The call was from the Harbin Forward Command, and the content was that the Japanese had opened fire.

Dong Ku received the call and hurriedly came out of Liu Defeated City, and went straight to Shuangcheng with the guard company and all the fourteen guards who had arrived.

Looking at the back of the departing Dong Ku, Liu Yucheng sighed.

The commander went to the front line in person, which he did not want, but the formation of the troops was too hasty, and there would be no problem in the command transmission, but most of the commanders had no command experience at all, otherwise, he would never let Dong Ku personally get into danger.

However, Dong Ku did not feel this way, he didn't think there was anything wrong with him going to the front line, and he was not mentally stable if he didn't go to the front line.

Gliding all the way, dozens of miles on the snow that had almost been stepped on and became like ice, it took less than an hour to reach the twin cities.

Before entering the twin cities, I heard the rumbling of artillery in front, and the density was so large that it was obviously not a test firing. But the gunshots were not heard due to the distance.

Dong Ku entered the twin cities without stopping, and led the team through the logistics army that was nervously waiting for the battle situation ahead, and went straight to the forward command post.

Entering the command post, Dong Ku didn't need a telescope to see the situation a few hundred meters ahead.

There, the density of shells was not very large, at best it should be considered covered firing, scattered and not concentrated, from the front to the depth of about a kilometer was covered by artillery fire.

"Sample, do you want to use shells to get down to the ground?"

Dong Ku muttered, ignoring his breath and listening to the report of the Shunzi in the command post.

It turned out that an hour ago, the Japanese artillery shells fell one after another in front of the position, and then slowly moved forward, and the density became larger and larger, until now, it is estimated that more than 30 guns of more than 100 caliber are bombarding. According to the veterans of the front, there were still about 75 mountain artillery shells falling inside.

It seems that the Japanese were planning to use artillery shells to reduce the damage of the soldiers and capture the position.

After listening to the report, Dong Ku came to the conclusion that the Japanese army's strength was not enough, or that the Japanese army showed rare caution after the entire Heilongjiang was taken. Use artillery bombardment to test the reaction of the defense here, otherwise, the firing area will not be so large, and the density is not high, it should be that the opponent has already built several artillery positions, waiting for this side to expose the fire point, and then concentrate the fire to pull it out, clearing the way for the infantry.

Apparently, the Japanese were already afraid of the new weapons that could easily destroy their tanks. It was not intended to use tanks as the main force for the attack.

Coming to a conclusion, Dong Ku asked calmly, "Did the reconnaissance send you?" ”

"Captain, I've already sent out." Junko replied with the same calmness, not showing any nervousness at all.

"Inform all long-range artillery positions to rest and stand by, no need to guard the artillery, and notify mortars and 92 infantry guns to be ready to fire at any time."

Under the order, Dong Ku secretly said in his heart, artillery battle. Lao Tzu is your ancestor!

The shells continued to fall on the position, and there was a loud roar. The earth trembled, throwing frozen earth and shrapnel into the air. The shock wave blew open patches of snow, revealing black earth.

In the position, the recruits nervously clenched the 38 covers in their hands, and they looked up at the cover above their heads from time to time, worried about whether such a big movement would blow up the cover.

"Don't even hold a gun. The little devil didn't come again, so he didn't need to guard the shooting hole! ”

A veteran company commander of the Northeast Army shouted.

In the trenches, such voices were everywhere, mostly the voices of veterans of the Northeast Army. They have been through wars, they have been through this kind of scene. Immunity to such shelling is already there.

Their shouts eased the nervousness of the young faces a little, but they didn't shake off the feeling of a new jump, a little difficulty breathing.

The veterans of the Northeast Army, who had been dispersed, sat comfortably on the dry wood board, smoking cigarettes, and glancing at the gunpowder smoke outside from time to time.

"What is this shelling, I think when I fought with the marshal in the south and the north, there were more powerful scenes than this......"

A veteran exhaled smoke and said to the recruit's mouth full of foam: "That scene, that is called a terrible, that ten thousand cannons are fired in unison, and the earth shakes the mountains!" ”

"Big brother, were you also a warrior at that time?"

One of the students, Danzi, looked at him adoringly and asked.

"I ...... at that time"

Before he could finish speaking, an emotionless voice came from the cold side.

"Your brother Guo, he was more cow than he is now."

"Isn't it?"

Seeing that someone was helping, the veteran who told the recruit about the glorious history came to the spirit.

He spoke in a good voice, and the voice continued: "I think when we were fighting Yingkou, we joined the army together, and as soon as the shells fell, your brother Guo suddenly lay on me, guess what?" ”

The voice didn't wait for anyone to ask, and then said: "I was about to thank you Brother Guo for saving my life, when I suddenly felt a hot liquid flowing through my body, I thought I was injured, I reached out and touched it, and guess what, I was actually in a commotion, and then I saw that your Brother Guo fainted and didn't say anything, and I urinated!" ”

"Ha Lu Ha!!"

Laughter erupted in the trenches, and the tension was certainly gone.

"And!"

