The Japanese army has rich experience. From the sound of gunfire and the trajectory of the bullets, they analyzed that this should be a German submachine gun and a bolt-action single-shot rifle commonly used by Chinese soldiers.
More importantly, the Japanese army judged that there would not be many defenders on the high ground on the top of the mountain, at least not as many as the green smoke rising everywhere on the high ground.
This can only be said that the Chinese are spreading doubts about the past.
For soldiers who have been on the battlefield for a long time, this is a sign of guilty conscience.
Although it might be a trap by the Chinese, the desperate situation of not advancing or death made the Japanese commanders and infantrymen all choose the former.
The Japanese infantry attacked resolutely. They separated 8 people on one side and 16 people on the other, approaching the hilltop position in two directions.
Lao Abacus, who was observing the movements of the Japanese troops through the shooting hole, had an extremely bitter look on his face.
I don’t know what kind of big shot is being carried on the stretcher. These three Japanese squads are actually reinforced squads. The light machine guns and grenade launchers they are equipped with are not the two light machine guns and two grenades that a squad should have.
Instead of having a grenade launcher, each squad is equipped with a light machine gun and a grenade launcher.
Except for the grenade launcher of the leading squad who was hiding, several people from the two squads behind were also hiding, even hiding behind light machine guns.
Although they did not clearly see the grenades they were carrying, for veterans like Lao Baanpan who had dealt with the Japanese army countless times, this tactical behavior meant that they had long-range attack firepower.
To be honest, if there were no grenades, the Japanese army would not have more than 40 people, but the three of them, Lao Bapan, had a semi-automatic rifle, a sniper rifle and a submachine gun with enough bullets. They were a very complete firepower team.
, and relying on the advantages of fortifications and condescending terrain, it was completely possible to suppress more than 40 Japanese infantry in the valley without advancing even an inch.
Even, as long as there was enough time, the three of them could kill the Japanese soldiers who had few bunkers in the valley one by one.
However, when the Japanese army had grenade launchers, even as many as three, everything became different.
For the three Chinese soldiers, they had to find their fighting position again every time they fired, otherwise, the grenades fired by the Japanese grenadiers would tear them into pieces.
Sandbags and stones may be able to block rifle and light machine gun bullets, but they cannot block grenades thrown from high altitudes by grenade tubes similar to small mortars.
In other words, although the three light machine guns set up by the Japanese army were conducting burst fire reconnaissance at various locations on the mountain top, what worried the three Chinese soldiers the most was hiding behind the rocks and waiting to open fire on the high ground.
Japanese grenadier who found the approximate location of his opponent.
"Squad leader, if you and Tudou are moved, leave it to me if you can't move." Yang Bicheng's steady voice came from the other end.
"Okay, Tudou, do you hear me? Shoot the Japs I'm aiming at. Everyone, be careful. You can shoot at most five times before I change my nest." Old Abacus shouted loudly.
Although the Japanese army has short legs, they attack very quickly under pressure. As they speak, they are already only 50 meters away from the foot of the mountain, and the straight-line distance from the top of the mountain is no more than 120 meters at most. The khaki figure is among the stones and bushes.
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The semi-automatic rifle in Tudou's hand was the first to speak, "Bang! Bang! Bang!" Almost without taking a breath, he pulled the trigger and fired five rounds of bullets, knocking down the two Japanese who were rushing to the ground.
At the same time, Lao Abacus's submachine gun also began to fire. He turned around and fired at the Japanese light machine gun that had found the target. He fired at the position of the 16 Japanese troops with the largest number of attackers and finished the 32 rounds in the long magazine in one go.
Bullets, regardless of the outcome of his battle, Lao Abacus dragged the gun with one hand and quickly rolled over and left his fighting position, then rolled and climbed to a depression ten meters away.
His experience in dozens of battlefields saved his life.
Before the Army sergeant could put his head in his hands to avoid the possible grenade explosion, a grenade exploded only six or seven meters away from the sandbags. The grenade was no less powerful than a grenade, and it blew up soil and grass roots.
It fell overwhelmingly on Lao Abacus.
