The battle at Taniguchi was actually not too difficult for Panshi Camp.
The remaining two squads of Japanese troops were basically out of formation. They were hiding behind the rocks under the rock wall in twos and threes, scattered over an area of tens of thousands of square meters, and had almost lost their unified command.
This is actually not bad. At least they are still resisting after experiencing such a terrifying blow. Based on this, Ling Hong and the officers and soldiers of Panshi Camp did not dare to underestimate them.
If possible, they would even prefer to grind them to death, using several times or even ten times their machine gun firepower and mortars to wear away the courage of the Japanese army bit by bit, and finally annihilate them in one fell swoop. In this way, perhaps the Panshi Camp can be destroyed
casualties to a minimum.
Six soldiers have been killed, more than a dozen have been injured, and almost two combat squads have been reduced.
However, they don't have that much time anymore.
It was not for fighting merit, but Ling Hong knew that the regimental commander only led three infantry battalions to surround the remnants of the 40th Infantry Brigade. According to the most conservative estimate, at least half of the Japanese troops failed to enter the canyon.
even more.
The total strength of the three infantry battalions is only 1,500. Even if they are waiting for work, and have many advantages such as surprise and terrain, they cannot make up for the lack of strength. Surrounded on three sides, the blockade is too weak.
Once the Japanese invaders are relieved, let alone fight to the death with the Independent Regiment and the 771st Regiment! It is absolutely possible that the casualties of the three infantry battalions will increase dramatically.
The little Japs are not only stubborn in will, but no matter how much he hates them, Ling Hong has to admit that their military literacy and combat capabilities are definitely the best on the Chinese battlefield.
The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 771st Regiment on the mountain ridge at the top of the valley have already fired signal flares. According to the pre-war layout, they are quickly maneuvering to the main battlefield a few kilometers away, but it will take at least 30 minutes to enter the battle.
As for the Taniguchi battlefield, coupled with the impact of the previous explosion and more than ten minutes of fighting, at least 20 minutes have been wasted. It will take another 30 minutes for the whole battalion to march 5 kilometers to the battlefield, giving the whole battalion 10 minutes to repair, which is an hour.
.In other words, if you want to put the entire battalion into battle in about 1 hour and 10 minutes, the time left for Panshi Battalion to deal with these two small groups of Japanese soldiers is, at most, only 10 minutes.
In war, who wants to win without making sacrifices? You can kill the enemy without dying. That is just a beautiful fairy tale.
To win the entire "Dawn" battle, necessary sacrifices are what every commander must bear.
Therefore, when the fire squad and fire platoon's two-caliber mortars once again covered the Japs huddled behind bunkers on the battlefield for three minutes, the orderly and communications soldier next to Ling Hong pumped up their cheeks and blew the charge horn.
With the sound of the "didi da" charge horn, more than 150 officers and soldiers from two infantry companies, six infantry platoons, and 12 infantry squads of the Panshi Battalion jumped out of the trenches from three positions and charged towards the Japanese army more than 200 meters away.
The mortar bombardment did not stop. The artillerymen would not stop the bombardment until their own infantry charged to about fifty meters away from the Japanese army.
All light machine gun groups carried light machine guns and followed the infantry forward. They were responsible for providing fire support. Once the infantry encountered an attack from the Japanese behind the bunker, they were responsible for suppressing it with fire and covering the infantry to continue charging.
The 12 heavy machine guns are still on the position, and they are also covering the infantry charge. They are in the highest position, and they are condescending to suppress firepower at any location they think may cause a blow to the infantry. Each deputy shooter is also an observer, constantly
This provided the shooter with a bearing to attempt to counterattack the Japanese.
Artillery shells were still falling from the sky, and there were also firing from 12 heavy machine guns no more than 300 meters away. The few remaining light machine guns of the Japanese army almost did not exert their power. Two light machine guns in a row only fired a single round of bullets, and
The officers and soldiers of the Panshi Battalion who were charging over were kept low and hidden. Immediately, at least two heavy machine guns attacked them and shot them back behind the rock.
Then, five consecutive mortar shells landed around the rocks until the shooter and machine gun were blown to pieces.
As for the infantry, I have to say that the marksmanship of the individual Japanese soldiers was very accurate. Although they were hunched over and did not charge with all their strength, the distance between the more than 160 infantrymen of the Panshi Battalion using the three-three formation was wide enough, but
, more than a dozen of them fell down while advancing more than 100 meters.
Those are all the results of Japanese infantry.
However, no one stopped. The fallen soldiers were naturally rescued by the health soldiers of the battalion who followed closely behind them. Their current task was to rush as quickly as possible to a place 50 meters or even closer to the Japanese army.
distance.
An independent regiment has an infantry squad of 14 people, 7 infantrymen, a sergeant squad leader, a squad deputy, 3 precision shooters, a machine gun team of 2 people, and a rocket launcher team of 2 people. The sergeant squad leader leads 2 veterans as the first three-person arrow in the three-by-three system.
At the front, the squad leader led two soldiers on the right side, and a trio of three other soldiers on the left side. A nine-man triangle not only ensured the attack but also protected the left and right wings of the entire formation.
The precision shooter is at the center of the triangular formation, protected by everyone. His role is to use his precise marksmanship to eliminate the enemy that poses the greatest threat to the infantry squad. The machine gun group and rocket launcher group serve as squad support firepower and follow the infantry rear.
