After the engineer company delivered the weapons, they drove the empty carriage westward and passed by the 386th Brigade Headquarters. No one found anyone. When Zhao Hu brought everyone back, he found that some preparations had not been completed, so he returned to Huang

After entering the cliff cave, we started preparing for training.

Xiao Lu, the company correspondent, saw Zhao Hu and the others coming back and immediately stepped forward: "Report to the company commander, Commander Ni has received the letter. This is the reply."

"Oh, did Commander Ni say anything?"

"He sent us a few sets of the Japs equipment we wanted, and also let us bring back twenty submachine guns. However, Commander Ni said that all the troops have been busy fighting recently, and the logistics department is also short of manpower, so we can only wait until after the war.

Send someone over to take a look again, and by the way, he also said, you must complete your mission as soon as possible, otherwise the company commander will have nothing to do and will have to go back to make guns."

"I..." Zhao Hu felt that he had really been fooled by Commander Ni. Didn't he put himself on the fire? He was about to complain when he suddenly found that Director Lin was instructing the soldiers to unload the cargo from under the carriage board. Untie the

After pulling out the rope, he suddenly took out three crooked handles and four grenade launchers, as well as several boxes of machine gun bullets.

"Hey, Director Lin, haven't all the weapons been given to the supplementary group? Where did these come from?"

Lin Yating showed a fox-like smile: "Where did it come from? I didn't save it. Look, our entire company doesn't even have a machine gun or cannon. How can we be called a sharp knife company? No, I'll just go with it.

I brought something here for everyone to practice. You guys, take out everything in your bag. If I find it, you will be rewarded."

Several soldiers reluctantly took out grenades and propellant bowls from their bags, while others took out cowhide bullet boxes.

There are big and small boxes. Director Lin said proudly: "You see, this is the individual equipment of the Japanese soldiers. The small box can hold six bridge bullets, and the big box can hold twelve bridge clips. A total of one hundred and twenty

Fa. There is also a gun cleaning oil box in this big box, which is very convenient to carry."

Xiao Lu stared at him and stammered: "Company Commander, you already have this, why do you ask me to ask the logistics department for these sets of Japanese equipment? And they are all empty."

Zhao Hu smiled and said: "Didn't you see that everyone was stealing? No, the bullet boxes that were seized didn't have straps? I asked you to ask for this thing for another purpose."

The engineering regiment formed an uneven line, mainly due to the uneven ground. Zhao Hu took out a small Japs bag and said, "Comrades, let's see what the Japs are equipped with today. Let's clean up the battlefield from now on."

You need to be more serious sometimes.”

After finishing speaking, he took the Japanese canvas bag that Xiao Lu brought and raised his voice to everyone: "The things tied to the Japanese belt are quite complicated. We all saw it. In addition to this small bag, it is a rifle, two grenades and an engineer shovel."

, In addition, there are the Japs’ helmets and bayonets. Now, let’s take a look at what is in the Japs’ small bag.”

After saying that, he took out everything: "The Japanese are marching normally. In the small bag are a lunch box, three kilograms of grain, three cans, a pack of sugar, a pack of toffee, a pack of cigarettes, a pack of salt, a pack of salted plums,

A pack of tea leaves, a pack of soy sauce powder, and a pack of this thing called miso."

The platoon leader Chen Zhiyun exclaimed: "Damn it, how come the kid's food is so good? No wonder someone in the army said that they were desperate when running."

Zhao Hu said seriously: "That's not all. The Japs usually carry backpacks when they march, which contain marching blankets, raincoats, military boots, gas masks, etc. If they are more mechanized, they weigh 23 kilograms, and the packhorse troops

It weighs thirty kilograms. As for the Japanese machine gun mate, it weighs thirty-four kilograms, which is sixty-eight kilograms. How can they carry so much stuff on their backs and march forcefully? This physical strength is of course inseparable from their food.

"

"More than sixty kilograms?" The soldiers of the engineering company looked left and right. Compared with the physiques of other troops, they were already tall and strong. However, considering that they were carrying more than sixty kilograms of stuff on their backs, they might not be able to walk.

After ten miles, it can be seen that the Japanese soldiers have greatly strengthened their physical strength just by marching with heavy loads.

Zhao Hu smiled and said: "Although the Japs seem powerful, their abundant food and ammunition are based on their strong transportation capabilities. As long as we cut off the Japs' retreat, they will have to chew grass roots. This physical strength

They were defeated quickly. Today, what we have to learn is how to quickly clean up the battlefield!"

A straw man was wearing a Japs military uniform, complete with belts, ammunition boxes, backpacks, and steel helmets. Zhao Hu said to the soldiers of the engineer company: "The so-called quick cleaning of the battlefield means that there is basically no time for us to search carefully.

So everyone watch my actions."

