650: Japanese recruits
Under the heavy fire of infantry such as machine guns and mortars, automatic rifles, sniper rifles, rifles, grenades and other infantry light firepower, the Japanese troops hiding in the woods on the opposite side were instantly smashed a little confused. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the first round of counterattacks, the Japanese had already exposed their problems, and in the subsequent battles, this problem became more and more obvious.
For example, the Japanese army's marksmanship has obviously dropped by more than one level. The Japanese army's ruthlessness in combat has also dissipated a lot compared with before, and in addition, the Japanese army is also much inferior in terms of organization and combat experience.
And the Japanese army on the opposite side generally gives people a feeling that they are a unit composed of new recruits, and the number of veterans in the unit is even less frightening.
The strength of the three platoons rushed to the Japanese position almost without any resistance, saying that it was a position, but in fact it was a bunker blocked by a few branches, and it could be kicked down with one foot, and it might be more appropriate to say that it was camouflage.
Grenades were thrown on the heads of the Japanese soldiers one after another, and those Japanese soldiers who dared to stand up would be instantly beaten into a sieve by the machine guns that provided fire support from the rear, and the machine gun positions were not motionless, they would move slowly with the distance of the infantry charge, but on the whole they remained at a distance of about two or three hundred meters from the infantry, and the mortars were farther away, about four hundred meters.
Even if the Japanese troops were to attack the rear firepower points, they might not be able to succeed, a platoon of soldiers was on guard all around, and with the support of heavy fire such as mortars and machine guns, according to this level of firepower, less than the strength of a battalion, it was impossible to knock them out.
Yin Jia walked next to several Japanese corpses, directly ignoring the tragic condition of the corpses, he has been in the army for so many years, and he has been on the battlefield many times, and he has experienced dozens of large and small battles, and he has long been immune to some pictures on the battlefield.
He looked at the corpse's face, and then looked through their weapons and equipment, supplies, etc. Then he changed the corpse and continued to repeat the previous action, looking through several corpses in a row, and wiping the blood stained on his hands on the body of the Japanese soldier. Yin Jia took out a box of cigarettes from her pocket, took out one and put it in her mouth, lit it and then slowly stood up.
The situation seems to be a little wrong, but it looks normal, Yin Jia doesn't know what is going on inside the Japanese army, but he knows very well that the war has just begun, if it happens in a few years, or a few months later, then it is purely normal, but now, there are only two possibilities for this situation.
First, they hit the enemy's recruit camp by mistake, and second, the enemy lacked troops and had to platoon the recruits to fight on the battlefield.
"See what?" The platoon commander Lian Xiqing walked to Yin Jia's side unhurriedly, looking at the corpses all over the place, until now he couldn't believe this scene, where is this war? The enemy army is clearly sticking out their heads and waiting for them to cut it, this situation is too abnormal.
"These Japanese soldiers don't seem to be too old or young, they are the age when they are soldiers fighting, and they have a rifle in their hands, for the Japanese army who lacks guns and ammunition, this unit will definitely not be a fish belly unit, but I just looked through their savings bags and found that on average, each Japanese soldier does not carry much ammunition, only about thirty or forty, grenades or anything else have not been seen, and the rations carried are basically only enough for two days." Yin Jia took a heavy puff of cigarette, and the cigarette entered his lungs, which made Yin Jia suddenly sober up a lot, and then continued:
"From this Japanese army, I saw that they may have just come out of the recruit camp, or according to the Japanese recruit training procedures, they should not have left the recruit camp yet, but because of the urgency of the war, they had to leave the recruit camp without adequate supplies and go to the front line to fight."
"On the other hand, we may be faced with two possibilities, one is that there is no 'Japanese army' (referring to the Japanese army units with combat capability) in the vicinity, and the Japanese command did not expect that we would divide our forces to attack Kagoshima, and the people stationed here only urgently recruited new recruits after getting the news that we were going to attack, and calculated the time, so far, they have been training for less than two months at most.
Although the Japanese have received militarized training since childhood, it is not pure militarized training after all, and it is still very different from the real army.
If this is the reason, then the battle we just now can be explained, so many people gathered here, unsuspecting by us, and even after being attacked, they did not disperse in time, so that our heavy firepower was maximized.
