The heavy artillery used by the Third Heavy Artillery Brigade is the Type 96 150-mm field artillery, which is the latest type of field artillery in Japan that has only been put into service this year, with a maximum range of 15,300 meters, and is currently only equipped with the most sharp heavy artillery brigades. With the busy work of the artillery on the day, at the moment when the tail of the gun was opened, I only heard a "click", and the heavy shell was loaded into the chamber, and then, the tail of the gun was closed with a clang, and the bolt was locked in place. Finally, check the distance, shè angle, lateral offset......

The artillerymen of the 3rd Heavy Artillery Brigade, who had undergone the baptism of war and rigorous training, opened fire three minutes after the shell was shelled, and with the recoil generated by the shell when it fired, the gun body suddenly retreated, and the shell flew out of the chamber instantaneously.

The contest between the Chinese and Japanese artillery began, and both sides underwent rigorous training, one with a vengeful anger and excellent artillery, and the other with strict training and rich combat experience.

In the distance, on the field artillery position of the 4th Artillery Division, the gunners on the position of the 155th Howitzer Battalion were desperately firing shells, "and they couldn't hear the whistling of incoming shells at all." While the excited gunners were concentrating on carrying the shells, several explosions suddenly rang out around them.

The first shells of the Japanese army fell very close to the howitzer artillery positions of the 4th Division, and there were only a few shells, which was the first round of school shè! The Japanese army's school shè still stays in the real shè. However, almost only two or three seconds apart, the barrage widened in an instant, and then the barrage became closer and closer, and the density became larger and larger.

A Japanese ground 150-mm field artillery shell directly hit the position of the 3rd Artillery Company of the 3rd Howitzer Regiment of the 4th Artillery Division, sending a mén howitzer shaft into the sky, and the fragments detonated the nearby shells at the same time.

Although this was only a fluke hit by the Japanese artillery on a near-limit shè course, it foreshadowed that this duel between two powerful artillery forces would not be a one-sided battle.

At the moment when the Japanese artillery opened fire, two pairs of eyes at an altitude of several hundred meters on the battlefield stared at them for the first time: "This is two double-engine F-5E lightning reconnaissance planes correcting the orientation of the artillery, this kind of reconnaissance aircraft has performed in the Siberian battlefield, although the Baoshan position at this time is still filled with a little dense fog, accompanied by dense gunsmoke, but all this can not hide the huge muzzle fireworks produced by the Japanese artillery during the shè attack and the fog cloud stirred by the muzzle shock wave.

"Directions two-two-six! Distance 15380! Bullet seed instant! Grenade six rounds of rapid shè ......"

The artillery of the 4th Ground Artillery Division immediately began to shake up the guns when they received instructions from the reconnaissance planes, and the artillery commanders immediately reset the shè table according to the orders of the artillery commanders. "The duel between the artillery may not be one-sided, but it does not mean that the Chinese artillery will be passively beaten, and attack will always be the fundamental creed of the artillery."

The shelling continued from 4:37 a.m. to 6 a.m., "bursts of violent explosions, with a thousand-degree heat and countless steel shards, tearing apart the already impenetrable outer defense line of the Japanese 101st Division......

The cannonballs tore through the air as they flew and let out a terrible scream that enveloped the sky of Baoshan: "The earth twitched and trembled violently, testing the nerves of those Japanese officers and soldiers, and these were not the trumpeters of the past shouting for dinner, but the bombardment of the rain without warning!" The Japanese were completely unprepared, and countless shells mixed with fire and death fragments smashed down like a crumbling mountain.

"Moxie, Moxi! I'm Yamamoto! I'm Yamamoto! ”

On the smoke-filled position, a dusty Shaozo was anxiously screaming at the call, "But the phone is quiet, and there is no movement at all."

"Baga" the man blew up the telephone line," the officer angrily threw down the phone and scolded.

Rumble! A fireball rose up, and half of the trench collapsed at once, and several soldiers who were still wearing military uniforms and dragging Type 38 rifles ran over in panic, completely frightened by this kind of artillery fire that they had never experienced before, and from their frightened faces, it was clear that they were not ready to withstand such a heavy bombardment.

"Yaga!" , The soldier's frightened appearance made Yamamoto's heart burn, "Yamamoto rushed forward and slapped the leading military Cao.

"Bastard, why are you like this, do you still look like an emperor? Take out the courage of the emperor's **, and load the bullet "Follow me!" For the Empire! For the emperor! "Onboard! Yamamoto chōu took out his command knife and pointed sharply at the front forty-five degrees, while shouting loudly.

Yamamoto crawled out of the position, and as soon as he rushed out, a piece of shrapnel flew over, and hot blood spilled on the body of one of the soldiers who had just rushed out of the position. Yamamoto's head had been cut in half by shrapnel, "cerebral plasma and blood stuck to the bodies of nearby soldiers", and the soldiers who had lost their command stood there in a daze, "At this moment, a shell fell, and the position was instantly shrouded in a cloud of red smoke.

