Seeing that the three artillery positions of the Liaodong Army were silent, the three heavy artillery brigades of the Japanese army fired three more rounds of shells before they stopped. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As for the Japanese attacking troops, seeing that their artillery knocked out the artillery of the Liaodong Army as soon as they struck, they were still panicked just now, praying that the shells would not fall on the Japanese troops around them, and that they would once again regain their previous arrogance and self-confidence.

After the follow-up attacking troops filled the gap in the army formation that had been blown up by the shells, the Japanese army, which had lost nearly 1,000 men, once again pounced on the 2nd Division.

At this time, the losses of the mountain artillery battalion of the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Division were also sent to Zhou Qiangsheng.

"Division commander, all eighteen mountain guns in the mountain artillery battalion have been blown up, and even if they are taken to the arsenal, they can only be used as parts. The casualties were similar to the judgment of the commander of the field artillery regiment Wang Jie, less than two percent! ”

Zhou Qiangsheng's tense heart finally relaxed, and he said with a happy face: "What I want is this result, the equipment of a mountain artillery battalion is exchanged for an infantry brigade of the Japanese army, and we make a lot of money!" ”

As soon as the words were spoken, the defenders on the position began to counterattack.

Light and heavy machine guns, rifles, and heavy machine gun bullets fired by the Japanese. Shoot at the Japanese at every opportunity.

The Japanese troops, who finally rushed to a hundred meters in front of the battle, kept falling on the road.

However, this fierce counterattack also caused many casualties to the defenders.

On the position, the Liaodong Army, which used the crater as a cover, was constantly hit by heavy machine gun bullets.

In this case, Zhou Qiangsheng decisively ordered: "Inform the mountain artillery battalion of the fifth regiment to open artillery immediately, after the Japanese army begins to counterattack, the field artillery regiment will also open artillery, I want to let the Japanese attacking troops know that my second division has artillery and they are exchanged for lives!" ”

When both sides suffered heavy casualties and tried to defeat each other, the scream of shells across the sky once again drowned out other sounds, reaching the ears of everyone on the battlefield.

Soon, the shells mixed with the screeching sound smashed in front of the formation and exploded.

In the face of the huge casualties caused by the shelling, the arrogance on the faces of the Japanese soldiers in front of the battle turned white again.

No one knows if the next round of shells falling from the sky will hit their side and explode.

On the battlefield where time is of the essence, the Japanese army hesitated and panicked, and the offensive that was still clever just now suddenly weakened.

The defenders, who were suddenly under light defensive pressure, did not miss this opportunity, and light and heavy machine guns and rifles all fired bullets at the Japanese army at the fastest rate of fire.

The mountain artillery battalion, which had already opened fire, was not idle, firing shells at the front of the formation as fast as they could.

In the Japanese position, facing the three artillery positions that had just been exposed on the battlefield, the three heavy artillery brigades that had just stopped to rest for less than two minutes subconsciously began to adjust the angle of artillery fire and open fire for a counterattack before they received the counterattack order.

This time, it also took nearly a minute for the Japanese to adjust their artillery.

When the cannon was discharged, a violent explosion sounded in the mountain artillery position several kilometers away, and the Japanese attacking troops, who had lost seven or eight hundred men, could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

However, although there were no shells falling from the sky, after two successive artillery raids, their morale was low, and they did not know whether the Liaodong Army would carry out another artillery raid, and they were already a little panicked and had lost the momentum to continue the offensive.

What's more, two artillery strikes, coupled with a desperate counterattack by the defenders.

The attacking force of a wing of the Japanese army has lost more than sixty percent of its strength. There are less than a thousand attacking troops left, and in front of thousands of defenders, to continue the offensive is to send them to death.

The chief of staff of the Japanese army, who had been facing the battlefield, frowned and said: "The Liaodong Army is very cunning, and the artillery does not conduct artillery battles like ours, and specializes in shelling our attacking troops!" ”

Lieutenant General Murakami's face was also ugly, because the wings that were now attacking were all from his division.

He replied in a heavy tone to the chief of staff: "The Liaodong Army is too cunning!" However, I am sure that the two mountain artillery battalions that the Liaodong Army had just exposed were destroyed! ”

"I want to see how many mountain artillery the Liaodong Army is equipped with!"

The chief of staff nodded and replied: "Murakami-kun's analysis is very reasonable, the Liaodong Army wants to kill and injure us in large quantities at the cost of mountain artillery, then we will fulfill them and see whether they have more artillery or more troops." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the chief of staff decisively ordered: "Let the attacking troops withdraw and reassign a wing to it." In order to reduce losses, tell the attacking troops that the offensive formation should be as dispersed as possible. As soon as it was hit by artillery fire, it immediately stopped to defend against artillery. ”

"Next, the attacking troops have one purpose, to lure out all the hidden artillery positions of the Liaodong Army as bait, and then hand them over to the heavy artillery brigade to destroy them!"

Soon, the Japanese attacking troops received the flag and began to retreat.

At this time, Wang Jie, the commander of the field artillery regiment, who had been holding back in his position for almost half an hour, quickly shot out two hot gazes with his calm eyes. Quickly raise the flare gun and fire three signal ammunition into the sky that represent the opening of the cannon.

More than 50 field guns were studied and aimed at good targets, and more than 50 high-explosive shells were quickly fired.

Less than three kilometers away from the Japanese artillery position, the artillery who were replenishing their strength had not yet reacted, and high-explosive shells mixed with screaming sounds had already arrived above their heads.

"Baga, it's shelling, everyone hide quickly! Boom ......" The face of the artillery officer who reacted quickly changed, and he was just about to remind his subordinates. But before he finished speaking, a violent explosion sounded in the position.

The sudden shelling, and the fact that it was field artillery and heavy artillery, not only made the ordinary Japanese artillery not believe and understand, but also for Major General Watanabe, the Japanese heavy artillery brigade, was also dumbfounded, and it took a long time to react.

Then, Watanabe's face turned red with anger.

Because he saw with his own eyes that one of his heavy artillery wings did not fight back under the blow of a field artillery regiment of the Liaodong Army.

If this matter gets out, as the brigade commander, Major General Watanabe will have no face to continue to stay in the army.

So Major General Watanabe, who was still aggrieved and angry, reacted immediately and roared loudly at the staff officer who was on standby next to him.

"Order the fifth and sixth wings of heavy artillery to open fire, destroy the field artillery regiment of the Liaodong Army, and open fire immediately!"

After a minute of anxious waiting, Rear Admiral Watanabe finally heard the sound of his heavy artillery brigade's counterattack artillery.

Soon, the sound of a violent explosion on the position of the field artillery regiment of the Liaodong Army two kilometers away also came.

But even so, there were still field artillery shells flying in the sky overhead, smashing with a scream on the three heavy artillery positions that had been completely enveloped by artillery fire.

It took another minute before the constant screaming overhead stopped.

However, the explosions on the three heavy artillery positions did not stop, and the explosions became more and more intense.

The experienced Rear Admiral Watanabe immediately understood that these explosions must have been caused by the detonation of heavy artillery piled on top of the artillery emplacement. (To be continued.) )