The platoon commander with a folding handle submachine gun on his chest hunched his waist and moved quickly along the trench with a very small stride, pressing down the soldiers who were not moving in place along the way, or knocking on their helmets or patting them on the shoulders, and telling them one after another: "Hide!" Check the weapon! Don't rush to look out! ”

Most of the recruits, accustomed to hearing the sound of gunfire, lost their timidity, and became curious, eagerly probing their brains from the trenches, and were immediately unceremoniously pressed down by the commander. These actions are not only easy to expose the target, but also easy to hit.

Experienced veterans are simple, they bend over and run to their positions outside without exposing their bodies at all, crouching against the walls of the trenches, skillfully doing the final inspection of their weapons, or loading ammunition, and then calmly waiting for the battle order to be issued according to the gun in hand.

After several months of defensive battles, no matter how bad the rookie is, he can learn basic combat techniques, and the training level and equipment level are obviously not at the same level, and the volunteers of the Northern Dynasties have also received extremely rare training. It's just that, because most of their commanders are some Confucian scholars, they are not willing to roll around in the trenches with rough soldiers all day long, so the tactical level of the entire army has not been qualitatively improved.

But overall, the bravery of the North Stick is still worthy of praise.

In just a few minutes, the empty mountain fortifications were piled up with soldiers. Countless machine gun nests quietly opened the plugged shooting holes from the inside, and the thick barrels of black holes were hidden behind the weeds in front, pointing at the smoky battlefield ahead.

Lin Yongfang pinched the watch from the top of the mountain to calculate the time, and his slightly red and swollen eyes shone with a sharp light. Swept away the clouds of explosion smoke rising below. About a minute after the artillery fire of the retaliatory fire on this side ended. Suddenly, he shouted: "Mortar artillery company, clean up the shooting boundary!" ”

There was a dull sound between the two wings of the mountain, and there seemed to be a huge cowhide drum beating in the hollow, followed by several large flashes of light suddenly exploding from the low altitude of the valley, forming a huge shock wave, and the chaotic and surging dirty air was fiercely repelled!

It was a special mortar gun laid on both flanks of the position, which was developed from the original simple cannon without conscience, and the short body tube with the thickness of a gas tank could usually fire a shocking anti-explosive bomb, but now it was a kind of wrecker bomb that could create a huge shock wave and flash in the air.

The charge was sufficient, and the warhead weighed several tens of kilograms exploded with no power inferior to the battleship's main gun grenade. It's just that the kinetic energy is too much worse, and it doesn't have the ability to penetrate deep destruction, but it can form a fierce force that sweeps across a radius of more than 100 meters on the surface!

If you have deployed mines, deer barricades, shallow bunkers, and machine-gun fortifications, as well as enemies hiding in craters, you will definitely be crushed by the sudden ultra-high decibel sound and super shock wave! Most of the air in the area is evacuated, and under the sweep of the air waves, everything that is not well fixed will be swept away.

Originally, this warhead was developed for naval guns to clear beachhead minefields, but after development, an upgraded version of the unconscionable cannon was added. So in the specific battlefield at the moment, they once again play a strange role.

Hit by the previous shelling of the Japanese army. Mixed with a large number of smoke grenades, the dense explosion created a barrier of smoke and fire completely interfered with the observation in the dark night. The hot air waves spread upwards along the mountain, which was extremely detrimental to the defenders.

However, after a dozen or so wrecker bombs were blasted, the dense smoke at low altitude was instantly swept out of a dozen refreshing spaces with a diameter of more than 100 meters, and the explosion produced no less brilliance than the flares, so that the defenders on the mountain and the shining could clearly see the traces of the enemy below.

The attacking Japanese army had never mentioned such a strange weapon in the previous intelligence, and the soldiers who were struggling with their heads were suddenly swept down by the detonation roar overhead!

Those with too high a blast point also managed to clear their field of vision, revealing their figures.

