In the depths of mountains like the Taihang Mountains, let alone field radios that rely on long and short waves to send information, even in the next eighty or ninety years, if there is no base station, 3G and 4G can only draw a small cross and cannot receive
Field radio information is perfectly normal.
Bunzaburo Kawagishi was unable to learn in detail about the battle situation in the Qigen Village area, but he was not as anxious as he imagined. With nearly 10,000 field troops, let alone the main force of the Chinese being contained in the Niangziguan area, even if there really was one
So what if there are tens of thousands of people in an army or even two armies? Last month, Liangfu is not a pig. He can't run away even if he can't fight. With mountain artillery and infantry artillery to clear the way, what can the Chinese do to them?
He didn't know that Liangfu had really turned into a roasted pig last month, and that his reinforcements were also in dire straits and were about to turn into roasted pigs.
Regarding the "Flying Thunder Cannon", a black technology of the red army that is not a cannon but a catapult at best, Liu Lang is not actually saying that he has great confidence and hopes to use 500 explosive packs to destroy the river valley.
Nearly 3,000 Japanese troops were defeated.
That miracle cannot be replicated.
This river valley is not like the one in Qigen Village. In fact, the terrain is quite open. The narrow area is about 200 meters and the wide area is 300 meters. As long as you hide far away, no matter how powerful the explosive pack is, the lethality will be very small.
After all, it is limited.
But Liu Lang forgot that the thunder cannon was fired from the top of the mountain, and its range was much farther than on the flat ground, so the attack surface was naturally much wider.
The number of casualties was actually quite high. In the first two minutes when the explosive packets were flying, the number of Japanese soldiers killed and blown up was at least 300, and the number gradually decreased after that.
However, inflicting damage to the Japanese army is one, and blowing the Japanese army into the dusk is the most important.
On the mountains on both sides, there was an infantry regiment with more than 4,000 people shooting down below. The Japanese army did not have the courage to rush into the unobstructed valley.
For these Japanese soldiers who entered the encirclement, they had to hide in the wilderness where there were only rocks and shrubs to avoid being blown up by explosives. But if they went there, they would become a living target for the Chinese soldiers who were shooting from a high position.
Either be shot to death or blown up by explosives, the Japanese army must make a choice.
New recruits are afraid of artillery, while veterans are afraid of guns. This group of Japanese soldiers, who have received at least more than a year of military training in China and fought in North China for at least two months, made a relatively correct choice and did not blindly run into the wilderness.
After experiencing the initial panic, under the restraint of the squadron leader and squad leader, they searched for bunkers along the mountain road to avoid, and also launched a counterattack towards the mountain.
However, the lower part of the mountain is mostly covered with bare rocks and not even much grass grows. Any Japanese who dares to climb up the mountain will receive a heavy blow from the red troops on both sides of the mountain.
In just three minutes, no less than a hundred Japs were killed on the way to counterattack.
Perhaps Ikeda Ryo's military order also played a role. The Japanese no longer blindly counterattacked, but organized squads and squadrons to build positions frantically. The grenade launchers carried by the army also continuously fired grenades at the firepower points on the mountain to provide cover.
own infantry.
The Japanese grenade launchers are indeed the best front-line support weapons designed by the Japanese during World War II. In particular, the Japanese grenade launchers are almost all the cunning veterans. They have been hiding from the very beginning of the battle. Don’t look at it.
The explosive packs flying all over the sky were frightening. The Japanese soldiers suffered many casualties, but the casualties among veterans were actually not too great. Most of the Japanese soldiers who were killed or shot to death were new recruits, especially those in the baggage regiment squadron who rarely had the opportunity to go to the battlefield.
second-line soldiers.
Dozens of grenade launchers secretly attacked the mountain with the smoke from the explosive packs, causing certain casualties to the attacking troops. Two heavy machine gun teams were too involved in the attack. Not only the members of the team were killed when they were attacked by grenade launchers.
Either he was seriously injured or his heavy machine gun was damaged.
This made the two infantry regiment commanders extremely angry. They unanimously sent out elite shooters from their respective infantry battalions to carry out key attacks on the Japanese grenadier soldiers on the battlefield. They also took out their own possessions---
-Mortar, chase the discovered Japanese grenadier soldiers.
That's right, despite the fact that the Red Army was so poor that each soldier only fired twenty rounds of ammunition in a battle, they still had mortars. Not to mention that Liu Lang sent a batch of mortars to Hadapu.
Even the Red Army itself, when they set out from Jiangxi, they were reluctant to throw away their empty mountain cannons. They carried hundreds of kilograms of it on their shoulders and carried it across 25,000 miles. You know the Red Soldiers
How much attention do we pay to cannons?
Each infantry regiment of the Red Army had at least two or as many as four mortars. These mortars were much better than those of the Sichuan Army in the past who came out of Sichuan to fight against the Japanese wearing straw sandals and straw hats, carrying the bolt and the old sleeve tied with a hemp rope.
Much stronger.
Using mortars and grenade launchers to fight was naturally much more advantageous. The two weapons were not on the same level at all. It was just that the Japanese army had more grenade launchers.
In fact, compared to their numbers, the number of Japanese grenade launchers in the valley was actually quite pitiful.
Surrounded in the valley, there are two infantry squadrons plus four baggage regiment squadrons, with a number of up to 2,500 people. If the Japanese army is equipped with normal equipment, one infantry squadron and three infantry squadrons have nearly 200 people. On average, each squadron has 2 weapons.
