Chapter 372: Platoon Battle (Part II)
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Ishihara can't say that it is completely unreasonable to think so, and the proportion of veterans in the 2nd Army of the Japanese Central China Dispatch Army, which was pinned on by the Japanese headquarters headquarters, is relatively high (not as good as the Japanese troops in Xuzhou and Kaifeng, but stronger than all other new and reconstructed troops). What's more, Ishihara also knows that "the lion fights the rabbit, and he also uses all his strength." Although the military skills and tactics were not satisfactory to him because the training time of the recruits was generally too short, at least the will to fight was still very strong, coupled with the huge superiority in numbers, Ishihara thought that as long as his officers and men could bear enough casualties psychologically, it was entirely possible to approach the distance of hand-to-hand combat. Just thinking that it was the Chinese who were forced to find ways to fight the Japanese army in close quarters, but just two or three years later, the situation was reversed, Ishihara couldn't help but sigh in his heart
It was under this guiding ideology issued by Ishihara that even though the Japanese infantry squad had already suffered more than half of the casualties before the battle, the remaining devils still shouted like wild beasts, "load the board", put bayonets on the rifles, and rushed towards the dozen or so enemy troops who were finally close in front of them
"It's a fool to fight with you with bayonets", the squad leader Wang Erxi smiled when he saw this, and casually adjusted the Bayi assault rifle in his hand to a fully automatic shooting state, and then immediately raised the gun body and pulled the trigger violently, only to see that the muzzle of the gun immediately "suddenly" spewed out a long tongue of fire, and knocked several devils to the ground on the spot. At the same time, there were also 7 other Bayi assault rifles of the squad, these 8 automatic rifles that were ahead of the times intertwined with an impermeable net of fire, suppressing all the remnants of the Japanese infantry squad to death, and all of them lay on the ground and did not dare to get up, even so. The Japanese still suffered many casualties under their sharp automatic fire. And it is worth mentioning that with the help of the one-handed magazine jishu, the continuous fire of these 8 assault rifles almost did not stop. As a matter of course, many devils who looked up halfway and wanted to seize the "gap" and charge, so they didn't blink a blind eye.
It is worth mentioning that although this magic technique is easy to use, it will greatly shorten the service life of the Bayi assault rifle, so the 15th Group Army generally prohibits soldiers from practicing at will. But there are always exceptions, one is the special forces that generally perform tasks in squads; In addition, there are only aces in the field troops, and this squad is precisely one of the sharp knife squads in the Tiger Regiment of the ace troops. It is therefore a matter of course to enjoy this privilege.
Just when all the living devils were forced to lie down to avoid the bullets, the few soldiers who were not equipped with assault rifles began to pinch the time and threw grenades one by one on the heads of the devils with extremely skillful jishu movements, and they were all exploded in the air. After an explosion, those lying devils suddenly cried wolf, and countless shrapnel splattered down mercilessly into their exposed broad backs, causing great damage, and the injured and jumping devils were quickly swept to the ground by the steel storm from the Bayi assault rifle. No matter what, you can't escape a dead word
The Japanese infantry squad, which numbered as many as 70 men before the battle and still had 50 or 60 combatable soldiers (Note 1) at the time of the counter-charge, was attacked by the sharp fire of the enemy's infantry squad, and only a few agile and experienced veterans successfully rushed in front of the enemy. Several of these Zuihou devils also fell to the ground, and it is not unreasonable for the US military to choose pistols instead of bayonets as the main weapon of close combat
After smashing the enemy's resistance, the fighters of the squad did not forget to replenish the guns one by one to the enemy who fell to the ground and did not know whether he was alive or dead, and then the advantage of the large capacity of the 20-round barge gun was fully manifested. Perhaps it is precisely because of this consideration that Hu Weidong has always chosen this weapon, which seems to be a chicken rib for the army, as the standard pistol of the 15th Group Army
Because the distance is too close, the devil's 38-type rifle has greatly increased both the hit rate and the power, so the infantry squad of the Tiger Regiment also paid the price of 3 dead and 3 wounded, but they annihilated a 50 or 60 devil infantry squad, even if the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army can no longer be compared with the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, this jaw-dropping exchange ratio is still enough to highlight the strength of the Tiger Regiment
In fact, it was precisely because he was full of confidence in the combat effectiveness of the Tiger Regiment that Hu Weidong dared to let more than 3,000 people of this regiment break through the enemy in front of him as the arrows of the whole army, even if there were more Japanese troops than them who were responsible for defending the outermost Golan trench, and there were countless enemy troops in the rear who could be reinforced at any time.
In fact, Ishihara was not completely unprepared for this, on the one hand, he asked his troops to maintain a local superiority of 3:1 or even 5:1 in the battle as much as possible, and on the other hand, because he was concerned about the lethality of the enemy's artillery fire, he sent only one infantry wing to the first line of defense. This seemingly contradictory arrangement actually meant that Ishihara was forced to ignore the threat of infiltration tactics by enemy squads due to the lack of strength of his troops, and tried to meet the enemy's frontal attack with all his might, and then defeat the enemy forces in the subsequent strangulation battle by increasing his troops.
Who knew that the enemy's arrow troops were so terrifying that they easily broke through an elite infantry wing of more than 3,000 Japanese troops even after being shelled even if they were shelled. In this case, if Ishihara Waner still sent reinforcements to the first line of defense according to Jihua, it would be equivalent to letting them (reinforcements) go to death, so he decisively changed the original Jihua, and mercilessly ordered the artillery to cover the first line of defense that still had some Japanese remnants who were still resisting, and Ishihara's cold-blooded order immediately caused a lot of losses to the attacking troops of the 15th Army
Note 1: Ishihara had people build a lot of hidden pits and ring fortifications between the Golan trenches, which effectively weakened the lethality of the 15th Army's artillery bombardment, and in addition, the 15th Army was fighting on the outside line this time, and the use of artillery shells was a little less, so it did not dare to make a big move. (To be continued.) )