After watching the Japanese army repair a three-kilometer-long official road, Li Zhilong had to retreat with his troops. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this moment, Li Zhilong ushered in Liu Sen, the commander of the field artillery regiment who had already arranged an artillery position in Anshan County.

After learning about the careful deployment of the Japanese army, this old man, who had followed Yang Xingguo from the beginning, suddenly proposed.

"Division commander, why did you forget our field artillery regiment!"

"The infantry can't surprise the Japanese troops on the official road at close range, we can use artillery."

"I just looked at it, although the Japanese army repaired three kilometers of official roads. But because of the stagnant water, the official road is still very muddy. It's okay to walk the field artillery on such an official road, but if you take the howitzer, you will definitely not be able to get out if you come in, and it will be difficult to walk an inch. ”

"The howitzer has a range of up to eight kilometers, and the howitzers of the Japanese army that are parked in place will not be able to hit our field artillery regiment deployed in Anshan at all."

"Although the Japanese field artillery can pass through the muddy official road, the range of the field artillery is only six kilometers at most. From here to the position of our field artillery regiment, there are seven kilometers of official roads that have not yet been repaired. Therefore, no matter how much the Japanese field artillery advances along the official road that has been repaired, it will not be able to hit our field artillery regiment! ”

Li Zhilong's eyes lit up and replied: "In other words, your field artillery regiment can hit the Japanese army that is building the road on the official road, but the Japanese artillery can't hit your field artillery regiment." ”

"Yes, Commander!" Liu Sen affirmed loudly.

"Then what are you doing, you immediately go back to the position of the field artillery regiment, let your field artillery open fire immediately, and bombard me at the Japanese army who is building the road on the official road. I want to see, how many people are the Japanese army that attacked us, ready to lose in order to defeat us? Li Zhilong, with a murderous face, followed the order.

After seeing that he adjusted the deployment of his troops, the road construction troops were not attacked, and they also successfully repaired three kilometers of official roads. The chief of staff was in a very good mood.

Even though these just-repaired official roads were still unable to carry grenades and heavy artillery vehicles, they thought that the Liaodong Army had no choice but to do anything to their chief of staff, so they resolutely left behind a division and all the baggage and heavy artillery halls, and personally led two field artillery wings and more than 20,000 infantry, along the repaired official roads, closely followed behind the road building army and advanced in the direction of Anshan.

The good times didn't last long, and the confident chief of staff kept raising his binoculars to keep an eye on the progress of the road construction.

The screech of shells across the sky suddenly reached the ears of the chief of staff.

Hearing the screaming sound coming from the direction of Anshan County, the chief of staff's face immediately changed.

Before he could speak, a division commander next to him shouted: "It's artillery bombardment, protect the chief of staff!" ”

The chief of staff, who was surrounded by guards, had just been pulled to the side of the road, and the sound of violent explosions was left on the official road two or three kilometers ahead.

The chief of staff frowned, quickly broke free from the guard's protection and said: "Baga, the enemy's artillery target is not us, it is the troops building the road in front, why are you so nervous?" ”

"Order the two field artillery wings that are following us, and immediately counterattack. Since the artillery units of the Liaodong Army are going to come to die, then we will fulfill them! ”

After receiving the order, the two field artillery wings of the Japanese army immediately got busy.

Rack guns of guns, survey firing coordinates of measuring firing coordinates.

And the Japanese troops who were being shelled at this moment were miserable.

In order to seize the opportunity to inflict a large number of casualties on the Japanese troops, the 3rd Regiment, which had rested for more than two hours, was not idle when the field artillery regiment was operating.

With more than 50 field artillery pieces, with only one round of firing, dozens or hundreds of meters of official roads will be covered by artillery fire.

In this way, even if the Japanese troops in the area covered by artillery fire were not directly killed, they would be temporarily incapacitated.

The three regiments lurking around certainly wouldn't miss this great opportunity to attack.

As soon as the artillery fire began to extend along the official road, the three regiments, which were ready to go, rushed to the official road and harvested the lives of the remaining Japanese soldiers on the official road.

Soon, the Japanese army on this official road suffered a devastating blow and suffered heavy losses.

Seeing that the field artillery regiment of the Liaodong Army had fired five rounds of shells in a row, and the two artillery wings behind him still did not move, the chief of staff of the Japanese army gradually became anxious.

shouted to the two division commanders who were on standby beside him: "What is the artillery wing doing to eat, why don't you fire artillery for counterattack...... Are they going to watch the infantry in front of them be blown up? Eight grid tooth road! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, another violent explosion sounded on the official road ahead.

There is no doubt that this round of explosions has covered at least hundreds of soldiers with artillery fire.

Seeing that his subordinates were constantly killed and injured, Lieutenant General Miyamoto, who could only stare dryly as the commander of the division, was also angry at this time.

The whole person was like an angry lion, and he scolded loudly in front of the chief of staff: "Baga...... Chief of Staff, if the artillery wing still doesn't open fire, I'll take them to a court-martial. ”

At this time, the two artillery wings, which still did not open fire, finally reacted.

Of course, this reaction was not to fire a cannon to fight back, but a message that made Lieutenant General Miyamoto want to kill people on the spot.

"Report to my lords, after calculation, the enemy's artillery positions are out of our range, and we can't counterattack?"

"Nani? Out of range? It's out of range, so why are you reporting it now? Do you know that because of the delay of your artillery wing, at least a thousand brave men fell in the shelling just now. Lieutenant General Miyamoto, who was the most angry of several people, scolded loudly without any scruples.

After finishing, he directly asked the chief of staff for orders: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, the artillery has no way to counterattack, and the officers and men in front can only retreat." Otherwise, the troops will definitely suffer heavy losses! ”

"Then order the troops to retreat immediately and withdraw from the range of the artillery fire of the Liaodong Army......" the chief of staff ordered without thinking.

By the time the order to retreat finally reached the troops, the 1st Division Field Artillery Regiment had already fired a full ten rounds of shells.

The Japanese troops, who received the order to retreat, ran away as soon as they could.

But no matter how fast they are, they can't fly faster than the shells.

The shells with screeching sounds were still chasing their buttocks and bombing them, constantly blowing up the fleeing Japanese troops to the ground.

After firing five rounds of shells from more than 50 field artillery pieces of the field artillery regiment, all the Japanese troops under the official road escaped from the range of the field artillery.

As soon as the field artillery fire stopped, the three regiments that followed behind the shells to pick up cheap ones took the capture and slipped into the woods next to the official road, leaving corpses and shell craters everywhere for the Japanese soldiers.

Soon, a report of the damage was sent to Lieutenant General Miyamoto.

After reading the report, Lieutenant General Miyamoto's face immediately became gloomy. He said in a heavy tone to the division commander.

"Your Excellency Chief of Staff, the Liaodong Army used a field artillery regiment to fire almost a thousand shells...... According to statistics, we have suffered losses of more than 3,800 soldiers. ”

"Another infantry wing is gone!" (To be continued.) )