Chapter 390: Beat into a pug

The eight mountain guns in the middle of the Eighth Division covered the shelling of the main position and the positions on both flanks back and forth for a total of more than two hours.

The independent regiment had no intention of fire reconnaissance at all, and simply used almost brutal artillery fire and a posture that was most lacking than artillery shells, and almost all the visible protruding fortifications on the Japanese position.

The rumbling sound of artillery that resounded over the entire battlefield almost deafened the eardrums of the Japanese soldiers on the position, and they finally knew a truth, without artillery, they were actually not much stronger than the Chinese soldiers they once looked down on.

The only thing they can do now is to wait, wait for their bad luck to be bombarded by a falling shell, wait for the Chinese to attack, and maybe they will still have a chance to shoot the bullet in the chamber.

Chi Dakui's 3rd Battalion, located in the center, had moved 300 meters in front of the Japanese position, and the two flanks were handed over to Qi Guangyuan's 1st Battalion and Dong Shengtang's 2nd Battalion.

Finally, after two and a half hours of shelling by the 41 mountain artillery, when the bright sky began to darken, the shells that fell on the Japanese positions gradually changed from dense to scarce, until there were none.

The Chinese were about to start attacking, and the Japanese infantry, who had been holding back for a long time, quickly drilled out of the anti-artillery hole and rushed into the trench and took the battle position.

But what they saw was not the traditional infantry attack.

Six large men with tracks slowly but firmly rushed towards the position with black smoke spewed out, followed by the infantry, a full company of infantry hiding behind the big guy's broad figure.

Those big guys, of course, the Japanese army should be familiar with, that was once the tracked tractor they used to tow multi-ton large-caliber howitzers, and now it has become a weapon for the Chinese to attack themselves.

However, it is only déjà vu, the diesel tractor has been transformed beyond recognition, if it were not for the familiar sound of the diesel engine roaring, they really can't believe that it was once their equipment.

That is Liu Lang's idea, the entire diesel tractor, from the front to the tail, is surrounded by a thick wooden board of more than 15 centimeters, not only that, in front of the engine at the front of the car, Liu Lang even tied a few bags of sandbags, the cab is sealed tightly with impermeable thick wooden boards and sandbags, leaving only two palm-sized glass for the driver to see in front.

Six ridiculously heavy tractors, which had been rudimentarily modified, rushed resolutely towards the Japanese positions in the face of the rain of bullets from the Japanese army.

But no one in the Japanese army could laugh, thinking with their ass, they also knew that the Chinese made these six big guys, of course, not just to use them as targets.

The Japanese infantry frantically strafed the tractor with obvious targets, rifles, light machine guns, and heavy machine guns all fired, and if the Chinese rushed to the position, they understood what the consequences would be.

Now, they are not only inferior to the Chinese in heavy weapons, but also in the light weapons of machine guns, they have also lost, the light machine gun with an extremely high rate of fire has already tested its great power at the Luo Wenyu Pass, when the machine gun is firing at full speed, it is simply unstoppable, and the 500 rounds per minute rate of fire of the Type 92 heavy machine gun that was once leaned on as the Great Wall is simply a slag compared with others.

The 6.6 mm rifle bullets and the 7.7 mm 92 heavy machine gun bullets smashed the wood, but they could not stop the firm rolling of the tractor's tracks.

Just pasted a pile of rotten wood, and the tractor drove with the momentum of a tank.

With regard to the heavy machine guns that dared to open fire, the mortar platoon of the Zhao Ergou Artillery Company had lined up 16 mortars of various types, six 60 guns and 10 82 guns at a position 600 meters away, which were designed to fire at the Japanese invaders.

As soon as the data from the artillery observers is received, for each coordinate, there will be up to two mortars to attack.

Not to mention the Eighth Division, which now has no artillery support, in fact, even in the past time and space, the strong Eighth Division suffered a big loss of mortars when facing the 29th Army, which was only equipped with mortars, and a mortar company of the 29th Army once covered a Japanese squadron with artillery fire, and the Japanese squadron that was caught off guard was almost not bombed by mortars.

Whether it is an infantry gun, a mountain artillery or even a howitzer, in the function of striking heavy fire points in the trenches, none of them can compete with mortars that were born to send shells into the trenches.

Mortars are so awesome, why aren't the Japanese armed with them? The main reason, of course, is that mortars do not conform to the Japanese army's economical combat concept, and weapons such as mortars that cannot guarantee special accuracy and need to be attacked with covered artillery are simply a great waste of resources and a crime.

All right! The islanders' innate nature of picking has led them to abandon mortars in favor of 。。。。。 The grenadier is a small flashlight-like thing, but it was rated as the most reasonable weapon designed by the Japanese army after World War II.

The grenadier is good, it can be used like a miniature mortar to send a grenade to a hostile target 500 meters away, and it is easy to carry.

However, in terms of range and power, the grenadier is a small piece of cake compared to a mortar, even a 60 mortar of the smallest caliber.

The shelling of eight heavy fire points by 16 mortars at the same time quickly made the Japanese know what a large caliber was, and the effect of several mortar shells weighing 3 kilograms in a row was that not only the heavy machine guns located in the sandbags were blown into parts, but also the Japanese troops in a radius of 20 meters around were blown into the sky.

The most helpless thing that makes the direct-aim gun is the trench, but what makes the mortar the most favorite is the trench, and without the semi-enclosed environment of the trench, how can the power of the shock wave be exerted?

The Japanese were not stupid, and after the light and heavy machine guns were targeted, it was not without grenadiers that the grenadiers quietly hid behind and attacked the six behemoths with grenadiers.

But the six tractors were not stationary, they were moving, unless they were directly hit by a grenade thrown by the grenadier, otherwise, a small grenade exploded nearby, and it really had no effect on the tractor weighing several tons with wooden armor and sandbags.

What's more, when it was close to 200 meters away from the Japanese position, the machine gun platoon of the third battalion and one company in charge of the attack had already put down five MG42 machine guns, plus three 60 mortars.

To add to the pain of the Japanese invaders, the six tractors slowly turned their huge bodies sideways, revealing the fortifications made of wood and sandbags on the carriages.

and, a twin 20-mm cannon.

No, on a position 1,500 meters wide, they were faced with six machine guns that were supposed to be used to fight planes, but now they were fired at full power for flat fire.

In the face of the torrent of metal, few creatures dare to show their faces, and there can only be one end to showing up, being hit and then torn apart by a bullet as thick as a cigar.

Amid the loud roar of the six machine guns, the Japanese invaders, whether they were Type 38 rifles, crooked-handled light machine guns, or 92 heavy machine guns, collectively fired mute.

The Great Wall Regiment used super firepower to show what is called firepower crushing, and no matter how elite the army was, after losing its advantage in firepower, what awaited them was defeat.

There may be only one army in the world, wearing a bullet belt with a sorghum stalk in it, and it can fight the robbers who invaded the homeland for eight years.

But that terrible tenacity doesn't belong to the Japanese invaders.

In the face of the terrible torrent of metal, they also coaxed, they lay their heads in the trenches, like frightened quails, and no one dared to shout the invincibility of the Imperial Japanese Army in the field as before.

In just three minutes of frantic strafing, a Japanese brigade located on the position was turned into a pug with a broken backbone.