As the firepower platoon leader, Liu Jinzuo was looking for the location of the Japanese heavy machine guns from the beginning.
However, while the trees in the mountains provided sufficient cover for the officers and soldiers of the First Battalion of the Independent Regiment, they did not abandon the Japanese army. The Japanese heavy machine guns were also well hidden under the cover of the shrubs, making it difficult for them to fire before they opened fire.
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However, after the Japanese artillery was suppressed by 10 organized 60-guns, in order to cover their colleagues who were attacking the top of the mountain, the four heavy machine guns finally began to fire without exposing their targets. They were also the most important threat to the defenders on the top of the mountain.
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In order to ensure that he could hit the target in one fell swoop and prevent the Japanese machine gun team from running away with the heavy machine gun, Liu Jinzuo calculated the data for a long time before determining the shooting angle and range of the muzzle. Each of the four guns under his command took care of
A heavy machine gun firepower point, each gun fires 3 rounds rapidly, all of which must be fired within ten seconds.
While the Japanese infantry were still receiving grenades on the hillside, twelve artillery shells flew rapidly towards their respective targets, and bursts of smoke rose from the bushes in the mountains.
However, no one knows how effective the bombardment will be.
However, none of the four heavy machine guns fired again. This proved that the efforts of the fire platoon's mortar crews in firing at least hundreds of rounds of live ammunition over the past few years were not in vain.
When the heavy machine guns, the most important support firepower of the Japanese army, stopped, the infantry no longer just threw grenades, but also poked out rifles, submachine guns, and light rifles from the cracks in the rocks and from the shooting holes specially made with sandbags.
The machine gun fired at the leading Japanese troops who were already in mourning halfway up the mountain.
Faced with this situation of "the house leaked but it rained all night, and the ship was late and encountered a headwind", the small universe was almost burned out, and the Japanese soldiers who had completely changed from "gold" to "brass" were instantly beaten to death.
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Although there were only 32 people shooting down from the top of the mountain, which for the Japanese army was only more than half of an infantry squad, with the equipment of the independent regiment, the firepower of these 32 people in the second platoon was enough to compete with those in the Pacific seven years from now.
The battlefield is comparable to an infantry platoon of American soldiers.
Just look at Saipan, known as the bloody battlefield, to know how powerful an infantry platoon of the American soldiers is. An infantry battalion of the American soldiers once faced a desperate charge by thousands of Japanese soldiers. According to post-war statistics, more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers
He was shot dead in the position in front of the trench of the infantry battalion. That was a number that would make any infantry commander's hair stand on end.
Except for the shrubs that gave the Japanese troops the illusion of hiding their ears and stealing bells, there was no other obstruction on the hillside. The shrubs might block their sight, but they could never stop bullets.
Semi-automatic rifles may still shoot at targets in a hunting style, but submachine guns and DP squad light machine guns shoot at all areas where people may be hiding.
Originally, these two types of suppressive firearms relied on quantity rather than quality. The relatively sufficient ammunition determined that these firepower points could sustain continuous firepower for more than ten minutes.
Many Japanese soldiers just remained silent, dying like prairie dogs in the bushes where they lay prone.
After firing the shells, the mortars aimed again at the light machine guns and grenade fire points of the infantry squadron hidden behind various rocks two hundred meters down the mountain in an attempt to provide support firepower to our side. Unless it was a few shots,
Change the place, otherwise, the accurate mortars will definitely fly behind the rocks or at a distance of no more than five meters, as if they have eyes, and destroy this firepower point.
The Japanese light machine gunners and grenade launchers also faced a difficult choice. There were no trenches where they could carry their guns and change places after firing a shot. There were a lot of rocks in the valleys of China's Taihang Mountains, but
It doesn't mean that even in a row, there is at least a distance of five or six meters from one bunker to another. Leaving the bunker may mean death.
The precision shooters of the two fire squads may have fired the fewest bullets among the defenders on the top of the mountain, but when it comes to the number of enemy kills, they are by no means the least.
Ordinary Japanese soldiers have no attraction for them. Only the Japanese officers wearing white gloves and command knives and the exposed grenade hand are their favorites. As long as they shoot, it may not necessarily be a hit.
Must be killed, but not necessarily killed.
After the mortars sent two light machine guns into the sky together with the shooters twice in a row, two more grenade launchers died under the guns of accurate shooters while they were moving their positions after firing grenades.
Cold and decisive, even though the remaining Japanese grenadier fired five or six grenades wildly into the suspicious grass on the top of the mountain after discovering that his companion had been killed by a cold gun, he still did not stop a bullet that suddenly cut through the void.
Shooting a machine gunner who was rolling continuously on the ground trying to evade his movements with excellent tactics and shot him dead on the cold ground.
The Chinese have more than one shooter.
Perhaps only God knows how many more they have.
Anyway, as long as you dare to fire, you will either be torn into pieces by mortars falling from the sky in ten seconds; or you will be shot to death by the terrifying Chinese gunmen. The bodies of the three companions, who have gradually become cold, tell the Japanese army this with bloody examples.
Help at-risk people understand their possible outcomes.
