The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 499 Flamethrower

They ran forward in panic. There were stones and trees everywhere. The infantry was fine, but the tanks were severely hindered. Not coming.

This is an anti-tank trench dedicated to dealing with tanks.

When the artillery platoon leader saw the enemy tanks stop, he knew it was time for them to perform.

"fire!!"

There were not too many inspiring words, only a simple sentence of firing, six mortars fired two salvos, and landed in the US tank convoy, rumbled and exploded, the infantry fled and the tanks were unable to move.

Gunpowder smoke covered the battlefield, and the hazy raindrops could not suppress it.

The comrades of the artillery platoon appeared again carrying bazookas and recoilless guns. Their main task was to destroy the tanks of the enemy's vanguard. This was their performance time, and the shells that dragged out an arc roared and landed Entering the stopped tank convoy, there was a bang explosion, and the enemy tank was completely scrapped, the tracks were blown off, the fuel tank was also detonated, billowing black smoke rose and spread to the sky.

The U.S. soldiers who followed were completely out of formation, scurrying around and shooting indiscriminately, and they were already in a mess.
The American soldier with a walkie-talkie panicked and found a stone, squatted on the ground, trying to communicate with the rear, and roared artillery to support them, even though he knew it would take time for the artillery to deploy.

Whoosh!
I don't know where there was a sound of bullets piercing through the air, and it pierced through the helmet on the top of the head with a jingle. When the head tilted, the helmet fell to the ground with a clang. on the face.

As soon as the gunfire from Xia Yuan's side, Chen Lie also started to use his shooting ability, aimed at the enemy in the distance, and pulled the trigger frequently, and the bright bullets flew down from the mountain, puffing into the bodies of the American soldiers .

"Okay, well played!"

The big guys were all holding submachine guns with a limited range, so they could only watch from a distance. Seeing Xia Yuan and Chen Lie shoot and kill the foreign devils, they shouted happily.

The enemy's vanguard was not a vegetarian either. The heavy machine guns and self-propelled anti-aircraft guns on the tanks crazily tilted bullets up the mountain, but they didn't even see the Chinese attacking them, and they shot up the mountain indiscriminately.

With a bang, a bullet slammed hard in front of the big horse, as powerful as a grenade, a dull explosion sounded, and the blasted mud splashed Lao Gao, falling on him, and the big horse lay on his back shaking his head. In the trenches, he cursed: "Does the foreign devil have a problem with me? If I don't beat you, I almost beat me up."

"Then it's not that I have a problem with you, it's that I want your life." Lao Yang said sarcastic remarks on the side.

"Grandma, let them come up and see if I don't kill them!" Big Ma came up in a fit of temper, holding a submachine gun eager to try.

This group of enemies was beaten so badly that they couldn't organize an effective attack at all. Even just now, there was a small leader of foreign devils who couldn't stand it and wanted to organize his own soldiers to attack on the mountain. A bullet sent him to meet God. The few American soldiers who had just stabilized panicked again and pulled the trigger towards the top of the mountain indiscriminately. Who knows where the bullet flew.

Xia Yuan's plan was successful, the wreckage of the five tanks was billowing black smoke, the tracks were blown off by the gun platoon, and even the fuel tanks of the tanks were lifted off together, turning into a pile of scrap iron lying across the road, the gaps between It was not enough for a tank to move, and there were anti-tank trenches ahead, so this group of US troops wanted to turn around and run away.

The firepower of the Chinese on the mountain was not strong, but their marksmanship was surprisingly accurate. When the gunshots sounded, there was always a soldier who was shot through his body.

"Call for reinforcements, call for reinforcements."

Seeing that the number of soldiers around him was getting smaller and smaller, the American second lieutenant company commander panicked, grabbed the corpse of the soldier carrying the walkie-talkie and pulled it behind the tank. A bullet jingled on the tank beside him, startling He quickly curled up, not daring to show his head.

After taking a short breath, he took the walkie-talkie and started to communicate with the rear.

"Hold on, our artillery is unfolding, you need to hold on for 5 minutes."

"Yes, sir!"

The second lieutenant company commander calmed down and hid quietly behind the tank. He didn't stick his head out when he was killed. It was an act of courting death. On the high ground, there were Chinese sharpshooters staring at him. He looked at the soldiers who fought back and struggled. Stick out your hands instead of your head.

