Although Captain Li's marksmanship is not as good as Zhao Gang.
He couldn't shoot accurately at a distance of 1,700 meters, but at a distance of more than 100 meters, there was a cross sight, so it wasn't one shot at a time?
When Zhao Gang lent him the gun, he also told him not to participate in hand-to-hand combat.
hehe…
What's so fun about hand-to-hand combat? Wouldn't it be fun to headshot the Japanese with a large-caliber sniper rifle?
Li Yunlong is also thinking about whether he can do another business in the future and ask Brother Chen to send a large-caliber sniper rifle as a gift.
It is specially used to shoot headshots to the Japs. From now on, it will not be called the Barrett large-caliber sniper rifle, but will be called the Japs Headshot Gun or the Japs Happy Gun.
Thinking like this, Li Yunlong looked through the withered grass in front of him and saw a small group of Japanese soldiers patrolling along the railway from the direction of Niangziguan.
Immediately, he quickly ordered the soldiers and himself to lower their heads so that the whole body was behind the slope.
The Japs patrol team walked to the location where the engineers of the engineering company had buried the explosives. One of the Japs, a sergeant, suddenly squatted down.
Seeing this scene, Li Yunlong and the soldiers couldn't help but feel their hearts tightened.
There are a lot of stones under the railway tracks, and explosives are buried under the stones. We cannot rule out the possibility that the Japanese may have discovered anything unusual.
Fortunately, the Japanese soldier Cao just squatted down to tie his shoelaces and found nothing unusual. Seeing the Japanese patrol team go away, Li Yunlong and the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, the first company commander of the artillery battalion of the new regiment and the artillerymen arrived with 2 mountain guns and 2 howitzers, nearly 20 minutes behind the main force.
There was nothing that could be done about it. The howitzer was too heavy, and it couldn't move fast even if it was pulled by three mules.
These two howitzers and two mountain guns are used to deal with the Japanese heavy armored trains.
Although radio-guided long-range bombardment can also hit, it is also easy to hit the train.
After all, the train was carrying ammunition and supplies. If the train was hit by a cannonball, it might cause the entire train to explode, which would really be a waste of time.
So Li Yunlong used 2 mountain cannons and 2 howitzers to deal with the Japanese heavy armored trains.
In addition, the 32 mountain cannons of the mountain artillery battalion, led by battalion commander Wang Chengzhu, built artillery positions a few kilometers away and aimed at Niangzi Pass.
As the saying goes, strike first to gain strength and strike later to suffer disaster. It is better to strike decisively than to miss a good opportunity.
In order to prevent a war starting here, a brigade of Japanese soldiers from Niangzi Pass rushed to the rescue and first used mountain artillery groups to cover Niangzi Pass with artillery fire.
A Japanese mobile brigade located 11 kilometers away from the Zhengtai Railway east of Niangziguan was served by the brigade artillery regiment.
Don't you little devil like to rush for help?
Labor and management will use artillery groups to knock out your reinforcements. Let's see what reinforcements you use?
As for the Japanese troops further away, the nearest one is 15 kilometers away, and it will take at least nearly 2 hours to get there, but the brigade commander has already arranged the blocking troops.
Two 75mm mountain guns and two 105mm howitzers were arranged on the flanks of the ambush position, and they would later aim at the Japanese heavy armored vehicles and shoot directly.
Today is also the first show of the 105 howitzer. Previously, the artillerymen used training ammunition. Not only the artillerymen, but also the soldiers and Li Yunlong are looking forward to it.
It depends on which howitzer can take the first blood of the little devil.
During this time, the soldiers of the engineer company ran to the railway again and connected the explosives with wires and detonators.
About 10 minutes later, military trains and heavy armored trains coming from the direction of Jingxing County appeared in view.
The sound of gnawing, gnawing, gnawing, puffing could be heard from 1 kilometer away, and smoke billowed from the locomotive's chimney.
"Get ready to fight!" Li Yunlong looked sternly and shouted in a low voice, and there was a sound of gun bolts rattling behind the slope.
Seeing the Japanese heavy armored mine vehicle driving over the explosives, Li Yunlong shouted again: "Detonate!"
The engineer company commander Huang Zhiqiang beside him turned the detonator modified by a telephone in his hand, and then pressed it down.
"Boom!" The moment Captain Huang pressed the detonator, a deafening explosion sounded in front of him, and two fireballs and smoke suddenly burst out.
I saw the electric car and carbon water car of the heavy armored train being lifted up violently.
A large section of railway track and the two carriages at the front were instantly destroyed by explosives.
Electric vehicles and carburetors are the power systems of heavy armored vehicles. Once the power system is destroyed, the entire armored vehicle will lose power.
However, the six carriages at the back continued to move forward under the strong inertia, and the two carriages that were blown up at the beginning were directly pushed away.
However, because the rails were blown up, the six carriages behind them derailed instantly.
The Japanese heavy armored train is about 100 meters long. The engineer company cannot lay so many explosives and connect them to the detonator in a short period of time.
Therefore, the explosives planted only destroyed 2 armored trains.
However, the main task of the engineer company is to blow up the railroad tracks.
The Japanese driver on the military column saw this scene in the cab and pulled the brake handle down, and the wheels of the entire military column immediately stopped rotating.
The train's sudden braking wheels made an extremely harsh sound as they rubbed against the rails, and there were sparks and lightning along the way.
As we all know, the greater the mass of an object, the greater its inertia.
The weight of the train plus the full load of 1,000 tons of ammunition and supplies made it difficult to stop the train even at 30 kilometers per hour.
The rear of the Japanese heavy armored train was only more than 50 meters away from the front of the locomotive. It was impossible to stop at this distance.
