Chapter 577: Highland Assault (2) (Page 1/1)

Officers and sergeants belonging to the 10th Artillery Regiment of the Nationalist Army were running rapidly in the artillery positions of the Fifth Army, and the sound of various reporting and observation orders resounded on the artillery positions composed of six German-style SFH18 heavy guns.

"Reload!"

In the artillery group position of the Fifth Army, the six German-style 150 heavy artillery guns that were responsible for the main bombardment task laboriously loaded the thick barrels of the artillery with shells and medicine packs, and the artillery shelled the Japanese army for as long as the siege of the 200 divisions in the past few days, so the artillery was already familiar with all the firing elements, and the artillery had already been bound and aimed, and the long barrels tied to plants and concealment nets were held high with their bodies up, and the muzzles were held high, indirectly aimed at the Jieshou Heights.

In addition to these six German-style heavy guns, there are also some Japanese-made 41-type mountain guns, 38-type field guns and Bofors mountain guns around the artillery position, there are many models, but the artillerymen operating these mountain guns are quietly on standby, obviously, they will not join the shelling.

"Ready!"

After the gunners finished loading, closed the gun latch, and moved slightly away from the gun, the squad leader in charge of firing grabbed the gun rope and made a posture of preparing for firing.

"Open!" The artillery officer, who commanded the firing, put down the field telephone leading to the command post of the 200th division at the front and roared in a hoarse voice.

"Boom ......"

The muzzles of the six guns burst out with orange muzzle flames, projecting six 150 mm heavy artillery shells, the artillery positions were dusty because of the shock wave of the artillery fire, and the artillery group of the Fifth Army, starting with the artillery bombardment of the Jieshou Heights, fired the first shot of the attack, and the shelling was far more than one round, and the six heavy guns reloaded, fired, reloaded, and fired again and again, bombarding the Japanese Jieshou Heights.

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On the top of the Jieshou Heights, huge air waves, explosions, and shrapnel could be seen everywhere, and the heavy artillery shells played a heart-palpitating sound in the air, and the heavy artillery fire of the Fifth Army was almost all smashed on this high ground, although the scene of shelling was not uncommon in the siege of the 200th Division for several days, but the scene of concentrated heavy artillery bombardment still made people feel terrifying.

The shells fell on the high ground, and a large crater was blown up on the high ground, and the soil that was blown up flew into the sky dozens of meters high, and the barbed wire reinforced by the Japanese army on the high ground also turned into a pile of scrap metal in the shelling, and occasionally one or two grenade shotguns exploded before they landed, and the prefabricated warheads in the shells exploded in mid-air, scattering with white smoke, and occasionally you could hear the sporadic and subtle screams of the Japanese soldiers mixed with the sound of explosions.

The shells fell on the surface of the Jieshou Heights for about 10 minutes, and then the shells suddenly moved forward and moved to the flank and back of the Jieshou Heights.

This artillery bombardment was a bombardment plan drawn up by Commander Dai of the 200th Division in coordination with the heavy artillery in the rear on the basis of the information brought back by Zhang Wei; compared with the previous bombardment, this shelling was more methodical; according to the offensive plan, the 200th Division was to launch a feint attack on the Jieshou Heights to cover Zhang Wei's assault troops to attack Luotang, and the infantry would make a feint, and the artillery could not be missing.

As the saying goes, do a full set of plays, these heavy artillery are all put into the bombardment of the head of the boundary, which can well mobilize the Japanese army's defense and attention to the head of the boundary, by the way, there are also some shells near the Kunlun Pass, in the shooting, not only the front of the highland, according to Zhang Wei's discovery of the anticline of the Luotang Heights, the bombardment of the heavy artillery will also be extended, "take care" of the anticline and the back of the Jieshou Heights.

There were quite a few shells that flew over the front of the Jieshou Heights and landed behind the Jieshou Side.

All in all, this shelling was very orderly and violent, and in the midst of the shaking of the ground and the mountains, the Japanese soldiers hiding in the fortifications of Jieshou were sweating, and this time the shelling of the Chinese army was very fierce.

The front of the Jieshou Heights, and some of the nearby passes, were enveloped in heavy shelling, from the front of the heights to the flanks and backs of the heights.

The extension of the artillery fire lasted for about six minutes, and the density of the shelling gradually thinned out, and at the same moment when the intensity of the shelling decreased, the officers and men of the 599th Regiment and the 600th Regiment of the 200th Division rushed out of the trenches, and about 800 troops launched a charge on the front of the Jieshou Heights and the pass.

"Kill!"

The infantry of the 200th Division also made great progress, the artillery bombardment in front was not over, most of the feint infantry sent by the two infantry regiments rushed to the Jieshou Heights, a small part hit the pass, the 82 mortars and heavy machine guns of each regiment also hit the attack target fiercely, the morale of these infantry was very high, Zhang Wei's raid on the mortar position behind the Luotang flank greatly boosted their morale, this feint attack, just gave them the opportunity to carry forward their morale.

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"Enemy infantry, get ready for battle!"

The Japanese officers on the high ground saw that the infantry of the national army was rushing and hurriedly ordered their subordinates to enter the position and prepare to return fire, and the Japanese defenders raised their concealed light and heavy machine guns, holding their own weapons, in the situation that the shelling did not completely stop. Follow the communication trench into the trenches and light and dark fortresses on the high ground.

"Dadada"

In the face of the fierce attack posture of the Chinese army, the Japanese troops on the Jieshou Heights, in a hurry, opened fire on the infantry of the 200th Division......

In the direction of the head of the industry, the all-round fight will be launched.

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In the trenches of the 598th Regiment, Zhang Wei quietly watched the battle on the Jieshou Heights in the distance, and in the trenches, the two infantry squadrons of the teaching brigade and another engineer platoon, the reinforced mortar platoon of Dong Erli's heavy fire squadron, a platoon of heavy machine guns, and a German-style 37-mm anti-aircraft artillery squad were hidden in the trenches and were collectively on standby.

Zhang Wei and other officers observed the fierce battle in the direction of the head of the realm, and ten minutes after the opening of the battle at the head of the world, the sound of guns and cannons became louder and louder, and the shouts of killing could also be heard very clearly in the position of the 598th Regiment, the fighting became more and more intense, and the battle situation became more and more tragic.

For Zhang Wei's assault troops, the more fierce the battle in the direction of the head of the boundary, the more ripe the time will be for the assault on the Luotang Heights.

Zhang Wei looked at Qiu Wei and nodded, he made up his mind to attack at this time.

"Understood!" Qiu Wei said.

"All of them, ready to impact!"

Zheng Yiqun shouted in the trenches.

There was a sound of bayonets coming out of their sheaths and clattering in the trenches, and the officers and men of the assault unit loaded their rifles with bayonets and made a posture ready for the charge.

Qiu Wei leaned on the trench, held the field telephone, and directly communicated to the field artillery company of the mountain artillery company in the rear: "Hey, hey, artillery?" My assault troops are expected to attack the Luotang Heights in three minutes! ”

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