Bright Sword starts with the grenade flat.

Chapter 30 Liu Xiu’s combat suggestions

After Li Yunlong heard Zhang Dabiao's guess, he chuckled and said:
  "You're still pretty smart, kid. There are thirty or sixty people in your battalion. I'll hand over all the grenades of the entire regiment to your battalion. Ten grenades for each person. How much is that! Thirty-six hundred grenades. All the troops have been mobilized. No one is allowed to show their head at the bottom of the hillside. The Japanese are very good at shooting, so we are not afraid of that bad guy.

The troops used earthwork methods to push forward in parallel. As long as we stubbornly advanced 50 meters, the remaining 30 meters were left! Even a girl can throw a grenade into a ring fortification. As soon as my signal flare goes off, all the grenades in the battalion must be thrown out within two minutes. Thirty-six hundred grenades are enough for that boy Yamazaki to drink a pot. Yes! The entire independent regiment is dispatched, all participating in the attack, preparing for hand-to-hand combat. Remember, no one is allowed to shoot when they see that boy Yamazaki, keep it for me, I will chop him alive, everyone go and prepare! "

Just when Li Yunlong finished talking about the battle plan and was about to disband, Liu Xiu raised his hand. When Li Yunlong saw Liu Xiu raising his hand, he said to Liu Xiu:

"Platoon Leader Xiao Liu, do you have any questions about my battle plan?"

Liu Xiu didn't show any concern about this, and immediately said to Li Yunlong:
  "Commander, you can instruct the soldiers to pile the excavated soil on one side of the slope when digging the trench. This will prevent the little Japs from throwing grenades from the top of the mountain and then rolling them into the trench and exploding!"

"Yeah! This guy is quite attentive to details. Yes, your method is feasible! It will help reduce the risk of injuries to soldiers when digging trenches!"

Then Li Yunlong said to the crowd:

"You heard it all! When we dig the trench later, tell the soldiers to pile the excavated soil to the top of the mountain! You don't have any objections, right?"

Li Yunlong saw that the officials were all shaking their heads, so he immediately ordered them to disband and prepare for battle!
  Liu Xiu naturally took his platoon to arrange the mission. Liu Xiu and his platoon numbered about thirty people, and naturally received 300 grenades. Liu Xiu thought about it, and then directly assigned them to the third squad. Squad leader Wang Gensheng called over, and then said to Wang Gensheng:
  "I know you can throw grenades accurately, so I will give you more grenades later. By the way, I will give you as many grenades as you can throw in two minutes!"

Wang Gensheng was immediately overjoyed when he heard Liu Xiu's words, then thought for a moment and said:
  "If someone cooperates with me, I should be able to throw forty or fifty grenades within two hours!"

Liu Xiu nodded after hearing Wang Gensheng's words and understood the meaning of Wang Gensheng's words. After all, before releasing this kind of wooden handle grenade, we have to unscrew the back cover and take out the match cord, so these actions are also very time-consuming, so he road:

"Okay, wait a minute, I will give you my ten grenades, and then let you throw the grenades of the two soldiers in your class, and cooperate with you in throwing the grenades. I have nothing else to ask of you. I just hope that you can throw grenades as far as possible to the positions of heavy machine guns and light machine guns!"

Wang Gensheng naturally understood this.
  Soon Li Yunlong led more than a thousand people from the independent regiment to the edge of Li Jiapo, and then saw Cheng Xiazi leading his regiment to retreat!
  When Li Yunlong saw this situation, he smiled and said to the retreating soldiers of Cheng Xiazi Regiment:

"I'm going to tell you, Blind Man Cheng, back then I taught him how to shoot, and now I'm going to teach him how to fight. Just stand at the foot of the hillside and learn!"

Li Yunlong's ridicule was basically equivalent to a defeat. Cheng Xiazi didn't say anything to refute. After all, Li Yunlong's single-round record was much better than that of Cheng Xiazi. However, Cheng Xiazi had some points that Li Yunlong couldn't match, because He Cheng Xiazi resolutely carried out the orders of his superiors.

For example, Captain Aluminum asked his regiment to withdraw from the battle to make way for Li Yunlong's independent regiment. Cheng Xiazi retreated with his regiment without saying a word. After Li Yunlong's independent regiment entered the battle, they stubbornly started digging trenches under the hillside of Lijiapo as planned, where the little Japanese's marksmanship could not reach them.

The first thing to dig is the pickaxe. After all, although Lijiapo is said to be a loess layer and not a hillside made of rocks, the loess is loosened with a pickaxe first, and then the loosened soil is shoveled out with a shovel.

Of course, in order to speed up the stubborn progress, the soldiers digging traffic trenches were replaced in turns, basically every five minutes. After all, human explosive power is limited. If you slowly wave your pickaxe and shovel, it will naturally not be that good. It's tiring, but if you play hard and fast, you'll be tired within a few minutes.

This means that there is no comparison between the speeds of sprinters and long-distance runners. Sprinters can run 100 meters in ten seconds, averaging ten meters per second, while long-distance runners such as marathon runners can run 42 kilometers in two hours. The marathon average is only five or six meters per second.

However, Liu Xiu's 1st Battalion did not participate in the soil work because Li Yunlong said that the 1st Battalion should save its physical strength to throw grenades. If the arm is gouged, the grenade will not be thrown accurately.

So the soldiers of the first battalion just watched the soldiers of the second and third battalions take turns digging traffic ditches, while the first battalion just stared at them carrying baskets containing grenades.

They waited like this for almost two hours before pushing the traffic ditch to a place thirty meters away from the Yamazaki Brigade.

Of course, during this period, Captain Yamazaki also thought of ways to prevent it, such as mortar bombing. However, compared with the traffic ditch that is only half a meter wide, with the accuracy of the mortar, he wanted to accurately drive the shells into the traffic ditch. The difficulty is really not small.

So, Yamazaki looked at the traffic ditch getting closer and thought of using their melon grenades. After all, the Yamazaki brigade was on a hillside, so even if the grenade was not thrown into the traffic ditch, it could still roll into the ditch based on the terrain.

However, the soldiers followed Liu Xiu's suggestion and moved the soil to the side near the top of the mountain, forming a small reverse slope. Therefore, all the cantaloupe grenades were blocked by this artificial slope.

After digging to a distance of thirty meters, Li Yunlong immediately ordered to stop the digging work, and then asked all the digging personnel to retreat, because it was now the turn of the first battalion.

Perhaps to cover the entry of the First Battalion, he was afraid that Yamasaki would suddenly counterattack when the First Battalion entered with a grenade, so Li Yunlong thought of a way to attract Yamasaki's attention by shouting.

I saw a soldier holding a loudspeaker and shouting:

"Captain Yamazaki, little devil, listen. Li Yunlong, the leader of the Eighth Route Independent Regiment, learned that you were born in a warrior family and are proficient in swordsmanship. Captain Li thinks that your swordsmanship is just the surface of the Khan clan's swordsmanship. The master-disciple relationship dates back to the Tang Dynasty. The conclusion has been reached. If you cherish the honor of the warriors, stop shooting and walk out of the fortifications. Our Commander Li is willing to engage in a formal duel with your sword. Commander Li guarantees with the honor of a soldier that if he loses to your sword, The independent regiment immediately stops attacking and makes way for you!"

(End of this chapter)