under fire

Chapter 1220

A boxy sand table was created in the middle of the yard.

A ditch in the east-west direction was dug in the open space. It represents the blockade ditch.

A road was leveled beside the blockade ditch, and a decent model of a gun tower was erected, and another route was cut off at the blockade ditch from south to north.

Two branches and a small plank mean that there is a drawbridge that is controlled by the enemy in the turret.

The students surrounded the sand table, and the Ninth Battalion occupied only one side.

Wang Liujin was holding the mimeographed paper that would rot after only a few pages of textbooks.

Looking at the bruised nose and swollen faces of the students in the division, the patches on the military uniforms were patched from the collar to the back.

How awkward it is.

I just pretended I didn't see it, and started to explain today's theoretical subject: shooting a gun tower.

"Everything is quiet" there is no more to say, Wang Da's instructor officially began to explain: "There are two main types of devil's artillery towers. The most common ones are the artillery towers built on the edge of the blockade ditch near the base area. They are short-term defense projects. The soil structure is the main structure, and it is basically built with local materials, which is not strong.”

Some of the students in the division immediately asked: "Then there is another kind?"

Wang Liujin looked at the student who asked the question, and continued: "The other is the gun tower built on the edge of the town. This kind of gun tower is made of iron bars and cement. It is very strong and has a strong firepower configuration. The view from the gun tower is wide. Searchlights, there is a telephone in the gun tower, you can contact the garrison in the town at any time, this kind of gun tower is not easy to fight."

"Instructor, hurry up and tell me how to fight!"

Jiuying seemed to be calm all the time, Luo Fugui hid behind the crowd, his head heaving up and down like pecking rice.
Wang Liujin turned a blind eye and pointed to the model on the ground: "The equipment of the Eighth Route Army is not as good as that of the devils, so they can only focus on mobility. The little devils are the attacking side, and the others have short legs and short legs, so they can't outrun us. So, I came up with a bad move. Building gun towers and digging blockades next to the highway will prevent our advantage of high mobility from being brought into play, and after the formation of the Devils blockade system, it will be difficult for us to transport urgently needed supplies into the base area."

"Now let's talk about the method of attacking the artillery towers. The first step is reconnaissance. First, we must find out the enemy's strength and firepower in the artillery towers. The enemy artillery towers are almost not isolated, so we must also understand the situation of the nearby artillery towers."

A student from Section [-] pointed to the sand table on the ground: "Report, I think your blockhouse is unreal."

Wang Liujin was stunned for a moment: "Say it."

The students from the division said: "I have entered the enemy's gun towers, and I did not build simple tube towers. Most of them used the gun towers as a corner of the yard, and built a circle of houses next to the gun towers, and there are others."

Wang Liujin nodded and explained: "What you said is not wrong. The blockhouse with a yard you mentioned is generally called a stronghold, and the stronghold is generally relatively large. There are various living facilities in the yard next to the blockhouse. There are more enemies stationed, and the area under control is also larger."

The students in the division were stunned for a moment and didn't speak again. It turned out that the instructor's building of the artillery building was just for demonstration.

Wang Liujin pointed to the sand table and went up to the blockhouse: "The blockhouse we usually refer to is an isolated facility. Its main function is to guard against the blockade ditch. The stronghold is the support of the blockhouse. Otherwise, a blockhouse can house at most one The puppet troops and devils in the squad, our Eighth Route Army can concentrate its forces at any time to form a local force advantage, and it is not easy to allocate a gun tower?"

All the students in the division nodded in agreement, but the Ninth Battalion did not respond.

Seeing this scene, Wang Liujin turned his head to look at Hu Yi: "Now we invite Hu Yi's student who has experience in building blockhouses to tell everyone about his experience."

Part of studying at the Anti-Japanese University is to exchange combat experience with each other. He had already communicated with Hu Yi before class.

Hu Yi quickly stood up, and he didn't even introduce himself: "It's not difficult to fight a single blockhouse like this, but the devil's blockhouses are built in a systematic way, and the distance between the blockhouses is not large. When a blockhouse is under attack, the surrounding blockhouses will quickly send people to support when they hear the gunshots.

In addition, the attacked artillery building will be reported to the headquarters of the puppet army by telephone, and the headquarters will call to mobilize the mobile troops stationed in the stronghold to reinforce. Reinforcement, we must guard against the enemy's hand when attacking the artillery tower."

The thin and tall captain of the division immediately stood up and interrupted Hu Yi: "Isn't that simple? Let's cut off the enemy's phone line in advance, can't we?"

Hu Yi did not refute, and continued to express his opinion: "There are many ways for the enemy to transmit information. The devil's blockhouses generally have bicycles. Even if we can attack a certain blockhouse, the enemy next to the blockhouse over there may also ride a bicycle to the county town to ask for help." It is almost impossible to completely cut off the enemy's reinforcements."

The thin and tall captain of the division waited for Hu Yi to say this: "We have fought this blockhouse before, and we have a better way."

