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Chapter 261: The Great Sniper Appears and the Evil is Retreated

The battle was in full swing. In the first wave of counterattack, the brigade commander on the southern front was very powerful and destroyed five divisions of the Japanese in one fell swoop.

The commander of the northern division was not to be outdone and took advantage of darkness to launch an extreme encirclement.

The main force regiment, which had been lurking in the mountains for a day, suddenly surrounded the three infantry regiments of the Japanese vanguard, while resisting the frenzied resistance of the two subsequent divisions of the Japanese.

While using 107mm firepower to cover the Japanese in the encirclement, they launched a fierce attack and spent half the night to defeat the three main infantry regiments of the Japanese vanguard division that had advanced on the northern line.

This was equivalent to destroying all the infantry regiments of a Japanese guard division, and most of its artillery regiments.

On the first day of the Japanese's fierce attack, six divisions suffered heavy losses, forcing Kurihara Nobuo to withdraw his troops and retreat to lick his wounds.

The bloody reality cruelly shows that when the Japanese lost their air superiority and artillery advantage, the artillery advantage shifted to others, and it was no longer feasible to rely on infantry to turn the tide in the entire field battle.

Nobuo Kurihara had to lament that the Locust Army no longer had any advantage over the Eighth Route Army, which made Nobuo Kurihara realize that without fire support, relying on the current offensive method would simply not work.

Without the ability to provide powerful artillery firepower to the front line, any troops sent out now would be in vain.

Six divisions were crippled that day, and the bigwigs at the headquarters were crying. Even though the ones being crippled were the 6rd Regiment's Guard Division, a waste of the new third-line troops, the Japanese couldn't afford to be hurt.

The battle line is now too long. The locust army has to face millions of opponents in the thousands of kilometers of Pacific Ocean and South China Sea, as well as millions of square kilometers of Northeast Asian battlefields.

Originally, it was believed that the opponents on the mainland were the weakest, and the Japanese wanted to clean up this area first before boldly fighting the Allied forces led by the Rogue Eagles on the southern front.

The entire war situation was supported by the occupied fertile land and products.

Who knew that they would be hit hard right at the start, completely shattering their Operation Zero Plan!
Especially on the southern front, we were totally unprepared for the defeat!
It was as if the Eighth Route Army tank unit suddenly appeared, and its combat power was completely beyond the expectations of the Japanese.

The tank division, which had originally been highly expected, had almost no ability to fight back against the enemy's tank forces.

The battle of the chariot duel was completely one-sided.

You should know that their intelligence personnel had already figured out the enemy's combat power in advance. The enemy had tanks and had fought in battles, but the assessment results showed that the enemy's tanks should be on par with medium tanks.

Who would have known that in the battle on the southern front, after the main 4 tank regiments of the tank division pushed forward across the board, they faced an opponent with more than twice the armored force, but achieved almost no results.

The main force of the entire tank division was almost wiped out. If the light tanks at the back had not seen the situation and quickly turned around, perhaps all four tank regiments would have been lost on the battlefield!
Of course, after a day of intense fighting, more than a dozen tanks from the three tank battalions of the Eighth Route Army were still stranded on the positions. Fortunately, the large infantry forces that followed crushed and wiped out the Japanese infantry.

With the emergency repairs of the logistics support company, these stranded tanks were barely able to be driven back into the city. After inspection, it was found that these tanks needed to wait for a major overhaul before they could be put into the next battle.

During the high-intensity battle, the tank battalion suffered heavy losses due to combat damage and mechanical equipment failures, with one of the nine tank companies being reduced to one.

However, compared with the Japanese tank division, the tank battalion's survival rate is much higher.

At most, less than a quarter of the light tanks and artillery tanks of a Japanese tank division were left and escaped. All the medium tanks that rushed to the front were blown up and turned into scrap metal. The strongest assault force of the Japanese was wiped out in this battle.

This prompted the brigade commander to take bold action.

Zhang Bei.

It turns out that this group is the absolute main force in the first division.

A batch of mysterious weapons was received on this day.

"Commander, what good things did you receive? You look so happy." The chief of staff couldn't help asking as he saw the commander grinning from ear to ear.

"This is a secret weapon distributed to our regiment by the military district's logistics department. I heard that it is the latest product of Taiyuan Military Industry and can blow up the Japanese tanks." The regiment commander said with a smile.

"This solves a big problem for us. Although we had RPGs before, their range was short. Without a position to rely on, it was difficult to fight against the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles in the wild. Now, this weapon is said to be specifically designed to attack tanks and armored vehicles. It is said that the strike range is over 600 meters. As for sniping people, it is more than 2000 meters away!"

After the regiment commander finished speaking, the chief of staff suddenly became excited.

Due to the lack of a stable base, the military industry of Jin-Cha-Ji has always been in its infancy, mainly solving the problem of the supply of infantry light weapons and ammunition. Even mortars and grenade launchers are intermittent and the supply cannot be guaranteed. Only in the counterattack in Jindi, after opening up the entire Cha'nan area of ​​Beiyue and Zhangbei, and connecting with Jindi, did the weapons supply of Jin-Cha-Ji reach a new level, and the first division, the third regiment and the 25th regiment were upgraded to three Type A regiments, and the old Eighth Regiment of Jizhong was transferred to Cha'nan for reorganization and upgrading to a Type B regiment.

The Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region finally had a mobile combat force that could directly confront the Japanese divisions.

However, tanks, 105mm howitzers, G20 anti-aircraft guns, and even mountain artillery are not easy to deliver to southern Chahar, so the heavy firepower on the Jin-Cha-Ji side is now an order of magnitude behind the main force in Shanxi.

Especially when fighting against the Japanese armored forces, relying on RPG rocket launchers, it is difficult to fight against even the light armor of the Japanese when there is no fortification support in the wild.

RPG rocket launchers can only accurately attack armored vehicles within a range of 200 to 300 meters. Beyond this range, both the accuracy and power will be greatly reduced.

However, each of the Japanese divisions basically had a dozen armored vehicles or light tanks, which posed a huge threat to the troops.

The lack of effective means of restraint has greatly restricted many battles.

But now with the new long-range armor-piercing weapons, the whole situation is completely different. With this weapon, we can launch attacks on the Japanese armored forces in field battles!

A firing distance of 600 meters means that the odds against the Japanese armored vehicles are -!

Both sides compete to see who can kill whom first.

Unlike a rocket launcher, it is not necessary to design an ambush in advance in the terrain conditions to lure the Japanese armored forces over before killing them.

"Let me see what this good stuff is." The chief of staff opened a package with great interest and looked at the thick gun barrel that appeared in front of him. It was thicker than the barrel of a heavy machine gun, but its design was much simpler than that of a heavy machine gun.

The chief of staff picked it up and felt it. It felt quite heavy, at least more than 20 kilograms. This weight was not light, but one person could carry it.

"This scope is very powerful," the chief of staff held the weapon and tried the scope. He found that he could see very far. The cracks in the bark of the trees that were originally vaguely visible on the opposite hilltop could now be clearly seen!
This is about 700 to 800 meters away, and I didn't expect to see it so clearly.

"It is said to be an eight-fold scope, one of the latest research results of the Dawn Research Institute. Now this weapon is called the QB44 sniper rifle. Our regiment has obtained 6 of them, with 1000 rounds of bullets. Next, we will find 12 to 18 sharpshooters, and we will set up a sniper squad that can attack tanks and armored vehicles, and it will be directly under the command of the regiment headquarters." The regiment commander set the tone for the matter in a few words.

Almost at the same time, all Type B regiments and above in Jin-Cha-Ji received this mysterious weapon and began to form their own anti-material sniper squads.

For them, this anti-armor force with extremely low manpower consumption is now a secret weapon for them to turn defeat into victory by launching a dimensionality reduction attack against the party with inferior equipment.

Taking into account that the equipment of the troops in Jin-Cha-Ji was much worse, when the Dawn Research Institute developed the first generation of sniper rifles and sought Ren Zhong's opinion, Ren Zhong recommended without hesitation to complete the equipment for Jin-Cha-Ji first.

Because this weapon is a versatile weapon, it can not only counter light armored vehicles, but also counter cars and long-range sniping and other functions. It is one of the most powerful remote-controlled forces on the battlefield!

If used properly, it is much more powerful than the RPG rocket launcher.

Because the rockets of the bazooka are limited, in comparison, the number of bullets in the sniper belt is much greater than that of rockets, and its sustained combat capability is much stronger than that of the bazooka.

The two are not in a competitive weapons relationship at all.

In particular, the range of the RPG rocket launcher is relatively short, and is not on the same order of magnitude as the sniper rifle.

However, there is one thing that the RPG rocket launcher cannot match that the sniper rifle cannot match. That is, when facing a medium tank, the RPG rocket launcher can knock it down, but the sniper rifle is a bit difficult and needs to aim at the weak point to effectively complete the attack.

After studying the situations in the different liberated areas, Ren Zhong basically figured out the priority of configuring sniper rifles.

There is no doubt that Jin-Cha-Ji is the place that needs it the most, as they are most lacking in precise anti-tank and anti-armor capabilities.

While the battle was raging at the front, the Dawn Research Institute in the rear did not take a single day off. Almost all the researchers and workers in the production factories were now working at full capacity in research and production.

For example, the latest product, the sniper rifle, had a first batch of 300 units, most of which were sent to Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei.

Almost all the remaining troops were sent to the division commander's front line. The division commander now has only two tank battalions under his command. Now the focus of the anti-armor force still has to rely on the infantry battalions and companies below to fight!
Therefore, when it comes to strengthening the firepower density of grassroots infantry battalions and companies, the current weapons are still insufficient. The advent of the sniper rifle has made up for a very important part of it!
Especially for the anti-armor capabilities of battalions and companies, the introduction of sniper rifles will be a groundbreaking creation.

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