Chapter 3 Machine Gun Hell

The power of the Maxim series of machine guns has been fully demonstrated in the Battle of the Somme, and everyone knows its reputation. The 71st version of the United States once set a record of 4 minutes of continuous shooting.

As long as there is water and bullets, unless the barrel is scrapped, it will continue to shoot at a speed of 450-600 rounds per minute.

At the command of Zhu Bin, one machine gun in each of the 20 fortresses, no matter how bad the vision in front was, it fired violently strictly according to the ruler set before. A 250-round bullet link was completely wiped out in a blink of an eye, and at least five thousand bullets were shot forward in one minute.

There is no concept of saving bullets at all. Twenty tongues of flames swept across the fan. The high-speed bullets have a range of 1,000 meters. They pass by like sharp sickles, tearing all the crops, plants, stones and soil on the surface. The whistling sound of bullets hits like waves hitting the Japanese vanguard a hundred meters away unexpectedly. Thirty or forty people were killed and injured on the spot. The rest of the people lie on the ground without hesitation.

The observation post in front quickly reported the situation to the command center. Sakamoto Masaemon nodded lightly: "It is indeed the richest Chinese army. It is just fire-blocking. There are twenty heavy machine guns. The American machine guns and bullets are expensive. Even the Imperial Army cannot afford such a launch speed."

Chief of Staff Sasaki Yoshira said intriguingly: "Yes, fortunately, there is only this small army in the entire China. Otherwise, it would be a real trouble. Your Excellency, will we launch a general attack?"

Sakamoto Masaemon shook his head: "No, the commander of this unit is a cunning guy. They are not only prepared for this. According to the information, they have at least a hundred machine guns, and their artillery has not moved yet. Continue to fire reconnaissance."

"Hi"

The artillery fire continued to bombard the fortresses, aiming at the scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered scattered 75 shells intermittently and 150 heavy shells.

Sasaki's mouth twitched, feeling distressed, the cannon fired, and it was definitely not nonsense. A cannon cost at least 10,000 US dollars, a 75 shell costs more than ten US dollars, and a large-caliber shell costs more than 30 US dollars, and a thousand shells will cost tens of thousands. This is just a serious equipment for reconnaissance. One cannon costs 1,000 US dollars, and an artillery brigade costs at least 400,000 US dollars.

Even Japan is unable to afford such a cost. China... It is enough for them to build a division to shoot a rifle and lose it. They can only hear a sound. Poor countries can't afford it.

In the fortress ahead, Wang Haiqing swears in the dust on his head, swears: "Why is his grandmother's Japanese devil so generous today? I really put in the capital, and those bastards behind him are really calm and don't fire the fire."

Not only was he scolding, but all the soldiers who were buzzing their ears were complaining. We are not without him, why are you so arrogant as the Japanese?

Mumbled, the cannon fired but it was a pity that it was not here

After more than half an hour of preparation, the six cannons moved to the voyage finally opened fire. The first six cannons on the banks of the Ka River and twelve 152 cannons bombarded at the two Yaojin passes that attacked the Japanese army at full speed. Soon after, the third cannon position provided extended fire support. The roar of a heavy cannon was earth-shaking, and a series of violent explosions came from more than ten kilometers away. It sounded a strange shock.

"Order the 13th Regiment to launch a fire reconnaissance on the west side." Sakamoto Masaemon showed a stern expression on his face and ordered Qian'an Masashi's troops to advance.

Soon, the Japanese scattered soldiers who were advancing slowly on the side suddenly accelerated their pace and rushed into a distance of 500 meters in a blink of an eye. The 20 fortresses in front of them burst into fierce machine gun shooting, and there were 20 heavy machine guns.

Forty

Sakamoto Masaemon frowned. The other party prepared very well, forty heavy machine guns. Even if they were fired, they would consume thousands of bullets in a minute. How much reserve can they have?

"Continue Fire Reconnaissance" Facing the cunning enemy, it is not too much to be careful. It is a rash rush to rush to the opponent's position. It is irresponsible for the lives of the imperial soldiers. This is not Lushun, nor is the Chinese army from Russia. There is no need to fight for tens of thousands of young lives like Senior Nogi Hinomi.

The Japanese army of the 23rd Regiment received an order to accelerate the impact like the previous two parts, and then led to 20 heavy machine guns. Fortunately, the artillery fired a large number of smoke bombs to cover the shooting world, otherwise it would be more than just casualties of twenty or thirty people.

Sixty heavy machine guns

Sakamoto Masaemon was not calm. According to his understanding, in the entire Great Wall defense line, the number of heavy machine guns is far less dense. This is almost the number of equipment for a division of the Emperor's team, which does not include light machine guns, which accounts for a larger proportion.

"Can you say that there are actually 120 light and heavy machine guns on the opposite side?"

Lieutenant General Sakamoto was shocked by his judgment. Such numbers are more fierce than a military force in front of the Great Wall. Is it possible to actually concentrate all the enemy's machine guns on the other side? In that case, things will be a little difficult to deal with.

In addition, the fortress opposite seems to be very strong. After so long, no one was found to be blown up. These guys really invested a lot of money.

But, if you want to use such a fortress to block the pace of the Emperor* team's advance? It's too naive to see how much ammunition you have to consume

"Stop the shelling and order the front wings to launch further fire reconnaissance"

All the bottom lines of the opponent must be forced out even if they face the front of their plan, victory will be manipulated in the hands of the party with deeper calculations.

The bombardment of the Japanese heavy artillery suddenly stopped, leaving only a small number of infantry artillery bombarding the fortifications in pieces, and their aims became more and more accurate. The Japanese infantry from the three sides stood up again in the sharp whistle and launched a second attack.

Zhu Bin saw it carefully and ordered coldly: "The No. 1 C machine gun team opened fire."

60 general-purpose machine guns were added to the blocking with point shots. The clearly rhythmic bullets mixed with the continuous fire chains of the sixty machine guns in front seemed particularly abrupt. The slight muzzle fireworks were clearly seen by the Japanese observation posts in front.

The strafing of 120 light and heavy machine guns, and a heavy steel storm was scraped from the front line on three sides, with a total of at least five kilometers. The Japanese charges collapsed immediately. After advancing less than 100 meters, hundreds of people were killed or injured, and they fell to the ground to continue to hide.

"One...one hundred and twenty machine guns." Chief of Staff Sasaki's eyes widened and he actually stuttered.

Such firepower, which has not been encountered for several months, is indeed the focus of the base camp. Wouldn't such firepower consume hundreds of thousands of bullets in one hour? It's enough to fight a battle

Sakamoto Masaemon snorted coldly: "They have indeed concentrated all the machine guns here to order the 45th Regiment to increase its attack. If possible, they will break through the Dukawa estuary with all their strength."

He wasn't so stupid that everyone was blocking a place to attack. It was the most important thing to win the entire battle. As for whether to break through from the front or wrap around from the side, it was a tactical issue.

You Gaotaizi, the Japanese attack forces at the mouth of the genitals suddenly broke out. A whole regiment of more than 3,000 people, with the assistance of the infantry and artillery brigade, launched a fierce attack on the defenders of the two regiments of the 32nd Army, which had almost no machine guns and cannons.

Although the fire was assisted by a heavy artillery, the firing speed of the large-caliber gun was too slow and could not stop the Japanese attack. The call for help kept sending to the command center. Commander Shang Zhen suddenly felt a little swollen and could not hold back his breath. He was a little secretly regretting that he shouldn't have listened to Zhu Bin's deception. If this was apart from the flaws in the defense line, he would have to take the blame.

The phone call reached the forefront, and Zhu Bin smiled and comforted: "Commander-in-chief, please relax. The Japanese army will never be able to fight. I will let all the heavy artillery support you."

All heavy artillery Shang Zhen was delighted. If 36 152 cannons were supported by the past, a continuous ladder of firepower would be formed, and the Japanese army would suffer huge casualties, and the defense would be much easier there.

"But, what should you do here? Isn't this to show the Japanese all the details?"

Zhu Bin said with confidence: "Just want them to see clearly, otherwise how could they be willing to put all their troops into attack?"

Shang Zhen felt a headache. He was really a little uncomfortable with this wave of several twists of trouble. He thought that Zhu Bin was learning from Zeng Guofan, "building a tough village and fighting a stupid war" and carrying the attacks of the Japanese army. But now it seems that there are too many variables in the Japanese army, and the Japanese army is cunning and unwilling to be the one. Zhu Bin is also a lot of ways to deal with it. It is amazing.

Immediately afterwards, the other three heavy artillery positions that remained silent were all in a state of rage. The total number of 36 heavy artillery pieces continued to smash artillery shells at the attack point of the Japanese army at the maximum range, instantly curbing the offensive of the 45th Regiment on the spot.

The killing radius of 152 cannons is as high as 30 meters. Basically, everything in the cross section must be cleared after one round. It is useless to lie on the ground. The entire 20 kilometers north of the Luan River are all fields. The terrain of the two attack points is relatively flat, but there is a mountain highland opposite. The Japanese army will inevitably repeat the difficulty of attacking the front line of the Great Wall. What's more, it took the special forces more than half a month to repair a lot of work.

"He really hid the cannon. Fortunately, he believed the navy's warnings, otherwise it would be very annoying."

The sudden bombardment of another heavy artillery made Lieutenant General Sakamoto see Khan on his forehead. He and the entire army generals under the Kanto Army always thought that the Navy guys were making excuses for their failure, saying that the other party used a freighter to pull dozens of heavy artillery to sank the "Ball Mill" number. How could such a thing be possible? The combination of freighter and army heavy artillery is too ridiculous.

But in the cold-mouthed battle, the appearance of a heavy artillery and the collapse of the 14th Brigade proved that it was definitely not a joke that the other party really had strong artillery fire to come out. Chinese people who like to keep things at their disposal will not have any other tricks.

This is also the reason why Sakamoto Masae Eemon has been reluctant to drive the army to attack. The other party has hidden too many things and cannot do it casually. Now, sure enough,

The 12 fighter jets that had been rampant in Qian'ankong quickly discovered the fireworks that rose when the heavy artillery was fired, and found the cannon position hidden under the camouflage net. Without saying a word, vibrated his wings and swung his way down.

Around the cannon positions on the west bank of the river, the fully-opened heavy machine guns and double-mounted 20 machine guns, which were also covered with camouflage nets, suddenly exerted force, and three Japanese planes exploded on the spot. The rest dodged left and right and hurriedly swept to the ground, but they didn't even hurt the other side. They never expected that these cannon positions were all deep underground, surrounded by thick walls, and the shells were hidden in the fortress with a roof. Unless they hit directly with a bomb, they wanted to use their ragged 7.7 heavy machine gun to explode, without any doors.

Unfortunately, the Japanese fighter jets didn't know about this. They thought they were all like their own. One cannon was spread out on the ground, with shells and launching medicines piled up, and the artillery soldiers were sweating profusely... They could never see that the person responsible for loading the shells next to each 152 cannon was pushing a small cart, pushing the shells over and lifting them to the tail of the cannon. The other person pushed the cannon chamber hard with the launching medicines. The speed was much faster, unless they could just sweep them, the possibility of damage was too low.

However, local air defense firepower is not a slow-fitting fighter. Facing the carefully designed air defense firepower, it is not easy to avoid it. After several dive strafing, the cannons were still firing, and two more planes fell down. At this critical moment, after successfully killing ten Japanese fighters twenty kilometers away, four fighters returning to the air arrived, and the short-term air superiority disappeared immediately

Sakamoto Masaemon's face began to become gloomy. He couldn't get rid of the opponent's heavy artillery. He was always annoyed that he could not break through. It had a huge impact on the entire battle situation and political planning. The other party's bottom line was still not forced out.

In an hour, the bullets in the machine gun fortress have never stopped erupting. To calculate roughly, there are at least 300,000 to 400,000 rounds. For another hour, the other party has to change the barrel? The bullets will also run out of the heavy machine gun, but it needs water to cool it.

Not only him, but all the Japanese generals and assistants below all felt a toothache and attacked for an hour, and they fired 300,000 to 400,000 bullets. This is not a fight of tens of thousands of people. This is a pile of fortresses. How big is the guys on the opposite side? If they launch a fierce attack, the damage will be scary.

"Wait a little longer" Lieutenant General Sakamoto gritted his teeth, "ordered the 45th Regiment to maintain attack and oppression, and not allow their heavy artillery to get a gap."

The Japanese scattered line, which was so sparse that it was tug-and-forth between 1,000 meters and 300 meters, was tug-and-forth for a full hour. The machine gun firing speed in all fortresses began to weaken significantly in the afternoon... After many minutes, there were almost no continuous strafing, and they were replaced with firing point shots, "twist,twist,twist", and it seemed that all turned into light machine guns.

"Yahe, their bullets should be consumed almost the same amount."

The bullets that have been troubling for nearly one million rounds can be thirty tons in terms of weight and packaging chains. The price is much cheaper than shells, but your transportation is considered

A machine gun is ready for 10,000 bullets, which is not a small amount

China and Japan are all paupers at heart, and most of the bullets in war are single-shot rifles. It is rare to consume one million bullets in such a luxurious two-hour period. Lieutenant General Sakamoto thinks that it's almost done.
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