Chapter 70: The Depression
7.70 Depressions
At about one o'clock in the morning, Mu Lianxi and his 3rd battalion climbed out of the forward trenches of the Sichuan army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
It was said that the whole battalion attacked, but in fact, the night attack of the 3rd battalion was only half of the troops. According to the battalion commander Mu Lianxi, this is called changing shifts and devils to play tricks, which can not only ensure that the devils will not rest well, but also ensure that the officers and soldiers of the 3rd battalion will take turns to rest.
It's another form of leisure......
After being harassed by tens of thousands of people in a row, the devils in Tengxian County also learned to be obedient, and flares rose from time to time in the night, and then slowly fell. In order to guard against the night attack of the Chinese army, the Japanese army even removed the headlights from the military trucks and transported them to some small heights to turn them on from time to time.
Tonight, the task given to Wang Jinquan, the commander of the 3rd Battalion, to the 2nd Company Commander is to find a way to solve these car lights, and if you want to improve the safety of night raids, it is a big premise to get rid of these shiny light bulbs.
"Company commander, are we going to act separately and start at the same time, or will we get together and fight point by point?"
After the 2nd Company entered the standby position, the Yuan Platoon Commander of the 1st Platoon ran to Wang Jinquan's side and asked in a whisper what kind of play method to use. My spine is always cold, and I always feel like something is going to happen....."
Platoon Commander Yuan was very surprised by the remarks of company commander Wang Jinquan. Although some minor accidents occurred in the course of the raid and harassment operations in the past few days, on the whole it was still very smooth, and the Japanese army has not yet come up with a countermeasure to deal with the 121st Division's raid and harassment operations, and the officers and men are also very fond of this tactic of disturbing the devil and not being at peace. Now that he suddenly heard company commander Wang Jinquan say such "shaking" words, Platoon Commander Yuan felt very unaccustomed.
"It's a bit windy tonight, but there's nothing special about it. Captain! It's not too early, give the order and start attacking! If the 659th and 660th regiments make the first move, the devils should be vigilant! I'm afraid it won't be easy to fight when the time comes......"
Platoon Commander Yuan's words made Wang Jinquan make up his mind, it has been more than half an hour since he set off from the Sichuan army's position, and it is indeed time to start! There are not many garrisons on several small heights of the Japanese army, and the mortars of the assault weapon division used by the 2nd Company are difficult from a long distance, and they will fight if they can fight, and they will run away if they can't!
Maybe it's because I'm too nervous about the continuous fighting, but now that I think about it, there's nothing unusual about what happened during the night.
Wang Jinquan shook his head self-deprecatingly, drove out all the distracting thoughts in his mind, and then he gave combat missions to the three platoons under him.
On the opposite side, there is a Japanese car lamp on the left, center and right three places, on each of which is a Japanese car lamp, as usual, the troops still use the mortar to fire rapidly after touching the effective range of the mortar, like this unprotected car lamp, it can fly into the sky with an 82 mm mortar shell!
"Each platoon is on its own! Alert! Beware of concealment! ”
The armament of the 2nd Company was also specially strengthened according to the needs of the tasks performed, with three infantry platoons each with two 82-mm mortars and three grenadiers, heavy machine guns were not equipped, support fire was mainly based on Czech light machine guns, and the chief and deputy squad leaders of the infantry squad used flower machine guns.
At a distance of almost two thousand meters, the grenadiers were completely out of reach, and the three platoon commanders made exactly the same choice, bringing with them two mortar groups and two machine gun groups plus an infantry squad.
The mortar squad consisted of five men, two ammunition men and three gunners, and the machine gun team consisted of three men, with the main and secondary marksmen plus one ammunition man, plus a 12-man infantry squad, and all three platoons were half of the troops.
Wang Jinquan took the remaining infantry squads of each platoon to stand by, and their task was to guard the door of the attacking troops.
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Platoon Commander Yuan led his troops to attack quietly towards the small high ground of the Japanese army in the middle of the road, and whenever the Japanese army used flares or turned on the car lights, Yuan Platoon Commander took his soldiers to lie in the field and did not move.
