The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 135 "World War I" Attack

"Everyone is there, ready to attack!"

Behind the Japanese engineer squadron, the squadron commanders of the No. 16 Regiment issued the command to prepare for the assault almost simultaneously. During the engineer operation, the main force of the Japanese infantry responsible for the attack had all moved forward. This time, the No. 16 Infantry Regiment was almost completely empty. When they came out, the three infantry brigades invested two infantry squadrons respectively, for a total of six infantry squadrons.

The infantry squadrons participating in the attack of the No. 16 Regiment were all lightly armed. There was no reinforcement of the Type [-] infantry cannon directly under the brigade or the Type [-] rapid-fire artillery directly under the regiment. Each infantry squadron only received the firepower of one Type [-] heavy machine gun. Strengthening, however, among the attack formations of these six infantry squadrons, engineers suddenly appeared. Each infantry squadron was reinforced by a Japanese engineer fire-breathing unit, each equipped with a Type [-] flamethrower.

In addition to these six infantry squadrons, on the right side of the No. 16 Regiment, there are two infantry squadrons from the Di Detachment. The main force of the Japanese army in Yongxing Village came out in full force this time, and eight troops were invested in the first line of attack. The strength of an infantry squadron.

Three signal flares fell slowly, and then, the school launch balloon in the air suddenly shot a green flare. After a brief ceasefire of 2 minutes, the Japanese army's temporary artillery group began to transfer firepower and suppress firing, changing the target to the third. The main position of the Sixth Company, then, the rain of bullets from the sky hit the main position of the Sixth Company. In an instant, the main position of the Sixth Company was covered by flying sand, rocks and shrapnel.

He Wei was observing in the command post. Suddenly, a 150mm heavy cannon grenade hit the top of the command post. Suddenly, He Wei felt that his ears were deafened, and the ground under his feet seemed to have experienced an earthquake. All the items were shaken and flew up, and He Wei seemed to be shaken off the ground.

A large piece of shrapnel hit the command port and flew past He Wei's helmet, leaving a horrific mark on the well-crafted German m[-] helmet with a harsh friction sound.

"Sir!"

The quartermaster sergeant and Tao Heiwa crawled over and helped He Wei, who was knocked down. He Wei climbed up and shook his head. After a burst of tinnitus, He Wei pushed them away and climbed to the shooting port again. The shell just now seemed to be a 150mm instant grenade. Fortunately, my command post was strong enough to withstand the direct hit of this shell.

The suppressive bombardment of the Sixth Company's main position did not last long, only a few minutes. Then, the Japanese artillery barrage actually began to extend backwards. In He Wei's telescope, the smoke and thick smoke caused by various artillery shells exploded. It was actually getting further and further away from him. He understood that the Japanese infantry was about to begin an attack. An infantry attack required artillery cover and escort. The Japanese infantry attack was about to begin.

"Tell each platoon to prepare for battle, the Japanese army is about to start charging."

After notifying each platoon by phone to prepare for battle, He Wei quietly waited for the Japanese attack. Soon, the artillery barrage extending in the opposite direction continued to approach the Japanese starting position. This time, the Japanese army's madness was actually far beyond the He Wei imagined that in the starting position of the Japanese infantry, several Japanese squadron captains did not even wear helmets. Instead, they tied white turbans on their heads with the words "Long Live the Military, Long Live" written on their heads.

What's even more frightening is that the artillery barrage escorting the Japanese infantry's assault actually stopped less than 100 meters away from the Japanese infantry's assault position. Tactically speaking, this was an extremely dangerous and crazy behavior.

Generally speaking, when indirect aiming artillery is used to cover and escort infantry forward, in moderately undulating terrain, the safe distance between infantry and artillery barrages is 300 meters. In extremely special circumstances, it is absolutely impossible to exceed 100 meters, such as In those anti-Japanese dramas and various weird war movies, the impact of the infantry stepping on the blast point of the artillery is pure and innocent screenwriting.

The Japanese army was forced to do something like this with no regard for accidental damage. Rather than suffer heavy casualties from the Chinese army during the attack, it would be better to exchange a certain amount of casualties for the success of the attack.

In the starting position, the Japanese infantry felt the wind of shrapnel passing above their heads, and looked at several brave squadron leaders with admiring eyes. About two minutes later, a captain of the No. 2 Wing suddenly waved his command knife. , shouted: "Warriors of the empire, attack, capture the enemy's position, and avenge the warriors of Yushang!"

"Onboard!"

