Bright Sword Military System

Among them, if there is anything the devil can threaten the Eighth Route Army, it is the grenadier in the devil's hand.

The grenade hits a curve. Not only does it have a long range, but it is also accurate. The devils hiding behind the ruins can hit the grenade near the target as long as they roughly estimate the position of the target... This can be perfect while attacking the Eighth Route Army. avoid repeating rifle fire.

However, the soldiers of the Independent Regiment were all veterans who had dealt with devils, so how could they be unprepared against grenade launchers? The soldiers had already deployed mortars on the second line.

Most of these mortars were seized in the warehouse of Datong devils. In fact, they can not be regarded as devils' equipment, but 50-type 31mm caliber mortars produced by the stubborn army 60 arsenal... This kind of mortars produced the largest number in China during the Anti-Japanese War The artillery, the monthly output reached 100 pieces in the late period of the Anti-Japanese War.

But a considerable part of these mortars fell into the hands of the devils.

They will appear in Datong because the devil's regular army, especially the first-class divisions, don't think much of mortars. In the early days, they didn't even have mortars, that is, they were not equipped with mortars.

This is because the devil has a grenadier for close combat and a 92 infantry gun for long-distance combat... In the eyes of the devil, the 92 infantry gun is much better than the mortar. It can shoot both curved like a mortar and straight like a cannon. It can hit farther and more accurately than mortars, so why waste resources on mortars?

This is true in theory, but actual combat is another matter.

As the war progressed, the devils discovered that the 92 infantry artillery was too expensive to equip on a large scale. An elite Class-A division would only be equipped with four guns, especially though it could be dismantled and transported, it was difficult to operate in mountainous and complex terrains. There are still many inconveniences in combat on terrain densely covered with water networks, and their number and flexibility are far inferior to mortars.

The range of the grenade is far inferior to that of the enemy's mortar.

Therefore, both the grenadier and the 92 infantry artillery were suppressed by the enemy's mortar without countermeasures.

This is especially true when fighting the Eighth Route Army on Taihang Mountain and Luliang Mountain.

In fact, this is a strategic mistake made by Devils in military equipment. The advantage of mortars is that they are light and cheap, suitable for mass equipment and suitable for mobile operations, but Devils blindly emphasize precision. The Type 94 90mm caliber mortars they developed and equipped There is actually a re-entry equipment for large artillery. As a result, a mortar weighs 159.9 kilograms. You must know that a 92 infantry gun is only 212 kilograms.

The devils found something was wrong when they hit it, so they transported a large number of mortars seized from the recalcitrant army to Datong and planned to distribute them to the rear troops to deal with the guerrillas and fight against the mountainous areas of the Taihang and Luliang re-lines.

Unexpectedly, these mortars fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army before they were sent out.

The mortar produced by the stubborn army is mainly used to suppress the devil's grenade. Its range is 1000 meters farther than the grenade. In addition, it is more powerful and light. The whole gun is only 40 catties, and the gunner can hold it It runs everywhere, which makes it quite useful in the fight.

At this time in Datong, the Eighth Route Army also made full use of the advantages of this kind of mortar. They deployed the mortar at a distance of about 300 meters from the front line.

This distance is calculated accurately: if the devil grenade is used, it can hit about 300 meters, and if it uses grenades, it can only hit 200 meters. …

If the mortar is deployed at a distance of 300 meters from the front line, it will be able to ensure that the devil's grenade can't hit the mortar.

But the mortar has a range of 1000 meters, and there is no pressure to hit the devil's grenade. Even if the devil uses the grenade to hit the forefront of the eight-way position... 300 plus 300 is 600, which is still within the range of the mortar .

The difficulty is that at this distance the mortar must be fired blindly.

But this is nothing to the independent regiment. As soon as the telephone line is pulled, the artillery scouts are in front, and when they observe the position of the devil's grenadier, they immediately command an artillery platoon to start bombing.

(Note: One artillery platoon has three mortars, each mortar has 10 men, and carries 36 to 40 rounds of ammunition)
Usually, after two rounds of shells, the devil's grenadier will be destroyed... This should be due to the fact that the place where the devil is located is full of broken bricks and tiles. When the shell explodes near there, the debris will turn into shrapnel and mess around. Fly, how can the devil mortar shooter hiding in the ruins escape.

If any position is breached by the devils, for example, the devils rushed into the occupied area of ​​the Eighth Route Army and inspected certain houses, then the Eighth Route Army will play a similar cheating operation...directly dispatch Sherman tanks to occupy the devils The houses collapsed, and the devils were buried together with their houses.

This is to deal with civilian houses that are close to each other. It is not convenient to use mortars to bomb such houses, because they are worried that the shells will accidentally injure friendly troops if they deviate.

If the distance is a little farther, use a rocket launcher to bombard it, and if it is further away, use a mortar.

After fighting like this for more than half an hour, the devil became more and more hopeless.

Because they can't see the "street fighting" and "close combat" that were originally expected.

Although the battle was close enough, and sometimes the houses were only a few meters away, they still couldn't touch the enemy.

And the devils have to pay a heavy price every step forward, so the devils fight less and less, and the more they fight, the lower their morale... They are almost exchanging their lives for those worthless houses, to be precise, ruins, because once the houses are destroyed It won't be long before the devils occupy it and it will be in ruins.

Obviously, if the fight continues like this, the devils will only end in annihilation.

Yoshida Shaozuo, the devil commander of the Second Battalion, yelled almost hysterically: "Where are our tanks? Where are our cannons? Why don't we fire at the enemy?"

Devils do have chariots, and the 110th Division added a chariot regiment in Taiyuan, but most of them were 95 light wars, and they couldn't break into the Eighth Route Army's defensive circle at night. Then they'll be bazookas...

Devils do have artillery, and even their artillery has an advantage.

But the problem is that the Eighth Route Army is using mortars. The mortars are small and can be scattered in the city. Not to mention its curved shooting characteristics can also make good use of buildings to block the fire from the muzzle, and its portability is very suitable. Run away after shooting, how can the clumsy heavy artillery suppress it effectively?
Then it didn't take long for even the devils to collapse.

They retreated through the gap when they went back and forth desperately, even though they knew that it had been blocked by the firepower of the Eighth Route Army.

There may be a silver lining to the retreat.

If you don't retreat, there is no hope, and the only way is to die here.

Li Yunlong's tactics even left a psychological shadow on the devils, making them afraid to break through the Eighth Route Army and rush into the city in the ensuing battle.