Chapter 949: Unstoppable 3
A division has 14 artillery companies, and if you don't talk about artillery performance, this establishment will definitely not suffer a loss when compared with the Japanese army in 2 wars. PEN FUN PAVILION www.biquge.info JAPANESE ARMY'S 2ND DIVISION WILL ALSO HAVE 36 75MM FIELD GUNS AND 12 120MM HOWITZERS. THE WING ALSO HAS A 75MM FIELD ARTILLERY COMPANY, IF YOU TALK ABOUT 75MM OR MORE BODY-BARRELED ARTILLERY, IT IS NOT AS GOOD AS THE GERMAN ARMY IN THE FIRST WAR! Not to mention the German army in this plane?
"The Japanese artillery was very small and scattered, and their gunnery was very poor, and they just hit the shells in the opposite direction, regardless of the long-range correction and the suddenness of the fire. Compared to their artillery, I feel that their infantry is a little better. This is what a German soldier who participated in the war said about his opponent.
Looking from the reconnaissance plane, in the rear of the Japanese army, there were clusters of fire and smoke, which was a sign that the Japanese artillery had begun to shoot, and although the sporadic shelling was not dangerous, it had to be cleared. At this time, the large forces of the two sides have met, and it is time to show some hole cards.
"Let's fire our long-range artillery and heavy howitzers!" General Seckert ordered, you know, this major general has 3 divisions under his command! (Two standard divisions and one reserve division) according to the German army, an army is 2 divisions, although it is not a key direction, but the army-level equipment should always be given, not to mention anything else, 150MM, can fight 19 kilometers of K09 cannon must be given a few pieces, right? 210MM HEAVY HOWITZERS SHOULD ALSO BE GIVEN TO AT LEAST TWO COMPANIES, RIGHT?
AND THESE HEAVY FIREPOWER BEYOND THE IMAGINATION OF THE JAPANESE ARMY COUPLED WITH THE GERMAN'S ALREADY TOP-NOTCH ARTILLERY SKILLS, TO THE JAPANESE ARMY IS DEFINITELY BEYOND THE GENERAL IMAGINATION OF THE SHOCK, THINK ABOUT IT, IN HISTORY, THE JAPANESE ARMY IN THE 2 WARS ONLY HAD A HOWITZER OF MORE THAN 200MM?
Although the Japanese army also heard that the German military level will strengthen the 8-inch heavy howitzer, but I heard that it is completely different from the actual feeling, a 100-kilogram high-explosive bomb goes down, and there are almost no living people within a radius of 50 meters! And by the time these heavy artillery were aimed at the Japanese group that was launching a dense charge, everything was already doomed! With an earth-shattering loud bang, a crater more than one person deep and several meters in diameter appeared on the ground, and with this as the center of the circle, within a range of 30 to 50 meters, almost a squad of soldiers evaporated directly in this cannon!
When he saw that his comrades-in-arms were instantly gone, and a small mushroom cloud rose into the sky, even the most crazy people instantly calmed down, and those who were slightly closer were even overturned to the ground by a huge shock wave, and the impact and pressure difference between the air flow and the scorching air made the internal organs of these soldiers suffer a great impact.
"I stood up with the discomfort, and saw the soldier on the island curled up like a shrimp, he coughed violently, and suddenly, his body twitched, and a blood-red thing was spat out." I went up to help him, and as I approached the mass, I realized that it was a shattered lung!
"I was terrified. I opened my mouth to shout, but I couldn't hear my own voice, which made me even more alarmed, and I subconsciously touched my ear with my hand and saw a hand of red blood. I know my eardrums were shattered as well. A Japanese soldier recalls the situation after the war.
While the 210MM heavy artillery destroyed the Japanese offensive spearhead little by little like a slow and heavy hammer, the K09 150MM long-range gun easily wiped out the Japanese artillery positions from the map from a distance of 12 to 14 kilometers! Even the remaining officers and soldiers of many Japanese artillery positions could not determine where the German shells were fired from after the end of the war! You know, the entire Japanese Army has not conducted a single shot with a design distance of more than 14 kilometers! Even during the Russo-Japanese War, the range of those siege guns was only 10 kilometers!
The so-called artillery destroys, infantry occupies! During the Franco-Prussian War, the German Army was accustomed to concentrating dozens of artillery batteries, hundreds of artillery to storm the French defensive positions and artillery on the opposite side, and then after the battle, the infantry went up to clean the battlefield directly, and this time, the Germans felt that they seemed to be doing more easily than their predecessors, anyway, in the Battle of Sedan, the French artillery also jumped a few times, and this time, the Japanese artillery was directly abolished in the artillery duel. THE 150MM CANNON, WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED FOR DEEP SUPPRESSION, SOON RAN OUT OF WORK, AND COULD ONLY TURN THE MUZZLE TO THE INFANTRY AND SOME LOGISTICS UNITS!
According to the theory of the Germans, this artillery is still not enough on a front about 8 kilometers long, and it is very difficult to blockade it by fire alone, so it is necessary to rely on infantry to repel the opponent at a critical moment. And those Japanese soldiers who were not taken care of by the heavy artillery finally had the opportunity to fight face-to-face with the German army soldiers! They shouted and rushed to their opponents, and according to previous experience and the French gave them, Hodgchase machine guns were deployed on both sides of the position, while the remaining Japanese troops attacked in squadrons.
"Our soldiers formed a battle line, and the opposing German forces seemed to be scattered into small groups, and we charged like a wave, and all the troops wanted to close the distance as quickly as possible and then enter our favorite melee mode, while the Germans did not think so." After the war, a Japanese soldier described the situation of the infantry unit when the two sides fought for the first time.
The German infantry units were more dispersed, but the depth was very large, even in the less sheltered plains! The most elite combat squads were placed in the front line, each with an MG09 light machine gun or a captured Lewis machine gun, and an elite combat squad numbered about 13 to 15 people, with a machine gun, a grenadier (or grenade launcher), 4 submachine guns, and at least 3 semi-automatic rifles. In addition, there are a number of pistols. The squad was divided into three combat groups, with the grenadier in the back and the other two in an inverted triangle.
And from squad to platoon, from platoon to company, it is also such a three-three principle, and the soldiers of the German Army used intensive firepower to form a temporary defense line with considerable depth! 800 meters! 600 meters! When the Japanese approached 500 meters, all the approaching Japanese troops suddenly rushed to the opposite position like crazy, they shouted, picked up the "spear" that was taller than themselves, a full 1.8 meters, and rushed towards the seemingly scattered German infantry queue in the distance.
The Germans in the distance, calmly looking at their opponents like beasts, the bombardier next to him calmly brought a 100-round bullet to the machine gun, while the infantry with complex protection was divided into two, the first infantry with rifles began to shoot from 300 meters away, and the submachine gunners straightened their magazines and drums.
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