Chapter 1184: New Ways to Play Shelling?
The efficiency of the Japanese army was very high, and as soon as the military order was issued, the departments quickly carried it out.
Two squads drawn from the heavy squadrons of the 108th and 109th divisions, consisting of 20 patrols totaling 320 people, patrolled along their respective divided areas, and all the Chinese who got up early and went out to work unknown were brutally slaughtered on the streets.
Fortunately, Liu Lang launched the attack at 6:20 a.m., and most of the people were still asleep, and they were awakened by the heavy gunfire and retreated to their homes, so the number of civilians implicated was very small.
The entire infantry squadron directly under the division and regiment headquarters began to strengthen the fortifications and arrange the defense line around a compound requisitioned by the division and regiment headquarters, and a full eight light machine guns and two heavy machine guns were erected in the fortifications that had already been built, and there were even two Type 90 mortars erected in the compound of the division and regiment headquarters.
With a strength of 200 troops and a firepower two grades higher than that of ordinary infantry squadrons, the garrison squadron guarded the division headquarters like an iron bucket.
Seeing that the defense line was gradually firm, Kawagishi Bunzaburo's mind gradually let go. Not to mention the 1,100-strong defenders of the engineer wing guarding the city gate and the two squads drawn from the heavy squadrons of the 108th and 109th divisions, that is, 200 people guarding the division headquarters, even if the Chinese send out an infantry regiment, they can't attack without a day's effort, and Kawagishi Bunzaburo has that confidence in the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under his command.
Before that, the planes that were to take off from Beiping had already arrived, and the Chinese, lacking anti-aircraft firepower, would flee in disarray under the blows of imperial officers and soldiers from the sky to the underground.
Fortunately, the Japanese lieutenant general did not have the dream of annihilating the Chinese infantry division in a counteroffensive. After all, half of the 2,000 defenders in his hands are second-line soldiers of the 108 and 109 scumbag divisions, and one-third are his own sons, but they are technical troops like the engineer wing, and their combat effectiveness is also worrying. That is, the garrison squadron directly under the division is a little tough, but it is only more than 200 points, and they are used to fight with nearly 10,000 Chinese, and the Japanese lieutenant generals are not all Xiang.
Of course, Kawagishi Bunzaburo is a lieutenant general after all, but the treatment is much stronger than Harada Shinichi, a small Osa, not only can he extract 4 infantry guns from the baggage warehouse to use, but the engineer wing itself has a mortar squadron, with six Type 90 mortars, plus the 4 infantry guns, a total of 10 guns.
This is also one of Kawagishi Bunzaburo's confidence, according to his thoughts, an infantry division of the Chinese does not necessarily have so many guns.
However, the Japanese lieutenant general still thought too much.
Although it was only a regiment, a battalion and a company that came this time, if it was about firepower, it would not be other miscellaneous divisions, or Zhao Shoushan's 17th Division, which might not be able to catch up.
This time, Liu Lang brought not only mountain artillery, infantry artillery, mortars, but also 20 mm machine guns, no matter what kind of artillery, it was enough for the Japanese army to drink a pot, and the number of more than 20 guns was more than double that of the Japanese army.
A lieutenant general and a major general at the Japanese division and regiment headquarters were so anxious that they scratched their hearts and livers, but in fact, Liu Tuanzuo's side was not comfortable.
The 343 Brigade ordered four infantry guns and four mortars to cover the attack for a total of ten minutes, and the fight was very cool, and the Japanese army was beaten wildly without resistance, and the only thing that could resist was to strengthen the only Type 90 mortar for the 160 people of the Japanese East Gate Engineer Wing Squad, but the mortar group did not dare to fire at all.
The performance of the Type 90 mortar is actually very good, even better than the 82 mortar, which is currently the most equipped in China, but now the Japanese army can also see that as soon as they open fire, they will be surrounded and beaten by at least 4 82 mortars, and the result will definitely not be much better.
But Liu Lang's side, according to the drawings, bombarded the point where the explosives were bought two years ago for 3 minutes, and at least 20 shells were blasted out.
This special mother thinks that Lao Tzu's cannon is inaccurate, so it's easy to bully? Geng Dazhuang, the temporary head of the artillery battalion who was with the bayonet battalion, almost lost his eyes. It's a bit silly for Lao Tzu to hit the city wall according to the order of the regiment, but Lao Tzu still has cannons, doesn't he?
With his order, the four 41-type mountain guns that stopped 1,000 meters away raised their muzzles high and bombarded the Japanese small guns that dared to open fire. Using four mountain guns to surround one mortar, I'm afraid that only the losers of the independent regiment can do it.
Moreover, the gunners of the Independent Regiment fire about 20 rounds of live ammunition every year, and it is by no means that they can accurately hit the target with the spirit of a ruthless worker, but by real training. One shot may be a test shot, but the second shot can definitely hit eight or nine without leaving ten, even if the regular Japanese artillery comes to shoot, it is estimated that they can kneel down, not to mention the engineer wing, which can also be regarded as second-line soldiers?
