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After listening to Xi Yong's words, Diao Fei was silent for a while, then waved his hand, "Okay, let's not talk about these things, let's think about the war in front of us." Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info I guess that guy Huo Linsheng is so happy that his mouth is cracked to the back of his head!"

"Hehe, yes! Thousands of artillery pieces, the size of nearly four artillery divisions, commanding such a huge artillery group, and the supply of shells is still open, even if I change my command, I am just as happy to find the north, let alone that guy who is so addicted to artillery. ”

After listening to Xi Yong's words, Diao Fei also nodded in agreement, as an army commander, there is no one who doesn't like these powerful 'gods of war'.

"Hey, the shelling has stopped!" and it was at this moment that the shelling by the Americans, which had lasted for nearly an hour, finally stopped.

Hearing this, Diao Fei picked up the telescope he hung around his neck, trotted up a small dirt slope next to him, and looked in the direction of the front-line position.

"It looks like the next round of attacks by the Americans is about to begin!" Mr. Xi said.

Hearing his words, Diao Fei put down the binoculars in his hand, turned his head and said, "Lao Xi, the matter of the retreat of the troops will be handed over to you!"

Facing Diao Fei's courteous eyes, Xi Yong nodded solemnly, "You and Lao Pang can rest assured to command the battle on the front line, and leave the rest to me!"

After listening to his words, Diao Fei nodded heavily, patted Xi Yong's shoulder, and hurriedly walked towards the direction where the headquarters was located with his guards.

Seeing Diao Fei leaving, Xi Yong also knew that time was very tight for them now, so he immediately turned around and walked straight in the direction where the train station was located.

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Through the telescope, Huo Linsheng can clearly see the caliber field artillery, caliber howitzer, caliber howitzer, and caliber heavy artillery of the artillery positions carefully arranged by the Huo Jiajun in the distance.

And this huge artillery position. Let the blood of every Huo family army artilleryman begin to burn.

"Division commander, forward observation post reports that the American infantry has begun to attack!"

Taking the telegram from the hand of the communications staff officer, Huo Linsheng looked at it. handed over to Liu Lijun, political commissar of the artillery division next to him, "Order the forward positions to pay close attention to the enemy's movements, and report at any time if there is a situation!"

After receiving the order, the communications staff officer quickly left. Huo Linguang immediately issued a combat order, "Order the artillery to prepare for artillery bombardment!"

With one command after another, coming out of the headquarters of the Independent Artillery Division, the huge Huo Jiajun artillery was running as fast as a wound clockwork.

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"Commander, all the attacking forces are ready and awaiting your orders!" said Brock Senna with a serious expression.

Listening to the words of his chief of staff, Joseph Johnston still nodded heavily with a cold face. said: "Let them attack!"

"Yes, Commander!" Johnston withdrew his gaze from Bullock, who had gone out to deliver the order himself, and Johnston picked up his telescope again, and from its limited field of vision, Joseph Johnston could clearly see the results of their massive artillery strike.

Especially the Big John Cannon, although only six shots were fired in an hour. However, it has caused indelible damage to the strong fortress defense line of the Chinese, and the seven most important fortifications, in addition to the two that have been destroyed before, the two largest main forts in the middle for placing caliber heavy artillery have been destroyed, and the remaining four fortifications have also been damaged to varying degrees.

In addition, the headache-inducing half-buried machine-gun forts and troublesome tunnel positions around the main body of several fortresses were under the continuous attack of the massive artillery just now. It's gone.

It stands to reason that the harvest of this shelling is already very large. You know, their artillery has not achieved such results in the past month. Despite this, Joseph Johnston sensed that the current situation was particularly strange.

Because in the artillery battle just now, the Chinese on the opposite side did not even fight back with a single shot, which is really too different from their previous tactics.

And Joseph Johnston definitely has reason to believe it. If the Chinese artillery group could have counterattacked just now, then their own artillery would definitely not have achieved such a result. Moreover, it is also impossible to destroy the defensive positions of the Chinese without losing a single artillery, as it is now.

"It's too easy!" thought Joseph Johnston.

You know, in the last month or so of war. They were destroyed by the superiority of Chinese artillery in range and rate of fire more than 5,000 guns, and it was only recently that their own domestic arsenal developed artillery with a range comparable to that of the Chinese, which gradually brought back some of their disadvantages in artillery technology. It also makes them less passive on the battlefield.

