Gu Xishui is the commander of the special forces of the Four Elements Regiment. Although he has not received formal training in special operations concepts. All the concepts of special operations came from Tang Dao's explanations, but Gu Xishui has a strong receptive ability.
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The special forces that the Four Lines Regiment needs are not just how amazing the individual combat capabilities are, but they must be the eyes of the entire regiment, able to see corners that the commander cannot see, so that the commander can formulate tactics that are more effective against the enemy.
The special forces are also part of the collective of the Four Lines Regiment. They are not independent from the collective because they are elite, have stronger skills, and have more accurate marksmanship.
Therefore, the target of Gu Xishui's search was never an individual, but a valuable tactical target. For this reason, he even ordered Shen Laoliu to give up sniping and kill a Japanese army captain who rushed in in a panic 400 meters away.
He was unwilling to easily expose such a good lurking point, which was less than a kilometer away from the Japanese follow-up troops.
Finally, he found the tactical target he wanted—an artillery squadron where the Japanese army was advancing.
Matsumoto Umon's expression was ugly, but if no one saw him clenching his command sword with slightly blue knuckles, they would not know how nervous he was as the captain of the rapid-fire artillery squadron.
This should be a battle situation that Captain Matsumoto Umon has never experienced in the five years he has been in the army. In broad daylight, the sky is clear, and the road is smooth, the main force of the regiment is actually surrounded by the Chinese. What is this situation?
If it hadn't happened right before his eyes, even if someone had put a knife to the neck of a Japanese artillery captain, he would have said it was a joke.
But the facts are right in front of us. Thousands of meters away, thick gunpowder smoke towers into the sky for dozens of meters. It’s not scary that the sound of gunfire can travel so far. What’s scary is that the sound of gunfire can make eardrums hurt after such a long distance. I don’t know if it’s possible.
How many guns were firing? Anyway, Matsumoto Umon wouldn't think that it could be accomplished by two infantry brigades.
If not them, it can only be the Chinese!
'The Chinese are very cowardly, but that's when they are asleep. If the empire does not take advantage of the opportunity to occupy the entire territory while they are asleep, the empire will have no chance! Those stupid bureaucrats actually said that the empire is not fully prepared yet
Well, this is the stupidest point of view I have ever heard!' This sentence was expressed by Captain Matsumoto Umon's teacher in the artillery school in class.
Captain Matsumoto Umon trusted his teacher who was the captain of the artillery regiment. He was not only extremely proficient in warfare, but also had extraordinary attainments in Eastern history and culture, especially ancient Chinese history.
What he meant was very clear. China was in its weakest period in its thousands of years of history. If the empire did not launch a full-scale war against China, it would lose this most precious opportunity.
Thousands of years of history! This ancient Eastern civilization has a long development history that makes Matsumoto Umon tremble, especially when the earliest written records in Japan are only about 2,000 years old.
In terms of the depth of civilization, China is an adult and Japan is just a child.
In such a civilization, even if they are asleep, will the severe pain wake them up?
Therefore, Matsumoto Youmon, who learned a lot from his teacher, has always been deeply wary of the ancient country of China. Even though he fought with the division and won consecutive victories, he never relaxed his vigilance towards China.
But today, the regiment is really in a tough fight! The Chinese not only surrounded the two infantry brigades with heavy troops, but also sent out blocking troops to prevent the last infantry regiment of the regiment from carrying out reinforcements. According to the news from the front, the Chinese used
The incredible heavy machine gun firepower far exceeded the assembled heavy machine gun squadron of the Third Battalion.
Could it be an infantry division? Or even an infantry corps? Matsumoto Umon instinctively felt fear, but he knew that no matter how many troops the Chinese army had, his rapid-fire artillery squadron could not escape and had to get close to the front line.
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Sure enough, within two minutes, a military order came from the wing headquarters. The six rapid-fire cannons of the rapid-fire artillery squadron needed to get as close as 500 meters to the front line to deal with the Chinese heavy machine gun firepower and clear the way for the infantry's upcoming "Long Live Charge."
Clear the obstacles!
"Damn it, the Chinese have only exposed their heavy machine guns now, and their artillery has not yet joined the battle. Our rapid-fire artillery squadron is so close, aren't we afraid of being bombarded by Chinese mortars?" Matsumoto Umon silently complained to himself in his heart.
