Everything in the world has a cycle of cause and effect.
The cycle can naturally be divided into benign and malignant. For example, if the teacher praises the students, the students will perform better, and the teacher will continue to praise them. If the teacher is dissatisfied with everything, he will raise his nose and raise his eyes to criticize, and over time the students will become
Stubborn people. The same is true on the battlefield. If the battle goes smoothly, the morale of the officers and soldiers will be high, and the battle will be better and better. If they are suppressed from the beginning, the battle will be miserable, and the fear will last a lifetime, the defeat will naturally be
It will become heavier and heavier.
The same is true when this cycle is applied to two gunboats. It is bad enough that several sailors were hit by machine guns and killed in succession, but the constant splashing of sparks clearly revealed the position of the gunboats in Jiang Zhong. This
It was a great move, and the targets for the four machine guns were completely pointed out.
The four main machine gun shooters are all super veterans, so why not chase and fight? And the veterans who get along day and night have a tacit understanding. When you load the bullet plate, I shoot, and when I load the bullet plate, you shoot, no matter what
Why, this machine gun almost never stopped, and it became more and more accurate. Previously, the hit rate was only 50% to 60%, but in the end it was as high as 70% to 80%.
Moreover, many heavy machine gun firepower points that were overwhelmed by the gunboat's naval guns are now coming to take advantage, even if they cannot penetrate the steel plate of the ship! I can hit people, right? As long as you dare to jump onto the deck,
Heavy machine gun bullets are not given for free.
The sound of shells and bullets clanging on the two gunboats was not only terrifying, it also took away the lives of the Japanese sailors hiding in the cabins at all times. Amidst the bright sparks, large holes visible to the naked eye were in the buildings on the deck.
appeared on the bulkhead.
On the other hand, the two Japanese gunboats were not weaklings. While reversing desperately in an attempt to move in the center of the river to avoid the terrifying machine gun fire, they fired desperately at the machine gun fire points on the riverside, and the heavy machine guns on both sides also tried their best to fire at the shore.
The commander of the gunboat was obviously strong enough. They did not turn the rudder and run upstream and downstream to escape after being hit. Although the destructive power of the incoming machine gun was terrifying enough, the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy did not allow them to just pinch them like this.
They fled with their tails on their tails, so although the two gunboats moved hard, they did not leave the range of the machine guns.
Of course, once the rudder is turned, the naval guns on their bows will not be able to retaliate against the Chinese firepower points.
This is a duel between an 80mm 28x caliber cannon and two 20mm machine guns. Although the calibers of the two are very different, it would be uncomfortable for anyone to be hit by one. In terms of caliber and power, it is naturally still 80mm.
The 20mm cannon is even better. The 20mm machine gun has left at least 100 bullet holes on the gunboat. Many Japanese sailors were killed in the cabin, but it did not really cause much damage to the gunboat. At least they could still run away.
It can still fire back. But once the 80mm cannon hits, it will be fatal.
Lei Xiong and the others may have an advantage now. The target of the Japanese gunboats 500 meters away is obvious, but their ring fortifications and machine guns are hidden in the darkness. The Japanese army can only estimate their approximate position through ballistics.
"Boom!" The two gunboats, whose faces were swollen from being beaten, gritted their back molars and fired at the "extremely insidious" opponents. However, the accuracy of the first few shells was somewhat unsatisfactory, but they had to
Needless to say, the highly trained Japanese navy was of high quality. After a few test shots, they calibrated the position according to the red bullet chain again and fired with great accuracy, hitting Lei Xiong right where he was.
of circular fortifications.
The terrible shot shocked Lei Xiong, his hand shook violently, and several shells almost hit the sky. Fortunately, his caution saved him, and although the sandbag with a thickness of more than 2 meters was blasted out
There was a huge hole, and ten bags of sandbags weighing hundreds of kilograms were blown into the sky, but the people in the fortification and the machine guns were protected.
That is to say, the gunpowder smoke was so thick that it made the four people in the fortification cough violently.
"Hi Nenliang! The Japs' cannons are really accurate." Lei Xiong couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from his forehead in fear. He was just about to be blown up into the sky by the Japs' cannon together with this machine gun.
.
"Company Commander, why don't you hide for a while and then fight later?" the deputy shooter on the side suggested.
"What the hell are you hiding from Te Liang and watching the Japanese knock out our firepower points one by one?" Lei Xiong said angrily. "If you don't kill me, then it's my turn to kill him. Stop talking nonsense and get on the bullet board!"
Therefore, the Japanese gunner, who was happy to kill a Chinese firepower point just a second ago, was confused. Why did the machine gun that had obviously stopped shooting start shooting again? It means that it missed the target. This is the only reason.
