In the afternoon.
Baoding.
Accompanied by the buzzing sound of the aircraft's motor, a reconnaissance plane roared past in the sky.
"Give me the order to fire!"
In the headquarters of the New Regiment, Li Yunlong grabbed the walkie-talkie and loudly issued orders.
As his order was issued, the artillery soldiers, who had eaten a sumptuous lunch and were well fed, began to work again.
In an instant, 1,000 artillery pieces roared together.
This time the bombardment targeted the Japanese and puppet positions.
Artillery shells soared into the sky one after another, and then fell into the positions of the Japanese and puppet troops like meteors.
Accompanied by the overwhelming roar of cannons.
The Japanese and puppet troops' positions suddenly filled the sky with smoke and debris, and you could even see the Japanese and puppet soldiers being blown up.
In order to avoid the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, most of the Japanese and puppet troops hid in the artillery caves.
There were not many Japs and puppet troops on the forward positions, and more Japs and puppet troops were hiding in the artillery holes in the deeper positions.
but.
The forward positions of the Japanese and puppet troops were not the main targets of the Eighth Route Army artillery.
The artillery of the new regiment, after a burst of shelling on the forward positions of the Japanese and puppet troops, began to shell the deep positions of the Japanese and puppet troops with a barrage.
Today's new artillery regiment is of excellent quality, and Xu Jin's barrages are all at his fingertips.
Compared with the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, Li Yunlong appears to be more wealthy.
Directly ordered two 203mm howitzer battalions and three of the six Katyusha rocket launcher battalions to join the shelling.
Coupled with the bombardment of more than 500 heavy guns and 500 mountain guns.
For a time, the sound of artillery was so loud that the Japanese and puppet troops were frightened.
The infantry and tank troops of the Eighth Route Army had not officially started their offensive, but a small number of Japanese soldiers and some puppet troops had already been frightened to death.
The high-density heavy artillery shells directly blew up some anti-cannon holes, and the Japanese and puppet soldiers inside died tragically on the spot.
Even if the bomb-proof caves were not destroyed, many Japanese and puppet soldiers lost their hearing due to the continuous heavy artillery fire without any interruption.
After a full hour of shelling, the sound of artillery gradually became sparse.
Just when the Japanese and puppet soldiers were about to take a breath, the drone of aircraft motors sounded in the sky again.
Dozens of fighters and bombers from the new group formed several stages of dive attacks.
As the plane passed by, overwhelming explosions sounded, and the Japanese and puppet army positions were once again shrouded in smoke and fire.
At this time, the infantry and tank troops of the Eighth Route Army had begun to attack, gradually approaching the positions of the Japanese and puppet troops.
Lieutenant General Dohashi Ichichi, commander of the 12th Army of the Japanese North China Front, raised his binoculars in the frontline headquarters.
A fierce scene appeared in the field of view of the telescope. Along with the crashing sound of tanks, a gray water line suddenly appeared on the horizon more than 40 miles east and west, like rising tide, sweeping towards the positions of the Japanese and puppet troops.
"idiot!"
Tuqiao cursed angrily, and the Eighth Route Army dispatched tens of thousands of its main troops to attack across the board?
No feints, just main attacks.
Under the fierce bombardment of the Eighth Route Army, the tactics formulated by General Okamura were ineffective.
Another tactical attack that goes against military common sense.
Lieutenant General Dohashi Ichi was so angry that he cursed.
"Order the Locust Army and the Locust Alliance Army to immediately enter the position, order the artillery fire, immediately shoot at the enemy, and immediately request air support from General Okamura!" Dohashi grabbed the phone and issued a series of orders.
As his order was issued, the Japanese and puppet troops quickly entered the forward positions.
The battle is about to begin!
The explosions of various firearms have joined together, and the sound of grenades, mortars and gunshots have merged into a huge sound.
At the same time, from the tunnels, caves, and anti-gun caves, the Japanese and puppet artillery fired 75mm mountain guns and 75mm field guns, as well as Type 92 infantry guns, and various types of artillery.
Model mortars were rolled out.
"fire!"
Taking aim, loading the shells, the Japanese and puppet artillerymen pulled the match.
Boom boom boom——
Continuous explosions of artillery shells rose up in the Eighth Route Army's offensive formation.
Although the Japanese and puppet troops have about 300 75mm artillery pieces, when spread over a front line of more than 40 miles, it seems that the Japanese and puppet troops have very few mountain artillery.
In addition, the Japanese and puppet troops also had a large number of mortars and grenades.
But on the New Regiment's side, accompanying the infantry and tank troops in the attack, there were also artillery units from each battalion and company.
These mortar units set up mortars at the rear of the attack formation and bombarded the rear areas of the Japanese and puppet positions, quickly suppressing the Japanese mortars and grenades.
While the tanks of the Eighth Route Army were marching, their tank guns and vehicle-mounted large-caliber heavy machine guns were firing, forming an absolute suppression of the Japanese and puppet troops in the forward positions.
The new regiment of infantry and the infantry of the Central Hebei Military Region following the tanks looked for opportunities to fire.
In addition to the mortars suppressing the Japanese mortars and grenade launchers.
The Eighth Route Army reconnaissance plane observers in the sky were not idle either.
Continuously notify the heavy artillery troops on the ground of the location of the Guizishan artillery and field artillery positions via radio.
When a Japanese mountain artillery or field artillery position is captured, a battalion of heavy artillery will fire in unison to cover the Japanese mountain artillery or field artillery position with artillery fire.
After several Japanese artillery positions were destroyed, the Japanese mountain artillery and field artillery went silent one after another.
Most of the remaining Japanese mountain artillery and field artillery were concealed and they did not dare to fire rashly again.
Without artillery fire support, the tanks and infantry of the Eighth Route Army quickly invaded the forward positions of the Japanese and puppet troops.
…
Eighth Route Army forward command post.
Li Yunlong looked at this scene through the telescope with a very satisfied expression.
The aircraft fleet roared in the sky, the heavy artillery roared on the ground, and a few volleys of fire knocked down the enemies in deep positions. Tanks and infantry occupied the enemy's forward positions in one charge.
This was a scene from his previous dream.
Unexpectedly, this scene came true on the Baoding battlefield.
However, there are still some gaps between the scene in Li Yunlong's dreams.
There are not enough aircraft in the sky, not enough heavy artillery and tanks on the ground, and there are not densely packed battleships on the sea.
but.
The guys currently in hand are enough to deal with the Japanese North China Front Army and puppet troops in front of us.
…
Inside Baoding City.
Japanese North China Front Army Headquarters.
"Report to the commander that the Eighth Route Army has begun to attack. Lieutenant General Doqiao, commander of the 12th Army, requested air support!"
"Report to Commander, our artillery firepower has been suppressed!"
"Report to Commander, enemy infantry and tanks have invaded our forward position!"
News came one after another from the front line, making Neji Okamura and Seizo Arisu look very solemn.
The Eighth Route Army's offensive was really too fierce.
Before Neji Okamura and Seizo Arisu could react too much, the Eighth Route Army had already attacked the forward positions of the Japanese and puppet troops.
"Your Excellency, Commander, do you order reinforcements from the 6th Flying Division?"
To be continued...