Your Excellency, the captain of the company.
Yes, for the Japanese Army, the Chinese lacked heavy artillery, which prevented them from worrying about being wiped out by a heavy artillery shot, but the Chinese had a small-caliber mortar that gave them a headache.
That thing is very powerful, but very flexible. You can fire a few shots, move the gun base and run away. Unless there is a large group of artillery to suppress it, that kind of thing can also kill people within a range of more than 2,000 meters.
The small-caliber artillery is like an annoying wild dog. It will give you a few bites when you take the time. It will hurt your heart and at the same time, you will be unable to do anything about it.
The rapid-fire artillery is a direct-aiming artillery through and through. It can hit armor and fixed fortifications accurately with one shot, but there is nothing you can do against this 'wild dog' hiding at least a thousand meters away.
Matsumoto Umon's intuition told him that the mortars that the Chinese had never taken out were waiting for artillerymen like him to come close to the front and bombard them.
The two artillery squadrons of mountain artillery and infantry artillery were huddled 1,000 meters away from the rear of the entire front line, and their safety was much better than his.
But military orders are hard to disobey, and no matter how unwilling the Japanese artillery captain is, he still has to do it.
"The distance between each gun is ordered to exceed 60 meters. At the same time, the artillerymen must be 50 meters away from the artillery. After firing ten rounds, each squadron must immediately change the firing point!" Matsumoto Umon looked at the burning red wasteland in the distance and bit.
He gritted his teeth and ordered.
This was already an extremely cautious distance. Unless there was a heavy artillery cluster bombardment, a 4-kilogram mortar shell alone would not cause heavy losses to his squadron.
Before the officers of the two Japanese infantry squadrons began to take off their clothes to show their bravery, Matsumoto Uemon waved the chrysanthemum flag in his hand and said, "Fire!"
At the same time, the 12 Type 92 heavy machine guns and 24 grenade launchers of the 3rd Infantry Battalion also roared.
The infantry artillery and mountain artillery in the distance also roared one after another!
In addition to the thick smoke from burning dry grass, Leng Feng's third battalion's position was also mixed with a lot of gunpowder smoke!
This is the greatest support Ishiguro Sadzo can give to the 3rd Infantry Battalion. The three artillery squadrons directly under the wing headquarters have done their best.
Of course it has an effect!
Nine people from Li Jijin's Seventh Company have been killed in battle, all killed by shelling!
The power of the incendiary bombs fired by the Type 41 Mountain Cannon looked terrifying, but because of the large amount of water and high-end gadgets like gas masks, the officers and soldiers of the Seventh Company could still endure it even though they felt like they were about to be steamed.
But what would be the consequences of an incendiary bomb falling directly into a trench and exploding? Even if the soldiers had tried their best to separate the individual soldiers by more than 3 meters, the splashing flames and high temperature still swept the three infantrymen into a burning man in an instant.
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The skin of the soldiers rolling madly and painfully in the trench was instantly charred and peeled off. Only one soldier who was extinguished by his comrades with water-soaked cotton clothes and fresh soil was still breathing, but he struggled to tell the company commander Li Jiujin who arrived.
The last words are: "Give brother a happy life!"
That was Li Jijin's request that he could barely hear clearly without putting his ear close to the soldier's lips.
"It hurts!" All that's left is the grief that the veteran squad leader tried his best to squeeze out of his throat!
If it wasn't for extreme pain, how could a veteran squad leader be wailing so wantonly?
Just, no tears!
Not only was the fierce roasting almost drying out the moisture in his body, but the terrifying flames even burned his eyelids and stuck them together.
Being hit by a bullet, even if it is skinned by a cannonball, it only hurts in one place. Even if it hurts so much that it makes you cry for your father and mother, your comrades will try their best to wrap it up with hemostatic packs and cotton cloth. Think about the father who is still waiting for you.
Mom, I have to grit my teeth and survive.
But this kind of burns that cover more than 90% of the body is really unbearable. Every part of the body hurts. The skin and the burnt military uniform are stuck together. If they touch it even slightly, it will feel like thousands of burns.
A needle pricks the body.
What's even more terrible is that if you can endure this kind of severe pain and survive in the end, it's okay. Unfortunately, let alone this era, even in the next hundred years, the survival rate for burns of this degree will not exceed 100%.
