That night, that is, on the evening of August 7, Wen Zuoxin received reinforcements from the rear of more than 100 people and a batch of weapons and ammunition.

Compared with the simple replenishment of troops and ammunition, what made Wen Zuoxin care more was the two heavy machine guns that were replenished.

In the fierce offensive operations during the day, the heavy machine guns played a huge role, especially in the follow-up defense of the No. 6 heights, the enemy's three large-scale counterattacks were unsuccessful, of which the heavy machine guns played a huge role.

His regiment originally had nine heavy machine guns, and when attacking the No. 6 heights, the division headquarters temporarily transferred a total of 12 heavy machine guns from the 14th and 16th regiments to him.

However, in the process of combat, there is a heavy machine gun because of the long-term continuous high-intensity combat, the barrel deformation has been completely scrapped, and the other is also because of high-intensity use, frequent failures, it seems to be okay, but it is a few bullets to jam, this thing can not be used at all.

There was also a heavy machine gun that was more unlucky, it was directly hit by an enemy shell and was beaten into a part state!

This would have been the loss of three heavy machine guns.

After conquering the No. 6 heights of A, and at the same time holding the first three waves of enemy counterattacks, the 12 heavy machine guns that had been reinforced were transferred away.

The 14th and 16th regiments next door were also very difficult to fight and urgently needed heavy machine-gun fire support.

Well, they only transferred nine heavy machine guns, and they still had nine heavy machine guns on hand.

Now two heavy machine guns have been added, which also gives him some confidence in subsequent operations.

Also giving him confidence was the replenishment of shells for a batch of 60-mm and 80-mm rapid-fire mortars!

The rapid-fire mortar is easy to use, and the firepower is also very fierce, but the speed at which the shells are consumed is also very large, and at the end of the day, he remembered exactly how many rapid-fire mortar shells he had knocked out, but the division headquarters had already replenished the shells of the rapid-fire mortar three times to his 15th regiment.

And now, it's the fourth, and the total is very large.

With this heavy machine gun and the shells of the rapid-fire mortar cannon replenished, he was more confident about tomorrow's battle.

Nowadays, the front-line infantry of the Imperial Army has become more and more fond of the combination of heavy machine guns and rapid-fire mortar guns.

Heavy machine guns suppress fire during the attack, provide fire cover, and resist the charge of the enemy infantry when defending, especially the latter.

The rapid-fire mortar cannon can also be attacked and defended, and the effect of attacking the enemy in the trench in the offensive operation is very obvious, and when the defensive operation is carried out, it can also carry out intensive artillery bombardment on the charging enemy, killing and injuring a large number of enemy targets.

At the same time, the two can also form a match with rifle fire and barrel artillery fire, and then form a comprehensive coverage of the fire network.

At present, there is a clear division of labor in the firepower coverage of the Daheng Imperial Army.

Ultra-long-range targets are handled by a 53-year-old 150 mm and 30 times the diameter cannon, which has an effective range of 12,000 kilometers.

Although so far, the army has only been equipped with dozens of this artillery, but this artillery has become the army's current trump card artillery without dispute!

The army generals of the Jingzhou Front Army are very fond of this artillery, with a super long range and great power!

As for the full weight of more than ten tons and the difficulty of maneuvering, this is not a matter in front of the Daheng Imperial Army, long-distance maneuvering directly with railways or ships, battlefield maneuvering with a large number of excellent Shayang horses or other breeds of tall service horses.

As an excellent service horse, the average shoulder height of the Shayang horse is about 1.55 meters, but the excellent ones can also reach 1.6 meters.

Not really, and Larma!

There are quite a few ralhorses in the north-central part of the Great Heng Empire, which are common on large farms.

Because the road is easy to walk, there are many service horses, and there is such a thing as a ralma, so even if it is a big guy of more than ten tons, the army dares to drag it to the battlefield, in the Northern Expedition campaign that began in June, the battle of the southern front of Jingzhou, the battle of Jingshi and the current battle of Zhenbeicheng, in the three major wars, this heavy artillery has played a huge role.

Ultra-long-range targets, which are taken care of by a hundred and fifty-millimeter cannon.

