However, even if the Japanese escaped inside the steel factory, it would be of no avail.
Because escaping to the steel factory meant engaging in street fighting with the Eighth Route Army.
Street fighting is the strong point of the AK47...
A famous saying from World War II was "A submachine gun plus a grenade is worth money in street fighting."
This is mainly because the submachine gun is short, light and easy to use indoors, and on the other hand is its ammunition capacity.
But in fact, this sentence should be changed to "Assault rifle plus grenade, street fighting is not worth money."
Because although submachine guns are very similar to assault rifles in street fighting... although assault rifles have a longer range than submachine guns, street fighting is basically close combat and does not require such a long range.
But assault rifles have one advantage that submachine guns don't have, and that's power.
The bullets used in submachine guns are pistol bullets, and their power is too small to prevent them from being fired at close range.
To put it simply, if there is an enemy rushing toward you with a broadsword a few meters away, the submachine gun has to "click, click, click..." to fire a dense stream of bullets to ensure that the opponent's broadsword will not hit your neck.
This has certain requirements on the soldier's adaptability. At the same time, the ammunition capacity is often not enough. What if the person rushing towards you is not one person but two people in front and behind you? Because the round-head bullets of the submachine gun cannot penetrate the human body, the person in front blocks the bullet, and the one behind him blocks the bullet.
One person can kill you.
Assault rifles are different.
Assault rifles use intermediate-power bullets. Although their power is not as powerful as the full-power bullets of rifles, they are much stronger than submachine guns. Both the rejection effect and the penetrating power are just right.
In the same situation, a submachine gun needs to fire dozens of rounds of bullets from the entire magazine, but an assault rifle often only needs two "bang bang" bursts to complete.
In addition, after the independent regiment is equipped with AK47, it also undergoes special street fighting training... This is especially the street fighting training for steel plants.
The Independent Regiment had occupied the steel plant before. During training, Li Yunlong asked his men to recall every building in the steel plant and used wooden boards to simulate a similar environment for the troops to train.
More importantly, this kind of street fighting training of the independent regiment is still a modern coordinated operation.
For example, Zhang Dabiao fought like this at this time. He first let the sharpshooters occupy the commanding heights, and then the troops advanced alternately under the cover of the sharpshooters.
After approaching the building, they sent out bombardiers to throw grenades indoors... After the explosion, they immediately broke in and started ruthlessly massacring the Japanese inside.
Sometimes, if the situation inside the house feels complicated, the soldiers will throw smoke bombs inside to smoke out the enemies and then kill them one by one.
Although the Japs are all veterans who have experienced hundreds of battles, they have never seen such a fighting style, let alone such fierce firepower. They even thought that everyone in the Eighth Route Army was holding a machine gun in their hands and charging towards them...
…It was still not bright at this time, especially when it was dark indoors, so the Japanese couldn’t see clearly what kind of gun the Eighth Route Army was holding.
In fact, it's okay if they didn't see it clearly. If they saw it clearly and knew that the Eighth Route Army was equipped with a rifle that they had never seen that could fire continuously, I'm afraid it would make them even more frightened.
However, even so, the Japs stationed in the two brigades of the steel plant were instantly defeated by the forwards of the two battalions of the Eighth Route Army. At this time, they no longer cared about the image of the imperial army and fled eastward like crazy.
When the Eighth Route Army invaded Asada Nakazuo's office, he and a group of staff officers and communications soldiers who were busy making phone calls and sending telegrams were sieved. Asada Nakazuo didn't even know what was going on...
Asada woke up when he heard the explosion. Then he immediately put on his military uniform and ran to the headquarters and asked: "What's going on?"
"It's not clear yet!" the staff officer replied: "We only know that we were attacked by the Eighth Route Army and communications with the front line have been interrupted!"
Asada immediately felt that there was something unusual about the war.
Because in past wars, once a battle started, the front line would immediately use the phone to report the battle situation, such as how many enemies there were, what equipment they had, whether reinforcements were needed, etc.
But now, they actually don't know anything, and the communication with the front line was interrupted immediately... Could it be that the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army blew up the front finger immediately?
In fact, it was not that the front finger was blown up by the Eighth Route Army, but that it was occupied before the frontline commander could react.
To be precise, the commander met the squadron leader and wanted to see what was going on with the enemy before reporting to his superiors. As a result, he was a few minutes late. The Eighth Route Army's grenade had already been thrown into his headquarters...
But Asada was not in a hurry, he planned to wait and see.
Because he was very confident in the two-layer defense line he deployed, he believed that his troops would definitely be able to block the Eighth Route Army's attack in such a defense line.
It was not until ten minutes later that a communications soldier covered in blood hurriedly ran into the headquarters and reported: "Your Excellency Zhongzuo, retreat quickly, the enemy is about to hit here!"
"What?" Asada was shocked by these words, and then he roared: "What is going on? The battle has only lasted ten minutes, and the enemy actually reached the headquarters..."
"Your Excellency, Zhongzuo!" The communications soldier interrupted Asada anxiously: "The enemy's firepower is very powerful, it doesn't look like the Eighth Route Army! It's even more powerful than Mao Xiong's troops. We don't know what kind of troops they are!"
The Japanese soldiers have considerable combat experience. They can tell what kind of rifle it is based on the sound of gunfire, and they can even tell what kind of army it is.
But now, they couldn't hear anything. They only knew that this couldn't be the Eighth Route Army.
Just kidding, how could the Eighth Route Army, which once had only ten rounds of ammunition per capita, have such strong firepower!
Asada couldn't help but be stunned when he heard what the correspondent said, and then immediately ordered: "Move in the Oda Squadron for reinforcements and be sure to hold on!"
"Yes!" the staff officer responded, and immediately ran to the communications room, but before he could run a few steps, he heard a "bang" sound, and a bullet broke through the window and knocked the staff officer down in a pool of blood.
Asada thought it was a stray bullet at first, but soon realized that this was not the case, because immediately after the gunshot, several grenades were thrown in from the window...
There was a roar, and Asada, who lay down on the ground and hid under his desk in time, was lucky enough to save his life. He pulled out a pistol from his waist and planned to fight the enemy to the end.
But he didn't expect that as soon as he stood up, he saw several Eighth Route Army soldiers rushing in, holding rifles he had never seen before, and then fired wildly into the room with "click-click" shots.
The radio was clanging loudly, sparks were flashing and smoke was coming out after a short circuit, and the documents on the table were flying everywhere.
Asada thought his desk could withstand the bullets of such a "submachine gun" because the place where he was hiding had several layers of drawers and there were many things in the drawers.
But he was obviously wrong... He looked at the punched-through desk in disbelief, then at the bullet holes in his body, and fell to the ground helplessly.
Even to his death, Asada didn't understand where he had lost!