here we go!
When he heard the first gunshot, Ma Rongshun, who was assigned to the reserve platoon, stood at the commanding heights on one side and stared at the entire battlefield.
The commanding view allowed him to see the entire battlefield clearly.
As the regiment commander fired a gunshot, fierce muzzle fireworks burst out from the 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion, and Artillery Battalion of the Independent Regiment, a total of thirteen positions on the left and right sides of the road.
A total of 54 Czech guns, plus 138 38 guns, and shell guns from six positions within 100 meters of the road also joined in the strafing, totaling more than 350 guns of various types, shooting out as densely as overwhelming sparks. The bullets completely covered the Japs on the road from beginning to end.
Ordinary bullets cannot be seen clearly, even at night, only tracer bullets can show traces in the air - Ma Rongshun thought of this knowledge he learned after joining the Eighth Route Army.
In his field of vision, bullets were like a shower of sparks, hitting the earthy road, stirring up dense dust and even obscuring part of the Japanese formation.
The Japanese fell in pieces like wheat.
Da da da···
Bang bang bang··
At this time, the dense sound like fried beans reached his ears.
The speed of sound transmission is much slower than that of light. The former is more than 300 meters per second, and the latter is 300,000 kilometers per second. Ma Rongshun once again thought of the cultural knowledge taught in the army.
Just a second or two after the bullets covered the Japs formation, a series of explosions suddenly erupted on the highway, covering the entire Japs formation more than 400 meters long from beginning to end.
Nine 60mm mortars and twenty-seven grenade launchers arrived.
Light artillery such as grenades and mortars have a muzzle velocity much slower than bullets, and they all have direct firepower. The trajectory is an arc - another piece of knowledge emerged in Ma Rongshun's mind.
So even if they fire at the same time, the bullets will arrive first, and the mortar shells and grenades will be about a second later.
"Understood."
The knowledge taught in the army allowed Ma Rongshun to understand the situation at hand.
From his perspective, whether it was a 60-caliber mortar shell or a 50-caliber grenade grenade, the explosion power was not very powerful. Compared with the Japanese 75-caliber mountain cannon he saw in February, the explosion fireball was much smaller.
The range of smoke and the size of craters are also very different.
However, the damage caused by artillery shells mainly relies on shrapnel - this is a point that the regiment commander and battalion, company, and platoon leaders emphasized to them many times and repeatedly upon joining the Eighth Route Army.
The leader often said this.
The advantage of the Jaap 75 mountain gun is that the projectile is heavy, a full 14 kilograms, and is very powerful. It can destroy simple civil fortifications. Therefore, when fighting the Japs, the fortifications must be strengthened as much as possible, and anti-blast holes cannot be omitted.
However, the effective killing range of mountain cannon fragments is actually not large.
Taking the Type 41 mountain gun with the most equipment for the Japs as an example, on flat dirt ground, the effective killing range of its shells is only an oval range of 30 meters long and 15 meters wide.
Although the projectiles of 60 mortar shells and 50 grenade grenades are very light, the former only weighs three kilograms and the latter only one and a half kilograms. They can be easily blocked by simple civil engineering works.
But the killing range of the 60mm mortar shell is a fifteen-meter circle, and the killing range of the 50mm grenade is a twelve-meter circle.
At the Yangcun Independent Regiment training ground, there are actual positions that allow soldiers to intuitively feel the damage range of various artillery shells, as well as for training in concealment under artillery fire.
Compared with the Japanese's 75-meter mountain cannon, the difference in the killing range between the two sides is not large.
Even though the Guizishan cannon has heavier shells and more fragments, the effective killing range is smaller and the killing effect is better.
But the explosions in front of us were too dense - densely packed with small explosions one after another. After a while, the entire Japanese formation on the road was covered from beginning to end.
Enough quantity to suppress quality!
The leader's words came to Ma Rongshun's mind again.
If it were him, he would rather face the bombardment of two Japanese mountain cannons than face the current intensive firepower.
However, don't underestimate the Japanese's mountain artillery. The advantages of barrel artillery are accuracy and range, which even mortars and grenade launchers cannot match. This warning also appeared in Ma Rongshun's mind.
Thinking in his heart, Ma Rongshun still looked carefully.
The Japs on the road were like being harvested by a dozen strong men holding scythes. They fell in pieces, and many were blown away by explosions.
So, what should you do if you encounter such an ambush?
Seeing the Japanese heavy casualties, this thought came to Ma Rongshun's mind.
He remembered what the group leader said, but couldn't remember it for a while.
Just when Ma Rongshun was trying to recall the regimental leader's teachings, the reaction of the Japanese in Xingzigou also reminded him clearly, because the Japanese's series of responses were exactly the same as what the regimental leader said.
Ma Rongshun could see clearly,
Facing the independent regiment's dense firepower network of more than 300 guns, nine mortars, and 27 grenade launchers, the Japanese on the road suffered heavy losses in one encounter.
In just a few minutes, nearly seventy Japanese corpses were left on the highway. These were dead Japanese soldiers, and there were also a large number of wounded Japanese soldiers, totaling more than a hundred.
Killed more than half of the Japs in the first round.
