Chapter 50 Blasting the Bottom of the Passenger Car
The Army soldiers who discovered that hundreds of meters of rails and sleepers were missing ran back to the front of the train to report the situation. The west train escort team sent several signal soldiers and quickly ran to the east train to explain the situation.
A stopped train is very vulnerable to attack, especially when the road ahead is cut off. Fortunately, there are many mountain roads in northern Shanxi. When the train set off, a power locomotive was attached to the rear of the train, and an additional locomotive was deployed during the formation.
The team protects the rear of the car.
Soon the east train blew its whistle, indicating power steering and retreating eastward.
At this time, all the passenger compartment windows were opened, and the black muzzle stuck out of the window. The 38-type infantry gun was relatively long, and the passenger compartment between the power locomotive and the cargo compartment looked like a caterpillar with poisonous bristles when viewed from the air. As the train started slowly, the army soldiers scattered on both sides of the train put their rifles on their backs and climbed up the door escalator that passed them.
The train didn't go far. With a whistle, the trains on both sides pulled the brakes, and the train slowly stopped on the track again.
At this time, the third lieutenant of the escort team near the east train was half wet with cold sweat. He had just passed by here, and when he braked and turned, the rails were dug up. How many people were ambushing them?
The captain of the Dongtou team felt that he might not be able to see the sun at dawn.
Being brought to the railway station where the train stopped, Wang Chengzhu and several other chief shooters raised their right hands almost simultaneously. They opened and closed their left and right eyes, then closed and opened them, to determine how far away the lighted passenger compartment was from the launch station where they were.
The position is about 1,100 meters.
The third and fourth gunners received the order and quickly dug a pit. The wheeled gun did not participate in the battle, but was dragged to the east, apparently preparing to bloom on both sides.
Put down the seat plate, screw on the bottom shaft and bracket of the barrel, the main gunner measured the range again, the second gunner assisted in the review, took the mortar shell, and put it into the barrel mouth...
"Boom, boom, boom..." five times in a row, the passenger compartment of the train in the distance was hit, and many of the lights were extinguished. The commander of the escort team in the train realized that the bright lights at night were the best targets, and quickly ordered the lights to be turned off.
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As the second round of mortar shells fell on the passenger compartment and the roadbed near the compartment, the originally bright compartment went dark, and even the lights on the powered locomotive were extinguished.
Wang Chengzhu saw the train in the distance turned into a black mess, and the spectacled staff officer who was in charge of commanding the artillery outside the right shot cursed: "Damn Japanese devils, don't even have the courage to turn on the lights and get on the road early."
The brigade direct artillery platoon leader who assisted in the command was very open-minded and comforted the leader: "Comrade staff, it doesn't matter. Our main force has not started attacking yet. We can fire another round."
The spectacled staff officer took a deep breath and shook his head at the platoon leader: "Comrade platoon leader, this round has been effective. At least the enemy knows that the lights are turned off. I know that mortars are direct fire weapons. When there is no clear target, they can hit across the target."
Shooting may accidentally blow up the brother troops to the north of the train." The glasses staff turned to the left and issued an order to the soldiers in front of him, "All of them are here, pack the shells into boxes and disassemble the gun mounts. Leave the firing position and beware of cold shots from the enemy." The five mortar teams quickly inserted the ready-to-fire shells back into the safety pins and put them back into the portable ammunition storage box. The second gunner pulled the rope on the front bracket of the mortar and tied the two leg brackets and the gun body.
Together, they picked up the warm handle that had only fired one round and walked to the right. The third gunner used an engineering shovel to dig out the seat plate that had been smashed into the soil by the recoil, and the fourth gunner dragged the heavy seat plate to follow his comrades. p>
In less than a minute, all that was left of the artillery positions that had been lined up in a row were a pit and a nest of earth pressed out by bipods. The soldiers carried or carried weapons and ammunition in columns, following the bespectacled staff officer toward the front.
The positions move closer.
