Chapter 644: The Flesh Mill

In order to take Gaizhou, the Japanese sent two troops, the 47th Wing made a detour from the left flank to attack the periphery of Gaizhou, while the 13th Wing attacked in a straight line along the South Manchurian Railway and went straight to the city of Gaizhou.

On the side near the coast, the positions of the Feng army had long been blown to pieces, and before the soldiers could renovate, the Japanese had already rushed up. In the face of the surging Japanese, the Feng army was also prepared, when Zhang Henian was designing the defense line, he dug three deep ditches to lead to the coastline, and when the Japanese attacked, they detonated the haode explosives prepared in advance, and then brought in seawater.

Each ditch was six meters wide and two meters deep, and after being filled with raging water, it was not easy to break through with the small size of the Japanese soldiers.

After the speed of their impact was contained, the superiority of the Bong army in firepower was manifested, mortars, light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers, all beckoned to the Japanese, and the Japanese were constantly blown apart and turned into a pile of rotten meat.

Listening to their wailing fathers and mothers, the soldiers were extremely relieved, and the battle became more and more vigorous. However, in the other direction, there was no sea to help, and the Feng army and the Japanese engaged in a real bloody confrontation.

The Japanese sent the 13th Wing, all of which were recruited from Kumamoto, and as the saying goes, the poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, but in fact, not only the people are out, but also the elite soldiers. Kumamoto has always been the toughest place for the Japanese, but the people here are also the most ferocious and cruel.

They rushed towards the city of Gaizhou desperately, which had become a pile of rubble. Although Fengtian has developed rapidly, there are still many adobe houses in small places like Gaizhou, and there are not many reinforced concrete buildings. It simply can't withstand the bombardment of artillery.

In particular, the powerful power of naval artillery has turned Gaizhou into ruins. However, these ruins also provided convenience for the Feng army to defend. From the hiding holes in the rubble, a large number of soldiers poured out. They each looked for cover and prepared for defense.

"Spread out! Disperse! Ma Gang shouted loudly: "Three-person teams, machine guns and grenadiers as the center." ”

The 1st Division had been tempered by the battles of the Far East, and the soldiers had already developed the habit of good obedience, and their movements were quite swift. Soon a regiment was organized into more than 300 combat groups in accordance with the requirements of the 33 tactics, and they hid in bomb craters, ditches, rubble, and even a stinking pigsty.

As long as there was any cover that could be used, it was all fully excavated, and each group did not fight in isolation, they were intertwined. Countless triangles have been formed that can support each other. No matter which side the Japanese attacked, they were hit hard by fire from both sides.

Magang chose a large bomb crater, where you can clearly see the south gate of the city. It was very easy to defend, and when exchanging battlefield experience with German soldiers, Ma Gang also knew. On the battlefield, in the same place. The probability of being hit continuously by a cannon is not high. During the First World War, European soldiers also had the habit of hiding in the previous crater to save their lives.

The crater was surrounded by the rubble that had collapsed to form a natural barrier, and when he led a machine gun crew to clear the shooting angle, a dense burst of gunfire had already sounded outside the south gate, and the 13th Wing launched a frantic assault towards the city.

They shouted slogans. Instead of fear, their faces were full of fanaticism, and this was the third time they had set foot on Chinese soil, and the first two times the Japanese had won a great victory. Once they became a great power, they also wanted to replicate the miracle and bring great glory to Japan.

But they don't know that this time the opponent is completely different from the previous two times. Zhou He is a sniper, and just over a year ago, he was an ordinary Orion kid. After joining the Feng Army, his shooting talent was discovered, and Tian Mu admired him very much and taught him his experience hand in hand.

This is Zhou He's first time on the battlefield, and his muzzle has locked on a second lieutenant, who let this guy have nothing to show off his snow-bright command knife? If you have to raise your sword and say a few nonsense words like "Imperial Japan" and "Imperial Warriors", it is the so-called gun that shoots the first bird, and if you don't kill him, there will be no heavenly reason.

In fact, the front-line officers of the Feng army have all canceled the obvious military rank marking, and even if Zhang Tinglan personally inspects the battlefield, he only wears ordinary military uniforms, and soldiers are strictly forbidden to salute him, let alone surround him. As the accuracy of the guns became higher and higher, no one got tired of it, ran to the battlefield, and swaggered and shouted that I was the key person, isn't that looking for death!

However, it was clear that the Japanese second lieutenant who stood out from the crowd did not understand this truth, and just as he was desperately attacking, immersed in the illusion of invincibility in the world, a bullet passed through his head. Like a rooster that was crowing happily, but its neck was suddenly broken, and it fell among the soldiers with its broken head.

The tragic picture of blood mixed with brains also made the Japanese soldiers next to them feel frightened, and they only then realized that they were not facing a rice bucket army. The more tragic the picture, the more irritated the fierceness and brutality of the Japanese in their bones, they ignored the death of the second lieutenant and continued to rush forward, but they also increased their vigilance and made various tactical moves to avoid bullet shots.

Successfully killed a second lieutenant, Zhou He's heart also rose a trace of joy, he used his fingernails to scratch the butt of the gun, and recorded the result.

Rumble! A shell landed not far from him, and the shrapnel and debris from the explosion all fell on Zhou He's head, but there was only a clanging sound. The First Division was the first batch of troops to be officially equipped with helmets, and with the protection of this thing, the soldiers' chances of survival were indeed greatly improved.

