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Chapter 229 Too Aggrieved (Subscription! Monthly Pass!)
The major staff officer of the 114th Division and the supreme commander of the forward reconnaissance squadron.

Became the No.1 assistant officer who died in the Tenth Army of the Japanese Army.

Just 2 minutes after the start of the battle, the senior staff officer who had just obtained command for the first time in his life died.

Died by the grenadier, one of the finest light firearms of the age, developed by Japan.

Four grenades in a row, under the order of Lieutenant Colonel Tang Dao, the supreme commander of the Chinese side, precisely hit Hideyuki Koyama's hiding place, and the poor Major's entire body was torn into three parts by the grenades.

As a result, it didn't even have time to issue even one military order for the entire battle, if the previous order for the entire army to disembark and land was not counted.

This is definitely the most aggrieved battle since the establishment of the Japanese Tenth Army, not one of them.

It's nothing to kill the supreme commander in the first 2 minutes of the battle. The Japanese army's fairly good command system allowed Captain Yamamoto of the 3rd Infantry Squadron to take over the command. .

On the contrary, with nowhere to go and no way out, they showed amazing courage and will to fight. Without a bunker, they built bunkers with the corpses of their companions who were killed by bullets and grenade bombs.

If the body of Major Hideyuki Koyama hadn’t been blown up into several pieces and was no longer usable, it is very likely that a certain major would engrave his name in Japan’s war history. It would be the first officer-level human sandbag in the history of the Japanese Army.

In terms of military strength, geographical location, and firepower superiority, the Japanese army was inferior to the five infantry companies of the 67th Army that were besieging them, but their counterattack firepower was still fierce, and even suppressed the Chinese firepower for a certain period of time.

The reason is very simple, the one in the upper hand obviously does not want to die, and the current battle situation does not make it necessary for them to fight to the death.

The cavalry are also experienced veterans, and they basically shoot with their heads buried, that is, while keeping themselves from being hit by bullets, they shoot a few more bullets to increase the probability of hitting the Japanese army.

Including those light machine gun shooters who were sweating from fighting, even though they were playing happily, they fired bullets as fast as possible to increase the probability of hitting the Japanese devils.

The Japanese targets hiding in the grass more than 300 meters away are pitifully small. Who can guarantee that they can hit them by aiming for half a day?If you have that skill, it's better to shoot a few more bullets out.

This is the probability of killing. Once this mode is entered, the post-war statistics of the entire World War II, the data that every 2300 bullets will kill a soldier is not so abrupt.

More than 500 Chinese soldiers fired a total of about 10 rounds of ammunition in the fierce shooting mode of more than 20 minutes, but in fact, no more than 160 Japanese soldiers were actually killed by bullets, and the Japanese soldiers who were really injured , There must be grenades, 30 grenades, a total of [-] grenades were thrown, including its supreme commander Hideyuki Koyama, killing and wounding as many as [-] Japanese soldiers.

The casualties of more than 50 people, although it can be said that the casualties were heavy for the two infantry squadrons, were not to the point where they were injured.

In fact, because of the stupidity of the navy Malu, boarding the desperate sandbar and being beaten by the Chinese with superior positions and firepower is not considered aggrieved.

After all, there was defense and offense, and the battle was not one-sided. The grenadier soldiers who risked their lives to hide behind the bunker made of the wreckage of their colleagues also used crazy and precise grenades to completely destroy the firepower of at least four light machine guns on the Chinese side. Misfiring.

However, what the hell is it that the twelve Taisho 11 years light machine guns were finished 5 minutes after the battle started?

It was not killed by the Chinese grenade, but broken by itself
After the war, according to the description of Katori Shingo, the only survivor of the reconnaissance squadron of the 114th Division who jumped into the river in time and relied on good water skills, the Taisho 11-year machine guns they carried had jammed and other accidents one after another shortly after the start of the battle, resulting in They simply cannot implement continuous fire suppression on the Chinese on the other side.

The two infantry squadrons can only rely on the 30-type rifle that pulls the bolt once every shot and the Chinese with more than [-] light machine guns.

In that situation, if you think about it with your feet, you can imagine the aggrieved energy.

Otherwise, how could the strong military officer who was rescued after traveling [-] kilometers downstream alone in the Huangpu River shed tears of pain when talking about this?
In the end, Japanese domestic weapon design experts gave an explanation based on the characteristics of the Taisho 11 years machine gun and the geographical environment at that time: the combat environment chosen by the 114th Division was wrong.

Shameless
Facing the explanations given by the experts who belonged to the Army Headquarters, the senior generals of the Tenth Army could only use these four words in return.

But in fact, the Japanese bricklayers are really right, and they have expressed their essence in one word.

Because, in order to meet the needs of the Japanese Army based on the protection of combat ammunition, the little short-legged brickmen have developed a lot of brain holes and developed a large number of new technologies, making the Taisho 11 years machine guns universal for machine rifles, meaning infantry All five rounds of magazines can be used directly on the light machine gun.

This is actually a very avant-garde idea. When a box of bullets is opened, the loaded five-round magazines can be used directly by infantrymen and light machine guns. This saves a lot of time for loading bullets and can be used in the shortest possible time. Provide continuous fire support to the infantry.

However, this undoubtedly makes the mechanical manufacturing extremely complicated.

The actual combat has proved that the simpler the structure of the firearm, the higher the reliability is, and vice versa, the worse the reliability.

If we use the machine guns of this period as a humanoid metaphor, the DP series light machine guns of the Combat Nation is a rough man in the Northwest, who can eat well and sleep well in any environment, rarely complains about work and does not neglect;

The MG series light machine guns of the Germanic people are well-trained soldiers, but they have achieved military orders and can basically complete tasks;

The Taisho 11 years machine gun, which is the main force of the Japanese army, is just a girl who doesn't leave the door and doesn't go out. She has to lose her temper when it's cold, hot, windy or rainy.

In other words, the Taisho [-]-type light machine gun will have a relatively low failure rate only in the seasons that are neither hot nor cold, dry or wet, and under ideal conditions of careful wiping and maintenance and soft fighting intensity.

And in this Jiangxinzhou, the fog in the morning itself is heavy, and the sand that is constantly stirred up by the grenade explosion is blowing in the wind. The harsh combat environment made the Taisho 11-year machine gun Miss Jiao go on strike one by one.

Having lost the most valuable continuous firepower, the Chinese side who seized the fighter naturally aimed their light machine gun and grenade launcher at the only grenade launcher with a little counterattack capability.

No matter how brave you are, two fists are no match for four hands, right?Just like a brave young man who bravely raises his fist in the face of the villains who are doing evil, but often the final result is that when Batman does not appear, he can only squat down and hug his head, letting everyone Crazy beat.

The reality is so cruel, and it does not change because of bravery.

Lost the commander, lost the machine gun, lost the grenade, lost his colleagues, lost a lot of Japanese infantry who did not wait for Batman, but waited for the dragon.

After spending enough effort, the Chinese artillery, which had completely extinguished the three gunboats, turned its muzzle around.

Ten 150-caliber mortars hiding behind the hills showed their ferocious faces to a group of 'warriors' who were unwilling to surrender on the sand.

That was literally the end of the infantry.

(End of this chapter)