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Chapter 276 The War Brought by the Sheep
The battle was like this, and none of the brothers in the regiment had ever seen it before. The regimental commander was counting time with his watch, and dozens of brothers in the artillery were assembling artillery. The surrounding armored vehicles could not hit the people on the mountain, but they were still in combat positions, ready to fire at any time.
Five hundred meters outside our brothers, dozens of armored vehicles are on guard duty. This place is close to the territory of Ningcheng County. Since we have discovered this squadron of Japanese soldiers, there may be more of their people around. We must also guard against sneak attacks.
Five minutes and thirty-two seconds.
Looking at the result, Captain Chu frowned. It took more than five minutes to assemble six 120mm mortars. Compared with the results of the training camp, this was almost a minute slower.
Of course, this is also related to tension. Although we are fighting smoothly now, many of our subordinates have never been to the battlefield. It is quite difficult to achieve such results near the battlefield, so Captain Chu did not mention them.
"Report to the regimental commander, the regimental artillery company has been assembled."
Gui Pingzhi, the company commander of the Fourth Regiment's artillery company, said.
Originally, their regiment had only two artillery pieces, and they were the old-fashioned kind, so let alone an artillery company, there wasn't even an artillery platoon. Only one of the two artillery pieces could fire, and the other was just a decoration. An artillery squad would be enough.
After arriving in the north, according to Gui Pingzhi's idea, it was already quite difficult to form an artillery platoon for us. Who knew that after the military reform, we would be directly assigned an artillery company.
This made this guy very happy. Apart from eating and sleeping, he spent every day training his men. He didn't know how many artillery shells they had fired. He was so worried that he couldn't sleep every day. Today was finally the actual battlefield. We had to let the commander see our abilities, otherwise wouldn't these be useless shells?
When they were in the Sichuan Army, artillery shells were very precious. They only had one cannon that could fire, and there were only four artillery shells in the entire regiment.
However, during training in the training camp, several trucks of artillery shells were brought to them every day. Every time they fired, Captain Gui felt like he was dreaming.
"Hey, Lao Gui, before we came out, I asked you how capable your artillery was. You told me it was absolutely perfect. The target is right there, and there's no one around to harass you. These are perfect conditions for an attack. Go ahead!"
Captain Chu habitually looked for his whip. He used to use that thing when commanding his men. Unfortunately, he had no warhorse now, so he could only point his finger at the mountain.
"Captain, just wait and see."
After Captain Gui finished speaking, he immediately used various equipment to observe. Of course, his fingers were also indispensable. Although these devices were more accurate, they were used to measuring distance with their fingers.
Two minutes later, six shells shot into the sky.
From the position where Captain Chu was standing, four shells hit the top of the mountain, and two of them missed the target. This result was acceptable. The Japanese troops on the top of the mountain did not expect that they could still be hit even though they had hidden in this place.
"Quickly retreat, quickly retreat. Everyone around the mountain road, retreat immediately."
After two rounds of artillery fire, Captain Chu was frightened and quickly asked them to stop. The big rocks rolling down from the top of the mountain might cause damage to us, so it was better to let the armored vehicles at the foot of the mountain retreat first.
The power of the 120mm mortar is so great that the top of the mountain may really be flattened. Of course, two meters is a bit exaggerated.
After the armored vehicle reached a safe location, Captain Gui ordered his men to continue the attack. The artillery bombardment on the top of the mountain never stopped. Anyway, it was a bare area with nothing but rocks, so the Japanese couldn't escape even if they wanted to.
A whole squadron of Japs was eliminated just like that, that's nearly 200 of them. Except for a few deaths during the initial sneak attack, we haven't had any close contact with the Japs since then. No one expected the battle to turn out like this.
"Alright, alright, stop firing. Do you have enough shells?"
Seeing that few people could stand up on the hillside, Captain Chu ordered the artillery company to stop.
"Don't worry, Commander. We brought enough ammunition when we set out. This is how much we've used. Furthermore, within a 200-kilometer range, we can replenish everything we need in one afternoon. According to our logistics regulations, how many shells have you fired within the replenishment range? Report this immediately to the logistics department, and they'll deliver it to you this afternoon."
Captain Gui took out a supplementary report and showed it to Captain Chu. There were regulations for various types of consumption and replenishment.
"Let the brothers from the second company go up and finish off those who are still alive."
We must not allow any of these devils to slip through the net. If we are going to kill them all, we have to kill them all. If there are a few that slip through the net, they will be left with nothing after we leave, and the people around them will be in trouble.
"Boss, Boss..."
Just as Captain Chu gave the order, a middle-aged man came running from the east. Judging from his clothes, he should be a farmer from nearby.
"What's wrong, uncle?"
Captain Chu saw that the uncle's forehead was sweating, so he asked his men to bring him a kettle.
"There are Japs over there. There are Japs over there. There are a lot of them, three or four hundred of them."
The uncle said breathlessly that he was originally a shepherd, and when he was caught by the Japanese, the sheep under his charge were definitely lost. Fortunately, the uncle was smart and found a place to hide. The Japanese also focused all their attention on the sheep and ignored him.
While the Japanese weren't paying attention, he ran towards the place where the artillery was firing. There must be our troops there.
These people were wearing different clothes from the Japanese devils, so he was ready to take a gamble. After all, he had been running for several hours and was almost out of strength.
"Uncle, please get on the car in front and show us the way."
Captain Chu pointed to the car in front and his brothers took him over. Although there were still some remaining enemies on the mountain, leaving behind a company of about a hundred people would be enough.
The remaining brothers quickly turned the car around and headed southeast.
Of course, to be on the safe side, Captain Chu first assigned five armored vehicles as the vanguard, and the remaining personnel followed 2 kilometers behind.
On the prairie in the central and southern part of Rehe, armored vehicles pushed their speed to the extreme, and the thick black smoke gave people a sense of security. Fortunately, there is no environmental inspection now, otherwise the black smoke you emit would fine you so much that you wouldn't be able to afford dinner.
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