Chapter 950 Kruger’s Circus 1
Rifle grenades and grenade launchers first dropped grenades from the air, causing the first round of damage to the Japanese front line. The killing effect of this round of attack was relatively limited. It did not require killing many Japanese soldiers, but caused the opponent's formation to be scattered. The real fatal thing was the machine gun that suddenly opened fire from 400 meters away! A company's dozen or so various thousands of guns formed a dense net of fire on the small front. The Japanese troops rushed over like moths throwing fire, and were instantly torn into pieces by bullets fired from all directions. The staggered arrangement of machine gunners and three times more semi-automatic rifles formed an almost insurmountable blockade 400 to 200 meters away!
Bang bang, several soft sounds came from behind the charging Japanese army. The Japanese army, which was beaten by machine gun fire and couldn't raise its head, finally began to use rifle grenades to suppress it. Although these grenades with curved trajectories have a very short range, they can shoot indirectly. There are always a few rounds of grenades that can pose a threat to the German machine gun positions that are shooting. After a burst of intensive grenades, a group of Japanese troops continued to charge along the gap in the fire. At this time, there were naturally submachine gunners suppressing them. At a distance of about 100 meters, the Japanese army encountered denser firepower and more flexible opponents!
If this is the case, the two sides will fall into a relatively long war of attrition. The Germans will consume ammunition, while the Japanese will consume lives! Time will drag on for a long time, which is something Seeckt never wants to see. If he can only do this, then he can only be regarded as a relatively good German general, and as the father of the German "One Hundred Thousand Wehrmacht" in history Major General Sekter naturally has more than this ability!
While the infantry units of both sides were fighting together, a unique tank unit was put into the battlefield. These trucks and half-track vehicles were equipped with steel plates and equipped with large-caliber machine guns, mortars and small artillery. The mechanized force has become the most eye-catching presence in normal battles. This force was originally a model force created by Kruger based on the Bavarian mechanized infantry when he was the commander of the Fourth Army. Now, Major General Seekert serves as Kruger The former chief of staff, when he left the First Army to join other units, Kruger temporarily assigned this unit to Major General Sekter, which could be regarded as a parting gift.
This force, which was originally nicknamed "Kruger's Circus", did not play a big role at the beginning of the campaign. On the one hand, it was because the hilly areas in northeastern France were difficult to travel, and on the other hand, because of the British and French The firepower is too strong. The German tanks are all said and done, not to mention the improvised cars?
But now that the war is unfolding in the plains, and facing the Japanese legion whose firepower is not strong, these "circus" members finally have room to play! In short, this force composed of machine gun trucks, half-track self-propelled mortars, truck cannons, motorized infantry and cavalry became the last straw to crush the opponent! Although these things are not very strong, they pack a lot of firepower!
"Chuchuchu" a series of sounds different from ordinary machine guns sounded on the battlefield. Compared with the sound of the mg series, which was like tearing oilcloth, the sound emitted by this machine gun was deeper and more powerful, like the sound of hitting a drum head with a small hammer. Bullets were fired from 1,000 meters away. Before the Japanese soldiers could see their opponents clearly, they suddenly found that their comrades next to them had been reduced to a ball of minced meat!
The M2 large-caliber machine gun is indeed something that can be used for nearly 100 years! Reasonable structure,
It has excellent performance. People who have used it say it is good. The trajectory of bullets 1000 meters away is still straight! According to the German soldiers who have used it, this thing can be used as a sniper rifle after being equipped with a 4x scope!
The power of bullets is so huge that it can completely "shatter" human-level targets. Those who remain calm in the face of ordinary machine gun fire can be called warriors, but when they see each of their comrades, they instantly turn into a bloody mess. After a group of people, there are too few people who can still fight. Especially when you can't reach your opponent and can only be massacred unilaterally!
The half-track at the front was equipped with dozens of large-caliber machine guns "sent over" from the Air Force. As the tank slowly advanced, a moving fire net continued to extend towards the Japanese troops. The artillery fire also threw rounds of shells into the Japanese formation. The speed of the "circus" assault was so fast that they easily tore through the Japanese army's not dense defense line like a sharp cavalry sword, and then penetrated all the way to the end, like a steel storm, constantly attacking everyone who could come into contact with them. opponent!
Not to annihilate them all, but to scatter them, defeat them, and then quickly move to another battlefield! The remaining tasks were left to the infantry at the rear.
"We seem to have discovered something remarkable." Major General Hohenberg picked up the telescope in his hand. He saw something like an antenna on a car in the distance. This suspected radio thing caught his attention. In this era Communication between the two sides basically relies on field telephones and not-so-reliable radios. In Germany, the most that can be equipped with a transmitting station is the regiment. If faced with the British and French troops, Major Hohenberg still cannot determine the identity of the other party. But if it is the Japanese army, then it is definitely a division-level headquarters! The reason is simple, the French will not equip a Japanese regiment with a radio base station!
At this time, the headquarters of the Third Division is here. Utsunomiya Taro and his staff are analyzing the battle situation. With the current level of information transmission and chaos on the battlefield, Utsunomiya Taro can only know that those troops are finished. Those troops are almost gone, and those troops may not have entered the battlefield yet. As for contacting a certain brigade and issuing an attack order? Just save it. It is not easy to find the commander within half an hour after the order is issued.
At this time, in addition to his own headquarters of 300 men, Utsunomiya Taro also had two-thirds of the cavalry regiment with about 600 men, and a smaller artillery regiment with 8 artillery pieces and more than 700 men. Coupled with a small number of other combat troops, about 2,000 people, this is already the largest unit of the Third Division at present! But in a few dozen minutes, it won’t be the case!
Such a big movement made the Japanese quickly discover this unit, and the cavalry men of the division rushed forward. The feat of cavalry charging tanks was performed on the battlefield more than 20 years in advance.
History has proven that using four-wheeled carriages to tow machine guns can effectively deal with cavalry, but for a convoy loaded with bullets, large-caliber machine guns and mortars, such cavalry has no effect except to interpret their tragedy!
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