"General, General?!" Captain Yao Mingxu looked at the young man who walked in front of him with two gold stars hanging on his military uniform with a shocked expression, and was almost speechless in shock. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Don't salute!" Zhang Cheng smiled and said, "I don't want to be the target of Japanese snipers. ”

"General, why are you here? It's too dangerous here! Yao Mingxu, who came back to his senses, hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade Zhang Cheng. If a lieutenant general hangs on his position, then the matter is a big deal.

How could Zhang Cheng, who is extremely assertive in everything, listen to the advice of others? Zhang Cheng waved his hand, picked up the binoculars and began to observe the battle situation.

"Why don't you blow up those buildings over there? What are the artillerymen doing? Can't you all see the Japanese hiding in the houses over there to hide from the rain? Over there is their rallying point and material reserve point, why not blow it up? Zhang Cheng, who put down the binoculars, asked directly in a cold voice.

"Said the artilleryman." Yao Mingxu responded with a strange expression, and said, "That is an important cultural center area of the Joseon Kingdom, and it can't be destroyed." ”

"Phone." Zhang Cheng turned to look at Yao Mingxu.

"I'm Zhang Cheng." After receiving the phone, Zhang Cheng said directly, "Transfer your division commander to me." ”

"Sir!" The division commander of the 91 Infantry Division quickly got on the phone.

"Now I order you to immediately remove the head of the artillery regiment from your post and then order the artillery to fire at the Japanese positions. Ask your subordinates for specific coordinates. Zhang Cheng casually stuffed the phone into Yao Mingxu's hand. Turning around and coming to the back of a bunker, in the drizzle, holding a telescope and looking through the observation hole carefully, the opposite complex of buildings hiding in many Japanese troops and supplies.

The drizzle in the middle of the night brings a cool feeling to people. In fact, one of the main reasons why the Japanese launched such a massive attack on this night was the rain.

When the extremely powerful Fifth Air Force was stationed in Korea, the airspace over Korea became the world of the Ming Army Aviation. In the face of the strong strength of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese Army Airlines' Zero War and the old-fashioned Nakajima and other planes suffered rapid losses, and they had to hand over air supremacy near Seoul. The Japanese, who had been bullying the North Koreans' biplanes before, were very happy, and finally met the world's top opponents.

After gaining air supremacy, the ground support aircraft of the Ming Army Aviation brought huge casualties and psychological pressure to the Japanese army with ferocious air attacks, which directly forced the Japanese to choose night battles.

And the weather forecast said that the rain would fall until tomorrow daytime, and there was no sword hanging over the head for the time being. The Japanese, who were unwilling to stop at the outskirts of Seoul, chose to take this opportunity to concentrate all the forces at hand to fight to the death, trying to drive the Ming army, which had not gained a firm foothold, out of Seoul.

The cold rain flowed down the steel helmet into Zhang Cheng's neck, and Zhang Cheng's body trembled a little as stimulated by the cold feeling. This is a battlefield, and bullets don't look at whether you're a general or not!

Zhang Cheng, holding a telescope in his hand, hid behind the barricade and carefully observed the Japanese troops who began to regroup in the distance opposite. The Japanese soldiers, shivering in the rain, weaved back and forth between the buildings and the ruins, dodging the Ming snigglers and the MG42's life-threatening bullets.

Unlike what I remembered, these Japanese soldiers were wearing field uniforms and carrying field backpacks. On his head was not the familiar curtain hat, but a dark steel helmet. The 38 big covers in his hand are not equipped with bayonets, which is completely different from the scene in the TV series where bayonets are inserted at any time.

Think about it, except when you are really ready to start a white-knuckle battle, who will have nothing to do with a bayonet to affect the accuracy of shooting? In the age of muskets, what soldier did not know that shooting was far safer than fighting with a bayonet?

After coming to this era, Zhang Cheng finally saw how short the Japanese were, and it was really very short. There are not many people in Japan who can exceed 1.6 meters, and the average height of the military is about 1.5 meters. The thirty-eight Gaiga bayonets they were armed with were probably at this height.

Thinking that the average height of the Japanese in modern time and space has even surpassed that of Huaxia, Zhang Cheng can only shake his head helplessly. Emphasis on education, emphasis on children, emphasis on the future. The best diet, the best education, free milk. When a nation spends all its energy on its children, that nation is the most terrifying.

However, the Ming Dynasty in this era is not bad. At least compulsory education was universalized among the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the illiteracy rate fell to an all-time low. At the same time, the standard of living of children in this era is far from being comparable to that of Japan, which is poor in material terms. At least the school canteen is not allowed to be contracted, which greatly ensures the quality of the food.

Just when Zhang Cheng was already thinking about crooking the building, several dull shelling sounds suddenly sounded above his head. A series of 105-millimeter high-explosive shells exploded in the vicinity of the North Korean cultural center hundreds of meters away, stirring up a rush of earth and bursting into a dazzling bright light in the night.

Zhang Cheng narrowed his eyes and carefully watched through the telescope the reactions of the Japanese soldiers in the distance. The time was very short, and not long after the shelling, many Japanese soldiers quickly rushed out of the cultural center. Many people still carry various supplies on their shoulders.

