The Japanese artillery, who was defenseless and didn't even have guns, could resist his wolf-like charge. By the time his company commander rushed over with two platoons, he had already scattered half of the Japanese artillery and left half of it here, and the entire artillery position had completely fallen into his hands. On the Japanese artillery position, there are Japanese corpses lying horizontally and vertically everywhere.

I know that before this squad leader joined the army, the village in his hometown was slaughtered by devils. Except for him, who was outside at the time, the company commander, who was almost all spared, did not say anything, but patted him on the shoulder with encouragement, and ordered the troops to quickly start executing according to the deployment of their superiors.

The only drawback was that the squad leader picked up the machine gun and opened fire, and he was quite happy. But the Japanese troops in the main fort over there reacted quite quickly. As soon as the gunfire rang out here, a 92-heavy machine gun in the main fort over there immediately fired at this side. The troops who had touched the main fort in the past were beaten back before they could get close.

Seeing that his troops had been beaten back again, and the Japanese troops over there were gathering forces, the company commander who had an attempt to recapture the artillery position. Immediately stopped the senseless charge, and commanded the troops to use the mountains of materials in the freight yard as concealment, and dispersed to block the enemy's counterattack.

The platoon commander of the He Huizhang artillery company who followed him immediately took over the two mortars with his own men, turned the muzzle of the gun and heard the gunfire over there, and was firing at the reinforcements of the Japanese troops here. With a distance of less than 100 meters in a straight line, these crazy artillerymen fired shells out almost ninety degrees vertically from the muzzle of the guns.

At such a close distance, there was no need to correct the target, and the four mortar shells accurately landed in the Japanese ranks. Originally, the attention was attracted by Li Ziyuan on the front, and the Japanese army who realized that his artillery position had been lost when it was all fired here. The four rapid fires fired by two mortars caused the dead and wounded to retreat back to the starting point in a hurry.

Repelling the Japanese counterattack, the company commander looked at the mountain gun on the side, and then at the core fortifications that were burning on all sides one hundred and fifty meters away. said to the artillery platoon commander who followed his activities: "Can you kid get this mountain cannon up?" That core fortification is too much of a threat to the detachment leader, and it will be too fucking expensive for us to attack hard. ”

Hearing the cultural words of this infantry company commander, he looked at the core fortifications again. This platoon commander, who had temporarily learned the use of infantry artillery with Li Ziyuan, but did not have and did not have the opportunity to learn the use of mountain artillery, gritted his teeth. With two soldiers, braving the Japanese army's dense bullets, the 41-type mountain gun turned around at a hundred and eighty degrees.

Anyway, the core bunker is not moving, and it will not run away with long legs. After a rush to flatten the barrel of the gun, use the chamber of the gun directly as a sight. It's just that the first shell went out, but it passed by the bunker. The shell passed through the entire freight yard and landed directly on a pillbox on the left flank of the freight yard, blasting the hapless pillbox into the sky.

Although a cannonball was wasted, it finally hit a target, and it was a crooked hit. After this shell was fired, it was like stabbing a hornet's nest. The Japanese army over there only left a small number of troops, holding on to the core fortification group to contain Li Ziyuan in the front, and invested the main force in the counterattack on this side.

The Japanese army was not confused and knew how much of a threat this mountain cannon posed to their core fortifications. Changzhi City was between the Taiyue and Taihang Military Regions of the Eighth Route Army, and also had to face a group army in Linxian County, as well as the Central Army Division 1 operating in the southeast of Shanxi, and on the surface it seemed to face a great threat.

But now, after the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the original army of more than 100,000 troops in the First War Zone of Jinnan has either been defeated or has withdrawn from the Yellow River. Not to mention the miscellaneous army group army that was stuck in the territory of Linxian County, there were many internal contradictions, its own equipment was also quite poor, and it also lacked firepower to attack fortified positions.

The Central Army, which was barely considered to be sophisticated in terms of equipment for its activities in southern Jin, but also seriously lacked artillery, was also completely defeated this year and retreated to the south of the Yellow River. The remaining Eighth Route Army was definitely a threat to the Japanese army. But more often than not, it was a threat to the Japanese stronghold abroad, as well as to the puppet regime and the railway lines.

They had no artillery, no heavy weapons, and basically nothing to do with the city. The Jin Sui Army, which had slightly more artillery, had almost no ability to counterattack at the moment. The fortification group built at the Nanguan Freight Yard was not designed to withstand direct fire from large-caliber artillery.

From the July 7 Incident to the 42nd year, this nationwide war of resistance has been fought for five years. With the national strength of an agricultural country, China, which has fought against a modern industrial country like Japan, has already fought the poor of the people and exhausted their wealth. Not to mention the Eighth Road, which was already poor, even the Central Army, which had always been known to be wealthy, was equally poor.

Except for a few elite corps, the average corps is less than one artillery battalion. Except for some of the artillery directly under the division, which is quite scattered because of its small number, most of the artillery under the division is mainly mortars. The threat is small, and naturally there is no need to pay such a big price for the construction of fortifications.

You know, the Japanese have always been petty about everything, and they are quite clear about calculating. The stronger the permanent fortifications, the more steel and concrete will be consumed. For an adversary who lacked the means to attack fortifications, it was also not necessary for the Japanese to build fortifications capable of defending against artillery of more than 100 mm caliber.

