The observer squad leader dialed the number of the artillery position, and the sound of "bell bell" immediately came from the microphone, and the observer squad leader was overjoyed, secretly thinking that if the telephone was connected, and the enemy's position would be transmitted, our army would be able to form a counterattack, and then the guilt of my observation mistake would be lighter.

The observer squad leader prayed in his heart while thinking, God forbid, the artillery commander should quickly answer the phone, but more than a minute passed, and no one answered the phone.

The observer squad leader called François again and said nervously: "Report to the head of the regiment, no one at the launch command answered the phone. ”

François was taken aback when he heard this, he put down the microphone and turned his head and asked, "Has the launch command been hit by a shell?" ”

A staff officer said: "Report to the regimental commander, the launch command has not yet been hit by shells. ”

François exclaimed, "Then why don't they answer the phone?" ”

The staff officer was speechless, François grabbed the crutches and said angrily: "Go, follow me to see." ”

The staff officer hurriedly walked up to François, hugged him, and said: "Commander, listen to the explosions outside, one after another, like firecrackers set off by Chinese pigs for the New Year, it is too dangerous for you to go out." ”

François pushed away the staff officer and said angrily: "We are mercenaries, we must be professional, and we must do our best to collect the employer's money, how can we be afraid of danger?" Stop talking nonsense and follow me. ”

François came out of the headquarters after speaking, several staff officers followed, and the shells were still falling on the position one after another, but the rate of fire of the shells slowed down slightly compared to the beginning, after all, the barrel could not withstand a long period of high rate of fire.

The wind from the explosion caused a pain on François's face, and the sound made François's ears "buzz", and his eyes were full of bloody corpses and blown up parts.

François rushed into the headquarters, looking at the scene in front of him, and was so angry that he almost fainted, only to see that the headquarters was empty, and the commander did not know where to run.

François tapped his cane desperately, making a "thump" sound, and he roared: "What about people... What about people... Where did they go? ”

It turned out that most of the artillery officers were French mercenaries, and the artillery literacy of these people was very high, so when they hit the group of Katipunan, they hit the target with one shot, although the luck component accounted for a large part, but if the literacy was not high, luck could not help them.

Although these people have a high level of artillery literacy, their will to fight is not good, because they are fighting with money, and everyone does not want to have their lives to make money, so when the dense bullet rain of Lin Fei's artillery fell, everyone ran away, and the twenty 100 mm large-caliber field guns were completely in a state of no command.

A staff officer hurriedly said to the side: "Regiment commander, they must have all fled, we have no hope of counterattacking, let's retreat as much as possible..."

François gritted his teeth and said angrily: "The Chinese pigs blew up my leg with artillery, and now they have destroyed my artillery position, I am an artillery officer, and I was defeated by the Chinese pigs with artillery, this is a great shame, I want to fight back, fight back..."

The staff officer said helplessly: "But we really don't have the means to fight back." ”

François said angrily: "Nonsense... Why not? ”

The staff officer pointed to the artillery position that had been blown into a pot of porridge and said: "Regiment commander, look at this scene, the field artillery has been damaged, the artillerymen are fleeing with death, where is there a means of counterattack?" ”

François said in a deep voice: "Aren't there still mountain artillery on the infantry positions?" Request support from the commander of the infantry position and counterattack with mountain artillery. ”

The Spanish position was equipped with two types of artillery, one was the field artillery that was being ravaged by Lin Fei's artillery, and the other was the light mountain artillery, although the mountain artillery was not as powerful as the field artillery, but it was light in weight and easy to maneuver, so it was assigned to the infantry position to provide support firepower for the infantry position.

The staff officer frowned and said: "Regiment commander, I'm afraid this method is not very good, because it takes too long, their mountain artillery is in the bunker, if you want to fire the artillery, you have to come out of the bunker first, and you have to switch to the combat state, which will take a lot of time, they don't have observers on the high ground, the shells can only hit the target within visual range, and our observers need to send the target position over, which will take a lot of time......"

François roared: "And your rambling nonsense, it will take a lot of time..."

Seeing that François was angry, the staff officer had to keep his mouth shut and say: "I'll go and deliver the order." ”

François said in a hurry: "You go first, I am too slow to keep up with you." ”

The staff officer said "um" and ran out, followed by François. The staff officer was running, and François, on crutches, walked very slowly, so the distance was quickly widened, and at this moment, a shell fell impartially beside the staff officer, and only a loud "boom" was heard, and a ball of fire rose on the ground beside the staff officer, and the smoke instantly enveloped the staff officer.

