The position must not be too strong when it is just built, and it is likely to be razed to the ground as soon as the artillery fire goes down. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is a truth that several division commanders understand.

Therefore, as soon as the chief of staff finished speaking, several division commanders began to have their eyes shining.

During the attack for a few days, a division commander who had been regarded as a reserve team rushed to ask for battle: "Chief of Staff, in this attack, everything you say will be given to our division!" ”

The chief of staff, who had been tortured by the official road for a day and a night, also wanted to find someone to vent.

Seeing that someone was asking for battle, he replied without thinking: "Then your division, I will send another heavy artillery regiment to provide you with artillery support." ”

"Two or three kilometers ahead is Liaoyang City, I'll give you two hours to break through the defense line of the Liaodong Army and kill Liaoyang City!"

The arrogant Russian army not only did not make a tentative attack, but also did not even have the most basic artillery test fire, and as soon as it came up, a heavy artillery regiment covered the defense line with artillery fire for ten minutes.

After the artillery bombardment was over, a regiment of Russian troops, under the cover of all the heavy machine guns in the division, armed with rifles, launched a regimental scale decisive attack on the position.

It is true that the newly repaired positions could not withstand the shelling, especially the heavy artillery shells.

No matter how much you reinforce the logs, as long as you hit the target, you will immediately be blown out of a huge gap.

As a result, the defenders had to build stronger artillery holes to avoid the shelling.

Like the positions, the newly repaired anti-artillery holes were also not subjected to heavy shelling.

If the defenders really built the defensive artillery holes in the position, no matter how deep and strong the five-wheel defensive artillery holes were, they could not ensure that the defenders hiding inside were foolproof.

And the Liaodong Army did not have so much time to build deeper, stronger positions.

Therefore, if the defenders really built the anti-artillery holes on the position, under the heavy artillery bombardment in ten minutes, the defenders would definitely suffer heavy losses.

It was precisely because of this that Yang Xingguo specially proposed Zhou Qiangsheng to defend here, build an anti-artillery hole 50 meters behind the defensive line, and build a communication trench every twenty or thirty meters between the anti-artillery hole and the position.

Very lucky, because the Russian artillery was too accurate, almost all the whistling shells exploded on the position.

Even if a few shells missed, it didn't hit the half-man-high anti-artillery hole.

Therefore, the artillery fire of the Russian army seemed to be fierce, but in addition to causing a lot of damage to the position, it did not kill or wound a single Liaodong Army.

Ten minutes later, the heavy artillery fire finally stopped.

The Liaodong Army, which was hiding in the anti-artillery hole, quickly rushed out of the hole and rushed to the position along the communication trench.

Although the two-kilometer-long defensive line was blown up to the breach, it was still intact.

Coupled with the shell craters all over the defensive line, an infantry regiment in Zhou Qiangsheng's hand was easily hidden.

But despite this, the craters are not comparable to the trenches after all.

The bullets fired from the Russian heavy machine guns could not penetrate the thick breastop of the trenches, but they could easily penetrate the thick floating soil on the surface of the crater.

The fierce counterattack of the fourth regiment, although the Russian army suffered heavy losses, people constantly fell on the way to the charge.

But under the frantic strafing and cover of dozens of heavy machine guns of the Russian army, people in the fourth regiment were constantly hit by bullets.

In a command center not far behind the position, Zhou Qiangsheng, who was frowning, immediately asked: "Hasn't the field artillery regiment been aimed at the Russian heavy artillery position yet?" There are also four or five mountain artillery battalions of two regiments, which are not aimed at the heavy machine gun positions of the Russian army! ”

As soon as the words came out, a staff officer hurriedly ran in and reported: "Division commander, Commander Chen of the field artillery regiment reports that the field artillery and mountain artillery are ready and ready to be fired at any time!" ”

"So what are you waiting for? Fire the cannon immediately, I don't want to see the four regiments being crippled as soon as they come down in battle! ”

The Russian army, which thinks it has a firepower advantage, does not have so much care, dozens of ultimate sought-after, relying on a heavy artillery regiment behind to provide fire cover for itself, without any defense. Dozens of heavy machine guns were concentrated together to strafe the four regiments, and they were not at all worried about the counterattack of the Liaodong Army.

And this just gave the two mountain artillery battalions a good opportunity to put them in one pot.

Nearly forty mountain artillery shells roared, and in just one round half of the shells landed on the heavy machine-gun positions.

The shells exploded, and more than half of the heavy machine guns on the position were directly blown over or blown into parts.

The ultimate sought-after of these heavy machine guns was either killed on the spot or wounded, and even more unlucky, they were directly hit by shells and torn to shreds, leaving not even a complete corpse, and there was no complete corpse.

Faced with such a tragic picture, he was still a fanatical heavy machine gunner just now, and his face instantly turned pale.

There is no need to be reminded by the commander, or the heavy machine gunners, in groups of four, carrying crane guns and preparing for the transfer.

However, the speed of the mountain artillery shells was clearly faster than theirs.

As soon as many people raised their heavy machine guns, dozens of shells exploded around them.

After this round of shelling, there were not many heavy machine guns left on the position that were not destroyed.

At this time, not only their heavy machine gun positions, but also the heavy artillery positions where the artillerymen were resting next to the artillery after just ten minutes of artillery firing, and more than 30 heavy artillery pieces were also baptized by more than 50 field artillery shells.

Dense and violent explosions, although not yet able to blow the heavy artillery directly into scrap metal.

But for the Russian artillerymen who sat next to the artillery resting, the lethality of field artillery shells was devastating.

In addition, the field artillery that flew over densely was very lucky to hit the shells that had not yet been sent out on the Russian artillery positions, causing the shells to explode.

The artillery positions of the Nuoda, more than 30 heavy guns, hundreds of artillerymen, because of their own arrogance and carelessness, were devastated by only one round of shells from the field artillery regiment and lost their combat effectiveness.

Of course, the field artillery regiment did not know that it was so lucky.

Their task was to fire five shells at the target in the shortest possible time, and then quickly transfer the artillery.

So, despite the devastating blows of the heavy artillery regiments, dense shells continued to fall on the positions.

Comparatively, two mountain artillery battalions are much better.

Because they could directly see the effect of their own shelling, after two rounds of shelling, they adjusted their targets and began to fire shells at the attacking units of the Russian army.

On a battlefield without any concealment, even if the power of mountain artillery shells is limited, a single shell can easily take several lives.

Two mountain artillery battalions will pass by a round of shells, and one company of Russian troops will disappear directly.

Coupled with the loss of the threat of heavy machine guns of the Russian army in the fourth regiment, the counterattack became more and more fierce. The attacking unit of a regiment of the Russian army immediately suffered huge casualties.

However, before receiving the order to retreat, all they could do was to hold on, withstand bullets and shells, and continue to attack.

The counterattack of the Liaodong Army was very sudden, and very rapid, and before the chief of staff of the Russian army could make any reaction, dozens of heavy machine guns and a heavy artillery regiment were devastated.

Seeing that the Liaodong Army had already begun to shell the attacking troops, the chief of staff ordered without thinking: "It's not good, we were fooled!" Let the attacking force retreat immediately, or the entire attacking force will be finished......"

"Order the commander of the heavy artillery division, the Liaodong Army has at least one regiment of field artillery again, give him two hours, find it, destroy it!" (To be continued.) )