The first round of rapid fire attack by a company and a platoon did not cause any substantial damage to the attacking Japanese team. Only two or three Japanese were slightly injured. Then, when the firepower of the first platoon weakened slightly, they originally lay down.
The Japanese who were on the ground immediately got up again and continued to charge forward with their shining bayonets in hand.
Seeing the Japanese charging forward, Yipui went on full fire again.
Then, the Japanese all fell to the ground in unison again.
After repeating this several times, Wang Jiageng had figured out the little devil's intention.
Almost at the same time, Lu Deming also figured out the Japs' intentions and said with a grin: "It seems that the Japs are not stupid either. They know that the biggest weakness of automatic fire is the high consumption of ammunition, so they came up with such a way to consume us. This has to be put aside before.
We really have no way to counter them, but now, hehe."
Wang Jiageng also ordered: "Order each platoon not to save bullets for me, but to open fire for me!"
Wang Jiageng knew that the ammunition stored in the Songhu Military Division was enough to last for five years, so he opened the war and could sustain the high-intensity operations for two years. The little devil intended to consume their ammunition in such a stupid way, but he was naive
Okay, but it's rare that the little devil is smart for once, how can he not cooperate?
Wang Jiageng's order was quickly conveyed to the forward position, and the firepower on the first row of positions immediately became more fierce. Then, another Japanese squadron also detoured to Luodian's left-wing position and launched a small-scale attack on the three rows of positions.
The purpose of the attack was to consume the defenders' ammunition, so the third platoon opened fire violently.
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Just as one company, one platoon, and three platoons were firing on all cylinders, the commander of the 77th Japanese Infantry Regiment, Ryosuke Fujimuro, and the deputy commander, Shichiro Katamura, each rode a Japanese horse to the newly established forward observation post.
Fujimuro Ryosuke's car was still unloaded on the transport ship, so he had to temporarily borrow two war horses to travel.
The forward observation post of the 77th Infantry Regiment is located on a small earth bag beside the road. The terrain around Shanghai is flat. This small earth bag may be the only commanding height within a dozen kilometers, so from the earth bag,
Fujimuro Ryosuke and Katamura Rishichiro could clearly see the firefight between the left and right wings of Luodian Town ahead.
Seeing that the Chinese defenders in Luodian Town were firing on all cylinders, and the criss-crossing ballistic trajectories were as dense as winter rain, Shichiro Katamura's lips immediately twitched into a sneer, and then he said: "A turtle is a turtle,
The Eighth Route Army in North China is a countryman, and the New Fourth Army in central China is a countryman, and they will never understand the principles of using firepower."
After a pause at this point, Katamura Shichiro continued: "However, the New Fourth Army in Central China seems to have a much better life than the Eighth Route Army in North China. The Eighth Route Army in North China does not know how to concentrate on using firepower, but the New Fourth Army in Central China is simply wasting firepower.
, if the two can be neutralized, it will probably cause a headache for the imperial army."
Fujimuro Ryosuke frowned and said, "But I always feel that the situation is a little abnormal."
Fujimuro Ryosuke was not as arrogant as Shichiro Katamura. He had never looked down upon his opponents. Based on his experience fighting the Eighth Route Army in the North China battlefield, he could clearly judge that it was not that the Eighth Route Army did not know how to concentrate its firepower, but because
There was a serious shortage of ammunition, so I fired five rounds of bullets and then launched a charge.
In the same way, it is impossible for the New Fourth Army not to understand the principles of the use of firepower.
Therefore, the abnormal behavior of the Luodian defenders may have hidden ulterior motives.
"Captain, you overestimated these bastards." Shichiro Katamura waved his hand and said casually, "How about we make a bet? I bet that it only takes fifteen minutes at most, and the firepower of these bastards will be as high as
There will be serious attenuation. If it does not decay after a quarter of an hour, I will lose this bet. How about that?"
The fifteen-minute time limit was carefully calculated by Rishichiro Katamura.
It can be judged from the sound of gunfire that the defenders used submachine guns. The ammunition capacity of an individual soldier equipped with a submachine gun is generally six magazines. There is one magazine on the gun. The magazine bag usually contains five magazines, which adds up to six.
Based on the intensity of firepower from the opposite side, one magazine would only last for one minute, and six magazines would last for six minutes.
Considering the time it takes to change the magazine, it only takes about a quarter of an hour to survive.
Therefore, Shichiro Katamura dares to assert that the firepower of the defenders will inevitably weaken within fifteen minutes!
Shichiro Kamura understands this principle, but why doesn’t Ryosuke Fujimuro not understand it? How could he fall for it?
At that moment, Fujimuro Ryosuke waved his hand and said: "Katamura-kun, the bet you proposed is too unchallenging. Anyone who has attended Army University can calculate this result."
While talking, fifteen minutes passed quickly.
Sure enough, the firepower of the town's defenders quickly weakened.
Katamura Shichiro then turned to Fujimuro Ryosuke and said: "Captain, you can increase the intensity of your attack."
