Chapter 337: The Fat of the Battle of Western Liao

Therefore, after immediately reporting the situation of the enemy in front of him, without waiting for a reply from his superiors, he immediately commanded the troops to deploy. If the fighter plane is a little inferior and stubbornly waits for a reply from the superiors, then nothing will be gained, and it is even possible to hand over the initiative on the battlefield to the enemy.

However, he was not willing to block the attack like this, so he still concentrated on one part and adopted a two-flank outflank posture, using the mountainous terrain to outflank the enemy's flank and rear. If the enemy army does not have many troops, he still wants to eat this enemy army in one bite. Now that you have encountered it, how can you be worthy of yourself if you don't catch a handful?

If the enemy's forces are large in number, far outnumbering their own, they should adopt the tactics of frontal blocking and flanking to buy time for the higher authorities to adjust their deployment. At the same time, the troops flanked can also protect their perimeter and find out the number of enemy troops. Fight for time, if you want to eat meat, you want to eat meat, but you can't let the Japanese army make their own dumplings.

However, after all the follow-up units of the Japanese army were put into the battlefield one after another, and the troops responsible for flanking and outflanking did not find the follow-up strength of the Japanese army. Seeing that the total number of Japanese troops in front of him was only the strength of a reinforced brigade, although it was equipped with a heavy machine gun squadron, the artillery carried was only two infantry guns and one mountain artillery heavy weapon, which made the brigade commander can't help but be happy.

In his eyes, this is no longer a reinforced infantry brigade of the Japanese army, but a piece of fat walking flesh. Of course, he was also quite greedy for the Type 99 rifles, Type 99 light machine guns, and Type 92 heavy machine guns equipped by this Japanese infantry brigade. With such good equipment, how could he let it go?

After arriving in the Northeast, the Advance Army clearly felt that the equipment level of the Japanese army in the Northeast was better than that of the North China Battlefield. Just like the rifle machine guns equipped by the Japanese army, except for the Type 92 heavy machine gun, they are better than the Type 38 rifles and crooked light machine guns that are still used in the Guannai, and even the Type 96 light machine guns are equipped with a small number of North China Security Divisions and Independent Mixed Brigades.

Although these weapons are not as good as those automatic weapons of the brother troops, they are still better than the 38 big cover and the crooked handle. In particular, their light machine guns, although the advance army was not generally equipped because the number of such bullets was not very sufficient, but it was supplemented with more than twenty units. The performance is much stronger than the crooked handle, at least in terms of maintenance, it is not so careful.

The reason why this brigade commander is very greedy for these Japanese weapons and equipment is because his brigade is short of 79-caliber weapons, and the two regiments are still equipped with Japanese-made weapons, that is, they are all Type 38 rifles, Type 96 light machine guns, and Type 92 heavy machine guns.

Although the number of German-made rifles transferred by the Soviet army was relatively abundant, the number of machine guns was seriously insufficient. In addition to the Czech light machine guns equipped with some German and Romanian armies, the number of German-made MG three or four machine guns was not only insufficient, but also the general lack of heavy machine gun mounts, spare barrels, and spare parts.

After these weapons are handed over, they are after all trophies captured on the battlefield and need to be overhauled. These machine guns can only be combined into one. There are even some machine guns that rely on three or four to put together a working one. There were not enough spare drums, and most of the machine guns could only use chains.

Moreover, this kind of weapon for the advance army, one is too high the rate of fire, waste of ammunition, in the eyes of the old Eighth Road, which has always paid attention to saving ammunition, these machine guns are not as good as the Soviet army, the German army and the Romanian army equipped with ZB five triple machine guns and Czech light machine guns. Second, the number is not sufficient, and it cannot meet the needs of the whole army.

Most people think that the machine guns used by the German army in World War II are MG 34 and MG 42, two machine guns with excellent performance, and create a new era of general-purpose machine guns, completely eliminating the cumbersome water-cooled heavy machine guns. Even Yang Zhen, a prophet, thought so for a while. It is even more thought that the number of heavy weapons in the German army in World War II is not very sufficient, and the number of light weapons has always been sufficient.

However, most people don't know that the number of small arms, especially machine guns, in the German army throughout World War II was not very sufficient. In particular, the MG 42 machine gun, which is currently manufactured by stamping process, has just completed testing, and mass production has just been put on the agenda. The manufacture of machine guns equipped by the German army is still mainly based on the M, G three and four machine guns that are expensive and the manufacturing process is extremely complicated.

However, because of the complexity of the manufacturing process, this machine gun is better to say in other battlefields where the German army is making rapid progress. After the outbreak of the Soviet-German battlefield, the production that was barely enough has been unable to meet the huge needs and make up for the losses. On the Eastern Front, the Germans used not only a large number of captured Soviet-made machine guns, but also a large number of old machine guns and trophies from other countries.

At present, the German army on the Eastern Front is not only equipped with MG 34 light machine guns, but also a large number of Czech-made, Belgian-made, Polish-made, and Yugoslav 79-caliber machine guns, as well as the MG-13 machine guns and MG 08 heavy machine guns that have been eliminated in their own country.

Especially at this time, the fledgling SS, which was far less valued than a year later, was almost exclusively equipped with Czech and Belgian machine guns, and none of the MG three or four machine guns were equipped. Coupled with the armies of the client states participating in the war on the Eastern Front, the trophies handed over by the Soviet army can be described as varied.

At this time, the German army was still at its peak, and the general victories of the Soviet army were achieved against the armies of the client states with poor combat effectiveness. Therefore, there are four or five calibers of light weapons handed over to the Anti-Japanese Federation. Among them, the number of machine guns of seventy-nine caliber is not too sufficient.

