Chapter 253: Prologue to the Decisive Battle

Cheng Bin, a native of Wanping County, Beiping. A guy with the same name as the number one traitor of the Anti-Union First Army, and a famous sharpshooter in the original regiment. Since he was a child, he grew up in the deep mountains of Taihang Mountain, and since he was a child, in addition to farming and grazing, he brought an old sleeve that was about to be polished in exchange for five wolf skins to hunt and subsidize his father, and exercised a good marksmanship.

At the beginning of last year, when I went to Wanping County, which had been lost for almost a year, to sell skins, I was arrested by several Japanese military police officers who wanted to buy skins but did not want to pay for them as anti-Japanese elements and were arrested into the gendarmerie. Not to mention that the prey was confiscated, he himself was sold as a laborer by the Wanping Gendarmerie and sent to the Jingpo Lake Hydropower Site.

After being rescued by Yang Zhen at the beginning of the year, he was inexplicably unlucky, suffered inhuman hardships for almost a whole year, and hated the little devil to the extreme, and joined the army without saying a word. His one-handed marksmanship is admired even by those veteran gunners who have been crisscrossing the mountains and forests of Northeast China for many years. No matter if the gun is broken, as long as the barrel is still straight, once it is handed over to him, it will not take half a day to make it fascinating.

It's just that when the reconnaissance battalion was formed, he was picked by Li Mingrui at a glance, but he was retained by Wang Guangyu, who loves talents, on the grounds that he is still young and his physical fitness needs to be strengthened. When the first regiment formed a sniper platoon, he was directly appointed by Wang Guangyu as the platoon commander.

When I was at home before, I used an old sleeve with polished rifling. When he arrived in the army, he had been using the Type 38 rifle, and he was now in love with the water bead rifle with a scope, a thick body, and excellent accuracy.

In the sniper reinforcement training team personally organized by Yang Zhen, he even compared many old snipers in the reconnaissance battalion when he received sniper system training for the first time.

Even in an after-training competition, at a distance of 400 meters, Yang Zhen was defeated by his men in a rapid fire of ten bullets. After knowing his situation, Yang Zhen just laughed and scolded Wang Guangyu, this guy is too good at hiding secrets, and he didn't say anything except letting such a good seedling slip out from under his nose.

For Cheng Bin, who has always wanted to enter the reconnaissance camp, he did not agree. It's just a matter of telling Cheng Bin that since he has become a glorious anti-Japanese revolutionary soldier, there must be a revolutionary soldier I am a brick of the revolution, and I need to move there with the consciousness of moving there. Let him work in a group with peace of mind.

Seeing that Yang Zhen just laughed and scolded himself, he didn't dig into his corner afterwards, nor did he investigate his own private practices, which made Wang Guangyu sigh in shame. And now, it's time for him to reward him handsomely for his scolding for his selfish behavior.

Hardly has received any systematic sniper training, but can defeat Yang Zhen, who has been specially trained for a long time in later generations, Cheng Bin's almost innate feeling for guns can be described as absolutely superb.

Although Wada Takashi hid himself among dozens of guards for safety. But according to the skills that Cheng Bin has learned since childhood, and the almost innate feeling of shooting. As long as Cheng Bin was given a small gap, he was sure that he would send this guy with a bright saber and a large number of guards around him to meet their Amaterasu.

Opportunities always come suddenly. Just as Wa Tian Takashi and a guard beside him accidentally slipped while running, his body was crooked, but he didn't expect to step on the mine left by the 89th Wing in front of him.

In order to avoid being affected by the fragments of the mine, the moment Watian Takashi and his guards lay down, when Wada Dazuo, who was half a beat slower, pulled his head and exposed, Cheng Bin accurately seized this rare opportunity and gently pulled the trigger.

A 7.62 mm rifle bullet shot out of the chamber of his gun accurately hit the one who was scolding in his heart: "Baga, there is no end." How can there be landmines on a road that has been traversed? "The head of Wada Daisa. Unfortunately, Takashi Wada and Osa were directly opened by his extremely accurate bullets.

As the saying goes, there is no double blessing, and there is no single line of evil. This is not wrong at all, under the escort of dozens of guards, Watian Daisa, who has not yet been able to take care of himself, was not only killed by one shot. Even in order to rescue him, the scrambling guards stepped on three or four mines around one after another. In the violent explosion of the mines, Wada Osa not only did not survive, but not even a single corpse was left behind.