After saying that, he straightened up his rifle, pointed it at the straw man and gave the bayonet a blow, then pulled out the bayonet, swung the gun over his shoulder, stretched out his hand, and pulled off the Japs' canvas bag. With a flash of the knife, he had cut off the two bullet boxes on the Japs' front.

, took off two grenades, raised his foot again, kicked the straw man over, cut off the bullet box from the back, stuffed the three bullet boxes into the cloth bag, picked up the rifle, and left with his foot.

"See, if time does not allow, we can only use the shortest time to search for the most important supplies. Of course, there are many valuable things in the Japanese backpack, but we can only pick out the important ones, whether it is cleaning carefully

It’s better to clean up quickly. The first thing to do is to give the Japanese a bayonet first. This is to prevent the Japanese from pretending to die and desperately trying. There have been many bloody lessons in the past. Our engineer company must not make this mistake again!"

Seeing everyone nodding and knowing that everything had been heard, Zhao Hu asked each platoon to plant grassroots by themselves and arrange for the soldiers to train, so that everyone would not have to take everything as soon as they arrived on the battlefield, which would delay the march.

After the training, Zhao Hu taught everyone how to place booby traps under Japanese corpses and how to set traps on the road to hinder Japanese tracking. He even taught everyone how to sprinkle lime powder on the snow to engage Japanese military dogs.

The treasure among them must eat 350 grams of beef every day. It can be said that even the soldiers of the national army are not treated as well as these military dogs.

Then, Zhao Hu explained to everyone the Japanese targets that need to be hit first during an ambush. Compared with machine gunners, Japanese officers are the first targets that need to be hit during an ambush. Of course, those with good marksmanship in each platoon should be targeted first.

They are the grenadiers in the Japanese troops. These guys are all veterans, and the grenade launches silently, causing the greatest damage to the ambush team. Therefore, in the ambush battle, most of the company and platoon commanders and sharpshooters

Together, the signal to start the battle is the gunfire of these sharpshooters.

The three crooked handles are difficult to train. Zhao Hu also tried it out on his own first, and then found a few veterans to practice with him. This thing is really not a good thing. The off-hand must be oiled before loading, and there must be no sand when shooting.

It is dusty and has a large muzzle flash. If it is not maintained well, it will go off at every turn. But after all, it is still a machine gun. There are thirty rounds of bullets in a bucket, and it can knock down a large number of people if you pull it out.

Zhao Hu taught several veterans how to shoot grenades more carefully. The grenades were all given to the troops. There were only a lot of grenades and powder containers. He specially disassembled a Type 91 grenade, unscrewed the upper cover of the projectile body, and took out

Remove the delay cartridge and screw on the firing cartridge at the bottom, allowing the soldiers to use the training cartridges for shooting training first. The four groups fired more than ten rounds every day, and it took a week to basically master the shooting of this small cannon.

method.

Time is tight, so we can only train these common fighting methods first. As for attacking fortresses, firepower raids, group attacks, etc., before the engineer company had time to train, Zhao Hu pulled him out of the valley and moved to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War!

A few days ago, there was another heavy snowfall, and the whole land was completely white. The soldiers marched day and night, and soon arrived at the outskirts of Licheng. Zhao Hu asked everyone to find a place to hide in the mountains, and he took five soldiers with him.

Junior scouts go out to inquire about the enemy's situation.

At this time, the sound of gunfire could be heard from the south. On the banks of the Zhuzhang River, the Japanese engineers, under the cover of machine guns and small artillery, were desperately repairing the Zhaodian wooden bridge so that the large troops could quickly pass through and rescue their own troops who were ambushed on Shentou Ridge.

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The special agent company of the 771st Regiment also fought back hard in the south of the bridge. Only in the evening did they retreat one after another due to the lack of firepower.

Zhao Hu saw that it was getting late, so he asked Xu Hongyuan to go back and call for help. The engineer company would ambush here tonight, waiting for the ambush tomorrow.

In the middle of the night, when the engineer company came back from the mountains, fire suddenly lit up on the Zhaodian River. Needless to say, this was the spy company taking advantage of the Japanese's carelessness and once again burning down the wooden bridge they had just built. Zhao Hu and the others suddenly laughed.

Now the little Japanese engineers are busy again. It will be good to repair the bridge after dawn.

The fire lit up the road under their feet. The three platoons behind used big branches to sweep away traces of the snow. The north wind was blowing outside, and the snow particles swept up were flying in the sky. The footprints of the team were quickly swept away and flattened.

Can't see any clues either.

On the loess slope in the northwest, ditches are connected with ditches, and gullies are connected with gullies. The north wind blows the snow on the slopes into the ditches, forming natural pits. The locals know at a glance that such large pits cannot be approached.

Yes, once you fall in, it will be a snow nest as deep as one person.

More than a hundred people turned in from the south, dug out snow caves at the bottom of the ditch, and filed in. Then, they all leaned under the high slope close to the road. Under the snow layer, everyone was separated at a distance, preparing to give the Japanese soldiers after dawn.
Chapter completed!