The ridiculed veteran Da Zhuzi shot back with a blushing face: "Your eldest brother Sun is even more powerful, he is so frightened that the bullet flies over his head and he can't walk, his legs are shaking like a swing, and he asks me tremblingly, Guo Zi, will the called bullet fall from above?" Flying far? It's timid, and! It's not like there are five or six people now. ”

"Ha Lu Ha!"

"So you ......"

The recruits in the trenches were out of breath laughing, and at this moment they realized that they were nervous, not only did they have it, these two extremely calm veterans had also been nervous and scared.

Seeing that there was no tension of the big war in this trench, a student battalion commander who originally wanted to stop this noise nodded secretly, remembered these two faces, and quietly left here.

He learned a trick, these two people obviously won't be so unbearable, and the comrades-in-arms who have been in trouble in the mining area for several years will not attack each other so unscrupulously, obviously to adjust the tension.

The shelling continued for more than three hours in various moods, at least thousands of shells were dropped before it was declared over, and the earth, at the moment when the roar ended, returned to calm.

One of the Japanese troops was stationed in front of the observation headquarters. Several division commanders looked at the enemy positions in the telescopes that were filled with gunsmoke but were extremely quiet, and they all smelled that the other side was not simple.

"I didn't see a single figure on the opposite side of the bombardment, and those trenches three or four meters above the ground were obviously not damaged, and our soldiers were not able to charge in this situation." A lieutenant general put down his binoculars and said.

"Yes, the commander on the other side is very calm. We didn't need artillery positions to bombard, and there was not even movement on his side, so it was obvious that he had seen through our tentative intentions, and he was a fierce enemy. ”

The other lieutenant general nodded in agreement.

A chief of staff pushed down his glasses and said: "I suggest that the enemy's improvised defenses be torn apart by cross-dense bombardment, and the artillery positions should be transferred after two rounds of fire." ”

"I agree with this suggestion to use shell stacks across the opponent's defenses to reduce the casualties of soldiers."

"The delivery of artillery shells is enough to support us in shelling the front positions for three days, and I agree with this plan."

One by one, the generals agreed with the statement.

With their program coming up. After a pause of only ten minutes, the shelling began again.

Dense cannonballs flew in the sky that Xiaoyan had not yet dispersed, and then exploded in the open field between Dongling and Jinling, and the smoke and frozen soil immediately covered the sky, so that the cold sunlight was blocked in the sky outside the position.

"! The little devil is going to be ruthless! ”

In the trench that had just fallen silent, the recruits nervously rang out the shooting holes, and the veterans also felt that the enemy was about to attack in the violent vibration.

Dong Ku looked at the smoke in front of him, grabbed the phone and shouted: "Is there a problem with the position of the Fourth Brigade?" ”

"Report to the captain, there is no slag yet. The frozen layer was not all shattered! ”

Hearing the report, Dong Ku breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the defenses are not blown up. Just let the little devils blow it up.

The Japanese artillery bombardment did not seem to stop, and the explosion was concentrated in the open area of five or six kilometers, kicking up the smoke and debris in the sky, and the whole position was plunged into darkness as if it were evening. This is especially true in the trenches, where only the light from the shooting holes and communication trenches is obscured. Visibility in the trenches was only visible from the locations of the firing holes.

"Captain, do you want to destroy the opponent's artillery positions?" Junko looked at the smoke in front of her, put down her binoculars and asked.

"No, you don't."

Dong Ku waved his hand and said: "It's still a test of the Japanese army, although the density is larger, but the distance between the positions is more than two kilometers. Moreover, the 300-caliber cannon did not fire this time, so it should be waiting for the appearance of our artillery positions in order to give a devastating blow. ”

Shunzi listened quietly, although these are all in Dong Ku's training materials, but judging the battle is another matter.

Dong Ku is not in a hurry, as long as he holds out until the evening and marks the enemy's concealed artillery positions and all exposed positions and reserved positions for backup, at that time, it is up to him to decide when to knock out the opponent's artillery positions.

In the snow, soldiers in white hats showed their binoculars, carefully watching the smoke rising from the artillery positions and the direction in which the shells were flying, and then quietly disappeared.

More than an hour later, the intensive shelling shattered the artificial frozen layer four or five meters thick, causing ice slag to fall from the trenches with the huge earthquake.

On the top of the trenches, every shell that fell would kick up a cloud of black dust, and the shattered frozen coal ash slag rolled and melted in the shock wave, reducing the visibility of the position to almost zero.

At this time, all the old and new fighters were no longer calm, and it was obvious that the trenches were in danger of being blown up at any time.

Dong Ku listened to the reports one by one, he did not order the artillery to return fire, he still needs to wait, he must not let the opponent's firepower be missed, and he will only carry out an artillery counterattack after he has eliminated a group of Japanese troops. After all, his number of shells is still limited, and his reserves will be used up less and less until new shells are produced.

At the beginning of the artillery battle on Qiqihar's side, the situation was the same, General Zhao and General Yang also did not return fire, although their number of artillery was large, but unfortunately, there were not many positions of concealed artillery positions, unless the river bridge was opened, there was still terrain behind which the concealed artillery positions could be concealed, at present, before inflicting heavy losses on the enemy, they all chose to be patient. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )