Chapter 518 is beginning to show its edge

Jinzhou Bay, the forward position of the 8th Army of Siye.

The fog was thick, and Captain Liu Zhijun was inspecting the position of the 1st platoon of the company.

Captain Liu is already a veteran of a hundred battles, although he did not participate in the first Battle of Songhu, Xuzhou and Wuhan, but participated in the expedition to Burma, in Mandalay and the Japanese army fought to the death for more than half a month, when Siye was expanded for the second time, he was transferred to the 8th Army as a captain company commander.

Before being transferred to the 8th Army, he also spent three months in the Rangoon Non-commissioned Officer Crash Course.

Objectively speaking, Captain Liu has both actual combat experience and theoretical knowledge, and is already a grassroots officer.

Therefore, when arranging the troops, Captain Liu did not put all the more than 180 people of the company at the forefront, but placed a platoon on the defensive line that was no more than 200 meters wide, and the other two platoons were arranged in the deep position to raise jīng to prepare for the critical moment to go to the front line, or cooperate with the armored forces to launch a counter-assault against the Japanese army.

Seeing Captain Liu Zhijun enter the position, the officers and soldiers who were reinforcing the fortifications stood up and saluted.

Captain Liu nodded, and was about to say a few words of encouragement when a faint scream suddenly came from the northwest direction, and Captain Liu's face changed dramatically in an instant, shelling! The shelling of the group of little devils heavy artillery began! When it was too late, Captain Liu was already shouting hoarsely: "Devil shelling, hurry, hide quickly!" ”

More than half of the veterans did not wait for Captain Liu's reminder, they had already slipped into the anti-artillery dòng, and the remaining recruits were stunned, and quickly climbed into the anti-artillery dòng reinforced with reinforced concrete.

In an instant, Liu Lian's position was completely covered by the flash of light and smoke from the explosion!

In the anti-artillery dòng, Liu Lian kept reminding those recruits with his toes and fists, forcing them to keep a sufficient safe distance from the ground, the Japanese army's 150mm caliber heavy howitzer is not a joke, its projectile weight is more than 40 kilograms, if a person sticks to the ground, even if it is separated by a layer of soil several meters thick, it can also be shocked to death by the shock wave generated by the explosion!

However, it is basically safe to hide in the anti-artillery dòng, because the anti-artillery dòng is different from the surface fortifications, the anti-artillery dòng is deep in the ground and is reinforced with reinforced concrete, and the chance of being blown up is very small, of course, if the shell hits the top of the fortification, it is a different matter, it can only show that your character is really poor.

Unlike the nervous and cramped recruits, the veterans looked calm.

In particular, the communication soldiers sent by the headquarters with walkie-talkies on their backs were even more nervous and trembling.

Veterans all know that once you are on the battlefield, life and death are no longer up to you, afraid or not afraid of the result is the same, your life is good, bullets will fly around you, life is not good, a stray bullet from thousands of meters away can make your brain open, and the iron law of the battlefield is that the more afraid of death, the faster you die, and the more you are not afraid of death, the less easy it is to die.

Captain Liu Zhijun was the calmest and most calm one, and in the rumbling cannon, he had already ordered the guards to take out the map from his satchel and spread it out on the ground, and then marked a location on the map by the light of the flashlight, and then turned back to the communication soldier who was trembling with his hands covering his ears not far away: "You, come here!" ”

The communications soldier didn't react, because he didn't hear it at all.

It wasn't until he was slapped on the steel helmet that the communications soldier suddenly woke up and looked at Captain Liu who was close at hand in horror.

Captain Liu grabbed the placket of the signal corpsman and shouted: "Immediately call the Air Force, the heavy artillery division, and the naval guns, and find the Japanese heavy artillery group, coordinates XXX, YYY!" ”

Although there was no satellite positioning in this era, artillery observers could also guide their own artillery to carry out accurate shelling by virtue of latitude and longitude coordinates, but there were few observers like Liu Zhijun who could basically judge the direction and distance of the Japanese artillery group by listening to the whistling sound of Japanese artillery shells without raising a hot air balloon for aerial observation.

The communication soldier did not dare to slack off, quickly turned on the walkie-talkie, and risked his life to go up to the surface and shout loudly.

Just a few tens of seconds later, the naval guns anchored in the open sea and the heavy artillery division more than ten kilometers away began to counterattack at the same time, and more than a dozen Mustang fighters that were fighting with the Kwantung Army air force in the air also quickly got rid of the entanglement of the Japanese planes and swooped down towards the area of the finger air, and in an instant, the area fell into an endless sea of fire.

