Zhao Shitou was a veteran, and with Duanwu's guidance, there were more than 130 people in the company. In addition to firing continuously into the air, they were also waiting for the moment when the enemy bombers dived to drop bombs.
This is an opportunity, the only chance for heavy machine guns or even light machine guns to reach the Japanese aircraft.
Duanwu told them that as long as they shot down two Japs bombers, they would not lose anything. If they shot down three, they would make a profit.
If four are downed, each of them will be rewarded with 10 yen if they take credit during the Dragon Boat Festival. If 5 are downed, each person will be rewarded with 20 yen. If 6 are captured, 40 yen will be rewarded.
If you can shoot down ten bombers in one go, everyone in the Dragon Boat Festival company will be rewarded with a gold bar.
Therefore, in addition to proving that the first mixed company is not a coward, it is also crucial to have a brave man under the heavy reward. Even many soldiers from other companies are very envious that the first mixed company actually got such a good opportunity.
However, can they really do it? Only Duanwu knows that this is an extremely difficult task to complete, and those high bounties are just money to buy the lives of these brothers.
The battle is about to begin!
The little Japanese bomber has already adjusted its attitude in the air.
The fighter jets flew in beautiful arcs in all directions, escorting the Type 93 bombers.
The captain of the Japanese Air Force gave a loud order: The first bomber group dive bombed. The bombing altitude was 1,500 meters.
The Japs are not fools. They know that the only anti-aircraft weapon the Chinese have is heavy machine guns. They will not rush past this safety limit rashly. Unless some Japs pilots operate improperly, they will rarely drop bombs beyond this distance.
At the same time, I saw Japanese planes roaring towards me. Zhao Shitou loudly ordered: "Everyone is here, the Japanese planes are coming, hit me!"
"beat!"
"beat!......"
Zhao Shitou's orders spread outward one after another, and each of the soldiers repeated the company commander's roar.
Machine guns, heavy machine guns, and rifles were aimed at the air and fired wildly.
The bullets flew into the air and once again formed a barrage. As long as the Japanese aircraft took one step beyond the thunder pool, they would encounter a devastating blow.
The Little Japanese plane dived to a height of 1,500 meters above the ground to drop bombs. A large number of bombs were like a series of beads in mid-air.
The piercing sound of the bomb was very sharp.
They fell rapidly, some collided with bullets, and exploded in mid-air.
The explosion of fire was like fireworks exploding in mid-air.
And perhaps, these are the fireworks that the old Japanese soldier Namada Chuichi mentioned before the war.
It is normal for a bomb to explode when it encounters bullets in mid-air. A 50-kilogram aerial bomb explodes in mid-air, but it is much prettier than fireworks.
After the explosion, the flames and black smoke of the air mass continued to expand in mid-air, and finally connected together like a dark cloud.
Zhao Shitou and other officers found that the bullets could not intercept all the bombs, and ordered loudly: "Get down quickly, get down quickly!"
The sound echoed in Zhao Shitou's own ears for a long time, but his soldiers could no longer hear his orders. Because everyone was shooting, everyone roared and fired desperately into the air.
At this moment, they didn't think about anything. They only saw the Japanese planes and the roaring bombs.
Their bodies are mechanical and uncontrollable.
Or maybe this is war. When the war reaches a fever pitch, human life is no longer life, and death is no longer fear. Anger occupies your brain at this time. There are only enemies in your eyes, only enemies in the air.
Planes roaring by!
Boom!
Huge explosions followed, and the 50-kilogram aerial bomb was more powerful than any Japanese artillery shell.
The huge explosion can easily destroy the trench and level it to the ground in an instant. The people hiding in the trench are blasted into the air like catkins.
The soldiers stood in the trenches, setting up machine guns, rifles, and heavy machine guns on the edge of the trenches.
Amid violent explosions, flames of war and gunpowder smoke, they were fearless.
Because at this time, they have nowhere to hide, and they are betting on luck.
If you're lucky, the Japs' bombs won't be able to hit them. But if you're not lucky, no matter where you are hiding, the Japs' bombs will be able to find you.
They may have become accustomed to this kind of gamble in life. They kept firing bullets from machine guns and rifles.
Bullets soared into the sky in violent explosions, facing the Japanese plane, and the aerial bombs that kept falling, making holes one after another in the bottom of the little Japanese plane.
Either a miracle happened, or the Japs dive-bombed at an altitude of more than 1,500 meters. During the dive of a Japs plane, more than a dozen holes were ripped out of the bottom of the plane. A Japs soldier was in the cabin.
Bullet, one end fell out of the plane.
The plane's mailbox was also hit, fuel leaked, and the plane burst into billowing smoke.
"idiot!"
Namazakaichi was drinking red wine while admiring the gorgeous fireworks. However, at this moment, a Japanese bomber suddenly lost control, ignited thick smoke, and fell behind Yushan Mountain.
A moment later, violent explosions followed one after another, and raging flames ignited in the col behind Yushan Mountain.
"Very good!"
Zhong Jiushan almost jumped with excitement, his excitement was palpable. Although it was only a bomber, in Zhong Jiushan's eyes, this was an impossible feat.
In comparison, Dragon Boat Festival is much calmer.
His target is definitely not a single Japanese bomber, but the more the better.
But he really didn't know how long the soldiers of the mixed company could last in this explosion.
