Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 402

A little bit of arrogance is a 'smelly'!
Then, the eyes of the major general of the Japanese Army, who was watching the battle in the trench 400 meters away from the river bank, were dazzled by the sudden burst of machine gun fire.

Ushijima stood still for at least ten seconds.

He didn't understand why an abandoned army was equipped with such terrible heavy firepower.

Just for the crossing point in front of him, the Chinese invested at least 6 machine guns and 6 heavy machine guns.

If the two armies hiding in the trenches are firing at each other, these machine guns and heavy machine guns are naturally not very ruthless. Even if they are charging, the infantry who face such flames can lie down on the spot and wait for the enemy behind. It is enough for the artillery to clear its exposed firepower.

But now, for the unlucky people whose wooden boats and kayaks are almost fixed targets on the river surface, the progress of which will never exceed half a meter per second, these flying bullets are a disaster.

A 20mm machine gun bullet as thick as a cigar has a hole in the steel plate, let alone a wooden kayak.

As long as it hits, the ship's plank will be penetrated. The sandbag at the bow can provide a certain degree of defense, but it cannot prevent the hull from being penetrated below.

The shells that penetrated the hull and broke into the wooden boats and kayaks set off a storm of blood and blood. The ferociously galloping metal bullets often penetrated one person and were not satisfied, and then jumped into another human body until they were stuck by hard human bones.

The blood splatter images visible to the naked eye are displayed one by one on the river surface with the creepy "dong dong dong" muffled sound of machine guns.

The river was stained red.

Shouting at the top of their lungs, the Japanese infantry jumped off the boat, which did not give them a sense of security, and entered the water.

But that undoubtedly exacerbated their deaths.

Six heavy machine guns, the target is not the wooden boat floating on the river, but the water surface.

Just like the heavy machine guns of the Japanese army, they used coverage shooting and relied on probability. The Japanese army who hid in the water had no other choice but to rely on the blessing of Amaterasu.

What's more, under such a blow, the Japanese army on the river did not receive the signal to retreat. Due to the strict military law, they could only move forward.

And in front of them, there is a wide water surface more than 100 meters wide, and they want to walk over like this holding their guns
I'm afraid it can't be done in 2 minutes.

2 minutes is enough for a heavy machine gun that is continuously firing continuously to pour out a thousand rounds of bullets.

And what they had to face were six heavy machine guns, and six machine guns that were attacking the boat.

The infantry artillery and mountain artillery that the Japanese army was waiting for did not fail to make efforts to shell the firepower of the Chinese in the distance.

But the tragedy is that the firing points of the Chinese are all covered by trees and bushes, and they are more than 1000 meters away from the artillery observers on the river bank.

What's more terrible is that at the beginning of the battle, the Chinese ignited an unknown number of piles of wet tree trunks. Looking around, there was thick smoke everywhere, which completely integrated the smoke from machine guns and heavy machine guns. They have no way of pinpointing them precisely.

And in the hilly forest where they couldn't see the exact location, every machine gun and heavy machine gun was tightly surrounded by soldiers with sandbags and felled trees. The double-layer fortification with a vertical height of 1.7 meters might not be able to withstand 100 meters. The air waves of heavy artillery above the caliber, but as long as they are not hit by the front, the 75mm caliber 41 mountain cannon and the 70mm caliber infantry artillery do not pose much threat to it.

Tang Dao had already calculated the scale of firepower of the Japanese army. With the equipment of non-mechanical troops, the infantry can run so fast is already strong enough. If the artillery can run so fast, then this battle would have been impossible to fight, and it can last until now ?
The heaviest firepower that the Japanese army could invest in the early stage was nothing more than the Type 41 mountain artillery.

Tang Dao's judgment was correct.

Not only the caliber of the Japanese artillery is not large, but also because of the limited number of artillery, there is still an extremely long distance from the fire coverage.

This kind of shelling, which can only rely on experience to judge the direction, will naturally not have much effect.

Ushido could see the Japanese soldiers at the river crossing point struggling forward under the rain of bullets, but the major general of the Japanese army looked sternly in his eyes, with the corners of his mouth grimly pursed, and looked at the other side of the river without saying a word.

Although the Chinese firepower at the river crossing point here is fierce, he still has a little luck. Maybe it's just that the river crossing point here is unlucky, and the Chinese just concentrated all their heavy firepower here?
1 minutes later, his luck was shattered by telegrams from three other crossing points.

Almost every crossing point encountered terrible machine guns and heavy machine guns, and the infantry guns and heavy machine guns responsible for covering fire did not give enough blows to the opponent.

The Chinese commander is really too cruel.

