"Ready, fire!" the commander of the artillery team waved the triangular red flag in his hand with a long tone. The six 75 mountain guns that had already been prepared for bombardment fired their first shells. The Japanese troops on the opposite side were gathering, 74
The artillery observers of the army had already calibrated the coordinates of the artillery attack. There was no need to test-fire and calibrate such a good opportunity. The artillery team, which was already impatient, simply launched a two-round salvo.
"Boom" and "boom" a series of explosions sounded in the distance, and the smoke billowing in the air was very beautiful. However, Zhang Lingpu, who was commanding the forward troops, tightened his expression. His troops had already lurked close to the Japanese army assembly area.
However, at a position of 0 meters, if the Japanese and puppet troops did not attack like the guy, his carefully arranged ambush would be in vain.
"Quick, quick, let's move." After the artillery team fired two rounds of salvos, they were busy moving their positions. The Japanese army also had an artillery unit, and they also had howitzers with a caliber of more than 150 mm.
A hit can overturn a mountain cannon of the 74th Army. The 74th Army cannot afford such a loss now. The tractor of the mountain cannon was hung on the rear of the truck, and the gunners of the 74th Army even loaded the shell casings on the ground and took them away.
, but two minutes later, there were only a few empty shell boxes left on the position where the cannons were rumbling just now.
"Rumble" The ground shook and the mountains shook, causing the speeding truck to shake uncontrollably. The artillerymen nestled in the truck compartment couldn't help but feel palpitations. If they had run any slower, they would all have become the heavy artillery of the Japanese army.
Wounded souls under bombardment. The attack plan of the 74th Army had three artillery units to cooperate in the operation. This mountain artillery unit that fired first was just an introduction for Wang Yaowu. His purpose was to find out the location of the Japanese heavy artillery and not to destroy the Japanese heavy artillery.
Division Zhang Lingpu, who was in the forward position, would have to endure incalculable casualties.
"Found it." Zhao Zhi sent as many as a dozen artillery observers to the 74th Army. After the second round of shells from the Japanese heavy artillery hit, the observation posts who came close to conduct reconnaissance calculated the approximate location and range of the Japanese heavy artillery.
Artillery vs. artillery, no one believed Zhao Zhi's arrangement before the war started. The Japanese army used heavy artillery, and the 74th Army's biggest weapon was the 75 Mountain Artillery. The distance between the two was too far. The Japanese army could destroy the 74th Army.
The artillery positions of the 74th Army could only be stared at and lost their temper.
"Who said I was using mountain artillery?" After the location of the Japanese heavy artillery was roughly calculated, Zhao Zhi signaled Luo Ying to send a telegram according to the original plan. The time for the 74th Army to start the war was at 6 a.m., long before the 74th Army started the war.
Zhao Zhi had already ordered a fighter squadron at the Liaocheng temporary airport to take off and be on standby. The fighter squadron consisting of 6 escort fighters, 3 bombers and 1 large transport aircraft would not take long to fly from Liaocheng, 0 kilometers away, to Zibo.
At least the Japanese and puppet troops confronting the 74th Army did not expect that Zhao Zhihui would dispatch fighter planes to assist in the battle.
The commander on the ground quickly contacted the circling and controlled fighter plane. After sending the coordinates, another mountain artillery unit of the 74th Army deployed on the flank opened fire to attract the attention of the Japanese heavy artillery. The Japanese army obviously did not expect that the Chinese troops on the opposite side would have
At the two artillery positions, the artillerymen of the 74th Army who had fired two rounds according to the order had already withdrawn from the position with their mountain artillery. Only then did the Japanese large-caliber grenades arrive. "Boom", "Boom" and "Boom" rolled up in the air.
The smoke in the air rose high, and the Japanese heavy artillery position was filled with joy. Unfortunately, they did not know that what exploded was only the explosives arranged by Zhao Zhi in advance. The mountain artillery and artillery of the 74th Army had long since disappeared.
"We found the target location, let's go down." The fighter jets hovering at high altitude first discovered the Japanese heavy artillery position. The flight officer who led the team pressed down the handle and swooped down. Following him were the other five escort fighter jets. Okamura
Ningji equipped the frontline troops with fighter planes to assist in the battle. The Japanese commander who was in charge of Zibo's defense believed that he could defeat the invading enemy with infantry alone, so after the 74th Army launched the attack, he did not call for fighter planes to assist in the battle. There was no sign of Japanese fighter planes.
, the escorting Thunder fighter jets had no choice but to use themselves as aerial machine gun firepower, otherwise they would have to bring the machine gun ammunition back to the airport.
"Tongtongtongtongtongtong" the six fighter jets swooped down in turn. The machine cannons mounted on the fighter jets sprayed ammunition at the Japanese and puppet troops below. The power of the fighter jets' cannons was more powerful than the Thunder's large-caliber Browning heavy machine gun.
It is much more powerful. When the heavy machine gun comes, you can lie down or hide in the trench, but the fighter jet attacks from the air. Even if you are hiding in the trench, the bullets of the machine gun will still penetrate the soil.
The layers tear you to pieces.
Dozens of high plumes of smoke rose up from the Japanese heavy artillery positions. Thick machine gun bullets hit the Japanese heavy artillery guns and spattered sparks. The Japanese artillerymen shrouded in the rain of bullets could only flee or flee.
