The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 187 Lure the enemy deeper

He Wei thought of the battle that had just killed the 7th Infantry Squadron of the Japanese Army, especially the flares fired by the Japanese during the battle. He remembered that they were two red flares and one green flare. Based on experience, He Wei could be sure that It is a special signal, and it is most likely a signal for help.

In the army, bugles and flares can represent different meanings through different combinations. Bugles have combinations of horn types and long and short call signs, while flares use different combinations of colors to express different meanings.

The call for help from the 7th Squadron during the battle gave He Wei the opportunity to make a big fuss.

If you play a trick of tactical deception and deliberately let the main force of the Japanese brigade behind see a signal for help, this is an extremely good way to lure the enemy. If the Japanese mistakenly think that it is one of your own who is asking for help, then they are likely to rush forward desperately. Rescue, then, is a good opportunity to launch an ambush.

Of course, He Wei cannot guarantee that this method of tactical deception using flares will be 100% effective. The most important point is that the two red and one green flares he saw sent by the Japanese army may not be a real signal for help. The Japanese soldier who fired the signal bomb was killed by the spy battalion before he finished firing the signal flare. Those two red and one green signals were definitely not signals for help. Naturally, this trick would not work, but luckily, he had to give it a try anyway.

Having made up his mind, He Wei immediately began to deploy. He first ordered the radio station to send a telegram to Sun Xisheng, asking Sun Xisheng to notify the tank company on standby at the main position of the 160th Division, the tank defense artillery platoon, and the remaining artillery company of the secret service battalion. The artillery reinforced by the 66th Army immediately moved towards the location where the special agent battalion was currently on standby.

No matter what, first mobilize the troops you can command and mobilize.

At the same time, Sun Xisheng was also asked to send a telegram to Ye Zhao, commander of the 66th Army, and Situ Fei, chief of staff of the 160th Division, stating that a reinforced infantry brigade of the Japanese army was approaching and that He Wei's encirclement and annihilation plan was being planned against them. To tell the truth, I hope the 160th Division can dispatch an infantry regiment to cooperate.

As for whether the Sixty-sixth Army will finally dispatch this infantry regiment, it depends on Ye Zhao's decision. He Wei can only request and make suggestions to friendly forces, but he has no authority to order.

After arranging these, He Wei immediately organized the officers and soldiers of the special agent platoon to build simple fortifications on the spot. If he wanted to lure the enemy deeper, he must fight the Japanese first. The signal flare of the 7th Japanese Infantry Squadron was the bait.

The task of delivering this bait to the main force of the Japanese infantry brigade naturally fell on the top Japanese soldiers at the front.

"Yang Biao, you take two squads and hide on the other side of the road. The remaining squad and the machine gun squad in your platoon are under my command. I will fire first. When I fire, you will follow suit, but be careful. Properly, you can't kill all the Japs' top soldiers, you have to leave a few to report the message. If you see me waving the red commander's flag here, stop the fire immediately. Remember, you must leave the Japs alive, and you must not kill them all. "

"I understand, battalion commander, just look at it.",,

Yang Biao eagerly led the two infantry squads of the secret service platoon across the road and hid on the opposite side. The remaining infantry squad and general machine gun squad of the secret service platoon also launched under the command of He Wei. Ben gets into combat position.

After hiding, He Wei pulled Tao Heiwa, the messenger, over again and ordered: "Heiwa, run back two miles. If you can't hear the gunshots, it means I have stopped firing here. Come back to me immediately." Fire up flares, two red and one green, remember?"

Tao Heiwa nodded and said: "Remember the battalion commander, there will be no shooting here. If there is a ceasefire, I will send out flares, two red and one green."

"Go."

Watching Tao Heiwa leave, He Wei rolled over and rolled into the shooting position of the machine gun squad of the special agent platoon. The sergeant squad leader of the machine gun squad was leading the soldiers in the squad to set up the machine gun position. When he saw He Wei coming, the sergeant squad leader immediately crawled over. Next to He Wei.

"Batalion Commander, the machine gun will be set up soon."

