Chapter 43 Put down the anti-aircraft machine guns! (Please read later)
The two captains at the back looked at the explosion in the army and immediately recognized that it was a power that could only be produced by the explosion of heavy artillery shells.
After a round of unscrupulous artillery was fired, soldiers immediately rushed forward to load explosives.
One of the large explosive packs flew right onto a tank, and the soldiers inside the tank were directly shocked to death by the explosive pack exploding at close range.
And Shinjiro Kimura, who was above the canyon, also saw that the so-called heavy artillery shells were fired from those holes, and he directly notified the air force to bomb that area.
The bombers in the sky received the information and immediately began to dive to drop bombs.
When the bomber began to dive.
The soldiers in the anti-aircraft machine gun position at the top of Baihu Ridge quickly prepared.
The heavy machine gun positions on the mountainside also raised their guns, ready to give these Japanese planes a severe blow.
The ten anti-aircraft machine guns that were originally hidden began to prepare under Qin Yangming's command.
Qin Yangming even personally operated a heavy machine gun.
"All anti-aircraft machine guns prepare armor-piercing incendiary rounds!"
"Yes!"
"Listen to my orders. When I open fire, you must follow suit and shoot down these planes for me!"
Qin Yangming stared closely at a fast-diving bomber, and the machine gun in his hand moved quickly along with the plane.
"Fire!"
After seeing the plane reach a position level with the highest peak of Baihu Ridge, Qin Yangming decisively gave the order to open fire.
The bullets fired by twelve DShK anti-aircraft machine guns and several sticks that were beating wild dogs smashed hard at the Japanese planes.
The diving Japanese bomber had no way to dodge and could only watch several fire snakes rushing towards it.
Three planes that had been circling in the sky were shot down by Qin Yangming and others using anti-aircraft machine guns.
The plane was not blown up, but because it could not be controlled, it crashed directly into the Japanese troops.
The heavy aerial bombs carried on the plane exploded among the Japanese devils, creating brilliant sparks.
"Li Erhu, aim at the top of the canyon and hit me hard!"
Qin Yangming was observing the battlefield with a telescope when he saw the plane being shot down.
Suddenly, I noticed a reflection above the canyon. Following the reflection, I saw a group of Japanese soldiers in officer uniforms standing above the canyon, holding binoculars and looking at the anti-aircraft machine gun positions.
The Japanese soldier also noticed the reflection from the telescope, and then turned his neck to look over, and found that the other party was also looking at him.
"You have binoculars? Officer!"
"Artillery, attack that anti-aircraft machine gun position for me, their officer is on top of the position!"
The Type 94 mountain cannon pulled to the top of the canyon by the Japanese, combined with the inclination angle of the hillside, was able to hit the anti-aircraft machine gun position where Qin Yangming was located.
After receiving the order, the artillery quickly turned the artillery to aim at Qin Yangming's position.
Similarly, Li Erhu also led the artillery to push the Type 41 mountain cannon out of the anti-artillery cave.
"Battalion commander, anti-artillery!"
Li Erhu was the first to notice the Japanese artillery position. While yelling at Qin Yangming to pay attention, he quickly aimed at the group of Japanese officers who wanted to go down the mountain.
"The entire company fires at the former Sixth Company position above the canyon!"
"Scale 475, right 075, extended fire!"
"Yes!"
The first three artillery pieces pulled out quickly adjusted their coordinates.
"fire!"
"boom!"
Li Erhu fired the first cannonball, which landed directly at the place where Kimura Shinjiro had just been.
The other three Type 41 mountain cannons were also pushed out at this moment, quickly entering the preset positions and starting firing.
When Li Erhu saw that the shells began to extend the bombing, he decisively turned the artillery to aim at the Japanese artillery positions that had also started firing.
After hearing Li Erhu's reminder, Qin Yangming led the soldiers to quickly dismantle the machine gun and carried it to the anti-artillery cave below.
Just as we entered the anti-artillery cave, a test shell hit us.
Then the Japanese officially launched the bombardment.
Li Erhu is indeed the top gunner, his speed is much faster than that of the Japanese.
The Japanese were still turning their artillery to try to destroy Li Erhu and his men's artillery positions first, but before they could aim at the mark, Li Erhu's shells hit them.