In an instant, eight infantry squadrons of Japanese troops jumped out of the trenches almost simultaneously. At the same time, two more red flares were raised. The Japanese artillery began to fire. More than a thousand Japanese infantrymen rushed out like a tide, followed closely. The artillery barrage from the front launched an impact on the Sixth Company's position.

"Onboard!"

Amidst the deafening screams, the Japanese army followed the barrage and artillery fire. Their crazy behavior didn't stop there. The Japanese army's attack formation did not follow the formation stipulated in the latest infantry drills and attack teachings. Instead, they adopted the skirmish line attack formation stipulated in the old infantry drills of the Taisho period.

The skirmisher group attack suddenly turned into a skirmisher line. The attacking Japanese squadrons used squads as the basic unit and formed several skirmisher lines. The attached heavy machine guns and flamethrowers were at the end of the team. Each squadron's The skirmisher lines also connected with each other. In the end, more than 1000 Japanese infantry formed several very spectacular skirmisher lines. They formed a dense formation and launched an attack at the fastest speed.

The purpose of the Japanese army is very clear. They do not implement the latest tactical requirements, but use dense and fast attack queues to strive for a breakthrough in one fell swoop.

Crazy behavior will naturally come with a price.

"Onboard, charge!"

There were screams from time to time in the Japanese army's attacking skirmish line, and shrapnel kept flying into the Japanese army's ranks, hitting a few unlucky ones. Suddenly, a missed 75mm mountain artillery shell actually landed in the Japanese army's ranks. In the battle, the dense shrapnel produced by the explosion of the hugely lethal 75mm Type [-] sharp grenade almost wiped out a detachment of Japanese infantry.

But this did not stop the Japanese army from attacking. The gaps in the queue caused by accidental injuries were quickly filled. Although the injured Japanese soldiers were rolling and wailing on the ground, no one looked at them. . ． ． ． ． ． ． ． ．
Behind the bang bang explosion, there was a thunderous ghost scream. The Japanese army's strategy of killing one thousand enemies and damaging eight hundred to themselves still played a big role. At least, He Wei was a little suspicious now. The bullets soaring into the sky. The curtain completely blocked the Japanese attack queue. He Wei didn't know what kind of medicine the Japanese were selling in the gourd. At this distance, according to the shooting discipline prescribed by him, he was not allowed to open fire. If the enemy was not seen, he would not fight, and if he did not close the enemy, he would not fight. is his basic requirement.

Soon, the Japanese artillery barrage was less than 300 meters away from the Sixth Company's position. The suppressive firepower of the enemy artillery would once again fall on the Sixth Company's main position, and the Japanese army's shouts of killing sounded close. It was so scary. At this moment, He Wei couldn't sit still. He came behind the Type 200 [-]mm heavy machine gun and quietly counted the distance between the enemy and ourselves. When the two armies were approximately At [-] meters, the violent shock wave generated by the explosion of the artillery shell continued to penetrate into the shooting port, and the wind and sand that blew in almost narrowed He Wei's eyes.

"Hei Wa, bring me that toad mirror and put it on."

At this time, the goggles taken from the corpses of the Japanese cavalry played a big role. Tao Heiwa followed up and put the goggles on He Wei. He Wei then pulled the trigger and fired wildly at the barrage in front of the position.

da da da da

Five bullets were fired quickly, and immediately, screams came. Even the violent shelling could not cover it up. Through the screams of the Japanese army, He Wei immediately judged that the Japanese army was following the artillery barrage. Not far away, they were about to close up. Realizing that the situation was not good, he immediately picked up the phone and ordered each platoon to fire.

But things were worse than He Wei thought. The Japanese army went crazy and didn't care about their lives. By now, the first skirmisher line of their infantry was less than 90 meters away from the artillery barrage in front.

As soon as the communications soldier picked up the phone, He Wei saw the barrage of artillery fire from the Japanese troops in front of the formation suddenly and rapidly extending. Then, what appeared in front of him were several dense lines of skirmishers, and countless Japanese troops rushed through the smoking craters. Come, and the distance between the Japanese forward and the Sixth Company's position is less than 200 meters.

He Wei continued to fire, holding on to the trigger of the heavy machine gun. Strings of [-] mm large-caliber machine gun bullets were fired continuously. At this time, there was no need to call to notify the defenders of the Sixth Company in each bunker. Frightened by the Japanese army's formation, the Japanese army rushed forward with their faces close to their faces. Even a fool knew how to open fire.