Advancing 20 meters, they not only have to suppress the enemy's fire points with firepower, but can also destroy enemy fortifications at a range of 150 meters.
The bazooka soldiers who were used in actual combat for the first time may not be close enough to hit a running tank, but if they hit a fixed target, the hard training they spent for half a year will show the effect. What's more, this time, they only need to use the rocket launcher
Just don't shoot in the wrong direction.
When they rushed into a 150-meter range at the cost of more than a dozen casualties, the rocket launcher teams that closely followed the infantry fired rockets at the stubborn Japanese soldiers who occasionally popped up behind the bunkers to take cold shots.
Except for the four rocket launcher teams that were previously sent to fight tanks and withdrew from the battle because they had no rockets, the remaining eight rocket launcher teams fired a total of 16 rockets, directly turning the Japanese position into a sea of flames.
The Independent Regiment's rockets are designed into three types based on the ideas provided by Langdanzuo. One is a special armor-piercing projectile used to hit solid fortifications. The three rocket launchers carried by the four rocket launcher teams sent out are all of this type of warhead.
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One is a steel ball rocket used by professional anti-personnel personnel. This kind of rocket is generally not aimed at fortifications, but is fired at trenches or above fortifications. It uses a delayed fuze explosion method and flies about 150 meters to explode. No rockets are used.
Gunpowder explosions kill people, but hundreds of steel balls carried by rockets are used. According to Langtanza's suggestion, all steel balls have been soaked in feces for more than a week, and many of them were already rusty when they were loaded into rockets.
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During the killing test, a rocket exploded above a pack of more than thirty wolves deep in the Qinling Mountains, killing more than twenty wolves on the spot, and the remaining ten fled in all directions. Three days later, after
More than a dozen hunters from the mountains were hired to track and find nine wolf carcasses. Except for one that escaped the disaster or died in a place where no one could see it, the other injured wild wolves all died of wound infection caused by steel balls.
Even wild wolves, whose vitality far exceeds that of humans, cannot escape the wound infection caused by contaminated steel balls from rockets, let alone fragile humans.
For this kind of steel ball bullet, even the bazooka shooter and observer on his back was careful, fearing that the bullet would detonate due to the vibration when running too fast. Then, not only would he be killed, but everyone within a few dozen meters would be destroyed.
Gotta be unlucky.
However, this kind of steel ball bomb is definitely not the work that Xiong Zhen and the others are most proud of. What Xiong Zhen is most proud of is that he led the entire scientific research team to spend four months to finally develop the wave ball.
Another idea provided by Block ----- incendiary warhead.
The entire 3.5-kilogram projectile, in addition to the 1.5 kilograms of gasoline with a thickening agent in the warhead, also has 1 kilogram of oil propellant. However, in order not to waste it, Xiong Zhen actually chose to add 1 kilogram of oil to the propellant oil.
The viscous agent and the same white phosphorus and active alkaline metals in the gasoline in the warhead such as calcium, barium, etc. White phosphorus is both a combustion accelerant and a poisonous drug that can increase the lethality, while those alkaline metals are used to prevent soldiers from using water
Necessary to extinguish fires, the hydrogen released by the combination of metal and water can continue to burn.
It can be said that this kind of murderous weapon, which was first proposed by Liu Lang and designed by the most talented people from China's top universities, can burn the target into a pile of ashes even on the water.
Of course, the most terrifying thing about the incendiary rockets designed to imitate the napalm bombs used by American soldiers in the future is not that they can burn anywhere. The most terrifying and core thing is the gelatinous sticky agent.
Once the thickener is attached to the human body, there is almost no way to get rid of it except for cutting off the skin and flesh immediately. The thickener mixed with gasoline is like lard ointment. It is sticky and resistant to burning. If you pat it with your hands, it will burn more.
The bigger the fire is, the more you roll on the ground to extinguish the fire, the whole body will be covered in fire. And if there is a large fire on a person, the people nearby should try to stay away from the person who is on fire, because the struggle of the person on fire can easily throw the burning oil to others.
A secondary killing effect is formed on the body.
Because it was too cruel, Xiong Zhen did not conduct a killing test on living creatures. Instead, he fired two test rounds into a lush forest. As a result, ten acres of forest were completely destroyed. If a fire-fighting team of thousands of people had not been prepared in advance,
In a humid spring, there will never be any mountain fires, and at least two mountain tops will be burned away.
Now, the seventy or eighty Japanese who were hiding and still resisting became the test subjects for the first use of eight steel ball rockets and eight incendiary rockets in actual combat.
Effect......
For Camp Panshi, it is naturally a good thing, but it is also extremely shocking.
Eight steel ball bombs exploded 150 meters away and at an altitude of nearly 3 meters, covering a battlefield no more than 400 meters wide with almost no blind spots.
Regardless of whether you are hiding behind a rock, a natural ravine, or a bunker made of rocks or mounds of earth, as long as your bunker is not covered with a cover, you are almost within the range of the steel ball bombs.
The infantrymen who were lying down to avoid being accidentally injured by their own steel ball rockets could clearly hear the miserable screams of the Japanese troops coming from more than 100 meters away.
However, this was just an appetizer. Thirty seconds after eight incendiary rockets exploded into eight dazzling flames on the Japanese army's position, the scene in front of them made even the veterans feel chills standing on end. At least
The crotches of more than a dozen recruits were wet at that moment.