Chapter 5 Chen Xiao's Performance
Li Yunlong looked back and was overjoyed: "Xiucai, you are really a talent! Zhuzi, hurry up..."
"Let me do it!" It was Chen Xiao who said this . He wanted to try out his master-level skills in using ordinary artillery. After all, a grenade launcher is also a type of artillery.
Chen Xiao put down the ammunition box on his shoulder and opened it. There were twenty special shells for the grenade launcher inside. However, seeing the distance to the machine gun position, he felt it was a bit of a waste to use special shells, so he closed it again.
The grenade bag on his body contains special grenades that can be launched from a grenade launcher. It can be used as a hand grenade or as a grenade launcher shell.
"Can you do it? Using this thing is not like shooting a gun. You are good at shooting a gun, but this thing can be used by any experienced artilleryman!" Li Yunlong did not expect that this delicate and handsome scholar actually wanted to use the cannon himself. You know, this thing is much more difficult to use than a mortar.
Yes, a grenade launcher is much more difficult to fire than a mortar. After all, a mortar has a bracket that fixes the angle and you just need to put the shell in.
But the grenade launcher does not have a support, and aiming depends entirely on the hands. The support also depends on the hands. In the hands of veterans who are used to using this thing, because of the rifling, every shot can be accurate within three or four hundred meters. The longest range can reach 700m, but it is not known whether it can be accurate.
If Li Yunlong hadn't seen Chen Xiao using a rifle to target the firepower several hundred meters away, he would have kicked him aside long ago.
But now it was different. Since he was good at shooting, maybe he could also use a cannon! Even a more difficult weapon like a grenade launcher.
However, he planned to let the scholar fire once. If he found that his level was too poor after firing one shot, he would definitely snatch the grenade launcher and give it to Zhuzi.
"Don't worry, Captain Li. Although I have never fought in a war, I do have some skills in using a grenade launcher."
Chen Xiao took out a grenade from the grenade bag on his body, loaded it into the barrel, and used the white line on the barrel to aim at the heavy machine gun position 200m away. He squinted his eyes and used the master-level artillery technique he had just acquired to estimate the distance. He adjusted the angle with his left hand and pulled the rope with his right hand.
With a "bang", the grenade in the grenade launcher was fired and headed straight for the heavy machine gun position. Under the watchful eyes of Li Yunlong and others, it blasted and tore the people in that position to pieces.
"Haha! I didn't expect you could use a cannon. Come here and be his ammunition carrier."
Wang Chengzhu responded, threw the barrel of the mortar on his body to the ammunition handler beside him, and reached out to pick up the ammunition box in front of Chen Xiao.
Li Yunlong laughed loudly: "Follow me and charge forward!"
The next step was easy. He just rushed outwards and knocked down any heavy machine gun positions he encountered one by one. The battle went very smoothly.
The only setback was Zhang Dabiao's journey. Zhang Dabiao was accidentally hit by a bullet and was trapped on a hill.
After hearing the report, Li Yunlong led his men back to kill them. When they met the men, Zhang Dabiao choked up and shouted, "Captain, I am a burden to you!"
Li Yunlong carried him on his back and laughed, "Why add any more burden? Let me tell you, if the grenades weren't so few, I would have wanted to be like Zhao Zilong of Changshan and go in and out of this mountain seven times.
You don't know that Xiucai is not only a sharpshooter, but also a great artilleryman. As long as it is within the range, he can directly knock out the enemy's firepower point without firing a second shell . It's amazing!"
Although that's what he said, the 20 special artillery shells and 20 or so grenades were really not durable and were soon used up. There were no new spoils of war. Fortunately, most of the troops had broken out, and he was the last one to come back to pick up Zhang Dabiao.
Now that they had received the order, they focused on rushing out. There was a huge difference between having Chen Xiao and not having him. When they encountered a small group of Japanese soldiers, the people and guns of the New 1st Regiment were no pushovers. When they encountered a firing point, the grenade launcher in Chen Xiao's hand was no pushover either. He fired outwards with unstoppable force and soon broke out.
Finally, after a day and a night of assault, all the members of the New 1st Regiment managed to break through, and after two days of forced march, seventy to eighty percent of them arrived at the assembly point. As for those who did not come, they might never come again.
However, Li Yunlong's belongings were almost all gone. Guns and ammunition were in short supply, medical supplies were in short supply, and most importantly, food was in short supply.
Lao Wang also stood out. As the quartermaster, the most important thing he was in charge of was the food for the entire army.
There are seven or eight hundred people waiting for food now, he is so worried!
Especially the wounded soldiers, who had lost a lot of blood. Without some food replenishment, they might not be able to hold on for a few more days.
The uninjured people can hold on for a few days, but the injured people cannot!
Suddenly, Lao Wang remembered that there was another person in the new regiment who had food. Yes, let’s go find him.
Isn’t it just a seed?
When they arrived at the new station, Lao Wang went to buy double the amount of seeds.
This was what he planned and did, so he found Chen Xiao who was discussing with Wang Chengzhu how to improve the accuracy of the grenade launcher.
"What? You want these 40 kilograms of potatoes I have?" Chen Xiao's face turned cold. He remembered telling Lao Wang that these 40 kilograms of potatoes he had were very important and were a high-yield crop, which he could not sell.
To be honest, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, at least tens of millions of people died of starvation.
These 40 kilograms of high-quality potato varieties can be exchanged for more high-yield varieties if they are cultivated for two or three seasons.
It can save millions of people who are about to starve to death, so these 40 kilograms of potatoes must not be given up.
The most important thing is, if one potato is missing out of the twenty, your lung cancer will be incurable and you will die.
"no!"
So he refused, and his refusal made Lao Wang blush.
"It's just 40 kilograms of potato seeds! When we get to the new base, I'll give you 100 kilograms, and they're wheat seeds, okay?
I need food to save people now. Under the premise of saving people, everything else has to be put aside!"
Chen Xiao looked at Lao Wang calmly and said calmly, "This is really not possible. These are the only 20 potato seeds left in the world that can produce more than 3,000 kilograms per mu per season. If there is enough fertilizer, it can produce 5,000 kilograms per season. If it can be a double season, it can even produce 6,000 to 10,000 kilograms. Do you think I can let you cook such important potato seeds?"
"I don't believe it! The highest yield of grain is only 500 to 600 kilograms. You tell me that this can produce several thousand kilograms. Do you think I have never farmed before?"
Lao Wang stiffened his neck and yelled, "If you don't agree, I will go find the regiment commander. Human life is more important than anything else. Our wounded were injured while fighting the Japanese. Can you please have some conscience? You also ate our Xinyi Regiment's pancakes on Cangyun Ridge."
When Zhuzi heard this, he was broken!
Along the way, he discussed the usage techniques of grenade launchers and mortars with Chen Xiao, and also understood Chen Xiao's personality. He felt that Lao Wang meant badly by saying that.
Although Chen Xiao agreed with the Eighth Route Army along the way, he did not say that he wanted to join the Eighth Route Army. And after chatting, he could see that Chen Xiao was a person with a hot temper. Lao Wang used the fact that Chen Xiao had eaten the food of the New First Regiment on Cangyun Ridge to squeeze him, which might be bad!
