In the middle of July of the 15th year of the Longhua calendar, nearly a year after the Sun Army invaded Heihe Prefecture, the Protector Army, which was expected by the people of Longhua, officially set off to the border of Heihe Prefecture. Prepare to start a life-and-death battle with the Sun Nation army, which has built complete fortifications in front of them, and start a soldier-to-soldier struggle.

This coalition army, collectively known as the Protector Army, began to carry out large-scale mobilization, and the Sun National Army, which had been paying attention to the movements of these troops, also announced that it had entered a wartime state as soon as possible. All the Sun Nation troops arranged on the front line did not dare to relax at all and stare at every move in front of the defensive position.

After all, this Longhua Protector Army is known as a million-strong army, and their strength stationed here is less than twenty. With such a five-to-one offensive and defensive battle, it is impossible to say that you are not worried at all.

Sometimes a good start in a war is the key, as the Liaozhou Army that is responsible for the task of fighting the first battle, from the army commander Li Shi to the ordinary soldier, they all know that the responsibility is heavy. Whether the start is good or not will also affect the morale of the military and civilians in this battle to protect the country. Therefore, in order to let the Liaozhou army fight this battle well, Li Shichang can do his best to meet his cousin's requirements.

Similarly, the opponent of the Liaozhou Army, the First Division of the Sun Kingdom, received more than 50,000 people from the Liaozhou Army to join a main division of the Xu Jiajun Army and officially set off for the Xinyuan Pass they defended. This first division, which can be described as a record of achievements, was also nervous and excited from top to bottom.

Naturally, the nervousness was about to fight, and the excitement was that they were the first troops to fight against the Protectors. It seems that Longhua's Protector Army also knows that if they want to open the road into Heihe Prefecture, the new original passage defended by the First Division in front of them is undoubtedly the best breakthrough route.

When the Liaozhou Army officially entered Qingyuan Town, which was ten miles away from the first defensive position, the army commander Li Shi also immediately sent a reconnaissance unit to the defensive position of the First Division to inquire about the defensive arrangements of these Sun Army. Compared to when they arrived here, they only temporarily crammed.

The first volunteer division of the Xu family army stationed on the border of Qingyuan Town. began to target the defensive positions of the Sun Country and carry out harassing strikes. It was the independent regiment led by Situ Qingyun who carried out the task of this trip.

Different from the main attack task of the Liaozhou Army, the 1st Volunteer Division had more tasks this time to cover for the Liaozhou Army and wait for the opportunity to attack. Although the Liaozhou Army positioned the 1st Volunteer Division as an assist, they also knew that the combat effectiveness of the 1st Volunteer Division was no worse than theirs.

Even in terms of artillery, the Debang-made 120 howitzers equipped by the 1st Volunteer Division were much stronger than the 120 infantry guns produced by Longhua back then. Although they are on the number of large and small caliber guns. surpassed the Xu Jiajun Volunteer Division, but everyone knew that they could not underestimate these Xu Jiajun. Otherwise, there will be regrets and surprises in the future.

In Liaozhou, in accordance with the tactics before the battlefield, the troops were arranged in a decent manner, and the sniper brigade of the independent regiment began to wear special field combat uniforms. Secrets lurk to. Among the grassy woods not far from the Sun Nation position. All they need to do is build a sniper lurk position. Wait for the opportunity to snipe the valuable Sun Nation officers and high-ranking officials.

Decapitation battle. These infantry snipers trained as special snipers are all too familiar with the role of demoralizing the enemy! Now that they finally have the opportunity to really experiment, how could they miss the opportunity?

The two-person sniper team, like invisible mines, began to dense in front of the Sun Country position in the Xinyuan Passage. All they have to do is wait for the right moment to strike and kill valuable enemy targets.

Of course. In order not to disrupt the offensive line of the Liaozhou army, most of the hiding places chosen by the sniper detachment were places with little offensive value. That is, it will not affect the possible attack of the Liaozhou Army, and it will not allow the opposite Sun Army to discover their sniper position. (To save trouble.) In the future, the Sun Army will be replaced by Japanese troops)

In addition to these sniper squads, whose main task was to snipe and kill high-ranking Japanese officers and commanders, they began to lurk in front of their selected Japanese defensive positions in the night according to the previous arrangement. On the night when the Liaozhou Army arrived in Qingyuan Town, a short but noisy burst of gunfire rang out from the Japanese army's defensive position.

The short gunfire was undoubtedly a provocative attack by the sniper squad sent out by the Independent Regiment after discovering a valuable target. They often snipe one person and then quickly move in the night. So much so that the Japanese troops who were arranged in defensive positions had no rest this night.

Perhaps because Xu Bin was born in the special forces, his subordinates were somewhat stained with some special operations thinking. As long as they can achieve their combat goals, they will not care too much about what means they use. This kind of harassment and psychological warfare has undoubtedly been tested in actual combat before the establishment of the Xu Jiajun in the past. Now in the face of the invading imps, how can the snipers miss the opportunity?

