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If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, who would have thought that the German army's method of clearing mines would be barbaric and powerful to the point of being unreasonable? Those minefields that had been carefully laid by the Japanese sappers and were intended to be used to stop the advance of the Soviet tank units were easily torn apart after only causing trouble for the Germans for half an hour.

When the Wehrmacht grenadiers, armed with their weapons, bent down and quickly rushed into the Japanese trenches from the passage that had completely cleared the obstacles, the Japanese soldiers had not yet recovered their lost hearing from the loud explosions and roars.

Shaking and shaking, these Japanese soldiers saw the German soldiers rushing into their trenches, and they watched in great shock as the enemy, who should have been blocked by a minefield in the far clear, and then trapped there waiting for death, appeared a few meters in front of them.

So these Japanese soldiers hurriedly grabbed their rifles, which they didn't know when, and prepared to fire at these enemies who suddenly appeared in front of them. Once again, however, they lost to their own weapons, for they would soon discover that the Type 38 rifle, which they once trusted, was now really "garbage" enough to kill them.

Yes, garbage! The infantry tactics that the Japanese have always emphasized are precision shooting and ferocious assassination, which has a lot to do with their own resources and faith. First of all, the Japanese army lacked metal resources, so they hated any waste of steel - the accumulation of bullets was also a considerable metal resource, so the Japanese army did not want to waste it.

Because of this, the Japanese emphasized the precision shooting of individual soldiers, advocated long-range fire to hit the target, and were reluctant to use weapons that wasted ammunition - so when the Germans used semi-powerful ammunition on a large scale and were equipped with assault rifles, the Japanese troops still insisted on being armed only with single-shot bolt rifles and machine guns.

In fact, this is also related to the tactical thinking of the Japanese army: because the Japanese army has never been able to experiment with the blitzkrieg tactics of large-scale tank force group advancement, the Japanese military top brass has always been unable to believe that in future wars, the engagement distance between the two sides will change fundamentally. On the contrary, this conclusion was put forward by the German army, and it has also been tested in actual combat.

The Japanese believed that their battlefield would continue to be the same as in the First World War, at a distance of about a kilometer, and that rifles should play a role in accurate shooting at this distance, and that hand-to-hand combat would rely more on the bravery of the soldiers and the skill of fighting bayonets - and they trained their soldiers in this way.

In fact, this view is to some extent true, because in Southeast Asia and China, backward tactics and outdated weapons make the war exactly as the Japanese top brass speculated.

This is also the reason why before Japan met the United States and Germany, they rarely suffered on the battlefield: because when the Japanese troops were training, they were aimed at the enemies they had to face, and these enemies had no heavy weapons and heavy firepower, and could only fight the trench warfare positional warfare of the First World War.

Therefore, in this case, the Japanese army's hard-trained precision shooting can bring huge casualties to the opponent, and the fierce charge and fighting make the opponent tremble. However, time passed, and when the main enemies of the Japanese army became the United States and Germany, those elite Japanese infantry found that their invincible combat qualities had no room to play at all.

The ideal distance for Japanese infantry is between 300 and 800 meters. As long as the battle is stalemate at this distance, then the superiority of the Japanese army's shooting accuracy will be manifested, and the opponent will either continue to support or rout because of casualties. However, at this distance, the Americans often called for artillery support and used a large number of heavy firepower to suppress the Japanese.

Now, the Germans seem to be more brutal and direct than the Americans in their methods of fighting at Nomenkan: the Germans do not fight the Japanese at a distance of about 800 meters, and they directly use heavily armored tanks and assault guns to cover their infantry to quickly approach to a distance of 300 to 200 meters.

Once close to this distance, the G43 semi-automatic rifle and MP-44 assault rifle equipped by the Germans can immediately give full play to the absolute advantage in firepower density, so that the Japanese army's bolt single-shot rifle has the advantage of high long-range shooting accuracy. By the time the battle spread into the trenches, the German submachine guns, assault rifles, and semi-automatic rifles were under constant fire, and it was impossible to give the Japanese soldiers a chance to fight with bayonets.

The Japanese soldiers managed to get their rifles in the narrow trenches, and just as they pulled the bolts, they found the German soldiers aiming at them with their weapons. Before they could push the bullets in their chambers into the bomb bay, the other party had already skillfully pulled the trigger pressed by their fingers.

