That was the last trump card in the trenches.
Even when the first wave of Japanese troops advanced to attack the defense line, the five machine guns that had not been used were all fired at this time.
There was no turning back when the bow was fired. The Japanese infantrymen were so frightened by the five whips that were fired into the formation that they unleashed a bloody wind. At the same time, they had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue moving forward.
The sudden fire from the machine gun came so unexpectedly that the Japanese officers in the rear had no time to react and were stunned for three or four seconds.
It is difficult for them to understand why the Chinese, who have always lacked heavy firepower, have become so wealthy. They have nearly ten big guns like machine guns at their disposal. This is very different from the Chinese army in their impression.
This is also because the 36th Infantry Brigade underestimated their opponents. If it were the 13th Infantry Brigade that fought hard against the 67th Army in Songjiang City, they would not have such naive thoughts.
The Japanese grenadier soldiers who were responsible for suppressing the opponent's heavy firearms did not react until five or six seconds later. The Chinese still had such terrible weapons in the dark to 'take care' of their infantry brothers, and they frantically used grenade launchers to attack the hidden soldiers.
Machine cannons fired in the darkness.
However, these machine guns that had been hidden all this time were more than 300 meters away from the trenches. This distance was carefully designed by the stingy old Zhou to avoid the 500-meter range of the Japanese grenade launchers, and the Japanese grenade launchers also
Just as he thought, he would follow the Japanese infantry 200 meters behind.
Despite the lively explosions of up to twenty grenade launchers, they are actually of no use.
As for the Japanese mountain artillery and infantry artillery, they also need enough reaction time and do not need any fortifications. Darkness is the best protection for the five large-gun weapons.
Stingy old Zhou's tactics were successful.
Because the Japanese charge formation was loose, the damage caused by the machine gun may not be as great as that of the heavy machine gun, but it is brutal enough.
A cloud of blood mist bloomed in the Japanese charging queue!
While running, maybe a puff of blood mist sprayed on my face, and I had to use my hands to wipe away the flesh and blood covering my eyes before I could see clearly. What was it like?
Only the charging Japanese troops could describe this heart-wrenching real experience.
Five or six seconds is very short, and may seem to many people to be just the time to blink their eyelids two or three times, but to the charging Japanese infantry, it seems extremely long.
The cruel and shuddering battlefield was gradually wearing away the courage that the Japanese army had been inspired by crossing the river.
But what really caused the Japanese army's confidence to completely collapse was not the terrifying machine guns.
Instead, dozens of Chinese soldiers suddenly stood up from the trenches, accompanied by the rising and falling of iron whistles.
Everyone is holding an MP28 submachine gun.
That was the first time that Chinese soldiers stood up straight and fired at each other.
The running Japanese infantrymen tried their best to pull the trigger and fire the bullets in the single-shot rifle.
Although there were five bullets in the Type 38 magazine, more than 50% of the Japanese infantry knew that they only had one chance to shoot. The cruel battlefield would not allow them to pull the bolt, load the bullet and then pull the trigger.
If you want to shoot a bullet, you can't dodge it.
One side was running wildly, shooting without hesitation, and the other side was holding a submachine gun in the trench, and the other side was shooting without hesitation.
At this moment, the infantry of both China and Japan had the courage to die with the enemy.
The Japanese troops who rushed into the Chinese trenches more than ten meters away, and recently even only five or six meters away, fired a total of 300 rounds of bullets. At least half of the Chinese soldiers who suddenly stood up in the trenches were shot.
A small number of them fell straight into the trench, but most of them still endured the severe pain and pulled the trigger.
The long magazine of 32 rounds of the MP28 submachine gun and the continuous firepower were the last straw that overwhelmed the remaining courage of the Japanese infantry.
Of the 60 submachine guns originally equipped in the trenches, frequent shooting during the battle resulted in mechanical failures that damaged seven or eight of them, leaving only 52 that could still shoot. Another seven or eight soldiers fell due to bullets.
In the end, there were less than 45 submachine guns that could spit out firepower, but even these less than 45 submachine guns sprayed a dizzying amount of more than a thousand rounds of bullets.
