What instantly changed the battlefield situation was not some sophisticated weapon, nor was it the machine gun that Lei Xiong was reluctant to pull out and fire until the decisive battle of life and death.
Although the 20mm machine gun is definitely a murderous weapon. A single shell hitting a person can break the person into pieces and cause serious psychological pressure to others. However, its bullet plate does not exceed ten rounds, and its rate of fire is only 100 per minute.
Fa, if you really want to deal with enemies charging in groups, the lethality is actually not as great as a Maxim heavy machine gun with a rate of fire exceeding 550.
Not to mention four machine guns, even ten of them could not knock hundreds of red-eyed Japanese troops to their knees who were ready to enter the charge stage.
What changed the battlefield situation was a seemingly ordinary and inconspicuous small weapon equipped by the officers and soldiers of the 152nd Regiment.
As the platoon leaders of each squad in the trenches spoke in a thick Sichuan accent: "Drop the bomb, kill the turtle son!"
Most of the soldiers stood in the 2-meter-deep trench, pulling the fuses of the grenades hanging on their chests and under their ribs, and throwing them diagonally upward into the sky with all their strength.
Because the trenches are deep enough and wide enough, soldiers can use their arm strength without any scruples. The 4-second delay lead is enough for a long-handled grenade weighing one kilogram to span a space of about 40 meters or even 50 meters.
This was an extraordinary moment. In just a moment, nearly a thousand grenades were thrown from the area about 40 meters in front of the nearly 2,000-meter position.
The Japanese army with red eyes, bayonets fixed and ready to risk their lives to show off the bravery of the Japanese Empire, was in an instant tragedy. Don't look at the 152nd Regiment's imitation of the Third Reich Type 24 long-handled grenade. It was just a copycat version with a huge amount of charge.
If you can save it, it is only half of the genuine one, but the TNT explosive is also 50 grams, and the cast iron shrapnel is easily broken into small pieces, so the power is smaller than the genuine one, but it can't withstand the large amount! This is just like that of young men.
It’s the same, no experience or skills? It doesn’t matter, we can fight again immediately after the battle. If the quality is not good, we can make up for the quantity... (Okay! The author, who is a middle-aged greasy man, inadvertently typed this
When I look back at this line, I actually feel a tingling feeling in my heart. Even if I have experience and skills, I still really miss the time when there were many...)
When hundreds of grenades landed in the Japanese ranks and exploded, they were as powerful as the explosion of hundreds of small mortar shells.
What's more, under desperate circumstances, the soldiers of the 152nd Regiment threw an average of 3 grenades each in one breath, and 3,000 rounds of grenades were just thrown into the Japanese attack sequence.
Everyone knows how many Japanese soldiers were killed and injured by successive waves of grenades, because the entire front of the position was shrouded in smoke. Even if the fire from the exploding grenades illuminated the front of the position as bright as day and even a little dazzling, no one could see it.
How many people did the Japanese army lose? Everyone was either busy shooting or throwing grenades.
But what is certain is that after several waves of grenades were dropped, the crazy Japanese troops retreated.
Yes, the desperate firing of mountain artillery and mortars, more than thirty light and heavy machine guns, and thousands of rifles did not scare away the Japanese army, but after the most inconspicuous grenades were thrown, the little Japanese retreated.
It’s not that the little devils of the Sixth Division are too scumbag. Thousands of grenades were thrown away, and all their courage was stuffed back into their eyes. It’s that if we talk about the quality of weapons between China and Japan, Chinese soldiers on the battlefield
The hand grenade with the most equipment is definitely the "heavy weapon" that can completely crush the Japanese, and there is almost no such thing.
Yes, because there is a serious shortage of artillery and even mortars, hand grenades have become the "heavy weapons" that Chinese soldiers in this era have tried their best to equip. Even the Sichuan Army, which was the worst equipped in time and space, may only have one in an infantry company.
There are two light machine guns, but these grenades can fully guarantee four or even six grenades per person. They are the most powerful "heavy weapons" for the hundreds of thousands of Sichuan Army soldiers guarding the position. However, the range is a little short, only four or five.
It's only ten meters. If the trench is too shallow, it can even be only thirty meters.
It sounds very sad, but in this kind of sadness, the little devil is really crushed. The Chinese soldiers are equipped with anti-Third Reich type 24 long-handled grenades, which are very heavy. The total of four grenades exceeds 5 kilograms, but
No one would not carry a grenade because it is too heavy. On the contrary, more would be better.
This time we went to Songjiang, the Third War Zone Headquarters was also hemorrhaging a lot of money. It couldn't provide many artillery and artillery shells, but these grenades were sent to the entire 43rd Army. You can carry as many as you can carry. The weaker ones each carried eight. The stronger ones
Some even carried twelve grenades on their backs. The entire army rushed to the Songjiang front line carrying nearly 100,000 grenades on their backs.
Why do these soldiers prefer to vomit blood while carrying heavy grenades for thousands of kilometers to reach the front line? The results in front of them speak for themselves.
The imitation Type 24 long-handled grenade is designed with a wooden handle. Due to the lever principle, soldiers with basic training can throw it far and accurately. A veteran can generally use a standing posture and can often throw the grenade to 50 meters or even further.
, this throwing distance is absolutely unreachable by other grenades in the world. And due to the leverage principle brought by the long handle, this imitation 24-type long-handled grenade can be thrown extremely accurately.
