Yes, it's like meeting a Siberian tiger in the forest.
The most terrifying thing is not the roar of the tiger, but the sharp teeth and fangs of the tiger.
The biggest blow to the Japanese army on the battlefield was the section of the city wall that was completely blown away.
Massive amounts of bricks and lumps of earth flew over the Japanese position overwhelmingly, and then fell heavily, creating a rain of bricks and stones.
Seven or eight soldiers from the third battalion wearing helmets who were lying a few hundred meters away were injured, not to mention the Japanese soldiers who were only a few dozen meters away.
The safest position on the entire battlefield is the city gate hole a hundred meters away from the explosion point. The engineer platoon responsible for detonating the explosion and the platoon of Li Jijin's seventh company are hiding there. They only need to curl up and lift their chest and abdomen off the ground to prevent being blown away.
The shock injury will be fine.
The bricks weighing several kilograms flying in the sky are small, and bricks weighing seven or eight kilograms are very common. Not to mention people's heads, even houses can break a big hole.
The 16th 82-gun battery of the 1st Artillery Battalion and the 3rd Battalion Machine Gun Battery had already aimed at the Japanese positions before they even opened fire. The city wall was blasted and the Japanese defensive positions were completely destroyed.
If time and space could be turned back, I wonder if Sakira Nakatama would regret deploying defensive positions like this, but to be honest, if he had placed all his defensive troops at the top of the city, I'm afraid the outcome would not be much better than it is now.
Strong city walls can protect against machine guns and rifle bullets, but not artillery shells.
During the Battle of Songjiang last year, in order to defend against Japanese heavy artillery, an infantry corps and several thousand young men in Songjiang City had to work almost to the point of vomiting blood to dig fortifications in the city wall to barely withstand the heavy artillery bombardment. Without those fortifications, heavy artillery alone could
Let the 67th Army reduce its strength by one-third.
Lieutenant Nakaki Yamashita's head hurt. It was not because he saw 60 people from four squadrons deployed on the front line being smashed and bleeding. Many of them had nothing but bleeding. It was because they were wearing steel helmets.
He was also hit by a big lump of earth.
If what hit him was not a lump of earth, but a solid blue brick, as the Japanese Army Lieutenant clearly understood when he saw that the top of his head was almost smashed into a panoramic sunroof roof, then maybe he really wouldn't have to feel the feeling of having a head as big as a bucket now.
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Maybe I would be much happier if I didn't have to face this mess.
The potential energy of tens of tons of masonry flying to an altitude of more than ten or even tens of meters and falling down is no less than that of dozens of mountain artillery shells falling on the position.
At least 70% of the houses were destroyed by the terrible rockfall, and even the roofs were smashed into sieves. How could the people hiding inside be spared?
The roof where people can stand is as thin as cicada wings and cannot provide any protection from the rain of stones. What about the completely exposed front line? Needless to say, that goes without saying.
The Imperial Japanese Army has never been so extravagant since its founding. It even provided a steel shed on the infantry's position. In a lonely place like Asia, what's the point of throwing objects from high altitudes?
Therefore, the heroic Imperial Japanese Army had no choice but to stand firm under the "throwing rocks from high altitude" attitude of the Chinese who did not respect martial ethics.
Those who were able to cry out were those who were hit on their arms and legs but not on their heads. Those who were hit on their heads basically went to their Amaterasu to drink tea, chat and play mahjong.
It's just that the timing is unlucky, and there are a lot of matching cards, so Amaterasu is probably very annoyed right now.
Many people like to say: It is better to die than live! That is because they have never been on the battlefield.
Anyone who has been on the battlefield will tell you: sometimes, death is far happier than living!
Just like here, the Japanese soldiers whose arms and legs were smashed were actually much more miserable than their companions who were directly smashed to death.
The fresh bones and stubble that were smashed out made the Japanese infantry's heart-rending screams even reach the area of Wang's mansion a full 700 meters away.
In fact, there are no pain nerves in the bones. Even if the arm is broken, it will not hurt as much as imagined at that moment. What causes severe pain in the brain comes from the dense nerve group in the muscle tissue.
