On 14 September, the confrontation between the two sides had been going on for five days, and during these five days, the East China Army had wantonly and indiscriminately bombed the Chinese army, causing thousands of casualties to the Syrian army every day.

Inside the trench, Yang Xueming's helmet was smeared yellow, and a grass circle was added to it, and he held a sniper rifle, staring at the trench in the distance.

There was not a single figure in the trenches, and all the soldiers were huddled in the trenches and did not dare to raise their heads. Yang Xueming waited patiently, and after a while, suddenly there was a military cat walking around in the trench with his waist bent, so that Yang Xueming saw a little shadow.

The sky was a little dark, Yang Xueming immediately adjusted the muzzle, and when the soldier climbed out of the trench and was about to run to the rear, Yang Xueming decisively pulled the trigger.

Scold...... A gunshot rang out, and the soldier was hit in the back by a bullet and fell directly to the ground.

"The thirty-ninth." Yang Xueming retracted the trench, leaned against the wall and exhaled, silently writing down the number of his snipers. It has been almost two years since Yang Xueming entered the 07 Production Corps, but it was the first time he went to the battlefield.

"Xueming, well done!" The squad leader patted Yang Xueming on the shoulder, Yang Xueming showed a smile, although he was relatively young, Yang Xueming was not nervous at all.

"Squad leader, why did the mortars in the platoon stop?" Yang Xueming didn't hear the sound of the mortar, and asked the squad leader in confusion.

"They called the reconnaissance plane, and the platoon commander said that there were not many small Toyo in the trench in front, and it was not cost-effective to shoot artillery there." The squad leader replied.

"Oh!" Yang Xueming understood.

Recently, the soldiers of the 07 Production Corps learned a trick, that is, to call bombers, reconnaissance planes, if the infantry encounters tricky goods, they can immediately call bombers to come for fire support, if it is artillery, generally call reconnaissance planes.

The Air Force is on call.

At the same time, the infantry can also call for artillery support, and in terms of fire support, the artillery is absolutely not stingy with artillery shells, and the air force is by no means stingy with aerial bombs.

"I don't know when I will be able to attack, but the little Toyo on the other side is getting more and more day by day." The deputy squad leader muttered as he smoked a cigarette.

"What are you afraid of, how many kills are coming, we have so many artillery, so many planes, are you afraid that we won't be able to win?" The squad leader said indifferently.

"That's right."

"Squad leader, squad leader, we have a new weapon." At this time, one of the soldiers in the squad came running excitedly, holding a strange firearm in his hand.

"What new weapons?" Immediately the crowd gathered around.

"The brother in the logistics department said that this is called a Type 14 shotgun, and this bullet can shoot out twelve bullets, and it can directly beat the little devil into a sieve."

The group turned the shotgun over and over several times, and it was a large firearm with a relatively short barrel and no rifling inside.

It can hold three bullets, and you need to pull it to shoot a shot.

The upper steel plate of the shotgun is marked with the number 'Jian'an 0358'.

The squad leader took the instruction manual and read: "This gun has a short firing range, and it is suitable for use with submachine guns in trenches......"

"Shoot it and try it."

The soldiers were very curious about the new guy, and the squad leader, at the request of everyone, loaded a bullet into the chamber of the gun, put the muzzle of the gun on the trench, and pulled the trigger on the trench of the army.

"Bang ......" a gunshot, the gunfire was very loud, and twelve bullets hit the trench in the distance, and there was no sound.

The squad leader pointed the bullet at the wall of the trench again and fired another shot!

As a result, the walls were densely covered with bullet holes.

"If this shot continues, it will really be beaten into a sieve."

"I heard that our 07 Production Corps has also added a new class, what is it called flamethrowers, which is also specially used to deal with trenches."

"Okay, okay, don't idle here, Xueming, you continue to stare at Xiao Dongyang opposite, and the others continue to repair the trench." The squad leader greeted.

"Squad leader, the trench is already strong."

"Then make it stronger." The squad leader said solemnly: "Don't joke with your surname, Xiao Dongyang's cannon can be hidden!" ”

"Okay!"

The soldiers in the squad had no choice but to start reinforcing the trenches again.

There is no shortage of materials to reinforce trenches, and there is a large supply of special cement and other materials behind.

…… The army mobilized a large number of ships to reinforce the Shandong battlefield for five consecutive days, transporting a total of 180,000 soldiers, and three divisions of the army had landed in the Longkou area.

However, in view of the ferocity of the artillery fire of the East China Army, the Yue Army once again mobilized a division and regiment, and the combat strength reached 230,000, and the 230,000 Yue Army was preparing to attack the defense line of the East China Army at this time.

Kaga Mitomo is full of confidence, although he is inferior in firepower, he is convinced of the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Great Empire.

On September 15, the shelling of the East China Army finally stopped.

