The heavy artillery equipped by the 10th Artillery Regiment is a special version built by Germany for the national army.
It has a caliber of thirty-two times.
Compared with the original German version, it is heavier and more powerful.
Of course, the range is also longer.
The artillery's The safety is also better.
The original German product is prone to explosion after firing a thousand rounds.
The 32-caliber artillery chamber equipped by the 10th Artillery Regiment is safer.
The battalion fired a salvo, and six heavy artillery shells were fired along the planned path.
The ballistic trajectory flew straight towards the Japanese army's deep positions.
Let's say that just before the heavy artillery battalion opened fire, Zhang Wei's preparation battalion and the attack troops of the other two battalions were still digging trenches.
The Japanese position in the front was under bombardment from the 46th Division's mountain artillery battalion, and the 59th Regiment behind them The main force still did not move, and the infantry artillery squadron and the wing artillery squadron behind the wing were preparing for artillery bombardment.
Since both infantry artillery and mountain artillery are mainly aimed at level shooting, the Type 41 mountain artillery of the Japanese artillery squadron is an infantry type and focuses more on direct fire.
In order to achieve accurate shooting, the artillery has all advanced a certain distance and has just been loaded.
Artillery shells, the artilleryman who completed the preparations immediately notified the commander of the 59th Regiment, Ryoichi Itanishi.
In the command post, Ryoichi Itanishi listened to the sound of artillery fire from the front line and looked at the smoke rising from the front.
"Your Excellency, Wing Commander, the artillery is ready."
Itangishi Ryo's expression changed.
The troops in the forward position had been hit by artillery fire from the Chinese army.
The Chinese army was still digging fortifications with a low eye.
His own troops were being suppressed and beaten.
Now that the artillery was ready, they could just attack the digging.
Chinese troops in the trenches.
"Okay, the artillery begins to attack."
Ryoichi Itanishi gave the order to fire.
The liaison soldiers sent by the two artillery squadrons immediately ran out of the wing command post.
As soon as they walked out of the command post, there was a blast in the sky above the artillery position.
Howling.
Some Japanese soldiers looked up curiously, and the experienced artillerymen realized the source of the roar within a few seconds.
"shelling" Almost at the same moment when someone came to their senses, twelve heavy artillery shells landed on the ground one after another, with the impact points scattered in the middle and rear of the 59th Regiment.
After the shells landed, there was a violent explosion.
The soldiers on the Japanese artillery position could only It felt like everything went dark before my eyes, and the whole world became extremely chaotic.
Two heavy artillery shells just hit the artillery position, and others scattered around the middle and rear of the 59th Regiment.
The result of the explosion of two heavy artillery shells on the artillery position was quite tragic.
One shell directly hit a Type 41 mountain cannon, directly tearing the artillery from the gun frame, gun breech block to gun body, and turned them all into useless pieces.
Iron, another shell detonated ninety-two steps when it exploded The chain reaction caused by the explosion of the artillery shell box destroyed an infantry artillery squad.
In addition to the shell shrapnel and various fragments scattered everywhere, the Japanese artillery position was already miserable, with human body parts and cannons damaged by the artillery.
The bodies were twisted and mixed together.
The explosion of two shells caused heavy casualties to the Japanese gunners.
A Japanese officer who had not been killed climbed up from the ground.
Looking at the tragic scene around him, he was not intimidated: "Everyone, get up and move the artillery and equipment." , push to a hidden position" After the first round of shelling, the Japanese army still had three infantry guns left, and two Type 41 mountain guns were damaged.
Thanks to the Japanese army's strict implementation of the prescribed artillery placement distance when setting up positions, otherwise these guns would be afraid It's all going to be over.
Compared with artillery, the number of casualties was much higher.
An infantry artillery squadron and a mountain artillery squadron suffered almost half of their troops.
After the Japanese officer shouted loudly, the Japanese soldiers who fell to the ground but were not dead also knew that it was not advisable to stay here for a long time and endured it.
