If you are arrogant, you will become a "stinky" person!
Then, the eyes of the Japanese army major general who was personally watching the battle in a trench 400 meters away from the river bank were dazzled by the sudden machine gun fire.
Ushijima stayed there for at least ten seconds.
He didn't understand why an abandoned army was equipped with such terrifying heavy firepower.
At the river crossing point in front of him alone, the Chinese invested at least 6 machine guns and 6 heavy machine guns.
If the two armies hiding in the trenches are shooting at each other, these machine guns and heavy machine guns are naturally not very ruthless. Even if they are charging, the infantry facing such fire can lie down on the spot and wait for the next attack.
The artillery can clear its exposed fire points.
But now, for the unlucky people who are almost fixed targets on wooden boats and kayaks that never move more than half a meter per second on the river, these flying bullets are a disaster.
A cigar-thick 20mm machine gun bullet would leave a hole in the steel plate, let alone a wooden boat or kayak.
As long as it hits, the ship's planks will be penetrated. The sandbags located at the bow of the ship can provide a certain degree of defense, but they cannot prevent the hull from being penetrated below.
The cannonballs that penetrated the hulls and broke into the interior of wooden boats and kayaks caused a bloody storm. The ferocious metal bullets were often not satisfied with penetrating one person, and then jumped into another human body until they were stuck by hard human bones.
Visible scenes of blood splattering were displayed on the river along with the creepy "dong-dong-dong" sound of the machine cannon.
The surface of the river was dyed red.
The Japanese infantry screamed at the top of their lungs and jumped off the boat, which did not bring them a sense of security, and entered the water.
But that undoubtedly exacerbated their deaths.
The target of the six heavy machine guns was not the wooden boats floating on the river, but the water.
Just like the heavy machine guns of the Japanese army, they used coverage shooting and relied on probability. The Japanese soldiers hiding in the water had no other choice but to rely on the blessing of Amaterasu.
What's even more terrible is that under such a blow, the Japanese troops on the river did not receive the signal to retreat. Due to the strict military law, they could only move forward.
And in front of them, there is a wide water surface of more than 100 meters. They want to walk across it with their guns raised...
I'm afraid, it can't be completed in two minutes.
Two minutes are enough for a heavy machine gun to pour out a thousand rounds of bullets in long bursts.
What they had to face were six heavy machine guns and six machine guns attacking the small boat.
It was not without efforts that the Japanese infantry artillery and mountain artillery, which were well prepared, bombarded the Chinese firepower points in the distance.
But the tragedy is that the Chinese firepower points are covered by woods and shrubs, and are more than a kilometer away from the artillery observers on the river bank.
What's even more terrible is that at the beginning of the battle, the Chinese lit countless piles of wet tree trunks. Looking around, there was thick smoke everywhere, which completely integrated the smoke produced by machine guns and heavy machine guns.
They have no way of pinpointing it.
And in the dense forest on the hill where they couldn't see the specific location, every machine gun and heavy machine gun was tightly surrounded by soldiers using sandbags and felled trees. The 1.7-meter-high double-layer fortification might not be able to withstand it.
The air wave of heavy artillery with a caliber of more than 100 caliber, but as long as it is not hit head-on, the 75 mm caliber Type 41 mountain cannon and the 70 mm caliber infantry cannon do not pose much of a threat to it.
Tang Dao had already calculated the scale of the Japanese army's firepower. With the equipment of non-mechanical troops, the infantry was strong enough to run so fast. If the artillery could still run so fast, then this battle would have been impossible to fight, and it would have been able to survive until now.
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The heaviest firepower the Japanese army could invest in the early stage was the Type 41 mountain cannon.
Tang Dao's judgment was correct.
Not only did the Japanese have a small artillery caliber, but also because the number of artillery was limited, they were still extremely far away from fire coverage.
This kind of artillery attack, which can only rely on experience to determine the direction and hit a few shots, will naturally not have much effect.
The Japanese troops at the crossing point in front of Ushijima were struggling to move forward in the rain of bullets, but the Japanese Army Major General's eyes were cold and the corners of his mouth were pursed coldly, looking at the other side of the river without saying a word.
Although the Chinese firepower was fierce at the crossing point here, he still had a bit of luck. Maybe it was just bad luck at the crossing point here, and the Chinese happened to concentrate all their heavy firepower here?
A minute later, his luck was shattered by messages from three other crossing points.
Almost every crossing point encountered terrible machine gun and heavy machine gun fire, while the infantry artillery and heavy machine guns responsible for fire cover did not deal enough blows to the opponent.
The Chinese commander is really too cold.
The horrified Ushijima Mitsuru finally determined at this moment that what he was facing was probably not an infantry regiment or an infantry brigade, but possibly a Chinese infantry division. Otherwise, why would they have so many equipment?