However, today the Japanese army did not expect that Li Ziyuan's first knife was just a bluff, and the second knife stabbed their artillery position. Seventy-five mm mountain artillery fired flat, and the threat to their fortifications and pillboxes was still quite deadly. The first shot may not be completely destroyed, but after a few shots, it will not be able to carry it.

So after discovering that his artillery position was lost, a mountain gun was actually taken away by the Eighth Road. And the Eighth Road can still fire this cannon, although the accuracy is very poor. But for the whole core fortification, the threat is really there. Not recapturing the artillery not only had an impact on the prestige of the Imperial Japanese Army, but also posed too much threat to the core fortifications.

And once the core fortifications are lost, then the freight yard will not be able to hold. Therefore, the Japanese troops defending the freight yard, after discovering that the artillery had been lost, immediately began to concentrate their main forces to counterattack the artillery position. Try to beat the threat and reclaim your honor. At the very least, blow up that mountain cannon.

Not to mention seeing that the first shell missed, it also attracted most of the Japanese troops. The platoon commander gritted his teeth and said to the infantry company commander beside him: "You concentrate your fire to cover me, move the cannon forward fifty meters, and I will bring a cannon with a bayonet today." Anyway, I've learned the use of infantry artillery with the detachment leader for a few hours, so I don't believe I can't figure out this guy today. ”

Hearing the words of this artillery platoon commander, the infantry company commander shook his head and said, "No, if you want to fight, you will fight here." There are so many shells over there that one of your shots will always hit. Going any further, you kid will die. If something happens to you, the detachment leader won't spare me. ”

Although the artillery platoon commander was a little unconvinced by the words of the infantry company commander, the Japanese troops who had regrouped there and launched a counterattack together made the two people have no time to argue. The artillery platoon commander, who knew that he had no infantry cover and could no longer continue to advance, simply fired out the shells.

It's just that this kind of artillery is the first time he has come into contact with it, and although he can barely operate it, his shooting skills are really not good. No matter how he adjusted the firing range, the shells that were fired almost always missed the target. I was sweating profusely in the busy winter, but there was no way to take the bunker over there.

Among the infantry over there, there was a former puppet soldier who was captured on the battlefield of Donglinkou, watching him waste shells like this. And the light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army over there fired at each other. The main target was this artillery position, which was repeatedly fired, but could not destroy the target.

For such a big target, it wasted several shells and missed, but on the contrary, it attracted most of the devil's machine gun fire. If they were allowed to continue like this, not only themselves, but even their own infantry, who was covering them, would be in danger of becoming a hornet's nest after a while.

Not to mention the artillery platoon commander's waste of shells, he also drew the enemy's machine gun fire, and this former puppet soldier, who couldn't bear it, dragged the artillery platoon commander over. After he went to the mountain cannon to readjust the firing range, he reached out to the soldiers around him to ask for cannonballs.

Looking at this guy who was still wearing a pseudo-army uniform, he reached out to himself to ask for a shell, and the soldiers who followed the activities of this platoon commander were also stunned, and some didn't know whether to give it or not. Although he saw this infantry still wearing a puppet army uniform, he was familiar with the mountain cannon in front of him, but after all, he was an infantryman.

When the artillery platoon commander saw this former puppet soldier, he was obviously an artilleryman, and he fiddled with this mountain gun to be more professional than himself. And his subordinates are still there in a daze, wasting fighters in vain. Then he kicked over: "Hurry up and give him the cannonball." ”

For the hesitation of this fighter, his platoon commander was quite dissatisfied. What are you kidding, if it weren't for this artillery position, the Japanese army did not build permanent fortifications when it was built, and only hastily piled up a batch of sandbags, but it was enough to withstand the Japanese rifle machine gun bullets. As far as the tactical literacy of the Japanese army misses the first shot, they will not give themselves a chance to fire the second shot.

Right now, the sandbag has been beaten into a thousand holes. If you wait until the Japanese bring in new artillery, or take out the grenadiers, you won't know how to die at this distance. At present, it is difficult to catch a seemingly professional talent, and his subordinates are still hesitating, so it is strange that he can be satisfied.

The soldier who reacted after being kicked did not hesitate when he heard the platoon commander's order, and directly handed the shell in his hand to the guy who suddenly appeared. The former puppet soldier took the cannonball and immediately stuffed it into the barrel of the cannon, and pulled the firing rope fiercely. In the end, it was a professional, and the mountain shells fired directly opened a skylight for that core pillbox.

Seeing that the final calculation was successful, the artillery platoon commander simply replaced the soldier who handed the shell, personally loaded the bullet for the former puppet soldier, and said again excitedly. When the second shell completely collapsed the core pillbox, the artillery platoon commander was even more excited to get another shell and shout to continue fighting.

Now it was the turn of the former puppet soldier to be dumbfounded: "Platoon commander, where is this next?" You'll have to give me a target, and tell me what kind of ammunition to use, whether it's a devil's infantry or a fixed target. If you hit this mouth, where will I fight? I promise to hit wherever you want, as long as you give a goal. ”