Chapter 47: More than just a pig (2)
Of course, when it comes to the marksmanship of Japanese veterans, some people must say that the penetration of the 38 big cover is too strong, and when it hits the body, it will not kill people if it pierces two holes on the body. The penetration effect of the 6.5x50mm bullets of the Type 38 rifle is indeed not ideal, and there are often clean penetrating wounds. However, the advantages of the 38 style are also obvious: its trajectory is very stable, although the bullet is smaller than the Mauser 7.92x57mm rifle bullet, its chamber rate is higher than that of the Mauser, which makes it excellent in shooting accuracy and range, and the recoil of the gun is also relatively small, which is conducive to the shooter's control of the head; also because of the small bullet, it greatly increases the amount of ammunition carried by the Japanese army, which is also an important basis for the Japanese army's continuous combat capability.
As for the much-talked-about question of the low lethality of bullets, please think about it, with the character of the Japanese, will they ignore this defect? On the basis of ordinary 6.5 mm gun rounds, the Japanese developed two 6.5 mm "special ammunition" reinforced rifles (there are also 7.7 mm and 7.92 mm machine gun versions) to achieve lethality, and they were widely used in the Asian and Pacific theaters.
Explosive bombs and mercury explosive bombs, the explosive bomb has a red ring at the root of the warhead, which is referred to as a red bullet here; The mercury bomb has no point, is a platform shape, and has a purple ring at the root, referred to as the purple bomb.
The red bullet warhead is hollow, charged with white phosphorus, and there is a live lead block at the tail of the drug, and the tail of the bullet is sealed with lead, which will not be lightened. After hitting the target, the compression charge of the live lead block causes an explosion, and the residual white phosphorus continues to burn after the explosion, because the charge is too small, its burning power is far inferior to its blasting lethality, otherwise this bullet should be called an incendiary bomb. The purple bullet is filled with pressure-sensitive high explosives (containing mercury), the bottom of the charge is topped with a copper cap, and the bottom of the warhead is sealed with a lead seal.
The Americans have done experiments that the purple bullet can blow up a large hole with a diameter of 3cm when hitting a high-strength aluminum alloy plate at any distance, and the hole blown up by the red bullet is slightly smaller, but it has a strong burning force. After being hit by such a bullet in battle, he died in a terrible state, and if he survived, he was 100% disabled.
These two kinds of special ammunition are the same as the dummy bomb are in violation of international conventions, and they have been recorded in the Pacific combat of the US military, but at the end of the Japanese literature, although the little devil has used it on a large scale, it has not left a written record or the document has not been unsealed, so now most people only know that the 38 big cover has strong penetration and little power. Anyway, it's not unusual for this kind of thing to happen to the Japanese, after all, they can even deny history.
The Japanese infantry squad method of operation is derived from the Western infantry squad method of operation. Originally, this method of warfare was characterized by the use of machine gun fire, which simply means that the machine gun is used to suppress first, the infantry is used to drive the enemy out of the bunker, and then the machine gun is used to bring the enemy down. When it came to the Japanese, the taste changed, and the first two steps of the style of play remained the same, but on the third step, the Japanese emphasized the use of infantry and machine guns to kill and injure the enemy, and they were biased towards rifles. There are two reasons for this, one is to save ammunition and reduce the dependence on machine guns, and the other is to play to the advantages of rifles. The main reason behind this is Japan's limited resources and logistical capabilities, and the performance defects of the Japanese squad machine guns (such as strange crooked handles).
The Army's red deer has always advocated attack, and the tactics of its infantry platoon are based on attack, emphasizing the speed and method of engaging the enemy between marches. The tactics of the Japanese infantry squad mostly started from a certain point between 600~400 meters. The infantry squad assembles at the attack point, replenishes ammunition, clarifies the direction of attack and available terrain features, determines the tactical essentials of each group of phased shelter points, and then deploys the detachment, and after the machine gun detachment enters the first firing position, each detachment will maneuver to the first shelter point; After reaching the first point, start fire to kill and injure the enemy, and at the same time cover the maneuver of the machine-gun detachment, and after the machine-gun detachment is in place, then suppress the enemy, and at the same time cover the other detachments to maneuver forward, and so on. The whole squad should stop at 200 meters and deploy all firepower, clear the exposed enemy fire points and densely populated positions, and at the same time use smoke bombs and flares (night battles) to guide the target for direct and heavy fire in the rear. Here, in general, there should be two rounds of strikes, the first is a surface strike, which eliminates all front-to-face fire; Then concentrate on one side to create an uneven disposition of the defenders and be forced to maneuver, thus maximizing the elimination of the mobile defenders and preparing for the final attack. At the end of the artillery preparation, the infantry is crawling forward with bayonets, and after the artillery fire has stopped, all the suppressive fire is deployed to cover the attacking infantry, and the infantry should turn to full speed at about 100 meters.
In this tactic, the devil is gradually approaching in the face of strong defense, using the advantage of mobility and firepower to kill and injure a large number of defenders, once encountering a fire point, find cover on the spot, and then use light mortars and grenadiers and other curved weapons to strike at the fire point hidden behind the strong fortifications, and then launch a charge. The infantry squad is equipped with a Type 10 grenadier canister, which can accurately hit the enemy's suppressive fire point within 200 meters. Generally, at least one of the three grenadiers equipped by the Japanese squad is Type 89, which can hit targets within 700 meters, and most devil veterans can directly hit the target in the third shot after the second round.
The infantry in front was attacking, and the artillery behind the Japanese was not idle. Before the infantry attacked, they would carry out "offensive preparation and shooting" (about two or three hours), shelling the forward positions of the national army, destroying fortifications, obstacles and fire points, and covering the infantry into the charge preparation position; When the infantry charged, the artillery immediately carried out "assault support fire" to suppress the front-line infantry of the national army. When the Japanese approached the position of the Guofu army, the artillery immediately extended its fire to block the reinforcement of the Guofu army.
This is the textbook version of the combat method.,There will be many distorted versions in the actual battle.,But it won't change in general.,It's this kind of attack technique that the devil has repeatedly used after making it clear that the opposite side has a resolute defense.。 A good grassroots commander of the Japanese army can make hundreds or thousands of people fall under the attack of his dozens of devils. When the devils advanced to about 200 meters, their firepower accuracy reached its peak, and the defenders would bear the impact of artillery fire, casualties, psychology and other aspects, which was the main reason why a small group of devils relied on the superior firepower of their configuration to repeatedly defeat the battalion and regimental defenses in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.
The Japanese squad attacked sharply, and the cooperation between the squads was very tacit, and it was difficult for the backwardly equipped national army to resist their frontal attack. In addition to frontal combat, the Japanese also paid attention to flank attacks, and when a wing-sized unit attacked, it generally used a squadron to approach the feint to lure the enemy to expose its fire support points and troop allocation, and at the same time used a squadron to carry out a flank detour. Once the roundabout squadron (usually reinforced with several heavy machine guns and light and heavy mortars) is in place, the wing prepares fire with heavy artillery and then launches an attack. The attacking squadron was to advance in a wedge, starting from a distance of four hundred meters, alternately covering the advance. Due to the long range and high accuracy of the 38 rifle, coupled with the excellent shooting skills of the Japanese infantry, it was often able to kill and injure a large number of Chinese officers and soldiers who tried to shoot at the Japanese during the attack. Moreover, for the defenders, who were already exhausted to cope with the frontal attack, the addition of Japanese flank fire would sharply worsen the situation, which would cause the entire line of defenders to collapse. The Japanese detour troops often drew out a number of small units and then detoured to the retreat route of the defenders, and carried out surprise attacks on the retreating army, which was even more effective. Since these Japanese troops did not start from a frontal attack force, the time of their surprise attack was incalculable, and many generals of the Nationalist Army such as Zhang Zhizhong fell in this kind of vicious raid.
