At this time, the Japanese Army did not have a series of equipment such as light machine guns, mortars, and flamethrowers, nor did it have the grenade launchers and chemical grenades for which they were famous. Even hand grenades were rarely installed. At least at that time.

In the last encounter, Song Biao did not find that the Japanese army was equipped with grenades.

The Japanese army definitely has hand grenades now. During the Russo-Japanese War, hand grenades just started to revive. At this time, except for the British and German standard hand grenades, the grenades used by other countries on the battlefield were improvised on site. The same was true for Japan and Russia.

However, they also imported some from Britain and Germany for use in key battles.

It was not until the Battle of Fengtian in March next year that the Japanese army installed British-style grenades on a large scale, and launched a copying project after the war.

The current Japanese Army does not have an advantage in equipment. Their advantage lies in their well-trained and rigorous organization, as well as the crazy fighting will of grassroots non-commissioned officers and soldiers. In terms of equipment alone, the Song Family Caravan still has a great advantage.

, the problem is that it may not be able to be used well. This is very similar to the Qing army, which only has equipment advantages but cannot use them.

After leaving the mountains, Song Biao and Li Dahan took the first step to avoid the Japanese army and kept monitoring the Japanese army and Liu Tongpao's troops in the mountains. At the prearranged place, Yang Tiesheng brought a few people to meet Song Biao and let Song

Biao changed horses and caught up with the caravan first.

Rabbit tail ditch is a three-pronged ditch with three forks. West rabbit tail ditch is also called Qiandong ditch. At the junction of Qiandong ditch and Gaoli ditch is a 90-degree vertical mountain bend. When entering Gaoli ditch, you have to face a

Qiandong Ridge, this ridge squeezes the entire ravine to a width of only two hundred steps.

Zhao Tingzhu and Lao Jintou chose to face the enemy in front of Qiandong Ridge. When Song Biao caught up with them, they had dragged the horse team to the back mountain and hid it. The horses' eyes and ears were covered, and their mouths were tied.

It is not easy to be discovered by the enemy.

On the east slope of Qiandong Ridge, according to Song Biao's instructions in advance, the brothers from the caravan dug a one-meter-two-meter-deep circular trench.

meters of avoidance and second-line trenches to prevent the first trench from falling.

Considering that the opponent had a Hotchkiss machine gun, Song Biao readjusted the positions of the caravan's machine guns. They used all four Maxims, two on the front, one on the south, and kept one as a spare to solve the problem of the difference between the rear and the south.

It's a difficult problem to defend with only a few people.

Fewer people and more guns. This is the most obvious characteristic of the caravan now. As a precaution, in addition to a Mosin Nagant rifle, each person is equipped with a Winchester M1897 shotgun. At least half of them are also equipped with a Mosin Nagant rifle.

In possession of the Nagant revolver, ten selected men were assigned four grenades each.

In order to make up for the lack of combatants, Zhao Tingzhu also communicated with the six wounded Russians and persuaded them to participate in the battle. The second lieutenant named Tonokov was responsible for leading the team and operating a frontal machine gun and a backup machine gun.

The four machine guns are very powerful, but the problem is that they are short of ammunition, so they can only be used sparingly.

When it was getting late and the setting sun was shining, Yang Tiesheng and others came back to join them. The enemy was only more than a mile away from them. Song Biao called everyone over and continued to draw the surrounding terrain map on the snow and talked with everyone.

He ordered: "Our large team is guarding here. Do not use machine guns too early. We must hide part of our strength and lure the Japanese troops to rush forward. Once the Japanese troops and bandit troops rush forward, we can use the machine guns at a position of about two hundred meters.

When we reach 75 meters in front of us, we have to switch to shotgun volleys. They run from bottom to top, and the speed is not very fast. It takes five or six seconds to reach 75 meters. This is enough for us to fire shotguns twice in a row.

, or even three times, as long as the opponent does not rush forward with hundreds of people, even if it is thirty people against two hundred, the power of the shotgun blast can defeat the opponent. The grenade must be within fifty meters, according to your own practice

It can be used in certain situations, but I personally feel that everyone’s use of grenades is still unstable, so they should be used with caution.”

Everyone nodded silently.

Song Biao continued: "Don't panic, everyone. Although the enemy has more than 400 people, we have an absolute advantage in firepower, which is probably underestimated by the enemy. Tiezi, take four people to detour to the north slope.

We need to shoot in advance to induce them to make mistakes. If they head towards the north slope, they will arrange the wrong formation and completely expose the left wing to our firing range. You need to lead your brothers to find a suitable bunker.

, absolutely don’t fall in love with fighting, your task is to distract the opponent. In addition to trying to make the opponent arrange the wrong formation, be sure to drag out part of the opponent’s strength and drag it into the mountains to fight guerrillas. Run while fighting, and circle around again.

Come to our side."

Yang Tiesheng nodded and said, "I know."

Looking at the time, it was almost time. Standing on the hillside, you could already see the joint force of the Japanese army and bandits. Song Biao asked everyone to prepare individually. The caravan was still in three teams. He and Zhao Tingzhu were in charge of the frontal battlefield, while Zhang Yahu was in charge of the south and west.

There are only six people in hand.

In the vast snow-covered mountains, the dark blue military uniforms of the Japanese army were easy to spot, which surprised Song Biao. They were in the front, while Liu Tongpao's bandit team was spread out on both sides, searching the mountains on both sides.

The woods and snowfields provided a very good cover for the soldiers. Several outposts and bandit troops dispatched by the Japanese army did not discover the ambush point. It was not until their large force was less than 200 meters away from Qiandong Ridge that a caravan brother became too nervous.

