After dawn, Dong Ku personally went to Huai'an, which had been fried into powder, to check. There, after a night of precipitation, the dust had already fallen, but the floating dust half a foot deep under the soles of the feet made the place quickly drift up after walking.

Walking all the way to the base of the city wall, there is not even a single mouse mark left on the road, except for the footprints left by the scouts, so it can be said that there are not even many insects around.

After entering the city wall and walking out of four or five hundred meters, a funnel-like pit began to appear, the interval was very regular, and the route was clear, it was estimated that it was along the street, or the house underneath the run, so neat.

Standing there, Dong Ku looked around carefully, turned around and ordered, "Leave the battlefield to clean up, and the logistics support group from Baoying, let's go." ”

Here, there was no longer a need for guards, and the Japanese soldiers who had burrowed into the ground obviously did not expect to be filled with all the ventilation holes and suffocated to death in the graves they had dug themselves.

It only takes six to seven hours to march from Huai'an to the battlefield, no more than 40 kilometers, and they don't need to march in a hurry to reach the battlefield.

At the moment when Dong Ku led the movement of his troops, Suqian, after a day of blocking, was ready to counterattack.

As soon as Qu Jun learned that the dust had settled in Huai'an, he received Sun Tao's order, so he gave the order to attack.

After a day of grievance, waiting for the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, the artillerymen put the coordinate map marked by the scouts yesterday on the table of the position command at the moment when the order arrived, and then the artillery roared.

Rijin attacked frantically for a day, temporarily retreated after no result, gathered his forces, and prepared to charge a blow to break through the opponent's position without heavy artillery support, and attack Suqian.

It was in the middle of the daybreak dispatch of troops. Suddenly, there was a seeping whimpering scream in the sky.

"The other party's artillery is keeping up!"

"Dodge shelling!!"

"Huai'an hasn't been able to get in touch overnight, is it possible that Miyake-kun has broken jade?"

Amid all kinds of noises, the troops panicked to avoid the shelling.

The shells, there was no time to chat with them, and in the chaos, they fell with a bang. Greeted the Japanese soldiers with a loud noise.

Five kilometers away from the frontal position, the shells swept over the heads of the Japanese troops close to the front line, and under their horrified gaze, they fell to the barracks two kilometers away from the rear, followed by a loud bang.

Where can the temporary camp withstand the effectiveness of a group of five 200 caliber cannons?

In the loud noise, the barracks burst into flames, and the blank area with a diameter of several tens of meters rolled with the fire clouds, and the heat wave spread. One by one, they appeared on the army station.

"Retreat!!"

"Supplies retreat!!"

The Japanese army shouted loudly in the earthquake and organized the evacuation of the baggage and supplies covered by the artillery fire.

But where can they retreat?

In the artillery attack launched at almost the same time, under the bombardment of thousands of artillery pieces in batches, there was no safe area within 10 kilometers of the Japanese army's large concentration, and the shells fell one after another on the position where the Japanese troops were stationed.

Several hundred points were shelled at the same time. The Japanese command was immediately disordered, and there were running figures all over the ground. In the panic, he didn't know where to defend and where to hide.

The earth shook in the midst of the continuous earthquakes, and patches of farmland were destroyed by the overturned earth and rocks. Large pits were smoking. The sky was obscured by the rising smoke and dust. It was dim, as in the evening.

Shells fell, and the Japanese were torn apart in pieces. The one that was a little further away from the center of the explosion was also blown away by the violent shock wave, making a trapeze in the air, and falling more than ten meters away. Survival, it is estimated that it is a little difficult.

At the moment when the shelling began, Dong Ku's two divisions surrounded the battlefield with light armor on the left and on the right. At the same time as the artillery bombardment, Qu Jungang blasted out the passage through which the troops had broken through, and in the violent explosions one or two kilometers away on both sides, on the scorched earth that had been plowed by artillery fire, the troops quickly advanced.

Interspersed division was not the main purpose, but to move to the rear of the Japanese army, implement dumpling-making, and eat up the strength of nearly four divisions here.

The Huai'an position made Dong Ku give up the idea of saving shells, and before leaving Shanghai, he had already negotiated with the Italian field and signed a series of cooperation agreements. One of them is the purchase of artillery shells. The advance army was not armed with political axes, and was not within the scope of the arms embargo, and besides, the order was so large that Mussolini had to swallow his saliva and secretly instructed Major General Field, the military attache stationed in Shanghai, to agree to the deal, and to transport it to Shanghai by merchant ship, and secretly do arms business with the advance army.

Lao Xi didn't have a second word there, and bought a large number of steel ore, oil and other resources in the weapons company, so that Lao Xi urgently needed income to fill the increasingly tight finances.

With sufficient artillery support, Dong Ku in the Huai'an positional battle, the Japanese army's strategy of street fighting, fortresses, and tunnels has been given an order to use artillery to defeat and destroy the Japanese underground bunkers at any cost.

