Almost at the same time that the heavy machine guns fired, the first wave of counterattack fire had already fallen on the Japanese troops. The mountain artillery and mortars commanded by He Huizhang relied on the data of previous measurements, as well as the demarcated artillery fire range. Without any prior test firing, the shells were fired out one by one.

However, after the artillery fired, the sound of artillery from He Huizhang's side was somewhat wrong. It was obviously much denser than the artillery that the troops were supposed to carry, and the shells that should have been fired. Li Ziyuan clearly heard from the sound of the cannon that there were four mountain cannons that were firing. And according to the previous lightly armed order, the troops should now have two mountain guns.

But at this time, Li Ziyuan couldn't care about the two extra mountain cannons, what was going on. If the Eighth Route Army had so many artillery, it would urgently need Li Ziyuan, who would be the winner with one blow. At this moment, even if he was given an artillery division, he would not feel that there were too many artillery, and he would not refuse to come.

At this time when the intensity of artillery fire is urgently needed, Li Ziyuan, who can participate in the war, will naturally not pursue He Huizhang's disobedience to orders in private. He only cares about how much success he can achieve in this artillery counterattack. During the entire period of the artillery counterattack. His telescope never left the ravine occupied by the Japanese.

The artillery battery, in fact, is now an artillery battalion scale shells, sweeping across the entire Japanese-controlled ravine. He Huizhang seemed to have really made up his mind this time, and he divided the mountain artillery and mortar in his hand into two artillery groups. Mountain artillery fired from the outside to the inside from the exit of the mountain pass, and mortars fired from the inside to the outside from their forward positions.

This style of play was for the Eighth Route Army, which had almost no artillery shells to replenish except for the battlefield. Not to mention that there is no such technique, and even if there is, it is basically impossible to adopt this tactic. Because of this artillery tactic, in addition to the high technical requirements of the artillery participating in the battle, the most critical thing is the abnormal consumption of shells.

If it were a normal change, He Huizhang's style of play, Li Ziyuan would have to scold even the eighteenth generation of this guy's ancestors. But now Li Ziyuan can still take care of the distressed cannonballs, for him, before it gets dark, it is more important than anything else to solve the battle. For this moment, Li Ziyuan can be said to be ready to smash the pot and sell iron and bankrupt his family.

And He Huizhang's side is also quite nimble. He predicted that the terrain of the Ether Hang Mountains would not allow the Japanese to carry too many shells. In the previous battles, the Japanese did not care about the consumption of shells during the battle. In terms of the Japanese army's poor battlefield supply capacity, the number of shells carried will not be too much.

So he didn't even move the gun position, and opened fire directly at the originally constructed artillery position. In addition to observing the data on changes in the enemy's situation in the front-line positions, Zhou Tong commanded four mountain artillery pieces by telephone with the artillery company instructors, and he commanded the mortar group.

The two men divided their respective combat areas and were responsible for directing their own artillery. The only difference is that there are some mortars and mountain artillery, and behind them are soldiers with light machine guns, watching these artillery fights. These people who enjoy special treatment and are still wearing the uniforms of Wang's puppet Second Front Army are all puppet artillerymen who were captured before.

Li Ziyuan gave the order to travel lightly, but whether it was He Huizhang or Zhou Tong, they were quite reluctant to look at the few mountain cannons that needed to be thrown away if the order was carried out. When the puppet army was transferred to prisoners, Li Ziyuan considered the large number of captured mountain artillery and mortars, as well as the large number of artillery shells, and the burden was quite heavy.

These puppet artillery prisoners and two Japanese artillery prisoners were captured, and most of the captured Japanese puppet army mules and horses were handed over to the artillery company. The two reluctant people simply put the cannonballs and large parts of the mountain cannon on the horse. The rest of the men were each carrying parts of a cannon, or a box of shells.

Not only the cadres and fighters of the artillery company, but also at least a box of shells on their bodies. Even the captives were put to good use, each carrying a box of shells in addition to rifles and ammunition. Although by the time they arrived at Luofengling, the cadres and soldiers of the artillery company, along with the prisoners, were already exhausted and exhausted.

The captured artillery and shells, which basically did not suffer any losses, followed. This is also the reason why He Huizhang and Zhou Tong are very confident at the moment. The two people who also knew that the current situation was urgent, not only He Huizhang, who had always been generous in Li Ziyuan's eyes, but even Zhou Tong, who had always been cautious, did not care about the consumption of shells.

Of course, at this moment, the number of mountain artillery and mortars has been exceeded, and he definitely does not have so many artillery on hand. Even if he is equipped with artillery according to Li Ziyuan's standard of one belt and two belts, he does not have so many artillery to take over so many artillery. In order not to let these guns sit idle there when someone else is fighting, because no one is using them.

This guy simply took all the puppet artillerymen in the captives to his artillery position. He didn't pay any attention to the captives, who thought they were going to be used as meat shields. Directly incorporated them into their own artillery batteries, ordering them to go into battle.

Anyway, these guys are also Chinese, although they have already surrendered to the enemy as tigers. But their military salaries are all flesh and blood money scavenged from the Chinese by the Japanese. At this time, let them fight devils, which can be regarded as atoning for their previous actions of defecting to the Japanese army and massacring the Chinese.

When these puppet soldiers heard this, they didn't let themselves be used as meat shields, but let themselves go back to their old jobs to fight the Japanese. While breathing a sigh of relief, he also worked very hard under the promise that he could be released on the spot after the congratulatory chapter was made. Of course, if these people were not behind each of them, there was a soldier standing with a gun and watching them, the scene would have been more harmonious.

