Chapter 150: Artillery Battle

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Mount Volt, with an altitude of only 549 meters, is a low hill in the area where the Carmen River flows out of China. However, this hill is strategically located in the valley area.

After the 9th Brigade of the Western Sichuan Army was ordered to garrison this hill, all the artillery was sent to the mountainside more than 30 meters high through the rugged mountain road, and the artillery positions established there could enable the artillery of the Western Sichuan Army to include the entire battlefield in the scope of shelling.

On the hillside, because of the narrow terrain, the 9th Brigade only set up two lines of defense. One is at the foot of the mountain, and the other is more than 20 meters high. However, if the British and Indian forces attacked, they would be attacked by fire from both lines of defense at the same time. This makes the defensive position of Volt Mountain much stronger than that of the valley area.

Originally, Du Qizheng, the commander of the Ninth Brigade, also complained that if the Ninth Brigade was placed here, the British and Indian troops would not dare to attack. Then the 9th Brigade will not be able to catch any big battles. But he did not expect that after the failure of the attack on the valley area, the British and Indian troops immediately made Volt Hill the main direction of attack, which made him extremely happy.

"Little rabbits, cheer me up, the Anglo-Indian army is about to attack. Lao Tzu wants to let them hit their heads in front of our position and let him know how powerful our Ninth Brigade is! Du Qizheng commanded loudly.

The soldiers of the Ninth Brigade were also gearing up, preparing to give the British and Indian troops a head-on blow. During the battle on the 6th, they met the 2nd Brigade of the British Army in a river valley. But in the end, they almost completely annihilated the British troops of this brigade, which made the soldiers of the 9th Brigade very proud and showed their momentum. In this battle, they were more confident in dealing with more British and Indian troops.

"Boom! Rumble! "Greeting began shelling. A large number of shells fell on the positions of the 9th Brigade. The Anglo-Indian army also knew that Volt Hill was more difficult to gnaw than the valley area, so they were more prepared to charge.

One by one, the shells smashed the mountain, the earth and gravel were blown away, and many trees were also blown around. However, the casualties inflicted on the soldiers of the Western Sichuan Army were not large. The fortifications of Volt Mountain were very difficult to build, and under the not thick soil were the rocks. The soldiers of the 9th Brigade and the soldiers of the 8th Brigade who supported them used the sapper shovels in their hands to dig trenches more than half a person deep, and also dug out anti-artillery holes one after another. The defensive power of these anti-artillery holes is much stronger than that of the anti-artillery holes in the river valley area, and no matter how fierce the artillery fire of the British and Indian troops is, they did not cause any damage.

"All 05mm light howitzers, give me a counterattack. Suppress enemy fire! "Only being beaten and not fighting back, this is not Du Qizheng's style. Under his order, the artillery of the Western Sichuan Army, which was deployed on the mountainside, immediately began shelling. The artillery of the Western Sichuan Army and the artillery of the Anglo-Indian Army have comparable performance. But the artillery of the Western Sichuan Army was deployed in the mountains and had a longer range. Suddenly, a large number of shells fell into the artillery positions of the British and Indian troops, and the British soldiers who were operating the cannons took off one by one. Many of the cannons that were firing were suddenly dumbfired.

"Boom!" An earth-shattering sound sounded, and it turned out that a bunch of shells had been hit by the shells of the Western Sichuan Army, producing a violent explosion. The explosion killed all the British and Indian troops within a radius of tens of meters, and several inch cannons were also blown up.

"Artillery counterattack, give me a counterattack!" The artillery commander of the Anglo-Indian army shouted angrily.

"Report, our artillery can't reach the opponent's artillery positions and can't counterattack!" A junior officer reported.

"All the artillery, move forward, be sure to destroy the enemy's artillery!" The artillery commander hesitated a little and gave the order. The artillery of the Western Sichuan Army was deployed in the mountains and had a longer firing range. If they want to start an artillery battle with the western Sichuan army, they have to continue to move forward and close the distance between the two sides. But in this way, it will also put their artillery under more pressure. However, their artillery was more than twice as large as that of the Western Sichuan Army, so the artillery commanders of the Anglo-Indian Army were sure to defeat the artillery of the Western Sichuan Army.

The artillery of the British and Indian troops suddenly pushed the artillery forward. And in the process, it was once again heavily shelled by the Western Sichuan Army. Artillery was constantly killed, artillery was blown up. But these British soldiers still carried out the commander's orders very well. If it were the Indian army, I'm afraid it would have collapsed a long time ago!

"Okay, good job, give Lao Tzu a hard beating of those dogs!" Du Qizheng saw through the telescope that one after another the artillery of the British and Indian armies was blown up by the Western Sichuan Army, and one by one the British artillery was also blown up into the sky by the Western Sichuan Army, and he couldn't help but cheer loudly.