Takashi Wada's death made Lieutenant General Nemoto realize a fact, first, on the battlefield, it is very dangerous to casually expose your head to cover, and it is not because you are in the so-called rear that you may be spared. Second, there are snipers in ambush around the opposing side. Third, he should never expect the endless mines to be wiped out.

And much faster than Lieutenant General Nemoto was the Japanese artillery. Although it was impossible to find out the specific location of the sniper at once, the experienced veteran quickly determined the approximate location of Cheng Bin from the general direction of the trajectory. Although I don't dare to send people to arrest you because of the heavy mines, I can always cover you with artillery fire.

Just as Cheng Bin was hit with one blow and quickly crawled back, the Japanese artillery shells whistled and followed. It's just that it has never been clear whether Yang Zhen's department has changed to a standard sniper rifle, or the Japanese army that uses sharpshooters who use ordinary rifles to calculate the range, obviously not understanding a fact.

That is, although the shooting distance of the average sharpshooter is only between 300 and 200 meters, the effective range of a sniper rifle equipped with a standard scope can be extended to 400 to 600 meters, and even in an open area, it is not impossible to accurately hit the target at a distance of 800 meters.

Although the Japanese artillery shells kept exploding behind Cheng Bin, the closest hit to him was a hundred meters away. Although Cheng Bin was a little nervous, he still returned unscathed to the next sniper point he chose. The Japanese army, which thought that its marksmanship was accurate, that its soldiers were well-trained and did not need professional snipers, suffered a real loss this time.

The shells went on for a while but didn't bring anything in return, and the guy who was hiding in the shadows and firing the black gun didn't know if he was hit by the shell or didn't hit at all. Anyway, at least on the surface, Lieutenant General Nemoto, who has gained nothing from the shelling for a while, decisively put an end to the meaningless behavior of this Langfei shell. At least in his opinion, it is a meaningless act of Lang Fei.

Another reason why Lieutenant General Gen Bo terminated Cheng Bin's artillery pursuit. Since he remained in Jiamusi in the main force of the sappers, he only had an engineer brigade with him that could only repair bridges and pave roads, but could not clear mines. So he made the decision that seemed right to everyone, to remove at least the mines from the highway with shells.

As for whether the bodies of the officers and soldiers who died in battle on the road, including Takashi Wada and Osa, who were killed by mines because no one dared to collect them, would be torn to pieces by their own shells, that is what everyone does not care. For the Japanese officers and soldiers who are still alive, as long as they don't step on those weird mines.

This decision really made it very difficult for Root Bo. At this time, the Japanese army, which was still majestic, paid great attention to the respect for the war dead. In particular, in order to maintain morale, he pays great attention to the custody of the corpses of the war dead on his side. Generally, it is necessary to carry it back to China after being cremated.

Don't look at the high-ranking generals of the Japanese army, they just take down the soldiers on the side as tools that can fight, talking animals, and a necessary consumable in war. But if someone really does attack the corpses of their own side of the battle, they will definitely be punished heavily. Because this is a very demoralizing thing in the superstitious Japanese army.

Lieutenant General Nemoto knew that his decision was likely to make the division commander who was not yet hot under his ass change his position again. If you don't even get it, you will be sent home directly. But he also knew he had no choice. In addition to using people to go to minefields, the only way to clear them is to use artillery shells.

Nebo who had made up his mind said to a staff officer beside him: "Order the artillery, in addition to leaving a base number of shells, to concentrate all the artillery fire along the road and sweep me inch by inch." When the troops attack there, the shells will sweep the minesweepers there. Be sure to clear me of these damn, endless mines on the road. In addition, immediately send a report to Jiamusi and ask them to send professional minesweeper engineers. ”

Lieutenant General Genic's atmosphere, although there is a suspicion of strict zhòng Lang Fei, but there is still a reward for the effort. After knocking out more than half of the base ammunition he carried, Lieutenant General Nemoto finally cleared a route that could be walked. Although the mine-cleared highway is much more difficult to walk because it is full of large and small craters, at least it is safe.

