The Japanese troops who were almost scared to death were indeed very experienced. After six mortars from the first company and the second company on the second line of defense blew the remaining five or six heavy machine guns hiding in the bunker into pieces, the next goal was naturally to lie down.
They were in a dilemma on the ground.
Do you want to say that the Japs' shooters are idiots? They knew that the enemy's artillery was coming to attack them, so why did they run away without raising their heavy machine guns?
The Japanese soldiers who have gone to serve Amaterasu just want to say: Great God, I can't do this!
That's really not possible.
The Type 92 heavy machine gun, the main equipment of the Kwantung Army, was developed and equipped with troops only in 1932. This machine gun was improved and developed on the basis of the three-year-old heavy machine gun. The body and frame of the three-year heavy machine gun weighed 55.3 in total.
Kilogram is already a big guy, but the Type 92 heavy machine gun that uses 7.7 mm bullets goes a step further, with a total weight of an astonishing 63 kilograms, which is a big guy weighing 120 kilograms.
Weight is not about selling fruit. Sufficient weight does not mean sincerity, but it means bulkiness and stupidity. What's more terrible is that for a battlefield where bullets are flying everywhere, if you want to carry such a big thing and run away,
Just don't be too stupid.
To put it bluntly, the mobility of the Type 92 heavy machine gun is terrible.
If you lose your machine gun and escape for your life, it is even more impossible for the little devils. The little devils in this period not only had strict military laws, but also had a strong sense of honor. They would rather serve Amaterasu than
Throw away your weapons.
Therefore, they could only stubbornly be blown to pieces along with the heavy machine guns.
Yanagawa Kazuo's machine gun squadron of 12 heavy machine guns has completely become the dust of history.
As for the light machine guns that were responsible for fire support as they advanced with the infantry, they did not try to fight back.
But if we talk about which weapon designed by the Japanese military industry during World War II was the most deceptive, then the Taisho Eleven, the standard light machine gun used by the Japanese army at this stage, which is also the most familiar crooked light machine gun to the Chinese, is almost the best. What I am talking about here is that it is almost the best.
, because the Japanese military industry has other more bizarre works, which will be discussed one by one later.
Let’s talk about this crooked machine gun. It’s complicated to feed ammunition, has a low rate of fire of 150 rounds per minute, and is awkward and troublesome to operate and shoot. No weapon is perfect, right? Even the MG42
This kind of epoch-making military work has been said to have a high rate of fire, which increases the logistical burden! According to this statement, everyone can carry a big blade to fight, and all it needs is a whetstone.
The fatal thing is that the Taisho 11 machine gun was designed by designers to be a delicate and expensive lady-type weapon.
The Taisho 11-type light machine gun is very sensitive to changes in the meteorological environment. First, its reliability was very poor when used under low and severe cold conditions in Northeast China. So the Kwantung Army soldiers installed oil cans next to the loader to prepare for use at any time.
The method of oiling the machine parts and bullets to maintain reliability; later it was discovered that the reliability was even worse when used under high temperature and high humidity conditions in Southeast Asia, and even an oil can was of no help. This was still not done in the Sahara Desert
Go and give it a try. If the wind and sand blow once, the Imperial Japanese Army will find that the machine guns next door to Mala can no longer fire.
Of course, this matter has been tested with the help of Chinese soldiers. Even the Chinese army, which is extremely poor, does not like to use crooked tricks, but deeply falls in love with Czech-made products.
In fact, the Taisho 11 light machine gun will have a relatively low failure rate only in seasons that are neither cold nor hot, neither dry nor wet, and under ideal conditions of careful maintenance and gentle combat intensity.
Well, you said that the Imperial Japanese Army, who have such a lady-type light machine gun that must be treated with tenderness at all times, will be in this position where only a field has been burned and there is only a piece of grass and ash and wood residue everywhere.
What kind of situation did you encounter?
Many of Miss's machine guns went out of action on the spot! To put it bluntly, they jammed and couldn't fire. The machine gunners' faces were full of sorrow, and they almost looked up to the sky and sighed: "Those cheating military industrialists!"
It is estimated that the imperial soldiers who were lying on the ground and tightening their balls were also greeting all the female members of the military designers' families in their hearts at this moment. This is totally not giving people any way to survive!
The Japanese machine gunner, who was still desperately wiping the ash that fell into the machine gun's bolt with a sad face, hoping to make the machine gun roar again, soon understood what it means to be "a blessing in disguise".
The crooked machine gun also has the most stupid design, that is, the bipod is too long, the firing line is too high, and the position is very forward, making it inconvenient to use firepower. The front and secondary shooters are too close together, and the battlefield survivability is weak.
The firing line height of a machine gun refers to the distance between the barrel axis perpendicular to the ground when the machine gun tripod is placed on the ground. The bipod of the Taisho 11 light machine gun has a longer rod, so that its firing line height reaches 400mm, so it is higher than the average
The line of fire of the machine gun must be high (usually the height of the line of fire of the machine gun does not exceed 300mm, and most of them are to lower the height of the line of fire as much as possible). Since the position of the loader has been determined, the bipod can only be configured forward to avoid interaction with the loader.
Interference, coupled with the long tripod and high firing line, although this is beneficial for shooting at elevation angles, it is extremely disadvantageous for shooting at flat angles, especially shooting at depression angles. The shooter often has to stretch his upper body out to achieve aiming.
Wire.
In battle, on the front-line battlefield, as the main weapon among infantry, machine guns are often the targets that the opponent concentrates on attacking and destroying first. Especially on early battlefields where non-automatic weapons dominate, machine guns pose a great threat to the opponent. Therefore,
The risk of being knocked down by the opponent is also very high.
It would be advantageous to shoot from an angle, but the hillside of the attack area where the Japanese army entered was very gentle. The slope was only about ten degrees, almost like flat ground. If the slope was steeper, running down three or four hundred meters would be enough.
As for not using a bipod and just placing the machine gun on the ground and shooting directly, I can only say that you are really overthinking it. The strong recoil produced by machine gun shooting will make you unable to control the muzzle of the gun, not to mention the machine gun.
The chance of losing their anus to the Japanese Imperial Army in front of the gunner is definitely greater than 70%.
Those who dare to rush out of the position with a machine gun and kill everyone are the fiercest among the fiercest. At least these little devils have not reached that level yet.
It is conceivable that the Japanese light machine gun shooters, who raised their bodies like targets, were suppressed in a company position. The infantrymen who had not opened their doors for a long time saw what the consequences would be like. There were more than ten light machine guns and more than 100 rifles.
Five heavy machine guns aimed at them and still wanted to continue to take advantage of the situation also rushed over to join in the fun.
In just one minute, the seven light machine guns that the two infantry squadrons still dared to shoot, together with the shooters, were all beaten into parts, mechanical parts and flesh and blood parts.
The fierce rain of bullets caused the Japanese troops within a radius of 20 meters around the light machine gunners to lie down as far away as possible. The idea that a dead Taoist friend will never die a poor Taoist is not only shared by the Chinese.
It's okay if the unlucky guy dies. I don't have to accompany him to see Amaterasu. There are a lot of servants from Amaterasu's side today, and the Imperial Japanese Army, who are almost emotionally exhausted, are thinking right now.
You can dodge bullets by lying down, but you can't dodge the cannonballs that fall from the sky in a parabola. The six-gun gunner has probably never been so excited.
The limbs of the Japanese soldiers blown up by artillery shells and flying in the air not only made people's blood rush, but also proved their military exploits.