Chapter 342: The Advantage of Submachine Guns
Cheng Yuanshan led 300 officers and soldiers to advance frantically.
Of the 300 officers and soldiers led by Cheng Yuanshan, except for 200 who were also armed with rifles, the remaining 100 were carrying flower traps and shell guns, and the bullets were like flowers of death that kept blooming in the Japanese army that had not yet broken and wanted to resist.
In close combat with the Flower Trap and Barge Gun with a 20-round magazine, the disadvantage of the 38-Type Big Cover was undoubtedly revealed, and all the Japanese soldiers who dared to resist were killed on the way of the officers and men of the Independent Regiment.
Everywhere they passed, the Japanese army was like encountering boiling snow, and the ice melted and disintegrated in an instant, and the progress was far beyond Cheng Yuanshan's expectations, but Yuanshan was not carried away by the victory in front of him, and strictly ordered the officers and soldiers under his command not to pursue and kill the Japanese army.
The results of the armed cross-country training of the independent regiment in peacetime were undoubtedly evident at this moment, and the heavily armed soldiers barely stopped, and it only took 4 minutes to advance 1,000 meters, and they were already within 100 meters of the position of the heavy artillery brigade!
Cheng Yuanshan's good luck ended here, the Japanese infantry squadron of the heavy artillery brigade had already set up defenses, and fierce gunfire suddenly rang out on the Japanese position only 100 meters away on the opposite side!
Cheng Yuanshan, who was rushing forward, suddenly felt two strong winds flying past his ears, and the violent air waves actually brought him to the ground violently, and he fell hard to eat, and when he turned his head sharply, he saw that the two soldiers who followed him had been beaten to pieces, one soldier's head disappeared completely, and the right body of the other soldier had disappeared.
Cheng Yuanshan's eyes were bloodshot suddenly, what the hell is this machine gun, the power is so terrifying!? “
On the front position, the terrible "machine gun" of the Japanese army rang out violently again, and the dozen or so soldiers who rushed to the front immediately fell silently, but whenever they were swept by the bullet, either the brain was completely shattered, or a terrible hole was pierced in the chest or abdomen.......
"Lie down, all lie down!" Cheng Yuanshan suddenly roared hoarsely. Although the little devil's heavy artillery position was already close at hand, they could not continue to rush forward.
As a veteran of a hundred battles, Cheng Yuanshan immediately realized that this was not an ordinary heavy machine gun, and this power was not inferior to the Suluotong machine gun he carried. If he didn't kill this terrible devil machine gun first, not to mention that he couldn't complete the task assigned by the group, he and his three hundred people would have to confess all here!
The only two Surotong guns that could fire at this machine gun were still 600 meters away, and it was impossible for a soldier with such a heavy weapon to advance lightly.
It wasn't until a minute later that the soldiers carrying Type 60 light mortars in the rear fired flares, and with the flares rising into the air, Cheng Yuanshan finally saw clearly, the caliber of the devil machine gun was much thicker than the ordinary devil machine gun, and it turned out to be a machine gun.
Cheng Yuanshan didn't know that this was an anti-aircraft machine gun specially equipped by the Japanese heavy artillery brigade, mainly to deal with threats from the air. Because since the Battle of Rehe, no Chinese aircraft have appeared at all. Since there were no planes to fight, with the same urine as Little Japan from top to bottom Grande, it was natural to disassemble it and carefully preserve it. If they had known that their artillery would still have to fight against the infantry, and the six anti-aircraft machine guns were aimed at Cheng Yuanshan, they would have been able to cripple the elite of this group of independent regiments with one round of flat fire.
Fortunately, the little devil's coercive personality saved Cheng Yuanshan, and by the time they remembered to use the carefully preserved anti-aircraft machine guns in the arsenal to deal with the Chinese, Cheng Yuanshan was already on the way to break through at high speed. If Cheng Yuanshan was a few minutes slower, all six machine guns would be assembled, and it would definitely be an impossible barrier for him to overcome.