However, after the artillery fire completely cleared the road, Lieutenant General Gen Bo, who was still a little uneasy, directly sent out the Second Regiment of the Jing'an Army, which had only been retracted with great difficulty, after he could not find the common people as human shields to confirm it again. Lined up horizontally, arm in arm, starting from the soil ridge and walking all the way to the mangang two kilometers ahead.

When a company was drawn out of all Japanese officers, the Jing'an Army was forced by the bayonets of a squadron of Japanese troops to take to the road. Although after seeing the corpses of Japanese soldiers who were blown to pieces on the side of the road, they were frightened and frightened, and hated the Japanese soldiers behind them to death. But the puppet soldiers whose guns were collected, under the coercion of the Japanese army behind them, could only bite the bullet and open the way for the Japanese army in front.

Fortunately, as long as they didn't deviate along the way, they walked to the green gauze tents on both sides of the road, and they were safe along the way. At least it doesn't look like anyone has been killed or injured by the mines. From this point of view, the Japanese army's artillery technology is still very solid and excellent.

Seeing that the road that the puppet Manchu army had walked was safe and sound, the officers and men of the 89th Wing, who were lying on the ground on both sides of the road to avoid the mine-sweeping artillery fire of their own people, also approached the road one after another. By the time the puppet Manchurian army that took the lead had reached a place less than 500 meters away from Wang Guangyu's preset second blocking position, all the officers and men of the 3rd Brigade of the 89th Wing, which were scattered on both sides of the road, were still alive and sound.

Looking at the mangane that was getting closer and closer, being ravaged by their own aviation, almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Although there were no bullets fired on the mangang, the Japanese soldiers, who had already suffered enough losses before, although reluctantly, quickly dispersed and prepared for battle. And the Jing'an Army, which was previously used as a human flesh opener, was upgraded to a high-level human shield at this time.

After the return of the weapon, it was pushed directly to the front line. Not only this company, but even their entire regiment was transferred by Lieutenant General Nebo in order to reduce casualties, and entrusted with the important task of the first wave of attacks.

As for the fact that there were many sons and daughters of the Manchukuo magnates in this regiment, it was not something that Lieutenant General Bo had to consider. Because looking at the mangan post in front of him, there is always an ominous premonition in the root Bozhong.

What happened next proved the accuracy of Hiroshi Nemoto's hunch. When the puppet Manchurian Jing'an army had already charged to the foot of Mangang, just after the aviation force had withdrawn, tongues of fire erupted everywhere on Mangang, which had just been silent. Accurate mortars blasted into the sky in droves of Japanese soldiers who were scattered but still reluctant to leave the road and still appeared to be congregated.

I just didn't know that under the threat of the air force, which had been evacuated in the air but was still hovering not far away, the heavy artillery that had brought huge casualties to the 32nd Wing had not spoken. The opponent only used flexible mortars and infantry artillery to launch artillery bombardment on the attacking Japanese troops.

In the eyes of the officers and men of the 24th Division, the kind of shells with a long flame trailing behind their tails, and almost no movement except for the sound of swishing in the sky, were much more terrifying than the 150-millimeter howitzers. Although the caliber is only 107 mm, the threat to them is much greater than that of a 150 mm heavy howitzer.

The commander of the artillery wing of the 24th Division, who had never seen or heard of such weapons as multiple rocket launchers in the world, told him bluntly after surveying the scene of the shelling of the 32nd Wing, that this kind of fire intensity could only produce this effect by the shells fired by an artillery wing when it fired a salvo.

The commander of the artillery wing, who didn't know what MLRS was all about, knew that there were only six MLRS that fired a salvo of at least one artillery wing in his eyes. There is simply no such thing as an artillery wing.

This kind of rocket artillery is the best time to give full play to its firepower advantage when it strikes the enemy's heavy army clusters. Wang Guangyu is not a fool for the Japanese troops that are now scattered and very open, can he use this precious rocket to fight the Japanese army with the largest cluster of no more than one squadron?

Not being attacked by such horrific rockets was an extremely fortunate thing for the Japanese troops who launched the attack. They didn't know that the opponent just didn't want to spend this precious rocket on them, and the opponent's six MLRS had been locked and hidden behind the soil ridge that they had abandoned, because of this natural barrier, the artillery wing of the 24th Division had not even done to protect it.