The locomotive slammed into the guard car at the rear of the heavy armored train, pushing the Japanese heavy armored train dozens of meters away before stopping. Both cars derailed.
The Japanese in the heavy armored vehicle had just been beaten to a pulp, but before they could recover, they were rear-ended by a military column...
At this time, whether it was the Japanese in the heavy armored train or the Japanese in the military escort, everything was in chaos.
There were even Japanese soldiers and machine guns on the roof of the train who were thrown off the train by the strong inertia.
In the command carriage of the military column, Major Yusuke Koike, who was in charge of the escort, stood up the moment the military column stopped, his face instantly becoming gloomy and angry.
Baga, you dare to rob the Imperial Japanese Army's military columns, you are simply looking for death!
"Request tactical guidance from the First Army Headquarters immediately!" Koike Yusuke turned to the telegraph soldier and shouted.
Then he shouted to the telephone soldier: "Command the Imperial Army warriors in each carriage to get off the car and defend on the spot, let the enemy have a taste of the power of the Imperial Army warriors of the Empire of Japan!"
"Hi!" The phone soldier immediately picked up the phone and informed the Japanese in each carriage.
As the call went out, the compartment door of the military train was opened, and the Japanese jumped out of the car with rifles in hand.
"Fire!" Seeing this scene, Li Yunlong gave the order without hesitation, and at the same time, he aimed at the head of a Japanese lieutenant and pulled the trigger.
This Japanese lieutenant had just jumped off the train, holding a pistol in his hand and screaming loudly.
The next moment, the head of the Japanese lieutenant exploded instantly, and the headless body fell to the ground like a wooden stake.
Through the sight of the scope, Li Yunlong could not help but feel happy when he saw the ammunition boxes piled higher than people in the carriage behind the Japanese.
The dense gunfire crackled like firecrackers, and the Japanese who had no cover were shot and fell in large numbers in an instant.
After killing a Japanese lieutenant, Li Yunlong quickly aimed at a Japanese machine gunner on the roof of the train.
Pulling the trigger was accompanied by a sudden shock to his shoulder. The Japs machine gunner's head exploded instantly. The helmet could not even block ordinary rifle bullets, let alone Barrett's bullets. The Japs deputy shooter was obviously confused, but He quickly reacted and took over from the machine gunner to continue shooting, but the next second his head exploded like the machine gunner's.
The Japanese escorting the military brigade was attacked by the two main battalions of the New Regiment and was unable to fight back.
Although the Japanese machine guns in the heavy armored train continued to fire, it was of no avail.
The Japanese gunner inside was looking for a target to aim at.
However, the artillerymen of the new regiment moved one step faster and quickly completed aiming and loading the shells into the chamber.
With several muffled bangs, the Japanese heavy-armored train was shot instantly and burst into flames.
Coupled with the auxiliary attack of the bazooka rocket launcher, the remaining 6 armored trains were completely destroyed within a few minutes.
When the artillery battalion of the new regiment heard the roaring sound of artillery, they immediately opened fire and poured artillery shells towards Niangziguan.
Less than a month had passed since Niangziguan was bombed, and the entire Niangziguan Railway Station was instantly shrouded in the smoke of rumbling artillery fire.
Last time, 26 mountain cannons fired in unison. This time, 32 mountain cannons opened fire in unison, 6 more than last time.
The artillery regiment of the brigade was even more damaged. The observers waited until the Japanese mobile brigade was about to complete its assembly before calling the mountain artillery group on the radio for bombardment.
As a result, as soon as the Japs finished gathering and before the Japs captain gave the order, groups of artillery shells fell on the Japs' heads.
The Japanese were immediately blown away, let alone the reinforcements. Under the continuous bombardment of an artillery regiment, they could not even assemble.
This is to strike first to gain advantage and to strike later will suffer disaster.
…
"Your Excellency, the Commander, Your Excellency, the Chief of Staff, and Major Koike reported that the military column was attacked by the Eighth Route Army 5 kilometers east of Niangziguan, requesting tactical guidance!"
In Taiyuan.
First Army Headquarters.
After listening to the report of the signal soldier who hurriedly came in with a telegram, Shinozuka Yoshio and Kusuyama Hideyoshi were both stunned.
Shinozuka Yoshio's face was full of disbelief and incredulity.
The military column was attacked wildly?
Why is the intelligence of the Eighth Route Army so accurate, able to clearly know which army columns have ammunition and supplies?
Baga, who leaked the information?
Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly looked at Kusuyama Hideyoshi with a scrutinizing gaze, his brows furrowed.
Kusuyama Hideyoshi couldn't help but tremble in his heart when he saw him, and said quickly: "Your Excellency, Commander, now we should immediately order the mobile detachments to rush to the reinforcements. Since the Eighth Route Army chose to take action halfway, it means that the Eighth Route Army is very confident and has done enough. Prepared."
Before Yoshio Shinozuka could give the order, a communications soldier ran in holding a telegram, paused and said:
"The Second Mobile Brigade was severely bombarded by the Eighth Route Army and is temporarily unable to rush to reinforce the troops!"
"Niangzi's Guanzhong Village Brigade was severely bombarded by the Eighth Route Army and is temporarily unable to rush to reinforce the troops!"
"Baga!" Shinozuka Yoshio angrily drew out his command knife. Upon seeing this, the two communications soldiers hurriedly paused and ran back to the communications room next door.
"Order, all aviation units are dispatched, all trains and mobile groups are dispatched, and the 13th Cavalry Regiment is dispatched."
"Reinforce the troops at all costs!"
"Hi!"
Kusuyama Hideyoshi suddenly paused, and then quickly took out a pen and paper to draft a telegram.
He knew very well that Commander Shinozuka was really anxious this time.
(End of chapter)
