Chapter 286: Shooting

Zhang Xiaohua and Xue Defeng were the last to resist the siege of a team of more than 30 devils, but because they heard the sound of martyrdom on the Japanese artillery position, they smiled and pulled the glorious bullet in their arms.

The cadets who can carry walkie-talkies and act as artillery scouts are all the elite of the scouts of the Second Army. Not only are they excellent in their work and excellent in their fighting style, but the most important thing is that they are absolutely loyal to the cadet army and are ready to dedicate themselves to the cause of resistance against Japan.

The artillery battle began.

In just five minutes, a total of 48 75-mm field artillery guns of the four brigades of the wing were completely destroyed, and in the past five minutes, 2,000 of the 3,000 men of the wing, together with the escort infantry brigade, were killed in the fire.

When the 120th Field Artillery Wing was bombarded by the 4th Independent Heavy Artillery Regiment, the 22nd Heavy Artillery Wing of the Japanese Army and the Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade directly under the 5th Army just drove into the area of Huangnitou in Yushan County, about 2,000 kilometers away from the river beach. Major General Yuichiro Tian was very decisive and immediately ordered the 22nd Heavy Artillery Wing to counterattack.

Because the Japanese were towed artillery, the preparation time was a bit long, and after ten minutes, that is, when the 4th Independent Heavy Artillery Regiment was ready to stop the shelling. The 22nd Heavy Artillery Wing under the command of Wing Commander Osuka Ying Osa test-fired three shells.

These three shells seemed to add a fire to the bottom of the boiling pot, and the scale of the artillery battle was escalated. Cai Dayong was about to order all the artillery trucks of the whole regiment to withdraw their support legs, and seeing that the devil artillery began to retaliate, he changed the order and put the whole regiment on alert, and then called the brigade commander Shi Zhengguo and reported to him that the Japanese army had indeed hidden an artillery.

In Ye Zhao's plan, Cai Dayong's group is both a pioneer and a bait. In fact, Shi Zhengguo was reluctant to take a regiment of heavy artillery troops out as bait, and he did not want Cai Dayong's regiment to take on this task, but for the sake of the overall situation, he could only grit his teeth and admit it. After the combat mission was issued, he said to Cai Dayong guiltily: "Lao Cai, I'm sorry, I've wronged you!" ”

Cai Dayong could see it, and in turn persuaded him to say: "Luza, the bait does not have to be sacrificed, don't worry, if the little devil wants to eat our four regiments, it will require a great price, and it will definitely not be able to eat and walk around!" Cai Dayong has a lot of experience in artillery battles, and he scattered the artillery trucks under his command very widely. As a result, because the firing speed of self-propelled guns far exceeded that of old-fashioned artillery, this made Japanese commanders such as Yuichiro Tian and Osukao miscalculate, thinking that it was a brigade of artillery that shelled Otsuka on the side of the Xuebing Army.

It took Osuka ten minutes to complete preparations for the bombardment, and thirteen minutes to find the position of the artillery position of the 4th Independent Heavy Artillery Regiment. At this time, Cai Dayong made a preemptive attack, successively tested more than ten shells, and had already found the location of the artillery array of the Osuka Ying Department.

The two sides fired at 12 kilometers apart, and the Japanese side had a total of 48 heavy guns, of which 36 were 120 mm and 12 were 150 mm. Eighteen heavy guns on the side of the Cadet Army, all of them with a caliber of 150 mm. In terms of numbers alone, the Fourth Independent Heavy Artillery Regiment seemed to have the upper hand, but after ten minutes of the artillery battle, Cai Dayong became more and more courageous, but Osu He Ying became more and more frightened and even frightened.

Cai Dayong still has ten artillery pieces on his side to continue fighting, and there are less than twenty guns left on Osukaying's side. This was still secondary, and what frightened the latter was that he had already fired no less than twenty shells at one place with a few guns concentrated in the right direction, but there was a steady stream of shells in that place, which made him wonder: Could it be that he was firing at the enemy's fortress battery?

