Chapter 83: The Japanese Army's Firepower Superiority
The battle they experienced in the past time and space was exactly what Liu Lang was doing now.
Using the cover of night, he broke out of the defense line of Luowenyu Pass, bypassed five mountains, and attacked the Japanese position at night. Of the 500 officers and men of the battalion, 430 were killed in the battle from the battalion commander Wang Hechun, and only 70 were left after dawn after the battlefield.
They did that in the plane, and in this time, they are still here. Leaving the line of defense, appeared in front of the Japanese army.
It's just that the last time they received the military order was to carry out the maximum killing and harassment of the Japanese army, but this time, the military order they received was a death order, and they could not withdraw until the death squad and pistol company had withdrawn from the battlefield, even if they fought to the death.
They have fought a near-death battle with the camera, let alone a military order to the death?
The Wang Hechun Infantry Battalion, which is absolutely tough, gave the 9th Infantry Brigade a ruthless blow to the first face.
This is half of the mountain pass, and the battalion commander Wang Hechun deployed two infantry platoons on both sides of the hill as two wings according to local conditions, but a full infantry company was placed in the slightly flat mountain in the middle, and the other two infantry platoons and the infantry platoon directly under his battalion headquarters were placed on the second line as a reserve, and the few heavy machine guns were placed in the mountains and forests on both sides of the elevation angle, condescendingly to cover the infantry below.
If the Japanese army wants to pass through from here, there are only two ways: first, gather the main force to break through from the center, and small forces to bypass the two flanks, waiting for the opportunity to attack from the two flanks or the rear; 2. The whole army avoided the Chinese infantry defense line, bypassed the whole mountain, and entered the battlefield from two other directions.
Obviously, not to mention that this is a big night, even if the moonlight is bright, the visibility will never exceed 10 meters, that is, during the day, if the second tactic is adopted, when you rush to the artillery position, it is estimated that the corpses of the artillerymen will be hard.
The only thing that can be used is the first tactic, which is no longer a good choice.
Several flares hit the sky above the position of Wang Hechun's infantry battalion, illuminating the entire position brightly, and the dark blue figure hiding behind the grass and rocks was clearly visible.
One second to remember: /or
Six of the twelve heavy machine guns roared 500 meters away, causing stone chips to fly on the position, and all the Chinese soldiers were lying motionless behind the rocks or in makeshift trenches.
The 92 heavy machine gun, with a rate of fire of 500 rounds per minute, was no joke, and the finger-thick bullet was a bloody hole, and in the absence of a field hospital, even if he did not die on the spot, basically no one could survive the night, and he could die alive just by bleeding.
The Japanese heavy machine gun location was very poisonous, just on the edge of the effective range of the grenadier, and if it was daytime, an experienced grenadier might still be able to find the location of the heavy machine gun fire point and destroy it, but in such a night, it was obviously impossible to do this.
Naturally, six heavy machine guns would not be stupid enough to shoot from the front, but were placed on both flanks and fired crosswise at the frontal defensive positions of the 1st Company of the 1st Battalion. The role of the heavy machine gun was mainly used for fire suppression, covering the Japanese infantry to launch attacks on frontal positions.
The other six have not yet spoken, don't even think about it, it is naturally to prevent the heavy fire point of the 1st battalion, once the heavy machine guns of the 1st battalion come up, the six heavy machine guns will immediately carry out corresponding counter-suppression.
Nearly 400 infantrymen, under the roar of six heavy machine guns, trotted forward in three waves to the frontal position.
Each wave was separated by more than 100 meters, and each individual Japanese soldier was separated by more than 5 meters. Komura Koichi is not a fool either, although he is irritable, but his tactical arrangement is one-dimensional and aggressive.
It seems that all their infantry forces are pressed at one time, but in fact, the more than 100 Japanese troops in the first wave of the front are still responsible for the exploratory attack, responsible for testing the deployment of Chinese troops and the location of light and heavy firepower points.
