Tsukada was shocked when he received the report, and immediately sent a telegram to all the surrounding troops to verify the true movements of the surrounding enemy.

At the same time, the Japanese troops on both sides of the enemy breakthrough on the eastern flank received an order to cut off the route of the enemy who dared to advance at any cost, concentrate all their firepower and eat these enemies.

At this moment, the battlefield was suddenly chaotic, the Japanese army received an order, all the artillery began to turn the muzzle, ten minutes later, the large army rushed out of the cannon at the same time, one bright spot after another dragged the tail fin, illuminating the sky, a piece of shells flew to the route of the Qu army just advanced.

The loud roar continued in patches, and the smoke of gunpowder in the sky was red by the light of the fire, and from a distance, it looked more like a sunset in the clouds.

The range of Japanese artillery shells is mostly 123 kilometers, and the range is small, but there are 30 105 heavy cannons on the battlefield in Xuzhou, and the range can reach 22 kilometers.

The advancing Qu army had just been bombarded by heavy artillery fire, spreading out the edge of the route two kilometers away, and shells were constantly falling, and in the firelight, several trucks spitting flames were hit, bursting into a sky-high fire, and the soldiers who followed the advance to clean up the remnants were mercilessly devoured by the artillery fire, and everything on the ground could be clearly seen in the fire of the shelling.

The large army marching behind also erected artillery every ten kilometers to provide strong support for the Qu army's advance, and at the same time as the enemy's artillery bombardment arrived, Sun Tao ordered to return fire and destroy the Japanese artillery positions in the distance.

Qu Jun just did not stop because of the shelling, since it had been discovered, there was still half of the way to break through, so the troops were roaring in the continuous fall of shells on both sides. The speed of progress has increased rather than decreased.

With Sun Tao's order, more than 300 artillery pieces roared, and the shells dragged the fiery red tail, tore through the night sky, and flew towards the artillery positions hastily erected by the Japanese army in the distance. Loud bangs flashed over the position.

The violent explosion destroyed the artillery of a gate, and the Japanese troops flew all over the sky. But at this point in the battle, the Japanese army did not back down at all, and under the fierce bombardment of the effective fire, they still fired back artillery, and tilted the artillery fire towards the enemy's advance route with the maximum output.

As the shells pass by, the battle escalates instantly. The Japanese artillery had a small range, and this decline immediately appeared. Under the heavy artillery fire of the advance army, the positions where the artillery was fired were completely destroyed one by one, and the flames of the martyrs illuminated everything for several kilometers around, making the night red.

"Build a defense!!"

"Scout squad flanks forward!"

"Flares in the air!!"

Sun Tao gave orders one by one.

The Japanese army rushed to the east of Xuzhou in the artillery fire, and the surrounding Japanese troops also urgently mobilized and rushed to the battlefield. Let the decisive battle break out early.

At the moment when the fierce battle broke out, Tsukada received reports from Suzhou and Taierzhuang. In the illusion of the enemy's artillery bombardment, the enemy's interspersed troops have already entered the defensive line and are carrying out the strategic intention of dividing and interspersing.

"Yo Xi ......"

Tsukada looked at the enemy dynamics that had just been marked on the map, squinting his eyes, and the cold light flickered from time to time.

The enemy's appetite is too great, and he actually wants to divide and encircle. Eating the army of Xuzhou, it can be seen that the other party has become a climate and is no longer a small army.

"The order was given, and all troops were thrown into battle. Let's fight in close combat and take on the incoming enemy! ”

The enemy's artillery fire was too sharp, and in less than ten minutes, several positions were destroyed, and the 105 heavy artillery on the edge of Xuzhou was safe for the time being, but he definitely did not dare to bet all his bets on these thirty heavy guns.

Sure enough, as soon as his order was given, there was a whistling in the sky, and it fell with a bang in the violent explosion in the distance outside the city.

Rumble!!

The earth shook violently, and most of the light bulbs in the city were shattered, and the glass shattered like bubbles, and fell to the ground as the air expanded and tumbled.

Tsukada was suddenly knocked down in the headquarters and fell heavily to the ground. Radios, telephones, paper tea jars and other objects fell to the ground one after another in the violent shaking that followed, and people even fell to the ground.

"Illumination!!"

A Japanese soldier shouted, and then the flashlights lit up in the dust, and the utensils swayed.

Did you bombard the city?

Everyone was looking for support in the mess, staring at the roof of the underground headquarters, guessing the outcome.

