The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 459 Famous in North China—Iron Triangle in Northwest Shanxi ([-])
In the deep and vast mountains, after the Japanese army adjusted their tactics, opened the skirmish line, and advanced in the woodland.

On the side of the independent regiment, it became more and more difficult for the soldiers to concentrate on inflicting trauma on the Japanese and puppet troops.

The initial confrontation can be said to be a confrontation with the Japanese army with various booby traps and traps arranged in advance by the soldiers of the independent regiment.

Not many soldiers stayed in the front of the mountain to stop the Japanese army.

As for the reason, booby traps and all kinds of landmines are not eye-catching. If a devil trips, he will be injured at least, or die at worst.

The same is true for the soldiers of the independent regiment.

Even if there are some landmines that can be marked in advance by the soldiers to understand each other, there are too many bullets and mines blooming everywhere, and this mark cannot be done at all.

Therefore, in order to avoid accidental injury of our own troops, only less than a quarter of the troops of the independent regiment were blocked in the first half of the mountainous area.

As time went by, after paying heavy casualties, the Japanese and puppet troops finally wiped out most of the mountainous areas outside Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang.

At this time, the confrontation between the two sides turned into a battle between the soldiers of the independent regiment in the mountains and jungles, with some mines and traps to block the pace of the Japanese army.

From after dawn to now, the confrontation between the two sides has lasted for more than three hours.

At the beginning, the two sides could clearly divide the battle positions, and the devils and puppet troops were on the periphery.The soldiers of the independent regiment kept blocking the Japanese and puppet troops in the inner circle and gradually retreated.

And as time goes by, the progress of the battle in each part of the several-kilometer-long front is different.

The devil captains of the Temporary Joint Headquarters even tried to use this method to cause inconsistency in the advancing pace of the mopping-up troops, so as to facilitate the encirclement and elimination of small Eighth Route Army troops in the forest.

In addition, the captains of the Japanese army believed that once the two sides got entangled and handed over soldiers, the empire could use its strength to crush the Eighth Route Army.

As a result, the battle in the entire mountainous area became more and more chaotic.

Sometimes the troops of the two sides are entangled and mixed together, and they are far away, and they cannot be distinguished at all.

The devil's trick succeeded. Due to the close confrontation between the two sides in some areas, the two artillery companies of the independent regiment were temporarily unable to provide artillery support.

For the same reason, because of the chaos of the situation, the Japanese army was unable to use aviation support.

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The sniper platoon is led by the platoon leader Huang Boyang, and the members continue to take on the role of sniper on the entire battlefield, and implement the orders given by the head of the platoon, Kong Jie, to constantly snipe and shoot the valuable officers, gunners, and machine gunners of the devils. special arms.

Three hours of high-intensity sniper combat, for the soldiers of the sniper platoon, was really exhausting but mixed with great excitement.

Touching the dwindling number of bullets in the bullet box, the members of the sniper platoon regrouped in some hidden areas, whether they were snipers or observers, their faces were full of pride.

"This battle was fought so happily. There are devils and puppet troops all over the mountains and plains waiting for us to fight. I wish I could grow two more hands and two more eyes."

The first squad leader proudly said: "Platoon leader, I have missed nearly half of the 120 rounds of ammunition. Not many bullets have been shot, and the hit rate is at least 90% or more."

The second squad leader said happily: "What's so good about it? In the past three hours, although I only used 23 bullets, none of the bullets was empty. One bullet killed an enemy. I didn't blow it."

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The members chattered in one go, as long as there is a record that can be achieved, there is no one who is low-key.

Huang Baiyang said with a smile: "Comrades, it seems that everyone's performance is good, but we have to work harder. The commando has already penetrated behind the enemy's rear. If we can knock out all the devil's artillery, it will be a credit." Not small.

If we don't hold on tighter, we will be outmatched by other commandos. "

"This can't be done, platoon leader, just look at it!" The first squad leader replied.

He also told the soldiers to pay attention to safety and plan the evacuation route in advance. Huang Baiyang waved his hand, and the members of the sniper platoon scattered and continued to fight.

On the other side, in order to deal with the snipers of the independent regiment, the devil brigade captains of the temporary joint headquarters also gathered professional infantry snipers from nine brigades.

What is a professional infantry sniper?
It turned out that in the establishment of the Japanese army, each infantry squadron had 15 full-time rifle snipers, and each infantry squad had five people.

Calculated in this way, there are about 50 people in one brigade, and no more than 400 snipers in nine brigades.

But in fact, the full-time rifle snipers in the Japanese military establishment are not the same as snipers in the usual sense.

