Chapter 1057: Complete Victory (4)
The consequences are naturally devastating.
The Japanese army was not only disciplined, but it could even be said that the execution of military orders was to the point of jaw-dropping stubbornness, knowing that the Chinese mortars would be smashed immediately, but under the order of the squadron leader, no one dropped their heavy machine guns to find cover or run away. It's all about carrying heavy machine guns.
Naturally, it greatly slowed down the speed of their retreat.
Of course, in addition to some old-fashioned and stubborn national characteristics, this is actually related to the strict and even strict military discipline of the Japanese army. As an island nation with poor resources, the Japanese army attaches great importance to weapons and equipment, and if they lose their weapons or weapons, those responsible will be punished very severely.
In the past time and space, in the countless "hide and seek" battles with the "Tu Ba Lu", an infantry squadron was captured by the "Tu Ba Lu" after retreating in a hurry because of an ambush. At this time, the Japanese squadron leader who ran away was fine, but the weapon was lost, panicked, and even found an intermediary to send a message to the "Dirt Eighth Road", and exchanged it for the current ocean, machine guns, and rifles that far exceeded the value of infantry guns.
Of course, the red troops are not so stupid to return the artillery and let them fight themselves again, not to mention that the infantry artillery is a good thing, and it can't be exchanged for money. Although they did not get their infantry guns back in the end, the Japanese army would rather risk the crime of collaborating with the enemy and wanted to get their weapons back, and it is also conceivable that the Japanese army attached great importance to weapons.
Even though the heavy machine gunners knew that the mortars were coming, it was understandable that they still stubbornly carried their heavy machine guns and ran away.
Wearing bulky Zhao-5 military boots is not very suitable for mountain combat, coupled with the more cumbersome 92 heavy machine gun, which was bombarded by dozens of mortars that almost covered thousands of square meters, the end of these Japanese heavy machine gunners is obvious.
Including the squadron leader of the Japanese heavy machine gun squadron, which jumped the fastest without lifting a machine gun, all the Japanese figures were overturned in the mortar shells.
"Yaga, where are our mortars? Fight back, fight back! Seeing this scene, Nakasa Nakasa, who saw this scene, almost lost his breath.
The previous infantry artillery position was rounded by the mortars of the independent regiment, and although Hatori Nakasa was angry, he was actually a little frightened in his heart. Although the 20th Division was invincible on the battlefield in North China, it was by no means undamaged. And seventy percent of the soldiers' casualties were not from bullets, but from Chinese mortars and grenades.
It can be said that the mortars of the Chinese equipped with a large number of troops are the weapons that the Japanese army hates and fears the most, and the rest are not worth mentioning.
The mortar shell is actually not very powerful, although the previous infantry artillery position was rotated, but the infantry artillery did not lose much, after all, it was an iron lump of more than 200 kilograms, as long as it was not hit head-on by the shell, but only overturned by the air wave, it can basically be used again. However, the gunners suffered heavy casualties, and there were only a dozen gunners in the entire infantry artillery position who were lucky enough to survive, and the casualty rate was as high as 85 percent.
What's more, Hatori Nakasa still has a hint of luck, from the beginning of the battle, the Chinese did not use mortars to attack their own machine gun positions, but concentrated fire on infantry artillery positions, does that mean that they do not have many shells, and they want to use precious shells on the blade instead of the back of the knife?
Anyway, if it were to be commanded by the old bird Nakasa, if the stock of shells was sufficient, the heavy machine gun position would have been attacked at the beginning. And the "notorious" "Colonel of the Beast" of the Independence Regiment is definitely not a fool! Old Bird Nakasa has never had the habit of underestimating his enemies.
The next seven or eight minutes of fighting were also in line with his conjecture, and after frantically shelling the infantry artillery positions, the Chinese mortars did not speak again, allowing the heavy machine guns on both flanks to strafe their own positions and cover the opponent's infantry to continue to advance.
It's just that since the tank squadron suffered heavy losses and three tanks were destroyed in a row, the mortars of the Chinese actually began shelling again, moreover, this time even more violent than hitting infantry artillery positions, judging by the intensity of artillery fire, at least, hundreds of shells were smashed.
