The 114th Division's Major Staff, the Supreme Commander of the Advance Reconnaissance Squadron.

He became the first assistant to the death of the 10th Army of the Japanese Army this time.

Just two minutes after the battle began, the senior staff officer who had just obtained the first command of his life died.

Deadly, he died of a grenade launcher, one of the best light firearms of this era developed by Japan.

Four consecutive grenades were hit accurately at Hideyuki Koyama's hiding place under the command of the Chinese supreme commander Lieutenant Colonel Tang Dao. The poor Major's entire body was torn into three parts by the grenades.

As a result, it did not even have time to issue even one military order to the entire battle, if the previous order to disembark the entire army and landed did not count.

This is definitely the most frustrating battle since the establishment of the 10th Japanese Army, no doubt about it.

It was nothing to die at the second minute of the battle. The Japanese army's excellent command system allowed Captain Yamamoto, who was in the 3rd Infantry Squadron, to take over the command. The Japanese army did not enter a situation where there was no leader in the panic.

On the contrary, they showed amazing courage and fighting will, without a bunker, and without a bunker, they used the bodies of their companions who were killed by bullets and shot grenades to form bunkers.

If it weren't for the fact that Major Hideo Oyama's body was blown into several pieces and was overwhelmed with reuse, it was very likely that a major would have engraved his name in the history of Japan's war, which would be the first Asahi official-level human sandbag in the history of the Japanese Army.

Whether in terms of military strength, geographical location or firepower advantage, the Japanese army was not as good as the five infantry companies of the 67th Army that were besieging them, but their counterattack firepower was still fierce, and even suppressed the Chinese firepower at a certain period of time.

The reason is very simple. The side in the advantage obviously does not want to die. The current situation of the war is not necessary for them to fight to the death.

The cavalry are also experienced veterans, basically shooting with their heads in their heads, that is, shooting a few more bullets while preventing themselves from being hit by bullets to increase the probability of hitting the Japanese army.

Including those light machine gun shooters who are sweating, even though they are fighting happily, they will shoot bullets as quickly as possible and hit the Japanese devils with one more point.

The Japanese hiding in the grass more than 300 meters away was pitifully small. Who can guarantee that they could hit them in a long time? If you have that skill, it is better to shoot a few more bullets.

This is the probability of killing. Once you enter this mode, the data that only one soldier will be killed for every 2,300 bullets will be less abrupt.

More than 500 Chinese soldiers fired a total of about 25,000 bullets in fierce shooting mode for more than ten minutes, but in fact, there would never be more than 20 Japanese soldiers who died of bullets. The ones that really hurt the Japanese army were grenade launchers, fifteen grenade launchers, and a total of 160 grenade launchers were thrown, including its highest commander Hideyuki Koyama, which killed and injured more than 30 Japanese soldiers.

The casualties of more than 50 people, although for the two infantry squadrons, can be said to be heavy, they are not at the point of being injured.

In fact, because of the stupidity of the Navy, Malu, and the desperate sandbank, it is not a pity to be suppressed by the Chinese with positions and firepower advantages.

After all, it was also defense and offensive, and the battle situation was not one-sided. The grenade launchers who risked their lives to hide behind the bunkers made up of wreckage from their colleagues also used crazy and precise grenades to completely silence the firepower points of at least four light machine guns on the Chinese side.

But what the hell is it that the twelve Dasho 11 young machine guns ended five minutes after the battle began?

It was not that it was killed by the Chinese grenade launcher, but that it was broken...

After the war, according to the description of Katoshimago, the only survivor of the reconnaissance squadron of the 114th Division, who jumped into the river in time and became the only survivor of the reconnaissance squadron of the 114th Division, the Taisho 111 machine gun they carried was stuck one after another shortly after the battle began, resulting in them being unable to implement continuous fire suppression on the Chinese on the other side.

For a considerable period of combat, the two infantry squadrons could only shoot the Type 38 rifle with a single shot and a Chinese with more than 30 light machine guns.

If you think about that situation, you can think of it with your feet and you can think of it.

Otherwise, how could a strong military officer who was finally rescued from the Huangpu River flow downstream for 30 kilometers, how could he shed tears of pain when talking about this?

Finally, Japanese weapons design experts gave an explanation based on the characteristics of the Taisho 11th machine gun and the geographical environment at that time: the combat environment chosen by the 114th Division was wrong.

Shameless...

Faced with the explanation given by the Brigades affiliated with the Army Headquarters, the senior generals of the 10th Army could only use these four words to reply.

But in fact, the Japanese bricks are really right, and they tell the essence in one sentence.

Because, in order to meet the needs of the Japanese Army based on combat ammunition support, the short-legged bricks have made all their brains and developed a large number of new technologies, making the Taisho 11th machine guns that can be used for ammunition and equipment for machine rifles, meaning that the five-round magazines of infantry can be used directly on light machine guns.

This is actually a very avant-garde idea. A box of bullets is opened, and five magazines have been loaded. The infantry can use it directly, and the light machine gun can also be used. This saves a lot of time to load bullets and can provide continuous fire support to the infantry in the shortest time.

However, this undoubtedly makes mechanical manufacturing extremely complicated.

Practical combat has proved that the simpler the structure of a firearm, the higher the reliability, and conversely, the worse the reliability.

If we use the machine guns of this period as a metaphor, the DP series light machine guns of the combat nation are a rough man in the northwest. They can eat well and sleep well in any environment and rarely complain about working without neglecting them; the MG series light machine guns of the Germans are well-trained soldiers, and they can basically complete the tasks if they have achieved military orders; the Taisho 11th machine guns equipped by the main force of the Japanese Army are just petite ladies who never go out of the door. They are cold and hot, wind and rain, and they will get angry.

In other words, the failure rate of Taisho Type 11 light machine gun will be relatively low only in the seasons when it is neither lukewarm nor hot, dry or wet, and under the ideal conditions of careful wiping and maintenance, and soft combat intensity.

In Jiangxinzhou, the fog in the morning was heavy, and the sand that was constantly stirred up by grenade explosions fluttered in the wind. The harsh combat environment made the petite lady of the Taisho 11th Machine Gun strike one by one.

Losing the most precious continuous firepower, the Chinese side who caught the fighter plane naturally aimed the light machine gun and grenade launcher fire at the only grenade launcher with some counterattack ability.

No matter how brave you are, you can't beat four hands with two fists, right? Just like a brave boy, facing a gangster villain who does evil, he bravely raises his fists, but often the ending is that when Batman does not appear, he can only squat down and hug his head and let the big stick beat him up.

Reality is so cruel that it does not change because of courage.

Losing the commander, machine gun, grenade launcher, colleagues, and many Japanese infantrymen did not wait for Batman, but instead waited for the evil dragon.

It took enough effort to completely beat the Chinese artillery that had been extinguished by three gunboats and turned the guns around.

Ten 150-caliber mortars hiding behind the hills showed their hideous faces to a group of "warriors" who were crawling on the sand and unwilling to surrender.
Chapter completed!