Injured and physically uncomfortable, one by one got up with a gray face and covered in blood, and quickly pushed the intact artillery back.
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"Retreat" "Conceal the artillery."
Amidst the chaotic noise, the bombed Japanese gunners desperately pushed the artillery back to the hidden artillery position.
Of course, the mission of harassing the Chinese army with artillery was temporarily suspended.
There were still some wailing wounded soldiers and mutilated limbs on the ground. , corpses, at this time, it was too late to care about them.
The round of shelling just now destroyed nearly half of the support artillery of a Japanese regiment.
Other artillery shells fell everywhere in the defense of the 89th regiment.
One shell landed at the door of Ryoichi Itanishi's command post, killing several The signal corpsmen of the regiment headquarters and other falling bombs also caused more or less casualties to the Japanese troops everywhere.
"Order all troops to strengthen their fortifications and not to act rashly.
The shelling and harassment are cancelled."
Ryoichi Itanishi said in shock.
The power of this bombardment was obviously a large-caliber heavy artillery.
At this time, Ryoichi Itanishi had no intention of attacking.
He asked the troops first.
Self-preservation is the best, so the Japanese army positions that were bombarded began to repair fortifications in a hurry.
On the heavy artillery battalion position, after the first round of shelling, the Chinese artillerymen on the position looked into the distance, and the smoke and dust generated by the Japanese artillery position being hit and killed were clearly visible.
The shelling caused a chain of shell explosions that could be seen clearly even from such a distance.
There was a burst of cheers from the position of the heavy artillery battalion.
The commander of the heavy artillery battalion immediately organized a second round of firing.
After the artillerymen completed the work of cleaning the barrel and loading the ammunition, they fired the second round of artillery shells, still using No. 8 charge grenades.
After the first round of firing, the officers of the heavy artillery battalion judged from the smoke generated by the Japanese bombing that the first round of artillery fire was basically successful.
They only made slight adjustments and started the second round of artillery fire.
The speed of the artillery fire gradually accelerated, and then the The third and fourth rounds of shelling.
Continuous rounds of shelling tilted dozens of heavy artillery shells towards the Japanese positions.
The Japanese troops in the depths suffered considerable losses under the heavy artillery bombardment.
The most important thing was that their front-line troops were suppressed by mountain artillery.
They were suppressed by heavy artillery in depth, making it difficult to attack the exposed areas.
The attacking force in front of them takes action.
Under the continuous bombardment, Zhang Wei and his attacking troops gradually dug up fortifications.
"The little devil was blown to pieces" "Everyone, try to be more energetic and work more efficiently on your hands."
The sound of artillery boomed.
With the efforts of the three battalions, a trench gradually took shape.
The soldiers connected the dots and built a simple one-line trench.
The excavated soil was piled outside the trench and compacted to act as a shield against shrapnel. defense.
Zhang Wei's preparation battalion was in the center, and the other two friendly battalions were on both wings.
Because the frontline troops were building fortifications, the three tanks were moved forward, and the follow-up troops moved forward to occupy the first Japanese position.
This row of tanks would not have a mission for the time being.
In order to prevent accidents, under the coordination of Zhang Wei, this row of tanks We retreated to the first trench of the Japanese army, away from the Japanese army's low eyelids.
At the same time, we took this opportunity to contact the rear and replenish the tank machine gun ammunition that was consumed a lot in the offensive operations.
The construction of the temporary fortifications of the attacking force was basically completed.
People from each battalion entered the fortifications, avoiding the dilemma of being directly exposed to the underbelly of the Japanese army.
The Japanese fortifications in front of Zhang Wei were bombarded by the 46th Division's mountain artillery battalion.
Later, the 8th of the 46th Division's 276th Regiment The two mortars advanced a certain distance overnight and joined the shelling of the Japanese positions.
The Chinese army's tactical goal of covering the attacking troops with shelling was also achieved
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