The beacon of youth

Chapter 8

Several attacking battalions of the Independence Regiment blasted the Kuomintang's solidly fortified positions one by one with a large number of explosive packs. There was no other way.

It's just that the independent regiment started to attack from three directions at the same time, and the Kuomintang defenders on the mountain could not gather their strength. Behind each platoon, there were a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy machine guns covering the firepower, and dense bullets rained water to open the way in front.

The power of several heavy machine guns or anti-aircraft machine guns is terrifying. The torrential rain of bullets knocked the Kuomintang troops down. After occupying Yan'an for more than a year, the time for calling the wind and rain has passed. The Kuomintang troops are fighting the PLA. Also tasted the taste of being suppressed.

The shooting hole of the bunker is the focus of the soldiers. The heavy machine guns belonging to the battalion are used for non-stop shooting. The Maxim is water-cooled, so there is no need to replace the barrel for long-term shooting (the Czech type will not work, and the gun will not be replaced after 300 bullets are fired. No matter, the bullets have to fall to the face, and the crooked handles of the magazine style captured by the little devils are nothing), each box of ammunition is more than [-], and the continuous firepower is also very good. There are small holes made by bullets all around the shooting holes.

The Kuomintang defenders were knocked out as soon as their firepower emerged, and then replaced with a shooter who didn't hold on a few times before being killed. After being knocked down a few times, no one dared to go up. It's not as important as your life. Some people will say, can't you be shot if you dare not carry out the order?It depends on when, when the battle is in a critical situation, shooting soldiers may cause mutiny, besides, soldiers also have guns in their hands, and if they are in a hurry, they may come to you.

The firepower of the defending side could not be continuous, which relieved a lot of pressure on the attacking troops in front. The soldiers kept shouting: "Explosive packs, quickly load the explosive packs." Send up the required weapons and ammunition.

When Li Yong formed his troops, he had a lot of considerations for fighting alone. The biggest difficulty in fighting alone was logistics supplies, so each battalion had a logistics platoon that was in charge of logistics, and the regiment set up a logistics battalion. Seeing the benefits, less than two hours after the battle started, the ammunition in the hands of the soldiers began to run out, especially the explosives, which were the main weapons, consumed a lot.

There are no long-range weapons (direct-pointing weapons) to deal with fixed targets. The [-]nd infantry artillery and the [-]th field mountain artillery were transferred away by the column. The soldiers had to use people to send explosives up. This is an independent regiment. Other troops may not even have enough explosives.

However, because each combat battalion has a logistics platoon dedicated to logistics, the ammunition of the attacking troops seems to be sufficient, and the troops are approaching the top of the mountain bit by bit.

With a large amount of ammunition and the covering firepower of continuous shooting, the battle progressed smoothly, but the casualties of the independent regiment were also increasing, and the sacrificed and wounded soldiers were carried down one by one (on stretchers The one whose head is pushed back is still alive, and the one whose head is pushed forward is a sacrifice).

It is too difficult to think that there will be no casualties in the battle in the dark night. Seeing the soldiers being carried down continuously, Li Yong's anger rises little by little. What he can't see the most is that his soldiers are killed by the enemy's firepower, although there is no way to do it thing.

Li Yong, who was watching the progress of the battle nervously, suddenly thought of a problem. In the previous stage, the Combat Independent Regiment captured some rocket launchers used to deal with tanks and armored targets. Now is the time to use these weapons. These guys have been equipped to each battalion They are extremely combat units, and logically speaking, they have already formed their combat effectiveness. Why haven't they seen or heard of these units being used in this battle for more than two hours?

The voice of the commander Li Yong came from the walkie-talkies of the three attacking battalions: "Why don't you use rocket launchers with so many casualties? Don't you have a rocket launcher squad in each battalion?"

In fact, Li Yong really misunderstood these commanders. In the previous stage, some anti-tank bazookas were indeed seized. Each combat battalion also organized an anti-tank squad specially prepared to fight tanks, but the number seized was too small. The most precious thing is that there are not many anti-tank rockets. Every battalion treats a few rockets as the treasure at the bottom of the box like a nurse's eyeball. used by enemy tanks.

The Independence Regiment has not formally fought against the enemy's tanks since it formed the army. These poor commanders feel that with these treasures, they will have more cards at the critical moment.

