Komura Hiroshi's military order was simple and crude. He directly ordered six grenade launchers to fire grenades at the hillside. Four of the six heavy machine guns also opened fire on the flanks, and 12 Type 96 light machine guns joined in the fire coverage.
Continuous gunshots and explosions instantly filled the mountains and fields!
Not counting the surging firepower output, 2 infantry squadrons and nearly 400 infantrymen were on the move!
It was completely like he was going to eat his opponent in one bite.
But perhaps, Komura Hiro underestimated the Chinese infantry battalion in front of him!
Yes, the organization of the first battalion of the 769 regiment is the same as that of most Chinese infantry divisions. An infantry battalion consists of three infantry companies of about 130 people and a machine gun company of about 100 people. The total strength is about 500 people!
If it were replaced by an infantry battalion of a German weapons division, the infantry would use medium-sized rifles and the machine guns would be made in the Czech Republic, even one per infantry squad. An infantry battalion would have 27 light machine guns and 4-6 heavy machine guns.
Counting artillery, the light firepower will never be weaker than the three infantry squadrons and an additional heavy machine gun squad currently led by Hiroshi Komura.
But obviously, for the current people in power, the 80th Group Army is not only not a direct lineage, but also a former enemy. The establishment and military pay are good, but they still want weapons and equipment? What are you thinking!
The infantry equipment is made in Hanyang with old sleeves, and there are also some Type 38 rifles captured in the battle. The light machine guns are also made in all kinds of countries. It is good to have three or four in an infantry company, let alone heavy machine guns.
The two civilian Type 24 heavy machine guns equipped by the first battalion are imitations of the famous Maxim heavy machine guns. Their overall performance is enough to defeat the Type 92 heavy machine guns equipped by the Japanese army. However, the number is small!
An infantry battalion only has two, which is one-third of the number of heavy machine guns the Japanese army has. It is at an absolute disadvantage!
In terms of firepower or equipment alone, the Japanese army was in a completely overwhelming situation.
But the fact that the 769th Regiment can be sent to the battlefield by the 921st Division Headquarters has proven that it is not an ordinary force!
There was such a comparison on the Internet in Tang Dao's memory. When the 80th Group Army was established, there were 3 divisions and 6 brigades plus an unorganized independent regiment of the 511th Division, a total of 13 infantry regiments. According to the Anti-Japanese War and subsequent continuous wars,
Including the performance in the Icefield War, comprehensive evaluation, who is the 'best team in the world'?
The final result is actually very convincing. Comrade Wang Xiaoqiang's 772 regiment is known as the most capable infantry regiment. As the main regiment under the No. 1 Brigade in the world, the 772 regiment fought almost from beginning to end for eight years.
, not to mention ordinary officers and soldiers, the regiment-level commander alone lost up to seven people, which was also the most among the entire 80th Army Infantry Regiment.
The 685th Regiment under the 511th Division is also very good. They participated in the creation of the three major base areas of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, Shandong and Central China. They are also the predecessors of the future "Long Live Army"!
With these two infantry regiments in front, it stands to reason that the 769th Regiment, which has not been fighting in the Taihang Mountains for a long time, would have nothing to do with it. However, in the end, the 769th Regiment was selected as the first with a voting rate of more than 50%.
The reason is very simple. The 769th Regiment, which is far less famous than the 772nd Regiment, is the "Forest Army" hand-picked by the 80th Group Army and the 911th Division. They are almost wherever the division headquarters and headquarters are. This in itself is the boss's approval, and
, in terms of the number of generals who came out of this regiment, the entire Eighty Group Army is unmatched!
If you want to become a general, you must have both qualifications and military exploits. Both are indispensable!
The strength of the 769th Regiment can also be seen from this!
The first battalion led by Comrade Lao Kong was the main battalion of this powerful infantry regiment. More than two-thirds of its nearly 500 officers and soldiers had experienced the 20,000-mile transfer that lasted more than a year.
, regardless of their technical and tactical level or their spiritual will, they are all elite.
Super hard-nosed! It may be the most objective way to describe them with a word that everyone understands!
