With the departure of the last group of planes, the battlefield fell into a brief silence. Soldiers who have been in war for a long time know that this tranquility heralds the arrival of a big war, and the soldiers sit in the trenches to wipe the guns in their hands, counting the bullets in the bullet bags one by one, to ensure that in the process of fighting, the guns will not jam and there will be no problems.

In the same way, the army was also making the same preparations for battle, and as a result of the noon attack, the logistics team was completely annihilated. At present, there are only three incomplete brigades left in the 117th Wing of the Japanese Army, with a total strength of 2,000 troops. With the help of the afternoon planes, the forces of these two thousand people finally converged. And in the space of a few hours, a strong fortification was built within a radius of several kilometers.

Liu Hua came to the front-line position and quietly looked at the staggered fortifications on the opposite side. Although the casualties of the army were very heavy after several hours of fighting, they were still full of spirits, some soldiers were reinforcing the trenches, some devils were fiddling with the weapons in their hands, and no one felt a trace of panic because they were surrounded.

"Damn, it's all the devil's plane, otherwise the devil won't have so much time to build a complete fortification, chief of staff, you see, the devil's defense is very deep, and the light and heavy firepower is very perfect, it is still quite difficult for us to annihilate this group of devils tonight." Liu Hua pointed to a devil machine gun position in front of him and said.

"Commander, no matter how strong and tightly defended the position, we will gnaw him down tonight. Otherwise, there will be planes coming to help tomorrow. Also, the casualties of the several troops that sent reinforcements were very huge! They're all using people's names to buy us time! After listening to Liu Hua's words, Chief of Staff Li Qing also sighed.

"Yes, no matter how hard the bone is, we're going to gnaw it off tonight, I'm just worried about the casualties of the soldiers. The bombardment of the devils in the afternoon caused a lot of casualties to the soldiers, and many companies were disabled. As he spoke, Liu Hua took off his military hat.

"Order, artillery battalion, take out all the mountain artillery, fire a few salvos at the devils first, find out their artillery positions, and destroy them." Commander Liu Hua sorted out his emotions, raised his head and ordered to the combat staff officer behind him.

The artillery battalion that received the order immediately transported the remaining thunderbolts of the hidden mountain artillery, mortars, and devil bombardment, found the position that had already been selected, and began to build the artillery position, while the remaining artillery continued to transport shells back and forth to the position.

In less than 10 minutes, the brigade's dozens of mountain guns and mortars were all ready, and even the artillery shells were prepared with 15 rounds per gun. Chen Guangrong, the commander of the artillery battalion, looked at the neat cannons in front of him, the golden shells, and his heart was already boiling.

"Get ready," Chen Guangrong shouted loudly. As the shouts sounded, the shells were pushed into the chambers by the soldiers, and the soldiers tightly held the fire god in their hands. The mortar gunner, on the other hand, picks up a mortar shell that has been removed and puts it in the muzzle, ready to let go at any moment.

"Open fire." The battalion commander shouted loudly, and at the same time, the small red flag in Chen Guangrong's hand also waved down violently. Dozens of mountain guns opened fire first, and the deafening sound reached everyone's ears, and at the same time, the smoke of gunpowder from the artillery blasts also shrouded the entire position.

The second is that the three mortar batteries opened fire, and the obvious difference from the mountain artillery is that the sound of the mortar guns ejecting the chamber is very dull. Dozens of shells were thrown high and flew in a parabolic line towards the positions of the devils opposite. The last thing to appear was the remaining five thunderbolts, with a huge roar, the muzzles of the five thunderbolts burst out with dazzling flames, and the round explosive packs were pushed into the sky by the powerful recoil, tumbling and falling towards the position of the opposing army.

In an instant, the position of the army was like daylight, and nearly 100 shells continued to explode. The fire, the smoke and dust that rolled up, and the smoke of gunpowder immediately enveloped the position of the Japanese army. Just when the soldiers finished the third round of shells, there was finally movement on the devil's position.

With a flash of dazzling fire, a violent explosion of shells sounded in the rear of the artillery position. "Damn, the little devil finally moved, the artillery staff officer, immediately calculate the location coordinates of the devil's artillery, quickly." The battalion commander ordered eagerly to several staff officers behind him.

After receiving the order, several staff officers immediately picked up the measuring tools and began to measure, and while they were in the process, the devil's corrected shells came over. With the sound of explosions, there was obviously a trace of chaos in the artillery position, but under the suppression of commanders at all levels, nothing out of the ordinary was done.

Because it was in the dark of night, coupled with the fact that the artillery position was on the top of the hill and the melancholy angle of fire, the mortars carried by the devils could not play any role at all, and only one squadron of mountain artillery was desperately firing back according to the trajectory, and one mountain artillery squadron had six mountain guns, which was insignificant for an artillery battalion with dozens of mountain guns.

