Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 403 The New Battle of Xifengkou ([-])
The artillery stopped again, and the soldiers of the company returned to the trenches again amidst the shouts of the officers, and began to rescue their comrades while repairing the fortifications.

A shrapnel cut off half of Xu Rongfang's left ear, but he didn't seem to notice it.He took the lead in swinging the engineering shovel, shouting repeatedly: "Quick, quick!"

Shovelfuls of loess flew out of the trench. In the traffic trench, a stretcher team composed of self-defense members carried the stretcher and ran quickly.The blood of the soldiers is a stimulus to these peasants and workers.It also makes everyone more consciously involved in the rescue work.In Ouyang Yun's words to Jiang Shuren: "The soldiers cannot be allowed to bleed and then cry. Ambulance work and pensions must be in place, even if they go bankrupt."

The Ninth Division was still in charge of attacking this round, but it was replaced by the Seventh Wing of the Sixth Brigade.At this moment, Captain Izuo Kazuo was standing halfway up the mountain called Lin Xiushan by the locals, quietly observing with a telescope.The sky had already brightened, and the fog was being replaced by gunpowder smoke. On the position in front of the Xifeng Pass, in the front trench, loess was constantly spitting out.However, the offensive echelon formed by a brigade of soldiers led by Lieutenant Zuo Fang Akita Bamboo Soldiers was less than 300 meters away from the trench.

From this, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "The Chinese army on the opposite side is really a strong army?" Otherwise, at this time, the soldiers of the department should have been lying on the fortifications with their guns, so there is no mood and time to strengthen them. fortifications.

Because Xiangyue Qingsi has dealt with the Xuebing Army several times, he is very taboo towards the Xuebing Army. Although the strength of his First Army accounts for almost two-thirds of the North China Front Army, from his heart, he is still willing to be a soldier. Commander of the Second Army, responsible for the Shandong Raiders.On the other hand, he was looking forward to defeating Ouyang Yun by himself, after all, this person and his army of apprentices had already brought too many obstacles to the empire's attempt to dominate East Asia.If he could be defeated, not only would he be honored, but it would also be of great help to his career in the future.

The speed of the rise of the Xuebing Army is simply unbelievable in the eyes of the Japanese.For this reason, the espionage personnel in charge of intelligence work, including Kenji Doihara and Kyutaro Matsui, were once reprimanded by the Ministry of War.Of course, by the time the Japanese realized that the Xuebing Army had become their biggest obstacle to conquering North China, it was already too late.

Fully automatic rifles, tanks with outstanding armor and gun bore, mysterious weapons that can effectively kill fighters... and then think of advanced industrial products such as penicillin, off-road vehicles, and televisions. It seems that overnight, the Japanese suddenly discovered that, It turned out that their military industry, which relied on sharp weapons, was actually compared to a small warlord in China.This also forced them to design new tactics for the student army, changing the role of the troika of fighter planes, tanks, and artillery in combat, and using the number of ground troops to fill it.

According to the plan formulated by Kiyoshi Kozuki and Takashi Sakai, along the Great Wall with Xifengkou as the focus, the Japanese army will adopt the tactics of crowds and carry out continuous attacks, even if they cannot defeat the student army, they will drag it to death.

At this moment when Izuo Kazuo was thinking wildly, soldiers from both sides exchanged fire again.Summarizing the experience of the last offensive failure, this time, the Japanese army increased the use of mortars and grenades to support firepower for small troops.The Japanese troops participating in the attack were a brigade of more than a thousand people, with a squadron-sized mortar unit, coupled with grenades, this kind of firepower output was quite terrifying.In an instant, the trenches that Xu Rongfang defended were enveloped in gunpowder smoke and flames.

In the headquarters of the second division, Guo Da saw this situation through a telescope.He decisively ordered that the division's artillery units fire rapidly at the enemy in front of them for 3 minutes, and then immediately evacuate from the existing position.

The Second Division has a regiment-sized towed artillery, three-quarters of which are new howitzers developed by the Xuebing Army Arsenal.Compared with the howitzers of other countries at this time, because the quality of the steel is guaranteed, the howitzers of Xuebingjun Arsenal have a larger diameter ratio, and their range and accuracy have been greatly improved.The artillery regiment of the Second Division was set up at position 43 (on the combat map of the Xuebing Army, the combat area is divided into several positions and marked with numbers, which is not only conducive to dispatching, but also conducive to the artillery calculation of shooting elements), Kuang Minghong, the head of the artillery regiment, ordered the muzzle to be aimed at the forward position early on. At this time, he received the order and completed the shooting preparations in just one minute.Then, as he gave an order: "Fire!" In the rumbling sound, 1 four-mm caliber heavy guns, 12 12 mm caliber infantry guns, and 120 20 mm caliber mountain guns fired at the same time. flames come.

In the trenches, hearing the whistling sound of shells passing overhead, the faces of the soldiers in the company all turned red.Sun Gang shouted loudly: "Comrades, do you hear that, our cannon!"

"Lie down!" Opposite them, holding a pistol or waving a command knife, directing the soldiers to advance in a neat skirmish line, the Japanese officer roared like a lone wolf.

Isa Kazuo obviously did not expect that the Chinese army would dare to fire at such a distance. You must know that the distance between the opposing sides at this time is only within 200 meters.From the sound of shells tearing the air, it is not difficult to hear that there are large-caliber heavy artillery.Although this kind of heavy artillery has a long range and great power, its accuracy is surprisingly low. The normal hit rate is only 20%-30%.He couldn't help cursing bitterly: "A group of China lunatics." Then he issued an order to the artillery, asking them to find the opponent's artillery position to counterattack.Later, he raised the binoculars and couldn't help being stunned.This round of shelling by the Xuebing Army was obviously prepared, and none of the shells fell into their own positions. Under the attack of this round of shelling, more than a thousand people in the brigade of Akita Bamboo Soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the shells exploded. In the light of the flames, human body stumps and fragments flew in all directions, forming a Shura hell.

Yizuo Kazuo murmured: "How could this be? Isn't this too accurate?!" What he didn't expect was that the artillery position of the Xuebing Army was set up less than five kilometers away from the main battlefield, and, The hardest mountain was chosen.This kind of ground ensures that the cannon will not deviate from the gun position and shooting angle due to the previous firing, which ensures the accuracy of continuous shooting.

Although it was only a 3-minute rapid fire, the results achieved by the artillery regiment were spectacular.A whole brigade of devils, after this round of artillery fire, suffered [-]% casualties. Moreover, the mortar squadron that was under special care was almost wiped out. With scrap metal fragments, the meaning of continuing to exist on the battlefield has been lost.

(End of this chapter)