458 Famous earthquake in North China - Iron Triangle in the Northwest of Shanxi Province (8)
Deep in the vast mountainous area, after the Japanese army adjusted their tactics, opened a straggler line, and advanced in the woodland.
On the side of the independent regiment, it became more and more difficult for the fighters to concentrate on inflicting trauma on the Japanese puppet army.
The initial confrontation can be said to be a confrontation with the Japanese army with all kinds of tricks and traps arranged in advance by the soldiers of the independent regiment.
There were not many fighters who stayed in the front of the mountains to block the Japanese troops.
As for the reason, this treacherous mine and all kinds of mines are not long-sighted, if the devil trips, he will be injured at least and die at worst.
And the same is true for the fighters of the Separate Regiment.
Even if there were some mines that could be marked in advance that the soldiers understood each other, there were so many bullet mines everywhere that they couldn't be marked.
Therefore, in order to avoid accidental injuries of their own troops, less than a quarter of the strength of the independent regiment was blocked in the first half of the mountainous area.
With the passage of time, the Japanese puppet army, after paying a heavy price in casualties, finally swept most of the mountainous areas outside Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang.
At this time, the confrontation between the two sides turned into a battle between the soldiers of the independent regiment in the mountains and jungles, with some mines and traps to block the pace of the Japanese army.
From the beginning after dawn to now, the confrontation between the two sides has lasted for more than three hours.
At the beginning, the two sides could still clearly divide the positions of the battle, and the devil puppet army was on the periphery. The soldiers of the Independent Regiment were encircled and kept blocking the Japanese puppet army in the gradual retreat.
With the passage of time, the battle situation in various parts of the battle line that was several kilometers long was different.
The captains of the devil brigade of the temporary joint command even tried to use this method to create a disunity in the pace of the advance of the sweeping troops of various units, so as to facilitate the encirclement and elimination of small pieces of the Eighth Route Army troops in the woodland.
In addition, the Japanese captains believed that once the two sides were entangled and the troops were handed over, the imperial side could use the superiority in strength to crush the Eighth Route Army, and the artillery offensive means of using signal guns in the rear of the Eighth Route Army would not be effective.
As a result, the battle in the entire mountainous area became more and more chaotic.
Sometimes the forces of the two sides are entangled and mixed, and they are so far away that they are simply indistinguishable.
The devil's treacherous plan succeeded, and due to the close confrontation between the two sides in a local area, the two artillery batteries of the independent regiment were temporarily unable to provide artillery support.
In the same way, because of the chaos of the situation, the Japanese side was unable to use air support.
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Under the leadership of platoon commander Huang Baiyang, the members of the sniper platoon continued to play the role of sniper on the entire battlefield, and implemented the orders issued by the regiment commander Kong Jie, and constantly sniped and shot valuable special arms such as officers, gunners, and machine gunners who were devils.
The three-hour high-intensity sniper operation was really tired and excited for the soldiers of the sniper platoon.
Feeling the dwindling bullets in the magazine, the members of the sniper platoon who regrouped in the local hidden area, whether they were snipers or observers, had a proud look on their faces.
"This battle is too painful, the devils and puppet armies all over the mountains are waiting for us to fight, I can't wait to grow two more hands and two more eyes."
The first squad leader said proudly: "Platoon commander, I missed nearly half of the 120 bullets, and there are not many missed bullets, and the hit rate is more than 90 percent." ”
The second squad leader said happily: "What's so good to brag about?" In more than three hours, I only used 23 bullets, but not a single bullet missed, and a bullet killed an enemy, which was not blown by me. ”
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The members are talking about it, but there is no low-key one who has a little bit of a good record.
Huang Baiyang said with a smile: "Comrades, it seems that everyone's performance is good, but we have to work harder, the commandos have already infiltrated behind enemy lines, if we can knock out all the devil's artillery, it will be a lot of credit."
If we don't grasp it tightly, we can be compared to other commandos. ”
"This can't be, platoon commander, just look at it!" The first squad leader replied.
After explaining a few words to the soldiers to pay attention to safety and plan the evacuation route in advance, Huang Baiyang waved his hand, and the members of the sniper platoon scattered and left in all directions, continuing to fight.
On the other side, the captains of the devil brigade of the temporary joint command, in order to deal with the snipers of the independent regiment, also gathered the full-time infantry snipers of nine brigades.
What is a full-time infantry sniper?
Originally, in the Japanese army, each infantry squadron had 15 full-time rifle snipers, and each infantry squad had five people.
In this way, there are about 50 people in a brigade, and there must be more than 400 snipers in nine brigades.
But in fact, the full-time rifle snipers in the Japanese army are not quite the same as snipers in the usual sense.
