This is one of the wonderful uses of the engineer's shovel. As long as it is folded and held in the hand, it becomes a small shield.
On the other hand, it is just a small shield, but its role in actual combat is very important.
For example, without this small shield, even if soldiers hold box cannons in their hands, they are often helpless when facing Japanese soldiers with bayonets.
The reason is that the power of the pistol is small. It uses a 7.63mm round-nosed bullet with a small charge and a small kinetic energy, so it cannot form a denial effect. That is, the impact force formed after hitting the enemy is not enough to make the enemy stop.
Therefore, unless it directly hits the vital point and kills the enemy on the spot, after the box cannon hits the enemy, the enemy's bayonet can still be plunged into the soldier's chest... Because of this, Yingjiang uses large-caliber pistols on the battlefield. The M9 he used before
, in modern times, they have been replaced with m11, which are all 9mm caliber pistols.
The requirement for this caliber is that it can cause huge damage to the target when shooting at close range, and at the same time have a certain denial effect to prevent the enemy from further close attacks.
The most insane thing is the pistol called the "Desert Eagle", which has a caliber of 12.7mm, which is terrifying.
The pistols used by the Eighth Route Army at this time were not so sophisticated. Although the performance of the box gun was good, its instantaneous lethality was still insufficient for close combat.
But if you add a hand shield, the situation is different.
Just like now, the soldiers rushed forward with a shield in one hand and a gun in the other. When the Japanese came up, they fired two shots. If the Japanese relied on inertia to stab the bayonets... just use the shield to block. That's fine.
It is said to be a perfect combination of offense and defense. If the box cannon runs out of bullets, you can change the magazine for the box cannon if you have time. If you don't have time, just unfold the engineer shovel and it will be a machete immediately.
The soldiers became more and more courageous as they fought, and the enemy soldiers screamed all the way, and the formation was immediately in chaos.
The monk is even more talented and bold. He doesn't even use an engineering shovel. Instead, he holds a box cannon in his left hand and right hand. While flying forward, he draws his bow from left to right and knocks down the Japanese in front and behind him to the ground. Occasionally, he moves around and changes his body.
Although the Japanese stabbed him with many bayonets, he dodged them one by one.
On the other hand, the Japanese didn't expect that Cheng Yaojin would suddenly appear on the way, and he would be on the weak side and rear. They were unprepared and were in chaos... The side and rear were attacked, and they were attacked by the enemy's elite.
, then it is not a matter of the number of troops, but a matter of being unilaterally massacred by the enemy and the morale of the entire army is affected and the whole army collapses.
At this time, Takemura Yuta was still holding a command sword and was fighting fiercely with the Eighth Route Army. He had learned swordsmanship in China for several years, and his men were stained with the blood of many Chinese people. This was one of the reasons why he became a captain.
Until the signal soldier came in a panic and reported: "Your Majesty, Major, an Eighth Route Army has broken out from the flank! We are about to be surrounded!"
"What?" Yuta Takemura was stunned, and then he immediately withdrew from the frontal battlefield under the cover of the guards. He turned around and looked at the flank. Sure enough, a group of Eighth Route Army was attacking his flank with overwhelming force.
"Asshole!" Takemura Yuta cursed: "Where did they come out from? What happened to the Heshang Brigade!"
The flank of the Takemura Brigade is the Heshang Brigade, and the Heshang Brigade's defense line also protrudes a corner to occupy the upper position of the Takemura Brigade.
Therefore, in principle, this situation is impossible. The Eighth Route Army must break through the defense line of the Heshang Brigade to appear here.
The communications soldier replied: "Your Majesty, Mr. Kawagami, you don't know about this. They have not encountered any enemies. These enemies... are likely to come from within!"
Takemura Yuta's eyelids twitched.
Although he still didn't understand the origin of this Eighth Route Army, he also knew that this was not the time to dwell on it, but to find a solution.
However, what can be done?
His troops could almost be said to be under a pincer attack by the enemy. There were thousands of enemies and terrifying tanks on the front, and a powerful elite on the side.
retreat?
Takemura Yuta shook his head and rejected this idea.
Now we are fighting hand-to-hand combat. Once we retreat, we will easily be chased and beaten by the enemy. At that time, we will be defeated and we will no longer be able to control ourselves.
But what can we do if we don’t retreat?
Yuta Takemura gritted his teeth, grabbed a guard next to him, and said, "It's time for you to be loyal to the empire..."
Then, the monk found a group of strange devils rushing toward them.
It's strange because this group of Japanese soldiers didn't have bayonets or even guns. They didn't wear military caps and only tied a strip of white cloth with a red dot in the middle on their heads. This was very conspicuous in the dark night.
The monk took a closer look and discovered something was wrong. Each of them was holding either explosive packets or cluster grenades, and howling, they rushed towards the crowded location of the reconnaissance company.
"Be careful!" the monk shouted, but it was too late.
Just hearing a loud "boom", more than a dozen reconnaissance company soldiers and several Japanese soldiers fighting with them were lifted up by the huge shock wave and fell far away. When they fell to the ground, they were already dead or injured.
The monk was not surprised by the Japanese tactics.
Because the Japanese often did this before, the only difference was that before they attacked the enemy's defense line and used this method to blast firepower points, but this time... they actually used it in hand-to-hand combat, and it was an indiscriminate attack when the enemy and the enemy were entangled.
However, this method is indeed useful for the reconnaissance company.
Because the reconnaissance company has a numerical advantage in this local area behind the Japanese side, the Japanese bombing method is to use the fewest people in exchange for greater casualties of the reconnaissance company. More importantly... the reconnaissance company is an elite, and it is better than the reconnaissance company.
The Japs also need strong elites. If teams were bombed by the Japs like this, it would be uneconomical and the crisis behind the Japs would be solved.
Just as the monk was gritting his teeth in hatred, another loud "boom" was heard, and seven or eight soldiers were blown away together with the Japanese again.
"Spread out!" the monk shouted: "Everyone spread out!"
However, dispersing is not a good idea, because no matter how the soldiers change, the Japanese suicide attackers will always rush out of the crowd and detonate their explosives.
For the Japs, even if they exchange five people for one soldier from the reconnaissance company, it is still worth it.
Just when the monk didn't know how to solve the problem and was at a loss, suddenly a soldier shouted and rushed into the enemy group. He completely ignored the Japanese bayonet and knocked down the Japanese suicide attacker, and then ignited the fuse.
The fuse...the explosives were detonated in the crowd of Japanese soldiers amid screams of panic.
So the soldiers knew what to do.
When other Japanese soldiers with white cloth belts on their heads rushed up, there would always be soldiers who rushed forward without hesitation to block them, and used their last strength to detonate explosives.