At a distance of two thousand meters, Platoon Commander Yuan and his soldiers do not have to worry about being hit by cold guns, even the Type 92 heavy machine gun with the longest range will become extremely poor in shooting accuracy at this distance, not to mention the 38 big cover, Platoon Commander Yuan and his soldiers are now outside the range of this Japanese-style rifle.
The only thing to worry about is to find the Japanese artillery after exposing the target, whether it is a mortar or a Type 92 infantry gun, they can easily reach them, so before opening fire, you must hide your whereabouts.
"Luo Daquan! Is it safe to hit this distance now? ”
Every 100 meters or so, Platoon Commander Yuan would ask such questions repeatedly. Luo Daquan is a mortar team leader under Platoon Commander Yuan, and he is also the best mortar player in the platoon. Whether the two mortars in 1 shot can exert their power depends on Luo Daquan's ability.
In the first few operations of the 1st platoon, Luo Daquan's mortars fired a total of twelve shells and hit five. If you take into account that Luo Daquan was responsible for the launch of all calibration shells, this is really a remarkable achievement. In the words of Platoon Commander Yuan, Luo Daquan is really a natural gunner.
Just a few days ago, Luo Daquan was still a rifleman, and I don't know where this kid got this talent for fighting artillery, but he actually became one after a short period of training. Qualified artillerymen, in fact, if it weren't for the fact that the 121st Division had received a large number of mortars and grenadiers from the devils, and whether there were enough artillery to operate them, so the officers and men of the whole division were selected and trained, maybe Luo Daquan's talent would have been buried.
After hearing Platoon Commander Yuan's question, Luo Daquan raised the thumb of his right hand and squinted his eyes to "observe" for a few seconds, then turned his head and coaxed to tell Platoon Commander Yuan that he had entered his range.
Platoon Commander Yuan was very happy when he heard this, and entering the firing range meant that his troops did not have to risk moving forward. There are dangers everywhere at night like this, and it's always good to stay away from the devils!
The words that the company commander said before setting off always lingered in the heart of Platoon Commander Yuan, and now he was also a little nervous.
"Good! Then you quickly set the firing position, and after you have set it, I will let the machine gun crew occupy the high place as cover, and we will fight quickly! ”
"The depression over there is very nice! We had been here the night before, and I had taken a fancy to the place, and it was perfect to have a mortar position in it, where the machine gunners could occupy the small dirt bags in front and the fire could cover a large open space in front of them! ”
Luo Daquan carried the mortar gun and pointed at the left front with his left hand, and then said a long reason. Platoon Commander Yuan looked in the direction of Luo Daquan's income and expenditure, and sure enough, he saw a small dirt bag slightly exposed to the ground, and there were bushes on the side, and behind the small dirt bag, there was a small depression, and the mortar was a curved weapon, and it would not be affected by the small dirt bag if it was hidden in the depression, this Luo Daquan's eyes were quite thieves!
"Okay! You are an artillery expert, you are the protagonist, I listen to you! The machine gun team seized the commanding heights on both sides of the small dirt bag in the left front, and the infantry squad sent a few people to the front to act as a guard, and then sent two people to the top of the dirt bag to be responsible for watching the impact point, and the rest of the people protected the artillery with me! ”
After Platoon Commander Yuan finished speaking, he waved his hand, and the officers and men of the 1st Platoon scattered to each carry out their own tasks.
Luo Daquan led the two mortar teams to run to the edge of the depression quickly, and at this moment, the devil suddenly fired two flares at this area, and in an instant, the night sky with a small earthen edge was illuminated a miserable white, Luo Daquan hurriedly lowered his voice and shouted: "Get out into the depression!" Fast! ”
A total of ten people from the two mortar teams rolled into the depression with the mortar parts and ammunition boxes in their arms, and the bushes on the edge of the depression were run over by people's bodies and fell down, but fortunately, there were dirt buns in front of them that blocked the view of the Japanese soldiers and did not attract further action from the Japanese troops.
"Grandma's! With so many broken stones, I touched Lao Tzu's brain! ”
One of the munitionmen, wounded as he rolled into the depression, with a sharp edge of the stone on his head, leaned against the edge of the depression while covering the wound, and then reached for the hygiene bag around his waist, intending to bandage it himself.
