Almost at the same time that the "Tiger Regiment," which was the best equipped and most effective in the 15 th Army and even the 15 th Group Army, rushed to the Japanese position amid the roar of artillery, a Japanese infantry wing responsible for defending the outermost anti-tank trench did not wait for the enemy to gain a firm foothold, and resolutely launched a counter-charge in accordance with Ishihara's pre-battle deployment

Out of fear of the 15 th Army, Ishihara would rather have his troops suffer heavy losses under enemy artillery fire, and when counterattacking, he should try his best to ensure a troop advantage of no less than 3:1 and the actual investment even more than 5:1; as far as the battle at the infantry squad platoon level is concerned, it is almost like a devil's infantry squad with a full establishment of 70 people against an infantry squad of 12 men of the 15 th Army, but in the actual battle, the Japanese army's grassroots officers and men did not take any advantage

With the continuous decline in the proportion of veterans in the Japanese army in the past two years, the grenadier is already becoming more and more difficult to use in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, and in this round of battles, it was completely restrained by the enemy's Changying-1 rocket launcher with a maximum range of 1500 meters (when firing anti-personnel grenades), and the air-explosive steel ball bullet used in it caused unbearable huge casualties to the devils. In other words, the devils have also imitated this type of ammunition that has a lethality of even more than 105mm artillery shells (grenades) in field battles, but it has not yet begun mass production, let alone equipping the troops. As for the gun grenades that have been successfully copied for a long time, because the effect of anti-personnel is not much superior to the grenadiers used by Japanese officers and soldiers, so they are only used in anti-tank combat, although they are equipped with a large number of guns because of their low cost (but they still cannot be compared with the grenadiers that each squad has 2 units), but the ammunition is almost all shaped armor-piercing bullets, which are almost useless in this kind of infantry squad and platoon level combat.

Another point is fatal, among the "shells" currently used in grenadiers, whether it is a special grenade or an ordinary Japanese grenade that can be used generally. The range is too close to be easily suppressed by the enemy's firepower, and even if it reaches the enemy, the power is obviously on the small side. In addition, the soldiers of the 15 th Army already knew the characteristics of this weapon very well, and they would not be like in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when the Chinese army was attacked by grenadiers, they often ran around in a panic and crowded together, which increased the lethal effect of the Japanese grenadiers, and the distance between the men in the infantry attack formation was also widened as much as possible. Therefore, even if the devil's grenadier hits accurately, it will be difficult to blow up the second person

The two light machine guns of the Japanese infantry squad were twice as many as the one equipped by an infantry squad of the 15th Army, but the Bayi light machine gun was still a very good squad light machine gun even after a few decades. Far from the Type 96 light machine guns and crooked handles that the Japanese army was equipped with (due to the rapid expansion of the army, the devils were forced to take out some of the crooked handles that had been retired from active service and stored in storage and mothballed to equip the troops. It can be compared, the sustained firepower of one is more fierce than the two devils, and the accuracy, especially after continuous shooting, has a clear advantage. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the light machine gun devils of the Bayi squad were also imitated, but they also had no time to equip the troops, I have to say. Taizu's timing for launching the Central Plains Battle was really good

What made the devil even more painful and frightened was that the 15 th Army actually equipped the sniper type 24 and a half (Note 1) equipped with a scope to the squad level, and only a single gunshot was heard, and a certain Japanese squad leader who was charging forward was immediately shot in the head by one of the enemy's squad sharpshooters, and a stream of red and white liquid suddenly spewed out very high

If it was in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. Almost every infantry squad has a dozen or more elite marksmen, even though they suffer greatly in the rate of fire of the rifle (the Type 81 assault rifle, even in a single-shot semi-automatic state, has a much faster rate of fire than the Type 38 rifle). ), and will not take the enemy's accurate shooting to heart at all, but in the past two years, the soldiers of the 15th Army have been constantly sharpening themselves in training and fighting, shooting jishu compared to the early days of the Anti-Japanese War has gone up several steps, more than eighty percent of the soldiers in the "Tiger Regiment" are veterans who have been in the army for more than two years and have been in battle for a long time, even the shooting accuracy of the old devils in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War may not be comparable to them, not to mention these little devils who have now been flooded with a lot of water?

The only thing that the Japanese squad with heavy losses could rely on was the numerical advantage, and even if dozens of the full 70 people died, they still had the ability to attack, while the infantry squad of the 15th Army would obviously weaken its firepower even if it only suffered a few casualties. However, with the strong fire support of the artillery of the 15th Army, it was difficult for the devil to give full play to this advantage, and Ishihara had long estimated this, so before the war, he asked his subordinates to approach the enemy as close as possible, and as long as they were entangled with the attacking troops of the Chinese, their artillery would be tied up for fear of accidental injury.

Note 1: Since the sniper rifle does not have such a high requirement for the rate of fire, in line with the consideration of optimal allocation of resources, even if the "Tiger Regiment" of the 15th Group Army took the lead in starting to replace all the Bayi gun clans, the squad sniper rifle is still the 24 type semi-automatic rifle that is selected and equipped with a scope, even if it is only inferior to the single-shot accuracy and the Bayi assault rifle.

It must be noted that theoretically, the shooting accuracy of the pull-bolt rifle is higher than that of the semi-automatic rifle, and the semi-automatic is higher than that of the fully automatic, but this is only theoretical, and in actual combat, the firearms designed later have a more intelligent design and advanced technology, so the accuracy is often stronger than the previous model, for example, the Bayi assault rifle is an excellent gun type with a single-shot accuracy that is not inferior to the five or six semi-automatic rifles.

In fact, the impact of the loading method on accuracy is only more obvious in those specially designed and manufactured real sniper rifles, and the so-called squad sniper rifle is generally between 200-400 meters, the accuracy requirements are not so high, directly on the basis of the mass production of standard rifles on the basis of improvement, the cost is lower, and the maintenance is more convenient. This is not the same as a real sniper rifle that mainly attacks long-range targets at a distance of 600 meters, in fact, strictly speaking, there was no sniper warfare in the modern sense during World War II, which can be seen from the fact that the so-called top ten snipers basically killed more than how many high-value targets were killed (to be continued). )