The entire city became the hunting ground for the Third Special Forces Team. The Japanese troops who were able to reinforce the south gate were less than 200 in the end, and at least one third fell on the march under the attack of neutron bombs from the darkness.
Although gunshots were heard, no Japanese detachment went to reinforce them. The military order they received was to reinforce the south gate.
However, even if they run to the south gate out of breath, what can they do?
Fifteen minutes were enough for the Bayonet Battalion, which had already blasted a ten-meter-wide gap in the city wall, to invade the city.
The Japanese troops defending on the city wall did not fail to make their own efforts, but the firepower they were once proud of was too weak for the Bayonet Battalion.
The only Type 92 heavy machine gun had only fired for more than two minutes when it was sent into the sky by more than ten mortar shells that arrived accurately. The light machine gun was slightly stronger, and it risked its exposure to shoot a shuttle, and it immediately hit the enemy.
If you transfer with a machine gun, your survival time will be longer than that of a heavy machine gun.
However, these defensive Japanese troops, composed of technical units of the Engineer Regiment, have probably never hated their military experts so much. The 30-centimetre-high gun mounts of the crooked light machine guns they use are simply too high.
, if you want to shoot with a machine gun, almost the shooter's entire body will be exposed to the enemy's sight.
If one's own firepower can suppress the opponent, then that's fine. However, the machine gun bullets can almost smash the wall stacks. If you have to use a light machine gun to shoot at others, that is completely seeking death. You don't need a gun.
It's ridiculous to hold up a machine gun and shoot at people along the firing port. The machine gun vibrates so violently that the bullets don't even know where to fly. It would be easier not to shoot.
There was almost no need to be bombarded by mortars. After the Japanese light machine gun shooters were killed several times in a row, no one dared to touch the only two light machine guns left. Whoever used them would die, right?
Without the heavy machine guns and the light machine guns, how could you stop an infantry company of the Bayonet Battalion with just the 38 guns? Don't even think about it.
The Bayonet Battalion Infantry Company's attack on the Japanese city wall was actually not a rapid advance of the whole company, but one infantry platoon in front, one infantry platoon in the back, and the firepower platoon hanging at the end.
Because they did not use the skirmish line most commonly used by the national army to charge forward, but the 200-meter battle line was too narrow for them to put down two infantry platoons.
An infantry platoon has two infantry squads, one slightly in front and one slightly behind. The fire squad is at the side and behind, forming a large triangle between the three squads.
Each infantry of an infantry squad advances staggeredly at a distance of 3 to 5 meters. If you look down from the sky, you can clearly see the advancing formation of an infantry squad. From the front, it looks like an inverted triangle, with one triangle on the left and three on the left.
The triangles form a large triangle, with the distance between each point being about 30 meters, and the margins maintaining an inclination of 45o.
Three squads formed a large triangle, and so on, three platoons, three companies, and even three battalions.
In the middle of the battle triangle formed by the infantry squad, the squad leader holding a Somi submachine gun was in a straight line with the squad's light machine gun team and rocket launcher team.
The independent regiment, which has been equipped with semi-automatic rifles, has almost reached the equipment level of the future republic in the late 1970s. The first attack triangle consists of a squad deputy carrying a Somi submachine gun and two infantrymen equipped with semi-automatic rifles, protecting him on the flanks.
It was two infantrymen led by a precision shooter armed with a semi-automatic sniper rifle, and flanked by three infantrymen armed with semi-automatic rifles.
Nine infantrymen can spit more than 150 rounds of bullets at the enemy within 30 seconds under attack status, which is almost equivalent to the firepower that a Japanese squad of 50 people can pour out, and this is only auxiliary firepower. The entire
The sharpest parts of the infantry squad are the squad light machine gun and another Somi submachine gun located in the center of the three triangles. In 30 seconds, the light machine gun and Somi submachine gun can fire more than 200 rounds of bullets. Just from the
In terms of bullets, an infantry squad can fire nearly 400 rounds of bullets in 30 seconds of attack.
On the other hand, a 54-man infantry squad of the Japanese army, with two light machine guns and more than 40 infantrymen, fired a total of no more than 400 rounds of bullets in 30 seconds. If it were a squad with the same number of people as an independent regiment infantry squad, it would have been a long time ago.
I don’t know where I was killed instantly.
The rocket launcher team is even more powerful. Although the range is slightly shorter, the range of 150 meters is enough to ensure that the infantry squad can destroy the civil fortifications in front of the infantry squad during the advance of the attack.
This is the new three-three tactics that the future Republic will improve after the machine gun becomes abundant. The officers and soldiers of the independent regiment have equipped the troops with light machine guns in the DP squad and have practiced many times with the Blue Army troops in actual combat.
Its core not only maintains the flexibility and multi-layered nature of the original three-three tactics, but also ensures the core of the team's firepower. All offense and defense are centered around the light machine gun and rocket launcher firepower group, which seems to be somewhat similar to the first three at this time.
The machine gun squad tactics of the Three Reichs, but maintained more of the flexibility of the infantry.
This is a perfect offensive and defensive formation with clear levels of firepower distribution and offloading from each other. It does not have the shortcomings of difficulty in using firepower when skirmishers advance in multiple layers, which is widely used in the West. What is particularly important is that the intervals between each combat group are maintained.
Keep a reasonable distance to avoid the problem of excessive losses when encountering artillery fire coverage.
