In order to strengthen the artillery force, the South China Navy even transferred some of the 75-mm cavalry guns in the cavalry unit to carry out artillery bombardment!

Anyway, it was a siege operation now, and the cavalry troops were useless, so the First Cavalry Army had already gone north to fight on the northern front, while the Second Cavalry Army was defending against accidents in the flank and rear positions.

In order to intensify the artillery bombardment before the general offensive, the General Staff Department directly transferred dozens of cavalry guns from the Second Cavalry Army......

In the bombardment of many artillery pieces, the 150-millimeter heavy artillery naturally went out of the limelight as before, and the huge shells brought a large amount of charge, which in turn brought a huge explosive power.

This 150 mm shell, if you are lucky, can even kill and injure dozens of people, and it is also extremely useful to attack enemy fortifications, even if the enemy is hiding in the anti-artillery hole, but the huge power can also collapse part of the anti-artillery hole, or simply directly kill the enemy inside.

However, this time the defenders of Qingdecheng were also fully prepared, the trenches were dug very deep, and various anti-artillery measures were quite perfect, although this large-scale artillery bombardment was grand and seemed to be powerful, but it was still unknown how many enemy troops could be killed.

Anyway, in the previous many exploratory attacks, the South China Navy had never tried to destroy the enemy's defense capability in pure artillery operations, and they all needed infantry to come forward to solve the battle, and they also relied more on rapid-fire mortar guns.

Therefore, before the general offensive was launched, the South China Navy made a relatively conservative prediction!

That is, the preparation for artillery bombardment in the early stage could not effectively kill and injure a large number of enemy troops and completely destroy the enemy's will to resist, and the main battle still needed infantry to carry out.

For this reason, this large-scale shelling by the South China Navy is not the same as before!

Although the overall scale of the bombardment of the South China Navy this time was similar to that of previous battles, or even slightly worse, a large number of heavy artillery pieces were used in a concentrated manner.

To what extent?

There is an artillery brigade in the rear, which will be concentrated to cooperate with the 6th Infantry Regiment under the 2nd Division.

And the estimated combat width of the 6th Infantry Regiment is only 800 meters!

According to the predetermined plan, the 6th Infantry Regiment will act as the main detour assault force of the 2nd Division, opening a gap about 800 meters wide for the main army and creating an opportunity for the subsequent breakthrough of the large army.

In the past, the South China Navy preferred to disperse its forces, and the overall pattern was to disperse its forces, adopt infiltration assaults, and carry out small-scale tactical detours after the infiltration assault was successful.

Through one infiltration after another, a huge breakthrough is formed, the resistance of the enemy is crushed, and finally a huge breakthrough is created and a strategic detour is carried out.

Therefore, when the enemy looks at the infantry attack of the South China Navy, he is often a little confused, and he even does not understand the specific direction of the attack of the South China Navy.

But now it is different, this time the South China Navy is preparing to make a breakthrough in a key way, forcibly tearing through the enemy's right flank defense line, and then making a roundabout advance, and finally forming a posture of outflanking the enemy forces in the front.

In order to make a key breakthrough this time, the South China Navy concentrated an independent artillery regiment and some divisional artillery, just to open the way for the Sixth Infantry Regiment under the command of the Second Division.

The 6th Infantry Regiment on the front line also began to move amid the rumbling of artillery, and they began to rapidly advance from their positions thousands of kilometers away, and the soldiers took advantage of the terrain to quickly advance.

At this time, a large number of artillery shells of their own side continued to fall on the enemy's positions, and most of the enemy troops were hiding in anti-artillery holes and trenches to avoid artillery bombardment, which was the best time to attack.

It didn't take long for them to break through hundreds of meters, and at this time the soldiers began to carry out rapid-fire shelling with the rapid-fire mortars they carried, further strengthening the suppression of artillery fire.

Of course, although the artillery bombardment of our own side was fierce, there were also counterattacks by the enemy, but the scale was not large, and only sporadic counterattacks were carried out with artillery.

These enemy counterattack artillery, naturally the rear of the rear of the 100-millimeter cannon and other long-range artillery suppression, once the enemy fired, then the position will be exposed, the rear long-range artillery units can always wait.

Therefore, as soon as the enemy's artillery counterattacked, these 100-millimeter cannons opened fire one after another, quickly suppressing the enemy's limited artillery counterattack.

The assault of the 6th Infantry Regiment stopped without sporadic artillery counterattacks from the enemy, not to mention that the casualties were very limited, even if the casualties were larger, but they would not be easily stopped at such times.

The core of the army's current offensive is in the direction of their 6th Infantry Regiment, for which a large amount of artillery support has been mobilized, and friendly forces in other directions have also launched diversionary attacks to confuse the enemy.

This was not the battle of their 6th Infantry Regiment itself, but the battle of the entire attacking force.

The officers and men of the 6th Infantry Regiment continued to advance under the cover of artillery fire, and soon approached a distance of four or five hundred meters.

By this time, the support artillery in the rear had already begun to gradually extend the shelling in depth and on both sides.

At this time, many officers of the 6th Infantry Regiment waved their command knives and ordered the troops to continue the assault.

Rapid-fire mortars began to fire rapid fire to suppress enemy forces.

However, as the heavy artillery began to extend, the enemy soldiers came out of the trenches and anti-artillery holes one after another, and began to return fire with rifles, and some even dragged out smoothbore guns to attack at close range.

But the soldiers of the 6th Infantry Regiment did not stop, but continued to storm forward under the command of the officer.

A distance of a few hundred meters seemed like a long distance, but in fact it was not that far, and the soldiers of the attacking Sixth Infantry Regiment quickly crossed a distance of several hundred meters under the rapid assault.

At this time, start throwing grenades, and finally launch a direct bayonet charge and hit the enemy trenches!

By this time, the battle was over without any suspense.

It is not that the enemy army does not resist, nor is it that the strength of the enemy army is too poor, the reason why this battle ended so quickly and without suspense is purely because the difference in strength between the two sides is too large.

It's not a gap in quality or something, it's a purely quantitative gap.

In order to tear through this 800-meter stretch of the enemy's defense line, the Yugoslav Navy concentrated more than 50 artillery pieces, in addition to dozens of rapid-fire mortars, and fired a large number of shells, blowing up almost every inch of the enemy's defense line.

No matter how strong the enemy's defensive line is, it cannot withstand such a dense artillery bombardment, and even in the subsequent extended artillery bombardment, it is also effective to prevent the enemy's reinforcements from coming forward.

In terms of infantry strength, the defense is estimated to be only one battalion, only 506 people, and how many people are there in the 6th Infantry Regiment of the attacking side?

There are more than 2,000 people.

In this small section of the battlefield, the South China Navy had absolute superiority in firepower and strength.

So after the start of the war, it is not surprising to quickly take this section of the position!

And after taking the place, in fact, the battle has just broken out!

The officers and men of the 6th Infantry Regiment continued to advance rapidly along this breach, while the other units of the 2nd Division also quickly followed and consolidated, which was to further tear open this breach, and more importantly, to continue to advance and break through the enemy's deep defenses and form a tactical encirclement.

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