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Chapter 1345 You come and go

Northeast of Sanhe County, at the west foot of Panshan Mountain, in front of a land temple on the mountain behind Xiaogang Village. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Due to the need to rescue the wounded, the squadron lit a bonfire for lighting, and Koichi Ishikawa could see everything that happened clearly through the binoculars.

Estimated the distance, the ambush point is still about two kilometers away from the convoy of the first class, although the artillery fire can cover part of the convoy, but the farther away is powerless, especially the infantry following the movement of the car is not within the strike range of the ambushed Japanese army, the remnants of the squadron after the shelling are very likely to escape into the mountains and flee, bringing trouble to the Japanese puppet regime in eastern Hebei in the future, so Ishikawa Koichi strictly ordered all departments to continue to endure and wait patiently for the squadron to set off again.

This was delayed for nearly half an hour, and just when Ishikawa Koichi was about to lose his patience, the crowd slowly dispersed, and as the bonfire was extinguished, the convoy roared and slowly hit the road.

But under the cover of night, no one noticed that the squadron had changed dramatically.

A quarter of an hour later, when thirty or forty trucks, surrounded by infantry, passed by the road under the digging hill, the Japanese officers and men, who had long been impatient, finally forgot Ishikawa Koichi's warning, and five or six flares were raised in the sky, and then the Japanese artillery bombardment began.

The artillery wings of the two divisions and regiments of the Japanese army were arranged on the gentle slopes of the left and right flanks of the digging hill, and at this moment the two artillery positions were like a violent hurricane suddenly blowing, and columns of smoke rose one after another, followed by the sound of artillery discharges that could not be counted as many times.

The officers and men of the 20th and 27th Divisions of the Japanese Army, who were lying in the grass, felt that the entire hill within a radius of several kilometers began to shake violently, and then as if it would never stop, the whole person was constantly shaking as if he had been put in a basket.

"What a magnificent, beautiful psalm! This situation reminds me of the words of Julius Caesar: I came, I saw, I conquered, and I threw myself into this war, perhaps it is my historical destiny ......"

Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma, without losing his true character as a poet, began to chant again. Just as he was chattering and intoxicated, one cannonball after another was like a dense bolt of lightning, quickly sweeping away the convoy of An Jiajun's long queue along the road! Looking at the road below the mountain, there were fires, shrunnel roared everywhere with brilliant sparks, and various types of shells dug deep into the soil, and then exploded violently, and the columns of smoke were full of fiery red colors! The air was filled with the shrill screeching sound of different shells slicing across the air, and for Masaharu Honma, who was experiencing war for the first time, it was the most beautiful music and the most wonderful scenery.

In fact, the encounter of An Jiajun was not as miserable as it seemed on the surface, and at the moment when the cannon sounded, the officers and men who had been mentally prepared immediately took refuge under the mountain wall at an angle of 70 degrees, and the whole person was tightly attached to the mountain wall, which was a dead angle for the Japanese artillery and infantry, and they only needed to pay attention to dodging the shrapnel of the shells fired in all directions, and they could save themselves.

The most dangerous thing is the soldier driving the vehicle, but at this time the driver has already changed from two to one, they need to immediately abandon the car at the moment of the sound of the cannon, jump out of the driver's seat and quickly move closer to the mountain wall, as long as they delay for one more second, they may be torn to pieces by the dense shells.

The five-ton trucks of the Anjia Army were hit by the shells that fell like meteors, and they were instantly torn apart, and pieces of debris flew everywhere, and then ignited a raging fire and became a road sign. The extinguished artillery fire spread for several miles, illuminating the road leading to the county seat of Sanhe in a transparent light.

At the same time, machine guns and rifles fired in unison on the hill, pouring a large number of bullets on the road by the light of the shells.

Ishikawa Koichi, who calmly observed the results of the shelling, frowned: "Something is wrong, why aren't there many soldiers on the road?" I didn't see the artillery of the An Jiajun either, didn't I say that these vehicles were all used to pull cannons and ammunition? How-"

This question just appeared in the brain, and suddenly there were more meteors in the sky, which instantly intertwined with the Japanese artillery fire in the air, and then rushed towards the gentle slopes on both sides of the digging hill at a very fast speed, and before Ishikawa Koichi could react, he felt a violent tremor of the earth, and the dense shells had exploded in the artillery positions exposed by the Japanese army under the hillside!

The 75mm field guns and mountain guns owned by the two artillery wings of the Japanese army were suddenly submerged in the jungle of smoke columns, and shrapnel representing the breath of death flew everywhere, and one by one the devil artillery screamed, and was knocked down by the shrapnel in a strange way, torn into pieces.

At the time of the Japanese shelling, the accurate shooting gauge was measured through the ballistic trajectory, so that almost all the shells exploded in the middle of the Japanese artillery group accurately, and some of the shells were deliberately truncated by the artillery of the An Jiajun and exploded directly above the heads of the Japanese artillery, almost leaving the devils below with nowhere to escape.

