The beacon of youth

By the time the National Ai Twenty Bamboo Army at the foot of the mountain was using cannon points to prepare for the Independence Regiment's position, the soldiers on the mountain had already entered the artillery holes.

Li Yong saw that Wang Huhu, the commander of the Fifth Battalion, kept silent, just sitting there quietly smoking his pipe that seemed to last forever: "Little Tiger, how is your battalion doing? How is the situation?"

Wang Huo: "Regimental Commander, we have been fighting for almost two days. Our battalion has not fired a single shot. There are no casualties, but a dozen were injured by the enemy's artillery fire. The soldiers all said that they are too useless. I got hurt before I put it on, and I’m afraid I’ll be laughed at by other battalion comrades

The simple and honest tiger Wang smiled and continued: "More than half of the fortifications were destroyed by the bombing. Many individual soldiers' artillery holes and shooting bunkers were buried with soil, and the trenches were also destroyed by the bombing." cut

Li Yong nodded and said to Wang Huhu: "If you can use your battalion today, try not to use it as much as possible. Tell the soldiers to rest more and maintain good physical strength. The big battle is still to come. Take the time to repair all the fortifications damaged by the artillery fire at night." The tiger lit a little and continued to smoke his choking pipe.

After the artillery fire of the 29th Army was ready, the infantry charged upwards again. This time the enemy also learned how to behave. After a few steps, they lay down to observe, then rushed up a few steps, and then lay down again. After a long time, they did not attack. Halfway up the mountain.

The officers in the team cursed angrily, and kicked them while cursing, trying to get the soldiers to get up and charge upwards, but none of his soldiers were fools, and it didn't matter if they were kicked a few times. Is there any difference between rushing and courting death?

Li Yong saw all this clearly through the binoculars, and hurriedly ran back to several large caves in the back mountain along the traffic trench. The soldiers in the caves were all tired of waiting, some lying down and sleeping, He wipes guns and bullets, sits there bragging about the mountains when he can't sleep, and talks strange things, anyway, he does everything.

A soldier said to the brothers beside him: "Hey, you said that this battle was fought, and I haven't even seen the shadow of an enemy. What is the difference between this and the uncle?"

Another soldier said: "I'm worried about you, don't worry, you don't have to be late for a good meal. The mission of our regiment is to stick to it for five days. It's not here yet. Why are you in a hurry? Let me tell you, this is It is our independent regiment. If it is placed on other troops, even if it can complete the task, there will be only a few people left. Do you remember our second regiment in Chang Gaoshan? How many casualties were there in that battle? Only one brigade of the enemy attacked , now our regiment has stabbed seven divisions in front of the mountain, all seven divisions are genuine Kuomintang Central Army, it is already remarkable to be able to fight to this level

Judging from the tone of the soldier speaking, he can be sure that this is a veteran of the independent regiment.The new soldiers around all looked at him with admiration, and they asked this old soldier to talk about Chang Gaoshan in the past, talk about the miraculous regiment leader Li Yong and these battalion commanders.

Just as the old soldier was talking nonsense to everyone, Li Yong and Li Yuming walked in hurriedly.

Seeing Li Yong walking in, several commanders who had no combat mission for the time being, Ma Quanyou, commander of the second battalion, Ma Changsheng, commander of the third battalion, Ning Jinshan, commander of the fourth battalion, San Niu and Xiaocheng surrounded them.

Li Yong looked at a few people: "Pick out all the rifle shooters with good marksmanship in your battalion, form a few sniper teams, and shoot at the enemy officers in front of the mountain and the machine gun fire covering the charge from a long distance.

Each infantry squad of the Independent Regiment has one or two riflemen, this is to supplement the lack of accurate firepower of the infantry squad.

The infantry battalion of the independent regiment is mainly equipped with submachine guns. Although the submachine guns have fierce firepower, they are characterized by hitting close but not far. The farther distance depends on the firepower of the light machine guns in the squad. The above is the role of a sniper.

Li Yong asked each infantry squad to be equipped with one or two riflemen, equipped with the little devil's 400-style rifle. Although this kind of rifle has no gas guide device, it can only be loaded manually, and its rate of fire is relatively slow.But the accuracy within [-] meters is very good.Sometimes it can be used instead of a sniper rifle.

This is also a no-brainer. The independent regiment has not acquired a sniper rifle until now. Even if there are a few in the future, it will not solve any major problems.The Kuomintang troops have not seen any information on sniper weapons in the Northwest battlefield, but there is a saying that General Liu Zhidan was shot and killed by enemy snipers while commanding the battle. After research

A few minutes later, more than 100 riflemen were ready. They were selected with a lot of thought when they were selected. They were all good shooters in their respective units. This time, they were still used. Li Yong carefully explained the tasks to them. :

"While fully guaranteeing yourself, try to eliminate as many grassroots commanders led by the enemy, machine gunners who eliminated the second attack, and slander gunners who came out before, and then you must pay attention to the units." As long as they are If these people are found, they will all be wiped out. "

There are several of these fighters.The special shooters in the battalion have been stuck in the cave for several days, and they have long wanted to go out. They were very excited to see the regiment leader pick them out. More than 100 sharpshooters were led by the commander of the fourth battalion, Ning Jinshan, and led by the big cave in the back mountain. Li quietly touched it out.

