Under the cover of darkness, the Third Company of the Eighth Battalion quietly entered the attack position.
The attack position of the Third Company of the Eighth Battalion was in an unknown small village near Sankoliu, opposite a small Japanese stronghold.
According to the militia's intelligence, in a small stronghold opposite the nameless village, an infantry squad of the Japanese and a company of the puppet army were stationed. The entire stronghold was composed of three gun towers as the main body. The three gun towers were distributed in a Z-shaped shape and were at the angles of each other.
Without heavy weapons, it would be very difficult to defeat them.
Li Guoqiang, the third company commander, raised his telescope and observed the Japanese stronghold opposite. He saw that the Japanese stronghold was completely silent. Only the searchlight mounted on the top of the turret was still shining back and forth in the blockade trench. Apart from that, there was no other sound.
Abnormally, it was obvious that the little devil did not realize the danger was coming.
Or the little devil has realized it, but doesn't take it to heart.
It's no wonder, because the little devil's defenses are indeed strong.
Li Xiaochuang, the platoon leader of the third company, came over and said while exhaling: "Company commander, it's too cold in spring. The brothers are almost freezing. Why don't we take action in advance?"
"Fart!" Li Guoqiang cursed rudely and snorted, "The regimental commander set the attack time at four o'clock in the morning after careful planning and repeated verification through war games. You set the attack time here.
If it is done in advance, it will trigger a series of chain reactions. Who will be responsible if something goes wrong?"
Li Guoqiang is a cadet soldier trained in the youth training camp, so he is fully equipped with the combat thinking of a modern soldier. However, Li Xiaochuang was born in the army and has not entered the youth training camp for further study, so he still retains some of the thinking habits of the old soldiers.
, but basically, He Shuya's three regiments are already very close to the modern army.
Platoon leader Li Xiaochuang scratched his head and did not dare to say anything anymore.
Time passed slowly in the panic-inducing silence. At midnight, the Japs on the roof of the No. 1 turret changed their posts. At one o'clock in the morning, the puppet army posts on the high walls of the blockade ditch also changed their posts. At one-twenty in the morning,
After a while, a puppet sentry on the high wall of the blockade ditch walked out of his post and peed facing the deep ditch.
At 3:50 in the morning, Li Guoqiang, the third company commander, called Zhang Meng, the infantry and artillery platoon leader who was coordinating the operation. Zhang Meng was followed by two infantry and artillery groups, each with six people, led by the group leader.
He carried a rocket launcher on his shoulder, and the deputy leader and four team members carried ammunition boxes on their backs.
Li Guoqiang looked at his watch and said to Zhang Meng: "Platoon Leader Zhang, it's up to you now!"
Zhang Meng glanced at the Japanese artillery tower opposite the blockade ditch, nodded and said, "Don't worry."
The last five quiet minutes passed quickly, and the clock finally pointed to four o'clock in the morning.
Li Guoqiang immediately raised his flare gun and fired a red flare into the night sky.
The next moment, the artilleryman who had been on standby for a long time sent two rounds of illumination bombs into the barrel of the gun. With two bangs, the two rounds of illumination bombs screamed and screamed into the air. After rising to a high point, they burned violently, while emitting a dazzling powerful sound.
The light illuminated an area of 500 meters as bright as day, while it slowly descended under the traction of a small parachute.
The sudden bright light immediately alerted the Japanese and puppet sentries on the opposite side.
The next moment, the three gun towers and the light and heavy machine guns on the circular barricade in front began to fire violently. The hot bullets poured down like raindrops in an instant, hitting the edge of the ditch on the west side of the blockade ditch. Smoke and dust flew everywhere, but the people hiding in the stronghold were
The Japanese inside were puzzled that they did not see any Chinese soldiers.
These poor little devils didn't know that death was already waving at them.
"Fire cover!" Li Guoqiang, the third company commander, gave the order, and a row of officers and soldiers stood up from the trenches, raised their guns and fired. The dense firepower instantly completely covered the Japanese stronghold.
"Target found!"
"Six o'clock!"
"So many Chinese soldiers!"
"Sa Si Gai Gai, Sa Si Gai Gai..."
The Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold immediately started shouting and shouting, and their firepower became more and more fierce.
"Get ready!" Following Zhang Meng's order, the two deputy team leaders of the infantry and artillery groups immediately took out a rocket from the ammunition box and put it into the rocket launcher. Then the two rifle and artillery team leaders immediately picked up the rocket launcher, and then fired from the rocket launcher.
He turned over and sat up behind the cover, using the dazzling light of the flares to aim at the two turrets ahead through the optical sight.
At this time, the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold had been completely attracted by the row of officers and soldiers on the front. They did not notice at all that two rocket launchers were aimed at their gun towers on both sides of the battlefield!
Zhang Meng smiled ferociously, and then said coldly through his teeth: "Fire!"
The two infantry and artillery team leaders pulled the triggers without hesitation. The next moment, the fuses of the two rockets were triggered, and the propellants burned violently in an instant. While dazzling flames were sprayed backward, they also produced
There was a strong thrust forward. Under the action of this thrust, two rockets flew forward in an instant.