If this damage value is nothing to the soldiers on the battlefield, the four consecutive grenades that flew over represented the determination and ability of the Japanese army to kill their opponents in one fell swoop.
The previous one was only a test projectile at best, but its accuracy of no more than six meters was enough to make any opponent's hair stand on end.
The next four grenades even estimated the possibility of the opponent leaving the fighting position. Except for two that exploded in an area less than two meters away from the original position where Lao Abacus stayed, the other two extended three meters to the left and right sides respectively.
It is only four meters away from where the old abacus currently resides.
That is to say, the old abacus was lying low enough, otherwise even if it was not blown away by the air wave generated by the grenade explosion, it would be blown into a bloody gourd by the broken shrapnel.
The Japanese grenadiers have the reputation of being the most hated branch of the Chinese army's machine gunners, and it is indeed true.
The Japanese army had three groups of grenade launchers. Tudou's side was also attacked by grenade launchers, but because it was a single-shot rifle, it was only hit by two grenade rounds.
Apparently, the Japanese army was extremely wary of Lao Abacus's powerful submachine gun. Not only did they use at least two grenade launchers to take care of it, they also fired five rounds of grenades at once.
"Potato, are you okay?" Old Abacus shook his head, which was slightly dizzy from the huge explosion. He didn't bother to check whether he had been injured by shrapnel, and shouted loudly.
On this kind of battlefield where extreme tension leads to surges of adrenaline, soldiers sometimes don't even feel pain. Many times they don't know they are injured until they touch blood with their hands.
Adrenaline can be used as an analgesic to relieve the pain of soldiers, but on the other hand, it also has a fatal weakness. It can cause excessive blood loss without the soldier knowing it. Therefore, experienced soldiers will check themselves for wounds after evading a round of attacks.
Rather than just relying on pain.
"Bah, Gouri's bombing was really accurate. I was fried until I had a mouthful of mud." came Tudou's angry voice, which made Lao Baanpan temporarily put his mind at rest, and turned his gaze to himself to confirm himself.
No injuries.
He didn't ask Yang Bicheng, who had remained silent, and there was no need to ask.
Yang Bicheng is no longer what he used to be. As long as he shoots, the little devil's grenade hand will die.
The precision shooters in the infantry squad were specially trained by the Four Lines Regiment to deal with important targets such as Japanese grenadiers and light machine gunners.
They are like hunters hiding in the dark, always harvesting the most valuable prey.
This is not that Tang Dao’s vision is too forward, but the inevitable result of all Chinese armies being forced by reality. It is not unique to the Four Lines Regiment. Even the Eighty Group Army, which was extremely short of ammunition in the past, will not hesitate to spend ammunition to cultivate gods. Marksman to reduce the damage caused by the grenade to one's own side.
The only difference is that the Four Elements Group's training of accurate shooters is almost abnormal in terms of cost and training methods.
Under non-war training conditions, a noncommissioned officer who serves as a precision marksman in an infantry squad fires more than 100 rounds of live ammunition every day.
And the requirements are that without a scope, the eight-ring hit rate is 80%, and the range exceeds 250 meters. With the scope, the nine-ring hit rate is over 80%, and the range exceeds 300 meters.
After taking off the military uniform, the thick calluses on the shoulder sockets and elbows are the most obvious sign of the precision shooters of the Four Elements Regiment.
Yang Bicheng, after receiving great stimulation to get rid of his natural shortcomings of timidity and cowardice, became a talented soldier.
Regardless of his neurological reactions, his ability to capture targets, and his shooting talent, he is the first-class choice in the Four Lines Group.
The biggest reliance that allowed Lao Abacus to summon up all the courage to launch an attack on an infantry squad was not the terrain and fortifications, but the existence of Yang Bicheng.
Although Yang Bicheng has not reached Niu Er's level of sniping targets from 500 meters away, he has the record of successfully sniping two Japanese grenadiers from 380 meters away. When Wei Dong came to ask for help, Li Jijin was extremely reluctant. , I finally agreed after thinking about the brutal battle between Steel Company and Mouse Mountain.
Old Abacus turned his attention to the battlefield again and grinned. No wonder the Japanese grenadier fired five grenades at him like a dead mother.
