Chapter 55: The Attack on Sumatra (Part II)
Ten minutes came quickly, and the battalion commanders personally led the troops to charge. The www.biquge.info divisional guards are watching from behind, and whoever wants to be hindered will immediately enforce battlefield discipline.
The Dutch soldiers also knew the seriousness of the matter, and would rather die on the way to the charge than be subject to battlefield discipline.
Due to the rush of time, the Lan Fang Army only built 2 blockade lines, the 1st Battalion and the 2nd Battalion were on the first front, and the deputy regiment commander personally commanded the battle on the first blockade line; 2 heavy machine guns were arranged on 2 sides of the blockade line, facing the intersection, forming crossfire; The other two were placed in the middle of the blockade; I didn't have time to build a machine gun fortress, but I simply dug a big pit and piled some dirt on the front side, and it was very solid.
The 3rd Battalion and the 4th Battalion were on the 2nd blockade line, with units directly under the regimental headquarters as reserves.
The regimental artillery battalion was deployed behind the second blockade line, and did not have time to do any fortifications.
The deputy regiment commander shouted: "The enemy is about to attack, first the mortar fires, then the heavy machine guns fire, and finally the light machine guns and rifles fire, we must separate the levels and play the level, this is the first time that our regiment has blocked the enemy, don't be thin at the critical moment." ”
Thousands of people charging together, the momentum is really enough, it will make some inexperienced people feel terrifying, if the arrangement is not good, the front can easily be broken.
When entering the 2000 range, the deputy regimental commander ordered the mortars to start firing, to focus on densely populated areas; The 60 mortars could hit 1800 meters, but by that time there was not much accuracy, so the deputy commander ordered the 60 mortars to pause for a while, and only let the 81 mortars continue to fire. The mortar explosion kill range is more than 10 square meters, each time more than 10 people are killed, it is insignificant in the large army of so many people charging together, several 81 mortars fired continuously, although the results of each battle are not large, but the combined lethality is still considerable, and when the Dutch impulse 1000 meters range, the casualties have reached more than 300 people. At this time, the deputy commander ordered the heavy machine gun and the 60 mortars to fire together, and the role of the heavy machine gun was immediately apparent, it was simply a harvester, and the Dutch soldiers who rushed to the front fell in rows, and they all died miserably, and they couldn't even save their limbs after death. 60 mortars also exploded unhurriedly in crowded places, more than 200 60 mortars were fired together, and the power immediately compared to the heavy machine guns, and the Dutch army had not yet rushed to the range of 500 meters, and half of the personnel had been lost.
The commander of the 1st Regiment of the 3rd Division of the Dutch Army saw his soldiers dying in rows, and his heart was dripping blood, "Division commander, you can't charge like this, this is not a war, this is a massacre, they will be slaughtered." ”
"And what can you do?" The division commander asked.
The head of the regiment shook his head helplessly.
The division commander said firmly: "Since there is no way, then continue to charge, otherwise none of us will be able to escape." ”
The heavy machine-gun support fire of the Dutch army still caused some casualties to the Lanfang army, and the deputy regiment commander ordered the 81mm mortars not to attack the enemy's infantry, and specifically hit the heavy machine-gun positions at a distance of 1,200 meters ahead.
2 battalions of 12 81mm mortars began to focus on bombarding the heavy machine gun positions on the small dirt slope, and the first round of test firing blew up a Dutch heavy machine gun, and the continuous shells from the rear made the Dutch heavy machine gun support positions completely dumb, without artillery fire advantage, heavy machine guns are not omnipotent.
When the Dutch troops, less than 1,500 men, rushed within 400 meters, the deputy regimental commander ordered the soldiers lying in the trenches to start firing with rifles and light machine guns. Lan Fangjun is equipped with a large number of light machine guns and semi-automatic rifles, and at this time they began to show their power, one is to attack, one is lying in the trench to block the attack, the other is a single-shot rifle, and a division has a large number of automatic and semi-automatic weapons, although it is a counterfire, but the effect is 108,000 miles apart. And in the range of 400 meters, the lethality of the heavy machine gun is higher, basically there is no missing bullet, and after being shot, it is either killed directly, or the arm is deduced, and the result is even more terrifying.
When they rushed to within 200 meters, there were less than 700 people left, and at this time, the smart Dutch soldiers simply couldn't get up, even if they were stepped on by the soldiers behind, they didn't get up, they would die if they got up, and they couldn't at least die if they were trampled on. More and more soldiers did not dare to continue to rush forward, and they all lay down one after another. Anyway, there are corpses in front of him, and for the time being, Lan Fangjun can't beat himself, and the supervising team behind can't get to such a close position to the front line, so there is no way to take himself for the time being.
However, in the eyes of the regiment commander who watched the battle behind, these people were all sacrificed. At this time, the regiment commander's eyes were red, and he roared angrily: "All dead, all dead, more than 3,000 people are dead." “
In less than 20 minutes, a regiment of more than 3,000 people completely died, a result that was unacceptable to those present.
Charging is death, it's better to surrender, at least for the time being, you can save your life, and the country will save your own people, besides, everyone did their best.
The chief of staff said: "Division commander, surrender, we can't rush through." “
The deputy division commander also said: "Division commander, we have done our best, surrender, don't make indifferent sacrifices." ”
The division commander also knew that without the support of artillery fire, he would not be able to rush through today, and the pursuers in the rear would also arrive immediately, so there was really no chance, and it would be a senseless sacrifice to charge again. I had to agree to surrender and let the chief of staff go and talk to the Lan Fang people.
The chief of staff carried a white shirt with a tree branch and slowly walked towards the position of the 1st Regiment.
Along the way, I saw soldiers with incomplete limbs, dead eyes, what a good young man, just like that. This strengthened the Chief of Staff's determination to surrender and strive to keep more young men alive and let them return to the Netherlands alive.
The matter in the back will be easily solved, and the chief of staff of the 1st regiment will handle it.
The 3rd and 4th battalions have not yet opened, so let's go and collect the weapons of the Dutch soldiers and watch over the Dutch soldiers who surrendered.
When the 2nd Regiment and the 3rd Regiment caught up with each other, the Dutch Division had already surrendered, and the two regiment commanders were so angry that they were about to vomit blood.
By the time Zhang Wei arrived in Palembang in the afternoon, the war was over.
After listening to the report, Zhang Wei instructed the Dutch division commander to persuade the 3rd Regiment stationed in Tanjung Garland to surrender.
In the afternoon, Zhang Wei left the purchased Novik destroyer in Palembang, and when he was about to return home, he received a telegram from the 2nd Division. However, Zhang Wei believes that the 2nd Division must be very easy to fight, and if the 1st Division can't repair the 1st regiment of the Dutch Army, then it is better to find a piece of tofu and kill it.
On the 9th, Zhang Wei returned to Beijing, and Li Zhaoshui sent 1 Moltke-class battle cruiser and 4 1935-style torpedo boats to protect the huge troop transport ship pairs and began to occupy the cities along the Indian Ocean coast. This time, the navy was Li Yunhai, and the army sent the 12th division.
The advice of the General Staff was to occupy the port of Patong first, and then go back and clean up the small port cities.