The ordinary long-range target is responsible for the 52-year-old 100 mm 30 times diameter cannon, which is not very effective after being modified by the Navy and moved to a battleship, but it is very suitable for use in the army, with an effective range of 7,500 meters, and then very light, only a little more than a ton of combat weight, so that the army has always been very fond of using this artillery as a field long-range artillery.

In addition, there are also a small number of 150 mm 23 times the diameter field guns of the 53-year model, and the military is also quite satisfied with this artillery, with a range of 8,000 meters, and the key thing is that the caliber is also large and powerful.

The army likes artillery with a large caliber and a long range!

Although the weight is still slightly larger, the total weight of the march is more than seven tons, and the total combat weight is more than five tons, and its maneuverability is worrying, but there is no problem at all.

What, more than a dozen tons of 150-millimeter cannons, even the army dares to forcibly pull them into battle, let alone these guns that only have a total weight of more than seven tons.

In addition to the above three long-range suppression artillery for targets above six thousand meters.

There are also fire support artillery responsible for medium distances, including the 51-year 150mm howitzer that has been improved many times, and the effective firing range of its latest improved version has reached 4,500 meters, which seems to have a good range, but this artillery is light in weight, and can be pulled all over the world to directly provide fire support for infantry on the battlefield.

Then there is the 52-year-old 120 mm 12 times diameter howitzer, the effective range of this thing is only 5,500 meters, but it is also very light, only more than two tons of full travel weight, and the combat weight is only more than one ton.

The above-mentioned 150-mm 3-fold cannons, 150-mm 23-fold field guns, 150-mm 11-fold howitzers, 120-mm 12-fold howitzers, 100-mm 30-fold cannons, formed the main firepower of the army's separate artillery units.

It is usually an independent artillery regiment attached to the army, equipped with a 100-mm cannon, a 150-mm short-barreled howitzer, and a 120-mm howitzer

The artillery brigade is equipped with 150-mm field guns, 150-mm cannons, 150-mm howitzers, and 100-mm cannons according to different combat missions and predetermined combat areas.

Because during the war, the artillery configuration of the independent artillery regiments was somewhat chaotic, and it was difficult to maintain complete consistency.

As for the divisional artillery, this one is simple, most of them are 75-mm 20-fold field guns, and some 75-mm 14-fold howitzers.

In addition to the above-mentioned barreled artillery, in fact, there is also a kind of 75-mm caliber barreled artillery that has just been in service for a short time and is not very large, that is, the 75-millimeter nine-fold infantry gun of the 53-year model.

This thing is directly assigned to the artillery of the infantry regiment, only nine times the body tube, the weight is only more than 200 kilograms, very light, although the effective range is shorter only 1,800 meters, but it can be fired flat as a cannon to fight civil fortifications, can be used as a howitzer, and when necessary, it can also be used as a mortar at a large angle, and this thing seems to have a similar range to a rapid-fire mortar, but you have to know that this thing is a rifled barrel artillery, and the accuracy is not comparable to those rapid-fire mortar guns with smoothbore barrels.

When dealing with some enemy fixed forts, this thing is much more useful than rapid-fire mortars.

After all, no matter how good this thing is, it is impossible to squeeze the resources of 75mm field guns and howitzers, let alone the production capacity of other medium and large caliber artillery, so the output is a bit low, and only a small amount of it is assigned to part of the main force for the time being.

For the army, 75-mm field artillery is the main support firepower of infantry divisions, and 150-mm artillery above 100 mm is the main firepower!

As for the 75-mm light infantry guns, 80-mm rapid-fire mortar guns, etc., they are all auxiliary weapons, and they will be produced, but don't expect the top management to be able to draw too many resources.

So now this kind of 75-mm infantry gun, for the time being, the total output is not large, and there are only about 100 guns that survive to die, mainly in service with several main forces, including the Fourth Division.

Also in service with key units as a new type of weapon is the 53-year-old 80-millimeter rapid-fire mortar gun.

This rapid-fire mortar is already a completely different product from the early 80-millimeter rapid-fire mortar gun, and after continuous improvement, the performance of the 53-year-old rapid-fire mortar gun currently used by the main forces as the main rapid-fire mortar has been greatly improved.

This model has just been improved in June this year, compared with the earlier model, the use of higher quality steel barrel and processing technology, and at the same time, in order to withstand stronger chamber pressure, the barrel is also made thicker, these are to increase the range.