Because of the terrain here, it is impossible to arrange troops on both wings, but Comrade Lao Kong still placed two infantry platoons on the flanking mountain ridges according to local conditions to prevent the Japanese army from detouring and attacking the position from the other side. However, on the gently sloping mountains,
A full infantry company was placed to form a '7' shape, and another infantry platoon and an infantry company were placed on the second line as a reserve.
The two heavy machine guns were placed in the mountains and forests more than 400 meters away from the entire battlefield, providing fire cover for the infantry below.
There was a relatively dense jungle as a cover, and the distance was far enough for the Japanese grenadiers to reach. Unless the 92 infantry cannon was lucky enough, it would be delusional to destroy them with just a few shots!
Such a formation was placed in front of the Japanese army, and Hiro Komura, who directly ordered the attack, was actually helpless.
Either he would lead his men to go around and not have a head-on confrontation with the Chinese, but obviously this is 100% impossible. Neither military orders nor the pride of the Imperial Japanese Army would allow him to do this!
The only option left is to attack by force and kill this seemingly small Chinese army.
Therefore, based on the situation of the war at that time, the top commanders of the Chinese and Japanese armies, who met on a narrow road, chose the most correct way.
However, there is no draw on the battlefield, there is only life and death, only victory and defeat!
Winner takes all, loser for Kou!
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Four heavy machine guns of the Japanese army roared 300 meters away, causing debris to fly on the position. All the Chinese soldiers lay motionless behind the rocks or in temporary trenches.
The Type 92 heavy machine gun with a rate of fire of up to 500 rounds per minute is no joke. The finger-thick bullets will make bloody holes when hit. In the absence of a field hospital, even if no one is killed on the spot, basically no one will be killed.
If you can survive until the end of the battle, you can die alive just by bleeding.
The other two who haven't spoken yet, don't even think about it. They are naturally guarding against the heavy firepower of the 1st Battalion. Once the heavy machine guns of the 1st Battalion appear, those two heavy machine guns will immediately carry out corresponding counter-suppression.
However, the Japanese army was arrogant enough. In order to improve the hit rate of the heavy machine gun, they directly placed the heavy machine gun under the threat of the grenade range!
Of course, they have their reasons for daring to do this. After intelligence analysis and reports from the front line, the Chinese troops participating in the war are either gray military uniforms or dark blue, which means they are the 'Tuba' and the Sichuan troops in the Chinese army.
Department, these two armies have one common characteristic: tenacity, but also have almost the same weakness: lack of firepower!
Grenades, they don't really have many.
In fact, they were right in their bet. The battalion under Lao Kong's command, plus the grenade launcher they had just captured, had a total of 3 units, and there was a serious shortage of grenades, no more than 30 in total!
Three grenade launchers are nothing against the firepower of Hiro Komura's infantry artillery and more than ten grenade launchers, but that's only relative, isn't it?
Just like comparing the combat power of Brother Flathead and the King of the Prairie, the lion does have overwhelming force value, but the lion can't ignore Brother Flathead's sharp teeth! That bite can also cause a bloody hole.
Of course, at this moment, the Japanese army, which is putting heavy firepower on the premise, is still very happy. Without binoculars, it can clearly see the situation of the front line positions. The fight is so dusty that it seems that just covering it with firepower will win the battle.
Already.
However, the threat of heavy machine guns is great, but as long as you lie down behind the bunker without raising your head, the heavy machine gun bullets will not turn. The biggest threat to the first battalion position is actually the Japanese infantry that has already moved.
Nearly 400 infantrymen, amidst the roar of four heavy machine guns, divided into four waves and trotted forward toward the frontal position.
The distance between each wave was more than 100 meters, and the distance between individual Japanese soldiers was more than 5 meters. In order to cover the infantry attack, the Japanese grenade launchers located further away even threw smoke grenades onto the position.
Obviously, the top commander of the Japanese army, Hiroshi Omura, was by no means a fool. Although he was extremely irritable, his tactical arrangements were strict and extremely aggressive.
It seems that the main force of the infantry was pressed forward at once, but in fact, the more than 100 Japanese troops in the first wave ahead were still responsible for the probing attack, responsible for testing out the Chinese troop deployment and the location of light and heavy firepower points.
