203: War and Change
As the casualties of the Japanese army gradually increased, the Japanese commanders who were still sitting firmly on Mount Tai were also a little unable to sit still. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The Han army in front of them does not seem to be as weak as they imagined, and in terms of firepower, they must be completely superior to the Japanese army.
But now that the infantry had rushed up, their artillery had no way to provide support. Moreover, the Japanese artillery shells are much more precious than bullets, and now every time they are shot, it is not possible to ensure that the next shell will be replenished until half a month later.
This is also the real reason why the Japanese army only came to this nearly two-kilometer-long position with just over 20 shells.
As the counterattack of the Japanese infantry began, casualties began to appear on the side of the Han army.
At this time, the military quality between the two sides is of course very important, but in fact, the psychological quality is the most important.
Most of the soldiers who were wounded on the Han side were recruits, and after seeing the start of the Japanese counterattack, these recruits began to panic in their hearts, and then they faintly wanted to retreat.
If they honestly lay on their positions, relying on bunkers and huge firepower, the Japanese counterattack could only rely on luck to hit them. However, the recruits were in disarray, which gave the Japanese some opportunity to counterattack.
Although, there began to be casualties on the Han army's side, but after all, it was only a small part.
The Han army, which has complete fortifications, has an absolute advantage in firepower, so even the Japanese army in the counterattack has more casualties than the Han army.
On the defensive position, the Japanese army can be said to have been beaten by the strong firepower of the Han army, they were already accustomed to the opponent being the Qing army, and suddenly replaced with a Han army whose strength was not inferior to theirs, which made many Japanese soldiers a little difficult to adapt to for a while.
Don't say that the Fifth Division actually fought with the Han Army, the Fifth Division does have a record of fighting with the Han Army, but is there any connection between the two? Eight of the ten Japanese soldiers who fought Wang Sirui at the beginning were already dead, and the remaining two may have been seriously injured.
Even if some of them returned to the army, so what? They are just the most basic soldiers, in their consciousness, Wang Sirui just took advantage of some advantages of the terrain to sneak attack them, they don't think Wang Sirui is so powerful.
Although the high-level of the Japanese army once had a more important attitude towards Wang Sirui, they were very helpless, and no one took him seriously at the top and below.
So much so that when the infantry charged hard, the Japanese only fired more than 20 shells as cover, and while the infantry charged, their heavy machine guns did not provide fire support.
Don't look at the excitement on the battlefield now, but in fact, most of the bullets came from the Han army, and the Japanese army could only forcibly bear the pressure brought by this barrage-like bullet, and occasionally fight back to declare their existence.
"Yaga...... Get out of the way, get out of the way, damn it......" Masao Komura scolded angrily, but he didn't have anything he could do about the current situation.
Masao Komura was a machine gunner, a rare machine gunner in the Japanese army. Today, there are only 200 heavy machine guns in the country, although 50 French Hatch Chase MLE 1897 machine guns have been purchased, but the 50 machine guns are actually samples, which are used for research by domestic weapons experts.
That's right, this is the model of the Japanese 92 Heavy Machine, which was developed on the basis of the Hatch Chase MLE1897 machine gun.
Therefore, Japan is still only equipped with 200 Makqin heavy machine guns, and these 200 heavy machine guns are partly equipped with the fortress troops, so to speak, at present, on average, there are only three Makqin heavy machine guns in each division, and these three Makqin heavy machine guns have always followed the division command to act together.
Because this was the main place where the Fifth Division first launched an attack, the division commander Yamaguchi Sotomi sent a machine gun to support the Japanese army.
As a result, what Komura Masao didn't expect was that the arrival of his machine gun didn't seem to be here to support the Japanese army, but rather to support the Han army on the other side.
"Yaga, why don't you shoot?" A squadron leader under the 11th Wing of the 9th Brigade of the 5th Division, watching his soldiers in front of him constantly fall under the enemy's guns, ran to Masao Komura's side, and asked angrily.
"Sir, the formation of the troops is too scattered, and the soldiers need to dodge the other side's fire, and the action is even more irregular, and the machine guns have no firing range, in this case, I can't shoot, otherwise our soldiers will be attacked on their backs." Masao Komura sighed and said.
Although the Japanese army was equipped with heavy machine guns, although there were not many of them, no one cared about the use of machine guns. Perhaps, in their opinion, the use of machine guns is nothing more than defense, and how to use them when attacking like this? At least for now, no one has been able to solve this problem.
Of course, if Wang Sirui is here, he will definitely despise Masao Komura, who said that there is no way to solve it? Lao Tzu can solve this problem.
