The Japanese Third Army, which had lost its command structure and was already somewhat chaotic, had three division commanders in it, but the ultimate in coordinated command could not be solved by a single message in later generations.

When the artillery positions were attacked, the camps of the three divisions were also subjected to heavy shelling at the same time.

Only the Japanese soldiers in the forward positions, far from the center of the shelling, did not become the targets of the shelling.

The artillery position is precarious, and more than 300 artillery pieces are at risk of being destroyed.

In the midst of the artillery fire, rescue troops immediately went to the artillery positions, but in front of these reinforcements were superb shooters.

The first wave of rescue troops had a large team, but in front of them were snipers who could easily take their lives hundreds of meters away.

When the support group was about to arrive at the artillery position, it was less than a kilometer away from the artillery position, but the whole group stopped there.

There were snipers in ambush on the left and right, and hundreds of Japanese soldiers were blown off their heads in the first round of attacks, and none of the Japanese soldiers who tried to advance towards the artillery position could walk 20 meters forward.

Trying to cover the advance with machine gun fire, the two machine guns were placed around each of them, and no less than ten Japanese soldiers fell on each side.

The terrifying sniper tactics that flourished in this era and quickly became a lingering nightmare for Japanese soldiers.

Just meat. No one dared to raise their heads, and they all crawled on the ground and did not dare to move, let alone look up.

Quite a few Japanese soldiers who tried to look up to check the situation fell under the guns and learned from them.

And another reason why more Japanese soldiers did not dare to move was that all the officers in the entire brigade had already fallen in the first round of attacks.

Sniper tactics, priority targets, heavy firepower, and officers were all taken out, and the brigade lost its command, and the soldiers were left lying on their stomachs.

The artillery positions, which had not received support, also hurriedly called again for help, and soon the second wave of brigades supporting the artillery positions also stopped there.

For the surviving Japanese soldiers, this was the most terrible battle, because until now, they did not even see the enemy, and the two brigades, more than two hundred people had died.

And there are gunshots all around from time to time, and every time a gunshot is fired, it is like the call of death, and someone will always die.

To block the enemy, you don't necessarily need positions, you don't necessarily need machine guns and artillery, sometimes just a group of skilled shooters is enough.

In particular, this kind of superb marksman, who can accurately snipe targets at a distance of 500 meters, only needs a few dozen people, and can even delay thousands of troops.

However, it was also in this era that the clearly marked officer rank and uniform, as well as the command knife at the waist, became the top priority target for snipers.

This kind of behavior of exposing the identity of the commander on the battlefield has long disappeared in the environment of modern warfare.

Every officer will not reveal his identity obviously, but hide among ordinary soldiers, in order to prevent snipers who are everywhere in the shadows.

Before the end of World War II, this behavior was not obvious, because sometimes officers needed to show their identity on the battlefield and then command troops more conveniently.

When such a unit is faced with a group of snipers with modern combat concepts, the situation is completely different.

Although there are individual soldiers who are able to vaguely lock on to the direction and distance of the attack according to the trajectory of the gunfire and bullets penetrating the target, with their ability, there is no threat at all to the sniper from a distance of 500 meters.

Even if the Third Army sent a third wave of reinforcements, a whole two brigades, the result was the same, they could only choose to crawl forward, dodging the Japanese reinforcements from the snipers, even if they climbed to the artillery position, the daylily was cold.

And this is also a tactic formulated by Xu Yanwu against the Japanese Third Army, combining the artillery fire that is not considered superior, combined with the attack of the infantry, and then using snipers to delay the rescue of the Third Army, and finally achieve the plan of completely annihilating the Japanese artillery.

It was a crazy plan to successfully destroy the 300 artillery pieces of the Japanese Third Army with the minimum amount of troops and to ensure that they paid the minimum cost.

Because the infantry involved in the assault on the artillery positions of the Third Army added up to less than a thousand people.

The target of the attack was more than two thousand defenders, as well as several thousand men on artillery positions.

However, the result did not surprise Xu Yanwu, this year, Xu Yanwu and the Third Army have a thorough understanding, combined with the combat capabilities of the soldiers on both sides, this is the only way to have this targeted plan.

The Japanese army's combat mode, support tactics, infantry defense tactics, as well as operational will and operational thinking, have been collected and analyzed in an all-round way, and combined with the combat capabilities of their own soldiers, this bold tactic has been truly realized on the battlefield.

Whoever let the Third Army run into an enemy who had already secretly known them for a year was not unjustly defeated.

An hour later, all 300 guns were destroyed on the Japanese artillery position, and all the artillery and defenders were also all under the guns and guns.

The two infantry battalions responsible for attacking the Japanese artillery position also paid the price of one-third of the casualties, and if it were not for the sniper support, I am afraid that the entire infantry battalion would have been exhausted, and it would have been difficult to capture this artillery position.

Although the price was paid, the first step of the counteroffensive was finally completed, and then all the firepower of the fleet fully covered the forward positions and camps of the Third Army.

The Japanese Third Army, which was already blocked by artillery, really faced the powerful artillery fire of the First Fleet.

In particular, the artillery bombardment of the forward positions of the Japanese army, under the attack of the huge guns of the battleships, and the artificially dug earth trenches, could not stop the terrible heavy artillery at all.

Dense fire exploded in front of the front, and in Vladivostok, the forces of two infantry regiments were assembled, ready for a counterattack on the Third Army.

Under the suppression of artillery fire, the 1st Division methodically approached the Japanese position, and then quietly waited for the artillery fire to extend.

The Japanese positions that had withstood the heavy artillery attack of the battleships were full of tossed dirt, gunsmoke, stumps, and debris.

Especially on the two closest Japanese lines near Vladivostok, the heavy artillery even changed the entire terrain, the sand dunes turned into dirt pits, the earth pits into sand dunes, and the smoke and explosions enveloped the entire position.

Outside Vladivostok, after all, there are no fortified bunkers or tunnels to hide from shelling, and Russia has used artillery more often than ever to block Japanese attacks in the past year.

It's just that now the defense has changed to offense, and the offense has become defense.