At this time, Zhang Wei resolutely made up his mind to attack the Luotang Heights, and the officers and men of the assault troops, with their bayonets on their guns and grenades open, were ready to storm at any time.
"Don't move, wait for the cannon to go off, it's still the old way for a while, look at the signal flare, the veteran takes the new soldier" Qiu Wei, who was holding a flask gun, cheered up the soldiers in the trenches, told the veterans with experience in infantry and artillery coordination to bring the recruits, and taught that although most of the current soldiers in the brigade are worthy of the description of combat experience, when it comes to infantry and artillery coordination, there are still many soldiers who have not fought, and those who have experience in infantry and artillery coordination are veterans who have experienced the Lanfeng Battle and even Xuzhou, Nanjing and other battles with Zhang Wei.
And those soldiers who enlisted in the newly established period of the teaching brigade, although they had experienced all the battles in the Guinan Campaign and became veterans with rich combat experience, but with the attack of artillery shelling, these soldiers did not fight at all.
That's why Qiu Wei went down to tell the side, let these veterans play a backbone role in the attack, and bring soldiers who have no actual experience in infantry and artillery coordination.
The veterans in the trenches began to teach the soldiers who had not been involved in the infantry and artillery coordination around them, and the veterans told the soldiers to follow themselves, watch the signal flares, not to walk around, etc., and to give the soldiers a final education before launching an attack.
Zhang Wei stayed where he was, temporarily put away the binoculars, picked up the flower mechanism, and followed by the three standard heralds, waiting for the cover shelling.
The 598th Regiment of the Gaoji people was responsible for the task of covering, deploying around the assault force and responding on the side.
"Captain, I've told you" Qiu Wei walked around, and soon came to Zhang Wei's side to resume his life.
"Where's the anti-artillery squad?"
"I looked, the battle defense artillery has pulled the tow rope to the artillery, and the preparation is good, He Jinhai's engineer platoon has a war defense artillery squad, no big problem."
The artillery squad belongs to the Fifth Army's military defense artillery company, equipped with German-style 37 anti-aircraft artillery, and was incorporated into the sequence of the assault force by Zhang Wei.
"Okay, get ready to attack" Knowing that the engineer platoon and the combat defense artillery squad were together, Zhang Wei was more relieved.
The officers and men of the assault force in the trenches gradually quieted down, and more than 100 bayonets with the muzzles of the guns in the center pointed directly at the Luotang Heights in front.
The assault of the assault force also began with artillery bombardment, and the reinforced Bofors Mountain Artillery Company and Field Artillery Company would violently shell the front of the Luotang Heights, first preparing for artillery fire to destroy the surface of the Luotang Heights, and then extending the artillery fire, and when the artillery fire was to be extended, the assault troops would rush out of their positions, and the artillery fire would accompany the infantry attack of the assault troops, and the artillery fire would be used to cover the infantry to reduce the casualties of the infantry.
The time of three minutes passed quickly, and Qiu Wei used the field telephone to inform the artillery in the rear to prepare for the attack, and the prelude to the infantry assault was all fought by these four Bofors mountain guns and four 38 field guns.
The officers and men of the assault force lay down calmly in the trenches.
"Boom Boom" Behind the trenches, the eight mountain field guns in the column opened fire and bombarded very punctually, and the Luotang Heights followed the Jieshou Heights, and fell dense shells, four Bofors mountain guns and four Japanese-made 38 field guns, and began to prepare for fire on the surface of the Luotang Heights, because the distance of the columns was extremely close, so the artillery did not need to aim carefully at all, the Luotang Heights were within the visual distance of the artillerymen, and the two artillery company commanders gave the order to fire, and the soil on the Luotang Heights that had been blown over countless times, with corpses and flesh, flew up again.
The Fifth Army attacked for a few days, and it was also a little anxious, and the artillery firepower, whether it was a feint artillery bombardment on the Jieshou Heights, or the mountain artillery covering Zhang Wei's assault troops on the Luotang side, did not skimp on artillery shells, and the Japanese-made 38 field artillery shells and Bofors Mountain artillery shells, these two kinds of artillery shells, which can still be made by domestic arsenals, so they fought very fiercely.
"Boom Boom" The officers and men of the assault unit felt the air wave coming from overhead, and allowed the shells to be fired at the Luotang Heights, and then, more than 100 meters behind the assault troops, the regimental mortar company of the 598th Regiment also opened fire, and together with the mountain artillery, they bombarded the Luotang Heights.
The Luotang Heights were covered with shrapnel from the 75 Mountain Artillery Shells and the 82 Mortar Shells, which was a preparation for fire on the surface of the Heights, using artillery shells to destroy the fortifications on the front of the Luotang Heights, and using dense shrapnel to kill and injure the Japanese troops in the fortifications as much as possible.
Zhang Wei and Qiu Wei were lying in the middle of the trench, Qiu Wei had already pulled the phone over, and through the phone, he could still hear the officers in the artillery position firing orders and the sound of artillery fire, the bombardment on the Luotang Heights, shrapnel, lasted for six or seven minutes, and the surface of the high ground had been plowed by dense falling bullets.
Zhang Wei raised his binoculars and observed the Jieshou Heights in the direction of the feint, and in the two attack zones, the depth and flanks of the Jieshou Heights, as well as the vicinity of the Kunlun Pass, were still being shelled, and the infantry of the 599th Regiment and the 600th Regiment of the 200th Division who feinted to attack were engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese army on the high ground.
Relatively fiercely, the intensity of the battle and artillery fire was still more fierce near the Jieshou Heights, after all, there were both heavy artillery bombardment and infantry charges, and the main attention of the Japanese defenders was also concentrated on the Jieshou Heights, and the limelight on the Jieshou Heights was greater than that of the Luotang Heights, which Zhang Wei and the assault troops were eager to see.
Here in Luotang, after six or seven minutes of artillery preparation, Zhang Wei also felt that the time was ripe and it was time to let the infantry go.
"Qiu Wei, give the artillery an order, and the artillery fire will start to extend."
"Yes," Qiu Wei said, then picked up the phone and yelled at it.
"Artillery extended fire" After Qiu Wei's roar, the artillery fire on the Luotang Heights suddenly stopped, and after the artillery fire stagnated for less than a minute, it resumed again, but this time, the scope of the shelling gradually advanced, extending from the bottom of the Luotang Heights to the top of the highlands little by little.
Thanks to the careful coordination and consultation between Qiu Wei and the artillery officers and sergeants before the war, the firing of the two artillery companies was well organized, and they extended their fire to the top of the high ground in an orderly manner, towards the main position of the Japanese army on the high ground and the flank and rear directions, and the shells landed neatly.
As the artillery targets shifted to the top of the high ground, more and more space was left for infantry in the middle and lower parts of the high ground, and those that had just been blown up by the shells were hot and emitted bursts of heat.
The artillery fire extended forward, and it was time for the infantry to launch a surprise attack.
Zhang Wei was the first to stand up and pointed to the Luotang Heights diagonally above.
"Brothers, take the Luotang Heights, avenge the fallen brothers, and kill the devils on the highlands to rush with me" "Killing" Qiu Wei followed Zhang Wei.
Two infantry squadrons, an engineer platoon, a heavy machine gun platoon, a mortar platoon composed of four mortar squads, and an assault unit composed of a 37th battle anti-artillery squad rushed to the Luotang Heights by stepping on the soft and warm soil Recommend the new book of the urban god Lao Shi::