Chapter 30: Dogfight (4)
"Up, rush up and kill them all." The fearful mixed soldiers were punched and kicked by the officers and drove forward, and the madness of the Japanese soldiers seemed to outweigh them, and these young men from the mountains of Thailand and Vietnam began to fear the hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army. The extended fire of the machine gun group opened a passage for them, and at the roar of the officers, the mixed soldiers with rifles seemed to regain a little confidence and began to accelerate the deep assault on the Japanese positions.
"Baga, stop them, we can't let them continue to storm our position." The bombed Japanese army seemed to have really opened fire, and after losing the artillery superiority they had relied on so far, the officers who were still alive on the position had already given their soldiers an order to fight the enemy. The rifles were no longer able to stop the enemy's frantic attack, and the machine guns were under the suppression of the enemy's machine gun fire, and the only way they could hold their positions was suicide blasting.
The death squad is by no means a unique combat mode for the Chinese, but the Japanese army has taken the combat mode of the death squad to the extreme, as early as when Yamamoto 56 led the combined fleet to attack Pearl Harbor, the Japanese pilots who flew the aircraft participated in the sneak attack with a mortal heart. In order to ensure that the planes they flew could write the maximum number of bombs and torpedoes, some pilots even brought only the main fuel tank, and only relied on the fuel in the main fuel tank, they could not return to the Japanese ships at all, so at the last moment, they themselves and the planes they piloted would also become bombs that fell on the US ships.
The Japanese troops, who were struggling to hold on, did the same, and the seriously wounded, who had lost their mobility, were pushed out of the trenches, and they were ordered to crawl forward, pretend to be dead corpses when the enemy attacked, and then pull grenades or explosives in their hands. The number of seriously wounded was insufficient, and the lightly wounded were replaced, and the number of lightly wounded was ignored, so those recruits who could not even shoot accurately were selected to take over, and as many as 1,000 Japanese flesh bombs were thus placed in front of the Japanese army's deep positions, waiting to strike a head-on blow to the attacking enemy.
The Japanese tank division, which had not made a major move, was lurking in a trench only a few dozen meters behind the Japanese army's deep position, and not a single tank sent out to help the battle had returned, which had already made the commander of the tank division restless. Compared with Osaka and Okayama, the terrain here on Kyushu Island seems to be more suitable for tank combat, but the seven tanks under his command have lost contact, and at this moment he has to deploy cautiously and look for a suitable opportunity to maximize the combat effectiveness of the tank division.
The fierce battle that broke out on the outer defense line was visible to everyone on the deep position, although the deep position was also bombed by enemy aircraft, but they never fired a shot, and the soldiers hidden in the trenches did not show their figures, compared to the crumbling of the outer position, the 12,000 soldiers in the deep position have not been fighting. In the face of such an opponent, the commander of the tank division is absolutely confident that he will defeat the opponent, but he needs a suitable opportunity to make a move, maybe when the flesh bombs in front of the position are detonated, it is the best time for those tanks under his command to attack.
The enemy was already in sight, and the officers in the position lowered their voices and commanded their soldiers to prepare for the attack. The bullets had been loaded, the bayonets had been loaded with rifles, the grenadiers had locked on to the onrushing enemy, and all the Japanese troops in the deep line were waiting for the arrival of the enemy troops, waiting for the moment when the desperate companions in front of the position pulled the grenades.
Closer, closer, Kojiro, who was lying face down on the ground, quietly clenched the grenade in his hand, he could already clearly see what the enemy commander was like who rushed over, and such a close distance made Kojiro nervous. The back scorched by the flames no longer seemed to feel pain, and Kojiro had focused all his energy on his eyes, and he had to make sure that the enemy was already within the blast range of the grenade before he could pull his grenade.
"It's finally here" With the sound of footsteps, several enemy soldiers dressed in black rushed a few meters in front of Kojiro, "Mom, Kojiro is going home." Kojiro, who couldn't make any sound, just moved his lips dryly, and when the pairs of military shoes approached him, Kojiro pulled the safety bolt of the grenade and used all his strength to knock the grenade on the stone under him. The inferiority of the Japanese-style 97 grenade extension fuse made Kojiro curse silently, and before the grenade he knocked on the stone exploded, the pairs of military shoes had already crossed his body and were out of his sight at the same time.
The grenade that Kojiro had knocked on finally exploded, but only two of the mixed soldiers who had been targeted by him were affected by the explosion, and the other three were only pushed by the explosion. "Boom" "Boom" The grenade detonated by Kojiro seemed to be a signal of the beginning of the attack, and as more and more mixed soldiers rushed over, more and more self-detonators began to appear in front of the Japanese deep positions.
