Chapter 312 Artillery fire
The charging team was once again stopped by a rain of bullets, and the shells whistled again as the warriors crawled forward, rolling between the craters.
"Withdraw! Withdrawn to !! ”
Junko shouted in the distance.
"Retreat! Evacuate!! ”
Lao Zhao roared hoarsely.
But their shouts were dispersed by the explosion that followed.
The previous tragedy was repeated again, and the continuous explosions were like festive fireworks, mercilessly tearing apart the bodies of the brave warriors, leaving their blood to congeale in the heat.
Caught under the same shelling again, the charging team reacted much faster than the previous regiment, and the moment the shells landed, countless soldiers with quick reactions huddled into the nearest crater, at the mercy of fate.
"Keep bombarding me !!!"
Although Shunzi Lao Zhao was not in the same place, he shouted the same content almost at the same time.
With the shouts of the comers, the sound of whimpering cannonballs flying in the sky reappeared, and a projectile fell straight down the familiar trajectory, leaving a beautiful tail like a meteor, but bursting out with a hellish demonic roar.
Rumble!
The world was once again shaken by this violent loud noise, annihilating and crushing those explosions and machine guns.
The tongue of fire on the Japanese position disappeared tacitly and neatly at the moment when the shells fell, so that after the loud noise, only the continuous explosion sound remained.
"Keep bombarding!! The third echelon is in a company, and when it hears shells flying, it withdraws!! ”
Junko gritted her teeth and ordered, not giving up the attack. The order he received was to attack, so he had only one thing to do, attack!
The shelling on the opposite side lasted about ten minutes from the time of the last stop. Then the cannonballs stopped flying, and only a few minutes of loud noises shattered the dark world.
A company of more than 100 man-made explosions that led the charge approached the vicinity of the barbed wire in the tremor of the earth, and crawled into the area of the barbed wire at any time in the dense craters and in the mud mixed with the blood of their comrades.
Junko had already arranged a nearby observer at this time. At the moment when the attacking company entered the barbed wire area, as the news came, the effective firing did not stop, but continued to extend, falling one or two hundred meters deep into the position.
As the artillery fire extended, the soldiers who were crawling forward jumped up and silently rushed to the position three or four hundred meters in front. It's just that they are one or two hundred meters closer, and the opponent's artillery fire is useless again, at least they can't bombard their own positions, right?
But at this moment. The characteristic whimper of mortar shells was heard with a loud noise in the distance, and then a projectile landed exactly on the area where the barbed wire fence had been torn and the mines had been cleared.
The roaring explosion was faint in the distance, but it was no less powerful. In the flickering dense firelight, the more than 100 people who charged did not even have a chance to lie down, and were drowned out by the flames of the explosion and the shrenchnel scattered in all directions.
"Knock out the mortar positions !!"
Junko gritted her teeth and ordered: "The third echelon continues to go up!" ”
With the coordinates reported by the outpost observer, it was not possible to hit the break with the heavy artillery base. But it was able to hit a mortar position at a distance of no more than 3,500 meters.
With the whimper of a cannonball, there was a loud noise. The sound of mortar shells flying disappeared, and silence ensued.
Just as a company of the third echelon continued to pounce, without waiting for the area near the barbed wire, a flare was rising, and then the machine gun again sprayed tongues of fire.
"Why can't they blow it up?"
Junko looked at the hundreds of tongues of fire that appeared in front of him, puzzled.
The other person's sense of smell seems to be too sensitive. The reaction was not usually fast, and as soon as the team reached the vicinity of the barbed wire, the machine guns would go off. And under the repeated bombardment, it is understandable that the opponent's tunnel will not be blown up, but why can't anyone keep the shock from dying?
Lao Zhang's situation was similar at this time. When he was confused, he had already charged several battalion-level units in a row, but when he was close to the barbed wire area, the silent position on the opposite side would erupt with fire, causing heavy losses to the charging team, but he could not enter the minefield that had been cleared.
Long-range artillery can't be suppressed, as long as there is a charge, there will be shells flying, the landing point, the odd accuracy, will never deviate too far from the charge area.
But in this case, neither of them gave up the attack, and still charged in small units, vowing to find out the hole cards of the Japanese army in order to find a way.
But their attack had to stop at the next moment.
Junko here with the roar of the motor penetrating the sound of explosions and machine guns, Japanese planes came,
"Gun ready! Receiver searchlight ready !! ”
With one command after another, the anti-aircraft guns on the two dozen trucks that had been waiting for a long time moved, and the horse-drawn anti-aircraft machine guns accompanying Fu also raised their barrels and aimed them in the direction from which the sound came.
"There!!"
As the soldier of the listening machine pointed out the correct position, pillars of light suddenly lit up, and then, the bombers in the sky were locked by the pillars of light.
