Chapter 135: The Attack and Defense of Yaque Mountain (14)

Pan Zhi excitedly watched his brothers practice guns with the wounded soldiers of the devils, and they did not surrender, they were not considered to kill prisoners, and the division commander could not find trouble for himself......

"Commander Pan, those routs will trouble you to put them away; I'm going to continue laying out artillery positions! He Jianye shouted,

I don't know when the mortar has stopped firing, Pan Zhen turned his head and nodded habitually, picked up the binoculars in his hand and looked, except for the ghost cavalry who was running in front of him and became corpses, the rest of the cavalry had turned their heads and fled......

The remnants of the 128th Division's routs were walking towards their positions in three or three bright supports, without the frantic pursuit of the Japanese cavalry, their speed had slowed down, Pan Zhen watched in the binoculars, and couldn't help but worry about those routs, but there were still Japanese infantry chasing behind? Why don't you run fast and wait for the devil's infantry to catch up, and you won't be a living target?

"Company Commander Li, take a platoon of brothers up to answer the next one, go from the north side of the position, take it directly to the division headquarters, and hand it over to the division commander; Fast! Pan Zhen roared,

The Japanese pursuing infantry brigade learned from the devil cavalry that there was the main force of the Zhina Army in the village in front of them, carrying a large number of mortars, and also stopped the pace of pursuit, replenished their strength in place, ate dry food, and waited for the artillery of the wing to come up, so that they had enough physical strength to capture the village in front.

"Division commander, the 106th Division broke through the position of the 128th Division and is coming towards us. In the villages in the wilderness, the Japanese army has planes in the sky, there are naval artillery support on Panyang Lake, and there are heavy artillery accompanying the attack of the devil infantry, how can we attack! Zhou Qingxiang asked Zhao Xitian at the temporary division headquarters,

"We have the heavy artillery support of the legion behind us, and we will wait for the order of General Li Hansoul for a wave first. Tell the brethren to dig the trenches and the cannon holes. Zhao Xitian said,

"Division commander, the artillery position has been constructed, but I'm afraid that our artillery will only have one chance to fire, and I'm afraid that the Japanese devil's naval guns, field artillery, heavy artillery, and aircraft will not give us a second chance. During the day, it is too easy for the devil's artillery observers to find our artillery positions, our artillery is also temporarily trained, and it is okay to support the infantry to defend the position, and there is no fun in an artillery battle with the devil's artillery! He Jianye said helplessly,

"I will send you an engineer company, and you will now return to Xianglu Mountain with mountain artillery and field artillery, bring a radio station, and build an artillery position in Xianglu Mountain to support us; Mortars remained, accompanying the infantry in battle. Zhao Xitian thought about it, and was really reluctant to lose the artillery that He Jianye had managed to get in a battle, and ordered He Jianye to withdraw to Xianglu Mountain with mountain artillery and field artillery.

"Division commander, if it is in Xianglu Mountain, I'm afraid our mountain artillery will not be able to support it, and the devil's mountain artillery will only have a maximum range of 6 kilometers; There are only 5 field guns left with enough range. He Jianye said,

"Okay, you communicate with your artillery battalion commander, determine the coordinates, and go and prepare!" Zhao Xitian waved his hand to show that he knew,

The artillery battalion that had just stopped dismantled the mountain artillery and field artillery again and retreated towards Xianglu Mountain, but fortunately, Zhao Xitian gave more than ten pack horses to He Jianye for transfer, so that He Jianye did not have to run away with the shell boxes on his shoulders, but got on horseback and retreated towards Xianglu Mountain......

With the help of a large number of pack horses, He Jianye took advantage of the fact that there was no bombing by enemy planes, the soldiers had just rested for a little time, and they had lost a lot of weight, and the road of less than three kilometers took more than half an hour and less than an hour to arrive at Xianglu Mountain......

"Regiment commander, it's good here, there are a lot of trees to cover, we are building artillery positions here, but we are ready to support the division commanders." Huang Wujun pointed to a gentle slope in the northeast of Xianglu Mountain and said,

"As soon as you open fire, the devil's artillery will find you in minutes and can blow up your position at any time!" He Jianye said,

"The focus is on the southwest defense line, the heavy artillery of the Japanese 106th Division in this direction has no way to take us, and the power of the Japanese naval guns on the Yangtze River and Panyang Lake will also be weakened a lot." He Jianye said,

"But our artillery can't open fire! The southwest direction is full of our friendly forces, and we haven't found the Japanese army yet! Huang Wujun and the engineer company commander looked at He Jianye suspiciously,

"It seems that today I am going to teach you, the commander of the artillery battalion, a lesson, and tell you what an anticline position is!" He Jianye said,

"You see, this is the floor plan of the incense burner mountain, here is the 106th division of the Japanese army, leaning on the northeast of the incense burner mountain, here is the peak, we plan to build an artillery position in the southwest direction, which is the opposite side of the Japanese army." He Jianye said as he drew a sketch of the proposal on the ground with a branch,

"Taking the top of the mountain as the fixed point, the outline of the summit that can be seen on both sides is called the ridge line; The direction of the 106th Division is the positive slope, and the artillery position we plan to set up is to use the enemy's artillery blind spot on the anti-slope to avoid the retaliatory artillery fire of the 106th Division;

Direct-aim artillery fire is a decoration for the anti-slope plane, and there are many dead spots of the shells that hit the anti-slope with curved guns. This time, the enemy planes and the enemy's artillery fire were much less lethal. The anti-slope position is also useful, that is, it can prevent the enemy from taking the rear road to encircle;

To the west of the incense burner mountain is the position of the 9th Division of the Reserve of Laofen Mountain, to the southwest is the position of the 15th Division and our engineer battalion, and to the south is the position of Phoenix Mountain, and our artillery position is in the middle of the four mountains.

If the Japanese wanted to attack Phoenix Mountain, Yaque Mountain, and Laofen Mountain from behind, their artillery fire and planes would not be able to suppress the 13th Regiment defending in front of Xianglu Mountain, and the main position of our artillery battalion would be facing Yaque Mountain. You say that Japanese people can have good fruits to eat? Of course, the anticline position is not invulnerable, the key lies in the control of the ridgeline, whoever occupies the ridge line will have the initiative, if the enemy occupies the ridgeline, he can correct its mortars point by point to knock out your firepower point by point, you have no power to fight back. He can even bring up a few direct-aim guns, and a large-caliber machine gun to seal you up in cover for his Demoman to take you out. ”

He Jianye paused as he spoke, and kept drawing various patterns on the ground, making demonstrations.

"Regiment commander, why don't you come to the ** soldiers, this map operation, this position construction idea is so far away from me!" Huang Wujun was directly stunned,

"Regiment Commander He, look at your very powerful anticline, what artillery position do you want to build in the southwest, our engineer company will immediately construct it and guarantee that it will be completed for you." The engineer company commander said,

"The best anti-slope fortifications are to construct excavated firing platforms, hidden artillery holes and cantonment holes under large rocks, and it is better if there are covers, and the personnel are basically not exposed to the open air, so that our artillery can drag the cannon back immediately after firing the cannon; The planes and artillery of the Japanese devils can only stare dryly, and when they need to, they will be pushed out again to bombard the little devils. He Jianye said,