However, the helmet could not block the smoke coming from his face, and Zhou He also felt that everything in front of him was blurred, but he was also a well-trained soldier, so he closed his eyes, and soon the smoke dissipated, and his muzzle was aimed at the Japanese soldier who was closer.

He chose the most sudden Japanese assaulter 400 meters away, this guy is definitely the elite of the Japanese army, the heavy bullet of the sniper rifle mercilessly hit the thigh of this assaulter, the bullet brought up a handful of blood mist, this guy lost his ability to move, fell to the ground, and screamed in pain.

Originally, Zhou He wanted to choose the next assaulter, but two Japanese medical soldiers who ran over made him feel refreshed. It is difficult for medical staff to be deployed in large quantities through simple training, because they must have sufficient medical and traumatic knowledge and need to be professionally trained. There has always been a very large shortage of medical staff in the Feng army.

The soldiers all knew that in order to increase the number of medical soldiers, the marshal's wife personally came out to train talents, helped write teaching materials, and even almost every soldier had an ambulance booklet, which was compiled by Zhou Xinyao. Among the soldiers, Mrs. Shuai was far more cordial than expected, and because she knew the value of the medical soldiers, Zhou He pointed her gun at them.

Two shots snapped, and two balls of blood splattered. The two medics also simply fell in a pool of blood, which means that a squadron of Japanese soldiers has lost care, and it is precisely because of this that more wounded will die, and it is so ruthless on the battlefield. Maximizing efficiency is the pursuit of every excellent soldier.

Under the ferocious attack of snipers. The Japanese suffered heavy casualties. However, this loss was not enough to terrify the Japanese, and hundreds of Japanese troops quickly shortened the distance between them and the snipers. On the battlefield, it is necessary to pay attention to the density of firepower, and snipers cannot fight hard with the sea of people, so Zhou He and the others quickly moved their positions after killing dozens of Japanese soldiers.

The task of blocking fell to the machine gunner. Two are made of makqin, sprayed with tongues of fire. The moment the sound of da-da sounded, the two heavy machine guns deployed at an angle were like Japanese infantry spilling hundreds of bullets. The frenzied and terrifying rain of metal bullets formed an impenetrable barrier, and the bodies of Japanese soldiers who rushed through their bodies were pierced, blood and bullets rolled through the ranks, and when the four chains of 120 rounds were finished at maximum speed, a layer of corpses had been laid in the mud 300 meters away.

Before the Japanese could think of a solution, according to the strict tactical requirement that the machine guns should not stay at one point for three minutes, the two sturdy machine gunners had already retreated to the rear of the town with the machine guns, and handed over the attack to the grenadiers in other positions, and the Japanese could only sigh in anticipation.

Sure enough, as soon as they walked on their front feet, the Japanese shells fell, but they did not gain anything except blasting up countless rubble. The grenadiers in other positions dealt another severe blow to the Japanese troops 300 meters away.

In the artillery doctrine pursued by Zhang Tinglan, it is not only heavy artillery, mortars, and even grenadiers have an important position, and the supremacy of firepower is the only philosophy on the battlefield.

Dozens of grenadiers continued to throw grenades into the Japanese army, and the power of fragmentation and anti-personnel shells was not small, and the scattered shrapnel shredded the bodies of the Japanese, so even if the heavy machine guns retreated, the Japanese soldiers still complained.

300 meters! 300 meters of fire barrier!

This is the distance between the life and death of infantry recognized by later generations! After summarizing the two Shijie battles, Shijie recognized that the ideal combat distance for infantry was 300 meters, so in the design of firearms, the range of thousands of shots was also abandoned, but concentrated on consolidating the firepower within 300 meters.

This line of life and death is also very important to the Feng army, especially after the test of practice, when dealing with large-scale charges, holding this line of life and death can give the enemy the greatest damage.

The first thing to change in the Bong's redress was not a rifle for each person, but a lighter and more powerful mortar and grenadier canister.

Especially when fighting against Japan, a life-and-death rival, Zhang Tinglan has already issued a strict order, other weapons can not keep up, and mortars must be sufficient in quantity and quality. With the current capabilities of the Feng army, the production of a thousand mortars a month, three thousand grenadiers is not a problem.

In the face of the Feng army, which won with firepower, no matter how ferocious the Kumamoto United was, there was nothing they could do but corpses everywhere, and there was a mess everywhere.

As a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, he never looked at the people of the Japanese Army, when the Sixth Division was the trump card of the Japanese Army, and the 13th Infantry Wing was the soul of this trump card unit.

Takeshi Yamashita often boasted that with one of their wings, he could enter Mukden, but after the real battle, he understood the strength of the Feng army. His men had a tenacious fighting spirit, a wealth of training, and an unparalleled courage, and death was never a matter of fear for them.

However, they are all powerful, but there is only one advantage of the Feng army, which is enough to smooth out everything for them, and that is the powerful firepower. The mortars and grenadiers of the Feng army are pouring desperately on them as if they don't want money, and in the face of this indiscriminate slaughter, no matter how elite the troops, they can't afford it.

Flesh and blood, there is no way to compete with steel, Gaizhou has become a flesh and blood mill, constantly consuming the lives of the Japanese, making them wither like cherry blossoms. The Japanese finally felt a trace of helplessness at this time, they actually have a gap in equipment with the Chinese, and it is backward China, surpassing Japan in equipment, this is not a joke, but a real situation, as a proud Japanese officer, Takeo Yamashita is not willing to accept this fact at all, but the mess in one place reminds him at all times. (To be continued......)