The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 48 Booby Shows Its Power
The Japanese infantry in front of the position, without the support of tank firepower, could only rely on the Type 11 heavy machine gun and the Type [-] light machine gun as cover in an attempt to sabotage the advance. Although they suffered heavy casualties, the Japanese army still relied on their strong will and organization to refuse to retreat. , marching through corpses and pools of blood.

A Japanese lieutenant roared angrily. Wounded soldiers and corpses were everywhere around him. He had never encountered this kind of battle since he entered North China. In his impression, the Chinese army was like a tofu that would collapse in one blow and fall apart in one blow. troops, but today, the Chinese army on the opposite side not only has good shooting discipline, but also has excellent cross-fire organization, clever fortification construction and a good defense system.

Just yesterday morning, the Japanese lieutenant's unit, with the cooperation of tanks, defeated a battalion of Chinese troops in the open field at a cost of almost zero casualties, killing more than 100 people, and the remains of the dead Chinese soldiers were collected They learned from the badges that they were raiding the so-called elite [-]th Division of the Central Army in the Chinese army.

The Japanese infantrymen who were attacking and fighting all knew that the [-]th Division unit that they raided in the morning was the same unit that was pressing them down in the trenches.

When they launched the attack today, they did not even prepare artillery fire on the Chinese army in Yanzhuang, because in the eyes of the Japanese army, it was a waste of artillery shells. There was absolutely no need to waste artillery shells on such a weak and vulnerable unit. In Xiayanzhuang, there is probably only one infantry charge under the cover of a tank!
But now the scene on the battlefield is like this...

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Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta

The Type [-] heavy machine gun shooter on the side was doing his best to cover and fire. The unwilling Japanese lieutenant drew his command knife and shouted the order to attack. He got up first and rushed forward. More than two dozen Japanese soldiers also took turns to cover and met the enemy. Despite the rain of bullets, he launched a tenacious charge.

Bullets flew by, and people kept being knocked down, but these Japanese soldiers still followed the lieutenant without hesitation and successfully rushed to the back of a row of deer villages.

bang bang —

The Japanese infantry who rushed forward immediately used rifles and volleys of gunfire to cover the area, and gathered together.

There were stray bullets everywhere. The Japanese lieutenant was lying down and pointing his command knife at Luzhai. Many Japanese soldiers took out pliers and shovels from their backpacks, trying to cut the iron wire between Luzhai.

Bang - a [-] rifle bullet hit the Japanese soldier holding the scissors. The angry Japanese lieutenant pushed the body away, picked up the scissors, cut off the two iron wires, then slashed with the command knife, and pushed it away roughly Deer village with busy branches tied together.

The rushing Japanese soldiers also swarmed forward. With a row of firepower and no explosive equipment to destroy obstacles, they used bayonets, gun butts, shovels, and even bloody hands to clean up the Luzhai in front. There is no doubt that they I want to overthrow Luzhai, open up a passage, and open a breakthrough.

Various methods were used, and just when the Japanese lieutenant saw a glimmer of hope and thought a breakthrough was in sight, suddenly, he was horrified to see white smoke coming out of the green branches on the Luzhai, and the Luzhai he pushed away tore off the bindings. The iron wire pulled open the grenade ring He Wei placed on Luzhai.

Boom - Two Gong-made long-handled grenades with a burning time of only five seconds did not give him any more time to think.

The exploding grenade exploded the branches and the deer village. Shrapnel, wood chips, and branches were mixed together and flew around like brilliant cherry blossoms. They bounced away, which invisibly increased the lethality of the grenade and pierced the bodies of the Japanese lieutenant and many Japanese soldiers. , the breach that had just been opened instantly became a dead end, and no one among the Japanese infantry gathered together was spared.

Two stump limbs were blown away, and they screamed, groaned, and howled. All the Japanese soldiers near the breach fell to the ground, and there was blood everywhere. Helmets, backpacks, weapons, scissors, shovels, and pickaxes were all thrown to the ground.

Seeing the Japanese army detonating the booby traps he made, He Wei almost laughed out loud.Whoosh-whoosh-boom
A fierce artillery attack broke through the air, and the shells produced by the rapid firing of six [-] mortars once again washed the dead land.

The mortar platoon of the Second Battalion, which was deployed on the flank of the combat artillery position, finally started shooting.

In a row of trenches, He Wei once again raised his formal rifle, tied a blue command hand flag with his leggings, then bent down and ran left and right in the trench, the blue hand flag swaying left and right penetrated the battlefield. Thick smoke was observed by the mortar platoon behind the combat artillery position.

The blue hand flag is the command signal for the [-]nd mortar firing arranged by He Wei.

Boom boom boom—

Two 200 mortars fired two rounds of rapid fire in front of the position. Following the combat anti-artillery, the last firearm assigned to the platoon also fired. The shooting effect was naturally good, and all the bullets dropped in the two rounds were fired. At the outer edge of Luzhai, [-] meters away, near the breach, the Japanese troops who had just suffered heavy casualties due to detonating grenades were hit by these two rounds of August [-] mortars. The nearby Japanese troops were either injured or dead.

At the mortar position, the mortar platoon leader of the Second Battalion, Huang Decai, nicknamed Huang Yanwang, stood behind him. He spat out the cigarette butts in his mouth, revealing a pair of 40-year-old rotten yellow teeth. Seeing the effect of the shelling, he said: : "Damn, that's a good fight. Keep shooting at me, extend your firepower forward, and hit the Japanese infantry in front."

The gunners of the two artillery squads readjusted the shooting elements, loaded the powder bags, and loaded the multi-winged tails of the two August [-] mortar shells into the muzzles. White smoke came out of the two muzzles, and the shells flew diagonally from the barrel. go.

Whizzing---

Two shells missed, one missed and fell in the open space, and the other hit a destroyed Japanese tank, causing no casualties to the Japanese infantry.

Huang Decai cursed loudly: "You're a stinky mother, you're a piece of trash. What does the observation sergeant do for a living? I'll do it myself for the bird cannon."

Running to an [-] mortar, Huang Decai kicked away the two gunners. Huang Decai rolled up his sleeves. He had four watches of various kinds on each arm. He stretched out his hand to give a thumbs up and used the gold ring on his thumb. He estimated the distance ahead and looked at the impact points of the two bullets just now.

"Grandma's, the distance is three hundred, the primer plus two powder packs, the correction within one hundred meters, three degrees, the correction angle of three hundred plus nine degrees, ready!"

The gunners were afraid of angering the platoon leader, so they quickly took the shells and adjusted the angle of the mortar.

"Have two cannons, three rapid fire! Fire!"

Boom boom boom boom—six modified mortar shells flew over 200 meters, and the projectiles mixed with Nitrile and TNT exploded among the attacking Japanese infantry groups, producing a large number of fragments and pig iron shell fragments. The two dozen or so Japanese infantrymen who opened the breakthrough were almost wiped out. A row of light and heavy machine guns, rifles, and mortar shells rained down on the other Japanese infantrymen who were struggling to hold on, which undoubtedly made matters worse.

(End of this chapter)