The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 105 Lame Fighting Against Cannons and Gunfire
Before it got dark, He Wei finished writing today's battle report and received the supplements sent by Chen Zhen. After finishing counting the supplementary supplies and handing back the battle report, it was completely dark. After listening to Chen Zhen just now, narration, He Wei has been murmuring about Huang Yan Wang in his heart.

If it is true as Chen Zhen said, then this guy's escape level is too high. Counting Huang Yanwang, there are three people in the mortar platoon who escaped, one officer and two sergeants. What they took away Mainly there are two horses, two rifles and three shell guns, as well as the large reward given by He Wei to the mortar platoon.

The current situation is that the two sergeants and the two horses have all been captured. Huang Yanwang has not even seen a shadow. If he does not ride a horse and just relies on a pair of iron feet, he cannot run very far. What is even more puzzling is that , three people, two horses, why did the Huang Hell King, who had always been domineering and domineering, suddenly change his mind and give up the horse to his subordinates?

All these unreasonable behaviors aroused He Wei's deep suspicion.

But as soon as it got dark, he could only put aside these doubts, because now he had more important things to do. The results of today's battle were not unfulfilled. Now that the battle was over, it could even be said that he was happy. It was time to pack up the position. The large number of Japanese corpses and broken limbs piled up in front of the position must be disposed of as soon as possible. He Wei did not want to sleep with the smell of corpses at night.

He Wei also coveted the weapons and equipment left behind by the Japanese army, especially the Japanese tanks left on the battlefield. He used the Type [-] large-caliber heavy machine gun that was disassembled from the Japanese tank very smoothly. , this time several armored vehicles of this type were destroyed, so naturally they cannot be let go.

The brothers in the first row fought fiercely for five hours today. He Wei ordered them to have a good rest. The job of cleaning the battlefield must have been left to the brothers in the second and third rows who had been spectators on the battlefield all day.

After assigning the task, these brothers who had been waiting all day went up to it without saying a word and kept working for three hours. When He Wei walked out of the command post again, what he saw was indeed a shocking sight.

The trenches were filled with bundles of Type [-] rifles. If we were to describe them in terms of bundles, it would actually not be too shocking. The last time we annihilated a reinforced squadron of the Japanese army, a lot of rifles were captured, and they were all bundled one after another. The arrangement of the bundles, but today is different from the past. The rifles seized today were piled one after another in the trenches, and even directly blocked the traffic trenches. He Wei could conclude just by visual inspection that the rifles captured were afraid of There are no less than two hundred articles.

In addition to rifles, He Wei also saw a dozen sergeant's command knives and at least five lieutenant's knives. The large-caliber machine guns that He Wei specially ordered were also not missing. The brothers cleaning the battlefield swept away every destroyed Japanese weapon. From the vehicle, two Type [-] [-]mm large-caliber heavy machine guns and four vehicle-mounted light machine guns with crooked handles were taken down from above.

The large-caliber heavy machine gun could make He Wei happy and satisfied, but it would not surprise him. What really left him speechless was the scene he saw at the turn of a traffic ditch.

"Fuck, come on, lift that lame thing up."

"Steady, steady, don't knock that wheel off."

Hu Zhaowu, the leader of the second platoon, straddled a Cao Chang command knife and carried a mirror that looked like a Japanese artillery telemetry machine. He ordered his soldiers to go into the trench to carry things. Several soldiers actually dragged a door with a missing wheel. A small-caliber rapid-fire cannon entered the trench, but the rapid-fire cannon was lame and missing a wheel. The soldiers pushing the cannon could only move the cannon by dragging and pulling it.

He Wei didn't recognize this gun at first, but when he took a closer look, he saw that it was a Japanese Type [-] rapid-fire gun. If he remembered correctly, an infantry regiment of the Japanese army had a direct rapid-fire gun squadron with equipment. There are four rapid-fire guns of this model.

This cutting-edge artillery piece of equipment equipped on a large scale by the Japanese army is made in Japan, but it has a strong German origin. The gun is an imitation of the German KWK36 37mm anti-tank gun. Japan signed a contract to purchase the KWK36 37mm anti-tank gun during the design stage. The information was obtained and the entire project was completed in 1936.

Since Japan does not use capped armor-piercing projectiles, the armor-piercing ability of the Type 94 rapid-fire gun at the same distance is about 36mm lower than that of the KWK37 10mm anti-tank gun firing capped armor-piercing projectiles. In addition to the anti-tank rapid-fire gun models used by the Army infantry units, the Japanese army also Based on this type of artillery, a model for combat vehicles was developed, called the Type [-] tank gun. The Japanese Army's Type [-] light tank is equipped with this type of artillery.

