The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 124 Spending a lot of money to put on a show for the Japanese

"Come on, come on, move here."

Half an hour later, in the trenches of the Sixth Company, He Wei was walking forward with his body low and bent. He and Ge Guicai each held a hemp rope in their hands and dragged a large box behind them. What was inside was none other than Director He Wei. The most important props in this drama are the 75mm incendiary bombs of the Bofors Mountain Cannon, as well as the flares and shell fuses for the flare guns.

At this time, the entire sixth company had been fully prepared. After the repairs to the landing doors and longitudinal shooting concealment parts were completed, all three infantry platoons of the company were crowded in the trenches on the front line, waiting for the order from director He Wei. After getting off, the drama begins.

This feigned defeat, or tactical deception, also had certain risks, so He Wei also called Chen Zhen while deploying and informed Chen Zhen of his determination and ideas. Chen Zhen always responded to He Wei's requests. But this time, when He Wei finished explaining all the arrangements, Chen Zhen on the other end of the phone was silent.

He Wei can also understand this. This kind of behavior of deliberately pretending to be defeated in front of the battle and giving up the position to the enemy can be called a wasteful battle. If you can't hold on and lose the position, it's better to say that you are committing suicide. Lang Zhan lost his position in front of the formation. It was a matter of losing his head. Once something happened, not only He Wei would lose his head, but Chen Zhen would also have to go to see the King of Hell with him.

He Wei could also understand that this was a matter involving his own life, and no one could be so calm and relaxed. In the end, He Wei wrote a military document similar to a disclaimer and handed it to Chen Zhen, and He Wei After much persuasion, Chen Zhen reluctantly agreed with gritted teeth!
In front of the position, the fire net of tracer bullets produced by the Japanese army's shooting was not weak at all. Various firearms were always in a state of high-intensity shooting. The Japanese army was also well prepared for the feint attack. The infantry squadron for the feint attack carried three times the usual amount of ammunition. Ammunition, there is no need to worry about running out of ammunition.

Breathing heavily, He Wei and Ge Guicai dragged their things to the location where the fierce fighting took place when the Japanese troops broke in. It was here just now that six Japanese soldiers rushed in. Therefore, He Wei felt that it might be better to make more noise here. It was confusing. He Wei kicked the corpses of the Japanese soldiers away, dragged the things to the center of the trench, and opened the ammunition box. In the ammunition box, there were three huge 75mm arson bomb warheads lying on the side. There were still three fuses placed. He Wei carefully took out a few shells, put them away, and handed the flare gun at his waist to Ge Guicai.

"Platoon leader, how do you blow this thing up? Can you strap a grenade on it and blow it up?"

Tao Heiwa held a lantern, looked at the three cannonballs curiously under the dim light, and said to He Wei.

He Wei shook his head: "It's not that simple. You kid, dig a small hole in the trench for me first, and then put the shells there and detonate them."

"Yes."

Tao Heiwa took out his bayonet and started digging a hole in the trench, while He Wei began to collect the shells. When he was at the Central Military Academy in Nanjing, He Wei also received basic knowledge of the artillery department and was familiar with the various shells of the Bofors Mountain Gun. Among them, the impression of arson bombs is actually very profound. Artillery textbooks will clearly explain the functions and functions of various artillery shells, and the function explanation of arson bombs is the most special, and there is only one short sentence: The function of arson bombs is the most special. The bombs are used to burn enemy villages and deter enemy troops.

Deterrence, to put it bluntly, is to scare people. Today, He Wei planned to use it to fool the Japanese army, so he could just use it as a weapon.

He Wei prepared to use a grenade to detonate the arson bomb, but just tying the grenade to the artillery shell would not detonate the artillery shell. The fuse must be installed first before the artillery shell could explode.

After taking out the shell, He Wei began to carefully install the fuse of the shell. The fuse of the Bofors Mountain Cannon shell has four functions: trigger, prompt, delay and air burst. It is currently the most advanced artillery shell fuse system in the world. Even in the era before He Wei traveled through time, these four functions were still the basis of the combat function of the artillery fuze.

It's just that in the era before He Wei traveled through time, with the advancement of science and technology, delay fuzes were strengthened into nail-piercing fuzes that could penetrate permanent fortifications before exploding, and instantaneous fuzes were improved into proximity fuzes controlled by radio waves. Those The basis of modern combat fuses is actually the four functions of triggering, instant firing, delayed firing, and air burst.