Just as he was thinking about the battle situation in front of him, the 200,000 US Army troops who had been ordered to prepare for the attack had formed three echelons of offensive echelons and launched a full-scale attack on the nearly 25-kilometer defense line of the Erie Fortress.

At this time, in the field of vision of Joseph Johnston's telescope, a huge airship gradually rose from the Chinese position in the distance. Seeing this scene, Johnston's eyes suddenly became fierce, and a hint of foreboding flashed in his heart.

Since this kind of Chinese airship capable of dropping bombs from the sky first appeared on the battlefield in the south and achieved good results, the US War Department has never stopped researching this weapon. However, it is a pity that so far it has not been able to come up with a large airship comparable to the Chinese. Neither the load nor the range can meet the standards of combat.

Therefore, during this period of time, the entire US military has not had a good way to deal with this weapon that can drop bombs overhead at any time. It can only be driven by machine guns, machine guns and other continuous fire weapons at a time, but the effect is not good.

However, fortunately, the number of Chinese in this airship is not too large, and the accuracy of high-altitude bombing is not very good, and the left and right play in this life-and-death confrontation of millions of people is limited. Otherwise, I am afraid that they will not be able to do the result of pressing the Chinese now.

Now, just as the US Army began to attack, an airship suddenly sprang out, but the squadron was never seen in the telescope's field of vision. Johnston always felt like he was missing something.

"Do they want to retreat?" Johnston, looking at the still quiet enemy position in the distance, suddenly came to Johnston's mind with a thought that he didn't quite believe in himself.

You know, although they now have the upper hand in the battle of Yili, the Chinese defense still looks impeccable, and so far it has not shown signs of defeat. There's no reason to back down.

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Sun Cheng was the captain of the Kunpeng No. 6 airship, and this time he was tasked with providing accurate artillery coordinates for his own artillery group in the rear.

"It's a pity that I didn't receive a bombing mission!" Looking through the telescope at the large number of US troops in the distance like a tide, Sun Cheng couldn't help but think to himself with great pity.

As an airship commander, what he and his companions love nothing more than to see their opponents do nothing about their bombs when they fall on their heads.

"Captain, the Americans' army forward line is already less than 1 kilometer away from our position, can you send a telegram and ask them to prepare!" Xiao He, the observer of the Kunpeng 6, said at this time.

"Well, immediately feed back what we see to the rear!" As Sun Cheng's voice fell, the shortwave radio equipped on the Kunpeng airship immediately transmitted the news of their observations to the headquarters of the rear artillery division. Then, after analysis, this order turned into a new one, which was transmitted to the artillery groups in the rear.

The whole process took less than two minutes, and it has to be said that the invention and use of radio made Huo Jiajun's communication efficiency hundreds of times higher than that of the opponent Americans.

The convenient and fast information channels have undoubtedly greatly enhanced the operational coordination among various arms of the armed forces and brought into full play the maximum combat strength of a unit.

"Calibration Shooting Zhuyuan!"

According to the orders that came from the front, the squad leader of each artillery squad gave the same order.

With the adjustment of the high and low machine and the direction machine of the artillery, the muzzle of the gun began to be slowly erected.

"Huhu" was accompanied by flag-whisperers standing straight on each artillery position, waving red and blue flags, and ordering to prepare for artillery bombardment. Each artilleryman was ready to shoot. And all the squad leaders of the artillery squad stared closely at the red flag raised in the right hand of the flag soldier in the distance!

"Open the cannon!" After receiving the order from the division headquarters, the red flag waved down with the flag in the hands of the flag soldiers. The high-pitched sound of artillery fire rang out from every artillery position of the Huo family's army.

The second gunner quickly pulled the fire rope, and with a loud bang, the propellant exploded at a distance in the medicine room, pushing the shell to fly with huge kinetic energy to the US Army's forward unit, which was less than 400 meters away from Huo's position.

The simultaneous firing of 400 heavy artillery pieces and more than 500 75-caliber field guns was no weaker than the momentum of the American shelling just now, and thousands of shells of different sizes were smashed down at once on the US troops who were attacking with guns. According to past experience, generally when they enter a range of 300 meters, Huo Jiajun's light and heavy machine guns will fire, and at that time they will disperse. Therefore, the current US offensive forces are still a little dense. So all of a sudden, the shells that suddenly fell down brought a burst of bloody rain.