Chapter 1400 The power of omission (the last day of January, ask for the month
The Japanese army received reliable information that there was only one Chinese infantry company left in Sihang Warehouse that was not subject to military orders, and it would never exceed 140 people.
An infantry company with 140 men? A joke. Jiro Wakita has every reason to believe that one of his infantry regiments fought in Songhu for more than 20 days. Not counting the painful battle at Sihang Warehouse, they suffered more than a thousand losses.
The Chinese army on the defensive side is at a disadvantage in terms of artillery and air superiority. How could they not suffer greater losses?
The intelligence personnel lurking in the concession last night have discovered the true strength of the Chinese defenders at the Sixing Warehouse. It should be an infantry battalion, but the number of people who came to the concession must not exceed 300. From this, it can be judged that they are still stubbornly holding on to the Sixing Warehouse.
There will never be more than 120 Chinese defenders in the warehouse.
At most, there will be three infantry platoons that are not fully staffed, and a large number of people will be allocated to operate machine guns, light and heavy machine guns, and even mortars. The number of infantrymen who can participate in the battle will not exceed 60. As long as the Chinese want to maintain enough heavy troops,
In terms of firepower.
And the so-called heavy firepower of the Chinese was all controlled by those ordinary infantrymen. Do they have that ability? Wakitajiro was extremely confident in the early morning attack.
It has to be said that Wakiitajiro is an experienced veteran, and his analysis is not wrong at all.
When allocating heavy firepower, Lei Xiong racked his brains and selected four groups of 16 machine gun shooters and ammunition operators from a company of infantry. He himself served as the main shooter of one of the machine guns; 24 mortar operators.
, responsible for six mortars and six heavy machine guns. Because of the serious shortage of personnel, there are only three shooters, deputy shooters and ammunition carriers, a total of 18 people, and this number is as high as 58 people, more than half of a company of infantry.
The shooters who operate the machine guns are basically the original light machine gunners. This is the first time they operate the machine gun. Whether they can still achieve the power of the machine gun company shooters, anyone knows with their heels.
Including mortars, only a few people have received mortar shooting training, and most of the main shooters and assistant shooters have no experience in mortar shooting. His selection criteria are even based on courage. As long as others
Shooting cannonballs into your own house is victory. After all, even in the Royal Guards, there are no spare cannonballs for ordinary soldiers to train and squander.
The light and heavy machine gun shooters are simply all veterans. Even those who have never fired a heavy machine gun have to bite the bullet at this time.
This is completely a matter of picking the generals from the dwarfs and taking advantage of the shortcomings.
It can be said that the heavy firepower of Sihang Warehouse is almost superficial. It is okay to bluff people, but when it comes to fighting, the accuracy of the shooting is completely different from what it was a day ago.
However, Wakiitajiro made many correct calculations, but he only missed Chen Yunfa's special team.
As the second-highest lieutenant in the Sihang Warehouse, Chen Yunfa was appointed as the second commander by Lei Xiong. After discussion, the two believed that the Japanese army would definitely choose to attack by force after knowing that the warehouse defenders had dropped sharply.
This is also derived from Chen Yunfa’s accurate understanding after having many encounters with the Japanese army. If there are many people and they can’t defeat them, it’s because the Chinese soldiers are too cunning. But if there are few people and they don’t even dare to fight, then the Imperial Japanese Army
Where is their face? They will definitely become angry and launch another attack. Moreover, the main direction of attack will still be the front of the warehouse.
Therefore, Chen Yunfa's special forces team consists of seven people. In addition to Chen Yunfa and Zeng Shui, there are five other people. Two of them serve as the main shooters of the machine gun, and three of them serve as the main shooters of the mortars. These heavy firepower weapons are very important for the special operations of the independent regiment.
It is a compulsory project for the special forces of the brigade, and their shooting experience in this area will not be much worse than that of an experienced veteran shooter.
In order to strengthen the frontal firepower, three machine guns and four heavy machine guns were deployed to the front, and nine mortars were used for mobile operations. Although the firepower was far less than that of the previous day, it was still difficult for the Japanese infantry who had lost the cover of tanks.
It is said that it is still an insurmountable chasm.
As expected, Wakitajiro chose to attack at 8 o'clock in the morning, and the main attack direction was still frontal, but the two wings were not feint attacks in the traditional sense. The faces of the observing sentries were a little stiff, and in their field of vision, they were facing the four sides.
The Japanese troops surrounding the warehouse were like ants, a mass of darkness.
Wakitajiro wanted to finish his attack in one battle. In front of tens of thousands of Chinese people who had gathered again, he used thunderous momentum to crush the severely reduced defenders in the warehouse. He dispatched three infantry squadrons from the front.
, using one infantry squadron on each wing. The first attack in the early morning mobilized nearly 1,000 infantry, accounting for more than half of his total strength.
The role of the infantry on both wings is probably more than just a feint to contain the attack. The explosive packs carried on the backs of dozens of people have already shown their intention to use blasting to break through the hard walls of the Sihang Warehouse. The front is the main attack, and the two wings are also.
But this time, the Japanese army no longer had Type 89 medium tanks that could serve as shields for their infantry. Only two Type 94 tanks were left to serve as arrows for the infantry to advance.
After the Japanese army's routine artillery raid, accompanied by the roar of the 94 tank engine, the 1000vs120 offensive and defensive battle officially began.
