Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Fierce Battle (5)
The devil's attacking troops were bombarded, and Gu Shoufu immediately ordered the artillery wing to carry out artillery counterattacks on the artillery positions of the Huben battalion.
"Boom, boom!"
The quality of the devil's artillery is no worse than that of the Tiger Battalion, and even surpasses it.
As soon as the artillery bombardment fell, several field guns on the artillery position of the Huben battalion, along with the surrounding artillery, were blown out sideways, and there were heavy casualties for a while.
"Boom!"
One of the shells exploded not far from the side of the rake's ears.
Although he immediately threw himself on the ground on his side when he saw that the situation was not good, he could still feel the blazing sensation in his face.
Broken shrapnel flew in all directions, and two pieces just crossed his buttocks, so painful that he raked his ears and bared his teeth and scolded his mother.
"Fuck! Artillery company, give Lao Tzu a counterattack, bombard the devil's artillery position! ”
Rake Ear shook his somewhat dizzy head, pulled his neck and ordered angrily.
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The forward position of the Tiger Battalion.
Seeing that the devils had increased their troops, and the artillery positions were countered by the devils' artillery fire, Yang Jing immediately turned his head and ordered Ma Tong on the side: "Ma Tong, you immediately take the guard platoon to the back and drag all the conscienceless cannons up!" ”
The conscienceless cannon is quite large and fragile, and Yang Jing is worried that it will be damaged under the shelling and bombardment of the devils before it has time to be put into use, so it has been hiding in a safe position in the rear.
"Yes!"
Ma Tong received the order with a bang, and soon led the guard platoon and some artillery company soldiers to transport the 30 or so unconscionable cannons to the front line through the communication trenches.
In addition to the artillery company, the rest of the companies of the Tiger Battalion also had their own grenadier and mortar groups; Among them, the guard platoon specially conducted assault training on artillery skills during the period after the mass production of unconscionable artillery, the purpose of which was to solve the problem of insufficient strength of the artillery company.
After the deployment of the unconscionable cannon was completed, Yang Jing directly gave the order to open the cannon.
"Tom!"
"Tom tom! ——”
No conscience cannon, also known as explosive pack launcher. More than 30 unconscionable guns opened fire and fired explosive bags weighing more than 30 pounds one after another.
These shells dragged the dazzling flames, pierced the low altitude full of gunsmoke, and smashed down on the charging devil attacking crowd.
"Boom!"
"Boom, boom, boom! ——”
More than 30 round cake-shaped explosives bags suddenly appeared, and immediately blew up the devil's attacking troops.
It is worth mentioning that the unconscionable artillery shells are modified from explosive packs, without a metal shell, and there is basically no fragmentation damage after the explosion, but they are all direct shock wave injuries. However, it is precisely because of the lack of a metal casing that the amount of explosives is more abundant.
The effective radius of its explosion may not be as good as that of shells of the same specification, but the absolute lethality of the enemy near the landing point of the shell is much greater than that of other conventional shells.
The devils who were attacking did not expect that the defenders also deployed artillery in the front-line positions, and a large area was blown down in an instant.
The ghost soldiers who landed on the shells were swept away by the huge shock wave generated by the explosion, and many of them were torn apart by the volley before they could land, and the stumps, broken arms, and broken internal organs were scattered everywhere.
For a while, the screams of the devils came and went.
"Tom!"
"Tom tom! ——”
Soon, the second round of rapid fire broke through the air again, killing and injuring a large number of the little devils.
After more than ten rounds of rapid firing, the front-line artillery of the Huben battalion poured at least more than 300 explosive packs, nearly 10,000 catties of high explosives, into the crowd of devils.
In front of the position, the area of 100 to 300 meters was almost bombarded by covering.
The Devil's offensive team headquarters was completely stunned, and the entire battlefield was filled with thick gunpowder smoke and a pungent smell of blood.
The sight of both sides was completely cut off.
Under the artillery fire, countless devils were killed on the spot, and some devils were blown up and lost arms and legs, lying in a pool of blood and mud struggling and wailing in pain.
The fierce offensive momentum of the Japanese 6th Division was suddenly frustrated!
"Hit! Give Lao Tzu a hard beating! ”
Taking advantage of his illness and wanting his life, Yang Jing once again pulled his throat and gave the order to fire.
By this time of the battle, the casualties of the third company had exceeded two-thirds, and the casualties of the fourth company had also exceeded half.
The straw bales of the 1st Company, the 2nd Company, and the Songjiang Security Brigade also suffered casualties of varying degrees.
The sacrifice of his comrades, the disgusting smell of blood in the air, greatly stimulated the nerves of the warriors.
At this moment, everyone truly appreciates the cruelty of war, but they have already killed red eyes and completely forgotten their fears.
They gritted their teeth, mechanically pulled the bolt, pulled the trigger, and poured hot bullets towards the ghost soldiers who were rushing over.
Under the bombardment of the conscienceless artillery, a vacuum fault of nearly 200 meters appeared in the devil's attacking force.
Therefore, the devil soldiers who rushed into the 100-meter range were quickly beaten into a blood sieve by the rain of bullets and bullets of the defenders, and they all screamed and fell in a pool of blood.
The follow-up reinforcements of the devil were just about to rush over, but they were immediately blocked by the defenders' machine gun fire and the fire of the unconscionable artillery, and countless casualties were suffered at one time.
In the end, the Devil's attacking force was forced to retreat in panic due to heavy casualties.
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Songjiang Wharf, Japanese attack position.
"Baga Ya Road! Damn, damn! ”
In this battle, the total number of attacking troops of the Imperial Army was more than 4,000 people, but less than half of them eventually escaped. Gu Shoufu, the old devil, was so angry that he gritted his teeth, and the green tendons and spider webs on his forehead and neck generally erupted.
He gasped in his mouth, gritted his back molars, and ordered word by word and angrily: "Artillery wing, give me full firepower and kill these hateful Chinese army!" ”
As he spoke, Gu Shoufu turned his head to look at the chief of staff Shimono Yihuo on the side, gritted his teeth and said: "Chief of Staff, you immediately send a telegram to the dispatch army headquarters and request fire support from the naval aviation unit!" ”
When he said this, Gu Shoufu's face was extremely gloomy, almost dripping.
The 6th Division of the Imperial Army could not capture even a small Songjiang Castle, and it needed to repeatedly ask for reinforcements from naval aviation.
It's really embarrassing to say it!
Shimono Ichihuo did not immediately carry out the order, but raised his head and admonished: "Your Excellency, there is a sentence in the humble position that I don't know whether to say or not. ”
Gu Shoufu said: "Shimono-kun has something to say! ”
Shimono Yihuo said: "Your Excellency the division commander, through the previous attacks, I believe you should be able to see that it seems that it is difficult to cause fatal casualties to the Chinese army with simple artillery bombardment.
So, lowly advice, while using conventional shells, do we add some poison gas bombs?
In addition, the combat effectiveness of the Tiger Ben battalion is strong, but the other Chinese armies are vulnerable.
And the Tiger Ben battalion has limited strength, and holding the south of the city is already their limit, so can we send an imperial army force to outflank from the left and right flanks?
As long as one of the Imperial forces succeeds, we can flank the front and rear and gather the Tiger Camp on the front position! ”
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