Chapter 143: Confrontation
"Tom! ...... "Another salvo!" This time the bazooka salvo hit a target with each shot! The remaining six thin-skinned tanks of the Japanese army were all quickly burned and scrapped in a cloud of flames! The Japanese soldiers inside the tank didn't have time to escape, and they all became the burial objects of the tank!
It's just that the three thickly armored tanks in the front row are still rushing forward. Soon they broke through to less than five hundred meters from the defensive line of the wolf regiment's position! But at this moment, suddenly all three tanks came to a standstill!
Apparently they have discovered some fortifications on the positions of the Wolf Regiment! The barrels of machine guns exposed behind the bunkers built by various civil engineers, or the muzzles of mountain guns, were obviously heavy firepower weapons placed by the Wolf Regiment on the defensive line!
Japanese tanks are generally equipped with 37 mm caliber cannons, which have fast reloading speed and strong penetrating power! But the explosion is not great! It is a great weapon used by the Japanese army on the battlefield to deal with civil and engineering fire point bunkers!
The Japanese army used these three tanks as a breakthrough point and went on a rampage, directly breaking the first line of defense of the Wild Wolf Independent Regiment! A gap has been punched in this line of defense! The Wolves have lost three bazooka launchers! An anti-aircraft machine gun behind a civil bunker was damaged! Directly kill nine soldiers!
And because these three tanks of the Japanese army have been suppressing the fire of the Wild Wolf Independent Regiment. The heavy firepower of the Wolf Regiment did not dare to leak, so they could only wait for the Japanese tanks to reach close range and use the method of manually throwing cluster grenades to destroy their tracks to contact this deadly threat!
The large Japanese army in the distance began to continue to send a large number of thin-skinned tanks to attack and charge in coordination with the infantry! In this way, the pressure of the wild wolf group increased sharply! If this opening is not blocked in time, then this first line of defense will quickly collapse!
"What about heavy artillery? A battalion of machine guns! Artillery battalion! Hurry up and get rid of these three perverted tanks for me! Wang Zilu shouted loudly into the front-line phone at the command post!
The positions of the machine-gun battalion were divided into three areas. As soon as the order from Wang Zilu came, the commander of the machine gun battalion immediately ordered the heavy artillery group to aim at the three tanks of the Japanese army, and after waiting for the thin-skinned tanks in the rear of the Japanese army to rush up, they would be covered with carpet bombardment!
The Japanese Ebutan formation quickly rushed through this kilometer of territory, reformed a charging formation with the three thickly armored tanks in front, and continued to charge towards the gap in the first line of defense of the Wild Wolf Independent Regiment!
"Good! Now is the time! Heavy artillery group, ready! Put! "The commander of the machine gun battalion personally commanded. These thirty heavy guns roared together! A huge rumbling sound instantly resounded in the sky! After this round of salvos. The reconstituted formation of the Japanese army has collapsed! Thirty rounds of 105 mm howitzer shells were easy to achieve against more than a dozen tanks and infantry in close formation of the Japanese army! In just this round of bombing, the formation organized by the Japanese army this time was able to move less than a slap in the face, and the infantry suffered heavy losses! Due to the special request of the chief of staff Wang Zilu, the three thick armored tanks of the Japanese army were taken special care of! Every thickly armored tank was bombarded with at least three grenades! This time it just blew them up beyond recognition!
After solving such a big problem, the morale of the Wild Wolf Independent Regiment is rising again! The soldiers of the heavy artillery group of the machine gun battalion were also cheering! The remaining thin-skinned tanks and infantry of the Japanese army. All were closely cared for by anti-aircraft machine guns and bazookas above the first line of defense! This small charge of the Japanese army ended in the defeat of the total annihilation!
Just when the wild wolf group was excited, Tian Zheng sat at the window of the gatehouse, the highest city gate in Liaocheng, looked at the battlefield situation in the distance, and sighed secretly in his heart. These soldiers are still too inexperienced, and they are too early to rejoice!