He fired a shot in advance, which exposed his front line a little early. Fortunately, at this moment, Yang Tiesheng was forced to fire in advance, luring his opponent with more and more urgent gunshots.

At this time, Song Biao could see clearly that the captain of the Japanese infantry squadron had the rank of lieutenant in the Japanese army. He was very young, about 26 or 27 years old, with an arrogant expression and a strong murderous aura. Hearing the sound of gunshots

At that moment, the Japanese squadron leader showed a ferocious sneer, showing that he was in an extremely excited state.

Zhukov once said that the characteristics of the Japanese army are that soldiers and grassroots non-commissioned officers are brave and fanatical in fighting, while middle and high-level generals, especially those with golden key backgrounds, are very stupid.

Seeing the Japanese squadron leader's fanatical expression facing this battle, Song Biao realized that this nation had been completely distorted, like a martial arts master practicing evil arts who had gone crazy and could no longer be saved.

He did not use his own marksmanship to kill the man, because the battle had just begun, and the loss of a squadron leader would not immediately lead to the defeat of the Japanese army. It might also have some bizarre own effects, but for the bandits, this was

It's just another thing.

Liu Tongpao's bandit troops were divided into three groups. Liu Tongpao, Yang Sandiao, and Niu Sihuzi each led a group. Yang Sandiao was very excited and led the group directly to pursue Yang Tiesheng's north slope. It was Er Yang who was opposite.

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Yang Tiesheng only led four men, and his force was extremely weak.

Song Biao was confident in his marksmanship. Although he was 230 meters away from Yang Sandiao, he did not change to a more confident SVD rifle. He directly locked the Zero 3 rifle in the scope and commanded his brothers.

Yang Sandiao looked up and fired two shots in succession to kill this man.

It is said that even snipers on the battlefield mostly aim at targets within a range of two hundred meters. The key is to improve the hit rate and ensure that one shot is fatal. For professional snipers, a distance of three hundred meters may not be absolute.

grasp.

Before the battlefield became intense, Yang Tiesheng's shooting attracted more than forty bandits. Gunfire from both sides rang out, but the Japanese troops were not attracted. They began to set up positions in an orderly manner, carrying stones and digging soil to pile up snow.

The way is trying to build a simple fortification, but in the wrong direction.

After feeling that the Japanese army was unlikely to be fooled, Song Biao quietly turned over to Zhao Tingzhu's position, signaled him and the machine gunners of the cavalry team to get out of the way, and personally operated a Maxim machine gun to aim at the Japanese army about 200 meters away. The Japanese army's fortifications were wrong.

The direction was almost 90 degrees to that of Song Biao's machine gun.

Song Biao aimed at this defensive line and directly gave his opponent a heavy firepower.

The trigger clicked off in an instant.

Da da da da.

The continuous sound of machine guns was like the most piercing noise in an instant, suddenly bursting out on the battlefield, as terrifying as the wolf howl of death, while the Japanese soldiers were building a simple road about more than 60 meters long.

The fortifications became Song Biao's crosshairs, scanning them from beginning to end.

War is like this. Strange things will always happen that you can't expect. Song Biao couldn't figure out how the squadron leader learned the fortification tutorial.

Song Biao was a killer, not a teacher. He didn't care what his opponents learned in the Japanese Army Sergeant School. His machine gun bullets suddenly burst out, and hundreds of high-speed warheads swept across a line vertically, just like the dive ray of a fighter jet.

All Japanese soldiers were shot in an instant and their flesh and blood were mangled.

The squadron leader was also almost hit. He panicked and hurriedly directed the machine gunner to turn the muzzle of his gun and aim it at the front of Qiandong Ridge. He also asked more than a hundred soldiers from the two teams to quickly adjust the attack direction and spread out into a fan facing the Qiandong Ridge.

, deploy separately according to squads and squads, and cross fire to cover the advance.

A cluster of machine gun fire started the official battle. The battle was quickly pushed to the climax. All the brothers on the caravan front began to shoot at the target. Although it took a while for everyone to aim to fire a shot, the shooting rate and accuracy were very different.

It was worse than the Japanese army who lacked bunkers, but those bullets still had a shocking effect on the human soul. They kept crackling in the woods and on the rocky beaches, stimulating people's fear of death.

Once the battle officially entered, the gap between Song Biao's caravan team and the regular Japanese army was immediately apparent. Even though the caravan occupies a good geographical advantage and complete fortifications, it has also gone through a period of shooting operation training, and there is also a

Heavy machine guns fired intermittently, and the Japanese army was still able to suppress the caravan by relying on the covering fire of two squads.

Not only did the Japanese soldiers shoot more accurately, they also shot faster and more skillfully. Densely packed warheads flew through the air, making loud noises around the fortifications, and sprayed out waves of snow, killing dozens of brothers in the caravan.

Dare to look up.

Song Biao thought for a moment, but still decided to keep firing intermittently with one machine gun. He quickly handed the machine gun back to someone else, patted Zhao Tingzhu on the shoulder to signal him to continue, and then found a new position to lie down.

Find new targets in the scope and shoot accurately.

The Japanese machine gunners had already dug a simple manhole and set up their Hotchkiss machine guns, aiming at the exposed cavalry line to fight back. Song Biao also locked onto them almost at the same time, firing three shots in a row.

Kill both the machine gunner and the ammunition feeder.

While the Japanese army was responsible for attacking the front, Liu Tongpao also led more than a hundred bandits to outflank him from the outside. The height of both sides could be seen clearly at once. Liu Tongpao's side was pressing forward blindly. When the gunfire sounded,

They hurriedly found a tree to take cover, and then refused to show their faces again. The Japanese army continued to cross and advance under the orders of the grassroots non-commissioned officers and corps commanders, and continued to suppress the caravans with firepower.
Chapter completed!