Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Chapter 288 Chapter 287, : PM
It was only 8 o'clock in the morning, and there were still more than three hours before everyone was ready. So in the following time, all we could do was wait patiently. Well, this was very exhausting...

In order to stop everyone from waiting anxiously, Xing Weiguo personally walked around the ambush area and adjusted several different positions for each machine gun group, fully grasping the essence of a micro-manipulation master.

Of course, Xing Weiguo was on the battlefield, and it was reasonable to adjust the position of the machine gun according to the actual situation. Because the positions were set up on two east-west ridges, and the north-south road in the west had several bends, so the reasonable arrangement of the machine gun positions could effectively form cross-fire points and minimize the impact on the machine gun group. Yes, side firepower is very important...

More than an hour passed like this, and the comrades from the replenishment team returned, still carrying sandbags.

Sandbags are good things. The dense sand has enough friction to offset the speed and kinetic energy of the bullet. Put one in front of your head in a fight, and the Type 99 bullets can't penetrate it; put two, and you can also block the Type 38 and Type 92 bullets. When necessary, it can also block the fragments of the shells, which is a good way to save your life on the battlefield.

"Come, the sandbags are ready. Give them to the comrades on the front line. Two for each person." The comrades of the supplementary brigade were very generous. They distributed the life-saving sandbags to the comrades of the first and special companies, leaving only a few for their own people. Of course, this was related to the combat mission of the supplementary brigade.

Because according to everyone's discussion, their mission was to lie in ambush without showing up, stop the convoy or marching column on the front line, and then rush up to engage in hand-to-hand combat after the Japanese were suppressed.

That’s right, it was hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand combat with blood drawn by bayonets, the traditional fighting method of the Eighth Route Army.

After the sandbags were distributed, the battlefield became quiet again. In line with the principle of not wasting time, the fried noodles bags of the first company were reduced by another 1 kilogram, allowing everyone to fill their stomachs again without firing a fire.

"Follow me, grenade throwers! Shi Peican, Di Huailiang, you guys come too!" It was 11am, and several Japanese patrols had passed by on the road below the mountain. Li Yuexuan could no longer sit still. So he called the grenade throwers and came to the west side of the ambush position.

"Do you remember the preset bombing area I told you about? Today I will let you experience it once, so that you will know how to use this tactic in actual combat!" Li Yuexuan pointed to a railway bridge at the foot of the mountain and said, "That railway bridge is just at the southernmost side of the ambush position. We will use that railway bridge as the node."

"When the battle begins, no matter if the enemy comes in a convoy or a marching column, I will focus on bombing that railway bridge and turn it into a dead zone to block the enemy's advance! And you, line up in 30-meter increments. You don't need to consider whether there are enemies or vehicles there. When the battle begins, immediately drop five grenades at the preset bombing area as quickly as possible!"

"This is a bit of a waste of ammunition, but it's the most effective way! There are 23 grenade launchers, and each grenade launcher group controls 30 meters. This is a bombing area of ​​690 meters! As long as you are fast enough, your grenades can cover the entire bombing area."

"Don't be stingy with ammunition! In my opinion, if you can defeat an enemy with ammunition, don't use a bayonet. Our lives are precious, and it would be too disadvantageous to fight the devils one by one! Of course, this is limited to this battle, because the brigade commander has given us enough ammunition, and we can make as much as we can."

"Shi Peican, Di Huailiang, you are the mortar squad, so I won't let you participate in this assignment, but you must always grasp the terrain parameters here and calculate a fence coordinate system! My requirement is that if the grenade launcher group fails to achieve the expected effect and our battle with the enemy continues, I will call you to bomb! Give me a coordinate system later, and I will call you when needed!"

"Comrades, this time we have enough ammunition and firepower, so if necessary, we can abandon the previous tactics of fighting with human lives and let the devils experience the taste of being hit by strong firepower! Of course, we have to thank the comrades of the supplementary brigade, because their efforts have brought us enough ammunition!" Li Yuexuan said, ignoring the slightly helpless eyes of the cadres of the supplementary brigade, and assigned each grenade launcher group their own bombing area. Then, he left the grenade launcher group in place and took Cai Xiaotian, Shi Peican, Di Huailiang and others back to the ambush position in Beishan. As a commander, he needs to grasp the enemy situation, and Beishan is the best position.

As time went on, Xing Weiguo and his men appeared on a hill in the east, anxiously waiting for news from the radio station. The prepared message had been sent to the brigade, and they were just waiting for the battle to come.

In order to facilitate the command of this operation, the brigade commander assigned two signalmen and two radios to each team in case of communication failure.

It is said that after the radio stations, codebooks, original telegrams and translated telegrams seized by the guerrillas arrived at the headquarters, professionals carried out special decryption. Then for a long time, the Japanese communications were no longer a secret to us. Therefore, we were able to seize the loopholes in the Japanese command to fight...

At the Nanguan stronghold, Commander Guo looked at the prepared attacking team and raised his head to check the sky. "Signalman, report to the brigade headquarters. The 772nd Regiment is in place and is scheduled to launch a formal attack at :!"

"Yes, Commander!" The signalman went to send a telegram...

"Three quarters after noon?" The brigade commander looked at the telegram from the 772nd Regiment, smiled and shook his head and said, "This was the time for execution in the past. Guo Yan is killing the devils as if they were criminals! Moreover, it is still autumn, isn't this execution after autumn? Haha... Signalman, send a message to all combat units: After 12:43, no enemy is allowed to pass through their blocking area!"

"Remember, no enemy is allowed! Tell them that no matter how powerful the enemy is, they must keep fighting until they receive the order to retreat!"

The brigade commander's order was transmitted to various blocking nodes via radio waves, making everyone feel relieved. The time for the attack was finally determined, so all that was left was to wait for the battle to begin.

It was three quarters after noon. Captain Guo looked at his watch and said, "Infantry artillery, fire a few shells at the firing holes of the enemy's artillery tower, and then fire a few smoke bombs at the enemy!"

"Yes, Commander!" Comrades from the artillery platoon of the 772nd Regiment removed the branches that camouflaged the two Type infantry guns, and the artillerymen immediately loaded the shells.

"Ready, get ready... fire!" Under the command of the gunner, two high-explosive shells from the Type 92 infantry gun fired and exploded on the Japanese artillery tower.

(End of this chapter)