They all saw that the Chinese who shot on the mountain had good marksmanship.

The second lieutenant company commander called again on the walkie-talkie: "The Chinese have snipers with good marksmanship. We will also send snipers over."

The voice was interrupted, and the captain of the second lieutenant cursed and threw the walkie-talkie to the ground.

There was a bang from the side, and there was a violent explosion. There were mud and gravel everywhere. He straightened his helmet and looked in the direction of the explosion. A tank was blown up in front of him. He turned his head and looked at his butt again. There was also the sound of an explosion, and the sound of mortar shells falling from the sky, the sound was not small, and their retreat was also cut off.

A bad premonition rose in his heart.

"Damn it, these Chinese people probably want to wipe us out here!"

On the mountain, Xia Yuan looked at the U.S. troops who were hiding, put away his guns, and shouted: "Get ready, hide in the bomb shelter."

Everyone took their things with them and drilled into the cat's ear hole. The cat's ear hole is a pothole on the side of the trench, and people can hide in it. The hole is fairly hard, and the space is not very large. People, after all, time is limited, they can't dig cat ear holes too big.

Sure enough, as soon as everyone got into the cat's ear hole, there was a unique sound of grenades piercing the sky above their heads. It was harsh and fell on the ground. There was a sound, and the entrance of the cave was covered by the gravel rolled by the spreading air waves.

Xia Yuan buried himself in the deepest part of the cave, and the gravel rushed into the cat's ear hole and landed on his body with crackling noises. Fortunately, the cotton clothes were thick enough, so it didn't hurt too much.

The howitzers of the U.S. military continued to fire at the high ground in the distance, completely covering the entire high ground. The places that were not positions were also turned over by enemy shells. There were broken trees and branches everywhere, messy and chaotic.

Being in the center of the position is more like staying in a drum, the rumbling sound is too loud, the big guy tries his best to open his mouth wide, and kneels in the cat's ear hole in a kneeling position, which can prevent the explosion. The violent vibration shattered the internal organs of the person.

Many inexperienced soldiers habitually lay down on the ground for the first time, keeping their bodies close to the ground. After a round of shelling, they can stand up and talk to other soldiers, fight, and wait until the battle is over. The soldier who was fighting with them just now fell to the ground with his head tilted.

Some didn't get up at all.

Every time the battle ended, the corpse collection team went to collect the corpses of the soldiers, and they could always see the corpses of some dead soldiers who had no wounds on their bodies.At that time, it was rather ignorant. Everyone didn't understand why this happened, so they thought they were scared to death.

In fact, during the shelling, the internal organs were shattered, and naturally no injuries could be seen from the outside.Some veterans only understood why after going through one war after another, but they didn't understand the principle.

During this period, a lot of knowledge has been popularized in the army, the quality of individual soldiers has begun to improve, and common sense of combat has to be introduced to each platoon and squad, especially when new recruits join the company, there is even one-on-one teaching by veterans.

The best way to avoid the ground vibration caused by shelling is not to let the chest stick to the ground.During the Battle of Shangganling, there were many wounded lying on the ground, and after the enemy's round of shelling ended, they never woke up again.

After the enemy's shelling round ended, Xia Yuan pushed the soil piled up at the cat's ear hole and drilled out. There was no one in sight on the battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke.

"Instructor, Lao Yang, Lao Chen, Lao Ma"

Feeling bad in his heart, he rushed to the buried cat's ear hole with a gun in his hand, and tried his best to scrape away the dirt in the trench, revealing a dark hole, and a person could be vaguely seen inside.

That was a person he was familiar with, Lu Guangnan, the monitor of the cooking squad, and Lao Lu followed him all the way. Later, in the blockade battle, he even went to the cooking squad. As a result, he was the only one who died in the cooking squad. Later, the night operation , Lu Guangnan also threw away his only pot, which seriously hindered his actions.

"Old Lu, old Lu."

Xia Yuan opened the cat's ear hole, pulled Lu Guangnan out, grabbed his wrist, and touched his neck. He felt that the other's neck was still beating, and immediately began to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on him.

"Captain."

After pressing it a few times, Lu Guangnan woke up.

