Following the order of the squadron leader of the Little Japanese squadron, the 1560 Japanese and puppet troops who gathered roared towards the Baijiawa position. The Little Japanese artillerymen also operated the artillery, and fired the remaining These shells hit the Eighth Route Army's positions! !
All of a sudden!
On the Baijiawa position, artillery shells fell sparsely, making violent explosions one after another.
However, at this time, the soldiers and cadres of the county brigade had once again withdrawn more than thirty meters away to hide, count the number of people, and count casualties and material seizures and quantities. Zhang Pingan and his second squad were still holding the position.
In the hand-to-hand combat just now, the second squad lost two more soldiers. Counting Zhang Ping'an, there were only six people on the position.
The number of people was reduced again, and they were assigned to a position of hundreds of meters. It could be said that there was only one person a few dozen meters away. The little devil's shells were not very dense and sparse, so it was difficult to hit anyone with just a single sound.
"Yo ho!!!"
On the position, Zhang Ping'an and second squad leader Mao Fugui did not hide in the single-person artillery hole. Instead, they lay in the trench and watched the Japanese and puppet troops charging towards the position under the cover of artillery.
"Captain, this little devil is desperate!"
Seeing the Japanese and puppet troops dispatched in full force, Mao Fugui couldn't help but smile and said: "It seems that these Japanese and puppet troops are really desperate. They fought for more than three hours, and the casualties were not as many as the wave of annihilation just now." , knowing that if they go on like this, they will not have the strength to organize an attack."
When Zhang Ping'an heard Mao Fugui's words, he couldn't help turning his head and looking Mao Fugui up and down, and said: "Okay, Fugui, your eyes are still very vicious. Can you see the embarrassment of the Japanese and puppet troops at a glance? Are you the only one?" At this level, being a squad leader is not enough, why should I be a company commander?"
Zhang Pingan's words were not to ridicule Mao Fugui. These were his true thoughts. After this brief contact, Zhang Pingan felt the deepest. This Mao Fugui's ability is obviously very good, but for some reason, he is still just a squad leader. Like him With his abilities, it is no problem to serve as a platoon leader, and he is also qualified as a company commander. At most, he only needs to be familiar with it for a period of time.
This made Zhang Pingan very curious, how could such a person be left alone without being promoted and reused in a county brigade with such a shortage of manpower, especially a lack of military cadres.
Within three days of Zhang Ping'an's arrival at the county brigade, he encountered the Japs launching a nine-pronged encirclement and suppression campaign in the southeastern Shanxi region. Then he followed the county brigade to execute superior orders and launched a counter-encirclement and suppression campaign. He didn't know much about the entire county brigade.
"hey-hey!"
Mao Fugui on the side heard Zhang Pingan's words. He smiled awkwardly, then clasped his forehead with his hand and said, "I was originally a company commander of our main force. I was withdrawn from the regiment because I killed prisoners on the battlefield. The position of company commander was transferred to the Quanyang County Brigade. Originally, it was not an exaggeration to shoot me for my fault, but my old commander saved me."
"After I arrived at the Quanyang County brigade, the brigade captain did not dare to promote me blatantly, so he placed me in the first squadron and made me the squad leader of the second squad. In fact, I also served as the squad leader of the first squadron, but this was internal. Externally, I am still the monitor of the second squad."
As soon as Zhang Ping'an heard Mao Fugui's explanation, he immediately understood what was going on. A look of realization appeared on his face. Then he looked Mao Fugui up and down and said with a smile: "Fugui, you can't tell, you look quite stable." , how could you do such a violation of discipline as killing prisoners?"
"Furthermore, since you can serve as company commander, you should not be a new comrade but an old comrade. Have you forgotten the discipline of our Eighth Route Army and the discipline of the Red Army?" Zhang Pingan's words were either very harsh, or he asked with a touch of curiosity. road.
Hearing Zhang Ping'an mention the old story again, Mao Fugui seemed to have thought of something, his eyes suddenly turned red, and said: "Captain, if I were to go back to that time, I would still choose to chop up these beasts without hesitation. , they are simply not human beings, they are a group of beasts in human skin!”
"In one village, a total of one hundred and twenty-three people, including women, children, and young adults, were killed by these beasts. Even some pregnant babies were not spared." When saying this, Mao Fugui His fists were clenched, his teeth were gritting, and veins were popping out on his neck and forehead. It could be seen that there had been a period of time in the past when he could still be so angry. The scene at that time must have been miserable.
