Wang Xuexin said while gesturing to the mound, and even dug a miniature trench to demonstrate.
The method is actually very simple, using the same tactics used by the volunteers to deal with the Yankees.
When the volunteers confront the US military, they often can only use reverse slopes...the front slopes are facing the enemy. Although they have geographical advantages, they cannot withstand the enemy's aircraft, artillery and rocket launchers, so they can only give up some of them.
The advantage is to choose the reverse slope to avoid the enemy's powerful firepower.
It is not easy for tanks and artillery to climb up the mountain, so the volunteers have to face much less firepower.
But this leads to another question:
The US military occupied the position on the top of the mountain and was condescending. When it was thrown casually, the oval grenade rolled down and rolled into the reverse slope fortifications of the volunteers.
In order to avoid this problem, the volunteers came up with a way: when building the reverse slope, pile all the excavated soil to a high place to make the high side higher.
This increases the height difference between the two sides of the trench. If the oval grenade rolls from top to bottom, it will fly from one side of the trench to the other side because of this height difference.
After hearing this, Li Yunlong nodded repeatedly and said with conviction: "There is a way! It really looks like that after such a change. If it works, I will fight as you said! It won't take much trouble anyway!"
Li Yunlong is right.
It actually means piling all the excavated soil to the side facing the enemy. Compared with the original "digging trench gradually", it is indeed less troublesome.
However, Wang Xuexin did not intend to let Li Yunlong go just like that.
"This trench must be dug as narrow as possible!" Wang Xuexin continued: "Shoulder width is enough. If two people pass, they can lean down!"
"Yes!" Zhao Gang agreed with this point of view: "The trenches are dug narrowly, which means that the probability that the enemy's grenades can hit the trenches is as small as possible. If the enemy's grenades cannot hit the trenches, then they will be unlucky!"
"Captain!" Wang Xuexin turned his attention to Li Yunlong and asked: "After digging to 30 meters, what do you plan to do?"
"Does that need to be said?" Li Yunlong raised his head and replied: "Throw all the grenades up in one go and blow them up! Then gather the twenty machine guns of the entire regiment to form a commando team, and fire at the same time to implement fire suppression. Finally, the entire regiment
Charge forward and engage in hand-to-hand combat!"
Wang Xuexin shook his head: "Commander, have you ever thought about what would happen if you threw thousands of grenades up in one go?"
"What else could it be?" Li Yunlong asked, "We are using a hand grenade made in the border area. If it explodes in half, can it also blow up all the Japanese?"
"It must not be possible!" Wang Xuexin replied: "The grenades we make in the border area are not very powerful, but they smoke a lot!"
The political commissar came to his senses when he said this, and he continued thoughtfully: "Xiao Dongbei is right. Black powder is used to make hand grenades in the border area. The disadvantages are low power and high smoke. These thousands of hand grenades go up.
With one swing, the position on the top of the mountain was completely covered in smoke and dust. How could the machine gunner implement suppressive fire if he couldn't see the target?"
"That's right, that's what I'm talking about!" Wang Xuexin knocked the top of the mound with a branch and said: "At that time, it will be the enemy who is hiding and the enemy who is showing the light. We machine gunners cannot see the enemy and shoot blindly, while the enemy
But you can see the sparks fired by the machine gun... Doesn't that make you a target for the Japanese? You don't want to kill yourself with something like this, right?"
"Hey, I said you're still in high spirits!" This was the second time Wang Xuexin used the word "seeking death" for Li Yunlong's tactics, and Li Yunlong's face became a little confused.
Zhao Gang laughed loudly: "I'm telling you, Lao Li, what they say is reasonable. Listen to Xiao Dongbei's words... your style of play really seems to be like asking soldiers to go up and die. We have to reflect on it!"
"Okay!" Li Yunlong was a little unhappy: "This won't work, and that won't work either. Tell me how to fight!"
As he said this, Li Yunlong turned his attention to Wang Xuexin, as if he didn't believe you could still talk about flowers, and was ready to find some faults in Wang Xuexin's words.
"Captain, have you heard the story 'The wolf is coming'?" Wang Xuexin asked.
"Don't bother me with this roundabout thing, and I'll give you permission to go to court. Just say it straight away!" Li Yunlong became a little impatient.
"Sure!" Wang Xuexin explained: "We still have some time now, why don't we play with him?"
"How to play?" Li Yunlong became more interested.
Wang Xuexin explained: "I can put up a row of grenades and ride on the smoke to shout and kill. The Japanese don't know the situation and think we are charging. In this hurry, why don't they shoot and grenade? And then do it again..."
"What if this little devil isn't fooled?" Li Yunlong asked.
"If we don't get fooled, then we'll really charge forward!" Wang Xuexin replied: "This is better than sending twenty machine gunners up to shoot randomly!"
Li Yunlong choked at this moment.
After thinking about it, I felt that there was nothing wrong with this plan. If the Japs fired guns and grenades, they would consume their ammunition. The battle had just begun, and the Japs reinforcements were still far away, and the Eighth Route Army could afford to use them.
If the Japanese don't shoot or throw grenades, they can rush forward and fight hand-to-hand.
It's just like another "wolf is crying" story, treating the Japanese as monkeys.
However, Li Yunlong accepted the truth in his heart, but he wanted to save some face: "You are a small Northeastern, why didn't you tell me such a good idea earlier? You just wanted to make me embarrassed in front of the political commissar, right?"
The political commissar laughed and said: "Old Li, I think you will have the nerve to say anything about the war in the future. You have the final say. Now you have met your opponent, right?"
The tactics were decided, and the soil work was still soil work, but with slight changes in details.
Facts have proved that this tactic is feasible. When a battalion of soldiers dug forward according to Wang Xuexin's method, most of the grenades thrown from the direction of the Japanese were rolling outside the trench.
What the soldiers have to do is to duck into the trench when they see a grenade approaching, and then continue digging after the "boom" outside.
Occasionally, some soldiers would be injured due to the sudden rush of digging and no time to hide.
However, the damage was much less than expected.
The reason is that when grenades and artillery shells explode, the shrapnel flies upward in a radiating pattern.
When the grenade is outside the trench and the soldiers are inside the trench, the grenade is higher than the soldiers, so the injuries are usually from shock injuries or injuries from flying stones.
Occasionally, a few grenades exploded in the trenches, but this was extremely rare.
Li Yunlong said "hehe" when he saw this scene in the telescope, and said to the political commissar: "I'm not wrong, this little Northeastern man has taken the magic medicine. He usually doesn't show off his appearance, but he can kill people as soon as he shows up.
Eat it!”
The political commissar put down the telescope and nodded thoughtfully: "Old Li, such a good tactic... we should promote it throughout the army!"
"Why?" Li Yunlong jumped up immediately: "This is the tactic of the independent group, why should it be used by others? No matter what, you have to give some benefits! Otherwise, don't even think about it!"