No matter how fierce the temperament, or how strong the body, or how strong the will, in the face of artillery fire, these are just floating clouds. Therefore, in the infantry discipline of almost all normal countries, the prescribed actions in the event of artillery fire are impossible to do other than lie down or conceal.

The rumbling of artillery on the south bank went off for about ten minutes, and then fell silent amid the sound of the cannon on the north bank.

The artillery of the two brigades of the Japanese army was not vegetarian, and after preparing for the artillery fire, they immediately shifted their positions, and then began to quietly wait for the artillery of the Cadet Corps to expose the target. The artillery of the Cadet Corps appeared a little late, but they finally couldn't stay up. Ten minutes was just enough time for the Japanese artillery to calculate the position of the artillery of the Cadet Army, and then they began to counterattack.

"Launch!" As the small red flags were lowered by the commander, in an instant, several hidden artillery positions on the north bank thundered, and immediately, hundreds of shells dragged the orange tail of fire and flew towards the vicinity of Madang Fort.

The artillery of the Xuebing Army was hidden by Ouyang Yunxue until the main force of the Japanese Yangtze River Fleet was exhausted. The self-propelled guns of the Xuebing Army have attracted the attention of the Japanese army since the Second Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, so at the beginning, Kamakura Sukeji Jun behaved so cautiously, and only sent a detachment to carry out exploratory artillery bombardment at a distance from Madang Battery. The destruction of Anqing Airport deprived the Japanese army of its largest front-line airfield, and also led to almost zero aerial reconnaissance by the Japanese army. This allowed Zhang Tianquan to better conceal his troops, so that he could complete the battle after the main force of the Yangtze River Fleet was exhausted.

Okamura Ninji got the news from Kamakura Sukeji Jun, and he already had a faint feeling of bad luck in his heart. That's why he ordered to speed up the attack, and he was afraid of the artillery reinforcement of the Cadet Army.

Of course, with his current vision, he would never have imagined that the speed of the self-propelled guns of the Cadet Corps could reach or even exceed 40 kilometers per hour. Even today's tanks are very few that can reach this speed.

The sound of artillery at the fortress sounded, and Okamura Ningji instinctively thought that this was another artillery unit hidden by Ouyang Yunxue, and he didn't think about it at all, this might be the artillery from the sneak attack on the Yangtze River fleet.

The sound of cannon fire sounded, Ouyang Yun pinched his watch and stood quietly at the door of the bunker of the headquarters, watching one cannonball after another dragging the long flame tail whistling away, and the once tense nerves in his heart couldn't help but relax.

As long as Zhang Tianquan and the others can successfully return to help, this battle will already be half won. Of course, if we want to pursue not only victory, but greater results, then it is necessary to do a little trick in the order of artillery input. And this, it will require the contribution of the ground forces.

Since the development of the cadet army, all branches and departments of the army have tended to be perfected. Taking the General Staff Department as an example, there are not only corresponding departments such as operations, communications, and logistics, but also an estimation section specializing in the estimation of war losses. Chen Shichang was personally in charge of the work of the estimation section, and they used a relatively rigorous set of formulas to calculate, and the final result was that if the Cadet Army wanted to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army, its own battle losses would reach at least two regiments.

The battle damage will reach two regiments, which is no longer something Ouyang Yun is willing to accept. Compared with many modern Chinese generals, Ouyang Yun's biggest difference may be that he cares too much about human life. Although Ouyang Yun had dreamed of being a general on the battlefield since he was a teenager, he didn't want to rely on the bones of others to pile up his tower of honor.

For this reason, Bai Tassel also said in private that he was hypocritical, naïve, and naïve, in short, as far as Bai Tassel's simple idea is concerned, Ouyang Yun's approach is simply unrealistic.

When there is a war, people die, and when there is a big battle, there are even more people. In fact, Ouyang Yun and the Cadet Army were able to come to this point, wasn't it the students who died in battle who paved it with their own lives?

"If you can really inflict heavy damage on a brigade or even a division of the Japanese army, the battle losses of the two regiments seem to be acceptable!" Ouyang Yun once comforted himself like this. However, when the preliminary statistics came back from the front line, and learned that the battle losses had reached more than four regiments until now, and that the Seventh Brigade was equivalent to the annihilation of the entire army, his heart couldn't help but twitch.

The artillery regiment that participated in the first round of artillery attacks belonged to the 12th Division, and the regiment commander was Li Mu. As an artillery commander trained by the cadet army itself, Li Mu basically mastered the theory of artillery warfare execution in modern warfare, and his best point lies in camouflage. The first round of shelling lasted only ten minutes, and then it was necessary to quickly shift positions. Ten minutes were approaching, Li Mu ordered to stop firing, and then, under the command of the platoon commander (the lowest unit of the heavy artillery unit is the platoon, and each platoon has a self-propelled artillery), the artillerymen quickly put away the positioning drills and support legs, and then set up the gun barrels in an orderly manner, and then the troops began to move.

Two minutes later, when Li Mu and the others had just retreated about 500 meters, the Japanese artillery shells fell on their previous positions. In the "boom" explosion, the entire Madang Fortress seemed to tremble, one fire ball after another rose, and the next moment, some preset gasoline barrels began to detonate, and then there was an even greater explosion.

The retreat was too extreme, and one of the guns that was dragging behind was still hit, although only the tracks were blown off, and the personnel were not damaged, but they had to be abandoned. Li Mu's command armored car was relatively delayed, he saw this scene, and immediately said to Qiu Hongming, the chief of staff of the same car: "Ten minutes is too tense, tell the command that if you want to minimize losses, eight minutes is the limit!" ”

"Yes!" Qiu Hongming responded, and then picked up the microphone and began to call the command center.

This round of Japanese artillery fire lasted only five minutes. The Cadet Army was afraid of retaliatory shelling, and the Japanese were even more afraid. Five minutes later, the retaliatory shelling of the Japanese army stopped, and on the side of the Cadet Corps, several fortress guns with a caliber of 120 to 150 mm were shelled again, and the target of their shelling this round was the newly exposed Japanese artillery positions.

After his artillery began to return fire, Okamura Ninji stood outside the bunker and observed the enemy situation with a telescope despite the opposition of others. After a while, he nodded with satisfaction and said to the others: "Hatono is very good, the round of counterattack just now was very accurate, pass on my order, report and reward Hatono Osa, and call on the whole army to learn from him." In the battle with the Cadet Army, artillery is very important, and only by destroying all the artillery of the Chinese people will we not lose too much in the next ground battle! ”

"Hay!" A staff officer staggered down.

"This should be an artillery unit that Ouyang Yun hid, Sanmurojun, if the main artillery force of the Xuebing Army retreats, there will be a maximum of three hours away from Madang, and these three hours will be our last opportunity! Do you understand? ”

"Hay! Your Excellency, rest assured, we will launch a tidal wave of attacks on the last fortifications on Cotton Boat Island. ”

(I was so busy yesterday that I forgot to post it - Ju Khan, this month, the focus is to catch up with another draft, so the update can only keep one chapter a day, and please forgive me brothers)