Although each of the 16 Japanese soldiers in the direction of his shooting were more than 2 meters apart, they carefully maintained their traveling speed and relied on natural stones and other objects to avoid attacks from the top of the mountain as much as possible. However, at a distance of 120 meters, they were completely within the shooting range. The damage caused by the MP28 submachine gun pouring out 32 rounds of bullets in three seconds is comparable to that of a heavy machine gun.
At least four Japanese soldiers were hit by 9mm Milug bullets. To be precise, they were hit by modified standard Luger bullets from the Sihangtuan Arsenal. Although they were all 9mm standard, under Tang Tuanzuo's suggestion The modified 9mm submachine gun bullets are much more powerful than the original bullets issued.
The arsenal led by Teacher Xiao He, after entering May, with the help of the batch of machinery and materials brought back by Tang Tuanzuo from Linfen, went all out to produce several types of bullets required by Tang Tuanzuo, including 9mm standard submachine gun bullets.
Slightly different from DUM bullets whose bullets are easily twisted and deformed, this 9mm bullet has a small amount of charge but is enough to ensure a straight trajectory of 140 meters. The front part is hollow, although the penetration of hard fortifications has become worse. But if it hits someone, it would be terrible.
The hollow front part will cause the warhead to expand when it encounters an obstruction, making the wound several times larger than the warhead area, and it may get stuck in the body, causing larger tissue damage and bleeding. Even if it misses the vital point, it will still take half a life.
Life".
The most terrible thing is that this kind of bullet is also a submachine gun bullet. Once you are unfortunate enough to be shot, it is often not the end of the world with one shot.
The fallen Japanese soldiers may not have been hit critically, and they are still rolling in the grass, but in the eyes of the old abacus, they are already dead, and the massive blood loss will take away their lives within five minutes.
In other words, within five minutes, the huge wound would hurt them to death.
The Japanese army was ferocious and cruel. No one stopped to care about the four wounded soldiers who were already destined to die. They resolutely continued to attack under the cover of their own grenade launchers that had already spoken.
Perhaps they felt that the six casualties in the first round of Chinese attacks were too heavy. Under the orders of the re-established commander, five more Japanese infantrymen who were responsible for covering the rear rushed out, basically making up for the losses just now, and participated in the attack.
The number of attacking Japanese infantrymen increased to 23.
Of course, that also means that the Japanese army basically has no infantry except for the 6 machine gunners and 6 grenadiers responsible for covering the rear. They basically came out in full force, even the two infantrymen who had been guarding Yamashita's stretcher.
All participated in the attack.
The old Chinese man who was forced to lead the way was forced by the Japanese army to hide behind a stone in front of the machine gun shooter, including his little wild boar.
From this point of view, it can be seen that the Japanese army still has great hope of breaking out of this valley, and they need a living guide.
If they are really desperate, given the ferocious nature of the Japanese army, not only the old man will die, but even the Chinese wild boar will not be spared.
Of course, now that the Japanese army has devoted almost all its infantry to the attack, it is helpless.
They don't have time.
If you don't fight hard, you may not have the chance to fight hard in the future. Three light machine guns and three grenade launchers are very powerful to the small number of Chinese on the top of the mountain, but to the main force of the Chinese, they are scum.
The 82 mortar they are equipped with can blow them into parts from a thousand meters away.
Thousands of meters away, the sound of gunfire gradually became sparse, which meant that the Chinese were almost killing all their 'brave' compatriots.
The strong sense of crisis was like an invisible shackle, tightening around the necks of dozens of Japanese soldiers, getting tighter and tighter, making them extremely frightened.
The crisis of killing six comrades in a row seemed insignificant under this inexplicable fear.
They must rush to the position as soon as possible, kill all the Chinese, and then escape.
The Japanese army's awareness of crisis was very accurate.
The front edge of Position 6, 900 meters away, was already filled with Japanese troops.
For the four-line regiment infantry with a large number of automatic firearms, it is a pure suicide tactic for the Japanese infantry to launch a "board charge" without adequate artillery support.