Except for some places where it is difficult to reach sniping, the snipers use long-range sniping, and the rest of the night raid teams use their superb stealth marching skills and tactics as much as possible.

Almost within 100 meters of the Japanese defensive position, they had already run away with the soles of their feet before they could accurately shoot and kill all the Japanese troops in sight. So much so that the Japanese army who were in turmoil all night really added a lot of lively atmosphere to the Xinyuan passage that night.

This kind of sniper warfare, with the sun smiling the next day, it is clear that there is no stealth advantage of the sniper detachment. They will have a good rest during the day, and at night they will send nightmares and shadows of death to the Japanese army on the opposite side like ghosts.

The record of the sniper detachment this night, although only a few hundred. But for the Japanese troops in the defensive positions, in addition to not daring to rest in the slightest carelessness for a night, they also wasted a lot of bullets. As a result, not even a single hair of the murderer was caught, which undoubtedly made the Japanese soldiers on the position feel that this battle was a bit difficult to fight.

When Li Ren, the commander of Liaozhou, received a military report from Du Liren in the morning, he was a little crooked about Xu Jiajun's combat methods. Although I don't agree with it, it's always good to be able to add to the Japanese army. Moreover, he also knew that giving the other party a little color before the big war to break down the morale of the other party's army and reduce some energy was undoubtedly optimistic for them.

Looking at the sniper team of Xu Jiajun in the telegram, beheading hundreds of little devils in one night, and at the same time, there were many grassroots officers of the Japanese army, Li Shi also felt that he would come a few more times. I think those little devils won't be able to sleep and eat at night, right?

Xu Jiajun, who served as the assistant, made a good start, and Li Ren, who had almost figured out the layout of the Japanese army's defensive position, immediately decided to launch the first round of tentative attacks early in the morning.

The main force of the offensive was undoubtedly the two artillery regiments assigned to him by the headquarters of the Northern Yi Army. Before the infantry attacked, they would bombard the Japanese who had built a number of solid fortifications to destroy the Japanese fortifications as much as possible. Take the pressure off the infantry for the subsequent attack!

It is rare to have such an opportunity to let the artillery of the Northern Yi Army attack with open shells, and the officers and men of the artillery regiment are undoubtedly full of confidence. After receiving the order, according to the parameters of the shelling provided by the reconnaissance units, the artillerymen on the two artillery positions. With the commander's order, the artillery equipped with it began to pour artillery fire on the Japanese positions.

When the shells made a piercing roar and landed on the Japanese defensive positions, orange flames began to bloom on the Japanese positions. The Japanese officers, who were aware of the artillery attack, began to form Japanese troops on their positions and went into anti-artillery shelter. At the same time, the artillery units of the division and regiment were asked to launch a counterattack to put an end to this kind of morale-damaging shelling.

The counterattack of the Japanese artillery units naturally also took time, and in the time when they were preparing for the counterattack, the Liaozhou Army served as the two main regiments of the tentative attack. In front of the main positions No. 1 and No. 2, which had already entered the Japanese defensive positions, they were to attack the current defensive positions after the artillery bombardment was over. This also means that the first hand-to-hand encounter between the two armies will also be officially staged.

The Liaozhou Army, which knew that the Japanese artillery was very strong, had thought about the possibility of being counterattacked by the Japanese artillery units before the shelling, so they also dispersed as much as possible when building artillery positions. Not to let the Japanese cripple their artillery units at one time. Otherwise, this kind of battle will be almost difficult to fight.

Also after the artillery of the Liaozhou Army launched an artillery bombardment, the artillery commander of the 1st Division, which was in the rear of the Liaozhou Army, was also paying attention to the artillery shell landing point on the Japanese position in front. And based on these impact points, a quick calculation was made if they launched an artillery strike. How to make the shells fall more accurately on the heads of the Japanese soldiers, and kill and injure more Japanese soldiers.

When he saw the rear of the Japanese army, which was under heavy artillery fire, finally sounded the sound of counterattack artillery fire, the artillery commander of Xu Jiajun's army also had a somewhat solemn face. Because from the place where the cannon sounded, the distance to where these shells fell, it was almost the same as the range of the howitzers they pulled. This means that the caliber of the artillery that the Japanese army in front of them has is at least the same level as them, or even a larger range of artillery.

With this level of understanding, the artillery commander of the Xu Jiajun quickly cooperated with his officers to calculate the Japanese artillery positions according to them. It was assumed that when they launched a counterattack, the artillery positions should be established there in order to inflict as much damage as hard as possible on the Japanese artillery.

This kind of calculation, for these artillery officers, who were no less than the excellent artillery of various countries, quickly came up with several data on the artillery positions that could severely damage the opponent with one blow.

The artillery commander, who knew that it was not their turn to use their artillery for the time being, asked his staff officers to reconnoiter and arrange these calculated artillery positions in advance. After the end of the artillery battle, they chose the best artillery position that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, as a reserve artillery position for counterattacking the Japanese artillery unit. For the artillery battle between the two armies that will inevitably require them to participate in the follow-up battle, they are making meticulous and advance arrangements! (To be continued......)