In other words, it is quite different from the snipers of the sniper platoon of the independent regiment.

They are excellent rifle shooters selected by the devils during military training to play the role of precision sniper in combat troops.

It's not called a full-time rifle sniper in the name, the devil is designated as a special shooter, that is, the group of people with better marksmanship in the infantry, a level higher than ordinary infantry shooters.

One thing to mention here:
The biggest enemy is the best teacher, and the outstanding shooters selected by the Eighth Route Army in the large-scale training are also called special shooters.

In fact, there was no special sniper organization in the Japanese army.

Long before the start of the Anti-Japanese War in China, the Japanese army had formed a complete military service recruitment and training system, and the training of the infantry was extremely strict.

The shooting link is regarded as the most important part by the devils.

For Japanese soldiers, the initial requirement for shooting is to hit the target with a range of 300 meters. All five bullets must hit, and three bullets must be concentrated on the area as large as the fist.

After passing this level, there is a stricter second-limit shooting.

In two to four seconds, infantry shooters need to hit random targets that appear up and down 300 meters.

Under this kind of strict training, the shooting skills of devil soldiers are quite amazing. Even the most ordinary soldiers will subconsciously aim at the target's head when they shoot.

Hitting people only hits the head!

From this perspective, almost all of the elite infantry and veterans of the devil are "snipers."

In addition, the devil's super shooter usually fights with the troops.

It is not like a sniper, or a sniper platoon, who perform small-scale and independent sniper missions in separate groups.

The reason is easy to understand. The little devils in this period did not have a clear understanding of the combat and tactical role of snipers.

When it came to the combat level, most Japanese troops also did not know the special operations nature of snipers, and did not realize that snipers could be used for infiltrating behind enemy lines and killing high-value targets.

This is not surprising.

Until now, the little devil is basically a blank slate in terms of special operations.

In the traditional concept of the Japanese army, the spirit of bushido is promoted, and the hearty combat awareness of face-to-face is promoted.

There are not many Japanese officers who can realize the charm of advanced tactics such as special operations and have a long-term vision.

Yoshio Shinozuka is one of them, so he very much supports Kazuki Yamamoto's special operations.

Although over the past year, the Yamamoto Special Forces have suffered defeats at the hands of the independent regiment.

This is why, as the founder of Japanese special operations theory, Kazuki Yamamoto had a rough and difficult journey when he wanted to promote special operations theory in the army combat troops.

The traditions of the Japanese army and the ancient times are almost deep in the bones.

At the tactical level, the Japanese army believes that the so-called snipers, or special shooters, are used to assign to units on the battlefield to prevent the enemy from attacking.

In addition, the devil's special shooter is equipped with a so-called sniper rifle, that is, a [-]-style sniper rifle, plus a [-]x optical sight.

But in fact, this so-called Type [-] sniper rifle is modified on the basis of the original Type [-] rifle, and there is not much difference in performance between the two.

The magnification of the magnification is low, and the sniper rifle itself does not even use wind speed, temperature and other long-range sniper parameters.

Beyond a distance of 400 meters, even the devil's special shooter cannot guarantee the hit rate, and there is not much difference between the devil's infantry holding a [-]-style rifle.

In addition, fighting with the troops, facing Chinese soldiers with outdated equipment and insufficient military literacy, on the battlefield, even ordinary Japanese infantry may not perform worse than the devil's special marksman.

In this case, how could the devil's super shooter stand out?
This is why, in the entire anti-Japanese battlefield, I have never heard of any decent ace snipers among the Japanese army.

Right now, it was because of the sudden appearance of the sniper platoon of the Independent Regiment that it caused serious casualties to the Japanese officers.

The contest between the two sides quickly kicked off.

In the continuous confrontation, the Japanese special shooters who fought with the Japanese squadron, squadron, and brigade ingeniously hid themselves on the trunks of some relatively thick trees, and then waited for the opportunity to shoot secretly.

In this regard, the devil's super shooters are pretty crazy.

After they selected the tree trunk to hide in, they declared it as their sniper position, and they would live and die with the position until they died in battle to serve the emperor.

It's quite a bit like killing one to make enough money, killing two to earn one.

As for the effect of shooting, it seems that there are some.

In the mountains and forests, with the advance of the Japanese army, the soldiers of the independent regiment confronted the devils, and gradually adjusted their tactics.

The blocking battle in the dense forest has become the main theme.

Within a distance of [-] meters, the soldiers took out special red-headed bullets made of copper coins.

Every time this kind of bullet is shot, it can always bring more fear to the little devil. Some devils yelled "dum bomb" and so on.