Even if the Japanese soldiers are stubborn, they are still human beings, and they have to make choices and wander between life and death. Even if they know that they are on the edge of life and death now, if they don't rush forward, sooner or later they will die. But early death and late death
, is there a difference?
When the most important firepower points of the Japanese army stopped, the second row of infantrymen on the top of the mountain naturally fired without any scruples.
The cannon fodder couldn't hold it anymore, especially after a minute, the lieutenant squadron leader could no longer bear his cowardice, jumped up and shouted "onboard" while waving his command knife, and was quickly hit by the DP machine gun fiercely.
After the firepower was reduced to a colander, the Japanese cannon fodder who were still alive jumped up one after another, either retreating crazily on their short legs, or simply hugging their heads and rolling down the mountain, completely "getting out".
The consequences of exposing your back to the enemy will naturally lead to an even more ugly death. In fact, of the more than 160 Japanese soldiers who were able to escape in the end, less than 30 of them were able to escape. More than 130 people lost their lives on the hillside where they burned the small universe.
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However, they obviously ignored the determination of a certain red-eyed colonel to open this passage.
When he saw from the telescope dozens of "cannon fodder" retreating hastily amid Chinese fire, Li Dengying bit his back teeth and said: "Baga! This is the shame of the Imperial Japanese Army. They are all dead.
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As the military order was issued, the cannon fodders had just ran down the foot of the mountain and before they had time to run back to their own positions, the gunfire of the infantry squadron that had been providing fire support to them a moment ago rang out again. However, this time, it was not against the enemy.
They are looking at the top of the mountain, but their own colleagues.
Moreover, the shooting was extremely accurate. After a burst of gunfire, nearly thirty Japanese soldiers fell to their own guns, leaving no one behind.
"The Japanese are really ruthless." Seeing this scene, Cen Changqing on the mountain couldn't help but take a breath.
The cruelty with which the Japanese soldiers shot their colleagues showed their determination to attack the mountain.
As the Japanese troops retreated in a hurry, they were shot dead on the spot by their own people. The battlefield where the gunfire was fierce just now fell into silence for a while. If it weren't for the smoke still lingering in the bushes on the hillside, there would still be Japanese soldiers who were not completely dead in the mountains and fields.
The wounded groaned in pain. No one knew that a small-scale attack had occurred here a minute ago, but it was an extremely brutal attack for the Japanese army.
Nearly 180 people were lying on the hillsides and in the valleys. However, nearly 30 of them did not expend bullets from the Chinese soldiers.
As a panting soldier ran from the rear and reported anxiously to the regiment staff, the regiment staff approached with a pale face, holding a telescope and staring motionlessly at the battlefield, and lowered his head and reported in a low voice.
The vanguard soldiers who stayed behind risked their lives and came over to report the information.
There was no expression on Liden Xingyi's face, but the muscles on his face suddenly tightened, and veins popped up on the back of his hand holding the handle of the command knife.
The worst ending he expected finally came.
The leading Chinese troops, at least several hundred people, have already assembled on the road less than 5 miles away. It seems that they already know that the 77th Regiment is in this mountain. They are waiting for the arrival of the main force. There are at most ten more troops.
In minutes, they will organize their troops into the mountains and forests, and this was already the situation twenty minutes ago. If nothing else happens, the main force of the Chinese has now entered the mountains, and will arrive in half an hour at the latest.
battlefield.
There are interceptions in front and pursuers behind. Once surrounded in this mountain forest, the Chinese army of thousands of people hardly needs to attack with all their strength. They just use their damn mortars to shell the entire infantry regiment.
The living space will be forced to become smaller and smaller. Just like a giant python wrapping around its prey, its huge body gradually tightens, waiting for the prey to suffocate to death before opening its huge mouth to swallow it completely. The 77th Regiment of the 20th Division Infantry Regiment finally
The ending is destined to be destruction.
If you don't make a decision again.
"Order the entire army, no matter what kind of arms, to be organized into infantry squadrons. Taking squadrons as units, the warriors of the empire, follow me and charge in order to serve the emperor." The muscles on his face kept twitching, and Li Dengxing pulled out his own
He pointed his command sword towards the front and issued the last military order. "My lords, the military fortune of the empire is prosperous."
"Hi! The empire's military fortune is prosperous!" The eyes of the officers and soldiers surrounding Li Dengxingyi flashed with a trace of sadness, but they all bowed their heads and accepted the military order.
The more than a thousand remaining soldiers of the 77th Infantry Regiment, who were in desperate situation, did not choose to stay in the mountains and wait for reinforcements. Instead, they adopted the desperate charge used in the Russo-Japanese War in an attempt to open up the last channel of life.
Li Deng Xingyi's choice was not wrong. If he chose to wait for reinforcements, his more than a thousand people would be surrounded by nearly ten thousand troops from the 17th Division, the 772nd Regiment, the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment, the Death Battalion, and the Panshi Battalion.
The 10 105 howitzers freed up after the 78th Infantry Regiment was completely eliminated, under the guidance of artillery observers, only needed five rounds of shelling at most. There was no need to wait until noon, and more than a thousand of his men would be completely killed here.