Hearing Qi Zhiyuan's categorical words, Xiao Liu did not dare to argue anymore. With tears in his eyes, he took the pistol, binoculars and satchel handed over by Qi Zhiyuan. He hung the pistol and satchel on his body, put the medicine box he had always kept with him on the ground and shook it.
Liao Yaoya turned around and said to the platoon commander beside him: "Leave the best squad for the company commander, and the rest will come with me."
There was no extra time to hesitate on the battlefield, and there was no time to waste. Knowing that once his company commander made up his mind, it would be difficult to change his habits, the platoon leader did not say anything more and silently returned the current formation to the most complete squadron.
Leaving Qi Zhiyuan behind, each person left a magazine and led the rest of the group to follow Xiao Liu towards the half-collapsed trench that was only a dozen meters away.
Qi Zhiyuan did not turn around to watch his men leave. He put on the canvas ammunition carrying equipment that was issued with the new rifle and left it behind from a fallen soldier. He inserted the spare magazine left by the platoon leader into his chest.
He checked the ammunition bag in front of him and checked the rifle in his hand.
He did not remove the empty magazine from his hand and replace it with a new one. Instead, he used the bridge clip in his ammunition carrying equipment to fill the empty magazine. This ensured that he would not have to use it for a while.
The only two magazines he had on him were all used up, and now he was loading bullets into the magazines to waste time.
After the replacement of new automatic rifles, the Japanese-style bullet boxes and Polish-style bullet boxes originally used by the Anti-Japanese Federation have been eliminated. The ones currently used are vest-style bullet boxes made of canvas that were issued with the new rifles.
New integrated combat ammunition carrying equipment.
This kind of carrying equipment contains four magazine pouches on the chest, two magazine pouches on the back, an integrated bag that can hold four wooden handle grenades, and a canvas water bottle bag. In addition, there are also
There are four pockets. Inside these four pockets are placed four five-round magazines modified from the bridge clips used in the original 79 rifle, and two first aid kits.
The canvas belts that cadres and soldiers usually use can be worn in the inner ring reserved in the carrying equipment. In wartime, it is quite simple to put this kind of individual ammunition carrying equipment on the body and buckle the belt.
There is no need to put grenade bags, water bottles, etc. one by one on the body like before. And except for the shoulder bag, basically everything else can be hung on this kind of personal carrying equipment.
The original portable equipment was not only time-consuming to put on, but also extremely inconvenient to use. After using this new canvas equipment, at least soldiers no longer have to unfasten their belts and take it down piece by piece when drinking water.
Only in this way can we drink water. Moreover, the canvas used to manufacture this kind of portable equipment can completely meet the needs according to the local production.
As for the reason why when using a detachable magazine, it is also equipped with a bridge clip for use with this manual rifle. It is because the loss of magazines on the battlefield is large, and using this bridge clip takes advantage of the unique characteristics of this rifle.
Designed to fill the magazine by pressing bullets into the chamber four times in a row without disassembling the magazine.
This ensures that the soldiers can carry up to 160 rounds of ammunition and four grenades during wartime. This greatly enhances the infantry's continuous combat time in wartime. What Qi Zhiyuan does now is to put the bullets in the four magazines
, pressed into the empty magazine of the rifle.
After doing all this, Qi Zhiyuan turned his head and said to the soldiers and seriously injured people left behind: "Blow up all the unused weapons with grenades. In addition to the squad machine guns, one machine gun directly under the company was left behind to serve as fire cover.
, and the rest were all blown up. The walkie-talkie was doused with kerosene and burned together with the secret language book. I can’t survive today.”
"Machine gunners, hand over the machine guns to the seriously wounded who cannot move for cover. The rest of them open their bayonets, and we launch a counterattack against the Japanese together, creating the illusion that we are preparing for a breakout. We must fight for as much as possible for the comrades who raided the Japanese artillery positions.
Some time.”
As a grassroots leader, Qi Zhiyuan has always acted vigorously and resolutely. After finishing the arrangement with a quick word, Wei Wei glanced towards the graveyard where important targets of the Japanese army might be hidden, then he picked up the automatic rifle in his hand and charged forward.
The Japanese troops who came up were the first to rush out.
On the battlefield, the actions of superiors are undoubtedly the best orders. Qi Zhiyuan took the lead and rushed out. The only squad of soldiers behind him did not hesitate at all. They all followed Qi Zhiyuan with their rifles with bayonets opened.
Everyone rushed out, and no one flinched.
Of course, Qi Zhiyuan also knows that if he fights hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese with the only infantry squad he has at hand, he may not be able to last even ten minutes when the strength ratio is at least ten to one. Although the new automatic rifle has a fast rate of fire,
, but the gun body is much shorter than the Type 38 equipped by the Japanese army. Even compared with the medium-sized rifles equipped by the Kanai army, it is much shorter.
The tactic of bayonet fighting is just like the ancient cold weapon duel. It also pays attention to one inch long, one inch strong, one inch short, and one inch dangerous. Use this kind of rifle with sufficient firepower, but the barrel is too short to compete with the thin and thin barrel.