François only felt a warm thing shoot on his face, raised his hand and wiped it, and when he put it in front of him, it was full of blood, and François quickly understood that it belonged to the staff officer.

Soon the smoke cleared, and François looked at the place where the staff officer had been bombed, only to see a puddle of flesh and blood on the ground, and not even the staff officer's human form.

The tragic death of this staff officer frightened the other staff officers behind François, who fled behind them in horror, leaving François alone in the clearing.

François could only go back to the artillery headquarters to send a request for support, and when he returned to the headquarters, Lin Fei's artillery stopped shelling, and the explosions on the position no longer sounded, leaving only a wail and scream, which made people suddenly think that they had come to hell.

François frowned and said: "Order everyone, hide well in bunkers, and don't go out to rescue the wounded." ”

The heralds immediately ran out to convey the order, and no one asked why, because they all knew that the enemy had just fired a shell that had kicked up a large amount of smoke and dust, which hung over the position and obscured the view of the enemy observers, and the enemy needed to stop firing for a while to let the wind blow away the smoke and dust and let the observers see the target again.

At the same time as the herald conveyed the order, François sent a request for support to the infantry commander, and at the same time ordered the artillery observer to send the position of Lin Fei's artillery position to the infantry position, and the artillery on the infantry position immediately began to prepare, and Lin Fei's artillery was completely unaware of it.

Today's wind is very small, so after more than ten minutes the smoke and dust have not been blown away, Xu Deping couldn't help but be a little anxious, when he was in a hurry, the phone on the observation position rang, Xu Deping picked up the phone, only to hear Zhao Menggang shouting inside: "Old Xu, do you see the target again?" ”

Xu Deping said helplessly: "No, the wind is not strong today, and the smoke and dust have not been blown away." ”

Zhao Menggang put down the phone stupidly, raised his head to look at the smoke and dust in the sky in the distance, and muttered to himself: "Damn the wind, can't you be a little bigger?" ”

More than 20 minutes passed, the smoke and dust on the Spanish position slowly dissipated, Zhao Menggang felt that he could continue to open artillery, so he ordered the resting troops to continue to prepare, but at this moment, suddenly there was a "boom" shell sound in the sky, Zhao Menggang was shocked, secretly thinking that this was the enemy's shell, how did their shells come over?

A loud "boom" sound came a few hundred meters behind Zhao Menggang, and Zhao Menggang grabbed the phone and asked, "Lao Xu, where did the enemy's shells come from?" ”

Xu Deping's tone was also full of surprise: "The shells definitely didn't come out of the field artillery positions, I have already seen the current appearance of the field artillery positions, and they are absolutely not capable of counterattacking." ”

Zhao Menggang immediately said: "Lao Xu, you hurry up and find out the enemy's artillery..."

Xu Deping promised to let his subordinates look for him, the smoke from the Spanish artillery was very heavy, so Xu Deping's subordinates saw it at a glance, and an observer said to Xu Deping: "The enemy's artillery is located on the infantry position, and the direction and distance are being calculated. ”

Xu Deping immediately told Zhao Menggang the news, Zhao Menggang calculated in his heart, the enemy began to counterattack, and our army also bombed the enemy almost to the ground, just Xu Deping said that the enemy's field artillery unit has no ability to counterattack, then the purpose of this operation has been achieved, and now it should be time to retreat.

As soon as Zhao Meng thought of this, he immediately gave the order to retreat, and the artillerymen immediately acted, put away the cannons at the tail of the artillery, drove the pack horses out of the woods, put them on the gun wagons, and towed the artillery to transfer...... This process is called the "battle march conversion process" in artillery, and the speed of this process determines the survivability of the artillery, and the faster the process, the stronger the survivability of the artillery.

The speed of this process depends on two factors, one is the performance of the artillery itself, and the other is the operational literacy of the artillery, Lin Fei paid great attention to the conversion performance when designing the HP-2 75mm howitzer, so the artillery is particularly suitable for rapid conversion, Lin Fei's artillery training is strict and hard, so the operational literacy is also very high.

The whole process took only fifteen minutes, and Zhao Menggang's artillery regiment began to retreat, and the second round of test firing of the Spaniards had not yet begun, and there was no telephone connection between their field artillery position observation posts and the artillery firing units of the infantry positions, and they could only rely on manpower to convey location information, so the Spanish test firing took a long time.

At 11 o'clock in the morning of 14 June, the artillery regiment of Lin Fei's division and the 1st Regiment of the 1st Infantry Brigade responsible for the defense task all retreated, and the "614" artillery battle was over.

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