In actual combat, Chinese soldiers often accurately throw grenades into enemy-controlled fortifications, house windows, and narrow foxholes. This has been proven in several battles against Japan.
Moreover, 50 grams of TNT explosive is extremely powerful. As long as you are within the killing radius after the grenade explodes, no matter you are standing, kneeling, or lying down, there is almost no luck. Stay a little further away, cast iron
Shrapnel can also tear off a piece of flesh from your body. Hand grenades with this power are often used by Chinese soldiers as cluster bombs, either to blow up Japanese military fortifications or Japanese armored vehicles. Although they use flesh and blood to carry cluster bombs
It is somewhat helpless to use a bomb to blow up an armored vehicle, but as long as it is hit by a cluster bomb tied together with six or seven grenades, whether it is a Type 94 or a Type 89, it will be unlucky, very bad.
In the past time and space, the Japanese army calculated that one-third of the casualties of the Japanese invaders were caused by long-handled grenades equipped by Chinese soldiers. During the entire Patriotic War, enough Chinese soldiers on the front line were
More than 30 million grenades were thrown, not counting the grenades made by the red troops themselves using indigenous methods.
It can be said that the real reason why the fierce Japanese troops of the Sixth Division retreated was because the 152nd Regiment was forced to come up with its " trump card ".
And what about the Japanese army? It’s not that their famously stingy bosses didn’t equip them with hand grenades, or more precisely, grenades.
Before the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army was not actually equipped with grenades, a seemingly useless close-quarters weapon. In the battle for Highland 203 of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese suffered enough from grenades. At that time, the weapons of the Russian defenders
There are two advantages: grenades and Maxim heavy machine guns that the Japanese army does not have. In addition, the Japanese "Military God" Nogi Nogi Nogi blindly attacked, and under the 203 Hill, the Japanese army was "broken into pieces". Tens of thousands, even Nogi Nogi Nogi's two sons.
Death to hell.
Of course, the Japanese learned from the painful experience and began to develop hand grenades. However, the instinct to suck two sips of juice from the buttocks made them start to take shortcuts again. What they developed was a grenade that could be thrown and matched with a grenade.
The grenade used. Therefore, the Type 10 grenade was officially put into service in 1921. After more than ten years of improvement, until the outbreak of the war, the Japanese army began to use the Type 97 grenade, which was the "melon grenade" that had to be knocked on the helmet before being thrown out.
This thing, how do I put it? It looks very modern and looks very majestic when hung on the body, but at that time, the Japanese delay tube technology was not mature, so the prescribed 3 to 4 second delay was not reliable and would explode early.
.Yes, if you set up a poss and then try to throw it out, it will most likely explode in the palm of your hand. Without the time to set up a poss, the Japanese army can only knock it and throw it forward as hard as possible, plus the melon
The grenade itself is relatively light, so the distance it can be thrown can be imagined.
They are all elite veterans who can throw grenades twenty or thirty meters away. They don't even have time to throw grenades, let alone aim and throw them, and their accuracy is extremely lacking. This is why the Japanese army in the offensive state has to wait until about 30 meters before throwing.
We were ready to throw "melon grenades" into the Chinese trenches, because they couldn't throw them through and they were still not that accurate.
However, before they could reach the range where they could throw bombs, the Chinese soldiers threw long-handled grenades at them in an overwhelming manner. If you don't give in and run away, you are not brave, but a fool.
Of course, although the Japanese army was devastated by the 3,000 small grenades suddenly thrown by the 152nd Regiment and suffered heavy casualties, they chose to retreat temporarily. However, the Sixth Division is indeed a strong army. Although it retreated without chaos, it was not only the throws from behind that
The cannon team frantically suppressed the light and heavy firepower points that were still being fired by the Chinese. The Japanese army even braved the hail of bullets and dropped several infantry squads in the forward position to serve as blocking teams to prevent the 152nd Regiment from taking advantage of the opportunity to counterattack and pursue them.
The three infantry squads left in three directions had to stay under fire from mountain artillery, mortars and even heavy machine guns. It was undoubtedly extremely dangerous, but those Japanese soldiers chose to abide by military orders. From this point of view alone, the Sixth Division
The Japanese army is the best among the best.
It is not easy to make the choice to sacrifice one's life in order to win, but it is not easy to make the choice to leave the way of survival to your comrades when you fail and choose death yourself.
The Sixth Division did it, and most of the main Japanese forces retreated under the cover of their own heavy machine guns and grenade launchers. Three infantry squads on the left, center, and right wings were left behind to fight tenaciously with the 152nd Regiment.
However, they also thought highly of the 152nd Regiment. They had just resisted this crazy wave of Japanese attacks. The officers and soldiers of the 152nd Regiment who were still learning how to fight the Japanese army wanted to throw everything they had in their crotches out and blow them up. There was nothing else.
What kind of counterattack do you have left to launch?
Even if Liu Lang were here at this moment, he would not be able to command the soldiers who were extremely tired both mentally and physically to rush out of the trench with him. The physical fatigue was not bad, but when life and death were at stake, he could still shoot no matter how weak he was.
The fight is vigorous and vigorous, but the psychological fatigue cannot be solved in a short while.
When the crisis was over, the heavy casualties in the trenches plunged the surviving recruits back into boundless fear. Those who did not cry loudly were all of good psychological quality.