The best result expected by Dragon Boat Festival is that in the three Japanese air raids, it is already good that one fifth of the mixed company can survive. In other words, more than 80% of the soldiers and officers will die in the air raids.
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He knew very well about the Little Devil's Type 93 bomber. The maximum bomb load of this bomber was about one ton. If it was fully loaded, its flight time in the air would only be about two hours.
At the flying speed of the Type 93 bomber from Shanghai Airport, it would take at least twenty minutes. Plus three or more carpet bombings, it would take at least an hour.
And this is the time that Dragon Boat Festival needs to buy. He uses a company to exchange for forty minutes of bombing time for the little Japanese.
As for why, only Duanwu himself knows.
Boom! Boom!......
Chug tug tug! tug tug tug!......
Amid the flames of war and gunpowder smoke, a contest of disparity in power continues.
The huge explosion did not scare off the soldiers of the first mixed company, but they became more courageous as they fought.
The Japs' flying wing leader was angry because of the loss of a Type 93 bomber. Using the cover of gunpowder smoke on the battlefield, he ordered the Second Flying Group to conduct dive bombing again.
The bombing was accompanied by machine gun fire. He wanted to use the empire's air superiority to completely crush the enemy's ground forces.
Boom!
Huge explosions followed one after another, and then, a series of loud noises came continuously. A corner of the Nanshan position was instantly flattened by the explosion. A large amount of soil was lifted into the air, as if it blocked the sky and the sun.
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Three platoons of soldiers from a mixed company flew more than ten meters high with the air waves caused by the explosion!
But the soldier who was still alive still picked up his companion's machine gun and pulled the trigger crazily.
"Little devil, come on!"
The squad leader of the third platoon and the first squad jumped out of the trench amidst roars and climbed to the highest point of the trench. He picked up a little Japanese Taisho 11 light machine gun and aimed at the Japanese aircraft coming towards him and fired.
"idiot!"
When the Japanese pilots saw someone jumping out and shooting at them as a provocation, the arrogant Japanese pilots gave up dropping bombs and opened their onboard machine guns to shoot at a squad leader.
The expressions of the two people were extremely crazy, they really wanted to kill each other!
"Baga, small island?"
The squadron leader yelled and reminded the island not to break away from the formation. But the island had already dived.
Thug tug tug! tug tug tug!
The aircraft's machine gun kept firing, and 7.7mm bullets formed a line on the ground, heading straight for the squad leader.
The squad leader roared and kept pulling the trigger in his hand.
He could dodge, and as long as he rolled sideways, the Jaap's plane would be able to miss him. But this was an opportunity, and the Jaap's plane actually dived down. He had already entered the effective range of the machine gun in his hand.
The Taisho Type 11 light machine gun, also known as the crooked handle, uses universal 6.5mm machine gun bullets, which can be used with Type 38 rifle bullets.
However, if this machine gun is indeed not very good, neither the Japanese army nor the Eighth Route Army who captured the crooked gun have a very friendly evaluation of it.
At that time, the light machine guns developed by various countries around the world all used magazines, bullet plates, bullet chains or belts to feed ammunition, but the Taisho 11-type light machine gun was unique in that it used a complex structure hopper to feed ammunition.
This magazine is located on the left side of the receiver, and a standard bridge clip of five rounds of ammunition can be loaded directly into it to start shooting.
From this perspective, the designers considered that the machine gunner could directly use ammunition from ordinary soldiers to facilitate ammunition supply on the battlefield. However, the complex ammunition supply mechanism ultimately made this idea come to nothing.
Although the designers considered bullet interchangeability, in fact, the Taisho 11 light machine gun cannot use 6.5 mm rifle bullets.
The machine gun will go off after a few rounds of rifle bullets, causing various malfunctions. Moreover, the shooting accuracy is not high, and the range is not far. Because the 6.5 mm rifle bullet contains several grams more gunpowder than the Taisho 11 machine gun bullet.
And even the designers themselves don’t understand why the 6.5mm machine gun bullet has such a long range and high accuracy even though its gunpowder load is not as good as that of the rifle bullet.
In addition, the spiral heat sink on the barrel is also quite strange.
The original intention of such a design is to increase heat dissipation efficiency and improve continuous shooting capabilities by increasing the heat dissipation area. However, in fact, large formal light machine guns cannot reach the theoretical rate of fire at all, so this is a relatively useless setting.
And this design makes the Taisho 11 heavier than light machine guns from other countries by about one kilogram.
During the long journey, the soldiers' physical strength was wasted in vain.
Because this kilogram can be used to carry more ammunition.
The design of the ammunition supply hopper is also very special, which can be called a miracle in the history of the development of small arms in the world.
After the Battle of Nomonkan, the Soviet Union copied this unique ammunition feed hopper based on the captured Taisho 11 light machine gun and used it to improve its own DP machine gun. After the test results, Soviet firearms designers concluded that this
The broken thing is just a piece of shit.
Yes, he is a piece of shit!
But this Tuoxiang also has its advantages, which is that it is comparable to the maximum range of a heavy machine gun.
Many people can't tell the difference between effective range and maximum range. The effective range is within a certain distance, and the bullet travels in a straight line. The maximum range is the farthest the bullet can reach after flying out of the barrel.
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The maximum range is the advantage of the Taisho 11-type. Its maximum range can reach as far as 2,800 meters! ...