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Jinzhou, South Manchurian Headquarters of the Kwantung Army.

Yoshitomi Tamura hurriedly walked into the battle hall and reported to Umezu Mijiro in a frustrated manner: "Your Excellency Marshal, the artillery position of the 3rd Field Heavy Artillery Brigade has been shelled by the Jīng of the Shina Artillery, and at the same time it has been hit by rockets from the Shina Air Force, and 9mén of all 12mén heavy howitzers have been completely destroyed!" ”

"What!?" Umezu Mijiro Huo Ran looked up and said in disbelief, "This is impossible!" ”

"Is it difficult for the artillery and the air force to grow clairvoyance and perspective?" Yoshimoto Sadachi also couldn't believe it, "The artillery positions of our Kwantung Army are all hidden in the dense forest, and it is difficult to find even low-altitude reconnaissance, not to mention that there is still a heavy fog on the ground now, how can the Chinese Army find our army's artillery positions?" ”

"Command." Umezu Yoshijiro settled down and ordered, "The aviation group will entangle the Shina Air Force at all costs, and then order all heavy artillery brigades and regiments to do their best to find the artillery positions of the Shina Army and concentrate their firepower to destroy them!" ”

"Hello." Yoshitomi Tamura bowed his head suddenly, and immediately took the order.

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Jinzhou Bay, the first frontier position.

Half an hour later, the Japanese shelling finally ended, and the fog that filled the positions began to lift.

Captain Liu Zhijun immediately led the 1st platoon of officers and soldiers to re-ascend to the surface position, and when he looked around, he saw that the entire surface fortifications had been ploughed by the Japanese artillery shells, and he was afraid that it would take some effort to repair and reinforce, but now there was no time, because after the shelling, the Japanese infantry was about to start attacking.

Sure enough, as soon as the fog lifted, the black and oppressive Japanese army appeared.

There are only thousands of Japanese infantry in the field of vision of the officers and soldiers, but there is not a single Japanese tank, obviously, the little devil also knows very well that before filling the anti-tank trench, it does not make much sense to charge the tank, but it will make the tank a live target for the first artillery, adding unnecessary losses.

However, even without the cover of tanks, the firepower of the Kwantung Army was significantly superior to **.

At this time, the Kwantung Army had already abandoned the traditional thinking of the previous Japanese Army, not only equipped with a large number of submachine guns and improved light and heavy machine guns that could be more sè, but also replaced all the grenadiers that originally relied on experience to shoot were also replaced with mortars.

With absolute strength and firepower superiority, the ** at the front of the formation was so pressed that they couldn't raise their heads at all.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, hundreds of teams of devil sappers have already carried the ladder and quickly rushed forward, and several teams of fast-moving devil sappers have even set up the ladder and descended to the anti-tank trench more than six meters deep, and immediately waved the sapper pickaxe and began to dig.

The strength of a devil sapper is nothing, but hundreds or thousands of devil sappers work together, then the efficiency is considerable, and in a few hours, the devil sapper can dig a few passages for tanks to pass through, and at that time, the anti-tank trench that the 8th Army painstakingly dug will lose its barrier effect.

Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, hundreds of armored trucks suddenly drove onto the first position, and rows of upturned rocket artillery were installed on the compartments of these trucks.

In an instant, the Japanese position on the opposite side was completely enveloped in flames and smoke from the explosion.

Captain Liu Zhijun looked across through the artillery mirror, and saw that the Japanese positions within a radius of several kilometers had been completely enveloped by the flames and gunpowder smoke generated by the explosion, and the scene was as terrible as the end of the world! Captain Liu and the veterans were quite calm, but the recruits and communication soldiers were already frightened!

With such intensity and such a wide range of artillery coverage, the little devil hasn't even had time to dig a few foxholes, this uncovered, can there still be life?

The fire coverage of the rocket artillery battalion achieved an immediate effect, and the firepower of the Japanese troops on the opposite side quickly thinned out.

Captain Liu took the opportunity to lead the officers and men of the 1st platoon to fight a counterattack, went up to the southern edge of the anti-tank trench, and used machine gun fire to slaughter the devil sappers who had gone down to the trench, and the first wave of the little devil's offensive collapsed, 1 ruled out that more than a dozen officers and soldiers were buried alive in the previous Japanese artillery bombardment, and there were no other casualties.

The army, navy, and air force proposed by General Li to cooperate in the first battle were sharp!

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Japanese forward observation post.

General Shizuo Yokoyama, commander of the 5th Front of the Kwantung Army, was staring at the battlefield in front of him through the artillery mirror, and he couldn't believe his eyes!

