Chapter 212: Saturation Bombardment (Part II)
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The oppressive battlefield gave the Japanese deputy commander Oyama Iwa a feeling that the storm was coming.
Dashanyan has always felt that the Han army on the opposite side has some conspiracy, and it is very likely that it will directly defeat the Japanese army, but the Japanese army can no longer retreat, and it is not easy to find such an opportunity, and I don't know when the next opportunity will be obtained, and the Japanese army needs a victory to boost morale, and at the same time, it is also necessary to prove the strength of the Japanese army to the other countries of the Four-Nation Alliance, so as to obtain more benefits after the war.
Of course, Dashanyan would not know that as far away as Berlin, Germany, Western Europe, the representatives of Britain and France were discussing and negotiating with the representatives of the Han Kingdom.
The battle won't break out so quickly, and the minutes are ticking.
At ten o'clock, the Han soldiers in the trenches began to take out dry food to devour, and not long after, the Japanese soldiers in the Japanese position also began to eat dry food.
Soon the sun was over the heads of the opposing sides.
Xiao Yao, who was wearing a pair of sunglasses, looked up at the sun above his head, and Xiao Yao understood that the battle could start soon.
One o'clock in the afternoon
In the temporary headquarters of the Han army, Xiao Yao calmly gave an order: "The plan begins!" ā
Han artillery positions everywhere
"Direction XXX, angle XXX, reload, fire!"
Sou! Sou! Sou!
Nearly 600 artillery pieces on the Han positions fired the first round of shells at the Japanese positions at the same time.
At the Japanese position, a veteran of the Japanese army who had experienced several battles heard the sound of shells in the sky, and immediately shouted loudly around: "Enemy shelling, hide quickly!" As he spoke, the veteran pounced on the hiding spot he had chosen earlier.
Just after the Japanese veterans pounced on their so-called hidden spots, the Han artillery shells fell.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
One shell after another exploded on the Japanese positions, some of them were a little more lucky, taking the lives of three or five Japanese soldiers, and some of the shells were a little less lucky, leaving only craters of different sizes on the Japanese positions.
In any case, it was still very useful for the Japanese to dig deep trenches, because this could greatly reduce the damage range of the shells when they exploded, but the first round of nearly 600 shells brought nearly 1,000 casualties to the Japanese army.
For Xiao Yao, the commander of the Han army, even if he used a cannonball to eliminate a Japanese soldier, he had earned it, you must know that Xiao Yao prepared more than 170,000 shells for this battle plan, and a shell to eliminate a Japanese soldier could still have two-thirds of the shells left.
Just after the first round of artillery shells of the Han army ended, some Japanese soldiers hurriedly moved their bodies and curled up in the corners of the trenches, hoping that they would occupy as little space as possible, so that the chance of being hit by the shells would be smaller.
However, in less than three seconds, another 378 mortar shells smashed into the Japanese position, giving those who just wanted to move their bodies, but were unexpectedly violent. Lu's Japanese soldiers inflicted heavy casualties.
The 60mm mortars were rapidly discharging shells, while the 75mm field guns and 105mm howitzers that were slightly further back were also firing shells at the Japanese positions, but the 60mm mortars were mainly responsible for attacking the Japanese forward positions, and the 75mm field guns and 105mm howitzers were responsible for attacking the Japanese rear positions.
Among the concealed Japanese headquarters, Yama Youpeng and Dashan Yan also had to hide in the corners under the escort of their subordinates, and many artillery shells of the Han army exploded near this concealed headquarters.
"Damn the China, how many guns did they use?" Shan County Youpeng cursed.
"I don't know, there are at least hundreds of artillery pieces, and the people of China also used a lot of heavy artillery." Da Shanyan said in a trance.
For himself, artillery over 100 mm is heavy artillery.
The artillery of the Han army kept shelling at the Japanese position, and the Japanese soldiers could only hold their heads in their hands and try to curl up their bodies to hide in the corners of the trenches, silently praying to Amaterasu, and a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed every minute and every second, and the stumps of the Japanese soldiers killed by the shells flew over the Japanese positions.
A minute passed,
Two minutes passed,
Five minutes passed, and nearly 600 artillery pieces of the Han army poured 40,000 shells onto the Japanese positions.
"Do we still have a chance of victory?" Dashanyan's voice was so faint under the fire of the Han army, but Youpeng from Shanxian next to him still heard it clearly.
Youpeng of Shan County stared at his eyes and shouted loudly: "It is said that this empire will definitely win, and we will definitely win." ā
Rumble! Rumble!
Two 105-mm howitzer shells hit the Japanese command in succession.
"Ahhh Perhaps seeing countless of his compatriots dead, a Japanese soldier ran out of his hiding place like crazy and ran towards the rear.
"Come back, come back quickly." All the remaining Japanese veterans who saw this situation shouted at the crazy Japanese soldier, because it was easier to be hit by shells if they ran this way, and it was better to hide somewhere, maybe they could save their lives.
Rumble!
As if they hadn't heard anything, the frantic Japanese soldiers continued to run to the rear, only to be shattered by a shell the next moment.
What is saturation shelling, this is saturation shelling, the Japanese positions are full of craters, basically there is no place that has not been bombed by shells, but the shells of the Han army continue to bomb the Japanese positions again after they have been blown up once.
Ten minutes passed, most of the Han army's shells were consumed, and perhaps some Japanese troops wanted to surrender, but the Han army did not need it, and the artillery fire continued.
Thirteen minutes passed, and the artillery of the Han army had already plowed the Japanese positions twice, and the ammunition of the 60-mm mortars was less than one base.
The Japanese army under the shelling of the Han army was infinitely miserable, and before the Han army opened fire, there were more than 57,000 Japanese soldiers in the Japanese position, but when thirteen minutes passed, the Japanese soldiers in the Japanese position were one out of ten steps.
There is no way, although the Japanese army has learned some experience in the previous battles to dig deep trenches, but now it is the end of the eighties of the nineteenth century, the Japanese army is still using the tactics of platoon guns, how can the Japanese army dig out fortifications that effectively defend against artillery bombardment, not to mention that the artillery bombardment of the Han army is saturation shelling, the shells of the Han army will not let go of any corner of the Japanese position, and the only way to wait for the Japanese soldiers is death.
Even the Japanese soldiers who survived the saturation bombardment of the Han army were already frightened by this bombardment, how dare the Han army fight like a tiger descending from the mountain.
"Charge!"
Boom! Boom! Boom! The drums of the charge sounded in the Han position, and the Han soldiers in the position steadily raised their rifles and strode out of the position.
"Rush!"
Tens of thousands of Han soldiers charged at the Japanese positions like a flood.
Just when the Han soldiers were only a few dozen meters away from the Japanese position, the mortars of the Han army took the lead in ceaseing fire, and the artillery fire of field artillery and howitzers was also extending into the distance.
"Kill!"