This Japanese army heading towards Xiaomiao Street is a squadron under the 9th Infantry Regiment of the 19th Brigade of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army.
Under the command of the squadron leader, Captain Sasaki, they were advancing along Xiaomiao Street. When they heard a burst of gunfire from the front, Sasaki Liang immediately led more than a hundred soldiers and rushed over.
When Captain Sasaki first heard the gunshots, he didn't take it seriously, because he believed that the organized resistance in Nanjing had long since disappeared. Even if there was resistance, it was just sporadic resistance. In the Japanese Empire,
Under the might of the Chinese army, what does the resistance of the Chinese mean?
However, the sound did not disappear after ringing for a while. Instead, it was grammatically intense. What made Sasaki especially uneasy was that those gunshots were not the crisp gunshots of the 38 guns used by Japanese soldiers that he was familiar with, but something else.
A low and dense sound of gunfire.
Moreover, Sanba Daigai's voice gradually weakened as time went by, which gave Sasaki a bad premonition. That's why he anxiously urged his subordinates to run in the direction of the gunfire.
go.
"Your Excellency, Squadron Leader, there is someone ahead!" A soldier pointed at the street more than 300 meters ahead and said loudly.
Sasaki squinted his eyes and said, "Yoshi, it's a Chinese soldier." After saying that, he took out his command sword from his waist and shouted loudly: "Warriors of the Empire, the time has come for you to make contributions to His Majesty the Emperor, everyone.
Spread out and kill everyone!"
Following Sasaki's order, nearly two hundred Japanese soldiers bent down and rushed forward along the street...
But before they had taken a few steps, the Chinese soldiers in front of them had already opened fire, and the bullets hit the surrounding walls.
Sasaki was not worried at first. After all, the distance between the two sides was still more than 300 meters, and it was not easy for the opponent's rifle to hit the target at this distance.
But what happened next surprised him. The opponent's firepower actually showed an increasingly intensive trend, and after a while, the opponent's machine guns also joined the battle, and the bullets rained like a heavy rain in an instant.
He swept more than a dozen Japanese soldiers to the ground.
"Baga, what kind of army is this China Army? How can it have such powerful firepower!"
Sasaki, who was hiding behind a stone mill, never imagined that he would encounter an army that dared to fight back against them in Nanjing City, and their firepower was unexpectedly fierce. Not to mention their machine guns, even they
The rifle is also surprisingly powerful.
"Quick, quick, cover with light machine gun fire!" Since Japanese troops below the squadron level would not be equipped with Type 92 heavy machine guns, Sasaki, who was hiding behind the millstone, waved his command knife and ordered the surrounding Japanese troops to use light machine guns for cover.
Soon, the Japanese army's three 11-year-old (crooked handle) machine guns began to fight back. Some of them went up to the roof, and some hid in hiding places and pressed forward to suppress them.
"Da da da da da da..."
Soon, several crooked light machine guns began to roar and fired bursts of bullets in front of them. However, what shocked Sasaki when he arrived was that the opponent's rifles began to fight back without showing any signs of weakness.
Not only did the Type 11 light machine gun fail to suppress the opponent's firepower, the opponent's dense rain of rifle bullets suppressed our own machine gun to the point of losing its temper.
Sasaki observed that as long as the opponent has more than three rifles to suppress his own light machine gun, his Type 11 light machine gun will be firmly suppressed by the opponent, and will not be able to play the role of the machine gun at all.
"What kind of rifle is this? Why does it fire so fast? Is this a new rifle from the Naja Army?"
Sasaki's face began to look ugly. He thought for a moment and shouted an order to a grenade team next to him: "Hey... you try firing two rounds over there to see if you can suppress their firepower!"
"Hai!"
Several Japanese soldiers hiding in the corner responded and began to take out their grenade launchers and set them up. Soon the grenade launchers in the hands of the two launchers made two muffled sounds, and the two grenades drew an arc towards the enemy.
It flew forward and made two loud noises after landing. The machine gun fire near the explosion point seemed to pause, but then it spurted out tongues of flame again.