Lin Yongfang and other commanders and fighters had sharp eyes, and with the help of flashes, they keenly captured the Japanese troops rushing up in a greatly dispersed manner, and paid special attention to the Japanese advance carrying clusters of ugly and heavy mortars. Finding that some of the fiercest charges were about to be forced to the front of the bottom line of defense, he raised his eyebrows and praised: "Not bad! Well prepared, you almost got your way! ”

He ordered with his backhand: "All mortars cover all mortars in each fire battery of the artillery battalion and open fire!" Replace all Lao Tzu with air-blast anti-personnel grenades and clean up the battlefield! ”

In a specific narrow battlefield, the area that naval artillery can support is limited, and direct large-caliber artillery fire cannot help, and the main role is played by the large and small mortars of each infantry regiment, and the recoilless guns and other weapons that fire directly from the front. The large-caliber howitzers of the artillery regiment are deployed in the large rear, and the terminal steep drop trajectory is obtained at a large elevation angle to ensure that the warhead falls into the valley.

On the anti-slope behind the mountain, clusters of artillery lifted their camouflage and concealment, and mortars of various calibers, ranging from 60 to 120, spewed out short waves of air, and threw high-powered grenades filled with steel balls and prefabricated fragments in a rapid manner, rising into the sky and crossing the top of the white mountain, and smashing fiercely into the river valley below.

In an instant, hundreds of fierce explosions were like a popular crash to the ground, densely spreading from the foot of the mountain to the river! The artillery on both wings pushed along the arc of the valley floor to the middle, and the violent explosion was by no means inferior to the Japanese bombardment, and even more violent and dense swept across the battlefield in one minute!

With a piercing scream, the Japanese attacking troops threw themselves into the crater. After months of continuous bombardment, the soft flat ground was bombarded, and the craters from a large number of large-caliber guns were enough to cover their bodies. However, the anti-personnel grenades that exploded in the air brought tens of thousands of steel balls scattered wildly all over the sky, and the projectiles as dense as a torrential rain filled every square meter of space.

Sugimoto Osa saw it from behind, and the light from the two consecutive rounds of explosions pierced his eyes, and he slapped the ground angrily and scolded: "Yaga, damn it, where did they get so many artillery!" Are they all special warheads, are they trying to completely drown our soldiers with explosions? ”

Having never experienced the battle with the Chinese Revolutionary Army, he had no way of knowing that such a terrible shelling could take place on the battlefield. In his mind, the scene of dozens of artillery pieces intensively bombarding a one-kilometer beachhead on his side just now. It's already unprecedented and spectacular. I feel that it's just to remove obstacles. The practice of covering up the attack is too wasteful.

But now I know that when it comes to the means of losers, even with the support of foreign devils, they are still far behind! The gang of Chinese on the other side of the hill who are suddenly rich simply want to replace their guns with artillery fire of various calibers, and one person and one shell will completely blow up the attacking opponent with shells!

If Yang Hao knew his emotion and incomprehension, he would definitely scoff: "A cannonball, a person? You're naïve, aren't you? At least 10 shells killed and wounded one person. That's relatively economical! ”

After many wars in this time and space, it takes at least tens of thousands of bullets to destroy the consumption of an enemy, but more than fifty percent of the casualties come from artillery, and the revolutionary army no longer expects to drown the enemy with dense bullets. Compared with tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, the overall cost of 10 shells is obviously lower.

Of course, there is another reason, the troops under the leadership of the Yang family are all proper artillery, and there is no dense forest-like artillery erected on the battlefield, how can it work!

A regiment of various artillery pieces, recoilless guns, and rocket launchers add up to 126 pieces, not counting the guns and grenades in each row, not to mention the grenades in a bunch of people! Such a terrible level of equipment. It was one of the best on the battlefield in the 20th century, and it was used to deal with the turtles at the end of the 19th century. It's crazy!

Roar, explosion, fire waves, torrents!

The performance of an artillery member belonging to a regiment lasted at least a few minutes to make them feel hot, but the battlefield heated up again because of the explosion of thousands of shells! Not to mention the Japanese troops who were struggling at the bottom of the valley, no one dared to show their heads in the trenches above, and countless fragments and steel balls from the air blasts swept over like hail, making the trenches and bunkers crackle and pop densely, and anyone who stood up could be beaten into a sieve in a second!

