After receiving Chen Jie's order, Gao Jingxiang, the commander of the artillery battalion, knew that the battle situation was extremely serious, otherwise he would not have concentrated all the mortars to build artillery positions. The mortar company originally had 9 mortars, but later Chen Jie strengthened 6 more, and now it has 15 mortars.

After handing over the defense of the first line of Tongtianxia to Pan Xiongfei and Wu Zhiguo, Gao Jingxiang personally led the mortar company to set off and rushed to the first line from Yushugou to Xiaobiangou to deploy the defense at the fastest speed.

When he came to the scene, Gao Jingxiang knew what Chen Jie meant. This is a preparation for the use of 15 mortars to "fight cattle across the mountains" and violently bombard another ravine to the west.

That is to say, at a certain time, there will definitely be a large number of enemies in the ravine to the west!

As a professional artilleryman, Gao Jingxiang carefully inspected the preset battlefield and felt that the use of "anti-slope" to build artillery positions was not very effective in the ravine.

Because the anti-slope artillery positions cannot see the infantry positions with their own eyes, it is impossible to maximize the power of artillery fire, and the effect of infantry artillery coordination will be greatly reduced.

Will be subject to the king's life outside!

Therefore, proceeding from reality, Gao Jingxiang immediately revised Chen Jie's operational plan and directly ordered the artillery company to cross the ravine and climb to the opposite mountain beam to build an artillery position. In this way, it is possible to take care of the ravines on both sides of the mountain beam at the same time. No matter which direction the enemy came from, they were under artillery fire.

Zuihou, the 15 mortars of the artillery company were divided into five clusters, and five artillery positions were preset on the 6-kilometer-long mountain beam at the Huangnidao at the head of the ditch, the Gaoling Ridge in the middle, and the Lihuling line downstream, and controlled all the ravines on both sides of the mountain beam.

Therefore, a flexible and witty on-site commander is the greatest guarantee for the victory of the battle and campaign!

This is also the reason why when Bai Shujie gives orders to front-line military commanders, he always determines the basic combat objectives and never explains specific tactical actions.

The person who has the most say is the military commander on the front line. The people in the staff draw straight lines on the map, they are pure nerds! Giving the order to fight according to the lines of a nerd, only Chiang in the south can do it.

Friends who like to travel know best, because of the scale, no matter how detailed the map, it is impossible to reflect the basic details of the field - unless your map is a "1:1" scale!

However, in the actual battle, it is likely that one big rock, two big trees, and a sunken area will determine the outcome of the entire battle!

The progress of the battle situation really verified Gao Jingxiang's worries - more than a thousand enemies, each of them opened a distance of one meter, and the length was close to three kilometers! If you don't stand on the ridge of the mountain and take a closer look, but hide in the ravine on the other side and fire the shells, it won't do anything at all!

The unexpectedly strange blocking battle first started at the yellow mud road at the head of the ditch, that is, when the first grenade was fired by the three mortars!

Gao Jingxiang saw a group of enemies in the Zuihou side going down the ravine, about five hundred meters forward, before he roared: "The first cluster of Huangnidao fired three rapid shots, smashed the enemy's buttocks, and opened fire!" ”

Open! Open! Open!

Boom-boom

Then the remaining four clusters fired three rapid fires in turn, and the shells blew down the ravine, blowing the ravine into a miasma of smoke all day, followed by a deafening scream.

As soon as Zhang Minghan heard the sound of artillery, he hurriedly rushed to the mouth of the ditch with two companies, preparing to block the enemy's retreat. As a result, when it came to the front line of the scene, blocking the enemy at the mouth of the ditch was really the easiest job, only 6 machine guns were needed to shoot in turn, and the gods could not come up.

"One platoon of the second company set up a blocking position at the head of the ditch, and the other two platoons immediately went to the artillery position to build a position to prevent the enemy from storming the artillery position. The three companies to the west of the mountain beam spread out on the whole line to prevent the enemy from escaping over the mountain! ”

Gao Jingxiang finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the cavalry battalion coming up, and then shouted loudly: "Brothers on both sides of the mountain beams, pay attention, if you find a target where the enemy is concentrated, or a heavy fire target, immediately notify the nearby artillery cluster to bombard, don't attack easily." ”

The first round of surprise shelling continued for more than nine minutes, but Gao Jingxiang, a veteran, was also in a bad stomach.

There was a pause of about five minutes in the middle, and another order was issued to send the enemy to the funeral: "The artillery company opened fire with all its parts, ten rounds of rapid fire, and covered the entire ravine to reduce the pressure on the blocking positions downstream!" ”

This is an artillery tactic.

The initial sudden blow will inevitably cause the enemy to panic for a while, and most of them will find a place to hide nearby. Therefore, the first strike is mainly to create chaos for the enemy and create time for their own people to respond correctly.

The first round of mortar shelling was unlikely to kill many people, and most of those who were killed were caused by panic and scurrying around.

If you find a place to lie down immediately, it will not cause many casualties. If you are lying on the ground and a cannonball falls on your back, then you can only blame you for being unlucky. Therefore, Gao Jingxiang's order was to fire three shells for each mortar in the first round.

However, after an interval of five minutes, the enemy should have discovered the current bad situation and would definitely take countermeasures accordingly. But no matter what the countermeasures are, people need to do it, so it is necessary to find out all the guys who are hiding and reorganize them.

