Chapter 942 The Fight Begins 1
The Japanese combat style is different from that of the British and French. When the order to start fighting is given, the British and French must first prepare firepower for more than half an hour, and then charge with infantry. The Japanese greatly shortened the fire preparation time. After the attack order was issued, the first thing Japan mobilized was engineers. Teams of engineers quietly crawled out of the assembly area under the cover of night, and then headed 100 to 150 meters away. The first barbed wire fence advanced, and more figures with white towels on their arms appeared behind the engineers.
The Japanese already have some understanding of the German fortifications. There should be no mines before the first barbed wire fence and the second barbed wire fence. After the engineers have solved the two barbed wire fences, the Japanese plan to eliminate the minefields behind them and finally launch a pig attack. At this time, they were only about 200 meters away from the German position. Being caught off guard, it should be fine, right? And in order to avoid exposure, the Japanese army also specifically avoided the German observation posts! This plan is perfect, there is no reason to lose!
The German barbed wire fence was also the first time the Japanese saw it. It was not just a few wooden piles hung with barbed wire, but circles of viper wire. It was not enough to just cut it, but also to destroy and move it as much as possible. Walk. Otherwise, once you encounter it, the more you struggle, the greater the difficulty. There are also some cans hanging on the wire, and these must be removed carefully, otherwise any sound on a quiet night will have serious consequences.
The Japanese engineers used pliers and even their hands to dismantle the barbed wire fence and the cans on it. They endured and persisted even though they were bleeding from the stabbings. It wasn't until they cleaned up all the things that might make noise, and then started to pull the barbed wire aside, that something happened!
Under the moonlight, Senior Soldier Yoshimura Taro saw a long cylinder suddenly jump out of the earth! This thing exploded instantly after rising to about 3 meters in the air! A bright yellow fireball suddenly appeared in the night sky, and a steel storm formed by thousands of steel balls and shrapnel splashed down from the sky! A strike area with a diameter of more than 12 meters is formed on the ground. The shrapnel generated by the explosion at this height is impossible to avoid. No matter whether you are standing, doing, or lying down, you cannot dodge. Even if there are individual obstacles, these shrapnel can Fly over and tear the soldiers behind into pieces! There is always a 4-digit shrapnel shot suitable for you!
That’s how I remembered the sudden explosion! It's like a drop of water falling into a pan of oil! The entire battlefield immediately changed from the tranquility a second ago to a hell full of noise and flames. Several illumination bombs rose danglingly from behind the German position. After reaching the highest point, there were thousands of candles as bright as The light ball slowly fell with the help of the parachute, and the dazzling white light emitted by the violently burning magnesium illuminated everything around it like daylight! At this time, most of the Japanese soldiers subconsciously stopped in place and covered their eyes.
The roar of machine guns, like tearing oilcloth, instantly resounded across the battlefield. Machine guns hidden in bunkers and bunkers began to fire crazily at the exposed Japanese troops. Bright red lines of fire intertwined and fired wildly, curved. The ballistic path streaked through the air and then formed an oval-shaped bullet drop area. The oval that heralded death began to clean up the infantry in front in a step-by-step and orderly manner.
Although the Germans did not deploy vast areas of mines in the outermost barbed wire areas,
But it is still necessary to hang some flares, booby traps, etc. on the barbed wire fence. It can only be said that the Japanese army has never encountered such a lineup before. If a booby trap exploded, it would not be a big deal, but the flares and machine gun fire came immediately, which made the Japanese somewhat unexpected. After all, when we fought with the Russians, how could they be so smart? The seemingly perfect plan of the Japanese army was ruined by a jumping mine hidden in the barbed wire!
"Let's start!" Suzuki Takao looked at the sudden firefight in the distance with hatred, and could only reluctantly issue a combat order for a full-line attack. However, after all, it was calculated and unintentional, and the machine guns that the Germans temporarily fired were just on duty. The number was not large. Although the Japanese army was caught off guard in a short period of time, after the second division's front artillery opened fire, the German army's counterattack was instantly suppressed. After all, no matter how powerful the machine gun is, it cannot defeat the artillery!
I have to say that Suzuki Takao's arrangement is still very powerful. The nearest infantry gun fired at the German machine gun bunker at a distance of 300 meters. For the artillery, it was like a slap on the head! The sudden burst of firepower instantly silenced several machine gun fire points. The howitzers deployed at the back began to suppress the forward positions. When groups of firelights rose on the German positions, a large number of Japanese soldiers shouted "onboard" and rushed over like a tide with rifles. The bayonets on the rifles were shining brightly. It glows coldly under the firelight, don't tell me, this is really a bit bluffing!
Everything went so smoothly, although there would be some discordant notes from time to time in the tidal flow of people. For example, a mine that was not detonated by the artillery shell exploded, or a certain place was dented by a directional mine. , but overall, the attack went very smoothly. The Japanese troops of the Second Division successfully passed through the outermost German cordon, and then passed through the first line of defense like a flood.
"It doesn't look like it's okay?" Takao Suzuki looked at the situation of his own troops on the sand table with satisfaction and said, "As the saying goes, no matter how good your kung fu is, you will be knocked down by one brick." The advantage of this sneak attack is huge, otherwise, the old Japanese army would not like sneak attacks from top to bottom, all kinds of sneak attacks...
The Germans were indeed unprepared, or they did not expect that the Japanese army could launch such a large offensive at night. The German commander on the opposite side, Hans von Seeckt, was a little shocked at first, but soon he regained his composure. On the one hand, only Takao Suzuki's troops started to make progress smoothly, and the attacks of the other two divisions seemed to have failed. some problems. As for another reason? Let’s not talk about it for now.
Utsunomiya Taro's offensive battle was the most passive. In terms of artillery preparation and gunnery skills, this infantry officer was obviously not as good as Suzuki Takao. Although he greatly strengthened the number of automatic weapons in the assault force, he wanted to Relying on the inconvenient Chaucha submachine gun and the German MG series machine guns to shoot at each other is obviously an overthinking thing. Think about it, a light machine gun that doesn't even have windage correction, can only adjust the sight with a wrench, doesn't even have a ruler, and uses a 20-round magazine, how can it ensure the accuracy and suppression of long-distance shooting?
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