The gunfire rang out intensively, as if the Eight-Nation Coalition Army that invaded China was slaughtering the spearmen of the Qing Dynasty with muskets, and the Japanese soldiers fell one after another with unwilling eyes covering the bullet holes in their chests. Occasionally, the Japanese opened fire, but they could only fire one shot in a panic, and they could not inflict suppressive damage on the Germans.

The battle quickly turned into a massacre, and the Japanese soldiers, who had not yet figured out what was going on with the landslide-like explosion, found that the German soldiers were already carrying a strange weapon, and they were constantly firing deadly bullets at them.

"The enemy has already rushed into the trenches! The enemy has rushed into the trenches!" A Japanese soldier ran through his companion's bunker in panic, loudly reminding his allies to prepare accordingly in the next battle, after all, counting the friendly troops on both flanks, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers guarding their positions could not be defeated by such a small number of German troops in front of them.

When the news of the German troops attacking the trench bunkers began to spread, all the Japanese soldiers thought of the soldiers not to retreat or flee, but to counterattack! The Japanese army's arrogance in China for several years did not depend on luck, and their fighting quality and sense of courage even surpassed that of the German army and the Soviet army, and they could definitely be called world-class.

The Japanese troops in the nearby trenches immediately launched a counterattack, without even waiting for their own company to give the order to counterattack. After Jun Cao's order, countless Japanese soldiers drew out the bayonet on their waists without saying a word and stuck it under the muzzle of the Type 38 rifle. A pair of resolute eyes under the steel helmet looked at the direction of the German onslaught with a fierce gaze.

"The Germans have blown up our mines with explosives, and they have cunningly taken advantage of the chaos to attack our positions! His Majesty the Emperor's soldiers, now we are going to retake our positions and repel the European barbarians who covet the imperial land!

"His Majesty the Emperor...... Hooray!" The Japanese raised their rifles aloft and shouted and rushed along the trenches to the positions of the Germans, which they had dug out with their own shovels, so they knew better than anyone else the structure and terrain. This is their advantage, and now they want to use their advantage to redeem the decline on the battlefield.

Unfortunately, in this situation, the Kawasaki Wing Captain still found that his defensive position was being lost at a speed that was visible to the naked eye. He saw his infantry rushing along the trenches towards the German breakthrough, and then the rain of bullets would cause the Japanese soldiers to fall in pieces.

Seeing another charge drowned out by the distinctive sound of a machine-gun tearing cloth that he had never heard before, Kawasaki knew that it was impossible for him to regain his front-line position from the Germans.

"Call Miyamoto-kun and tell him that the enemy army is much stronger than expected, and tell him not to underestimate the enemy, and let those German tanks suffer as soon as possible, otherwise our second-line defensive positions will be in danger!" Kawasaki looked at his infantry in the distance, who were once again rushed to the starting place by a hail of bullets, and anxiously ordered to his adjutant.

"Hey!" the adjutant quickly bent over and exited the tightly camouflaged headquarters with the order.

Kawasaki's phone call made Miyamoto, the commander of the Japanese tank unit, a little crying and laughing, of course he knew that the Germans were much stronger than expected, because if it wasn't for the loss of air supremacy that made him cover his tanks with camouflage nets, maybe the air raid just now would have made him withdraw from the battlefield.

But what could he do now, let his tanks out of cover and charge at the German tanks? If the German tanks were about the same as the Soviet tanks, he would be ordering his tank crew to commit suicide. However, if the troops are still not moving, it looks like the first-line defensive position of Kawasaki United may really collapse.

If I start to counterattack rashly now, then the second-line position will really be completely finished!" Miyamoto pressed his command knife and said through gritted teeth: "Let Captain Kawasaki withstand the pressure! As long as the Germans move closer to 600 meters...... No, 650 meters! I'll order the tank troops to fire back!"

After finishing speaking, Miyamoto still didn't have any confidence in the battle situation in front of him, he looked at the Type 97 tank parked next to him, this tank was equipped with a 57mm caliber short-barreled tank gun, which was the only thing he could rely on now. As long as the Japanese army is equipped with weapons that can destroy the tanks of the German army on the opposite side, then despite the current disadvantage, the Japanese army still has hope of victory!

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