The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 34 Night

It was night, the weather was slightly cold, and the deep dark night enveloped the defensive position of the [-]th Company.

Until now, the Japanese army has not launched an attack, which means that there is basically no possibility of attack today. The sentry sent out by He Wei has not fired a shot yet. The Sixth Company position has returned to rare silence. Except for the sentry, He Wei ordered the rest People go into the cat's ear hole to rest, eat, and maintain their weapons.

In the slightly cold night, I ate two mouthfuls of fried rice with just water. He Wei sat on the empty ammunition box in the cat's ear hole, and Tao Heiwa sat on the M35 steel helmet, holding an oil lamp and lighting up the dark cat's ear hole. A newly erected black field telephone is in a three-meter-deep earth pit in the innermost part of Maoer Cave. The telephone line runs along the trench and the communication trench is connected to the battalion command post in Yanzhuangli.

The newly maintained Mauser C96 shell gun emits a strange luster in the dim light. Next to it is a small oil can, six rows of [-] bullets, a rifle bayonet, three long-handled grenades, a Czech light machine gun, and a ready light machine gun. Tube and a light machine gun quick loader, as well as five Czech light machine gun magazines. He Wei has filled them with [-]-type light-point bullets, and the [-]-type grenade captured from the Japanese army. The barrels and grenades were also neatly stacked aside. Whether they were guns, knives, barrels, bullets or magazines, they were all shiny and shiny after He Wei's careful maintenance.

"Machine slot, bolt mechanism, magazine, cleaning rod, and the last step!"

While talking to himself, He Wei placed the Chinese formal rifle vertically in front of him, holding the headband with his left hand, and the rifle purge bar under the barrel with his right hand, slowly turning to the right, and pulling out the purge bar. , concentrate on putting a small cloth strip through the hole of the barrel, clamp the rifle between his legs, hold the barrel tightly, put the barrel into the barrel and gently pull it back and forth to clean the dirt in the barrel, and then take out the barrel. The strips were replaced with new cloth strips and until they were completely wiped clean, He Wei completed his last maintenance work - cleaning the gun chamber.

"Job done!"

Although the platoon leader's first priority is to command, it is inevitable to serve as a combat soldier on the firing line. With the quality of the platoon's soldiers and the firepower of the unit, it is impossible for him to not be a combat soldier. He Wei is also quite helpless. He is now forced to be a combat soldier. One Czech, one medium-sized, including the three rifles of the platoon leader of the three rifles.

This Czech light machine gun should not be fired by the platoon leader at all. The platoon leader should be the commander, but damn He Wei is worried. There is no way, because there are only two light machine guns in the three squads of the platoon. Only the light machine gunner Jiang Qilong of the first squadron is a qualified shooter. It would be a crime to hand over a light machine gun to a shooter who is not proficient in light machine gun tactics.

If a qualified machine gun shooter is found in the battle tomorrow, He Wei will definitely educate him on the use of light machine guns and then hand the machine gun to the soldier. It is enough for him to get a shell gun by himself.

"We have to work hard tomorrow, clean our guns and bullets to ensure safety."

He Wei couldn't help but smile as he wiped it. What he disliked most before time traveling was maintaining various equipment. Now, after time traveling, he took the initiative to maintain it in order to save his life. In just one day, he came to this ghost place inexplicably. Place, sometimes He Wei really wants to slap himself twice to see if he is dreaming?

Glancing at Tao Heiwa, this kid is more serious and serious than He Wei. He doesn't dare to move even if he holds the oil lamp. He is such a simple kid. He Wei was just a kid in junior high school before he traveled through time. However, Their peer Tao Heiwa is a veteran with three years of military service.

I have been begging for food since I was a child. A living person was deceived by a military dealer and treated like an object and sold to the recruiting officer of the [-]th Division for five dollars. By some strange combination of circumstances, I became a soldier, and that was how I could survive. eat.

What a shitty year!

"Heiwazi, I'm cleaning the gun, not punishing you. You put the lamp on the ground. Isn't it tiring to keep carrying it?" Tao Heiwa then slowly put down the oil lamp.

"Talk to me, Heiwazi. Tell the platoon leader if you are tired of carrying a gun for me. When the Japanese came over today, you behaved well. You kept following me with a gun on your back."

Tao Heiwa whispered: "Platoon leader, carrying a rifle is not tiring, but carrying a light machine gun is tiring."

He Wei smiled and patted Tao Heiwa on the head, and said: "You kid, aren't you talking nonsense? How can a rifle compare with that Czech-style iron lump? Then I will reduce your burden. I may not be able to use the rifle tomorrow. , I carry the light machine gun casually, and I bring three machine gun magazines myself. You can carry the Zhongzheng rifle and two light machine gun magazines, the light machine gun barrel, and the Japanese grenade tube and grenades on my back. Can you bear it?"

"I listen to the platoon leader."

After assembling the shell gun, filling it with a row of bullets, and putting the gun into the wooden gun case on his waist, He Wei buckled on the helmet, fastened the helmet belt, took a long breath, and put the bayonet into the bayonet scabbard on his waist. , picked up the formal rifle, pulled the bolt, pressed in a row of bullets, threw away the bullet bridge clip and flicked the strap, turned off the safety, tightened the armed belt and put it on, stood up and walked out of the cat ear hole, Tao Heiwa also stood up and followed out.

He Wei made a gesture and stopped him: "Don't bother, I'm going to check the sentry. If you are sleepy, take a nap. There will be a big battle tomorrow. You are the messenger. You are very important to me and the brothers in the platoon. Can you pass the message?" Good orders determine the life or death of a platoon, so rest more and don't be afraid."

Tao Heiwa nodded firmly: "Follow the platoon leader, I'm not afraid."

He Wei inspected all parts of the trench, checking on the infantry sentries in the trench while asking "welfare" from one to another. The soldiers were basically hiding in the cat's ear holes. Ten new soldiers from the Fourth Company and the Fifth Company had just arrived in the platoon. Six soldiers to make up for the casualties of a platoon's battle.

When recruiting soldiers from other companies, the most important thing is to make the soldiers familiar with their squad platoon leaders and their platoon brothers, so He Wei checked each one of them, chatted with the soldiers, and asked if they had eaten. Let the newly assigned soldiers recognize themselves as their platoon leaders, otherwise it will be easy to get confused when commanding on the battlefield.

When identifying people, you also need to check the soldiers' weapons one by one, push and pull the bolt, check the empty gun, and check whether the weapons and ammunition are intact. Fortunately, the [-]th Division is well equipped. Now, in addition to the first squad, there is another Czech light machine gun. , the other riflemen all have medium and formal rifles, which are easy to inspect.

In addition, He Wei will also take the trouble to emphasize the shooting discipline in tomorrow's battle.

The war was about to begin, but He Wei was still uneasy after all. He felt that there were still a lot of unfinished things, and he felt inexplicably panicked and excited. It seemed that there was always something wrong in the camp, so he had to find something to do. After He Wei checked the person, he checked the phone number. line, and then checked several cat-ear holes where ammunition was stored, and even the cat-ear holes where the eight [-] guns captured when repelling the first attack of the Japanese army and the Japanese army equipment were stored, and then, they were looked at again. The light and heavy machine gun preparation positions were now relieved.

(End of this chapter)