However, soon the British artillery also came into range of the shelling. They quickly set up their cannons and began a counterattack. A fierce artillery battle began. Although the western Sichuan army occupies this geographical advantage, the British army has more artillery, and the two sides go back and forth, and the battle is very fierce. Artillery was constantly being destroyed, and even shells were detonated, and the losses of artillery on both sides were rising rapidly.

"Damn, the British are relying on their own artillery to have more artillery than us, and they want to fight out all our artillery!" Wang Yuze's face was very bad. The artillery of the Western Sichuan Army was less than half of the British army. If it continues to fight like this, the western Sichuan army will suffer a great loss.

"Yes! If our artillery is exhausted, then we will have to be bullied by the British! The brigade commander of the Eighth Brigade, Su Hongguang, also had a somewhat difficult face. The artillery battalion of their 8th Brigade, which is also on Mount Volt now, does not know what the situation is like.

"Order the artillery, transfer positions, stop the shelling, save strength!" Wang Yuze hesitated, but still gave the order.

"Yes, young marshal!" The signal corps immediately sent a telegram to the 9th Brigade.

Soon, the artillery of the Western Sichuan Army stopped shelling. The soldiers pulled the cannon down from the gun emplacements and moved them to the prepared positions that had already been built. In such a short period of time, the artillery of the Western Sichuan Army had already lost a third of its artillery, and only 4 Type 2 infantry guns remained. 24 05-mm light howitzers remained.

The artillery of the Western Sichuan Army stopped firing, which greatly encouraged the British and Indian troops. Although they also lost dozens of cannons, the remaining inch cannons were only 02 and inch cannons were only 2. But in general, it was they who won the artillery battle. At least, their artillery is still firing, and the artillery of the Western Sichuan Army has died down.

After there was no artillery interference from the Western Sichuan Army, the artillery of the British and Indian Army concentrated their artillery fire on the defensive line of the Western Sichuan Army, wantonly bombarding the defensive line of the Western Sichuan Army, clearing the way for the infantry to charge next.

The infantry of their own side struggled to support in the shelling of the other side, and the artillery of the Western Sichuan Army were very aggrieved one by one.

"Battalion commander, let's shoot! Even if we fight it out, we don't hesitate! "The artillerymen of the Western Sichuan Army asked for battle one by one.

"Wait a minute, I'll ask the young marshal for instructions." The battalion commander of the artillery battalion nodded, and then said. The order to stop the shelling was given by Wang Yuze, and he was given ten dares not to disobey the order. However, he had already thought of a better way.

A few minutes later, Wang Yuze replied with a telegram agreeing to his tactics.

"All gun emplacements, aimed at the artillery positions of the British troops. Five rapid fires! Immediately after that, there was a ceasefire and the transfer was made to the position! The commander of the artillery battalion ordered. In the construction of the artillery positions, in addition to the main position, they also built two additional reserve positions, which are now fully useful.

"Yes!" The artillery door immediately said excitedly.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! The artillery of the Western Sichuan Army, which had been silent for less than ten minutes, opened fire again. In just two minutes, more than 200 shells smashed into the British artillery positions.

The British artillerymen, who were wreaking havoc on the defense line of the western Sichuan army, were suddenly blown up. More than a dozen artillery pieces were blown up by the artillery of the Western Sichuan Army in the shelling just now.

"This damn guy dares to start an artillery battle with us, adjust the direction of the shelling, and destroy all these yellow-skinned monkey cannons for me!" The artillery commander of the British army roared.

The British artillery immediately began to turn the muzzle. A frenzied artillery bombardment was launched on the place where the Western Sichuan Army opened fire. However, at this moment, the artillery of the Western Sichuan Army had been withdrawn from the No. 2 artillery position and deployed to the No. 2 artillery position. Although the British artillery attack was fierce, it did not cause any damage to the Western Sichuan Army.

After moving to the position, the artillery of the Western Sichuan Army was once again aimed at the British artillery.

"It's still 5 rapid fire! Immediately move to the position! The commander of the artillery battalion of the Western Sichuan Army ordered.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The artillery of the Western Sichuan Army began shelling again, and more than two hundred shells smashed into the artillery positions of the British army. This time, the results are greater than the last one. More than 20 pieces of British artillery were blown up.

After the shelling, the artillery of the Western Sichuan Army immediately began to move. As soon as they moved, the position was under heavy British shelling.

Subsequently, the artillery of the Western Sichuan Army moved back and forth on the artillery positions of No. 2 and No. 2, although the artillery category was enough, but its own losses were very small, but caused great losses to the British artillery. Under this almost rogue tactic of the Western Sichuan Army, the artillery losses of the British army were very large. After a few times, only a few dozen cannons remained.

The artillery commander of the British army was so angry that he shouted, but at this moment, he knew very well that this time in the artillery battle with the Western Sichuan Army, they lost, and they lost very completely. In order to preserve strength, he even had to order the artillery to withdraw from the shelling range of the Western Sichuan Army.

And the retreat of the British artillery suddenly made those British and Indian troops who were still waiting for artillery support dumbfounded.

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