Chapter 1008 Strength of the 28th Cavalry Regiment
Due to terrain restrictions, the position on the top of the mountain is not large. It is no more than 300 meters wide and no more than 30 meters deep. The main position with a radius of 9,000 meters can accommodate an infantry company of 160 people, which is good.
According to Okazaki Masashi's understanding of the Chinese army, it is considered good for this infantry company position to have 3 to 4 light machine guns. If there are heavy machine guns to help, it proves that this army is already among the elite of the Chinese army.
Elite.
Obviously, 6 light machine guns popped up on the Chinese position, equivalent to two in a platoon. This is already close to the Japanese army's own light firepower configuration. There may be some hidden ones, but there shouldn't be many, Oka
Saki Shoichi never believed that the light firepower of the Chinese army would completely surpass the Imperial Army of Japan.
His 4 heavy machine guns and 10 light machine guns plus 10 grenade launchers can absolutely suppress the opponent's firepower. Coupled with the skilled military qualities of his cavalry, Okazaki Shoichi already has the ability to conquer the old level at this moment.
Eighty percent confidence in the main position.
While the main position was receiving fire, the Japanese troops on the two flanks also began to conduct tentative attacks, but the attack method was mainly through shooting from both sides.
It has to be said that the arrogance of the Japanese army does have its arrogant capital. Although the barrel of the standard Type 38 lance of this group of cavalry is shorter than that of the Type 38 rifle used by infantry, and the range is nearly 100 meters, but the individual Japanese soldier
His marksmanship is really good.
At a distance of more than 300 meters, he still shot from the rear, but he shot extremely accurately. He was accidentally bitten by their bullets. The first battalion of the 772nd Regiment was responsible for the right-wing position. Within five minutes before both sides started shooting,
Five people were injured in a row, and one person was shot in the head and died of his injuries on the spot.
Although three people were injured by ricochet bullets fired by a Japanese heavy machine gun and four light machine guns, two of them were actually hit by Japanese rifles.
However, the result of their condescending battle was only to injure two Japanese invaders, and they were rescued by other Japanese soldiers and dragged behind a large rock for treatment.
This made the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the 772nd Regiment, who had the advantage of terrain and numbers but suffered a big loss, somewhat confused on their faces.
Who are they? Half of them are veterans who have experienced a whole year of strategic shifts and fought their way out of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops and experienced countless battles. They are the elite among the elite. Although they have also failed.
Yes, but that's either because the enemy has superior strength or firepower. Even if it fails, the enemy's losses will be much more painful than theirs.
It can be said that they have never fought a battle in which they suffered losses despite their superior strength.
But a group of little devils, who were far outnumbered and only had a few light and heavy machine guns, managed to achieve a 5-2 record. This was really intolerable.
The biggest difference between the Red Army and the ordinary national army is that they attach great importance to the honor of the troops. This can be regarded as the first battle between the 386 Brigade and the Japs since the establishment of the Anti-Japanese United Front. How could they fight so cowardly? If word spread, how could it be possible?
Wouldn't it make the commander lose face and be laughed out of his mouth by friendly forces?
Therefore, the platoon leader asked the company commander for a fight, and the company commander asked the battalion commander for a fight. They all hoped to lift the regiment commander's pre-war decree that only half of the machine guns were allowed to fire, and the two mortars reinforced by the regiment headquarters for the battalion headquarters were not allowed to fire without an order from the regiment headquarters.
Military orders.
As long as the mortar fires, it can take out the heavy machine gun that is firing wildly and suppressing almost half of the position, even though the Japanese army is hiding in a bunker hundreds of meters away.
Without the suppression of the Japs' heavy machine guns, with their marksmanship, the Japs would not dare to shoot at them so brazenly. The soldiers of an infantry company on the front line were convinced that the Japs would never be able to defeat them by relying on infantry shooting alone.
opponent.
That is also the self-confidence they gained from fighting under the command of the bald boss for a long time.
More importantly, they no longer have to worry about lack of bullets this time. As soon as they arrived at the position, Commander Liu of the Independent Regiment sent them a total of 50,000 rounds of machine rifle bullets. Each of the more than 2,000 people in the regiment received more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition out of thin air.
With 20 rounds of ammunition, plus those issued before the war, each infantryman was equipped with 50 rounds of ammunition, which was an unprecedented wealth. A pile of nearly 10,000 rounds of ammunition killed this group of little devils with no more than a hundred people.
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But Captain Ye, who had been sitting at the frontline headquarters, had a serious look on his face. He scolded the first battalion commander who came to ask for a fight, and went back to continue directing the battle with a blushing face.
Commander Ye drove away the battalion commander who came to ask for a fight. He continued to observe this small group of Japanese troops with a telescope, who had obvious intentions of containing them, and his face became more solemn.
This is not the first time that the Red Army has fought against the Japanese invaders. As early as half a month ago, the 115th Division ambushed the Itagaki Division's baggage brigade at Pingxingguan. The battle report showed that more than a thousand Japanese invaders were annihilated, and the results were extremely brilliant.
However, the 115th Division also suffered more than a thousand casualties, suffering a battle loss of nearly 1:1.
This is already extremely strong for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops who fought in Hebei but lost consecutive battles. It can also be regarded as the most brilliant battle fought by the Chinese army since the Battle of Shanxi.
But as a senior commander, Commander Ye has a new understanding of the combat power of the Japs. The 115th Division is almost full of elites. They are all elites who have participated in the strategic shift and have experienced hundreds of battles. They also occupy an important position.
Despite their geographical advantages, they were evenly matched with the second-line Japanese troops whose strength was far inferior to theirs. This shows how strong the combat effectiveness of the little devils was.
