Not only were the Japanese troops highly disciplined, but they even carried out military orders to an eye-popping degree of stubbornness. They knew that the Chinese mortars would hit them soon, but under the orders of the squadron leader, no one dropped their heavy machine guns to find cover or take cover.
He said he was running away, but he was running with a heavy machine gun.
Naturally, this greatly slowed down their retreat.
Of course, in addition to some old-fashioned and stubborn national characteristics, this is actually related to the strict and even harsh military discipline of the Japanese army. As an island country with poor resources, the Japanese army attaches great importance to weapons and equipment. If a weapon is lost or lost,
, those responsible will be severely punished.
In the past, during countless back-and-forth "hide-and-seek" battles with the "Tubal Road", an infantry squadron retreated hastily due to an ambush and was captured by the "Tubal Road" with a 92 infantry gun.
Now the Japanese squadron leader who was running away was fine but had lost his weapon. He panicked and found a middleman to send a message to the "Tubal Road" and exchanged it for modern ocean guns, machine guns and rifles that far exceeded the value of infantry cannons.
Of course, the Red Army was not that stupid to return the cannon and let them hit them again, not to mention that the infantry artillery was a good thing and could not be exchanged for money. Although they did not get their infantry artillery back in the end, the Japanese army would rather risk collaborating with the enemy.
He also wanted to get his weapons back. It can be imagined that the Japanese army attached great importance to weapons.
It is understandable that even if these heavy machine gunners knew that the mortars were coming, they still stubbornly ran away with their heavy machine guns.
Wearing bulky Sho-5 military boots, which are not very suitable for mountain combat, and coupled with the bulkier 92 heavy machine gun, were bombarded by dozens of mortars that covered almost thousands of square meters, these Japanese heavy aircraft
The shooter's outcome is obvious.
Including the squadron leader of the Japanese heavy machine gun squadron, who was the fastest to jump without raising his machine gun, all the Japanese soldiers were knocked upside down by the mortar shells.
"Baga, where are our mortars? Fight back, fight back!" Lieutenant Colonel Hatori almost lost his breath when he saw this scene.
Previously, the infantry artillery position was attacked by mortars from the independent regiment. Although Lieutenant Colonel Hatori was angry, he was actually a little scared. Although the 20th Division was invincible on the North China battlefield, it did not mean that it was not damaged at all. And the soldiers
Seventy percent of the casualties were caused not by bullets, but by Chinese mortars and grenades.
It can be said that the mortars that the Chinese equip their troops with in large quantities are the weapons that the Japanese army hates and fears the most, and the rest are not worth mentioning.
In fact, the mortar shells are not very powerful. Although the infantry artillery position was rotated once before, the losses of the infantry artillery were not great. After all, it was an iron lump weighing more than 200 kilograms. As long as it was not hit head-on by the artillery shell, but was just angry
It was overturned by waves and basically still usable. However, the gunners suffered heavy casualties. Only a dozen gunners could survive in the entire infantry artillery position, and the casualty rate was as high as 85%.
What's more, Lieutenant Commander Hatori was still a bit lucky. From the beginning of the battle, the Chinese did not use mortars to attack their own machine gun positions, but concentrated their firepower on infantry artillery positions. Does that mean that they did not have many artillery shells and needed to use precious
What about the cannonballs that use the blade instead of the back?
Anyway, if the veteran Lieutenant Colonel were in command, if there were enough artillery shells, he would attack the heavy machine gun position from the beginning. And the "notorious" "Beast Colonel" of the independent regiment is definitely not a fool! The veteran Lieutenant Colonel has never
Don't make a habit of underestimating your enemies.
The next seven or eight minutes of fighting were in line with his guess. After frantically shelling the infantry artillery position, the Chinese mortars did not speak again, allowing the heavy machine guns on both wings to straf their own position, covering the opponent's infantry and continuing to advance.
However, since the tank squadron suffered heavy losses and three tanks were destroyed in a row, the Chinese mortars started shelling again, and this time it was even more violent than the infantry artillery positions. Judging from the intensity of the artillery fire, at least
, smashed hundreds of artillery shells.
