Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 17 Temporary Bombing Group

The battalion commanders and company commanders naturally had no problem with it, but Wang Gensheng had no doubt about Li Yunlong's combat method. However, he was a little dissatisfied with the fact that he had to dig 30 meters before throwing grenades. Because Wang Gensheng was the throwing instructor of the independent regiment, he naturally knew that the independent regiment had more than 100 people, and there were throwing experts who were capable of throwing grenades into the trenches at a distance of 60 meters!
Therefore, there is no need to dig 50 meters. At most, 20 to 30 meters will be enough, and there is no need to use a battalion of soldiers to throw it.

After all, as a grenade throwing instructor, Wang Gensheng naturally understood that the grenade throwing skills of the soldiers in the first battalion were uneven. Some of them could even throw 10 meters off target after throwing 30 meters. Therefore, it would be a pipe dream to rely on them to throw grenades into a trench less than one meter wide.

To put it bluntly, letting these guys throw grenades is a waste of grenades.

You have to know that the Japanese soldiers of Yamazaki Battalion were hiding in the trenches. If the grenade could not be thrown into the trenches, the killing effect would be basically zero.

It's true that the killing radius of a grenade is ten meters, but it also depends on the situation. If you're hiding in a trench and the grenade explodes above the trench, it's a useless explosion unless it can collapse the trench.

So just when Li Yunlong was about to say that the combat meeting was disbanded, Wang Gensheng said:

"Commander, instead of having the First Battalion throw grenades, why not have the grenade-throwing team do it? They can ensure they throw the grenades into the trenches at a distance of 60 meters! That way, we don't have to worry about wasting grenades! After all, grenades thrown outside the trenches won't have much effect!"

Wang Gensheng's words immediately startled Li Yunlong:

"Bombing team, when did our independent regiment have a bombing team?"

In response to Li Yunlong's doubts, Wang Gensheng quickly explained:
"I called the grenade throwing group myself. When I was conducting grenade throwing training, I found that the throwing skills of the soldiers in the entire independent regiment were uneven, and the same was true when learning new grenade throwing techniques.

So I recorded the soldiers who were good at throwing grenades. Now the regimental commander is going to conduct a large-scale grenade drop, so I wondered if I could gather these soldiers who were good at throwing grenades together to form a grenade drop group. This would increase accuracy and reduce ammunition consumption!

After hearing Wang Gensheng's explanation, Li Yunlong slammed the conference table and said:

"Great! That's a good idea. It seems your position as a bombing instructor wasn't in vain. Wang Gensheng, listen up. I'm temporarily appointing you as the leader of the bombing team. You'll be responsible for gathering those soldiers who excel in bombing to form a bombing team! In addition, you'll be responsible for the bombing mission during this combat mission."

After saying this, Li Yunlong looked at the commanders of the three battalions of the independent regiment and said:

"The commanders of the three battalions must fully cooperate and not interfere! At the same time, all the grenades concentrated in the regiment must be transferred to the bombing team!"

"Yes!"

How could the three battalion commanders dare to disobey Li Yunlong's orders? Besides, Wang Gensheng's suggestion made sense, so the three battalion commanders naturally had no reason not to listen.

Wang Gensheng also cooperated very well and took out a small notebook from his arms, then tore off three pages of paper and handed them to the three battalion commanders respectively.

These three pieces of paper naturally record the soldiers in the three battalions who have excellent throwing skills. Of course, there are not only soldiers, but also some squad leaders and even platoon leaders.

Because of this, this bomb-throwing group can only be temporary. If they want to form a long-term bomb-throwing group, at least one-third of the core members of the independent regiment will be reduced.

Soon, these soldiers who were temporarily transferred from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions arrived with grenades and hand grenades. However, Wang Gensheng frowned at the sight of a mixed bag of black powder grenades produced by his own arsenal and Type 97 TNT grenades captured from the Japanese.

This was not for the purpose of portability, so each soldier got a basket to hold these grenades.

This kind of mixed loading is obviously not conducive to bombing. After all, grenades are pulled by wires, while hand grenades need to be knocked, and even the weight of the two is different.

So under Wang Gensheng's order, all the Type 97 grenades seized from the Japanese were concentrated here by Wang Gensheng.

Just by looking at the number, Wang Gensheng almost burst into tears. The entire independent regiment had no more than a hundred Type 97 grenades, only sixty.

Seeing that there were only such a small number of Type 97 grenades, Wang Gensheng was naturally too lazy to divide them up, so he used all 60 powerful Type 97 grenades by himself.

That's right, it is extremely powerful. Compared with the grenades made by their own arsenal using black powder, which can be broken into two pieces with one explosion and even Li Yunlong dislikes, the Type 97 grenade made by the Japanese using TNT and can explode dozens of shrapnel is more effective.

Besides, when it comes to the grenade throwing technique, if Wang Gensheng says he is second to none in the entire independent regiment, no one dares to say that he is the best. The title of the independent regiment's throwing instructor is not false.

So even though some soldiers in the throwing group knew that the Japanese grenades were powerful, they still handed in their Type 97 grenades and used their own black powder grenades instead.

After distributing the grenades, Wang Gensheng also led a throwing team of about 100 people and followed the independent regiment to Lijiaopo.

This is where the Yamazaki Battalion was stationed for defense. This place is surrounded by cliffs on three sides and has a gentle slope on only one side.

That's why it was so difficult to defeat the Yamazaki Battalion, which had dug trenches at the top of the slope.

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When Li Yunlong arrived at Lijiapo with the independent regiment, the 772nd Regiment had already begun to retreat according to the order of the commander. When Li Yunlong saw the commander of the 772nd Regiment, Cheng Xiazi, who was retreating in a disgraceful manner, he began to mock him:

"Hey hey! I'm telling you, Blind Cheng, I taught him how to shoot a gun back then, and now I'm going to teach him how to fight. Stand at the foot of the hill and learn!"

What Li Yunlong said was not false. When he was a soldier, Li Yunlong joined the army earlier than Cheng the Blind Man. Moreover, the nickname Cheng the Blind Man was also given by Li Yunlong. The main reason was that when he was being taught how to shoot, his aim was not good and his shots were too crooked, so he missed the target. So Li Yunlong gave him the nickname Cheng the Blind Man.

Then, as he kept shouting, even Blind Cheng himself almost forgot his original name!

It’s a pity that although Li Yunlong had more military service than Cheng Xiazi and even became a regiment commander earlier than Cheng Xiazi, he made too many mistakes and was demoted from the position of regiment commander five times.

That’s why Blind Cheng had the opportunity to be the leader of the main regiment of the 772nd Regiment. Otherwise, it would never have been Blind Cheng’s turn!

Cheng Xiazi did not say a word to Li Yunlong's ridicule. After all, what matters on the battlefield is real ability. The attack lasted for more than three hours and caused huge casualties to the 772nd Regiment. Under the support of heavy machine guns and light machine guns, and the high slope, the difficulty of the charge was increased.

(End of this chapter)