"At that time, I led my troops to eliminate a platoon of puppet soldiers and a squad of little Japs. I captured three Japs soldiers and ten puppet soldiers. Then I killed these beasts with my own hands without hesitation. I No gun was used, a machete was used.”
"I didn't behead them with one knife, but used a big knife to remove their hands, arms, feet, calves, and thighs one by one, letting them die in pain and letting them feel what they had tortured and humiliated to death. The pain and despair endured by these innocent fellow villagers."
Listening to Mao Fugui's narration, Zhang Pingan's eyes changed when he looked at him. It was not fear, but a touch of admiration. This is a real man!
"Fugui, if I thought you were very smart before, now I just want to say that I like your character very much." Zhang Pingan didn't waste any time and directly expressed his attitude with a smile: "I didn't say anything, when I meet these beasts, It’s not an exaggeration for us to cut them to pieces with a thousand swords.”
"But we must also learn to learn from every experience and gain wisdom. Next time we encounter this kind of situation, we must remember that we give the little devils and puppet soldiers a gun, regardless of whether the gun can be used or whether it has bullets, as long as The Japanese and puppet troops did not drop their weapons, which means they did not surrender. If they do not surrender, they are the enemy. No matter what we do, it is not a violation of discipline."
Speaking of this, Zhang Pingan warned Mao Fugui again: "Remember, we must use such little cleverness with caution and not regard it as routine. Otherwise, if it happens too often, the impact will be great, and the leaders cannot treat it as invisible. We can’t make things difficult for our superiors.”
Mao Fugui was dumbfounded by Zhang Pingan's words. To be honest, he had never thought that these things could still be done?
But I have to say that this method of my captain is really good. Then when Mao Fugui looked at Zhang Ping'an again, he looked at his own people, because with these words, he knew that his captain was from the same group as him.
In the future, fighting Japanese soldiers under such a leader will definitely not make people feel aggrieved.
Mao Fugui didn't talk nonsense, and immediately said excitedly: "Captain, don't worry. We used to be stupid and didn't know how to find ways to do things. Now that we understand, don't worry. We know how to do it. We'll do it next time." If something like this happens, leaders will never be embarrassed.”
Looking at Mao Fugui who understood, Zhang Ping'an was very satisfied with his understanding. He felt more and more that Mao Fugui was a talent that could be made. He decided to promote Mao Fugui when the battle was over and he returned to the army to rest. , just enough to make up for the lack of numbers.
At the same time, Zhang Pingan also found a good way to collect talents.
That is to find people who have exactly the same problems as Mao Fugui and ask them to come over. These people may seem like thorns in the side, but they are all capable. Not too many, just five, six, seven or eight, and the cadre structure of the county brigade can be established.
Maybe for others, this kind of thing is not easy to do, but Zhang Pingan is different. He is the combat staff of the 396th Brigade Headquarters. His natal family is in the 386th Brigade. He is already married, and his natal family is not allowed to give him a dowry? Does it make sense if your mother's family doesn't support her?
This thought flashed through his mind, and was temporarily put aside by Zhang Ping'an. He glanced outside the position and found that the Japanese and puppet troops had already rushed halfway and were still more than 400 meters away from the position.
"Fugui, you are calling a soldier to come over. You two should cooperate with me!"
Seeing this distance, Zhang Ping'an's eyes lit up slightly without even calculating, and he hurriedly said to Mao Fugui.
"Yes, Captain!"
Mao Fugui responded without hesitation when he heard the words, and then shouted to a soldier more than ten meters away: "Dazhu, come here!"
The soldier named Dazhu heard the squad leader's call and hurriedly ran over.
Before Dazhu could ask, Zhang Ping'an's voice rang in the ears of Mao Fugui and Dazhu: "I'm going to use grenades to blow up the Japanese and puppet troops. Now I'm responsible for holding these two grenades. Fugui and Dazhu, each of you is responsible for one door. You don’t need to do anything else, just fill the grenades and melon grenades in the grenades for me, and pull the trigger." Having said this, Zhang Pingan looked at the two The man asked with a serious expression: "Do you understand?"
Hearing this, Dazhu and Mao Fugui nodded quickly and said, "I understand, captain!"*2!
"Um!"
Zhang Ping'an nodded with satisfaction, then grabbed the two Type 89 grenade launchers placed aside, then lay down on the trench, holding the gun barrels with one hand, and fixed the grenade launchers on the trench.
Senior-level artillery operation proficiency allows Zhang Pingan to operate any caliber and any form of artillery, not only mortars, howitzers, and cannons, but even large-caliber naval guns on ships are within the range, as well as for Coastal defense guns and so on.