This is no longer suppressive fire, but a face-to-face combat between submachine guns and rifles.
If you shoot me once, I'll shoot back ten.
The Chinese soldiers had no retreat. As long as they were not killed by a single shot, they would bulge their eyes, roar, pull the triggers and shoot across the front.
Flowers of blood bloomed on the infantrymen of both China and Japan.
To describe it, Tantai Mingyue later wrote a famous saying after interviewing Tudou who survived the battle: It was the gaze of death on death!
Yes, the Chinese and Japanese soldiers stared at each other from a distance of no more than ten meters, and then walked towards death together.
The 6.5 mm caliber bullets of the Type 38 rifle were weak at this moment. Although the bullets that penetrated the body could cause great damage, the extreme secretion of adrenaline prevented the Chinese soldiers from being knocked down by pain for at least these ten seconds.
But the wounds caused by the 9mm Luger bullets equipped with the MP series submachine guns cannot be resisted by secreting a little adrenaline.
The miserable howls erupted by the Japanese infantry could be clearly heard by both sides on the "Lone Tomb" where a fierce battle was taking place hundreds of meters away.
The Japanese soldiers who fell closest to the Chinese trenches could even reach out from the trenches and touch the bayonet blades of the Type 38 rifles that they had thrown on the ground.
As many as one-third of the Japanese troops were killed or injured by this wave.
At the moment when other soldiers in the trench were already gripping their rifles and preparing for the final battle, the Japanese army's courage had been weakened to the bottom and completely collapsed.
First, the Japanese soldiers who were at the front and were lucky enough not to be killed by submachine guns turned around and ran away, and then the ones behind them.
No matter how fiercely they charged from the front, they retreated resolutely from behind. The Japanese troops running back were three minutes faster than when they charged.
In the face of death, the so-called warrior spirit becomes weak.
"Baga! They're all dead!" Maeda Masaki stared at the khaki figure rolling back in shock, and punched the ground hard.
Although he was very angry, the Japanese Army Major did not make an unwise move like throwing off his helmet. The stray bullets flying on the battlefield were terrifying. If it weren't for the 90 steel helmet and the 'menstrual' belt that blessed his courage, he would have been here now
I'm afraid I've already been included in the death list.
The Japanese troops who entered the charge state left nearly 200 corpses on the position, and only half of them were able to return to the position.
The Chinese defenders did not take advantage of the victory to counterattack.
The sudden increase in casualties in 'Death and Death's Gaze' was only one of them, and the ammunition that was violently consumed again was the main reason.
More than one-third of the submachine guns and rifles became decorations after this battle. Even if the soldiers still had bullets, they only had a few dozen rounds.
The Japanese soldiers who fell dead in front of the position became the best ammunition depot.
Before the Japanese army angrily ordered mountain artillery to shell the trench positions, Tudou took advantage of the opportunity when the flares fell from the sky and the battlefield was plunged into darkness. Like an agile monkey, he dragged five or six Type 38 rifles back from the front of the position, and also touched two of them.
A bullet box filled with bullets.
Post-war analysis also proved that if these Japanese troops had not "given" more than a hundred Type 38 rifles and thousands of rifle bullets to China for free.
I am afraid that the Chinese position will never hold out until the last moment.
Because, at this time, their ammunition reserves have basically bottomed out, but Tang Dao and the others on the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade are still working hard to annihilate the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade's large artillery force.
And even if they complete all combat objectives, the entire army is still six kilometers away from here, and it will take half an hour to reach here even if they vomit blood.
Although the trench position was in danger, we finally got a chance to breathe.
But the battle on the 'Lone Tomb' has become intense.
Except for the first wave of air-burst bombs that were repelled by the Japanese infantry, they never retreated at all other times. Even though they suffered damage caused by flying grenade shrapnel, they continued to throw grenades over them.
On the battlefield on the flanks, the vanguard squad responsible for defending the front-line trenches even lost all its members, and another infantry squad had to support the front-line trenches.
Spend money!
Exchange with human life!
Even, they would not hesitate to exchange human lives for the opponent’s ammunition consumption!
This was the last resort of the Japanese commander who was also forced into a desperate situation.
But very effective.
This chapter has been completed!