Chapter 1098 - Specializing in Infantry Rockets
The battle of Taniguchi was actually not too difficult for the Rock Battalion.
The remaining Japanese troops, who were only two squads, were basically no longer in formation, hiding behind the rocks under the rock wall in twos and threes, scattered over an area of tens of thousands of square meters, and almost lost their unified command.
This is actually quite good, at least they are still resisting after such a horrific blow. Based on this, Ling Hong and the officers and soldiers of the Panshi Battalion did not dare to underestimate them.
If they could, they would even prefer to grind them to death, using machine gun fire and mortars several times or even ten times their ability to wear away the courage of the Japanese army little by little, and finally annihilate them in one fell swoop. That way, perhaps, the casualties of the Rock Battalion could be minimized.
Six fighters have already been sacrificed, a dozen wounded, almost two combat squads have been attritional.
However, they don't have that much time.
It was not for the sake of combat merits, but Ling Hong knew that the regimental commander was only leading three infantry battalions to surround the remnants of the 40th Infantry Brigade. According to the most conservative estimates, at least half or even more of the Japanese troops who failed to enter the canyon were still alive.
The total strength of the three infantry battalions is only 1,500 troops, even if they are waiting for work, and have many advantages in the terrain by surprise, but this cannot make up for the lack of troops. Surrounded on three sides, the blockade line is simply too weak.
Once the Japanese invaders are relieved, not to mention that they can fight with the Independent Regiment and the 771st Regiment to break the net! It is absolutely highly probable that the three infantry battalions will have a sharp increase in casualties.
Little devils, not only are they stubborn in will, no matter how much they hate them, Ling Hong has to admit that their military literacy and combat ability are definitely the top on the Chinese battlefield.
The 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion of the 771st Regiment on the ridge of the valley top have already fired signal flares, and according to the pre-battle arrangement, they are rapidly maneuvering towards the main battlefield a few kilometers away, but it will also take at least 30 minutes to enter the battle.
And the battlefield of Taniguchi, coupled with the impact of the previous explosion and the ten minutes of fighting, has wasted at least 20 minutes, and it will take about 30 minutes for the whole battalion to forcibly march 5 kilometers to reach the battlefield, giving the whole battalion 10 minutes to repair, which is an hour. In other words, if you want to put the whole battalion into battle in about 1 hour and 10 minutes, leaving time for the Rock Battalion to deal with these two squads of devils, at most, only 10 minutes.
War, what if you want to win without sacrificing? It is just a beautiful fairy tale to kill the enemy without dying.
In order to win the entire "Dawn" battle, the necessary sacrifices must be borne by every commander.
Therefore, when the mortars of the two calibers of the fire squad and the fire platoon covered the devils who were cowering behind bunkers on the battlefield for another 3 minutes, the orderly and signal soldiers around Ling Hong puffed up their cheeks and sounded the trumpet of the charge.
With the sound of the "Didida" charge, more than 150 officers and men of the two infantry companies, six infantry platoons, and 12 infantry squads of the Panshi Battalion jumped out of the trenches from the positions on three sides and charged at the Japanese troops more than 200 meters away.
The mortar shelling did not stop, and the artillerymen did not stop shelling until their own infantry charged to about fifty meters from the Japanese troops.
All light machine gun crews carried light machine guns to advance behind the infantry, and they were responsible for providing fire support, and in the event of a Japanese attack from behind the bunker, they were supposed to suppress the infantry and cover the infantry to continue the charge.
The 12 heavy machine guns were still in position, and they were covering the infantry charge, the highest of which was condescending, suppressing fire from any point they felt might strike the infantry. Each of the sub-shooters was also an observer, constantly providing the shooters with a position to try to counterattack the Japanese.
Shells were still falling from the sky, and there were still 12 heavy machine guns from 300 meters away, and the few remaining light machine guns of the Japanese army were almost not exerting their power. Two light machine guns in a row only fired a shuttle of bullets, and the officers and men of the charging Panshi Battalion were beaten to a crawling and hidden position, and at least two heavy machine guns immediately patronized them and drove them back behind the rocks.
Then, five mortar shells in a row fell around the rocks until they blew the shooter to pieces along with the machine gun.
As for the infantry, it has to be said that the marksmanship of the Japanese soldiers was very accurate, although they were hunched and did not charge with all their might, and the distance between the more than 160 infantry of the Panshi Battalion, which adopted the three-three formation, was stretched wide enough, but in the distance of more than 100 meters of advance, more than a dozen still fell.
It was all the work of the Japanese infantry.
However, no one stopped, and the fallen soldiers naturally had the health soldiers of the battalion headquarters who followed closely behind to rescue them, and their task now was to rush to a distance of 50 meters or even closer to the Japanese army as quickly as possible.
The independent regiment has 14 infantry squads, 7 infantrymen, 3 sergeant squad leaders, squad deputies, precision shooters, 2 machine gun crews, and 2 bazooka crews. The sergeant squad leader led two veterans as the first three-person arrow in the three-three system, the squad deputy led two soldiers on the right side, and the trio composed of the other three soldiers was on the left, a nine-person triangle not only ensured the attack but also guarded the left and right flanks of the entire formation.