Wang Liujin nodded: "Good experience must be shared."

The thin and tall soldier proudly said: "For enemy reinforcements, we can arrange for ordinary people to hide near the road in advance, and dig the road into sections for him. The little devil's car runs fast, but there is no road. Let's see how he comes to reinforce "

"The method you mentioned is good, but it also has limitations. The roads on the plain extend in all directions, and the devils can detour at any time." Regarding the method of attacking the blockhouse, Wang Liujin wrote it on the mimeograph in his hand. He did not directly say it, but It is to let everyone figure it out by themselves, and the purpose is to impress the students: "Besides, the devils have already considered this point, so the existence of the stronghold makes it troublesome for us to attack the artillery towers. As long as the gun is fired, the enemies in the stronghold will hear it." Fire the gun, and then reinforcements will be dispatched. Everyone must understand that the battle of the artillery building is not an isolated battle."

"Then instructor, please tell me the specific method of attacking the isolated blockhouse." The thin and tall student captain immediately said, deliberately embarrassing Hu Yi who was still standing.

"Student Hu Yi, sit down first." Wang Liujin nodded to Hu Yi, and then continued to explain: "Brother troops invented many strange weapons during the process of attacking the artillery towers.

For example, the simplest "soil tank" is a square frame nailed with wood, installed on a carriage, and seven or eight layers of quilts dipped in water and wrapped in sand are spread on the frame. When attacking, stand four or five under the frame. One person, two people push the shelf forward, the other two follow up with explosives, and the others cover to prevent the enemy from coming out of the gun tower, so that they can push directly to the bottom of the gun tower and blow up the gun tower
The other is to enter the blockade near the blockhouse in advance, dig a tunnel to bury the gunpowder under the blockhouse, and blow up the blockhouse directly.
In addition to weapons, there are also methods, the puppet soldiers are boneless dogs, as long as we disguise ourselves as devils, we can swagger into the gun towers."

The students in the division stared wide-eyed, and immediately discussed: "Disguised as a devil?"

"Can you still play like this?" Boldly.

"Where do you get the devil's uniform?" A good thinker.

"I want to pee when I see devils" cowardly.

The grassroots platoon leaders of the Eighth Route Army are not afraid of death in battle, but there are not many who do not tremble face-to-face with the devils and puppet soldiers.
Wang Liujin immediately raised his eyebrows: "The headquarters requires all departments to learn basic bird language, such as Bageyalu, and you haven't learned these words about your work?"

A student raised his hand and spoke: "Instructor, it's not that we haven't learned, the key is that we are nervous when we see devils and puppet soldiers."

What Wang Liujin was waiting for was this sentence: "Then how can you not be nervous?"

"When you see a dead devil, you won't be nervous."

"Yes, when I saw a live devil, I wanted to stab him."

"Cut" all the students of the Ninth Battalion fainted.
If you say you are nervous, you are obviously afraid.
The students of the Ninth Battalion left the yard.

After half an hour.

The trainees from the different divisions sat in the courtyard and were at a loss.

A devil with a [-] gun and a plaster flag under the muzzle, suddenly appeared at the gate of the yard, still screaming strangely.

"There are devils!" A voice screamed heart-piercingly.

The students who were sitting in the yard looking at the sand table heard the sound and turned their heads. They were shocked when they saw the devil appearing at the door, and immediately jumped up from the ground in a mess.

Wang Liujin stopped with a dark face: "Don't panic, just sit down."

If it weren't for the well-prepared division guards standing next to the students to stop them, the student team would definitely disperse immediately
A sharp-eyed person finally saw clearly that the devil who came in seemed to be a female student named Xiao Hongying, a fellow student, who had changed into a devil's uniform.

The wicked eyes, wicked eyebrows, and wicked little body under the yellow-green steel helmet are almost no different from those of a little devil.

The chaotic students dropped their jaws for a while.

Half of the people's legs are so tense that they are ready to run away at any time
If it weren't for the two days of studying together, remembering the small face of the female student under the only steel helmet, the students in the division might have broken through the guards and escaped from the courtyard.

Wang Liujin looked proudly at the nervous students in the division: "Why, are you still nervous?"

"Nervous!" A student curled his lips and trembled, "She's fake."

Then, more devils walked into the yard arrogantly chattering
"Everyone be quiet!" Wang Liujin signaled the students in the division to silence: "For training this afternoon, the division will send two students who are shorter in stature to change into devil uniforms and join with student Hu to learn how to pretend to be devils and go to the gun tower."

　Regarding the sand table, the earliest written detailed record is that Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, used rice to pile up the actual terrain, that is to say, the ancestors would have used it 2000 years ago.
　　The abbreviated version records the battle between the Yellow Emperor and Chi You 5000 years ago. Stones and branches were placed to indicate the deployment of troops on both sides. Many strategists in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods must have this kind of basic battlefield simulation sand table, not to mention the word "talking about war on paper" Son
　　
　
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