Chapter 19: The Raging Artillery Fire

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In the bell tower, Xiahou Xin had a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Sure enough, as I expected, Zhao Bingzhi was already drilling the tip of the horns and guessed the intention of our army, which was to use the artillery company as bait to eat its artillery battalion, but unfortunately, since you are holding your artillery battalion like a treasure, then I will not take your artillery battalion first, and let your soldiers die more."

"Order, all units can freely contact the artillery company for artillery support, unless before I get the order to stop firing freely, Hao Sanlin will fire casually!"

"No!" The communications corps picked up the phone and began to make announcements one by one.

This time the artillery company was lively, and the chiefs of the four city walls called Hao Sanlin like crazy.

"I said Hao Sanlin, give me two artillery pieces, the people of the 27th Division are already advancing very high." This is the call of Luo Yiwen of Ximen asking for artillery bombardment, although there are only two battalions of the 101st Regiment in front of his West Gate, but these bastards are rats, and they are advancing by trenches, and those people are wielding shovels all day long, in vain trying to push the battle line under the city wall by relying on earthwork, if there are cannons, how they dig it will be in vain.

"I said Lao Hao, don't throw shells at the west gate anymore, it's time to give us the north gate, I'm the regimental headquarters of the enemy's 101st Regiment here, and most of the reconnaissance companies of the 27th Division are also there, this is the enemy's elite force, the firepower is very fierce, and I am under a lot of pressure!" This is the ancient inkstone at the north gate, and this thirty-year-old boy is telling Hao Sanlin a story with tears in his eyes.

But here I finally put down the phone, and was preparing to bomb the subordinate artillery to the north gate, when the phone rang again.

"Old Hao! The enemy is coming up again, just the coordinates I gave you during the day, and give me a base number, hurry up. Zeng Lijun's voice roared urgently, and before Hao Sanlin could react, the phone hung up.

"Get out of your uncle's Zeng Lijun!" Hao Sanlin scolded.

The phone rang again, Hao Sanlin grabbed it angrily and was about to scold, when a weak voice came from the phone: "Third brother! My dear third brother! Save the little brother, this south city gate is lively, yesterday you blew them up, and now the revenge is all coming to me, the cattle of the second group are not people, the little brother has suffered heavy casualties, and if you don't give two cannons, I will be here today, I know that the third brother is a kind person, but I can't not save without seeing death. ”

After getting Hao Sanlin's clear reply, he hung up the phone, and Hua Shaojin immediately became lively from the appearance that seemed to be dead if he couldn't lift it in one breath, and said to a few soldiers around him: "How is it?" Captain, my acting skills are okay, right? This requires artillery support, and it cannot be relied on alone, but must have a strategy. ”

"High, it's really high, I guess Company Commander Hao is still worried about you at this moment."

"Don't talk nonsense to me, or this trick won't work in the future."

"Got it, Captain!"

The big rock city side here is deceitful for the artillery fire, and the quarrel is in full swing, but the actual benefits are obvious, first of all, it is difficult for the 27th Division to build temporary fortifications near the city wall, no matter what you push up, it will be razed to the ground by artillery fire, and it will not play the role of a cover at all, and it will take the lives of countless people, and secondly, the 27th Division will not dare to concentrate on the charge, if the attack at any point is too fierce, then he will wait to be greeted by countless artillery strikes.

Therefore, this time, the large-scale attack of the 27th Division, with the unlimited support of the artillery fire of Big Rock City, put less pressure on Big Rock City than last night's tentative attack.

At noon, the troops of the 27th Division retreated like a tide, and the entire headquarters was quiet and terrifying, and no one dared to make a sound, because Zhao Bingzhi's face was already black and terrifying.

In the end, it was Zhao Bingzhi himself who broke the strange atmosphere and said, "Have you counted the casualties?" ”

"The statistics are out, the 101st Regiment suffered 839 casualties, the **2nd Regiment suffered 1,342 casualties, the reconnaissance company suffered 37 casualties, and the directly subordinate garrison regiment suffered casualties.."

The staff officer in charge of statistics was a little hesitant and did not dare to report.

"Say!"

"The garrison regiment directly under it suffered 1,140 casualties, plus some transport troops and logistics units, a total of 2,430 casualties."

"Good! Very good! An army of hope of less than 2,000 men has not only blocked the attack of our 8,000 men, but has already killed 2,400 of us! ”

"Send the location of the enemy's artillery unit to Wan Shaofeng and tell him that if the enemy is still firing at this coordinate, shoot me down! After the shelling was completed, immediately proceed to evacuate and rebuild the positions of the 2nd Artillery Corps! ”

"I can see it! This Chu Heng is fighting psychological warfare with me! Either he was sure that I wouldn't dare expose the artillery too soon, or he was so naΓ―ve that he never thought I would come with it! Either way, I've been! Zhao Bingzhi overturned the table in a hurry, and the paper flew all over the sky, and it could be seen that Zhao Bingzhi was hit very hard in terms of strength and soul.

In the city, looking at the retreating enemy army, the army of hope was also ready to rest, Xiahou Xin called Hao Sanlin and said: "In the afternoon, you continued to shell the enemy as in the morning, but the first round of artillery fire only fired three rounds and then withdrew, remember, no artillery, no ammunition, just the soldiers can leave, I think after your ravages for a morning, Zhao Bingzhi's tense nerves should collapse, and it is likely to use their artillery fire to knock you out, what you have to do is this bait play, after the last one!" ”

"In that case, why don't you fire again in another place, or don't you fight?" Hao Sanlin was a little puzzled.