Hearing the commander's report that he was not willing to use it, Li Yong was angry and funny, and shouted through the walkie-talkie: "There is no reluctance, the life of our soldiers is more important than any weapon, take it up and kill the enemy, as long as we put If you win a battle, you have everything, but if you lose a battle, you can’t even save your life, what kind of weapons do you need.”

The independent regiment's walkie-talkie is a connected channel. Several battalions could hear Li Yong's call clearly. The third battalion commander Ma Changsheng, the fourth battalion commander Ning Jinshan, and He Cuihua were all cruel. Yes, several anti-tank squads directly under the battalion headquarters rushed over.

I rushed over, but I was really reluctant to use those rockets. The squad leader who rushed up discussed with the front commander (the leader of the attack platoon) that he should use explosives as much as possible, and save money until the critical moment. Take it easy.

But the bazooka squad really showed its power when it came up. The main defense force of Laoshan is the firepower of various bunker types built all over the mountain. The smaller ones have only a few people inside, and the larger ones are a squad. Arrange Tier [-] units to defend.

The advantage of this arrangement is that it can inflict a lot of damage on the attacking troops. If you don’t kill my firepower, you can’t come up. But the disadvantage is also fatal. You can only be in a passive position and cannot organize an effective counterattack (manpower is too scattered) , and if there is no way to organize a counterattack, you will not be able to grasp the initiative on the battlefield. Without the initiative, there is no talk of victory, but it will last longer.

This kind of formation is a good way to deal with the Northwest Field Army a year ago. At that time, the army's firepower was too weak. If you want to take down such a bunker, you have to exchange the lives of many soldiers. It is estimated that you will not need to go to the top of the mountain. It's exhausted, but it's a bit outdated to use this set now, especially the independent regiment, whose firepower is not as strong as other troops at 01:30.

Since the rockets are very precious, they should be used sparingly. The soldiers chose the Xinda bunker with the most powerful firepower to attack, and even practiced with them.

The fighters against the bazooka are a bit nervous. Usually training is training, and fighting and training are two different things. The reason for the nervousness is not that the soldier is afraid of death, but that he is afraid of emptying the few precious bullets he has.

Fearing that it will be empty, I have to feel closer, and when I am closer, I will be more confident. Touch and touch, keep moving forward, crawl forward on the ground, and when I climb to only a few tens of meters away from a big bunker, the soldier feels Almost, the bunkers to be attacked at this distance are much larger than the tank models during normal training.

The large cement-filled bunker has several shooting holes built around it. Such shooting holes can not only reduce the bullet-receiving area but also expand the shooter’s field of vision (the shooting holes in the bunker are not straight or square. If the bunker wants to To resist hitting, the thickness must be increased, but once the thickness is increased, the shooter's sight is very limited, and the dead angle of shooting is also large, so in order to expand the shooter's sight, the outside of the hole must be made larger).

Fighting against the bazooka, the soldiers who are regarded as precious weapons by the cadres and soldiers of the independent regiment, of course, must be guys with very strong psychological quality. It is enough to say that I am not afraid of death, it has to be approved by the soldiers after each battle, so these selected soldiers are all guys who are more courageous than pumpkins.

In order to make the first rocket hit accurately, the soldier who climbed up first had already put death out of his stomach, and just wanted to lean forward a little bit, so that he could be more confident.

The people behind looked at the soldier nervously. In order not to let the enemy find him, they fired all the covering fire, and finally stopped when they were only more than 30 meters away from the big bunker, and leaned against a big rock. He exposed half of his body, put the bazooka on the ground, took a few long breaths, aimed and fired, and a rocket was fired out with a "swish".

Under everyone's gaze, the rocket drilled through the firing holes of the bunker as if it had eyes, and then there was an explosion, and the big bunker shook a few times, and bursts of fire came out from the shooting holes around it. There was a puff of green smoke, and there was no movement after it came down.

If you want to destroy such a big bunker, you can't do it with one bomb. It takes several bombs to blow up this big guy. Fire was fired at a distance of about 30 meters, and this baby bullet was shot directly from the shooting hole by the veteran.

The attacking teams at the back saw it clearly, what would happen if they didn't seize this opportunity, several soldiers jumped up and rushed forward, rushed to the bottom of the big bunker, and threw a few grenades into it again.

By the time the soldiers found and opened the secret door of this big bunker, there was no living person inside, or a complete person inside. A rocket and a few grenades blew up the inside, and the closed The environment can increase the power of the explosion.

This time was good, a complete big bunker was seized, the soldiers immediately cleaned up the dead people inside, and then relied on this big guy to attack in all directions.