Tang Cheng had too few troops under his command, so it was impossible for him to defend all the perimeters of Lieduo. After carefully surveying the map and the actual terrain, Tangcheng finally focused his defense on the wooden bridge entering Lieduo.
On a shoal 200 meters away to the left of the wooden bridge. Most of the warehouses left by Wallace contained British Lee Enfield rifles. Tang Cheng, who had adapted to American carbines, really couldn't like this bolt-action rifle.
Rifle, but the range of the rifle is much greater than that of the carbine.
What makes Tangcheng regretful is that in Wallace's warehouse, there are not many machine guns that are actually used for suppressing firepower in battles. Only 6 Brown light machine guns were found. Looking at the British machine guns that are very similar to the Maxim machine guns,
There are only 2 Vickers Mark heavy machine guns, but the 38 kilogram weight of the Vickers Mark heavy machine gun made the heavy machine gun shooters arranged by Tangcheng very annoyed because it was too heavy. Tangcheng temporarily assigned
The machine gunners were not only dissatisfied with heavy machine guns, they were also dissatisfied with the Brown light machine gun. They always believed that the rate of fire of this thing was not as good as the Czech light machine gun.
But no matter what, weapons are needed to fight. These British weapons that were not valued by Tangcheng have been distributed to the defeated soldiers, leaving one heavy machine gun and two light machine guns to guard the wooden bridge. The remaining
All the light and heavy machine guns of the Tang Dynasty were transferred to the grass beside the shoal. "The Japanese army is not a fool, and the bridge is still made of wood. Once we burn the bridge or directly blow up the wooden bridge with explosives, this is the only place where they can attack Liduo."
"The place." Hou San and the others were very puzzled as to why Tang Cheng placed the machine guns here. After hearing Tang Cheng's explanation, everyone was no longer full of doubts.
"Dig the trench carefully. This trench is where you want to stay. If you want to die quickly, just be a foreigner. If you don't want to die, dig the trench deeper for me." Tangcheng heard a rough voice from far away.
With the crazy shouting, Tang Cheng knew that it was the second lieutenant named Yang Laosan. Yang Laosan had not revealed his real name in front of Tang Cheng. Maybe he felt that he was a dignified second lieutenant of the national army wandering around in the streets of Lieduo.
It's embarrassing, but Yang Laosan is an officer with a background as an engineer, and this is what Tangcheng likes.
"Yang Laosan, come here, sir, I have something to ask you." Hou San shouted to Yang Laosan, who was standing on the mound of floating soil in the distance, and the latter immediately ran over. There were more than 100 people in the warehouse left by Wallace.
There are rifles and light and heavy machine guns. Zhao Liang and Tan Fei also found a batch of British m36 grenades. Different from the Japanese inertial fuze grenades that need to be hit before throwing after pulling the tab, the British m36 grenades use
Friction delay fuse, so this grenade can be used as a booby trap.
"We found a batch of grenades from the British army. There are too many. I would like to ask you if you can use grenades to set up booby traps?" Seeing that Yang Laosan didn't seem to understand what he meant, Tang Cheng explained, "Just use them."
The grenades serve as landmines. I don’t expect these grenades to kill many Japanese troops. I just hope that they can serve as a warning at night.” It is true that Yang Laosan was an engineer by background, but he did not have such experience in Tangcheng and had no way of knowing what deception was.
Tang Cheng had no choice but to take a grenade from Hou San's waist, and taught Yang Laosan step by step how to set up the booby trap.
"Okay, just leave this to me. I'll make sure the front of the trench is covered with booby traps like this." Yang Laosan originally thought that booby traps were such a difficult thing, but Tang Cheng actually gave him such a
As soon as the lecture was given, I immediately understood the steps. Except for the need to strengthen the connection lead on the grenade's pull ring, the rest was basically the same as laying the mine. "Concealed, there will be shelling, shelling." Suddenly a shell pierced the air appeared in mid-air.
At the sound of the sound, Tang Cheng pulled Hou San forward and jumped into the trench that had just been dug.
"Boom" and "Boom" two clouds of smoke rose up on the river bank with the sound of the explosion. Tang Cheng, who had thrown himself into the trench, lay in pain in the trench. The Japanese army began to shell. Although the two shells just now were not very accurate,
But the smoke and air waves from the explosion were still very shocking. Tangcheng arranged for manpower to dig trenches here with great fanfare. It would be strange if the Japanese scouts hiding in the woods on the other side of the river couldn't see them. Tangcheng guessed that the two shells just now were just
The probing moves of the Japanese army.
Yang Laosan led several broken soldiers who had just returned to his command, carrying engineering shovels and crawling back from the front of the position. They hid in the artillery holes and practiced without daring to raise their heads. Tangcheng, however,
They had already pulled Hou San out of the trench and ran to the rear. Although the soil in this area was not bad, the people who were mobilized to dig the trench only dug a trench diagonally along the river bank. The trench was so shallow that even Tangcheng could squat down.
He still had half of his head exposed, but he didn't want to be blown to death in a trench like this.
Hiding behind a tree on the bank of the river, Tang Cheng carefully looked at the woods and highlands across the river with his binoculars. He couldn't see any movement or trace of the Japanese army. Damn it, Tang Cheng cursed secretly, the Japanese army didn't want to cross.
