It was dark, and after a whole day of fierce fighting, the Wehrmacht officers and men hid under the fortifications to rest.

However, while the officers and soldiers below were resting, Cai Ye and others were still preparing for the battle in the headquarters.

It's just..."Is this information true?" ”

After reading the information in his hand twice, Cai Ye looked up at the young officer standing in front of him.

Hearing Cai Ye ask, the young officer said with some excitement.

"Don't worry, this information has just been transmitted from Minister Xu's side, and there will definitely be no problems..."

"So..."

Cai Yi nodded.

The information in Cai Yi's hand was the information discovered by Xu Tianchuan's subordinate air troops when they were conducting reconnaissance on the Yue army.

In recent times, the Air Force has been tasked mainly with reconnaissance missions after several air strikes and a major loss in the strength of the Air Force. Unless it is a relatively important battle, the Air Force will not dispatch Technetium.

After all, the current Defense Air Force is no longer the Defense Air Force before the war, and the strength of the Defense Air Force is now less than 30 percent compared to before the war. Such a little strength must be used sparingly, and it must be used in the most critical place... However, although it could not be put into direct combat, the Wehrmacht Air Force still blessed a considerable number of single-engine Fokker aircraft. These Fokker planes may not be very suitable for bombing missions, but if they are only reconnaissance missions, or reconnaissance planes to drive away the army... Recently, the Fokker group under the Wehrmacht Air Force has carried out a large number of reconnaissance missions to the Japanese army and has gained some ............ Not very important intelligence.

However, in recent times, after increasing mission activities, the reconnaissance unit has really discovered some useful information.

"Look..."

After opening a map of Laiyang's surroundings, the officer pointed to several of the locations and said to Cai.

"Recently, in the course of the Air Force's reconnaissance mission, although the army is very well concealed, the Air Force still found a large number of troops in these positions..."

What the Air Force discovered was the movement of the Army.

And according to the situation detected by the air force, it is obvious that the army is planning something..."Take the initiative to attack..."

Although the information provided by the Air Force is not very detailed, just some transfers, but from this information, Cai Ye still made his own judgment.

It's just..."But what if this is a ruse by Masaki Terauchi?" ”

Although Cai Yi is very willing to believe that this is the real intelligence detected by the Air Force, but the Terauchi Zhengyi on the opposite side is not a wine bag and rice bag, what if this is actually deliberately designed by Terauchi Zhengyi to show himself?

In that case, things would be worse.

But if not... If it weren't for that, and I hadn't prepared for it, I'm afraid things would have gotten even worse..."I have to think of a foolproof solution..."

Cai Ye didn't expect that he had just prepared to launch a general attack, and he was actually ready for a general attack..."Commander, do we want to continue?" ”

It was Jin Yunpeng who spoke, and he asked about the recent war preparations.

Recently, because Cai Ye is also planning the relationship between the general offensive, the troops of Jin Yunpeng and other departments have been preparing for the general offensive.

Now, since I am about to launch a general attack, then... In the event that the enemy is about to launch a general offensive, it is somewhat too non-mainstream to prepare for an offensive instead of preparing for the defense... However, as soon as Jin Yunpeng spoke, Cai Ye hurriedly waved his hand.

"No, the offensive work will continue...", saying this, Cai Yi's eyes lit up. This is a godsend..."

"A godsend?"

Jin Yunpeng and the others were stunned by Cai Yi, but Jin Yunpeng and the others were not stupid, and they quickly figured out what Cai Yi meant.

"What do you mean?"

Seeing Jin Yunpeng, they seemed to understand what they meant, and Cai Yi nodded with satisfaction.

"yes, that's what I meant!"

"So..."

Jin Yunpeng groaned for a moment. "Indeed, if it is to launch a counteroffensive in the course of a general offensive by Yu, it is indeed more convenient than directly attacking Yu's own defense line, but will it be too passive to do so?"

"It's a bit passive, but it's a simple and practical way..."

"So, let's go ahead and prepare for the attack?"

"That's right."

As he spoke, Cai Ye looked at the map again.

"Recently, although the local supply has gradually recovered, the production of ammunition has not been able to rise. Especially in the recent period, the ammunition that has been accumulated for a long time has been consumed, and now it is time to decide the winner as soon as possible..."

Jin Yunpeng and the others all nodded, how much ammunition reserves the army has now, Jin Yunpeng and them, as the commander of the first division, are naturally very clear. They know better that the Wehrmacht can still suppress the Chinese army because they are at least invincible in Asia.

