Chapter 42 Armored Vehicles and Heavy Machine Guns
() Originally, Zheng Fazai’s company fought well at the beginning. They relied on the pre-dug bunkers and used semi-automatic rifles, light machine guns, mortars, landmines and other weapons, and followed various blocking tactics learned in the exercise to defeat the attackers.
The Japanese army leaving the port was caught off guard. Although the combat experience and quality of the Japanese army were much higher than that of the Taiwan Army, they really could not find a suitable way to counterattack the Taiwan Army's semi-automatic rifles, light machine guns and other weapons. In addition,
You may step on or mix with one or two landmines at any time, and the rain of steel balls hitting your face will also greatly damage the morale of the Japanese army. For a time, thousands of Japanese soldiers who have successfully landed were killed by one of them for the first time in actual combat.
The Taiwanese infantry company was firmly suppressed in the only passage in and out of the port.
The Japanese army organized several charges, but they were all beaten back by a hail of bullets. The bullets of the Taiwanese army seemed to be free of charge. Regardless of whether the Japanese army attacked or not, as long as the barrel of the gun was not red, they probably aimed in the direction of the Japanese army and raised their hands.
Even after firing one magazine, especially those 60mm mortars, they kept firing at about 20 rounds per minute, which caused great trouble to the Japanese army who had no bunkers.
However, when the destroyers at sea opened fire, those 120mm or above artillery shells were far from what the Taiwan Army had seen in exercises. As the saying goes, recruits are afraid of cannons and veterans are afraid of whistles. Zheng Fazai's company, who had never experienced the baptism of fire, immediately panicked.
, some were hunched over in the trench and did not dare to raise their heads, some climbed out of the trench and ran back, and the rest who were still holding on were trembling all over, and they didn't know where the bullets had hit.
Although Zheng Fazai did not know a single word, had never been to anywhere except Taiwan, and was even more short-sighted, he had a natural talent as a soldier. As soon as the warship fired, the roaring sense of oppression made him tremble all over.
He was panicked for a while, but when he saw that his men were hiding in addition to those running away, he gradually calmed down a little from the panic. At the same time, he grabbed the hiding soldiers one by one in the trench and told them that hiding would lead to death.
, he raised his head and shot, he might still be alive, and while using the field phone to notify his reserve team, he quickly came up to replenish the personnel, and drove up the armored vehicles in the company, intending to use the heavy machine guns on the armored vehicles to help suppress the Japanese attack.
As the soldiers in the trenches gradually became familiar with this kind of shelling, and with Zheng Fazai's comfort, some soldiers began to fight a little more normally. However, due to the continuous running and death, Zheng Fazai's company position
The firepower has weakened a lot, which gave the battle-hardened 6th Division's offensive troops an opportunity. Under the leadership of junior officers, hundreds of Japanese soldiers charged together, no longer worrying about the landmines under their feet, and no longer avoiding the opposite Taiwan.
The soldiers were firing, and every few dozen meters, there was a row of Japanese running with bayonets in hand.
This tactic that was tried and tested against the Russians also put a lot of psychological pressure on the Taiwanese soldiers. Seeing the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side getting closer and closer to them, not many were killed or injured by their own side.
, these Taiwanese soldiers who had just recovered from the artillery bombardment were once again deeply unconfident about their own side. Some soldiers had begun to look both ways, planning to jump out of the trenches and run away while the company commander, platoon leader or squad leader was not paying attention.
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"Thud...thud...thud...thud..." Just when Zheng Fazai's company position was about to collapse, a rhythmic chug sound came from the side and rear of the company position, and with this
As the sound rang out, the Japanese soldiers who were charging towards the Taiwan position seemed to have been swept away by something. They flew backwards in rows. The blood mist and broken limbs in the sky covered the front of Zheng Fazai's company position.
It was so full that when looking out from the trench, no one could be seen 100 meters away, it was all red.
This sound is nothing else. Officially, the 12mm heavy machine gun on the "Badger" armored vehicle is said to be a gun, but this kind of gun that fires bullets as thick as a female finger is not at the same level as a gun in the ordinary sense. This kind of gun is produced by Taiwan itself.
The designed and manufactured heavy machine gun weighs nearly 40 kilograms and is nearly 2 meters long. It fires fully charged bullets of 12mm caliber, has an effective range of 1,200 meters, and a design speed of 500 rounds per minute. This gun was originally designed for Taiwan's submarines.