In fact, in the world's military history, World War II is a watershed, it does not simply refer to the difference between technology after World War II and the previous ones, although there are factors in technology and weapons, but more is a radical innovation in tactics.
During World War II, tactics that had been used for hundreds of years were discarded and tactics that were more advanced and more difficult for opponents to deal with.
Let's not talk about blitzkrieg or anything, it's a little too far away, just take the matter of machine guns covering infantry charges. At present, because the number of machine guns equipped in the world is not large, and the role of machine guns has not been really realized, so more defense is the mainstay.
What did the charge look like in positional warfare before World War II? Just take a look at the anti-Japanese dramas of later generations, as soon as the horn sounded, 10,000 people rushed up and began to charge, the kind of unstructured attack, the kind of majestic attack.
That's right, the offensive methods adopted in the anti-Japanese drama did really happen on the battlefield, but before World War II.
In World War II, due to the innovation of tactics and the upgrading of weapons, the scene of a large number of people charging on the battlefield is often no longer seen.
As said in a certain TV series, the Japanese army used the triangular tactics that have been used for 10,000 years, but broke through our defense line one after another.
It's far away, back to the point.
"Baga, you can't shoot to suppress the enemy, what's the use of asking you to come over?" The squadron leader kicked Masao Komura's body, although the other party was from the division headquarters, but so what? His own troops are about to die, but the only heavy firepower here has no way to support them, so how can this squadron leader not be angry?
"Your Excellency Squadron Leader, maybe you can let the soldiers lie on the ground and move forward slowly, so that we don't have to worry about our bullets accidentally injuring our own people." Masao Komura proposed.
"Order the troops to advance on their stomachs." The squadron leader immediately said to the soldiers beside him.
In this way, because of the powerful firepower of the Han army, when the Japanese army only lost dozens of people, they were forced to change their tactics, and this tactic also made the Han army suffer a lot, of course, mainly to waste a lot of ammunition.
The Japanese soldiers lying on the ground have smaller targets, which brings greater difficulties to the soldiers who shoot, and the targets are moving, after lying on the ground, the targets will be about half smaller than the targets they use to shoot, and even the usual shooting training can not guarantee 100% on the target, how can they accurately hit the enemy?
The Japanese troops lying on the ground were several times less stressed for a while, and the heavy machine gun behind them also joined the battle group, providing them with limited fire support.
As a result, the well-trained Japanese counterattacks were more adept, at least more time than before, when they could aim and shoot instead of casually shooting forward.
"Damn, it seems that there are a lot of capable people over there." He Xin has gradually regained his hearing now, although he has not recovered to the best state, but it does not affect the command of the operation, so He Xin took over his command again a few minutes ago.
Immediately afterwards, He Xin also issued a new order, "Da Binzi, Xiao Wu, suppress the opponent's machine gun for Lao Tzu, and the others aim and fight again." ”
The Japanese army has changed its tactics, and if there is no change on their side, they will definitely suffer next. Although they still have the advantage on their side, this advantage is slowly disappearing, and once the Japanese army gets close to them, the consequences are unimaginable.
At that time, they can only be forced to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army, and the Japanese army behind will rush up unhindered, so that the first line of positions will soon change hands.
It took them a whole day to build a position, but by the time it was time to fight, they had only killed thirty or forty of the opponent's men, and although the whole regiment might have killed three or four hundred of them, it was too cost-effective.
And in order to be able to regain the advantage on his side, He Xin had to order two heavy machine guns to shoot at the heavy machine guns on the opposite side, as long as they could suppress the opponent's heavy machine guns, or even kill the other party, then their side would naturally regain the advantage.
'When! ’
A bullet hit the shutter in front of Masao Komura's machine gun, making a crisp sound.
Immediately after, more bullets rushed in his face, and Masao Komura knew very well that because of his own fire, he had already attracted the attention of the other party, and the other party had sent more powerful firepower to deal with him.
Although it is also a heavy machine gun, it is also a Makqin heavy machine gun, but the Japanese are different from others, that is, the Japanese lack resources, so their heavy machine guns are generally not allowed to strafe, so, in terms of rate of fire, Komura Masao is not comparable to the other party, plus two bullets from different directions hit him, Komura Masao just exerted his power for less than half a minute, and was instantly suppressed by the other party and couldn't raise his head.
'Puff puff ......'
Three bullets hit Masao Komura's secondary shooter almost at the same time, and three bullets hit almost the same part, and blood sprayed Masao Komura's entire body in an instant.
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