He Wei said: "Okay, as soon as possible, follow my command to shoot. You will take the first shot later."

The equipment organization of the special agent platoon is different from that of the general infantry platoon of the special agent battalion. It focuses on close combat firepower. The entire platoon does not have a single rifle. Most of them are equipped with speed machines and machine guns. The entire platoon only has three infantry squads with medium and long-range combat firearms. The three Belgian fnd light machine guns and the Surotong universal machine gun of the general machine gun squad would suffer some losses in the middle and long-range field battles in an open posture, so He Wei planned to personally command the shooting of this universal machine gun.

The soldiers of the general-purpose machine gun squad of the special agent platoon have built a shooting bunker. The shooters first put the machine gun aside and removed the soft tripod equipped with the Suloton general-purpose machine gun. This kind of tripod was imported and produced by the Germans from Denmark, and later The principle of the tripod equipped with the mg series general-purpose machine guns is basically the same. When the Sulotong mg30 machine gun uses the bipod that comes with the gun body, it is in the light machine gun shooting mode. When the machine gun is assembled on the tripod, it is in the heavy machine gun shooting mode. , and when using a tripod, it is also divided into multiple shooting modes. The height and angle of the post connected to the gun body on the tripod can be adjusted, allowing for high shooting, flat shooting, or flat shooting at the lowest angle.

After unfolding the tripod, the gunners in the machine gun squad constantly adjusted the buttons on the tripod to adjust the height of the machine gun tripod to the lowest level. At the same time, they retracted and locked the bipod on the front of the Sulotong machine gun body. The gun body is fixed on the post of the tripod to complete the combat shooting preparation. At this time, the machine gun tripod is placed in the shooting fortification trench at the lowest angle, and the machine gun body is almost close to the ground, so that when firing, the firepower The line height is very low.

Moreover, the magazine of this general-purpose machine gun is inserted into the side of the machine gun body, unlike the top-loading magazine of the Czech light machine gun, so the concealment effect is very good and it is not easy to be discovered when firing.

The officers and soldiers of the machine gun squad arranged the machine guns in this way for the purpose of concealment. If the machine guns were fired close to the ground, the height of the firing line would be low, and the probability of being discovered and killed would be low.

The corporal who was the shooter's gunner had just loaded a curved thirty-round machine gun magazine. Just as he was about to load it, he saw He Wei coming over and said to him: "The height of the machine gun tripod is too low. Give me the machine gun." Pull the height up, pull the height of the gun body up.”

The corporal was also a veteran of the Sixth Company who came from Xinkou. He looked at He Wei with some doubts and said, "Sir, isn't this machine gun a target if it is placed so high?"

"We just want the Japanese to see our formation and raise the machine guns higher."

He Wei said, and then the sergeant squad leader of the general machine gun squad rushed up and scolded the corporal: "Stop talking nonsense, just do whatever the battalion commander tells you."

Although he was puzzled, the corporal could only do as he was told and raise the height of the machine gun.

Everything was arranged properly, and silence returned to both sides of the road. He Wei raised his binoculars, crawled in the grass, and waited quietly for the arrival of the Japanese soldiers.

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When the special agent platoon was preparing for battle, the leading soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the 9th Regiment were less than two kilometers away from He Wei and the others. On both sides of the road, the leading soldiers of the 8th Infantry Squadron and the 9th Infantry Squadron of the 3rd Infantry Regiment were on both sides of the road. While advancing forward skillfully and quickly, the two infantry squadrons each sent out three leading troops of three, and were led by an experienced combat veteran, Captain Cao, to search forward.

On the left side of the road, Captain Arakawa of the 8th Infantry Squadron was bending forward, raising his binoculars from time to time to look around. The three leading soldiers behind him were all leaping forward with guns in hand. Captain Arakawa glanced at the soldiers who were advancing with them on the other side. The leading soldier of the Ninth Infantry Squadron looked around at the extremely silent fields and the scattered Chinese corpses on the road, and heaved a sigh of relief.

