Chapter 989: Battle for the Airport
"Report!"
Suddenly, the signal soldier took off his headset again and stood up.
Ichiro Kaneda hurriedly asked, "Did you contact the 4th Independent Cavalry Wing and the Tengchuan Wing?" ”
"It's not!"
The devil signal soldier shook his head, and then said, "It's reinforcements from the direction of Xiangyuan." ”
"Where have they been? How long will it take? ”
"They are about to arrive at Yuqiao, 70 miles away, and they will be able to arrive at the airport in three hours at the latest."
"Three hours?"
Kaneda Ichiro frowned, for some reason, this time he always felt that the 4th Independent Cavalry Wing and the Tengchuan Wing were unreliable, so he could only pin his hopes on reinforcements from the direction of Xiangyuan.
"Boom!"
"Boom, boom! ——”
At this moment, there was a sudden loud noise outside.
Ichiro Kaneda felt the ground tremble and shake with the sound of the explosion, and the electric lights above his head swayed as if they were about to fall.
A devil Shaozo ran in in a panic: "Report to the wing commander, the enemy's, attack again!" ”
Ichiro Kaneda's eyes widened: "What's the panic, look at your current appearance, do you still have a little bit of the appearance of an imperial soldier?"
Give me orders, and resist me at all costs!
Reinforcements from the Binh Thuan side will come soon, as long as they hold on until then, it will be the death of these Chinese! ”
Changzhi Airport is currently the only airport of the Japanese army in the Jinnan area, and its strategic position is very important, and it is also related to the victory or defeat of this battle.
If the airfield was lost, the Japanese fighters would have to take off from the Taiyuan airfield.
As a result, they need to fly hundreds of kilometers more, which greatly affects combat efficiency.
Just before, the front army headquarters had already issued a death order, at all costs, to hold the Changzhi airfield, even if the whole army was wiped out.
Therefore, in order not to affect the morale of the soldiers, Kaneda Ichiro had to hide that something might happen to the 4th Cavalry Independent Wing and the Tengchuan Wing.
"Haya!"
The devil Shaozuo responded and took the order to leave.
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Frontal battlefield.
After receiving the order of Chu Yunfei, the artillery battalion took out almost all the family resources.
First, he bombarded the devil's forward position, and after blasting the entire position into a sea of fire, he extended his firepower and hit the devil's back line.
Under the cover of the fire of the artillery battalion, the officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the 358th Regiment launched an offensive on all fronts.
Qian Bojun, commander of the first battalion, even went to the front line to direct the battle.
There will be a heart of death, and there will be no greed for life.
More than 1,000 soldiers in the first battalion were greatly encouraged.
Of course, the devil did not sit still.
In the face of the indiscriminate bombardment of the 358th Regiment, the devils also carried out artillery countermeasures at the first time.
One of the shells landed not far from Qian Bojun's side, and several pieces of broken shrapnel almost grazed Qian Bojun's ears.
Qian Bojun even heard the 'whoosh' of shrapnel piercing the air, but he was so fearless that he didn't even blink his eyes.
When a battalion of troops rushed more than 200 meters in front of the Devil's position, the Devil's machine gunners opened fire.
The dense rain of cross-bullets poured over, and seeing the soldiers under his command fall in pieces like cutting wheat, Qian Bojun gritted his teeth with hatred, and roared sharply: "Grenadiers, machine gunners, suppress Lao Tzu's firepower!" ”
The range of the grenadier is limited, and it is far less powerful than the mortar.
The range of the machine gun is quite long, but if it is far away, it will not be accurate.
Soon, the grenadiers rushed over with shells and grenadiers and launched a bombardment of the devil's machine-gun positions.
As an elite division built by Yan Laoxi, the artillerymen of the 358th Regiment have undergone rigorous military training.
Compared with the accuracy of the devil artillery, it is also surpassed.
A quick shot went down, and the devil's machine gun was dumbfounded.
The artillerymen were on fire, followed by another round of rapid fire.
At the same time, the machine gunners of the 1st battalion were also in place and decisively pulled the trigger.
The dense rain of bullets poured over, and although most of them were empty and landed on the ground of the position, splashing patches of smoke and dust, they also greatly suppressed the firepower of the devils.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the soldiers of the first battalion who rushed to the front got up from the ground and continued to rush forward.
The former enemy commander of the devil is the previous Shaozo who was reprimanded by Ichiro Kaneda.
At this time, this devil Shaozuo was full of hatred.
What he couldn't understand was how China could have such a powerful army in addition to the Tiger Regiment.
Also, these soldiers, aren't they afraid of death, and the bullet won't hurt if it hits them?
In fact, how did he know that Yan Laoxi owned several arsenals in Shanxi, and Shanxi was also the most developed area of heavy industry except for the northeast.
The equipment of the Jin Sui army under Yan Laoxi may not be as good as the German divisions under Lao Jiang, but compared with other central armies, it is definitely inferior.
The 358th Regiment is one of the most elite regiments of the Jin Sui Army, built by Yan Laoxi, and if the firepower configuration can be poor, it will be hell.
At this time, the devil Shaozuo saw that the enemy army had rushed to the front, and he shouted fiercely: "Warriors of the empire, get on the bayonet, let these damn China. Soldiers have seen the power of our imperial army!
Kill the chicken and give! ”
The devil soldiers hiding in the trenches drew their bayonets one after another, screwed the tips of their guns, and prepared to fight desperately with the enemy.
Unexpectedly, Qian Bojun had no intention of fighting bayonets with devils at all, and fighting bayonets was not what they were best at.
Why use a knife to solve a problem that can be solved with a gun?
The people who charged in front of them were all the most elite soldiers of the first battalion, each with a flower machine.
Flower Organ, Chinese name MP18 submachine gun.
Caliber 9X19mm, gun length: 815mm, gun weight 4.17kg (empty gun weighs 4kg).
The ammunition capacity is 20 rounds, and 32 of two kinds, China. The army likes to use large quantities and magazines with a capacity of 32 rounds.
The rate of fire is 400 rounds, the muzzle velocity is 380ms, and the effective range is 150 meters.
During World War I, the battle turned to trench warfare, with heavy artillery fire followed by a cluster charge of infantry with bayonets, which resulted in heavy casualties from machine gun fire.
In the later part of World War I, in order to break the stalemate of trench warfare, the German army adopted a small detachment called "storm commando" "infiltration assault tactics", at that time, the weight of machine guns was not suitable for individual portability, and it required close firepower and light and reliable individual use of small arms.
Thus, a new type of automatic weapon was born.
It was designated the MP18 and was designed by Hugo Schmeiser, which was later modified to become the MP18I, which was produced by the Bergman Arsenal.
The firepower and range of the flower machine are far inferior to that of the machine gun.
But its lighter weight makes it more portable, and it is incomparable to machine guns in charge assault and hand-to-hand combat.
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