Chapter Seventy-Three: Crazy Shelling
Due to the suppression of the devil's artillery, their attacking troops soon rushed to a position of less than 100 meters, and at this time, the devil's artillery fire also began to extend, and if they continued to fight, they would hit their own people. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"All who are alive go into the trenches and prepare for battle."
Experienced company and platoon commanders knew that they could hear from the sound of artillery that the devil's first axe had been struck.
Generally speaking, before the devil infantry charges, they will first wheel three axes, aircraft bombing, artillery bombardment, tanks and combat vehicles to cover the infantry charge.
However, the Japanese troops who can generally mobilize planes and tanks to assist in the attack are at least wings, and Yamashita Yoshio is just a captain, and his level is not up to it. So before the first axe was drawn, the infantry began to charge.
With the shouts of the officers, the soldiers rushed out of their respective anti-artillery holes, and of course, there were also individual anti-artillery holes that were blown up by the devils, and none of the soldiers who hid inside to avoid the devils' artillery fire were spared.
Li Han looked at the Japanese army, which only had a few hundred people, but dared to attack an opponent with nearly 2,000 people, and he didn't know where the Japanese army came from.
The commander of the only remaining infantry squadron of the Japanese army cautiously approached the position with more than 300 devils, and at a distance of less than 100 meters from the position, there seemed to be no sound from the position of the Chinese Army on the opposite side.
The squadron leader was very puzzled, could it be that the Chinese army really died under the shelling! However, the squadron leader is not one of those staff officers who only pays lip service, and knows that this is impossible.
Moreover, after a period of contact, the squadron leader knew that the fighting will of the opposite China Army was much stronger than that of the ordinary China Army, and it should not be like other China Army, which was bombarded by artillery and then collapsed.
Then why didn't there be any reaction from the Zhina position, and I don't know what the hell the Chinese soldiers are fighting. But when you think about it, the captain's order still has to be carried out.
"Company commander, don't you fight yet? I'm almost able to see what the devil looks like! The light machine gun shooter looked at the devil who was gradually becoming clearer, and asked softly to the company commander beside him.
"Don't talk! Wait for the captain's order! Boy, you have to calm down, haven't you seen so many devils, I'm afraid it's not enough for you to fight. The company commander said, looking at the machine gun shooter.
The leader of the devil squadron was also cautious, and found that the situation was not very normal, and sent a squad to conduct fire reconnaissance on the defenders on the position.
"Hit!"
When the troops tested by the devil were only fifty meters away from the position, Li Han ordered the troops to open fire.
The devil squad in charge of scouting our army's firepower heard the gunshots, and without thinking about it, they lay down on the spot and began to fight back with rifles, but there were still ten devils who reacted a little slower.
The squadron leader in the back was very surprised, although he expected that the artillery shelling would not cause great casualties to the enemy, but he did not expect that the shelling just now did not seem to have worked, and the losses of the Chinese army were far less than they expected.
In this regard, Li Han could only say that Comrade Squadron Leader thought too much, and with such fierce artillery fire, even if the anti-Japanese brigade had anti-artillery holes and other complete fortifications, the casualties were still not small.
As for why the squadron leader had the illusion that the shelling did not seem to work, it was that our army was far outnumbered by the Japanese army.
"Stupid artillery!"
After venting his dissatisfaction with the artillery, the squadron leader immediately ordered the grenadiers of each squad to shoot at the fire points of the defenders' positions. Part of the machine-gun fire that was exposed when the fire was fired just now was immediately destroyed by the devil's grenade.
Kenjiro Takagi watched the grenade he had just fired successfully destroy a heavy machine gun of the Shina Army, and he was very proud in his heart.
Looking at the machine-gun fire points on the Shina position, Kenjiro Takagi seemed to see military merit beckoning to him, and he couldn't wait to call the deputy next to him to continue to give him grenades.
Kenjiro Takagi's target this time was a light machine gun fire point that had just been determined, and he took the grenade in his deputy's hand quickly, and was just about to fire, when a bullet passed through Yamamoto's body, and Kenjiro Takagi fell down unwillingly.
The deputy next to him saw that his Cao Chang was hanging, and he endured the grief and indignation in his heart, took over Kenjiro Takagi's work, and prepared to fulfill Master Cao's unfulfilled wish, but he got the same treatment as Kenjiro Takagi in less than a minute.
The light and heavy machine guns of the devils are constantly spraying flames, and the number of people on the side of the anti-Japanese brigade is several times that of the devils, can they still be afraid, and their light and heavy machine guns add up to more than the devils, and the bullets are like rain on the charging devils.
Our army had the advantage of numbers and terrain, but it was a draw with the Japanese. The Japanese relied on the accurate shooting of light machine guns and grenadiers, and constantly suppressed various firing points, bringing fatal blows to many machine gunners.
"Mortars, grenadiers, suppressing the fire of the Japanese army, light and heavy machine guns and infantry of each company to fight the devil's individual soldiers, let the sniper platoon come to the forward position, I don't believe in the grenadiers who can't cure the devil."
Li Han observed at the forward position, and so many of his talents were on par with hundreds of devils, which made him feel very angry, because in terms of weapons and equipment, they were no worse than the Japanese army.