Chinese, when did they become so rich? Looking at the figure of his own soldier who was carrying a heavy machine gun in the thick smoke of gunpowder in the telescope but was constantly blown down and looked extremely helpless, the old bird Nakazo almost didn't bite his back molars.
The "Colonel of the Beast" is so cunning that it can even be said to be cruel. With such strength, he would rather let the opponent's heavy machine gun fire at his own position for more than twenty minutes, and only then did it explode in one fell swoop.
What is he trying to do by doing this?
But no matter what Liu Lang wanted to do, in the face of a large number of mortars from the Independent Regiment, the only thing that the 1st Infantry Brigade could fight back now was mortars.
Yes, for this kind of infantry support artillery, which rose in World War I, it was not only equipped by the Chinese army, but also by the Japanese army.
IT'S JUST THAT, LOOKING AT THE TWO BULKY 94-TYPE 90MM MORTARS ERECTED BY THE ARTILLERY SQUAD DIRECTLY UNDER THE BRIGADE, THE GREEN TENDONS ON THE HEAD OF THE FEATHERED BIRD NAKAZUO COULDN'T HELP JUMPING.
That's right, compared with the 82-caliber mortars weighing more than 60 kilograms that are heavily equipped by the national army, the Japanese army's Type 94 90-caliber mortars are not good in terms of caliber alone.
But...... The Japanese military industry is again brain-dead.
The Type 175 mortar, with a total weight of 94 kg, was too heavy, and the weight was not much different from the 92 infantry gun. Although the power of the 5.26-kilogram projectile is much greater than that of the Chinese army's 82 mortar, the range of 3800 meters is also far.
However, after having the 92 infantry gun, which can be used as both a direct-aim gun and a curved artillery, as a commander, who would want to equip this mortar with a single function that can only fight trenches? It's so heavy that at least one artillery squad has to wait.
The total weight of the national army's equipment is more than 60 kilograms, and the four soldiers can easily disassemble it and carry it and run, and when it comes to mobility, there are more than eight streets to throw off the Type 94.
I think that the physical fitness of the metamorphosis level of the Langtuanza was resisted by one person, and the 82 was forced to chase the Sixth Division, and the single cannon kicked them a few times, if it was changed to the 175-kilogram Type 94, it is estimated that even if the Langtuanza can afford it, it is impossible to run like a rabbit, and it will flash if it hits.
Therefore, the Japanese infantry wing only gave face to the military factory, symbolically equipped with six gates. True, each infantry brigade artillery direct squad has two plus two infantry guns, at least in terms of mortars, which is less than a regiment of the national army.
The individual grenadier that the Japanese army used as an artifact was very awesome in front-line combat, and it could blow up light machine guns and even heavy machine gun fire points, but the firing range was limited, and the farthest was only six or seven hundred meters. Moreover, the grenade has a small load, and compared with the mortar, a weapon that can send a 4-kilogram projectile to any corner of the battlefield from 100 meters to 3,000 meters, it is not an order of magnitude at all.
Nakasa Hatori had reason to believe that when the Chinese finished cleaning up the heavy machine gun positions, they would turn their muzzles at the grenadiers and the prostrate infantry hiding behind the natural bunkers of the positions.
Natural stones may be used as bullets, but for this kind of shell that falls from the top of the head, it is really, really, very powerless!
Not only "imagined" the future, but also looked at the present, two 94 mortars from an artillery position 300 meters away worked hard to launch an artillery attack on the mortar position hidden behind the Chinese position opposite.
Hatori Nakasa couldn't help but want to shrink into the trenches, the Chinese seem to have more mortars than us! This, I won't be beaten all over the ground looking for teeth after a while!
Two doors, really, look too shabby.
Hatori Nakasa had never hated his crow brain so much, and the idea of being outnumbered was only fleeting, but it soon became a reality.
