Chapter 101: Artillery Battle
Four or five 75-mm field guns of the Japanese army continued to fire in the direction of the Sacrifice Banner Slope in an attempt to suppress the artillery bombardment of the Sichuan Corps.
Takeuchi even got his wish, and Liao Mingyu let them withdraw from their positions early in order to prevent casualties among his precious artillery.
Because the range of the 120 mortars and the 92 infantry guns was limited, even if they were at the forefront of the position, they could not reach the Japanese artillery positions. The Japanese 75 field guns could have a maximum firing range of 10 km.
Liao Mingyu specially instructed the construction of the position of the Sichuan Army, and asked the soldiers to dig deep into the trenches and build the trenches deep enough. The lateral space of the individual anti-artillery bunker is also very large, and it is no problem to hide two people in it at the same time.
Such trench fortifications can not only prevent the precise strike of artillery shells, but also effectively disintegrate the explosive impact and lethality of artillery high-explosive shells. The fighters hid in bunkers, and a few 75 field guns basically posed no threat.
"Whew...... Rumble! "The dirt from the shells was still stirring overhead. However, the fighters who hid in individual bunkers were extraordinarily laid-back.
"Hehe, Wang Ba lid drop, Xiao Dongyang's cannonball is like a cousin, soft and dripping, snake butt, do you say yes?"
Bu La squatted in the individual anti-artillery bunker with a gun, took out the grenade on his body and stabbed the butt of the snake next to him......
"Get out of here, I told you to play less with this stuff, and something will happen sooner or later!" Snake Ass looked disgusted and knocked his hand off in displeasure. This idiot, he just compares with a grenade all day long.
"Where's the group? Why didn't you watch him come down? Meng Annoying, who was not far away, looked around, as if he didn't see Liao Mingyu's figure.
"He's still on top of the mountain with Krupp. said that he was going to get rid of the foreign cannons of Xiao Toyo. Bu Lai patted the dirt on his head and said casually.
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On the Japanese position, taking advantage of the ceasefire of the Sichuan Army, the little devils were trying their best to rescue the wounded soldiers and extinguish the fire. At the same time, we should increase the deployment of front-line positions and guard against the Chinese people on the other side of the river from crossing the river and attacking them.
At this time, Liao Mingyu took Krupp and Li Liansheng and a few old artillerymen, who were lying on the ridgeline with a telescope to observe the enemy's artillery position.
The howitzers had a large firing angle and a curved trajectory, and the four 105 howitzers were arranged on a gentle slope of the anti-slope not far from the ridge line.
The Japanese 75 field guns could not hit the anticline at all, but they were able to fire at the opposite side without hesitation. It's just that firing artillery here is a test of artillery skills.
Liao Mingyu first showed weakness to the enemy, ordered all the artillery to stop firing, and pretended to be suppressed by the Japanese artillery fire. In order to lure the Japanese artillery to constantly open fire to expose its position, and create an opportunity for Krupp to defeat the enemy with one blow.
"How's that, can you figure out where they are?"
Krupp next to him held a monocular high-powered telescope, closely observed the opponent's artillery positions, and from time to time took out a dial and kept calculating the firing yuan on paper with formulas.
Don't look at this fat man, he is stupid and dark, he sleeps all day except eating, but as long as he is allowed to shoot, he can quickly enter the state, giving people a very reliable feeling.
If you don't accept it, for this kind of professional ballistic position calculation work, Li Liansheng and the others can only stare dryly.
"Well, almost."
Krupp raised his head and checked the distance on the other side of the river and the data recorded in his hand again, nodded and looked at Liao Mingyu with an affirmative face: "Regiment leader, do you want to try two shots?" ”
"Look at what I'm doing, go fight."
"Oh good!"
After saying that, Krupp hurriedly ran to the artillery position not far behind him, and quickly beckoned the artillerymen to adjust the firing angle against the howitzer.
"The target distance is about 8600 meters, direction 1-18, high and low angles +3, 2 test shots, loading! Preparation...... Put! ”
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Two 105 howitzers roared, and the shells flew at great speed in the direction of the intended target.
"Commander, I can't see any bullet points in this position. I don't know if I've been hit. ”
Li Liansheng carefully observed the direction of the Japanese artillery on the opposite bank with a telescope, but because the distance was too far, he could not see clearly at all, and only knew a general direction.
Liao Mingyu was silent for a while and suddenly said: "Little Japanese shelling has stopped!" It should be in the transfer of positions. The angle of shooting is right, haha. This fat man is really not bad. ”
"Go and tell Krupp to continue shooting at this angle. Bite him ......"
When Liao Mingyu was about to tell Li Liansheng to convey the order, Krupp, an iron man, ran over out of breath. Everyone looked at him with a confused expression, not knowing what he was doing at this time.
