West.

There was already artillery fire on the Matouyuan position.

When the battle situation on the Eastern Front was blazing, the two squadrons of the 38th Brigade of the Little Devils who came out of the Mianshan Fortress, and the commander of the Mianshan Task Force, Captain Harada Jiro, set up the temporary headquarters on a small hill 2 miles west of the Matouyuan position, opposite the Matouyuan.

Agarwood In the telescope, you can see the epaulettes on the little devil's body.

Although Harada Jiro was arrogant when he set out to annihilate all the 8 routes that invaded Wanjia Town, he was quite cautious when he actually marched into the army.

Not only did they deploy reconnaissance elites in advance and send three large left three-wheeled reconnaissance ahead of them, but the formation remained intact all the time, placing the heavy weapons in the middle of the car, which greatly avoided the first wave of losses that might have been attacked.

In fact, it was impossible for them to carry out too much covert transformation of their positions in their hurry, and two hours was enough for them to dig out a few simple trenches.

So it is not surprising that the Matouyuan position was exposed to the eyes of the little devil's reconnaissance elite.

Receiving the reward, Harada Jiro quickly changed his formation, deployed an offensive battle formation, placed the first squadron in front, and attached the first machine gun squad with 3 heavy machine guns, and began to slowly move forward.

At the same time, the artillery squad was placed on the side of the command headquarters, and 2 92 infantry guns and 4 94 90-mm mortars formed an artillery position.

In front of the Matou Ridge position, a wave of shells will wash the ground first!

Then one shell after another was fired at the positions of the 5th and 6th detachments of the infantry, and the artillery eyes of the little devils were good, and when the battle began, they observed in the telescope the new soil traces of the trenches on the Matou Ridge, and specially picked up the trenches for shelling.

So soon after the start of the battle, casualties began to appear on the Matouyuan position.

With such a difficult enemy, Shenquan was almost helpless for a while.

Except for waiting for Wang Xilai to bring the artillery crew to perform a miracle, the sniper position was silent, as if there was no one.

At the same time, the 1st squadron of the little devils had advanced along the road to a distance of 500m closer to the position.

The little devil machine gun squad set up the heavy machine guns here, facing the Matouyuan position, facing the three heavy machine gun positions of the little devils, Shen Quan frowned.

In this kind of place, if the little devil comes to such a move, it will be difficult for the Dagushan guerrillas to fight a wave of counterattacks.

In the face of the fire point composed of three heavy machine guns, there is only one road that can be passed, even if there are thousands of people, do not think of rushing over.

The little devil relied on this trick to kill the opportunity for Shenquan to counterattack and charge.

"This little devil, there's something." Shen Quan's eyes narrowed.

Artillery and heavy machine gun fire were deployed one after another, without haste or impatience, advancing layer by layer, and doing everything possible to weaken the adverse effects of the terrain.

Shen Quan did not expect that the battle had just begun, and he would fall into such a dangerous situation. Now in the face of the attack of the little devils, it is simply a passive beating.

If there were no mortar crews waiting for their time outside, Shenquan would really not be able to hold up.

However, Shen Quan believes that the shells of the little devils are also limited, and the shelling will not be endless.

Sure enough, after several rounds of bombardment, the shelling of the little devils began to stop.

During the shelling, Jiro Harada, the little devil, carefully observed the changes in the opponent's position.

The opposite side was quite calm under artillery fire, maintaining a calm attitude that did not fire a single shot.

Such a tough opponent also makes Harada Jiro feel very tricky.

The little eyeballs rolled up, and Harada Jiro scolded in a low voice: "Yaga, the earth is cunning and cunning. ”

"Shoda-kun, I'll leave you with the first round of tentative attacks."

After Harada Jiro finished scolding, he said to Captain Shoda Kazushu, the leader of the second squadron beside him.

"Hi Yi, please rest assured." Kazushu Shoda did not question Jiro Harada, who commanded him at the same level.

Although the two of them were of the same rank, at the time of departure, the captain had already assigned Jiro Harada as the leader of the task force, and Shoda Ichishu naturally had to obey his orders.

Although the little devil has always had a tradition of defeating the following, he still has a strict hierarchy on the battlefield.

"Xiangtian-kun, in the first round of attack, as long as we test the firepower distribution of the Eighth Road, we don't need to be in a hurry, order the second squadron to rest on the spot."

"Hey!"

Shoda Ichishu obeyed the order and went out and scattered the second squadron in the open area behind the headquarters to rest and recuperate, relieving the fatigue caused by the rapid march all the way.

He took his deputy and went straight to the first squadron of the front.

......

At this moment, Wang Xilai led 6 artillery crews and lurked in the withered yellow bushes on the left slope of the hill 2 miles away from the little devil's artillery position.

Seeing that the artillery of the little devils in the telescope was raging and shelling his comrades-in-arms, Wang Xilai gritted his teeth and carefully observed and calculated the distance between them.

Wang Xilai followed Gao Jianwu during this time, but he learned a lot of things, this finger ranging, or Wang Xilai asked Gao Jianwu to personally calibrate the eyebrow distance and arm distance, and practiced it thousands of times.

Now the small test is no worse than the gunner.

"Jin Laiwang, Xu Jiaming, Cai Tongqing,...... The little devil artillery near 1000 meters in front of the left, each looking for a gun position to measure the range, and after preparing for the cross-firing verification, all 3 rounds of rapid fire will be covered, and the enemy's artillery will be solved in one fell swoop! ”

"Yes!" The gunners of several artillery crews received the order cleanly.

Mortars have long been selected for their positions.

After Wang Xilai followed one of the groups of ranging settings to shell Zhu Yuan, as soon as he finished speaking, the ammunition man stuffed the shell into the muzzle of the mortar and fired the first shot with a bang.

Immediately after that, Wang Xilai carefully adjusted the firing angle, and another mortar shell was fired.

The sound of two shells whistling in the air instantly attracted the attention of the little devil artilleryman.

At this moment, the artillery of the little devil really reacted very quickly, and the artillery squad leader stared at the small black dot shells flying in the distance, and quickly reversed the calculation of the source.

"Spread out! Search for a hillside target 2 miles away on the left. The artillery squad leader stared at the small black dot in the sky and howled loudly.

The shells landed more than 10 meters behind the artillery position, followed by a second mortar shell that fell more than 10 meters in front.

"Artillery shifted to the left and right! Hurry up, hurry up! ”

After observing this situation, the little devil artillery squad leader's face changed.

This is a commonly used cross-fire check for naval guns, and this group of dirt eight roads is not like earth eight roads, and they actually play like this.

The well-informed squad leader expected a wave of shells to fall on their positions in droves!

If he was not miscalculated, the enemy had a group of mortars in concentrated use.

This battle is a bit tough.

No wonder Captain Jiro Harada is so cautious, the leader of the devil artillery squad admires Jiro Harada's deployment at the moment.

At first, he thought that this would be a superfluous move, and who knew that every minute would come in handy.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the 18 mortar shells to take on a circular barrage, completely covering where their artillery had just been!

If it weren't for the quick dodge, they would all be a pile of minced meat at this moment!

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