Chapter 63: Fighting

(...Once the company commander and battalion commander died in battle, and I acted as the commander temporarily; that time we were defeated again because I arrived at the command position and didn't know what to do. It was too difficult, and it was completely different from aiming at the enemy in front of me through the smoke... Excerpted from "Grandpa's Memories of the War of Resistance")

The high-altitude fire point changed into the iron bridge caused the great damage to the Japanese far exceeds Cao Xiaomin's expectations. The six Type 92 heavy machine guns that had already measured and designed the shooting parameters fully played their role under such conditions. Long-distance shooting was particularly accurate but the firing rate was not fast. The shooter must closely cooperate with the deputy shooter to operate this heavy machine gun with low comprehensive performance played the best in specific occasions: at a distance of one thousand meters, the condescending heavy machine gun began to snipe the Japanese!

The three-company short shots not only trained the cooperation of machine gun novices, but also had a very high hit rate. Whether it was the Japanese offensive troops, infantry artillery groups, or even small combat groups hiding behind tank vehicles, they were hit by heavy machine guns while approaching the anti-tank trench. When some tank vehicles arrived at the edge of the anti-tank trench, they found that the two squads of infantry following behind were all lying on the long track marks on the ground behind the trench!

The arrogant Japanese artillery, who were used to pushing infantry cannons to shoot directly at targets about 500 meters, suffered heavy losses. Their shields could not block the shooting angle of the machine guns at all. Often before they reached a distance of 800 meters, those artillery soldiers who were pushing the cannons were almost killed by heavy machine guns; the living people were huddled in the corner of the shields, and could not push the cannons or fire. Ten infantry artillery guns on both sides were thrown halfway, and the original artillery group and many Japanese who came up to support were corpses around the cannons.

Although the squadron-level Japanese infantry combat groups that were ready to act as commandos were all moving forward at a dispersed formation, they still suffered heavy losses under machine gun sniping. They often had to lose one-third of their personnel to reach the five hundred meters of the distance prepared to establish an offensive position. When they arrived at their destination, the Japanese who stopped and waved the engineer shovels became long-distance training targets for light machine guns and rifles...

The Japanese, who were anxious and red, had to push more than a dozen tanks to the edge of the anti-tank trenches and suppress the front positions of the Kuomintang army, but the effect was only better than nothing: the trenches of the Kuomintang soldiers were not like before, and their fronts were covered with sandbags; the soldiers hid behind the sandbags and shot from the sides to both sides, and the cross firepower was very lethal but very hidden. It was difficult for the machine gunners on the Japanese tanks to see more firepower points. When they suppressed a firepower point, the Kuomintang army at this firepower point would shift or simply shrank into the trenches to rest... What made the Japanese most helpless was that they received the order to take down the iron bridge intact! - The iron bridge has become a solid fortress, but they cannot bombard it with heavy artillery!

Cao Xiaomin swept across the field with a telescope, and the whole field that he had put into his eyes was scattered with yellow corpses; this miserable situation of the death and injuries of abandoned corpses was everywhere in the wilderness, which was the desperate charge that only belonged to the Kuomintang army in the past!

Great! Cao Xiaomin was excited. The cheating device his grandfather gave him a blow to the Japanese. He attacked the Kuomintang army's multi-level firepower arrangement and the precision strike tactics of the long-distance cross-fire precision strikes left at least four hundred corpses in the field! In addition, the wounded people who were robbed should be twice as many as this... Oh my God! In just less than two hours, if the third battalion's position also achieved similar results, the number of Japanese soldiers killed and injured by the Kuomintang army would exceed half of the rebels!

Unlike the Japanese who were fighting face to face, watching the battlefield across thousands of meters in a telescope is a completely different scene: the gunshots all over the battlefield sound like cracks in the wilderness. In the "Cece Ce" machine gun shooting sound, there are often two groups of Japanese people moving quickly in the telescope. Under the powerful impact of heavy machine gun bullets, the person who was shot will suddenly twist in the air like a broken kite and then look at the very unnatural angle.

If the soldier who was not shot stopped to rescue his companion, he would probably be the next one... The Kuomintang soldiers also used the seized grenade launchers to bombard the Japanese tanks and those bunkers that were barely available. Every time the soldiers who felt that the explosion fell into hell was just a small gray and black smoke in the telescope, which quickly dissipated, and the sound came into their ears, which was similar to the firecrackers he heard during the festival...

