Chapter 126: Wave Battle (3)
Lu Yuan's trophies can't just be these machine guns and grenadiers, in the places where they fought, different amounts of weapons and ammunition have already been buried on the spot, as long as there is a suitable opportunity, these weapons and ammunition that have been temporarily buried in the ground will be dug up again. "You can really do it, if you get all these weapons out, you can equip at least two reinforced companies." After reading the battle briefing handed by Ning Ze, Zhao Dahai's heart was only left with ecstasy.
The lack of necessary weapons and equipment is an important reason why the Eighth Route Army has not been able to expand the number of front-line troops, but since Lu Yuan cooperated with them, his company has attacked the Japanese munitions train twice, and eliminated a large number of Japanese puppet troops, and the captured weapons and ammunition are enough for the headquarters to arm a main force regiment. "Don't be too happy yet, we're back to join you this time because there's a big operation that requires enough manpower." Ning Ze suddenly pulled Zhao Dahai aside and whispered to Zhao Dahai.
Lu Yuan and they have always acted as bait, taking the Japanese puppet army in Baoding, Zhengding and Hengshui around, and then looking for an opportunity to eliminate the Japanese puppet army following them in the movement. In the battle of ambushing the Zhengding Japanese puppet army a day ago, Lu Yuan and the others accidentally obtained a news that the Japanese army of Shijiazhuang, who was originally scheduled to go south, had decided to transfer a large group of troops to participate in the encirclement and suppression of Lu Yuan, and the forward troops of this Japanese army brigade had already set off.
"Lu means to beat them, find a place to ambush their forward troops first, and then lead them to the direction of Wuyi County, and fight guerrilla warfare and movement warfare with them in the place we have chosen in advance, and strive to completely drag them down." Ning Ze seemed to have become Lu Yuan's spokesman at this moment, and told Zhao Dahai and Kang Cheng about Lu Yuan's countermeasures after consideration, Zhao Dahai naturally had no objections, only Kang Cheng was still a little worried, after all, the Japanese troops coming from the direction of Shijiazhuang were at the brigade level.
"What we have to deal with now is only their forward troops, and according to what I know about the Japanese army, their forward units are at most squadron level. If we want to bring the Japanese brigade from Shijiazhuang to the battlefield we have chosen, we must first hurt them, otherwise it will be difficult to do the rest of the matter. Lu Yuan did not give a positive answer to this, but his confident appearance made Zhao Dahai and Kang Cheng feel at ease.
After several battles, the current strength of Zhao Dahai's company is less than 100 people, in order to implement the next series of actions, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, which received Ning Ze's report, immediately transferred the strength of two companies to Zhao Dahai, and Zhao Dahai was also promoted to battalion commander. With more than 300 troops, Zhao Dahai also showed generosity, directly increasing Lu Yuan's assault team from more than 30 people to 60 people, and also specially got two artillery pieces from the headquarters and handed them over to Lu Yuan.
A day later, the reconnaissance team sent out by Lu Yuan exchanged fire with the Japanese strikers coming from the direction of Shijiazhuang, because they had already received Lu Yuan's instructions in advance, and the reconnaissance team just fought and withdrew, and soon attracted the Japanese strikers in Shijiazhuang to the direction and route that Lu Yuan wanted them to appear. The target has appeared, and it has been lured in the wrong direction and route by the reconnaissance team, and all that remains is how to eat this Japanese striker.
Lu Yuan finally chose a very ordinary section of the road to start, behind the mountain stream on the left side of this section of the road, there is a stone hill about eight or nine meters high, and the mountain is sparsely covered with a few bushes, which cannot accommodate a large group of people to ambush. On the right side of the road, however, there is a large stretch of open land, with undulating mounds in the open field forming an excellent ambush position. After discussing with Zhao Dahai and them, Lu Yuan finally decided to lead a three-person team to ambush on a rocky hill, taking advantage of the condescending terrain to fully suppress the counterfire of the Japanese army.
Zhao Dahai led two platoons of troops to lurk in the open field on the right side of the road, and all the light and heavy machine guns were also arranged in the open field, and the reinforcement in an intersection was arranged to shoulder the task of blocking the entire road with firepower. The last remaining platoon, a mile away from the ambush position, was tasked with detonating a second wave* as the Japanese advance troops retreated.
Lu Yuan and the others entered the position four hours in advance to lay an ambush and arrange everything, but there was no news from the reconnaissance team, so everyone could only lie silently in the trenches, waiting for the appearance of the enemy. Lu Yuan on Xiaoshi Mountain was not idle, and at this moment he was concentrating on selecting the bullets that were in his heart from a pile of bullets, and the remaining bullets that were not favored by Lu Yuan belonged to the three-person team and the two headquarters artillery led by Ning Ze.
"Don't look at me, this can only be understood and not spoken, the bullets used by German snipers are selected one by one from a large number of bullets, and some are even selected by snipers themselves." Seeing that Ning Ze was staring at his movements without blinking, Lu Yuan grinned. The reason why he chose bullets like this was to ensure the quality of the bullets on the one hand, and to pass the time on the other hand, but he didn't want to tell Ning Ze the second reason.
