Chapter 353 The power of mg three or four machine guns
In view of the Japanese army's habit of making breakthroughs from the flanks or junctions when frontal breakthroughs are hopeless or difficult during battles, the firing ranges between all positions are cross-deployed, regardless of whether the Japanese army wants to make a roundabout way. The flanks of that position will be hit by flanking fire.
The main firepower is machine guns on the front, and rifles, submachine guns, and certain light machine guns on the sides. Mortars are used to mark the firing range on the flanks of all positions. When the Japanese attack the front, these mortars do not fire. If the Japanese army adopts frontal containment and flanking tactics, they will concentrate mortar fire and infantry to attack the Japanese army on the flanks.
The Damai Gou line is the most critical part of his entire ambush circle, and it is also the location where the ambush circle closes. Once the Japanese army breaks through the Damai Gou line, they can only hope that the battalion on the Tang family's Zhangzi line can hold the last line of defense. It was this kind of deployment that made him place high hopes on the six extremely fast-shooting German machine guns on the front line of Damai Gou.
In the view of the brigade commander, although these six German-made machine guns are usually unavailable to his own troops due to high ammunition consumption, they can still be placed in key positions at critical moments. They are equipped on the battlefield. Usage is similar to the distribution of troops. The best steel must be used on the most critical blade.
In order to ensure the amount of ammunition required for the high rate of fire of this machine gun, he not only allocated 70% of the brigade's supplementary ammunition to these six machine guns, but also allocated 70% of the ammunition from each of the two battalions equipped with rifles. Twenty rounds of ammunition are specially provided for these six machine guns.
In order not to affect the battle due to machine gunner casualties, he also equipped each machine gun with six machine gunners, and strictly stipulated the firing order of each machine gun, as well as their respective shooting ranges. In order to ensure that these six machine guns Firepower is not interrupted when changing barrels and ammunition belts.
He also moved the only two Maxim heavy machine guns in the entire brigade in this direction, specifically to use them as supplementary firepower when the MG machine gun firepower was interrupted. They were deployed at the bottom line of the entire ambush circle to stick to the Damaigou line. The company, reinforced by these eight machine guns, can be said to be armed to the teeth.
To be honest, as a military commander, he really likes this kind of machine gun that can be used both light and heavy by changing the gun frame, and has an extremely fast rate of fire. The German machine gun has exquisite craftsmanship and high-quality raw materials. Apart from the need to replace the barrel, there will basically be no problems on the battlefield.
Compared with the Maxim heavy machine gun originally used by the army and the domestic imitation of the Czech light machine gun, its performance and quality are much better, at least it will not be used under high-speed conditions and in a short period of time without paying attention. The barrel of the gun was shot bald, or there were some problems with it due to quality reasons.
But the performance of this kind of machine gun is indeed good, but its rate of fire is too high. Two hundred rounds of bullets can be fired in less than a minute in one continuous shot. The consumption of this ammunition is because there was no fixed source of replenishment in the past. For the Guanchi troops, who have always been very frugal in the use of ammunition, this is really a bit distressing and they really can't afford it.
In the eyes of cadres at all levels of the advancing army, this is not a machine gun. It is simply a bullet-eating machine, and it is even more like an uncle. The ammunition base of a regiment is not enough to use these machine guns for an hour. In comparison, the Czech machine gun is no more For inexperienced shooters, the amount of ammunition wasted is limited. At the very least, the machine gun will stop firing after all the twenty bullets in the magazine.
When the two bosses of the advancing army were changing the equipment of the entire army, they did not dare to concentrate all these machine guns for the use of that column. Instead, each brigade allocated some of them, because the Maxim heavy machine guns and ZB 37 heavy machine guns To supplement the insufficient number of machine guns, the squad machine guns of each unit are generally based on Czech light machine guns or Browning light machine guns transferred from the Anti-Japanese War.
Even some troops are still using the legal Hakkais heavy machine guns, and they do not use these machine guns as the main light and heavy machine guns, because if this kind of machine guns are really distributed to that unit, they will be using an inexperienced shooter. , okay, all the small arms ammunition of a brigade is not enough to use these machine guns for an hour.
Therefore, even in the battle in the Wei family shack, the battle was so difficult, the brigade commander was not willing to put this kind of machine gun into the battle. Nothing else, and it was not that he was stingy, but he was really reluctant to part with those that were enough for a regiment, but in these The machine gun didn't have enough ammunition for an hour.
In battle, he would rather use the 92 heavy machine gun, which is much bulkier and has an extremely slow rate of fire compared to this kind of machine gun. Of course, if it weren't for the Maxim heavy machine guns in his entire brigade, there would only be less than two of them in total. If so, he would rather use the Maxim heavy machine gun with better performance.
The Type 92 heavy machine gun is indeed a bit bulkier, but fortunately it has high shooting accuracy. The most important thing is that compared with this machine gun, which can fire at a rate of 1,000 rounds per minute, the maximum rate of fire is only 500 rounds per minute. It is simply too economical. We have enough ammunition, at least we don’t have to empty out the infantry ammunition to feed this old man.
But in this battle, he took out all six MG 3-4 machine guns that he had been reluctant to use before, and even raised 20 rounds of ammunition from each infantryman to ensure the use of this kind of machine gun. It can be seen that the brigade commander attached great importance to this war. In the words of his director of the political department, he was really trying to sell the iron.
On the mountains on both sides, they gave up control of some hills and deployed all firepower on the commanding heights of the mountains on both sides. Although the firepower was deployed not on the ridge, but on the On the mountainside, but all the firepower points on the commanding heights are in cross-firing areas, and their deployment height is no lower than the height of those hills.
