Chapter 30: The battle continues

Throughout the history of human warfare, we will find that the focus of warfare has been constantly changing back and forth between quantitative and qualitative superiority. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 In the beginning, it was a mode of aristocratic warfare with limited participation of the Chinese people, but later, with the development of productive forces, it entered a unified general war mode for the whole country. Typical representatives of this are from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period.

Then, with the further development of science and technology, when only a small number of elite troops could easily suppress a large area, elite militarianism was on its head again. Many years later, in the midst of the wave of nationalism, the scales tipped again, and the side with more armies would have the power to dominate the battlefield.

In World War I and World War II, numerical superiority in China and the Soviet Union was an important bargaining chip in determining the outcome of the war. But by the end of World War II, the war had returned to a similar path to the original war of the nobility.

At that time, as long as you have a small but elite army, you can easily suppress the enemy's numerical advantage. Although it is also because the world has entered the era of nuclear peace.

In the first decade of the 20 th century, whether the armed forces of various countries should follow the line of quantitative superiority or the line of qualitative superiority has always been a question that the armed forces of various countries need to face. Those who have ambition and the strength are, of course, to grasp both hands, to be hard in both hands, and to maintain the highest level of quality and quantity.

But the vast majority of countries in the world are unable to do this, just as no country can maintain a large navy and a large army at the same time.

Oh, the Germans before the First World War had such ambitions. While they had built an army large enough to defeat Russia and France, they also built a high seas fleet that wanted to compete with the British on the oceans.

As for the result, everyone knows that the High Seas Fleet became a shrunken turtle after a battle, hid in the harbor and never went out, and became a soy sauce player throughout the war.

Because of their geographical location, the Japanese had to vigorously develop their land forces while developing their navy. However, Japan is a latecomer industrial country, and its national strength is not half a star compared to that of the old powers. Therefore, even if he was taught to be a man by artillery doctrine and the tactics of the sea of people in the Gengzi years, he still failed to get more improvements in heavy equipment.

Moreover, the Japanese Army was imbued with the German offensive spirit, emphasizing active and decisive mobile warfare, and could not allow more heavy equipment to move with the infantry. Therefore, the fifth division was equipped with dozens of heavy machine guns and several 105 light howitzers imported from Handan.

What the Japanese really paid attention to and equipped with were grenades and mortars, two cheap and useful weapons. Both weapons come in handy, both offensively and defensively. Needless to say, grenades are mortars, which can be carried around by manpower.

The Japanese have a good set of learning from the strengths of others, and although mortars have the shortcomings of insufficient shooting accuracy, they are not insurmountable for the Japanese. Anyway, the Japanese tradition is to be cruel to their enemies and to themselves. Under the hard training of the soldiers without hesitation, there were many "artillery masters" and "mortar masters" among the army's red deer.

Now, it's time for these "mortar masters" and the like to show their worth.

Under the watchful eye of Kuroki Weizhen, several Japanese soldiers dragged the mortar to an extremely close position, and then placed the mortar in a very short time. Then, five or six mortar shells smashed into a heavy machine-gun position.

The blast was accompanied by fragments, and the original position was already a bloody mess. The Japanese soldiers, who had been suppressed for a long time, jumped up and rushed forward. The sound of rifle fire did not stop for a moment, and now the sound of a bayonet stabbing into the body was added.

The Japanese army is a brave man who has been brainwashed by militarism and bushido for many years, and after a long period of training, it is able to firmly rank first in Asia in terms of the quality of individual soldiers.

During the Southwest War, Meiji's government forces were beaten by Saigo's samurai. Since then, the Japanese army has attached great importance to white-knuckle warfare. The Russian tradition of "bullets are stupid, bayonets are heroes" seems to have continued on the body of these Japanese devils.

Most of the enemy troops opposite them were transformed from the bandit beards here in the Northeast, and those who could survive in this part of the Northeast were all strongmen with a tough temperament and were accustomed to licking blood with knives. Seeing the Japanese army rushing up, these people did not panic, and jumped out of the trench with all kinds of cold weapons, and a tragic white-knuckle battle broke out.

"Onboard!" The Japanese howled and rushed into the trenches. The sound of rifle shooting, the sound of grenade explosions did not stop for a moment. The sound of "whooshing" bullets piercing the air was endless, and although there was no fire support from heavy machine guns, the soldiers of the double anti-dump still fell one by one.

The soldiers of the Song Biao Department on the defending side are better at this mode of melee. The vast majority of these people are illiterate and semi-literate, and although they have extraordinary physique and are very good at marksmanship, they are still not skilled enough in the "high-tech" games that require the calculation of ballistics, such as heavy machine guns and cannons.

Rather than using artillery and heavy machine gun fire to destroy the enemy, they are better at lifting knives and slashing people.

There was a crisp "click", and an officer used a knife to cut a Japanese soldier with a gun in two, and blood splattered his face. Killing an enemy made him laugh out loud, but when he looked up, he found that when the Japanese soldiers were constantly being consumed, the soldiers under his command were almost dead.

"it!" The officer scolded angrily, "Why are there so many dog/day devils?" The old man has killed more than a dozen, and there are still so many of him/mother! ”

In the era of hot weapons, hand-to-hand combat was sudden, rapid, and tragic, and the requirements for soldiers were much higher than shooting guns from afar. Generally speaking, for no particular reason, the exchange ratio between the two sides in large-scale hand-to-hand combat is about one to one.

Even if the soldiers of Song Biao's department used five strokes, they were still defeated and retreated in front of several times the number of Japanese troops. The commanders on both sides knew that at the beginning of the battle, they were filling it with the flesh and blood of the soldiers. At this time, although the upper wow is big, it is still barely acceptable, and when one side can't support it and collapses, the casualties will become even greater. (To be continued.) )