"Success" Looking at the explosions in the telescope, the commander of the tank division finally gave the order to attack, and the impatient tankmen who had been waiting for a long time drove their tanks and tracked armored vehicles out of the deep positions. "Haha, these Japanese monkeys who don't remember to eat or fight, do they want to repel us with these broken tanks?" The reconnaissance plane, which had been hovering at a high altitude, discovered the smoke from the tail smoke of the Japanese tanks, and perhaps the sudden appearance of the Japanese armored unit was more suitable as a target and target for the aircraft to raid than the task of searching for the Japanese headquarters.
The situation on the battlefield has changed suddenly, and now it is obviously too late to transfer bombers over, and the six Wildcat fighters that have returned to the battlefield after entanglement with the Japanese planes will definitely be a nightmare for the Japanese armored forces. The high-speed flight of the fighters caused a lot of fire from the ground to be missed, but the large-caliber machine gun barrage fired by the Wildcat as it dived successfully plowed in front of the Japanese deep positions, and the airborne heavy machine guns, of the same caliber as the Browning large-caliber heavy machine guns, used all moving objects that rushed out of the Japanese positions as targets.
The six Wildcat fighters that were told to fly dived back and forth three times, and after draining all the bullets in the cabin, the unfortunate Wildcat battle formation had to be forced to return and leave the battlefield. The barrage of "Long live the Emperor" finally disappeared, and when the smoke screen rising in front of the position was blown away by the wind, the commander of the tank division, who had seen clearly the current situation on the battlefield, shouted "Long live the Emperor" and then committed suicide by cutting his sword. More than 30 light tanks could no longer distinguish their original shapes, and those medium tanks could not stop the strafing of large-caliber heavy machine gun bullets and turned into a nest of scrap metal full of bullet holes.
The worst thing was not the light tanks, but the tracked armored vehicles, which the Japanese equipped with machine guns, which were learned from their allies, the Germans, while keeping the armored vehicles moving at high speeds, armed the armored vehicles with machine gun fire into a mobile heavy fire point. It's a pity that Japan's resources can't be compared with the German allies, compared to the German army's armored personnel carriers with strong protection, the tracked armored vehicles equipped by the Japanese army are like toys welded out of iron sheets, not to mention that such things can't carry the bullets of large-caliber heavy machine guns, even the shots of Makqin heavy machine guns can penetrate its armor.
Tracked armored vehicles with a thickness of no more than 8 mm armor were simply papier-mâché toys in front of the large-caliber heavy machine guns on board the Wildcat fighters, and the airtight barrage not only destroyed these Japanese tracked armored vehicles, but also tore them into a pile of rags. Tracked armored vehicles with torn armor were scattered everywhere, and the reason why they were scattered was because they were really torn to pieces by large-caliber heavy machine gun bullets, including the Japanese troops in armored vehicles.
The entire division-sized tank tank tank was gone, and only a few lucky medium and heavy tanks escaped, but looking at the enemy forces that rushed like a tide, the rest of the tanks and tanks were not much better. Coincidentally, just a few minutes after the officer commanding the tank division committed suicide, the tank vehicles on the battlefield that had narrowly escaped the attack of the Wildcat Flying Formation were hit one by one by the Bazooka rockets fired by the mercenaries.
Having seen the strong attack scene of the Wildcat Flying Formation, with such a powerful aircraft to help the battle, even if the Japanese army is strong, it is probably not an opponent, and the desire for wealth and military merit suppresses their fear of the Japanese army, and those mixed soldiers with rifles instantly burst out of fighting spirit. In the face of the desperate resistance of more than 10,000 soldiers on the Japanese deep defense line, the mixed soldiers like a tide finally broke through the Japanese army's resistance under the cover of the follow-up machine gun cluster, and the strength advantage finally played a role at this time.
"Don't stop, don't pick up these things, kill them, kill them." The Japanese army's seemingly solid defense line was finally torn open by the mixed troops, and it was like a dam being washed through a flood. Ignoring the bullets fired desperately by the Japanese army, every officer who was on the front line was shouting loudly, directing the mixed soldiers around him to move forward and seize the opportunity to expand the breakthrough point is undoubtedly the most important thing at present, only in this way can the Japanese army be forced to retreat.
"Fire suppression, fire suppression, extension of fire to the wings." The follow-up machine gun cluster, which also suffered heavy casualties, hurriedly arrived, and after dozens of light and heavy machine guns were pressed down in time, the gap that had been filled by the mixed troops with hundreds of lives was torn wider and wider. By the time a large number of mixed soldiers swarmed in this direction, the cluster of machine guns under the control of the mercenary unit had widened the gap to 600 meters wide.