Of course, the despair of seeing your arm and leg bones exposed to the air with blood and blood is the most frightening thing. Crying can help alleviate the huge fear. This kind of
Psychologically, it is the same as when a woman encounters difficulties and chooses to cry to relieve her inner sadness.
That's right, at the moment when they encountered overwhelming fear, the majestic warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army also took off their strong masks and became women!
"What's going on, kid?" Shen Laoliu, who had been carefully searching the distant streets with a scope, had his eyes twitching.
The pig-like screams easily reminded him that these Japs were captured by Battalion Commander Leng and Company Commander Li Dal with red-hot iron bars.
If that's the case, I really can't bear it!
Li Jijin: Why did Mao take me with you when you complained about Commander Leng?
"Do your job well. The better the fight over there, the safer we will be!" This time, it was Heizi's turn to complain about Shen Laoliu.
"That's right! I've been waiting for a long time, why haven't the reinforcements of the little devil arrived yet? Why, who do you think you're looking down on?" Shen Laoliu looked a hundred meters away, with confusion on his face.
According to pre-war estimates, if the interception fails midway, the Japanese reinforcements should arrive in about 10 minutes after the battle begins. Now let alone 10 minutes, there have been several 10 minutes, and not a single Japanese has come.
unreasonable.
"Could this have something to do with the fact that the Japanese Infantry Brigade Captain is not here?" Heizi shook his head and gave up a random excuse. "No matter how the battle situation changes, we will implement the tactics planned by Captain Gu before the war. As long as the little Japs dare to come
, no matter how many people come, we will fight a defensive battle with them here to see who can survive to the end."
Heizi is no longer the thick black machine gunner he once was. He is now a second lieutenant of the special forces and the captain of a special forces team. Although he cannot become a special forces commander like Gu Xishui who can plan the overall situation, he can firmly carry out the instructions he had made before the war.
The well-formulated tactics will remain unchanged no matter how the battle situation changes.
He is not the best commander, but he can be the best executor. This is also the soldier that the Four Lines Group needs.
In fact, the civil war situation in the city, as he said, had already changed with the escape of Qi Liangchuyu.
The battle situation outside the city also exceeded the expectations of the commanders of the Chinese and Japanese armies.
The directional blasting of 400 kilograms of explosives was more effective than imagined. The screams of the Japanese infantry made Leng Feng couldn't help but clenched his fists in excitement. If he had known this, the 200 kilograms of explosives in the first round should have been used like this. Yamashita Nakaki: We are not humans, but you are also real dogs!
However, the Japanese army's nightmare was not over yet.
Thirty seconds after the explosion, Yamashita, who was knocked unconscious by a big lump of earth and was still scolding the Chinese for being so vicious, was creampied. No, it was Lieutenant Zhongshu who heard the words "Peng" that made his liver and gallbladder split.
"Peng Peng" made a muffled sound.
The shells fired from the 16 mortars that had moved the front line to a distance of less than 500 meters from the battlefield were slower than the speed of sound. The next second the Japanese Army Lieutenant heard the sound of the mortars coming out, there was a "boom".
"Boom, boom, boom" was the loud noise of continuous explosions of artillery shells.
"Baga! It's over!" This was the last thought that filled Lieutenant Nakaki Yamashita's mind as he stood stunned in the bunker of the squadron headquarters.
Compared with the artillery fire coverage, the round of 'high-altitude stone throwing' just now really shouldn't be too gentle.
Stones can hit people to death, but there is a chance of it. As long as you are lucky enough, you will end up with a bag on your head!
But cannonballs can’t do that! That thing will explode when it hits the ground!
The air waves caused by the explosion and the splashing shrapnel wreaked havoc on the position that had just been destroyed by falling rocks. How many people could survive?
It can only be said that Lieutenant Nakaki Yamashita is still used to maintaining his arrogance towards Chinese soldiers, and he underestimates his opponent too much.