Therefore, in the first round of shelling, only one shell hit the target, and a mortar was blown into the sky along with two fighters on the gun position, and the second round of shelling of the devils came again, this time the artillery battalion was unlucky, and a full 3 mortars were hit.

"Battalion commander, battalion commander, it has been calculated." A staff officer said excitedly in front of Chen Guangrong with a data cannonball.

"Okay, immediately send the data to the mountain artillery battalion, and let the three mountain artillery companies immediately adjust the firing angle, there is no need to conduct a test firing, direct shelling, mortar company, thunder continue to change the angle of attack, and carry out intensive artillery bombardment on the devil's position. Destroy their defensive positions as much as possible.

The mountain artillery battalion, which had obtained the data on the artillery position of the Yue army, immediately changed the target of the shelling, and as the mountain artillery muzzle continued to turn, it indicated that the end of the Devil's Mountain Artillery Squadron was getting closer and closer. "The first company is ready, the second company is ready, the third company is ready, and the shooting is requested," the three company commanders reported in turn on the situation of their companies.

"Attention to all companies, reload, open fire" The three rows of mountain artillery roared in turn, and dozens of shells flew towards the artillery position of the devil with a whistling sound. "Each artillery position, three bursts, free fire, open fire," the battalion commander Chen Guangrong then ordered, and at the same time, he also picked up the binoculars, wanting to see the effect of the artillery on the devil's position.

Due to the concentration of the three brigades of the devils, the heavy firepower was well replenished, and before the shelling, the army concentrated a total of one mountain artillery squadron and three mortar squadrons to bombard the group, preparing to have an artillery battle with the people of China on the opposite side and destroy the artillery positions of the people of China in one fell swoop. However, I didn't expect it to backfire.

The people of China actually set up all their artillery on the mountain, and because of the angle of elevation, the mortars of the people of China could hit the positions of their own people, but their dozens of mortars could not hit the positions of the people of China on the mountains. Therefore, when the Chinese carried out intensive artillery bombardment, only one of their own mountain artillery squadrons was able to carry out effective fire suppression.

However, with the opening of the mountain artillery squadron, the location of their own artillery positions was also revealed. "Boom, boom, boom", dozens of mountain artillery shells that had not been fired were fired at their own artillery positions with a whistling sound.

"Not good, the people of China have already discovered our artillery positions and immediately move away" the commander of the artillery group shouted loudly when he heard the whistling. However, it had no effect, because the Eighth Route Army did not first carry out a comparison according to the conventional artillery battle, but directly gathered all the mountain artillery to cover the attack.

Dozens of shells fell on the position in an instant, bursting into brilliant fireworks, and the entire artillery position was blown up by dozens of shells as if it were daylight. The explosion of the first round of artillery shells caused the army to lose almost half of its heavy weapons. The remaining surviving Japanese troops, under the command of their own commanders, carried artillery shells and mortars in an attempt to retreat.

However, on the artillery positions of the Japanese army, which were like daylight, these actions were reported to the mountain artillery battalion by the lookout post at all. "The first company turned left 50 meters to open fire, and the second company turned right 100 meters to open fire" The mountain artillery battalion of the Eighth Route Army constantly changed its design goals with the devil's coordinates provided by the artillery observation post. In the dark night, as if he had eyes, staring at the retreating devil artillery. It wasn't until the artillery dispersed and moved that it slowly stopped.

"Damn, it's really happy, it's been a long time since I've fired at the little devil," looking at the sky above the reddened devil's position that had been reflected in the firelight, the battalion commander Chen Guangrong said excitedly.

And at this time, the devil's artillery brigade had a gloomy face. Due to the advantage of the terrain of the Chinese people, and the fact that the number of their mountain artillery was far greater than their own, they lost almost half of their strength in the artillery battle just now. There is only one mountain artillery left in the mountain artillery squadron that can be used, and there are still dozens of mortars left, but they have no effect on the Chinese artillery, which has the advantage of terrain.

At this time, the army has been sadly discovered. The soldiers of China, who had always been pressed by their own cannons, could not raise their heads; And tonight, it is true that the artillery fire of the people of Zhi Na can't hold his head up, and the artillery of his own wing has no chance to fight back, could it be that the world has changed. Some of the soldiers began to lie on their stomachs, praying for Amaterasu's protection from damn shells against their own people.

However, these prays did not have any effect, and the shelling of the [***] team continued. The explosion of shells was deafening. The most terrifying thing is a few thunderbolts caught in the shells, with the explosion of explosive packets one by one, almost no one around can survive, the devils who are closer are directly shattered by the impact of the explosion, and the farther ones are also shocked and bled out. Similarly, the surrounding trenches were filled with powerful air waves.

However, due to the air raids, there were not many shells left behind by the Thunderbolts, and some of them were left to be used during the charge, so several Thunderbolts stopped after firing five shells each. Otherwise, it will cause greater casualties to the army.

Ten minutes passed, the shelling began to end slowly, and the various units involved in the attack were ready for battle.

(To be continued)