Chapter 1550 The Elite Squad of the Sixth Division
In fact, that further shows that the Sixth Division also has an elite infantry squad.
To be more precise, it is a special attack team similar to the independent regiment's special operations brigade.
At this moment, Yu Xiancheng looked solemnly at the corpses of the five Japanese soldiers who almost succeeded in a sneak attack through the gaps in the battlefield and were eventually killed under the siege of an infantry company.
Through the precise retreat route of the Japanese army and the equipment on their bodies, Yu Xiancheng smelled a dangerous atmosphere. This Japanese army was far from what ordinary Japanese troops could compare with. In fact, if it hadn't been for Zhuang Er's action, even if the returning infantry company had not
Angry, it is very likely that the Japanese army did not need to leave five corpses, and most of them would have escaped.
Yes, since the battle between the Independent Regiment and the Eighth Division at the Great Wall, the Japanese army, which is very good at summarizing, has conducted a thorough analysis of the reasons for the failure of the Eighth Division. The main reason for the failure of the Eighth Division was certainly because
It was due to its arrogance and underestimation of the enemy, which was one of the reasons why the independent regiment spent a month building mountain defenses that successfully withstood the heavy artillery bombardment. However, the independent regiment's endless infiltration and counter-infiltration tactics also attracted the attention of the Japanese army base camp.
In particular, it ambushed elite soldiers on the battlefield, used "balloons" to indicate targets for the artillery, and even used those latent chess pieces to carry out long-distance assassinations of undefended senior officers on their own positions during chaotic moments on the battlefield, which ultimately led to
The Japanese army base camp also gave high praise to this new method of combat in which frontline command was in chaos.
While many senior generals in China attributed the Independent Regiment's victory over the Eighth Division with three regiments to the Eighth Division's arrogance and underestimation of the enemy, the Japanese gave Liu Lang the opportunity to use elite soldiers to fight on the battlefield.
This special operations tactic of infiltration in advance is highly regarded, which cannot but be said to be ironic.
Of course, you can't say that those Chinese generals are fools. On the contrary, they are all too smart. The reason is very simple. A person who can block ten "gold medal" orders from the boss to withdraw troops, regardless of his tactical performance
Even though he was brilliant, he also failed strategically. What's even worse is that the backbone of Liu Lang's independent regiment is mainly composed of veterans of the 19th Route Army. He himself has the stigma of the Sichuan Army faction and is disobedient.
How high can he go?
Even if his performance is amazing and even a little lonely, it can only be said that he is a qualified Chinese and an excellent Chinese soldier. However, he is destined not to become an excellent general because he cannot see the general trend clearly.
, strategically wrong.
Just like Yue Wumu in history.
People sometimes cannot be too smart. The smarter they are, the more things they think about, the more worries they have, and the more constrained they are in doing things.
The Japanese are much stronger in this regard. As a small island country, they have been a dependent country of the giant China for thousands of years. What do they have? A small population, and the land is shaken by typhoons at every turn.
A trembling island, a land where there is not even a single hair on the soil? Or, are there short legs that move faster than other ethnic groups?
Being poor means worrying about danger. Ever since the Western powers opened the country with strong ships and cannons, the island nation has begun to study hard and improve. It has short legs. If it doesn't move faster, it will be left far behind by other nations.
Already.
This time, it was no exception. Each standing division formed its own special attack team based on the battle examples of the Independent Regiment and the Eighth Division. Of course, the 20th Division was personally led by martial arts masters like Hong Kong Minamoto
The high-level special forces team that leads the establishment is still a special case. Other standing divisions are not so generous. Having a captain-level officer as the chief officer of a special attack team with no more than a few dozen people is already very important.
They still have some rigid brains and cannot understand the role of special operations in the future battlefield. It is not tactics, but strategy. In the future republic, a group army with the strength of a Japanese division will be able to carry out special operations.
The rank of chief officer of a brigade can even reach the rank of senior colonel, which is equivalent to the corresponding level of a division-level infantry commander.
In the independent regiment, Yu Xiancheng, the chief officer in charge of the sharpest steel knife of the special operations brigade, is an army colonel and can be regarded as one of the few main officers who can speak in the independent regiment.
Special operations are obviously not as simple as the Japanese imagined after just one battle, but it has to be said that they also have the prototype of special operations.
The 20-man Japanese army that was able to approach the Xicheng District High Command through the intricate battlefield gaps was a special attack team trained by the Sixth Division for two to three years.
First of all, looking at the equipment, four of the five Japanese soldiers who were killed were equipped with submachine guns that Yu Xiancheng and several senior officers of the 152nd Regiment had never seen before.
The gun length is about 900 mm, the barrel length is about 280 mm, the magazine is arc-shaped, and is located on the left side of the submachine gun in a horizontal shape. There are heat dissipation holes at the muzzle, and a strange bayonet is inserted. It is not Chinese.
The Third Reich style that soldiers are familiar with is not American. It is a submachine gun that has never appeared on the Chinese battlefield.
