under fire

Chapter 778 Cannon Fodder
Li Huanzhang took the soldiers with the captured guns, including the clothes stripped from the bandits, and the common people carried the wounded with the captives, and hurried eastward along the path on the plain.

All the companies in the village were assembled together.

Some members of the team were still slightly injured and bandaged and did not leave. They sat in the spring sun and maintained their formation, and the dark crowd sat in the spring sun.

They were talking quietly in their respective companies, no one was making any loud noises, and the scene was still buzzing. Occasionally, they looked up to see the correspondents and armed workers running back and forth in the village.

The devil is coming!

According to the usual practice in the past, as long as the devils are coming to mobilize, the team has to be transferred, but today, the three battalion commanders seem to have no intention of transferring at all!
Wen Wuquan, a soldier from the first battalion, was sitting in the ranks of the Luo Fugui Company of the Ninth Battalion, constantly looking around.

From time to time, I greeted the company of comrades who were close to the side.

It's a pity that the iron egg platoon leader on the opposite side didn't mean to let him go back to the company at all. He even secretly told him that he must follow Li Xiang more and learn the essentials of grenadier and mortar shooting.
Promote him to be platoon leader when he returns!

Wen Wuquan lowered his head in the sun to organize his equipment, deliberately letting the soldiers next to him see the pistol on his shoulder.

According to the platoon leader of the big dog, the shell gun is useless on the battlefield, but he doesn't believe it at all in his heart
Since the big dog said it was useless, the heavy responsibility of carrying the shell gun fell on him. Hearing that the devil was coming, he quickly took it out and pretended to wipe it.

Last night, a batch of bandits attacked the village in the north, and they killed a dozen bandits who broke into the village. Unfortunately, he didn't catch any guns and bullets from the dead bandits!

When the bandits retreated, they took most of the contents of the corpses, and he didn't have any part of the rest.

However, when chasing the bandits in the north of the village, he nervously shot down a bandit. When cleaning the battlefield, he told Big Dog that he had killed a bandit.

The big dog was very happy, and with a wave of his hand, he asked him to stab the seriously injured bandit to the Queen of Heaven. The big dog said that everything on the corpse belonged to him, and no one commented on it. Those national soldiers under the dog were also very generous and distributed some bullets to him.

So, for the first time ever, he now has 43 rounds in his pouch, which he has counted several times.

There were five bullets in each pouch of the bullet belt, and the feeling of the heavy impact on his chest while walking made him very excited.

Eight rounds of bullets were pistol bullets, and I felt a little regretful that I couldn't make up ten rounds, otherwise there would be the same amount in each small bag!

Satisfied, the bullets are divided into nine parts, but unfortunately there are not so many bridges, so they can only be scattered in the bullet bag.

Some are envious of other comrades who have Japanese-style cowhide bullet boxes. Although they are hidden under the clothes and cannot be seen, you can tell what is hidden inside the bulging clothes. .
I heard the big dog say that those guys are fools, how inconvenient is it to hide bullets in their clothes during battle?
Tie a slipknot on the two cloth strips I sewed on the bullet bag to prevent the bullets inside from being lost during the march.

The rifle bullets were all stuffed into the barrel one by one, and the caliber was no problem.

Occasionally, I think of the bandit's eyes under the torch, helpless, panic, and despair.
When the bayonet stabbed obliquely into the bandit's heart from his abdomen, the bandit finally howled and said to him: "Thank you."

He still doesn't understand why the bandit said thank you.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but look up at the iron egg platoon leader next to me, the platoon leader seemed to still have tears hanging on his dirty face
Tie Dan was indeed very sad.

More than 20 soldiers of the company he brought over this time died, more than 30 were slightly or severely injured, and more than half of the casualties had been lost!
Even though the Independence Regiment had killed more than 100 armed bandits and captured more than 200 people, he still felt sorry for those comrades who died.

The soldiers are his life-and-death brothers. Many soldiers have been trained by him since they joined the Eighth Route Army. Yesterday, before dark and before the battle, they were still joking with him, saying that after returning to the mountains, he would invite them to the most delicious barbecue in the mountains. and drink the strongest wine.

They even made an appointment to find a daughter-in-law together after the victory, have more than a dozen children, and then join the army to fight devils.
He closed the eyes of each corpse with his own hands, dug a big pit with an engineering shovel, and personally shoveled the soil to bury the sacrificed soldiers on a small slope in the south where the sun can bask, and buried all his comrades together. There is no coffin, just a wooden sign.

I heard from the soldiers of the Ninth Battalion that the geomantic omen here is not very good. After the victory, we will build a beautiful cemetery for them.

War makes a soldier mature very quickly. The soldiers did not show fear because of the sacrifices of their comrades-in-arms, and no one even deliberately mentioned the names of those sacrificed comrades-in-arms.

Just like Commander Hu, there is no smile on everyone's face, only unyielding perseverance!

