Chapter 7: The First Battle with the Bandits (continued)
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Four or five miles is no longer a problem for the soldiers of the independent battalion who are on the road every day during this time. Hulu Xiazi was still fighting continuously, so Feng Yong and the others were not worried about not being able to find their direction at all.
"Huzi, this is the first battle of the second company, are you sure to take it?" Feng Yong said to the sturdy young man in front of him. Lin Hu's father is a private school teacher, and I heard that he is still a showman. Therefore, he taught Lin Hu to read and write since he was a child. Unfortunately, when Lin Hu was fourteen years old, his father was forcibly pulled up the mountain when the bandits entered the village, and what was sent down half a year later was only a vague corpse. Therefore, Lin Hu hated bandits in his heart.
"Battalion commander, don't worry! I, Lin Hu, will not wipe out all these bandits, and my head will be screwed off for you to use as a night pot. ”
Feng Yong said solemnly: "I don't want your head to be a night pot, I want you to lead the second company to victory." You are the one who has seen the Art of War, I hope you don't disappoint me! Brother, I'm waiting for you to come back! ”
A word of brother, let tears appear in the eyes of this eight-foot Northeast man.
"Smack!" Lin Hu saluted a standard military salute. Without saying anything, he turned around and rushed forward with a platoon. The second and third platoons followed, and the teaching team was led by Feng Yong.
In front of the gourd gorge, Zhang Xiaoshan's face was very ugly. His row of dozens of people served as scouts, and before he could see the bandits, he was put into several. The rest of the people were all suppressed under a small mound and could not lift their heads. There are a lot of these bandits, and some of them are extremely accurate in their marksmanship. A few soldiers who had just fallen were wounded in their hands. The soldiers in the first row were very lucky, and when they were about to approach the gourd gorge, one of the soldiers was nervous, and his rifle went off, and the bandits who were lying in ambush on the cliffs on both sides thought they had been discovered, so they fired back. This also allowed the row to avoid the fate of being dumplings.
Later, Zhang Xiaoshan came up with a company of two and three platoons to support, because the first company had the task of camouflaging the main force of the independent battalion, so the third platoon brought a lot of straw men, because they were afraid that the bandits would see it, so they did not dare to get too close. This led to a shortage of manpower under Zhang Xiaoshan. There was only a row of more than forty soldiers at the mouth of the Hulu Gorge. Zhang Xiaoshan took a guard squad from the company headquarters and quickly supported him.
When Zhang Xiaoshan entered the position of a platoon with the guard squad, he happened to look at several bloody corpses on the ground, looked at the bullets that kept rubbing on his head, and listened to the sharp whistling sound of the bullets, Zhang Xiaoshan felt the blood gushing up. His legs trembled uncontrollably. Although Zhang Xiaoshan performed very well in training, no matter how good the training was, he couldn't hide the fact that he was still a recruit. Looking at the pale row of soldiers behind him. A sense of responsibility welled up in my heart.
Zhang Xiaoshan bit his arm, and the huge pain eased the fear in his heart.
"Brothers, hold on, we have to trust the battalion commander. Believe in our own strengths. We are a trained regular army. Definitely not something that the bandits in front of you can resist. With his own shout, Zhang Xiaoshan felt that the strength had completely returned to his body, and he didn't start to feel that fear when he looked at the bloody corpses on the ground. Although his back was wet, Zhang Xiaoshan knew that he had successfully resisted the fear of entering the battlefield for the first time.
"Everyone, pay attention, don't panic, follow the instructor's instructions to be hidden, and don't take the lead." Zhang Xiaoshan kept yelling. His voice became the support of the recruits, and under this voice, the soldiers slowly adapted to it. Some of the brave ones have already begun to raise their guns and return fire. It's not very good, but it's a huge improvement.
Zhang Xiaoshan took a deep breath. Hold the Mauser 98 rifle in your hand. Squinting at the bandits who popped up from time to time on the cliffs on both sides. As he became more and more focused, Zhang Xiaoshan's chaotic heartbeat gradually calmed down.
