Chapter 167: Devil Bombardment
Both the devils and the soldiers of the New First Army knew that they couldn't make a big attack on each other at this time, so they didn't have any worries. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The troops of the 1st Division were also digging trenches, but they allocated most of their forces to guard against the devils, lest the devils attack while they were building fortifications.
The new army has no fear of devils at all, and they have no fear of devils at all, so they put themselves and devils on the same level, in their opinion, even if the current devils charge them, then they can beat the devils to the ground.
Because they have killed a lot of devils in battle, and in their opinion, devils are people like them, and a bullet will still kill devils in the past.
Devil Command "Baga, hurry, move the front forward." "The fortifications on the first floor have been blown to pieces, and the devil's troops have immediately moved forward.
They were trying to prevent the troops of the New First Army from regaining their positions, but the devils really thought too much, and in that case, Zhang Cheng and them would be killed in vain to regain their positions.
But this time the devil's attack was surprisingly smooth, so smooth that even the devil himself couldn't believe it.
Because the losses of the positions they had previously attacked and defended were too great, now the attack was like a leisurely stroll, and the troops of the New First Army did not even return fire with a single bullet.
Hu Rongda led his troops to hide in the trenches, and the roaring sound of artillery kept coming from the second layer of fortifications dozens of meters away, and from time to time one or two shells would fly over the fortifications and hit the top of the trench where they were.
Each 120-millimeter caliber cannon was able to explode a large crater about three meters and half a meter deep around them in an instant, and the huge explosion even frightened the soldiers.
They had never fought under such heavy artillery fire, even during this time, because they had been winning battles and eliminating many devils, the confidence they had accumulated was shattered in an instant.
The shelling was terrifying, each shell could lift tons of dirt, and some of the artillery points fell so close that the explosion alone buried a trench.
"Pay attention to concealment, once the devils bombard the second layer of fortifications, they will definitely continue to advance and shoot, and the trenches will not be the safest at that time, and all soldiers must hide in the anti-artillery holes." Hu Rongda's tone was a little worried.
Because the soldiers under his command have already had a strong sense of panic, so that the combat effectiveness of the troops cannot even be guaranteed.
Of course, he did not complain about these soldiers, who were brave enough to not flinch in the previous battles.
It's just that now they have encountered artillery for the first time, and they subconsciously want to leave in this kind of fire and earth shaking bombardment, which is an instinct of life.
Just when Hu Rongda and the others shrank their heads one by one and hid in the anti-artillery hole and watched the shelling of the devils in the distance, a frantic shout broke out on the battlefield where the first division and the devils were holding each other not far away, followed by fierce shooting.
"Order the 2nd Regiment of the 3rd Brigade to attack the Devil's troops in the direction of 9 o'clock in the northwest, and the 4th Regiment to attack the Devil's front." On the battlefield, Chen Qingshan held a telescope in his hand and loudly gave orders to his troops.
At the same time, the 1st and 2nd Brigades launched an attack on the right side of the devil, and the number of troops participating in the attack at one time was as high as 20,000.
But the devils had already thought of this, and they understood that as long as they launched an attack on the Yinping Mountain position, then the troops of the 1st Division would definitely not sit idly by, so they counterattacked the moment the 1st Division launched an attack.
Da Da Da ...... Boom Boom Boom ......
Light and heavy machine-gun mortars roared frantically, and the battlefield was several thousand meters wide with dense bullet flow and artillery fire, and the six 75-millimeter mountain guns of the artillery unit of the First Division took the lead in launching artillery fire, and more than a dozen devils' machine gun fire points flew in response.
"Quick, quick to change direction." Each of the six guns fired three shells, but the commander of the artillery immediately ordered the troops to move.
As a veteran artillery regiment training commander by himself, this Liu Mingjian still has some level in artillery battles.
He knew that the devil's troops were armed with heavy artillery of one hundred and twenty millimeters, and in the face of such heavy artillery, the field artillery in their hands was simply a child's toy.
As long as the devils react, two heavy artillery pieces will be enough to completely destroy their artillery units.
Therefore, when one's own artillery is inferior to the other side's, it is necessary to carry out a transfer-type combat method, which is what Zhang Cheng has always required of their artillery.
In order to increase the mobility of the artillery, Chen Qingshan equipped a number of trucks in the artillery regiment, which were specially used to pull artillery, which made the transfer speed of the artillery much faster.
As for the other hundreds of ordinary mortars in the artillery regiment, they only need one soldier to carry and move quickly.
Six field artillery mountain guns, plus hundreds of mortars, the blow suffered by the devil for a while also made the devil a little confused.
They really didn't expect that the troops of the first division still had such powerful firepower, in fact, they didn't know that those weapons were captured from them.
As a self-made army, the New First Army first followed Zhang Cheng to raid houses and houses, specifically targeting the transport devil troops, or small groups of devil troops, in order to seize the devil's weapons and equipment.
However, this method did make the devil suffer heavy losses, and the training methods of the new First Army were ahead of their time, using the training methods of later generations, and they also exhausted all resources for the soldiers' diets to ensure the nutritional supply of the soldiers.
In this way, the soldiers of the New First Army are more capable of fighting than other units, and when they attack with superior numbers, the small forces of the devils often have no power to resist, so a large number of weapons and equipment fall into the hands of the New First Army.
However, although the devil was surprised by the artillery unit of the New First Army, he did not have the slightest fear.
Because just after Liu Mingjian transferred the artillery, there was a piercing and sharp sound in the sky, and then four clouds of sky-high smoke and dust rose from the original position of the artillery.
The heavy artillery fire threw some shells high into the air, more than ten times more powerful than the shelling of the mountain artillery field artillery.
On the battlefield where "Brothers rush, ......" roared, the troops of the first division rushed towards one of the devils' trenches, and the devils on the opposite side were also desperately strafing with light and heavy machine guns.
Sudden ...... Poof......
Two soldiers fell to the ground, and the other soldiers immediately threw themselves on the ground.
Guo Jianglin's face was dirty, his two brothers had already fallen on the battlefield, and the troops of one of his companies had already lost more than a dozen people.
The devil's firepower was too fierce, but he clenched the submachine gun in his hand, and as a company commander, he had to be a pioneer in such an attack.