Once hit by a red-headed bullet, the kid will always experience more pain and the injury will be much more serious.

After a distance of more than 100 meters, at a distance of 200 meters or even 300 meters, soldiers will use [-]mm caliber bullets without reduced charges.

As a result, as soon as the soldiers shot with precise marksmanship, the devils who followed the mopping up two or 300 meters away fell down one by one.

The ghost special shooters hiding on the tree trunk not far away were stunned.

Good guy, there are so many snipers in this independent regiment?
It's no wonder that the devils and other shooters recognized the wrong person.

The news from the devil's temporary headquarters said that there were many snipers on the eighth road, and they specifically picked up the officers of the empire to fight.

So let them special shooters attack and kill the eight-way snipers.

But none of the devils had ever seen what the eight-way sniper looked like.

Coupled with the Tubalu who didn't have enough live ammunition practice, and the marksmanship, to be honest, none of them were very good.

Right now, the soldiers of the independent regiment who suddenly appeared, two or three hundred meters away, almost all of them were a bullet, an enemy.

The ghost special shooters hiding on the tree trunk didn't think about it anymore, and immediately turned their guns, set up the [-]-style sniper rifle, locked the Eighth Route Army soldier hiding in the dense forest through the scope, and pulled the trigger.

bang bang-

The sudden attack on the tree trunk, the devil's special shooters were really confident, and they aimed specifically at the head. Two or 300 meters away, some independent regiment fighters hiding behind the tree trunk, in the bushes, and among the grass tufts fell down.

At that time, the eleventh company commander, who was leading a team to stop the attack, saw the surrounding soldiers fell one by one, and most of them were hit directly on the head. Surprised and angry, he quickly ordered the soldiers to hide around.

"Hidden, hide quickly, they are sharpshooters among the devils, find out their location for me!"

The [-]-type sniper rifle used by the devil's special shooter does not have any silencer, and the gunshots it makes are similar to the [-]-type rifle, so it is easy to expose.

A voice came from not far away: "Company commander, it seems to be a bullet shot from a tree trunk."

The Eleventh Company Commander scolded: "Hey, this little devil has turned into a monkey and can climb trees!

Machine gunner, aim at the surrounding tree trunks, but shoot all those who can hide people, and shoot me down these ghost monkeys. "

"Yes!"

The concealed machine gunners quickly turned their guns and shot towards the trunks of some nearby trees.

Da da da sound of shooting.

Soon, the soldiers really heard screams from some nearby tree trunks, and then a figure fell out of the tree, but it hadn't hit the ground yet, as if it was hung by ropes, hanging between the trunk and the ground. Between the ground, shaking back and forth.

This scene stunned the eleventh company commander and others.

It had to be said that this little devil really knew how to play, and even hung himself on a tree trunk.

Seeing that the counterattack of the machine gun fire had achieved results, the eleventh company commander who quickly came to his senses shouted: "Good fight, just fight like this, first platoon leader, quickly send someone to notify the other teams around, saying that there are many devils The sharpshooter is hiding on the tree trunk, be careful not to follow the devil's way."

"Yes!"

At the same time, this incident also happened to other Eighth Route Army troops in the surrounding area that were blocking the Japanese army.

The reaction of the cadres of the independent regiment was exactly the same as that of the eleventh company commander.

The point is that this little devil is really funny. As a sniper, he stays in one place and shoots for a long time, for fear that he will not be exposed. Some even tie themselves to a tree. Take a few shots and have a blast.

In the original words of the first company commander who commanded the soldiers and successfully killed more than 20 Japanese special shooters:

This is the spirit of other little devils, we would rather have fun, even if we risk our lives, we still have to admire it!
In this way, at the very beginning, the devil's special shooter hiding on the tree trunk could still achieve some effect with the first shot that was unexpected.

Those who are fast can fire the second shot and the third shot, and then they are quickly cleaned up.

At the back, the soldiers of the independent regiment fired in advance at the area where the tree trunks could hide people. Many of the devil's special shooters who were hiding in it met their emperor directly before they had time to shoot.

The Japanese army tried to use their special shooters to deal with the purpose of the sniper platoon, but before they could achieve results, they died directly.

The devil's special shooter who went to death one after another, really let the soldiers of the independent regiment see the so-called stupidity and madness of Japanese snipers.

Just such a little devil, still trying to deal with the sniper team with observers?
In the end, more than half of the special shooters sent by the devils were killed or injured.

In the end, even the snipers of the independent regiment didn't know what they looked like...

(End of this chapter)