In order to unify the caliber, no Hungarian eight-millimeter Suroton light machine gun, Schwartzros heavy machine gun, or Italian six-five-caliber Breda light and heavy machine gun were sent to the troops. Not only were these machine guns not numerous, they were not well fitted, and they didn't even have many bullets. Despite the amount of Italian goods, it is quite a lot.

Although the current advance army has been transferred internally, plus the German troops transferred by the Soviet side, as well as the light weapons equipped by the client countries, most of the troops have been reequipped with 79-caliber weapons. However, the number of rifles transferred by the Soviet side was relatively sufficient, but the number of machine guns was not only varied, but also insufficient.

While most of the machine guns were battle-damaged and in urgent need of repair, the Anti-Union was not able to produce spare parts for such machine guns at the moment. Normally, the anti-United Nations arsenal can only repair these battle-damaged machine guns by means of two, or even several of them. This led to the fact that the number of machine guns in the advance army could not meet the needs of the whole army to change equipment.

What's more, the advance into the original Czech-style machine itself, as well as various models of 79 machine guns, except for the part of the anti-joint allocation. The rest are also due to years of use, and the degree of wear and tear is generally very serious. A considerable part of the machine guns has reached the end of their service life, not only the accessories are incomplete, but even the rifling is polished.

The Czech-style machine guns that the whole army was originally equipped with basically did not have spare barrels. The original equipment made in the Czech Republic, Belgium, and Denmark is not so serious because of the quality and industrial and raw material reasons, although some spare parts are incomplete. In particular, the quality of the original Czech machine guns, despite their use for many years, did not generally deteriorate.

However, because of the quality of the steel and the manufacturing process, coupled with the reasons for many years of high-intensity use, more than 60 percent of the domestic arsenals have reached the level of scrapping, but because there is no source for redressing, they can barely cope with the use. These machine guns did not dare to fire in bursts at all. As a result, the actual amount of equipment needed to be replaced far exceeded the gap on the books.

In addition, the MG three or four machine guns handed over by the Soviet army, because of the lack of tripods used in the state of heavy machine guns, even if they are repaired, they can only be used as light machine guns. In addition, in order to repair these battle-damaged machine guns, only a part of them can be distributed to the troops. And other machine guns of seven or nine calibers are not sufficient.

After all, throughout the four years, the Soviet army was losing most of the battle. Occasionally, a batch of loot is captured, and the front line is consumed. It was not until the end of the Battle of Moscow that a large number of German light weapons were captured. The large number of machine guns, especially heavy machine guns, also made it possible for several regiments to be included in the advancing troops, which were still equipped with Japanese-made weapons and equipment.

At present, the two brigades remaining on the Rehe battlefield are equipped with all Japanese-made weapons. The other regiment was armed with 79-caliber rifles and light machine guns, but the heavy machine guns were armed with Type 92 heavy machine guns. As for the other brigade, it is also a mixture of Japanese equipment and German caliber, and the same caliber can only be guaranteed as much as possible.

Although he prefers German-made MG three or four machine guns to Japanese-made light and heavy machine guns, isn't there a shortage of such machine guns? Of the three regiments under his command, only one regiment was equipped with this machine gun for use as a squad light machine gun. In the absence of fish and shrimp, these latest light weapons of the Japanese army have become a pile of fat meat in his eyes.

In the opinion of the brigade commander, he had the advantage of a brigade in strength, and the current equipment was much better, although not excellent, and the quantity of ammunition was sufficient. In addition, the whole training at the end of last year has generally greatly improved the quality of military and political affairs.

Especially in this kind of mountainous terrain, where the commanding heights are all controlled by oneself, this battlefield is fucking arranged for oneself by nature. After defeating this Japanese army, won't these weapons and equipment be their own sooner or later? The Type 99 machine gun used by the devil in front of him has been tried by the Anti-United Nations, and its performance is still quite good.

In particular, it can be fired without oil, the barrel can be quickly replaced, and the power of the bullet is relatively large, far exceeding the Japanese-made 65 caliber bullet. Although it is not as good as the German-made machine gun and the anti-union machine gun, it is much better than the crooked handle and the crutch handle. As a veteran, who wouldn't want to use a sophisticated weapon?

This brigade commander, who was full of self-confidence and was eyeing other people's weapons and equipment, and planned to wipe out the Japanese army in front of him in one go, after counterattacking the Japanese army who were trying to fight for the commanding heights. Mobilize the artillery behind you and suppress the machine-gun fire of the Japanese covering the ridges on both flanks along the entire line.

In addition to the two battalions that outflanked the two flanks in a roundabout way, he launched a counterattack with two formed companies along the ridges on both sides against the Japanese troops who were attacking along the ridges and outflanked him, and he personally commanded a battalion to stick up and bite the Japanese troops. At the same time, with the strength of the two battalions each equipped with two mortars and reinforced two heavy machine guns, they respectively released a guard in the two directions of Ye Baishou and Jianping County.

When dispatching the alert troops, he emphatically told the battalion commander who was on guard in the direction of Jianping that if the direction of Jianping County was still started according to the original plan, the reinforced battalion under his command would immediately forcibly insert itself into Zhangjiayingzi along the direction of Jianping County and spread out in the northwest direction along Zhangjiayingzi. If you encounter a small group of Japanese puppet troops on the way through, you will not be allowed to fight. Even if he ran to death, he had to arrive at the front line of Zhangjiayingzi on time.

After arriving at Zhangjiayingzi, he immediately controlled the line of Jiangjiadian and Dongshantou to the south with the strength of no less than one company. In order to ensure the safety of the flank of the entire Sihanseong River Valley battlefield and the smooth completion of the battle on the Jianpyeong battlefield. If the Japanese army reinforces the Jianping line from Ye Baishou, his battalion will be exhausted, and he will have to withstand the Japanese offensive before the reinforcements arrive.