At Leng Feng's request, Pang Dahai ordered the whole company's mortars to be replaced with 'steel ball bombs'. During the week-long construction of the four-line regiment, China's future 'Madame Curie' took her students
, worked overtime and modified a full 50 artillery shells.
Except for 3 that were given to Lu Zhongda, the remaining 47 were given to the 1st Artillery Company. The First Battalion took 7, while Licheng kept a full 40 in order to cope with more complex urban street battles.
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A shell that explodes in the air will fire hundreds of mung bean-sized steel balls, which are at least three times more lethal to people exposed on the ground than ordinary shells!
Six mortars fired steel ball projectiles, and the remaining 10 mortars fired ordinary artillery shells.
Then, hiding by the relatively strong window of the headquarters, Lieutenant Nakaki Yamashita looked at his own position, especially the front line position, from the left wing to the front and then to the right wing position. The shelling was completely advancing in a barrage situation.
One house after another collapsed.
The soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the first round of stone attacks rolled out and were then swept away by the shock wave of the shells, or fell to the ground while running and never got up again.
Running is a death, not running is actually a death.
I don’t know how many Japanese infantry adhered to the tactical concept of “I just lie down, if the shrapnel hits me, it’s my bad luck!” They hid in trenches or fortifications and refused to move.
So, many of them died like this.
Steel balls accelerated by explosives to an initial velocity of 300 meters/second have been tested and can penetrate a 10 cm thick wooden board. It is completely normal for the human body, which is obviously much more fragile than the wooden board, to be punched with a transparent hole.
One may not be enough to kill, but how many or more than ten? Not to mention bleeding, the pain alone can hurt a person to death.
Sixteen 82 guns, each round has sixteen rounds, one round is fired every three seconds, and it can fire 20 rounds of 320 shells in one minute!
Of course, the muzzle may need to be adjusted according to instructions. In fact, it can fire about 130 rounds per minute, and Leng Feng's request is to shell for 10 minutes.
This means that more than 1,000 artillery shells fell on the Japanese army's position, which was only 10,000 square meters in area, with an average of one artillery shell falling on 10 square meters. Such intensity of artillery fire even exceeded what the Chinese army endured on the Songhu battlefield.
Artillery fire from the Japanese side.
After all, at that time, due to the lack of sufficient artillery to retaliate, the Chinese army stretched the infantry front very wide to prevent heavy casualties from the Japanese heavy artillery. A 500-meter-long trench was often only guarded by one infantry company, but that was it.
One heavy artillery shell fell, and half the infantry company was gone.
All this time, Lao Abacus, who had never seen a sad look on his face and enjoyed gambling in his free time, was lying on the position only 300 meters outside the city wall, watching the flames blooming, and the Japanese troops were being beaten like rag dolls.
The air waves rolled up and then fell, tears welling up in my eyes!
Although he tried his best to hold it back, the tears still fell into the soil in front of his eyes drop by drop.
The soldiers next to him obviously didn't notice this veteran who was usually careless and seemed to have no thoughts. Their eyes were all on the artillery battlefield that dazzled the Chinese soldiers.
In the Fourth Army Regiment, there are no more than 70 people who have experienced that kind of desperate battlefield. As the battle progressed, there are no more than 70 people. There are no more than 40 people who can witness the Japanese army struggling in the rear under artillery fire.
Old Abacus is one of them!
Before entering the Sihang Warehouse, the infantry platoon he belonged to was reduced by 90%, all thanks to the Japanese heavy artillery. Before they even had time to fire a shot at the Japanese infantry, an artillery shell hit his infantry platoon.
On the front line, there were 46 people in the platoon, including the second lieutenant platoon leader. 26 were killed on the spot, and 8 others were injured. Only 12 people remained, less than the strength of an infantry squad.
But even so, the six of them still defended for a full 30 minutes, not allowing a Japanese infantry squad to capture the position. However, the price was the remaining four people in the platoon!
From that day on, Lao Abacus vowed that he would never let the Thief God see his tears again. The brothers he had been with day and night were all dead, and he would not let the Thief God see his fragility.
But today, as he watched the Japanese wailing under his own continuous artillery fire, he could no longer hold back his tears.