Behind Hu Zhaowu, there are a few soldiers, and these are even more heavyweights. One is carrying the artillery shield of a Type [-] rapid-fire gun, and two others are carrying several straps removed from their rifles. There was a twisted gun barrel that had been blown up. Some of the soldiers behind were carrying ammunition boxes for artillery shells, and some were holding artillery sights. The last two soldiers were even more amazing. One of them actually took the canvas gun jacket. Hanging around his neck, he was carrying a cannon barrel for cleaning cannons. The other one used a medium-sized formal rifle as a shoulder pole and hung two wooden cannon wheels on the rifle.

Looking at the twisted and deformed barrel, He Wei could imagine the tragic situation of the artillery being poisoned by the mine explosion. There was a high probability that there would be a landmine just below the firing position of the artillery. It was [-] kilograms heavy. The large mine with explosives restored the rapid-fire cannon to its parts state the moment it exploded.

It was very laborious for the soldiers pushing the rapid-fire cannon without wheels to move, and Hu Zhaowu kept urging on the side.

"hurry up."

Seeing that the soldier was struggling to lift the cannon, He Wei immediately ran over and shouted.

"Hey, hey, of course it's missing a wheel. Don't lift it. Use your brain. Isn't there someone behind you to carry the cannon wheel? Just take one of the cannon wheels and put it on, and that's it. There are also those two soldiers at the back. Why are you carrying that broken cannon pipe? Find a place to bury it quickly."

He Wei gave the command, and several soldiers threw away the damaged artillery barrel and installed the gun wheel on the missing wheel of the Type [-] rapid-fire gun. This formed a team. A complete cannon.

Hu Zhaowu said with a smile: "Platoon Commander He, you fought beautifully. You don't know. The open ground in front is full of guns and weapons, as well as piles of explosives and long tubes."

He Wei was playing with the rapid-fire cannon, and when he heard Hu Zhaowu talking about the long barrel, he suddenly became interested.

"Oh? What a long tube." Hu Zhaowu took out a long steel pipe from a soldier's backpack and handed it to He Wei. After taking it, He Wei looked at it and saw that it was about one meter long. The seamless steel pipe with a thickness of less than one centimeter is filled with explosives. Obviously, this is a standard blasting barrel of the Japanese army. It is not difficult to make this kind of thing, but it has never been used in the national army. So Hu Zhaowu didn’t know him.

"This thing is called a blasting barrel. Some explosives are stuffed into the steel pipe to clear mines, destroy obstacles, and blast. It is actually another form of explosives, not a new weapon."

When he heard that it was a steel pipe stuffed with explosives, Hu Zhaowu lost interest at that time. He originally thought it was some new weapon of the Japanese army. When he heard that it was a steel pipe stuffed with explosives, he immediately turned his attention to the assembly door. On the good rapid-fire cannon, He Wei took a few more glances at the blasting tube. This thing looked inconspicuous and had no technical content, but behind it it could also reflect the country's industrial strength. If nothing else, it was just so thin. Seamless steel pipes of only a few millimeters are extremely valuable strategic materials for China today. They are not enough to make guns and cannons, and they are out of the question to make blasting tubes.

"Platoon Commander He, look at it, this gun is still powerful."

Hu Zhaowu pointed at the Type [-] rapid-fire gun in the trench. At this time, after continuous pushing and debugging, several soldiers had completely installed the missing wheel of the gun. He Wei squatted down and began to carefully inspect the rapid-fire gun. Although He Wei was born in the infantry department, but small-caliber rapid-fire guns and anti-tank guns are also weapons that infantry students need to learn to use.

All the mechanical parts of this gun are in perfect condition, and the breech block and sight of the gun are also in good condition. The only drawback is that there are many dents and bullet marks on the steel shield of the gun, but this does not affect the gun. For normal use, there is no serious problem.

Immediately, He Wei became interested. He made good use of the large-caliber heavy machine gun removed from the Japanese tank. This rapid-fire cannon also had a lot of room for use.

"Lao Hu, how many of these Japanese cannons have you found?"

Hu Zhaowu thought for a while and said: "It's just this one. If you want more, there's no way. The Shanxi mines are too powerful and the intact small cannon can only be found. Why don't you bury it?" There was another one in the dirt that was directly blown into parts, and the gun barrel was bent. There were only two thin-tube cannons found, and there were also two thick ones, which were the Japanese Type [-] small steel cannons. , that one was all destroyed, but a lot of shells were captured.”

