Chapter 274: Machine Gun Company
What exactly does Gu Shoufu want to do?
The answer was definitely only known to him, and the executioner, who insisted that violence against civilians in the occupying power outside the battlefield was a necessary means of boosting morale, also believed that mass casualties in his own troops would fuel the anger of his troops, and if properly guided, they could turn soldiers into killing machines and move forward.
An unknown thing, before the war, he once said to a few henchmen: "As long as you can capture Fuding, it is worth fighting without a division." ”
Fuding is the southeast gateway of Fujian, once Fuding is lost, the southeast coast of Fujian will no longer be in danger. If the Japanese army takes advantage of this breakthrough, it will inevitably be able to drive straight in, and even go all the way forward to kill Guangzhou.
The tide of soldiers surrounded one chariot after another and rolled westward, Gu Shoufu came down to the haystack and said to a few henchmen around him: "This temptation is big enough!" It's enough for the people of China to take out all the hidden military uniforms, right?! ”
A few henchmen are only the only ones, and no one dares to respond.
More than 14,000 officers and soldiers have been used as bait, who can do such a thing, I'm afraid I don't dare to think about it, right?!
On the front line of Guanmei Town, after hovering over the battlefield for more than 10 minutes, a bomber group of the 11th Air Regiment finally recognized the camp of the enemy and us, and immediately began to dive and drop bombs.
All the bombshells, every bomb exploded, the front-line position of Guanmei Town was shaken, even the "Mandrill" heavy tank could not withstand this level of explosion. Not to mention being directly hit, as long as it is within three meters of the explosion, even if the tank is not damaged, the students inside will not be able to withstand the violent shock, and more than a dozen students have been shocked to death like this.
Twelve enemy planes swooped over the battlefield, and two of them crashed headlong into the raised peaks on either side of the battlefield before they could drop their bombs. After an explosion, one of the planes rolled down and fell into the Japanese attack cluster, and the bombs loaded exploded, killing more than 100 devils near the drop point. Another plane dived overhead, and then the grenadiers failed to control the inertia of their bodies and dropped bombs over the Japanese array, killing and wounding more than 300 devils.
Seeing this, Fan Neng and Wang Hai simply ordered the whole army to attack, and the students of the two regiments concentrated in the first trench through the communication trench, regardless of the whistling shells and the screaming bombs that fell, they just shot desperately at the devil. At the same time, the searchlights of the fort on both sides were turned on, and four rapid-fire machine guns bombarded the Japanese under the guidance of two searchlights. With the help of this wave of Japanese planes, the Japanese army once broke through to a distance of less than 50 meters from the first trench. However, as the nine fighters finished dropping bombs, climbed high and flew away from the battlefield after dropping another one, their offensive momentum was contained, and then they retreated again and again until they were pushed back to a relatively safe area 300 meters away.
After the air raid, 39 of the 85 tanks of the 407th Regiment were destroyed, and four tanks were incapacitated due to the sacrifice of their crews. Of the 39 tanks destroyed, more than a dozen were destroyed by the Japanese Type 99 tanks that took advantage of the situation. The Japanese base camp in Tokyo had been preparing for this battle for a long time, except for the 11th Army, which had been fighting in the Battle of Changsha, the tanks of the 5th Army and the South China Front were replaced with hollow charge armor-piercing shells imported from Germany. This kind of armor-piercing projectile relies on the metal jet armor-piercing produced by the hollow charge technique, and the requirements for the muzzle velocity and firing distance of the chamber are not high, which is suitable for the Japanese army.
The loss of the Fanneng regiment is still above the 407th regiment, the regiment lost more than 100 people in the artillery battle, and now it is within the bombing range of the Japanese planes, and more than 300 people were directly killed, and later launched a fierce battle with the Japanese army, and lost more than 200 people, and the establishment has been crippled.
As soon as the battle came to a standstill, Fu Xiangfu ordered the 401st Regiment to withdraw. It's just that Fan Neng just conveyed this order, and the Japanese army began to attack again.
In the battle that lasted less than 10 minutes just now, the Japanese lost one and a half tank brigades, the armored brigade also lost several armored vehicles, and as for the infantry, the losses were more than 2,000 people. With this level of consumption, Rao is the devil of the 6th Division is not afraid of death, but he can't help but be frightened. The Wing Commander of the 13th Infantry Wing, Fumio Tsubsujima, and the Wing Commander of the 41st Tank Wing, Taro Nagato, were discussing how to adjust the attack sequence to maintain the density of fire output, but in the second round of the attack, a breakthrough was formed, and Tani Toshio arrived in an armored car. Under the snowy headlights, he jumped out of the car and walked in front of Pingdao, raised his hand and slapped him, so that the latter fell directly into the arms of several lieutenants. Gu Shoufu glared at him coldly, turned to the car and shouted, "Major General Katsuji Imamura, this is handed over to you!" Attack it in one go, do you understand?! ”
Katsuji Imamura stood upright, bowed, and responded loudly: "Hai! ”
Tani Toshio: "Warriors under His Majesty the Emperor! Valiant Imperial soldiers! I'll be watching you guys from behind! Indomitable! All the way! That's what I ask of you! Got it?! ”
"Hello!"
Only three minutes later, the Japanese attacked again. Seeing this, Fan Neng immediately canceled the retreat order, and then called Fu Xiangfu: "Brigade seat!" The little devils are attacking again! Let's stay! ”
Fu Xiangfu, who was standing on a hill, had already seen that although he had the heart to help the 401st Regiment keep a little seed, he could only ruthlessly let them stay on the position.
The 2nd Guards Division was stationed in the forward position of Dai Rao's 4th Guards Brigade. The Fujian Guard Corps was set up by Jiang Guangnai, and although it is not yet part of the formal establishment of the Cadet Army, its combat effectiveness is not much better than that of the regular Cadet Corps. Moreover, because all of them were composed of local Fujianese, and this battle was to defend Fujian, the morale of the division was still better than that of the 10th Division.
There were three regiments, one battalion and one company under Dai Rao, of which he personally led a regiment and a machine-gun company to guard the hilly area of the left flank. Seeing that the Japanese army was attacking again, and the troops in his forward positions were already insufficient, he did not hesitate to let the machine gun company go down to support. He called Zhang Zhengxi, the commander of the machine gun company, to the front and taught him the opportunity: You hide in the mountains in front of you, judge the situation by yourself and join the battlefield......
The machine gun company is called the company, but in fact there are only more than 60 people, but there are more than 30 ZB-26 light machine guns. Dai Rao originally worked in the 29th Route Army and had a soft spot for the Czech-made ZB-26 light machine gun. Under his training, the Fujian boys of the machine gun company are not only superb in marksmanship, but also skilled in other combat skills, and the soldiers have faintly revealed the charm of special forces like wolf teeth.
After the training of the machine gun company, this was the first time it was put into the battlefield, and Dai Rao not only hoped that they could shine, but also worried that their losses would be too large to bear, so he took care of them again and again.
Zhang Zhengxi nodded frequently, and finally said to Dai Rao: "Brigade, please rest assured!" We will give us Fujian people a long face! ”
"Go ahead!"
"Yes!"