Chapter 144: Rubbing in the trenches

The lieutenant general of the army made a bloody investment, except for leaving two infantry companies on the main position at the pass as the last hand, all the rest of the troops were killed out of the Great Wall.

In front of the frontal position of the Japanese army was Comrade Wang's 217th Regiment.

After receiving the signal flare that the other two infantry regiments on the left and right were in position, Comrade Wang immediately ordered the three infantry battalions under his command to attack the Japanese army on a front nearly 2 kilometers long.

Even the tentative attack threw three infantry companies in three directions, and there was a great sense of beating the Japanese army into a flying force in one go.

To put Lao Wang's brief mobilization before the war: In the encirclement of the Japanese army, there are Lao Tzu's brothers, and Lao Tzu is here to save them. Before I came, the division and brigade all told me that they were soldiers of my 37th Division, and even if they died, we would take them home.

At this moment, there is no big reason to protect the family and defend the country, that is, Lao Tzu is here to take his brothers home. Morale, on the contrary, is unprecedentedly high.

Because, no one wants to be abandoned by his brothers, not to abandon the people in the encirclement of the Japanese army, for these soldiers, in fact, they do not abandon themselves.

The three infantry companies stopped when they advanced about 500 meters in front of the Japanese position, and before the Japanese heavy machine guns swept over, they searched for cover, and some even began to carry out civil engineering work with shovels.

This made the Japanese army who were waiting for it a little dumbfounded, these Chinese, what do they want to do? What about the attack that is said to be good? Is there a bird for digging trenches 500 meters away? Lying inside and staring at us with big eyes?

However, for these almost useless actions of the Chinese, the Japanese army, which had long been frightened by three times its opponent, was almost swollen.

Obviously, the longer it drags on, the better it will be for them.

After all, they are also people with, moreover, there are also heavy artillery, and when the four heavy guns are calibrated, they can see the Chinese who can't hit 500 meters ago, but they will be unlucky.

However, they apparently forgot that this time, the Chinese had more artillery than them.

Liu Lang is in the triangular position, but there are 8 mountain guns, perhaps because of the problem of firing range and firing range, they can only stare at the Japanese army that fights them, and most of the time they have to rely on artillery support from the direction of Luo Wenyu's main position.

But this time, the Japanese army is really going to have a good taste of the 41-type mountain cannon produced by itself.

The explosion power of the 6.5-kilogram small howitzer shell of the 75-mm mountain gun is indeed far from the explosion power of the 18-kilogram shell of the 150-mm heavy howitzer.

But there's an old saying? When you are older, you rely on experience to improve the quality of life, but when you are young, you don't have to rely on anything else, that is, you are an old rascal, why come once every ten days and a half a month, and Lao Tzu can come ten times a day.

Compared with the 75 mountain artillery and the 150 heavy artillery, this is about the meaning, if you fire one cannon, we can do six or seven cannons, in the jargon: the rate of fire is fast.

There were already artillery soldiers who acted with the infantry, marked the coordinates of the Japanese army's position and transmitted it to Liu Lang through the field radio, and Liu Lang took Mo Xuanqing, a high-achieving student, to personally adjust the artillery with 8 veteran gunners.

That has to be done with caution! This time, the opposite side of the Japanese position was not a few dozen or hundreds of their own people, but a few thousand, and once the shell fell on the head of his family if he did not hit it well, the credit for pouring the sky would be lost because of this mistake, and he would lose his head if he did not go back.

The Japanese army is waiting for its own heavy artillery to be powerful, and the Chinese army is also waiting for its own artillery, and it is just to give the Japanese army a psychological comfort by digging temporary field bunkers as soon as possible.

As for the heavy artillery of the Japanese army, the four infantry regiments attacked from three sides, and the entire front was 10 kilometers long, and it was impossible to cover the position with only four guns, and the distance between each soldier was as high as 10 meters, which also greatly reduced the risk of half an infantry platoon being wiped out after one shot.

But the Japanese in the position, it is not good, they have few troops, so naturally they concentrate some。。。。。

So, when Liu Lang personally commanded the 8 mountain guns to start the test firing, the little face of Nao Yanagawa, the captain of the 17th Infantry Wing on the front line, turned white.

Only then did he remember that the Chinese also had artillery, so they hid in the mountains four kilometers away, and beat them fiercely in the early hours of yesterday morning.

What is sad is that because China's nearly 10,000 troops surrounded from three sides, in view of the fact that he had about 2,000 people and one or two thousand wounded soldiers, in order to be able to kill and injure the Chinese more effectively, Suzuki Mitsu temporarily had a brain twitch and ordered to abandon the outer positions, and the 2,000 or so people shrank inward, so that they could concentrate their forces to defend more important defense points, and they could concentrate their firepower to kill and injure a large number of Chinese.

Actually, conventionally speaking, this arrangement is not wrong. If you shrink your forces, the Chinese army will naturally have to shorten the battle line, and the more concentrated your forces, the easier it will be to make heavy firearms such as heavy machine guns and infantry guns more powerful.

And what about the Chinese! What's there? Heavy machine guns, how many? Is there more than 10 in an infantry regiment? Mortars, a regiment of four, we also have an infantry squad here with two grenadiers that can hit 500 meters! An infantry brigade must not muster more than twenty to fight you.

These middle- and high-ranking officers of the Japanese army have obviously forgotten one truth: the scumbag heavy weapons are also more lethal than the strongest light weapons.

Why the Chinese army can't do an infantry regiment that is only half of its own strength is not that the firepower of small arms is insufficient, on the contrary, the firepower of small arms of many elite units is stronger than that of the Japanese army, just like the brigade-level guard company of the 29th Army Division, which is equipped with shell guns and submachine guns that can beat the Japanese troops equipped with 38 big covers at a distance of 100 meters.

However, the Japanese infantry brigade was equipped with infantry artillery and mountain artillery and field artillery attached to the wing to cooperate with them, while the Chinese infantry regiment had only small-caliber mortars at most. The gap in heavy firepower is the main reason for the huge difference in combat effectiveness.

Of course, that also reflects the disparity in national strength. If China itself could produce a large number of artillery steel, and could produce artillery in large quantities, perhaps the Japanese would not have such great ambitions and wanted to swallow the whole of China in one bite.

But China, no. The so-called golden decade is just a decade for some big families. China, after missing the first and second industrial revolutions, also missed the opportunity to catch up with the Western powers in that period, while the Japanese were lucky to hang the tail of the industrial revolution.

Suzuki Mitsu made a mistake for various reasons, but in fact, when Liu Lang's 8 guns began to roar, all the Japanese troops collectively believed that their Major General Brigade Commander His Excellency had been wounded in yesterday's battle.

Not only his heart, but also his head.

Otherwise, how could such a stupid order be given?

Baga's, the big guys got together to get shelled??

This time, Liu Lang obtained the most accurate coordinates on the front line, instead of playing blindly like in the early hours of yesterday morning.

It was all about pressing the Japanese infantry into the trenches and rubbing them.