A crow was croaking in the village, and Tie Dan really wanted to smash the crow into powder with one shot.

The Independent Regiment has been expanded. Judging from the situation of the Ninth Battalion, after he returns, he will definitely be the main company commander of the First Battalion!
He is still the platoon leader and is under the command of Ma Liang for the time being.

In the plains, there was no need to train new recruits all day long. Unexpectedly, the Li Xiang Company of the Ninth Battalion turned out to be a grenadier company.
Although there are only a few grenadiers, I heard that Lao Qin who stayed behind still has mortars, and it is said that he did not bring them because there are no shells.

I heard that two more mortars were seized this time, one in the Second Battalion and one in the Ninth Battalion, also without shells.

Battalion Commander Hu was really kind to the soldiers of the first company. He specially arranged for Ma Liang to take care of his platoon. Food and equipment, including equipment, were treated equally.

If it weren't for Wen Wuquan's face, he wouldn't even have the chance to touch Li Xiang's hidden mortars, let alone listen to the formulas Wanbaxi said during the artillery training this morning.

When he came back, he wrote all the formulas in his notebook, and he swore in his heart that he must also get a mortar for the first battalion!

Wan Baxi was so popular in the Ninth Battalion that even Gao Yidao, the commander of the Second Battalion, personally gave him a captured watch this morning!
Commander Gao also told him not to let Commander Hu know
Ever since Wan Baxi knew that Hu Yi was also in the national army before, he thought to himself that since everyone was in the national army before, it would be good to work under Hu Battalion Commander, which is better than being a second dog and helping a tiger.

Originally, I always thought that the eighth road lacked guns and ammunition and had to fight the devils in meatball battles and bayonet battles. After fighting several consecutive battles with the eighth road, I found that the eighth road actually had a team with strong combat effectiveness.

The two battalion commanders, Gao Yidao and Wang Peng, even charged into the battle with their bayonets upright. It seems that the rumors that they are not afraid of death are not true!

The general is the courage of the soldiers. Hey. It's a pity. If those officials in the national army can be so fearless, can they still beat the little devils?
If I became the battalion commander, I would definitely not be so stupid. The bullets on the battlefield don't have eyes.

In other words, battalion commander Hu is like a regular army. I heard that he never ordered his men to charge with bayonets. Even if he attacked, he never fought an unsure battle. He began to rely on firepower to suppress the enemy at a distance of 300 meters. .

Thinking of the battlefield, he immediately thought of his fellow villagers who fought to the death in Shandong, and he suddenly felt very uncomfortable.

Li Xiang, who was next to Wan Baxi, asked, "Hey, Baxi, I'm calling you. You're so dumb."

Wan Baxi came back to his senses: "Hey, I was distracted, what did you just say?"

"Nothing else, I just ask the mortar platoon of a battalion of the national army, the specific staffing."

Wan carefully withdrew his thoughts, looked at the large circle of heads around him, and thought for a while: "A general infantry regiment has a direct artillery company equipped with six [-] mortars, and each battalion is equipped with two mortars. , a total of six battalions, a total of twelve guns.

There are 14 people in a squad in the German Armored Regiment, 33 people in the ordinary regiment, 120 people in the artillery platoon, the platoon leader, three squad leaders, correspondents, observers, plus the first gunner, the second gunner, and the third gunner. Half a catty of shells plus the box weighs more than 1000 catties, even if the shells are usually handled by the battalion transport platoon, they must be accompanied by ten or eight ammunition hands.”

Wan kept talking in detail, and the people around him kept taking notes in notebooks of all sizes.

If you can't write a word, put a cross or a circle
Wan carefully took the time to glance at a certain soldier who was holding a pencil and taking notes very seriously. On the page of paper on his knee, most of it was circled or forked, and there were a few holes in the paper.
It's better not to remember!

Wan Baxi suddenly remembered that when he first entered the artillery platoon, he also had the idea of ​​firing artillery without charging, but later, it was completely different from what he imagined.

Therefore, he didn't intend to hide any secrets at all. Besides, the use of mortars is not complicated, and this is not a secret in itself. If it can be equipped with infantry artillery, it will be enjoyable!

He is very clear, and everyone who has been on the battlefield knows that in battle, the artillery platoon and the light and heavy machine guns are the most frequent!
If you fight one or two battles often, you will change people
In the national army, he didn't even know how many times he was recruited into the artillery team.
People often say that being cannon fodder, in fact, those who cannon fodder die the fastest!
No matter how well the officials protect the artillery, it is still the most important target of the enemy!
All firepower will give priority to the artillery, and even send a small group of elite troops to detour and sneak attack at any cost, so the artillery is the easiest to become cannon fodder!

Since they are willing to learn how to shoot cannons, Wanba has some sympathy and some admiration from his heart. They are real warriors!
It's just that the devils came calling right away, and now that the eighth road has no shells, it's useless to tell him at this time.

(End of this chapter)