After seeing the poor shooting effect, a launcher shook his head and said to Sasaki: "Sir, squadron leader, no! There are too many buildings here to exert the power of the grenade. Our shells can only hit
It’s a waste of ammunition on the house!”
"idiot!"
Seeing that he was being relied upon as a pillar, Sasaki couldn't help but scratch his head as the grenade that had always tried so well in the past had lost its effectiveness. Now he had no good solution. At this time, Sasaki was in trouble of a lack of firepower.
The Japanese naval admiral Togo Heihachiro once said at the end of the Russo-Japanese War, "A cannon that fires at all times is better than a hundred cannons that fire at one time."
Originally, Togo Heihachiro meant to emphasize the effectiveness of firepower, because there is a similar saying in the West, which means that if your firepower cannot accurately kill the enemy, it will boost the enemy's morale. But in the hands of the Japanese who are accustomed to obeying orders and authority,
Immediately it became a saying that "a rifle with 100 shots and 100 hits is better than a hundred submachine guns with 100 shots and 100 hits."
In addition, Japan is an island country with limited resources, so the waste of ammunition is considered unforgivable in the Japanese military.
Since the July 7th Incident, the Japanese army has encountered opponents whose weapons and equipment are far inferior to its own. In addition, they have been advancing rapidly, so their shortcomings of weak infantry firepower have not been exposed.
But today, they encountered a company that was armed with the most advanced light weapons of this era. Although this company's individual soldier quality, tactical literacy, etc. were far inferior to the Japanese army, they relied on intensive firepower to make up for this.
A little, leaving the always arrogant Japanese army at a loss.
"Okay, just hit me like this! Beat me hard!"
On the contrary to Sasaki, the commander of the Chinese army opposite had a completely different mood.
To be honest, after changing equipment, Luo Jiali and his more than one hundred soldiers did not have time to know much about the weapons in their hands. All the soldiers only knew that the rifle in their hands could hold eight rounds of bullets.
, there is no need to fire a round or pull the bolt.
But they didn't know what it meant to change from a manual rifle to a semi-automatic rifle. But after they fought against the Japanese army, they understood that although they only lost a simple action of pulling the bolt, they could exert their full capabilities.
The firepower has increased geometrically.
Luo Jia found out that in the past, he was afraid of the Japanese light machine gun. They only needed two to three rifles to block it firmly, and the firepower of their new general-purpose machine gun called MG34 was even more fierce.
Incomparably, the Japanese riflemen were completely suppressed from raising their heads, and the battle became even more one-sided.
"Hahaha……"
"Hit me, beat me hard, you bastard little devil will end up here too!"
Luo Jia, who was watching the battle in a hut, saw the Japanese army's embarrassment in the distance and beamed with joy. These days, he was always beaten by the Japanese. He had never fought such a happy battle.
It's a pity that Luojia's weapon is an MP38 submachine gun with an effective range of only 100 to 200 meters. He can only stare at the Japanese troops 300 meters away.
Just when Luo Jiawo was in high spirits, one of his platoon leaders came over and said: "Sir, the Japanese have no power to fight back now. Should we send a platoon to fight back against them? What do you think?"
"Fight back?"
Luo Jia was stunned. Just before today, he had never even dreamed of counterattacking the Japanese. What kind of people are the Japanese? In the past, it would be good if I could endure their attacks during the war.
Well, he had never even thought about counterattacking against the Japanese. He did not expect that someone would propose a counterattack against the Japanese today.
Luo Jia thought for a while and frowned: "Old Li, you have to understand that those are Japanese in a squadron. We have dozens fewer people than them. Aren't you afraid that you will be trapped and unable to get out?"
?”
"What are you afraid of!" the platoon leader said with excitement: "Lian Zuo, think about it... the Japanese are being beaten by us now. If we can cut off a dozen Japanese heads in this battle, then after we go back
Commander Su, why don’t you praise you well! Besides, if for no other reason than that, with the heads of more than a dozen Japanese in hand, our brothers from the Seventh Company, the Four, Five, Sixth and even those from the First and Second Company
You can stand tall in front of others, right?"
The platoon leader’s words obviously touched my heart...
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