Chapter 311: Artillery Battle (3)

The division commander of the Japanese army was furious, the first attack was wiped out alive by the Chinese army on the opposite side, two brigades were wiped out, the second infantry attack had not yet begun, and the artillery wing suffered another catastrophe. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This is the first time he has encountered such a stubborn and equal opponent since the invasion of China, but the offensive must continue, and nothing can stop the advance of the Imperial Japanese Army!

Under the strict orders of the division commander, a Japanese infantry began to assemble, because the terrain in the Huoshibu area of Dongzhuang was flat, and the only villages and heights that could be relied on were occupied by Chinese troops, so this infantry could only hide in the poplar forest near Dongzhuang.

However, just when the tanks arrived and the infantry was ready to attack, the artillery fire of the Chinese army arrived, and the salvo of more than half an hour directly hit the poplar forest where they were hiding, and more than 400 Japanese soldiers died!

So the Japanese planes went out again, and the indiscriminate bombing was amazing, but not even the shadow of the Chinese artillery was seen.

This time he suffered a crushing defeat without attacking, and the angry division commander also wilted, and he knew that when the heavy firepower of the two sides was equal, it was really difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat.

However, the offensive must continue, and a sneak attack under the cover of night is inevitable.

In the dark of night, the Japanese troops who were sneaking up set off, and there was no sound at all except for the rustling of footsteps.

There was no sound at all, partly out of military discipline, and partly out of fear.

There is still a lesson from the past, and each of them does not want to be discovered by the Chinese army because of the little noise they accidentally made, and then be ruthlessly hit by the Chinese army's artillery fire.

The night is endless, but at this moment, the shadow area of their psychology is probably more than the dark night.

They even craved a white-knuckle fight, and when they found out that such a thought had bred in their hearts, it was really funny.

Once the superior firepower of the dignified Imperial Japanese Army is no longer there, it will even crave white-knuckle combat, who can believe it?

However, when they went to collect the corpses of their comrades who had been blown up by the shells of the Chinese army during the day, they really had the idea that they would rather fight a white-knuckle battle than let the shells blow up.

Perhaps only then did they realize the reason why the Chinese army likes to fight with them, at least it can give you a chance to kill the enemy.

The night was so dark that the attacking Japanese could only measure their distance from the village that had become a ruin but seemed impassable by their own footsteps.

The scout who walked at the front with a gun silently counted five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters, it should be fast, although he could not see anything.

But at this moment, there was a sudden "tom" sound less than 100 meters ahead, which was all too familiar to the Japanese soldiers, because it was the sound of mortar firing.

But before the Japanese could react, the shell had already burst in the air, and a dazzling light like a small sun shone out, and it turned out to be a flare that only the Japanese army had!

Beneath that light was the ugly appearance of hundreds of panicked invaders who had fallen or were lying down!

Is there still suspense at this time?

Will the Chinese army shoot?

No! Why use a gun if you have a cannon? The flare fired from the mortar was the one that gave the artillery a target point!

A minute later, whistling shells smashed into the crowd of Japanese soldiers in rows.

This time, the Japanese commander did not show any intention of attacking, but only shouted hoarsely, "Retreat, retreat!" ”

But how much he could really withdraw, he would not know, nor could he know, because then he was also sent into the air by shells.

During the second day, the Japanese did not take any offensive action except for the aimless bombing of aircraft.

And that night they went to attack again, but it was really a copy of the previous night, and it was a "tom" flare to guide the target, and the shells that came from the frenzy once again made the Japanese soldiers scatter corpses in the wheat field.

Once again, the Japanese offensive was in vain.

And it was also that night, after the Japanese attack was repulsed, that the front of the village, which was already in ruins, caught fire.

The Japanese commander thought about it for a moment and then flew into a rage, because he figured out the reason, which was that the Chinese army burned the bodies of soldiers killed in their first attack with gasoline.

It was almost early summer, and the corpses had begun to decompose, and the disgusting smell could already be smelled by the Japanese soldiers who were far away under the action of the wind, let alone the Chinese soldiers who were close to the dead bodies. Why don't you burn it and keep it?!

As a result, on the next day, the entire battlefield had a burnt smell of corpses burned by fire!

The artillery was suppressed, the planes could not bomb the target, the night attack could not succeed, and on the third day, the attacking Japanese army finally looked forward to another exclusive magic weapon that has always given the Chinese army a headache: the tank!

What about the artillery of the Chinese army, you can't bomb my tank, the caliber of your artillery is not enough, your shells are not thick enough!

As a result, the Japanese army, which had been dull for a few days, became arrogant again.

Eight tanks lined up and ran towards Dongzhuang, each tank followed by dozens of soldiers.

The tank ran over green wheat fields, climbed over craters more than a meter wide, and knocked away poplars that had been blown off.

Will they succeed, and will the tragedy of their crushing of the Chinese soldiers happen again? Then let the facts do the talking!

Just as the eight tanks drove into a distance of 400 meters from the village, they heard the sound of "boom, boom, boom", and five of the eight tanks were instantly torn apart by shells into five piles of scrap metal!

The Dian army even has a war defense artillery battalion!

When a tank meets a war defense gun, it is really a mouse meets a cat, especially in the Battle of Songhu, there was a situation where eight Japanese tanks did not dare to charge in the face of a battle defense gun.

The other three tanks turned around and ran, but one tank was bombarded with a cannon and flew off the turret, and the ironclad elite of the Great Japanese Empire was thus tragically transformed into the headless horsemen of medieval Europe.

The Japanese army has not dealt with the anti-aircraft artillery once or twice, and they have already summed up the experience of dealing with it from the battle, that is, long-range artillery fire suppression and grenadier fire at close range.

But this time, neither of these two tricks worked.

Long-range artillery fire suppresses anti-war artillery? No, it was the long-range artillery fire of the Japanese army that was suppressed by the artillery brigade of the Yunnan Army first.

Do grenadiers shoot at close range? No, it's a flat place, and the grenadiers can't get forward at all, because there are no obstacles that can block the defender's view.

Well, there's only one trick left, bomb with planes.

It's just that when the plane arrived, the battle defense artillery of the Dian army had already been transferred.

That thing can be pushed away by a person on a shift, and the Japanese planes can't blow up the tons of heavy artillery of the Dian army, can they still blow up this small battle defense gun that is only a few hundred kilograms?

So in this day's battle, it became a show between tanks, anti-aircraft guns, and bombers.

The infantry on both sides watched from afar, and after the show, the Japanese found nothing but five more tanks.

And in the past few days of fighting, the status of the quartermaster has been raised again.

As if they were fighting side by side with other miscellaneous armies, they were also highly recognized by the Dian army. Among them, two people are the most.

One is Huo Xiaoshan, a part-time artillery observer.

He built a coordinate map of the poplar forests opposite Dongzhuang that could be used by the Japanese army for stealth.

The precise location of each grove and its distance from several Dian artillery positions are clearly marked.

After several successful shellings, which were assembled in the poplar forest to prepare for the attack on the Japanese troops, the Japanese army no longer dared to organize an attack during the day.

At the same time, when the Japanese army attacked at night, it was still Huo Xiaoshan who used mortars and flares outside the front of the position to guide the target of the Yunnan artillery brigade.

The other is Zheng Youjian, who made a cameo appearance as a gunner of the heavy artillery of the Yunnan Army, and was hit at the first start, using a gunner of the battle defense gun to destroy two Japanese tanks.