Only recruits who have not completed their training and have no combat experience make such mistakes.
On the other hand, there is also a Japanese army in Kagoshima that is capable of fighting, and we are now facing only new recruits from the periphery, and perhaps they hope to use these recruits to paralyze us, thinking that the Japanese army is no more than that, so as to give us a fatal blow when we attack Kagoshima in the future. Lian Xiqing said.
"The Japanese army seems to lack ammunition and equipment, but in fact, they only need to fight around our small force, and their equipment situation will definitely improve. And this is not a barracks, what is the purpose of this Japanese army here? Yin Jia couldn't help but wonder.
There is no barracks, there is no line of defense, what are the Japanese troops hiding here for? Sneak attack? Could it be that the Japanese really thought that with the new recruits of these two squadrons, they would be able to succeed in a sneak attack? Two squadrons could not defeat even their three platoons, and they could only be annihilated unless there were units operating in squads.
It's not that Yin Jia looks down on the Japanese army, but after this series of battles, Yin Jia feels that he has to re-examine the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army.
"If you want me to say, will they be the baggage troops of the little devils?" Xiao Douding interjected in time.
"It's even more impossible, the Japanese army is now short of weapons and ammunition, and even the equipment of the combat troops is very lacking, how can they have the energy to equip the baggage troops with weapons and equipment? Even if it is equipped, it is at most half the number. Besides, if they are carrying heavy troops, what about the baggage? Moreover, we fought all the way from the west, and we did not see a large army of Japanese troops at all, so where are they going to send their baggage? Or do they want to move the baggage from the west to Kagoshima? Yin Jia said.
"Anything is possible, and let's not forget that the Japanese don't need everything right now, not only to be equipped with ammunition, but also to need food. Before that, we had come all the way from the west, and it had not rained yet, and even with the cars in front of us, it was difficult for us to spot any traces on the ground.
But now the situation is different, whether there is a Japanese army in front of it, you only need to send someone over to take a look, as for why this recruit was sent out to carry out the mission, it is estimated that the Japanese themselves know the reason. Company Commander Feng Sixi happened to come over and heard Yin Jia and others talking, and couldn't help but analyze.
Things on the battlefield seem impossible, but in fact everything is very possible, which is like a military school recruiting students, in addition to the traditional admission method, there is a more alternative selection method.
That is, to see whose brain hole is bigger, and who comes up with a more nonsensical solution.
This method of selection may seem boring, naïve, and even a waste of time, but it turns out that the result is not what they think, in fact, the officers selected in this way may not be worth mentioning in front of the same rank of commander, but as a staff officer, they play a particularly obvious role.
In other words, the focus of this kind of people is not to play cards according to the routine, which is like a mouth in the shape of the area, four roads combined into a mouth, from an oblique angle needs to another oblique angle, normal people's choice must be to go straight first, and then turn a corner, but those people disdain to do this, they prefer to go directly to the opposite corner, as long as they can go through, there is no cliff in the middle, they will choose to go this way, one is hidden, the other is likely to be more time-saving.
Feng Sixi did not rule out that there were such talents in the Japanese army, but no matter what, he had to gradually investigate all possible situations.
Besides, it doesn't matter if you go to verify this problem, you just need to send a squad of fighters to speed up and reconnoiter in front.
Soon, a squad of fighters broke away from the large group and quickly ran forward, while the rest of the men quickly cleared the battlefield.
They are not interested in cleaning up the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, and they can't look down on the weapons of the Japanese army, but not looking at them doesn't mean that they can just throw them here, what if they are picked up by the Japanese, and then continue to use these weapons against them?
So, these weapons were gathered together, piled up there, and then a fire burned them out.
What? You tell me that you can't catch fire on a rainy day? Please, I have gas, okay? What day can you still make gasoline not ignite? It's not much, but it's okay to burn these rifles.
A fire burned the most urgently needed equipment of the Japanese army, but the culprits did not pay attention to these things at all, and continued to rush forward, the large troops behind them were not far away, and they did not have time to delay too much time here.
In about ten minutes, a soldier from a squad that had just been sent to reconnoiter ran back and gave a general report on the situation ahead.