Chapter 20 Hibernating Hedgehog

Therefore, Tang Dao used the firing range of machine guns and heavy firepower points for the defense of the left and right wings.

Most of the windows facing Suzhou River North Road were covered with sandbags, leaving only the position of the shooting holes. There were no windows on the east and west walls. Tang Dao designed that two rows of shooting holes should be chiseled on each side of each floor.

In order to ensure that there are no blind spots for shooting on the two wings, in addition to the shooting holes on the walls, the fortifications on the roof are particularly important.

In the past, the lieutenant colonel of the army mounted the only two Su Luotong anti-aircraft machine guns on the roof for air defense. If there was a blind spot for shooting, the soldiers would climb to the roof and throw grenades down.

The scene of soldiers jumping down with grenades wrapped in the movie Eight Hundred is not an artistic rendering, but a real existence.

However, that was not to deal with a shield array composed of iron shields. The Japanese army with Type 94 reconnaissance armored vehicles and Type 89 medium tanks did not need to work so hard. The warehouse defenders whose machine guns lost their firing angles had no way to deal with such steel behemoths at close range.

Soldiers could only jump down from the rooftops with grenades wrapped all over their bodies, turning themselves into a bloody rain while blowing up the tanks.

That was certainly heartbreaking for the Chinese commander in the building and the Chinese people watching on the Suzhou River dozens of meters away, and the Japanese commander was also heartbroken.

The lives of several Chinese soldiers in exchange for the destruction of a tank was actually an unbearable pain for both sides, but one side was heartbroken for its soldiers and the other side was heartbroken for its equipment.

In order to win this war, Japan also took out all its belongings. In the late stage of the war, even the kitchen knives in the homes of ordinary people were contributed to build warships and cannons.

If it weren't for the American cowboys who finally dropped two big fat bombs to completely knock the Japanese to their knees, it is estimated that the Japanese would have gotten used to using wooden kitchen knives.

But the Tang Dao improved this shortcoming based on the real battle process.

First, he built two anti-aircraft positions on the roof of the warehouse with two Suloton machine guns as the core, with a twin-mounted machine gun and a Maxim heavy machine gun as a group, and used sandbags to build a circular fortification.

The two machine guns placed on the east and west sides of the building can not only attack Japanese planes flying from the east and west, but also change the machine guns to shoot at the Japanese heavy firepower points within the firing range of 400 to 1000 meters on the east, west and south sides.

The four mortars left by the division headquarters plus the original two mortars of the machine gun company, a total of six mortars, were placed by Tang Dao at the four corners and the center. The six mortar positions can attack all the Japanese heavy firepower points around the warehouse building at a maximum of 2000 meters and the nearest 200 meters.

Of course, Tang Dao did not mean to put the machine gun company on the roof as cannon fodder. Whether it was the machine gun position or the mortar position, there was a traffic trench leading to the room downstairs. All equipment and personnel could quickly retreat to the solid building when the Japanese artillery covered it.

As long as they were fast enough and the Japanese didn't use 200-caliber naval guns and bombs over 200 pounds, there wouldn't be much of a safety problem.

If the Japanese really dared to be so crazy, the entire building would probably collapse, and everyone would be finished, right?

In addition, Tang Dao placed two infantry squads on the left and right sides of the roof. They needed to use a large number of sandbags to build trenches, and even steel plates and logs to build anti-gun holes.

While guarding against the Japanese army's small number of mortar bombardments, their main role was to throw grenades vertically downward from the roof. Once the Japanese infantry approached the area 20 meters away from the building and entered the blind spot of the defenders on the wall, it would be up to them. They didn't need to shoot, but just threw enough grenades downward in the shortest time.

The power of the grenade explosion did not threaten the walls of the Sihang Warehouse, but the flesh and blood of the Japanese army could not resist it.

If we encounter Japanese tanks, we will need cluster grenades. Cluster bombs with ten grenades in a bundle can break the tracks and penetrate the bottom of the tank when they fall under it. Even if they fall on the top of the tank, they can still shock the people inside the tank. If they can't kill you, they can kill you. If ten grenades don't work, then we can use a hundred.

The 3,000 grenades left by the 88th Division Headquarters and the more than 1,000 grenades carried by the first battalion gave Tang Dao the confidence to arrange firepower points like this.

The other four Maxim heavy machine guns of the machine gun company are two to defend the front, one on each of the left and right wings. Together with the 27 Czech light machine guns of the three infantry companies, each defense surface can have a heavy machine gun with a firing rate of 500 rounds and continuous firepower support from nine light machine guns on average.

Among them, the close combat firepower of the company on the front defense was the most powerful. Almost all the soldiers of three infantry squads were equipped with submachine guns. Although the range was much shorter, within the range of 100 meters, the firepower of 40 MP28 submachine guns could even drown 4 heavy machine guns.

Looking at this clearly structured and written firepower configuration diagram, several middle and low-level officers with extremely rich battlefield experience were all sweating.

With proper configuration of close, medium and long-range firepower, the Sihang Warehouse in the diagram was like a hibernating hedgehog. If they were the commander of the Japanese army, they would probably not want to touch this hedgehog at all.

It is completely conceivable that once this "hedgehog" wakes up from hibernation, the spikes formed by the torrent of bullets will be enough to make anyone who dares to touch it heartbroken.

"Good guy!" Yang Ruifu was the first to clapped his hands and exclaimed.

He looked at Tang Dao with a strange look, "Platoon Leader Tang, you have been to the Sihang Warehouse!"

"My father has been doing business in Sichuan for many years. Before joining the army, Tang Dao had the honor to accompany his father to Songhu to escort goods. The delivery location was exactly this warehouse. I was able to visit this magnificent warehouse. I didn't expect it to be useful today." Tang Dao knew that someone would have this question, and he had already thought of a reason.

The Sihang Warehouse used to be the vault of the four major banks, but two years ago its use had changed to a place for major business companies to store goods. Although no one could verify what Tang Dao said at this time, Tang Dao, who was familiar with history, naturally could not just talk nonsense.

"Very good! It seems that Platoon Leader Tang has made a lot of preparations for today's battle!" The lieutenant colonel of the army looked at Tang Dao deeply, with a playful look on his lips. "You guys see if there is anything else to add, otherwise it's settled."

Obviously, this thoughtful veteran soldier was not as easy to fool as Yang Ruifu, and he saw through Tang Dao's nonsense at a glance.

There is nothing wrong with the reason that Tang Dao had been to Sihang Warehouse, but it is a bit ridiculous to say that he had a clear understanding of the entire Sihang Warehouse structure and the surrounding environment just by visiting it once.

However, the lieutenant colonel of the army was obviously unwilling to delve into this. Regardless of whether Tang Dao came from the department he imagined that he did not like very much, this firepower configuration map was urgently needed by him.

The radiant Tang Dao suddenly appeared here, which was originally a bit contrary to common sense, but now it makes sense.

However, even if the lieutenant colonel of the army was as wise as the sea, he could not have imagined that Tang Dao actually came from another time and space.

The little butterfly from the future knew much more information than those intelligence aces.

For example, he knew that the Japanese army would definitely come headlong this night, even if there was no such thing in the past time and space.

The Japanese army, which had basically won the Battle of Songhu, was now as excited as a slut who had taken aphrodisiac. Just looking at them, they had to rush over, not to mention that Tang Dao had already teased them hard.