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Chapter 1520 Battle Xinkou (4)

As night fell, the gunfire in Yuanping County basically stopped, and the officers and men of the New Fifth and Sixth Divisions, as well as the officers and men of the tank battalion and the air defense battalion, were checking the results of the battle and their respective losses, replenishing the ammunition consumption, and the fierce fighting north of Xinkou was still going on. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After emergency repairs, the interception position of the Anjia Army was repaired and strengthened again, and the soldiers, under the leadership of the grassroots non-commissioned officers and company platoon commanders, began to dig anti-artillery holes.

Major Tang Wen, commander of the 7th Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Brigade of the 170th Division, who was responsible for the front-line defense of Xiaogang Village, was observing the movements of the Japanese troops.

"Battalion commander, look! What's that? Guard Zhou Xiaoquan pointed to the sky.

Tang Wen, who was holding a telescope to look at the Japanese defense line in the south, raised his head and saw that under the light of the bright moon, on the small hill about a thousand meters away, a huge thing was slowly rising into the air.

"Hey, what's that? How is it different from our plane? ”

The warriors, who were transporting dirt from the excavated cavern, stopped what they were doing and looked curiously at the rising object in the distance.

Tang Wen, who has extremely rich combat experience, was shocked in his heart, this thing he had seen in the battle in Jixian County, eastern Hebei, it was a thing used by devils to correct shelling, called a hot air balloon.

"It's not good, the devil is about to shell, pay attention to concealment!"

Tang Wen's roar shocked the soldiers who were still pointing and pointing, and the scene that happened in the afternoon had become a nightmare for many recruits.

At this time, warning gunshots rang out one after another on various positions, and there was a brief panic in the defensive positions of the 170th Division, and all the officers and men were looking for places where they thought they were safe to hide their bodies.

Five minutes later, amid an earth-shattering explosion, orange fireballs rose into the air near the 170th Division's several kilometers of position. The grenades that fell into the trenches exploded with a bang, mixed with endless screams, and the sand and gravel bumps flew up one after another, and the fragile flesh and blood bodies were swept into the air by a huge shock wave, and then turned into a rain of mud and stone mixed with blood mist, which fell to the ground.

The Japanese artillery bombardment did not stop from the first moment, and the meteor-like shells rushed towards the interception position of the 170th Division!

The entire line of defense trembled terribly, and the sound of thunderous explosions was undulating and endless, and every section was shrouded in churning smoke and fire, and the whole ground was plunged into a raging sea of fire. The crazy raging air waves, rolling everywhere, pieces of bombs, whistling and falling, rose orange flames on the ground, fireworks swept and spread out with air waves, whistling shrapnel flew everywhere, devouring all targets within the killing range, yellow-red flames rose into the sky, and the sky was illuminated with blood red.

In the continuous explosions, waves of invisible sounds, like hammers, smashed fiercely at the officers and soldiers hiding in the trenches.

Many officers and men of the Anjia Army at the center of the explosion had suddenly bloodshot eyes, dizzy heads, and their bodies were even more violently affected by the invisible sound waves that raged violently, and they were bounced back and forth in the traffic trench, and finally they were fiercely pressed to the bottom of the trench, unable to move, and some officers and men even began to bleed all over their faces, eyes, and ears!

Countless shells, some of which accurately fell into the trenches, and violent explosions rang out, and the officers and men around those explosion points were instantly torn to pieces without even having time to scream, and some officers and soldiers were directly hit by grenades, blown into blood and flesh, and flew in all directions.

The position was littered with parts of guns, small pieces of flesh and blood, and many charred corpses.

Tang Wen, who was lying in the trench with his mouth wide open, looked up in despair, and the clear night sky, which was originally moonlit and starry, was illuminated more and more brightly by the bullet marks in the sky that flashed with blazing flames.

However, the focus of the enemy's shelling was not Xiaogang Village, which is also mountainous terrain, but Yuanping Village, which is located between several hills and hills. The village is an important passage to the original Ping County, within a radius of two square kilometers, a horse Pingchuan, once this section of the defense line is wiped flat, the Japanese army can break through from there.