After being vigilant and searching all the way, they didn't find anything. They only encountered a few defeated Chinese troops. Those unorganized and undisciplined defeated soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit had no fighting power at all, and they were all easily eliminated by them.

But even so, Captain Arakawa still searched every inch of the surrounding land with a high sense of vigilance. Before setting off, Captain Arakawa had just accepted the order from the captain to expand the search range, and was given the instruction to pay close attention to the seventh infantryman. As a result, Captain Arakawa learned about the squadron's movements and learned that the 7th Infantry Squadron's contact signal for assistance to the brigade was two red flares and one green flare. This kind of communication signal is quite confidential and is generally known only to officers. Qualification, which also makes Arakawa Cao feel honored.

Therefore, Arakawa Souchang was extra cautious.

Arakawa Souchou led his men forward for another kilometer. As they walked, relying on his intuition from many years in the army, Arakawa Souchou felt inexplicably uneasy, as if something was going to happen next. Arakawa Souchou was very confident in his intuition. , in North China, and on the Songhu battlefield, he relied on his intuition to save himself and his men many times.

Realizing that something might happen next, Captain Arakawa immediately ordered to stop advancing, and the three elite soldiers behind him immediately knelt on the spot to guard.

A Japanese soldier waved a small red flag to the opposite side of the road, and the vanguard troops of the 9th Infantry Squadron under the 3rd Battalion also stopped advancing after seeing the 8th Squadron's signal.

"Captain Morita, Captain Honjo, take your people and follow me. The rest of the team will stay on guard and send someone to inform the vanguard of the 9th Squadron not to advance. We will go in for reconnaissance first. There may be something going on ahead. "

After the arrangements were made, Arakawa Souchang led two regiments of leading soldiers and cautiously jumped forward. One group of the two regiments of Japanese leading soldiers carried a Taisho 11-type light machine gun, and the other group carried an 89-type Type 5 Ten millimeter grenades, ten Japanese soldiers took turns to cover, bent down and advanced with guns in low posture. After leaping for about one kilometer, Arakawa Souchang decisively stopped advancing and ordered the infantry team equipped with light machine guns to set up machine guns and cover on the spot. He crawled forward with another man equipped with a grenade. After climbing two to three hundred meters, Arakawa Souchang stopped. Under the cover of a patch of grass, he raised his telescope and looked forward. Both sides of the road were still so dilapidated. The road was full of corpses shot down by planes and bombs. Arakawa Souchang didn't notice anything unusual about the holly tree, but he always felt that something was wrong.

Suddenly, a gust of cold wind hit, passing over the dry grass blades at Arakawa Cao's chin, like a cold wind with a knife hitting his face. Inexplicably, it made this waist-deep man who once lived in the suburbs of Songhu The capable commander who had endured two weeks in the cold-water trenches shuddered.

As everyone knows, at this moment, He Wei in the distance is also raising his telescope, doing the same thing as Arakawa Cho. However, every move of Arakawa Cho and the three Japanese soldiers behind him is caught by He Wei. .

The cold wind whipped his face. Arakawa Souchang had just put down his telescope. Suddenly, a distorted sound of steel colliding with steel came out of the wind, followed by a scream.

Snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap.

A dense rain of bullets hit, and the bullets almost flew along the head of Arakawa Sochang. A Japanese soldier behind Arakawa Sochang was hit by a bullet through his helmet and died on the spot. Another soldier carrying a Type 89 grenade The grenade shooter was also hit in the shoulder by the sudden heavy rain of bullets. Of this three-man spearhead team equipped with grenade launchers, only Honjo, the leader of the team, was uninjured.

"There are enemies, take cover quickly."

Rolling his body almost instinctively, Arakawa Souchi skillfully changed positions, and at the same time took the 38-type rifle from the hands of the dead soldiers. The injured grenadier also moved to cover, and dense bullets continued to hit. Come on, it creates strings of dust on the ground and overturns the ocher-red soil.

As Captain Arakawa rolled into the transfer, he judged the enemy's firearm models in his mind. Several months of fighting in North China and Songhu gave him the ability to judge the weapons of the Chinese army based on the sound of gunfire, but now the sound of machine guns sounded. But it was something he had never heard of.

