"What? Do you know where the Japs are gathering?" Hearing this, the company commander and others all looked at me with surprise and joy.
"Where?" Scar asked the most direct question.
"Right there..." I pointed to the woods at the mountain col on the right and said, "The enemy's gathering place is actually right at our feet, but because the woods are very dense, and our highland has a raised ridge,
In addition, the Japanese used artillery fire to cover every charge, so we didn't notice..."
"Damn it!" Scar spat fiercely and cursed very rudely: "No wonder the Japs come right in front of us every time they come up. It turns out they assemble in front of us first!"
"Second Platoon Commander, how come you know everything?" Liang Lianbing couldn't help but asked strangely.
"Well, this..." I couldn't help but be stunned for a moment after hearing this.
In fact, this is what the old man told me. I remember that he once "looked" thoughtfully into the distance while holding a teacup... He couldn't look at anything else. Both of his eyeballs were glass balls. He murmured
He murmured: "The 316A Division is so cunning! We never thought that their assembly point was in the forest at our feet. Every time they charged, they were right in front of us, one after another, and they didn't let us rest at all..."
I think what the old man is talking about is now. The enemy in front of us is also the 316A Division. The enemy is charging us one after another. The time interval in between is probably the enemy's assembly time, so I boldly guessed that
The forest is where the enemy troops are gathering.
But of course I cannot tell the soldiers these reasons, otherwise they will think that I am out of my mind.
But fortunately, my head turned quickly, and I answered as soon as I rolled my eyes: "I could see clearly from above when I was fighting the Japs from behind! When the Japs retreated, they all swarmed towards the forest, but I didn't see them when I entered.
come out……"
"Oh!" When I said this, the soldier suddenly understood.
I can't help but admire my ability to lie a little bit, but this is all trivial. If I don't have this ability to lie, then I won't be able to deal with many girlfriends in modern times, right?
"Company Commander! What are you waiting for?" Scar became excited at this time and said anxiously: "Let's report to our superiors and ask for artillery support!"
The company commander leaned out a little and looked in the direction of the woods, then retracted his head and said, "The devils are very cunning. This woods is on the reverse slope of our army's high ground, and long-range artillery fire may not be able to hit it!"
"What should we do?" Liang Lianbing asked.
"Use mortars!" Scar said.
"Yes! Use mortars!" The company commander nodded and said: "You continue to pay attention to the movements of the Japanese. I will report to my superiors!"
"Yes!" We responded and set up our guns in the trench.
Within ten minutes, the company commander ran back, shouting in a low voice as he ran: "Get ready to fight, get ready to fight..."
"Company commander...how to fight?" As a platoon leader, I couldn't help but ask more.
The company commander casually summoned three platoon commanders, squatted in the trench and said: "The battalion commander gave the order to concentrate all the mortars in the battalion to bomb the enemy assembly area to give the Japanese a hard blow! There are incendiary bombs and anti-personnel bombs.
, after the forest is on fire, the Japanese will most likely come out and order us to prepare for battle, and we will fight every one of them when they come out!"
"Okay!" As soon as we heard that there was such a good thing, we immediately became very energetic, and each of us ordered our soldiers to prepare weapons and ammunition.
I was also busy loading bullets into my own magazines. I emptied all the magazines in the last battle, so I didn’t even have time to load them again!
"Ugh..." I had just loaded the third magazine when a burst of whistling sounds of artillery shells came from behind the position.
The artillery comrades have already begun to take action? This made me sweat violently. Why was there no notice? Many soldiers were not ready yet!
This seems to be a characteristic of our army's battles in this era. The coordination between infantry, tanks, and infantry and artillery is too poor. Sometimes there are even arguments between infantry and artillery to blame each other...
I heard an old man say something like this. Once, a team on the front line spotted an enemy plane in the sky... Needless to say, they ordered anti-aircraft machine guns to be set up and fired randomly into the sky.
, but the planes in the sky are often like this. They seem to be very close, but when hit, they are far away. The range of various machine guns of the infantry is only one or two kilometers at best. They cannot hit the plane at all, but instead hit the enemy's plane.
Scared away.
At this time, the artilleryman called and cursed: "What did you do? What are you fighting for? We have long tracked this plane with radar, and the anti-aircraft artillery positions have been set up. We are just waiting for it to fly closer."
Kill it. You'd better... scare it away with a random shot of bullets..."
I said, artilleryman, how can we not fight when the enemy is flying over our heads? You have lined up your pockets and are waiting for the enemy to get in. Why don't you tell us first?
