readx;?“ We must master enough troops to fight a war of movement with the devils, slow down their advance, and buy time for the main force to return to Liaodong. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" Yang Xingguo said with a categorical face.

"I see!" The chief of staff nodded thoughtfully, and then also proposed: "Is that to order the local garrisons around the official road to attack immediately and destroy the official road as much as possible?" ”

"Hmm!" Yang Xingguo nodded in affirmation: "Not only to destroy the official road, but also to use the mines sent by the headquarters, so that the devils can become the first batch of experiments for mines!" ”

"Chief of Staff, first of all, on these orders, the Twelfth Division, the Heavy Artillery Regiment, and the Guard Regiment directly under the military headquarters are reserves, ready to join the battle at any time."

"You go and give the order, I am responsible for reporting the situation here to the commander, and ask the commander for reinforcements."

In order to quickly and decisively take the defense line of the Liaodong Army at one time, Dashanyan, who came to the front-line position, can be regarded as fighting.

Hundreds of artillery pieces of various calibers were fired for twenty minutes before stopping.

After being ravaged by tens of thousands of shells of various kinds, no section of the entire defense line was intact, and there were gaps blown out by shells everywhere.

Not only that, but nearly 20 anti-artillery holes along the entire defense line were directly blown up, and more than 500 defenders died without even seeing the shadow of the Japanese army.

By this time, the Japanese artillery fire had stopped. However, the 1200 mortars set up less than a kilometer in front of the formation still fired shells at a very high rate of fire, suppressing the Liaodong Army in the anti-artillery holes and covering the attacking troops to get closer to the positions.

The underground command headquarters, which was less than a kilometer away from the front-line position, saw that the devils were using the tactics and tactics he had used to deal with them against him, and the division commander Xiao Bing's brows immediately furrowed, and he realized that the task of the commander letting him hold on for two hours was not so easy to complete.

"Division commander, the devil infantry is coming up, and if you don't let the troops go out of the defensive artillery holes to counterattack, you will definitely not be able to stop the Japanese attack. Depending on the situation, the Japanese army dispatched infantry from at least two infantry wings. The chief of staff standing next to him said with a frown.

"The mortars equipped by the devils are staring at our positions, and as long as the troops go out of the defensive artillery holes, they will definitely suffer heavy losses." Xiao Bing said with a calm face and a heavy tone.

The chief of staff was also embarrassed, and said with a frown: "It's not okay to come out, and it's not okay if you don't come out." Division commander, then we can't do anything about the devils, and we watched them rush up. ”

"There must be a way!" Xiao Bing said with a confident face.

"Our division has more than fifty mortars, and since the little devils bombard our infantry with mortars, then we also bombard their infantry with mortars. We have anti-artillery holes to hide, but the little devils don't, to see who can't bear the casualties caused by the shelling first. ”

The chief of staff thought about it and replied: "The idea is good, but the hundreds of mountain artillery and heavy artillery behind the devils are not vegetarians, and I am afraid that our mortars will be targeted by the devils as soon as they move." ”

Xiao Bing replied categorically: "I can't care so much." As long as the Japanese attack can be repelled, no matter how big the losses are, they will not hesitate. Don't forget the order given to us by the commander to hold off the devil for two hours at all costs. ”

Seeing that the chief of staff had passed down the order, Xiao Bing followed the order: "Order the three mountain artillery battalions and the field artillery regiment directly under the division, don't move yet, find the Japanese artillery position for me, and keep an eye on them." ”

"As long as you find an opportunity, you will immediately open fire and counterattack, and destroy as many artillery as you can destroy the devils."

Compared with lightweight mortars, mountain artillery is not only bulky and difficult to move out once attacked, but also has a very slow rate of fire.

Even if you can preemptively destroy many of the devils' artillery, the more than 70 mountain artillery pieces equipped by the whole division will definitely be dealt a devastating blow by the devils in the artillery battle, and the whole army will be wiped out.

The chief of staff didn't believe that Xiao Bing didn't know these situations, and directly looked at Xiao Bing with a stunned expression, waiting for Xiao Bing to give him an explanation.

Xiao Bing also knew that this order would mean that the division headquarters would give up all mountain artillery, but Xiao Bing had no choice.

"Chief of Staff, after the task is completed, our division will abandon its positions and retreat to the rear under alternate cover. Do you think that if we dragged the heavy mountain artillery, it would have been possible to escape the pursuit of the Japanese army? ”

"Don't forget, the garrison is destroying our retreating official roads, and even if we want to take the mountain artillery, the completely destroyed official road forces us to abandon these mountain artillery."

"Since we must abandon these mountain artillery, why can't we let them be destroyed on the battlefield. Doing so will at least blow up some of the devil's artillery before it can be destroyed, reducing infantry casualties. ”

"Tell the artillerymen to pay attention to their own safety in the artillery battle, and as long as the devil starts to counterattack, immediately abandon the artillery and retreat. As long as people are alive, there are artillery artillery for them to use in the back, so that they can take revenge.

More than 5,000 devil soldiers of the two infantry wings had just rushed to 300 meters in front of the formation, and more than 50 mortar shells smashed in the middle of them.

In the violent explosion, pieces of devils were blown over.

Coupled with the rapid rate of mortar fire, the violent explosions almost never stopped, constantly sounding in front of the formation.

In less than half a minute, more than 50 mortars smashed three to four hundred shells on the Japanese soldiers.

The dense offensive formation of the Japanese army was also smashed into gaps everywhere during the attack, and nearly 2,000 devil soldiers were killed or wounded and fell to the ground.

The Japanese army did not expect the Liaodong Army to directly abandon the artillery battle and bombard his attacking troops with mortars.

Therefore, at the beginning, the Japanese army did not react for a moment, and watched the attacking troops receive two rounds of artillery fire.

As the Japanese army reacted, nearly 200 mountain artillery guns did not care about the specific location of the mortar position of the Liaodong Army, and they were covered by artillery fire behind the blocking position.

There were too many mountain artillery pieces in the Japanese counterattack, and even if there were no accurate targets, the coverage of the shells within a radius of several hundred meters still instantly enveloped seven or eight mortars in the smoke of the explosion.

In this case, the remaining mortars of the 10th Division could only immediately shift their positions.

The remaining more than 3,000 devils in front of the battle quickly seized the opportunity and rushed to the position with a roar.

A hundred meters from the position, the mortars, which had been transferred to the new position, opened fire again.

In the dense and violent explosion, patches of Japanese troops were blown up.

The mountain artillery behind the Japanese army immediately began to adjust the angle of artillery fire, preparing to counterattack and suppress the mortars of the Liaodong Army, covering the infantry to rush through the last 100 meters.

At this time, the only more than 70 mountain artillery pieces of the 10th Division had been divided into 18 artillery positions, large and small, and the muzzles of the black holes were all against the mountain artillery that had just been exposed by the Japanese army.

As soon as the mortars fired, they followed and fired.

The shells with a screeching sound all smashed into the huge artillery positions of the Japanese army, which were densely packed with hundreds of guns. (To be continued.) )