"This scene is sung on the premise that our army thinks that his 27th Division has no artillery, and it is necessary to make an unscrupulous artillery attack on the 27th Division, only if the position has not changed, can we show our rampant and our unscrupulousness, so that Zhao Bingzhi can confirm that we are sure that they have no artillery, and he can release the fish we want."

"Isn't it a pity that those cannons are a pity?" Hao Sanlin didn't understand, but if there would be artillery bombardment as Xiahou Xin said, wouldn't those cannons be destroyed.

"Don't take an inch! If it weren't for the instructions of Lord Zen to keep you artillerymen, I wouldn't have risked your evacuation! After all, if I can't calculate correctly, Zhao Bingzhi's nerves are tougher than I expected, then your practice of dumbing fire after three shots can already make people suspicious! In my style, it is cost-effective to replace the artillery battalion of the 27th Division with your artillery company! Xiahou Xin said in a cold voice.

"Yes! After the afternoon launch, a strategic strike was carried out on the target, and after three shells, all equipment was discarded and the designated place was evacuated! ”

What else can Hao Sanlin say? This Xiahou is too dark, he has no doubt that if Lord Zongxian did not ask him, this Xiahou Xin would definitely send himself to the guns of the enemy artillery battalion.

This is not a joke, and I dare to ask for it, but I just wait to be hacked to death.

The morale of the 27th Division is no longer as high as it was when it first arrived yesterday, after all, it has been reduced by a third, but they can't even reach the edge of the enemy's wall, and they are no longer full of confidence in the mentality of a marauder, but they are thinking about how to save their lives.

After all, it is easy to fight with the wind, and no one wants to fight this kind of cruel battle, and it will kill people.

There is only one human life, and they are still living in the last days, and they don't want to die so early.

Therefore, the soldiers who all think like this no longer have the sharpness of the first day.

One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion.

Last night and early this morning, the two attacks were ineffective, and their morale had fallen to a low point, and Zhao Bingzhi knew that if the artillery battalion did not fire again, he would not be able to fight this battle.

Now there are only two options in front of him, one is to open fire, knock out the unscrupulous mortar position, and then carry out an artillery bombardment of the city walls everywhere to break down those defenses, so as to boost morale and take Big Rock City, and the other is to go back in ashes, and this attack will be considered a failure.

First, he had to risk the enemy's cunning to induce him to appear in the artillery position, so as to knock out his own artillery position, and second, although he lost one-third of his manpower and face, the artillery battalion could still be kept intact.

But how can Zhao Bingzhi, who is domineering and arrogant and conceited, endure this breath and bear the loss? So, he chose to put artillery into the afternoon offensive.

But it has to be said that he is cautious, intending to let the artillery battalion move immediately after knocking out the artillery position in Big Rock City, it can be seen that Zhao Bingzhi is careful and calm, of course, the most important thing is that he still treasures his artillery battalion.

The losses of Big Rock City were also very heavy, and all the reserves in Xiahou Xin's hands had been sent out, and even the logistics department, except for doctors, nurses, clerks, and clerks, who could hold guns, went up to the city wall, and they guarded it for another morning.

I have to say that Chu Heng has nothing to say about the treatment of soldiers, those who are fighting on the front line, eating and drinking are the best supplies, weapons and ammunition are also directly put aside, and they are not afraid of the additional wear and tear of the war at all, the soldiers are not afraid of the extra wear and tear of the war, the soldiers have finished the battle, eat and sleep, the nervous and psychological quality of people in these years has long been comparable to people in peacetime, let alone fighting, let's just say that in the early days of the catastrophe, how many people slept at home, and there were millions of zombies roaring outside, and the psychological quality was poor, and they had already gone crazy.

So, they have guns and grenades in their hands, they are still on the high city walls, and there are also people patrolling and sentry, why can't they sleep?

At about 3 p.m., the officers and men of the 27th Division began the third round of attack after some coercion and inducement from the superiors.

But this time it is obvious that the work is not effective, but whenever there is a little danger, the soldiers are killed and do not go out of the bunker, even if the people of the supervision team behind are forced by guns, they also use guns to resist and say that you have the ability to go out first!

In this way, the ** Second Regiment and the 101st Regiment had no morale, and only the directly subordinate garrison regiment still maintained a certain level of morale, braving bullets like splashing water, and slowly advanced.

On the playground of the town's primary school, Hao Sanlin held a piece of paper and said while waving it: "Is it done running and debugging?" Listen to it all! Shoot three shells as fast as you can, and then run to the logistics office for me, assemble there, hear me! ”

"Company commander, what about these cannons?"

"Don't worry about the cannon, don't care about the shells, just run for me, you know, if it's slow, you'll be shelled!"

"Got it!"

"That's good! Fire! ”

Sixteen mortars of 120 mm caliber spewed the last rays of light ...

Twenty-seventh Division Headquarters

"Very good, still shoot me on the spot, it's really bullying me for not having a gun! Tell Wan Shaofeng, fire with all your might, and raze their artillery positions for me! ”

At a low bush five kilometers outside the East City Gate, a dazzling light suddenly erupted, and the white exhaust of twelve shells drew a graceful arc in the sky and smashed into Big Rock Castle.

The guard company led by Sun Jiaming and Zhou Ming, who were lying in ambush two kilometers behind the headquarters of the 27th Division, were shocked when they saw the firelight.

"Two o'clock, 1,300 meters! Let's go! Burn the wind! Zhou Ming's voice couldn't suppress the excitement.

I've been waiting for you for a long time!