The two men divided their duties, concentrated all the artillery fire of the artillery company, and gave the Japanese army a repeated crushing artillery strike. The heavy shells covered the entire valley controlled by the Japanese army in a solid shell. Despite the fact that the artillery technology of the troops participating in the war was not high compared to the Japanese army. But it also gave full play to the power of the artillery in his hand, and did his best to kill and wound the Japanese army.

At the same time as the artillery concentrated its fire on the Japanese troops in the valley, they carried out fire strikes. The heavy machine guns and small artillery, which had been concealed and standby, also used firepower to block the entire ravine from the forward position to the exit of the ravine at the first time. The dense bullets and falling shells brought down the Japanese troops, who had not expected the opponent at all, and suddenly burst out with so many machine guns.

In accordance with Li Ziyuan's order to defeat the enemy in front of him in the shortest possible time, the troops participating in the counterattack did not skimp on ammunition in the slightest. And the Japanese army, which was not at all defenseless, was basically caught off guard in the face of the overwhelming firepower that suddenly hit. Li Ziyuan's previous hard work was perfectly rewarded at this time.

After the dense shells drove the Japanese troops out of their hidden positions, they were knocked down by light and heavy machine gun fire. The two and a half Japanese squadrons that entered the ravine were scattered all over the field under the intense firepower of this period, and it could be said that they were completely powerless to fight back. As for the Japanese troops at the front, not even a single one escaped back.

After the concentrated fire covered for five minutes and killed and wounded more than half of the Japanese troops in the ravine, He Huizhang and Zhou Tong changed their tactics. The method of precision shooting, coordinated with firepower cluster strikes, was adopted. Two mountain guns and small guns blocked the exit of the valley, and other mountain guns and mortars dispersed the remaining Japanese troops as much as possible.

After He Sanliang adjusted the tactics of the artillery, he also immediately adjusted the deployment of first-line machine gun fire. The shells that took the artillery fell there, and the direct-aim fire of the heavy machine guns went there. Form a more complete coordination with the artillery to give maximum damage to the Japanese troops in the valley.

In a short period of time, the situation has changed almost dramatically. Let all the shells run out at this time, and the Japanese artillerymen, who were already empty-handed at this time, also looked at the front in a daze, and there was nothing they could do about the sudden change. They had no shells to return fire from, and no follow-up troops to put in them.

It's just that the Japanese artillery was dumbfounded, but it doesn't mean that the Eighth Route in front of them will let them go. After a few rounds of artillery fire, there were not many Japanese troops left standing in the valley. Zhou Tong immediately turned the muzzle of the gun, and the four mountain guns came with a three-shot rapid fire. Directly let the Japanese artillery, no longer have to worry about their own infantry.

After the explosion of twelve shells, the Japanese artillery positions were in shambles. Thrown into the flank position of Luofengling, the Japanese artillery, which was still showing off its might just now, suffered heavy losses from the bombing of its men and artillery. A large 105 mountain cannon that was blown away by a shell even flew dozens of meters away. The Japanese artillery was even more killed and wounded by the bombing, and there were hardly a few people left.

Li Ziyuan chose the time to launch the counterattack, and the pinch was quite accurate. Not only did the Japanese artillery have exhausted most of the shells that were carried before the battle. Moreover, at this time, it was close to evening, and the Japanese planes hovering in the sky could only retreat because the visibility was gradually decreasing.

He Huizhang's artillery had no air threat, nor did he have to worry about a larger number of Japanese puppet artillery counterattacks. Almost unscrupulous, he withdrew the artillery from the bunker he had painstakingly constructed. And the Japanese army, which was obviously a little arrogant and excessive, had almost nothing to do with him. The only thing that gave him a bit of a headache was that he was still distracted by those puppet army captives.

Compared to the Japanese soldiers who enjoyed the feast of shells in the artillery fire, and the Japanese artillery that completely lost their right to speak after being bombed. The puppet 38th Division on the front was still a high-spirited officer and soldier before, but after the sudden sound of dense artillery, the ordinary soldiers from the division commander to the below immediately wilted.

In cooperation with the general attack launched by the Japanese army, it ended hastily at the first time, and the warlord team also withdrew. The sound of shells exploding over there was like a hammer hitting the hearts of ordinary soldiers to middle and senior officers. I can't even hear a single point in the sound of this fucking cannon, is it still a poor dirt road? Even the Central Army, which had deep pockets back then, was nothing more than that.

If it weren't for Major General Toyoji Okumura still by his side, this division commander would probably have ordered a retreat as soon as possible. But even so, this dude, who reacted quickly and knew that he had been fooled, was secretly ready to run away. The two ends of the first rat are to describe the mood of the division commander at this moment.

Compared with this puppet army division commander, Major General Toyoji Okumura beside him was so shocked by the scene in front of him that he even dropped the telescope in his hand. After being stunned for a few minutes, he frantically ordered his troops, which had been ravaged by the artillery fire, to immediately withdraw to the valley.

And successively sent reports to Changzhi and even Taiyuan, asking his Shangma Shang to send planes to the battlefield to destroy the hidden artillery of the Eighth Road. At the same time, in order to shirk responsibility, this old man did not forget to sue the puppet army division commander around him, along with his boss, the boss and the aviation corps.