my bright sword career

Chapter 118 Get Out of Here
For artillery, discovery means being wiped out. Although this sentence is too absolute, it is an indisputable fact that once artillery is discovered, it will be at risk of being destroyed.

It is estimated that Ryuji Ota also heard that the Liantai militia also had artillery, so he specially ordered the artillery to hide, so the shelling started for several minutes. I didn't expect the other party to have something like a hot air balloon.

When Ota Ryuji, who was watching the battle, saw the huge hot air balloon rising in the sky, he immediately screamed in his heart that he was not good, and immediately shouted at the signal soldier: "Immediately order the artillery squadron to stop shooting and move their positions immediately."

It’s just that Ryuji Ota’s order was still too late. Accompanied by a piercing whistling sound, a shell roared and landed less than 30 meters away from the Japanese artillery position and exploded. Ryuji Ota knew it when he saw the smoke from the explosion. It is a 105 mm caliber shell.

Although they missed the target, Ryuji Ota did not feel lucky, because he understood that this was just a test launch by the other party, and with the guidance of the tide watch whistle on the hot air balloon, they would soon correct the target.

Sure enough, just over ten seconds later, there was another whistling sound in the sky, but this time the whistling sound came in bursts.

"boom……"

"Boom boom boom..."

Accompanied by a huge roar, more than a dozen shells accurately landed on the position of the artillery squadron, and the huge explosion accompanied by thick smoke engulfed the entire position.

Ryuji Ota closed his eyes in pain. He knew that his artillery squadron was over. The information he had received earlier was not wrong. The Chinese really had heavy artillery. It was ridiculous that he still had a fluke mentality just now, thinking that as long as the artillery squadron position was hidden, it would be enough It seems so stupid to avoid the observation posts of the Chinese people now.

However, Ryuji Ota was able to become the captain of the regiment, and he was naturally not an easy person, no matter if it was mental perseverance, it was the last choice.

The defeat of the artillery squadron did not shake his confidence, and soon he gave the order to the first battalion to attack.

"Tuan Zuo, the little devil is attacking!"

"I saw."

Standing in the lookout hole of the observation post, Gao Hongming could clearly see a distance of 800 meters with a telescope. A Japanese squadron began to attack the Fourth Battalion in skirmish formation.

The 41st Division is worthy of being a mobile unit valued by Shinozuka Yoshio, and it is very organized when attacking.

In terms of numbers, this is a squadron-level attack.

Their offensive formation is extremely loose, usually with a team (each team 15) as a small unit, 8 riflemen will be divided into 2 groups of 4 people to attack frontally, crawl forward with tactical actions, and then use light machine guns ( 11-year machine gun) in the side rear cover.

Then their heavy machine guns suppressed the fourth battalion's position further back, and behind the heavy machine guns were mortars.

In the impression of many people, the Japanese army only pays attention to grenades, and almost dismisses mortars. In fact, this perception is wrong. Japan is actually equipped with mortars, and the number is not small, at least for now Gao Hongming saw a slope more than 1000 meters ahead, and the Japanese army was bombarding the position of the fourth battalion with mortars.

Seeing this, Gao Hongming couldn't help frowning.

"The little devil is quite cunning. He actually hid the mortar behind the back slope. It's hard for our artillery to reach now." Wu Chengfeng murmured.

"Don't mind them."

Gao Hongming smiled coldly, "Order the Second Artillery Battalion to shoot at the infantry in front. I'd like to see what the quality of this unit that Shinozuka values ​​most."

"understand!"

"Boom! Boom!"

With the call of an officer in gray uniform, the position of the Second Artillery Battalion was immediately enveloped by a muffled sound of gunfire. Eighteen M2105 [-]mm howitzers pierced the air, breaking the silence between heaven and earth, becoming The only voice in the world.

M17.3 high-explosive bombs weighing 546 kilograms left the barrel and landed in the Japanese offensive formation after a short slide.

As a special anti-personnel bomb, the M546 high-explosive bomb contains [-] small steel arrows. After the shell explodes, it will scatter in all directions. It is very lethal to unprotected personnel. Although the Japanese army has tried to disperse the formation, But there are still many Japanese soldiers suffered.

"boom!"

A machine gun position erected on a soil slope was directly hit by a shell, and the Type 100 heavy machine gun weighing more than [-] kilograms and the wreckage of the machine gunner were thrown several meters into the air.

Then the machine gun fell from the air and hit a Japanese soldier who was dodging the shelling. The soldier let out a miserable scream, struggled twice and vomited blood before he could no longer move.

Originally, Ryuji Ota had a good plan, which was to disperse the offensive formation as much as possible to reduce the lethality of the opponent's artillery fire. In his impression, the Huaxia government was not very rich.

Take the Wuhan war epidemic as an example. This battle lasted for four months and involved more than 100 million people. The Nationalist government fired only a few hundred shells. This shows the lack of shells for the Guojun.

This is because shells are not cheap these days. Take 105mm shells as an example, the price of a shell is 40-50 US dollars. Judging from the shelling just now, the Chinese should have [-] artillery pieces.

In this way, a salvo will immediately cost nine hundred dollars, and the shelling of this level will not last long and will stop.

It's a pity that Ryuji Ota's idea was doomed to fail. The Huaxia people's shells seemed to be inexhaustible, and it lasted for about 10 minutes without any sign of ending.

Suddenly, a shell exploded not far from Ryuji Ota, and the temporary fortifications were blown apart in the sound of the explosion. A small tree was directly hit by the shell, and sawdust, branches and leaves were scattered everywhere. I was dizzy from the shock.

Before he could react, the staff officer at the side threw him to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, the second and third shells also fell.

The bunker made of wood and earth trembled in the shock wave produced by the explosion of the shell. From time to time, soil particles fell along the gap. The empty lunch box on the ammunition box in the headquarters shook up and down from time to time and the spoon made a crisp sound. The sound of metal clanging.

Dizzy from the shelling shock, Ryuji Ota, who just came back, struggled to get up, shaking the dust in his collar, looking out from the observation hole, the shells fell on his vicinity like rain, and the smoke that was raised Dust and blown soldiers' limbs flew around.

"Your Excellency, Captain, the artillery fire of the Chinese people has begun to extend, let's leave here immediately." The staff officer who threw Ryuji Ota down just now roared loudly...

(End of this chapter)