"Regiment commander, after the two cannons, is it okay to shoot two more cannons?"
At this time, Krupper Mu looked at Liao Mingyu in a daze, the shelling just now lasted 10 minutes, where can this be enjoyable. Shooting cannons is as important as eating, and he wants to know if he can continue to fire at the moment.
"Oh fuck...... How can you be so well-behaved, tell you to shoot two shots? Dead Eye! ”
"What are you doing running up? Oops, Mom...... Why are you so sassy? Li Liansheng was also angry with his commotion.
Liao Mingyu slapped him on the head, and scolded angrily: "Go back and continue, the artillery who didn't kill the little devil is not allowed to eat today!" ”
The sound of shelling resounded in the sky......
Meanwhile... On the position of the defense division on the bank of the Nu River.
Yu Xiaoqing stood on his front line, his posture straight, and the army green coat draped on his body fluttered in the wind.
"It's not over yet..."
He took the telescope and had been watching here for a long time, and that Liao Mingyu didn't know what the wind was suddenly pumping, so he shelled the west bank early in the morning. Now it's a hornet's nest, and the little devils on the west bank are not to be outdone and pull out artillery to counterattack, the two waves of people are like red-eyed children fighting.
"I don't know what that guy is doing when he goes to garrison on the Sacrificial Flag Slope, where it doesn't even count as a second-line position, and it doesn't make sense to arrange troops there."
Yu Xiaoqing said to herself. This Liao Mingyu really can't figure out what he's going to do. There is also Takeuchi Lianshan on the other side, and he didn't attack during this time, so he shrank in Nantianmen and didn't know what kind of conspiracy he was doing. There's a hint of weirdness in all of this.
"Shizuo, there was chaos on the devil's position just now, in fact, ...... We can launch a wave of attacks, no matter what, so it's better to test it......"
Zhang Lixian was standing next to him, he saw a little suspicious, but unfortunately people were soft-spoken, and the master would not listen to him at all, maybe he had a plan to listen.
"Humph! It's not that simple, have you forgotten, the intelligence of the previous two days showed that the Japanese army had drawn no less than one wing of troops from various divisions and had assembled at Nantianmen. The strength of Takeuchi United is not as simple as what you see in front of you. ”
Yu Xiaoqing shook his head, how could he be willing to use his own soldiers to explore the grass without being completely sure.
Glancing at the sacrificial flag slope not far away, he frowned and said slowly: "It seems that I have to go to meet this Liao Regiment Leader tomorrow for a while, and see what kind of medicine is sold in his gourd." ”
"Boom... Rumble... Boom ......"
The Sichuan Army and the Takeuchi Wing are separated by a Nu River, and you come and go constantly bombarding the enemy with your own artillery.
The little devil artillery fought quite hard, and from time to time a few shells would fall on their artillery positions, killing and wounding many soldiers. They had just shifted their positions, and before they could fire more than 10 shells, they were bitten by the other side. Looks like there's a master on the other side!
The commander of the devil artillery is depressed, the 75 field guns in their hands have no advantage at all in terms of range and power, and the key opponent is still hidden on the reverse slope, and they can't hit it at all. In this small half a day, two 75 field guns have been blown up one after another.
The sound of artillery fire resounded throughout the morning, and finally ended with the Japanese being soft and hastily subdued.
Takeuchi Renshan, who was staying at the headquarters of the Japanese army, looked like his father and mother had died with dark clouds, and was listening to the chief of staff report on the damage to the troops in the morning.
"Report to the Wing Commander, after the morning's engagement, 386 of our soldiers were broken and 172 were wounded, and the main casualties came from the enemy's incendiary bombs and the ...... fire."
"Another... Two Type 97 vehicles were damaged, and 36 people and two 75 field guns were killed on the artillery side..."
"Bump!"
The water cup on the table was thrown to the ground by Takeuchi, and the chief of staff was so frightened that he took two steps back.
"When did the warriors of our Great Japanese Empire become so vulnerable!?"
"Hey!"
Takeuchi Renshan was so angry that his face was flushed, it had already been twice, and both times he had suffered in front of this mysterious Chinese army, which made this top student of the Imperial Army University resentful.
He tried to calm himself down, constantly reminding himself that a true commander could not be so presumptuous.
Sort out the ups and downs of emotions. Takeuchi stood up, ignoring the chief of staff, who was still standing in place like a lamppole, and walked out of the headquarters alone.
He exhaled deeply, and looked gloomily at the army on the hillside across the river, the mountain peak, which was not very inconspicuous at all, but now it was like a flood beast across his heart.
"Hehe, mysterious Huaxia officer, don't worry, the battle between you and me has just begun......"
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