The dazzling flames that suddenly bloomed from both sides of the battlefield startled the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold. When they turned around quickly, they saw the most shocking and last scene in their lives, but they saw only two unknown artillery shells.
Dragging long tail flames, they roared towards their stronghold gun tower with a trajectory visible to the naked eye.
"What the hell is this?"
"Is it artillery?"
"Baga, how can a cannonball fly so slowly?"
However, rockets only look slow, but they are not actually slow.
In the blink of an eye, the two rockets had dragged their tail flames into the two turrets below the ziggurat. The Japanese and puppet troops hiding in the turrets could even clearly see the rockets smashing through the brick walls of the turrets.
Amidst the flying bricks, it was a terrifying scene of getting into the blockhouse, and then the Japanese and puppet troops instinctively fled in all directions.
However, it was already too late. The Japanese and puppet soldiers only had time to turn around, and before they even had time to take a step forward, the rockets that penetrated into the turret exploded. The two-kilogram yellow bomb installed in the rocket warhead exploded violently, and instantly
More than eight million joules of energy were released, tearing apart the seemingly solid turret like a paper tearing room.
Along with the gun towers, dozens of Japanese and puppet troops were also torn apart.
Seeing that the two turrets facing the blockade ditch were torn apart like pieces of paper, the Japanese in the remaining turret were immediately frightened. What happened? Such an explosion would require at least a caliber of 75 mm or more.
Only mountain cannons can be found, but I clearly didn’t hear the sound of cannons just now. What’s going on?
"Baga, what kind of artillery is this that the Chinese are using?"
"The flat-firing cannon should be a flat-firing cannon. Its ballistics are real!"
"Flat-firing cannon? Impossible. How can the shells of a flat-firing cannon fly so slowly?"
"But the trajectory of the cannonball is indeed straight, Baga, what's going on?"
Just as the Japs in the last turret were arguing, another rocket flew over with a long tail flame and a trajectory visible to the naked eye. Seeing this scene, the Japs and puppet soldiers who were originally hiding in the turret started to
Suddenly, I was in a panic, and I rushed to the bottom. I was on the top and couldn't make it in time, so I simply drilled out through the shooting hole.
However, it was still too late. Although the flight speed of the rocket was slow, it was only a distance of more than 200 meters, and it still arrived in an instant. In just two seconds, the third rocket roared in, smashing through the brick wall of the turret and drilling into it.
Entering the gun building, two kilograms of yellow explosives in the warhead exploded.
Almost at the same time, another rocket also landed on the circular barricade and exploded.
In less than ten seconds, the three gun towers that were the main defense fortifications of the entire stronghold and the circular barricade at the front gate had been destroyed. The more than 20 Japanese soldiers deployed in the gun towers and the circular barricade had no time to escape.
It was torn into pieces by the air wave generated by the explosion.
At this time, the remaining thirty-odd Japs and one company of puppet troops in the stronghold finally rushed out of the barracks. However, when they rushed out of the barracks, what they saw was a hell-like scene.
The three main turrets of the stronghold have been reduced to ruins, along with the light and heavy firepower deployed in the turrets.
A moment later, a loud charge horn sounded across the blockade ditch. The frightened Japanese and puppet troops looked back one after another and saw groups of Chinese soldiers carrying ladders and rushing to the edge of the blockade ditch. Then they set up the ladders on the edge of the ditch.
Then follow the ladder like dropping a dumpling down to the bottom of the blocked ditch.
Since the artillery towers were destroyed, the Chinese soldiers' actions were not interfered with in any way.
The Japs team stationed at the Sankoliu stronghold shuddered and roared: "Stop them and get on the blockade wall!"
The Japanese squad leader then drew out his saber and pressed forward. The remaining thirty or so Japanese soldiers rushed towards the high wall behind the blockade trench with bayonets in hand, trying to block the Chinese soldiers' attack with the high wall built behind the blockade trench.
Although a company of puppet soldiers was unwilling, under the threat of Japanese bayonets, they had no choice but to move forward.
In the blink of an eye, the Japs squad leader led more than thirty Japs to the blockade wall.
The blockade wall was made of rammed soil excavated during the excavation of the blockade trench. It is three meters wide at the bottom, two meters wide at the top, and three meters high. There are also battlements piled on the top, which is a small city wall!
As soon as they reached the blockade wall, the Japanese team leader immediately raised his saber and shouted to the sky: "Sasi Gai..."
Then, there was no more. Before the captain of the ghost team finished speaking, two more rockets roared over. They penetrated into the blockade wall and then exploded. The violent explosion destroyed a section of more than ten meters in length.
The blockade wall was overturned, and the Japanese soldiers who had just climbed up to the blockade wall disappeared with the blockade wall.
The puppet troops of that company were a little slower and escaped disaster.
Seeing the blockade wall that was blown down in an instant, the puppet company commander and the more than a hundred puppet troops behind him were immediately stunned.
My goodness! When did the Communist Party’s troops equip themselves with such brutal artillery? This firepower is much more powerful than the little devil’s 92 Infantry Artillery. Damn it, how can we fight this battle?