"Yaga! What a stunned! Do you look like an Imperial soldier?" For the Empire! For the emperor! ”

In the smoke of gunpowder, the shouts of the soldiers sounded, and their courage would never be lost because of this "xiǎoxiǎo" bombardment! For them, the battle was just beginning, and the Imperial soldiers had never lost a battle, and not now!

Compared to most of the soldiers who were torn to pieces by shells on the position, the command post of the 101st Division was undoubtedly lucky, the command post of the 101st Division was located in a diagonally recessed underground on a hill in Baoshan County, which was built according to the specifications of the underground command post, in addition to the basement structure padded a thick log vault, and the outer layer of nearly three meters thick covering was laid to provide perfect protection, although the 203 mm heavy artillery of the 4th Artillery Division poured more than ten rounds of 203 caliber shells on it, But it still couldn't be destroyed.

"......Boom" With the violent shaking of the underground headquarters, the officers in the headquarters closed their eyes involuntarily, only the division commander Lieutenant General Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu stood in front of the map without moving, and his face was blue at this time, he was no longer able to care about all this, maybe the destruction of the headquarters was also a kind of happiness, "At least you don't have to bear the pain now."

"Yaga, how could the shelling of the people of China be so fierce, are they going to launch a general attack?" Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu cursed secretly.

"We have lost contact with the 377th Wing and the 378th Wing, and we are currently only in contact with the 243rd Wing and the 3rd Heavy Artillery Brigade! The 5th Wing of the Heavy Artillery Brigade is desperately counterattacking the artillery fire of the Shina people", but the long-range artillery of Shina is bombarding it fiercely, and Hirano Daisa called and said, "The intensity of the shelling of the Shina people is unprecedented, and now the 5th Wing of the Heavy Artillery has lost all the Type 96 field artillery, and the remaining artillery is no longer possible"

With the cement blocks shaking from the vault, the voice of Chief of Staff Nakamura, who was reporting, trembled, "I glanced at the top floor of the headquarters with some concern, and the once solid top floor had already appeared a little cracked at this time, but the artillery fire of the branch showed signs of becoming more and more fierce.

Seeing that the division commander was still standing in despair, the chief of staff of Nakamura shouted repeatedly. "Sir, sir!" Facing the call of his subordinates, Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu still seemed to be out of the world, which couldn't help but make Chief of Staff Nakamura wonder if his commander was still qualified for the job of division commander.

At this time, Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu was still blaming himself, and for a high-ranking general, this was obviously not the right time for self-examination. If someone says that the opposing Shina army is a sneak attack, "Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu thinks that this is actually an open-board attack", because this Shina army is putting on a posture and has a face-to-face attack with them.

In fact, this morning, the Chinese army had already shown a leaping attitude, and he just carelessly ordered the soldiers to be careful, and he did not think that the newly defeated Chinese army would muster up the courage to launch another attack to the death, and he also took it for granted that they would never take the initiative to attack. Because this does not fit the conservative and cowardly xìng character of the Shina people.

Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu was stunned for about ten minutes before he suddenly came back to his senses and began to perform his duties as the commander of the division, "We can now assume that the 377th Wing and the 378th Wing have suffered heavy losses, they are currently under attack by the Shina people and cannot get out, and the contact with us has been completely cut off. Then we can only mobilize the 243rd Wing and the 5th Heavy Artillery Wing for the time being, and now I, as the commander of the division, will immediately request urgent tactical guidance from Commander Matsui, and the 243rd Wing will all attack and increase."

With the order of Lieutenant General Yoshikatsu Kuroiwa, the soldiers of the 243rd Wing, who had been hit by the shelling and were able to pick up arms in the rain of bullets, quickly reinforced along the forward positions that had been shelled and the defensive lines of the 377th and 378th Wings on the front line.

At this time, although the cannonballs swept over their heads, dragging a deadly whistling sound towards their front or nearby targets, "they still bent down and rushed towards the positions of the two wings in front of them as fast as they could, the belief in the invincibility of the emperor and the god of bushido were the only courage that sustained them, and the faith and glory of fighting for His Majesty the Emperor gave them the determination to die."

"Nani? The Chinese army is storming Baoshan, where the 101st Division is stationed? Matsui Shigen could hardly believe his ears, just yesterday, the Shina army had just left tens of thousands of corpses in front of Baoshan, didn't they know that they were afraid? Or is their army so large that they have to use the Imperial artillery fire to help them consume it?

"Your Excellency Commander, the 101st Division reports that the artillery fire of the people of China this time is extremely fierce, and two wings of the 1010th Division have lost contact with the division headquarters!" The staff officer standing on the side reported to the heart.

"Baga, order the 3rd Division to immediately reinforce the 101st Division, there must be no mistake. Tell Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu: "Baoshan must be defended!" Otherwise, he will kill himself by caesarean section! Matsui Ishone's cold words revealed a murderous aura!! ~！