Chapter 851: Beachhead
The forward troops of the 346th Regiment came ashore, and groups of soldiers climbed up from the great ice river, and then rushed forward in a hurry.
The cotton clothes all over the body were soaked, and in the environment of dozens of degrees below zero, it took a few minutes to make the soaked cotton clothes become ice armor that hindered movement.
Armor was a protective equipment for ancient samurai in battle, but it was useless in the face of modern machine-gun fire, and not only was it useless, but it also made people's actions look extremely clumsy.
Dressed in frozen cold cotton clothes, unable to make all kinds of effective tactical moves, the most nimble fighters also turned into stiff rookies, and batch after batch of fighters were swept down under machine-gun fire.
The soldiers were very angry, because in such an environment, the troops suffered too much, and they felt that they could not exert their strength and were too aggrieved.
A few bunkers can stop Lao Tzu? Some grassroots commanders were organizing a fire counterattack to suppress the enemy's fire so that more troops could land on the shore, but the barrels of the guns in the hands of the soldiers were filled with water, and the barrels of the guns filled with water immediately froze again, and the weapons in their hands could not be fired for a while.
I don't know who shouted: "Pour urine, dissolve the barrel of the gun." ”
This is a good method, the army has also used it in the past when fighting in the cold zone, the heat of the urine can temporarily melt the weapon for a few seconds, as long as the first bullet is fired, the heat energy generated by the gunpowder firing can make the propulsion mechanism of the gun continue to move, and then it will be easy to do, but North Korea is still too cold, and the severe cold that occurs once in 50 years makes it a big problem for people to survive in the wild. In such cold weather, it is not easy to pee in a seemingly simple way, not to mention that the clothes of the fighters are frozen. I can't even untie my belt, let alone pee.
Damn, a living person can suffocate urine.
Regiment Commander Wu Baoguang, who was charging with the troops, scolded his mother anxiously, because the head of the higher-level command organ was waiting for the news of their 346th Regiment's successful landing, and the division commander and army commander were watching the movements of their 346th Regiment, but they were blocked by several bunkers, and the troops were suppressed on the beachhead. This made the arrogant head Wu very unhappy and felt very angry.
Li Yong and the soldiers of the detachment crossed the Imjin River in the middle of the 346th Regiment. Just a little later than the front sharp knife to go ashore, Li Yong saw the command organ of the 346th Regiment from a distance, under a low soil ridge, the regiment commander Wu Baoguang was shouting and organizing the troops to counterattack.
Same as the 346th Regiment. Most of the weapons of the squad were also soaked in the river water, and the barrel of the gun was filled with ice water, but fortunately, the five heavy machine guns of the machine gun squad were fine, and the machine gun squad of the squad temporarily established a firing position in the middle of the big ice river in order to suppress the enemy's firepower, and later in order to avoid the enemy's artillery fire, when the position was transferred, the machine gun was directly dragged away without even having time to decompose, because the weight of the whole gun of Makqin was too large, and when the river was swam, it was resisted by several soldiers with their shoulders. So the body of the gun was very dry, and not a drop of water went in.
This can be regarded as a crooked hit, and the five heavy machine guns of the machine gun squad can be fired at any time. There were not many people in the squad, and Li Yong was not far from the machine gun squad when he crossed the river, so he knew the situation very well.
Taking advantage of the terrain and features, Li Yong and a few people quickly maneuvered to the regimental command post of the 346th Regiment on the beachhead where artillery fire and bullets were flying.
Company commander Li Yuming muttered and cursed as he ran, saying that the clothes on his body were really worthy of the enemy's military uniform. When it came to the critical moment, he confronted him, and when he ran away, he made him fall a few big heels. He should be shot, and as for how to shoot the enemy's uniform, it is not a question for him to think about, that is a profound truth that only the brigade commander can understand.
He Cuihua, the deputy company commander, didn't save face for him at all, and unforgiving the exposé: "Li Yuming, are you used to fighting in the tank, and you talk nonsense after running a few steps, where is the old tradition of our Eighth Route Army?" What kind of enemy's military uniform does not cooperate, I think it is because you still want to go back to the tank battalion and want to learn the way the US imperialist army fights, and you have a problem in your head. ”
He Cuihua's big hat made Li Yuming dizzy, how could he complain a few words to have something to do with imperialism, and also lost the old traditions of the Eighth Route Army, is this all worth it!! He Cuihua, this girl not only fights hard, but also has a mouth that is not forgiving, so she will pay more attention in the future.
The so-called regimental command post is really too simple, or it can't be called a command post, and the command headquarters of the 346th Regiment only has two Czech light machine guns responsible for cover.
"Captain Wu, how's the situation?"
Li Yong stepped under the soil ridge in a few steps, and then quickly lay down and lay beside Wu Baoguang.
