Chapter 405 Infantry and Artillery Coordination
In fact, during the bombardment, Ma Yongqiu and his friends were complaining about the crazy guys on the other side.
It took 30 minutes of artillery preparation to attack their militia.

Now I heard Luo Yueming say that the headquarters determined that the trenches were damaged by 15%, 5 heavy machine guns were lost, and there were no casualties.

I knew that the higher-ups also thought it was outrageous and were somewhat biased towards the militia.

You have to know that the enemy opened fire as soon as they came up, without even doing any reconnaissance and had no idea about the militia's preparations. They were simply bullying the militia because they were poorly equipped and could only passively take the beating.

But at this time, Ma Yongqiu no longer had time to care about these things.
The militia's own walkie-talkie received a report from the observation post ahead.
"Report, the enemy has begun to gather personnel, about a platoon in number, probably trying to test our firepower deployment."

Hearing that there were only 30 people, Ma Yongqiu also judged that this was a probing attack by the opponent.
"Report on the distribution of personnel."

"They are scattered all over the place. It seems that they know our plan."

Hearing this, Ma Yongqiu slammed his fist on the table and cursed in dissatisfaction,

"MD, these guys are really filthy, they are doing these evil things before the drill even starts.

Let's talk about how to deal with it.
It's not cost-effective to use heavy weapons on 30 people who are spread out so thinly! "

At this time, He Yuzhu sneered,
"Since the enemy looks down on us, let's put them up, shoot at them with light weapons, and then cooperate with them with cold guns.
There are so many of us, how can we be afraid of them?"

Due to the tight time schedule, Ma Yongqiu thought He Yuzhu's proposal was a good one, so he gave the order directly and waited for the other party to come over.

The officers on the other side saw that there was no movement from the other side and the barrage attack they had imagined did not come as expected, so they knew that the militia must have deployed their own spies.
"What should we do? There are observation posts on the other side. They must know that we are just feinting to attract heavy weapons fire.
There is no point in making fake moves later."

"What can we do? Since we can't use them up, we can just fight them head-on. How can we be afraid when our weapons and equipment are so much better than theirs?"

"Come on, have you forgotten how we dealt with the joint forces on the peninsula?

A rifle is also a gun, it can kill people.
We are a regular army. If we fight the militia, we will have to pay a huge price. We might as well find a crack in the ground to hide in."

"Then the infantry and artillery will coordinate and attack.

Our individual firepower is much stronger than that of the joint forces, and the enemy does not have a complete tunnel system, so we can take it down quickly in close combat."

They are all soldiers who are used to life and death. Since they cannot fight a smart battle, they will make the most of their own advantages.
"Okay, then let's coordinate the infantry and artillery and attack!

Report to the higher-ups.”

Soon, the militiamen who were waiting for the 30 scouts to approach heard the dull sound of artillery fire in the distance.
While he was trying to hide in the cat-ear cave, he heard from the walkie-talkie that the enemy infantry was launching a massive attack with the barrage of bullets.
Everyone immediately realized that the other side was overturning the table and coordinating infantry and artillery, and would not play any tricks on them.

Ma Yongqiu in the cat ear cave looked very unhappy.
"Damn it, using infantry and artillery to fight the militia is really shameless. Now all our previous preparations are useless."

"Hehe, isn't that how war works? Since they know we have people following them, how could they let us lead them by the nose?

It's our own problem.

We are unwilling to waste bullets, so that the other side can immediately realize the problem and will not waste time with us.

Next, prepare for a tough battle."

"Hey, the enemy is advancing to a distance of 1 to 2 meters with artillery fire, which is a good opportunity to take advantage of the firepower of semi-automatic rifles. We definitely can't stop them." "We have to fight anyway. We don't have a tradition of surrendering."

"Bullshit, this is a confrontation drill. They are surrendering. How soft-hearted they are."

Then the shelling stopped, and both sides fired blank rounds at a distance of 100 to 200 meters. There were loud gunshots and gunfire, but no bullets were fired.

Then they stopped firing at each other from a safe distance of 4 to 50 meters.
Waiting for observer Pan Xingxiang to report to the higher authorities.

As for the result, it will definitely end with the annihilation of He Yuzhu and his militia. As for how many casualties they can cause to the other side, that will have to wait for the higher-ups to make the decision.
Anyway, the militia was just a foil, and He Yuzhu and the others didn't have any extra thoughts.

They just want to know whether they have broken the opponent's big tooth.

Fortunately, Li Yunlong and his men were not particularly biased and did not disappoint the militiamen. They gave a relatively fair answer.

When the militiamen came out of the training ground, gunfire was heard from other places. It was obvious that the garrison's confrontation drill had just begun.
And their militia was eliminated by violence early on.

This made Ma Yongqiu quite angry.

"This is too bullying. They said they wanted us to participate in a confrontation drill, but they beat us up first and then went on their own. What kind of thing is this?"

After hearing what Ma Yongqiu said, everyone looked gloomy and kept silent, obviously they were very angry.

The group walked out of the training ground in silence. As soon as they got outside, they saw Li Yunlong, the leader in charge of their militia, already waiting outside.

Ma Yongqiu could only organize the team, then run over to salute and report the situation.

When he came back, his comrades asked impatiently,
"Team Ma, can we go back?
Instead of staying here and getting mad, we might as well go back to work and train. Corey is short-handed right now, so don’t let anything go wrong.”

"Yes, we originally thought we could have a good fight here.
I didn't expect that I could just satisfy my urge to play, and the rest I had to watch others play. I might as well go back to work."

Hearing what his comrades said, Ma Yongqiu shook his head.
"It's still early. After the confrontation exercise is over, there will be a big competition later. We can't just go back now."

Although there were still exercises to be done, after the blow just now, the comrades were not interested at this time. Someone even asked,
"The cavalry, you won't let us be the foil again!"

"Not this time. A martial arts competition is a contest between individuals. No one asks you to charge your opponent's cannon with a rifle.

Although we are not a regular army,

But they are all veterans from the battlefield and they train regularly, so they definitely won’t be beaten out right away like they were today.”

Hearing that they wouldn't be cannon fodder this time, the comrades' faces brightened a little.
Then, under the leadership of Ma Yongqiu, they returned to the militia's temporary camp. After packing up a bit, they went to the field canteen to prepare for dinner.

As soon as I arrived at the field canteen, I heard Yu Chaofu, who was in charge of logistics support, say with a smile,

"Lao Ma, your militia's fighting power is quite impressive.
The regular troops were forced to use infantry and artillery to attack you. We thought you would surrender once you went up."

(End of this chapter)