This sound was completely different from the Czech gun, the main light machine gun of the Chinese army. The rate of fire was extremely high and the firepower was highly sustained. For a while, Arakawa Souchang did not know what kind of Chinese army he encountered, but he was sure. These people are definitely not scattered troops.

bang bang bang bang

Before the distinctive sound of the unfamiliar machine gun stopped, another burst of dense bullets came. Apparently another machine gun joined the shooting. Arakawa Souchang did not dare to continue to judge the type of enemy machine gun, and hurriedly hid in a In a shallow pit.

"Fight, keep fighting, don't stop."

In the position, He Wei said to the machine gun shooter who had just finished a thirty-round magazine, and ordered to continue firing. Although the Sulotong general machine gun stopped firing, the Belgian Fnd light machine gun of the infantry squad also fired, firing at the Japanese army. A dense rain of bullets was projected. Similarly, He Wei also told the light machine gun shooters of the infantry squad not to fire in bursts, but to fire continuously.

At the same time, the deputy shooter unloaded the magazine from the Sulotong machine gun and loaded a brand new magazine. After the shooter loaded the gun, he continued to pull a button on the machine gun tripod. The button pulled a button connected to the machine gun. The hinge of the trigger, the hinge was pulled, pulling the trigger of the machine gun and fired.

"Hit, go to the right, the Japanese ran to the right."

He Wei held up the telescope and kept giving directions to the machine gun shooter. Under He Wei's instruction, the firing line of the Sulotong machine gun was very high, at least 20 centimeters above the ground. This made it impossible for the machine gun shooter to be parallel to the sound of the gunfire. He Wei opened fire directly from his sight. He Wei took the initiative to expose the machine gun fire to the Japanese in order to make the Japanese feel unusual and to make the Japanese feel that there was a Chinese army with average tactical literacy but not a broken army blocking them.

In order to deliberately create this impression, He Wei also extended the firing distance very far. The distance between the two sides is now about eight or nine hundred meters.

The height of the machine gun's line of fire can be raised, but the shooter's life cannot be wasted. Fortunately, the machine gun tripod is equipped with auxiliary shooting equipment. The machine gunner can fire without aiming while hiding under the machine gun. The tripod of the mg34 series machine gun also has such equipment. Not only that, mg34 is also equipped with an auxiliary aiming device.

But the Sulotong machine gun of the secret service camp was not equipped with this device, so the machine gunner could only rely on He Wei's telescope to assist the command.

clap clap clap clap

Finally, a few minutes later, the crooked light machine gun in the hands of the group of Japanese soldiers behind Arakawa Cho went off. He Wei's deliberately exposed mistakes made the Japanese machine gunners quickly determine the direction of the machine gun. A series of 6.5 mm The light machine gun bullets accurately shot in the direction of the Sulotong machine gun, hitting He Wei with dust in front of him.

The dense gunfire here also attracted the leading soldiers of the Ninth Infantry Squadron on the other side of the road. Within two minutes, the leading soldiers of the Ninth Squadron also engaged the two squads led by Yang Biao.

It has to be said that since Yang Biao was promoted to an officer by He Wei, his brain has become much easier to use. He started shooting at the same distance, and the two Belgian Fnd light machine guns did not use short bursts. Following He Wei's example, he held the trigger like crazy and kept tutu.

He Wei listened to the intensive gunshots coming from the other side of the road and couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction, thinking that Yang Biao was indeed on the road.

The Sulotong machine gun of the secret service platoon knocked out three 30-round magazines in one go, and fired almost a hundred rounds of ammunition in a short period of time. The Belgian light machine gun on He Wei's side was even more powerful, and the infantry squad member The light machine gunner may have been shooting too much with short bursts during training. Now he finally had the opportunity to shoot continuously, so he fired with all his might. The bullets were shot out like water, which also added another victory. Wu Zhang Honjo near Arakawa Socho was also killed by machine gun bullets.