The Precision Marksman is in the center of the triangular formation, protected by everyone, and his role is to use his accurate marksmanship to deal with the most threatening enemies of the infantry squad. The machine gun and bazooka crews used as squad support fire, advancing 20 meters behind the infantry, not only to suppress the enemy's fire points with fire, but also to destroy the enemy's fortifications at a range of 150 meters.
The bazooka soldiers who are used in actual combat for the first time may not be able to beat the running tank, but if they hit a fixed target, they can show the effect after spending half a year of hard training. What's more, this time, they just need to shoot the rocket in the wrong direction.
When they rushed into the range of 150 meters, which had cost as many as a dozen casualties, the bazooka groups that followed the infantry closely followed the advance fired rockets at the stubborn Japanese troops who were hiding behind the bunkers and occasionally popping up their heads to shoot cold guns.
Except for the four bazooka groups that had been sent to fight tanks before and withdrew from the battle because there were no rockets, the remaining eight bazooka groups fired a full 16 rockets, directly turning the Japanese positions into a sea of fire.
The rockets of the Independent Regiment were designed in three models based on the ideas provided by the Wave Constellation, one was a special armor-piercing projectile used to combat fortifications, and the three warheads carried by the four bazooka teams sent out were all of this type.
One is the steel ball rocket used by professional anti-personnel personnel, this kind of rocket generally does not aim at the fortifications, but hits the trenches or above the fortifications, and uses the delayed fuse explosion method to fly about 150 meters to explode, not to kill with the gunpowder of the rocket, but to use the hundreds of steel balls carried by the rocket. According to the proposal of the Wave Constellation, all the steel balls were soaked in manure for more than a week, and many of them were already rusty when they were loaded into the rockets.
During the lethal test, a rocket exploded above a wolf pack with a number of more than 30 in the depths of the Qinling Mountains, killing more than 20 wolves on the spot, and the remaining 10 scattered and fled. Except for one that escaped the catastrophe or died in an invisible place, all the other wounded wolves died from wound infections caused by steel balls.
Even wild wolves, whose vitality far surpasses that of humans, cannot escape the wound infection caused by the contamination of the rocket with contaminated steel balls, let alone the fragile humans.
This kind of steel ball bullet, even the bazooka ammunition hand and observer hand on his back are cautious, for fear that if he runs too fast and detonate the bomb because of the vibration, then not only will he be finished, but everyone within a radius of tens of meters will be unlucky.
However, this kind of steel ball bullet is definitely not the most proud work of Xiong Zhen and them. What Xiong Zhen is most proud of is that he led the entire scientific research team to spend four months and finally developed another creative idea provided by Langtuanza----- incendiary warhead.
The entire 3.5 kg bomb body, in addition to the 1.5 kg of gasoline with viscous agent in the warhead, there is still 1 kg of oil propellant, but Xiong Zhen in order not to waste, actually chose to add viscous agent and the same white phosphorus and active alkaline metals as the gasoline in the warhead, such as: calcium, barium, etc., white phosphorus is both an accelerant and a toxic drug can increase the lethality, and those alkaline metals are necessary to prevent soldiers from extinguishing fires with water, and the hydrogen released by the combination of metal and water can continue to burn.
It can be said that this kind of murderous weapon, which was proposed by Liu Lang and designed by the proud sons of China's highest university, can burn the target into a pile of ashes even on water.
Of course, the most terrifying thing about the incendiary rockets designed to imitate the napalm used by American GIs in the future is not that they can burn anywhere, but that the most terrible and core is the kind of colloidal viscous, once this viscous agent is attached to the human body, there is almost no way to get rid of it except for you to cut off the skin and flesh with a knife on the spot. The viscous agent mixed with gasoline is like lard paste, viscous and burn-resistant. If a person uses his hands to slap the fire, the fire will get bigger, and if he rolls on the ground to extinguish the fire, he will get the whole body on fire. And once there is a lot of fire on the person, the people on the side should try to stay away from the person on fire, because the struggle of the person on fire is easy to throw the burning oil block on the person to form a secondary killing effect.
Because it was too cruel, Xiong Zhen did not use the creature as a killing test, but tested two shots at a lush forest, and the result was that ten acres of mountains and forests were completely destroyed, if it was not for the fire extinguishing team of thousands of people prepared in advance, the mountain forest that would never have a mountain fire in the wet spring would have burned at least two mountains.
Now, the seventy or eighty devils who are still fighting in hiding have become the first test subjects of eight steel ball rockets and eight incendiary rockets to be used in actual combat.
Effect......
For the Rock Camp, it is naturally good, but it is also extremely shocking.
Eight steel ball bullets exploded in the air at a height of nearly 3 meters from 150 meters away, covering a battlefield no more than 400 meters wide.
It doesn't matter if you're hiding behind rocks, in a natural ravine, or behind a bunker with rocks, as long as your bunker doesn't have a cover, it's almost all in the scope of the ballball.
The infantrymen, who were lying on their knees to avoid being accidentally injured by their own steel ball rockets, could clearly hear the terrible howls of the Japanese soldiers coming from more than 100 meters away.
However, this is just an appetizer, when 8 incendiary rockets burst into 8 dazzling flames on the Japanese position for thirty seconds, the scene in front of them, even the veterans couldn't help but stand on end, at least a dozen recruits' crotches were wet at that moment.