Chapter 318: Battlefield Veteran
Chapter 318: Battlefield Veteran
The submachine guns they use are still MP18, with a range of 150 meters.
After the Japanese charged, they quickly closed to a distance of 150 meters.
Crazy Czech machine guns, numerous MP18s, plus Mauser pistols and crazy attacks from rifles.
The troops that were originally charging madly fell to the ground one by one.
The numerical advantage held by the Japs was also constantly decreasing.
The team of more than 1,200 people had just been attacked by surprise and was now being shot at wildly.
The turtle box can't hit it, and the bayonet can't fly.
Although these devils were holding rifles and bayonets, they were like fire pokers in front of Czech machine guns, MP18, Mauser pistols and rifles, and were completely useless.
Soon, half of the team of more than 1,200 people were killed.
The remaining 600-odd Japanese soldiers were so frightened that they quickly lay down and dared not attack again.
The Japs are also very cunning and afraid of death.
If you keep rushing forward like this, you will only die.
They now have to wait for reinforcements to arrive, or wait for the enemy to come and then charge after they get close.
The two artillery battalion captains lay on the ground and shouted loudly.
"Bakayalu, everyone lie still, wait until they get close before charging!"
"Reinforcements will be here soon, wait for them to arrive before charging forward!"
The Japs had no other choice at this time.
I could only suppress my guilty conscience and lie on the ground waiting.
Unfortunately, Jiang Zhengzhong was a veteran on the battlefield. He had long anticipated that they would use this trick, so before opening fire, he had arranged for a squad to find several high points.
Although the high point is not high, there are just a few big trees and a few big rocks.
But the big tree is more than ten meters above the ground.
The big rock is more than three meters above the ground.
The height is not too high, but it is enough to deal with the Japanese soldiers lying on the ground.
The brothers in this squad continued to fire at the Japanese.
Bullets hit the devil's back madly.
One after another, the Japanese were shot to death.
Some of the Japanese soldiers who were not injured let out screams of pain.
The artillery battalion commander of the 105mm howitzer was killed on the spot.
His men were so frightened that they got up and ran away.
As the people on this side ran away, the artillerymen of the 150mm howitzer on the other side also retreated.
"Bagayalu, don't retreat, get down, get down!"
The Japanese artillery captain roared in panic.
Unfortunately it was too late.
As the saying goes, a defeat is like a mountain collapsing.
As long as one person in the team retreats, the others will follow suit, and the entire team will lose the will to fight.
Moreover, at this time, Jiang Zhengzhong's team continued to fire at them.
The blood from the corpses and the wailing before death frightened them so much that they had no choice but to continue retreating. No one wanted to stay here and die.
Half of the team of more than 600 people were killed again.
"rush!"
Jiang Zhengzhong didn't want to charge at first, but he saw that the Japanese in the distance were approaching.
Once they engage in battle, they will be suppressed by firepower. The only way is to rush into the enemy's team, and the supporting enemy will not shoot, but will come to fight with bayonets.
So he had to order a charge.
"Bagayalu, they are charging, charge!"
The artillery battalion captain roared at the top of his lungs.
Unfortunately, at this time, the defeat was overwhelming and all the Japanese soldiers were retreating. No one listened to his orders to charge.
"Bagayalu, come back, come back!"
"Da da da……"
Unfortunately, Jiang Zhengzhong and other people who were at the front were firing as they rushed forward.
The artillery battalion commander was beaten into a hornet's nest.
Firing a gun while running is also a subject that Yuan Shuai focuses on in his training syllabus.
Moreover, these people were elite soldiers selected by Jiang Zhengzhong, and the brothers rushing in the front were shooting while charging.
He originally thought that he could engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese so that the reinforcements would not dare to shoot, but he never expected that this wild charge and shooting would actually kill all the remaining Japanese.
"Damn, you're so weak!"
"We won, Captain, we won!"
The old soldiers gritted their teeth and cursed, while the new soldiers cheered.
"Stop yelling, turn the 105mm cannon around and fire at me, quick!"
The brothers had no time to be happy, and quickly turned the 105 gun around and aimed it at the exit of the camp, while leveling the barrel.
This is the Type 105 5mm howitzer, with a vertical firing range of -43°~+20° and a horizontal firing range of ° on each side.
Therefore, this type of gun can also fire horizontally.
They didn't have heavy machine guns, and in the last round of attack, all the machine gunners, including the MP18 machine gunners, had almost emptied their magazines in the magazine belts on their chests.
Although there were still magazines in their backpacks, they were outnumbered and the Japanese would surely attack like a tide in order to seize the artillery position.
If they want to hold this position, they cannot do so with the weapons and equipment they have. They must have more powerful weapons.
The 105mm howitzer has become their most important heavy weapon.
Just as he expected, when the Japanese brigade commander Hirakawa Kazuno saw his headquarters being bombed, he immediately notified everyone to support the headquarters and wanted to hold on to the radio and call for support.
But seeing that the fighting was intense at the artillery position, he had to send half of his troops to support the artillery position.
After all, he still has an infantry battalion of more than a thousand people, and a baggage train of more than a thousand people.
The troops were divided into two groups, with more than a thousand people on each side.
Unfortunately, at this time, Lu Huawei had already brought people to Yuan Shuai to assist Yuan Shuai in attacking the Japanese.
Jiang Zhengwu's soldiers did not bring the Maxim because more than half of his troops were new recruits.
But who is Lu Hua? He is the commander of the Wolf Corps and a veteran on the battlefield.
Although their wolf soldiers have always been famous for close combat.
But since they followed Yuan Shuai to fight the Japanese, Yuan Shuai seldom let them engage in close combat. Gradually, they found that it was not their Black Wolf Army's turn to engage in close combat with the Japanese.
Guns are king!
So, although they were attacking over a long distance this time.
But the Wolf Corps had four Maxim guns and four infantry guns.
When climbing the cliff, he brought up a hundred people and then asked the people behind him to bring up the Maxim and mortars first.
At this time, Maxim and mortars come in handy.
Before the Japanese got close, at 400 meters, the Maxim heavy machine guns were firing wildly and the mortars were bombarding crazily.
The Japanese soldiers were killed so badly that they had no chance to charge forward.
On the other side, the 105mm howitzer fired horizontally.
The charging Japanese were blown into the sky by continuous artillery shells.
"Bagayalu, howitzer firing horizontally!"
"The damn Black Wolf Army actually used our howitzers to bombard us!"
"Charge! Keep charging! We must seize the artillery position!"
This side is led by the captain of the Japanese supply team.
Of course, they also knew that even if they retreated at this time, they would either be shot to death or blown to death.
Since I'm going to die anyway, I might as well die here.
All the Japanese soldiers in the baggage train tied their death belts and rushed forward with roaring and chattering sounds.
They wanted to take advantage of the interval between artillery firing to rush over and seize the artillery position.
Unfortunately, while the artillery was bombarding, Jiang Zhengzhong's infantry had already set up defensive positions in front of the artillery.
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