At this time, Gao Jingxiang issued an order for ten rapid fire covered artillery bombardments! It's not about creating chaos, it's about killing!

Let's go back to Li Bozhou's independent battalion.

Chen Jie's order was only known to Li Bozhou and Zheng Zhikuan, and then the two newspaper operators understood. rushed all the way to Jinjiabao and ran about 15 kilometers along the ravine. Li Bozhou gave an order, and the three companies suddenly stopped.

The more than 500 people who came over didn't know what the special battalion wanted to do, and when they saw Li Bozhou and they didn't run away, these people really didn't know what to do. All the way, the special battalion opened the way in front, and they escaped safely without encountering any enemies. Now that the special battalion is not leaving, who will take the lead?

"A company immediately set up a position to stop this gang of mongrels!" Li Bozhou was not in the mood to talk nonsense with others, and more than a thousand enemies behind him arrived in the blink of an eye: "The second company immediately seized the commanding heights on both sides of the ravine, and prepared to attack this gang of mongrels head-on!" One platoon of the three companies guards the war horses, and the other two platoons and the guard platoon serve as a reserve for zuihou! ”

"Big brother, what do you want to do?" At this time, a burly man with a beard on his face came out of the crowd, came to Li Bozhou and said, "Take advantage of the fact that the eight calves behind have not caught up, hurry up and run." You're downstream here, how can you hold off the enemy rushing down from upstream? ”

"Let's go, I'm going to fight those bastards here!" Li Bozhou didn't look at those people, but twisted his binoculars and climbed to the east mountain beam to observe the enemy's situation.

The beard hugged his fist at Li Bozhou's back: "Big brother, I'm sorry, my brothers haven't eaten for several days, and they don't have much ammunition, so they can only go first!" Thank you for your help, and you will report later! ”

Ten minutes later, the earth-shattering explosion finally sounded, and Li Bozhou breathed a sigh of relief: The dare to love the master has other considerations, seeing that this jiashi is to eat this enemy.

"it! If I had known that, I should have kept those guys. Even if it can't be used for anything, at least it's a little popular, isn't it! ”

As soon as Li Bozhou heard the intensive shelling, he knew that the artillery battalion was coming: "Brothers, the current situation is very clear, the regiment commander is going to eat this enemy. We are stuck in this mountain pass and must not let one go! ”

As the sound of shell explosions got closer and closer, the entire ravine began to shake. This was caused by the resonance of the explosion after the explosion was reflected by the mountain wall at the same time as the saturation bombing, which made Li Bozhou feel his ear drums swollen and his chest tight.

"All the machine guns of the company are concentrated in a platoon ready for battle, and the others retreat!" Li Bozhou knew that the number of grenades carried by the artillery company was definitely limited, and it was impossible to continue shelling to solve the battle: "The mortar gunners of the guard platoon formed a position five hundred meters behind the position, ready to provide fire support to the platoon. ”

The whole shelling lasted for half an hour, and the loud explosion also stopped abruptly. In less than three minutes, with a strange scream, more than a hundred people rushed out of the ravine. All of them are disgraced and embarrassed.

"Hit-"

Li Bozhou, commander of the special battalion, lay on the east side of the mountain beam and commanded the six machine guns on the mountain beam to take the lead in firing, first disrupting the enemy's shock formation.

Zheng Zhikuan, deputy battalion commander, was not far behind on the west side of the mountain, and six machine guns opened fire, and more than 100 people who rushed out immediately fell by a third.

Shan Hongxin, the commander of the guard platoon, saw that more than 40 enemies had rushed to the gate of the ravine, and immediately shouted: "Mortar three rapid fire, fire!" ”

Twenty-seven mortars bombed indiscriminately, and more than 40 enemies were basically reimbursed. A few sporadic enemies remained, knocked down in front of the position by a volley of machine gunners in a row of short bursts. The first round of the enemy's charge, all destroyed!

Li Bozhou and the soldiers knew very well that this was a test by the enemy, mainly to see what was going on at the gate of the ravine. Although the shelling just now was very fierce, it was very good to be able to kill 20 percent of the enemy.

After all, the complexity of the ravine is well known to everyone, and the power of mortars is not very great. If it is replaced with a 75mm mountain gun, or even a 105mm heavy gun, the effect will be different, and it is estimated that one shell will solve the battle.

The enemy is not a fool either, much less a rabble. Especially the North Korean two devils, the fight is still quite crazy.

Because they all feel that they are "warriors of the Great Japanese Empire", and if they get military exploits, they can get "imperial nationality" and get rid of the mark of "untouchables"!

Because of this, the real enemy in the hearts of Li Bozhou and Zheng Zhikuan is more than 300 North Korean devils in the two squadrons, because they have strengthened a machine gun squad!

Their equipment is also similar to that of ordinary front-line troops of little devils, with mortars and grenadiers. If not to act in the ravines, they also have infantry artillery!

As for Yu Zhishan's garrison brigade and Shao Benliang's appeasement brigade, they were all a group of bandits, and the special battalion didn't care at all when they collided face-to-face.

No matter how arrogant these bandits are, the special battalion has never regarded them as evenly matched opponents, and what they have to focus on is the North Korean devils.

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.