"Boom!" As the gun rang out, a blood flower appeared on the head of one of the bandits who had risen from the cliff and fell from the high cliff.
"Company commander, good fight!" The platoon leader beside him said. Then a long platoon raised their guns to aim. With the same shot, everyone saw the blood splashed on the body of another bandit, but the bandit did not fall off the cliff. Instead, he was dragged back.
"Well done, long in line." Zhang Xiaoshan praised. The heroic performance of the company commander and platoon commander greatly boosted morale. A relieved platoon of soldiers opened fire. Of course, not everyone has the marksmanship of Zhang Xiaoshan and the platoon leader. Very few bandits were hit. After all, the first row is an inverted arch, and the line of sight is very disadvantageous.
Bang Bang Bang!
The two sides fought back and forth. After this shooting, the soldiers in the platoon were basically freed from fear. Although their marksmanship has not improved much, they have been able to calm down and shoot from the chaos of the battlefield. This is already a huge leap forward. This is also the difference between a recruit and a veteran. Of course, it is not that they can be called veterans without having experienced such a war. After all, those who can survive from the battlefield many times and kill the enemy are elite veterans. These recruits still have a long way to go if they want to become elite veterans, and of course, most of them may not have a chance to succeed. Because the road is full of blood and dry bones.
"One platoon is long, leave one squad, and the other two squads are withdrawn and let the second platoon come up. Since we are a feint, then we just take this opportunity to train our troops well. This should be the rational use of resources that the battalion commander often says! Zhang Xiaoshan said with a smile on his face.
"Yes!" The two squads of the first platoon went down quietly, and then the second platoon quietly touched up. In the face of the chaotic environment, the performance of the second platoon is not as good as that of the first platoon, but the second platoon also has a great advantage, that is, the first squad of the first platoon and the company guard squad are still on the position. Watching the soldiers in a row calmly shoot at the opposite cliff, the fear in the hearts of the soldiers in the second squad was invisibly loosened a lot.
"Huzi, what's the situation up front?" Feng Yong walked up, and the entire second company and a platoon were lying there.
"Battalion commander, the cliff on the left side of the gourd gorge is ahead. There are quite a few bandits, at least two hundred, and I'm afraid that we people will ......," Lin Hu said. This gang of bandits was really careless enough to leave no warning on the way here.
"Huzi, don't worry, Lao Li, bring up the good things we got from the Siping Security Corps." Feng Yong shouted. One of the guards sent by Feng Delin quickly delivered an ammunition box, and then opened it neatly.
Lin Hu's eyes lit up, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face. "Grenade! Great, with this thing, none of these bandits can escape! ”
The current grenade is stuck in the manufacturing process, and the effect is certainly not as strong as that of later generations, but for bandits who lack weapons, the grenade is definitely an attack weapon.
"Huzi, what do you want to do?"
"Battalion commander, I want to stick a platoon as much as possible, and then use grenades for all the attacks, and then all the guns again, and then wait to capture the prisoners!" Lin Hu said confidently.
"Huzi, your method is a bit risky, but it might be a good idea to be undisciplined bandits. However, just in case, Huzi, gather the good shooters of your second company and ambush them on that high ground. In the event of a thwarted attack, this position can also cover everyone's retreat. Feng Yong pointed to a small mound not far in front of him and said.
Lin Hu nodded, then gathered more than a dozen marksmanship, and then equipped all of them with the most advanced Mauser 98, and then quietly lurked behind the mound. Then the rest of the soldiers in the platoon each had a grenade. Then I touched it at the same time.
Now Feng Yong and the others were less than three hundred meters away from the bandits on the cliff. But the vigilance of these bandits was so poor that all the bandits were lying on the edge of the cliff and shooting at the canyon below, and they didn't notice that their back roads were copied by Feng Yong's second company. This also gave Feng Yong a great opportunity.