At this time, the Yuanping Village position, under the key care of the Japanese heavy artillery, was like a purgatory on earth, and wherever the dense grenades went, there was a churning sea of fire, and the trees and bushes that were originally few in the plain area were quickly roasted and dried by the agitated heat current, and were immediately ignited by the sparks in all directions.

The explosion was so violent that the whole earth trembled terribly, and the trees that burned into torches fell down in the explosion and burned into scorched wood in the skyrocketing fire.

The entire trench collapsed in front of the tyrannical shock wave, and the fire points built by huge stones brought by trucks from Ruzhuang, Nangang and other mountain villages were like castles made of sand under the power of large-caliber grenade explosions, and instantly turned into ruins.

Yuanping Village, where all the fortifications were completely destroyed within half an hour of shelling, was still under large-scale bombardment by the Japanese army! 75 mm, 105 mm, 120 mm, 150 mm grenades, with a sharp whistling, cultivated this flat land over and over again, countless corpses, countless human limbs, together with the fertile soil of the Jinzhong region, flew into the sky, and then turned into a sky full of flesh and blood and threw down.

Lu Yixuan, who was checking the documents left behind by the Japanese army in Yuanping County, received an urgent report from the front line and immediately ordered the artillery units to go south to reinforce, and before that, Yang Jiuxiao and Qu Muchen had ordered the artillery battalions of each regiment to mobilize all 75-millimeter mountain artillery and field artillery to bravely fight back against the Japanese attack.

The howitzer batteries of the nine artillery battalions (the artillery battalion also included two batteries of 6 120mm heavy mortars) quickly launched a counterattack, and fifty-four 75mm howitzers fired revenge shells at the Japanese artillery positions!

However, due to the cunning Japanese artillery placement on the hill, there were serious problems with the firing angle, and the artillery of the Anjia Army could not accurately hit the Japanese artillery positions.

The Japanese artillery school shooters who observed the balloon soon discovered the location of the nine artillery positions of the 170th Division, and the news was quickly fed back to the ground, and the Japanese army quickly mobilized 120-mm and 150-mm howitzers to launch an artillery attack on the artillery units of the 170th Division.

The artillery of the Anjia Army, which chose to shell the Japanese infantry positions, did not abandon the artillery and retreat because the Japanese artillery fire began to move towards their positions!

These artillerymen, who were determined to exchange their sacrifices for the opportunity of the infantry brothers to eliminate a few more devils, seized all the time to shoot the shells, the ammunition men continuously sent grenades to the gun position, and the deputy gunners quickly stuffed the grenades into the barrels, and in the sound of "bang", the tongues of vengeful fire rushed to the Japanese position.

From the beginning of the Japanese artillery bombardment, the devil soldiers who were hiding in the trenches two kilometers to the south and preparing to launch a charge climbed up to the position one after another, enjoying the artillery performance, and when they saw the entire 170th Division position filled with gunsmoke, under the leadership of several officials, they even sang loudly "Jun's generation."

"Blow up the abominable Shina pig!"

A short devil soldier raised his hand and shouted, and the soldiers around him were about to respond, dozens of flames with a sharp whistling sound, smashing down on the forgetaway devils.

"Boom-"

In the midst of a violent sound, clusters of orange fireballs rose into the air over the Japanese position. Before the ghost soldier could scream, he and his forty or fifty companions were mercilessly dismembered by sharp shrapnel that was densely packed with space of hundreds of meters.

The rest of the devils stared dumbfounded at the filthy blood stains and internal organs splattered in the air, the stumps and broken arms flying around, and their minds were confused - they never thought that the artillery of the An Jiajun would dare to counterattack in front of such powerful artillery fire.

When another round of whistling sounded from far and near, the devils screamed and threw themselves into the trenches.

In the deafening explosion, some devils who moved slowly and did not have time to evacuate fell in a pool of blood.

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The first to be devastated by the Japanese army was the howitzer company of the artillery battalion of the 1st brigade and 1st regiment, when the deputy gunners stuffed the twelfth grenade into the barrel, the "hissing" sound that only came when the shell broke through the air at high speed reached the ears of the gunners, and none of the gunners who knew what this meant dodged and calmly pulled the gun rope in their hands!