However, Arakawa Sochang, who was suppressed by machine gun fire for a long time, also took this opportunity to figure out the shooting rhythm of the Chinese army on the opposite side. When the Sulotong machine gun shooter was reloading, Arakawa Sochang decisively raised his head and raised the Chochang telescope. Observing the Chinese army's machine gun position opposite, he only looked at it for five or six seconds. After firing a shot at the Chinese army's machine gun position with the 38 rifle in his hand, Arakawa Souchang lowered his head and hid in the shallow pit again. .

At this time, Arakawa Souchang already knew that from the density of firepower and the deployment position of the machine gun positions, the Chinese army that engaged him was definitely not a broken force, but a main force that was deployed here in advance and prepared. The resistance awareness and firepower are very strong, but the tactical literacy is very average. First, the shooting distance is too far and the firing time is too early. Second, the fire concealment measures are not enough. Just a simple look around, Arakawa Souchang discovered He saw the heavy machine gun sprayed with flames, and even saw the dark gun body.

Based on these two points, Captain Arakawa could conclude that the tactical literacy of the Chinese army on the opposite side was very average. Not only was it inferior to the Japanese army, it was even inferior to the elite Chinese Army troops on the Songhu battlefield.

Da da da, da da da

The Taisho 11-type light machine gun behind Arakawa Sochang kept ringing, and the dense bullets accurately hit the vicinity of the Sulotton machine gun of the special agent platoon. The bullets flew around the Sulotton machine gun, and the shooters were all hidden in the trenches. , so the bullets fired did not cause any casualties. The Japanese machine gun shooters were also very annoyed and accurately fired dozens of bullets at the target. However, the enemy shooters did not suffer any damage, and the machine gun fire kept ringing, and even He also killed a deputy shooter of a Taisho 11-year-old crooked light machine gun.

Obviously, the auxiliary shooting equipment equipped with the tripod of the Sulotong machine gun has exceeded the cognitive scope of the Japanese machine gunners. The Japanese machine gunners who were puzzled could only continue to use the Taisho 11th-year-old tricks. The hopper of the light machine gun is loaded with a 6.5mm bullet bridge clip and then fired.

"Grenade man, fire smoke bombs and prepare to retreat."

At this time, Captain Arakawa had already made a decision. Although the Chinese army's tactical literacy was very poor, it was definitely not a defeat, but a well-prepared force that had prepared to deploy defenses here. Captain Arakawa knew It's impossible to attack with the few people under his command. The top priority is to go back and report the situation.

The grenadier behind him quickly moved forward, loaded the 50mm smoke grenade of the Type 89 grenade into the barrel, took simple aim and fired the grenade with a bang. The smoke grenade hit the target accurately. It fell more than ten meters in front of the Sulothong machine gun position of the Secret Service Platoon, emitting thick white smoke and turning the vicinity of the Sulutong machine gun position into a white world with extremely low visibility.

Seeing the smoke bomb taking effect, Arakawa Souchang immediately stood up and shouted: "Retreat quickly, retreat quickly."

Captain Arakawa led several Japanese soldiers to retreat under the cover of smoke. On the other side of the road, the soldiers of the 9th Infantry Squadron also retreated in a hurry after leaving two corpses behind.

Seeing the Japanese retreating under the cover of smoke bombs, He Wei cooperated very well and ordered a ceasefire. As soon as He Wei stopped shooting here, Yang Biao stopped firing. The fierce firepower of the secret service platoon stopped abruptly in an instant, and in the distance, At the same place, Tao Heiwa, who was waiting a little anxiously, saw that the secret service platoon had stopped firing, and decisively took out the signal gun and fired two red and one green signal flares into the sky.

Hu-hu

The sound of signal bombs whistling through the air was heard. A retreating Japanese army commander saw the signal bomb in the sky and shouted to Arakawa Souchang without knowing why: "Chang Cao, there is a signal bomb in the sky."

Captain Arakawa raised his head and saw two red flares and one green flare swaying in the air before falling. Suddenly, Captain Arakawa looked frightened and his face turned pale.

Because the combination of these three signal flares is two red and one green.

(End of this chapter)