Chapter 337: Fat in the Battle of Western Liaoning
Therefore, after immediately reporting the situation of the enemy in person, he immediately commanded the troops to deploy without waiting for a reply from his superiors. The fighter opportunity was fleeting, and if he stubbornly waited for a reply from his superiors, he would get nothing, and he might even lose the initiative on the battlefield.
Give it to the enemy.
But he was not willing to just block the attack, so he concentrated his troops to outflank the enemy on both sides, using the mountainous terrain to outflank the enemy. If the enemy's troops were not large, he still wanted to eat them in one bite. Since
If you encounter it, how can you be worthy of yourself if you don’t get a piece of it?
If the enemy has a large number of troops and far exceeds your own, adopt the tactics of frontal blocking and flanking to buy time for superiors to adjust their deployment. At the same time, the flanking troops can also protect your surroundings and understand the enemy's position.
Quantity, fighting for time is fighting for time. If you want to eat meat, you want to eat meat, but you can't let the Japanese army make your own dumplings.
However, after all the Japanese follow-up troops were put into the battlefield one after another, and the troops responsible for outflanking did not find the Japanese follow-up troops, they saw that the total number of Japanese troops in front of them was only one reinforced brigade. Although they were equipped with a heavy machine gun squadron, they only carried two artillery pieces.
The heavy weapons of two infantry cannons and one mountain cannon made the brigade commander's eyes sparkle with joy.
In his eyes, this is no longer a reinforced infantry brigade of the Japanese army, but a piece of walking fat. Of course, he regards the Type 99 rifle, Type 99 light machine gun, and Type 92 heavy machine gun equipped by this Japanese infantry brigade.
He is also quite greedy, how could he let go of such good equipment.
After arriving in the Northeast, the advancing army clearly felt that the level of Japanese equipment in the Northeast was better than that in the North China battlefield. For example, the rifle machine gun equipped by the Japanese army, except for the Type 92 heavy machine gun, was better than the 38 type still used in the pass.
Type rifles and crooked-handle light machine guns, and even the Type 96 light machine guns are not in large numbers in the North China Security Division and independent mixed brigades.
Although these weapons are not as good as the automatic weapons of the brother armies, they are still better than the 38 big cover and crooked handle, especially their light machine guns. Although the number of bullets of this kind is not very sufficient in the Jinjin Army, it has not been widely used.
Equipment, but also added more than 20 columns, the performance is much better than the crooked handle, at least it does not need to be so meticulous in maintenance.
The reason why this brigade commander is very coveted for these Japanese weapons and equipment is because his brigade is short of 79-caliber weapons, and the two regiments are still equipped with Japanese-made weapons, that is, they are all three-dimensional weapons.
Type 8 rifle and Type 96 light machine gun, Type 92 heavy machine gun.
Although the number of German-made rifles handed over by the Soviet Army was relatively abundant, the number of machine guns was seriously insufficient. Except for some Czech light machine guns equipped by the German Army and the Romanian Army, the number of German-made MG 3 and 4 machine guns was not only insufficient, but also
There is a general lack of heavy machine gun frames, spare barrels, and spare parts.
After these weapons were handed over, after all, they were trophies captured on the battlefield, and they all needed extensive maintenance. These machine guns could only be made into one by two, and some even needed three or four to make a usable machine gun.
, there are not enough spare drums, and most machine guns can only use ammunition chains.
Moreover, this kind of weapon has an excessive rate of fire for the advancing army and wastes ammunition. In the eyes of Lao Balu, who always pays attention to saving ammunition, these machine guns are not as good as the ZB 53s handed over by the Soviet army and equipped by the German army and the Romanian army.
The number of heavy machine guns and Czech light machine guns is not sufficient to satisfy the entire army.
Most people think that the machine guns used by the German army in World War II were the MG 34 and MG 42, which were two very excellent machine guns. They created a new era of general-purpose machine guns and completely eliminated the bulky water-cooled heavy machine guns. Even the prophet Yang Zhen
, I thought so for a while, and even thought that the number of heavy weapons of the German army in World War II was not very sufficient, and the number of light weapons was always sufficient.
However, most people don't know that throughout World War II, the German army did not have sufficient quantities of light weapons, especially machine guns. Especially the MG 42 machine guns currently manufactured using the stamping process have just completed testing and mass production has just been launched.
On the schedule, the production of machine guns equipped by the German army was still dominated by the M and G three or four machine guns, which were expensive and had extremely complicated manufacturing processes.
However, due to the complicated manufacturing process of this kind of machine gun, it was not bad in other battlefields where the German army was making rapid progress. After the outbreak of the Soviet-German battlefield, the originally barely sufficient output has been unable to meet the huge needs and cannot make up for losses. On the Eastern Front battlefield
In the war, the German army not only used a large number of captured Soviet machine guns, but also used a large number of old machine guns and trophies from other countries.
At present, the German army on the Eastern Front is not only equipped with MG 34 light machine guns, but also equipped with a large number of Czech, Belgian, Polish, and Yugoslavian 79-caliber machine guns, as well as the MG 13 machine guns and MG 08 that have been eliminated by the country.
Type heavy machine gun.
Especially at this time, the newly fledged SS was far less valued than a year later. It was almost exclusively equipped with Czech and Belgian rifle machine guns. It was not equipped with any MG three or four machine guns, plus the servants who participated in the Eastern Front battlefield.
The trophies handed over by the Chinese army and the Soviet army can be said to be of various types.
At this time, the German army was still at its peak, and the Soviet army's general victories were achieved against the armies of slave countries with poor combat effectiveness. Therefore, the calibers of light weapons transferred to the Anti-Alliance were four or five, including caliber 79.
The number of machine guns is not sufficient.
