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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 732 (2) Waves of Attacks

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    Von Neuhaus still uses the same old tactics in using his own artillery, that is, before the enemy's artillery fires and exposes the position, his artillery must not swarm up and fire across the board. In the military dictionary of the German Major General, the artillery of one's own side  The first task is to suppress and destroy the enemy's artillery units, followed by bombarding the opponent's infantry to provide fire support for your own troops.

    Under the stern scolding and encouragement of the squadron leader, Lieutenant Taguchi, the Japanese troops on the core position of the 1st Squadron stabilized and began to fight back. Four 7.62mm Browning heavy machine guns and six 6omm platoons hidden in the trenches attacked.  The artillery began to provide fire support for the core positions of the three squadrons. At this time, under successive waves of German artillery fire, the 1st Infantry Squadron located in the protrusion 5o meters in front of the squadron's core position had already suffered more than half of its casualties. The 75-man squad was now  There were less than 40 people left, and they were still resisting desperately under the command of the injured team leader Kamezo Kojima.

    Between 100 and 50 meters in front of the position, there were many corpses of German reconnaissance battalion soldiers. Many German soldiers were lying on the ground and shooting at the 1st team of the small island. Moreover, the commander of the German company also ""sent  Two detachments tried to outflank the Xiaodao team's position. The German infantry company's 7.6mm light mortar position had been deployed 500 meters away, and a 4.6-kilogram mortar kept exploding on the Xiaodao team's position.

    At the same time, the front lines of the 2nd Squadron and 3rd Squadron on the left and right flanks were also attacked by at least one company of German infantry.  The machine gun team's four 7.62mm Browning heavy machine guns and six 6omm platoon mortars were firing desperately to cover and support the positions of the three teams. It was only a matter of minutes before the Germans would rush forward and occupy the position.

    A German infantry company has 3 platoons. The first platoon has 2 infantry squads, 2 light machine gun squads, and a grenade mortar squad, with a total of 45 people. The 2nd platoon has no mortar squad, with 36 people.  , the 3rd platoon has the same organization as the 1st platoon, also with 45 people. In this way, a German infantry company made in 1918 has 126 combat soldiers, plus the company headquarters squad is about 14o people, the entire company has 6 light machine guns  and four 7.6cm light infantry mortars

    ""The strength of a squadron of the Japanese Army is only 75, with two 20-box Browning squad machine guns and two 60mm platoon mortars. In fact, the firepower of an infantry squadron of the Japanese Army is  It is similar to a German infantry company, so at this time, a small team is under repeated bombardment by enemy artillery. It is obviously very difficult, even impossible, to resist the attack of a German infantry company.

    If it were not for the four 7.62mm air-cooled Browning heavy machine guns and six 6omm platoon mortars of the machine gun team on the core position commanded by Taguchi, which exerted great power to withstand the attack of three German infantry companies,  The position of the 1st Infantry Squadron of the Japanese Infantry Corps was likely to be easy to defend in less than 10 minutes. The phone line was blown up and Taguchi, who lost contact with the rear, fought to the death. In order to avoid being unable to retreat, the German reconnaissance battalion  The necessary casualties were not risked in a desperate attack, and the two sides actually showed a stalemate for a while.

    The exchange of fire within 100 meters was a painful stage for both sides. The attackers had many people, but they could only lie down on the ground and use the cover of the terrain to fire. The defenders had few people, but at least they had trench shelters and cannons that had been repaired all afternoon.  , the fact is that in "Beiyang 1917 Chapter 732 (Two Waves of Attacks"), the German army maintained a siege posture and stayed in front of the position nearly 100 meters away. The purpose was also to attack Harbin on its own side.  The artillery in Cobh City avoids accidental damage when providing artillery support for itself.

    In this era, German industrial enterprises developed a wooden-handled hand grenade in 1916. After repeated tests, this hand grenade was named the M18 long-handled hand grenade, and was immediately equipped with a large number of troops.

    M18 is composed of pull ring, pull cord, pull tube, sulfur, detonator and other parts.  The working principle is to use a steel pipe filled with glass powder, roll a brushed copper wire into a ball and place it in the glass powder. One end of the copper wire is connected to the fire rope, and the other end is connected to the fuse and sulfur. The friction between the copper wire and the glass powder is used to create a fire.  Light the fuse and brimstone.  When using it, unscrew the cover on the handle, pierce the safety paper, pull out the pull ring and put it on your finger, and you can throw it.

    The German front-line troops have very good evaluations of the M18. This wooden-handled grenade can be thrown very far and very accurately. German soldiers can accurately throw it into the trench dozens of meters away, killing a large number of enemy troops in the trench.  Soldier.  At the same time, this kind of grenade adopts the form of clustered "Beiyang 1917", which can successfully blow up iron wires, the enemy's simple civil fortifications, and can even deal with British tanks that were still in their infancy at the time.

    However, the throwing distance of the German M18 long-handled grenade is generally between 30 meters and 50 meters, and the power of the M18 grenade is not as powerful as the later M24 high-explosive grenade that was finalized in 1924. At this time, the German army  The M18 long-handled grenade is a Chinese imitation of the British Mills melon-style grenade G17. The killing radius is roughly 715 meters. Of course, when the grenade explodes, a very small number of fragments may fly nearly 100 meters.

    In fact, the sharp knives of the German reconnaissance battalion?The remnants of Kojima Kamezo's 1st Squadron were repulsed at the first moment of the battle between the two sides. The Japanese infantry relied not on the core position of the squadron that had not yet recovered to provide machine gun and mortar fire support, but on  The Chinese-made G17 grenades equipped by the Japanese army, and many of the M18 long-handled grenades thrown by the German sharp knife platoon after rushing into 50 meters were picked up and thrown back by Kojima's subordinates without fear of death.

    It turns out that one of the biggest shortcomings of the German M18 long-handled grenade at this time is that the "entertainment show" time when the fuse is burning is too long, resulting in the M1918 style explosion taking too long. It actually takes 6 to 7 seconds from pulling the string to explosion.  time.  In other words, the grenade usually has to stay at the enemy's feet for three to four seconds without exploding. The enemy soldiers have time to dodge or even throw it back.

    The Chinese-made G17 grenade equipped by the Japanese army only took 4 seconds from being fired to exploding. Therefore, Kojima Kamezo and the rest of the first team were able to repel the first and most ferocious German attack. It was thanks to the equipment and equipment of both sides.  Throwing grenades.

    The 1st Squadron of the 16th Infantry Battalion of the 6th Japanese Infantry Regiment, which was deployed at the outpost, was in a bitter battle under the leadership of the squadron leader Taguchi. The position was in danger and it was a bit unbearable!

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