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In other words, there is no salvation!
Li Jijin burst into tears looking at the soldiers who were burned into black charcoal and couldn't even see their facial features!
The person who can call him brother Li Jijin is naturally not an ordinary soldier. He is the squad leader of the fifth squad of the second platoon under his command. The soldiers who have been following him since he was the squad leader did not die on the Songhu battlefield of the Blood and Flesh Mill. They were in desperate situations.
Sihang Warehouse did not keep him, and the cruel Battle of Songjiang only earned him a medal.
However, he was defeated on this seemingly sure-win battlefield, and the semi-automatic rifle in his hand had only emptied one magazine before.
Li Jijin knew that this brother who had been with him for at least two years was hopeless, even if he was still trying his best to open his mouth and breathe!
When Tang Dao was making incendiary bombs, he asked Tang Dao if a person who was burned by an incendiary bomb could still be saved if he was still alive.
Tang Dao glanced at him at that time, thought for a moment, and answered him: "Although the Japanese are cruel, their way of dealing with it is right."
Although Tang Dao did not answer directly, the veteran Youzi's heart trembled suddenly at that time. After the Japanese infantry was ignited by the incendiary bomb made by Tang Dao, the Japanese officers' usual practice was to put out the fire first, and then immediately shot them when they found that it was useless.
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The Japanese know better than the Chinese the outcome of extensive burns. The only purpose of the so-called rescue is to make the wounded fester all over their bodies in incomparable pain, and then die!
"Brother, you can go in peace! From now on, your parents will be my parents, Li Jiujin. If I am no longer here that day, there will still be Xiaoshan, Commander Leng, Deputy Lei Tuan, Tang Tuanzuo and the rest of them!
"Li Jiujin took the burned body into his arms and whispered in his ear.
The soldier, whose eyes were so burned that they were glued together, tried hard to open them, but was unable to do so. Only a sad "gurgling" sound came from his almost-scorched throat.
Then, his body suddenly stiffened, and his right hand with only three fingers firmly grasped Li Jijin's arm that was holding him. After more than ten seconds, his whole body collapsed in Li Jijin's arms, and he slowly exhaled his last breath.
The tears in Li Jijin's eyes burst out of the frame!
Tears washed freely over his face, which had been blackened by gunpowder smoke and withered grass. The white and black face looked a bit funny, but in the flames that were still exploding all around, there was something indescribable.
's tragic.'
This is a text written by Tantai Mingyue on the back of a photo in her private collection of photo albums.
As the captain of the medical team, knowing that the battlefield faced by the third battalion was the most dangerous, Tantai Mingyue personally took 6 nurses and 30 stretcher bearers to stand by in the second-line trenches of the third battalion. When she heard that someone was injured, Tantai Mingyue took the nurses with her.
and the stretcher-bearers rushed into the trenches at great risk.
Unexpectedly, I saw such a scene.
Company Commander Jiujin, who was known as the most slippery and talkative in the regiment, hugged a soldier who was burned to black charcoal and cried like a child.
The army captain was crying freely, and the flames and air waves were surging at the edge of the trench, creating a tear-jerking scene.
The instinct of a reporter made Tantai Mingyue press the shutter with a camera hanging on her chest. She did not want to record sadness, but to record Chinese soldiers and everything they did on the battlefield.
Sacrifice is part of the battlefield.
However, the next scene left Tantai Mingyue stunned. She finally understood why the veteran who had returned from countless battlefields in the Flesh Mold Lake was so sad.
Slowly pulling out the bayonet in his hand from his brother's heart, he looked back at the soldiers of the Fifth Squadron who were squatting around with tears streaming down their faces. Li Jijin's hoarse voice came out: "Stop crying, tell me.
If the order continues, if anyone is hit by an incendiary bomb and is burned to black charcoal, he will be treated accordingly to make the brothers feel comfortable, and I will be the same!"
Tantai Mingyue's throat was choked, and she wanted to stop Li Jiujin's cold and ruthless order. However, she did not open her mouth after all. As a medical team leader who has mastered basic medical knowledge, she is all too aware of the cruelty of burns.
Death is happiness, but living is the greatest torture!