After the flares in the sky dimmed, Platoon Commander Yuan and several infantry also rushed into the depression. Platoon Commander Yuan saw the injured ammunition hand at a glance, and hurriedly leaned over to help the ammunition hand bandage.
"Passive, the wound is quite deep, you have to tie it tightly!"
The platoon commander Yuan wrapped gauze around the wound of the ammunition hand and whispered to remind the ammunition hand to pay attention to cooperation, which produced wounded people before the battle, and the string in the heart of the platoon commander Yuan began to tighten tighter.
The restlessness made the platoon commander Yuan give Luo Daquan a new order, and the platoon commander Yuan hoped that the preparation action before the mortar fire could be faster.
"This thing can't be rushed! Platoon leader! Gotta take it one step at a time! It's not even the slightest bit wrong......"
At this time, the deputy gunner holding the mortar base had already put the base on the ground, Luo Daquan installed the mortar barrel in his hand, and the other gunner next to him leaned over to install the mortar's bracket.
Together, these three main parts were assembled into an 82-mm mortar.
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"Less poor mouth! Aim well! Aim for the first shot! ”
Platoon Commander Yuan interrupted Luo Daquan's words, he didn't want to waste even a second of time, a strange premonition drove Platoon Leader Yuan to climb to the edge of the depression, Platoon Commander Yuan pushed aside a few plants in the bushes, and began to search for the soldiers he sent out with his eyes.
The Czech light machine guns on both sides have been erected, and the shooters have done a good job of camouflage, but unfortunately they only pay attention to the front, although the 662nd Regiment is an elite transferred from the 139th Division, but after several months of fighting, the proportion of veterans has also dropped to about forty percent. In the attack team led by Platoon Commander Yuan, there were only seven or eight veterans.
Needless to say, the machine gunner who didn't care about his head must not be a veteran of the same period as Platoon Commander Yuan.
The infantry platoon commander Yuan in front of the earth bun couldn't see it, but it was inferred from the fact that the machine gunner didn't react in any way, and the brothers in charge of the guard should also be safe and sound. Then Platoon Commander Yuan set his eyes on the top of the small earthen bag, he needed to contact the two infantrymen who observed the mortar shell impact point as soon as possible, and when the mortar was test-fired, the two infantrymen on the top of the earthen bag were equivalent to the eyes of the mortar!
But the platoon commander Yuan did not see the two infantry on the top of the bun to respond to the signal he sent, a distance of dozens of meters, the platoon commander Yuan was able to see the two figures nested in the bushes on the top of the bun, and the other party had no reason not to see the platoon commander Yuan.
"Damn! I have to let Lao Tzu go there himself! ”
Platoon Commander Yuan clenched his right hand into a fist and pounded it on the ground a few times, and then retracted his body with a curse in his mouth. Platoon Commander Yuan returned to the center of the depression and immediately called an infantry member to prepare to go to the top of the earthen buns.
Just after Platoon Commander Yuan retreated, the two figures in the bushes on top of the bun moved, and if Platoon Commander Yuan saw it, he would definitely be startled, because his two soldiers slid straight down to the other side of the bun, as if they had been dragged away by something. A few seconds later, two new figures appeared in the bushes, the difference was that their faces seemed to be facing the direction of the depression.
"Anan Nakasa! These soldiers really chose the depression below as their artillery position, and you expected it all! It's amazing! ”
The Japanese dialogue reveals the identities of these two people in the bushes, they are the captain of the 10th Division's Scout Brigade, Anami Nakasa, and the squadron Kamihara Shaosa, and in the face of the 121st Division's increasingly unscrupulous night raids, the Japanese finally made a frontal counterattack!
More than 100 Japanese infantrymen were hiding in the bushes in front of the small earthen bag, and in order to prevent the target from being exposed, Anan Nakasa ordered these Japanese soldiers to paint the steel helmets with black paint, and the uniforms were covered with straw, and even the exposed facial features were painted with mud.
These Japanese troops arrived more than two hours earlier than Yuan's platoon commander, and Anan Nakasa, the officers of the Japanese reconnaissance unit, received an order from their division commander, Ryosuke Isoya, to strangle the Chinese night attack troops.
