Chapter 109 Small Goals Are More Effective

But not everyone is Tang Dao.

Even Niu Er, a talented player, was not as accurate as he was yesterday on such a battlefield.

The Japanese army was not stupid. They knew that there were unimaginable accurate shooters in the warehouse during the battle yesterday, so they threw a lot of smoke bombs on their way forward.

Looking from the warehouse, most of the time there were shadows, and only when a gust of wind blew, they had a clear view for five or six seconds.

And those who can be sergeants are experienced veterans, and they will not walk at the front of the team with their heads held high like in future TV dramas, fearing that others will not know that they are the leaders.

The route they choose during the march is extremely cunning, and before launching a charge, they rarely expose their figures completely on the battlefield.

Otherwise, with Tang Dao's gun skills, how can they not kill seventeen or eighteen in five minutes?

So, after more than ten minutes, the veterans headed by Lao Bing Youzi actually did not have as rich a battle result as Tang Dao alone. A dozen people killed no more than ten Japanese soldiers in total, and there were only four sergeants at most.

On the contrary, the two new recruits, Niu Er and Yang Xiaoshan, had a good harvest.

After Niu Er found that it was not easy to kill the sergeant, he set his target on the Japanese grenade thrower who was 400 meters away.

The long distance of 400 meters is a natural barrier for ordinary people, but it is not a problem for him who has talent and a scope.

His difficulty lies in the fact that the Japanese grenade thrower does not need to show his head because of the curved shooting. He will only stick his head out when he needs to observe the battlefield.

So the most important thing for Niu Er is to be patient, just like a wolf, who needs to be patient enough to wait for his prey to relax his vigilance deep in the grass, and then launch a fatal attack.

At this point, Niu Er, who has been hunting in the mountains for many years, has a maturity that is not in line with his age. He waited for ten minutes before firing his first shot, injuring a grenade thrower, and then took advantage of his companions panicking and trying to drag the wounded body over, and shot again, killing another grenade thrower.

After that, let the injured grenade thrower lie in place.

That was his bait, and anyone who wanted to rescue him would become his prey.

This was the theory that Tang Dao taught him, and it was the first time that Niu Er used it in actual combat.

It was absolutely cruel, but very effective, and one person had already been fooled.

As long as there was one, there would be a second and a third. The former mountain hunter had enough patience to wait.

However, Niu Er, who put the theory into practice for the first time, did not score full marks. After accurately hitting a fooled Japanese soldier again, the experienced Japanese soldier noticed the dangerous opponent's extremely sinister intention, quickly found a way to crack it, and desperately threw grenades and smoke bombs more than ten meters in front of his own wounded.

Niu Er lost his clear vision in the trap that used the wounded Japanese soldier as bait, and could only rely on his feeling to shoot a magazine continuously.

After the smoke dissipated, the bait on the ground had been dragged away by the Japanese, but the black marks on the ground were enough to prove that the bait would not live for too long.

Niu Er killed and wounded three Japanese soldiers, and his sniping performance was still beautiful.

But this time, Yang Xiaoshan, who had never been outstanding in shooting, did not let Niu Er take the cake.

Yang Xiaoshan knew that he did not have Niu Er's shooting talent, and his combat experience was far inferior to that of the veteran soldier, so from the beginning he did not intend to kill valuable targets such as the sergeant or the grenade thrower.

His idea was very simple, and he would kill as many as he could.

With such a simple and almost simple idea, Yang Xiaoshan aimed at all the Japanese troops closest to the warehouse.

Because the Japanese tanks were afraid of machine guns, they only dared to stay behind the low wall 230 meters away as a fixed firepower point to cover the infantry's advance, and the Japanese infantry only reached a distance of 200 meters from the warehouse at most, and they were all hiding tightly.

It was not like yesterday, when they were foolishly charging against light and heavy machine gun bullets.

Not only that, they also dug a single-soldier bunker on the spot with the single-soldier engineer shovel they carried with them.