In other words, it is very different from the snipers of the sniper platoon of the independent regiment.
They are excellent rifle shooters selected by the devils in military training, and serve as accurate snipers in combat units.
The name is not called a full-time rifle sniper, the devil is designated as a special shooter, that is, the group of people with better marksmanship in the infantry, which is one level higher than ordinary infantry marksmen.
Here is one point to mention:
The biggest enemy is the best teacher, the excellent marksman selected by the Eighth Route Army in the large-scale military training, also known as the special marksman.
In fact, there was no special sniper formation in the Japanese Army.
Long before the start of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army formed a complete military service conscription and training system, and the training of army infantry was extremely strict.
The shooting link is regarded as the most important part by the devils.
The initial requirements for Japanese soldiers to shoot were to shoot at a target with a range of 300 meters, and all five bullets should be hit, and the three rounds should be concentrated in an area large to the size of a fist.
After this level, there is a stricter second limit for shooting.
In two to four seconds, an infantry shooter needs to hit a random target around 300 meters.
Under this kind of rigorous training, the shooting skills of the devil soldiers are quite amazing, and even the most ordinary soldiers will subconsciously aim at the target's head when shooting.
Hit people in the head!
From this point of view, the elite infantry and veterans of the devil are almost all "snipers".
In addition, the devil's top marksman generally fights with the troops.
It is not like a sniper, or a sniper platoon, to carry out small-scale, independent sniper missions in separate groups.
The reason is easy to understand, the little devils of this period did not know the role of snipers in battle and tactics.
At the campaign level, most Japanese troops were also unaware of the special operations nature of snipers, and did not realize that snipers could be used for the special purpose of infiltrating behind enemy lines and sniping high-value targets.
This is not surprising.
Until now, the little devil is basically a blank slate in terms of special operations.
In the traditional concept of the Japanese army, the spirit of bushido is propagated, and the hearty combat consciousness of face-to-face is promoted.
There are not many Japanese officers who can realize the charm of the advanced tactics of special operations and have a long-term vision.
Yoshio Shinozuka is one, so he is very supportive of Yamamoto Kazuki's special operation.
Although for more than a year, the Yamamoto special forces have suffered many defeats at the hands of the independent regiment.
This is also the reason why Kazuki Yamamoto, the founder of Japan's special operations theory, had a bumpy and difficult road when he wanted to popularize the special operations theory among the army's combat units.
The traditions of the Japanese Army are almost deep in their bones.
At the tactical level, the Japanese believed that the so-called snipers, or special marksmen, were used to fight with subordinate detachments on the battlefield and to block the enemy's attack and advance.
In addition, the devil's special shooter is equipped with a so-called sniper rifle, that is, a Type 97 sniper rifle, plus a 2.5x optical sight.
But in fact, the so-called Type 97 sniper rifle, which is modified on the original basis of the Type 38 rifle, does not have much difference in performance.
The magnification of the magnification lens is low, and the sniper rifle itself does not even use the parameters of long-range sniping such as wind speed and temperature.
Beyond the distance of 400 meters, even the devil's top shooter cannot guarantee the hit rate, and there is not much gap between him and the ordinary devil infantry armed with a Type 38 rifle.
In addition, they are fighting with the troops, facing Chinese soldiers with backward equipment and insufficient military literacy, on the battlefield, even ordinary Japanese infantry may not perform worse than the devil's top marksman.
In this case, how can the devil's top shooter stand out?
This is also why, in the entire anti-Japanese battlefield, I have not heard of any decent ace snipers among the Japanese marines.
At present, it is because of the sudden appearance of the sniper platoon of the Independent Regiment that serious casualties have been inflicted on the Japanese officers, which has aroused the vigilance of the Devil Command, and attempts to use the special marksmen in the establishment to deal with the snipers of the Independent Regiment.
The contest between the two sides soon began.
In the continuation of the confrontation, the devil special shooters who fought with the Japanese squads, squadrons, and brigades ingeniously hid themselves in the trunks of some relatively thick trees, and then waited for the opportunity to make a secret move.
In this regard, the devil's top shooters are quite crazy.
After selecting a tree trunk to hide, they declared it their sniper position, and they would live and die with the position until they died in battle to serve the emperor.
There is quite a bit of a sense that killing one is enough, and killing two earns one.
As for the effect of the shot, there seem to be some.
In the mountains and forests, with the advance of the Japanese army, the soldiers of the independent regiment clashed with the devils and gradually adjusted their tactics.
The battle between the dense forests has become the main theme.
Within a distance of one hundred and fifteen meters, the fighters took out the red-headed bullets specially made by the copper yuan.