In the river, more than a dozen kayaks and rubber boats that were running backwards were missed, and the Japanese soldiers above were swept into the river and stumbled downstream.

On the beachhead, four of the marching mortars were killed, and the remaining eight, at least a third of the soldiers were killed or wounded, but managed to dodge the head-on attack.

The Japanese army was also playing with their lives, they desperately threw themselves on the artillery, using their bodies to block the destruction of fragments, layers of corpses kept the steel weapons below, and the blood stained the ugly body barrel and base, but in exchange for the hope of their general attack!

Just after the flash of the last shell faded away, a sharp whistle sounded in the trench, and thousands of defenders burst out, guns in their hands filling the bunkers above.

The battalion company commander pulled his throat and shouted: "Grenades, three shots in a row, release!" ”

The Northern Korean Volunteers mixed in the revolutionary army, everyone put a bunch of Type 67 wooden-handled grenades with the lid open, one of which was put on the finger, and it was violently torn open in response to the sound, and it was thrown directly forward with the greatest magnitude!

Taking advantage of the slope of the mountain, hundreds of grenades tumbled and tumbled rapidly, and after landing, they rolled along the hillside for a while, and exploded one after another between the minimum distance of 30 meters and the maximum of 80 meters!

Three shots in succession, thousands of short explosions immediately formed on the front of the trenches! There were no rising fireworks, and the explosives filled in the bomb body suddenly shattered the prefabricated fragments, causing a wave of killing and killing that radiated several meters in diameter around it, and then disappeared.

There is no need to care about consumption, the only purpose is to ensure that the front line is cleared, and the devil who took advantage of the explosion has recently approached the trench, but he was smashed head-on by a grenade like this rainstorm! Those who are lucky enough to survive can only lie on their stomachs and dare not move!

However, their sacrifice paid great dividends, and the eight surviving mortars in the rear were quickly erected at the front of the battlefield.

This kind of trial mortar from Maozi is modified from a 47mm mortar gun, and the integrated hard structure cannot be separated, and there is no buffer mechanism, which is heavy and heavy, and has no accuracy at all.

However, this was still the first close-range curved ballistic weapon equipped by the Great Powers, with a range of no more than 500 meters, but capable of hiding behind anti-slope fortifications and firing shells at approaching enemies. For the current Japanese army, it is impossible to transport bulky infantry artillery to the front enemy, and this thing can be called a first-class artifact, so it is no wonder that they desperately want to protect it. It's really an important auxiliary weapon for them to attack forward!

Ahead, after the grenade exploded, the remnants of the Japanese army moved into place in a roundabout way. Wait for the rear mortars to be all ready. A cannonball burst out. The captain personally brandished his war knife and let out a hysterical scream, and hundreds of Japanese soldiers shouted in unison, charging with guns!

The 47mm mortar shells that suddenly rose and fell in the valley made a strange whining sound, which made Lin Yongfang on the top of the mountain stunned, and then exploded on the position, so that he couldn't help blurting out: "The little devil is also afraid of crowding?" It's fun this time! ”

He was not particularly surprised, the renewal of weapons and equipment in the war was the fastest. The commanders of the revolutionary army must have at least this bit of common sense, not the stupid self-righteousness of those people in the Great Qing Dynasty who used the big pole as a weapon of killing. A series of equipment that the revolutionary army took out during the war. As long as it is discovered by someone who cares, even if there is no sample, the corresponding structure can be deduced according to the table, so as to be born in advance.

How much of a role could eight primitive mortars do? The black rumbling could not be aimed, and the rigid structure could not ensure the stability of the trajectory of the second shot, which was purely to form a possible explosion barrier at close range, and it would be a surprise to be able to fall into the trench and kill and injure several people.

It was more to give courage to the charging Japanese troops.

