Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

Li Dapao glanced at his watch. The time was 10:45. The Japs in the city were still hiding in their houses and showed no signs of surrender. He raised the small flag and waved it down fiercely.

Thirty guns fired at the same time, and the houses far away from the military fort were blown up into a cloud of dust. The depression angle of the Type 8 mountain gun was only degrees. Once it was on the city wall, it could not hit the ground below and could only shoot at the defense area in the distance.

The 30 guns then fired the second and third rounds. The houses at the shooting points were demolished and pitted. At this time, the Japanese soldiers inside could not help but react. Hundreds of old, weak, women and children rushed out of their hiding places howling, and then charged towards the city gate controlled by the city guards. Each of them held two grenades in their hands, and their expressions were both terrified and crazy, and they looked distorted and unshapen.

Following the elderly, the weak, women and children were regular Japanese soldiers. The Japanese soldiers actually forced their own people to block the enemy's guns!

The punitive soldiers on the city gate were greatly shocked, and then greeted them enthusiastically with bullets. For this backward human bomb charge, the firepower of a squad of the punitive army could turn them into nothing.

I saw two Reaper machine gun tripods opened and placed on the parapet, and they fired a string of bullets at the rushing Japanese, the old and the weak. The Japanese, the old, the weak, the women and the children were killed in an instant. The grenades in their hands also exploded, causing more casualties.

In this regard, the two punitive machine gunners who were firing crazily had no psychological burden at all. They did not care about their own people and pushed them onto the battlefield, hoping that the enemy would be soft-hearted so that they could win the battle. Then, they would only face bullets!

The Japanese soldiers obviously did not expect the Punishment Army to be so cruel. They deliberately selected the weakest elderly and women, but they did not expect the Punishment Army to shoot without any hesitation. Hundreds of elderly, weak, women and children died without even a minute, causing the Japanese regular army following them to be exposed to the guns of the Punishment Army.

All kinds of firepower from the Punishment Army immediately poured down on the Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese troops were enveloped in a rain of steel and fire.

The Reaper machine guns and Liberator automatic rifles fired in long and short bursts, while the Woodpecker semi-automatic rifles accurately shot and killed every Japanese soldier who was missed. The Japanese soldiers on the streets were beaten and cried for their parents, leaving behind a large number of corpses and retreating back to the houses to die.

The Japanese offensive was thwarted, and the artillery on the city wall continued to bombard. This exposed another problem: the 75mm artillery was not capable of demolishing houses.

Most of the houses in the military bunkers are made of wood, and the shells can easily penetrate the wood and explode inside, but the 75mm shells have insufficient charge, and the explosion cannot structurally destroy the entire house, so the Japanese can still use these houses for attack and defense.

Li Dapao reported the information here to Li Weiguo at the rear command post by phone, saying that the 75mm artillery had poor destructive power. If they wanted to use artillery to destroy all the houses in the military bunker, it would not be possible even if all the shells they carried were used up.

Li Weiguo had no choice but to stop the shelling and let the punitive soldiers prepare to enter and grab the houses.

Fortunately, the Japanese had launched a mindless charge before, which resulted in the loss of most of their troops. Now there are less than 500 Japanese in the city. If we pay attention, the casualties will not be too great.

With a loud bang, the gate of Wangshantun Military Fort was blown open by explosives, and four armored personnel carriers rushed into the street. There was a turret with two Reaper machine guns on the top of the armored personnel carrier. The turret aimed at the houses on both sides and fired indiscriminately, sending wood chips flying everywhere. Many Japanese soldiers were killed.

The hatch at the rear of the armored vehicle opened, and 10 heavily armored punitive soldiers rushed out. They were heavy infantry specialized for close combat, equipped with full-defense heavy ceramic steel armor. No part of their bodies was exposed, and even their joints were wrapped in 10-point thick coarse cloth. They could withstand the explosion of 2 kilograms of explosives at close range, and at least they could save their lives and go back to earn redemption. In fact, they were just ordinary infantry versions of heavy grenadiers.

There are 10 heavy infantrymen in a squad, and one squad is enough to clear a room. At the front is a vanguard holding a shield in his left hand and a short double-barreled shotgun in his right hand. Behind him is a fire supporter holding a Spitfire II submachine gun, and the rest are also heavy infantrymen carrying submachine guns.

Four squads of heavy infantry rushed into four rooms. After a burst of gunfire, the four squads rushed out again and rushed towards another four rooms.

The heavy infantry was very efficient. It took less than 5 minutes to clear a room. They used large grenades to clear a way, kicked doors with shields and spray guns, and fired continuously with submachine guns. The Japanese could only be slaughtered.

There were also Japanese soldiers who threw grenades randomly before they died, but the Taisho 500th-type grenades that the Japanese were equipped with now weighed only 50 grams and had only grams of explosives. This thing would not cause any casualties even if it exploded near the legs of heavy infantry. The ceramic steel armor on the legs and feet of the Punishment Army was very thick, and its purpose was to prevent close-range explosives and small anti-personnel mines.

But street fighting is street fighting. Fighting the enemy in a narrow space will always result in casualties no matter how good your equipment is.

A team of heavy infantrymen holding shields rushed into a house occupied by the Japanese. Not long after they entered, a violent explosion occurred in the house!

The violent explosion blew the house apart, and several machine gunners who were providing cover outside were knocked down.

After the explosion ended and heavy snow began to fall, the heavy infantry company commander was shocked and rushed into the ruins like crazy to rescue people. The nearby punitive army soldiers also came to help. After working for a long time, they dug out four heavy infantrymen who were knocked unconscious and three bodies that were broken into pieces from the ruins. The other three disappeared without a trace.

Subsequent investigation revealed that the room was a small Japanese ammunition depot with more than a dozen boxes of Type 10 mountain artillery shells. When the heavy infantry attacked, the Japanese soldiers inside used explosives to detonate the shells. The heavy infantry who rushed to the front couldn't even find the fragments. Only the last few who were far from the explosion point were seriously injured and were later redeemed and pulled back.

This self-explosion was the last madness of the Japanese. At around 2:20 p.m., the Punishment Army completely captured the Wangshan Tunjun Fort, annihilating more than 900 regular Japanese troops and more than 250 pioneer militiamen, not counting the civilians of the pioneer group.

Among the captured Japanese, there were 400 young and strong men, and more than 600 old, weak, women and children.

The Punitive Army itself suffered 35 casualties, 12 of whom were either completely missing or had only fragments found, all as a result of the Japanese self-explosion.

There were 700 sets of intact Japanese equipment, three heavy machine guns, two Type 3 mountain cannons, and enough ammunition to feed two thousand people for three months.

The captured items were summarized by the staff and handed over to Li Weiguo. After looking through them, Li Weiguo asked, "Were the elderly, the weak, women and children also captured? Weren't they all driven out by the devils to die?"

The staff officer was about to explain when he met Li Weiguo's eyes and suddenly understood. He took out a lighter and burned the seizure report.

"I made a mistake. No Japanese prisoners, old, weak, women or children were captured. I will rewrite the report."

Li Weiguo nodded with satisfaction. After a while, the new report came out and a series of machine gun shots were heard outside.

Li Weiguo replenished the Type 41 artillery shells and plate rifle bullets, left a company to look after the prisoners, and waited for Hutoushan to send people down the mountain to receive them. He had to lead his troops to attack the next Japanese town.