Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

While there was still some time, he let the soldiers have a good meal. After a night of travel, everyone's face showed fatigue, but morale was still at its highest point.

Today's breakfast was also very simple, with two compressed biscuits for each soldier and a can of beef shared by two soldiers.

However, this kind of food is the best field rations for the Eighth Route Army soldiers.

The main thing is that the Japanese's warehouse has at least enough supplies to last for 50,000 to 60,000 troops for more than half a month. It is unrealistic to transport all of this stuff away in a short period of time. It is better to feed the soldiers and replenish their nutrition, which can also improve their combat effectiveness.

After breakfast, Zhang Dabiao asked the infantry to assist the artillery in building positions. They had to take down the enemy's stronghold as quickly as possible.

When the Japanese soldiers and puppet troops in the stronghold got up and took over shifts, they found an unfamiliar army outside. In particular, the puppet army platoon leader was scared to death when he found that the opposite side had set up a Type 92 infantry gun.

In his impression, only the absolute main force of the Eighth Route Army could be equipped with heavy artillery. Could it be that he really encountered the legendary old Eighth Route Army coming down the mountain this time?

However, what puzzled the puppet army platoon leader was that this unidentified armed force, which had already set up artillery and was ready to attack, actually came from the direction of Youxian County, which was very unreasonable.

Zhang Dabiao didn't care what the puppet army thought. The military order he received was to open up the transportation line at all costs and not to be reluctant to use the artillery shells. No matter how much was consumed, he would replenish them as soon as possible.

After the artillery positions were set up, he gave the order directly:

"Fire, fire!"

As the two shells landed next to the Japanese artillery tower, all the enemies were immediately frightened. This time it was real artillery, not a deceptive model.

Especially the puppet troops, they were frightened out of their wits. They had never seen such a scene before. They were bombarded with artillery right away. They didn't even have the guts to follow any rules.

Guerrillas had attacked their artillery towers before, but they usually just shouted first. After the two sides had been arguing for a long time without any results, they would either use "earth tanks" made of wet quilts to launch a violent attack, or dig tunnels to capture them by wits, or they would lay a long siege and cut off water and food supplies from the stronghold.

This attack was so fierce at the beginning, with direct artillery bombardment, which was unexpected by all the Japanese soldiers and puppet troops in the stronghold.

Maybe the Japanese were lucky, two Type 92 infantry gun shells flew past the Japanese artillery tower and exploded nearby. But even so, the enemy was scared and broke into a cold sweat.

Upon seeing this, our artillery platoon leader Wu immediately had his men fine-tune the shooting parameters. Then two more shells accurately hit the Japanese artillery tower, causing heavy casualties among the enemies inside.

However, Zhang Dabiao was still not satisfied. He ordered the artillery to continue firing. After two rounds of shooting, the Japanese artillery tower was directly blown down.

He then nodded with satisfaction and ordered the county brigade following behind to send some people to clean up the ruins under the artillery tower, while the others continued to move towards the next target.

The county brigade that was watching the fight from behind had never seen such a violent scene before, and everyone couldn't help but sigh in their hearts:

"The main force is the main force after all. It's like taking down the Japanese artillery towers for fun. I've learned a lot today."

The militia team assigned to clean up the battlefield and the accompanying civilians were also very happy. The Japanese artillery tower that used to be gloomy and terrifying had now become a ruin. As long as they put in a little effort, they could obtain a large number of weapons and equipment. What could be more pleasing than this?

Although they also knew that the light and heavy machine guns in the turret would have to be handed over to the main force after the war, even touching them would make people excited for a long time, not to mention that such good things could be kept in their hands for a few days.

A small artillery tower basically has one to two heavy machine guns, three to five light machine guns, plus more than two dozen rifles and 30,000 rounds of ammunition. It may not be a lot for the Japanese, but for the Eighth Route Army, it is the equipment of an infantry company, and they certainly won't want to waste it.

In the past, at least hundreds of people would have to be sacrificed to have a chance of getting it, but now, it only takes eight artillery shells and half a day of work by hundreds of civilians. It's really a profitable deal.

When the large force arrived at the second Japanese stronghold, they found a large enemy stronghold with four bunkers, one large and three small.

However, under the bombardment of artillery shells, Zhang Dabiao consumed more than 60 shells and basically destroyed the enemy's fortifications.

The Japanese soldiers in the bunker could not stand the pressure any longer and ran out, trying to destroy our artillery positions. However, they were blocked by the 1st Company of the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment. In the end, we killed 86 Japanese soldiers at the cost of eight casualties.

This time, the county brigade was still watching from the sidelines, mainly because their combat effectiveness was too poor. Even if they barely participated in the battle, they would only drag down the attack efficiency of the main force.

However, this time everyone gained more, and more people stayed behind to clean up the battlefield, in order to transport all the weapons and ammunition back as soon as possible.

When it was almost noon, Zhang Dabiao arrived at the third Japanese artillery tower, but the fighting had already started there. The troops responsible for attacking the artillery tower were led by Commander Bai of the Second Military Sub-district of the 385th Brigade.

The Second Military Sub-district also followed the orders of its superiors to capture several strongholds along the way and open up a road for the transport team behind.

It's a bit sad to say, the order received by the Second Regiment was to quickly capture three Japanese strongholds. For this purpose, the military district specially allocated them a Type 92 infantry gun and eleven artillery shells.

It's quite pitiful. One cannon can only get eleven shells, and a Japanese artillery tower can only consume four shells at most. Each shot must be confirmed by Captain Bai himself, and no blanks can be fired.

At the stronghold in the morning, the first artillery shell fired was a blank and hit the side of the Japanese artillery tower. Captain Bai was so angry that he jumped to his feet and cursed. When other soldiers of the Second Regiment saw this, they also cursed their own artillerymen as counterfeit and not worthy of being shown on the stage.

In fact, the soldiers had no ill intentions, they just felt sorry for the shell. It would have been much better if it had hit the Japanese artillery tower, so that they would have sacrificed fewer people.

Sure enough, in the following battle, the Type 92 infantry gun fired three shells, two of which hit the target and one missed, finally destroying the heavy machine gun in the Japanese artillery tower.

Then, Captain Bai ordered the first battalion to launch a charge, which eventually resulted in 82 casualties. They finally captured the enemy's artillery tower and killed a total of 32 enemies.

The main reason was that time was too tight. If given a day, the large force could slowly surround the enemy and, with the assistance of artillery, the casualties should be controlled within fifty people. Unfortunately, the troops simply did not have that much time.

This is the strength of the Second Regiment after it was re-equipped. It has sufficient weapons and ammunition, and the soldiers' marksmanship has also improved significantly. Otherwise, the casualties would have been even more severe.

This is the most disgusting thing about the Japanese artillery tower. It will infinitely magnify the enemy's advantages, while also infinitely magnifying our weakness of insufficient siege weapons.

The Japanese took full advantage of this increase and decrease, and our troops suffered heavy losses every time they attacked the enemy's artillery tower.