He Wei was fiddling with the breech of the rapid-fire cannon. After Hu Zhaowu finished speaking, he chuckled: "If it blows up, it will blow up. If Shanxi's landmines weren't so powerful, we might not be able to fight today's battle." It’s so easy, Lao Hu, quickly send the soldiers in your platoon to find Platoon Leader Chen of the Combat Defense Artillery Platoon and ask him to check whether the gun can be used. If there is no problem, we will keep it for our own use."

Chen Xinsheng, who was leading the maintenance of the artillery in the fortification, learned that the infantry had dragged back a complete rapid-fire gun from the Japanese army. He couldn't wait to put down his work and ran with several technical sergeants to see the gun. This rapid-fire gun The artillery was inspected again by many professionals. Chen Xinsheng was in the traffic trench and took several sergeants to carefully inspect the artillery several times. He even disassembled the artillery and inspected parts one by one. Finally, he came to the conclusion Yes, all parts of this artillery are intact and have not suffered any damage. Moreover, from the factory inscription on the artillery body, we can know that this is a new artillery that was only shipped last year, and the overall condition is very good.

Apart from the artillery, Chen Xinsheng also had another surprise. The mirror carried back by the second platoon of officers and soldiers was a standard telemetry machine equipped by the Japanese artillery. Although it was not as good as the full set of German Zeiss telescopes equipped by Chen Xinsheng and his platoon. It is a sighting equipment, but it is also a very good artillery observation equipment. It is also good to have an extra range-finding machine to reduce the pressure on the observation soldiers.

After harvesting a rapid-fire cannon and a range-finding machine, Chen Xinsheng suddenly felt that his troops were strong. After receiving the cannon, shells and range-finding machine, he happily took the cannon back to the battle defense artillery platoon, and immediately deployed manpower to start using this gun. The third artillery squad of the trophy artillery component enables this artillery from Japan to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

As soon as Chen Xinsheng left, the quartermaster sergeant from the company headquarters came over with a list. The content presented on this list was exactly the list of seizures that had just been calculated.

In this battle, a total of nine Type 270 rifles, 37, seven crooked light machine guns, one Type 56 heavy machine gun, two Type 74 150 mm heavy machine guns, and Type 23 fifty were seized. Ten heavy-duty grenade launchers, four vehicle-mounted light machine guns with crooked handles, eighteen command knives and sabers of various types, one Type [-] [-]mm rapid-fire cannon with [-] shells, and [-] Japanese-style blasting tubes, each [-] explosive blocks, [-] tortoise box pistols, and [-] Type [-] [-]mm infantry cannon shells.

In addition to these weapons, equipment and ammunition, a large amount of equipment was also seized.

When He Wei saw the final statistics, He Wei was very surprised. In fact, the number was much higher than he had expected. Judging from the number of captured Type [-] rifles, the number of Japanese troops who had been concealed by his own landmines was It is likely to be more than one brigade, because the Type [-] rifles they captured were not captured in regular battles. Many of the weapons left by the Japanese army were damaged by the violent explosion of landmines.

According to the report of the brothers below relayed by the quartermaster sergeant, there are at least fifty rifles that were not included in the statistics due to damage. This number is quite objective. It can at least meet the equipment needs of three infantry squadrons. The artillery dropped by the Japanese army is also It should not be underestimated. What is known so far is that the Japanese army left at least two Type 37 [-]mm rapid-fire guns and two Type [-] infantry guns. This is the number of artillery in a rapid-fire artillery squad and a brigade artillery squad respectively.

If the Japanese reserve team is included, He Wei can be sure that the Japanese troops participating in this attack will definitely exceed one infantry brigade, and may even be the main force of two infantry brigade. The increase in troop strength is huge. It seems that the above intelligence, This time it's very accurate. It seems that we will have to buy some Japanese soldiers' clothes soon to see which part of the new Japanese soldiers they belong to.

Just as he was thinking about figuring out the serial numbers of the newly arrived Japanese troops, suddenly, a crisp gunshot came from the front of the position.

"Shooting."

"There are enemies."

The gunshot immediately shocked everyone. The soldiers in the traffic trench dropped their things and picked up their weapons. As soon as He Wei heard the crisp gunshot, he knew it was the Japanese Type [-] rifle. He took out the gun from his waist. The speed machine commanded the soldiers to lie down in concealment.

Just after this [-]-type gunshot, there were two muffled shots of Chinese formal rifles.
(End of this chapter)