Once the Chinese light and heavy firepower points are fired, the grenade launchers hidden in the second and third waves of attacking infantry and the two 92 infantry guns that have advanced to a distance of less than 700 meters from the front line will launch long-range attacks on these firepower points.
This is naturally not a new trick, but it has been tried and tested repeatedly by the Japanese army against the Chinese army. The reason is very simple. The Chinese have too few cannons. They can openly place heavy machine guns hundreds of meters away to suppress the infantry.
But once the Chinese firepower points emerge, their artillery can hit the heavy firepower points.
With the advantage of heavy firepower, you can be so willful!
The current 1st Battalion of the 769th Regiment has a temporary field position that took 20 minutes to build. It is also the defensive side and seems to have a lot of advantages. However, the light and heavy machine guns are only one-third of the Japanese army's, 3 grenade launchers and more than a dozen Japanese troops.
The grenade launchers and the two 9-inch infantry guns are almost negligible in comparison. The Japanese army's advantage in heavy firepower offset all of these in one fell swoop.
In fact, both sides are basically on the same starting line. It just depends on who can withstand it.
Withstand the unbearable casualties to witness.
On this spring morning, the 'shit-yellow' cats hunkered down and hurried forward through the bushes and rugged mountain roads, just like well-hidden groundhogs. You clearly knew he was there.
However, due to the smoke and distance, their whereabouts could not be seen clearly.
The heavy machine guns of the Japanese army were still roaring. Although the original fiery red ballistic trajectory was not obvious at all under the influence of the sun, the rain of bullets was real, hitting the Chinese soldiers of the 1st Battalion on the front line with their heads turned upside down.
Dare to lift.
From 200 meters away, dozens of people in the first wave of Japanese infantry, about an infantry squad, began to change from squatting and crouching to straightening up, holding guns, shooting while striding forward, launching a charge, and dozens of others
The people were more than thirty meters behind, and several light machine guns following the infantry were also in position, looking for bunkers and pointing their guns at the Chinese position from both wings.
At the same time, the intensity of the smoke grenades launched by the Japanese army increased, shrouding the entire front line in thick smoke. The sight of the Chinese and Japanese infantry was collectively blocked, but the footsteps of the Japanese troops who had already begun charging did not stop.
The Japanese army is extremely cunning. Although a large number of smoke bombs block their own line of sight, it is difficult to use precise shooting to help the front line. However, the firepower of light and heavy machine guns is sufficient, and it is difficult for Chinese soldiers to attack the Japanese infantry who have entered a charging state.
, unless they expose their firepower now.
Once they rush into the first 30 meters of the front line position and enter the distance where grenades can be thrown, the heavy machine guns will stop firing and will be replaced by closer light machine guns, and then waves of Japanese infantry will attack the position.
It would be difficult for any defender to withstand the constant grenades and even the flat-tipped bayonets of the Japanese army coming in like a tide. Hand-to-hand combat was the Japanese army's favorite and most adept way of demonstrating their bravery.
At this time, 80% of the defenders were basically defeated.
However, the reaction of the 1st Battalion was somewhat unexpected by the Japanese troops. Until dozens of Japanese troops almost rushed to a position of 100 meters, the Chinese defenders remained silent and did not fire a single shot.
This even gave Komura Hirozuo, who was paying close attention to the battlefield with a telescope from a distance, an illusion. Did the Chinese on the opposite side just make a false shot and run away long ago?
He obviously forgot that the most common way for Tuba, which did not have heavy firepower, to deal with the Japanese army was to attack from close range.
It can save ammunition and prevent him from running away even if he wants to.
As for the so-called invincible hand-to-hand combat of the Japanese army, the "Tuba" who were short of guns and ammunition were the least afraid of them, and could even be said to be desirable!
Therefore, when the Japanese forwards in the first wave stepped into a distance of about 100 meters, a sharp iron whistle sounded, and the first gunshot was fired from the opposite position.
Then, there was a deafening "Bang! Bang!" sound belonging to the rifle made in Hanyang.
There were more than 200 rifles firing at the same time, aiming at the same area from the front and from the mountain crest.
There are not many machine guns, so use rifles to focus the fire. Five infantry platoons opened fire like crazy against the Japanese heavy machine guns!