In this way, no matter where the Japanese army concentrates its forces to attack, it can be hit by crossfire from the surrounding areas. This deployment can be said to be well-intentioned, and it indeed has considerable effects. After finding that he was ambushed again, Colonel Shigetoshi Okajima's breakout operation , no matter which direction they broke through, they were met with unprecedentedly intensive firepower.
Facing a battlefield like a net of fire on all sides, Colonel Okajima Shigetoshi knew that if he could not break out, he and the remaining troops would all die here. The only option was to concentrate his troops on the Damai Gou line and force a breakout. As long as Open Damaigou and your troops can escape.
Colonel Okajima Shigetoshi, without any hesitation, concentrated all the troops and firepower that could be concentrated, and launched a series of attacks on Damai Gou, a common natural village with only a dozen households in the Jehol Mountains, and in other directions. , then concentrate the troops to seize a few hills that the enemy only controls with firepower, and engage in firefights with the enemy in an attempt to suppress the enemy's firepower.
Facing Damaigou like a net of fire, his attacking troops rushed forward countless times, and were beaten back countless times amidst the enemy's intensive machine gun fire. The frontal breakthrough failed, and as soon as the flank breakthrough troops were deployed, they were defeated. A mortar shell fired from the enemy's flank and rear was blasted back again.
Colonel Okajima Shigetoshi, who was eager to break through the front line of Damai Gou in order to escape, seemed to be going crazy. One squadron was beaten to a disability, so he immediately withdrew and replaced it with another squadron to continue the assault. When the frontal stalemate could not be reached, he concentrated his forces to attack Damai. Ditch the flanks of enemy positions.
The six German-made MG 34 machine guns concentrated by the brigade commander in Damaigou played an important role in blocking the Japanese army's repeated attacks on the Damaigou front line. It was these six German-made machine guns that blocked the entire Damaigou line. The firepower network formed by machine guns left the Japanese troops attacking the front line of Damai Gou dead.
As long as the attacking Japanese army comes within 100 meters of these six machine guns, it is almost impossible to escape the firepower network composed of six machine guns. Looking at the firepower network on the front line of Damai Gou in the telescope, listening to the sound of machine gun fire from the front with almost no pause, Okajima Shigetoshi took a breath of air.
Colonel Okajima Shigetoshi, who had never seen the German MG 34 machine gun or even heard of this machine gun, knew nothing about the performance of this machine gun. At the beginning of the battle, he returned this machine gun to the enemy. It was regarded as an ordinary light and heavy machine gun and was not taken seriously at all.
In the end, he did not expect that the intensive crossfire of these six machine guns would disrupt his attacks again and again. His own offensive troops were hit by these six machine guns with corpses all over the field. He was really not very knowledgeable. This is the first time I have seen a machine gun with such a high rate of fire.
In fact, it is not to blame that Colonel Okajima Shigetoshi was a little ignorant. In the Battle of Baoqing the year before last, he led the fifth regiment to participate in the battle. When the entire army became addicted to drugs and lost combat effectiveness, they were surrounded and annihilated.
Facing the anti-Union tank troops rushing up from all sides, and with his troops no longer capable of fighting and even incapable of committing suicide, he relied on using a pistol to force an older sergeant to exchange positions with him. After wearing a military uniform and killing people and wiping them out, he mingled with the prisoners of war as a sergeant and found an opportunity to escape during the evacuation.
The cadres of the political department who escorted this batch of prisoners of war only focused on the officers and did not take the escaped sergeant seriously. They did not conduct any pursuit afterwards, so they allowed this guy to run away and dispersed. He hid for a while among the Xiante officers of the Puppet Manchukuo military police who were bandits in the mountains and forests.
After the main battle of the Anti-Japanese Alliance was completed, troops were mobilized, and the Japanese and puppet soldiers who had been dispersed went back to the mountains and forests to become bandits. When they saw the bandits' lair, they could no longer stay, so they pretended to be mute and took advantage of themselves. He had been stationed in Northern Manchuria for a long time and was familiar with the advantages of the terrain. He avoided the anti-Japanese blockade on the front line and ran back to Xinjing.
As a result, when the Anti-Japanese Alliance was counting the results of the war, they regarded the corpse of the sergeant wearing his military uniform as the captain of the Colonel. Moreover, during the interrogation, his subordinates who were addicted to drugs and could not answer the interrogator's questions also did not Giving him up provided protection for his whereabouts in disguise.
But he never thought that the humble sergeant who escaped from his prisoner-of-war camp, with his face slightly disfigured by a bayonet, was the real Colonel Shigetoshi Okajima, and he never thought that the bayonet wound on the sergeant's face was still In order to conceal his true identity, this man cut the marks on his face with a guard's bayonet.
This guy is also lucky. In the first battle of Baoqing, his fifth regiment, except for the three squadrons that stayed behind, he was the only one who ran out of all the personnel who participated in the battle. The rest had already become a foreign land. The cold corpse became a member of the prisoner of war camp.
After giving up drug addiction in the Anti-Japanese War prisoner-of-war camp, he was sent to various coal mines or mines in Northern Manchuria to use his own labor to wash away the sins committed by Japanese militarism on Chinese territory. All members of the Fifth Regiment participated in the war. The entire army was wiped out, and no one knew about his embarrassing behavior after the war.
The most important thing is that at that time, he always regarded himself as the most authentic citizen and never smoked Chinese cigarettes. He only smoked the supplied Japanese cigarettes or American Camel cigarettes. He was also lucky enough not to become addicted to drugs, which ensured that he had enough. With enough physical strength, he ran far away from the area controlled by the anti-alliance forces on the battlefield.