The machine guns were firing, and we couldn't stay in the trenches. We had to jump out and fight. If we didn't jump out, we might not even have a chance to be hit by machine gun bullets.
The Yamamoto brigade is indeed very brave.
Even if the battle reached this point, it still would not be defeated.
The Japanese soldiers who survived the grenade threw their own grenades at the enemy dozens of meters away, and then rushed out of the trench screaming.
He didn't dare to look up at all to observe the enemy's grenade, which naturally missed his target. Although it blew up a few soldiers from the company who couldn't avoid it, the damage caused was pitifully small.
The Japanese soldiers who rushed out of the trenches held bright bayonets and tried hard to shoot out the last bullet in the gun chamber, then charged fiercely towards the extremely thin company on their short and stout legs.
In addition to the 40-person cannon platoon used for fire support, the remaining infantry in the forward company was only 130. They were spread out in squads and platoons on a 1,500-meter-long position, with an average of one infantryman every 12 meters.
Compared with the 400 Japanese troops who rushed out, they were of course very few.
However, behind them were six machine guns and five MG42 machine guns that had stopped firing but were still waiting.
Seeing the Japanese troops rushing out of the trenches with great momentum, the machine gun shooters pulled the bolts of their guns fiercely, inserted the bullet belts they had prepared into the barrels of their guns, and started their feast without hesitation.
Listening to the terrifying screams of machine gun bullets passing by at high speed above their heads, a company of more than 130 infantrymen did not dare to get up at all. They only dared to lie on the ground and shoot at the Japanese invaders who used to look fierce and fierce but now looked a little pitiful with bayonets in hand.
The sound of the machine gun firing is not like the "click-click-click" of ordinary machine guns, nor is it like the "pop-pop-pop" sound of a chainsaw like an MG42 with full firepower, but a terrifying "dong-dong-dong" sound, similar to a knock.
A sound like a heavy iron cylinder.
Every terrible muffled sound is heard as a bullet as thick as a cigar is shot out of the barrel of the gun. As a specialized anti-aircraft weapon, the Japanese 20mm twin-mounted machine gun has a rate of fire of 100 rounds per minute, which is
Every second, 1.5 shells will rush out of the gun chamber.
The six machine guns can fire an average of ten shells per second.
From a distance of thirty meters, it only took 7 seconds for the heavily armed Japanese troops to run at full speed, but in these 7 seconds, they had to withstand a total of 70 rounds of machine gun shells.
The power of 20mm artillery shells that can penetrate 30mm armor within a straight line distance of 250 meters was experienced by Cheng Yuanshan's troops who attacked the Japanese heavy artillery brigade.
The kinetic energy of the high-speed passing shells can even directly cut a soldier into two pieces, and can also smash the next soldier in a straight line into a pile of minced meat without any hindrance.
The Japanese, like the Chinese, are mortal bodies. They also became tragedies in the face of the shells sprayed by the machine guns.
What's more, their formation is too dense.
The Yamamoto Battalion of nearly a thousand Japanese invaders was killed and wounded more than 200 people in the previous bombardment. After another round of mortar strikes, it suffered another loss of more than 100 people. 500 grenades rained down in the trenches.
The explosion was the most horrific damage, killing nearly half of the remaining 600 people.
Under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Masao Yamamoto, the Japanese invaders with less than 400 people and nearly two infantry squadrons rushed out of the trenches. The Japanese army, accustomed to charging in wave formations, defeated countless Chinese with wave after wave of charges.
, so they habitually attacked like this again.
However, the power of Japanese machine guns proved that the so-called wave attack can only be carried out before the opponent has them.
A cigar-thick shell smashed the thigh of a Japanese invader into pieces, ejected a cloud of blood mist, then changed its direction slightly, and then passed by a man ten meters away who was running with a murderous look on his face.
The head of a Japanese lieutenant.
The head of the Japanese lieutenant disappeared in an instant, as if it had never appeared before. The scene that had not even exploded disappeared. His strong body even used the inertia to run forward for another five or six meters before falling to the ground, with his neck cavity
The blood spurting out was like a strange fountain, spurting forward seven or eight meters away.