After defeating the opponent, the aforementioned devil's mobility ability showed its usefulness, and the Japanese army, with its excellent marching ability, could stick to the rout and fight. When pursuing, the first attack is in an anti-triangle formation, with two groups in front and one group in the rear, and one of the three pursuit groups is usually in a normal marching state, and the three groups take turns to chase and fight to the death. Pursuing the enemy and suppressing his intention to maneuver left and right, forcing the pursued person to take the route expected by the pursuer, such pursuit can often drive the pursued person all the way to a dead end, especially if the pursued person is not familiar with the terrain or lacks experience in guerrilla warfare, and cannot run away if he is glued. At this time, it is time to compete with physical strength and will, as long as you are familiar with the terrain and run faster than the pursuing Japanese army or have endurance, you can get rid of the pursuers, and the guerrilla tactics summed up by the turtle army are very good. However, most of the soldiers of the national army could not be defeated and could not escape, and they were either killed in battle or captured.
Even if someone stopped to block the defeated Nationalist army, they were unable to deal with the Japanese squad's offensive tactics and their superior firepower, and the result was that it collapsed, and after a few times, few people had the courage to fight back. At this time, it becomes a big rout, often dozens of devils can run with a battalion or even a regiment, that is, people often say that the national army is incompetent to be defeated and chased by dozens of people (there is no meaning to whitewash the national army, just to explain how this asymmetrical pursuit situation came about).
Therefore, the Japanese army is not only capable of charging on board, their grassroots tactics can be said to be very fierce. It can often pose a huge threat to the defenders, and coupled with the onboard pig rush that does not take human life seriously, it is difficult for an army with poor psychological quality to go a round in front of them.
With excellent equipment and long-term training, such Japanese troops were naturally invincible against the government and soil supply at that time, and they could press them to the ground and rub them against each other. Their tactics and firepower needed to be looked up to by their opponents, but judging from the international background at the time, the Japanese could only bully the weak chickens and poor eggs in Asia, which had no industrial base.
In particular, after the scale of the war expanded, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was not so strong, and the veterans suffered a large loss on the Chinese battlefield, and the recruits recruited in the rear were replenished into the army without receiving sufficient training, and the combat effectiveness naturally declined. Most of the onboard charges that the Americans encountered in the Pacific were carried out by recruits, who until a few months ago were peasants and workers, and the Japanese did not have to spend a year training new soldiers. If you run into the devil veterans in the early days of the war, it is estimated that the Yankees will be beaten by their accurate shots.
And Sam and Ivan, who finished the devil, and the book is not a system at all, they used the flow of fire + steel to let the devil see what modern war is, tons of steel completely abuse all infantry flows, and war is no longer just a matter of infantry tactics. No matter how delicate and delicate the infantry tactics are, they are scum in the face of the frenzied firepower projection (the infantry tactics of the rabbits in the Korean War are indeed powerful, but it cannot be denied that they were bombed badly enough by the Americans).
Of course, the above-mentioned Japanese tactics were expressed in a deductive way, and the target of attack (the national army) was replaced by an imaginary enemy. The training of the Japanese army, the tactical coordination of squads, the coordination of infantry and artillery, and the combat of corps are all expressed in this way. What was placed in front of Peng Shan and Huo Yuzhang was a very detailed analysis of the Japanese army's information, and after reading it, these two people naturally did not have a good mood, and they knew best what the strength of their own troops was. Originally, I was very vague about the strength of the Japanese army, and I only knew that they were strong, but no one could tell how strong they were.
Now Wen Hui's "meeting gift" gives detailed information, with a clear contrast and the war is imminent, after knowing what kind of enemy he is about to face, the feeling of feeling that he has "become stronger" after changing his clothes before will naturally disappear, such a strong enemy is not just a headache!