In front of the broad Tengxian defense line of the Japanese army, there were more than a dozen ambush units with the same mission as Anan Zhongzuo, and the Japanese army dispatched all their reconnaissance units and commandos in order to teach the 121st Division a lesson.
"Maehara Shaozo, now is not the time to celebrate, the person who emerged from the bushes just now should be the commander of this small Chinese force! His soldiers didn't reply to his signals, which would make him suspicious. ”
Anan Nakasa's words showed his qualities as a reconnaissance officer, because he did not expect that the commander of the Chinese commando would send soldiers to the top of the small earthen bag, Anan Nakasa had to order his soldiers to kill the two Chinese soldiers who appeared in front of them, and just as Anan Nakasa was about to let the Japanese soldiers drag the two Chinese soldiers' bodies to a hiding place, a Chinese officer peeked out of the bushes in the depression.
It was impossible for Anan to ask the corpse what the signal from the Chinese officer meant, and he could not immediately order the troops to attack. Until the machine guns that the Chinese commanders have placed on the high ground on both sides are not resolved, then the assault will pay a high price.
In desperation, Anan decided to use the corpses of Chinese soldiers to confuse the Chinese officers, but Anan Nakasa had nothing, leaving the two corpses motionless and in their original form. The Chinese soldiers on the top of the small earthen bags did not see the illusion of their commander.
Anan Zhongzuo won this bet, and it can be seen from the little annoyance that the Chinese officer subconsciously made when he retracted that Anan Zhongzuo succeeded in confusing the Chinese officer.
"Send two sniper teams to keep an eye on the Chinese machine gunners on both sides, and order the grenadiers to get ready, and as soon as the guns go off, they must immediately kill the machine guns of the men!"
"Hay! Your Excellency Nakasa! I'll do it! ”
Maehara Shosa climbed backwards from the bushes, and a Japanese soldier took Maehara Shosa's place.
"The commander of the Shina people will come up soon, you'd better get rid of him without firing!"
After saying that, Anan Nakasa also retreated and left the bush, and then another soldier came up, and the new ghost soldier took two black daggers in his mouth, he handed one of them to his partner, and then took out the southern pistol from his waist with his free hand.
The first Jun Cao pressed the hand of the second Jun Cao who was about to open the pistol safe, and at the same time whispered: "Your Excellency Nakasa has an order, it is best not to use a gun!" ”
The new Devil Scout Cao smiled, the moonlight illuminated his face, a huge scar pulled along the bridge of the Devil Scout Cao's nose all the way to his chin, coupled with the hoarse voice, this guy was like a murderous demon.
"It's better not to use it, it's not forbidden to use it! Killing people is the easiest way to do it......"
The first Jun Cao let go of his hand, and encountered such a madman, no matter how much he said, I am afraid it will not be useful.
According to Anan Nakasa's order, the two Japanese sniper teams quietly went around to the flanks of the two machine gun positions of the 1st platoon, and the Japanese snipers who occupied the advantageous position raised the sniper rifles in their hands, and then from the sights, the head of the Chinese machine gunners was trapped.
As soon as the finger on the trigger moves, the bullet will whistle out!
At this time, two figures flashed in the depression under the small dirt bag, and it was Platoon Commander Yuan and his soldiers who began to act.
"The people of China are coming! Get ready for battle! ”
The first soldier Cao issued a warning, Anan Nakasa behind the bushes waved his hand at his soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers took out their bayonets from their waists and began to install them, the bolt was pulled, the bullets were loaded, and a battle was about to begin!
Platoon Commander Yuan ran around for a while and suddenly felt a chill rise from under his feet, Platoon Commander Yuan knew that this was a warning from his body, and there was danger ahead!
There is no basis for this, and Platoon Commander Yuan did not find any abnormalities, this is completely his intuition! Veteran's intuition!
Rolling on the battlefield for a long time, the veteran's nose is able to sniff out the snare! That's the value of a veteran!
"Lie down! There are enemies! ”
Platoon Commander Yuan stretched out his hand and pushed his soldier violently, then picked up the flower machine gun and pulled the trigger on the top of the dirt bag!
"Da da da ......!"
The crisp sound of gunfire directly reached the ears of the officers and soldiers of the first platoon in the depression, and Luo Daquan pulled out the Mauser pistol on his waist and loaded it...... (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )