my bright sword career

Chapter 161
September 1940, 9 at 22:7 AM

Tonight's moon is far away, and the bright moonlight gently shines on the earth, making it still very bright even though it is night.

A group of soldiers is marching nervously on the silent road. Judging from the hurried and neat steps and the absence of extra noise, this is a well-disciplined and well-trained team.

"Everyone, hurry up, hurry up...you must arrive at Xiaolingdi stronghold before one o'clock in the morning."

There was a voice in the ranks that an officer could hushed.

In the team, a soldier carrying a [-]-billion cover whispered to his comrades beside him: "Company commander...I heard that we even brought the cannons here to attack the devil's stronghold this time? "

"Yes." Another machine gunner on the side, carrying a Type [-] heavy machine gun tripod, also came over and said somewhat mysteriously: "I also heard about it. Just now, a fellow villager saw dozens of vehicles pulling cannons and Let's go on our way together."

"Yes, company commander, please tell us quickly."

The surrounding soldiers came over curiously after hearing this, and someone asked again.

A 27-year-old company commander with a shrewd and capable face glared at everyone, "What are you doing? Go back to your respective positions quickly and pay attention to marching discipline. If the battalion commander sees it, you will feel better."

The soldiers looked at each other, and said with a bold hippie smile: "Commander, walking is boring anyway, just tell us, we are all veterans, there is no one who doesn't know discipline, I just want to ask Just asking."

The company commander couldn't stand the soft and hard paws of these soldiers, looked around, and after confirming that there was no battalion commander nearby, he whispered: "Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you, I tell you, don't spread the word what!

Didn't our brigade commander and regimental commander go to the division headquarters for a meeting yesterday? At the meeting, our brigade commander insisted on bringing in an artillery battalion to support him. Moreover, this artillery battalion is not an ordinary artillery battalion. The battalion is equipped with heavy artillery.

Do you know what heavy artillery is?That's not the little devil's light cannon that can even drag an animal away. This kind of heavy cannon weighs several thousand kilograms each, and the animals can't move it at all. They have to be pulled by a truck. The big pit, do you think it's terrible? "

"My darling..." A soldier exclaimed, "How can such a cannon stand up to the gun tower? There won't be a big hole in the gun tower when it goes down?"

"That's it." The machine gunner carrying the tripod said proudly, "I have seen Jin-made mountain cannons when I was a soldier in the Jin-Sui Army. They are so powerful that ordinary blockhouses can't hold them. It's a pity, I heard that this thing is too difficult to make, even the Jinsui Army didn’t have many, and after the fall of Taiyuan, there was nothing to add, and one bad one was one less.”

Hearing the soldiers talking about it, the company commander was not thinking about it at all. As a grassroots officer, he must know more than ordinary soldiers. Their company, as the main attack company tonight, is responsible for the main attack on the Xiaolingdi stronghold Task.

The terrain of the Xiaolingdi stronghold is steep. According to investigations, the Xiaolingdi stronghold consists of three blockhouses, which are distributed in a zigzag shape. The distance between the three blockhouses is not far from each other, and they can support each other.

The most terrible thing is that the three bunkers are all built on the mountainside. If the Eighth Route Army wants to attack, they have to attack with their backs. The Japanese can hide in the bunkers condescendingly and use their firepower to their heart's content.

From this, one can imagine how difficult it is to take down the Xiaolingdi stronghold.

According to his estimation, it is very difficult to take down the Xiaolingdi stronghold. For such a strong stronghold, their regiment will have to pay at least a few hundred people to take it down, and this can only be achieved when the battle is going well. , If the war does not go well, it may have to return without success.

But the good news is that their regiment leader won the support of an artillery company from the brigade commander. The difference between support and no artillery support is too great.

Just as he was thinking about it, there was a low humming sound behind him, followed by a loud noise sounding behind him.

"The ones in front... all let... step over quickly and let the cars pass by first!"

Accompanied by the sound coming from behind, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were walking turned their heads one after another. With the help of the bright moonlight, they saw that the soldiers who had crowded the road seemed to be pushed away by a pair of huge hands, and they rushed towards each other like waves. As the two sides spread out, many soldiers were even squeezed into the ditch by the roadside.

"Who the hell... so... my mother..."

Some of the grumpy soldiers started cursing, but they turned into exclamations as soon as they spoke halfway.

Under the moonlight, a huge guy appeared in front of everyone.The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army all recognized that it was a truck, and it was much bigger than the Japanese-made trucks they had seen before. Just one truck packed the small road to the brim, making the original road The Eighth Route Army soldiers on the road had to jump to the ridges on the side of the road.

Many soldiers exclaimed: "Good guy... this thing is too big, how much cargo does it have to pull?"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

Due to the weak industrial foundation of China these days, let alone roads, except for big cities such as Beiping and Shanghai, almost all other roads are dirt roads, which are not even as good as the third-class roads of later generations, and occasionally encountered some dirt pits Sometimes they have to go around carefully, because the speed of these large trucks is extremely slow.

When the leading truck came to the place where the company commander and the others were, the company commander had ordered all the soldiers to get to the side of the road so that the truck could pass through.

When the truck passed by them, with the help of the moonlight, they saw a cannon trailing behind the truck with a thick and slender barrel pointing obliquely at the sky.

The soldiers all exclaimed, "See, this is the artillery that came to our regiment to help tonight, right? Damn, this cannon is too big, right?"

"Look...there are still people sitting in the truck."

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old soldier pointed at the truck and yelled, but as soon as he pointed his hand out, he was photographed by the veteran next to him.

"You kid... have your parents taught you the rules, pointing at people with your hands, and when you meet someone with a bad temper, you may even be interrupted with your hands."

"Company commander, company commander... have you seen this, this car is really big!"

"I saw."

The company commander standing on the roadside ridge squinted his eyes and looked at the passing trucks. He noticed that these trucks seemed to be very heavy. When passing by, the roar of the engine was particularly heavy, and occasionally some tires drove through small potholes on the road. The truck also tilted extraordinarily sharply.

"One...two...three..."

The little soldier counted in a low voice, and when the number reached No. 12, the convoy was finally over.

He curiously asked the veteran beside him: "Squad leader... one truck is enough to pull one cannon. Why do they need so many trucks? Isn't this a waste?"

The old soldier scratched his head, as if he was going to be stumped by this question, but he didn't want to lose face in front of a recruit, so he feigned anger and said, "You little brat, why are you asking so many questions, hurry up , Didn’t you hear what the company commander said, we must arrive at the bottom of Xiaoling before one o’clock.”

The little soldier giggled, of course he wasn't afraid of the old squad leader, even though the old squad leader often scolded people, but he knew that the old squad leader was kind-hearted.

After the artillery, the soldiers returned to the road and resumed their formation to move on. Just after walking for a while, they saw the last truck in front stopped there. It turned out that the rear wheel of the truck had sunk into a deep hole. I kept increasing the accelerator, but the truck's tires were still spinning.

And the worst thing is that there were no soldiers in the truck, so the truck driver jumped out of the truck and shouted to the surroundings, brothers, can you come over and give me a hand and push the truck for me.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army gathered around immediately. Dozens of soldiers rushed forward, dragging and dragging the truck finally up from the pit.

It was none other than the company commander and his company's soldiers who took the lead in helping.

Since the road hadn't rained for several days, the road surface was extremely dry. Once the operation was completed, the dust rolled up by the wheels made all the soldiers who helped push the carts look like giant pandas, and their faces were all white and black.

The truck driver was very sorry. Seeing that the soldiers around him were about to continue their journey, he jumped into the truck and brought a few packs of cigarettes to the soldiers who were helping to push the truck.

At first the soldiers wanted to decline, but the driver pretended to be angry and said, "Why... look down on the brothers of the friendly army, and don't even accept a single cigarette."

A soldier explained: "No... our army has regulations, and we cannot use needles and needles from the masses."

"Then do you think I'm a commoner?"

"what……"

The soldiers thought about it for a second, and it really wasn't hi... This is a brother from the friendly army. The three major disciplines and eight points of attention did not say that you can't accept things from friendly army brothers, let alone just smoking a cigarette, so there is nothing wrong with it.

Thinking of this, the soldiers accepted it with peace of mind.

Another soldier asked: "Brother, I see that your car is dead and heavy, what's on it?"

"What else could it be, shells." The driver replied without thinking.

"Is your car full of shells?" The soldier asked in surprise.

"How fresh, it's not all shells, could it be Chinese cabbage?" The driver laughed, "You don't know, this time, in order to let you have enough shells, our group seat asked us to bring in two and a half cardinal numbers. What about the shells?"

"My dear, you are too rich." The soldiers were amazed.

"That's... Our regiment leader is Lao Cai, a well-known landlord in Liantai... Well, I've been telling you all, I have to follow up quickly, otherwise the company commander won't see me later, and I will be miserable. "

After the driver finished speaking, he quickly jumped into the car, started the truck, and walked away quickly...

Less than 10 minutes before one o'clock in the morning, the Eighth Route Army finally arrived at the Xiaolingdi stronghold.

The 385th Regiment of the 769th Brigade was responsible for attacking the Xiaolingdi stronghold.

The predecessor of the 769 Regiment was the 10th Division of the Fourth Red Army, which is a veteran unit. The 685 Brigade belongs to the first-class main force. Come watch the battle.

"Squeak..."

More than a dozen war horses stopped at the foot of a hill less than a mile away from the Xiaolingdi stronghold. Brigadier Wang of the 385th Brigade jumped off his horse. Behind him were the commander of the 769th Regiment Xu Dashu and the soldiers in the regiment. staff.

Brigadier Wang is burly, 1.8 meters tall in this day and age.

He stood on the hillside, quietly observing the Xiaolingdi stronghold under the night with a telescope.

After observing for a while, he asked, "Commander Xu, have the Liantai militia's artillery arrived yet?"

"It's already here." Xu Dashu replied.

"That's good." Brigadier Wang instructed: "You have to remember, you must ensure the safety of the artillery company, understand? This artillery company was temporarily lent to us by Commander Gao, and we have to return it intact when it is used up." Otherwise, if something happens, it will be difficult to say."

"Brigade Commander, I understand. It's not difficult to borrow a good loan." Xu Dashu laughed, then hesitated and said: "Brigade Commander, Pao Company, I have something to report to you. That Pao Company not only They are here, and they themselves brought a platoon of infantry, carrying some strange big jars on their backs, which is very strange."

"Big jar?" Brigadier Wang asked strangely.

"Yes." Xu Dashu said: "I asked them what it was, they just smiled and said nothing, and said that if our attack on the Xiaolingdi stronghold does not go well, they might be able to help. I was annoyed when I heard it Now, isn’t this contemptuous of people, if even our regiment can’t take down Xiaolingdi, what use is their mere platoon of troops!”

"Hey... there is another matter." Brigadier Wang was a little unhappy when he heard it at first, but after thinking about it, "Forget it, don't think too much about it, it's their business if they are willing to bring people over, let's do it well." Just do your own thing.

You have to remember that once the shelling is over, your regiment must launch the attack as quickly as possible, display the momentum of rushing and rushing, rush to the bunker in the shortest time, and then decisively and bravely destroy the enemy. The prestige of our Eighth Route Army was lost in front of the friendly army. "

"Yes!"

Xu Dashu stood at attention: "I promise to complete the task!"

"That's good!"

Brigadier Wang pointed to the front again and said: "Xu Dashu, did you see that there are three bunkers in the Xiaolingdi stronghold, the left and right bunkers are easy to say, but the middle bunker is very tricky and solid. Unless it is a direct hit, it is difficult to destroy, you must be mentally prepared, and you cannot pin all your hopes on the artillery..."

Brigadier Wang said while Xu Dashu nodded repeatedly.

"Okay, you are also a veteran, so I won't say much. Now you go to arrange combat missions. I will go to the artillery company to see how they are preparing."

"Yes!"

After Brigadier Wang gave his orders, he took the guards on the horse and went to the artillery battery two miles away from them...

(End of this chapter)