For the first time, the veteran hated his sensitivity to battlefield situations.
His prediction was very accurate, and the Japanese army did not let the battlefield remain silent for too long.
At that time, the hands pointed to 8:20, which was one hour and twenty minutes after the first round of Japanese artillery fire. The entire battlefield was silent for only half an hour, and the overwhelming Japanese artillery fire came over again.
This time the artillery fire lasted longer than the first time. As if the artillery fire could vent their anger, the Japanese artillerymen who were frustrated in the first wave of attacks gathered all their strength to bombard. Both the time and intensity were longer than the first time.
violent.
However, for the officers and soldiers of the 152nd Regiment who had already been tested by artillery fire, the losses in the artillery fire were smaller than in the first wave. The recruits who failed to avoid the artillery fire were basically eliminated in the first round. The remaining ones were left to see who
Better luck.
Although the field fortifications that took a day and a night to be built were not perfect, they were enough for more than a thousand officers and soldiers to survive by luck, and no more than two infantry platoons were killed in the second round of artillery fire.
The Japanese army began to attack again.
And this time, in order to increase the success rate of the attack, two gunboats cruised 200 meters away from the river bank, using the 80mm naval guns on the bows to conduct direct bombardment on the shore. Whether they were ships at sea or inland river ships, in order to pursue bombardment
Very accurate, the main gun is usually a cannon.
The addition of two cannons that are only one mile away from the shore is undoubtedly a major threat to the firepower on the shore. Moreover, the two gunboats are each equipped with six 6.6 mm heavy machine guns, which are equivalent to two steel cannons that can move up and down.
fortress.
The remaining 10 mortars did not care about being exposed or the Japanese mountain artillery shelling them hidden behind the battlefield. At least six of them straightened their muzzles and fired towards the center of the river where the rumbling artillery fire was coming. But due to the darkness of night
Because of this, the artillery observers at the front of the position had no way of knowing exactly where the gunboat was in the river. They could only rely on the flames coming out of the gun muzzle to estimate the distance between the gunboat and the forward position. Moreover, the gunboat was very cunning and could fire just a few shots.
Move location immediately.
The six cannons chased the target hidden in the darkness for ten minutes, but failed to hit a single shot. They could only exploding water and a piece of dead fish in the heart of the river in vain.
The Chinese defenders' artillery was unable to defeat them, but for the two Japanese gunboats, they were at home like a duck in water. Whenever the heavy firepower points on the shore continued to fire muzzle flames, they were discovered. In less than thirty seconds, their
The artillery shells came over. Maybe because of the darkness, the cannons couldn't hit with one shot, but several consecutive shots were enough to blow up the area fifty meters around the firepower point into darkness. Even if they couldn't blast you with artillery shells, they could still make you hit.
Your heavy machine gunner is so frightened that he can only hide for now.
Although the heavy machine gunners are very cautious, there are also anti-gun holes around them to temporarily avoid the artillery fire, but the heavy machine gun is not a light machine gun weighing more than ten kilograms. One person can carry it and run with it.
The tripod weighed more than 60 kilograms, and it was impossible to move it without two or three people. In addition, there were not many heavy machine guns. These heavy machine gunners were almost desperate for their lives. When they saw the Japanese artillery targeting them,
, the first thought was not to hide in the shell-proof cave to save his life, but to fight tooth and nail to get the heavy machine gun away, which in turn led to an increase in casualties.
In just seven or eight minutes, more than fifteen heavy machine gunners were killed or injured by the two 80mm cannons of the two Japanese gunboats, and two heavy machine guns were blown up.
The four twin-mounted machine guns still haven't fired a single shot. However, Lei Xiong had already driven the main shooter of one of the machine guns off the fort, and sat on the machine gun operating chair himself. The machine gun was surrounded by
There is a ring of four-layered sandbags nearly one meter high, with a long gun barrel protruding out from a shooting port that is half a meter wide.
Yes, in order to ensure the safety of these four powerful weapons, Lei Xiong also took great pains. Not only did he lay out the most commonly used ring fortifications by the national army around the machine gun, but he also built four layers of sandbags with a thickness of more than two meters.
It's no problem to hit a cannon with a caliber of less than 100 mm. Moreover, he specifically applied to Xie Guji for permission to fire all machine guns. Without his order, the four machine guns deployed on the left and right wings of the position were not allowed to fire.
Even the officers and soldiers on the position already thought that the most critical moment had come.
Since few officers and soldiers of the 152nd Regiment have ever fought against machine guns, which are powerful weapons, the total of 16 shooters for the four machine guns are basically provided by the Lei Xiong Infantry Company. Even the two machine guns sent to the left wing are nominally
They returned to the command of the infantry company on the far left, but in fact they still listened to Lei Xiong. If Lei Xiong did not order to shoot, even if the infantry battalion commander put the gun to their heads, they would never pull the trigger. What's more,
, and the orders from the regiment subordinates.
Facts have proved that Lei Xiong's decision was completely correct. It was precisely because during the offensive and defensive battle that the Japanese invaders believed that the Chinese defenders had used up all their trump cards, their gunboats brazenly approached the shore nearly 200 meters away and became two movable ones.
Forts and firepower points. At this moment, they were not too happy. Whether it was Chinese mountain artillery or mortars, they could only rely on cover, but they could aim at the firepower points exposed by the Chinese defenders.
The thick night cover the Japanese gunboats so that the Chinese cannons could not do anything to them, but the night also hid the four machine guns of the Chinese soldiers well. Until now, no one knows that the Chinese defenders are still there.
There are four 20mm machine guns that can shoot horizontally to 2,000 meters and can penetrate 15mm steel plates at a distance of 500 meters.
The four machine guns were lucky. Not a single shell fell into the ring fortifications of the machine guns during the Japanese army's overwhelming bombardment. The closest 105 howitzer to the ring fortifications of the two machine guns owned by the Leixiong Infantry Company was also ten meters outside the fortifications.
It exploded five meters away, and the ring-shaped fortifications were strong enough to block the terrible air wave impact and protect the precious machine guns.
The Japanese gunboats were wreaking havoc for seven or eight minutes without Lei Xiong firing. That was because he was waiting, waiting for the Japanese gunboats to enter his firing range. If he wanted to increase his protection, he had to sacrifice his firing range. He had to make the necessary trade-offs.
Sacrifice, the firing port with a width of only half a meter is not enough to cover the entire river surface within the fire range of the machine gun.
Lei Xiong finally waited for the opportunity to fire. When one of the gunboats rumbled and fired again, the flames from the muzzle exposed their position. When they were within the firing range of the machine gun controlled by Lei Xiong, Lei Xiong decisively pulled the trigger.
trigger.
The ten rounds of bullets were quickly emptied in less than six seconds. The assistant shooter on the side who had been prepared quickly inserted the bullets into the bullets. After a few seconds, the shells were emptied again, and then they were loaded onto the bullets and fired again.
In less than 20 seconds, Lei Xiong fired 30 shells in one breath. After seeing the unique thick bullet chain fired by the machine gun, the other three began to shoot at the targets they had already set their sights on within a few seconds.
The machine gun does not rely on concealment like the curved cannon. The effective range of this thing's flat fire exceeds 2,000 meters. If the muzzle is pointed upward and attacked with a parabola, the lethality can even exceed 3,500 meters. Now as long as the approximate location of the Japanese gunboat is determined,
As long as the error does not exceed 30 meters, is it not easy to hit that big guy that is 50 meters long?
Not to mention machine guns, there were at least a dozen heavy machine guns on the shore shooting at the gunboat just now. However, the power of the heavy machine guns was too weak. There was not much that could be done to the Japanese artillery operators who were hiding behind the steel plates. The most they could do was add more points to the hull.
It's just bullet holes or sparks flying out.
Everyone knows that in order to resist the attack of enemy naval guns, the thickness of the steel plates of sea ships is very terrible. For example, the famous second Yamato-class ship Musashi is the final work of the Japanese Navy's battleships. It was completed in 1941
, the "Musashi" has a standard displacement of 64,000 tons, a full load displacement of 72,809 tons, a length of 263 meters and a width of 38.9 meters. There are three triple 460 mm caliber main guns on the ship. The maximum range of the gun is 40 kilometers, and the bomb weight is 1,460 kilograms;
There are also 4 triple-mounted 155mm artillery pieces and 6 twin-mounted 127mm anti-aircraft guns.
At that time, there was no battleship in the world that could compare with the "Musashi" and its sister ship "Yamato" in terms of tonnage and naval gun firepower. To say they were awesome did not mean how awesome their weapons were, but rather, their armor
It has excellent protection and has a layered hull. The main defense area, which accounts for 53.5% of the entire battleship length, is protected by 410 mm thick side armor, 200-230 mm thick armored deck and 350 mm thick transverse bulkheads.
It is so tight that even a 2-ton aerial bomb dropped from a height of 2,200 meters cannot penetrate this thick armor. The battleship's underwater protection is 6.25 meters wide and the armor bulkhead is 64,194 millimeters thick.
The body is divided into 2 4 main watertight compartments, and almost all the main transverse bulkheads have reached the upper exposed deck. The total number of waterproof compartments is 1147 (1065 below the protective deck).
According to the test, the Musashi ship can withstand the attack of a TNT torpedo with a charge equivalent to 500-600 kilograms. The trial displacement (69,100 tons), the initial transverse center height is 3.35 meters, and the reserve buoyancy is 57,450 tons. Even aerial bombs cannot penetrate it.
Terrifying armor, isn’t it awesome? It’s like an unsinkable fortress on the sea.
Of course, there is no unsinkable fortress in the world. In the future, the American Cowboys will withstand the use of 150 aircraft and be hit by at least 20 torpedoes, 17 1,000kg aerial bombs and no less than 20 bombs weighing more than 400kg.
After being hit by naval gun shells, Musashi, one of the largest super battleships in human history, finally sank to the bottom of the sea with 1,021 crew members at 13 degrees 7 minutes north latitude and 122 degrees 32 minutes east longitude.
This is talking about giant ships at sea, not these gunboats sailing in inland rivers. In order for a gunboat weighing 250 tons and more than 50 meters long to sail in inland rivers, it must have a shallow enough draft, which can only reduce the displacement. This armor protection can only
Abandoned. Maybe there are still tens of millimeters of side armor that can withstand the attack of 60-70mm artillery, but the bulkheads on the ship cannot be that thick. It would be good to be more than 10 millimeters. As for the main gun on the bow
The armored belt is even more dispensable. If it is hit by the opponent's artillery with a caliber of 50 mm or more, it will definitely be a life or death.
In other words, the Hatori-class gunboats equipped by the Japanese army have sufficient defense against the power of the 20mm machine gun, that is, the ship's side. As for the buildings and gun positions on the ship, it can only rely on luck.
The main shooters of the four machine guns were all iron-blooded soldiers who had experienced the Four Lines of War. However, in a few days, the machine gun shells fired were not only 2,000 but also 1,500. They were already very comfortable in operating them, and they could hit wherever they pointed.
You can definitely do it wherever you hit.
When four precision shooters controlled the machine guns and fired at the two unscrupulous gunboats, in the thick darkness, within tens of seconds, both gunboats received more than forty rounds of artillery shells.
The huge hull was clearly visible in the night, and it was really the sparks from the contact between the cannonballs and the steel plates, as if fireworks were starting to set off on the ship.