Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

The first step the Punitive Army took when they went down the mountain was to attack Wangshantun. This military fort was previously the gateway to Hutou Mountain. When the Punishment Army occupied this place, they took in many refugees.

Later, when the Japanese attacked this area, the Punitive Army retreated back to the mountainous area. The Japanese did not know that Hutou Mountain had become the rear base of the Punitive Army, and they still thought that Hutou Mountain was a bandit's den like before.

Because the punitive army was so powerful, they cleared the mountain area in less than a month, and then occupied the entrance to the mountain, allowing only entry but not exit. This caused the Japanese to misjudge and they actually sent people up the mountain to recruit them.

At that time, the leader of Hutoushan was Li Xiao. Li Xiao was reading the guide book "Water Margin", which was a guide for active societies. He happened to read the 82nd chapter, where the Liangshanpo divided the money to buy the market, and Song Gongming and his gang were recruited.

Just as he was reading and feeling very depressed, he suddenly heard someone offering to surrender. Li Xiao slammed the book on the table. "Benefit? What kind of surrender?"

He led his men down the mountain and hacked to death a squad of Japanese soldiers and the translator.

Since the Punishment Army had not yet been equipped with camouflage uniforms at that time, and Li Xiao was leading fighters from the Hung Gar Hall, the Japanese soldiers who ran back could tell that they were real mountain people as soon as they saw their proficiency in chopping people.

The Japanese knew that there were bandits in the mountains, but their main goal now was to attack Harbin and Jinzhou, so they could not send troops to attack Hutou Mountain, so they first sent a brigade to occupy Wangshantun.

On a small hill two miles away from Wangshantun, Li Jun held up a telescope and carefully looked at the Japanese in Wangshantun.

This was a standard Japanese battalion, equipped with heavy machine guns, Type 1100 mountain cannons, and a cavalry squad. There was nothing special about it. For the punitive army, fighting the Japanese was almost the same as making money. A Japanese battalion had more than 1100 people. From the weapons and equipment of more than 15 people, excluding those that were damaged, the rest could be sold through other channels, which could earn them more than oceans.

Thinking that he could make money by fighting, Li Weiguo couldn't help but licking his lips. He was about to order an attack when he suddenly discovered that there was something wrong with the group of Japanese soldiers who were training.

He raised the telescope and observed carefully. Although the magnification of his naked eyes was higher than that of the telescope, it was a simulation, and the game was about reality.

The soldiers who were training were wearing colorful clothes, unlike the Japanese soldiers who were wearing the same large military jackets. Li Weiguo recognized the identity of this group of Japanese soldiers at a glance: they were pioneer militiamen, or returning soldiers.

The Japanese government gave this group of old devils old 30-year-old rifles and promised them that they would be able to get large tracts of land in the Northeast and eat fine rice every day. Then this group of devils brought their families to the Northeast to engage in colonization.

"The second-line troops have been sent up. The Japs are truly the poorest imperialists."

Li Weiguo put down his telescope and ordered an immediate artillery attack. His order was first conveyed verbally to the staff, who then sent out horses to pass on the order. The telephone operator also pulled the telephone line to the artillery position in the hope that the command from the command center could be transmitted to each combat unit as quickly as possible.

It took them more than 20 minutes just to prepare and lay the communication system. No wonder mobile operations are difficult. With the communication level of that era and the poor quality of the sergeants, once you start mobile operations, the superior command will not be able to find the troops.

While the communication channels were being laid, the Japanese also noticed the commotion here, and the air defense alarm sounded shrilly. Upon hearing it, the Japanese women and children immediately ran back to the military bunker, and then the bunker closed the door. The Japanese soldiers climbed up the wall, and their rifles and heavy machine guns were pointed directly at the punitive army.

The Japanese captain, a lieutenant colonel, climbed up the city wall and looked into the distance through a telescope. He saw thousands of soldiers wearing white coats, with their helmets and guns painted white, rapidly deploying and already forming an attack formation.

The captain of the Japanese army smiled. He thought that the bandits on the mountain had come down. Aren't they here to report their military achievements? Then he saw a red flag raised among the white-clothed crowd. On the red flag was a fist holding a lightning bolt.

The Japanese captain's face changed and he raised the telescope again. This time he saw 10 unknown tanks painted white lined up in a row.

With a click, the Japanese captain's telescope fell to the ground.

"Punish... Punish the Army..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a round of artillery fire hit the top of the wall, blowing up handfuls of white snow. Several pieces of broken flesh could be vaguely seen flying.

"put!"

Li Dapao held a small flag and a notebook in his hands. He kept waving the flag. The 30 Type mountain cannons fired salvos one after another, and he made marks on the notebook.

After 4 rounds of firing and consuming 120 artillery shells, Wangshantun was in ruins. Artillery can not only cause casualties to the enemy, but also create chaos. The Japanese occupying the military bunker are in great chaos, especially the returning soldiers. These people brought their families with them. Once the artillery exploded, the Japanese rear was in chaos!

The soldiers of the Punishment Army took the opportunity to launch an attack. They attacked in a three-three formation. The three-three formation was praised to the sky in later generations, so this time they also wanted to practice this formation.

Li Qinwu and Li Jun had talked about the three-three system before. Based on the military knowledge he now possessed, Li Jun inferred that the three-three system should be to disperse the infantry squads to the greatest extent, greatly increasing the difficulty for the enemy to kill their own infantry. After all, the era of deploying the maximum force in the same area to gain an advantage is gone after the advent of the Maxim.

A disciplinary army squad consists of 10 people. The squad leader and three combatants form one triangle, and the other six combatants form two triangles. The question now is, what is the spacing between the combatants in the small triangle? And what is the spacing between the large triangles?

Li Qinwu sent people to conduct actual drills, and the indicators given were that the combatants in the small triangles should be able to hear each other's words clearly, and the combatants in the large triangles should be able to hear each other's shouts and see sign language. Taking all factors into consideration, the best distance between small triangles is 5 meters, and the best distance between large triangles is 20 to 40 meters.

In addition to the three-three system, the machine gun squad and mortar squad of the Punishment Army will also follow the infantry to set up firepower points. It can be said that as soon as the Japanese firepower point appears, the machine gun fire will return fire within 3 seconds and the mortar shells will fall within 8 seconds.

Of course, the tanks of the Punishment Army also joined the battle. Ten tanks advanced in an inverted V formation, with only 10 meters between them. Because the Japanese did not have artillery that could threaten the tanks during the early reconnaissance, Li Weiguo adopted this formation that concentrated the firepower the most.

The punitive troops were connected in a line (tanks) or dotted around (three-three system), and they pressed towards the military bunker densely. The Japanese were beaten so badly that they couldn't even raise their heads. If any of them dared to climb up the city wall and shoot, several Reaper machine gun positions would lock onto him at the same time, and then mortar shells and tank guns would smash his body into pieces.

However, the attack of the Punishment Army was not smooth sailing. The Japanese occupied the military bunker for such a long time and did not do nothing.

300 meters away from the flank of the Punishment Army's attack, a snow pile was suddenly poked open from the inside out, and the muzzle of a Type light machine gun stretched out from the bunker and fired at the Punishment Army infantry following behind a tank.