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Text Chapter 577 The Japanese Paratroopers Li He Can¡¯t Understand

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    Although not all the Japanese paratroopers were killed, the Japanese paratroopers on Li He's side suffered the highest casualty ratio before landing during the airdrop of the entire Japanese army on the Tongliao battlefield. Two more paratroopers landed just in front of him.  The Japanese paratroopers in the area were beaten with rifle butts as soon as they landed, and they became two unlucky prisoners, and they were captured under their own noses.

    After catching these two unlucky guys, Li He asked everyone in the camp to see how these Japanese soldiers were different from what they usually encountered on the battlefield. This completely eliminated the soldiers' fear of the Japanese army for the first time.  The encounter with paratroopers, and the fear of these so-called "heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals".

    Of course, even though he had received anti-airborne training, this was the first time he saw the target in the training class. He also had to take a closer look at what was so special about these things that fell from the sky, but when he saw them being shot dead and falling into his own position  After picking up the corpses of the Japanese paratroopers and the equipment on the two prisoners, Li He didn't care too much about the real combat effectiveness of these Japanese paratroopers.

    Although each of these Japanese paratroopers wore a Southern Type 14 pistol and a Type 30 bayonet, what use were these on the battlefield? A pistol full of faults and only eight rounds of ammunition would be useless on the battlefield.  Can it play a decisive role, or are they prepared to hold bayonets but fight their opponents desperately? Is this the firepower configuration of the Japanese paratroopers?

    Even if they brought spare ammunition, the bullet belts they carried contained 38 rifle bullets. Could it be that they were preparing to use pistols to fire rifle ammunition? After carefully checking the corpses of Japanese paratroopers that fell in their position, as well as two  After seeing the equipment on the prisoners, Li He was very confused about the weapons and equipment of the Japanese paratroopers.

    What he couldn't figure out was whether the Japanese army put troops equipped like this on the battlefield to die or to fight. Pistols, sabers, bayonets, and at most a few grenades were added.  An army with full strength is prepared to die, even if there are troops smaller than them, the result will be the same.

    Could it be that just by relying on these things, these paratroopers defeated several high-level headquarters of the national army during the battle at Zhongtiao Mountain? This is a bit unbelievable. Is it because the little devils are too powerful or the national army is too powerful?  Poor, but no matter how bad the combat effectiveness is, at least there is a guard headquarters, so they will not be defeated by a group of little devils with stabs and pistols.

    In addition to pistols, all officers and non-commissioned officers still stubbornly wore the Japanese military officer's trademark saber. Li He couldn't understand that the area where paratroopers airborne should be enemy-occupied areas. You don't bring rifles.  , machine gun, what are you doing with a saber? Are you planning to use a tactical combination of saber and pistol to defeat your opponent?

    It wasn't until he opened two Japanese weapon boxes that fell on his position and saw the Type 99 light machine gun, Type 38 carbine, and Type 92 heavy machine gun inside that Li He realized that the pistols on the Japanese paratroopers were really used for self-defense.  , their real weapons are infantry weapons dropped by air in boxes.

    But after he figured out this matter, he was even more puzzled by the practice of these officers wearing sabers when airborne, but putting the weapons in boxes and airdropping them separately. Even if the light and heavy machine guns were too heavy to carry on one person,  Skydiving is impossible.

    However, the Type 38 carbine used by the Japanese paratroopers is not much longer than a saber without a bayonet. They can parachute with a saber, so they cannot parachute with a rifle. Moreover, paratroopers are troops who land directly in the core area of ??the enemy to fight.  Why are they not equipped with fast-shooting submachine guns, but instead equipped with the same weapons and equipment as ordinary Japanese soldiers?

    It is not clear that the Japanese army's equipment configuration method is based on the German army's practices. Moreover, the Japanese army is also constantly improving and researching parachute equipment and new equipment on its own in an attempt to change this separation of man and gun. After landing, the paratroopers were not found.  Before the weapon box, there was no combat effectiveness at all.

    However, it is obvious that some Japanese people who like to go to extremes did not work hard on improving parachutes so that they can carry weapons when parachuting. Instead, they worked hard on firearms. In the second year, they used the Type 99 rifle as the weapon.  The basics were actually developed as a Type II paratrooper rifle that could be divided into two parts before airborne, placed in the chest weapon pouch, and combined after landing.

    There is also a new paratrooper submachine gun that is based on the Bai-style submachine gun and can also fold the gun body. The Japanese went to the extreme. Although they did not completely solve the problem, they can be regarded as a disguised solution to the problem that paratroopers cannot carry it with them.  Carrying weapons, if you can't find the airdropped weapon box when you land, you will only be beaten, with almost no room to fight back.

    But this new detachable, easy-to-carry rifle and submachine gun will be used in actual combat for the first time next year, that is, in 2019.Mass production will not begin until the year after next. However, Japanese soldiers who do not have suitable umbrellas and weapons can still only adopt this airdrop mode of separation of man and gun.

    This airdrop mode can still be used reluctantly in a plain area, because the terrain there is flat and you can clearly visually see where your weapon box has been airdropped. However, when airdropping in a city, how will the weapon box land?  In that yard, in that house, you have to look for it slowly.

    Without weapon boxes, the Japanese paratroopers, no matter how well-trained and brave they are, become toothless tigers. Now the Japanese paratroopers who were airdropped into Tongliao City are facing this situation. A few of them were airdropped into  Weapon boxes were scattered everywhere in the city. It was really not easy to find these weapon boxes under the firepower of the enemy.

    In fact, the top brass of the Japanese army only saw the glory of German paratroopers on the European battlefield, but did not carefully analyze the German military's combat examples on the European battlefield. They did not know that paratroopers were not suitable for airborne operations in cities.  Paratroopers are difficult to assemble in a short time due to urban layout restrictions.

    Unable to assemble, and without the corresponding weapons and equipment in hand, these paratroopers who were airdropped into the city, under the division and elimination of the opponent's superior forces, were almost as if they were sent to their own door to be slaughtered by the enemy unless they were lucky.  Once you land, you can find a weapon box or capture a weapon from the enemy. This possibility is not impossible, but it is too slim.

    It¡¯s just that Li He hasn¡¯t waited for a good interrogation to see how these Japanese paratroopers are different from ordinary Japanese soldiers in terms of techniques and tactics, and how their training courses are different from ordinary infantry. The most important thing is to find out why the Japanese paratroopers are like this.  Come up with these confusing tricks.

    Li He also felt that this unit was not suitable for the Japanese army to conduct airdrop operations in towns as they do today, because towns are not plains. Even if the Japanese paratroopers dropped in widely scattered areas, they could quickly assemble in towns.  In airborne operations, they can only fight on their own.

    Just when Li He wanted to ask these things clearly and solve his doubts, the two unlucky guys who had been taken prisoner were killed by cold fire from the Japanese army on the opposite side during the tour of his position, which made him very regretful.  For a moment, the Japanese army in front of them may have received an order not to allow any living paratroopers to fall into the hands of the Anti-Alliance and leak their secrets.

    As soon as these two guys stood up, they were killed by cold guns that might have been aimed at them long ago, and all of them were fatal with one shot. Within a distance of thirty meters, it was very clear whether it was the Japanese army or the Anti-Japanese Alliance who shot them.  It was so accurate, so the Japanese soldiers in front of them must have done it consciously. Fortunately, it was not their own soldiers who were injured, and there will be plenty of opportunities in the future.

    He didn't believe it. The prisoners he captured were killed by the Japanese army, but the other troops couldn't capture any prisoners. As long as one prisoner survived and found out the matter, there wouldn't be too many problems. Therefore, Li He  He didn't pay much attention to the Japanese army's killing and silencing actions.

    However, for him, although the result of this interception operation was not too satisfactory, it was still acceptable, because even if the surrounding Japanese troops received reinforcements from the air, they still did not have the ability to gnaw away this hard nut of his.  Not only did the Japanese army in front of him not have the ability to eat up Li He's troops, but he was about to face his full counterattack.

    Because after arriving on the ground, there were not many Japanese paratroopers left. At the same time as they landed, a company of the 1st Battalion of the 53rd Regiment to the north of Li He broke through the layers of resistance from small Japanese troops and moved closer to him. At the same time, he  Several small groups of his own troops that were scattered around the surrounding areas also broke through the Japanese blockade and interception one after another during this period, and came over after paying a certain price.

    The Japanese army in front of them received dozens of reinforcements, but Li He, together with several of his originally separated squads, received nearly a company, together with a company of the 53rd Regiment that came over.  Li He has the highest position and military rank. According to the latest orders and regulations of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, he, the battalion commander, is of course the highest commander.

    Li He, who has received reinforcements, will never confront the Japanese troops here honestly according to his personality. Turning to counterattack as soon as possible is what he wants to do most. Before, he had insufficient troops, so he only  He was able to stand firm here and confront the Japanese army. Now that he has received reinforcements, it would be a shame for him to still stand firm here.

    However, although he focused on how to eat up the remaining Japanese troops on the opposite side, Li He also knew that there would definitely be a large number of scattered Japanese paratroopers around. If these people were allowed to get closer to the defending enemy on the opposite side, they would be greatly affected.  to increase the difficulty of defeating the Japanese army in front of them, or at least eating most of their troops.

    ? ?Despite some hesitation at the beginning, Li He was still quite determined and divided the still not many troops in his hands into two. In addition to the reinforced infantry platoon composed of two more infantry squads he led reinforcements over.  , and a strengthened platoon formed by taking part of the original two infantry platoons in his hands, in addition to launching a comprehensive counterattack against the Japanese troops facing them.

    The remaining multiple companies were completely disrupted in a squad-based organization, and the Japanese paratroopers in the surrounding area were wiped out, especially those who had been hiding with the Japanese army for so long in the surrounding alleys.  They were separated and fighting on their own, but Ban, who had figured out the terrain for such a long time, was thrown into the clearing operation.

    There is only one order for the troops responsible for the cleanup, which is to eliminate all the Japanese troops they can see. In a word, as long as they are dead rather than alive, and regardless of the limitations of the combat area, they should take the current battlefield as the core and gradually move outward.  Search and eliminate.

    Because he knows very well that if he does not take advantage of the fact that the Japanese paratroopers have not yet concentrated and kill them first, even if they currently lack effective weapons, once they gather, even if they cannot directly join the frontal battlefield, they will still be able to outflank themselves from behind.  It will affect your next battle, and even disrupt your plan to deal with the enemy in person first.
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