Chapter 1060: Complete Victory (7)
After glancing at the flank battlefield a few times with great guilt, Hatori Nakasa could only set his sights on the battlefield belonging to his own infantry brigade after all.
What he has to consider now is not how to take the main position of the Chinese with full success, but how to withdraw the more than 300 infantry with minimal losses.
As a veteran of twenty years in the army, Nakasa's instincts told him that if he didn't make a quick decision, his 1st Infantry Brigade would suffer even more losses, not just in equipment.
I have to say that the old bird Nakasa's sense of smell is very keen.
After shelling the Japanese mortar position, seeing that the Japanese mortars did not fire again, and the giant panda under the mountain also shook its head and stood up again, but the shell box was unloaded by the rest of the ammunition hands, obviously the rough-skinned and thick-skinned Xiong Si was not too fatally injured, and Liu Jinzuo's heart was also put down.
And the artillery observer also sent an order from Liu Lang in the command headquarters on the position in due time to start shelling the Japanese infantry.
Liu Jinzuo's face, which had been tense, finally showed a smile, and the regimental commander finally closed the net, and the mortar would become the last straw that crushed the loss of all the support for the Japanese infantry.
The 1st Infantry Brigade was worthy of being the fist unit of the 77th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, and at this point in the battle, their heavy firepower could no longer provide them with effective support, and if it were not for the fact that there were still nearly ten grenadier groups still firing grenades in vain, all the machine gun fire of the independent regiment could crush them all to the point that they could not lift their heads.
Even so, not only was the main force of the Japanese infantry more than 200 meters away still firing desperately at the position to maintain firepower, but the two decisive squads, which had lost nearly half of their positions and were only seventy or eighty meters away, were still trying to advance, even if they were lying on their stomachs.
The combat effectiveness of the Japanese army cannot be described as not being strong.
By this time, the poisonous gas had already dissipated, and only the smoke remained. The soldiers on both sides, who had already removed their gas masks, could see each other's eyebrows as soon as they looked up.
In fact, in addition to those heavy firepower, the Japanese troops on the position, who thought that their archery skills were unparalleled in the world, were also at a disadvantage here.
The first battalion of the Independent Regiment defending the main position of Jiuguan was not the 772nd Regiment, and the officers and men of the Independent Regiment, who had spent four years armed to the teeth by the Langtuanza, were only stronger than the Japanese army, not weaker.
An infantry squad of 14 people, two squad leaders and two deputies are equipped with Suomi submachine guns and Black Star pistols, two people in the bazooka group are equipped with Black Star pistols in addition to bazookas, two people in the machine gun team are equipped with Black Star pistols in addition to DP light machine guns, one precision shooter sergeant is equipped with a quadruple mirror semi-automatic rifle, and seven infantry are equipped with semi-automatic rifles.
A firepower squad of 14 people, with two 60 caliber mortars and 8 gunners and ammunition drivers with Blackstar pistols, two DP light machine gun shooters with 4 Blackstar pistols, and the squad leader and squad deputy are also equipped with Suomi submachine guns and Blackstar pistols.
On the other hand, a battalion and a company on the position had a total of three infantry platoons plus two infantry squads directly under it, bringing the total number of infantry squads to eight and three firepower squads. Excluding the fire platoon, the front-line infantry on the position had 64 semi-automatic rifles and 22 Suomi submachine guns with a drum capacity of 71 rounds.
Almost all the semi-automatic rifles were firing at the main Japanese forces at a distance, and for the Japanese troops who were close, it was mainly the Suomi submachine guns of the infantry squads that were dealing with them.
The Japanese army finally understood at this moment that it turned out that when the bullets were saturated and almost crazy, accuracy could sometimes really be ignored, and moreover, the terrible opponent was not only crazy "wasted" bullets, but their accuracy would definitely not be weak.
The advantages of the Suomi submachine gun are the large drum capacity, the effective range is long, the disadvantage is that the gun is too heavy, and the muzzle jumps seriously when firing. After a year of hard training by the sergeants of the Independent Regiment, although there was no big problem in firing a single shot, the Suomi submachine gun, which had been installed in the Independent Regiment for a year, was inevitably affected by this small flaw when firing continuously.
This may not be a serious problem at short distances, but if you encounter a Japanese attack with a range of 400 meters at a distance, although the effective range of the Suomi submachine gun can reach more than 250 meters, the impact point can be very deadly. Although the designers of the Suomi submachine gun never imagined that the Suomi submachine gun would one day be used as a long-range fire weapon with a single-shot rifle, its original function was to suppress firearms with short-range firepower.