This kind of death should not be too bloody.
The soldiers of the first company, whose nerves had been tempered like steel after eight days of hard fighting, also felt numb at the sight.
Less than a hundred rounds of artillery shells caused a bloody storm among the Japanese army, and at least forty people were knocked to the ground in a tragic manner.
There is no such thing as injury, only death.
Even if they only hit the limbs, the limbs will disappear in an instant. The massive blood loss caused by the huge wound will take away the life of the wounded in a few minutes. The hemostatic pack they carry with them cannot even block the wound, let alone stop the bleeding.
What a joke.
He was hit by a machine gun and suffered a tragic death, but after all, the rate of fire was limited and not many shells were fired.
What caused the Japanese army to suffer massive casualties and subsequently collapsed were five MG42 machine guns.
The five MG42s that had changed their barrels and bullet belts sprayed nearly 500 rounds of ammunition in just five seconds. The "Hitler Chainsaw" showed the Third Reich to their future allies in the east.
The ferocity of technology.
In five seconds, as many as a hundred Japanese soldiers fell to the "Hitler's Chainsaw" which relied solely on large amounts of bullets to kill them. Half of an infantry squadron was wiped out by five machine guns, and they just sighed.
What's more, what they faced was not just these, there were also forty machine guns with twenty rounds of magazines and nearly 100 rifles aimed at shooting.
The result can be imagined.
There were nearly 400 people there just now, but before they could catch their breath and rush past twenty meters, half of them were reduced.
The Japanese army, no matter how strong their will to fight, could not withstand this blow. The Japanese army behind them did not hesitate, turned around and ran wildly, not caring about exposing their unprotected backside to the enemy.
Just jump into the trench before being overtaken by bullets. To hell with the so-called honor of the empire! The soldiers of the Yamamoto Battalion, whose morale has been extremely low after encountering a series of critical attacks, what they want to do most at the moment is to escape.
They were extremely frightened by the battlefield.
"First platoon, second platoon, enter the trenches to clear out the remaining Japanese troops, and the third platoon of machine gun platoons are responsible for fire warning." Seeing the Japanese invaders collapse, they turned around and fled into the trenches. They moved forward without any intention of beating the drowned dogs, and gave the order extremely calmly.
His company's strategic goal was to capture the Japanese frontline position, not to chase the Japanese army into the enemy's den and fight with the enemy.
Tuanzuo said before the battle that the Japanese army numbered 15,000, and they were only 2,000. If you want to eat this big piece of fat, you can't be impatient. You have to stew the meat slowly and eat them one by one. If you want to eat them one by one,
If you eat it, the most likely consequence is to strangle yourself to death.
Of course, the two Japanese brigades on both wings were not idle. When they saw that the Chinese had launched an attack on their main position, they naturally had to support them. Unfortunately, what they faced was not less than them, and they also added heavy firepower.
Two battalions.
The military power Qi Guangyuan and Dong Shengtang received was also responsible for containment, as long as the Japanese troops on the two wings were not allowed to put firepower on the central main position. More importantly, there were eight mountain guns that could provide fire support to them at any time.
Facing such an enemy, the two infantry brigades on both wings of the Japanese army were worried about self-protection. How dare they provide assistance to the main position?
Even Tanibe Terube did not expect that an infantry brigade of nearly a thousand people would be defeated without even being able to withstand the first wave of Chinese attacks. He did not even have time to send in a reserve team.
The Yamada Brigade that was able to return to the second line of defense was actually not enough for an infantry squadron, with a full 800 men left on the battlefield.
Seeing that his most elite brigade had turned into an infantry squadron with the lowest morale, Matsuda Kunisan wanted to kill that bastard Masao Yamada with a knife.
Unfortunately, he couldn't find a punching bag. Masao Yamada, who bravely jumped out of the trench to direct the charge, was targeted by at least five rifles at the same time, and was killed at the front of the position immediately.
The gleaming golden Lieutenant Colonel's epaulettes on his shoulders are simply the golden military merit in the eyes of a company of soldiers.