As if confirming Tian Zheng's thoughts, suddenly. From the direction of the Japanese garrison on the opposite side, a dense artillery roar sounded! The wolf group immediately began to hide! As soon as the commander of the machine gun battalion heard this voice, his face immediately turned pale! As a veteran who has been operating artillery for many years, he only listened to the sound and knew that this was the direction of the heavy artillery group that the Japanese army had heard from the movement of their heavy artillery before! This is a retaliatory attack by Japanese artillery!
"Hide! Take cover! The commander of the cannon battalion shouted!
The soldiers of the heavy artillery group immediately drilled into their respective artillery bunkers! However, there was still too late to act, and the grenade fired by the Japanese Taisho 11-style 70mm curved infantry gun was left on the ground forever!
Taisho 11-style curved infantry gun, mainly used to attack trenches and various civil machine gun bunkers, is a kind of light mortar, at the beginning of the war belonged to the second line of equipment of the Japanese army. It was mainly some Japanese infantry brigades that carried out mountain operations that carried out additional equipment. 2 additional guns per infantry brigade. The firing range of this gun was not far, and the maximum firing range was only 1580 meters. But now it is capable of hitting a range of more than 2,000 meters. And it's quite accurate! Presumably, the Japanese army has made improvements to it, and its performance is basically comparable to the Type 92 70mm curved infantry gun assembled in the history of the Japanese army in 1932!
"Fuck! This kind of cannon is not very powerful, especially for artillery emplacements with solid concrete bunkers! However, it has the advantage of being easy to move, it can be erected at any time, and this cannon has a very great lethality for civil bunkers and trenches! Our heavy artillery can no longer be used! Otherwise, it will inevitably lead to a larger-scale counterattack by the Japanese army! The commander of the machine gun battalion shouted towards Wang Zilu on the phone.
"What if you don't have to? Are they still waiting for the Japanese army to use these small artillery of theirs to carry out a covering retaliatory attack on our battle line? That's irresponsible for our soldiers' lives! Or do you want to fight back against them with our 70mm mountain guns? In that case, wouldn't we just expose another artillery position? Our 70mm mountain guns are not as strong as the gun positions of your heavy artillery crew! Our mountain artillery positions are all deep pit artillery positions, and they are not covered with any bunkers! If it is discovered by the devils, will our mountain artillery team still survive? I don't care what method you use, you must withstand the fire and hook me out the big artillery position of the little devil! Wang Zilu commanded loudly.
"Yes! Even at the expense of my heavy artillery crew, I promise to complete the mission! The commander of the machine gun battalion replied loudly!
After bombarding the positions of the heavy artillery group, the little devil's curved guns immediately shifted the target to the first line of defense of the wolf regiment. This first line of defense was mostly a wooden frame with earthwork as a frame and a firepower bunker built inside, mainly to prevent the enemy's frontal attack. The infantrymen were all lying in the trenches, and more than a dozen soldiers with trench periscopes were responsible for observing the movements of the Japanese troops on the opposite side. At this moment, this curved infantry cannon of the Japanese army sounded again, and immediately caused a lot of damage to the soldiers in the various bunkers and trenches above the first line of defense!
"Hit! Hit me hard! The commander of the machine gun battalion shouted! The heavy artillery group quickly aimed at the general direction of the Japanese artillery, and another salvo was fired! The Japanese artillery on the opposite side was silent for a moment, and then the shelling began again!
The aiming of the heavy artillery group took time, and the Japanese infantry guns on the opposite side were easily diverted and could not inflict heavy damage on the Japanese artillery. And the Japanese curved infantry guns could not penetrate the artillery bunkers of the heavy artillery group! You are going back and forth with each other in a tug-of-war style of shelling! Due to the heavy artillery group holding back the curved infantry guns of the Japanese army on the opposite side, the Japanese artillery fire could no longer continue to effectively strike at the first line of defense of the wolf regiment!
The Japanese army is also a wolf independent regiment and is in a state of confrontation with each other! No one dares to take the lead in rash attack again! (To be continued......)
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