If an infantry squadron has 6 grenade launchers, then the Japanese army with a strength of 2,500 will have at least 60 grenade launchers.
However, the baggage regiment squadron is only a supplement to the regular infantry of the Japanese army. Their main job is to carry supplies. Their equipment cannot be compared with that of the regular infantry squadron. Although the number is as high as 500, they are still divided into three squads.
, the number of people in each squad is three times that of a regular infantry squad. Basically, each person has one 38 rifle, but the light machine guns and grenade launchers are still equipped with 2 and 2 for each squad.
To put it bluntly, the number of the four baggage regiment squadrons exceeds 2,000, which is almost close to two infantry brigades or an infantry regiment in China. However, they only have 24 light machine guns and 24 grenade launchers. There are no heavy machine guns or infantry guns.
They are pure light infantry.
The Imperial Japanese Army's awesome Continental Army equipment is not reflected in them at all. Let alone an ordinary Chinese infantry regiment, they will not have much advantage. If they encounter a bald man,
The infantry regiment of the German Arms Division, which was equipped with great effort, was able to defeat them.
The total number of Japanese troops in the valley was only equipped with 36 light machine guns and 36 grenade launchers. The most outstanding ones were probably the 12 heavy machine guns of the heavy machine gun squadron and the two infantry cannons.
If you just look at it, it's not bad. Such equipment is enough to defeat an ordinary Chinese infantry regiment, and is even more powerful than the infantry divisions of some local warlords. However, what they are facing is the most powerful red army.
The two infantry regiments, which were elite and equipped with a lot of firearms, struck from a high position, and they were on a 3,000-meter-long position.
On average, a light machine gun and a grenade can only be allocated at a distance of more than 80 meters, and a heavy machine gun can only be allocated at an average distance of 250 meters. This kind of firepower density is really too sparse.
What's more, under the leadership of Major Ryo Ikeda, an infantry squadron and a baggage regiment squadron of 700 people were desperately running towards the road in an attempt to hold the retreat. The firepower of the 1,800 troops left in the valley was even more depressingly low.
Hear it and point your finger.
Fortunately, the one participating in the battle is not an independent regiment. Otherwise, with their crazy firepower output of adding mortars and "Hitler chainsaws" to the infantry platoon, they would not be able to immediately defeat the second-line soldiers of the baggage regiment.
The Japanese soldiers immediately doubted life?
After the Japanese army's crazy counterattack achieved certain results, they immediately suffered a retaliatory attack.
Not only the two commanders of the infantry regiment angrily took out their own treasures, but also used the few mortar shells to attack the grenade launchers that caused a lot of casualties to their own side.
As the commander-in-chief of the front line, Liu Lang, who observed the battle situation at close range, quickly ordered 80 thunder cannons that had used up a base of five explosive charges to stop firing, leaving two explosive charges per gun for final use.
After several minutes of throwing the explosive packets, the expected effect has been basically achieved. Although it is impossible to replicate the miracle of killing more than 2,000 Japanese invaders with one blast in the Qigen Village Canyon, the Japanese army still suffered at least three to four hundred casualties.
Originally, the role of the flying thunder cannon in this kind of ambush battlefield was to "take the enemy by surprise" and take advantage of the enemy's previously unfamiliar characteristics of such weapons to kill and injure a large number of effective forces. However, we cannot expect the opponent to be stupid all the time. The opponent is not a fool, although he is known as
The aura of being the number one army in Asia is a bit ridiculous, but they really haven’t encountered any opponents in Asia, except for eight years spent in China.
However, how many casualties did China pay for this? Those eight years were almost filled with human lives.
Having basically determined the approximate range of the torpedo cannons, the remaining Japanese troops were hiding outside the explosion range of the explosive packets thrown by the torpedo cannons. If they continued to attack, they would only create more smoke to cover the little Japanese.
Therefore, the bombardment of the flying thunder cannons, which rely on their great power to kill by collision, stopped, and the artillery battalion officially debuted.
The artillery observation team that was already on the mountain quickly used semaphores to send the positions of the positions they observed the Japanese troops building, especially the positions of the heavy machine gun firepower points, to the artillery battalion.
The valley is wide, so the Japanese troops who were ambushed by pure infantry were not as miserable as the 40th Infantry Brigade in Qigen Village. At least there was still some room for survival. They could even build field positions based on the terrain in the valley to resist.
Just like the Battle of Pingxingguan, because the 115th Division only had a small number of mortars, the two squadrons of the ambushed baggage regiment actually resisted for several hours in front of an opponent several times their size.
However, this terrain is simply the most enjoyable position for artillery fire for the artillery battalion that has moved its mountain artillery to the mountains.
They didn't have to worry about accidentally hitting the friendly troops on the mountains on both sides. They only needed to aim at the Japanese positions at the bottom of the valley and fire.
A mortar position with a range of 2,500 meters was built in the middle of the valley, only 700 meters away. Four Type 41 mountain guns with a range of 6,000 meters were located on Cangyan Peak, completely covering all locations in the valley, with almost no blind spots.
When the familiar sound of mountain artillery ejection sounded, Ikeda Ryo, who was running towards the place he imagined he came from, was happy at first. Then when he saw the fire flashing in the valley in the distance, his face suddenly looked like a dead man's face.