By the time Wang Chengzhu followed the team to the reserve position of the besieging troops, the battle to attack the train parked on the railway track had already begun. The two attacking regiments from the north and south sides of our army used light and heavy machine guns and rifles to suppress the passenger carriages with fire.
Continuously send grenadiers to close in and throw grenades to kill and suppress enemy resistance.
However, the effect was not visible for a short period of time. The enemy forces at both ends of the train sent light machine gun teams to the roof of the train to suppress our ambush positions. The infantry of the detachment dispersed towards the middle of the train, using the car body and rails as cover, and moved forward.
The grenadier and demolition team of the surprise attack refused to fire. The 50mm grenade launchers that did not occupy the team's establishment would throw grenades at our army's firepower points from time to time, causing casualties in the densely populated areas of light and heavy machine guns and rifle soldiers in the ambush position.
The news that the artillery troops had arrived at the reserve position was informed to the political commissar by the correspondent sent by the third battalion commander of the new regiment. The news was reported to the brigade commander's former enemy headquarters.
The brigade chief of staff was full of praise for the previous results of seducing and destroying the station squadron's artillery counterattack force, and proposed that the concentrated mortar force be used to counterattack the enemy with limited firepower. Under the premise of being sure not to destroy the freight cars, support the frontline infantry. This proposal was accepted by Brigadier Chen Da, who also required the artillery troops to pay attention to safety and try to organize attacks outside the effective shooting range of the enemy.
The brigade headquarters correspondent was sent to the reserve position of the new regiment to convey the order. After receiving the order from the brigade headquarters, the spectacled staff officer’s eyes lit up and he quickly called the five mortar squad leaders to come over and study the battle instructions together.
After the glasses staff explained the order, all participating comrades were asked to ask questions and opinions, and brainstormed to find solutions. Finally, two conclusions were drawn. One was to split the launching troops into squad units to provide artillery support to the frontline troops; the other was to
The enemy's machine gun fire points are placed on the roof of the vehicle, and the attack distance of the artillery squad is maintained at 300 meters to 400 meters.
On the premise of ensuring your own safety, try your best to kill and injure enemy troops. The comrades present unanimously believe that only dead enemy troops will not harm our comrades.
With the artillery support of the mortar squad and the two Shengyang Army escort teams relying on the train's defense, the grenade infantry was quickly suppressed and annihilated. The enemy troops, who had lost the ability to suppress our army's firepower points, were placed on the roof of the carriage.
The light machine gun group became a few pieces of meat on the chopping board, left forever by the grenadiers and precision shooters at the place where they fought.
The two crawling demolitionists risked their lives to climb into the bottom of the carriage, pulled open the detonator cable of the explosive package, and quickly left the railway track bed area with several rolls.
About ten seconds later, with two loud bangs, the passenger carriage carrying more than a dozen Sunrise Army soldiers was blown upwards and fell back to the rails in a very short time.
The rifles in the hands of many Army soldiers who were shooting in the carriage fell out of the window from the window. The single-hanging gun belt caught the falling rifle, but there was no hand to forcefully pull his weapon back into the carriage.
After this big noise, the west end of the train became much quieter. There were sporadic gunshots on the front of the power train, and the flames lit up from the muzzle, but there was no movement at all in the passenger compartment.
"Dududu...dudu...dudu..." The bugler received the order from the first battalion commander and stood on the ambush position in the western section and blew the charge horn. Several light and heavy machine gun firepower points opened fire one after another, towards the bright lights.
Several short bursts of gunfire were fired from the western locomotive and the freight car, suppressing the counterattack. The soldiers on the position grabbed rifle handguards, held machetes and red tassel guns, crossed the half-length trench, and charged towards the western locomotive. ***The author has something to say***
Note 1: The effective shooting distance of the Taisho 10-year-type 50mm grenade is 175 meters. The 89-type grenade is an improved version of the Taisho 10-year-type grenade, with a maximum range of 700 meters and an effective range of 500 meters. Type 38 infantry gun
The range of the rear sight is up to 2400 meters, and the effective range is usually 460 meters.