"Listen carefully to the sound of explosions, and then fire again if there is thunder!"
"Fire again when thunder sounds!"
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Orders were passed down one after another, and the atmosphere immediately became tense.
Wang Xuexin was lying on the ridgeline, holding a gun and looking through the sniper scope at the road ahead.
This road is marked on the map as Highway 5. It makes a half circle at the foot of the mountain where Zhaojiayu Village is located, and then winds deep into the three highlands where the Independent Regiment is stationed.
The highlands arranged in a triangle form a natural circle surrounding the road in the middle, making it an excellent ambush location.
A large part of the reason why the Eighth Route Army could not use them before was that the slope length of these highlands generally exceeded 300 meters.
This distance was beyond the range of the Eighth Route Army's rifles, and there were no artillery at that time. Even if there were a few cannons, they would not be of much use due to a serious shortage of shells.
Therefore, the Eighth Route Army had to face an embarrassing problem if it wanted to set up an ambush site in this area:
If you want to hit the enemy, you must build field fortifications halfway up the mountain... In fact, the fortifications built halfway up the mountain are not enough. The range is two hundred meters, each bullet has a different charge, a different warhead, and the rifling is severely polished.
Hitting the target at a distance of 150 meters depends on luck.
What should we do when the enemy fights back?
The soldiers turned around and retreated towards their hilltop positions?
That is to show your back like a target in front of the enemy to practice marksmanship for them!
We should ambush at the top of the mountain. Although it is easy to retreat, the distance is too far and the rifle is inaccurate, so it is impossible to effectively block the road at the foot of the mountain with firepower.
That’s why we say the Eighth Route Army is in trouble!
Many times it’s not that they are not brave, it’s not that they don’t want to fight, it’s just that conditions dictate that they can’t help it!
It's different now. Ten 50 cannons with 300 rounds of shells are aimed at the road according to the measured values. There are also more than 30 guns designed to fire original bullets and five machine guns. Blocking the road is not a big problem.
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If it's really not possible, just retreat back to the reverse slope fortifications, and there will be no problem in survival.
Just as I was thinking about it, the Japanese appeared at the other end of the road.
At the front were a dozen sidecars, each with a machine gun mounted on the sidecar.
This thing is fast and has strong passability, and can be drilled into mountain roads. It is an artifact for Japanese reconnaissance.
Looking back, Wang Xuexin realized something was wrong. Why were the military vehicles so invisible?
Is this a reconnaissance unit?
You can all be called the main force, right?
Wang Xuexin probably counted more than thirty vehicles, and they were coming out one after another. There must be a large group of them.
Wang Xuexin couldn't help but look at Li Yunlong who was lying more than twenty meters away. He looked at the Japanese convoy below with cold and fierce eyes, but also a little excitement.
The coldness is the hatred towards the Japanese.
To be fierce is to let go of the blood of the Japanese.
Excitement comes from thinking about eating meat...
So Wang Xuexin knew that Li Yunlong was going to eat up this brigade in one bite.
Even Wang Xuexin didn't have much confidence in this matter. Not long ago, one brigade was used to attack the Japanese with several times the strength of two regiments. In the end, it took a lot of effort to defeat them. Now, one independent regiment can complete it?
The Japanese convoy was getting closer and closer, and the fast ones at the front had already turned out of the encirclement circle... This was deliberately released by Li Yunlong. If there were more people in those people, the car would be more powerful.
Seven or eight of the cars turned around and stopped at the foot of the mountain, and the Japanese jumped out one by one.
Wang Xuexin's heart skipped a beat, he must have been discovered by the Japanese!
Later I learned that the Japanese had sent some troops to Zhaojiayu Village to "sweep", "search" and "pursue the enemy".
The main Japanese convoy was still driving forward along the highway at full speed, not even stepping on the brakes and getting out of the car to conduct reconnaissance.
In fact, this is not because the Japanese are arrogant, but because they know that the Eighth Route Army is unable to use the surrounding high ground to stage an ambush.
However……
When the Japanese convoy entered the encirclement, Li Yunlong waved his hand, and the correspondent who had been prepared hurriedly waved the flag down the mountain.
As soon as the soldiers hiding at the foot of the mountain pulled the rope, the explosives buried in the middle of the road exploded with a bang. A car was violently thrown into the sky with a loud bang, followed by fragments of the car and the broken limbs of the Japanese soldiers.
The arms fell down one after another like hailstones, blood drifted in the wind in the smoke, and the surrounding area was dyed red in an instant.
"Hit!" Li Yunlong shouted, raised his cannon and fired in the direction of the enemy.
The sound of gunfire soon started.
The shells of the 50 small artillery flew into the sky from the anti-slope position one after another, and smashed into the group of Japanese cars with a harsh whistle.
Since these cannons had been tested beforehand and even had a few test shots fired, the cannonballs hit the road accurately as if they had eyes.
If you hit it right, it will be smashed directly into the back compartment of the car. After exploding with a "boom", the dozen or so Japanese soldiers inside were instantly thrown into the air. They fell one by one and fell to the ground in a rough fan shape around them.
If the target was not accurate, it would explode in front of and behind the vehicle, and the flying shrapnel would knock down the Japanese who had just had time to jump out of the vehicle in pieces.
The shooters are veterans in the army who specialize in shooting original bullets and machine guns.
The problem with reloading bullets is not just the short range.
Another problem with it is that the warhead is made of iron rather than brass.
The characteristic of brass is that it is softer and easier to cut. When the bullet rubs against the rifling in the barrel, it is the bullet that is cut off, and the rifling wear is less.
The iron warheads of reloaded bullets are different. The rifling is polished in the barrel just like iron against iron, and the rifling is polished after a few rounds.
Therefore, if you reload the bullets and the gun becomes useless... the life of the gun will be shortened exponentially. This is one of the reasons why the guns handed over by the Eighth Route Army are not enough.
This is especially true for machine guns. If this thing shoots reloaded bullets, the barrel will explode within a few shots.
Therefore, if you want to ensure the performance of the gun, you must never shoot reloaded bullets.
For example, if the sniper rifle in Wang Xuexin's hand needs to be shot with a reloaded bullet and the rifling is polished, it will be over. Even if it is shot with original bullets, it will not be accurate.
The original bullets could only be obtained by confiscating them, and every time they fired, they lost one round. The seizures of the entire regiment were barely enough for five crooked machine guns and thirty-three veterans with good marksmanship.
Wang Xuexin is one of these thirty-three people.
But at this time, he only had a miserable thirty rounds of ammunition in his hand... In the last battle, he took more than two hundred rounds of ammunition from the Japanese, but he could only keep thirty rounds for himself, and the rest were dedicated to the machine gun.
Li Yunlong also patted Wang Xuexin on the shoulder and consoled him: "What's the matter? Aren't you a good marksman? If we fight again next time, let's shoot one at a time... There are many bullets on the Japs, and one bullet can buy more than a hundred bullets."
Fa, then it’s not up to you to fight however you want?”
That being said, what if it’s a highland battle like now?
Even if Wang Xuexin shoots one person at a time, can he still go down the mountain to pick up the bullets and shoot them?