But this is China, and the opponents are the Japanese, who are not equipped with submachine guns at all, and they are not in the habit of playing close-range shooting with you, and often start their pride of accurate shooting from more than 300 meters away.
The designer of the Suomi submachine gun gave this submachine gun a muzzle arrester in the mid-40s, but in Liu Lang's opinion, that thing was far less simple and practical than the design of the fighting nation.
The AK47 assault rifle, which is much more famous than the Suomi submachine gun, has been the favorite of countless soldiers and guerrilla troops since its inception and into the future decades later, and even gangsters have used this gun as their own standard weapon, claiming to be the most equipped rifle in the world. Its early models, likewise with a serious muzzle jump, were not skilled gunners, and it was difficult to control the accuracy of burst fire.
The designers of the fighting nation only used a very simple method to solve the serious problem of muzzle jumping, that is, cutting the muzzle, so that the muzzle is not round but becomes notched, and using the gas sprayed in the gun to leak out from the direction of the gap to give the muzzle a downward force, so as to inhibit the muzzle jumping up and improve the accuracy of continuous firing.
The simple design couldn't be simpler, but it takes the quality of the AK47 up a notch, and it is extremely practical.
Of course, cutting the muzzle directly is a bit ridiculous, just make a beveled tube on the muzzle, which is the so-called muzzle arrestor.
At Liu Lang's suggestion, Huamei completed the design in just two days. It's just that Liu Lang's idea of borrowing from the fighting nation is good, but the Suomi barrel is too long, and the chamber pressure is slightly lower when the bullet is discharged, and the effect is naturally not as good as the original AK47.
That's enough, though.
At least 200 meters of continuous firing accuracy can be guaranteed, and those who are qualified to equip Suomi submachine guns are veterans at the sergeant level, and after a long period of large number of live-fire training, even the accuracy of continuous firing has reached a terrible level.
The Suomi submachine gun, which was hit accurately by such a splash, was "taken care of" at a distance of only sixty or seventy meters, and the Japanese soldiers of the death squad were blind. The 38 Dagai, which they were proud of, often fired only one shot, and the squad leaders and squad deputies of the first battalion with Suomi submachine guns fired at least 20 rounds at them.
So much so that in the end, let alone shooting, no matter how much the death squad wanted to die, after a dozen Japanese soldiers were beaten into a sieve by the rampaging Suomi submachine guns, the remaining more than 30 Japanese soldiers of less than a squad hid behind craters or stones and never showed their faces again.
Death is by no means the same as death, the Japanese army can understand it in their hearts! They're not the same.
However, even so, they still stubbornly did not retreat, and it is estimated that they are still waiting for the follow-up main forces to continue the attack and rescue them from the rain of bullets and bullets of the Chinese.
Of course, it is estimated that it will not be able to be refunded. Any experienced soldier knows that leaving the ass to the enemy will only take a kick.
It can only be said that their will to fight is very strong.
The companions they expected were equally determined, suppressed by the completely dominant fire of the first battalion and one company, and the casualties were far greater than in any of their battles with the Chinese, but they did not retreat.
It wasn't until 9 mortars began to fire that the shells were sent to the Japanese army, which was not very densely packed. And the 6 60 mortars belonging to the 3 firepower squads that had been waiting on the position for a long time finally waited for the opportunity to pour shells on the Japanese infantry to their heart's content.
From the very beginning, Liu Lang did not let the company open full firepower, even when the Japanese tank guns were raging and the grenadiers were "banging", at least two MG42 heavy machine guns and four DP light machine guns and 6 small-caliber mortars did not speak.
The reason is very simple, 2 squadrons of Japanese troops, nearly 400 people, what a piece of fat! You can't just scare him away with your mouth! Including using four machine guns to deal with Japanese tanks, destroying several in a row, don't look at the strict order that Langtuan must defeat them, but he was actually worried that the Japanese commander on the opposite side was too psychologically fragile, and as soon as he saw that the tank was destroyed, he issued an order to retreat.
After all, at least one and a half squadrons of nearly 300 little devils are still staying more than 200 meters away, and if they want to run, at most they will be given large casualties, but they cannot be left behind.
Yes, Langtuan has a great appetite, and wants to swallow these hundreds of Japanese invaders in one bite, and not even a little scum will be left for the old bird Nakasa.