The north wind was blowing, and the snowflakes were slowly falling from the sky, but the earth, which should have been covered in silver, was now black everywhere, full of black earth that had been blown up by cannonballs and snow that had been blackened by gunsmoke.

On a position outside Gao'an City, Imaizumi and Dazuo looked at the attack position of the Chinese people more than a thousand meters away, with surprise, resentment and puzzled eyes in their eyes, but in less than half a day, he lost nearly a brigade of troops, and the attack of the opposite army was too fierce, especially their artillery fire made people feel desperate. Since he was there earlier this morning, the enemy has been covering them with artillery fire for nearly two hours in a row, and almost all the front-line positions have been destroyed.

Licking his dry lips, Imaizumi turned around and shouted behind him, "Any of you still have water, bring it and let me drink two sips." ”

"Your Excellency Dazuo, you drink mine." A private handed over the kettle, which had been unscrewed.

Imaizumi took the kettle and took two sips, the cold water froze from his throat to his stomach, and his stomach, which was already a little bad, had a faint pain. He couldn't help but curse in a low voice: "Damn the Chinese people." ”

Returning the kettle to the private, Imaizumi was about to continue to observe the movement in front of him, when the private took the kettle and asked timidly, "Your Excellency, Wing Commander, can I ask you a question?" ”

Imaizumi Masakazu glanced at the private-class soldier curiously and nodded: "You ask." ”

The private gritted his teeth and said, "Your Excellency, I heard that the opposite side is the Zhina unit known as the "Jingguan Army", is that so?" ”

"Hmm!" Izumi Masakazu's face suddenly sank, and he was about to speak, but a soldier (sergeant) next to him rushed over and stretched out his hand to slap the private twice and scolded: "Yaga, you coward, you dare to spread rumors at this time. Do you believe it that I'm going to shoot you right away? ”

Jun Cao scolded and beat at the same time, only to hit the corner of the private's mouth to the point that blood flowed from the corner of the private's mouth, and the private stood on the spot and did not dare to move, allowing Jun Cao to beat him.

The Japanese soldiers on the side were silently watching this soldier Cao beating this private, and they all knew what the reason was, because the fame of the "Jingguan Force" was too great, and now almost all Japanese soldiers knew that there was such a unit in Huaxia, they were well-equipped and extremely tenacious in combat. They had rarely been defeated since they fought against the Japanese army, and one of their favorite things to do was to cut off the heads of the corpses of Japanese soldiers who had died in battle after the war, and then cast them into Kyokan. In Japanese tradition, a warrior whose head was cut off by the enemy could not return to the arms of the gods after death, so many Japanese soldiers were afraid of this.

"That's it!"

Izumi on the side snorted coldly and said, "What are you beating him for, he didn't lie." ”

Jun Cao stopped and said with some trepidation: "Your Excellency Dazuo, you are ......"

"I know what you're afraid of." Imizumi continued, "As a soldier of the Empire, it is our duty to die for the Emperor and the Empire, and at the same time, we must face up to our enemies. Isn't that the Jingguan army? Don't they just like to use the corpses of imperial soldiers to cast Jingguan? What's there to be afraid of? Imaizumi's voice grew louder and louder, "You are all soldiers of the Empire, you must have faith, as long as we defeat them." Wouldn't it be okay to cast their corpses into Jingguan as well? As for hearing their names, do you have to be afraid? ”

Just when Izumi Zhenghe was desperate for morale, on the artillery position of their independent brigade a few kilometers away from them, Su Jin was assigning tasks to Bai Hongshan, the commander of the artillery regiment.

At this time, on the artillery regimental position, the muzzle of the M101 howitzer gun with a black hole was pointing forward. The huge muzzle of the cannon seemed to spew out anger at any moment.

"Lao Bai, in ten minutes, your two 105th artillery battalions will launch an artillery bombardment of the Japanese positions at the same time. It is imperative to blow up the second line of defense of the Japanese army in the shortest possible time, and in two hours I will see our battle flag planted on the Japanese position, and once Gao'an is captured, the troops must not stop, and must march towards Nanchang as quickly as possible. ”

Bai Hongshan hesitated for a moment and said: "Sir, there is no problem with this, but I don't understand, why don't we use the heavy artillery battalion, the power of the heavy artillery battalion is much more powerful than the 105 artillery, as long as you agree to use the heavy artillery battalion, I guarantee that you can escort the infantry brothers to the devil's position within an hour!" ”

Since the reorganization of the unit, it has been felt that the types of artillery in the artillery regiment are too complicated, and at that time, the artillery regiment in Baihongshan had M30 107-mm mortars, 81-millimeter and 60-millimeter mortars, and M101105-millimeter howitzers, which were very cumbersome to use. Feeling this, Su Jin assigned all the mortars to the regimental level troops below, using the M30 107 mm mortar as the regimental support fire, the 81 mm mortar as the battalion support fire, and the 60 mm mortar as the continuous support fire.

In addition to equipping two battalions of M101105 mm howitzers, Su Jin also specially cashed in twenty-seven M40155 mm self-propelled guns nicknamed "Long-legged Tom", at first Su Jin did not want to cash in this kind of self-propelled artillery, because self-propelled artillery is a little complicated in operation for soldiers with a low level of education, and the most suitable artillery for the current national army artillery should be a relatively simple towed artillery, but Su Jin considered that the current road situation in China is too bad, The towed artillery weighing more than ten tons was too difficult to operate, and it was far less convenient than the self-propelled artillery, so Su Jin gritted his teeth and cashed in twenty-seven, and after several months of intense training, the gunners of the heavy artillery battalion can finally operate it.

Hearing Bai Hongshan's request, Su Jin reprimanded: "What do you know, in this case, our two light howitzers are enough to complete the task, if heavy artillery is used, the Japanese army on the opposite side will definitely report immediately, so that the Japanese army will be alert in the future, and we will not be able to achieve the effect of surprise." ”

After the two discussed for a while, the time was almost up, just as Bai Hongshan was about to give the order to open artillery, the signal soldier came to report, "Brigade seat, Commander Xue is calling, the 32nd Group Army's attack on Nanchang has been blocked, Commander Xue ordered us to abandon the Japanese army in Gao'an, and the officers and men of the whole brigade immediately marched towards Nanchang and launched an attack on the Japanese army in Nancheng together with the 32nd Group Army." (To be continued.) )