"Captain Tantai, please help me convey to the regimental commander, when can I load the incendiary bombs he made into the cannon and shoot them out. I will burn my brother to death sooner or later. I will come back sooner or later."
Li Jijin, who was hugging the charred remains of his brother tightly, stared at the bright moon in Tantai with a rare solemnity.
Tantai Mingyue nodded fiercely!
Because only in this way, the tearful infantry company commander might allow the stretcher bearers to carry away the regretful soldiers who had died.
To fight tooth for tooth, this is the temperament that the officers and soldiers of the Si Xing Regiment are condensing, just like their regimental commander.
Li Jijin's suggestion was adopted by Tang Dao. After arriving at the destination, under the rock wall of the already extremely famous cave arsenal, special bombs such as incendiary bombs were listed as the first batch of ordnance developed by the arsenal.
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The special bombs combined with the characteristics of the incendiary bombs of the beautiful American cowboys in the future can be much more powerful than the low-level incendiary bombs currently used by the Japanese army. It is much more difficult in terms of technology and material requirements.
Fortunately, the knowledge that the students have in the departments of physics, mechanics, and chemistry is much better than that of the top students who will curl up like dogs in middle and high school and completely let themselves go in college.
Especially in an environment where the nation is in danger, they are destined to be squeezed out of only 200% of their potential.
Except for the three soldiers who were burned to death by incendiary bombs, the Japanese mountain artillery, infantry artillery and the rapid-fire artillery under Matsumoto Umon's command were also useless.
The 37mm rapid-fire gun can break 50mm armor, and the two-layer sandbag that can protect against heavy machine gun bullets is like a paper lake in front of its copper warhead.
An observation post hidden inside a heavy machine gun fortification was shattered by a rapid-fire artillery shell along with the fortification.
Several other soldiers were either hit by shrapnel or swept away by air waves. This was all the result of not having time to dig anti-cannon holes. If they encountered the 105 howitzer equipped by the Japanese army, the two infantry companies of the third battalion at the forefront
I'm afraid that if you can survive a third of the time after a bombardment, it will be God's turn.
Fortunately, the 2nd Infantry Regiment was confident enough and did not carry such heavy artillery, so Leng Feng's third battalion escaped disaster.
However, the fact that the Japanese army did not have heavy artillery did not mean that the Four Troops did not.
Pang Dahai's battery of artillery has been waiting to be fired on the south bank of Bihe River.
Then, he waited for the instructions from the regiment headquarters.
Gu Xishui reported the coordinates of the Japanese artillery positions he observed to the regiment headquarters from his hiding place using a field radio.
"Distance, 2600 meters, elevation angle 58°" As the gun battery passed the camouflaged position, Pang Dahai's voice roaring at the telephone was transmitted to the six 150-caliber mortar positions without even using a telephone line.
Six 150-meter mortars have been waiting for this opportunity.
Because the firing range of the 150 mortar is relatively short, only 3,300 meters at most. If the Japanese artillery smells a crisis and runs a little further, they can only stare. Merely bombing Japanese infantry is not the skill of the artillery.
Kill the Japanese artillery first and then blow up the infantry, completely defeating them. That is what Tang Dao wants.
"Onboard!" Two infantry squadrons, led by a group of shirtless idiots in the middle of winter, got up from the ground, roared in unison, and charged 200 meters away.
That momentum was truly shaking the earth.
But that only lasted less than three seconds.
"Fire!" Gu Xishui coldly hit the send button.
"Fire!" Tang Dao pointed at the phone.
"Fire!" Pang Dahai personally waved the red flag of the order.
"Hugh!" The unique sharp cry of the mortar sent a chill down the right crotch of Matsumoto, who had always been nervous.
The Japanese artillery captain rolled into a small pit with extremely agile evasion, which was the position he had already aimed at. As long as he was not hit head-on by the artillery shell, his probability of survival was higher than 80%.
Then, Captain Umon Matsumoto, who was still alive, saw a scene that he would never forget in his life.
"Boom!" sounded.
Nearly a hundred meters in radius, no matter the human body or the vegetation, they were all turned into powder!
That's a heavy artillery!
Chinese heavy artillery!
From then on, until the bombardment ended, Captain Matsumoto Umon's head was buried in the pit like an ostrich and never raised its head again.