The heavy shelling made the Japanese not even think of firing back, and their artillery simply could not reach the enemy's artillery. The direction in which the shells flew and the parabolic drop were calculated, so that the Japanese commander gave up the plan of artillery battle. The enemy's artillery was more than fifteen kilometers away, and they did not have much artillery to hit the enemy's artillery positions.

Under the fierce artillery fire, Qu Jungang's three divisions rushed straight into the belly of the Japanese army along the passage opened by the artillery bombardment, and without too much fighting where they passed, they rushed to the center of the Japanese army's garrison in less than half an hour.

The strips were torn apart by artillery, and there was a no-man's land four or five hundred meters wide, so that the advance of the troops was not hindered in the slightest. Along the way, except for cleaning up the Japanese soldiers who were damaged by the shock or explosion, they can be said to be unscathed.

"Keep stretching and open the way!!"

Qu Jun just calmly ordered.

In the dust, the three passages stretched all the way forward under the bombardment of hundreds of artillery pieces, and they were unstoppable. In such a dense bombardment, the Japanese army took refuge on both sides in the smoke and dust, and they could not stop the raging artillery fire, and they did not collapse the army, and the Qu army had just taken care of them.

The division, which was not known to the Japanese army, was already in chaos at this time in the intensive bombardment, and the troops quickly retreated, abandoning their garrisons in the chaos.

At the same time, the Japanese organized a large attack formation and, amid a continuous explosion behind them, launched a fierce attack on the positions of the advance army.

They had to take the artillery positions of the advance army, otherwise, these cannons alone would be enough to rout them, the fire was too fierce, and the number of cannons was too large.

But their troops had just been assembled, and the self-propelled artillery fired.

The firing range of the self-propelled artillery was relatively close, and during the entire bombardment, the position of the position was not revealed, and when the Japanese troops were assembled, the coordinates of the forward observation posts were reported back.

"Self-propelled artillery from groups of one to ten fire!!"

Qu Jungang shouted loudly.

Then, in the loud roar, a projectile flew towards the Japanese army that was assembling, and then the loud roar continued into a piece, and a group of ten artillery pieces freely covered the fire, so that the fire was everywhere within two kilometers.

The loud roar of the bombardment caused the earth to fly, and the Japanese army exploded one by one, and in just five or six minutes, a brigade and regiment assembled were crushed under the bombardment of artillery shells. Figures were fleeing everywhere, and the shattered corpses all over the ground made dark red marks appear on the dirt.

Dong Ku's headquarters was still moving, and as soon as Qu Jun arrived, there was a report that the three divisions had successfully penetrated the frontal Japanese positions and began to disperse and detour.

"It doesn't look like it's going to take a day."

Dong Ku handed the telegram back to Sun Tao and said with a smile.

On the war horse, Sun Tao also smiled. Cannons, the power is indeed extraordinary, otherwise how could the captain say that this will be the era of cannons?

Zuo Boyang couldn't help but sigh at the speed of the attack brought by the artillery battle. Under the bombardment of these artillery, it was difficult for the Japanese army to survive at all.

Starting with the shelling, the heavy shelling, which lasted for an hour, was temporarily suspended in the dusty sky.

They need more accurate coordinates, they need the Japanese army to assemble, and they need to intersperse the teams that have gone out to occupy important nodes and implement encirclement and annihilation.

After the end of the shelling, the Japanese army was already scattered, there were screaming wounded soldiers everywhere, corpses everywhere, guns and ammunition left everywhere, and on the road, trucks were blocked by wreckage and had been abandoned there, no one cared about them.

At the moment of pause here, the battle at Llama Lake also began.

The battle here was much easier, on the opposite side, a division reinforced by Taierzhuang had just arrived, and the moment he heard the artillery fire in the distance, the commander realized that the opponent's artillery was already in place, so he hurriedly ordered the headquarters to retreat five kilometers to avoid being destroyed by local artillery.

But at the same time as the headquarters moved, the attack order had been issued, and then, shells rained down on the improvised garrison positions built by the Japanese army.

The loud roar continued in a row, and the station was engulfed in a sea of fire in a short moment.

Guo Shun, who had been pressed and beaten for a day, had already held back his strength when his troops had lost one-third, waiting for the horn of the counterattack to sound.

As soon as the shelling began, three flaming flares were raised from the position on this side.

The moment the soldiers saw the signal flare and heard the trumpet of the charge, they burst out with a shocking shout of killing and rushed out of the position.

The Japanese troops were bombarded by abrupt artillery, and the garrison and artillery positions were destroyed in just a minute or two, and the entire command was immediately paralyzed.

The artillery fire, which was bombarded only once, then extended, chasing the crowd behind who were hiding from the shelling.

In the shouting of killing, Guo Shun took the lead in rushing out of the broken position, and while running, he rushed to the Japanese position thousands of kilometers away.

At this time, the Japanese troops on the position had already been cultivated by artillery fire, and less than half of them were not injured...... (To be continued......)