Because the mortar positions built by the independent regiment were hidden behind the hilltop positions, and in order to prevent the retaliation of the Japanese artillery bombardment, which also had curved guns, they also dug communication trenches and individual anti-artillery holes, and even the shells were stored in a special ammunition depot dug more than four meters deep more than 100 meters away on the mountainside for the sake of safety, and as long as they were not hit head-on by more than two 250-pound aerial bombs, there would basically be no martyrdom.
The front-line ammunition depot, which had a full reserve of 1,500 mortar shells and 2,000 machine gun shells, as well as 4,000 grenades and 100,000 rounds of ammunition, would be enough to collapse the entire hilltop position, and it was estimated that even nearly three infantry companies on standby in the tunnels halfway up the mountain would have to be buried in the mountains.
Just digging this ammunition depot took more than 40 people from an infantry platoon to dig for three days and three nights, which can be said to be the ultimate in safety.
The ammunition men did nothing else during this period, but they received boxes of mortar shells from the ammunition depot, and then carried the boxes of ammunition in four rounds to the position, and each gun had six special ammunition men responsible for supplying ammunition, which almost couldn't keep up with the speed at which the crazy gunners fired nearly 20 shells a minute.
Because there were not too many wounded soldiers, Xiong Si, who waited in the trench for a long time without getting a job, couldn't bear the loneliness, and even ran to help carry the shells. Generally speaking, the total number of shells and special shell boxes is about 17 kilograms, and because of the need to go up the mountain, one ammunition man will carry one box for safety. But Xiong Sike, who weighed more than 100 kilograms, had a fork, a bear mouth with amazing bite force, and a box in his mouth, and two boxes were hung on the left and right sides of the small vest with a hook that was supposed to drag the stretcher, and a bear could be used as a three.
At the beginning, the bombardiers were still far away from this guy who didn't leave without hanging three boxes, for fear that the shell box in his mouth would fall and send the big guys to the sky collectively.
From time to time, he deliberately ran in front of Xiong Si, who climbed the mountain very carefully. Xiong Si will be afraid of this, and his thick limbs will exert force, and when he runs, it is definitely not commensurate with his round body. Especially when going down the mountain with empty paws, the head rolls down as soon as you hug it, and the stone or something is completely useless for the giant panda whose fur and fat are thick enough and who wear a special small vest that can prevent knives and cuts with wild silk.
However, when the Type 94 mortar suddenly opened fire on the mortar position estimated by the Japanese army itself, although it was still more than 100 meters away from the artillery position, it was exactly 40 or 20 meters away from Xiong, who was carrying the shell up the mountain.
The giant panda is short-sighted, but its sense of hearing is very sensitive, and it could have been dodged with its usual limbs when it exploded, but Xiong Si, who was holding a cannonball box in his mouth, chose to be stiff this time, and he didn't move until he gently put the cannonball box in his mouth on the ground, and then fell to the ground with a standard "bear eats" and protected the cannonball box under him.
The fat ass shuddered violently, and the black hair was flushed red. Apparently, because the target was too big, he was wounded.
Hearing the panic of the ammunition players below, Liu Jinzuo looked over there, and the mascot that the whole group liked actually fell to the ground, and his heart was groaned.
Not to mention that this thing is wearing a silk vest that only school-level officers have, you can know the regimental commander's love for him, just look at a few bombers rushing over in a panic to know how much it is liked by everyone, this little devil of the dog day, is a special mother who wants him Liu Jinzuo to take the blame! Or the pot of the whole group.
Fortunately, seeing Xiong Si wearing a helmet shaking his head again, Liu Jinzuo's heart was half relieved.
"Find the mortar positions of the little devils, all, I ordered, all of them, ten rounds in bursts, covering the shelling." Liu Jinzuo yelled hoarsely.
The artillery retaliation of the 1st battalion of the Independent Regiment was far beyond the imagination of the old bird Nakasa, and the two 94 mortars had just fired a dozen shells, and they were met with nearly 100 shells.
Yaga! Bullying the widow with the crowdγγγγγγ The old bird, who was almost injured by a cannonball that flew over and was not too high, turned red with angry eyes.
When was our Imperial Japanese Army bullied like this? It's like a little widow meets a bunch of ruffiansγγγγγγ