A grenade is a small mortar with a maximum range of 700 meters and an effective range of 500 meters. The reason why Zhang Pingan chose to use a grenade to bomb the Japanese and puppet attacking troops was because of the distance and the grenades. The lethality is naturally not comparable to that of rifles and light machine guns.
After all, rifles and light machine guns can only destroy one enemy with one bullet, but he can kill several Japanese and puppet troops with one grenade or a Type 97 hand grenade, so the efficiency can be maximized!
Zhang Ping'an looked forward, adjusted his hands separately, and performed a left-right fighting technique. Within two or three seconds of the whole process, his voice rang out.
"Okay, load it up!"
Hearing Zhang Pingan's words, Dazhu and Mao Fugui did not dare to hesitate, and quickly put the grenade in their hands close to the muzzle, and then pulled the trigger below.
"all!"
Zhang Ping'an only felt his hands shake, and two grenades flew out of the muzzle and flew towards the Japanese and puppet army's attacking camp a few hundred meters away.
“Keep loading!!!”
Zhang Ping'an ignored the result of the explosion. He adjusted his left and right hands slightly, and the sound rang in the ears of Mao Fugui and Dazhu.
The two were stunned for a moment, and after realizing it, they hurriedly put the grenade into the muzzle of the gun. But at this time, two grenades accurately exploded in the densest place of the Japanese and puppet troops.
"Boom! Boom!!!"
Two violent explosions sounded, and it was seen that a dozen Japanese and puppet soldiers around the explosion point were directly physically defeated by Zhang Ping'an's two grenade grenades, and they could no longer die.
"pretty!!!"
"Wow!!! Captain, you are so accurate!!!"
Seeing this scene, Mao Fugui and Dazhu couldn't help but shout excitedly.
"FILL!!!"
After hearing what the two of them said, Zhang Ping'an also showed a smile on his face, but he still followed.
"yes!"
The first wave of two shells hit, Mao Fugui and Dazhu no longer hesitated, knowing that their captain's artillery skills were superb, and the two were no longer nervous as before, and their hands and feet became more agile!
"all!"
Soon, two more grenades flew out of the barrel, drew an arc in the sky, and smashed hard at the Japanese and puppet attacking troops.
But this time Zhang Pingan didn't need to say anything. Mao Fugui and Dazhu hurriedly grabbed another grenade and filled it into the barrel of the gun again. The moment the activator was pulled, the two grenades flew out again.
"Boom! Boom!!"
"Boom! Boom!!!"
"Boom!!! Boom!!!"
"Boom!!! Boom!!!"
In less than a minute, Zhang Ping'an, with the cooperation of Mao Fugui and Dazhu, sent twelve artillery shells to the Japanese and puppet attacking troops.
Moreover, Zhang Pingan found the angle very well. It can be said that he was very tricky. Every time he landed, he was in the place with the largest number of Japanese and puppet troops. Twelve shells directly sent away nearly one-third of the Japanese and puppet troops. If you look carefully, If you look at it, you will find that among the nearly fifty Japanese and puppet troops, 70% are little Japs.
"idiot!!!!"
Seeing this scene, the little Japanese squadron leader who was leading the charge opened his eyes wide and shouted in disbelief. Then in his anger, he completely lost his mind and suddenly waved the command knife in his hand: "Assault!" !! Charge me, as long as we charge forward, we will win!!!"
"The Eighth Route Army doesn't have too many artillery shells. They use our grenades. Victory belongs to the heroic Imperial Japanese Army. His Majesty the Emperor is on board!!!" After saying that, he took the command knife and rushed to the first place. , continue to come to the county brigade's position.
When the other Japanese and puppet troops saw the squadron leader taking the lead in charging, their morale, which had been hit, recovered a lot at this moment. Everyone also started charging with strange screams.
As for those who died and were injured? Let them stay where they are for now, and come back to deal with them after the battle is over!
At the same time, the little devil's grenadiers also began to lie on the ground and began to fight back.
"Captain, is this your artillery skill? You are a great artilleryman!!!"
As a person involved in all this, Mao Fugui said with a look of admiration and shock while running with the ammunition box in hand when he finished shooting the six waves of shells and began to move positions.
"I have never seen someone one day be able to create the momentum of an artillery platoon with two grenade launchers."
"Captain, you are the first and the only one I have ever seen who can do this!!"
"I, Mao Fugui, am convinced, completely convinced!!!"