With every shot of this bullet, it can always bring more fear to the little devils, and some devils are babbling and screaming what "dummy bullets" and the like.
Once hit by a red-headed bullet, the little devil will always experience more pain and the injuries will be much more serious.
At distances of more than 100 meters, at distances of 200 or even 300 meters, the fighters will use 6.5 mm caliber bullets without a reduced charge.
As a result, as soon as the soldiers' accurate marksmanship struck, the devils who swept and advanced two or three hundred meters away fell one by one.
The devil who was hiding on the trunk of a tree not far away was directly stunned.
Good guys, there are so many snipers in this independent regiment?
It's no wonder that the devil's special shooters recognize the wrong person.
The news from the temporary command headquarters of the devil is that there are many snipers in the Eighth Road, specifically picking on the officers of the empire.
So let them shoot the top shooters and take out the snipers in the eight lanes.
But no devil has ever seen what an eight-way sniper looks like.
In addition, I usually encounter the dirt eight roads that do not have enough live-fire practice, marksmanship, to be honest, none of them are very good.
At present, the soldiers of the independent regiment who suddenly appeared, two or three hundred meters away, almost all of them were a bullet and an enemy.
The devil special shooters hiding on the trunk of the tree didn't think much about it, and immediately turned the muzzle, set up the Type 97 sniper rifle, locked the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army hidden in the dense forest through the scope, and pulled the trigger.
Bang bang –
The sudden attack on the trunk of the tree, the special shooters of this devil were indeed confident one by one, and they aimed at their heads, and two or three hundred meters away, some soldiers of the independent regiment who were hiding behind the trunk, in the bushes, and among the grass clusters, fell down in response.
At that time, the commander of the 11th Company, who was leading the team to block the attack, saw that the surrounding soldiers were planted one by one, and most of them were directly hit in the head, so he was shocked and angry, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to hide in all directions.
"Hide, hide quickly, it's the sharpshooters in the devils, find out their location for me!"
The Type 97 sniper rifle used by the Devil's special shooter was not equipped with any silencer, and the sound of the gunfire was similar to that of the Type 38 rifle, so it was easy to expose.
A voice came from not far away: "Company commander, it seems to be a bullet from a tree trunk." ”
The eleventh company commander scolded: "Damn, this little devil is not a monkey, and he can climb trees!"
Heavy aim at the surrounding tree trunks, but shoot me all the people you can, and knock these ghost monkeys down for me. ”
"Yes!"
The machine gunners, who were hidden everywhere, quickly turned their guns and burst fire at the trunks of some large trees nearby.
The sound of da-
Soon, the warriors heard the screams of some nearby tree trunks, and then a figure fell from the tree, but before it fell to the ground, it seemed to be hanging by a rope, hanging between the trunk and the ground, shaking back and forth.
This scene stunned the eleventh company commander and others.
I have to say that this little devil is really good at playing, and he actually hangs himself on the trunk of a tree.
Seeing that the counterattack of the machine gun fire had achieved results, the commander of the 11th Company, who quickly came back to his senses, shouted: "Good fight, just fight like this, platoon leader, quickly send someone to inform the other teams around, just say that there are many devil sharpshooters hiding on tree trunks, be careful not to follow the devil's way." ”
"Yes!"
At the same time, among the other Eighth Route Army teams blocking the Japanese army in the surrounding area, this incident also happened.
The reaction of the cadres of the independent regiment was exactly the same as that of the commander of the 11th company.
The point is that this little devil is really funny, as a sniper, he is fixed in one place to shoot for a long time, for fear that he will not be exposed, and some even tie themselves to a tree, even if they are shot and injured, they still hold on to fire a few more shots, cool two.
In the words of the commander of a company who commanded the soldiers and successfully defeated more than 20 Japanese top marksmen:
This is the spirit of other people's little devils, I'd rather be cool, even if I don't want to die, we still have to admire!
In this way, at the beginning, the devil's top shooter hiding on the trunk of the tree was able to achieve some effect in the first shot of surprise.
The fast ones can get a second shot, a third shot, and then be quickly cleaned up.
In the back, the soldiers of the Independent Regiment strafed the area where the trunk could hide people in advance, and many of the devil special shooters who were hiding in it met their emperor directly before they had time to shoot.
The Japanese army's attempt to use their top marksmen to deal with the sniper platoon was directly stillborn before they could see results.
The devil's special shooter who went to death one after another really let the soldiers of the Independent Regiment see the so-called stupidity and madness of the Japanese snipers.
Such a little devil is still trying to deal with a sniper team with observers?
In the end, more than half of the top shooters sent by the devils suffered casualties.
As a result, it is not even clear what the snipers of the Separate Regiment look like......
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