219. The Devil Infantry Cannon shoots at close range
Since the two armies are staggered, the planes can't help much, so you have to figure out your own way, and most of the commanders of the devils have received strict military school training.
Junior officers are basically from the army non-commissioned officer school, and senior officers are also from the army university.
Therefore, the tactical literacy of the devil commander is not bad, and the spirit of loyalty and bushido must be possessed. In the past, many people would think that the Japanese commanders were rigid in tactics and would only use those few tricks, such as artillery bombardment, chariot opening, infantry raids, etc.
In fact, it is normal, if the national army has such a firepower advantage, it will also adopt such a textbook attack, will you not use the superior firepower support, let your soldiers brave the enemy's blocking guns, carry out the so-called flexible attack?
As for the big roundabout side attacks, large depth interspersed, three-dimensional strikes, etc., people are also very slippery, and then the national army will suffer a lot, but the current positional battle, there is no way to use those roundabout interspersed tactics.
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Seeing that a dark fort was actually built behind the position of the seventh company, the devil commander knew that if he followed the normal method of attacking the hidden fort, his soldiers would suffer greater losses.
Because this bunker is not an independent bunker fire point, but several of them support each other together, forming a group of cross-fire bunkers.
There are also three lines of defense in front for the protection of the infantry, and even without the protection of the trench infantry in front, it is difficult for the soldiers to pass or escape the strangulation of the front crossfire, reach the bottom of the bunker, and then blow it up with explosives.
What's more, the front three lines of defense are enough for the Japanese army to eat a pot, and they have attacked for so long and so many times, and they have not even overcome the front three lines of defense once, not to mention that now the fire support of the hidden fort behind has been added, which is even more difficult.
The Japanese commander had to sigh that the defenders of China in the opposite position were indeed very good defensive masters. Sigh to sigh, but things still have to be done.
It is now impossible to get the troops to retreat and then call in the rear heavy artillery to strike, or call in the planes to bomb these bunkers.
Even if his superiors allowed him to do this, it is estimated that the effect will be average, because in the telescope, it can be seen that these dark castles are of very good quality, and they are all made of thick steel cement.
Now the only heavy firepower at hand at his disposal is the 92 infantry gun, which shoots at close range, yes, artillery shoots at close range, this is not the first time, it has been proposed before.
The long-range attack ability of the 92-step gun is not as good as that of the field heavy artillery, but if you shoot at close range, the effect is different, because the 92-step gun is flexible.
Flexibility comes from light weight, only 0.212 tons, 1 ton 1000 kg, 0.212 tons only 212 kg 414 kg, manpower can be pulled away, so it is very suitable for use on complex terrain.
At only 62 centimeters tall, it's about the same size as a heavy machine gun, making it easy to hide. Deployed at a very close distance from the target (minimum range 100 meters), it gives full play to the accuracy, suddenness and ferocity of fire. This is the tactic of "bayonets on cannons".
Such a flexible artillery is very handy for supporting infantry battalions in mountain warfare, let alone on the Yangtze River scouring plains like Shanghai.
Don't look at the Type 92 infantry gun itself is ultra-light, the shells fired are not light at all, and the high-explosive shells weigh 3.8 kg. It is on the same level as the general 75 mm barrel artillery and the high explosive shell of the 80 mm mortar.
By shooting at close range, it makes up for its lack of range, accuracy and power; And give full play to its multi-purpose characteristics; Therefore, infantry artillery in that era could be called an "ideal" infantry battalion support weapon.
At that time, an infantry brigade of the Japanese army had an artillery platoon and even an artillery company, equipped with 2-4 92 infantry guns; An infantry wing, and even a specialized artillery squadron or even a brigade.
In addition to the 92-step guns, some also have anti-tank gun squadrons, and the anti-tank squadrons of the wing have 122 people: a company of 20 people, an ammunition platoon of 21 people, and three gun platoons of 33 people (each with two 37mm anti-tank guns, a total of six).
This 37mm anti-tank gun is a master of hitting the point of fire, the open-air machine gun position, it is easy to be knocked out by this kind of gun, for the bunker, if you get close to the direct aiming, there is also a good accuracy, and some even hit the shell directly into the hole of the bunker.
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The commander of the devil called for two 92 rifles from two or three miles from the rear, and kept firing shells at the muzzle in front of the national army's dark fort.
Under the cover of the barrage, he asked people to push the 92-step cannon all the way to three or four hundred meters and place it in a small artillery position that had been dug out temporarily.
The number of steel core bullets of the three dogs and their 92 heavy machine is extremely limited, this is not a film and television drama, the number of bullets is not considered when shooting, and there is no need to change the magazine for endless fire, this is a real war.
Therefore, after a few rounds, the steel core bullet was about to run out, and Niu Gu asked everyone to save some use, and the devil chariot did not come up, so he switched to ordinary 38 step machine gun bullets to suppress the fire of the devil infantry.
In the machine gun bunker protected by steel reinforced concrete, it was the first time that Big Potato fired a machine gun so coolly, without thinking about the mortar grenadier canisters of the devils.
You can also hit the devil's infantry as you like, here you can shoot a point, there is a triple shot, and you have a lot of fun, while humming a little song while aiming at the devil.
I didn't think that after only fighting for a while, the loud sound of "boom" and "boom" shook the four walls of the dark fort, and it turned out to be the two guns of the devil's infantry cannon test firing.
At the beginning, Sangou thought it was a devil's mortar, so powerful, could it be a large-caliber mortar coming, picked up the bull's telescope and looked at it, I'll go, it's amazing, it's the devil's infantry artillery.
Before they had time to call them, the guns of the two bunkers in front of them were hit by the devil's shells, and the strong air flow made the machine gunners in the bunker unbearable, and there was a huge shock force that made everyone's ears hurt.
The machine guns were immediately suppressed, and they did not dare to shoot as arrogantly and easily as before, so they could only secretly fire a few shots, and in this way, the tanks and infantry of the devils began to be active again.
Seeing that the devil formed the chariot and infantry in formation again, and pressed towards the position of the seventh company, Niu Gu and Sangou's hearts were extremely heavy, and they knew very well that they would be beaten by the devil and have no chance to fight back.
What to do? There was no way, but to fight as much as he could, and when the devil's chariot traveled within 200 meters, the grenadiers on both sides began to compete, firing grenades at each other "poof" and "poof".
The only difference is that the grenadiers of the national army have no fire support, so they can only fire a grenade and quickly move their positions, otherwise they will become the target of the devil's machine guns and artillery.