The Dumiao Type 90 mortar fired only three shells before being surrounded by four mountain artillery shells that followed. Before the frightened artillery team could run away with their beloved cannons, the second round of shells was already approaching within twenty meters. The killing area of the 6.5-kilogram howitzer shell is as high as 300 square meters, and even if there is a repeated overlap of 4 rounds, the killing area is more than 800 meters.
The Japanese army is not He-Man, and it cannot summon the power of a bear at once, nor can it have the speed of a leopard. An artillery group of 8 people, along with their 90 mortars, which fired only three shells, were blown into flying parts.
Well, although the Chinese cannons are still stupidly bombarding the city wall, from this moment on, all the Japanese can only honestly shrink their necks and wait to be beaten. The heavy machine gun did not dare to fire, what if the Chinese were awakened and stared at them like just now?
Therefore, while the Japanese were busy dispatching troops in the city, and the Japanese defenders were crying out for artillery outside the east gate, the south gate was where the Japanese hid tightly and watched the Chinese infantry artillery compete with the city wall.
It was as if those infantry guns did not knock down the walls several meters thick, and they were not infantry guns.
Baga, even if the Chinese want to contain the troops, they don't just need to bombard the city walls and not the fortifications! Liu Lang's abnormal behavior made the Japanese lieutenant commander see nothing else in his mind except question marks.
"Holy shit, aren't you playing with me!" The wave, who has always been very determined, waited silently for several minutes, and couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
"Lao Yu shouldn't have any problem, all of us have been hiding in the place he provided these days, and he took the initiative to say the matter of planting explosives, if he doesn't say it, even I don't know." Yu Xiancheng was also a little embarrassed, but he got the information.
"Of course there will be no problem with people, and if there is a problem, even if you are prepared, this stone gate will already be all over the city to hunt you down." Liu Lang shook his head, "I mean this explosive, they are still unprofessional!" Buried so deeply, he can really be used as a city wall brick. ”
"Lao Geng, the little devil's infantry artillery is scum, put the mountain artillery flat for Lao Tzu, and the machine gun also put flat for Lao Tzu, all of them are bombarded by Lao Tzu, today Lao Tzu doesn't believe it, Lao Tzu can't eat Lao Chen's wine." Langtuan is a little hairy.
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After a long day, I was still thinking about the wine of Brigade Commander Chen!
However, the commander of the regiment has spoken, and who dares not to listen.
So, the infantry guns, mountain guns, and 20-mm machine guns were all laid flat and bombarded at the city wall, and the base piece.
The light of fire and gunpowder enveloped that section of the city wall, but the Japanese defenders were unscathed, and it seemed that they could still see the free fireworks.
Chinese, it must be a crazy ball! The Japanese lieutenant involuntarily popped up the northern Chinese vernacular in his mind, and it seemed that only this sentence could describe the ignorance of the Chinese commander. Yaga and the like, in the face of this incomprehensible madness, seem too pale and powerless.
The madness of the Chinese lasted for nearly another minute, and then, with a sudden explosion, directly destroyed the nerves of the Japanese lieutenant, which had been somewhat fragile by Liu Lang.
"Yaga, how did they do it?" While his head was still flying in the sky, I am afraid that this thought was still lingering in his mind.
Can shells accumulate together and then cause an explosion? When did this new way of playing guns become popular?
There were a bunch of question marks again, until the complete darkness completely overwhelmed him.
The city wall of Shimen is not the city wall of Jingcheng County, it is three or four meters thick and five or six meters high, and all the fortifications of the Japanese army are built on the city wall. Moreover, there are also hidden caves under the city wall, so even if the enemy has artillery, it can resist for a while.
The best way to deal with them is to dig tunnels, then plant explosives, and blast the walls into the sky, but it will take time. The Japanese defenders of the four gates received orders from the division headquarters to hold out until 9 o'clock in the morning, and as soon as the Imperial Army bombers arrived, all the crises were resolved.
However, no one expected that someone would have done this ambush two years ago, and there would be explosives exploding without digging tunnels.
100 kilograms of explosives exploded suddenly, directly blasting a section of the city wall ten meters wide, and the thirty or forty meters of the city wall collapsed directly because of the violent vibration, and the section of the city wall that was blown up, including the Japanese lieutenant, flew into the sky, and it was also broken like the wall bricks. The Japanese troops on the collapsed city wall were no better, and they fell directly with the collapsed masonry and were buried by the masonry.
The saddest thing is that at least fifty people were hidden in a Tibetan cave, and all of them were buried by a large amount of masonry, and even the Chinese on the opposite side were suffocated to death without seeing them.
The Japanese troops, who were lucky enough not to be within the explosion range and the collapse range, were also stunned by the sudden loud noise.
The walls were three hundred meters long, all covered in smoke and dust.
"One company, upper, two companies, fire platoon, fire cover, all mortars cover the flanks, machine gun cover." Liu Dazhu took out the cotton in his ears and gave the order for an assault as soon as possible.
There was no charge, no flares, with a wave of the hands of commanders at all levels.
"Kill" a company of cats hidden four hundred meters away, waist down, with the usual formation of three or three to break towards the gap in the city wall.
A torrent of bullets covering the two wings fell on the battlements of the walls, leaving almost no gaps.