The only infantry gun of the Japanese army actually persisted for a long time, bombarding the Chinese position with fourteen rounds of artillery shells, and even blew up a light machine gun fire point and two light machine guns. Otherwise, the Japanese infantry might have to fight even harder.
Finished early.
The Chinese mortar fired sixteen shells before it was able to kill the infantry artillery hidden under the cover of a protruding cliff.
The battle positions chosen by the Japanese artillery were very tricky. They could not protect against direct-aimed artillery, but they were very protective against curved artillery. Unfortunately, they overlooked one point. No matter how hard the rock is, it will loosen after being bombed for a long time.
Thousands of kilograms of rock collapsed by the shells fell and smashed the Japanese artillery and infantry guns. Even the hard barrel steel was flattened, let alone the fragile human body.
Without the infantry artillery, I don’t know whether those Type 92 heavy machine guns were killed by mortars in the end, or they ran away timidly. Anyway, when the Japanese infantry was in the most difficult time, they lost the support of the heavy machine guns that were still roaring.
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As a result, the remaining covering firepower that the fifty or sixty Japanese troops could rely on was only a few grenade launchers. Obviously, it was impossible to suppress the firepower on the position as before.
How exaggerated is the firepower of a fully-charged MP28 submachine gun combined with a semi-automatic rifle?
Post-war statistics showed that Highland No. 6, with 18 soldiers, fired 4,000 rounds of various types of bullets in less than 20 minutes of combat, with an average of 220 rounds per soldier.
In the past, that would have been enough to last three large battles, but here, it only took 20 minutes for an infantry squad to shoot it.
Of course, the two MP28 submachine guns emptied 12 long magazines, and the two light machine guns and the heavy machine gun responsible for supporting them accounted for the majority of the more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition fired, but the other dozen infantrymen
He fired more than 1,600 rounds from a semi-automatic rifle, which is astonishing enough.
When neither side has enough artillery cover, the number of bullets represents the attack power.
Regardless of whether the Japanese troops charged forward one after another, or fell to the ground to avoid it, as long as they entered the 100-meter fire range, they were basically either injured or killed.
Then, with the sound of gunfire behind them, the nearly 30 remnants of the Japanese army who were still crawling in front of the position were completely desperate.
The reinforcements dispatched from the Second Company finally arrived.
There were more than 35 people in the two infantry squads that arrived one after another. Not only did their total strength exceed that of the surviving Japanese army, but they also formed a pincer attack situation.
At this time, the second lieutenant platoon leader who received the red signal flare fired from the direction of Lao Abacus finally understood the Japanese plan of "escape from the golden cicada". They actually cruelly abandoned the main force in exchange for the survival of a few people.
The second lieutenant platoon leader knew very well that even if they were a few people, they would not know how many of the trio there were, otherwise they would not have fired the two red flares they carried.
In a panic, he ordered the other highlands to detach half of their troops each to support the two flank positions. He wanted to kill these Japanese troops in the shortest possible time so that he could support Lao Abacus and Tudou.
That boy, Potato, is one of the symbols of the Steel Company.
After all, back then, the entire Seventh Steel Company, including Captain Wei Donglai, was lying unconscious in the medical team. Only Tudou, a young boy, went to the position where they once stationed.
The figure of a lonely man holding hands covered in flesh and blood moved the faces of countless soldiers from the Fourth Army Battalion.
In a sense, the potato is a flag, a living flag.
The red-eyed second lieutenant platoon leader arrived with 22 soldiers. A total of more than 70 Chinese soldiers attacked more than 30 Japanese troops on the slope under the cover of heavy machine guns, mortars, and grenade launchers.
The original offensive and defensive sides were miraculously interchanged.
However, at this time, the defenders did not have any fortifications, and they did not even have decent suppressive firepower - light machine guns. There were only about 30 bolt-action single-shot rifles in total.
The Chinese soldiers approaching them from three directions were overwhelming in terms of both military strength and firepower.
In a few minutes, the battle will be completely over.
Perhaps, before the battle is over, two infantry squads will quickly reinforce Lao Baanpan and the others.
I just don’t know if it’s too late.
Everything depends on how desperate the Japanese troops are over there.
