After receiving Hu Weidong's order, Zhao Zhangcheng (Note 1), the commander of the independent mortar battalion directly under the regiment headquarters, who had been complaining that he could not participate in the war, immediately came to his senses, but due to the short range of the mortars, in order to avoid being hit by the devil's mountain artillery and suffering unnecessary losses, Hu Weidong first asked a regiment to launch a feint attack, lured the devil to open fire and determined the direction of the Japanese artillery position, and immediately concentrated the 32 field cannons that had been waiting for a long time to cover it, and confirmed that all the mountain artillery with a relatively long range of the Japanese army was destroyed. Zhao Zhangcheng's eight 270mm super-heavy mortars were finally able to launch artillery strikes on the visible Japanese forward positions

Although the shells of the 270mm super-heavy mortar were too heavy and required a mechanical device to be loaded and fired, Zhao Zhangcheng, who already knew how to operate it, still showed his magical artillery skills, except for the first mortar that deviated from the intended target, the next nine shots all hit, and the other gunners also performed quite well under his command, with a total of 54 shells hitting the ring fortifications. The power of the 270mm giant mortar shell is not under the 240mm grenade, and basically as long as the cannon hits, a ring fortification is almost leveled

In addition to the 8 super-heavy mortars, there are also 40 150mm howitzers involved in the targeted killing, these guns are generally unsatisfactory due to the older models (the Japanese army's performance is higher than the Haode 96 type 150mm howitzer and it will not be until 37 years to start equipping the troops), but after all, the caliber is there, and the power is still very frustrating. In order to prolong the life of those good guns, when they are not needed, Hu Weidong is happy to use these old guns to "waste use".

Although the 150mm howitzer is not as powerful as the 270mm super-heavy mortar, it is superior in number and faster in fire. After they also joined the artillery bombardment, it took less than 10 minutes to destroy all the ring fortifications that the devils had worked so hard to build, although some of the devils who escaped into the traffic trench in time were spared, but the loss of thousands of people and the loss of the strong ring fortifications, the 46th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army has been unable to resist the assault force of the Red 15th Army that is now becoming more and more pure artillery offensive tactics, but perhaps because reinforcements are coming, the devils are extremely tenacious, even after the position is all lost. The remnants of the hundreds of devils still retreated into Fengtai City to continue to hold on, and frequently carried out suicide attacks in the already brutal street battles.

Although the enemy was very tenacious, due to the full use of the artillery advantage in this battle, and Fengtai was continuously involved in the battle. The residents have basically fled, so that the Red 15th Army has no scruples in the street fighting, so the casualties of the Red 15th Army in this battle are very small, and only more than 100 comrades are sacrificed to basically wipe out the remnants of the enemy and control the whole city of Fengtai, but Hu Weidong is not happy for long. I heard an unprecedentedly dense cannon sound in the distance

"It should all be cannons with long barrels, the caliber is mainly 120mm and 150mm, and the cannon is about 21 kilometers away from here", Hu Weidong, who is familiar with various artillery types, judged the type of enemy artillery. Fengtai, which had just calmed down, was already covered with falling shells, as if to demonstrate to Hu Weidong. These heavy artillery, which obviously belonged to the devils, also bombarded continuously for almost 10 minutes. In such a short period of time, no less than 3,000 rounds of large-caliber artillery shells roared into Fengtai City. The small city of Fengtai, which was already ruined by continuous wars, was almost completely reduced to ruins

"Another main regiment", Hu Weidong closed his eyes sadly, although Fengtai is not a few thousand shells can be completely destroyed, but under the bombardment of heavy artillery, ordinary houses can not provide effective protection, and even will collapse and cause accidental casualties, considering that the three regiments entering the city should have dispersed their forces at this time, the total annihilation of the whole army may not be, but more than half of the casualties may be unavoidable. Up to now, more than half of the 13 main regiments of the 15 th Red Army have suffered casualties, and only four have been left in complete formation, so the losses are not insignificant. And if it weren't for Hu Weidong underestimating the devil and letting the 3rd Regiment of the Advance Division enter the city to destroy the remnants of the enemy, he would not have paid such a big loss because of this crazy artillery bombardment of the enemy, thinking of this, Hu Weidong couldn't help but feel like a knife, but now it's useless to blame himself, what he cares more about is that the devil didn't come to two divisions? How can there be so many heavy artillery? …,

"Those two bastards dare to lie to me!" , Hu Weidong immediately asked the torture department to interrogate the two devil officers who lied, but although they had concealed the powerful information of the artillery of the 12th Division before, but now that the 12th Division has just been strengthened, how many cannons there are and what models they have, they are not the grassroots officers of the 12th Division, so Hu Weidong has to find another way. However, in order to kill the chickens and deter the monkeys, Hu Weidong still severely punished the two bastards, not only ordered them to be shot in public, but also really issued a proclamation according to the method that Hu Lian came up with at the beginning, saying that the two did not want to become cannon fodder for the Japanese warlords, but voluntarily sided with the righteous Chinese, and as a result, their families who stayed in Japan were naturally affected, the pensions were gone, the jobs were lost, no one dared to give alms to beggars, even if they were forced to move to other places, they were always under the supervision of the spies, In the end, more than ten members of both families committed suicide one after another in despair

Although it is difficult for such a "trivial matter" to reach China, how could those devil prisoners of war not guess this outcome? From then on, the part of the devils who had been lucky and thought that the Red Army was only scaring them before suddenly became more honest and began to accept reform more actively, and the number of Japanese soldiers who joined the Red Army began to increase rapidly

Although according to the telegram sent by the remnants of the Japanese army in Fengtai, the 12th Division of the Japanese Army gave full play to the advantages of its heavy artillery with a long range and great power to give the Red 15 th Army a dismount, but they did not have aerial reconnaissance at present, and the front-line artillery observation group had not yet been dispatched, and it was okay to shell such a fixed target as Fengtai, but it was impossible to hit the important positions of the Red 15 th Army that did not know the specific location at all, and this gave Hu Weidong time to deal with it.

Note 1: Zhao Zhangcheng was sent by the Red First Army to the Red Eighth Army to learn artillery tactics after the division, because his cultural level is very low, although he has almost innate magical artillery skills, but for the time being can not master indirect artillery jishu, so Hu Weidong specially set up an independent mortar battalion for him to make full use of his talents, you must know that he is a famous sharpshooter in history, if you can't make good use of it during the study period, it would be a pity (your support on this site is my biggest motivation.) )