663. Together
The accuracy of the battle defense artillery overturned a few devil infantry guns that were close to firing at once, which frightened the leader of the devil artillery squadron, and immediately beckoned the remaining few guns to hide in the village, not daring to show their heads.
As soon as the devil's mortar array fired a few shells, it was covered by the Chinese artillery, and without the cover of the infantry artillery, the small mortar, in front of the earthen artillery, was vulnerable.
At the same time, Zhang Lingwu of the 305th Regiment immediately sent the first battalion and the third battalion to attack on the whole line, mainly attacking the first brigade of devils who were caught in the encirclement, and the 95th Division also sent the main force regiment 285th regiment, together with the 305th regiment of the 51st division, to hunt the first brigade of the Japanese army.
The independent 95th Division, known as Zhao Zilong's division, was brave and unusually brave in combat, and was originally a local unit of the Majia Army in the northwest, which was transformed into the elite of the Central Army by General Luo Qi.
If the formation is opened to fight, the combined force composed of the two elite regiments of the Central Army may not be able to defeat an infantry brigade of the elite 13th Division of the Japanese army.
During the Anti-Japanese War, there was a Japanese army brigade that could defeat a division of the Chinese army, not to mention that the Japanese army 128 rode down to Rehe Province, which was not a purely military reason.
However, in terms of pure military strength, a brigade of the Japanese army is about the same as an ordinary division of the Chinese army, and this division is only on the defensive, so it is difficult to take down a large group of Japanese troops against the attack.
War is not a simple comparison of numbers, but includes a comparison of weapons, the quality of soldiers, morale, command ability, logistics, and other comprehensive factors.
In addition to the machine gun squadron equipped with 8-12 heavy machine guns, there was also an artillery squad equipped with about 4 92 infantry guns.
These infantry guns alone are enough for a division of the Chinese army to eat a pot, and the Chinese army is only equipped with artillery battalions and several mountain guns for elite divisions such as the A division (both the 51st and 95th divisions).
But now it was different, this Japanese infantry brigade did not bring almost all the heavy firepower in order to break through, including the guns of the artillery squad, and the heavy machine guns of the machine gun squadron.
It means that this infantry brigade is only a light infantry brigade, excluding some non-combatants, that is, light infantry of more than 800 people, at most light machine guns and grenadiers, and not even a few mortars.
Despite this, the captain of the devil brigade knew that his back road was cut off, and he was not afraid, because he believed that the wing captain behind him could command the troops to help him open this passage.
At the same time, he seemed to use himself as a bait to attract a large number of Chinese soldiers to come up, so that the wing commander could concentrate the strength of several brigades and gather and annihilate the Chinese soldiers here.
Anyway, he has a brigade, and the Chinese army can't eat it all at once, as long as it can't eat for a while, it can win the time for the wing to launch a general attack.
The arrogant Japanese army not only dared to think so, but also dared to do so, and after these more than 800 arrogant soldiers broke into the junction of the 305th Regiment and the 95th Division and were surrounded, not only did not retreat, but continued to move forward, in order to attract more Chinese soldiers to come.
The arrogance of the Japanese army made Zhang Lingwu very angry, the tiger is not threatening, you are a sick cat, and the three battalions of the urgent order to block it strongly, give the Japanese army a little color.
The battalion commander of the third battalion, Liu Guangyu, originally wanted to save some troops and firepower, and slowly play the dead devil, but now the regiment commander came to urge, and the battalion commander Liu gave an order, and the machine gun company and several companies of heavy machine guns came to a salvo.
In the absence of artillery suppression, the heavy machine gun can be said to be the king of the infantry position, no one can beat it, and the power of the Min's second and fourth heavy machine guns is even more terrifying.
The 7.92 heavy bullet with a high rate of fire of nearly 600 rounds per minute, like a wind sweeping away leaves, hit the devils, and cut leeks, almost all of the devils who rushed to the front were interrupted by the waist, and their bodies were broken in two.
Min 24 has been described in detail before, in the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), the imitation of the Makqin water-cooled heavy machine gun was successful, and it was named "Min 24".
This gun has a long range, fast rate of fire, and large bullets than the Japanese army's 92 heavy aircraft, and the performance of all parties completely suppresses the Japanese army's 92 heavy aircraft, and it is generally in the upper hand when firing at the 92 heavy aircraft on the battlefield.
It's just that the 92 heavy machine is an air-cooled heavy machine gun, which is relatively simple to operate and transport, while the water-cooled Min 24 has to add a large holster filled with water, and once there is a shortage of water, the barrel will soon burst red.
In the unique shouts of the people, the devil forward was immediately frustrated, pressed against the position, unable to raise his head, let alone advance.
The fierce devil was unmoved, but he still continued to attack, and only a few mortars were brought in, and they were put on the set to fight, and this mortar was the nemesis of heavy machine guns.
When the devil charged strongly, he thought that he would be stubbornly resisted by the defenders' heavy machine guns, so he brought a few mortars over.
Almost all of the devil's mortar operators are masters, and they are all fed with shells, and once the normal two correction shells pass, the third shot will undoubtedly hit.
The sound of devil mortar shells falling and exploding sounded around the heavy machine gun position, and he suddenly became nervous, and Liu Guangyu hurriedly beckoned the machine gun company to set up mortars to fight.
I didn't expect the devils to attack with mortars before, but now the machine gun company is not well prepared, and when the mortars are still erected, the mortar of the devils has already knocked out a heavy machine gun of the third battalion.
"Waste, hurry up."
Liu Guangyu was distressed and angry at the same time, thinking that the people of the machine gun company were grinding foreign work, but even if the mortars of the machine gun company were erected, they could not immediately knock out the mortar of the devil, and the technical difficulty in this was too great.
Just as the commander of the machine gun company was sweating heavily to adjust the mortar, the mortar fire sounded from the position of the seventh company, and the shells flew into the sky with a pop.
Immediately afterwards, several mortars of the devil were hit to varying degrees, and seriously, they were hit by a mortar shell in the artillery array, and even the people and cannons were dismembered and torn apart, and the parts and pieces of meat flew into the sky together.
The mortars on the side of the Seventh Company were naturally snatched from the guards camp yesterday, and the "artillery idiot" bamboo pole is taking a few apprentices to operate the cannon, and the genius adds interest and hard work to make the bamboo pole a top mortar operator.
The bamboo pole that has been fired against the devil mortar many times in the big war can be regarded as a gunner who has seen a big scene, and with a simple eye-jumping method, he can locate the target relatively accurately, and there is almost no need for correction bullets, and the shells fired out are not far from ten.
The devil's mortar is of good quality and easy to use, and the bamboo pole secretly admired in his heart, this accuracy, the landing of the shell is almost accurate to one meter.
The bamboo pole admired in his heart, but his hands and feet did not stop, and under this round of rapid fire, the four mortars of the seventh company, each cannon fired five or six shells continuously.
Dozens of mortar shells fell on the devil's mortar temporary position together, and the scene could be seen what kind of scene it was, and in an instant, all the devil's mortars were reimbursed.
Together with the devils who operated the artillery, they didn't have time to escape this barrage net woven by death, and within a small range of dozens of square meters, the fragments of mortar shells splashed densely, and even the nearby devils also suffered, and if they didn't die, they were injured and fell.