And these light and heavy equipment, if they are separated from ammunition and other materials, are like burning sticks... However, in recent times, the ammunition consumption of the Wehrmacht has increased significantly, and in the blink of an eye, half of the Wehrmacht's ammunition reserves have been used. ”

"Okay, by the way, remember to do a good job of concealment for the troops in charge of the attack, and try to avoid revealing our intentions. And the Air Force..."Saying this, Cai Ye looked at an Air Force officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel beside him. "The security of our army's skies over the next period of time will be handed over to you, and if there are reconnaissance planes of the Japanese army flying in, please be sure to drive these reconnaissance planes away to avoid exposing the true intentions of our army."

Although when the generals of the army were talking just now, this air force officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel had been standing aside with a cool look and kept silent.

However, at this time, when he heard Cai Yi's inquiry, he still hurriedly dissolved his cool image and bowed his head.

"Please rest assured, commander, although the strength of the air force is greatly damaged now, we are still very confident in dealing with me..."

Indeed, although the strength of the Defense Air Force has suffered great losses now, it is still in the first echelon in terms of the application of the Air Force.

In contrast, countries such as Britain and Germany, although they far surpass China in terms of air force strength, especially in the number of aircraft and pilots, they are far inferior to China in terms of application.

This is still the case with an air force power like Britain and Germany, not to mention the weak air strength, and it did not pay attention to the air force before the Battle of Longkou Bay.

If it is only to deal with the aviation units of the Ayaben, the Air Force is very confident.

"Okay."

Seeing that the lieutenant colonel was so confident, Cai Ye also nodded with satisfaction.

"Since you are so confident, then everything is up to you..."

Although he said that, Cai Ye did not expect the air force alone to completely suppress his own aviation force―――――― if it was before the war, it was still possible, but now it is after the war, then this possibility is too small.

So after the lieutenant colonel retired, Cai Ye discussed the specific deployment with Jin Yunpeng and others.

Not to mention anything else, at least in terms of the concealment of the attacking troops, Jin Yunpeng and they must solve it.

In this way, even if there are really sporadic military planes that break through the encirclement of the air force and break into the range of the Wehrmacht. With camouflage, the chance of being detected can also be greatly reduced.

In the final analysis, the Wehrmacht is also the most important force in this era.

If you pay attention to the Air Force, you will naturally also pay attention to air defense.

Therefore, in addition to those anti-aircraft machine guns or anti-aircraft guns, some elite units of the Wehrmacht have also studied a lot in camouflage.

I don't dare to say anything else, at least I was scouted by the army a few times, with the protection of camouflage, the possible surnames exposed by the Wehrmacht are absolutely rare―――――― when the Wehrmacht was training back then, but it really let the Air Force planes fly over from the sky, and then see how the army's camouflage is.

If the disguise is discovered at the time.

Aren't you going to have three meals today? You don't eat one of them, just two.

With this training, the Wehrmacht is definitely ahead of the world in anti-aircraft camouflage.

Especially during a training exercise, the Wehrmacht even disguised a few logs into several 240mm howitzers―――――― but it didn't take long for them to be pierced by a flying reconnaissance plane, because these howitzers were temporarily camouflaged, and the length of the barrels was not the same...―――――――――― it was not until the early morning of the second day that Cai Ye and others finalized all the details.

It was at this time that the Yue army launched a fierce attack on the national defense force in Laiyang again, but at this time, the Yue army launched a fierce attack only the troops that had been dispatched in the previous day, and the few Yue army troops that had been transferred to other positions did not show up.

"Sure enough, you're ready to launch a general attack..."

Although he thinks so, Cai Ye also has his own doubts in his heart, that is... What if all this in front of him was shown to him by Masaki in the temple?

But no matter what, even if Terauchi Zhengyi really just showed it to himself, Cai Ye had to make all the preparations. After all, this campaign was definitely not a small one..."Boom!! ”

At 6 o'clock in the morning, the artillery group, including 240mm howitzers, began to release ammunition to the Wehrmacht positions.

After about half an hour, when the pre-prepared ammunition was almost exhausted, under the cover of the artillery group, at least one brigade of infantry launched a fierce attack on the Wehrmacht.

