Following Major General Suzuki's order, the Yanagawa Battalion, which had been resting for half an hour, immediately began to assemble before the battle. The artillery squadron affiliated with the Yanagawa Battalion also began artillery preparations. Although the two artillery brigades had arrived, due to the lack of flat places in the mountains,
, the artillery position has not yet been constructed, so I was not able to participate in the artillery attack this time.
In fact, Major General Suzuki had no intention of letting the artillery brigade start shelling now. After all, it was just a tentative attack. Finding the firepower point of the Chinese defenders was the purpose of this attack.
More than 1,000 people from the Yanagawa Brigade bypassed the ancient mountain and rushed straight towards the main position at Luo Wenyu Pass. Zhou Shiyu, who had already entered the position, looked through the telescope at the Japanese troops trotting forward only 1,000 feet away from his own side with an unmoving expression.
Gan Yuanfeng, a veteran beside him who was promoted from sergeant to platoon leader, licked his dry lips and murmured: "Hey, there are a lot of people there, company commander, why don't you order the machine gun platoon to sweep them a few times? You can definitely kill a dozen of them."
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The distance of 1,000 feet is a bit far for a Czech-made light machine gun, but for the MG42 with a longer barrel, this distance is not out of reach. With the terrifying rate of fire of the MG42, it can shoot such a dense Japanese army.
Come on, don't be too happy.
"The only thing you're stupid about is that you can't get on the table. A dozen or so Japanese devils are nothing, let alone a dozen or so Japanese devils. Even this brigade doesn't even take it seriously. What they want to do is to deal with thousands of people."
Devil. Give me the order. Anyone who shoots without my order will be dealt with according to the military law. Let me tell you that since we went to this mountain, the military merit of our death-defying company is the first among the independent regiments. No one can take it away. As long as we fight hard,
Go ahead with the little devil, and after this battle I will take credit from my brothers." Zhou Shiyu turned around and glanced at his confidant, and said coldly.
Without the obstruction of Zhou Shiyu, the Yanagawa brigade easily stood 700 feet below Luo Wenyu Mountain.
As the infantry attack formation unfolded, the four Type 92 infantry cannons of the Yanagawa Battalion's artillery squadron opened fire first. In just ten minutes, hundreds of artillery shells were fired at the forward company position, hitting the entire position.
Fire was blazing into the sky and mud was flying everywhere, but more than 100 officers and soldiers of a company were well prepared and hid in individual gun-proof holes that had been dug in advance and reinforced with masonry and cement.
Liu Lang and Xiang Xiang were naturally as stable as a mountain in the company headquarters reinforced with steel plates and logs. Liu Lang didn't pay attention to the artillery fire all over the sky, and even looked at the situation 1,000 feet away with an infantry-specific sight glass.
The 92 infantry cannon stopped spitting projectiles and made up its mind.
"This guy is a pretty good guy! But after today, he will belong to my independent regiment." Liu Lang murmured to himself as he looked at the infantry cannon in the camera.
It's not that Liu Lang is ignorant. He drooled when he saw an old cannon produced in the 1930s.
As the Type 92 infantry gun most equipped by the Japanese infantry troops, it is actually an extremely excellent weapon. Although its caliber is only 70MM, the shells are not light. A high-explosive shell weighs 3.8 kilograms, which shows its power.
Still not small.
Of course, saying this gun is excellent does not mean how powerful it is. Because the projectile has a low muzzle velocity, it actually does not do much damage to reinforced concrete fortifications.
But this thing only weighs less than 500 kilograms. Two or three strong soldiers can push it, and the shooting range is very good. The horizontal shooting range is 90 degrees, and the high and low shooting angles are also nearly 90 degrees. It can be used as a cannon when shooting horizontally.
, it can be used as a howitzer when shooting in a straight direction, and it can also be used as a mortar when shooting at a large elevation angle of more than 80 degrees.
If in this era, which kind of gun is most suitable for mountain warfare, it is undoubtedly the Type 92 infantry gun currently used by the Japanese army. The Republic used it frequently in the famous Defense Battle of the Five Sacred Mountains 20 years later.
