After the company of the Fifth Division climbed back to the anti-artillery hole with its artillery, as soon as the number of people was counted, whether it was the battalion company commander or the division commander, they all wanted to cry without tears. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Excluding all kinds of technical troops, the 7,000 or so people in the whole division went to the position, but only about 3,000 returned to the position at this time, and many of them were lightly and seriously wounded.

The only thing that made Yuan Lei arrive was fortunate that in the first three blocking battles, most of the nearly 1,000 wounded sent down from the position survived. But even so, the Fifth Division lost more than half of its combat effectiveness and almost lost its combat effectiveness.

Seeing that the position of the Fifth Division was once again covered by artillery fire, and after seeing the casualties of the Fifth Division, Yang Xingguo, who also had a gloomy face, asked directly to Sun Liechen beside him: "Hasn't Zhao Zhigang's Third Division returned to its position yet!" ”

"Half an hour at most!" Sun Liechen replied after thinking about it.

"Then there is no need to continue to wait, even if the Japanese retreat now, it will not be half an hour before the Third Division is ready to block their position." Yang Xing said firmly in Chinese.

Then, Zhong Wei, who was already eager to try on the side, ordered: "The artillery begins to counterattack and find a way to destroy the Japanese heavy artillery brigade at the lowest cost." If you encounter a counterattack by a Japanese heavy artillery brigade, you must remember that people are more important than artillery. Hold on to the lives of the artillerymen first, and then find a way to protect the artillery. ”

Zhong Wei's eyes lit up, and he quickly replied: "Please rest assured, driver, we have dug an anti-artillery hole next to each heavy artillery, and all the shells are hidden in the anti-artillery hole." If the Japanese counterattack is really encountered, the gunners will never be bombed! ”

After speaking, Zhong Wei rushed out of the command headquarters.

Ten minutes later, the Japanese artillery cover still did not have any intention of stopping.

And at this moment, a series of roars suddenly sounded behind Yang Xingguo, and then, the screams of shells crossing the sky began to sound over the battlefield.

Standing at the command headquarters, Yang Xingguo could clearly feel dozens of heavy artillery shells whizzing overhead, smashing towards the Japanese heavy artillery position.

Soon, the sound of a violent explosion faintly reached Yang Xingguo's ears.

"Hit, Commander, the heavy artillery division has hit the Japanese heavy artillery position!" Because the command headquarters was condescending, the artillery staff officer who had been staring at the shell saw the shell explode and a large amount of black smoke and fireballs, and then shouted excitedly at Yang Xingguo behind him.

The first hit of the shelling was like a burst of doping for the gunners who participated in the battle.

In addition to being excited, he subconsciously accelerated the speed at which he changed the shells for the artillery. Soon, the second round of shells of the 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment was discharged, smashing into the three heavy artillery positions exposed by the Japanese from different directions.

The Liaodong Army's sudden artillery counterattack caught the Japanese by surprise.

Before the chief of staff and the others could react from the shock, the long-awaited Major General Watanabe's eyes were already hot, and he decisively ordered the chief of staff behind him: "Let the Sixth Heavy Artillery Wing find the heavy artillery position of the Liaodong Army and counterattack on the spot." The 7th Heavy Artillery Wing also counterattacked, and I wanted to destroy the heavy artillery regiment that had just been exposed by the Liaodong Army at one time. ”

Watanabe's self-confidence made the shocked faces of the chief of staff and others regain a lot of self-confidence. All with anticipation on their faces, waited for the counterattack of the heavy artillery brigade.

After the fifth round of shells of the Liaodong Army whistled over everyone's heads one after another, the heavy artillery brigade finally began to counterattack, and the shells with screaming sounds quickly flew over everyone's heads and smashed towards the artillery positions of the Liaodong Army.

However, not long after everyone heard the explosion, the sixth round of shells fired by the Liaodong Army came to everyone's heads again.

As high-ranking officers of the Japanese army, even if they are not artillerymen, they still know some basic common sense.

Through the screams, many people can be sure that the number of the sixth round of shells that have just flown over everyone's heads does not seem to have decreased.

And this means that the first round of counterattacks of the heavy artillery brigade almost did not achieve any results!

"How so?" Everyone, including the chief of staff, focused their suspicious eyes on Major General Watanabe.

Major General Watanabe also frowned and looked puzzled. Just as he was about to call the artillery staff officer over to ask for an explanation, the observant artillery staff officer hurriedly replied.

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, the artillery positions of the Liaodong Army are too scattered! According to calculations, they had only one company of four heavy guns in one artillery position. Because the time was so tight, we have only calculated the location of four of the heavy artillery positions until now! ”

"Also, our artillery is too concentrated, one artillery position for one brigade. If you want to fight back, you can only fight back together, and there is no way to disperse at all! At one time, you can only counterattack at most three artillery positions of the Liaodong Army! “

"What about the 5th Heavy Artillery Wing, why didn't they fight back?" Rear Admiral Watanabe asked with a look of incredulity in his eyes.

The artillery staff officer replied with an embarrassed face: "Brigade commander, the strength of the heavy artillery division of the Liaodong Army is not as bad as we imagined!" I don't know how they trained, but the strength of the artillery was not worse than ours at all, and the shells fired out had at least a 60% hit rate. ”

"The three positions of the Fifth Heavy Artillery Wing have lost most of their artillery, and the positions are full of raging shrapnel and shock waves, as long as the artillery fire of the Liaodong Army does not stop, the remaining heavy artillery in the position will not be able to counterattack!"

Major General Watanabe, who was holding back his anger and had nowhere to send it, shouted: "Then what are you still doing, let the Seventh Heavy Artillery Wing also open fire!" I want to destroy the heavy artillery regiment of the Liaodong Army immediately! ”

Another minute passed, and the shells that kept flying overhead and smashing into the positions of the heavy artillery brigades were finally gone.

Just when Major General Watanabe couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and was about to order his subordinates to count the losses.

An even denser series of screams rang out above them again.

When Major General Watanabe counterattacked with two heavy artillery wings, Zhong Wei was not far behind, and directly dispatched two heavy artillery regiments to counterattack.

More than 70 heavy artillery shells fired from 18 artillery positions were concentrated in six directions and steadily smashed into the six artillery positions that had just been exposed by the Japanese army.

As soon as the violent explosion sounded behind Major General Watanabe, Major General Watanabe's face turned pale.

He shouted to the artillery staff officer who was also stunned on the side: "Baga, the Liaodong Army has hidden so many heavy artillery!" Fight back, fight back now! ”

After the two heavy artillery regiments of the Jiangdong Army fired more than 300 heavy artillery pieces in a row, the two heavy artillery wings of the Japanese army, which had already lost most of the artillery, began to counterattack.

Because the heavy artillery division of the Liaodong Army had a large number of old Maozi gunners, they were not inferior to the Japanese army in terms of experience.

Therefore, the number of artillery pieces determines the outcome of this artillery battle.

In less than five minutes, the two Japanese heavy artillery wings were muted and no longer fired a single shell.

The two heavy artillery regiments of the Liaodong Army, which lost nearly half of their artillery, then fired five more rounds of shells before stopping.

At this time, everyone knows that the Japanese heavy artillery brigade is over! (To be continued.) )