"Boom boom boom...."
Before the enemy arrives, the artillery arrives first. This is also the regular tactic used by the enemy when attacking. The army follows this pattern, and the navy follows suit. One trick can lead to success.
Since the enemy's goal was to seize the warehouse, they did not use heavy artillery, and light artillery had little effect on the reinforced concrete walls of the warehouse. The enemy simply focused their shelling on the two barricades;
Li Shuo only put two squads on the barricade fortifications, one at each station, with 10 combat personnel. In order to strengthen the fortifications, they carried several steel plates from the warehouse and sandwiched them between two bags of sandbags, with a There is a layer of steel plate, and the soldiers huddle inside, with their backs against the sandbag wall. The defense effect against small-caliber firepower is very good.
The artillery used by the Japanese is infantry artillery and mortars. Without that layer of steel plates, it is estimated that after the Japanese bombardment is over, there will be very few people left in these two squads;
Now that there was a steel plate above the head, the Japanese shelling seemed quite noisy, but it did not cause any casualties to the company of soldiers hiding behind the barricade.
As soon as the Japanese artillery fire stopped, dozens of Japanese soldiers came up with guns in hand. About a small group of Japanese soldiers was divided into two parts. One group was about a detachment and pretended to attack the barricades on the flanks. The Japanese attacked the front barricade.
The person responsible for defending the front barricade is Platoon 1, squad leader Liu Dayong, and the side is Platoon 2, squad leader Wang Xiaohu. They are all veterans with rich combat experience, and they can understand the Japanese's tentative attack at a glance.
Wang Xiaohu's second squad is equipped with a Czech light machine gun, a P28 submachine gun, a C96 box gun, and the rest are all standard Mauser rifles and long-handled grenades, and of course M35 steel helmets. This is the most equipped in the country. There are only 87th, 88th, 36th divisions and the teaching corps in the country that can meet this standard of sophisticated German weapon divisions;
There is also a tax police corps, and the others are not equipped with machine gun squads. One battalion also has a machine gun company. The performance of light weapons is better than that of the Japanese, but the performance of heavy weapons is inferior.
When Wang Xiaohu saw that the artillery fire stopped, he immediately led the whole class to rush out from the "anti-artillery hole", seize the pre-prepared shooting position, and prepare for battle;
It is safe to hide inside, but it is not convenient for fighting. Even the Japanese can't see it. A section of it is built with steel plates to prevent artillery.
"Brothers, please take it easy. There are only a dozen Japs. The machine guns will not be exposed for now. Move the Japs closer and use rifles to deal with them."
Wang Xiaohu saw that there were only a dozen Japanese who came towards them, and he looked down on the second squad so much, so he decided to retaliate against them and entertained them with rifles and submachine guns.
Wang Xiaohu felt insulted here. Matsui Naotong, the soldier led by the Japanese, thought it was a killing of pigs with a knife. In his opinion, a 13-man detachment could deal with a Chinese squad of 10 people, and one charge was enough.
The configuration of the Marine Corps is to be more arrogant than the Army. One of his 13-man detachments is equipped with 1 Taisho 13-year-old light machine gun, 2 P28 submachine guns, 7 38 rifles and a Nanbu pistol. In addition, each person also has Carrying several decade-old grenades, the configurations of the infantry squads (detachments) on both sides were similar. It just depended on who killed whom.
Matsui Naotong participated in the first Songhu Battle five years ago. At that time, their opponents were the 87th Division, 88th Division and the Teaching Corps. They can be said to be old friends;
Coincidentally, Wang Xiaohu also participated in this battle, and we met as real "old friends". This time, we were settling old and new accounts together.
Matsui Naotong walked at the front with a P28. They were very fast at the beginning. When they got within a hundred meters, the Japs slowed down. Under normal circumstances, the Chinese would have already started at this distance. The gun was fired, but the other side was still silent;
Being experienced in the battlefield, he would never imagine that the Chinese people could be scared away by them. Those who dared to put them at a hundred meters without firing were definitely elites. He subconsciously let other Japanese soldiers surpass him. Veterans could survive. He is cruel if he outlasts others, and he will never be soft-hearted when he should let others take bullets for him.
The Japs' skirmisher line moved forward another twenty or thirty meters, but the Chinese still didn't fire. This made old Japs Matsui feel more and more unsure. His body was almost bent to the ground. He was as stunned as a cunning wolf. He would be the first to lie down at the slightest sign of trouble. This was his way to save his life.
Sixty meters!
Many impatient Japs had already straightened up and were about to sprint. Matsui vaguely heard the movement with his ears. He rolled sideways to the ground, and gunfire rang out from the opposite side...
It was actually a volley of guns, no machine guns!