The terrified Ushidoman finally confirmed at this moment that what he was going to face was probably not an infantry regiment or an infantry brigade, but a Chinese infantry division. Otherwise, why would they be equipped with so many weapons? The 20mm cannon that he couldn't help but envy?
Abandon an infantry division directly!Ushijima couldn't help admiring the courage of the Chinese commander.

As for the machine gun that Ushishima wanted, the Japanese Army actually needed it.

However, given that this type of artillery is mainly used for air defense or flat shooting against armored targets, the Chinese have few aircraft and tanks.

So, the old bastards in the staff department who stood up and talked without back pain slapped their foreheads, why did the badass come here?Wasting the empire's precious resources?In this way, machine guns disappeared from the Japanese army's budget like submachine guns.

It was not until a year later that the Japanese Army was equipped with Type 89 machine guns one after another because they suffered a lot from the machine guns imported by the Chinese in several major battles.

Now, the only brigade-level troops of the Japanese army can take out only 70mm infantry guns.Although this thing is an excellent offensive weapon, it is very good at fortification and fixed targets, but it is far inferior to the killing and damage of machine guns on infantry.

Tang Dao concentrated all 21 machine guns under his command, and fired frantically at the Japanese infantry trying to cross the river in the water.

In just 1 minute, more than 60.00% of the ships were destroyed. Although the casualties caused were not large, the bullet holes left on the human body were close to the size of a bowl, and even directly tore half of the human body. The Japanese infantry who witnessed all this had a nightmare for half a month.

Compared with machine guns, heavy machine guns are less powerful, but as long as they can kill people, it is enough.

On land, a bullet may not be fatal, but in water, if you cannot maintain your balance, you will be dead.

Because of panic, able-bodied people who can swim may drown, let alone the wounded who lose their mobility.

Ushijima Mitsuru, who thought he had insight into the opponent's strength, finally ordered to retreat.

Regardless of the blows that Hezhong encountered, if his four infantry squadrons rushed over, they would still deliver food to the Chinese with enough troops.

In the past, Ushidoman still had the confidence that four infantry squadrons could withstand the attack of a Chinese infantry brigade for an hour, but after the Songjiang battle, this confidence gradually disappeared.

However, I am afraid that Ushishima Man himself has not realized this kind of psychology.

Or, even if he realized it, the major general of the Japanese army would instinctively refuse to admit it!
But for the Japanese army at this moment, whether they are retreating or advancing, they have to cross more than 100 meters of wide water.

Moving slowly and without cover, they could only let the machine guns and machine guns slaughter them.

Of the four infantry squadrons, less than a quarter were able to return to the shore.

Nearly 600 Japanese soldiers died in Suzhou Creek.

At the cost of 600 people, Ushishima Man, who finally knew the approximate strength of his opponent, completely stopped, no longer tried, and quietly waited for the main force to arrive.

The major general of the Japanese army was not depressed by the defeat, but his ambition became stronger. He didn't need a heavy artillery brigade. Just three artillery regiments could let the Chinese light infantry division know what fire coverage is.

At that time, he will lead the army to cross the river again, and kill the Chinese light infantry who have completely lost their heavy firepower in the mountains and forests.

However, he didn't see it. After seeing the Japanese army was beaten up and became honest, Zhuang Shisan in the woods quickly got up: "Brothers, go and help the brothers of the fire support company move things and withdraw! Also, Pay attention to Lao Tzu, don't let the devil on the other side find out."

Therefore, not only was there no infantry division that Ushido imagined, but half an hour later, there was not even a single Chinese infantry soldier along the river bank.

From the very beginning, Tang Dao never thought of fighting the Japanese on the river bank. Regardless of the elites of the 67th and 43rd armies under his command, he can only be cannon fodder in the face of terrible heavy artillery.

At that time, all the heavy firepower was mobilized to attack the tempting Japanese army, but it was just a feint to scare them.

Scared to stop the Japanese army, he ran away.

The advance regiment was not trying to block the Tenth Army of the Japanese Army, but to delay the time as much as possible until night came.

Of course, that was also Ushidoman's preconceived idea, thinking that the main force of the Songjiang defenders had already crossed the Suzhou Creek, and if they wanted to get away from the pursuit, the banks of the Suzhou River were the best blocking position.

However, the generals of the Japanese Tenth Army did not know that the target they were chasing madly was in the hills on the south bank of the Suzhou River, only ten kilometers away from them.

The 18th Division of the advancing Japanese army and the heavy artillery brigade it protected were only five kilometers away from the mountain at the closest time.

Almost as long as the guns are set up on the spot, those 20,000 people can be buried.

It's a pity that Lieutenant General Yanagawa Hirasuke's wrong intuition made them miss it.

They are now nothing but an angry bull being led by the nose by Tang Dao.

I just don't know it yet.

(End of this chapter)