Commander Wu Baoguang's head was smoking, his 346th Regiment suffered a lot of casualties, it was just a forced crossing of the Imjin River, the big battle was still to come, if you hit nails everywhere at the beginning, how could you fight the battle later, however, Wu Baoguang had experienced too many battles, and now he was still calm, turned his head and glanced at Li Yong and replied:
"The chief is also here, the situation is not very good, the enemy's fire from these bunkers is very fierce, I observed it, and found that the enemy's fire points are all connected with trenches, and they can support each other at any time, our suppressive firepower is insufficient, and several blasting groups have been lost."
Li Yong took a closer look, isn't it, several enemy bunkers are built on the ridge line of the beachhead, the geographical location is well chosen, the projectiles spit out from the shooting hole are swept over in a string, and the area of hundreds of meters is blocked to death, and our army's machine guns cannot be fired because there is too much water when crossing the big ice river, and the only rifle responsible for covering is the rifle that can be held on the head when crossing the river with light weight, such firepower is much weaker than the machine gun in the bunker, plus the flat beachhead terrain, The 346th Regiment went up several times, but there was no way to take the enemy's firepower points.
It seems that in order to quickly get through guò, it is necessary to kill these bunkers, otherwise the troops will not be able to bypass, and the best weapons to deal with this kind of fire point that is not high in height and can still be connected with each other are bazookas and recoilless guns that are easy for infantry to carry, just like the most common four-zero fire and eighty-two no in the army in later generations, as long as there are these two weapons, the so-called difficult bones will not become bones, but the reality now is that not only Li Yong's squad does not have such weapons, Even the 346th Regiment, the main regiment of the 39th Army, did not have such weapons, and the only blasting equipment of the 346th Regiment was explosives bags and blasting canisters, which were still being transferred from China because they were about to fight a major battle, and the only ones left were the grenades carried by the soldiers.
There was no other way but to use people to send explosives to kill the nail that was blocking the way, and the 346th Regiment did exactly that, but because of the lack of covering firepower, several demolition teams were sacrificed on the way.
Equipment, equipment, our army suffers too many problems in equipment, Li Yong knows that there must be such weapons on the positions of the United Nations Army on the opposite side, as long as we can capture them, we can play a big role, but if we want to capture the enemy's weapons, we must first defeat the enemy, otherwise we will not mention any capture.
"Commander Wu, our terrain is not good, and this beach is not conducive to our army's charge, so it is not a good way to be hard."
"Chief, I also know that it is not a good way to be hard, but if you take a look, we are surrounded by the impact plains of the Imjin River, and we can't find any terrain that can be hidden, so what can we do if we don't get hard."
"Don't worry, Commander Wu, my squad has brought a machine gun squad, equipped with five Makqins, all of which are equipment that can be fired at any time, wait a minute, pull them up, seal the gun hole of the enemy's bunker with firepower, let's send explosives up, Li Yuming, bring the machine gun squad up."
Hearing that there are five Makqin that can be fired at any time, Commander Wu Baoguang's eyes immediately lit up, and Li Yong's eyes were not right, people are people, we are also people, why can a small detachment of more than 200 people have five heavy machine guns and nothing, do we have thousands of masters in the 346th Regiment, is it not comparable to more than 200 of them? ? However, now is not the time to compete with the superiors, and winning the battle is the right thing.
Commander Wu Baoguang's mind turned countless times in an instant, and just when he was a little distracted, he saw a guy who was following the young chief and dragged out a soldier, who was carrying a walkie-talkie.
The soldier with the walkie-talkie skillfully turned on the equipment and called the machine gun squad to bring all the equipment quickly, the sooner the better.
After the Liberation War, walkie-talkies are not a rare item in the ranks of the People's Liberation Army, and Commander Wu Baoguang is no stranger to this kind of communication equipment, because there are such communication equipment in the 346th Regiment, but there are them, but the number is really scarce, and only the troops above the battalion level in the 346th Regiment can be equipped with a walkie-talkie, and the units below the company are not even able to think about it, and the entire 346th Regiment only has five walkie-talkies, and one of them is bad, but it depends on the meaning of the small detachment from the superiors. A very ordinary machine gun squad is equipped with such equipment, which makes the commander of the 346th Regiment of our main force, Wu Baoguang, very depressed.
Hmph, the higher-level unit is a cow, and there is a walkie-talkie in the infantry squad!! The chiefs are really too eccentric, no, my Lao Wu's troops are also the main force, and our 346th Regiment is the trump card, why don't you equip us with such a good guy, and when the battle is over, you must go to the chiefs to make trouble.
Wu Baoguang really blamed his superior chief, because the equipment of Li Yong's squad was all the stuff of the Independent Brigade, which was brought to Korea from Shigatse thousands of miles away, and had nothing to do with the superior chief.
Logistics has always been the PLA's shortcoming, and this is something that everyone recognizes, but in fact, insufficient communication capabilities are also a problem that cannot be ignored in the people's army. (To be continued) I752