The night is getting darker and deeper, and in the inland places, the sound of firecrackers is still ringing one after another. The entry of the student army into Fujian, Guangdong and Qiong has made the living standards of the people in these three places rise sharply. The standard of living has risen, the people have spare money to buy more firecrackers for the dolls, and if it were not for this damn war, on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve in 1939, how peaceful and lively the Fujian and Guangdong regions would be.

Move the time forward by three hours, that is, when the sky was just dark, in the temporary camp of the Japanese army in Shuitou Township, six kilometers north of Cangnan, a team of well-equipped devils with a number of about 40 people walked out of the camp under the leadership of a young man named Qianjiang Ichiro, and then disappeared into the mountains.

An hour later, at about half past six, another group of Japanese troops, numbering about 1,000, left the camp and headed southwest along the road.

The independent 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade directly under the South China Front Headquarters had just begun to bombard the positions of the Cadet Corps, and in a civilian house under heavy protection in Dupu Township, two kilometers southeast of Cangnan, Matsui Shigen sat on a Taishi chair, rubbing his temples while quietly listening to the report of a young staff officer.

The South China Front launched an attack from the north and south, and because the southern front had the Canglong aircraft carrier fleet to provide fire support, it was natural that it became the focus of the attack, and it is not surprising that Matsui Ishine personally sat here.

"The commander of the Otani Brigade reported that the 41st Tank Wing was ready...... H.E. Tani Shofu reported that the 13th Infantry Wing was ready......"

Gu Shoufu and Matsui Ishine were lucky, because Ouyang Yun planned the Nanjing Massacre, so that the Nanjing Massacre could not happen, and these two criminals were not recalled to China. But this time, they were doomed. Gu Shoufu lived on the front line in Cangnan to command the operation, and Matsui Shigen lived in the rear to regulate the layout, and what they didn't expect was that about 30 kilometers away from them, the large killing weapon of the Xuebing Army, a brigade of rocket artillery, was moving in this direction.

"Aggressive-boom-" The artillery of the Cadet Army began to return fire, and the artillery position exposed by the Japanese army was four kilometers southeast of Matsui Ishine's headquarters, and the sound of shells breaking through the air sounded overhead, and then an earth-shattering explosion came from the southeast, Matsui Ishine listened intently for a while and said: "Very good, the people of Shina finally couldn't help but fight back, and now it's up to Tian Qinye!" ”

On the southern front, Matsui Ishine had a total of two brigade-sized artillery in his hands, among which the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, which was reorganized by the 6th Division, was the sharpest. The 6th Heavy Howitzer Wing under the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade is equipped with heavy howitzers that have just been produced, and compared with the previous heavy artillery, the gun's shooting accuracy, striking distance and firing speed have increased, and Matsui Ishone has high hopes.

Staff Officer Shaozo was very knowledgeable, and when he heard this, he immediately rang the phone that was connected to the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, and after connecting it, he handed the phone to Matsui Ishine and said, "Your Excellency, it has been connected!" ”

On the other end of the phone, it was Major General Ueda Qinye, the commander of the 6th Brigade. Matsui Ishine asked straight to the point, "Ueda-kun, did you hear the cannon sound of the Shina people?" The people are self-propelled guns, it is very convenient to transfer positions, you only have five minutes at most, understand? ”

"Hello!"

Artillery is the king of infantry combat, and because the chariots of the Cadet Corps are much stronger than the chariots of the Japanese army, whether they can find and destroy the artillery of the Cadet Corps first has become the top priority, because only in this way can we ensure that in the next chariot attack, our artillery can provide fire support for the chariot troops.

When the artillery of the Cadet Corps began to return fire, Ueda Qinno and his technical officers began to get busy, and with the second wave of explosions in the position of the 6th Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade, they also calculated the position of the Cadet Artillery. Ueda should have been proud that he could find the enemy's artillery positions so quickly, but he was a little dumbfounded when he found out that there were actually three artillery positions in the Xuebing Army.

The establishment of the 10th Division and the 2nd Guard Division was completely different from the divisions that Ouyang Yun brought to Jiangxi, and the reason why the establishment of those divisions focused on a certain combat skill was for the needs of the major campaign and was the result of mutual allocation. The establishment of the 10th Division is that each infantry brigade is equipped with an artillery regiment, and the tank brigade is equipped with an infantry regiment on the basis of a tank regiment and an armored regiment. As for the 2nd Guards Division, there was only one towed artillery regiment belonging to the division headquarters. In this case, even if the two self-propelled artillery regiments of the 10th Division were under the unified command of Ma Chun, the commander of the 403rd Regiment, the positions of the two regiments were separated by about two kilometers from each other. As for the artillery regiment of the 2nd Guards Division, it was even more separated from them by five or six kilometers.

A difficult problem was placed in front of Ueda Qinye, the enemy had three artillery positions, should they concentrate their efforts on bombarding one or attack three separately at the same time? Concentrating on one can ensure the density of fire output, and it can also ensure that one hit is guaranteed, but in this case, they will be retaliated against by the other two; Dispersing forces and striking three at the same time, not to mention that it is not easy to deploy and command, its effect is also debatable......

The rate of fire of self-propelled guns was more than three or four times that of towed guns, and as he hesitated, a total of seventy-two heavy guns of six brigades of the 6th Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade had already suffered a devastating blow. The rate of fire of the artillery of the Cadet Corps is dense and fast, and the adjustment of the micro-angle is even more convenient and fast because of the hydraulic assistance, and the two self-propelled artillery regiments, each regiment has 18 self-propelled guns and 36 self-propelled guns, and each gun has five to six shells per minute, which adds up to about 200 rounds per minute. Two hundred shells, adjusted every minute, five minutes was enough to send the entire 6th Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade to the Pacific Ocean to feed the fish.

Ueda was sweating profusely and weighing the relationship, but Matsui Ishine couldn't wait patiently. The commander of the 6th Separate Heavy Artillery Brigade reacted with astonishment and immediately organized a counterattack. However, their heavy artillery was not easy to operate, and the officers and men were under great pressure, so it took three minutes to roughly find the direction and return fire. In three minutes, more than half of the seventy-two heavy guns had been destroyed, so even if they launched a timely counterattack, the effect was only equal to nothing. Although Matsui Ishine is not an expert in artillery warfare, he still has basic common sense, and when he didn't see Ueda's counterattack for a long time, he couldn't hold his breath, called over, and scolded: "Eight grids, Ueda Qinye, what are you doing?" ”

As soon as Matsui Ishine put pressure on Ueda, the little devil couldn't help but lose sight of one thing or the other, and hurriedly ordered the whole brigade to command 48 new heavy howitzers and 36 other heavy guns of various types to launch a counterattack on the two artillery positions of the 10th Division commanded by Ma Chun.

By then, six minutes had passed, and Ma Chun and the others were ready to stop shooting and move their positions.