In order for artillery shells to have different detonation functions, they need to be equipped with different fuzes. Therefore, the same kind of grenade corresponds to four kinds of fuzes, and there will be four kinds of artillery shells, and different artillery shells can be equipped with different fuzes. With such an arrangement and combination, the operation of the ammunition group is naturally very error-prone, so the types of fuzes must be simplified.

In the final analysis, the simplification of fuzes is to combine two functions into one fuze. For example, the Japanese artillery has a large number of dual-purpose fuzes with both triggering and air blast functions, while the fuzes of the Bofors Mountain Gun are more advanced. It is an advanced three-purpose fuze with three modes: triggering, impact explosion and air explosion!
Soon, Tao Heiwa dug a shallow pit in the trench. After He Wei put three shells side by side, he waved to the people behind him: "Stay away from me, I'm going to install the fuse. Pick up all the rifles and bullets left by those Japs on the ground, they will be of great use to me."

After a few people moved away, He Wei first tied two grenades to the shell, then took out the fuse, held his breath, and carefully installed it. After loading the fuse into the shell, he gently took off the top of the fuse. During conventional artillery shooting, as soon as the mountain cannon shell comes out of the chamber, the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the shell and the pressure brought by the wind will cause the safety helmet and sleeve to fall off, and after falling off, the small firing pin inside the fuze will be exposed. , when the cannonball hits the ground and the firing pin also touches the ground, the cannonball will explode.

After installing the fuse, He Wei put a thin wire on the pull ring of the shell-binding grenade, slowly walked away while unwinding the wire, and finally entered the concealment.

At this time, all the officers and soldiers of the three infantry platoons of the Sixth Company were either huddled in the concealment or hiding in the fortifications and bunkers of the longitudinal firing equipment, waiting for the explosion from He Wei's side.

"Be careful, it's going to explode. Be careful, it's going to explode."

He Wei shouted a few times in the hidden area at the top of his lungs to the entire front line. The silence in the first line of positions did not look like a field position at all. Then, He Wei fiercely pulled the thin string connected to the grenade pull cord. .

Two seconds later, a loud noise came from the position.Boom-boom

The exploding grenade triggered the sensitive firing pin on the shell, and three 75mm mountain cannon arson bombs exploded almost at the same time. First there was a loud noise, and then there was a burst of fire.

The strong incendiary agent filled in the shell was ignited by the violent explosion, instantly erupting into a pillar of fire that was more than ten meters high. The flying pillar of fire spread in all directions, forming an explosion area with a radius of more than 30 meters. There were burning flames everywhere. The shell trench was engulfed in thick smoke and flames, and the six Japanese corpses in the trench were also ignited by the flames, emitting a disgusting smell of meat and burnt meat. Even the sixth company's position was burned. The sky was dyed red by the flames, and the hot air flow spread along the communication trench to the entire position.

In the concealed part, breathing the hot air, He Wei climbed out, took out a [-] rifle from the concealed part and fired at the sky. Ge Guicai took a Jin-made submachine gun and fired at the sky. Jiang Qi, the light machine gunner of the first squad, Long picked up his Czech light machine gun and shot diagonally upward.

bang bang bang
da da da da

He Wei's move was to create the illusion that the six Japanese troops who had already been sent to meet Amaterasu had succeeded in a sneak attack, detonated the Chinese army's ammunition depot in the position, and were fighting in the trenches with the Chinese army!
He Wei fired a few shots, threw away the Type [-] in his hand, picked up the signal gun, raised it high, and pulled the trigger.

"The flares are coming."

He Wei shouted and pulled the trigger, and a flare roared into the sky. Then, He Wei fired the second and third flares. One after another, the flares flew into the air and fell slowly. The position of the Sixth Company was illuminated like daylight. At this moment, the second platoon leader Hu Zhaowu emerged from the concealment and shouted: "Second Platoon, retreat!"

Hu Zhaowu gave an order, and dozens of soldiers from the second platoon emerged from the concealment and bunkers. Dozens of them shouted retreat in unison while retreating along the communication trenches. There were also several soldiers who had been selected in advance. They retreated along the communication trenches, but collapsed directly into the open space between the communication trenches. They bent down, holding their guns, and fled backwards in an extremely embarrassed manner.

Immediately afterwards, Fang Jing, the leader of the third platoon, saw that the second platoon was almost ready to retreat, so he repeated his old trick and shouted to his men: "Third platoon, retreat!"