Even if several soldiers just picked up their guns and raised their heads, before they had time to pull the trigger, they were hit by finger-thick bullets from the 92 heavy machine gun and fell down without a word.
But the soldiers of the first battalion on the front line still stood up from behind the bunker and shot. Only in this way can the hit rate be guaranteed!
Trade death for death!
This is the hard-core spirit!
The sacrifices must be rewarded. While Chinese soldiers kept falling in the simple field bunkers, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers striding forward with rifles fell to the ground.
The first baton of the 1st Battalion swung under the rain of bullets, hitting the Japanese soldier's forehead so accurately, not to mention the brain bursting, it was also the kind of dizziness.
Come on! Come on over here! Let’s trade death for death! The Chinese soldiers use their constant sacrifices and counterattacks to burst out their own cry!
Facing the fierce attack of the Japanese army, the famous hard-headed battalion of the Eightyth Army gave Hiro Komura a hard blow at the first encounter.
Many fallen Japanese soldiers did not die immediately, but wailed in pain in the grass, calling to their friends in the hope that their companions could help them.
For a moment, the painful wails even surpassed the deafening sound of gunfire.
The Japanese are not stupid. Why do they feel like their mother is dead when they are shot? Why do they cry so miserably? I have never heard that Chinese soldiers cry with tears and runny noses when they are shot.
It’s not that the Chinese have a greater tolerance for pain than the Japanese. In fact, people are all the same. They will cry out when they are in pain, and they will cry out when they are about to die. No one is made of steel, they are all made of flesh and blood.
Ordinary people.
Mainly because the rifles equipped by the Chinese and Japanese armies are of different styles and bullets.
At this time, the Japanese army was equipped with Type 38 riflemen equipped with 6.5 mm caliber pointed bullets. This small-caliber bullet not only saves resources, but also has strong penetrating power. The flat trajectory allows the effective range to reach 400 meters.
This is undoubtedly an excellent single-shot rifle. Many precision shooters in the Chinese army simply use the 38 rifle as a sniper rifle.
But while the 6.5mm pointed bullet has these advantages, its lethality is really depressing. The bullet fired from the Type 38 rifle can easily penetrate the human body without rolling or fragmenting, as long as it does not hit the artery or head.
, it is difficult to cause fatal damage.
This result led to the Japanese Army's entire army being equipped with a round-headed armor structure more than half a year after they invaded China. After hitting a human body, the projectile body easily split, forming a terrible cavity effect, and the lethality was greatly increased. However, at this time, the Japanese North China Front Army still had
Not fully equipped.
The 1st Battalion of the 769th Regiment is equipped with all old guns. The Hanyang-made rifle that is most popular in the Chinese army is an imitation of the German 1888 Commission rifle, equipped with 7.92mm round-head bullets.
This kind of rifle actually doesn't have much highlights. The effective range is only more than 300 meters. Its accuracy is also worse than that of the Type 38 rifle. The gun length is also 10 centimeters shorter than the Type 38 rifle. Its overall performance is weak compared to the Type 38 rifle.
exploded.
But the power of the 7.92 round-head bullet is much greater than the 6.5-point bullet of the 38 rifle. What's even more terrible is that once it enters the human body, the round-head bullet will roll and deform due to the obstruction of muscles and bones, causing serious harm to the human body.
A huge wound was formed in the muscle tissue. It looked like a bullet hole from the outside, but actually it was a wound the size of a tea cup inside.
If you take a shot like this, do you think it hurts? Anyone who doesn’t say it hurts is probably dead.
At this moment, the Japanese forward, who was full of self-confidence and charged with great strides while shouting in his heart, "The military will last forever," was knocked down.
The word brave! In fact, it is relative. When bravery meets cowardice, bravery will shine brightly. But when bravery meets bravery, it depends on who is more durable!
Obviously, the Japanese soldiers, who were so brave in the first ten seconds, pulled out!
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ps: Fengyue is taking a day off tomorrow because she has to attend a full day of classes on Tuesday, and then she has to pick up her daughter’s teacher for dinner in the evening. I’m really helpless, so please forgive me! Sorry!
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