As a result, all the bunkers opened fire, and the fierce Japanese artillery fire also extended to the Sixth Company's position. Despite the thick smoke and shrapnel, and the extremely violent tremors, the shooters in each bunker desperately held on to the triggers. The firing holes were filled with thick smoke and dust, which did not affect the firing of each bunker, because under the Japanese army's dense skirmish line assault, as long as they opened fire in front of the battlefield, they could mow down the Japanese army, even if they were Shooting randomly with your eyes closed can also achieve good results.

Not only the light and heavy machine guns that served as the pillars of firepower in the bunkers opened fire, but after seeing the densely packed Japanese troops, in addition to the necessary assistant shooters and ammunition handlers, all the people in each bunker who could hold weapons went up and opened fire. All the Japanese submachine guns joined in the shooting. Under the dense firepower of the Sixth Company, the Japanese troops were knocked down like rice harvesters, but the pace and edge of their attack remained undiminished.

Boom
The sound of mortar shells exploding also sounded, and the No. [-] mortars attached to the Sixth Company also started firing. One by one, the No. [-] mortar shells exploded in the Japanese skirmisher line.

When a Japanese soldier was defeated, someone immediately came up from behind to complete the skirmisher line. Even the corpses of the fallen Japanese soldiers were scattered and distributed according to the corresponding positions of the skirmisher line. Many of the Sixth Company had participated in the Central Plains War. Veterans, such as Ge Guicai, while concentrating all their energy on shooting, they all remembered the war in the Central Plains many years ago.

At that time, the Central Army troops used the same dense formation of skirmishers on every battlefield to attack the machine gun positions of the Northwest Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army. However, today, this kind of thing actually happened to the Japanese army.

"Onboard, onboard!"

A Japanese squadron leader went into battle shirtless, waved his saber, and shouted with red eyes. Soon, after paying a heavy price, the Japanese attack forward rushed to less than 100 meters away from the sixth company position. The squadrons assigned to each squadron The heavy machine gun unit began to build simple shooting fortifications on the spot and opened fire on the Sixth Company. However, the Japanese artillery fire did not stop immediately after it extended. Instead, it continued to suppress the Sixth Company's position, covering the Japanese infantry until the last moment.

The Japanese troops who were at the forefront, at this time, also assumed the term "successful". In the bunker, even He Wei was shocked to see that the fallen Japanese infantry were not all killed by the bullets fired by the sixth company. Many people were killed by their own shrapnel.

Regardless of the cost or casualties, they just want to rush as many troops as possible into the Chinese army's positions as quickly as possible.

Crazy, crazy, the Japanese are completely crazy!
He Wei rushed to the telephone and asked the communications soldier to connect the call to the artillery position. The call was not connected yet. Suddenly, a loud bang came from the flank of the position. It seemed that there were also the screams of many Chinese soldiers. The Japanese army Naturally, the madness was not in vain. A 150mm heavy cannon shell hit the ammunition station of the [-]nd Mortar Platoon.

A very heavy 150mm sharp blasting grenade equipped with a delayed fuse hit directly above the ammunition station. After triggering the extended fuse, the shell easily penetrated the wooden shielding layer laid on the ammunition station. Two-thirds of the way through the fortification, there was a loud bang. The violent explosion of high explosives instantly detonated thirty rounds of [-] mortar shells stored in the ammunition depot. The detonating shells and the exploding heavy cannon shells immediately Cover the [-]nd Mortar Platoon.

Several ammunition soldiers and half of the gunners of a mortar squad were killed in this big explosion. Just as the shell of an [-] mortar was about to come out of the chamber, it was detonated by flying shrapnel, causing an explosion in the chamber. It was blown into pieces on the spot.

The officers and soldiers of the Sixth Company were in an unprecedented panic and suffered the heaviest losses since the war began. The bunkers were also unsettled. Shrapnel and Type [-] heavy machine gun bullets were shot in from time to time. Officers and soldiers were constantly shot and fell. land.

Sometimes, old tactics and old tactics are more effective than new tactics and new tactics. The current battle situation is the best proof. The Japanese infantry abandoned the latest skirmish group tactics and adopted the backward skirmish line tactics during the Taisho period. , launched the first attack and achieved such results!
In the command post, He Wei shouted into the microphone:

"Camp Commander Cao, Commander Cao, the Japanese infantry has rushed up. Its forward has entered area [-], and the rear of the team is still in area [-]. Let's block and fire in these areas. Quick, must be fast."

(End of this chapter)