed by the sudden enemy.
Everyone felt that their throats and eyes were dry, and their entire backs were covered in cold sweat. He clenched the musket in his hands tightly and stared at the front with his eyes fixedly ahead.
Wang Yaodong, the leader of the platoon in the back, heard the other party's shout, and hurriedly used the headphones to report to Li Ming in the back, and then ran forward. By the time he ran to the front, he could already see the shadows on the other side. Wang Yaodong ran to Wang Haiyang's side and issued an order loudly: "The whole platoon assembles ......"
After a platoon was in order on the street, Wang Yaodong raised the automatic rifle in his hand, stuffed a grenade into the grenade, pulled the trigger and fired it. As a point of light streaked across the night sky, the scene on the other side gradually became clear as the flares slowly fell.
I saw hundreds of shogunate ashigaru rushing over under the leadership of more than a dozen samurai, Wang Yaodong had already seen that many of the ashigaru on the opposite side were holding iron cannons, but now they were still more than two hundred meters away, and they did not reach the range of iron cannons.
Wang Yaodong turned his head and shouted loudly: "Wang Haiyang, organize a platoon for musket shooting." ”
Hearing Wang Yaodong's order, Wang Haiyang hurriedly entered the queue and stood in the first position on the left side of the queue. Shouting loudly: "It's all here, musket shooting ready, raise the gun ......"
With the release of his passwords one after another, a platoon of soldiers were more nervous, although many soldiers usually train very hard, and the movements have been done thousands of times, but for the first time on the battlefield, many of the usually skilled combat actions are almost deformed.
Fortunately, the first Mini bullet had been loaded in advance, and although everyone was nervous, they were able to make tactical moves, but when they aimed, their hands were still trembling.
Wang Haiyang roared.
"Shooting ......"
"Bang...... Bang ......"
A dull roar sounded almost at the same time, and the first squad ran to both sides immediately after firing, and went around to the back of the queue to continue loading, and two soldiers who had finished the first shot were so nervous that they forgot the next action, and were given a kick by the people in the second row, so they reacted and hurriedly ran to the back.
Immediately after that, the muskets in the hands of the soldiers of the second squad also rang out, and then the third squad began to shoot. This time it was better, although it still couldn't be as uniform as in training, and there was a temporary chaos, but the tactical moves were finally done.
The results of this round of firing were almost horrific, and each of them had nearly 1,000 rounds of no-bullet firing and hundreds of live firings. But today they used a rifled front-loading rifle that fired a Mini bullet in their hand, and played the effect of a front-loading smoothbore gun.
They lined up in a neat formation, and the thirty rounds of mini shells fired in three salvos, at the optimal range of about 200 meters, faced the shogunate soldiers who came densely on the opposite street, and actually only achieved a dozen results.
At this time, the first squad had basically finished loading, and a new round of shooting began. The second time they loaded, because they were so nervous, two fighters forgot to pull out even the tense connector, and another soldier loaded two mini rounds into the barrel of the gun one after another.
Although the others did not make such a mistake, the reload speed was not a little worse when they were trained. One by one, some soldiers finished loading their bullets, and although they pulled out the bar, they couldn't insert it back. Anyway, all kinds of mistakes continued, and even Wang Haiyang was nervous and almost made a mistake.
"Bang...... Bang ......"
Suddenly, there was a roar from the opposite side, and there was a thick smoke, and the shooting of the Japanese shogunate cannon on the opposite side was very chaotic, and one after another was not organized at all. But the soldiers in the platoon were still stunned by the sound of these gunshots.
Even the tactical moves were forgotten, and even Wang Haiyang was stunned for a moment. Fortunately, he reacted immediately and shouted loudly: "What are you doing in a daze, didn't you hear the order?" ”
was yelled at by Wang Haiyang, and everyone reacted smartly, and hurriedly began to make tactical moves again.
The iron cannon of the Japanese shogunate on the opposite side is not much better, it is no longer the Warring States period of Japan, and the vast majority of Japanese ashigaru have never been on the battlefield, although they are very brave, but they are not much better than the soldiers of the teaching team, seeing that the people around them were beaten upside down by the iron cannon of the other side and flew out, many iron guns were subconsciously kneeling on the ground and firing back with iron cannons.
However, the iron cannon in their hands is only a front-loading smoothbore arquebus, with a killing distance of 200 meters, and indeed a killing distance of 50 meters, and the caliber is basically about 20 mm, which is very powerful. However, the accuracy of the iron cannon is extremely poor, and even if it is arranged in a tight formation, it cannot accurately hit a target at a distance of fifty meters.
Fifty meters away, that's basically a matter of relying on Meng. You can only rely on standing in a row to form a barrage of shots at a target on the opposite side, as long as the barrage is covered, the hit rate is still very high, and each shot can form an effective kill. However, this is limited to up to 50 meters.
But the problem is that the iron cannons of these shogunate armies are ashigaru, and the formation has been a little scattered by a round of shooting by a row of soldiers, and it is still in a very low visibility environment, and the timing of the shooting is not good.
Therefore, the round lead bullets shot by nearly a hundred iron cannons could not cause damage to a platoon at all. Both sides are rookies who have just entered the battlefield, and they are not very good, but the front-loading rifled musket guns in the hands of the soldiers in the first row of the teaching team are at least two generations ahead of the opponent, so that the Japanese shogunate soldiers on the opposite side are sad. R1152