Chapter five hundred and ninth reinforcements arrive
"Whoosh...boom, boom, boom..."
A succession of artillery shells landed six to seven hundred meters in front of the Chinese position. The violent explosion surrounded the Japanese soldiers who were rushing forward in a dense formation in the explosion and smoke. When the smoke rose and dissipated after the explosion,
A small group of Japanese soldiers had fallen into a pool of blood.
"Baga, the Chinese covering artillery, disperse quickly!"
When the Japanese officers who were closely following the supervision saw this situation, they were so excited that they quickly ordered the soldiers to share their burdens. As an experienced officer, he knew just by listening that the caliber of this burst of artillery fire was only 7
It was a 15- or 105-caliber light artillery, and a more violent bombardment was yet to come. Sure enough, after the first round of artillery fire, there was another rapid and sharp whistling sound in the air. This whistling sound was similar to
The sound of ordinary artillery is different, it has a soul-stirring and sharp sound.
"Boom...boom..."
Different from the rapid and continuous explosions just now, this kind of artillery is more like a big drum. After falling into a low voice, the huge and violent explosions shook the earth several times, making many people feel their feet shaking.
The earth is trembling.
"No, this is a 203-caliber large-caliber artillery!"
At this time, not only the charging infantry, but also the face of Kumagai Keiichi, the commander of the 15th Division who was supervising the battle behind, changed color.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the Chinese have opened fire with 200-caliber heavy artillery, and they have also specifically targeted our assembly points. These Chinese are so abominable. We should hurry up and call for artillery to support them, right?" Chief of Staff Sasaka Toshiyuki
The colonel looked at the starting position with flames soaring into the sky, and felt a twinge of pain in his heart. These were the elites of the Imperial Army. Many of them were killed by the Chinese without even firing a single shot. This loss was too unjust.
"Order the troops to speed up. They must rush up and mingle with the Chinese. You cannot let the Chinese's artillery superiority be used. In addition, if you form a field artillery regiment, you will immediately pour all the artillery shells onto the Chinese positions. Do you understand?
"
"Hai!"
After receiving the death order, the Japanese soldiers lined up in skirmish formation and rushed forward desperately. Before the war, all the officers told them that as long as they could rush to the opposite Chinese position and engage in hand-to-hand melee combat with them,
Then they will be successful.
Under the cover of more than 30 artillery pieces put together by the entire division, countless Japanese soldiers quickly rushed to a place less than a hundred meters away from the forward position of the 678th Regiment. The Japanese army's crooked light machine guns, Type 92 heavy
Machine guns, Type 38 rifles and grenade mortars of various calibers also rained down on the defenders' positions like hail.
The dense rain of bullets caused a lot of casualties to the garrison positions, and the soldiers of the 678th Regiment stationed at the forward positions were also firing desperately with their firearms. Nearly a hundred M1919A4 machine guns and dozens of M2HB large guns were fired.
The caliber machine guns were also firing forward desperately, turning the night sky red with countless fiery red tracer bullets and illumination bombs.
As the main light weapons of the infantry of the 398th Division, the m1919a4 machine gun and m2hb heavy machine gun have also become a nightmare for the Japanese army. Faced with machine gun bullets that roar like a storm and hail like hail, they emit "drum-like"
The firepower of the Japanese light and heavy machine guns was completely covered up by the sound of machine guns. Rows of Japanese soldiers fell down under the crazy fire of such machine guns, which added a lot of psychological burden to the following soldiers and gave people
It was a huge mental blow. Although the rate of fire of the m1919a4 machine gun cannot be compared with the mg-34 machine gun previously equipped by the Seventh Army, its actual rate of fire is only 400 to 550 rounds per minute. Compared with
It is much different from the mg-34 machine gun, but the low rate of fire also has the advantage of low rate of fire, that is, at least the barrel does not need to be replaced so frequently, plus the m2hb large-caliber Browning heavy machine gun and the weapons in the hands of soldiers
The firing of Land rifles and a large number of Thompson submachine guns turned the forward position into an insurmountable death zone. The battle lasted for several hours, and it slowly stopped when the sky gradually turned white.
At dawn, Sun Hao, the leader of the 678th Regiment, arrived at the forward position. He just took out his telescope and prepared to observe the situation on the other side. Suddenly a bullet flew over, pierced his left hand and broke his telescope. The guard on the side
He was immediately covered, and the nearby sniper also found the source of the bullet, and accurately hit the Japanese soldier in the chest who had just finished shooting when he was about to move.
Japanese soldiers attach great importance to the accuracy of their shooting. Every soldier is well trained in shooting, and their marksmanship is extremely accurate. In addition to machine guns, the army's light firepower basically only has 38-type rifles and grenade launchers.
