"Boom ......"

Dozens of explosives fell from the sky and smashed into the Caoziling defense line, and the flying firelight and black smoke rising into the sky were dozens of meters high.

The thick smoke of gunpowder and the dust rolled up, pushed by the air waves, quickly swept through the entire position like a storm.

The captain's eyes widened, staring at the battlefield, still not seeing the situation above.

His face became more and more solemn, and he shouted in a lost voice: "The artillery will immediately open fire and counterattack, and destroy the flying thunder cannons in front of the formation first, they are too threatening to us, don't care about the other artillery of the garrison regiment." ”

Although the Japanese artillery counterattack was very fierce, and the garrison regiment's offensive position was filled with gunsmoke, the loss of the flying thunder artillery was not large, and two or three explosive bags still smashed into the Japanese position every minute.

In front of the enemy headquarters of the garrison regiment, Li Hao also had a serious face.

Staring at the battlefield and ordering: "Tell Yuan Qingfeng to let the heavy artillery in his hand seize the opportunity to kill a few more mountain artillery of the little devils." ”

"The sooner you eat the little devil artillery unit, the smaller the casualties of the troops will be in the next battle."

"Tell the three battalion commanders that the flying thunder artillery is almost blown up, hey, it's their turn, and the troops will attack in five minutes."

"We're going to kill at least three hundred little devils tonight."

The shells on both sides came and went, and the battlefield was full of rumbling cannonballs.

Suddenly, a group of figures of the Eighth Route Army entered the field of vision of the Japanese captain under the light of the fire.

More than a dozen people, armed with guns, in groups of three, the finished glyphs are distributed, and they are very vigilant to attack forward.

The three attack groups were then distributed in a zigzag pattern to form a larger offensive formation, with the machine gunners walking between the three attack groups with machine guns in their hands, lying down at any time to provide fire cover for the riflemen around them......

Their assault speed was very fast, but they advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, and rushed out of the smoke of gunpowder to kill the Caoziling defense line.

Immediately after, the second Eighth Route Army, which was also in the same formation, came out of the offensive position.

And then the third ......

In less than half a second, more than 100 figures of the Eighth Route Army appeared on the battlefield.

The offensive formation they formed was like a sharp blade, straight into the Caoziling defense line.

This is a unit trained by Li Hao by copying the tactics of the three-three system in later generations.

There were also many heavy machine guns behind the attacking troops, and as long as there was a Japanese counterattack on the Caoziling defensive line, they would shoot as soon as possible to provide fire cover for the attacking troops.

Of course, the real protagonists of this battle are not them.

Rather, mortar and thunder artillery groups that are on standby on offensive positions.

In addition to the heavy artillery and mountain artillery that were being fired, the remaining 32 flying thunder guns, 18 light mortars, and 6 heavy mortars in the whole regiment, all of which were high guns, were aimed at the Caoziling defense line and stood by.

Under the cover of gunsmoke, the captain of the devil brigade couldn't see this scene even if he wanted to see it.

Seeing that the Eighth Route Army was getting closer and closer, he immediately ordered: "All the troops have entered the position, resolutely block the attacking troops of the Eighth Route Army, and cannot let them get close to our defense line." ”

Dozens of anti-artillery holes built on the mountain immediately drilled a large number of little devils.

Holding a light machine gun, holding a rifle, carrying a heavy machine gun, rushed into the position.

The position, which had been empty just now, instantly became lively, and there were heads and gun barrels sticking out of the little devils everywhere.

"Da Da Da ......"

Light and heavy machine guns were the first to fire, and under the cover of night, the flames from the muzzles were particularly dazzling, clearly exposed in front of the garrison.

The heavy machine guns behind the attacking troops followed and fired, staring at the heavy machine guns exposed by the Japanese troops to strafe them, covering the attacking troops, and putting on a posture of storming the Caoziling defense line.

"Quick, immediately adjust the firing angle, one cannon is aimed at a machine gun, three mortar shots are fired rapidly, a flying thunder cannon is an explosive package, after seeing the signal flare, fire at the same time, and retreat from the communication trench after the fight." Several artillery platoon commanders were inspecting the artillery positions while giving orders at the top of their voices, fearing that someone would not hear them clearly.

"Woooooooooo......oo Boom ......" three flares flew into the sky in a beautiful arc, and exploded at the same time, flashing three clouds of white light in the air.

All gunners saw it.

The mortar gunner quickly released the mortar shell in his hand.

Under the force of gravity, the shell slid into the barrel and hit the firing pin......

The gunner quickly ignited the gunpowder fuse sticking out of the tail of the gasoline cannon, and then rolled into the nearby individual bunker, covering his ears and opening his mouth to prevent himself from being accidentally injured when the Flying Thunder Cannon fired.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The artillery position instantly resounded with a series of artillery sounds, some large and some small, the sound was very chaotic, but very dense.

A few seconds later, black smoke began to rise from the Japanese defense line in Caoziling, in the flying firelight.

In the blink of an eye, the entire position was shrouded in fire and smoke!

On the other hand, the attacking troops of the Eighth Route Army, under the cover of heavy machine guns behind them, all lay on the ground, holding their heads, and dodging the artillery fire from behind.

The whole action was smooth and uniform, and it was obvious that he had already known that there would be such a round of artillery fire when he attacked, and he had rehearsed it in advance.

The Japanese captain's face turned pale, and he gritted his teeth and scolded: "Eight Geyalu, this is a conspiracy, we were fooled." ”

"Use feints to attract our soldiers who are hiding in the anti-artillery holes, and then use artillery bombardment to consume a large number of our troops who have entered the position......"

"Half of the artillery unit came out to attack the attacking troops of the Eighth Route Army, and I want to retaliate with a tooth for ......"

"The remaining half of the artillery continued to shell the artillery units of the garrison regiment."

"If we don't destroy them, the pressure on us to hold the Caoziling defense line will increase."

The battle of the second attack on Datong by the Jin Sui army must be a protracted battle, and it is impossible to divide the battle in one day, so Li Hao has time and the devils on the Caoziling position.

Today is only the first night, and you can't chew too much.

By the time the devils concentrated their artillery fire and began to counterattack, the artillery sound on the offensive positions of the garrison regiment had stopped, as if the shelling had not happened just now.

The attacking troops, more than a hundred people, also began to retreat under the cover of night.

Although the shells of the devil's counterattack kept falling down, because the attacking forces were too scattered, its damage was very limited.

The Japanese captain's dream of retaliating was shattered directly because the garrison retreated on its own initiative.

At five o'clock in the morning, the battlefield was completely silent, and not even a single shot was fired.

The deputy captain walked into the headquarters with his head down, not daring to look at the captain and not daring to speak.

The captain could only speak first, staring at his deputy and asking, "How many people did we lose in the battle just now?" ”

"Report to the chief, the troops have lost a total of 429 casualties, of which 135 are artillerymen."

"Seriously wounded and incapacitated 95 people, there were 21 artillery inside."

"Lost 6 artillery pieces, including two mountain guns, one infantry gun, three mortars......"

"Three other bunkers were completely blown up, and one bunker was severely damaged...... Four heavy machine guns, 8 light machine guns, and nearly two hundred rifles were lost! ”

"Slap ......" the captain clenched his fist and slammed it the table in front of him.

The whole person was shrouded in anger, and he didn't notice that his hands were bleeding because he was too strong.