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

The sound sounded almost at the same time, and the gunners who fired the last grenade were blown into a honeycomb by countless screaming, sharp shrapnel flying in all directions, and when the second round of artillery fire was covered, there was no longer a single officer or soldier standing in the entire artillery position, and the blood-stained twisted mountain guns were dumped in the middle of the ground with minced meat.

The place where the grenades were piled up is now only a huge deep pit, and the aftermath of the explosion of the Japanese army's large-caliber heavy artillery and shells makes this pit look hideous and terrifying, and the blood that the ground has not had time to absorb gathers into several blood streams, which slowly flow to the bottom of the pit.

The nearby artillery positions, which understood what had happened, were still roaring, angry grenades, scrambling to complete their righteous judgment.

The devil soldiers who were lying in the trenches with their heads in their arms were silently chanting that Amaterasu blessed themselves, but this was the land of China, the gods of China, where did the little gods of the Japanese kingdom be allowed to exert their might, so one grenade after another, as if they had eyes, fell into the trenches of the Japanese army with unmistakable accuracy, taking away a large number of lives.

"No!"

In the screams, there was a flash of lightning, and the shock wave and shrapnel were in the semi-enclosed trench, although the killing range became smaller, but the lethality was greater, and hundreds of devils directly turned into a pile of flesh and blood.

The head of a Japanese soldier was cut off by sharp shrapnel, and when he was flying in the air, the mouth of the head was still moving, and his eyes were full of unwillingness!

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When the position of the artillery battalion of the Second Regiment rose up with clusters of black and red pillars of fire, Yang Jiuxiao finally couldn't sit still, rushed to the telephone, took the intercom from the operator, and ordered the artillerymen to move immediately, and then asked Jiang Tiedan, the director of communications, to send a telegram to the air force, questioning the devil's shelling for so long, why haven't fighters flown to help in the war? Even if you can't take off and land safely at night, at least you have to send a fighter plane to knock out the devil's observation balloon.

The Air Force immediately replied to the telegram, and the various brigades were seizing the time to replenish ammunition, and today, from sunrise to sunset, almost all the ammunition in the inventory was exhausted, but soon a batch of replenished AB26 bombers will arrive on the battlefield.

Yang Jiuxiao was slightly relieved, but at this time, Lieutenant Colonel Feng Xiaoyun, the chief of intelligence, told him bad news, the artillery battalions of the fourth regiment to the ninth regiment were retreating according to the order, but the officers and men of the howitzer company of the artillery battalion of the third regiment replied that in order to create conditions for the evacuation of the brother troops, they decided to fight to the death and never retreat.

Yang Jiuxiao felt his nose sour for a while, and asked, "Where are the artillery regiments of each division and division now?" ”

Feng Xiaoyun replied: "The artillery unit has been deployed to Kugeng Village in the southeast of Yuanping County, which is located on a hill, although the mountain is only 200 meters high, but it can well shelter our artillery position. Commander Lu said that the Japanese army has more artillery than we imagined, and the devil's artillery is very tenacious, and after a day of bombardment, so many artillery pieces have been preserved, so we must be cautious. Now the Japanese army in the north is accelerating southward, and every cannon is precious. ”

Yang Jiuxiao nodded. Originally, he thought that the confidence of the Japanese army would be shaken after being encircled, and it would not be so brave in the battle, but now he suddenly discovered that the Japanese army's will to fight was far more tenacious than imagined.

At this moment, the position of the artillery battalion of the third regiment was filled with gunsmoke.

As a result of the extremely fast firing, the six 75-mm howitzers had already begun to emit green smoke, and when the deputy gunner, who had reached the limit of his physical strength, stuffed another grenade into the barrel, the sweat beads on his face dripped on the gun's body, and he only heard a "zi" sound and turned into water vapor.

The high-intensity continuous shelling made the artillerymen seriously overdrawn, and everyone only knew how to mechanically transport shells to the gun position, stuff them into the cannons, and then fire.

The Japanese were really attracted by the shelling, and the overwhelming shells flew towards the place where the shells were fired.

When the third huge column of smoke rose into the sky, the counterattack artillery fire of the Anjia army in front finally disappeared, and the Japanese shelling had lasted for almost two hours and was still ongoing.