Sure enough, seeing the explosion bloom on the enemy defense line in front, the eyes of the Japanese infantry with the heart of death lit up, and the screams in their throats were exceptionally loud. As if full of hope, he quickly moved his short legs and stepped over the obstacle dexterously. Pounce on the fortifications that are close at hand!

In the trenches, a sharp whistle sounded again! Dozens or hundreds of bunker shooting holes suddenly erupted with short tongues of fire! A water heavy machine gun with a 12.7mm big guy in the form of a short burst, steadily spraying piles of projectiles, tongues of fire blow the grass in front of the grass swaying, but the battlefield in front of the formation of dense and countless sweeping bullet rain, whistling and tearing apart pieces of space, hitting the sandy ground puff green smoke everywhere!

The ready revolutionary soldiers roared with assault rifles in their hands, aimed at the shadows and running figures, and mercilessly swept out the bullets in the magazine. The remnant wolf bèi lay on the ground.

Sugimoto almost crushed the telescope, and the flash of light that suddenly erupted in front of him was like a sky full of stars, still so dense and bright as near the middle of the heavenly river, making people mistakenly think that the hill in front of him was full of lanterns, but it was always emitting life-threatening bullets!

Such a dense blow was a madness and horror that he could not experience from the report! What the enemy looked like when he fell to the ground, now he has an intuitive judgment.

However, this alone was not enough to intimidate the brave Wing Commander, and he waved his hand firmly: "Order the third brigade to swim across and attack immediately!" We must take out the enemy in one fell swoop. In addition, with the help of artillery, you can bomb mountain positions! ”

The battlefield communications equipment provided by the Americans allowed Sugimoto to directly contact the artillery several kilometers away by telephone.

Only this time, it was not so convenient to finish the fight and leave, the first test-fired artillery shell had just lifted into the air, and they were immediately captured by aerial reconnaissance, and the retaliatory artillery fire quickly smashed over, which also included a 140mm heavy mortar with a maximum range of 9600 meters!

These big guys with enough weight seem to be bulky, but in the dense mountains of Japan, they are far easier to move than howitzers of the same caliber, and the rate of fire of eight rounds per minute is far more dense and fierce than that of howitzers.

The reaction speed and firing speed of the mortar determine the effect of the strike, and before the German Krupp cannon that had just fired twice could shine, the grenades that fell from the sky drowned them in clusters of explosions like raging waves!

The foreign devils, who were hiding in the anti-artillery fortifications and staring at them, couldn't help but draw crosses on their chests again and again, and shouted: "Oh, buy it! Hell yes, how can the damn Chinese find our place in the dark?! Isn't there a mountain in front of you? Could it be that they have already found an oblique angle to counterattack? ”

The Germans categorically denied: "That can't be!" The positions where we laid our artillery were carefully calculated, and the enemy simply did not have time to transport the artillery there! It's night, or dense mountains! Damn, how did they do it? ”

The Russians reminded: "Why can't it be a mortar?" It has a ballistic trajectory that curves enough to avoid the ...... of the mountain in front of it. ”

There was a disdainful gaze all around, your uncle's mortar! It is more than five kilometers away from the forward position, and the enemy's artillery position is even more than six kilometers or even farther away, how can there be a mortar in the world with such a long range? Your gadgets can only hit four or five hundred meters, right?

This is too beyond their imagination, the foreign devils were stunned to watch the pieces of precious artillery that could not be drowned in their explosions, and the German commander desperately shouted at the Japanese army to pull the artillery away, and the loss was simply distressing!

The 3rd Brigade sent out by Sugimoto Osa crossed to the opposite side and caught the tail of the 1st Brigade, but the suddenly weakened shelling of Baishan made him suddenly realize that something was wrong! Hurriedly grabbed the phone and asked, the blood vessels of Deng Shi Qi were about to burst, and he scolded for a while, and after thinking about it, he simply sent out the second team.

"Now that we're in the forefront, there's no reason to retreat like that! The bravery of the Imperial soldiers will surely bring us a decisive victory! ”

Fight! (To be continued......) R1292