The reason for this situation is that, on the one hand, the artillery of the Cadet Army is thick-skinned and experienced, and on the other hand, it is related to the position chosen by Cai Dayong. Cai Dayong chose this mountainous area near Qinfeng Township, where several local villagers dug up stone ponds for storing water and watering vegetables. These stone ponds are just enough to drive a self-propelled howitzer, and after the self-propelled guns are driven in, unless the Japanese artillery hits directly from the top down, the shells fired will be blocked by the stone wall of the stone pond, and the self-propelled guns covered by the stone pond will be transformed into fortress guns.

The 4th Independent Heavy Artillery Regiment and the 22nd Heavy Artillery Regiment fired at each other for 10 minutes without a win, and the more Osuka Ying fought, the more frightened he became, and hurriedly asked for help from the brigade commander of the Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade, Yuichiro Ta. Tian Yongichiro naturally had the responsibility to let the independent heavy artillery Fifth Wing under his command help in the battle. On the side of the Cadet Army, the governing country felt that there was a advantage to take advantage of, and let the Fifth Regiment of Independent Heavy Artillery participate in the battle. The 5th and 6th Independent Heavy Artillery Regiments had already prepared for the shelling, and the order from the Governing State's side was conveyed, and the commander of the 5th Regiment, Sapphire, gave an order, and the 18 heavy guns of the 5th Regiment opened fire at the same time, and half of the remaining dozen guns of Osuka Ying were blown up in three consecutive rounds.

The position of the Fifth Regiment was about three thousand meters away from the Fourth Regiment, and as soon as they opened fire, they startled Osuka Ying and Yuichiro Tian - obediently, the Cadet Army still has an artillery unit hidden! Tian Yuichiro hurriedly ordered the 5th Independent Heavy Artillery Wing to suspend the attack, but he was one step too late. Seeing that the 5th Wing had exposed its target, he immediately asked them to switch the target to the newly exposed enemy artillery.

Once the self-propelled guns of the Cadet Army were fired, the shells were numerous and dense, and Yuichiro Tian was worried that the 5th Wing would be defeated, so he asked the 6th Independent Heavy Artillery Wing to join the battle.

The Japanese army suddenly had an extra heavy artillery wing, Shi Zhengguo was taken aback, and he was hesitating whether to use the most powerful force in his hand to measure the sixth regiment, and a staff officer under Cai Dayong reported to him painfully: "Brigade seat, Commander Cai is glorious!" He was furious, and immediately gave an order to Zhang Qilian, the commander of the Sixth Regiment: "Lao Zhang, when you see the new devil artillery, give me a hard beating-Dayong, Dayong is glorious!" ”

Zhang Qilian was ordering his subordinates to adjust the design of Zhu Yuan at this time, and when he heard this, he said after a few seconds of silence: "Brigade! I will avenge Instructor Cai! Then, he switched the channel and shouted in the mic: "Brothers! To tell you the unfortunate news, Captain Cai has died! Brothers! Remember who taught you how to do the artillery, right? A teacher for one day and a father for life! Brothers, avenge Instructor Cai! ”

Learning from the well-known things of the Second Army, the Second Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade was able to develop to its current scale, and Cai Dayong made great contributions. As the company commander of the first self-propelled artillery company of the Second Army, the platoon commanders, company commanders, battalion commanders, and regiment commanders of the Second Brigade and even other artillery regiments, most of them were taught by him. And if it weren't for the fact that he had made mistakes on major issues of right and wrong, the post of commander of the 2nd Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade would definitely be his.

Cai Dayong has a special position in the minds of the artillerymen of the Second Army. Therefore, once the students of the Sixth Regiment learned the news that he was killed by the devil, they were all filled with righteous indignation, their eyes were bloodshot, and in the sound of "Lose his mother", everyone gritted their teeth and moved quickly with tears in their eyes, and adjusted the minutes to shoot Zhu Yuan, and then roared and stepped on the firing pedal, venting their anger with cannonballs.