A soldier carrying one hundred and fifty rounds of rifle bullets can last a day of fighting. On the other hand, the Seventh Army is equipped with a large number of automatic weapons. The disadvantages of automatic weapons are that their penetration, range, and accuracy are not high. For example, equipment
The only advantage of the Thompson submachine gun is that it can fire continuously and has a high rate of fire. This has not been accepted by the Japanese military, which is short of resources and attaches great importance to shooting accuracy. In contrast, Suri, a person from later generations, is more
Knowing the role of firepower on the battlefield, he has always advocated the principle of firepower first since the formation of the army. The troops under his command use light and heavy machine guns as the main weapons, supplemented by rifles, submachine guns, etc. The shortcomings of low shooting accuracy are eliminated by
Soldiers with relatively good marksmanship are compensated by specially trained snipers, which makes the firepower mix of the entire unit relatively reasonable. This can be seen in last night's battle.
Sun Hao, who had been shot in the arm, leaned against the trench. The guard on the side took out a first-aid kit from his body and applied it to him for the blast wound. Sun Hao endured the pain and gritted his teeth and said: "His grandmother's was careless. The kid's shooting skills are not bad!"
While helping him bandage his wounds, the guard advised him: "Commander, you'd better go down first. The firefight has just ended. There may be many little Japs left in front of the position. It's really too dangerous for you here."
Sun Hao shook his head: "What are you afraid of? If I were afraid, I wouldn't be a soldier. Besides, I was just too careless just now. Let's just change places later. Xiaoma, bring me your spare telescope."
After listening to Sun Hao's words, the guard behind him had no choice but to take out the telescope and hand it to him. Sun Hao took the telescope, bent down and walked to another hidden location. Just as he was about to continue observing, he heard something coming from behind.
There was a sound of footsteps, and the voice of the regiment's combat staff sounded from behind: "Regiment, the division has an order, ordering our regiment to immediately cooperate with reinforcements to launch a counterattack in ten minutes from the Japanese army facing us! Fighters will then provide air cover for us.
!”
"What? Launch a counterattack?" Sun Hao was stunned for a moment. Didn't he mean to consume the Japanese's vitality and wait until their reinforcements arrived again before annihilating them? Besides, do we still have reinforcements? Where did the reinforcements come from?
?
Just when Sun Hao was confused for a moment, there were bursts of shouts of killing coming from behind the position, and he saw soldiers all over the mountains and plains rushing up from behind. Sun Hao quickly looked over with his binoculars and found that these soldiers were wearing the same clothes as them.
They all wore the same gray-green military uniforms, and they also held the same Garand rifles and Thompson submachine guns in their hands, and they were getting closer and closer to their positions.
"My grandma, where are the reinforcements coming from? There are quite a lot of them."
"Yeah, looking at the scale, it must be at least ten thousand people, right? I don't know which army it is."
"Ten thousand people? Why don't you look at how many more there are behind? I think there are at least tens of thousands!"
Looking at this scene, the surrounding soldiers couldn't help but talk about it, but Sun Hao always felt something was wrong when he looked at this scene. He always felt that these soldiers were somewhat different from the soldiers of the Seventh Army. He waited until these soldiers rushed to their position.
He discovered the source of his uneasiness. Looking at the soldiers passing by him, Sun Hao discovered that these soldiers had darker skin color, and many of them were relatively shorter. Moreover, they were sitting next to each other during the charge.
There are also some differences among the soldiers of the Seventh Army. For example, when the soldiers of the Seventh Army charge, they usually let soldiers holding submachine guns rush in front, and shoot while charging to suppress local firepower. However, these soldiers are more mixed during the charge. Instead, some soldiers holding submachine guns are charged.
The soldiers with rifles charged at the front, and their bodies were not as bent as the soldiers of the Seventh Army when they charged. Although these differences were not obvious, they were obvious to the experienced Sun Hao at a glance.
Saw it out.
Finally, Sun Hao called the staff officer who had just come to report the news and asked: "Counsel Ge, where did these reinforcements come from?"
Staff Officer Ge replied: "Commander, these reinforcements are brothers of the Seventh Army. They arrived today. As soon as they arrived, the commander asked them to launch a counterattack against the Japanese."
"So that's it." Sun Hao muttered softly for a few times, then turned around and said sternly: "Since the reinforcements are here, let's not be idle. We immediately ordered the whole regiment to attack and drive the little Japs into Nanping City.
go!"
"yes!"
Soon, the loud "Charge" sounded on the battlefield, and the soldiers of the 678th Regiment also jumped up from the trenches and rushed forward. Although they had been fighting for half a night, they
They were still in high spirits, after all, everyone would enjoy beating down a drowned dog.
Half an hour later, when Sun Hao saw the place where the artillery fire blocked the Japanese army last night, even he was almost shocked. Looking at the place where the artillery fire yesterday was, they were all piled up with the corpses of the Japanese army. Many of them were directly
Some of those who were killed by artillery shells even died of excessive bleeding due to injuries, and some had their hands deeply inserted into the soil before they died. It seemed that they died of serious injuries after being hit, and they endured a lot of it.
It was painful, and my face turned blue. (To be continued)