Chapter 353: The Power of the MG Three or Four Machine Guns
In view of the fact that the Japanese army is accustomed to breaking through from the flanks or joints when there is no hope or difficulty in the battle, it is difficult to break through head-on. The firing boundaries between all positions are deployed in a cross. Whenever the Japanese tried to detour to the flank of that position, they would be hit by flank fire.
On the front, machine gun fire is the mainstay, and on the side is rifles, submachine guns, and a certain amount of light machine guns. On the flanks of all positions, mortars were used to demarcate the firing boundaries. When the Japanese attacked the front, these mortars did not fire. If the Japanese army adopts the tactic of frontal containment and flank detour, it will concentrate mortar fire and infantry to specifically attack the Japanese army attacking the flank.
The first line of Damaigou, located in the most critical part of his entire ambush circle, is also the position where the ambush circle closes. Once the Japanese army breaks through the first line of Damaigou, then we can only hope that the battalion on the first line of the Tang family's cane will be able to hold the last line of defense. It was precisely this kind of deployment that he placed high hopes on the six German-made machine guns with an extremely fast rate of fire on the Damaigou line.
In the opinion of the brigade commander, although these six German-made machine guns were too high in normal times because of the high consumption of ammunition, his own troops really could not afford to use them. But at critical moments, it is still okay to put it on key parts. The use of equipment on the battlefield is similar to the distribution of troops, and the best steel should be used on the most critical blades.
In order to ensure the amount of ammunition required for the high rate of fire of this machine gun, he not only allocated 70 percent of the ammunition replenished by the brigade to these six machine guns. Twenty rounds of ammunition were also drawn from two battalions of rifle-armed fighters to provide special support for the six machine guns.
In order not to let the casualties of the machine gunners affect the battle, he also equipped each machine gun with six machine gunners. The firing order of each machine gun, as well as its respective firing range, was strictly regulated. In order to ensure that the fire of these six machine guns is not interrupted when the barrel is replaced, and the ammunition chain is replaced.
He also transferred the only two Maxim heavy machine guns in the whole brigade to this direction. It is specially designed to be used as supplementary fire when the fire of the MG machine gun is interrupted. The company, which was deployed on the bottom line of the entire ambush circle and held the front line of Damaigou, could be said to be armed to the teeth under the reinforcement of these eight machine guns.
For this kind of machine gun, which can be used for both light and heavy purposes by replacing the gun carriage, and has a very fast rate of fire. To be honest, as a military commander, he really likes it. The German-made machine gun is exquisitely crafted and the raw materials are of high quality. On the battlefield, apart from the need to replace the barrel, there is basically nothing wrong with it.
Compared with the Maxim heavy machine gun originally used by the troops, as well as the domestic imitation of the Czech light machine gun, the performance and quality are much better. At least not in the case of a high rate of fire, the barrel will be bald in a short period of time without paying attention. Or because of the quality, there is one or another problem.
But the performance of this machine gun is really good, but the rate of fire is too high. Of the 200 rounds of bullets, it took less than a minute for a burst to be fired. The consumption of this ammunition is really a little distressing for the troops in the Guannai, who have always been quite frugal in the use of ammunition because they had no fixed source of replenishment before, and they really cannot afford to raise it.
In the eyes of cadres at all levels of the Advance Army, this is a machine gun, it is simply a bomb-swallowing machine, and it is also an uncle. The ammunition base of a regiment is not enough for these machine guns to be used for an hour. In contrast, the Czech machine gun had limited ammunition even for the most inexperienced shooters. At least twenty rounds in the magazine were emptied, and the machine gun stopped firing on its own.
The two bosses who advanced into the army did not dare to concentrate all these machine guns on that column when they were changing the equipment of the whole army. Rather, a part was allocated to each brigade as a supplement due to the insufficient number of Maxim heavy machine guns and ZB triple seven heavy machine guns. The squad machine guns of various units are generally Czech-style light machine guns or Browning light machine guns transferred from the Anti-United Nations.
Even some units still use the French Hakechis heavy machine guns, and do not use these machine guns as the main light and heavy machine guns. Because if this machine gun is really fully distributed to that unit, it is using an inexperienced shooter. Well, all the small arms ammunition of a brigade is not enough for these machine guns to be used for an hour.
Therefore, even in the battle of the Wei family's shack, the brigade commander was not willing to put this kind of machine gun into battle. Nothing else, not that he was stingy, but that he was really reluctant to use those that were enough for a regiment, but not enough ammunition for an hour on these machine guns.
In battle, he preferred to use a 92-heavy machine gun, which was much heavier and had a rate of fire than this machine gun. Of course, if it weren't for the Maxim heavy machine guns in his entire brigade, which combined to less than two, he would have preferred to use the more powerful Maxim heavy machine guns.
The Type 92 heavy machine gun was indeed a bit bulky, but fortunately, it had a high shooting accuracy. The most important thing is that compared with this machine gun, which has a rate of fire of 1,000 rounds per minute, the highest rate of fire is only 500 rounds per minute, which is simply too much ammunition saving. At least there is no need to empty the infantry ammunition to feed this uncle.
But in this battle, he took out all six MG three or four machine guns that he had been reluctant to use before. He even did not hesitate to raise 20 rounds of ammunition per person from the infantry to specifically ensure the use of this machine gun, which shows that this brigade commander attached great importance to this battle. In the words of his director of the political department, it can really be described as smashing the pot and selling iron.
And on the hills on either side, control over some of the hill packs was relinquished. Deploy all the firepower on the commanding heights of the mountains on both sides. The location of the fire deployment was not placed on the ridge, but on the mountainside. But all the points of fire on the commanding heights are cross-firing. The height at which it is deployed is not lower than the height of those hill packs.