However, after increasing the firing range, the weight of the whole gun has increased significantly compared with the earlier model, but it can still maintain a certain mobility by splitting and increasing the crew members.

Not only is the barrel better, but the shells of this rapid-fire mortar have also been re-fired with more maroon powder as the propellant for a higher effective range.

In the end, it was combined to form a fifty-three-year-old eighty-millimeter rapid-fire mortar gun, which was a bit heavy, but the effective firing range was increased to about two thousand meters, which could ensure accuracy in the effective firing range of two thousand meters, which was not easy for the defense industry of the contemporary Daheng Empire.

In addition to the decline in mobility and the need for more crew members to maintain mobility, the cost of this gun itself is not cheap, and it costs 1,500 Hengyuan for one piece.

This price is not cheap for a rudimentary rapid-fire mortar.

However, the performance of the gun is really good, and the army has begun to fully equip it in June, and priority has been given to equipping the major main forces.

In actual combat, there are more 80-mm rapid-fire mortar guns and heavy machine guns!

The 80-mm rapid-fire mortar mainly covers the shelling within 2 kilometers, especially the shelling of about 1,000 kilometers, while the heavy machine gun covers the strike mission within the kilometer, and is accompanied by the 60-mm rapid-fire mortar equipped in the infantry battalion.

Heavy machine guns, rapid-fire mortars, infantry guns, divisional artillery, heavy and suppressed artillery in independent artillery units.

This is after the Northern Expedition War, the Daheng Imperial Army gradually formed a layered firepower coverage network, and used the above firepower advantage to lay the victory of the Battle of the Southern Front of Jingzhou and the Battle of Jingshi, and now they will continue to use it in the Battle of Zhenbeicheng.

And the defenders on the opposite side are actually not stupid, after a day of fighting, they can see the routine of the army troops of the Lin Dynasty of the Daheng Empire on the opposite side, which is nothing more than relying on the artillery to bombard indiscriminately, and then cover by heavy machine gun fire, and finally the infantry charge to seize the position.

This tactic is very simple and old-fashioned, and people don't think it's interesting to watch.

But in the face of such simple and old-fashioned tactics, they are powerless.

In fact, when the two sides are fighting, they are not afraid of the enemy playing surprise attacks, and they are not afraid of the enemy's tricks, but what they are most afraid of is that there are no tactics at all, just relying on the superior firepower to push flat in waves!

Because this often means that there is a huge and unbridgeable gap in the strength of the two sides.

The two sides in the battle of Zhenbei City were due to this huge difference in strength.

It was so big that the defenders in the north of the town resisted, and there was a sense of unstoppable despair!

This kind of despair exists from ordinary soldiers to high-ranking generals, but some people show it, and some people don't.

And no matter what the defenders in the city thought, they couldn't affect the attack of the Jingzhou Front of the Daheng Imperial Army on the periphery!

In the evening of the same day, Liang Chenglei personally sat in the coordination to supplement the various units, and at the same time make further adjustments, and at the same time, he also withdrew a part of the troops that had suffered relatively large losses before to rest and recuperate, and transferred new troops to the top.

By the time the sky was not completely bright the next day, the artillery position of the Daheng Imperial Army outside the city had already rumbled again.

The massive artillery bombardment before dawn once again kicked off the offensive and defensive battle.

At about 6:30 a.m. that day, after intensive artillery preparations, the 6th Division launched a surprise attack in the direction of the left flank, and in just one hour, it successively captured three important sections of the enemy's defense line, and advanced the battle line to a distance of only 1,000 meters from the city wall in the north of the town.

The reason why the 6th Division was able to make a rapid breakthrough was directly related to the accurate artillery bombardment provided by the artillery positions on the No. 6 heights.

The artillery units on the No. 6 Heights, with a condescending advantage, accurately shelled a number of important defensive nodes of the enemy, directly covering the 6th Division to break through the enemy's defense line, thus laying the foundation for a rapid breakthrough.

And the enemy army obviously saw the great threat of Jia-6, and once again organized a large-scale force at noon to try to launch a counterattack on Jia-6!

This time, the enemy counterattack was not only on the No. 6 Heights, but also in order to cover the friendly forces attacking the No. 6 Heights, the enemy also deployed at least more than 10,000 people to launch a diversionary counterattack on the positions of other troops of the entire Fourth Division.

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