The Japanese gunner never thought that someone would build sandbags as thick as a city wall, making his cannon useless. Instead, he subconsciously adjusted the firing range. Naturally, the cannon never hit the ring fortifications head-on. This Cao Cao
The senior gunner didn't know that as long as he fired two more shots at that position, he might blow up his henchmen like maggots on the tarsus.
The Japanese gunner who constantly adjusted the firing range of his artillery based on experience could only constantly doubt his professionalism. Maybe until the moment he died, he was still wondering why the Chinese machine gun firepower was like an unkillable Xiaoqiang.
Of course, when two armies meet, the brave will win. Preparations beforehand are of course very important, but the final decision of victory still depends on the courage of the soldiers. Without the courage to die with the enemy, you will be placed in the strongest fortress.
, when faced with such terrifying artillery fire, he only dared to hold his head and cry, "Look for mommy."
Undoubtedly, the four machine gun teams who faced the danger of blowing themselves to pieces with the next Japanese shot had unparalleled courage. Even if the strong gunpowder smoke made their faces dark and choked them with tears, they never
Stop shooting.
The Japanese gunboats can withstand ten, dozens or even hundreds of rounds, but Lei Xiong and his subordinates firmly believe that that piece of shit cannot withstand a thousand rounds...
Of course, a thousand rounds is a bit too exaggerated, because considering the more difficult street fighting in the future, we cannot say that we will use up our old foundation in one go. This time on the Huangpu River front line, each machine gun can only prepare 200 rounds of ammunition, 20 rounds
It's just a plank. If all 20 springboards are fired, we can only admit defeat and let the Japanese gunboats wreak havoc.
Obviously, without heavy armor protection, no one can withstand the constant bombardment of hundreds of cigar-sized shells. The first unlucky one is the fort located at the bow of the ship. In order to reduce the load and draft, Hatori
Class gunboats have basically weakened the armor protection above the deck. The same goes for the main gun turrets. Even before the war, the Japanese gunboats had specially arranged them, and there were sandbags around the main guns to supplement the gun armor belt.
The missing earth armor is mainly used to protect against heavy machine gun attacks, but it cannot protect against machine guns.
When Lei Xiong, who was hitting more and more accurately, used the machine gun to pour the shells around the main gun, the sandbags on the first floor were penetrated instantly, and the steel plate of the fort, which was only a few millimeters, was easily torn apart like white paper. Several
Naturally, the gunner could not die any more.
When the gunner died and the gunboat's only 80mm naval gun could no longer fire, the gunboat was like a little lady who had been stripped of all her clothes and could only be ravaged by machine guns. The Japanese gunboat commander quickly gave in and
Turn the helm and run.
Although the deck was riddled with holes from the machine gun, the machine gun was not a lawnmower like the "MG42" after all. It could spit out hundreds or even thousands of shells in an instant. It was still helpless to the gunboat's main power system.
Noh chased and fought for a while and then allowed the Japanese gunboat to escape.
The result of one gunboat giving in was that the other gunboat was likely to face the fire of four machine guns. Before Lei Xiong could order the machine guns to be moved out of the ring fortification, he was ready to completely bully the crowd.
The gunboat also turned around and ran away.
After this battle, even before the commander of the Sixth Division, Hisao Tani, ran to the riverside and cursed the Navy's "grandsons" for being cowardly, the miserable appearance of the two gunboats moored by the riverside at dawn made him
I can't curse anymore.
Not to mention the superstructure of the gunboats was full of horrific finger-sized bullet holes, there were as many as twenty corpses covered with white cloth on one of the gunboats, which was almost one-third of the Hatori-class gunboat's full manpower.
It was all broken into pieces in a sparring session of less than ten minutes.
The fact that two Japanese gunboats were severely beaten by the sudden burst of machine guns was considered a major failure of the Japanese army in this attack. In fact, the impact was far more than this. After the four machine guns began to threaten the position
When fighting on gunboats with heavy firepower points, the mortars that were forced to allocate firepower to attack the gunboats were finally free to attack the heavy machine gun firepower points deployed by the Japanese army on the left and right wings of each offensive position.
Although the Chinese 82 mortars are not many, only 10, they are much more powerful than the Japanese 50mm grenade. Even if they do not hit directly, they can kill people and blow up heavy machine guns by just a little bit.
Damn, even though the Japanese army has more than 50 grenades, the heavy firepower point of the 152nd Regiment has fortifications, so it is basically no big deal if it doesn't hit directly.
Especially at night, no matter how skillful the Japanese grenade hand was, it could not be said that it was easy to throw the grenade into a relatively small fortification. That also required enough luck.
For a time, both sides had concerns about their heavy firepower, and could not use all their strength to straf the infantry.
The 152nd Regiment is fine here, especially the group of veterans, a group of veteran Sichuan soldiers who have experienced ten or even more than ten years of civil war in Sichuan Province. When have there been so many heavy firepower points to help kill the enemy and have been treated so well?