In this wave, dozens of soldiers were shouting and fleeing backwards. It looked like they were defeated in a melee. He Wei saw it and cheered repeatedly. The second and third rows created a rout. The phenomenon was far beyond his expectation. Just as the second and third rows were completely retreating, He Wei fired four illumination bombs in succession in front of the position. The Japanese troops in front of the position instantly seemed to be in daylight.

The Japanese troops who were recklessly throwing firepower at the Sixth Company's position saw the flares in the sky. Almost all the Japanese troops ceased fire because they were afraid of being counterattacked. After all, the Japanese troops who were feinting to attack were too close to the Sixth Company's position. Several flares were fired. Going up, the location and movements of the Japanese troops are also clearly visible to the Chinese troops in the position.

Therefore, in full view of the public, the Japanese army witnessed the great rout of the Chinese army without firing. Fireworks soared into the sky and gunshots were heard in the trenches. Some Japanese veterans could even see the messy gunfire from the sixth company position. The gunshots of Type [-] rifles and Czech light machine guns were distinguishable. A large number of Chinese soldiers retreated along the trenches, shouting and escaping. The German steel helmets were very dazzling under the illumination of the flares, and even Some Chinese soldiers left the communication trenches and climbed onto the flat ground between the communication trenches and ran around wildly.

The sound of gunshots, shouts, and curses were mixed together. In the eyes of many Japanese soldiers, the Chinese army in front of them seemed to be defeated.

bang bang
Two more flares were shot into the air. He Wei dropped the signal gun. In order to make the performance more realistic, he threw a long-handled grenade and a Japanese-made Type [-] grenade into the trench where the shell had just been detonated. After the two grenades exploded, He Wei stood up and looked at the front of the position. At this time, the fire was almost over, and only the first row was left in the position. He Wei loudly ordered: "Brothers, the fire is enough, follow the instructions The arrangement I just made went into the hidden part of the longitudinal shooting equipment, and the rest of the brothers prepared cover and tactical deception arrangements and took action immediately."

The soldiers in the first row quickly started to move. Many of their faces did not look like they were facing a formidable enemy. Instead, they were very excited. Some even had smiles on their faces. Nothing else, just because many soldiers felt that they The tasks performed were too bizarre.

First of all, many people have to hide in the hidden part of the longitudinal firing equipment. Each hidden part of the longitudinal firing equipment can accommodate three people. He Wei ordered a platoon of deputy squad leaders of each class to lead the team and lead their troops to hide in the hidden part of the longitudinal firing equipment. China and Israel waited for the Japanese troops to enter the trenches, operate the lifting doors and ambush the Japanese troops. The exits of the hidden parts of all longitudinal firing equipment were blocked with sandbags and covered with piles of loose soil outside, which looked exactly like the inner walls of the trenches.

Except for the brothers who entered the hidden part of the longitudinal shooting equipment to set up an ambush, other people in the platoon did very strange things. Some soldiers casually threw the newly issued canned fruits and biscuits in the trenches, and some brothers placed them in the trenches. Long-handled grenades were thrown everywhere in the trenches, and some brothers carried a pile of canvas bullet belts filled with [-] bullets. Since the riflemen in the first row had completely replaced the captured Japanese bullet boxes, the original The canvas bullet belts had been idle, but now they came in handy.

He Wei wanted to stage a fake rout, which is called tactical deception in military terms. These bullet belts filled with bullets, canned food, biscuits and grenades were thrown everywhere in the trenches. Didn't they just reflect the tragic situation of the sixth company's rout? ?
In addition to these small props, He Wei even left a intact Jin-made imitation Type [-] heavy machine gun in the trench.

It didn't take much effort for the officers and soldiers of the first platoon to completely complete the preparations for tactical deception. In the trenches, bullet belts, grenades, scattered biscuits and cans could be seen everywhere, and the flames caused by the explosion of arson bombs had not receded. , under the red firelight, the scene in the front line of the Sixth Company looked very miserable.

Even though He Wei knew that this was all fake, he still felt chills behind his back. This scene, coupled with the strange smell produced by the burning corpses of the six Japanese, was very frightening and miserable.

After completing all battle preparations, except for the brothers who were hiding in the concealment of the longitudinal shooting equipment, the others quietly left the position under the leadership of He Wei, leaving behind a messy trench position. The scene finally began. The curtain has closed. As for whether the Japanese military audience in front of the position can enter the scene, we still have to wait and see!

(End of this chapter)