Because Liu Fu firmly opposed the installation of artillery on submarines, and submarines relying solely on torpedoes would be a bit monotonous, so the designers drew on the principles of light machine guns and designed this large-caliber heavy machine gun to be installed on submarines.
Later, this kind of machine gun was moved to torpedo boats and destroyers. When the armored vehicle was designed and put into production, the Army also regarded this relatively mature firearm as the main weapon of the armored vehicle. However, due to the heavy weight of this kind of machine gun, it could not be manned by manpower.
Therefore, except for the 12mm machine guns equipped by the Army on some fixed defense facilities and armored vehicles, other combat troops are not equipped.
A 12mm bullet that can penetrate a 10mm thick steel plate at a distance of 800 meters is basically not a question of whether it can penetrate a person. Because it is blocked by the human body during high-speed movement, the bullet will deform, thus affecting the trajectory. This
When the bullet passes through, the bullet will not rotate and fly along the original trajectory, but will continue to release kinetic energy while rolling in various postures. The result of this is that the human body is directly smashed, leaving a bowl-mouth-sized hole where the bullet passed through.
holes, or broken legs and arms. Due to the high kinetic energy, these bullets can continue to fly after passing through the first person. Depending on the situation, they will pass through the second person...the third person...
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Two 12mm machine guns, one after another on the top of the armored vehicle, howled without stopping. The high temperature after the explosion of gunpowder in the barrel boiled the water in the water-cooling casing outside the barrel directly into steam. From a distance
Look, the top of the armored vehicle hidden in the semi-buried bunker looks like two boiling kettles, spraying steam while making a "chug, chug, chug" sound.
Hundreds of Japanese soldiers who were charging, in front of the heavy machine guns, were blown away layer by layer like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. Bones and flesh fell first, then clothes and debris, and finally mist-like blood, slowly.
It slowly spread in the air, forming a pink color. In less than 30 seconds, there was nothing left that could stand on the gentle slope less than a hundred meters wide in front of the position.
The Japanese commander who was lying behind the highway intersection was so stunned by the scene of killing that he even forgot to give the order to retreat until the heavy machine gun extended its fire and smashed some Japanese soldiers at the intersection who had no time to escape.
, then he remembered to wave the command knife and retreat, but a few bullets interrupted his movements. This Japanese Colonel, the captain of the third regiment of the Sixth Division, along with several Japanese officers around him and behind him
, instantly turned into dozens of irregular-shaped objects, splashing onto the road.
Seeing the Japanese being mercilessly swept away by heavy machine guns, Zheng Fazai felt a little chilly. He couldn't help but imagine that if he had to charge towards the enemy in the future, and the enemy used this weapon to shoot him...
.He turned around and looked at the soldiers on both sides. Those soldiers were also standing on the edge of the trench, staring blankly at the miserable condition of the Japanese soldiers. They were probably thinking the same thing as himself.
"Wow... wow..." Following the first sound of vomiting, like a chain reaction, more than half of the Taiwanese soldiers squatted in the trenches and began to spit out all kinds of food in their stomachs. Originally, Zheng
Fa Zai didn't feel sick and didn't want to vomit, but seeing the soldiers around him spraying all kinds of sticky things from their mouths, Zheng Fa Zai didn't know it was the half of the Japanese army dozens of meters away.
What was more disgusting was the head, or the vomit of his own soldiers on the edge of his shoes. Anyway, his stomach was churning, and he started to spit out.
Due to the obstruction of a hill, the destroyer cannons on the sea could not fire directly into Zheng Fazai's position due to their relatively straight trajectory. A few scattered shells landed near the position from unknown angles.
Those Taiwanese soldiers who were originally panicked by the explosion of large-caliber artillery shells, after experiencing the heavy machine gun massacre just now, basically ignored these explosions that seemed violent but had no actual threat. They concentrated on vomiting while grabbing their own weapons.
, checked the ammunition, and poked half of his head out from the edge of the trench again.
The Japanese soldiers slowed down for more than 20 minutes and did not launch any more attacks. Because the scene was so cruel, the Japanese soldiers near the intersection were frightened. The commander who took over the command of the fallen commander also had to put these things aside.
The soldiers temporarily adjusted to the port to rest, replaced with the soldiers behind, and then made plans for the attack.