These gunners, who were arrogant and bombing others right, were suddenly hit with such unprecedented accuracy and ferocity, and almost half of them had already fallen before they had time to think of concealment! In the woods on one side of the artillery position, the pack horses responsible for towing the cannons broke free from their reins and scurried around in the continuous explosion of the shells.

The 120mm caliber howitzers and 75mm mountain artillery and field artillery shells captured by the Anjia Army from the Fourth and Sixth Divisions were almost devastating, and the artillery exposed by the Japanese army turned back and forth several times, and hundreds of artillery fired at least four or five thousand shells in five minutes, and almost every cannon of the two artillery wings of the Japanese army had to be patronized by four or five bombs, not blown up and volleyed and disintegrated. It is directly broken into several sections, and there is a "clang" and "clang" impact sound under the transpiring air wave.

The remaining artillerymen of the devils, who were pitifully small, quickly jumped into huge craters after after the initial panic and confusion, and endured the shells of the squadron that had just been despised by themselves to plow around themselves, and finally, the dense shells hit the ammunition storage points of the two artillery wings successively, quickly causing a large-scale martyrdom, and the earth-shattering explosions and obvious shaking of the ground almost shook the devil soldiers who were ambushed on the hill down the mountain, and the originally dense gunfire suddenly became a lot more sparse.

"Baga!"

The elegant Honma Masaharu lost his poetry and his graceful demeanor, and asked Ishikawa Hiroichi loudly: "Ishikawa-kun, what happened?" Why did our artillery suffer a near-devastating blow from the artillery fire of the Chinese army? Ishikawa-kun, didn't you say your plan was foolproof? How do you explain this mistake? ”

"There is no perfect plan in this world!" Koichi Ishikawa looked solemn: "It is worthy of the famous Anjia Army, which actually discovered the ambush of our army in advance, and then calculated it and used their convoy to attract our artillery attack, and then they clearly deduced the location of our artillery position from the trajectory of our shells, and then launched a preemptive attack." This calculation is vicious! ”

"So please tell me, what do I do now?" Masaharu Honma, who was in the battle formation for the first time, was in a state of chaos, and he couldn't accept the situation in front of him at all.

"It's very simple, immediately call the artillery wing of the 3rd Field Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 110th Division and the 116th Division responsible for interception to immediately launch a merciless attack on the artillery positions of the Chinese army.

After saying that, Koichi Ishikawa immediately gave an order to staff officer Kiyohide Morimoto, asking the friendly forces to cooperate in the battle, and his eyes were full of perseverance and confidence.

At this time, the artillery of the squadron, through the earth-shattering sound of martyrdom, knew that it had won in this artillery battle, gave up the bombardment of the Japanese artillery positions, and turned to cover the mountains of several square kilometers on the first line of the digging hill.

Listening to the shells that emitted a loud whistling sound exploding not far away, there were constantly stumps and broken arms and internal organs of officers and soldiers, flying into the sky with a loud bang, and fragments of objects fell to the side, and blood was constantly splashed on the body, Masaharu Honma, who was originally full of poetic and picturesque feelings, was pale and almost wanted to vomit, but seeing that Ishikawa Koichi always showed a calm appearance, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head again and again, sighing to himself.

Finally, the mountain temple more than 50 meters behind the two was hit by a cannonball, and as the wall collapsed, the flames rose into the sky, and the splashed brick and stone fragments were scattered all over the ground, and the trees that hit the distance and near were "brushed". Honma Masaharu was so frightened that he quickly hugged his head and fell to the ground, only to realize that his pants had been wet for some time, and he couldn't help but clench his fists shyly - is this the true face of war?

Koichi Ishikawa was still standing on the high post, calculating the time, and soon, on the front line of Mafang Town, five kilometers west of the head of the mountain, a meteor quickly appeared, rushing towards the artillery position of the Anjia Army in the distance, and when it landed, it bloomed with the most dazzling light and a majestic momentum that seemed to destroy everything.

The Japanese army's field heavy artillery brigade is an artillery unit of the Japanese army as a strategic reserve, with a general establishment of more than 8,000 officers and men, equipped with more than 70 large-caliber howitzers or cannons ranging from 100 mm to 240 mm, and is often used for key offensive tasks. During yesterday's day-to-night attacks on the front line of Bangjun, Hunyo, and Beesan, the Japanese army mobilized two field heavy artillery brigades to carry out saturation attacks, and almost filled in all the trenches and fortifications built overnight, so that the three divisions of the Fifth Army Corps suffered extremely heavy casualties.

This time, in order to deal with the Fifth Army Corps of the Anjia Army that fled westward, the Japanese army used the killer weapon of the Third Brigade of Field Heavy Artillery on the tight fence, which shows how urgent the North China Front Army is to annihilate the Fifth Army Corps. In a sense, the total annihilation of the Fifth Army Corps is more worthy of special mention than the occupation of Beiping, and it is more inspiring to the morale of the Japanese army in North China!