The bayonet alone is half a meter long, so it is easy to suffer a loss.
As a veteran, Qi Zhiyuan would certainly not be stupid enough to use his own shortcomings to compete with the Japanese army's strong points. The counterattack he launched was just a bluff. The real talking point was the fast shooting speed of the rifle in his hand.
The strong points with intensive firepower speak for themselves.
Less than 30 meters away from the Japanese army, and even under the illumination of flares, the Japanese army thought that they were going to bayonet with them, and they looked happy, and began to hurriedly withdraw bullets according to their hand-to-hand combat requirements. An order was given.
With his 13 automatic rifles in total, he fired three bursts of fire, immediately knocking down the Japanese troops on the opposite side.
Behind them, several seriously injured people, after blowing up the weapons that had lost their owners with grenades, struggled to set up the machine gun. Several drum magazines were placed beside them. And the general-purpose machine gun only had 200 rounds left.
The bullets were also attached to the machine gun. Concentrate the firepower and hit one point hard.
Here, Qi Zhiyuan led the only remaining squad at hand. In order to cover the two squads commanded by Liu Fei, the current acting company commander, the original health worker, they launched a desperate counterattack by raiding the graveyard. Liu Fei led
The soldiers of the two squads took advantage of the opportunity that the Japanese army's main attention was attracted to Qi Zhiyuan, and quickly approached the unknown area along the transportation trench that was only half bombed during the day's battle.
A mass grave hiding something.
Maybe he thought that the small group of anti-resistance alliance that had penetrated into his position was no longer a threat to him. Maybe it was because of the tense war ahead. Just when Liu Fei and two squads of soldiers took advantage of the short opportunity created by Qi Zhiyuan, they quickly
When approaching the mysterious mass grave, a muffled sound suddenly came from there.
Hearing these muffled sounds that were not very conspicuous on the battlefield where gunfire was heard everywhere, Liu Fei and the platoon leader looked at each other and shouted in their hearts that they were lucky. Both of them heard these muffled sounds.
, is the muzzle sound of artillery over 100 mm when it is fired in a sheltered fortification.
Liu Fei's judgment was correct. This was really a heavy artillery position of the Japanese army. And the artillery here was definitely not one. With this judgment, why did the two of them still hesitate? The company commander led a brother from the infantry squad to use his own
It would be foolish to give up this rare opportunity that life has bought for you.
The two looked at each other and saw the determination in each other's eyes. As the acting company commander, Liu Fei said nothing. There was no need to mobilize at this time, let alone anything to say. Now that it has been determined, let's fight
Just go in, there's nothing to say about it. As for whether they can escape unscathed after destroying it, neither of them has thought about it.
The two people who had made up their minds to die and survive did not know that among the graves in front of them, Colonel Masatada Kaneoka, the captain of the 28th Regiment who had made the Ninth Division's progress in the battle slow during the day, was actually
He was sulking. There was no other reason to make him angry. It was the few shells that had just been fired from the artillery position that looked like a mass of graves on the surface but was actually filled with caves.
In order to save troops, he assigned himself a 155th heavy artillery squadron, a 105th howitzer squadron, a field artillery squadron plus the four mountain guns of the wing artillery squadron, and used the cover of the night after dusk to concentrate them all.
Here, among the artillery positions that have been built long ago but have never been used. This is also the headquarters of his 28th Regiment.
Originally, according to Masataka Kaneoka's idea, the opponent's small troops had already penetrated into his surroundings. This artillery position, which currently contains almost all the artillery units assigned to the 28th Regiment, could not be exposed easily. Although there were concealed areas built in advance.
, can withstand direct hits from 100mm artillery shells.
But there were too many variables on the battlefield, especially the opponent whose firepower increased several times with every battle, which made him feel a little uneasy. He also knew that without the artillery's fire cover, facing
With the opponent's infantry, tank, and artillery combined offensive, he might not be able to hold on for long.
During the daytime battle, under the cover of tanks, aircraft, and heavy artillery, the Anti-Japanese Alliance once penetrated more than ten kilometers into their own positions. In desperation, he assigned a tank squadron to the division originally used for the final counterattack.
He launched a counterattack, but was severely defeated by his opponent in a tank battle.
The Type 95 tanks and Type 94 armored vehicles equipped by this tank squadron are no match for the Anti-Union tanks in tank battles. The 37mm cannon cannot penetrate them at a distance of tens of meters.
The tanks have some weird-looking armor. Coupled with the endless supply of infantry anti-tank weapons from their opponents, only half of an entire tank squadron is left after being dispatched.
If it weren't for the artillery squadrons attached to them, who saw that the situation was bad and concentrated firepower to repel the Anti-Japanese attack regardless of the cost. I am afraid that on the Songnen Plain of Mapingchuan, my position would have collapsed during the day. If these few
The artillery squadron was lost. Let alone how to explain it to the division commander, there was no way for me to continue the next battle.