"Bullets are assembly line products, even if the Germans claim to be the first in the industrial level, and the Japanese say that their manufacturing level is first-class, they can't guarantee that the * in each bullet is the same. If it is a close-range shot, a small deviation of the bullet will not affect anything, but if it is a long-range shot, often a small deviation will seriously affect the hit and killing effect of the bullet. I'm just roughly estimating the weight of the bullets, and if you do this often, you can measure the difference between the bullets with your hands over time. ”
Measuring the slight difference between bullets of the same caliber with his hands, Lu Yuan's words sounded to Ning Ze and them, which was tantamount to listening to a story of the Arabian Nights, but looking at Lu Yuan's expression, it didn't look like he was really lying, Ning Ze also subconsciously began to learn what the campsite looked like, and weighed those scattered bullets with his hands. Time was lost little by little in the long wait and consumption, and after more than two hours, Zhao Dahai, who had been waiting for a long time, finally saw the reconnaissance team retreating along the road.
Compared to when they left, the reconnaissance team looked very miserable at the moment, and there were only 14 of the 20 people left at the time of departure, and more than half of them were wrapped in gauze. However, the appearance of the Japanese forward squadron in Shijiazhuang, which was led by their noses, was not much better, at least Zhao Dahai could be sure in the telescope that the number of Japanese troops he saw did not exceed 150 at all, and the number of Japanese infantry squadrons would at least exceed 180 people.
The reconnaissance team that was tasked with luring the enemy roared past Zhao Dahai's ambush position, and the Japanese troops who were chasing closely behind him did not suspect him and immediately rushed into the ambush circle. Seeing that the Japanese drama had entered the ambush position, Ning Ze on Xiaoshi Mountain stared at the position on the side of the road* with round eyes. A dull loud bang instantly rushed into his ears, and Ning Ze watched a ball of fire explode among the Japanese soldiers on the road, and the huge or patterned ones were pulled up more than 2 meters high in place, and then a pillar of smoke burst high.
The successive explosions that followed by the "Boom ......" also burst into fireballs of different sizes on the road, tearing the Japanese troops on the road into several pieces in an instant. This Japanese army from Shijiazhuang was worthy of being the first-class army in Asia, and after such a sudden attack, the remaining Japanese soldiers immediately began to organize a counterattack. Lu Yuan, who was more than 200 meters away, although he couldn't hear what the Japanese officers were shouting, he could go out and see that the Japanese soldiers who had escaped by luck on the highway were jumping off the roadbed like dumplings. Jumping off the roadbed, these Japanese soldiers also had a temporary shelter to cover, but they didn't expect that no matter which side of the roadbed they slid down, there would be guns pointed at their backs.
The Japanese soldiers on the road ran down the roadbed with rolling and climbing, and they looked eager to get into the sand to hide, because of the terrain, the Japanese machine gunners just took the open area on the right side of the road as the focus of defense, and almost all the Japanese soldiers' guns were aimed at that side. Lu Yuan, who was on Xiaoshi Mountain, raised his right hand, and the shooter of the Type 92 heavy machine gun immediately aimed the crosshair of the machine gun at the road, and according to Lu Yuan's signal, he mercilessly began to fire fiercely at the Japanese troops who were facing away from him.
"Da-da-da... Strings of bullets poured down, and among the Japanese soldiers under the roadbed of the highway with their backs to the small stone mountain, a dense barrage like raindrops hit the pile, like chopsticks poking tofu, and more than a dozen clouds of blood mist bloomed in an instant. The Japanese soldiers who slid down the roadbed could not have imagined that the enemy would appear behind them, and the panicked Japanese soldiers should get up in a panic and try to cross the road to counterattack the small rock mountain. It's just that they have just rushed onto the road, and they are shooting at me head-on, and they have to retreat under the roadbed again.
After the heavy machine gun fired, the sniper rifle in Lu Yuan's hand also fired, and the first one hit by Lu Yuan was a Japanese officer. The Japanese officer who was the first to be shot in the arm screamed and rolled down the roadbed, and a Japanese soldier who happened to be under the roadbed reached out to help, but Lu Yuan's second bullet accurately lifted half of his face, and his body was fiercely pushed against the Japanese officer's body. A Japanese soldier who was following Jun Cao also leaned over to support the Japanese officer, but he was first splashed in the face by the other party's *, and then before the Japanese soldier could make other moves, the bullet from Lu Yuan had already passed through his body.
The Japanese troops crowded under the roadbed all became targets, and Lu Yuan's rapid fire also showed its power at this moment. "Well fight, kill them." The two artillerymen from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army shouted excitedly, and everyone saw that there was almost no enemy under Lu Yuan's gun. The three-person team ambushed on the small rocky hill also took Lu Yuan as the core, and began to shoot the Japanese soldiers under the roadbed separately, shooting down the panicked Japanese soldiers under the roadbed one by one. For a time, the dense rain of bullets splashed blood under the roadbed, so that these Japanese soldiers who were covering the roadbed could not even stretch out their guns.