latelenovela Chapter 973 Armored Vehicle Defense System
Chapter 973 Armored Vehicle Defense System
The battle started at three o'clock in the morning of that day. The Japanese army moved very quickly. After the various troops were deployed, the Japanese heavy artillery regiment began to fire at Guo Shaoqiu's position.
"Get into position, get into position, everyone get into position."
When the artillery fire sounded, the voices of grassroots officers appeared on the position. Soldiers of all levels who were sleeping quickly crawled out of their sleeping bags, then took three minutes to tidy up, and then entered the position in order.
The brothers of the Sichuan Army Corps in the rear are also ready to transport ammunition. Even though they don’t need it now, they will consume a lot of bullets when the fighting really breaks out later.
"These guys won't let us sleep well. Come on, my hands are itching."
Xiao Zheng, who was woken up by the sudden awakening, was a machine gunner. He took two steps at a time and directly got on the heavy armored vehicle next to him. His favorite thing was on it.
During the battle a few days ago, one of the wheels of this armored vehicle was destroyed. According to the combat strategy of the 72nd Army, it should have been directly blown up with a grenade. Anyway, no one would repair it. The main reason was that it would take too much manpower and material resources to repair it, and it was not certain that it could be repaired properly due to the lack of spare parts on the battlefield.
However, Guo Shaoqiu did not do so. Instead, he used tanks to tow all the combat-capable armored vehicles over, and asked the soldiers to dig a pit to use as a fixed firing point.
Building a few temporary fire points on the position is not as useful as this armored vehicle. The brothers' lower bodies are inside the armored vehicle. Except for the machine gunner on top, the others don't need to show their heads at all. It is almost equivalent to 360-degree full defense.
In this situation, even the most elite sniper of the Japanese can't do anything to us.
Within a radius of thirty meters, the firepower of armored vehicles is the center, and other locations cooperate. The Japanese who want to break through here can just dream of it.
"Heavy machine gun rapid-fire cannon ready."
Xiao Zheng had just finished scolding someone when the platoon leader's voice rang out. This section of the position belonged to their infantry, and dozens of people in the platoon were already on full alert. About 800 meters in front of them, the Japanese army was already crouching and rushing towards them in twos and threes.
This was completely different from the Japanese army we encountered last time. The Japanese army on that day had basically lost their minds. In order to regain their position, all of them rushed forward and showed us what a long live charge is.
In fact, people here like the Japanese banzai charge the most. When you think you are not going to die, our firepower can teach you a good lesson. After that battle, the ground can almost be covered with a layer of Japanese corpses.
Now these Japanese are scattered in groups of three or two and their machine guns can only fire in bursts, so it is not easy to kill them on a large scale. In fact, this is what the real Japanese army looks like in TV dramas where a large group of people rush up at any time. It is just for visual effects.
In a real war, the distance between soldiers is very large. As long as they can hear each other and talk, they will not get too close, otherwise the enemy's machine gun will sweep the charging soldiers and knock them down directly.
"Call me."
Following the order from the platoon leader, the small artillery and machine guns on the armored vehicles opened fire. The three nearby machine guns were also not idle, and they also fired at the distance. Although you soldiers are far away, our bullets are free!
The Japanese army was also stunned. They had never seen machine gun fire at such a long distance. You have to know that at such a distance, 90% of the bullets would be shot nowhere, and even the last 10% would depend on luck.
But that's how the 72nd Army fights. If there's even a chance to kill you, what's wrong with a few extra bullets? What's on those hundred or so trucks behind us? According to the order from above, they have to be used up in one fight, otherwise the next batch will arrive, and the piles will be a threat to our safety.
A large number of Japanese soldiers quickly lay down. In this situation, walking forward with their bodies half-supported would easily attract the attention of the enemy machine gun observers.
The 72nd Army uses German general-purpose machine guns. If you just wave it towards you, it will fire dozens of bullets without giving you any chance to hide.
The average firing rate of 600 rounds per minute caused great pain to many Japanese soldiers on the battlefield.
If you use a Type 99 rifle, even if it shoots at you for a long time, it will only fire a dozen bullets at you.
But this general-purpose machine gun only aims at you, and in just a moment, dozens of bullets are fired. If you are lucky, you can still survive, but if you are unlucky, you will not know where on your body you will be hit.
"Platoon leader, the Japanese soldiers are still slowly moving towards us. Why don't you fire flares?"
Xiao Zheng said in some surprise, our mortars are equipped with flares. According to the order from above, we must illuminate the positions brightly at night. For an army with abundant firepower like ours, the night is the most annoying thing.
"Why are you so anxious? If we fire the flares now, the Japanese won't run towards us. If we scare them all away, who will take the responsibility? Let's wait until they crawl forward again."
The platoon leader held up his telescope and said that although the Japanese soldiers in the distance had all lay down, they were still trying their best to crawl towards this side.
The fire support from the Japanese rear had not yet arrived, so it was obvious that they did not dare to open fire.
Our artillery is ready. As soon as the Japanese artillery speaks, we can find their position in an instant and immediately launch a covering bombardment on their artillery positions.
The battle has been going on for such a long time. As long as there is no danger in front of our position, our artillery will not be exposed.
Now we are on the defensive and feel much more comfortable than before. If we were on the offensive, our artillery would have started to speak.
Of course, our artillery focuses on total loss in the first round, that is, after the artillery has fired the first round of shells, it does not care about the life or death of those artillery pieces at all, and seizes the time to run elsewhere.
There was a second artillery position about eight or nine hundred meters away. After they fired the first round, their target was the second artillery position in the distance. When the Japanese attacked our first artillery position, the second round of artillery would destroy the Japanese artillery.
Of course, we also lost a batch of artillery, but according to Li Shaoyi, as long as the artillery is not lost, it means that we have no losses.
As for the loss of artillery? That was never considered a loss...