"Find out the location of the shelling, is it a direct bombardment of the city!"

Tsukada struggled to stand up on the shaking table and yelled.

The artillery bombardment, of course, was caused by the destruction of the Japanese heavy artillery position, and the effectiveness of the 50 shells was fired, and the difference in trajectory did not exceed 100 meters, and the heavy artillery position with cement bunkers was tightly covered, and in the violent energy explosion, the ammunition truck and the shells on the position 100 meters away were detonated, and a violent explosion broke out.

The violent explosion destroyed the entire position, everything within a kilometer of the surrounding area was reduced to nothing, and even the Japanese troops in the trenches were vaporized one after another, becoming the burial objects of the explosion.

The violent shaking made the Japanese troops two or three kilometers away clearly feel it, and in the shaking, no one cared about what was happening there, they held guns and mortars, and rushed to the battlefield twenty kilometers away in the huge fire that rose into the sky.

Before Tsukada could find out the cause of the explosion, the scouts of the advance army were about 10 kilometers outside the charging route, and saw figures all over the mountains and fields, rushing towards this side in the firelight.

"Sparrow 1 report, square 47, longitude 134, dimension 478, a nest of snakes and rats, covering shots!"

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"Sparrow 46 Report, Grid 96, Longitude 231, Dimension 513, A Nest of Snakes and Rats, Covering the Shooting ......"

One coordinate after another sounded in the walkie-talkie on the artillery position, and all the scouts carrying walkie-talkies on their backs almost saw the figure of the Japanese army one after another, and then one coordinate after another.

The cannonballs, in the two minutes after the call, flew by with a roar, covering the night sky with a light net, and the shells flew to the coordinate points, and when the scouts turned over and ran wildly, they fell with a bang.

Thousands of 200-caliber howitzers and hundreds of captured Japanese guns of various types roared in the night, sending red shells into the night sky and flying towards the rushing Japanese troops.

The moment when the Japanese army was running wildly appeared in the sky, there was a moment of screaming. Shouted in parts, lay down on the spot, and dodged the shelling.

The cannonballs, raining down, exploded in the panic of the crowd, and the flames were rising. The area near the impact point was as bright as day.

The scouts ran wildly, fled in the direction of their position, and at the moment when the fire rose behind them, they stopped one after another, held binoculars, and with the help of the firelight, checked the effect of the bombardment, and then the next coordinate was reported again.

Japanese Army. Under the overwhelming bombardment, the bombed army was crushed, and the figures were flying, and there were miserable howls everywhere.

A Japanese soldier was hit by a bayonet rolled up by the shock wave, his body was actually broken at the waist, and his upper body stood on the ground, he looked at the lower body two meters away in the firelight, and howled miserably. The sound is comparable to that of a beast, and there is no human movement.

Ground. Everywhere are figures with broken legs and lower limbs, dragging bloody traces one by one, struggling, and crawling forward unconsciously......

Artillery fire is still raging. Cannonballs, falling with a clatter, exploded in those dodging, running figures. Smoke rose and felt like substance in the night sky. In the firelight, it was no longer dark, it became fiery red, and the sky was burning because of it.

Qu Jungang's casualties were not large, and at the moment when the artillery fire of the army behind him kept up, he burst out with the greatest firepower, and the self-propelled artillery moved forward alternately, each time it moved no more than two kilometers before it was supported, and the effective fire bombarded the front.

At this time, the Japanese artillery in front also launched a counterattack, with a range similar to the self-propelled artillery of eight kilometers, and the two sides competed for the accuracy of the artillery and the speed of movement.

Qu Jungang's team was scattered and not concentrated, and most of the Japanese artillery shells fell on both sides of the marching route, causing little damage to the charging team, especially the self-propelled artillery, even if the small-caliber shells hit, they did not shake the solidity of the tank base.

During the march, a shell from a 75 mountain gun hit a self-propelled gun that was moving in front, because Dong Ku designed an inclined armor, the tip of the shell did not hit directly, but when a spark flashed, the shell flew to one side, and then exploded more than 30 meters away.

"!"

The driver of the self-propelled artillery was startled, and then shouted in the walkie-talkie: "There is an artillery position ahead, and the observer reports the coordinates!" ”

At his shout, the observer had already reported the coordinates at the moment when the self-propelled artillery stopped.

The moving artillery quickly supported the legs, and immediately, the cannon column raised the muzzle, and the fire sprayed out the muzzle of the cannon as the opposite shell flew.