"Yes." Fujimuro Ryosuke nodded, and then turned to tell the signal soldier standing behind him, "Order the First Infantry Battalion to immediately strengthen the attack, and tell Mr. Ikeda that Luodian Town must be captured within half an hour!"
Although he couldn't guess what the defenders on the opposite side were doing, Fujimuro Ryosuke had no time to guess, because the division headquarters had just received a telegram from the Twelfth Army Headquarters, saying that the Jiangwan defenders were in danger.
, ordered them to rush outside Jiangwan Town before dark, and if they wanted to rush to Jiangwan before dark, they must capture Luodian within half an hour.
"Hai!" The signal soldier nodded heavily, then turned around and ran away.
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Luodian, the first company headquarters.
Lu Deming put down the telescope, turned to Wang Jiageng and said: "Battal Commander, the Japs have stepped up their attacks! Look, now it is no longer a squad unit, but a squadron unit! And it is no longer the same as before.
They were secretive and came straight up with bayonets in hand. They really thought we had run out of ammunition."
"The little Japs are so cooperative, how can we let them down?" Wang Jiageng chuckled and said to the correspondent, "Order each platoon to put the little Japs closer this time before hitting them. Give them a hard blow!"
"Yes!" The correspondent saluted, turned around and flew off on his bicycle to deliver the order.
Watching the correspondent rush out of the shelter on his bicycle, Lu Deming raised the telescope again and said with a smile: "Damn, I can't wait to see the scene of Japanese corpses everywhere."
Wang Jiageng didn't say much, but paid close attention to the battlefield ahead through the telescope.
From the field of view of the telescope, it can be clearly seen that more than a hundred Japanese soldiers with shining bayonets have opened a sparse skirmish line in the wilderness on the western outskirts of Luodian Town. The leading Japanese officer drew his saber and moved forward.
As soon as Fang pointed his finger, more than a hundred Japanese soldiers immediately marched forward with bayonets in hand.
This time the Battle of Luodian is a little different.
The Japs did not conduct artillery preparations before attacking.
In fact, the Japanese were helpless because all the artillery equipment of the 20th Division was still on the transport ship and had not had time to be unloaded. Naturally, they were unable to provide artillery support to the infantry.
More than a hundred Japanese soldiers came with bayonets in hand, but there was still silence in the three rows of positions.
"That's right!" Wang Jiageng said with a ferocious smile, "Don't be impatient, wait until the little devil gets close before you hit him!"
As he murmured, the Japanese in his field of vision were approaching within a hundred meters. Gunfire finally rang out from the three rows of positions, but the gunfire was very sparse and all were short bursts. It gave the impression that the defenders' ammunition had been exhausted.
There is not much left, so the high-intensity firepower just now can no longer be maintained.
The little devil was indeed fooled, and immediately sped up, howling, and pounced over.
In the blink of an eye, the Japanese soldiers were already within thirty meters. The Japanese soldiers rushing in front had even pulled the bolt of their guns and pulled out the bullets from the barrels, getting ready for the next hand-to-hand combat! Of course, there were also
The Japanese soldiers knocked off grenades and threw them at the defenders' positions, but not in large numbers because they were afraid of accidentally injuring their own people.
At this time, there was still silence on the garrison position, and not a single person appeared.
"Baga, the Chinese soldiers escaped?" The leading Japanese captain was a little confused. The victory came so suddenly that he was not even mentally prepared. There was originally a fierce battle, but he won like this? It was too unchallenging.
Sex! The leading Japanese captain thought angrily, the thirsty saber hasn’t seen blood yet!
But the next moment, the Japanese captain's eyes widened.
When the Japs approached within ten meters of the defender's position, more than a hundred people suddenly stood up on the originally empty defender's position. The queue of these one hundred people was much denser than the Japs' skirmish line, so the visual effect was also
It is much more spectacular. No matter who you are, you will be shocked when you see so many people in front of you.
If there were just a lot of people showing up, it would be nothing. What was even more frightening was that these people all had submachine guns on their chests, and the black muzzles were all pointing forward. All the Japanese, including the Japanese captain, suddenly discovered that
They were charging forward with hundreds of submachine gun muzzles, and the distance was already less than ten meters!
"Baga!" The Japanese captain only had time to curse, before the Chinese soldiers in front opened fire fiercely.
In an instant, more than a hundred dazzling tongues of fire swept over, like a sickle in the hand of the god of death. Blood and flesh flew everywhere in their path. The more than a hundred people were howling and preparing to fight with the Chinese soldiers.
The Japanese fighting hand-to-hand fell down piece by piece like wheat straw cut down by a sickle.
"Happy, happy! This is how we should fight!" Wang Jiageng clenched his fist hard.
Through the field of vision of the telescope, Wang Jiageng felt indescribably happy when he saw the Japanese soldiers falling one by one. He still remembered that during the first battle of Songhu, their 88th Division fought so cowardly, but
Today, the bad breath that I had been holding in my chest for nearly two years was finally let out happily.