After the soldiers hurriedly moved the machine gun to the sandbag fortification of the third floor window, Lei Xiong personally took the shooter's position and pointed the muzzle at the 94 light tank that was retreating 300 meters away and using the cover of the ruins to advance towards the warehouse.
A disdainful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
This kind of scumbag, who doesn't even have a turret and only has a heavy machine gun for reconnaissance, and is called a little bean by everyone, dares to appear in an offensive and defensive battle of this level. Is this because the little devil thinks he can't die fast enough?
?The machine gun in his hand can completely blow them up from 500 meters away.
In fact, Lei Xiong really mistakenly blamed the Japanese tank crew.
As the commander of No. 94 Tank No. 3, Takeda Shinji once felt that he had reached the pinnacle of his life. A boy from a peasant family felt so good when he became a tank soldier! Unexpectedly, he accidentally became a tank soldier before the war.
There is no other way to describe a commander at Cao Commander level other than the pinnacle of his life.
But this guy "Happiness" always comes so suddenly. In less than a month of fighting, he, Commander Cao, has been promoted again. Although his military rank has not been promoted, he unexpectedly became a tank directly under the division.
The highest-ranking person in the 2nd Tank Squadron of the Group. According to wartime regulations, he must take over the command and assume the command of the 2nd Tank Squadron.
It's a pity that today's tank squadron is no longer the tank squadron of the past. There are no medium tanks under his command, and there are only two reconnaissance-level 94 tanks. This is also the second tank.
The commander of the squadron, Shinji Takeda, was not excited but felt like crying. Of course, if there was another medium tank, it would not be his turn to be the commander.
But this is not what really makes Takeda Shinji want to cry. After all, no matter what, he survived this cruel and bloody battle, which is something to be thankful for. According to the analysis of the battle situation, unless it is Wakiba Jiro
The heads of Colonel Takeo and Lieutenant Colonel Kitajima Takeo were collectively squeezed by the door, otherwise they would not have easily launched another attack that caused heavy casualties to the Imperial Army.
However, he ultimately underestimated the degree of insanity of the two commanders. Early in the morning, he received an order for the entire tank squadron to dispatch to cover the infantry attack.
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The whole army is dispatched! Commander Shinji Takeda just wants to spray those two guys in the face, and points his butt at their faces. Because, not only is the whole army dispatched, but there are only two light tanks, he
I also felt like I couldn't control my bladder muscles and I was about to urinate.
The 89 medium tanks with steel plates more than ten millimeters were beaten into pieces by the Chinese's terrifying machine guns. What's the use of these two 94 tanks with only seven millimeters of steel plate armor? Let the Chinese on the other side use them.
Are you cheering and counting?
He watched his comrades-in-arms from the rear being blown up one by one by Chinese machine guns, and then the hateful Chinese civilians on the other side cheered and counted "one, two, three, four..."
He didn't want to be that number in the roaring tsunami of civilians in China.
Even though the signal corps at the wing headquarters had already conveyed that the strength of the Chinese defenders on the opposite side had been sharply reduced and that the heavy firepower would be greatly weakened, it did not alleviate the fear in Takeda Shinji's heart at all. He knew very well that once he entered the battlefield, the tank he was riding in would
It will inevitably become the key target of the enemy's machine gun. It's not that he specially wrote a big word "Command Vehicle" on the front of the tank just to show off, but that there are only two Baga tanks in total, so they don't even have to choose.
of.
Unfortunately, military orders are hard to disobey. No matter how unwilling he is, Takeda Shinji can only lead the last two remaining Type 94 tanks and charge into the battlefield. The army colonel may not be able to kill the officers above the rank of major.
Although he is powerful, a young sergeant like him is fully qualified to kill as many as he wants, as long as he dares to say "no".
Because the battlefield was not wide enough for three infantry squadrons to deploy at the same time, the Japanese infantry was divided into three waves. Two light tanks led an infantry squadron at the front, followed by another wave 80 meters behind, and another wave 80 meters behind.
Mi followed one wave. As long as the first wave of infantry in front could enter the building, the next two waves of Japanese troops could follow up in the shortest time.
The cannons first stopped shelling after the Japanese army reached a distance of 300 meters, but the infantry artillery did not stop shelling until our own infantry advanced to about 150 meters. That was already the limit of infantry-artillery coordination.
The light and heavy machine guns deployed on the front of the building were already firing back when the Japanese troops approached more than 200 meters away, and the mortars had already joined the ranks of counterattacks in the direction of the Japanese infantry guns. Only the machine guns, everyone was waiting, waiting.
Lei Xiong fired the first shot.
If you want to fight, you have to make it impossible for the two small pods with 7.7 mm heavy machine guns to come back, even if they carefully use the cover of the ruins to advance. In this way, they can attack their infantry more freely, otherwise, let the two
It is also troublesome to shoot a 7.7mm heavy machine gun with adjustable firing height at a distance of 200 meters.
"Hit me!" As Lei Xiong roared, the machine gun in his hand roared first.
Two other machine guns operated by special forces also roared and fired at their respective targets.
It directly broke the heart of Takeda Shinji, who had been carefully observing the front!
Baga, who said that the Chinese heavy firepower has weakened? They obviously can shoot so accurately.