Chapter 85: The Battle of Jiujiang (8)

"Whoa...... Whoa......"

On a low-lying ground a kilometer away from Happy Valley, an officer wearing the rank of Dazuo walked with heavy steps, his originally polished riding boots were already covered with dust and looked dusty, he was the company commander of the 101st Wing of the 101st Division who had hurried to take revenge on the cavalry squadron that had been severely wounded.

It's just that Gana Jio Dasa is obviously not in the mood to pay attention to his boots now, and he asked Nakayama Kanichi Nakasa, the captain of the First Brigade who had been waiting here for a long time, with a calm face: "Is the Shina army just ahead?" ”

"Yes!" Kanichi Nakayama hurriedly responded: "One kilometer ahead is Happy Valley, and our vanguard found that the Chinese people had already set up blocking positions on the slopes on both sides of Happy Valley, and if they were not wrongly calculated, they had severely damaged the Chinese army of the cavalry squadron. ”

"Yo Xi!" Gana nodded heavily: "Since they are there, it will be easy to do, come and ...... Immediately order the artillery to speed up, hurry up and set up the artillery, and in half an hour I will see our artillery fire blow out the people who are hiding in the rat holes! And the task of your first brigade is to plant the flag of our wing on that mountain! ”

"Hay!"

With the order of Gana Jio, the Japanese army also began to get busy.

Although in the Japanese army, the divisions and regiments after 100 years were all temporary special divisions and regiments, there was still a structure that should have been formed. The 101st Wing was also equipped with two artillery squadrons, equipped with a total of eight Type 94 mountain guns, and after more than 20 minutes, these eight mountain guns also began to roar, and several shells flew towards the distant hill, and more than ten seconds later, several dull explosions sounded on the hillside.

"Uh......h Boom ......"

A cannonball landed on the top of the hill and exploded, splashing dust in the sky. At an observation post a few hundred meters away from the explosion site, a soldier was closely watching the place where dust and smoke were rising from time to time in front of him with an artillery mirror, and his mouth kept reporting the movements of the enemy troops he had discovered.

"The azimuth is 125454, the distance is five thousand meters, and the Japanese artillery position was found, and there are eight artillery pieces estimated to be 75 caliber mountain guns......"

Another soldier with an SCR300tm walkie-talkie was writing in a small notebook with a pencil in his hand, and soon he connected to a channel and reported what he had just discovered.

On the militia artillery position behind Happy Valley, a second lieutenant, who was also carrying a walkie-talkie, handed a piece of paper to Bai Hongshan, who was doing the final inspection of the four mortars: "Report to the sir, the observation post has found a Japanese artillery position, this is their position!" ”

Bai Hongshan took the note and looked at it and was silent, this second lieutenant is a soldier of the first company of the independent mountain artillery battalion, and he is also a veteran who has followed Bai Hongshan for many years, seeing that Bai Hongshan was silent, he knew what his company commander was worried about, and asked softly: "Company commander, can we fight?" You must know that the Japanese artillery position is 6,000 meters away from us, and our four big guys can reach it. ”

"Huh?" Bai Hongshan woke up from the silence, and said with a smile on his face: "I don't know if it's enough, but I don't think Chief Su will lie to us, after all, the manual is also very clear, and the maximum range is 6,800 meters." As for the question of whether to fight or not, I think Chief Su has made it very clear just now, besides, I have been an artilleryman for five or six years, and I have never played with such a big guy. Tell the brothers, get ready to fight back, give the little devil some color and see! ”

"Yes!"

The second lieutenant turned around and shouted: "The heavy artillery platoon listens to my command, and the high-explosive bomb is ready!" ”

"High-explosive bomb ready!"

"Azimuth 125454 at a distance of 6,100 meters, one test launch...... Put ......"

Not far from Bai Hongshan, a gunner lifted an M329A2 grenade weighing 20 catties to the muzzle and stood upright, while the other gunner held the tail fin and aimed it at the muzzle. Only a clang, followed by a muffled bang, a puff of smoke came out of the muzzle, and then a cannonball rushed out of the barrel and flew into the sky at a speed invisible to the naked eye......

On a flat ground 5,000 kilometers away from Happy Valley, eight Japanese Type 94 guns were spewing tongues of fire towards the hillside in front of them, and puffs of black smoke came out of the muzzles, which were the Japanese artillery squadrons shelling Happy Valley.

In the minds of these Japanese gunners, their position was now very safe, and there were no weapons in this area that could threaten them. The Chinese army would not have placed their precious and scarce artillery here to fight them, which meant that they could bombard their positions without fear of any return fire.

There were many Japanese gunners with this idea, and many Japanese soldiers simply took off their shirts and carried the shells in a hot manner with their shirts and shirtless, and tried their best to fire the shells at the opposite side.

Just as they were fighting, a whistling sound came from the sky, different from the more sharp whistling sound that they usually heard, this whistling sound was slightly dull and the sound was relatively long, a Japanese artillery junior who was directing the opening of the cannon frowned when he heard this sound, and before he could speak, a shell fell less than a hundred meters away from the artillery position.

Although the explosion point was dozens of meters away from the artillery position, the violent shock wave still knocked a lot of gravel and soil into a flying area, hitting many people with a faint pain.......

Seeing the posture of this explosion, Shaozuo, who was originally quite calm, immediately changed his face, and shouted without thinking: "This is a large-caliber heavy artillery!" Not good...... Everyone is ready to evacuate, withdraw from positions...... Immediately withdraw from the position......"

The experienced Shao Zuo knew very well that this first shell was just a test firing of the opponent, and when the opponent's observers rested and reorganized the coordinates, the opponent's stormy blows would soon follow.

It's just that whether the artillery is deployed or put away, it takes time, but in less than half a minute, there was a dull whistling sound in the sky, but unlike the long nasal voice just now, this whistling sound was very rapid and short, and soon four shells fell on the Japanese artillery position, and the successive explosions sounded on the position, one of the shells just fell next to a 94-type mountain cannon, after the explosion, the mountain cannon weighing more than 500 was blown into a twisted shape, and was swept away more than ten meters away by a huge shock wave.

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