The beacon of youth

It was getting dark in the sky, and under the cover of artillery fire, the 160th Brigade of the Kuomintang led the battle with tank troops and launched a tide-like attack on the positions held by the People's Liberation Army.

The Kuomintang officers, including the brigade commander Huang Zhiyu, are not fools. Although they say that they want to become officials and make a fortune, they are a little more utilitarian, but they still have basic military common sense.

If you can't break through the PLA's positions before dark, you will be in big trouble. The 38th and [-]th divisions that were besieged first may be wiped out, and the attacking troops will hardly make much progress.

Once the 38th and [-]th reorganized divisions of the Kuomintang were wiped out again, not to mention the chairman of the committee in Nanjing, even Commander Hu Zongnan in Xi’an couldn’t pass the test, let alone the front-line officers. It would be nice to be able to keep their heads, so the main attacking troops of the Kuomintang wanted to take advantage of the last period of time before dark to muster up the courage to rush forward.

Under the continuous firing of artillery, the tanks rushed up along with the infantry, and on the positions of the People's Liberation Army, the soldiers were not intimidated by the crazy attack of the Kuomintang army. When the tanks entered the effective range, under the command of the old shooter , The soldiers of the teaching brigade pulled the trigger, and the anti-tank rockets flew out in an instant.

Now you can see the difference between the old shooter and the new shooter. A lot of baby-like rockets have been fired, but nothing hits the target. According to the visual results, it seems that there are two rockets hitting the target. Hit the target, and the rest flew off the tank.

The first time I fired a rocket launcher, although I was very excited, the result was frustrating. The soldiers of the teaching brigade shouted anxiously: "What's the matter, why can't I hit the target? He is so anxious Old man."

The old shooters were on the sidelines guiding: "Why panic, don't you see the wind, aim the bazooka a little downwind, understand? Aim a little downwind."

The rocket launcher used by the infantry is different from the firearms. It has a trick to use. It can be aimed and shot directly when there is no wind, but it is different when there is wind, because the rocket flies slower than the bullet. There are a lot, so prepare the amount in advance.

Those sent by the teaching brigade to study are also veteran soldiers. Of course, it is better for such precious weapons to be mastered by veteran soldiers. These people have no problem with marksmanship. out here.

When shooting with firearms, the advance should be biased towards the upwind direction, but the bazooka is the opposite. When there is wind, it should be biased towards the downwind direction. This principle is very difficult to understand. The more you want to lean to the leeward direction, the more crooked it will be if you do that?

Although it is not easy to understand, the reason is here. Anti-tank rockets are not small high-velocity projectiles like rifle bullets, but slow-moving long rod-shaped warheads. There is a small impeller at the rear of the warhead to maintain stability. , when flying, use this constantly rotating small impeller to keep the flight trajectory of the warhead, a bit like the so-called tail fin stabilized sabot-piercing projectile.

The slow-flying long rod-shaped warhead is greatly affected by the wind force. The mass of the warhead is heavy at the front and light at the rear, and there is a small rotating wind wheel at the rear, so the tail is most affected by the wind force during flight, which causes When there is wind, the flying rocket will fly with its body crooked, which is an arc flight trajectory. If the wind is blowing from the left side, the warhead will be an inner arc trajectory, so when aiming, you must aim A little bit downwind.

However, when shooting ordinary firearms, the truth is just the opposite. This makes these veterans of the teaching brigade who come to learn very uncomfortable, and they will not be able to twist this trick for a while.

Fortunately, these people are very disciplined soldiers, soldiers are easy to handle, whether he can understand or not, do it first, and explain the reasoning later.

The old shooters shouted loudly: "Listen, I don't have time to reason with you. If you tell you to aim downwind, aim downwind. Miss half of the tank position, aim and fire, click."

During the conversation, the tank had reached less than 100 meters. Not only the tank guns, but even the machine guns on the vehicle rang out. A dense rain of bullets hit the position, and there were casualties on the position, especially in the front anti-tank team. Several of them were knocked out.

This is the consequence of operating mistakes. The battlefield is not a drill, and a negligence will cost life to make up for it. But at this time, the difference between old soldiers and new soldiers can be seen. The sacrificed and injured comrades are lying beside him. He said, the blood on his body was still flowing, but no one was watching this, and there was no time to care about these comrades, reloading for the second time, steadying, aiming—okay, firing.

Bang, bang, bang, continuous explosions sounded on the position one after another, the soldiers of the teaching brigade found their sense this time, basically every rocket hit the tank, not to say that these soldiers have How powerful, you can master all the essentials with one or two shots, but the distance is too close. Some tanks are only 60 to [-] meters away from the anti-tank team. Such a short distance is facing the huge body of the tank. It's not easy if you can't beat it.

