Chapter 503: An Unexpected Attack

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After thinking about it, he said: "You are right, the 100,000 elites we blocked at the door of the Liaodong Army have almost no loopholes. If the Liaodong Army dares to strike first, take the initiative to attack us. Then let's take this opportunity to rub their morale and weaken their strength! ”

The chief of staff said with a look of clarity: "In this case, commander-in-chief, I will immediately give an order to the commanders of the six divisions on the front line, so that they can strengthen their vigilance and guard against the attack of the Liaodong Army at any time!" ”

"Yo Si! Go give the order! By the way, if you really encounter the attack of the Liaodong Army, all divisions and regiments only need to hold on, kill and injure their living forces in large numbers, and weaken their strength! ”

The Liaodong Army Headquarters, Chief of Staff Sun Liechen, was in front of Yang Xingguo, and with a serious face, he introduced the search plan that the General Staff had just formulated.

"Commander, our idea is to transfer the heavy artillery division, Zhou Qiangsheng's second division, and Li Zhilong's fourth division to participate in the battle!"

"The six regiments of the heavy artillery division, with the regiment as a unit, arranged artillery positions outside the range of the Japanese field artillery and shelled the Japanese heavy artillery brigades."

"The heavy artillery division saves a regiment and arranges artillery positions in battalion units. The role of this artillery regiment was to shell the heavy artillery equipped by the artillery wings of the three divisions of the Japanese army! As soon as these heavy artillery guns were fired, the regiment counterattacked, destroying them at minimal cost! “

"Two infantry divisions, arrange a defensive line around the heavy artillery division, block the sortie troops that the three divisions of the Japanese army may send, two field artillery regiments, and six mountain artillery battalions, which they keep for themselves to support the infantry in battle!"

"Of course, if the Japanese attacking troops bring field artillery, the first task of the two field artillery regiments is to destroy these field artillery."

"In addition, after the heavy artillery division destroys the Japanese heavy artillery brigade, it will also provide the necessary artillery support to the two divisions!"

Yang Xingguo thought about it and replied: "The plan is very thorough, I agree." In addition, add that the cavalry divisions are counted. The cavalry division is a company unit to patrol and guard the battlefield to prevent the Japanese army from sending small troops to sneak attack our heavy artillery division! “

"The plan is perfect, and the order will be given to the participating troops immediately. Five days, I'll give you five days to get ready for battle. Yang Xingguo ordered very decisively.

After receiving the order to strengthen the vigilance of Dashanyan, although the three divisions sent a lot of troops to patrol the surrounding area, they were all limited to four or five miles around the station.

A little farther away, no one would believe that the Liaodong Army could attack itself from such a distance.

At this moment, just ten miles away from the Japanese army's imagination, more than 200 heavy artillery pieces of seven regiments of the heavy artillery division of the Liaodong Army were building artillery positions with regiments as units.

Compared with the busyness of the artillery, the baggage troops were not idle, and shells weighing dozens of pounds were continuously sent to each gun position.

One kilometer in front of the artillery position, nearly 20,000 officers and men of the Second and Fourth Divisions of the Liaodong Army were relying on the terrain to constantly wave their engineering shovels and build blocking positions.

The field artillery regiments of the two divisions, the mountain artillery battalions, repaired artillery positions four or five hundred meters directly behind the positions.

At more than seven o'clock in the evening, both the three divisions of the Japanese army and the heavy artillery brigade were illuminated by a large number of bonfires.

And these bonfires became the best targets for guiding the artillery to open fire at night.

When groups of Japanese soldiers sat around the bonfire and laughed and kept warm, a dense scream of breaking the air suddenly reached their ears from far and near.

The heavy artillery brigade was stationed, and the moment they heard the sound, the artillerymen's faces turned pale.

As artillerymen, they are very familiar with this sound, and they know that only heavy artillery shells can produce such a piercing scream when they cross the sky, and they know even more that the screaming sound that is getting closer and closer to them directly means that the heavy artillery shells in the sky are flying towards their position.

They are well aware of the enormous power of a single shell from a heavy artillery.

In front of this kind of shell, even if you hide in the trench, dodge the fragments generated by the explosion of the shell, the powerful shock wave generated by the explosion can still shock people to death.

In front of you, there are no trenches or craters, and you can see it at a glance. In the face of powerful heavy artillery shells, the Japanese gunners could not dodge!

Therefore, these gunners, whose faces turned pale in an instant, subconsciously began to wander around the station, looking for a place to hide.

However, they are fast and the shells fly faster.

As soon as they moved, the shells smashed into the station and exploded.

A violent fireball rose into the air over the station. With the impact point as the center, the Japanese troops within a radius of several tens of meters were undoubtedly blown to the ground in pieces.

The garrison of the Japanese heavy artillery brigade was too large, and more than 200 shells were almost all smashed on the garrison.

Some fell into the crowd and brought great damage to the Japanese artillery, and some fell in the artillery group, blowing up one cannon after another, or directly blowing it into parts!

What's more, several shells actually smashed on the Japanese ammunition truck.

As soon as the shells exploded, the shells that the Japanese were still piling up on the ammunition truck were detonated. In this way, the entire ammunition car turned into a huge powder keg. In the violent explosion, the artillery and Japanese gunners within 100 meters of the ammunition truck as the center were all blown into parts.

Such a big movement in the garrison of the heavy artillery brigade immediately woke up the commanders of the three divisions around it.

Although the news had not yet been delivered, the artillery staff officers of the three divisions and regiments came to the conclusion that the heavy artillery brigades and regiments were being hit by large-scale artillery fire from the Liaodong Army.

"Eight Grid Tooth Road, the cunning Liaodong Army, actually used so many heavy artillery at one time!" The division commander scolded loudly in a hurry.

After finishing, he directly ordered the artillery staff officer: "With such powerful artillery fire, the heavy artillery brigade must have suffered heavy losses, and there is no way to return fire!" What are you doing all the time? The artillery wing was ordered to immediately counterattack, firing in support of the heavy artillery brigade. In any case, the heavy artillery brigade cannot be completely wiped out under our protection! ”

The artillery staff officer replied with an embarrassed face: "However, division commander, except for a dozen heavy artillery pieces of the artillery brigade, the range of the field artillery in the province is too close, and it is impossible to reach the heavy artillery position of the Liaodong Army!" ”

"Then let the heavy artillery brigade open fire immediately! As for the other field artillery, move forward quickly and advance to a position where you can counterattack! ”

After the order was given, the division commander thought about it and continued to order: "You can't rely on artillery alone, the infantry must also attack!" Two wings were dispatched, the artillery wing was covered, and they immediately attacked and advanced to the heavy artillery positions of the Liaodong Army! “

"Regardless of the outcome of the battle, the heavy artillery brigade will definitely suffer heavy losses. I have been able to capture the heavy artillery positions of the Liaodong Army and capture their heavy artillery, which can also make up for some losses! ”

At the same time, the commanders of the other two divisions gave almost the same order.

Six infantry wings of more than 20,000 Japanese troops, like three sharp arrows, quickly plunged into the heavy artillery division. (To be continued.) )