Chapter 444 Xiongzhou Town 5
Li Chunrun smiled coldly, felt another burst of sweat on his body, wrapped in a coat and tightened, the caliber of the artillery equipment of the division suffered a lot of losses, and in the previous artillery battle with the Japanese army, 9 cannons were blown up, and there were dozens of artillerymen, Li Chunrun did not dare to fight again, fortunately, the number of shells carried by the Japanese army was not sufficient for a while, and this rain really helped a lot, otherwise even if the sufficient ammunition supply of Xiongzhou Town was guarded, it would be difficult to continue.
The artillery battle could not do the Japanese army, Li Chunrun quickly made adjustments, gave up the idea of working hard with the Japanese artillery, and focused his attention on the Japanese infantry, in the tragic Battle of Fengtian six years ago, when a group of Northeast Army miscellaneous cards under the leadership of Jiang Li confronted the Japanese army, Jiang Li's artillery was more different from the Japanese army, and many people were not even very good at playing artillery, after all, Zhang Xueliang had withdrawn a large number of descendants of the Northeast Army to the Guannei, although the Fengtian Arsenal left a large number of weapons and ammunition down, However, Jiang Lishou did not have enough artillery to meet the conditions, and the training of artillery could not be completed in one or three days. Under the pressure of the situation, the defenders at that time thought of a stupid method, measured the preset position in advance, transferred it immediately after fighting against the Japanese army, and then handed over the task of counterattack to the second artillery position.
At this time, Liu Zhendong's foundation was much better than Jiang Li's at the beginning, and he couldn't put forward too high requirements for Han Lianxi, but the artillery of the Northwest Army Headquarters had not lost much to the Japanese army under the precipitation of these years. If it had not suffered a loss in caliber, the Japanese army might not have been able to win favors. In this regard, Li Chunrun also did the same, and had already arranged dozens of artillery pieces, including mortars, to be aimed at the position that Han Lianxi had withdrawn.
"The soldiers defending this position are either new troops or motley troops who have gone there, but you will be careful when you rush forward. It is impossible for the Northwest Army to be defenseless. ”
Inaba Shiro put down the binoculars and frowned, according to the resistance of the defenders before, the originally expected bloodshed did not appear, but the other party directly withdrew all the way, although the defenders on the opposite side had suffered heavy casualties. It is not uncommon for an enemy army to be defeated by a thousand miles, but it is somewhat unreasonable for the army in front of him to fight with a strong will to fight. It's just that the Japanese army at this time can't not seize the position in front of them because of the enemy's possible counterattack.
On the battlefield, it's not that the commander can do whatever he wants, even if Inaba Shiro asks the officers behind him to be more cautious, but he is not able to restrain the two infantry squadrons in front of him who have already rushed out to fight red eyes. You can only tell the people behind to be responsible for answering.
"Kill the Exhaust Branch!"
"Long live the Emperor!"
Boom In the frenzied cries of the attacking Japanese army, a dull rolling thunder sounded.
"It's not good, it's a cannon group!" At this time, not only Inaba Shiro, but even Tani Shofu changed color again.
"It's the Empire's 38-type 75 mountain artillery and field artillery, and there are at least a dozen of them." Gu Shoufu had a gloomy face. This old devil just listened to the movement of the cannon, his face was so gloomy that he was about to drip water, originally he thought that those fools had destroyed a large number of weapons and ammunition before Xiongzhou Town was captured by the enemy, but now it seems that except for those few extremely powerful heavy guns were destroyed, the other weapons were not destroyed much, and the machine rifles used by the miscellaneous brands of the Chinese army in front of him were all produced by the empire. And now the other side is hitting him on the head with a cannonball that should have belonged to them. The feeling was so depressing that I wanted to vomit blood.
Boom, the position that had just been baptized by the heavy artillery of the Japanese army once again set off a metal frenzy, and the flames were spewing out under the rain. Slurry. Once again, blood flew in all directions.
"Retreat, retreat!" The face of the Japanese squadron leader turned pale for a while, not that they did not have the heart to fight to the death, but that there was no point in forging ahead under the cover of such an artillery group, and they could get nothing but lose their lives by staying here. But Li Chunrun's carefully prepared killing game is obviously more than that.
Although the power of the 75MM gun was far inferior to the Japanese Army's Type 38 heavy field artillery, it relied on more numbers and rate of fire. For a while, the momentum of the fight was also higher than a while, for these Japanese infantry, no matter what kind of artillery, it was the same deadly, on a narrow position. Huge columns of muddy water rose everywhere, shrapnel scattered in all directions, and this terrible environment was simply not a place for people to appear. The corpses of the Japanese soldiers were also easily torn to shreds.
When the Japanese heavy artillery was raging before, the defenders' artillery remained silent for a certain time, but at this time, as soon as the Japanese artillery fire stopped, it immediately returned to the color and baptized the position back and forth several times, some of the artillery has quickly shifted its position, and the other part has continued to extend without reducing the rate of fire, and the shells have fallen into the Japanese positions in the rear one after another.
"Kill!" A regiment of the 41st Army, which had changed its defense, rushed back again, stepped on this dilapidated position like purgatory on earth, stepped on the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, and rushed the Japanese troops who were blown up. Some soldiers with thick waists swept left and right with light machine guns, and the Japanese soldiers who had previously held the belief that they would die were still echoing in their minds with the sound of the shelling just now, where could they stop this new force.
"Bastard, return fire, immediately let the artillery return fire!" Gu Shoufu was so angry that his face turned pale, and the defenders relied on sufficient ammunition supplies, and they didn't even mean to save at all. The two squadrons that had attacked before had less than a hundred wounded at this time, and the bloody casualty figures seemed to tell the intensity of the enemy's artillery bombardment just now.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, we don't have many shells, the ammunition of the defenders seems to be more abundant, we can't waste any more precious shells, we must give the most fierce attack to the defenders while the artillery is covering." Inaba Shiro suggested that the division commander in front of him had a very high combat literacy, but he was also angered by the counterattacks of the Shina army in front of him again and again. However, this is also normal, although the previous Mutian Wing was annihilated, but after this battle, perhaps the 6th Division will set a new record for Japanese casualties since the Lugou Bridge Incident.
"As a war correspondent, I am once again proud of these fearless soldiers, hundreds of thousands of invincible invaders went south, but our army is still fighting bravely, even if the Japanese army is far stronger than our army, but they are still facing the stubborn will to resist, after Langfang, Xiongzhou Town is the second town that has been completely destroyed, there is only blood and sacrifice, and there are also broken legs and arms of the invaders, in the rear, our army is still trying its best to organize defense in Baoding, Shijiazhuang, and the Japanese army takes every step forward, They will all pay huge casualties and sacrifices. Someday, the Japanese army will be crushed by this long war of attrition"
Xiongzhou Town is suffering in the war again, the war correspondent in the dark and leaky small room, with half a candle to record the bits and pieces of the battlefield, the soldiers outside are fighting with their lives, maybe many people will die here, he wants to use his own pen, these have been martyred, as well as the soldiers who are fighting for the country, their heroism is recorded word by word. (To be continued.) )