Although they had attached great importance to it, as soon as the battle started today, the little Japanese gave the 772nd regiment a showdown, making Commander Ye realize once again that the Japanese invaders' combat power was even more terrifying than he imagined.
This time, they did not rely entirely on firepower equipment.
In fact, in terms of equipment alone, the equipment of the 772nd Regiment is not bad.
Naturally, the equipment of the 772nd Regiment cannot keep up with that of the Independent Regiment, but because of a batch of light and heavy weapons donated by Liu Langhadapu, the 772nd Regiment got a little bit of soup, and was divided into two heavy machine guns and four light machine guns, plus the original light and heavy weapons.
The weapons can barely reach the configuration of an infantry battalion, one heavy machine gun, six light machine guns, and two mortars. Even if compared with the small group of Japanese troops responsible for containing them, they will definitely not lose.
However, in terms of rifles, they are slightly behind the Japanese army. The old-fashioned Hanyang-made rifles not only have a lower range than the Japanese infantry's 38-type rifles, but even the 38-type lances are slightly inferior. In addition, the Japanese army has several machine guns.
Their cover and their extremely accurate marksmanship were the reasons why the Japanese army had an advantage even when shooting from above.
The most powerful thing about the Japanese invaders was not this, but the grenades hiding 500 meters away from the rifle range. In the telescope, the three light machine guns that were allowed to fire only fired two rounds of bullets and a few grenades.
It flew from above and below and exploded precisely two or three meters away from the point of fire.
If the machine gun bunker had not been repaired firmly with sandbags, several machine gun shooters would have been killed or injured, and the machine gun would have been destroyed.
However, even so, as veterans, the machine gun shooters and assistant shooters who are more sensitive to the sense of crisis also quickly moved with the machine guns and ammunition. Sure enough, within a few seconds, the slightly adjusted Japanese grenade came over again and directly hit
The sandbag fortifications exploded into a mess.
Commander Ye couldn't help but take a deep breath. If he didn't have mortars or other long-range weapons to suppress the grenadiers and heavy machine guns of the Japs, this battle would be completely unwinnable.
This small group of Japanese troops just paid off. When the Japanese troops came in large numbers, in the distance, there were Japanese artillery assists. After a round of wild bombing, the position was blown into a mess, and then the infantry launched an attack. When they got closer, they attacked again.
Accurate grenadiers carry out precise attacks on the remaining fire points. After all your fire points are destroyed, the infantry with excellent shooting skills and individual tactics will attack the defense line under the cover of its light and heavy machine guns.
If you just rely on the rifle firepower in the hands of the infantry to compete with the machine rifle bullets they spit out like a downpour, there is simply one way to do it, which is to take human lives until the defenders are completely dead or injured, or the army is demoralized due to excessive casualties.
Retreat.
It can be said that it was this small-scale battle that made the 772nd Regiment, which was also full of confidence, realize the strength of the Japanese army.
Very strong.
However, this is also the result of the 772 regiment receiving Liu Lang's military order to shrink its strength. Otherwise, when the two 82-guns opened fire with all their strength, they also sent several of the Japs' light and heavy machine gun points into the sky. This group was still awesome at coaxing and shooting on the mountain.
The red troops, who were equally good, were terrible at shooting at the Japanese troops.
But, that will scare them away.
What the 772nd Regiment has to do now is not to expose its full strength and fight to the death with the little Japs on both wings, but to hang them like fish and wait for the last opportunity to annihilate them all.
And all this must be done after the main force of the Japanese cavalry regiment on the main position of Jiuguan has completely taken the bait.
At the same time, the direction of the main position of Jiuguan.
The six light machine gun fire points that had been exposed were taken care of by 10 grenade launchers. More than forty grenades destroyed the location of the light machine gun fire points.
It was also the first time for Zihua to deal with the Japs. If it weren't for the fact that the machine gun shooters were all veterans who had fought the Japanese invaders for more than two months in the Battle of the Great Wall. After firing two rounds of bullets, they held
The guns hid in the anti-gun holes specially reserved for them ten meters away. Maybe, in this round of grenade attacks alone, more than half of the six light machine guns would be lost.
However, according to Liu Tuanzuo's prearranged fishing strategy, two of the six light machine guns still withdrew from the battlefield as originally planned and retreated to the slightly crude anti-shell anti-slope tunnel halfway up the mountain. Only four machine guns were still swimming.
Shoot and attack the Japanese invaders who are testing the firepower point.
The Japanese army was not in a hurry to launch a full-scale attack, but kept testing and testing the firepower deployment on the top of the mountain.
Ye Zihua was also very patient, and it was not until the two sides fought for more than half an hour that he took out the "last" heavy weapon, a Maxim heavy machine gun that was ambushed between rocks and supported by a log.
In order not to scare the Japanese troops away, the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment not only removed all "Hitler Chainsaws", but even the heavy machine guns used ordinary national army standard equipment Maxim.
Relying on the protection of the fortifications, the heavy machine gun firepower ignored the Japanese heavy machine gun fire and fired wildly at the Japanese team that was feinting to attack, killing at least four little Japanese who had to move without enough cover.
The Maxim heavy machine gun with a rate of fire of 500 rounds per minute is a nightmare for infantry at a range of 400 meters. No matter how fast it runs, it is useless.
But Okazaki Shoichi was not depressed at all, and instead showed a victorious smile.
The Chinese has already revealed all his trump cards, but what other trump cards have he yet to reveal?
A 70-caliber infantry gun was pushed out, and its black muzzle was pointed at the heavy machine gun bunker of the independent regiment.