Chapter Fourteen: Unparalleled Artillery
"Fire!", with Hu Weidong's order, the main force of the militia regiment, over a thousand people, opened fire simultaneously, and dense bullets shot towards the enemy who did not know they had entered the ambush circle. At this time, the militia regiment's automatic firepower was already very strong, if counting up to twenty rounds, there were 134 guns, and under Hu Weidong's arrangement, these automatic weapons formed a highly lethal dense crossfire, and the vanguard team walking in front of the formation immediately suffered a devastating blow...
It has to be admitted that the 35th Detachment's fighting spirit was still very strong, and after losing over a hundred men in an instant, they continued to charge forward under the command of their remaining officers. However, the National Army's charging formation was too dense (note 1), which allowed the militia regiment's crossfire to take effect in a spectacular manner. In just a short while, the original detachment of over 400 men had not a single one left standing.
Seeing the enemy so ferocious, the head of the White Army's security team was shocked and lost his color. Before he could think of a way out, a mortar shell suddenly landed accurately in front of him, and with a loud "boom" it blew him to pieces...
"Platoon leader, how did you fire that cannon? It's incredible!", exclaimed the artilleryman who had been robbed of his combat post by Hu Weidong in disbelief.
"You guys just need to practice hard, and you can reach this level too." Hu Weidong encouraged with a smile, but he knew in his heart that it was almost impossible. When Hu Weidong first joined the special forces unit, all his other scores were only average or below, yet he immediately became a squad leader without anyone raising an eyebrow, relying solely on his unparalleled marksmanship. He even had a kind of "gun sense" similar to some legendary shooters, and for targets visible to the naked eye, no matter how big the cannon was, or even if it was a new model he had never touched before, he only needed to test its performance with two shots at most, and then he could hit every shot afterwards with 100% accuracy.
Moreover, what's even more rare is that Hu Weidong not only accurately fired his own artillery but could also easily estimate the parameters of enemy fire with high precision. During an attack, as long as the artillerymen adjusted their cannons according to Hu's reported data, even if they were new recruits, they would still have a very high hit rate. And when the enemy's shells came flying in, Hu Weidong only needed to hear the sound of the cannon firing and the explosion to infer the type of artillery used by the enemy and its location, and immediately provide parameters for the artillerymen to counterattack. It was as if he had his own fire control radar and anti-artillery radar. The help this provided to the militia team's artillery, who generally lacked experience, can be imagined (PS: Golden Finger has appeared, isn't it a fresh idea?)......
It's inseparable from his family background that Hu Weidong has such an incredible talent. While others played with firecrackers when they were young, Hu Weidong played with cannons. In the decades of experience in his previous life, the Hu family tested and detected various artillery and ammunition under the name of national testing (although it was indeed testing and detecting artillery and ammunition), allowing Hu Weidong to start firing artillery from a young age, with over 300,000 rounds fired in dozens of years (mainly because testing for extreme performance often requires firing until the barrel is red-hot, which is rare in ordinary artillery training and combat). It can be said that he has almost all types of artillery, which is beyond the reach of any professional artilleryman. Moreover, with his long-term study of artillery and ammunition science, which is inseparable from artillery, it can be said that artillery has already merged into his soul...
The combat will of the security team cannot be compared to that of the special forces, and now that the captain has been killed, they naturally surrendered one after another. The militia team only lost a dozen or so people and successfully annihilated an almost 2,000-strong reinforced regiment with excellent equipment, achieving the most brilliant victory since Hu Weidong led the team. In this battle, the militia team captured a large number of guns and ammunition, including 986 rifles that were in good condition or could be repaired (due to the increase in heavy firepower and auxiliary troops, the larger the unit, the lower the proportion of rifles; generally, elite units at the regimental level have one rifle for every two people, only small units below the company level can have one rifle per person), 391 twenty-round guns, 33 single-shot pistols, 71 submachine guns (including Thompsons), 22 light machine guns, 5 Maxim heavy machine guns, 4 82mm mortars, and 11 60mm mortars. They also captured over a million rounds of rifle and machine gun ammunition, over 100,000 rounds of pistol ammunition, over 5,000 hand grenades, and 874 bayonets and 411 steel helmets...
Such a huge harvest almost doubled the firepower of the militia regiment, and everyone was overjoyed, but Hu Weidong, as the regimental commander, quickly interrupted everyone's celebration. The battlefield had not been cleared yet, and he called Long Fei Bao over, "Bao, all members of the pistol team immediately disguise themselves as defeated soldiers and infiltrate the county town..."
Long Feibao didn't expect the captain's ambition to be so great, and he actually thought of taking down the county town as soon as this battle was over. He couldn't help but feel a thrill in his heart. Although Hu Weidong had never publicly shown the Red Army flag, he had always been consistent with Chairman Mao's principles in handling affairs. This gradually dispelled Long Feibao's doubts, and now that Mao was well taken care of and much safer than before, Long Feibao temporarily put aside his idea of finding his division commander to rejoin the army. After all, wasn't revolution being made everywhere? Moreover, the situation of the division commanders was precarious, and even if he joined them, it might not be of any help. It would be better to stay here and do a good job, perhaps even tying up enemy forces and giving his division commanders more room for maneuver. With this understanding, Long Feibao accepted the task without hesitation, despite its great danger.
At the beginning of the Red Army, Taizu realized that the Red Army's weapons were inferior and ammunition was insufficient, neither good at attacking nor defending cities. Therefore, every time a city was taken down, they would try to dismantle the city walls as much as possible. This way, even if it was lost, it wouldn't be difficult to take back later. In these one or two years, although the Red Army's military route has undergone great changes, those city walls that were dismantled early on did not have the financial resources and idle labor to rebuild them. Xingguo County's administrative center, Yunjiang Town, which became a county town in the Soviet area relatively early, was naturally no exception. After the National Army took back Xingguo, it was also too late to repair the city walls, so now Xingguo County has no city defense...
Note 1: This problem also existed in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. The country's top-notch elite troops, the Guangxi Army's Seventh Corps, launched a dense formation charge against the enemy's position during the Battle of Shanghai, but was instantly crippled by the Japanese army's fierce artillery fire. Not a single enemy soldier was killed, yet tens of thousands of their own soldiers died. In short, they were afraid of planes, afraid of heavy artillery, and afraid of machine guns...