The capacity of the magazine is terrible. Judging from the bullets in the magazine carried by one of the dead Japanese soldiers, there are fifty rounds. This is one of the reasons why even if an infantry company returns to encircle them, they can retreat calmly. Twenty
The firepower emitted by the Japanese army actually exceeded that of an infantry company with a strength of a hundred men. Moreover, they also had two grenadier men. After completely suppressing the two light machine guns of the infantry company, they calmly fought their way out.
A bloody road retreats to the chaotic battlefield.
The infantry company far exceeded their strength and cost nearly 20 casualties before killing two people. The other three people all fell to Shoji's gun 200 meters away. It was also because of the discovery of Shoji's presence.
The Japanese squad quickly retreated.
With a battle loss ratio of over 10 to 1, it was truly the most tragic casualty suffered by the 152nd Regiment in the battles it fought with the Sixth Division. No wonder the infantry company commander's eyes were red when he stared at the corpses of several Japanese soldiers.
If Liu Tuanzuo were here, he would probably be able to tell the name of this submachine gun equipped by the Japanese army in one breath. It was a Japanese-style "Hundred-type submachine gun" that was not well-known throughout the war but actually had good performance. It was put into use in 1935.
The 100-type submachine gun developed and officially put into service in the army in 1940 actually entered the Chinese battlefield three years in advance. Liu Lang's little wings of this fat butterfly finally blew out a few small whirlpools in this era.
Of course, things in the world are like this. Where there is a cause, there is an effect. A butterfly flapping its wings across the Pacific Ocean can cause a typhoon thousands of miles away. The reason why the Japanese submachine guns were used by the Japanese army before they were officially put into service is also
Because of the butterfly effect caused by Liu Lang's fat butterfly, several standing divisions of the Japanese army started playing special attack teams.
The Japanese army's early design of weapons was economical and practical. To put it bluntly, they wanted to win a war between countries at the lowest cost, especially China, which has always been the imaginary enemy. Their stingy weapons were used in conventional wars, especially in
It's okay to deal with the poor and scumbag Chinese army, but if it is used on the special agents, even the Japanese themselves, who have always been stingy and thrifty, will just shake their heads.
The tactical role of an elite team like the special attack team is to sneak into the battlefield and launch attacks on important enemy targets. The 1.4-meter-long 38-meter-long cover is inconvenient to carry and cannot guarantee firepower output. If it encounters a large number of Chinese troops, it would be hard to think about it with your buttocks.
That's looking for death.
It is necessary to change a weapon. The gun cannot be too long and the firepower output must be ensured. Naturally, it can only be an automatic weapon, a submachine gun. Unfortunately, for the Japanese who have always been economical and have to suck their mouths,
This really doesn't exist.
But the Japanese have a little bit of their own self-esteem. They feel that it is too low for their elite troops not to use domestic weapons. Therefore, the Bai-style submachine gun that is still under testing has become their standard weapon, which is equivalent to helping them.
Military designers are experimenting with the performance of the 100-type submachine gun, which is a win-win situation.
The four Japanese soldiers not only had submachine guns, but also carried five magazines on their combat vests. If you add the magazine equipped on the submachine gun, that would be a full 300 rounds of ammunition. Two corpses were still hanging on them.
Four grenades were used, and Yu Xiancheng even guessed based on the hooks that they carried more than six.
Another Japanese soldier was holding a rifle with a "38 cap" with a 2.5x scope inserted into it. In addition to the straight charging handle being changed to a downward-curved type, the second hoop that covered the gun body was equipped with a
Except for the steel wire bracket, the rest is no different from the 38 cover.
Sniper rifles, Yu Xiancheng and Zhuang Er looked at each other with solemnity in their eyes.
The Japanese army actually began to train snipers. Moreover, the sniper who was killed by Shoji from 260 meters away was terrifying. There were at least five people in the infantry company that besieged them, and he was fatally shot by him.
Shoji also relied on his intuition on countless battlefields to leave the sniper position early after killing two Japanese submachine gunners in succession. Only after the camouflage helmet was penetrated did he realize that he had been targeted by a sniper.
Of course, this sniper, who may have good marksmanship but was probably on the battlefield for the first time, seemed very immature to Shoji. It didn’t take long for him to be hidden in another sniper position. No matter how many officers and soldiers of the 152nd Regiment suffered losses,
Zhuang Er, who had stopped shooting even after suffering such a heavy blow, was found. The Japanese sniper finally lost his composure and began to provide fire support to his comrades.
Exposing one's position on the battlefield, especially when the opponent still has snipers, is to step into the gate of hell. Although Shoji is a fire supporter in the special operations brigade, he is not at the level of a sniper, and
Super snipers like Zeng Shui are not even close to each other in comparison, but the distance of more than 200 meters is really not too difficult for a special forces soldier.
The Japanese sniper was hit in the head by Shoji with a precise shot, leaving his life and his pretty good sniper rifle in China.
But this elite team of the Japanese army has more than one sniper. The bodies of the 18 infantry company soldiers who died in the battle have been examined. Except for 5 who were killed by submachine gun bullets, the other 13 were fatally shot by one shot. Even the rescuers
There is no chance.
This is what worries Yu Xiancheng the most.
In addition to this elite Japanese team, how many Japanese snipers will be on this battlefield?