Cannon.
To a certain extent, on a relatively special battlefield like Luo Wenyu, the 92 Infantry Cannon is more useful than the Bofors Cannon.
Taking advantage of the shelling, two infantry squads of about 100 people from the 4th Squadron of the Yanagawa Brigade quietly began to climb up the mountain and moved to the front of the position.
This infantry team was so ruthless that they actually advanced the attack launch point to less than 200 meters away from the front line of the forward company. At such a close distance, if this little devil's artillery made a mistake, the artillery shells would most likely explode.
However, it can also be seen from this that the legendary little devil's incredible infantry and artillery coordination is really not an exaggeration.
?The sound of artillery was rumbling on the independent regiment position only more than 200 meters away from them, but the four light machine gun crew members of the two infantry teams were not idle. They quickly carried out field operations with engineer shovels at the found shooting positions.
The personnel configuration of each standard Japanese team is similar to that of a platoon in the Chinese army, with a total of 54 people equipped with 2 machine guns. Each machine gun has a commander, a shooter, and two deputy shooters carrying ammunition. It is still very difficult for 4 people to dig a simple machine gun trench.
Fast.
When the bombardment almost stopped, the four machine gun bunkers were basically completed. Seeing this scene, Liu Lang couldn't help but sigh. He didn't know what the Japanese army would be like in five years, but judging from this period, the Japanese Army was indeed the number one in Asia.
, the quality and discipline of individual soldiers are very strong, the cooperation between various units is also good, coupled with the absolutely superior firepower, no wonder the national army cannot defeat them.
As soon as the shelling stopped, more than 100 Japanese soldiers immediately ran out from the starting point of the attack with bayonets in hand.
By the time the officers and soldiers of the 1st company on the position got out of the artillery holes and rushed into the trenches and foxholes, the Japanese soldiers were already within fifty meters! At this point, the reaction of the forward company was quite fast. If it had been before
When they were in the national army, by the time they entered the trenches, the Japanese soldiers would have already killed them right before their eyes and noses!
Qianqian, who rushed out of the headquarters and took out his pistol, was immediately frightened and covered in white hair. Now, he had a personal experience of the "power" of the Kwantung Army. No wonder the fat man kept emphasizing that the Kwantung Army was the
The most elite force among the Japanese invaders.
If the troops that could confront the fighting peoples in the Northeast were not strong, they would probably have been beaten to shit by old men with better equipment. The elite Kwantung Army was also forced out.
Liu Lang still stayed at the company headquarters, not even intending to take the sniper rifle next to him. If just these hundreds of Japanese soldiers wanted to dispatch him, the commander of the group, it would be too much for them.
More importantly, this is the first battle between the Independent Regiment and the Japanese army. Even if this is just a tentative attack by the Japanese, they must deal with it themselves. Liu Lang wants elites on the battlefield, not on the training ground.
Elite.
However, the 1st company moving forward did deserve the title of 1st company. In an instant, fierce gunshots rang out from the 1st company position.
The two Czech-made light machine guns at the forefront opened fire at the same time. Several Japanese soldiers who were charging forward were immediately knocked down. The remaining Japanese soldiers saw that the situation was not right and immediately fell to the ground and looked for cover on the spot.
Shooting with a company.
The four crooked light machine guns mounted 200 meters away also opened fire at the same time to suppress several firepower points of the company.
Farther away, several groups of Japanese troops set up grenade launchers to clear several exposed light machine gun fire groups at fixed points.
The Japanese grenadier fired very accurately. After two consecutive rounds hit about ten meters away from the machine gun fire point, the third round hit the machine gun position of the first company, third row and squad.
Fortunately, the machine gunner was not too stupid. When the sand and gravel from the explosion of the second Japanese grenade hit his body and hurt him, he rolled into the deep enough trench with the machine gun in his arms.
His keen battlefield intuition saved his life and the machine gun.
But there are always unlucky ones, and not everyone has the intuition of this veteran who has experienced at least a dozen battlefields.