Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

Chapter 576: Repelling the Enemy's First Attack

This arrogant order immediately caused all the Japanese soldiers in the Shanbian Battalion to burst into laughter, and then they attacked the defensive positions of the New Second Regiment as if they were injected with chicken blood.

We have to admit that although the Japanese were arrogant, they did have the capital to be arrogant. Captain Yamabe first bombarded our front-line positions with the Type 92 infantry gun, which also exposed our firepower points.

The next attacking company's Captain Inukai first sent out a small team of soldiers, who, under the cover of artillery fire, slowly advanced towards our position in a skirmish line. Behind them were the Type 99 light machine gunners who provided cover, and the grenade throwers were also ready to provide fire support.

Once we lose our patience and expose our light and heavy machine gun firepower points, the Japanese's Type 92 infantry guns and a large number of grenade launchers will jointly bombard us. Within a few rounds, the core weapons of our defensive positions, the light and heavy machine guns, will be destroyed, and then we will be unable to resist the Japanese's large-scale attack.

This tactic has been used repeatedly by the Japanese in China in recent years. Every time, they are able to break through our defensive positions at the lowest cost. Even the strong fortifications built by the Central Army could not last long.

In the final analysis, it is because our army's weapons and equipment are backward and ammunition is extremely scarce. If the Japanese used their tactics on the battlefields in Europe and the United States, those powerful industrial countries abroad would teach them a lesson in minutes.

Captain Fan saw a squad of Japanese soldiers attacking, and there was a distance of about eight meters between the two groups of Japanese soldiers, with 3-4 people in a group, coordinating the attack.

He couldn't help but laugh and said, "The Japs only have these three tricks. Now they have used the first one. Now it depends on how we respond."

"Pass on my order. All heavy weapons should not be moved. As soon as the Japanese infantry enters the rifle range, open fire immediately. Don't save bullets. Even if ten bullets can kill one enemy, we will still make a profit."

After the soldiers received the order, except for the sharpshooters and veterans with good marksmanship who could shoot freely, the rest of the soldiers, under the leadership of the squad leader, fired in volleys.

Everyone was equipped with the Ma Sihuan rifle, which was much better than the Japanese's Type 38 rifle, especially when shooting at long distances, it had a great advantage.

Seven or eight rifles fired at the same time, and if you were lucky, you could sometimes kill or injure a Japanese soldier; if you were unlucky, it didn't matter, you could just treat it as practicing your shooting skills.

After our soldiers fired a shot, they quickly ejected the cartridge, reloaded it, aimed in the general direction of the target, and continued shooting. On the battlefield, stray bullets can sometimes be very deadly.

A Japanese squad had about 55 people, and there were only about soldiers holding rifles on the front line. There were about people in a company of a battalion, and about people using rifles, which meant there were almost four rifles against one Japanese soldier, not including a sharpshooter and four precision shooters.

In the first round of shooting, twelve attacking Japanese soldiers were killed. The remaining Japanese soldiers immediately lay on the ground and fired at us according to the tactical requirements. After most of our soldiers had fired a magazine of bullets, only eight Japanese soldiers were left intact.

When Captain Inukai saw what was happening from behind, he immediately showed an expression of disbelief. This situation was completely different from what he had imagined.

Now he is also facing a difficult choice. We all use rifles to shoot, so should they use grenade launchers to bombard our infantry? It seems a bit uneconomical to use grenade launchers' special grenades to bombard our infantry.

After all, if we talk about exchange value, in the minds of the Japanese, one grenade should be exchanged for a light machine gun.

However, Captain Fan's next move made Captain Inukai immediately feel that their opponent was completely different from those they had encountered before.

The few remaining Japanese soldiers that Captain Fan had left were hiding very well, so he ordered the grenade launchers to fire at them, basically carpet bombing in the general direction, and then they ran away after the attack, forcing the hidden Japanese soldiers out.

This trick really worked. We used more than ten grenades and finally killed three more Japanese devils.

Seeing this, Captain Inukai had no time to care about anything else and could only order all light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers to open fire to cover the remaining Japanese soldiers as they retreated.

The first round of the battle ended like this. The three enemy attack teams lost a total of more than 50 people, and only five of our soldiers were injured, and all of them were slightly injured. The main reason was that the Japanese's Type 38 rifle had limited lethality, and many of them only made holes in the body.

It was not until this time that Captain Shanbian realized that they had encountered a tough opponent. The individual skills of the soldiers of the New Second Regiment were comparable to those of their veterans, which led to the failure of their brigade's first offensive.

Next, the Japanese also started to get serious. Their artillery preparation before the attack became much stronger. When the infantry was attacking, their light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers were also firing at full capacity.

Fortunately, the first battalion had already predicted the enemy's attack and built targeted fortifications, especially light and heavy machine guns and other firepower points. They also specially built machine gun bunkers using a large amount of reinforced concrete.

The Japanese grenade launchers hit the bunkers, but basically did not cause much damage, and an enemy battalion had only two Type 92 infantry guns, which were unable to effectively suppress our light and heavy machine gun firepower.

When the Japanese infantry approached our position, three companies opened fire at the same time, with the Ma Sihuan rifle against the Type 38 rifle, the Czech light machine gun against the Type 92 light machine gun, the Maxim heavy machine gun against the Type 92 heavy machine gun, and the grenade launchers of both sides bombarded each other.

In terms of these main weapons, the New Second Regiment actually still has an absolute advantage, but the Japanese have two Type 60 infantry guns, while the First Battalion is also equipped with four mm mortars, so the difference is not too big.

Moreover, Kong Jie also has two artillery battalions in his hands, with a total of 20 artillery pieces of 75 mm and above. However, for some reasons, they are temporarily withholding them in order to use them at the critical moment and secure victory in one fell swoop.

In this kind of battle where the enemy and our side directly confront each other, the final test is the logistical supply capabilities of both sides. Whoever can hold on to the end will be the ultimate winner.

In the past, each soldier in our troops had only three to five bullets on average, and the soldiers had to rely on these few bullets to fight a battle. The only option was to engage in mountain ambushes and use superior forces to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese. At the cost of huge casualties, they could destroy the enemy and seize a large number of weapons and equipment. This was also the only way.

It's not that we didn't want to fight this kind of brutal war before, but we simply didn't have the ammunition reserves and couldn't afford it.

It was just a rifle exchange of fire just now. Although fifty Japanese soldiers were killed, on average every soldier emptied an entire magazine, and almost two thousand rounds of bullets were consumed, which was enough for the independent regiment to launch an ambush.