Chapter 129: Cunning Japanese Artillery
The dozen or so grenades thrown out by Cai Dadao in one breath are equivalent to more than a dozen mortar shells, although there are not too many accurate heads under the threat of infantry rifle fire to not be thrown directly on the head of the army, but the head of the lonely mountain is not big, and the other two sides are under the fire coverage of the other two hills, and the army can only attack from two of the slopes, which is nearly 200 rao The attack surface is naturally denser.
Normally, there is a gap of six to eight meters between individual soldiers, but here it is only four or five meters.
No matter what position you lose, as long as the approximate position is in the military attack formation, the probability is much higher than that of a blind cat hitting a dead mouse.
As nearly a dozen grenades exploded in the middle of the army, and more than a dozen lying troops flew into the air, Captain Fujita, the squadron leader behind the position, issued a signal to withdraw from the turbulence.
Although the firepower of the Chinese defenders was very fierce, and the casualties inflicted on their own side were not high, the army was by no means a tofu pinch, and the infantry squadron leader, as the supreme commander of the front line, would never easily choose to retreat after only a few minutes of attack, especially after the captain of the Dazuo Wing gave the order to attack to the death.
As a front-line commander, Fujita Ichiro estimated through observation that the Chinese defenders on the current position would not be more than 100 judged, and it was natural that he would not lose his troops in this offensive that did not have much significance.
The army alternated cover and quickly retreated.
Chi Dakui did not order a counterattack, because he knew very well that the army was still firepower reconnaissance despite the menacing momentum, and after they observed the Chinese position at close range, more accurate artillery bombardment would soon come.
Leaving two observation posts behind, the fighters on the position quickly retreated through the already broken communication trenches into the trenches behind the mountains.
Sure enough, within two minutes, the infantry guns that had received a report on the situation at the front opened fire again, but this time the shelling only lasted five minutes before it ended.
But unlike the previous time, the infantry actually entered the position at the foot of the hill when the artillery fire was opened, and as the artillery fire bloomed on the top of the mountain, they began to move up the mountain.
One second to remember: /or
Infantry and artillery coordination, relying on unparalleled spiritual beliefs, has even gone ahead of Western armies in this regard. The infantry, located at the forefront, was even 150 meters from the top of the hill where the artillery bloomed.
Of course, the spiritual belief of allegiance to the emperor alone can increase the courage of the infantry and brave their own fire, but that does not improve the technique of artillery, even if it is a direct-aiming infantry gun. However, the army artillery team has increased the elevation angle, and the accuracy of the infantry gun is naturally worse when it is used as a curved gun.
At least a dozen of the infantry at the forefront were swept away by their own artillery fire, but that still did not stop the soldiers from screaming and cheering themselves up, and there was a great posture of rushing to the top of the hill and turning into ashes with the Chinese defenders in their own artillery fire.
I have to, it really takes courage and determination, and this army in this period is really hard.
The two observation posts were lucky to survive the frantic artillery bombardment of the army this time, but they didn't have time to rejoice that they were alive, but the crazy artillery fire had just stopped, and their ears were no longer useful, but they saw the shadow of the army on the hillside through the thick smoke of gunpowder.
So fast? The two observation posts were frightened and blew the iron whistle hanging around their necks desperately.
The rapid and shrill whistle reflected the anxiety of the two observation posts, which were almost close to the Ming army.
The soldiers who had entered the position earlier were about to rush into the position again, and in the short battle that had only taken a few minutes just now, they had miraculously lost not a single one of them, having overthrown a dozen corps.
"Wait!" Chi Dakui suddenly waved his hand, gritted his teeth, and said, "Wait another half minute." ”
Undoubtedly, this is a very difficult decision, the whistle of the observation post is very urgent, not half a minute, that is, more than ten seconds may allow the army to rush to the main position, although there is a second line of defense on the top of the hill that is not flat, but let the devil easily occupy the first line of defense, the entire mountaintop defense battle will fall into passivity.
"Sir。。。。。。" Cai Dadao obviously knew this result, and his expression was anxious.
Before he could finish speaking, he heard a piercing scream from far and near.
"Boom, boom" Infantry artillery shells exploded on the position, and the mountains shook again, shaking the soldiers who were already ready to go.
Another shelling that lasted more than 5 minutes.
"Dog devils are so cunning." A layer of sweat appeared on the door of the brave Cai Dadao's head.
If it weren't for Chi Dakui's wit, let them wait for another half a minute, the two teams and two infantry squads that hurriedly ran to the position, 50 people, would definitely suffer heavy losses, and if they were unlucky, they would have been wiped out.
Chi Dakui also secretly called for luck in his heart, if he hadn't remembered some of the methods used by the enemy in the anti-slope tactics when chatting with Liu Lang in the trenches just now, these dozens of brothers under him would have confessed before the war began.
Of course, Chi Dakui didn't think of this on a whim, but the observation post on the opposite side could see the army after the artillery bombardment had just stopped for dozens of seconds, and the line of sight effect was not good, which was too fast, unless the commander of the opposite army did not care about the lives of his soldiers at all.
But it is clear that this is only a second attack, and it is far from the moment for another army to charge to the death.
An excellent commander does not need superhuman intelligence, but more importantly, the ability to make what he thinks is the most correct judgment according to the battlefield situation.
Chi Dakui, the former deputy commander of the guard battalion, may not be an excellent commander now, but the battlefield is making him grow.
But this time, he made a mistake.
The commander of the army was more decisive than he imagined, and he would rather be accidentally injured by his own artillery fire, but also take advantage of the gap between the artillery to suppress the opponent and close the distance.
The reason why Chi Dakui made a mistake was to speculate on the tactical design of the opposing commander with a normal mentality, but he still didn't know that the army was actually a kind of army with a serious morbid psychology.
In fact, this has something to do with the strict hierarchy in the army, and the senior officers of the army do not care so much about the lives of ordinary soldiers. The nobles who joined the army basically started as captains, while the ordinary infantry was mostly composed of mountain people and fishermen, and those with low status were all officers who wantonly beat and scolded in the army, so in China, these once ordinary Rao soldiers would become fierce and brutal, because they found people who could still be bullied by them.
I was bullied, so I had to bully people who were worse than me to get some kind of psychological satisfaction, so the beast of the army was magnified countless times by the war.
To put it bluntly, they are the lunatics who have been brainwashed by ****, a group of lunatics who do not deserve pity.
But thankfully, Chi Dakui was lucky enough. If the corps commander had not been clever enough to add a rifle to the end of this frantic attack, at least the front-line positions would have been in their pockets at this point.
If the two tactical designs are actually clever, then the superposition of the two clever tactics may not necessarily be one plus one equals two, but may be one.
Because, the battlefield is not an arithmetic problem.
The so-called favorable time, place and people, there is an ethereal but real luck component in its Zheng
The luck of the Chinese defenders was very good.
The troops lying 100 meters away immediately launched a charge as soon as their own artillery bombardment stopped, and it only took about 18 seconds to rush to the position at full speed.
However, the Chinese defenders, who had been waiting for a long time, only took ten seconds to enter the position, only forty meters away, and for the offensive and defensive battle, the two sides could almost face to face, but it was still too late.