After dealing with Turing, Wang Xuexin turned his attention back to Yanmen Shuan.
He gave Wang Shuheng two suggestions:
One is to make full use of the seized gasoline and artillery shells.
The second is to store 38-cap bullets in a dispersed manner.
As for other things, such as using the 38-gauge and repeating rifles to fight alternately, Wang Xuexin will not go into details. He believes that Wang Shuheng will know this.
Wang Shuheng was a little strange when he saw Wang Xuexin's order: to store 38-cap bullets dispersedly. He understood that because the airborne troops were surrounded by Japanese soldiers at Yanmen Pass, the supply of ammunition for repeating rifles would definitely be in short supply, so from now on
From the beginning, they had the idea of seizing enemy rifles and using enemy bullets to resupply them. After all, it was Yanmen Pass, and there was some inventory in the warehouse, right?
Later I discovered that this was actually an overthinking. There were only more than 200,000 rounds of ammunition in the warehouse at Yanmen Pass, which is two bases of ammunition for a brigade... The Japanese did not have much need for defense at Yanmen Pass. Their opponents all along were guerrillas.
team, so there is not much ammunition.
If we only rely on the ammunition in the Yanmenguan warehouse, the Eighth Route Army airborne troops will not be able to hold on for long. Two hundred thousand rounds of ammunition sounds like a lot, but when distributed to everyone, it is actually just over a hundred rounds. If the battle is fierce, one round
It's all used up, especially the machine gun, which can fire more than a hundred bullets in just a few minutes.
Unexpectedly, "unintentionally", there was not much ammunition handed over in the warehouse, but a large amount of ammunition was handed over from the Japanese transport brigade... Ammunition for thirty-five cars, with a plan to load 100,000 rounds of ammunition per car, here
There are 3.5 million rounds of ammunition, which is enough for the airborne troops to defend for several days.
Of course Wang Shuheng knew how to deal with these ammunition. He immediately ordered the soldiers to transport the ammunition to the high ground on both wings and bury it in the blind spot of the enemy's artillery.
But Wang Shuheng was a little confused about what Wang Xuexin said about using the seized gasoline and artillery shells.
The airborne troops are not mechanized troops, so how can they use gasoline?
There is no 92 infantry artillery or heavy artillery at Yanmen Pass. How to use artillery shells?
Confused, Wang Shuheng called Wang Xuexin and asked for clarification.
Wang Xuexin replied: "Comrade Wang Shuheng, as we analyzed before, it is impossible for the Japanese to attack Yanmen Pass with infantry because it will cost too many casualties. At the same time, it is impossible to use tanks because we have rocket launchers! So they
There is a high probability that we will use artillery to bombard Yanmen Pass in turn to consume our army's strength. Now how do you use gasoline and artillery shells?"
After hearing this, Wang Shuheng suddenly realized. He took the telegram and praised: "The regiment commander has thought of the enemy's situation ahead!"
After saying this, Wang Shuheng did not hesitate. He looked at the terrain outside the pass and immediately ordered the troops to transport the gasoline and artillery shells to the open area outside the city. They were divided into several parts and buried underground. Then they used electric explosive fuses to connect the hidden wiring to
Within the city.
There is no need to say more about what this does.
Based on the terrain of Yanmen Pass, there is a high probability that the Japanese will use 92 infantry artillery to carry out the bombing.
Because the 92 infantry gun is the most suitable artillery... Its range is neither close nor far, just over two kilometers.
This range perfectly avoided the firepower of the Eighth Route Army: the longest range of the Sanba Gai in the hands of the Eighth Route Army was only a few hundred meters, and the rain of bullets from the machine gun could only hit a thousand meters, but it was beyond the reach of the target of about two thousand meters.
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In addition, the airborne troops do not have cannons... to be precise, they do have cannons. Each of the three battalions of the airborne troops is equipped with a 60mm mortar and a 50mm cannon. This is for the targets behind the city wall that need to be hit when attacking fortresses.
preparations made.
But the maximum range of the 60mm mortar is only 1,400 meters, and the 50mm cannon is even less capable.
Therefore, the Japanese's 92 Infantry Artillery can aim and fire with confidence beyond the range of all the equipment of the Eighth Route Army's airborne troops.
Another suitable place is that the range of the 92 Infantry Cannon is "not far away".
The two-kilometer range is within visual distance, so artillery can be directly adjusted to shoot more accurately. Moreover, the 92nd Infantry can be used as a howitzer, mortar, and cannon. It doesn't feel too comfortable to use.
Artillery with a longer range requires artillery
The observer indirectly adjusted Zhu Yuan.
Now that we know that the small open space in front of Yanmen Pass will become a Japanese artillery position, why not make some preparations in advance?
If you put artillery shells, gasoline, etc. in the city, will you suffer the consequences when the Japanese bombard you?
Thinking about it this way, burying artillery shells and gasoline outside the city to make preparations would kill two birds with one stone.
Soon after, this preparation did work, and it was very effective... When the Japanese came up, they thought that the two kilometers was an absolutely safe zone, so they set up artillery here with confidence and drove up the car filled with shells.
In addition, there were infantry for the attack crowded nearby in preparation for battle, and there were even two Type 97 tanks.
Then Wang Shuheng gave an order to the Eighth Route Army to detonate the artillery shells and gasoline buried in the soil. There was a series of explosions, and the open area was immediately engulfed by the sea of fire and thick smoke generated by the explosion.
You must know that there are more than 30 trucks of artillery shells and more than 50 trucks of gasoline. A brigade of Japanese soldiers plus a temporary supply of 20 infantry guns specially used to bomb Yanmen Pass were all gone in the blink of an eye. During the explosion, the Japanese soldiers'
The mutilated limbs and corpses even flew into Yanmen Pass.
When Wang Shuheng told Wang Xuexin about it after the war, he described it this way: "We thought it was a light rain, but when we saw it, our faces were bright red... Where was the light rain? It was clearly the blood of the Japanese! This cannon fire
It’s really exciting!”
This directly led to the Japanese not launching an attack for more than two hours after that, because they had finally managed to gather such a force. They were confident that they would be able to capture Yanmen Pass in a short time. Unexpectedly, they suddenly attacked Yanmen Pass before they even took action.
The tone has changed.
What’s even more funny is that later the Japanese specially asked the engineers to dig the ground at a distance of about one thousand meters.
At first, Wang Shuheng thought the Japanese were digging trenches, but when he thought about it again, he realized something was wrong: Why dig trenches when one thousand meters is beyond the range of a rifle?
After observing for a while, the soldiers realized that the Japanese were worried that the Eighth Route Army had buried artillery shells and gasoline elsewhere, so they dug in the ground before attacking.
Wang Shuheng joked: "It's best to let the Japanese remember this lesson, and they will dig deeper into the ground every time they fight in the future!"
This statement made the soldiers laugh.
At this time, Wang Xuexin's focus was no longer on Yanmen Pass but on the fact that the main Japanese forces were attacking Longxi Airport with all their strength.
Because he knows that whether Yanmen Pass can be defended next has nothing to do with his command, but depends on the combat will of the airborne troops.