"You're fine, I thought you just died like this." Xia Yuan heaved a sigh of relief, pulled him up, looked into the distance, and immediately shouted: "The enemy is coming up!"

He looked at the position, and other people also got out of the cat's ear hole. The cat's ear hole was dug very deep, and the enemy's shells fell nearby. But unable to withstand such fierce bombing by the enemy, especially the 105mm howitzer, under the continuous bombardment, the cat ear holes could not last long, and many of them collapsed and were dug out by others.

There are not many soldiers in a class.

"The enemy is coming up, ready to fight."

"Company commander, the machine gun has been buried." Liu Tiezhu was still kneeling on the ground and digging hard, anxious.

"Little Wang, help him, let's push for a while, don't worry."

Xia Yuan yelled, turned his head and rushed to the distance, the enemy dispersed into a skirmish line, surrounded towards the high ground, with a full battalion of troops, the offensive was not much weaker than before.

Gunpowder smoke is everywhere, and it still can't cover the US troops in the distance.

Sun Changgui followed Xia Yuan, and saw from a distance two men in the US military team were carrying something on their backs, with two threads wrapped around their shoulders, rushing up the mountain with the attacking US troops, holding a strange weapons.

Sun Changgui was startled immediately, and shouted to Xia Yuan: "Company commander, is this Yankee the same as the little devils before, trying to poison us with poison gas?"

Xia Yuan jumped into an unburied trench, and put his gun on the mound of soil, "No, they didn't wear gas masks, that thing is a flamethrower."

This was the first time he saw this thing. When he was in Shangganling, he specially picked this guy to fight. There was no way, this thing was too powerful against tunnels, and it was not too bad for positional warfare.The flamethrower, also known as the flamethrower, can be easily divided into four parts, the oil tank, the compressed air source, the ignition device and the nozzle.His attack method is as simple and brutal as his name. Soldiers usually hold the gun body in one hand, and just pull the trigger with the other hand, and the spray gun can instantly spray out a dragon of flames tens of meters long.

The result of its attack is horrific, as long as the human body is slightly touched by the sprayed sparks, it can only watch the fire grow bigger and bigger until it is burned to ashes.

The principle of the flamethrower is similar to that of the water sprayer. Once the ignition device is triggered, the high-pressure gas in the gas tank will eject the burning liquid in the oil tank at a very high speed.It should be known that not only highly flammable fuel is added to the oil tank, but also a large amount of thickening agent is added, which makes the flame adhesion effect very good.

The viscous fuel can reach a high temperature of 1000 degrees after being ignited, and the flame will burn wherever it sprays. Even if the burned soldiers roll all over the ground, they cannot extinguish the flame.Moreover, during the burning process, the flame will consume a large amount of oxygen around the flame, and release highly toxic smoke, which will strongly stimulate the soldiers' respiratory tract and lungs, until the soldiers suffocate to death.

This thing has an alias, called Devil Happy Gun. When encountering this thing, the little devil can always roll all over the floor happily.

The Yankees used this thing to burn a lot of little devil's infantry.During the period of the Far Eastern Army, the United States supported the Far Eastern Army with such weapons and equipment, which helped the Far Eastern Army eliminate many Japanese devils. However, they did not know the incompetence of the Allied Forces and regarded the Expeditionary Army as a retreating force.

"The flamethrower, and that stuff."

Sun Changgui had never seen such a strange weapon. Looking at the thing on the foreign devil's back, he couldn't help grinning, "Company commander, I'll kill him."

As soon as the voice fell, a few bullets flew past his head, and Sun Changgui was so shocked that he quickly lay down in the trench.

"Be careful, the foreign devils have spotted you."

There are not many soldiers left in their positions. A squad is scattered on the position, fighting independently, but they can reinforce each other, so that they are not easy to be wiped out by a single shell from the enemy. At the same time, they can still form a very terrifying battle The firepower net is very effective against the group charge of the US military.

The stream of bullets flew past their heads, and Sun Changgui cursed: "Company commander, bring them closer, I'll knock them out."

"Hey!"

Suddenly, a strange sound sounded, and a long flame flew to the front of the trench, and the surrounding area was immediately ignited with raging fire.

An American soldier carrying a flamethrower took a favorable position and tried to suppress the volunteers in the trench.

(End of this chapter)