However, the bombing of the East China Air Force has not stopped, and if the reconnaissance machine hits a valuable target, the artillery will also fire.

Nearly 300,000 Chinese troops landed in the Longkou area, and bombers were often able to find very valuable bombing targets, and the air force's bombing was not limited to distance, so it did not stop.

After several days of shelling, although some results were achieved, it was a waste of shells, and the command immediately issued an order to limit the firing.

The supplies in the rear are still being transported to the front line, along with the newly developed shotgun and flamethrower, which do not require too advanced technology, and are completely the results of independent research and development of the arsenal.

The East China Army is planning offensive operations, but the tank brigade is still being trained in the rear, and it will take some time to get to the battlefield.

Although it is said that the chariot can be put on the battlefield at any time, the effect is definitely significant, but it is also necessary to train more, otherwise it will look chaotic on the battlefield.

As long as the chariot brigade is completed, it will be the moment to annihilate the army in one fell swoop.

When war broke out in Europe, Britain obviously did not have such a huge military industry as the East China Autonomous Political Axe, although they were an old empire, there was no need to maintain such a large military factory in peacetime, so their factories were converted to the production of munitions.

However, at this time, the government was mired in the quagmire of war, and their factories had to turn to the production of munitions, and the occupation of the overseas blank market was very powerless.

It is said that most of the industries in this country are dominated by industries with no technical surnames, while the industries of the seven provinces of East China Autonomous Region have developed in terms of technical surnames, and even more so for those industries that do not have technical surnames, and they have also adopted advanced equipment with very strong technical surnames.

It is said that the industry simply cannot compete.

In the Far East, the industrial products of the East China Autonomous Government began to enter the four traditional British commodity markets of Indonesia, India, Australia and New Zealand.

In the Americas, the industrial products of the East China Autonomous Government have entered Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and other countries.

These countries are the traditional markets of Britain, some countries have already read power, and some are British dominions, colonies, the national industry in these areas is very low-level, completely undeveloped, as soon as there is a market gap in Britain, the East China Autonomous Political Axe immediately entered it.

This made the eyes of the political axe red, but he was deeply trapped in the battlefield of Shandong, so that he could not spare enough energy to deal with the changes in the international market.

If he loses this war, his international standing will decline sharply, and the prestige of defeating Russia will be gone forever.

The East China Autonomous Axe is different, and before the outbreak of the Great War in Europe, the East China Autonomous Axe had already formed a huge military industrial scale.

At this time, the East China Autonomous Political Axe was very calm in dealing with the battle situation on the battlefield in Shandong, not only because he had a large enough military industry, but also because Xia Jun was constantly exchanging materials for the battlefield, which was completely cheating.

However, he didn't know that the East China Autonomous Political Axe was cheating.

After experiencing several days and nights of artillery bombardment by the East China Army, the supreme commander of the Yue Army on the Shandong battlefield, Kaga Sanyou, decisively came to a conclusion -- the East China Army ran out of shells!

In their opinion, although the East China Army has very good equipment, it is like a three- or four-year-old kid holding an advanced rifle in his hand, and no matter how advanced the rifle is, the kid is a kid after all.

The East China Army had been shelling frantically for five days before, and apparently the shells were now running out. The reason for such a frantic shelling is obviously due to too much tension.

No one questioned the wishful thinking of the commanders.

Seeing that the East China Army had stopped shelling, Kaga Mitomo thought that this was the best time to attack, and at this time the more than 800 artillery pieces of various types they had mobilized had already arrived on the battlefield.

The conditions for the offensive have been formed!

In addition, Kaga Sanyu urged Kaga Mitomo to defeat the East China Army as soon as possible, so that Kaga Mitomo could pull out the quagmire of war, so Kaga Sanyu decided to launch a formal attack on the East China Army on September 17, codenamed the 'Holy War Offensive'.

The telegram was quickly intercepted by the electronic warfare group of the East China Army, and the contents were quickly deciphered.

In the headquarters of the East China Army, the staff officers were guessing what this 'jihad offensive' meant, but it could be concluded from the words that the army was going to launch an offensive on the 17th, but the specific content was unknown.

How will the army attack?

Is it a frontal attack or a detour to the rear?

This is all the place that the command headquarters needs to figure out, but obviously it cannot be understood, so the command has made two preparations, the first preparation is to let the first army and the second army on the front line strengthen their defense against the artillery bombardment of the army, and generally after the frontal attack begins, the artillery is the vanguard.

The second preparation was to divide the four production corps of the Third Army into two parts, one to defend the east and the other to wait for orders behind the First and Second Armies.

Regardless of whether the army came from the front or from the side, the East China Army was fearless. If the army makes a detour, then the two production corps are enough to block the army.

If the army is attacking from the front, it is purely a matter of lighting the toilet and looking for death.

(To be continued)