The 20mm cannon that he couldn't help but envy?
Just abandon an infantry division! Ushijima Mitsuru couldn't help but admire the courage of the Chinese commander.
And the machine gun that Ushijima wanted was actually in demand by the Japanese Army.
However, given that this type of artillery is mainly used for air defense or level fire against armored targets, the Chinese have few aircraft and few tanks.
So, the old bastards on the staff who stood there and talked without backache directly slapped their foreheads, what are they doing here? Is it a waste of the empire's precious resources? The machine guns disappeared from the Japanese Army's budget like the submachine guns.
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It was not until a year later that the Japanese Army began to equip the Type 89 machine guns after suffering heavy losses from machine guns imported by the Chinese in several major battles.
At present, the only thing that the Japanese army's brigade-level troops can use is the 70mm infantry cannon. Although this thing is an offensive weapon with excellent performance and is good for fortifications and fixed targets, compared with the damage done by machine guns to infantry,
Far from it.
Tang Dao concentrated all 21 machine guns under his command and fired wildly at the Japanese infantry in the water who were trying to cross the river.
In just one minute, more than 60% of the ships were destroyed. Although the casualties were not large, the bullet holes left in the human body were close to the size of the mouth of a bowl, and even half of the human body was directly torn apart. That kind of terrifying
The sight was enough to give the Japanese infantrymen who witnessed it all nightmares for half a month.
Compared with machine guns, heavy machine guns are less powerful, but they are enough as long as they can kill people.
On land, being hit by a bullet may not be fatal, but in water, being unable to maintain balance can be fatal.
Because of panic, able-bodied people who can swim may drown, let alone the injured who have lost the ability to move.
Ushijima Mitsuru, who thought he had an insight into his opponent's strength, finally ordered his troops to retreat.
Leaving aside the blows encountered in the river, if his four infantry squadrons rushed over, they would still be delivering food to the Chinese who had enough troops.
In the past, Ushijima still had the confidence that four infantry squadrons could withstand an hour-long attack by a Chinese infantry brigade, but after the Battle of Matsue, this confidence gradually disappeared.
However, I am afraid that Ushijima Mitsuru himself is not aware of this mentality.
Or, even if he realizes it, the Japanese Army Major General will instinctively refuse to admit it!
But for the Japanese troops at this moment, whether they were retreating or advancing, they had to cross a wide water surface of more than 100 meters.
Moving slowly and without cover, they could only allow themselves to be massacred by machine guns and machine guns.
Of the four infantry squadrons, less than a quarter were able to return to the shore in the end.
Nearly 600 Japanese soldiers died in the Suzhou River.
Ushijima Mitsuru, who finally knew the approximate strength of his opponent after spending 600 men, completely stopped and stopped testing, quietly waiting for the main force to arrive.
The Japanese Army Major General was not depressed by the defeat. Instead, he became more ambitious. He did not need a heavy artillery brigade. Just three artillery regiments could let the Chinese light infantry division know what fire coverage meant.
At that time, he would lead his army across the river and kill the Chinese light infantry who had completely lost their heavy firepower in the mountains and forests.
However, he did not see that after seeing the Japanese soldiers become more honest after being severely beaten, Zhuang Shisan quickly got up in the woods and said: "Brothers, go help the brothers in the fire support company move their things and withdraw! Also,
Please pay attention to me, don't let the Japanese on the other side find you."
Therefore, not only was there no infantry division as Ushijima had imagined, but half an hour later, not even a single Chinese infantryman was left along the river bank.
From the beginning, Tang Dao never thought about fighting the Japanese on the river bank. Even though he had 67 and 43 elite troops under his command, they could only be cannon fodder in front of the terrifying heavy artillery.
At that time, all the heavy firepower mobilized to attack the probing Japanese troops was just a false shot to scare them.
After scaring the Japanese troops, he ran away.
The advance group was not trying to block the Japanese Tenth Army, but was trying to delay the attack until nightfall.
Of course, that was Ushijima Mitsuru's preconception, thinking that the main force of the Songjiang defenders had crossed the Suzhou River, and if they wanted to break away from the pursuit, the Suzhou River bank was the best blocking position.
However, the generals of the Japanese Tenth Army did not know that on the south bank of the Suzhou River, in the hills only ten kilometers away from them, was the target they were chasing.
The advancing Japanese 18th Division and the heavy artillery brigade it protected were only five kilometers away from the mountain at the nearest time.
Almost as long as artillery is set up on the spot, those 20,000 people can be buried.
Unfortunately, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke's wrong intuition caused them to miss it.
They are just an angry bull being led by Tang Dao's nose now.