In order to unify the caliber, Hungary's eight-millimeter Suratung light machine gun, Schwartz Ross heavy machine gun, and Italy's 65-caliber Breda light and heavy machine gun were not sent to the troops. Not only were these machine guns not in large numbers, but they also had incomplete accessories.
There are not many bullets, although the quantity of Italian goods is still quite large.
Although the current advancing army has undergone internal adjustments, coupled with the German troops transferred from the Soviet Union and the small weapons equipped by the slave countries, most of the troops have been equipped with 79-caliber weapons, but the number of rifles transferred from the Soviet Union
It is relatively sufficient, but the number of machine guns is not only diverse, but also insufficient in quantity.
Since most of the machine guns have battle damage and are in urgent need of repair, and the Anti-Japanese League is currently unable to produce accessories for such machine guns, usually the Anti-Japanese League arsenal can only use two or even several of these battle-damaged machine guns.
The method of making one machine gun for emergency repairs resulted in the number of machine guns in the army being unable to meet the needs of the entire army.
What's more, the Czech-type machine guns and various types of 79 machine guns originally equipped by the Jinjin Army, except for those allocated by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the rest are generally very badly worn due to years of use. A considerable part of the machine guns have already reached the end of their use.
Due to its longevity, not only are the accessories missing, but even the rifling is polished.
The Czech machine guns originally equipped by the entire army basically did not have spare barrels. The original equipment was made in the Czech Republic, Belgium, and Denmark. Due to quality, industrial and raw material reasons, although some spare parts were incomplete, The wear and tear is not that serious, especially for machine guns originally manufactured in the Czech Republic. Despite years of use, the quality has not generally declined.
However, due to the quality of the steel and manufacturing process, as well as years of high-intensity use, more than 60% of the products copied by various domestic arsenals have reached the point of being scrapped, and they can only be used reluctantly because there is no source of replacement. These machine guns simply did not dare to fire in bursts, which resulted in the actual number of replacements required far exceeding the gap in the books.
In addition, the MG 34 machine guns handed over by the Soviet Army lacked tripods for use as heavy machine guns. Even if they were repaired, they could only be used as light machine guns. In addition, in order to repair these battle-damaged machine guns, only some of them could be equipped. The number of other 79-caliber machine guns is not sufficient.
After all, throughout 1941, the Soviet army spent most of the time in defeat. Occasionally they seized a batch of trophies, which were consumed on the front line. It was not until the end of the Moscow Defense War that a large number of German light weapons, machine guns, and especially heavy machine guns were seized. The large number of gaps means that there are still several regiments in the advancing army, and they are currently equipped with Japanese-made weapons and equipment.
Of the two brigades currently remaining on the battlefield in Jehol, two regiments are equipped with all Japanese-made weapons. The other regiment is equipped with 79-caliber rifles and light machine guns, but the heavy machine guns are still equipped with 92 caliber rifles. Type heavy machine guns, as for the other brigade, are also mixed with Japanese equipment and German calibers, so we can only ensure that the calibers are the same as much as possible.
Although he prefers German-made MG 3-4 machine guns to Japanese-made light and heavy machine guns, isn't this kind of machine gun in short supply? Only one of his three regiments is equipped with this kind of machine gun as a squad light machine gun. In the absence of fish or shrimps, these latest Japanese light weapons became a piece of meat in his eyes.
In this brigade commander's view, his brigade has a strength advantage. Although the current equipment is not sophisticated, it is in much better condition, and the amount of ammunition is sufficient. Coupled with the training at the end of last year, the military and political quality has generally been greatly improved. Under such circumstances, the Japanese army still had no control over a strengthened brigade.
Especially in this kind of mountainous terrain, with the commanding heights under your control, this battlefield was designed for you to defeat the Japanese army. Won't these weapons and equipment belong to you sooner or later? He had tried the Type 99 machine gun used by the Japanese during the Anti-Japanese War, and its performance was quite good.
In particular, it can be fired without oiling, the barrel can be replaced quickly, and the bullet is relatively powerful, far exceeding the Japanese 65-caliber bullet. Although it is not as good as the German machine gun and the Anti-Japanese machine gun, it is better than the crooked gun. A stick is much better than a crutch. As a veteran, who wouldn't want to use sophisticated weapons?
The brigade commander, who was full of confidence and had an eye on other people's weapons and equipment, planned to wipe out the Japanese troops in one go. After counterattacking the Japanese troops trying to compete for the commanding heights, he mobilized the artillery behind him to suppress the machine gun fire on the ridges covering the two flanks of the Japanese troops. .
In addition to the two battalions that outflanked the two flanks, two organic companies were sent along the ridges on both sides to launch a counterattack against the Japanese troops who were attacking along the ridges and outflanking him. He personally commanded a battalion to attack the Japanese troops, and at the same time With the strength of two battalions, each equipped with two mortars and two reinforced heavy machine guns, warnings were released in two directions: Ye Baishou and Jianping County.
When dispatching the security troops, he focused on telling the battalion commander who was on alert in the direction of Jianping that if the battle in the direction of Jianping County continued as originally planned, the reinforcement battalion under his command would immediately forcefully attack Zhangjiayingzi along the direction of Jianping County. Pass through and expand northwest along the key points of Zhangjiayingzi. If you encounter a small group of Japanese and puppet troops on the way, you must not fight. Even if you run to death, you still have to reach the Zhangjiayingzi front line on time.
After arriving at Zhangjiayingzi, we immediately used no less than one company of troops to control Jiangjiadian and the Dongshantou line to the south to ensure the safety of the entire four Hancheng River Basin battlefield flanks and the smooth completion of the Jianping battlefield battle. If the Japanese army From Ye Baishou's reinforcements to Jianping, his battalion was exhausted and had to withstand the Japanese offensive before reinforcements arrived.