According to calculations, a Japanese 90mm mortar shell falling into the attack formation can only cause 1 casualty, and a 105mm howitzer shell can only knock out 2 groups at most. Even if it encounters the most terrifying machine gun side fire, it will not
There will be casualties of more than two groups, while in the same situation in ordinary lines, the casualties will reach dozens of people. Because the core firepower groups of this tactic are always kept in the center of three triangles, unless they are attacked by three to four consecutive
In the event of a sudden attack by 75 mm caliber artillery shells, the machine gunner or the rocket launcher operator could always be retained, so that the heavy firepower would not be completely wiped out after the team was reduced in number.
Of course, this calculation of casualties is based on the fierce Japanese artillery fire. At this moment, the biggest role of the three-three formation is not to prevent casualties, but to maximize the firepower. In addition to the two wings on the two wings that avoid their advancing body,
With a dozen machine guns and the rifle firepower of more than 100 infantrymen, even in an assault, the frontal firepower of an infantry company, two infantry platoons, and four infantry squads was still higher than that of the more than 100 Japanese troops.
What's more, it is still unknown whether there are more than 100 Japanese troops who can fight back.
Anyway, the number of soldiers who fell during the assault was never more than ten. For the assault troops charging against the city fortifications, the casualties were extremely few. There were also medical soldiers who fell as the infantry platoon advanced.
They dragged the soldiers and hid them in whatever bunker they could find in the field, and then rescued them as soon as possible.
Looking for brothers who can still survive among the fallen bodies of the brothers they have been with day and night is also a difficult choice for all medical soldiers, and it is also a huge psychological test for them.
Of course, medical soldiers also have wartime regulations. Their priority is to save soldiers who are not shot in the vitals. Although this is cruel, this is a battlefield. Sacrifice is inevitable. What they have to do is to ensure that everything is still alive.
soldiers continue to live instead of showing sadness in the face of death.
If you want to have the right to be sad, you have to wait until this damn war started by the Japanese is won.
Not only do they have to bear the huge psychological pressure of choosing to rescue their comrades, they also have to face a hail of bullets and the threat of their own death. Therefore, it is not easy to be a medical soldier in an independent regiment.
Not only do they have to undergo rigorous tactical training, they also have to undergo rigorous psychological tests, and they also have to go to field hospitals to train in various battlefield first aids. Therefore, the rank of medical soldiers is generally above that of sergeant, and their salary is hundreds of dollars higher than that of ordinary sergeants.
Fifteenths.
However, not only was there no objection to this, but the officers and soldiers also protected them most closely on the battlefield. Medical soldiers are the first lifeline for all officers and soldiers. As long as they are shot, they can survive to the field hospital for rescue.
It depends on their ability. In other words, life and death are left to them.
For the Japanese troops who were counterattacking, this was already beyond their capabilities.
After all, the firepower they encountered exceeded that of a regiment of the Chinese army they encountered in North China.
A defender with less than an infantry squadron was able to fight back so tenaciously in the face of an attack with almost as much firepower as an infantry brigade. This group of Japanese engineers had done what they could.
Even Liu Lang did not look down upon them. Even though he had cannons, machine guns that far exceeded their number, and semi-automatic rifles that were far more advanced than them, he still used his full strength to fight the lion against the rabbit.
The fighting will of the Japanese veterans in the early days of the war cannot be ignored.
In five minutes, the infantry had entered the range of the rocket launcher. When steel ball bombs and incendiary bombs exploded above the heads of the Japanese army, the Japanese army's defense line had become precarious. When the infantry companies and infantry platoons that completely suppressed the Japanese army's firepower entered through the open area.
The city wall began to clear out the Japanese troops hiding on and behind the city wall. The Japanese troops who were attacked from two or even three sides were no longer able to resist, and the entire defense line collapsed completely.
They were either shot to death by automatic and semi-automatic firearms while abandoning their defenses and turning around to flee, or they were killed by rockets and grenades in the burning fortifications.
The battle with the Japanese troops on the entire south gate defense line only lasted twelve or thirteen minutes after the city wall was blasted open by explosives. From the beginning of the battle to the present, less than 20 minutes have passed, and the Japanese troops have completely lost the south gate.
Only a few Japanese soldiers could escape.
Over at the east gate, the sound of artillery boomed louder and louder. Apparently, the red general and his men were in a hard fight. The tenacity of the little devil allowed them to temporarily block the attack of an infantry regiment.
Of course, Liu Lang knew that it was only temporary. In another twenty minutes at most, the Japanese army would completely lose its resistance.
On the other side of the south gate, the Japanese troops who came for reinforcements ran into the muzzle of an infantry company that had already entered the city wall.
There are not many people, and they are ordered to come from all over the city. They have not formed any scale. Faced with this almost fatal refueling tactic, machine guns have been set up on the walls and in the occupied Japanese fortifications to cover the follow-up troops entering the city.
How could the First Infantry Battalion of the Bayonet Battalion be so polite?
The rain of bullets made the Japanese second-line soldiers doubt their lives. Even before everyone could gather together to form a large scale, the heavy baggage soldiers who were stunned by the beating began to flee.
The soldiers of second-line divisions such as the 108th and 109th Division are still much worse than the permanent divisions such as the 20th Division, especially in terms of fighting will.
They continuously defeated at least a hundred Japanese troops who were rushing to die. The infantry company did not pursue them. After all the main battalion forces entered the city, they followed the clearly marked route on the map of Shimen City that Yu Xiancheng had drawn long ago and took the lead.
Head towards the Japanese division headquarters.
On their way forward, there will be the Third Special Forces Team to help them clear obstacles. If there are special forces and infantry companies that cannot be overcome, there is nothing that four mountain cannons, four mortars, two infantry cannons, and eight rocket launchers cannot solve.