At this moment, gunshots rang out on the cliff on the right, and there was chaos on the entire cliff on the right. The gourd gorge is not very wide, and the bandits on the cliff on the left can clearly see that their partners on the opposite side are under attack, but they are unable to support them at all.
"Big boss! There are people on our side, too! "A sharp-eyed bandit happened to see a soldier who had just come up to him. And alerted their leader for the first time.
It's a pity that it was a little late. More than thirty grenades flew towards them at the same time.
"No, it's a grenade!" The face of the big boss in the fur coat changed wildly. And he fell off the cliff with great agility. Although the cliff is steep, with the kung fu of the big boss, he is confident that he can get out of danger safely.
The others are not as capable as the masters, and they have heard of grenades, but they have never seen them. Therefore, the reaction is inevitably half a beat slower.
Boom Boom!
Flesh and blood flying! Most of the bandits were stupid at the time. Who the fuck are these people, how come they even have grenades?
Bang Bang Bang!
Dense gunfire rang out, although most of the bullets were missed, and even went straight to the sky. But the results are obvious. Although these bandits have all seen blood and killed people, they have not undergone systematic training after all, and their sense of battle is extremely poor.
A wave of grenades and a random shot completely collapsed.
"Brothers of the Second Company, rush! Take the captives! With Lin Hu's roar, the second company was like a rainbow, without the slightest timidity of the recruits who had just entered the battlefield. That's the benefit of a tailwind fight, a big win that can put down the fear in your heart.
The bandits disarm and clean up the battlefield. All the captives were gathered. Wounded bandits were also given temporary medical treatment.
At this time, the gunfire in the gourd gorge also stopped. It looks like the battle is over.
"Lin Hu, take the prisoners, let's go down." Feng Yong was very excited now. Although these people were just some unpopular bandits, there were more than 400 people robbing them. And the number of people in separate battalions is about the same. The fact that the independent battalion was able to eliminate them cleanly also showed that Feng Yong's training results during this period were correct.
Of course, there will definitely be casualties, after all, many bandits have really good marksmanship.
In the gourd gorge, all the soldiers of the independent battalion gathered. Looking at the bandit captives squatting with their heads held at the bottom of the cliff, they cheered loudly.
Victorious, they won. This was the first victory for the recruits and the first since the establishment of the independent battalion, and it was of great significance.
Feng Yong smiled and looked at the cheering crowd, although these people were still very different from regular soldiers. There is no such thing as the high-spirited momentum of the PLA in the previous life. But in this stale era, this unit, which has only been established for less than half a month, has finally formed combat effectiveness.
"Tell the brothers that all the soldiers who participated in the battle would each have a piece of ocean, and whoever killed a bandit in battle, one of the bandits would be rewarded with a piece of ocean."
Feng Yong's order made the entire independent battalion even more jubilant. Winner, qualify to enjoy!
In this battle, the independent battalion killed a total of 436 captured bandits and tigers. Among them, more than 100 people were killed, more than 60 were wounded, and the bandit leader was captured alive. 287 Japanese-made Type 30 rifles were captured, all of which were purchased from the Japanese army during the Russo-Japanese War. There are quite a few in the northeastern lands. This rifle is actually the prototype of the famous 38 big cover in later generations. Such guns are poorly sealed, and dust in the air can easily jam these rifles. In the later stages of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese began to be armed with Type 38 rifles, which were more suitable for the Chinese battlefield. A large number of decommissioned Type 30 rifles were sold to bandits in the northeast. There are also 100 Hanyang-made in the firefight. The rifling of these rifles is less worn and does not appear to have been used very long. At the same time, there are two mirror boxes, which may be a surprising number in the squadron ten years later, but they are still rare. Feng Yong accepted the two box cannons as a matter of course. This is a good thing, the capacity of twenty rounds, and the ability to fire in bursts, are equivalent to automatic submachine guns.