All this fell into the eyes of Terube Tanibe, who was standing in the trench five miles away and observing the frontline positions with a telescope.
"Baga, the honor of the empire has been lost by those cowards. I ordered Major Yamada to fight back. Counterattack across the board. Kill the Chinese people. We cannot let them rush into the position." Terube Tanibe's orange face was about to be thrown away by the front line.
A large group of Japanese soldiers behaved in an extremely angry manner and let out bursts of roars.
The senior staff officers around him were silent, and no one dared to speak.
To be honest, the Yamada Brigade has performed very well. Facing the endless Chinese artillery fire, they actually resisted on the position for more than two hours. It already requires a lot of courage. Now, in the six twin units
Under the brutal and terrifying fire from the machine guns, they still stayed on the position and did not break up. They were worthy of their reputation as the most elite infantry brigade of the Sixth Division.
Asking them to fight back now? With their bayonets? In the face of enemy machine guns? This is a purely suicidal order.
"Where's the infantry artillery? Order the infantry artillery squadron to come down 800 meters to the battlefield and kill those tractors for me." Maybe he realized that his order was a bit taken for granted. Terube Tanibe, who was trying to calm down his anger, thought of it.
The remaining seven or eight infantry guns.
"Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, during the Chinese artillery attack just now, under your order, our army's six infantry artillery counterattacked the enemy. However, the Chinese mountain artillery had too many..." a shoulder
The staff officer wearing the badge of Lieutenant Colonel looked pale and hesitated to speak.
In fact, he wanted to say, if it hadn't been for the Major General's previous stupid order, how could the six infantry cannons have been destroyed by the enemy's artillery retaliation? If the infantry cannon with a range of 2,700 meters and the mountain cannon with a range of 6,000 meters were fired at each other, then
He must be an extremely stupid doctrine!
Otherwise, how come after the Chinese built such a weird mobile battle fortress, tens of thousands of people in the Eighth Division could do nothing with it? The Type 92 infantry artillery is the nemesis of this kind of fortress, right?
"Baga, are all six infantry cannons destroyed? Stupid artillery pigs. Then there are two more?" Terube Tanibe's face darkened, and he casually put the blame on the infantry cannons that had turned into ashes along with them.
On the artillery.
It seems that the soldiers operating the infantry artillery belong to the infantry brigade instead of the artillery brigade, but what does it matter? In the eyes of the superiors, the existence of small soldiers is either cannon fodder or used to be discarded.
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"Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, those are the last two infantry artillery pieces of the entire division. If they are lost in another battle, we will not have a single heavy weapon in future battles." The Lieutenant Colonel's staff said with a crying voice instead of suggesting more.
It's better to say it's a plea.
Everyone knows how powerful the Chinese commander on the opposite side is. Since he dares to let the six battle fortresses appear in front of the position, he will guard against his own infantry artillery. On their position, there are no one knows how many artillery observers are closely guarding them.
Staring at this battlefield with a radius of several kilometers, as soon as you see the shadow of infantry artillery, God knows how many artillery shells will fall like raindrops?
The concerns of the Lieutenant Colonel and Staff are certainly not unreasonable.
Long before launching the attack, Liu Lang was already on guard against the remaining Japanese infantry artillery pieces.
For this reason, he specially deployed up to thirty artillery observers on the forward position, with a good view of the battlefield, and enough telescopes and gun range observation scopes to almost keep an eye on the entire battlefield. The range of infantry artillery is only 2,700 meters.
As long as they dare to appear, the two cannons, which have few shells left and have not spoken yet but are extremely accurate, will sing their last elegy for them.
Otherwise, Liu Lang would not have dared to place six large-scale weapons in front of the Japanese army's positions and shoot as much as they wanted. Those weapons were mainly used for air defense. Although they were Japanese goods, they were also very valuable heavy weapons.
"What Mr. Okamoto said makes sense." As the chief of staff, Terube Tanibe was a little less stubborn than Nishi Yiichi. He nodded and accepted his subordinate's pleading suggestions.
However, it is the staff officer who makes suggestions, and it is the staff officer who makes decisions. Even if there is a chief behind him, he is still a staff officer. If it were Nishi Yiichi here, he would definitely make the opposite decision.
Two infantry cannons are enough to fire at least three cannons each before the enemy's artillery fire comes. Not to mention that they are all skilled gunners, one cannon can be used to defeat the enemy's two battle fortresses that have reached the front of the position, right?
Even if you have a pair, you can exchange for two machine guns. Although it is not worth it, war is not a business, so there is nothing worth it? It is just a matter of life and death, or you will die if I die.
Even Liu Lang, despite having many arrangements, was still prepared to lose two to four or even all the machine guns. There is no so-called absolute advantage on the battlefield. No matter how high-ranking a general is, the only way to kill him is to kill him.
He needs one bullet, and he will never receive two more bullets than others just because he is a general.
Six battle fortresses stand at the front of the position, suppressing you so much that you can't bear to lose your head. You can't bear to part with two cannons. You don't take the Qianbao No. 1 infantry brothers on the position as human beings at all! If the position is lost,
, holding two infantry cannons is of no use, can you carry them and run?
This is definitely the sentiment of all the Japanese soldiers who are still alive in the Yamamoto Battalion, which is known as the most elite infantry battalion of the Sixth Division.
Damn it, Terube Tanibe, damn it! Where are the infantry artillery pieces of the 8th Division? If you don’t have infantry artillery, just have some grenade support! Captain Yamamoto Battalion, who is hiding in the trench and visiting the front line in person
Lieutenant Colonel Masao Yamamoto would have cursed loudly, if he hadn't considered the soldiers whose morale was on the verge of collapse.
It's not that his soldiers are not brave enough, nor that his soldiers' fighting will is not strong enough, but the enemy's machine guns and machine cannons are sweeping over like a downpour of bullets, while our own heavy machine guns are overwhelmed by the enemy's terrifying number of mortars.
They were all destroyed under the attack, but any infantrymen who dared to take the lead were shot dead in their own trenches.
Masao Yamamoto's biggest hope now is that he expects the enemy to rush into the trenches so that they can engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, even if the enemy may be equipped with a large number of submachine guns.
This is simply the tragedy of the Imperial Japanese Army, which has always used hand-to-hand combat as its most powerful force to frighten and crush the enemy's will to fight.
But will the first company commanding forward meet the Japanese army's wishes?
Of course not. Under the cover of fierce firepower from our own side, nearly 130 infantrymen from three platoons advanced to an area 30 meters away from the Japanese position, and threw the grenades they carried into the Japanese trenches as quickly as possible.
The small melon-style grenade finally showed its huge power at this moment. Because of its small size, each person carried at least six of them, which was at least two more than the long-handled grenade. In such a close encounter, the number was obvious.
Has great power.
The grenade rain even caused the Japanese soldiers in the trenches to scramble to pick up the grenades and throw them out. The grenades continued to fall from the air and hit their helmets.
In just half a minute, nearly 500 grenades were thrown into the entire trench, which was equivalent to the power of nearly a hundred mortar shells exploding in the trench. On average, one grenade exploded every 3 meters.
With such a density, even Transformers would be blown into a pile of scrap metal.