Chapter 950: Kruger's Circus 1

The grenades and grenadiers of the guns and grenadiers were the first to drop grenades from the air, inflicting the first round of damage on the Japanese front. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info The lethality effect of this round of attacks is relatively limited, not to ask for how many Japanese soldiers to kill, but to cause the scattering of the opponent's formation, and the real fatal thing is the machine gun that suddenly fires from 400 meters away! A company of more than a dozen guns of various types and thousands of shots formed a dense fire net on the small front, and the Japanese troops rushed over like moths throwing fire, and then they were instantly torn to pieces by bullets fired from all directions. Machine gunners and more than three times as many semi-automatic rifles formed an almost impenetrable blockade line from 400 to 200 meters away!

Bang, a few soft sounds came from behind the charging Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese troops who were hit by machine gun fire and couldn't raise their heads finally began to suppress with gun grenades, although these ballistic grenades had a short range, but they could be fired indirectly, and there were always a few rounds of grenades that could pose a threat to the German machine gun positions that were firing. After a dense burst of grenades, a group of Japanese troops continued their charge along the gap in the fire. And at this time, naturally, there were submachine gunners to suppress it. At a distance of about 100 meters, the Japanese were met with more intensive fire and a more flexible opponent!

If this were all there was to it, the two sides would be plunged into a relatively long war of attrition, with the Germans consuming ammunition and the Japanese consuming lives! If he only does this, then he can only be regarded as a relatively good German general, and Major General Seckert, as the father of the German "100,000 Wehrmacht" in history, is naturally more than that!

At the same time as the infantry units of the two sides were in a mess, a peculiar tank unit was put into the battlefield, these mechanized units made of trucks and half-tracks with steel plates, and equipped with large-caliber machine guns, mortars and small artillery became the most eye-catching existence in normal battles. Kruger temporarily assigned this unit to Major General Seckert, which can be regarded as a parting gift.

And this force, which was nicknamed "Kruger's Circus" at the beginning, did not play much role at the beginning of the campaign, partly because the hilly areas of northeastern France were not easy to walk, and partly because the firepower of Britain and France was too strong ....... The tanks of the Germans are all said and done, not to mention the temporarily modified cars?

But the battle has now unfolded in the plains, and in the face of the Japanese army, which is not strong in firepower, these "circus" members finally have room to play! In short, this force of machine-gun trucks, half-track self-propelled mortars, truck guns, motorized infantry, and cavalry became the last straw that crushed the opponent! Although these things are not very strong, the firepower is too strong!

A series of sounds that are different from ordinary machine guns are heard on the battlefield, and compared to the sound of tearing oilcloth in the MG series, the sound of this machine gun is deeper and more powerful, like the sound of hitting the drum with a small hammer. Bullets flew out from 1,000 meters away, and the attacked Japanese soldiers suddenly found that their comrades next to them were a mess of minced meat before they could see the appearance of their opponents clearly!

The M2 large-caliber machine gun really deserves to be used for nearly 100 years! The structure is reasonable, the performance is superior, and those who have used it say that the trajectory of the bullet at a distance of 1000 meters is still straight! According to the words of the German soldiers who used it, this thing can be used as a sniper rifle with a 4x scope!

The power of the 12.7MM*99MM bullet is so huge, it can be "smashed" in the face of human-level targets, and the people who do not change their colors in the face of ordinary machine guns can be called warriors, but when they see their comrades instantly become a blur of flesh and blood, there are too few people who can fight. Especially when you can't reach your opponent and can only be slaughtered unilaterally!

The front half-track was loaded with dozens of large-caliber machine guns "brought in" from the air force, and with the slow advance of the combat vehicle, a moving fire net continued to extend towards the Japanese troops, and the truck guns and mortars located in the back also threw rounds of shells into the Japanese formation. The speed of the "circus" assault was so fast, they easily tore through the Japanese army's not dense defense line like a sharp cavalry knife, and then went all the way to the end, like a steel storm constantly attacking all the opponents they could meet!

Instead of annihilating them all, they will be scattered and collapsed, and they will be quickly transferred to another battlefield! The rest of the tasks were given to the infantry in the back.

"We seem to have found something amazing." Major General Hohenberg picked up the telescope in his hand, he saw a car in the distance with something similar to an antenna, this suspected radio caught his attention, in this era the communication between the two sides basically relied on field telephones and not so reliable radios, in Germany, generally can be equipped with a transmitting station at most to the regiment, if in the face of the British and French troops, Major Hohenberg can not be sure of the identity of the other party, but if it is the Japanese army, then it is definitely the division level of the headquarters! The reason is simple, the French will not equip a Japanese wing with a radio base station!

At this time, the general headquarters of the 3rd Division is here, and Utsunomiya Taro is analyzing the battle situation with his staff officers, with the current level of battlefield information transmission and the degree of chaos, Utsunomiya Taro can only know that those troops are finished, those troops are about to end, and those troops may not have entered the battlefield. As for contacting a certain brigade and then giving the order to attack? It's better to save it. It was not easy to find the wing commander within half an hour of giving the order.

At this time, in addition to the 300 people in his headquarters, Utsunomiya Taro also had two-thirds of the cavalry wing, about 600 people, and half of the artillery wing, with 8 artillery pieces and more than 700 horses. Coupled with a small number of other combat units, about 2,000 people, this is already the largest unit of the 3rd Division at present! However, in a few dozen minutes, it will not be!

Such a big movement made the Japanese quickly discover this unit, and the cavalry team of the division rushed forward, and the feat of cavalry rushing to tanks was staged on the battlefield more than 20 years in advance.......

History has shown that a four-wheeled carriage with a machine gun can effectively deal with cavalry, then for a convoy loaded with bullets and large-caliber machine guns and mortars, such cavalry has no effect except to interpret their tragedy!

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