Just when Zhou Wu was busy with how to break the siege, Gao Xiangfa had already issued an order to his subordinates to break through the division, and he sent a battalion commander he trusted to organize a death squad of about 500 people to break through to the defense fortifications.
And he himself took the rest of the main force and threw away everything that was not necessary, and broke through lightly to the reeds west of the three-pronged port.
Fortunately, the wounded in the army were brought back by Zhou Wu in advance, and if they broke through with the wounded now, it would be troublesome.
After Gao Xiang released the breakthrough mission, he learned about the location of the devil in detail with the scout.
He radioed Zhang Ercheng of the howitzer battalion, asked for artillery support, and informed Zhang Ercheng of the specific location of the devil.
Zhang Ercheng had already received an urgent notice from Zhou Wu, and as soon as he received Gao Xiangfa's request for artillery fire, he immediately asked his subordinates: "Have the artillery shells from the military headquarters arrived?"
When he was informed that the artillery shells from the military headquarters were being transported by the military department's quartermaster overnight, Zhang Ercheng thought for a moment, gritted his teeth and ordered the four 203-mm Krupp cannons in the fortifications to prepare for firing.
In view of the fact that Gao Xiangfa's position was fifteen miles away from the national defense fortifications, which exceeded the maximum range of mortars, and now Zhang Ercheng had only four howitzers available in his hands, so he had to use those four Krupp cannons ruthlessly, hoping that the artillery shells from the military headquarters could come faster, otherwise the artillery would stop halfway through.
The four Krupp cannons were ready, Zhang Ercheng hurriedly gave the order, and the muzzle of the black hole slowly pointed to the black sky of the three-pronged port.
"Note, the target is a three-pronged port, the angle of fire is 30 degrees, three hundred meters to the left of the east, the distance is seven kilometers, and the middle gate is a single shot urgently, put" Zhang Ercheng pursued the accuracy of artillery bombardment, saving the already small number of cannonballs, and ordered a Krupp cannon to test fire.
As soon as the words fell, an earth-shattering roar of artillery bombardment came, and a 203-millimeter shell flew out of the chamber with flames, drawing a beautiful ballistic arc, and quickly pounced on the devils who were lying in ambush on the periphery of the three-pronged port.
After flying in the dark night sky for more than ten seconds, the cannonball plunged headlong into a place 1,000 meters outside the position of the National Army in the Three Forks, only to see that first a sky-high fire suddenly lit up, followed by a deafening huge explosion that resounded throughout the position of the Three Forks.
Gao Xiangfa saw that in the rising earth smoke, the bodies of several devils were thrown high by the air waves, and they immediately fell heavily to the ground.
Gao Xiangfa shouted excitedly: "Okay, Lao Zhang, just fight like this, you will hit the little devil with the first shot" With Gao Xiangfa's approval, Zhang Ercheng immediately ordered: "All eight rounds are fired in a hurry, release" Zhang Ercheng had suffered the loss of this kind of cannon salvo before, and after issuing the order, he hurriedly opened his mouth to cover his ears.
Although Zhang Ercheng covered his ears, he still heard a loud thunderous shelling, and the soil under his feet seemed to have an earthquake, shaking the soil on the ground uncontrollably.
A row of cannon shells exploded again in the three-pronged port after about ten seconds, this time it was powerful, because it was a salvo of four cannons together, and the four 100mm howitzers in Zhang Ercheng's hand also began to hit here.
Suddenly, the place where the devils were ambushed turned into a sea of flames and smoke, mud, corpses, plants and trees were all thrown up one by one, and the sound of the explosion even felt a heartbeat in Gao Xiangfa, who was a thousand meters away.
At this time, Gao Xiangfa shouted: "Death squad, hurry up and run in the direction of the shelling to break through, be fast" Gao Xiangfa meant to take advantage of the current fierce shelling to let the death squad quickly rush to the gap that might be blown open by artillery fire, and rush out of the encirclement in one go.
The brothers of the death squad, led by a battalion commander, immediately jumped up from the position and ran silently to the place where the artillery fire was flashing in front.
Gao Xiangfa ordered all the remaining troops to break through to the reeds, and at the same time, he estimated the speed of the death squad in his heart, estimating that they were almost about to run to the place of the shelling, Gao Xiangfa immediately ordered: "Lao Zhang, stop the shelling, the target is turned, and the shelling target is 500 meters outside the reeds of the three-pronged port." ” When Zhang Ercheng received the order, he immediately ordered his subordinates to stop the shelling, and the artillery immediately turned to readjust the shelling parameters.
Just as everyone was adjusting the shelling parameters and preparing to open fire, a soldier in charge of the shell reported a very unfortunate news.
"Report to the battalion commander, there are not many shells, 100 mm is only enough for 2 rounds each, and 203 mm shells have all been exhausted."
When Zhang Ercheng heard this, his head "buzzed", and he was so anxious that he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "Damn, how can you drop the chain at such a critical moment, if Lao Gao and they fail to break through because they can't get artillery support, the brigade seat will have to peel off my skin." ” Zhang Ercheng shouted at the top of his voice: "Hurry up and send someone to the military headquarters to see where their bullshit quartermaster is now" Just now someone was going to the military headquarters, only to hear a commotion outside, Zhang Ercheng looked up, and immediately overjoyed, haha, it's really timely rain, the artillery shells from the military headquarters have arrived.
At this time, Zhang Ercheng didn't have time to greet the people in the military department, and immediately beckoned his subordinates to hurry up to help unload the shells.
After everyone finished tossing, Zhang Ercheng stood next to the cannon, holding a command flag in his hand, and was about to give the artillery order.
The military quartermasters of the military department are all veteran oilers, and when they saw that Zhang Ercheng was about to be bombarded, they ran out one after another, but they knew the power of the Krupp cannon, and they were so frightened that they didn't even want to hand over the receipt, and they ran as far as they could, so as not to be shocked into deafness.
Zhang Ercheng ordered loudly: "All pay attention, the target is the three-fork port, two hundred meters to the left of the west, the distance is eight thousand meters, the angle of fire is 31 degrees, eight shots are fired sequentially, put" Hearing only the sound of a rumbling, eight cannons began to fire in succession at the reeds of the three-pronged port.
Sequential firing has the advantage of ensuring that the gun is uninterrupted during the firing process, and after a gun is fired, the reloading procedure is carried out immediately, and when the last cannon is fired, the first cannon has been reloaded, and it starts firing again.
In this way, it was possible to maintain the continuous suppression of the enemy's artillery fire and cover Gao Xiangfa to successfully break out of the encirclement.
But the premise of this style of play is that there are enough shells, otherwise everything is blind.
The death squad had already rushed to the place where the artillery had been bombarded, and when they had just run over, a group of imps who had not been killed by the shells shouted and surrounded them.
The battalion commander led by the national army's death squad shouted: "Brothers, hurry up and rush forward, the brigade seat will meet us outside."
In fact, at this time, Zhou Wu was still panting and running halfway, this battalion commander deliberately said this in order to motivate the morale of the soldiers, this is similar to the meaning of Wangmei to quench thirst, as long as there is hope, people will not collapse, on the contrary, they will collapse immediately. t1706231537: