pdf-ebookys #261 - The Great Sniper is born to kill evil and retreat
#261 - The Great Sniper is born to kill evil and retreat
The battle raged fiercely. In the first wave of counterattacks, the southern front brigade commander performed exceptionally, destroying five Japanese divisions in one fell swoop.
The northern front division commander was equally unwilling to be outdone, executing a daring encirclement under the cover of darkness.
The main regiment, having lain in ambush in the mountains for a day, suddenly surrounded three infantry regiments of the Japanese vanguard, while simultaneously holding off the frantic counterattacks of two subsequent Japanese divisions.
While withstanding the attacks, they used 107mm mortars to blanket the encircled Japanese troops with fire, followed by a strong assault. They spent half the night tenaciously devouring the three infantry regiments spearheading the Japanese advance on the northern front.
This effectively wiped out all the infantry regiments of a Japanese garrison division, in addition to crippling most of its artillery regiment.
As a result, on the very first day of the Japanese's aggressive offensive, a full six divisions suffered heavy losses, forcing Kurihara Nobuo to withdraw his troops to lick their wounds.
The bloody reality cruelly demonstrated that once the Japanese lost their air and artillery superiority, and artillery dominance shifted, relying on infantry to turn the tide in the field was completely impossible.
Kurihara Nobuo couldn't help but lament that the Imperial Army no longer held any advantage against the Eighth Route Army. He realized that without fire support, their current offensive tactics were simply unworkable.
Without being able to provide strong artillery support to the front lines, sending in any more troops would just be throwing lives away.
The decimation of six divisions on this day would make the big shots at Imperial Headquarters weep. Even if those decimated were the third-rate new recruits of a garrison division of three regiments, the Japanese could no longer afford such losses.
The battle lines were now stretched too thin. The Imperial Army had to face millions of opponents across thousands of kilometers in the Pacific, Southeast Asia, and the millions of square kilometers of the Northeast Asian theater.
The tank battles took place completely one-sidedly.
It should be known that their intelligence personnel had previously investigated the opponent's combat capabilities. The opponent had tanks and had engaged in combat before, but the assessment results indicated that the opponent's tanks should be about the same level as medium tanks.
Who knew that in the battle on the southern front, after the main force of the tank division's four tank regiments went all-in, facing an armored force more than twice their size, there were almost no results.
The main force of the entire tank division was almost wiped out. If the light tanks in the rear hadn't realized something was wrong and quickly retreated, perhaps all four tank regiments would have been lost on the battlefield!
Of course, after a day of high-intensity combat, the Eighth Route Army still had more than a dozen tanks broken down on the battlefield. Fortunately, the subsequent large infantry units crushed and swept away the Japanese infantry.
Under the emergency repairs of the logistics support company, these broken-down tanks could barely be driven back to the city. After inspection, these tanks needed to undergo a major overhaul before they could be put into the next battle.
In high-intensity combat, combat losses and mechanical equipment failures also caused considerable losses to the tank battalion. The nine tank companies directly lost one tank company.
However, compared to the Japanese tank division, the survival rate of the tank battalion was much higher.
At most, less than a quarter of the Japanese tank division's light tanks and artillery tanks escaped. All the medium tanks that rushed to the front were destroyed and turned into scrap metal. The Japanese's strongest assault force was wiped out in this battle.
This allowed the brigade commander to start a bold action.
Zhangbei.
Originally, the First Regiment was the absolute main force of the First Military Sub-district.
This day, they received a batch of mysterious weapons.
"Regimental Commander, what good stuff did you receive? You look so happy," the Chief of Staff asked, unable to resist seeing the Regimental Commander smiling from ear to ear.
"This is the secret weapon that the military region's logistics department distributed to our regiment. I heard that it is the latest product of Taiyuan Military Industry, capable of destroying Japanese tanks," the Regimental Commander said with a smile.
"This has solved a major problem for us. Although we have RPG rocket launchers, these rocket launchers don't have a long range. If there is no position to rely on, it is difficult to truly confront Japanese tanks and armored vehicles in the wild. Now it's good, this weapon, which is said to be specially designed to fight tanks and armored vehicles, has a range of over 600 meters, and as for sniping people, that's over 2000 meters away!"
After the Regimental Commander finished speaking, the Chief of Staff instantly became a little excited.
Due to the lack of a stable base, the Jin-Cha-Ji military industry has always been in its initial stages, mainly solving the supply of infantry light weapons and ammunition, and even mortars and grenade launchers are intermittent and unable to guarantee supply.
Only in the Jin-Di Great Counterattack, after opening up the entire Chahar South area of Beiyue and Zhangbei, connecting with Jin-Di, did the Jin-Cha-Ji's weapon supply reach a new level, upgrading the First Regiment, Third Regiment, and Twenty-fifth Regiment of the First Military Sub-district into three Class A regiments, while transferring the Eighth Old Regiment of Ji-Zhong into Chahar South and reorganizing it into a Class B regiment.
The Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region then had a mobile combat force that could directly confront the Japanese divisions.
However, tanks, 105mm howitzers, G20 anti-aircraft guns, and even mountain guns were not easy to send to Chahar South, so the heavy firepower here in Jin-Cha-Ji was completely a quantity level behind compared to the main force of Jin-Di.
Especially in confronting the Japanese armored forces, relying on RPG rocket launchers, it was difficult to confront even light armor in the wild without fortifications.
RPG rocket launchers can only accurately attack armored vehicles within a range of two to three hundred meters, and beyond this range, both accuracy and power are greatly reduced.
However, the Japanese divisions basically have a team of more than a dozen armored vehicles or light bean tanks, which is a great threat to the troops.
The lack of effective means of restraint has greatly limited many battles.
But now, with the new long-range armor-piercing weapon, the whole situation is completely different. Carrying this weapon can completely launch attacks on the Japanese armored forces in the field!
A firing range of 600 meters means that it is completely a fifty-fifty chance with the Japanese armored vehicles!
Both sides compete to see who can take down the other first.
Instead of like a rocket launcher, which requires designing a pre-ambushed terrain condition to lure the Japanese armored forces over before they can be taken down.
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"Let me see what good stuff it is." The Chief of Staff opened a package with great interest, looking at the thick barrel that appeared in front of him, thicker than a heavy machine gun barrel, but in terms of design, it was much simpler than a heavy machine gun.
The Chief of Staff picked it up and tried it, it felt very heavy, at least more than twenty pounds. This weight was not light, but one person could carry it.
"This scope is very strong," the Chief of Staff hugged the weapon and tried the scope, and found that he could see very far. The trees that were originally faintly visible on the opposite mountain could now clearly see the cracks in the bark!
That's seven or eight hundred meters away, I didn't expect to see it so clearly.
"It is said to be an eight-power scope, one of the latest research results of the Liming Research Institute. Now this weapon is called the QB44 sniper rifle. Our regiment has received 6 of them, with 1000 rounds of ammunition. Next, find 12 to 18 sharpshooters, and we will set up this sniper squad for fighting tanks and armored vehicles, under the direct command of the regimental headquarters," the Regimental Commander said in a few words to set the tone for this matter.
Almost at the same time, the Class 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 that consumes very little manpower is now completely a secret weapon for dimensional reduction strikes to turn defeat into victory for the weaker side in terms of equipment.
Considering that the equipment of the troops in Jin-Cha-Ji was much worse, when the Liming Research Institute developed the first-generation large sniper rifle, when soliciting Ren Zhong's opinion, Ren Zhong did not hesitate to recommend completing the equipment of Jin-Cha-Ji first.
Because this weapon is a multi-tasker, not only against light armored vehicles, but also against cars and long-range sniping, it is a super-powerful remote-controlled force on the battlefield!
If used well, it is much stronger than an RPG rocket launcher.
Because the rockets of the rocket launcher are limited, in contrast, the number of bullets carried by the large sniper rifle is much more than the rockets, and the continuous combat capability is much stronger than the rocket launcher.
The two are not competitive weapons at all.
Especially the range of the RPG rocket launcher is relatively short, and it is not on the same order of magnitude as the large sniper rifle.
But the RPG rocket launcher also has a place that the large sniper rifle cannot match, that is, when facing medium tanks, the RPG rocket launcher can knock them out, but the large sniper rifle is a bit difficult, and it needs to aim at the weak points to effectively complete the attack.
After Ren Zhong studied the situation in these different liberated areas, he basically figured out the priority of configuring large sniper rifles.
There is no doubt that Jin-Cha-Ji needs it the most, and they lack the most precise anti-tank and anti-armor power.
The front is fighting fiercely, and the Liming Research Institute in the rear is not resting for a day. Almost all the researchers and workers in the production factory are now working at full capacity in research and production.
For example, the first batch of this latest product, the large sniper rifle, produced 300 units, most of which were sent to Jin-Cha-Ji.
The remaining part was almost all sent to the front line of the division commander. The division commander now only has 2 tank battalions under his command, and the anti-armor power still mainly depends on the infantry battalions and companies below to fight!
Therefore, in strengthening the firepower density of the grassroots infantry battalions and companies, the current weapons are still somewhat insufficient, and the advent of the large sniper rifle can be regarded as filling a very important link!
Especially for the anti-armor capabilities of the battalions and companies, the introduction of large sniper rifles will be a cross-era creation.
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