Chapter 608: The Chin Messenger is here
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The two remaining brigades of the two field artillery wings opened fire together, and the thirty-six shells fired in an instant quickly covered a corner of the heavy artillery position, and the six heavy guns, including dozens of gunners, were directly annihilated in the artillery fire.
The sudden blow not only blinded the remaining artillery of the heavy artillery battalion, but Li Zhilong was also stunned.
No one expected that the Japanese army would dare to use field artillery to attack their own heavy artillery.
However, after thinking about it carefully, Li Zhilong figured out that this was the way the Liaodong Army fought against the Japanese heavy artillery unit a few months ago.
"No, we were fooled, the purpose of the Japanese army is to knock out our heavy artillery unit. Immediately order the second battalion of the heavy artillery regiment to retreat, don't take care of the artillery first, and withdraw the people! ā
"The Japanese army is equipped with field artillery, unless it hits directly, it can't help the heavy artillery we are equipped, at most the heavy artillery will be overturned, but it can still be used after the battle."
After the chief of staff quickly passed down the order, he asked with a look of incomprehension: "Division commander, why don't you let another heavy artillery battalion counterattack, as far as I know, the artillery of the two field artillery wings of the Japanese army is now used, and there is no extra field artillery to deal with our remaining heavy artillery battalion." ā
"As long as we can destroy the two field artillery brigades that the Japanese have just opened in a short time, the victory will still be ours."
"No, the Japanese still have artillery!" Li Zhilong shook his head and said in denial.
"Don't forget, the Japanese army also has a field artillery brigade to provide fire cover for their reinforcements and shell our positions. This field artillery brigade can be withdrawn at any time to counterattack our remaining heavy artillery battalion. ā
"I'm sure the Japanese are now waiting for our remaining heavy artillery battalion to open fire. If they are fooled, the two heavy artillery battalions will suffer heavy losses even if they do not lose their combat effectiveness. ā
Although Li Zhilong immediately gave the order to retreat, when Feng ordered the heavy artillery position, the two Japanese field artillery brigades had already fired at least no shells.
At this time, most of the artillery of the heavy artillery battalion was shrouded in gunsmoke.
Although the details of these heavy guns are not known, it can be judged from the fact that all of them are silent, and the heavy guns covered by the artillery fire are either destroyed or the gunners who operate the heavy guns are all wiped out.
Having received the order to retreat, more than a hundred gunners and ammunitionmen who remained in the position quickly ran outside the artillery position.
But at the last moment, they were subjected to a round of artillery fire, and almost half of the gunners and ammunition men were blown up and left in the artillery positions.
The Japanese did not know that the remaining gunners of the heavy artillery battalion had been withdrawn.
The heavy shelling lasted for ten minutes before stopping.
The final result was that the Japanese army successfully destroyed 29 field artillery regiments of the 4th Division of the Liaodong Army and 8 heavy artillery battalions with the field artillery of two field artillery brigades.
In order to avoid the heavy artillery being attacked again, Li Zhilong had to order the remaining heavy artillery of the heavy artillery regiment to be transferred to the Japanese field artillery range to arrange artillery positions, even if the artillery accuracy of the heavy artillery unit would be much worse in this way.
Li Zhilong, on the other hand, relied on the strength of less than two regiments in his hand, using mortars and mountain artillery, plus heavy artillery units that fired artillery from time to time in the back, to maneuver with the Japanese army in the positions outside Donggang City.
More than 100,000 troops on both sides of the enemy and us fought each other on two battlefields to see who could hold out to the end.
After nearly ten days of long journey, the imperial court finally arrived in Liaozhong.
Seeing the governor of Liaodong slamming the door and coming out to greet him, only Zhou Zhongju was the only one who came out to greet him, and Zhou Zhongju's grade in the imperial court was not as good as his own. Qin Cha's brows immediately furrowed, and he unconsciously became dissatisfied with Li Zhilong and the Liaodong Army in his heart.
"What about you Lord Yang? Why don't you come out and pick up the driver. The old man came with a holy decree, and Lord Yang didn't come out to take over, to put it seriously, it was a rebellion against the decree.
Zhou Zhongju didn't have a good impression of these high-spirited court officials, and said directly: "It's okay to receive the order, then we also have to see if our Lord Yang has such a good life!" ā
"I'm sure that if Lord Yang answers now, the minister and those court officials behind you won't be able to go back to the capital!"
"Your Liaodong Army really plans to rebel!" The minister subconsciously exclaimed.
Not only the minister, but most of the civil and military officials behind him turned pale with a swash.
They were people of the imperial court, and if the Liaodong Army really planned to rebel, the most likely outcome would be that they would be captured by the Liaodong Army. If you are unlucky, it is possible to be captured by the Liaodong Army and sacrifice the flag.
Thinking of the results they were least willing to accept, everyone stared at each other, waiting for the midweek to be lifted.
Zhou Zhongju shook his head and replied: "Where do you want to go, Minister Qincha, how can my Liaodong Army rebel." ā
"It's the Japanese, the Japanese concentrated 100,000 elites to attack our Liaodong Army a few days ago, and our Lord Yang has already taken all the main forces of the Liaodong Army to meet the Japanese army. However, according to the intelligence fed back from the front, the battle was fought very fiercely, and the Japanese army was obviously prepared. Our Lord Yang said that if we continue to fight like this, the Liaodong Army will be able to hold out for half a month at most. ā
At this moment, an exclamation suddenly sounded not far away: "My lord, the front line has sent the wounded down again, there are more than 500 people!" ā
It can be said that these wounded were specially arranged in the middle of the week, or it can be said that they were not arranged in the middle of the week.
A few hours earlier, Zhou Zhongju had received news that a group of seriously injured people had been sent back from the direction of Donggang.
In order to make these imperial courtiers feel the tragedy of the battlefield at close range, and make them believe that Liaozhong was already in danger, and the Liaodong Army might not be able to stop the Japanese attack at any time.
Zhou Zhongju specially designed the place and time of the meeting with the imperial court.
Hearing the report from his subordinates that the wounded had returned, Zhou Zhongju hurriedly said: "Lord Wang, you are the imperial court, representing the imperial court, representing Lafayette and the emperor. These seriously wounded were all retired from the front line, and if you can go and see them, it will definitely have a great effect on boosting the morale of the army. The lower official pleaded with Lord Wang to go and see the wounded. ā
In the face of the high-sounding request in the middle of the week, the Qincha, who was born as a civil official, could only agree no matter how unwilling he was.
Dozens of people, before they could get close to the ranks of the wounded, smelled a strong smell of blood.
Four or five hundred seriously wounded, who were hit by bullets, were fine, and there was only one bloody hole in their bodies.
Those who were hit by shells and grenades were not so lucky, and there were wounds all over their bodies. Despite the simple treatment, the bandages were stained red with blood that kept flowing.
At just one glance, most of the civil servants in Qincha's party turned pale.
As for the generals who came together, they had a dignified face. As soldiers, they could tell at a glance that the wounded had just come down from the front line, and that the fighting they had experienced must have been very fierce.
The old book "Reborn Iron and Blood General", a military novel of the Anti-Japanese War, more than 4 million words, was re-put on the shelves after being blocked, Tencent Reading and Mobile Reading have been released, interested readers can take a look! (To be continued.) )