To put it bluntly, the two companies of the Independent Regiment are absolutely dead, let alone completing the task, there is no place to run.
"Fortunately, Lao Tzu brought a mortar." Cheng Yuanshan touched a cold sweat.
If you hadn't brought those three mortars and thirty deadly shells with you, you would have really no way to survive today.
When the little devil saw that his machine gun had instigated the Chinese, he immediately became arrogant, and the crooked machine gun and the Type 92 heavy machine gun also roared desperately, so that the soldiers of the Independent Regiment 100 meters away could not lift their heads.
"All mortars, fire at Lao Tzu" Cheng Yuanshan slammed off the steel helmet on his head, turned his head and roared.
Three Type 60 mortars fired almost simultaneously, and the three test-fired shells directly overturned several Japanese soldiers, and the firepower that was being sprayed at several firing points was weak. This is also one of the weaknesses of the early Japanese infantry, they relied too much on their own artillery, so the troops below the squadron level were not equipped with simple and practical small guns such as mortars, and the long-range firepower was mainly based on grenadiers, which was no problem against machine guns, but if compared with mortars, the power was much smaller.
It was not until the early 30s that the Japanese army base camp realized the great role of light artillery in the fire support of the front-line troops, and began to gradually develop mortars, and it was not until after 1935 that they began to gradually equip the troops, including the "small steel cannon" that people in the future republic were particularly familiar with---- Type 97 90MM mortar, which had to wait until after 1937 to enter the Japanese combat sequence.
In other words, in the Japanese army during this period, the grenadier was already the most powerful long-range weapon of the squadron-level combat unit.
For example, now this infantry squadron, facing the three mortars in the Chengyuan Mountains, can only numb its claws. The only long-range anti-aircraft machine gun weighs 100 kilograms, which is not something that can be carried if you want to, and a dozen or so heavy howitzers behind you that can fire tens of kilograms or even 100 kilograms are even more collective.
The result was undoubtedly tragic, and the mortar, which had been test-fired three times in a row, finally found the target, and the three consecutive shots were accurately hit, and the anti-aircraft machine gun, which was still extremely arrogant just now, was blown into twists, and several shooters were even blown into pork belly. Several groups of Japanese soldiers who were still desperately assembling machine guns screamed and hid in the trenches, and those who did not run were fools, and it was obvious that the next moment the Chinese artillery would be aimed at them.
Without waiting for the mortar to continue speaking, "Brothers, rush!" Cheng Yuanshan raised his head suddenly, and roared extremely sadly.
He knew very well in his heart that he couldn't spare his life now, and he had to rush to blow up the heavy artillery before the Japanese reinforcements arrived, even if he left the lives of their three hundred people here.
Nearly 100 20-round submachine guns are terrifying, even more terrible than those MG42 machine guns, especially when these 100 men are fearless and rush up. Without the help of anti-aircraft machine guns, the infantry squadron had more than 100 rifles, two heavy machine guns, and five crooked handles, and became a vulnerable group in terms of firepower.
This kind of almost bayonet fire is also extremely brutal, because you have no way of knowing that the bullet will take your life, and the Chinese and Japanese soldiers are trying to pull the trigger with all their might, trying to drain the bullet in the chamber before they die, even if it is only one bullet.
In the rain of bullets, nearly 300 people of the independent regiment fell a full forty or fifty people, but the Japanese army fell even more. If in terms of courage they did not lose, but in terms of the number of bullets they lost.
The remaining more than 200 officers and soldiers of the independent regiment suddenly poured into the Japanese army's defensive position like a tide, dozens of submachine guns swept indiscriminately, and more than 100 Japanese soldiers on the defensive position were immediately killed and wounded, but Cheng Yuanshan didn't care about chasing and killing the Japanese army, and shouted: "Brothers, the little devil's heavy artillery position is in front of you, rush ah......
However, wars are never played out according to anyone's subjective wishes.