The shells hit the ammunition boxes directly, and more than 40 shells brought by the Japanese exploded.
The Japanese artillery was blown directly down the canyon. Kimura Shinjiro was also hit by a shell under the extended fire of the artillery company. He was blown up by the airflow raised by the shell, and then his head hit the rock and he died.
"Attack, attack!"
"Kill him!"
A Japanese colonel who was commanding the battle below saw the explosion above the canyon and realized that the brigade commander was most likely in trouble, so he quickly ordered the remaining troops to charge towards Baihu Ridge.
The remaining two thousand Japanese soldiers, led by their respective commanders, quickly charged up the hillside.
The Japanese devils' combat proficiency was fully demonstrated at this moment.
Once the vanguard battalion's machine guns opened fire, the infantry artillery firing at close range would immediately fire at the machine guns.
The shell hit directly near the firing port, and even if it didn't kill the machine gunner, it at least knocked him dizzy.
"Damn it, set up the anti-aircraft machine gun for me!"
Qin Yangming came out of the anti-artillery cave and watched the Japanese soldiers below charging towards the position like crazy, and quickly ordered the soldiers to re-set up the anti-aircraft machine guns.
The remaining infantry artillery of the Japanese army fired wildly at the Eighth Route Army on the hillside, and they even stopped aiming.
After firing a shot, he quickly changed position, giving Li Erhu no chance to aim.
Li Erhu wanted to use artillery to attack the Japanese below, but the Japanese rushed too fast and had already reached the position of the unscrupulous artillery.
The Type 41 mountain gun had no chance to hit the Japanese because it was on the hillside and had not had time to change its position.
Li Erhu had no choice but to quickly lead the artillerymen to push the artillery to change positions.
But Wang Erniu at the mortar position was very happy.
Li Erhu’s mountain artillery couldn’t hit the target.
But now the Japanese are more than 800 meters away from them, which is within the range of the mortar.
More than a dozen mortars launched artillery fire directly at the Japanese troops at the foot of the mountain.
The company commanders of each company also launched their own mortars and infantry guns to fight back against the Japanese.
"Who the hell is that platoon leader!"
"Are you an idiot? Why don't you change your position after firing the cannon?"
Under Qin Yangming's watch, the mortar position of a machine gun platoon was actually destroyed by the Japanese grenade launcher.
Six well-trained gunners were killed directly by the explosion of the shells.
Even the exploding shells hit the soldiers on the position.
"Battalion Commander, the anti-aircraft machine guns are ready!"
Just when Qin Yangming was angry, the soldiers behind him had already re-set up the anti-aircraft machine guns according to Qin Yangming's instructions.
At this moment, the anti-aircraft machine gun has been switched to flat-fire mode.
Without saying a word, Qin Yangming set up a DShK anti-aircraft machine gun and pulled the trigger at the Japanese troops below.
As we all know, any weapon that can shoot down aircraft is also very effective against targets on the ground.
It is even more useful than weapons specifically designed to fight the army.
For example, large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns.
Anti-aircraft guns...
The rest of the machine gunners followed suit and set up their machine guns to attack the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain.
The gun mount of an anti-aircraft machine gun is much more stable than that of an ordinary heavy machine gun, not to mention that Qin Yangming also had people pile sandbags on the gun mount.
The anti-aircraft machine guns, which were more stable than heavy machine guns, were now like sickles reaping the lives of the Japanese soldiers below.
Even if the Japanese hid behind the rocks, they would not be able to stop us.
Bullets as thick as a thumb could directly break stones, or stir up stone fragments to kill the Japanese.
The bullet can break the Japanese's hands and feet if it hits them, and it can even cut them in half if it hits their body!
Qin Yangming raised the muzzle of his gun and looked towards Lai Canyon, where he saw an officer jumping around with a command knife in his hand.
Without hesitation, a volley of bullets swept over.
The officer was less than one kilometer away from Qin Yangming in a straight line. With the range of the DShK machine gun, it was easy to hit him at this distance.
The Japanese chief of staff drew his saber and was still shouting to charge. A Japanese captain next to him was persuading him to come down from the rock and be careful of the Eighth Route Army's snipers.
Before the Japanese captain could finish his words, a series of bullets fired at him.
The Japanese captain and the chief of staff were scattered all over the place.
(End of this chapter)