Most of the time, you have to rely on yourself. Even without the support of heavy firepower, you can still shoot well in your respective fighting positions. Everyone unscrews at least four or five grenades and puts them at their feet.
Wait for the Japanese troops to rush within 40 to 50 meters, and then throw grenades to kill the turtle son. When they can't finish the bombing, they rush forward, using white knives in and red knives out. This is almost the way they used to fight. Anyway,
They are not afraid of this.
But the Japanese army gradually became unsatisfied. It didn't matter if the gunboat assists they promised were gone. Those bastards in Baga's heavy machine gun squadron also fought sometimes, which made the Chinese infantry guns unable to fight.
It's very accurate. Do you think you won't get hit by bullets if you lie down in the mud? Come on over here and take a look, brother?
Of course, what worries the Japanese army the most is the Chinese grenades. In the last round of attacks, the Chinese frantically threw those terrible grenades away from them, and they had no chance to throw the "melon grenades".
It's so far away, where can Baga throw it? My own grenades can't be thrown, but other people's grenades can be thrown. The bloody example of hundreds of colleagues who were killed and injured is right in front of me.
Therefore, as the first echelon, the group of Japanese troops at the front who had been beaten once basically stopped moving. They all lay down and fired at the Chinese in the trenches. Anyway, before they received sufficient fire support from the rear
, they will definitely not rush over and be bombed in vain.
Kubo Masamori, who was hiding at the end, had a gloomy face. While cursing the incompetence of the navy's "turtle grandson", he kept thinking about how to solve this dilemma in his mind. He wanted to spare no casualties.
Ordered more than 8 infantry squadrons to rush in wave after wave to defeat the Chinese position, but the key is that the gang of guys on the position are afraid of death! And the Japanese major knew that, regardless of the reinforcements coming over,
The infantry squadron is nominally under his command, but if the casualties are too large, the group captain and regimental captain will definitely find fault with him. Even if he wins and the division commander supports him, then he will no longer be in the squadron.
The Sixth Division is in trouble? Offending a Colonel-level captain is not a good idea.
If possible, Major Kubo Masamori would like to become a smart Ikkyu brother, draw a circle on his head, and a good idea will come out.
The world is like this. If you want to help people, it's hard to make a decision, but if you want to trick people and harm them, bad things will come out one after another. Within two minutes, Kubo Masamori came up with a trick.
Accompanied by the unique iron whistle of the Japanese army, the Japanese troops who were fiercely exchanging fire with the 152nd Regiment in front of the position began to retreat in batches, which confused the officers and soldiers of the 152nd Regiment in the trenches.
Not to mention the confused frontline soldiers, even the Army Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel Chief of Staff in the 152nd Regiment Headquarters were a little confused. After the first round of Japanese attacks, they knew that the Japanese were not that good. What's more, the Japanese army
The next time we got close to a position of about 130 meters, it was far from the decisive moment when the two sides were about to throw grenades at each other and start fighting with bayonets.
"What are the devils trying to do? There must be something behind them," the lieutenant colonel's chief of staff judged.
"There are ghosts for sure, but when the soldiers come, they will cover up the water and the soil, and order the frontline officers and soldiers to prepare to hide from the ghosts' shells." Jie Guji's solution is obviously simpler. No need to guess, just use whatever tricks you have, it is nothing more than a trick.
"Also, inform Lei Xiong and the others that the four machine guns can be withdrawn into the trenches and retreat to the rear. That is a good thing. Don't let me destroy it by the Japanese cannons."
Not long after Xie Guji's order was issued, the Japanese artillery fire came again, especially the area around the four machine gun ring fortifications, which was heavily covered by 105 howitzers. If Xie Guji's order had not been issued earlier,
, the four machine guns must have been lost.
After a round of shelling, a ring-shaped fortification was hit by a 105 howitzer, and four layers of sandbags were torn to pieces by the shells.
The Japanese infantry soon came up again. In the thick darkness, there was no telling how many people there were. If the distance was less than 100 meters, the 152nd Regiment would be reluctant to use the few flares they had to check.
The junior officers roared angrily and asked the soldiers to return to their fighting positions.
However, at this moment, the ear-piercing howling sounded again.
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ps: Sorry, this is just one chapter today. It’s a big chapter of 4,000 words. In the morning, my daughter’s class teacher called her and she got into trouble at school. She asked Fengyue to go to school at 3:30 to be criticized. I was in a bad mood and was a little anxious when I was writing.
I don’t feel much, and I’m afraid that the quality of the article is not high, so I’ll limit myself to these 4,000 words today! Fengyue can now feel how my dad felt when he went to school to meet the teacher decades ago. It’s really not a good feeling! It’s hard to be a parent
.It’s really hard to be accepted. Sorry, I hope I don’t get criticized all over...