Among the cadres of the independent regiment, Wang Huhu, the commander of the Fifth Battalion, has the calmest personality. No matter how urgent the situation is, Wang Huo has the ability to calm down. The five infantry battalions are also the most stable, so Li Yong entrusted the task of holding the first line of defense to the fifth battalion.

An army with such a character is most suitable for defensive warfare, and the task of going deep into the enemy's large army defense area and harassing the enemy is left to Li Jiangguo and Zhang Jinsong, two cadres with more ideas.

If the commander with a calmer personality is not Wang Huhu, then he must be the fourth battalion commander Ning Jinshan. Ning Jinshan usually doesn't talk much, and he doesn't like joking too much, unlike Li Jiangguo and Zhang Jinsong, who are laughing and joking all day long. But this guy's gun is extremely accurate.

If you say that no one in the Pizi Kung Fu Independent Regiment can compare to Li Jiangguo, but compared to shooting, it has to be said to be Ning Jinshan. Although the other veterans are also good at shooting, they are still worse than Ning Jinshan. Far.Ning Jinshan is a soldier from the Eighth Route Army. He is an old bone specially picked out by the head of the Second Regiment Zhao for Li Yong. The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army have a relatively common characteristic. They shoot very accurately with their guns. Our Eighth Route Army is poor, and each soldier has few bullets, so we have to practice shooting skills hard.

As far as things in this world are concerned, if there is a loss, there is a gain. The eight-year war of resistance against Japan has honed Lao Balu's shooting skills to perfection. Ning Jinshan used to be a double guy when he was a platoon leader, with a submachine gun and a takeaway A rifle, now as the battalion commander, there are hundreds of soldiers under him, but his habit has not changed. In addition to carrying a shell gun, he also carries a [-]-type rifle with him. This is common in all independent regiments. Among the cadres and fighters in the army, it can be regarded as an alternative.

Because of the personality of the battalion commander, the soldiers of their fourth battalion are also the most accurate in shooting in several infantry battalions. He is the standard and dare not say beyond, as long as someone can approach his level, he will be rewarded.

Some people said that Ning Jinshan shot accurately because of his good eyes, a pair of eagle eyes, he could see accurately from a long distance, and he could see a lying rabbit through the blades of grass.

Ning Jinshan disagrees with this statement. His point of view is that the battlefield is not a training ground. A living enemy is not the same as a dead target, and it is even more different from a rabbit. Rabbits are not dangerous, but they can’t be handled well when facing the enemy. Will you lose your own life, or as the old saying goes, there are tens of millions of strategies and tactics, and bravery is always the first.

So what Ning Jinshan said most when training his fighters was that if a shooter does not have the spirit of bravery, he will not be able to stay calm on the battlefield, and no matter how good his skills and tactics are, he will not be able to perform well.

Therefore, he attaches great importance to the brave and tenacious style of casting troops, and requires the soldiers to not be afraid of any difficulties and obstacles, and to have a fighting spirit that can overwhelm all enemies, making them invincible.

Facing the swarming Kuomintang soldiers, Ning Jinshan asked the soldiers to form a combat group of three and move freely on the ground. He himself brought two soldiers, each with a 300-style rifle, from one Drilled out of the bombed messy trenches, selected a few shooting positions, set the scale of the rifle at [-] meters and started shooting at the enemies rushing up.

It is also very knowledgeable to choose the shooting position. You must first save yourself and then destroy the enemy. Therefore, it is not advisable to choose a particularly obvious position. The obvious position is easy to be found by the enemy.

Relying on a bombed-out bomb defense hole, Ning Jinshan poked out half of his head from the inside, slowly stretched out the [-]-style rifle, and aimed at the enemy soldiers on the hillside with one shot. When Ning Jinshan's gun fired, One of the heads of a Guozheng soldier who mounted a machine gun on a half tree root and shot at our army position suddenly appeared.In the hole of the gun, the bullet entered through the front forehead, and drilled out through a hole in the back of the head. The firing machine gun immediately stopped firing, and the body fell to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, Ning Jinshan used a rifle to roll the names of the officers in the enemy's ranks. After every gunshot, some people fell to the ground. In a blink of an eye, Ning Jinshan knocked down more than a dozen brazen soldiers within a few hundred meters. The lower-level officers of the 29th Army and the enemy officers panicked, knowing that sharpshooters from the Eighth Route Army had attacked them, and all of them lay on the ground like soldiers.