At this distance, even if the Chinese light and heavy machine guns wanted to save bullets, they dared not stop firing completely, which would only make the Japanese more and more presumptuous. If they just advanced a little and dug a bunker, how would they fight the battle later?

Yang Xiaoshan was staring at this wave of Japanese troops.

As long as they were on the battlefield, no one could be a coward, especially the Japanese army as the attacking party. Knowing that the Chinese infantrymen were staring at them behind the wall and trying to shoot them, they had to follow the orders of their superiors and either show their heads and shoot at the sandbag fortifications on the warehouse side, or move forward slowly and resolutely, even if they were crawling and holding their buttocks.

Therefore, Yang Xiaoshan, who set a small goal for himself, had a better record than those veterans who expected to shoot more valuable targets. He shot and killed three Japanese infantrymen with too high buttocks in a row.

Compared with the not-so-outstanding record of the dozen or so accurate shooters selected by Tang Dao, the record of the rest of the officers and soldiers in the first company was actually worse.

Because of the special geographical location of the Sihang Warehouse, the Japanese infantry, who had lost 70% of their skills, were forced to use all their potential and perform infantry tactics to the extreme.

The Japanese infantry tactics in small teams were more flexible. By observing the firepower points exposed in the warehouse, they avoided the firing range of the firepower points and the detours were mostly blind spots of the firing ports.

In terms of individual soldiers, they bent their waists when advancing, and walked in a zigzag curve. Few of them walked straight forward.

As for the warehouse defenders, the strong walls of the warehouse brought a strong defense, but also added a lot of difficulties to the defenders themselves. After spending two nights to painstakingly dig out dozens of shooting holes on the wall, it was difficult to dig out more.

Shooting holes must be left for light and heavy machine guns. In fact, those who can participate in the battle through the shooting holes, including the front of the building, are no more than two squads of infantry on each floor.

The defense on the front of the building is also the most dangerous. All temporary shooting holes are fortifications built by piling sandbags on the windows, which are not as strong as the half-meter thick concrete walls.

Yesterday, the Japanese army also seized this shortcoming of the warehouse building. The walls on both wings were too hard to break. As many as seven or eight infantry guns bombarded the front of the building, smashing three window fortifications and causing one death and one injury to two light machine gunners.

At this time, the Japanese infantry guns did not fire because their infantry were advancing, but a Japanese tank hiding behind a low wall served as a fixed firepower point. The 57mm tank gun also posed a great threat to the sandbag fortifications.

Before the war, all the commanders of the various departments had requested that unless the Japanese army started to charge, all infantrymen were not allowed to shoot for more than 20 seconds at their positions.

That is to say, in the last position, all tactical actions such as observation, aiming, and shooting must be completed within 20 seconds. The infantrymen basically only had one chance to fire a shot. Regardless of whether they hit the target or not, they had to leave immediately and hide in a safe area.

In addition to the effects of gunpowder smoke and smoke bombs, it was difficult to hit the target under such circumstances unless it was a sniper like Tang Dao.

Of course, Tang Dao had his specially selected sniper position, which was a position that 57mm tank guns could not reach. Compared with the infantrymen, he had a great psychological advantage, which was one of the important reasons why he could calmly shoot and kill valuable targets.

But no matter what, this was not a war of Tang Dao alone. He alone could not change the entire situation. For the time being, the suppression of the Japanese army mainly relied on the consumption of light and heavy machine guns and mortars at all costs.

The 88th Division Headquarters left a lot of reserve ammunition for the 524th Regiment before retreating, but yesterday's battles alone consumed more than 40,000 rounds of various bullets. According to the current intensity of the Japanese attack, at least 40,000 rounds will be needed today.

The reserve of artillery shells has reached an extremely dangerous edge.

Although Wakiita Jiro's move was cruel, it was extremely effective.

The Army Lieutenant Colonel looked at the ammunition consumption report brought over by the Major Battalion Commander with a worried look on his face, and a layer of haze covered his brows.