Thick smoke, fire, and debris from the explosion filled the entire forward position. The first time the tank was killed with a rocket launcher, these soldiers almost jumped up from the ground. How many people died.

These soldiers also wondered why they had to lean towards the leeward side when aiming. The old soldiers shouted: "There is no time to explain to you. We will talk about it after the battle. Reload, aim, and shoot."

Rotating rockets flew everywhere in front of the position, more than 20 tanks, more than 20 vehicles, all the possessions of a tank battalion of the 0 brigade, all were killed by the soldiers at the front of the position.

The bombed tanks collapsed in piles here and there, and the majestic guy just now turned into a pile of scrap metal. The brigade commander Huang Zhiyu, who was supervising the battle behind, felt chills in his heart. In order to save his 160 The brigade was equipped with such a tank battalion. I didn't know how much effort it took at the beginning, and it made other brigades jealous for a long time, expecting them to do their best at critical times, but they didn't expect everything to be explained here.

However, the battle has already been fought to such an extent that it is useless to be distressed. We can only bite the bullet and persist. The infantry group that lost the cover of the tank was directly exposed to the guns of the People's Liberation Army. Under the strong firepower of the independent brigade, the soldiers all They fell down row by row.

The difference from the last time was that these soldiers who had suffered heavy casualties did not run back with a single mind, but lay down on the spot and stood stiffly on the ground. After several attacks, the entire ground was filled with corpses of Kuomintang soldiers. These corpses that have not had time to be cleaned up are now bunkers for soldiers lying on the ground.

It's not that I don't want to run, but I really don't dare to run. Several regiments of the 160th Brigade have formed an echelon attack mode. Those behind have the right to shoot those in front. No one dares to run after doing this. They will die when they go back. We'll see the situation later.

The sky hadn't completely darkened yet, but the vision was blurred, and it was hard to tell who was the dead and who was the living on the entire battlefield. Artillery Battalion Commander Gao Xiang suggested to Li Yong: "Brigade Commander, these grandsons are lying on the ground and don't move. , Should we bombard him with our cannons, and the fake death will also make him a real dead person."

Li Yong ignored Gao Xiang's suggestion, but turned around and asked, "Have the heavy artillery units of the 65th Division and the 160th Brigade been found? Have they moved their positions?"

Gao Xiang smiled: "Brigade Commander, I figured it out a long time ago. On a hillside six or seven kilometers away from us, our battalion sent out more than a dozen reconnaissance teams, and they are still guarding there. I didn’t know that we have artillery on the Eighth Route, let alone shifting positions, we didn’t even cover the artillery positions, as long as you give an order, I promise to knock down the enemy’s artillery positions within 10 minutes.”

In fact, the Kuomintang's artillery did not take the Eighth Route's artillery seriously, and it has its own reasons. This is thanks to the illusion created by the teaching brigade of the sixth column. The teaching brigade and the attacking Kuomintang army fought all day. These large-caliber artillery are no match for others. Not only did they have no effect, but their own losses were not small. Therefore, Brigadier Chen Haihan hid these treasures to no avail and dared not use them. Let’s expose them again. It is estimated that it will be completely ruined, which makes the KMT's command organization mistakenly believe that the PLA's defensive troops have no artillery, or there are very few, and they cannot pose a threat.

Li Yong, who glanced at his watch, asked Gao Xiang: "How long has the enemy's artillery fire extended?" Gao Xiang: "10 minutes."

Li Yong: "I'll give you another 5 minutes to withdraw all your reconnaissance teams, and fire in 5 minutes to destroy the enemy's heavy artillery positions. Are you sure?"

"Fire in 5 minutes to destroy the enemy's heavy artillery positions. Please rest assured, Chief, and resolutely complete the task." Gao Xiang turned and ran out after repeating the order.

Don't look at Gao Xiang as a joking kid, he doesn't matter how big or small he is with Li Yong and Wang Chengde, but it depends on the occasion. Gao Xiang's execution of orders on the battlefield is not at all sloppy, this is an excellent command what members should do.

Li Yong took this into consideration when the column and field divisions issued reinforcement orders to the independent brigade. The biggest difficulty in cooperating with the teaching brigade to hold their ground was not the enemy's infantry, but the enemy's artillery. Blocking warfare is different from guerrilla warfare. Run, the KMT's artillery is powerful and doesn't pose much of a threat to the troops, but blocking warfare is useless. Blocking warfare has to be put there and fight against others. At this time, the artillery is too disadvantaged if it is not an opponent, so Li Yong has been thinking What method can be used to destroy the enemy's artillery units without causing excessive losses to ourselves.