Although the momentum of the Yue army was huge, but looking at the Yue army rushing up like an ant colony, the Wehrmacht on the defensive line just calmly crawled out of the fortifications, and then stretched their guns out of the trench..."Smack! ”

"Dada!!da

Mauser, Madsen, Max... When the army was inferior to a distance of 1,000 meters, the first to fire were the Maxim and Madsen machine guns set up at several firing points.

Under the fire of two machine guns, the rushing soldiers fell one by one like wheat.

Many soldiers were shot by a 12.7mm caliber Makqin machine gun on the way to the charge, and as a result, the whole person was actually shot in two, and some were even swept off by the waist... However, even though the companions around him fell one by one, the army behind them still charged the position of the Wehrmacht without fear of death. And the Wehrmacht officers and soldiers on the position did not think that this would scare off these crazy soldiers, so the machine gunners in the firing point, as long as their fingers were pressed on the trigger, never let go!!..."Dada ”

The deadly fiery snake is reaping the lives of one by one, but in the blink of an eye, a brigade of infantry has already suffered at least 500 casualties... But even so, the rest of the army still charged towards the Wehrmacht's defensive line.

Until they rushed to a distance of 300 meters... 300 meters, this is perhaps the ultimate range of most rifles in this era.

It's not that the range of these rifles is only 300 meters, and it's not that after 300 meters, the bullets of these rifles can't kill people.

It's just that after a distance of 300 meters, it is not easy for even a real sharpshooter to hit a moving enemy target. So 300 meters is almost the limit of the range of rifles of this era―――――― except for sniper rifles.

Because of this, when the Japanese army rushed into a distance of 300 meters, it meant that they had entered the effective range of the Mauser G98 rifles of the officers and soldiers of the National Society... Of course, in terms of lethality alone, although the Mauser G98 rifle is definitely not bad, it is by no means an opponent of Maxim and Madsen. But at the moment there are no known number of Wehrmacht soldiers on the defensive line, and they are all Mauser in their hands... Therefore, when the Yue army rushed into the range of 300 meters, it was almost just a matter of taking a look at the face, and it was placed in at least one row of the Yue army.

After entering the firing range of 300 meters, the officers and men also knew that they could not continue to rush down, so they also dispersed the originally very dense formation one by one, and then relied on the slow terrain to move closer to the position―――――― a range of 300 meters, although the effective range of machine guns such as Makqin and Madsen was almost more than one kilometer, but at that time the machine gunners in the firing point were simply using the high rate of fire of the machine guns to "sweep" the target.

Because at this distance, especially at a distance of 1 kilometer, it is difficult for even a person with good eyes to see the target clearly.

At this time, even if you are a master of using machine guns all year round, you can only use the way of sweeping... As for whether it is blind or not, it is difficult to say.

Of course, in this case, the target is only 1 person, and if the target is a group of people, even at a distance of 1 kilometer, the Heavy can easily be blinded.

After entering a distance of 300 meters, the officers and men slowly approached the terrain.

It's just that the Wehrmacht didn't give it for nothing..."Let's go!" ”

After taking a closer look, and finding that there was no firepower to notice his place, a captain of the army said to his subordinates behind him.

With that, he jumped out of the obstacle and prepared to run to the next one.

As long as he can jump into that obstacle, he will not only be able to dodge Wehrmacht machine-gun bullets, but most importantly, he will be able to enter within 200 meters of the Wehrmacht position..."If I can be the first to jump into the position of the Shina people, I will not only bring glory to His Majesty the Emperor, but my family will also be proud of me, and I will also be promoted..."

Looking at the obstacles that were getting closer and closer, the squadron leader thought so.

It's just that before he could finish thinking about his dream, he only heard a "pop", and a hole the thickness of a little finger had appeared on the forehead of the squadron leader, and in the hole, a strange liquid mixed with red and white kept gushing out.

"Captain, Captain!!"

"Captain !!"

Looking at the squadron leader who suddenly fell to the ground and was shot in the forehead, the officers and soldiers who originally wanted to rush over with him shrank back, and kept shouting this squadron leader.

Unfortunately, the squadron leader had already reported to their Amaterasu, so it was obvious that the squadron leader was unable to answer his men's questions.

Looking at the squadron leader's body lying on the ground, several soldiers felt that their bodies were a little chilly.

They still know their squadron leader, they know that their squadron leader is a veteran who has served for many years, and even participated in the Russo-Japanese War―――――― of course, at that time, the squadron leader was just an ordinary soldier.

