After the truck, which was assembled with trucks, steel plates and twin-mounted machine guns, was completed, its ugly appearance shocked Gao Hongming and the officers of the Liantai Militia who came to inspect it.
Many people shook their heads looking at this large toy that looked like a temporary assembly by a drunken welder. Some officers were even considering how to tactfully refuse to equip it.
But when this fire support vehicle drove to the shooting range for live firing, everyone was shocked by its ferocious firepower.
The KPV 14.5mm machine gun was originally a weapon used to deal with low-altitude flying chess pieces. It has a maximum range of 7,500 meters and an effective range of 2,000 meters.
When the twin-mounted KPV 14.5 mm machine gun fires, it is preset on a position two thousand meters away. Whether it is a fortification built with sandbags or a civil structure, or even the Japanese Type 94 light tank used as a target, it looks like
It was riddled with holes like a thin-skinned can.
In other words, except for specially thickened fortifications, ordinary temporary fortifications and even Japanese light tanks cannot stop the strafing fire of this big killer.
Experienced military officers also immediately recognized the benefits of this improvised fire support vehicle.
First, it is cheap and easy to manufacture. It only requires one truck and one twin KPV14.5mm machine gun, and then welding the surroundings of the truck with steel plates can provide a certain level of protection.
Although this kind of steel plate can only provide certain protection for rifles, it is enough for a truck. After all, you cannot ask it to be as strong as a tank.
Second, it is a loyal infantry companion. Generally speaking, it can follow the infantry as long as the mountain road is not particularly difficult.
Third, its firepower sustainability is particularly excellent. A truck with a load of three tons can carry ammunition weighing no less than one ton after removing the KPV 14.5 mm machine gun, adding steel plates, and the weight of the vehicle's personnel.
This is especially important for infantry, which means it can provide long-term, continuous fire support for infantry.
If you add in the ammunition transport truck following behind, this kind of continuous firepower is even more amazing.
The most important thing is that it can also provide infantry with a certain degree of air defense capability, which is even more amazing.
After understanding the role of this fire support vehicle, Gao Hongming immediately made a decision to trial-produce thirty-six fire support vehicles and establish a fire support battalion.
Today's battle is the first actual battle of the fire support vehicle.
"Dong dong dong dong..."
The dull sound of gunfire continued outside Xiaogushan. Just as the Japanese cavalry was killing them wantonly, the sound of dense machine gun bullets piercing the air instantly enveloped the front of Xiaogushan.
The Japanese cavalry who were originally slashing and killing like beasts from hell fell off their horses one after another in the rain of steel bullets. The targets they originally killed fell to the ground skillfully or rolled into the vicinity when they heard the roaring sounds around them.
bomb craters or trenches.
"Shoot...shoot!"
The soldiers of the fire company more than a thousand meters away from Xiaogushan stepped on the firing pedal almost desperately, and bullets as thick as their thumbs were poured like raindrops to the front line of the stalemate Japanese army.
Many of the shooters were still glowing with crystal light. The scene on Xiaogushan just now had been seen by them, especially when the Japanese cavalry came out and caused much damage to the charging battalion of soldiers, no one could compare to them.
It's clearer.
Now there is only one thought in their minds, that is, they must never let those Japanese cavalry go back alive.
Twelve twin-mounted KPV14.5mm machine guns poured out bullets at a rate of 12,000 rounds per minute, so that in less than five minutes, the Xiaogushan position was filled with bullets.
The Japanese cavalry who were galloping on horseback and raising swords just a few minutes ago could no longer be seen.
Along with the Japanese cavalry, the Japanese infantry who attacked together were also unlucky.
These infantrymen who originally planned to follow their cavalry to take advantage also suffered a disaster. A soldier who had no time to dodge was as fragile as tissue paper in front of the powerful 14.5mm bullet.
As long as a person is shot in the torso, the whole body will basically not be left alive.
five minutes
In just five minutes, there was no longer a single person standing on the huge Xiaogushan battlefield.
"My cavalry squadron!"
Masahiro Kasai, who was located behind the reverse slope of Xiaogushan, closed his eyes in pain. He knew that the cavalry in his hand, for which he had placed high hopes, was finished.
This was the only cavalry squadron he had in hand. At the beginning of the war, Colonel Kasai Masahiro decided to use this cavalry squadron as a surprise force and deployed it on the reverse slope behind Xiaogushan.
During the previous artillery bombardment, Colonel Kasai Masahiro had already ordered the cavalry to retreat behind Xiaogushan, just waiting to give the invading enemy a head-on blow when the enemy on the opposite side launched a charge.
According to Kasai Masahiro, as long as it is commanded properly, this cavalry can play an even greater role than an infantry brigade.
At the beginning, it was indeed as Colonel Kasai Masahiro expected. This cavalry charge only caught a vigorous infantry battalion off guard, and even looked like it was about to annihilate the opponent.
But he never dreamed that the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side would be so ungrateful and use such a brutal weapon.
He saw with his own eyes that several infantrymen had hid behind a civil fortification made of sandbags in time, but suddenly, those fortifications that could withstand light and heavy machine gun fire were no different than tissue paper in the face of this brutal weapon.
They easily penetrated the sandbags and tore the soldiers hiding behind the fortifications into pieces.
Yes, it's just fragments.
Because after the strafing, when he looked over again, he could no longer see the figures or even the bodies of those soldiers, only puddles of black and red debris were left.
"Stop shooting!"
When Ren Dasheng issued the order, exactly five minutes had passed.
The first defensive fortification built by the Japanese army in Xiaogushan was the battlefield where a battalion of soldiers and the Japanese cavalry fought just now. The corpses of countless people and horses were scattered on the scattered battlefield. The injured horses wailed among the dead bodies, and the dead were piled up.
There were constant groans of pain.
"The first company and the second company defend on the spot. The third company immediately searches for the wounded and quickly sends the injured brothers of the first battalion down." The commander of the first battalion carrying the shell gun shouted loudly facing the shocking battlefield and looked at the corpses standing among the piles.
The soldiers of the first battalion and the commander of the first battalion had red eyes, and tears kept rolling in their eyes.
A soldier covered in blood stood up and looked at the corpses in front of him, his face full of pain. When he found that he was stepping on a gray broken arm, tears couldn't stop flowing from his face, but he
He didn't notice that a piece of flesh had been cut off from his left arm, and white bones were exposed among the flesh and blood.
"Brother...help...help me"
Intermittent moans came from the pile of corpses not far from him. Following the familiar voice, the standing soldier quickly ran over, pushed aside a dead body and saw a dying comrade.
Bai Huahua's intestines were exposed and dragged out several meters away. Seeing the miserable condition of his comrades who had been together day and night, the soldiers covered in blood wanted to pick him up, but as soon as they picked him up, they heard the comrades in their arms scream in pain.
of shouts.
He looked down and saw that the soldier's waist had been cut in half by his saber.
"ah……"
He let out a roar, put down his comrades, picked up a submachine gun on the ground and ran towards the mountain. He remembered that there seemed to be several wounded Japanese soldiers and prisoners there, and he wanted to kill them all!