From this incident, we can know that in this era, our army's artillery and infantry often have their own plans, without considering coordination with other arms or resource sharing. But it is no wonder, whether it is artillery
Whether it's infantry or infantry, most of them are going to the battlefield for the first time. Who knows what this multi-arms coordination thing is!
Just like this time, the artillerymen only needed to make a phone call to make an appointment before firing, but they didn't say anything and started firing immediately when they were ready, which shocked the rest of us.
I hurriedly pressed the magazine into the magazine and mounted the gun. Then I heard a roaring sound, and the shells exploded in the forest not far away.
This is the good thing about mortars. The trajectory is very curved and can easily cross the mountain top and hit the target on the other side. And whether it is the 60-gun or the 82-gun (we call the 60-mm caliber mortar the 60-gun, no matter what)
The 82mm gun (called the 82nd Artillery) has a range of four to five thousand meters. The main force of the battalion or the main force of the regiment is only one kilometer away from us. The concentrated artillery is enough to hit us.
The dozen rounds fired at the beginning were obviously anti-personnel bombs... Although I have no military knowledge, I still know that incendiary bombs have fire. After this round of shelling, we did not see anyone running out of the forest, nor did
Hear the screams!
Could it be that I guessed wrong? I couldn't help but ask myself in my heart, but soon I thought - this must be the enemy's trick of patience again. Not long ago, the enemy didn't say a word under my gun.
?
My guess was indeed correct, because when the second round of artillery shells hit the forest and burst into flames, I heard someone inside screaming. You are the enemy's ace unit, the 316A Division. You also
You can't stand the pain of being burned by the fire! But what surprised me was that no one came out of the woods yet.
The third row of artillery shells were incendiary bombs again, and there was a chaotic "boom" sound. There were more than a dozen fire points in the woods where the artillery shells passed. Now the enemy couldn't bear it any longer. At the same time, they also understood that our army
They were not trying to fire cannons, but they knew they were inside and wanted to burn them alive. So first, several enemy soldiers covered in fire ran out, yelling like crazy...
We don’t know whether it was because we hated the enemy too much or why, but the soldiers had a tacit understanding not to shoot at this moment, and just watched the enemy soldiers howling, running, rolling and jumping in front of us... and finally finally
He fell to the ground in pain and could no longer move.
We have all had the experience of being burned by fire, so we know that it must be uncomfortable to be burned by fire and die slowly. If it were in the past, I would definitely not be able to stand this scene. At least I would use the rifle in my hand to help them relieve their pain.
But now when I look at the scene of the enemy, I feel a sense of relief from my hatred...
This is perhaps the cruelest aspect of the war. We originally had no grudges against the enemy, and have never even seen them face to face, but as the war gradually deepens, we hate each other to the core!
Not long after, suddenly many camouflaged enemy soldiers rushed out of the woods and ran towards the rear. But no matter how fast they ran, they couldn't run faster than our bullets...
Without any orders from the company commander, the soldiers and I pulled the triggers of the weapons in our hands, machine guns, and submachine guns, with a "click-click" sound like exploding beans, and poured bullets into pieces at the enemy.
The woods are some distance away from us, about 700 to 800 meters in total. This distance should be said to have exceeded the range of the AK47, but exceeding the range only means that it is not accurate. Dozens of AK47s shoot in one direction, and the result is
The hail of bullets is highly lethal from more than a thousand meters away.
As a result, the enemy soldiers fell down row by row under the hail of bullets from our army. They were knocked down by us as soon as they ran out. Some of the enemy soldiers even raised their guns and shot at us when they rushed out... But this pair
Hiding in the trenches obviously poses no threat to us.
Unlike other soldiers who rely on rain of bullets to kill the enemy, the enemy's distance is just within the range of the SVD sniper rifle in my hand, so what I feel is the pleasure of destroying an enemy with each bullet. But this time
The battle soon became boring to me, because I found that the enemy troops were just targets, moving and bleeding targets... so that in the end, the bullets I fired were just to ensure that no enemy could escape from our army.
Missing the net in the rain of bullets...
"Woo!" At this time, the whistling sound of denser artillery shells came from the sky, and soon one shell exploded on our position.
These are artillery shells fired by the enemy to cover the retreat of their friendly forces. I have to admit that this is indeed a good way. Using artillery shells to force us back into the trenches will allow their troops to retreat safely. However, these artillery shells arrived too late.
Some, because the soldiers were already red-eyed at this time, they simply ignored the shells and still fired rows of bullets at the enemy with their guns...