Gangzi, Erdan, you are watching from the heavens! When we had so many cannons, the little devil cried miserably! Old Abacus was crying and laughing at the same time!
The data reported by the three artillery observers at the front showed that the 16-gun 82 guns could basically dump all the artillery shells onto the Japanese positions, and few of them fell into other civilian houses.
The rear of the Japanese position relied on having at least two layers of sandbags and solid wood and steel plate fortifications to protect a heavy machine gun firepower point from the beginning that allowed it to fire unscrupulously. It was not because a mortar was always aimed at its general direction.
Shocking and unlucky.
In fact, the city wall was in bad luck ever since it was blasted in a targeted manner.
The heavy machine gun firepower point is actually quite far away from the city wall, at least 100 meters. From a distance perspective, the Chinese grenades will never be able to hit it.
But no one knew that the grenade could not be thrown, but the rocks could actually fly.
A stone bar weighing 300 kilograms may be located exactly in the center of the explosive energy push. It was pushed to a height of more than 20 meters and then ran wildly in the sky for nearly 100 meters before falling.
But even if a stone bar is smashed down, the damage area will never exceed 0.5 square meters. As long as you didn't break any rules in your previous life, it is difficult to become a victim of its huge gravity.
But unfortunately, there must be someone in this heavy machine gun firepower spot who had cuckolded Amaterasu in a previous life, otherwise it would have been such a coincidence?
The stone bar was smashed down in such a majestic manner, hitting the Japanese army's carefully designed heavy machine gun firepower point!
The surroundings were well protected except for the real "panoramic sunroof" heavy machine gun fire point. The four Japanese soldiers looked at the falling black shadow with despair.
No one can react that quickly, no matter how elite the Japanese army is.
"Winter!" There was only one voice.
Shi Tiao directly smashed two of the four unlucky children into meat paste, the fresh kind! The other two were already scared to death after being splashed with blood.
Really, they have seen people shot to death by bullets, blown up by cannons, stabbed to death with bayonets, and burned to death. These two people already thought that their character was tempered and invulnerable to anything!
But in the face of this tragic scene, two colleagues were swatted like flies by a stone strip 40 cm wide and 150 cm long, especially when the meat strips splashed on their faces and mouths.
, at that inexplicably sweet moment, they finally broke through!
"ah!
!” The sharp, broken sound was like a hen with its neck cut off!
The two Japanese soldiers who escaped from the fortification were vomiting crazily. They did not want to stay here for a moment, even though they had escaped the Chinese shelling for several minutes.
So, they died!
Even the two layers of sandbags were blown full of holes, exposing the steel plate behind them. How long can the human body survive such fierce artillery fire?
The other heavy machine gun fortification was actually not much better. The moment they started shooting and exposed themselves, they were actually destined to die.
This is almost the inevitable fate of all heavy firepower points, when the opponent has artillery.
The two 37mm rapid-fire cannons had already been dragged to the city wall area during the shelling. The steel plates that came with the rapid-fire cannons could provide some cover for the artillery. The engineers quickly built fortifications on both sides with sandbags. As long as they were not hit by grenades,
Attacks can ensure basic safety.
Under the guidance of the flares that were constantly fired into the sky, the artillery quickly locked their targets. The 37mm combat anti-cannon, which can penetrate 40mm thick steel plates, could easily penetrate 2 layers of sandbags and a steel plate of no more than 10mm.
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The two rapid-fire cannons fired three shells each, and the heavy machine gun fortification that seemed to be strong collapsed like broken building blocks.
None of the four Japanese soldiers inside came out. It goes without saying that although the shells of the 37mm rapid-fire cannon are armor-piercing shells, the shrapnel that scatters after being broken can still kill people like dogs.
With the completion of the two heavy machine gun fortifications, it was actually possible to completely declare the fall of the Japanese defensive position at the south gate!
With a lack of suppressive firepower and heavy infantry losses, what could Lieutenant Nakaki Yamashita do to counter the Leng Feng 3rd Battalion, which had begun to build up its forces?