When the squadron leader jumped out just now, it can be said that the timing was quite good.

At least at that time, not a single heavy machine gun was stationed nearby.

Moreover, the squadron leader's leap forward was also very fast, and even if the machine gunners on the Wehrmacht positions spotted him, it would be difficult to adjust the muzzle of the gun.

On top of that, now the squadron leader is also more than two hundred meters away from the nearest position.

Although 300 meters is the ultimate range of rifles in this era, at a distance of more than 200 meters, if you want to hit a person in the forehead with one shot... You know, what just shot the squadron leader in the head was a rifle bullet, an 8mm Mauser rifle bullet, because after the bullet entered the squadron leader's head, only a hole the thickness of a small finger appeared in the forehead, and a hole the size of a bowl appeared in the back of the head... If it is a 12.7mm machine gun bullet, it only takes one bullet to completely explode the squadron leader's head. So there are only two possibilities, one is that this person is a real sharpshooter, and the other is that this person is blind..."Meng? ”

"By chance?"

"Just a stray bullet?"

The rest of the officers and men are more inclined to the term stray bullets, after all, at a distance of more than 200 meters, it is too difficult to shoot a moving target in the head with a rifle.

And if it's a stray bullet ... The most indispensable thing on the battlefield is stray bullets, in fact, in every war, there will be many examples of injuries and deaths due to stray bullets.

The example of the squadron leader is not too unusual, as for being shot in the head by a stray bullet or something―――――― at most it is too unlucky..."It must be just a stray bullet, how could the people of China have such a sharpshooter." ”

"That's right."

It's just that when a squad leader walked out first, the same bullet hit him in the forehead as well... Moreover, because he was too slow, this bullet still hit the left of the center of the eyebrow, which was much more accurate than the bullet that killed the squadron leader just now.

"Bastard..."

Looking at this fatal bullet, although he was now on the battlefield with the sound of artillery, the Yue Jun in the squadron still felt a little chilled.

"Could it be that there really are such sharpshooters in the army?"

Thinking so, because of such a previous experience, the rest of the squadron did not dare to move.

And on the battlefield, the same squadron as this squadron, I don't know how many..."Sharpshooter? ”

Of course there are Wehrmacht, in fact, no matter what kind of army there is such a thing as sharpshooters, I'm afraid there will be so many―――――― of course, the quality or something is difficult to say.

However, this time it was a few ordinary snipers who shot a squadron leader and a squad leader on the battlefield ... Sniper, this class has always been used by Yan Guang as an ace.

After all, if you want to become a sniper, you must first become a sharpshooter.

Sharpshooters, even in the extravagant Wehrmacht, are rare.

Therefore, snipers generally have some special tasks on their shoulders.

For example, sniping an enemy officer with a sniper rifle on the battlefield, paralyzing the enemy's command system, etc... At the beginning, Cai Ye did not let the sniper unit go to the battlefield, because it was not needed at that time.

But now... Since the temple has already wanted to launch a general attack, there is no need for Cai Yi to hide his secrets.

Because in this counterattack battle, Cai Ye needs the Yue army to lose as many officers as possible..."As long as the Yue army loses too many officers in the process of attacking, then it will be difficult for the Yue army to effectively organize and defend in the next defensive battle......... In this way, the likelihood that we will regain lost ground is even higher. ”

It is for this reason that sniper units, who have always been more secretive than hidden, will be sent into battle.

At this time, the snipers who had finally entered the battlefield were also aiming at the Japanese army on the field with their sniper rifles. And carefully distinguish the officers and soldiers among the army, and then use the lethal 8mm bullet to send these officers to the west... Of course, not every bullet is fired at the officer, after all, there are more monks and less meat.

There were at least 5 or 600 snipers in the position, but the attacking army had only one brigade... There are only so many officers, if you can only eliminate them, I'm afraid that many snipers will not be able to open today. Therefore, there are also many snipers who are not afraid of wasting bullets and give bullets to the soldiers on the field for free.

Despite this, under the condolences of the snipers, there are still many officers of the army who have lost their surnames.

Because of this, although the army still survived a lot of officers and soldiers when it advanced to a position less than 200 meters away from the position, it became more and more difficult for Terauchi Masatsuki, who was in the rear, to command this attacking brigade... Because at this time, the command system of this brigade that was attacking, had already been destroyed by the snipers by a small half ...

(To be continued)