In this way, no matter how much the Japanese army concentrated its forces to attack there, it could be hit by crossfire from the perimeter. This deployment can be described as well-intentioned, and it has indeed played a considerable role. After finding himself ambushed again, Okajima Shigemoshi's breakthrough operation, no matter which direction he broke through, was hit by an unprecedentedly dense firepower.
Facing a battlefield like a fire net on all sides, Okajima Shigemoshi Osa knew that if he couldn't break out, he and the few remaining troops would all die here. The only option is to concentrate forces and forcibly break through to the front line of Damaigou. As long as the barley ditch is opened, their troops can escape.
Okajima Shigetsu Daisa, without any hesitation, concentrated all the forces that could be concentrated, all the firepower that could be concentrated, and launched a round attack on Damaigou, a natural tun with only a dozen households that is common in the Rehe Mountains. In other directions, they concentrated their forces to seize a few small hills controlled by the enemy's firepower, and fired at the enemy in an attempt to suppress the enemy's firepower.
Faced with the barley ditch like a fire net, his attacking forces rushed forward countless times, and were beaten back countless times in the dense machine-gun fire of the enemy. The frontal breakthrough failed, and as soon as the forces breaking through on the flanks were deployed, they were blown back by a mortar shell from the rear of the enemy's flank.
Rushing to break through the first line of the barley ditch in order to escape, Okajima Shigetoshi Osa seemed to have gone crazy. One squadron was crippled, and immediately withdrew, replaced by a squadron to continue the assault. With a frontal stalemate, they concentrated their forces on the flank of the enemy's position at Damaigou.
The brigade commander's six German-made MG 34 machine guns concentrated in Damaigou played an important role in blocking the repeated attacks of the Japanese troops on the Damaigou line. It was these six German-made machine guns that blocked the entire Damaigou and formed a firepower network that allowed the Japanese soldiers attacking the Damaigou line to be crossed.
As long as the attacking Japanese troops approached within 100 meters of the six machine guns, it was almost impossible to escape the fire network composed of the six machine guns. Looking at the fire network on the first line of the barley ditch in the telescope, and listening to the sound of machine gun fire in front of him with almost no pause, Okajima Shigetoshi gasped.
Shigetsu Okajima, who had never seen a German-made MG three or four machine gun, and had not even heard of such a machine gun, did not know anything about the performance of this machine gun. At the beginning of the battle, he regarded this machine gun as an ordinary light and heavy machine gun, and did not pay attention to it at all.
As a result, he didn't expect that it was the dense crossfire of these six machine guns that disintegrated his attacks again and again. His own attacking troops were strewn with corpses by these six machine guns. He really didn't have a wide range of knowledge, but it was the first time he had seen a machine gun with such a high rate of fire.
In fact, it's not to blame this Okajima Shigetsu Daisa, who is a little lonely and unheard. In the first battle of Baoqing the year before last, he took the Fifth Wing to participate in the battle, when the whole army was addicted to drugs and lost its combat effectiveness and was surrounded and annihilated.
In the face of the anti-United Nations tank troops rushing up from all sides, the troops under his command are no longer combative, and they are not even capable of committing suicide. He relied on forcing an older soldier with a pistol, changing military uniforms with him and killing people, and then mixed in with the prisoners of war as a military officer, looking for an opportunity to escape when he was evacuated.
The cadres of the Political Department, who had escorted these prisoners of war, only fixed their eyes on those officers, and did not take the escaped military cao seriously, nor did they pursue them afterwards. Only then did this guy run into a group of puppet Manchu military police and gendarmes who had dispersed into the mountains and forests to be bandits, and hid for a while.
After the end of the main battle of the Anti-Japanese Federation, the troops were withdrawn, and after turning around to clean up those who were scattered, the Japanese puppet army stragglers who ran into the mountains and forests to serve as bandits. Seeing that he couldn't stay in the bandits' den, he pretended to be dumb and took advantage of his long-term stationing in Beiman and being familiar with the terrain to avoid the anti-union blockade line on the front line and run back to Xinjing.
As a result, when the Anti-Japanese Federation counted the results, the corpse of the military cao wearing his military uniform was regarded as the captain of the Great Zuo Wing. Moreover, during the interrogation, his subordinates who were addicted to drugs and could not answer the interrogators' questions at all, did not confess to him, providing protection for his whereabouts in disguise.
But he didn't expect that the inconspicuous military cao who escaped from his prisoner of war camp, whose face was cut by a bayonet and somewhat disfigured, was the real Okajima Shigetoshi Daisa. I didn't expect that the bayonet wound on the face of the military cao at the beginning was cut on the face by this old man with the guard's bayonet in order to hide his true identity.
This guy is also lucky, Baoqing fought his fifth wing, except for the three squadrons left behind in the rear, all the personnel who participated in the battle, he ran out alone. The rest have either become cold corpses on foreign land or have become members of prisoner of war camps.
After recovering from drug addiction in the anti-union prisoner of war camps, he was sent to various coal mines or mines in North Manchuria to wash away the sins committed by Japanese militarism on Chinese territory with his own labor. The annihilation of all the participating units of the Fifth Wing also made him such a humiliating act, and no one knew about it after the war.
The most important thing is that at that time, he always regarded himself as the most authentic citizen, and he never smoked cigarettes in China, and only smoked Japanese cigarettes or American camel cigarettes, and he was lucky not to be addicted to drugs. ensured that he had enough physical strength to run far away from the control area of the anti-coalition forces on the battlefield.