But the Japanese who survived reacted very quickly. They immediately found a bunker and lay down on the spot. If there was no suitable bunker, they would release smoke to obscure their sight.
His movements were much faster than running a 400-meter obstacle course with his bare hands.
"sharp."
"After we go back, we have to train hard!"
Ma Rongshun feels that he has trained very hard, but now it seems that it is not enough.
After finding the bunker, the Japanese began to fight back.
At first, the sporadic Japanese counterattacks were ineffective and devoid of any threat.
But gradually, the Japanese squadron leader and several squad leaders began to organize concentrated troops, relying on the ditches and potholes along the road to establish defensive positions and organize counterattacks.
After less than ten minutes of chaos, the Japanese assembled their troops and established a temporary position. Grenades and crooked machine gun fire were fired at the surrounding ambush positions, and even suppressed three ambush positions near the highway. .
So far,
The rate of Japanese casualties also dropped suddenly.
The independent regiment also began to suffer casualties.
Such a change was completely beyond Ma Rongshun's expectations.
After he learned about the number of machine guns and grenade mortars deployed by the Independent Regiment this time, and especially after seeing the dense formation of the Japanese, he believed that the Japanese squadron would be annihilated by the independent regiment's ferocious firepower. .
The battle can end quickly.
But unexpectedly, although the Japanese suffered heavy casualties in the first wave of firepower from the independent regiment, they actually withstood it.
Subsequently,
Ma Rongshun even saw that in the middle of Xingzigou Highway, the Japs squadron leader had organized nearly thirty Japs to form a large skirmish line and began to attack an ambush to launch a counterattack.
This set of reaction of the Japanese is exactly the same as what the regiment leader said about how to deal with an ambush - lie down, hide on the spot, find a suitable bunker, organize a counterattack to suppress the enemy's firepower, and then concentrate the troops to launch a counterattack. It is best to choose a terrain with a slight terrain. Complex directions because of natural cover.
The most important thing is to gather troops. The more troops there are, the stronger the counterattack force will be.
The Japanese counterattack in the middle of Xingzigou also made Ma Rongshun deeply understand the importance of three postures of crawling - during the counterattack, the Japanese used the standard three postures of crawling, which was much faster than him.
You must know that the Japs are feinting, that is to say, the Japs are doing three postures of crawling on the ground on the slope.
Just when Ma Rongshun was worried about the direction of the war,
I saw that a dense round of artillery shells suddenly fell in the middle of the counterattacking Japanese team, and the machine guns from several surrounding positions also focused their fire on the Japanese team, immediately suppressing the Japanese counterattack.
During this period, Wang Xikui fired at the Japanese squadron leader many times, trying to kill the Japanese commander. However, the Japanese squadron leader was very slippery. He either hid behind a bunker or jumped forward at high speed and irregularly. He fired three or four shots in a row, but none of them hit him. .
After several failures, Wang Xikui also changed his target to suppress several Japanese who were trying to assemble a mortar abandoned in the middle of the road.
The subsequent battle also opened Ma Rongshun's eyes and deeply understood the knowledge taught by the regiment leader.
After the first counterattack was repelled, the Japanese quickly organized a second round of attack, but they were still quickly repelled by mortar fire and intensive machine gun fire, and suffered heavy losses.
During this period, the soldiers in the follow-up positions began to narrow the encirclement under the command of the regiment leader.
Seeing this, the Japanese, who had suffered two losses, finally realized the situation in front of them and no longer gave up. Instead, they continued to concentrate their forces, break forward and prepare to escape.
However, there were landmines modified from German-made grenades in front of them. The first wave of breakouts were blown back by the mines. The second wave of Japanese changed directions and broke out backwards, but faced intensive mortar firepower and were beaten back again. .
In the third wave, the Japanese broke forward again, but were still beaten back.
The enemy on the road was like a ball, being kicked back and forth by the independent group.
Five consecutive waves of attacks and breakthroughs were repelled. However, after a short rest, the little devil launched the sixth round again.
The ferocity of the little devil made Ma Rongshun speechless.
However, more than half of them were killed and wounded in one encounter, and five subsequent waves of attacks failed. At this time, the remaining Japanese troops were less than twenty, and almost everyone was injured.
Even Ma Rongshun could see that the Japanese's sixth wave of offensive was already at its end.
It was also at this time that Wang Xikui found the opportunity and shot the Japanese squadron leader whose physical strength had declined significantly.
Without the commander, the Japs were suddenly in chaos, and the sixth wave of breakout collapsed. On the way to retreat, the Japs fell one after another. In the end, less than seven Japs were still standing.
The encirclement is further shrinking,
A few minutes later, when the last Japanese was shot to death by the regiment leader, there were no Japanese left standing in Xingzigou.
"Clean up the battlefield!"
Although he was several hundred meters away, Ma Rongshun seemed to hear the leader's voice.
The soldiers began to clean up the battlefield. Facing the Japanese everywhere, everyone was unambiguous. No matter whether they were dead or not, they would either shoot a bullet at them from a distance, or say hello with a bayonet.
captive?
The regiment leader emphasized almost every day that unless the Japanese surrendered voluntarily, they would be killed first.
far away,
The regiment leader, guard Wei Monk, also returned with the guard platoon.