A whole infantry wing, more than 2,000 jīng sharp infantry, and that's it!?

What kind of artillery did the squadron use just now? Could it be an artillery similar to the Katyusha rocket artillery of the Russian army?

For the use of bazookas, the Japanese army base camp has always had a negative attitude, the reason is very simple, because the bazookas of this era only have the most primitive optical sighting system, the hit rate is not high, and the shè range is extremely close, except for some specific terrain, the bazooka can not compete with the anti-aircraft artillery or combat vehicles.

The negative attitude of the Japanese base camp towards the bazooka also affected the equipment and use of rocket artillery.

Unlike the Russian army, the American army, the German army and the squadron are equipped with a large number of multiple rocket launchers, the Kwantung Army is almost not equipped with any rocket artillery, and the Japanese stubbornly believe that as an infantry suppressive firepower, the vehicle-mounted rocket launcher is inferior to the light mortar carried by individual soldiers in terms of maneuverability, and it is inferior to the heavy howitzer in terms of lethality.

However, the cruel sight in front of him struck Shizuo Yokoyama like a whip on Shizuo's heart, and in the relatively convenient plain terrain of Jiāo Street, the vehicle-mounted rocket launcher unexpectedly displayed such terrifying lethality! An entire wing of Jīng Rui infantry plus a wing of sappers was collectively shattered under the dense fire of more than 100 mén rocket artillery of the squadron!

When Yokoyama Shizuo was shocked, the chief of staff, Shiro Makino, had already walked into the observation post with a blue face, and immediately suddenly retracted his feet and said: "Your Excellency, the offensive of the 3rd Front Army on the Western Front has also been disintegrated by the Shina Army, and the infantry wing and the engineer wing that have been put into the attack have also suffered heavy losses, with many casualties!" ”

"Baga Yalu, it seems that it is not possible to use the chariot without dispatching." Yokoyama Shizuo frowned and said, "Order, the 10th Tank Division will send a tank wing to suppress the rocket artillery of the Shina Army from a long distance, and cooperate with the infantry and sappers to destroy the anti-tank trenches!" ”

"Hello." Shiro Makino bowed his head abruptly and took the order. Although the rocket artillery group of the squadron is huge, the shè is insufficient, as long as a tank wing is dispatched, it is enough to intercept the rocket artillery group of the squadron, once the rocket artillery group of the squadron cannot reach the shè attack, the infantry and sappers of the Kwantung Army can safely enter the trench to carry out sabotage operations.

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Four field forward positions.

"Company commander, the little devil's tank is up!" The scout monkey jumped and rushed to Captain Liu Zhijun, panting and saying, "At least one wing, there must be **ten!" ”

"A wing?" Captain Liu raised his binoculars as he spoke.

At this time, the smoke and dust on the opposite position had gradually faded, and a large number of black figures gradually revealed their hideous true faces, not Tiger heavy tanks, but Japanese-made Type 4 tanks, roughly counting, there were indeed nearly 100 of them! The metallic sound of the mechanical track grinding was clearly audible from hundreds of meters away.

"Good fellow, there's really a wing!" Captain Liu stretched out his tongue tiǎn tiǎn's somewhat chapped lips as he spoke, and then sneered again, "However, with these 100 tanks, it may not be too wishful thinking to suppress our army and destroy the anti-tank trenches. With that, Captain Liu turned back to the signal corps and shouted, "Immediately call the army, navy, and artillery to request fire support!" ”

The Type 4 tanks of a wing of the Japanese army had just opened up their positions, and before they had time to fire artillery demonstrations at the ** position on the opposite side, the artillery fire of the first unit came from dozens of miles away, and after more than ten minutes, dozens of armed helicopters had already appeared over the battlefield with a huge roar, rows of rockets were overwhelmingly shot down, and finally more than a dozen Type 4 tanks that had escaped the cluster shelling were also completely destroyed.

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Japanese forward observation post.

Shizuo Yokoyama was so shocked that his eyes were about to bulge!

How is this possible? The artillery of the squadron is as if it has eyes, and the jīng degree is so high? And their helicopter gunships, which reacted so quickly? From the appearance of the tank wing of the Kwantung Army on the battlefield to the appearance of the Chinese armed helicopter, it was only a short ten minutes before and after, and such a reaction speed was too scary!

"Your Excellency, what now?" Only then did Shiro Makino suddenly realize that the battle plan formulated by the General Staff of the Kwantung Army was too wishful thinking, they did not expect the artillery of the squadron to be so accurate, and they did not expect that the squadron's response would be so rapid, and the cooperation of the army, navy and air force would be so tacit!