When did the Chinese become so wealthy? Looking at the extremely helpless figures of our own soldiers who were carrying heavy machine guns in the thick smoke through binoculars, but were constantly being blown away and dropped, the veteran Lieutenant Colonel almost bit his own flesh.
Back molars.
"Colonel Beast" was so cunning that it could even be said to be cruel. With such strength, he was willing to let his opponent's heavy machine gun shoot at his own position for more than twenty minutes, and it was only then that he broke out in one fell swoop.
What does he want to do?
But no matter what Liu Lang wanted to do, facing a large number of mortars from the Independent Regiment, the only thing the 1st Infantry Brigade could fight back now was mortars.
Yes, this kind of infantry support artillery that emerged in World War I was not only equipped by the Chinese army, but also by the Japanese army.
However, looking at the two bulky Type 94 90MM mortars set up by the artillery squad directly under the brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Hatori couldn't help but feel the veins on his forehead pop.
That's right, compared to the 82-caliber mortar that weighs more than 60 kilograms and is heavily equipped by the Chinese army, the Japanese Type 94 90-caliber mortar is extremely powerful in terms of caliber alone.
But...the Japanese military industry is once again brain-dead.
The Type 94 mortar with a total weight of 175 kilograms is too heavy. It is almost as heavy as the 92 infantry gun. Although the 5.26 kilogram heavy projectile is much more powerful than the Chinese army's 82 mortar, with a range of 3800 meters.
Also be far away.
However, after having the 92 infantry gun that can be used as both a direct-aiming gun and a curved-firing artillery gun, as a commander, who would be willing to equip this mortar with a single function of only fighting in trenches? This is Baga's case.
It's heavy and needs at least one artillery squad to serve it.
The total weight of the National Army equipment is more than 60 kilograms. Four soldiers can easily disassemble the Type 82 and run away. In terms of mobility, it can take more than eight blocks to get rid of the Type 94.
I think Lang Tuanzuo, whose physical fitness was at the abnormal level, was able to resist the Taiwan 82 forces by himself. He chased the Sixth Division and kicked their butts several times with a single gun. If he were replaced by a 175 kg Type 94
, I guess even if Lang Tuanzuo could carry it, he wouldn't be able to run like a rabbit and dodge people when hit.
Therefore, the Japanese infantry wing only gave face to the military factory and was equipped with six symbolic guns. Yes, each infantry brigade's artillery squad had two guns plus two infantry guns. At least in terms of mortars, it was better than that of the national artillery.
An army regiment should be smaller.
The individual grenade, which the Japanese army regards as a magic weapon, is very powerful in front-line combat. It can blow up the fire points of light machine guns and even heavy machine guns, but its range is limited, and the farthest is only six or seven hundred meters. And the grenade load is
Compared with the mortar, a weapon that can send 4 kilogram projectiles to any corner of the battlefield from 100 meters to 3,000 meters, it is not an equipment of the same magnitude.
Lieutenant Colonel Hatori had reason to believe that when the Chinese finished clearing up the heavy machine gun positions, they would turn their guns on the grenadiers and infantrymen who were hiding behind the natural bunkers of the position.
Natural stones may be used as bullets, but they are really powerless against such cannonballs falling from the top of the head!
Not only "imagining" the future, but looking at the present, two 94 mortars were working hard at the artillery position 300 meters away to launch artillery fire on the opposite mortar position hidden behind the Chinese position.
Lieutenant Colonel Hatori couldn't help but want to shrink into the trench. The Chinese seemed to have many more mortars than we did! Well, you won't be beaten to pieces again later!
The two doors, really, look too shabby.
Lieutenant Colonel Hatori has never hated his crow brain so much. This thought of being outnumbered only passed through his mind for a moment, but it soon became a reality.
Because the mortar position built by the independent regiment was hidden behind the position on the top of the mountain, and in order to prevent the Japanese army from retaliating with artillery fire, they also dug traffic trenches and individual soldier anti-mortar holes. Even the artillery shells were for safety during the period.
, are stored in a special ammunition depot dug more than four meters deep on the mountainside more than 100 meters away. As long as it is not hit head-on by two or more 250-pound aerial bombs, it will basically not explode.