With Li Han's order, the fighters quickly changed their free fire and began to follow Li Han's order to find their own targets.
The only few mortars were used in a centralized manner, but fortunately, there were still a lot of grenadiers, and the two fired together, and the devil's firepower was immediately suppressed.
Some of the shells also directly hit the machine gun shooters of the devils, directly blowing up the limbs of the devil's officers and soldiers, and spraying blood all over the ground.
The charging Japanese troops kept falling, and the Japanese soldiers who did not fall still rushed upwards regardless of it, and then repeated the mistakes of their comrades. There were only a few Japanese soldiers who attacked, and they were beaten like this by Li Han, and they immediately couldn't bear it.
Seeing that all the firepower was suppressed by the Chinese army, and the casualties of the troops were getting bigger and bigger, the squadron leader reluctantly commanded the troops to retreat. And Li Han was also worried about being hit by the devil's artillery fire, so he did not let the troops take advantage of the victory to pursue.
"Order the artillery to open fire at once!"
Seeing the attacking troops in front retreating, Yamashita Yoshio's face was gloomy and terrifying. The tenacity of the Chinese army was somewhat unexpected to him, but he would not give up the plan to liberate the county until the mountains and rivers were exhausted.
Yamashita Yoshio originally wanted to take advantage of the cover of artillery fire to capture the positions of the Chinese army in one fell swoop, but he did not expect that they had already prepared, so that the role of artillery was not very large.
Shelling again, Yamashita Yoshio was also ruthless, ordering the artillery to shoot half of the ammunition he carried, as long as he could kill a large number of the living forces of the Chinese army, he would not hesitate to raze the hill to the ground.
As a result, the artillery unit, which had just stopped firing for less than half an hour, began its busy work again. The loading and firing assembly-line work made the frequency of the Japanese artillery fire fast and high.
Soon there was dust on the main position of our army, and columns of smoke rose into the sky, although Li Han had already ordered the soldiers to hide in the anti-artillery holes, but these excavated earthen anti-artillery holes could not completely resist the shelling of the devils.
Besides, the anti-artillery holes have been ploughed by the devil's artillery fire before, and many of the anti-artillery holes have been a little overwhelmed, and they have been violently shelled by the devils again, and many of the anti-artillery holes have been blown up by the devil's artillery fire, and the soldiers who are still in the holes have been directly buried alive.
With Yamashita Yoshio's order, the devil artillery began to perform to their heart's content, and the only thing that could be heard within a radius of more than ten miles was the explosion of the devil's shell.
Under the heavy artillery fire of the devils, the defenders of our army's front-line positions suffered heavy casualties. Moreover, the fortifications and firing points built on the positions were devastated.
Li Han knew that it did not make much sense to continue to hold the first-line position, and in order to avoid greater casualties among the troops, Li Han asked the soldiers to abandon the first-line position and withdraw to the second-line position through the communication trenches.
Due to the preparation in advance, the traffic trench was also designed to prevent the shelling of devils, so it was dug deep and long.
The fighters of the first-line position passed through the communication trenches and smoothly retreated to the second-line position. Then, while reinforcing the fortifications of the second-line positions, I watched the wonderful performance of their artillery with the devil soldiers.
Of course, it is impossible for all these devils to know, and in their opinion, the resistance of the Chinese army is so fierce, it can be seen that they are also an army with a strong sense of honor, how can such a force take the initiative to abandon its position and retreat.
It is precisely because the devils have this kind of narrow thinking that they will create an attitude of being empty-sighted.
This attitude can be reflected in the fact that they dared to 'strike first and attack Pearl Harbor', which hastened their own demise. The small aspect is like now, self-righteousness, and wasting shells that are also precious resources for devils.
After more than an hour of continuous shelling by ten cannons, the devil's artillery fire finally began to extend.
At this time, it will not work if it is not extended, the barrels of all the cannons are red, and many artillery members are burned, and if you don't let the barrels rest, I am afraid that they will explode.
After the artillery fire began to extend, hundreds of devils rushed out again howling, and they did not meet any resistance along the way, they rushed to the positions of our troops almost with running speed. However, after coming up, it was discovered that there was still an enemy in the potholed position.
"Could it be that all the people of China were blown up!"
"Quite possibly!"
"The artillery is so powerful, it deserves to be the heroic unit of the empire!"
"If my family hadn't been too poor and had been studying for a few more years, I might have been one of the artillerymen by now."
No enemy was found, and the devil soldiers on the position began to discuss with each other, and in their words, they also revealed their yearning and envy for the artillery.
They also saw the bombardment just now, under the blow of artillery fire, the mountains shook on the Shina position, and it felt even more powerful than the Great Kanto Earthquake, no wonder the cannon was called the god of war.
Of course, with such a large-scale artillery bombardment, even the wing commander is rarely willing to fight like this. Not to mention the incompetent Chinese army, even the imperial army troops would suffer heavy casualties under such fierce artillery fire.
"Yagaya deer! Quickly search the position, and if you find a wounded soldier, shoot them on the spot! ”
The squadron leader scolded the soldiers who were talking to each other, but in fact, he wanted to scold his mother even more in his heart.