He lay down under the heavy artillery gun and prayed for God's blessing. The bomber, which could not fly as fast as the fighter jets, began to dive and drop bombs with a scream. Four shiny, high-efficiency incendiary bombs were dropped. After a while, the Japanese heavy artillery position became a sea.
The sea of fire and the explosion of artillery shells caused the Japanese troops close to the heavy artillery position to complain again and again.
The means for heavy artillery to kill the enemy is not only the shrapnel scattered after the explosion of the artillery shell, but also the shock wave generated by the explosion. The shock wave formed after the explosion of a 150-caliber artillery shell can damage all living things within meters of the explosion range.
There was almost no chance that any living thing 10 meters from the center of the explosion could survive. And this was just the effect of the explosion of a heavy artillery shell. The bomber detonated dozens or hundreds of large-caliber shells, so the effect of the explosion was naturally not just a single shell.
can be compared.
"Guys, how about we teach those Japanese monkeys a lesson?" The three bombers that came to assist in the battle not only carried four incendiary bombs, but also ordinary heavy aerial bombs in their bomb bays. With these, everyone
It would cost more fuel to fly back together, so the bomber pilots on a whim planned to throw all these big guys onto the Japanese positions.
"It's Thunder's plane." Zhang Lingpu's telescope was raised high, and the wings of the fighter planes hovering in the sky had big lightning signs. It didn't take much to think that they were Thunder's fighter planes. When Zhang Lingpu followed the 74th Army southward to Myanmar and detoured around Thailand,
He had already seen Thunder's fighter jets in Jingdong. Those big guys with lightning signs made Zhang Lingpu feel itchy in his heart. If the 74th Army also had a flying team of this size to assist in the battle, it would be no longer possible to drive the Japanese army out of China.
It's a dream.
"Haha, Commander, the airdrops are all machine guns and mortars. Once these are done, I can invade Jinan in one go." One of Zhang Lingpu's regiments yelled and ran over with a machine gun in his arms.
The fighter force took off from Liaocheng together with a transport plane loaded with supplies. While the bombers were busy bombing the Japanese heavy artillery positions, the transport planes circling in the sky had already dropped a batch of machine guns and mortars on Zhang Lingpu's position. After a while, he
The troops were about to collide with the Japanese troops on the opposite side, and these machine guns and mortars came in handy.
"Order the troops to prepare for attack and wait for my order." Zhang Lingpu glared at the regiment commander. Fortunately, his forward command was all composed of his own people. If the people from Thunderbolt saw this, they might laugh at them.
The people in the 74th Army are all country bumpkins who have never seen the world. Although the 74th Army is all equipped with American weapons, how can the soldiers dislike their weapons and their firepower? Zhang Lingpu had to secretly sigh at Zhao Zhi's thoughtfulness.
, this batch of airdropped weapons can come in handy.
At the moment when the fighter squadron that came to assist in the "attack" returned, Zhang Lingpu's order was transmitted through the walkie-talkie that had been equipped to the battalion and company. More than 8,000 officers and soldiers of the 58th Division under Zhang Lingpu's command descended the mountain like tigers and attacked the Japanese and puppet army positions on the opposite side.
Advance. The three mountain artillery positions under the direct command of Wang Yaowu also provided long-range fire support in a timely manner. Without the threat of the Japanese heavy artillery regiment, the artillery of the 74th Army fought very smoothly. The smoke rising from the Japanese position gradually formed a continuous line.
One piece, and it is getting worse and worse.
"Let's go back, there's nothing to see anymore." Zhao Zhi, who had been watching the battle from the rear flank of the 74th Army, turned and left. With the cooperation of fighter units and the powerful fire support of more than 18 75 mountain guns, if Zhang Lingpu could not command him
The 58th Division captured the enemy on the opposite side, so the title of the 74th Army as a tiger was in vain. Cooperating with the 74th Army to attack Shandong was due to Chiang Kai-shek's arrangement and proposal. Zhao Zhi did not completely believe in the National Government and the Communist Party.
He was worried about the Taiyuan offensive and defensive battle, which is why Zhao Zhi handed over the command to Wang Yaowu.
The 300,000 ** reserve troops transferred by Zhao Zhi from Shanxi are currently on standby around Liaocheng. As long as Okamura Yingji continues to increase troops on the Qingzhou and Yishui front lines, the 300,000 reserve troops hidden in Liaocheng will be deployed in the Second Armored Division.
With the cooperation of Jinan, they launched an attack on Jinan. These 300,000 reserve troops are not comparable to the Burmese mercenaries who besieged Jinan in the early stage. Moreover, there are also the participation of fighter units and the Second Armored Division. If Okamura Neiji does not mobilize troops from other places
Reinforce Jinan, and this historic city that Han Fuqu abandoned to the Japanese will return to the hands of the National Government.
Once the 300,000 reserve army and the 74th Army converge in Shandong, Chiang Kai-shek will order the formation of a new group army. Wang Yaowu will be promoted to the first commander-in-chief of this group army. The only mission of this group army is to establish the largest military base in Shandong.
It may cause casualties to the Japanese and puppet troops. The Huben Group Army only accepts the direct command of Chiang Kai-shek. Counting the tens of thousands of Burmese cannon fodder troops sent by Zhao Zhi, Wang Yaowu's Huben Group Army will become a behemoth with 500,000 troops. I believe it will be enough.
Okamura Neji gnawed until he was defeated and returned home.