There are a full reserve of 1,500 mortar shells, 2,000 machine gun shells and 4,000 grenades. Once the frontline ammunition depot with 100,000 rounds of ammunition explodes, it will be enough to collapse the entire mountaintop position. It is estimated that even
The nearly three infantry companies on standby in the tunnel halfway up the mountain had to be buried in the mountain.
Just to excavate this ammunition depot, it took an infantry platoon of more than 40 people to dig for three days and three nights, which can be said to be the ultimate in safety.
The ammunition soldiers did nothing else during this period, but received boxes of mortar shells from the ammunition depot, and then moved the ammunition boxes of four rounds to the position. Each gun had six dedicated ammunition hands responsible for supplying ammunition. That's it.
They can barely keep up with the crazy gunners who fire nearly 20 shells a minute.
Because there were not too many wounded soldiers, Xiong Si, who had been waiting in the trench for a long time without getting a job, couldn't bear his loneliness and ran to help move the shells. Generally speaking, the total of the shells and special shell boxes is about 17 kilograms.
Because we have to go up the mountain, for the sake of safety, one ammunition hand can only carry one box. But Xiong Si, who weighs more than 100 kilograms, is very powerful. The bear's jaws with amazing bite force are holding a box in his mouth, and he is carrying a box on his back.
There are hooks on the vest that are used to drag stretchers, and two boxes can be hung on the left and right sides. One bear can be used as a three-person carrier.
At the beginning, the bomb feeders stayed far away from this guy who wouldn't leave until he had three boxes hanging, for fear that the box of shells in his mouth would fall and send everyone to the sky. Later, when they looked at Xiong Si, they were also frightened.
The dead guy, with his bear's mouth, couldn't break it open even if Liu Tuanzuo came. He was safe and sound after several consecutive trips, so he became bold.
From time to time, it even deliberately runs in front of Xiong Si, who is climbing the mountain very carefully to show off. Xiong Si is afraid of this. When his thick limbs are strong, the running is definitely not commensurate with his round body. Especially when he goes down the mountain with his paws empty.
When the baby is born, his head will roll down when he is hugged. Stones and other things are completely useless to giant pandas whose fur and fat are thick enough and wearing a special vest made of wild silk to prevent knife cuts.
However, when the Type 94 mortar suddenly fired at the mortar position that the Japanese army had estimated after observing for a long time, although it was still more than a hundred meters away from the artillery position, it hit Xiong Sier who was carrying the shells up the mountain.
Ten meters away.
Giant pandas are short-sighted, but their hearing is very sensitive. When the bangs were heard, they could have used their usual way of hugging their limbs to avoid them, but Xiong Si, who had the shell box in his mouth, chose to stand firm this time.
He remained motionless until he gently placed the shell box in his mouth on the ground, and then threw himself to the ground in a standard "bear eating shit" style, protecting the shell box under his body.
The plump butt trembled violently, and the hair that was dyed black glowed with red. It was obvious that the target was injured because it was too big.
Hearing the panic among the ammunition players below, Liu Jinzuo looked over there and saw that the mascot the whole group liked fell to the ground, and his heart skipped a beat.
Not to mention that this guy is wearing a silk vest only for school-level officers, you can tell that the regimental commander likes him, but just by seeing a few bomb supplyers rushing towards him in panic, you can tell how popular he is with everyone. This bitch
The little devil, Liu Jinzuo is the one who wants him to take the blame! The entire group is still responsible.
Fortunately, Liu Jinzuo felt relieved when he saw Xiong Si wearing a helmet shaking his head again.
"Find the little Japanese's mortar position. Fire all of them, I ordered, all of them. Fire ten rounds in succession to cover the shelling." Liu Jinzuo shouted at the top of his lungs.
The artillery retaliation of the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment was far beyond the imagination of the veteran Lieutenant Colonel. The two 94 mortars had just fired more than a dozen shells, and were hit by nearly a hundred shells in return.
Baga! Bullying the few with the crowd... He was almost accidentally injured by a flying artillery shell that wasn't aimed too high. The veteran Lieutenant Colonel hid in the bunker with red circles in his eyes angrily.
When have we, the Imperial Army of Japan, been bullied like this? It’s like a little widow encountering a bunch of ruffians...