"The quality is good." Zhang Cheng muttered softly.

It was just a calibrated test shot before the large-scale artillery fire coverage, and after the reconfirmation of the firing Zhuyuan, the large-scale artillery fire coverage will soon fall on the nearby area. The quality of the Japanese army was good, not only saw the danger, but also reacted extremely quickly. Before the massive shelling, most of the Japanese troops had fled the building. However, the power of the shelling was completely different.

Zhang Cheng, the supreme commander of the front, personally ordered the dismissal of the artillery commander from his post and demanded a large-scale artillery bombardment of a certain target. How could the artillery regiment of the 91 Infantry Division not take it seriously in such a situation?

The 36 105-mm howitzers and 12 155-mm howitzers belonging to the artillery regiment no longer had any hidden gun positions, and immediately after the calibration, they poured out their anger on the target.

The dense and heavy shells soon pierced the sky with a terrifying and terrible sound, and then smashed heavily into the intended target area. Because the density of the shelling was too great, many of the Japanese troops who had fled in all directions were caught up in the fire coverage and were eventually engulfed by the ferocious shelling.

In fact, the defense range of the 91st Infantry Division was not small, and there were many positions garrisoned by various units, and everyone needed artillery support, and the artillerymen had to watch out for counterattacks by Japanese artillery. Therefore, the artillerymen with scattered artillery positions rarely launch such an artillery attack on a single target. However, all this was useless under Zhang Cheng's orders. This is the power of power.

Zhang Cheng also realized that he had interfered with the command of the front-line troops and brought chaos to the front-line troops. But now that the order has been given, it will not be changed, and at most it will not be done in the future.

The dull sound of explosions slammed into the ground like thunder, and the power of large-caliber artillery shells was far beyond the resistance of North Korean civil engineering structures. Zhang Cheng saw in the telescope that a large number of Japanese troops were covered in the shelling, and it is conservatively estimated that at least hundreds of Japanese troops were involved in the shelling.

The shelling, which had lasted for several rounds, soon ended, and the target area was already in shambles. The ruins and broken walls and the dead and wounded Japanese soldiers were everywhere. Washed by the rain, scarlet blood flowed freely.

'Huh~~~Huh~~~'The machine gunners on the Ming positions began to shoot from a distance, attacking any Japanese troops exposed to their guns at will. Having lost cover and covered in heavy artillery fire, the Japanese attacking the position did not want to attack again, at least tonight.

The sound of muffled shelling was heard again in the sky. This time it was an artillery counterattack by the Japanese, who targeted the artillery positions of the Ming army, whose positions had previously been exposed.

The artillery of the Japanese was well trained and reacted extremely quickly. Several artillery pieces of the artillery regiment of the 91 Infantry Division were destroyed. However, the strength of the Ming army in artillery fire far exceeded that of the Japanese, and neither the number of calibers nor the firing range could be compared with the Japanese army. Soon the artillery on other emplacements counterattacked the Japanese artillery.

The sky was full of red points of light coming and going, and the raindrops of cannonballs constantly brought death greetings on both sides' positions. The scale of the artillery battle between the two sides grew rapidly and imperceptibly, and almost all artillery within range was affected.

The infantrymen, who were originally the main force of attack and defense, temporarily became spectators, hiding in a place to avoid the rain, lighting cigarettes, and watching the shelling and counter-shelling in the sky.

This artillery battle, which did not last long, ended with the victory of the artillery unit of the Ming Army. The supply lines of the Japanese across the mountains greatly limited their ability to fight on the front line. The Ming Army, which could send supplies directly to the port of Incheon dozens of kilometers away by sea, had almost an inexhaustible supply of all kinds of supplies. Coupled with the fact that the artillery strength of the two sides is not on the same level, the victory of the Ming Dynasty is a matter of course.

"You lead the men to launch a counterattack and push the defense forward." When Zhang Cheng felt that the artillery battle was about to end, he turned around and ordered Xiao Hongbao on the side to lead the guard battalion to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army on the opposite side.

On the real battlefield, the defending side cannot be a dead defense in the full sense, and there must be different degrees of counterattacks. Defensive warfare must not be fought into a dull war, this is a tactic that has been summed up by the ancestors of China thousands of years ago.

The remaining machine guns on Captain Yao Mingxu's position all roared angrily, and the long chain of bullets mixed with tracer bullets roared towards the Japanese positions on the opposite side. Amid the roar of engines, dozens of armored vehicles filled with elite infantry rushed out while spitting tongues of fire.

Not only this position, but almost all the surrounding positions invariably launched a counterattack. Everyone could feel that their artillery was about to win the artillery battle, and this was the perfect time to launch a counterattack.

Mortars, heavy machine guns, infantry guns, and even anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns of various calibers began to rain ammunition on the opposing Japanese positions. A large number of soldiers rushed to the opposite side in motorcycles, trucks, jeeps, and even horses or directly on their legs.

This large-scale rainy night counterattack greatly surprised the Japanese army. After losing the suppression of artillery fire, the Japanese army, which was mostly light infantry, was defeated in the face of the fierce fire of the Ming army, leaving corpses all over the ground. The Japanese army's original plan for a decisive battle on a rainy night was in vain. (To be continued.) )