Old Japanese Matsui had already broken out in cold sweat on his forehead. The Chinese on the opposite side were far more difficult to deal with than he had imagined. In a round of gunfire just now, his unit was killed and wounded 4 people, which immediately brought the two sides closer. Poor military strength.
After a group of Japs fell, all the remaining ones lay on the ground. Many of them found nearby obstacles and began to shoot at the second squad;
Matsui was not in a hurry to shoot, but lay down and used his triangular eyes to observe the firepower configuration of the defenders. Only 7 rifles were firing, but they caused 2 deaths and 2 injuries to his unit in an instant. The precision of his marksmanship was already It can be compared with them.
"Yo Xi, the Chinese are cunning and cunning!"
The Japs' machine guns had already been set up, and a large number of bullets were thrown at the second squadron's barricade. The sandbags in front of them made a popping sound. One soldier's head popped out a little, and his helmet was blown away by a stray bullet. If If he went down a little further, his neck would be broken by the huge kinetic energy, which scared him into a cold sweat.
"Pull your heads in, the Japs' marksmanship is spot on!"
Wang Xiaohu yelled at the others, who were so frightened that they shrank back even further. The squad and platoon leaders had to rely on their loud voices to lead the troops.
Seeing that the Japanese were lying down dozens of meters away and shooting at them, he made a calculation, took out a long-handled grenade from his waist, pulled out the ring, and threw it in the direction of the Japanese;
After the grenade drew a beautiful parabola in the air, it landed between the two Japs. A large number of explosive fragments blew the two Japs into a hornet's nest. The original imported long-handled grenade had no effective killing effect after the explosion. A small-caliber Japs Shooting shells.
Matsui felt bitter when he saw it. They also had grenades, but they were all lying on the ground. No one could throw the grenades dozens of meters away while lying down.
The exchange of fire between the two sides made him very frustrated and suppressed at every turn. Now he no longer thinks that he is killing a pig with a knife. In the face of the huge geographical advantage of the Chinese people, without more than three times the force, it is impossible to fight. but.
Matsui has not fired a shot so far. He is waiting for an opportunity. Unfortunately, the people on the opposite side are also very smart. They all lie down in the shooting position and shoot, with only half of the helmet exposed. With the annoying shooting accuracy of the submachine gun, it is difficult to Hit the opponent.
The two sides were shooting at each other from a distance of dozens of meters. Wang Xiaohu would throw out a grenade when he saw the opportunity. If he was lucky, he would kill and injure one or two Japanese soldiers;
Seeing that the squad leader had just killed a ghost with a grenade, Zheng Tao followed the same example and took out a grenade, leaned out and threw it out. Just in time, Matsui old ghost caught him, and he hit Zheng Tao with a shuttle. Wang Xiaohu next to him only There was time to catch his body, but it was already too late. He was hit by three submachine gun bullets, and even the gods could not save him.
There were also casualties in the second class, and Wang Xiaohu could only yell again:
"If you don't want to die, just shrink down a little deeper. I told you and you still don't believe me!"
After Wang Xiaohu finished roaring, he grabbed Zheng Tao's rifle. He was about to change it to a rifle to deal with the old Japanese who killed Zheng Tao.
Although Old Japanese Matsui seized the opportunity to kill a Chinese soldier, their passive situation did not change at all. In a few minutes of exchange of fire, his detachment had been killed and injured 8 people. Even with the wounded, it was only There are 8 people left;
In other words, 5 people were dead and 3 injured, so they were already at a disadvantage in terms of strength.
His troops had already retreated, and the few remaining men could not defeat the Chinese who had geographical advantages;
They lay on the ground and fired with their backs, and the Chinese were hiding behind the fortifications. It was difficult to hit them. Even the machine gun was not effective at a distance of tens of meters, because they could not show up at all.
"Bagya Road, a bunch of trash!"
Captain Arai, the squadron leader who was observing the battle between the two sides from a distance with a telescope, cursed angrily. He thought he was so brave that he could challenge a platoon of Chinese warriors, but he was actually beaten by several Chinese people and was unable to fight back. This was so embarrassing to him. of people.
"Your Excellency, Squadron Leader, the Chinese have a great geographical advantage, and the effect of the exploratory attack has been achieved. Why not inform them to withdraw?"
The captain of the first team anxiously suggested to Captain Arai that the two teams that went up were from his team and had already suffered more than half of their casualties. The next two teams would have to be reimbursed. His team only had 3 infantry teams in total. Add a grenade detachment.
Arai suppressed the urge to hit someone, and finally agreed to withdraw the two squads of Japanese soldiers sent out.
A few minutes later, the two detachments that the Japanese launched an exploratory attack withdrew rolling and crawling on the ground. During the retreat, a few more were eliminated. In the end, only 9 people returned alive, and 15 died. Both sides The first head-to-head confrontation ended with a complete victory. Without the blessing of large-caliber naval guns, the Japanese Marine Corps was nothing.
