Anti-Japanese Jagged General

Chapter 2 Smart Explosive Cavalry
In the military headquarters, based on Commander Yang's understanding of himself, as long as he speaks, something may be revealed.

And as long as he leaves the headquarters, even if someone in the army knows him, they are not very familiar with him.At that time, I can do whatever I want without any scruples.

More importantly, only when you go to the battlefield and personally command the troops to fight can you bring out what you know well in your mind.

Although he can often contact the commander by staying at the headquarters, he is only a small staff officer after all, and he is soft-spoken. Even if he proposes ideas and suggestions, he may not necessarily adopt them.

Therefore, as soon as he saw an opportunity to lead troops, Wang Ping jumped out.

Seeing that the commander agreed, Wang Ping hurriedly borrowed the donkey from the slope to suggest: "Commander, the recruit company's equipment is too poor, and ammunition is scarce, can you give me [-] more grenades?"

If he wanted other weapons and ammunition, Commander Yang definitely didn't have them.But only grenades, he still has a lot in his hand.

Hand grenades are very simple to make, and almost all major domestic arsenals can make them.The Central Army, Jinsui Army, and even some local troops are heavily equipped.

Some time ago, when the Jinsui Army and the Central Army were defeated on the battlefield, a large number of grenades were left on the retreat road, and finally fell into the hands of ordinary people.

After the establishment of the First Military Division, in order to collect weapons and equipment to expand its troops, the military division specially organized people to collect weapons and ammunition among ordinary people to fight devils.

In the end, not many rifles and bullets were collected, but two or three thousand grenades, which were of little use to the people, were collected.

Excluding the equipment for the troops, Yang Chengwu still has a total of [-] pieces in stock.

After listening to Wang Ping's request, the commander agreed after thinking about it: "Yes, I will give you fifty Jin-made grenades. Time is running out, Staff Wang, I will leave it to you here."

After letting people leave two boxes of grenades and a recruit platoon, the commander led hundreds of people and hurriedly retreated towards the forest.

At this moment, the gunfire in the direction of the county has become more and more intensive.There was a lot of machine gun fire, and Wang Ping immediately realized that the guard company was about to be unable to stop the devils.

Watching hundreds of people slowly disappear, Wang Ping immediately called together the recruit platoon left by the commander.

Looking at the first batch of subordinates after crossing, the confidence on Wang Ping's face disappeared all of a sudden, and he even regretted that he shouldn't show off.

In his memory, although the recruit company was not equipped with heavy weapons such as machine guns, there must have been many soldiers equipped with rifles.

It is true that half of the recruit platoon standing in front of him is equipped with a rifle.But Wang Ping glanced over, but he couldn't find a shot that he could see.

A dozen or so rifles, except for the platoon leader, squad leader, and four veterans with old sleeves on their backs, should be able to fire. The rest are either shotguns or singles who have fallen from the previous dynasty. Whether they can fire bullets is a problem.

The equipment is so poor that there are almost no weapons that can fight against the Japanese army.

But in the face of the Japanese cavalry who might come after them at any time, Wang Ping knew that he had no time to equip everyone.We can only use the existing equipment and troops to find ways, use tactics, and use tactics to win and block the Japanese cavalry.

Wang Ping, who had a clear view of the surrounding terrain on the way to retreat, immediately ordered with dignity: "Except for the squad leader, ordinary soldiers are each given a grenade. Gather the rest together and bring them to me. Go to the mountain ridge we just passed to stop the little devil."

The mountain ridge is not high, only more than ten meters.The only way for the little devil is from the bottom of the beam, along the gentle slope to the top of the beam, about 40 meters long.

It is impossible for such terrain to completely block the fast-pursuing Japanese cavalry.

At most, the gentle slope could be used to slow down the cavalry's pursuit speed, but this was already the best terrain available around. Wang Ping had no other choice but to make do with it.

Just as Wang Ping was seriously thinking about how to deal with the enemy, several trees thicker than thighs suddenly entered his field of vision on both sides of the official road at Liangdi.

"Yes!" Wang Ping's eyes lit up, and he immediately thought of a trick he learned in the time-travel novel "The Predator of Anti-Japanese War".

Under the stares of dozens of puzzled eyes from the recruit platoon, Wang Ping asked several recruits to put on their leggings.

After one grenade was taken away by each person, the remaining [-] grenades in the box were directly bundled into four cluster grenades by Wang Ping with leggings.

After that, the recruits were asked to find some thin threads, and then they left and ran towards the bottom of the beam with the two squad leaders.

Zhong Yusheng, the squad leader of the first platoon and the first squad of the recruit company, was the platoon leader during the Long March. After the troops were reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, they were directly downgraded to the deputy squad leader because of the reduction in organization.

In this army expansion, although no officer was reinstated, he was still promoted by half a rank and transferred to the recruit company as squad leader. He can definitely be called a well-deserved veteran in the Eighth Route Army.

But even so, Zhong Yusheng couldn't figure out what Wang Ping was up to.

I saw Wang Ping tie a cluster grenade to a tree branch on the side of the road with leggings, and then started to arrange something with thin wire.Zhong Yusheng couldn't help asking: "Consultant Wang, what do you want?"

"Set up booby traps!" Wang Ping replied without thinking.

Seeing Zhong Yusheng still staring at a pair of puzzled eyes, Wang Ping explained while working: "Use a thin thread to pull the fuse of the grenade, then stretch the thread straight, and pull it to the official road. As long as the devil cavalry touches this Thin thread, and the grenade will be detonated!"

As soon as Wang Ping explained, Zhong Yusheng understood.Then he frowned and immediately raised his concerns.

"I understand, but I have a question. Is it okay to use grenades against cavalry? The cavalry is so fast, and it takes a while for the grenade to explode after the fuse is pulled. By the time the grenade exploded, the devil cavalry had already run more than ten meters away." !"

Wang Ping cast an admiring look at Zhong Yusheng, and then replied confidently: "You are talking about ordinary booby traps. Ordinary booby traps are really helpless against one or two cavalrymen. However, the booby traps I am deploying are not ordinary. , and we are dealing with dozens of cavalry."

"A devil's cavalry squad consists of thirty or so cavalry, and the formation can drag at least 50 meters. The cavalry in front touches the fuse of the grenade and detonates the grenade. The cavalry cannot escape."

"In addition, my booby traps consisted of a group of five grenades, and they were tied to a tree trunk two or three meters high and exploded in mid-air."

"The power of the grenade is already great. When several of them explode together, the damage must be astonishing. According to my inference, the Japanese cavalry within five or six meters around will definitely be blown up."

The worry on Zhong Yusheng's face was gone, replaced by anticipation for the four cluster grenades.

In less than 10 minutes, all four booby traps were set up.

After quickly clearing away the traces left by himself on the road, Wang Ping immediately led his men back to the top of the mountain ridge, and directed the recruit platoon to build a temporary position to block the devil cavalry who might rush over at any time.

(End of this chapter)