The sound of tom tom and the sound of heavy machine guns tearing through metal rang out, and the bombers in the sky panicked the moment they were locked. They knew that the other party's air defense was powerful, but they didn't expect that the other side also had a listening device and an air defense searchlight.
As a result, the bomber did not care to find a bombing target, and poured the bombs directly into the air, and the nose of the plane was raised accordingly, trying to escape from the airspace.
But where do they have shells that fly fast? Before the nose of the plane could be pulled up, a few bombs had not yet fallen, and the sky exploded with a loud bang. One plane after another was directly hit, and in the loud bang, debris flew in all directions.
Those bombers that were not directly hit were wrecked in the moment of the steel balls, and the fate was the same, the wings were broken, the engines were damaged, the pilots were killed, and the purpose was one, and the result was one, falling with a whirl, or dragging smoke to the ground.
Eight bombers were less than half a minute away, and none remained, only the debris still falling in the sky and open parachutes proved that they had been there.
The enemy planes were all destroyed, Junko's depressed mood was slightly relieved, he turned his gaze to the direction of the position, looking at the fire that was still flashing and the flames that were spraying, he did not give the order to stop the attack, and the moment the flames appeared on the opposite side, they fell on the Japanese position again.
After more than two hours of fierce fighting, Shunzi and Lao Zhao each had to catch up with nearly a brigade of troops, which can be described as heavy losses. But they don't know what to do, and the Japanese are also distressed.
They were going to throw hundreds of soldiers' lives in one round of effective shooting, and although they couldn't see the corpses, it was just in the tunnel, but the effect of fear destroying the will was stronger than that of Junko and them.
Most of the soldiers here were directly vaporized or torn apart, and even the wounded were rare, but the Japanese were different, they had to spit out more than half of their lungs in each round of effective shooting, and the miserable and abominable Mi Ankang looked like a demon from hell in the pillar of light of the flashlight, putting the soldiers who carried them under tremendous impact pressure.
In just two hours, they lost far more people and shells than the advance army and the Anti-Japanese Union.
The huge losses made the new 16th Division and the new 7th Division in charge of holding on to the headquarters have to ask for help, they really can't afford to consume, they have already had more than a brigade of troops in these two hours to fill in, far away from the tunnel, at this time the corpses are piled up, and there are also those who were shocked and incapacitated, even if they live, it is difficult for them to survive for a few years with internal abdominal injuries.
The commander of the Kwantung Army, 'Umezu Mijiro', was shocked when he received the request for help, and the careful design of the position and the impermeable defense system were actually in a hurry in two hours, which shows how sharp the opponent's attack was.
But he knew very well that the opponent's artillery skills were at their climax, and he would not let the troops fight with the advance army, he would just hold there, so after getting the message, he turned his attention to Lieutenant General "Suzuo Ogasawara".
Lieutenant General "Sugeo Ogasawara" had just learned that one of the eight bombers had not returned and that the enemy had air raid searchlights.
"Your Excellency, I think it is still necessary to break through the opponent's air interception, and request that fifty more flamingos be transferred back to break through at high speed and low altitude to destroy the opponent's air defense, otherwise, the power of the opponent's artillery is so huge, our excellent soldiers can't afford to lose."
"Fifty more ......"
'Umezu Mijiro' frowned with a headache. He really didn't want to talk to that cold-blooded and iron-fisted Terauchi Shou, and asked for fifty flamingos allocated to the Huaxia Dispatch Army.
He knew that in order to capture the entire territory of Hebei as soon as possible, Terauchi Shouichi asked the base camp for 120 new-style flamingos on the basis of the original 150 mixed aircraft group, and requisitioned 50 of the 80 flamingos in his hand. At this time, he really had a lot in his hand that he could embezzle.
At the same time as they were studying, Dong Ku had already handed over the defense of Mongolia to the dog, with only one purpose, nailing the nowhere position, paying attention to the destruction of air defense, speeding up the construction of the factory, and speeding up the mining.
He believes that Goudan has the ability to block the attack of Soviet Russia, and in the continuous training of recruits, the consumption of battles will not drag down Goudan's army, after all, bullets and shells have been put into mass production, and the consumption of supplying them is not a big problem.
He needs to solve the problem of attacking Harbin as soon as possible, otherwise, he will not be able to hold back the main force of the Japanese army, and will let the Japanese army enter Shanhaiguan in a steady stream. If the process is followed, there will be a buffer period of at least two weeks or more for this incident, so that he will desperately entangle with the Japanese army and approach Xinjing, so that the Japanese army will not dare to make too many moves, and reduce the pressure on the Guannai.
It's just that he didn't know what to do, he was there in person, and the result was not as smooth as expected...... (To be continued......)