In the midst of the roaring explosion, the fighters hid behind the self-propelled guns, waiting for the effect of the shells falling as the shrapnel clanged on the artillery.

Rumble!

In the distance, a burst of fire rose, and in the violent shaking of the earth, a cloud of fire that illuminated the sky gushed out. Fireballs and fireworks burst out, dragging the flames and falling in all directions.

"Huh? Fried to oil? ”

All the fighters saw this scene, and that scene obviously blew up the fuel depot of the opposing team.

Sure enough, this was a latent oil storage unit, which provided fuel for the troops next to it, but was missed by the Huya team members and failed to find it, but was accidentally hit by Qu Jungang.

The oil exploded, the flames rose into the air, and the oil drums exploded one by one in the burning, which was more dense than the firecrackers of the New Year, and the sea of fire was quickly formed in the explosion, and three kilometers away from the front end of the self-propelled artillery, it burned fiercely.

The Japanese soldiers who were guarding around were engulfed by the sprayed flames in a short instant, and the burning people who were on fire ran desperately, and in the miserable shouts, they didn't even have the idea of rolling and fighting. On the ground, the sea of fire flowed like magma, burning everything, and the running Japanese soldiers quickly turned into burning men.

Qu Jun also saw the flames in the rear, and the moment he understood that it was the oil depot, he shouted with pity: "It's a pity!" Why didn't I know in advance that there was an oil depot here!! ”

It's a pity, but he still ordered: "Bypass the sea of fire and continue to advance!" ”

The self-propelled guns at the front of the convoy turned around one after another as soon as the heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the trucks rang out, bypassing the sea of fire.

Trucks, from the merciless harvesting of the Japanese soldiers in the firelight. Huge bullets swept towards the charging Japanese troops like a rainstorm, and in the short time of the convoy turning, the Japanese troops who rushed nearly four or five hundred meters were no longer standing.

At this time, Tsukada had already learned that his heavy artillery position had been destroyed, and even a wing there had disappeared, and within a kilometer, there was no scorched earth, firelight, and people everywhere.

He had no fear, no anger, and in the decisive battle, he entered the calmness that a commander should have.

"Order the city defense troops not to leave, prepare for the enemy to attack Xuzhou, and the troops there in Taierzhuang block the attack, do not strangle, organize defense on the spot, and contain the enemy there. Shangqiu's troops moved closer to Xuzhou, and the victory or defeat was in this battle! ”

He had understood that once divided, it was a tragic melee battle. The enemy's artillery fire was far more intense than he had expected, and the speed of movement made him unbearable. Before his reinforcements could move in the direction of the enemy's advance, the enemy's artillery fire and attacking troops had already thrown them several kilometers away.

He didn't know at this time that the enemy had self-propelled artillery, and what puzzled him was that there was no big road on the enemy's offensive route, and there were roads, and there were also small roads, and it was impossible to pass through the artillery weighing several tons.

The shelling did not tear apart all the attacking Japanese troops, and in the shelling, countless Japanese troops still approached the positions of the defensive passage in the artillery fire, although there was no long-range artillery support, but mortars they also carried.

The loud roar of the Japanese artillery was flashed, and the defensive positions were immediately splashed with dirt and flickering fire. The soldiers were busy bombarding the coordinates reported by the scouts, and the alert team thousands of kilometers away did not send any news of the enemy's approach, and the shell, just as the alert post had just delivered the news, fell on the position.

In the loud bang, countless soldiers were blown away, but fortunately, Dong Ku has been implementing the method of placing underground trenches, and the twenty mortars did not cause martyrdom to the position, but only buried some shells and blew up a few 75 guns.

"Take out the approaching mortars!"

In the smoke of gunpowder, shouts rang out, and the commander of the position, with blood dripping from his head, gave the order.

It was not easy to turn the 75 guns, and the moment the shells flew again in the sky, several mortars roared on the front line.

With a tom boom, the projectile grazed the flying shells, exploded in the back, and fell to the Japanese mortar position.

At the same time, the fighters of a battalion quickly left the front and threw themselves at the position where the shells fell, flashing fire.

The Japanese troops, here is a large group of about a number of people, in the shelling, bypassing the position of the shelling, pounced to a position where the fire could be seen, and the mortars could still reach, and could not wait to open fire.

The soldiers flashed in the distance, and the moment when the shells flew overhead, they rushed to the Japanese army two kilometers away, and rushed to the front of the Japanese position in the bombardment of both sides...... (To be continued......)