Chapter 408
Gou Sheng was scolded by the company commander and was a little excited. He sighed secretly. Seeing that no one paid attention to him, he had to walk to the side alone and muttered in depressing mood.
As time passed, gusts of cold wind blew in the sky, and the clouds slowly blocked the moonlight in the sky, and the twinkling stars were no longer visible.
"Damn God has changed his face. It seems it is going to rain." The company commander said to himself.
At this moment, the temperature dropped sharply, and the already dark night sky was even more invisible. Everyone on the position was trembling with coldness, and all felt the biting cold wind.
"This ghost weather is still here to blow the cold wind..." Gou Shengzi couldn't help but tighten her clothes, trying to shrink her neck into her collar, and began to complain impatiently.
"Hmm? What?"
Suddenly, a bush was shaking slightly more than twenty meters away. The companions still noticed it, but the sensitive dog Zuozi noticed the movement.
At first he thought it was because of the strong wind, but after looking at it for a while, he found that something was wrong. The direction of the bushes shaking was completely different from the grass around them being blown by the wind.
"Who!?"
Bang!
Gou Shengzi subconsciously leaned out and shouted, but unexpectedly, the answer to him was a harsh gunshot.
"There are enemies!"
"Damn it, call me!"
The company commander shouted, and the soldiers around him quickly shot. In an instant, gunfire sounds were heard on the position. The Japanese saw that they had been exposed, and they stopped hiding and immediately launched a counterattack.
Da da da da da da da da...!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The grenade exploded and the fire surged into the sky. Both sides frantically outputted firepower in the darkness. The company commander bent to the place where Gou Zuo fell to the ground and asked, "How is the person?"
The comrade next to him shook his head at him with an ugly expression. A blood hole appeared in the little guy's chest, and the blood stained his whole chest with his bullet passing through his body, which had taken away his life.
Hurry!
The company commander was furious and pulled the bolt to load the bullet. His face was covered with haze. Without saying a word, he raised his hand and shot several shots at the outside of the trench.
The dense bullets were stirring around the darkness with fire, as if causing a chain reaction. Various explosions on the entire defense line were deafening, and Japanese figures kept popping up from the woods and shrubs.
"Damn it, it's really a night attack. What's going on?" Yaoma asked while getting out of the cover and putting equipment on his body.
"The second battalion has already been caught in the fire. The first battalion is leaning over. Acting commander, should our third battalion go up too?" asked the third battalion commander.
It is hard to imagine that the Japanese actually touched them without knowing it. Fortunately, they asked the Second Battalion to be on the front line of the position in advance, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
After thinking for a while, he decided to seek stability: "Don't move your third battalion, prepare yourself on the spot. I'm worried that the little Japanese is not as simple as night attacks."
The violent sound of gunfire echoed in the night sky. The soldiers could not see clearly in the dark fighting, so they could only shoot in the general direction. For a moment, the gunfire made the entire line mess up.
The Japanese took great pains to get to the enemy as much as possible. In order to avoid making any noise, they sent a lot of agile sharp swordsmen to clear out the secret whistles in advance, so that they could get close to the second camp's position but not discovered.
Moreover, the Japanese were large in number, and the sudden offensive made it difficult for the soldiers to resist, and the frontline defense became precarious.
The company commander held his breath and concentrated. The Garland rifle held up with both hands did not shake at all. Although it was difficult to see the target clearly in the dark, the fire snake that spurted out from the barrel not far away exposed the location of the Japanese firepower point.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
He pulled the trigger with his index finger and fired several shots. The Japanese machine gun fire point suddenly stopped. The soldiers around him also took the opportunity to throw a few grenades forward and defeated the approaching Japanese soldiers again.
"Lao Jiu! The Japanese are rushing up, why haven't they fired?"
Whoosh swish swish swish...
The company commander pressed the new magazine into the magazine compartment and slightly emerged to explore the trench. After a few seconds, another fire snake swept over, which scared him so much that he quickly retreated.
The soldier named Lao Jiu replied at the top of his voice: "It's too close, the mortar cannot reach!"
"Company Commander, there are no grenades here!"
At this time, the Japanese had already rushed to a place less than 30 meters from the position. If the soldiers had not fought to the death, the defense line would have been pierced by the opponent.
"Brothers, hold on, reinforcements will arrive soon!" the company commander shouted. If this place is lost, the entire position will be in danger.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered the last time that Junzuo said that mortar shells could be used as grenades, and patted his head in annoyance: "Hurry up! Take me the mortar shells!"
"Didn't you say it... it's too close to you and can't be hit." Lao Jiu murmured, but he still brought a box of mortar shells as instructed.
As a senior gunner, Lao Jiu knew very well the range of the American-made m2 mortar. The landing point of the shells with the maximum elevation angle was about 90 meters. Moreover, the Japanese were too close to each other. If they moved behind the position to shoot, they might accidentally hurt their own people, which would not be worth the loss.
The company commander didn't explain so much. He opened the box and took out a shell, recalled the memory in his mind, pulled out the shell, and then held the bullet tightly to knock the bottom fire on the base of the mortar shell.
"Go away!"
The shell was thrown out heavily by him, and he drew an arc and smashed it into the open space more than ten meters away.
boom!
The shells exploded violently, and the flying shrapnel instantly blew up the Japanese people trying to charge and were covered in blood.
"Haha, I saw that, just do it like that. Greet these little Japanese!"
The method of throwing mortar shells as grenades is feasible, and it has been used by soldiers from countries during World War II. However, this method also has certain risks. It is purely for emergency use under unavoidable circumstances. People who can use this on the battlefield are definitely veterans on the battlefield, and they must have fought bad battles and tough battles.
The specific method of use is also very simple. There is a curved steel wire safety pin on the head of the mortar shell. Before use, the safety pin must be pulled out regardless of whether it is fired with the cannon barrel. After the safety pin is pulled out, the shell is in a state of being ready for firing. Then find a relatively hard object, knock the bottom of the tail wing of the shell vertically, imitate the shell to slide and hit it low in the barrel, so that the inertia safety is lifted. At this time, the entire shell is in a state of being fired. After throwing the shell out, the warhead at the front end of the shell falls to the ground and the shell will be detonated.
Chapter completed!