Don't look at the cover of the night, in fact, it is more beneficial to the defenders, but Komura Hirokazu can bring a lot of flares before leaving, and hit the sky at any cost, illuminating the front position of the 1st Battalion as if it were day.
Once light and heavy fire points were fired, the grenadiers hidden in the second and third waves of attacking infantry and the two infantry guns that advanced the 92 infantry guns to a distance of only 700 meters from the front launched a long-range attack on these fire points.
This is not a new trick, but the Japanese army has repeatedly tried and tested in the operation of the Chinese army, the reason is simple, the Chinese have too few artillery, they can grandly put heavy machine guns hundreds of meters away to suppress the infantry, but once the Chinese fire point is raised, their artillery can strike at the heavy fire point.
This is also the reason why the Japanese army dared to brazenly claim that one of their infantry brigades could compete with a Chinese infantry regiment twice as large as theirs.
And the infantry regiment still has a few mortars, so that the Japanese heavy machine gun fire point still has some scruples, but at this moment, what does the infantry battalion have? It's just a few heavy machine guns.
It can be said that the 1st Battalion also has six heavy machine guns, each infantry platoon has a light machine gun and two grenadiers, and it is not weaker than the Japanese army in terms of light firepower, and it has a temporary position that took dozens of minutes to build, and it is the defensive side, which seems to have an advantage, but in fact, the Japanese army's advantage in heavy firepower canceled all these at once.
In fact, the two sides are basically on the same starting line, and it depends on who can withstand it.
Withstood unbearable casualties.
In the night, the cats brisk forward from the bushes and the rugged mountain roads, and in the moonlight they were like well-hidden marmots, and you knew he was there, but you couldn't see them clearly.
The Japanese heavy machine guns were still roaring, and the fiery red ballistics were particularly conspicuous in the night, so that the Chinese soldiers on the 1st Battalion position did not dare to raise their heads.
From 200 meters away, dozens of people in the first wave of Japanese infantry, about an infantry squad, began to change from a short body to a straight body, holding a gun, striding forward while shooting, and launching a charge, while dozens of others were more than 30 meters behind, and several light machine guns also fell into position one after another, looking for cover, and aimed their guns at the Chinese position from both wings.
The Japanese flares were no longer fired at this time, and the position was dark, but the footsteps of the Japanese charge did not stop.
The Japanese were extremely cunning, and also took advantage of the darkness to cover their charging soldiers. As long as they rush into the first 30 meters of the position into the distance where grenades can be thrown, the heavy machine guns will stop firing, replaced by light machine guns at a closer range, and then wave after wave of Japanese infantry to attack the position, it is difficult for the defenders to withstand the grenades that are constantly thrown or even the bayonets of the Japanese army at the flat end of the tide.
Once they were hit in that position, 80 percent of the defenders were basically defeated.
And until they were about to enter the position of 100 meters, the Chinese defenders were still quiet, and not a single shot was fired.
This even gave Komura Koichi who was watching the battle from a distance an illusion, did the Chinese on the opposite side just shake a shot and ran away a long time ago?
This Japanese soldier has obviously forgotten that the Chinese army in front of him is one of the most fearless in a white-knuckle battle with the Japanese army.
What's more, the most common way for the Chinese army, which did not have heavy firepower, to deal with the Japanese army was to get closer.
It can not only save ammunition, but also make him run even if he wants to.
So, when the Japanese advance in the first wave stepped into a distance of about 100 meters, after a brass bell rang, the first gunshots rang out from the opposite position.
Then, there is the deafening "bang! Bang! "It belongs to the sound of a Hanyang-made rifle.
There were more than 400 rifles firing at the same time, from the front, from both wings, aimed at the same area.
At the first moment, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who strode forward with guns fell to the ground.
The first stick of the first battalion almost didn't smash the Japanese army into a daze.