The shelling lasted all night, and the artillery of the 1st and 32nd divisions raged for seven or eight hours, and the artillerymen fired at least 12,000 tons of shells, so that by the time the shelling was over, many of the artillerymen had collapsed.

The losses of the two squads of scouts had spread throughout the army, and the shelling at night was both catharsis and revenge for the Germans.

The scout is a unit that the whole army yearns for, and everyone knows that the soldiers there are all "top soldiers", and all of them are first-class heroes. They were all brothers who got along day and night, and they were all prepared to die on the battlefield, but it was too unjust to die silently like this, and the artillerymen decided to make some big moves to see off the scouts' brothers.

Not only did they fire more than 12,000 tons of shells, but they also damaged eleven artillery pieces.

These eleven guns are all small and medium-caliber guns equipped with the 32nd Division, and compared to the artillery of the 1st Division, the artillery of the 32nd Division looks a little old, perhaps the artillerymen are asking for a replacement of weapons in this extreme way.

The artillery of the 1st Division is okay, these are all new guys, and it will be no problem to do three or five more shellings of this intensity.

The artillery may still be able to hold out, but the artillery has reached its limit.

The 194-mm guns of the 1st Division were equipped with a firing kit as a firing and firing kit, and the warhead alone weighed 81 kilograms, and each time the warhead was transported, two soldiers were required to use a small cart to transport it from the storage room where the ammunition was stored to the artillery position, and in order to ensure a safe distance of more than 500 meters, they ran back and forth twice a minute for seven or eight hours in a row, even an iron man could not stand it.

Fortunately, these large-caliber guns have a large number of auxiliaries, and each gun requires an average of 30 people to serve in order to ensure the firing efficiency of the artillery.

When the sun rises again and a new day arrives, the battle resumes.

This time the battle broke out between the artillery, and since the strength had been exposed, Qin Zhiyuan no longer kept his hands, and demanded that the artillery must suppress the Germans and not give the Germans a chance to continue to wreak havoc.

It is foreseeable that the 185 heights, which were almost lost yesterday afternoon, will continue to be attacked today. The current 185 position is defended by Chinese troops, and Qin Zhiyuan does not want his soldiers to be in an unprotected state.

So when the Germans began to charge for routine shelling, the artillery of the 1st and 32nd Divisions responded forcefully.

Although there is no counter-battery radar yet, the French artillery can still calculate the approximate location of the German artillery position from the direction and arc from which the shells are flying, and then the German artillery position is waiting for the fire countermeasures of the 1st Division and the 32nd Division.

The so-called fire countermeasures do not necessarily have to destroy all artillery, and it is the same as killing the enemy's artillery. The high-explosive shells used by the giant artillery of the 1st Division are a good example of relying on shock waves to kill the enemy.

The Germans, of course, were not willing to be beaten passively, they were also organizing strikes on the artillery of the 1st and 32nd divisions.

Now you can see the cruelty of the artillery profession, no matter how the enemy fights, they can only stay where they are and desperately fire shells, trying to take out the enemy's artillery first, and there is no way to avoid it.

This unavoidable cruelty did not include the self-propelled guns equipped with the 1st Division, the biggest advantage of self-propelled guns over stationary guns was that they had legs, they stayed in place and fired three or four rounds, and before the Germans could calculate the artillery position, they would immediately move.

This is also considered an alternative kind of cheating.

The artillery was lively, and the infantry was not idle.

Probably knowing that the artillery would not be able to provide sufficient fire cover today, the German infantry launched an early charge without waiting for the fire to be ready.

Or a wave-like skirmish line charge.

In fact, no matter what the name is, as long as it is an attack with unprotected infantry, it is even a human life. Compared to the group charge, the wave charge just has a more "noble" sounding name, and there is no difference in substance.

The Greif Brigade's Xu Sheng Regiment was numbered 6th Regiment within the 1st Division, a largely veteran unit with more than half of the 1st Division's participation in the 1st Division's assault on the Germans at Elbecourt the previous year.

Well, at that time the 1st Division was still the 1st Brigade.

The Sixth Regiment has a total of more than 1,700 soldiers, and even the recruits have undergone more than three months of training, making it the most combat-effective infantry regiment in the First Division. Originally, this title belonged to the First Regiment under Chen Kangjian, but after Chen Kangjian's troops were redressed and turned into armored units, Xu Sheng's Sixth Regiment was the most combat-effective infantry unit in the First Division.

As the most combat-effective regiment, Xu Sheng would definitely not be passively beaten, so when it was determined that the artillery on both sides was bombarding each other and the Germans were unable to cover the infantry, Xu Sheng decisively sent troops into the fortifications in advance to snipe at the Germans who were on the way to charge.

It was indeed sniping, at this time, the Germans were still five or six hundred meters from the 185 heights, and it was true that only accurate shooters could shoot the Germans at this distance. The machine gunner does not count, the machine gunner relies on probability to hit people, and if you don't play the machine gun for the first half of the eight months, don't want to use the machine gun to kill the enemy accurately.

And in Xu Sheng's troops, the proportion of accurate shooters is staggering. After Chen Kangjian's troops were changed to armored troops, the precision shooters in the army lost their value, so these precision shooters were assigned to other infantry regiments, so that in the two brigades of Liu Zizheng and Grace, the proportion of precision shooters was almost more than 10%, of which Xu Shengtuan was the most excessive, nearly 30% were precision marksmen.

The so-called precision shooter is different from a sniper. Precision shooters accompany the infantry, while snipers mostly fight alone, with a maximum of one observer. The standard for accurate shooters is to shoot chest targets at a distance of 300 meters, and the score of shooting chest targets must reach five out of ten, don't look at this is not as high as the hit rate of snipers, but it is quite rare in the case that optical sights have not yet become popular on a large scale.

So the scene on the battlefield is very strange.

Obviously, the gunfire was not intensive, there was no shot, but people fell from time to time in the linear array of the German army, and it was not a single shot, most of them were only wounded, which caused more trouble to the Germans, because at this time someone must help the wounded soldiers, otherwise they could only watch the wounded soldiers die tragically in the wailing, and the team of advancing Germans was simply torture, and the blow to morale was incomparable.

The Germans also had accurate shooters, and they were also looking for targets with rifles with scopes.

After all, the soldiers who used sniper rifles were still in the minority, and they were quickly at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the shooters of the 6th regiment. The mortars in the sixth regiment have been equipped to the company level, and whenever a sniper is found, the sixth regiment does not use accurate shooters to consume with you, but directly uses mortar fire to cover, it doesn't matter if one shot misses, three mortars hit together, two more rounds.

This is also considered cheating.

(To be continued.) )