...Once the company commander and battalion commander died in battle, and I acted as the commander temporarily; that time we were defeated again because I didn't know what to do at the command position. It was too difficult, and it was completely different from aiming at the enemy in front of me through the smoke... Grandpa Grandpa, I did better than you! Cao Xiaomin was shouting in his heart. He summarized the battle situation of Grandpa Grandpa for many years and arranged this killing field, and responded loudly to the sad sighs in Grandpa's memoirs! As a commander and fighter, Cao Xiaomin was very satisfied with his debut!

A powerful hand suddenly fell on Cao Xiaomin's shoulder: "Brother, as a frontline commander, remember not to be an audience. When you see the enemy being beaten badly, you should quickly look away; you should see where your position is not performing well and where there is a crisis, and think about whether to reinforce; you should pay close attention to the mobilization behind the enemy..."

The person who taught him was Zhang Lingfu, who didn't know when Zhang Lingfu and Zhou Zhidao arrived at the command post on the line of fire!

Yes, Cao Xiaomin has no experience as a commander. This battle was mainly caused by the Japanese who hit the gun. Li Tianhao, who ran directly to the front line trenches, actually did not make any adjustments to the original defensive tactics and power... Cao Xiaomin was an audience member and admired his masterpiece in the telescope; Zhang Lingfu saw it, and he reminded his little brother without anyone noticing.

"The brigade, regiment, model battalion battle was successful, and the Japanese suffered heavy casualties!" Although he was a little embarrassed, Cao Xiaomin could not control his ecstasy and turned around to report to his superiors what everyone saw. He suddenly remembered something... Yes! It's time! He also prepared a big meal for the Japanese, almost forgot to watch as an audience!

"Send the order! The artillery company fired three rapid shots at targets No. 1 and 2!" Cao Xiaomin, who had finally replaced him with a serious face, said ruthlessly to the two bosses: "Let the Japanese taste the power of our artillery!"

Artillery? Zhou Zhidao and Zhang Lingfu didn’t know that Cao Xiaomin got a cannon the day before...

There are two small mounds 1,500 meters and 1,300 meters away from the Kuomintang army's positions, which just happened to escape the observation and direct machine gun shooting of the Kuomintang army. Without much analysis, it can be inferred that the Japanese will definitely use it as a starting position behind it.

On that gentle back slope, Cao Xiaomin asked someone to use bamboo to make a very powerful bamboo spring as a detonation switch, and buried a large amount of explosives underground. These lateral trigger devices were covered with soil and pressed with four or five hundred kilograms of large stones. They would not explode if they stepped on them or even rolled by the car. However, with the cannon, the powerful shock wave shaking the underground. The mechanism can trigger the bamboo spring! Once it exploded, the iron nails and bullet shells that were also pressed under the big stone will be blown out by the explosives, and they flew to all sides under the squeeze of the big stone, just like a gate knife passing by can sweep the entire field across the field!

This is a super powerful simple infantry thunder that was originally intended to fight against large-scale Japanese charges that appeared only after 1943. Grandpa Zu's record is very simple. The lateral trigger device is not clearly stated, whether the large rock should be buried in the ground is not clearly stated, and the load capacity of explosives is not clearly stated... But there are some veteran engineers in the Kuomintang army like Bao Datong! As long as you explain the principles and intentions clearly, everyone can make it happen. Although it may not be able to achieve the effect that has been matured after years of experience, it is still no problem to meet the requirements of use.

Because the General Staff arranged for the 74th Army to have bridge bombing missions on the road when they retreated along the way in the future, they were given a lot of imported fierce military explosives for blasting the bridge! Cao Xiaomin buried more than one ton of explosives behind the two mounds!

The order was passed, but it would never be like the standard shot in the movie. The protagonist said, "Blow me hard." The camera on the other side was overturned... The real situation was that the commander came down from the commander, and the telegraph soldier called. In order to avoid the telephone line being blown off, the flag spoke to the artillery observation post in a special position in the trench and fired the flag spoke to the artillery observation post over and over again until he saw the fire (the artillery position will not reply because he was afraid of being discovered by the Japanese). At the same time, there were also the messenger running back... The observer on the artillery position in the rear was staring in the telescope, and only then began to shoot the artillery... No matter which way it was notified that the artillery was finally notified, as long as it could be activated, it would be victorious, but it would never be possible to bomb as soon as you wish...
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