Chapter 67
Artillery Sniper
Author: Xingkong Beihou
Artillery Sniper
As for grenade launchers, light machine guns and other weapons, don't even think about them. Even grenades are earthen grenades made of black powder, and their power is really limited.
So now that the county captain and district squad leader suddenly saw so many weapons and equipment, it would be strange if they didn't shine!
When Huang Zhiyong saw the green eyes of these two guys, he quickly added:
"Hey! Hey! We agreed in advance! These weapons were just lent to you by Battalion Commander Baili. He still needs to keep these weapons to expand his sniper battalion! You will have to replace them when the battle is over!
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After hearing Huang Zhiyong's words, the team leader nodded and assured:
"Don't worry, I will pay it back, I will pay it back. If you can't pay it back, our district team will join the sniper battalion of your independent regiment!"
However, when the county captain heard Huang Zhiyong mention the Baili Battalion Commander and the sniper battalion many times, he curiously asked:
"Captain Huang, is the Baili Battalion Commander you are talking about the same sharpshooter Bailixiu who killed the Japanese colonel with one shot from 800 meters away during the sweep last year?"
When Huang Zhiyong heard the county captain asking this question, he nodded and admitted without concealment:
"Yes, it's that Bailixiu. Let me tell you that the weapons and ammunition given to you by Battalion Commander Baili were all obtained by him from destroying the Japs' bunkers. You also know how difficult it is to defeat the Japs' bunkers, but Baili
The battalion commander relied on him
His superb marksmanship was such that he fired bullets through the head-sized shooting hole in the bunker from four to five hundred meters away and killed the little Japs inside! I'm not bragging, you can't find marksmanship like that of Baili Battalion Commander in the entire Eighth Route Army.
Come out with a few!"
Just when Huang Zhiyong was about to continue boasting about his extraordinary performance, his scouts came over and reported that the Japs' leading cavalry was already on their way.
The reason why the Japs' cavalry came is that the main force of the independent regiment has already been at war with the Japs from Ping'an County.
In fact, the first step in attacking Ping'an County is not to directly face the city wall of Ping'an County, but to deal with the gates outside the city wall of Ping'an County.
As for what Guanxiang is, Guanxiang refers to the city gate, Xiang refers to the side, and Guanxiang refers to the street outside the city gate and the nearby territory. Ancient merchants believed that these places were treasure-producing places because they were transportation hubs with dense flow of people.
In addition, these places are also the must-go places for high-ranking officials and wealthy people in the city and those traveling outside the royal city.
Although Ping'an County is only a small county, it is still a place like Guanxiang, and the Japs also built solid reinforced concrete bunkers here to protect Ping'an County.
So now that the independent group wants to capture Ping'an County, the gates outside the city and those reinforced concrete bunkers must also be captured first.
The best way to deal with this kind of bunker building is to use mountain cannons to pass by it. Of course, Bailixiu originally wanted to show off his marksmanship, but seeing those reinforced concrete bunker buildings forming horns with each other, naturally he
Gave up this plan.
This is different from the isolated bunkers that Bailixiu attacked before. These bunkers in Ping'an County can all provide cross-fire cover for each other, so when Bailixiu wants to attack one of the bunkers, he will inevitably be attacked.
Another concentrated fire in the bunker.
So the 75mm Italian gun captured by He Ziran's second battalion commander was pushed up, and then aimed and fired. However, the gunner's aiming skills were not up to standard, so the first shot was fired.
Off the mark.
Immediately, the second battalion commander called out in distress. After all, the Italian cannon he had captured only had seventeen rounds!
However, when the second shell hit the bunker, the second battalion commander was dumbfounded, because the little Japanese bunker that was hit by the shell did not move at all, and only a few pieces of skin fell off where the shell hit.
As for why this is the case, it is naturally because these blockhouses are made of reinforced concrete, not the kind of blockhouses built with red clay bricks.
Seeing this situation, the second battalion commander could only sigh and said:
"There is no other way. The power of the shells is too small to explode, so we have to let the soldiers charge with explosive packs!"
This is indeed what was done in the original plot, but since Bailixiu captured the 150mm caliber Taisho 4-year-old howitzer, it was naturally impossible to let it sit at home and collect dust, so Bailixiu immediately said
:
"Wait a minute! Second Battalion Commander, just because your cannon doesn't work, doesn't mean my cannon doesn't work either!"
As he spoke, Baili Xiuyi turned to Wang Fugui who was standing next to him and said:
"Wang Fugui, pull out the cannon we just captured and let the second battalion commander open his eyes!"
Following Bai Lixiu's words, a dozen people from the sniper battalion pushed up the two-ton Taisho 4-year-old 150mm howitzer.
The second battalion commander was immediately shocked when he saw the 150mm Taisho 4-year-old howitzer pushed by Bailixiu's men.
However, when Bailixiu's men stuffed the cannonballs into the barrel with a cannonball that was almost as thick as a thigh, the second battalion commander looked at the cannonballs of his Italian cannon that were thinner than his arms and couldn't help but sigh:
"I can't twist my thigh with my thin arm!"
Bailixiu ignored the second battalion commander's emotion and started to control the 150mm howitzer himself.
In fact, not many people in the independent regiment can fire artillery nowadays, especially for such a 150mm caliber howitzer, almost no one has touched it.
This is also why the Italian cannon fired by the second battalion commander previously missed.
Of course, Baili Xiu had never fired a cannon in her previous life, and was not very familiar with how to aim a cannon.
Although I have watched some military movies, I know that for large-caliber artillery, especially those that can shoot for more than ten kilometers, there is also the role of artillery scout.
This character often carries a radio or walkie-talkie on his back, and then observes the impact point of the artillery shell more than ten kilometers away, and finally uses the radio or walkie-talkie to correct the artillery firing angle based on the distance between the targets.
Therefore, this artillery scout is sometimes called a fire observer.
It's the kind of soldier who often carries a radio on his back and calls for firepower in American blockbusters.
However, this situation is not the same as that of the current Eighth Route Army, because not to mention that most of the Eighth Route Army now do not have a few decent artillery in their hands, and even if they do, they will push forward and shoot at close range like Bailixiu.
For example, Bailixiu now pushed the artillery to a position one kilometer away from the bunker, and then began to tie an eight-power mirror to the barrel of the cannon.
That's right, Bailixiu actually doesn't understand the azimuth angle that needs to be adjusted when firing a large-caliber artillery like this, and the angle between the barrel of the artillery and the ground. Although there was an instruction manual when the artillery was seized,
But unfortunately, the instruction manual was not written by a man, so Baili Xiu couldn't understand it.
But Bailixiu naturally has his own way, which is to use the artillery directly as a sniper rifle. Of course it will be fine.
Chapter completed!