There were signs of the river, and it seemed that their shelling just now was really just a test. The Japanese army stopped shelling, and the defeated soldiers hiding in the trenches were once again shouted out by Dice who came after hearing the news. They stood in the trenches with their hands behind their backs and scolded the defeated soldiers.
Their dice are now like the wealth of landlords, who wish they could squeeze out the last bit of energy from the long-term workers.
If you want the horses to run fast, you must feed them enough fodder. Faced with the defeated soldiers who deliberately worked hard, Tang Cheng, who couldn't laugh or cry, had to ask people to bring in a large number of cans and cigarettes. Let the dice compare the standards for digging trenches
The guy just rewarded the cans and cigarettes. Under the repeated stimulation of Tangcheng Zhao Zhi, before dark, Tangcheng finally had a barely qualified trench by the river.
It was getting dark, and after a full day's rest, the Japanese troops controlling the outer forts continued to launch artillery attacks on Lieduo. Almost the whole night, the Japanese troops controlling the forts seemed to be demonstrating their destructive power.
The cannons of various calibers robbed from the British army were fired. The Japanese army, which had a large number of artillery shells, wasted no time in releasing their weapons of mass destruction, and they also used mortars to fire illumination bombs. The illumination bombs that emitted this cold light hung for a long time.
It stopped in the air and illuminated the large land on both sides of the river. It seemed that there was no living person on this side of the river.
All the defeated soldiers in the trenches were holding their guns and huddled in the artillery holes, not daring to move, for fear that a sudden shell from the Japanese army would blow them up. They didn’t know when the Japanese army would cross the river, so Tangcheng had to carry the defeated soldiers with them.
The soldiers stood in the trenches, guarding against the possibility of the Japanese troops crossing the river. As for the town of Lieduo, it was left to George and less than 20 lightly wounded soldiers. Tangcheng was not worried that the Japanese troops outside Lieduo would break into the column from other places.
Duo, what George and the others need to guard against are the locals from Liduo who take advantage of the situation and rob them.
At dawn in the early morning, the roar and explosion of artillery shells were still so dense that the entire perimeter of Lieduo was almost shrouded in artillery fire and smoke. I don’t know what the Japanese army was planning, but the artillery fire that had been bombarding Lieduo suddenly changed its direction.
, artillery shells have begun to fall near Tangcheng's position. Tangcheng, who was hiding in the artillery cave, was helpless. According to the number of artillery shells the British army had hoarded in those peripheral forts, it was enough for the Japanese army to fight for half a month, so
Tangcheng, which had no long-range firepower, could only shrink its neck and let the Japanese army bombard its battlefield indiscriminately.
Dice, who was covered in gunpowder smoke, was hiding in a bomb-proof cave, eating cans with Yanlong. According to Tang Cheng's original plan, the two of them who were using sniper rifles should not have appeared in the trench, but the cans were all in the trench.
If you want to eat canned food, you can only come here. "Damn, those damn little devils have fired enough shells. They have been firing all night long. My ears are buzzing and rumbling incessantly."
The disgraced Hou San got into the shell-proof hole, snatched the half-eaten can from Dice, and happily picked out a large piece with his bayonet to gnaw on it.
Dice rolled his eyes after Hou San snatched the can, and then took out another meat can from a wooden box behind him and threw it to Hou San. Dice has always had the habit of eating alone, which is early for them in Tangcheng.
It's not a secret, but Hou San followed Tangcheng when he was with Dice. Facing Hou San, Dice had no temper at all. Hou San happily walked away with the can, and there were still people under him who didn't have anything to eat.
Although Hou San is overbearing and unreasonable, he rarely eats alone.
"Go to sleep, take a nap, the Japanese army can't attack for the time being." Tang Cheng, covered in dust, arched into the bomb-proof cave. Along with him came a lot of dust and the smell of gunpowder smoke. Regardless of the dice and rocks,
Long coughed in protest, but Tang Cheng still dusted himself vigorously, until he received a kick from the black foot. "Don't sleep too hard, I guess the little devils won't attack until dawn.
The artillery attack is to clear the way for the infantry." Tang Cheng carefully warned Dice and Yanlong, then grabbed a can and turned around to leave the artillery cave.
The sky was getting brighter little by little. Although the visibility was not very good, Tang Cheng still lay down in the trench and used binoculars to observe the other side. Yang Laosan and his newly recruited men spent a full four hours risking
In view of the artillery fire that could be hit at any time, many booby traps were laid in the open space between the trenches in front of the position and the river bank. Even Yang Laosan himself could not remember how many grenades were buried, because the boxes containing the grenades had already been
They used the dice to light a fire to keep warm.
Tangcheng didn't know if the Japanese army would attack at dawn, but the Japanese army's shelling here in the middle of the night was very suspicious. Tangcheng would rather the Japanese army came to attack, and it was really frustrating to have to hide in the bombhole and wait to be bombed like this.
Qu. Tang Cheng in the trench moved the telescope and his own sight left and right, but the scene seen through the telescope was blurry. In Tang Cheng's blurred sight, the trees on the other side were still silent, but Tang Cheng changed from this
In the silence, the solemnity and solemnity before the war could be detected.
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