No matter how ferocious your temperament, how strong your body, or how strong your will, these are just clouds in the face of artillery fire. Therefore, in the infantry drills of almost all normal countries, the prescribed actions when artillery fire comes, except lying down It's just hidden, there can't be anything else,
The rumble of artillery fire on the south bank lasted for about ten minutes, and then began to fall silent amidst the sound of artillery fire on the north bank.
The artillerymen of two full brigades of the Japanese army were not vegetarians. After preparing for the artillery fire, they immediately moved their positions, and then began to wait quietly for the artillerymen of the Xuebing Army to expose their targets. The artillerymen of the Xuebing Army appeared a little It was late, but they finally couldn't stand it anymore. Ten minutes was just enough time for the Japanese artillery to calculate the position of the artillery of the Xuebing Army. Then they started to counterattack.
"Launch." As the small red flags were lowered by the commander, thunder rumbled in several hidden artillery positions on the north bank. Then, hundreds of artillery shells dragged orange tails of fire and flew towards the Madang Fort. ,
The Xuebing Army's artillery had been hidden by Ouyang Yunxue until the main force of the Japanese Yangtze River Fleet was exhausted. The Xuebing Army's self-propelled artillery had attracted the attention of the Japanese army since the Second Great Wall War of Resistance, so at the beginning, Kamakura Sukeji Chun Cai was so cautious and only sent a squadron to conduct exploratory bombardment far away from the Madang Fort. The Anqing Airport was destroyed, causing the Japanese army to lose its largest front-line airport, and resulting in the Japanese army's aerial reconnaissance being almost zero. , This allowed Zhang Tianquan to better conceal his troops, so that he could complete his victory in one battle after the main force of the Yangtze River Fleet was exhausted.
Okamura Neiji received the news from Kamakura Sukeji Jun, and he already had a bad feeling in his heart, so he ordered to speed up the attack. He was afraid of the artillery reinforcements from the Xuebing Army.
The artillery return speed of the Xuebing Army was still faster than he expected. Of course, with his current vision, he would never have imagined that the speed of the Xuebing Army's self-propelled artillery could actually reach or even exceed forty kilometers per hour. You know , even among the current tanks, very few can reach this speed.
The sound of artillery sounded at the fortress. Okamura Neiji instinctively thought that this was another artillery piece owned by Ouyang Yunxue. He did not even think about it. This might be the artillery piece from the Yangtze River Fleet.
When the sound of artillery fire rang out, Ouyang Yun stood quietly at the door of the bunker of the headquarters holding his watch, watching the shells whizzing away with long flame tails one after another. In his heart, the tense nerves could no longer be Unable to restrain myself, I relaxed,
As long as Zhang Tianquan and the others can successfully return reinforcements, the battle will be half won. Of course, if you want to pursue not only victory, but greater results, then it is necessary to do some manipulation in the order of artillery input. And this will require the efforts of ground troops,
Since the development of the Xuebing Army, all branches and departments in the army have become more and more complete. Take the staff department as an example. It not only has corresponding departments such as combat, communications, logistics, etc., but also an estimation section that specializes in battle damage estimation. Chen Shichang Personally responsible for the work of the estimation section, they used a relatively rigorous formula to calculate, and the final result was that if the Xuebing Army wanted to severely damage the Japanese army, its own battle losses would reach at least two regiments.
The battle losses will reach two regiments, which is no longer what Ouyang Yun is willing to accept. Compared with many modern Chinese generals, Ouyang Yun's biggest difference may be that he cares too much about human life. , Although Ouyang Yun has had a dream since he was a boy, to be a great general who dominates the battlefield, however, he does not want to rely on the bones of others to build his tower of honor.
For this reason, Bai Liusu once said in private that he was hypocritical, childish, and naive. In short, based on Bai Liusu's simple thoughts, Ouyang Yun's approach was simply unrealistic.
People will die in wars, and even more people will die in big battles. In fact, the fact that Ouyang Yun and the student army were able to reach this point was not paved with the lives of those students who died in battle.
"If a brigade or even a division of the Japanese army can be severely damaged, the battle losses of the two regiments seem to be acceptable." Ouyang Yun once comforted himself. However, when preliminary statistics were sent back from the front line, he learned that only so far, The battle damage had reached more than four regiments, and imitating the Seventh Brigade would be equivalent to the entire army being destroyed. His heart couldn't help but twitch.
The artillery regiment that participated in the first round of artillery attacks belonged to the 12th Xuexi Division, and its commander Li Mu. As an artillery command talent trained by the Xuebing Army itself, Li Mu basically mastered the artillery battle execution theory of modern warfare, and his most outstanding thing is that In camouflage, the first round of artillery bombardment only lasted ten minutes, and then the position had to be moved quickly. When the ten minutes were about to come, Li Mu issued an order to stop firing. Then, the artillerymen came under the command of the platoon leader (the lowest unit of the heavy artillery force is the platoon, and each platoon has one self-propelled gun). Under the command of the artillery), he quickly put away the positioning drill and supporting legs, and then set up the gun barrel in an orderly manner. Then, the troops began to move,
Two minutes later, when Li Mu and the others had just retreated about 500 meters, the Japanese artillery shells fell on their previous position. Amidst the "rumbling" explosions, the entire Madang Fortress seemed to be shaking, one after another. The fireball rose, and the next moment, some preset gasoline barrels began to explode, and then a larger explosion was produced.
The retreat was too extreme. One of the artillery behind was still hit. Although only the track was broken and the personnel were not damaged, we had to give up. Li Mu's command armored vehicle was lagging behind. When he saw this scene, Then he said to Qiu Hongming, the chief of staff in the same car: "Ten minutes is too stressful. Tell the headquarters that eight minutes is the limit if you want to minimize losses."
"Yes." Qiu Hongming responded, then picked up the microphone and started calling the command center.
This round of artillery counterattack by the Japanese army only lasted five minutes. The Xuebing Army was afraid of retaliatory bombardment, and the Japanese were even more afraid. Five minutes later, the Japanese army's retaliatory bombardment stopped, and on the Xuebing Army's side, several calibers were The 120 to 150 mm fortress artillery shelled again, and their target for this round of shelling was the Japanese artillery position that had just been exposed.
At the Shengzhou landing position on Mianfeng Island, after his own artillery began to fight back, Okamura Neiji ignored the objections of others and stood outside the bunker to observe the enemy's situation with a telescope. Later, he nodded with satisfaction and said to the others: "Dove Ye is very good. The counterattack just now was very accurate. Pass on my order to commend Colonel Hatono and call on the entire army to learn from him and fight with the cadet army. Artillery is very important. Only by completely destroying the Chinese Artillery, our next ground battle will prevent us from suffering excessive losses."
"Hai." A staff officer ran down in a hurry.
"This should be an artillery unit that Ouyang Yun has hidden. Sanshijun, if the main artillery force of the Xuebing Army retreats, it will still be at most three hours away from Madang. These three hours will be our last chance. Do you understand?"
"Hai, sir, please rest assured. Next, we will launch a tidal wave of attacks on the last fortifications of Cotton Boat Island."
(I was so busy yesterday that I forgot to post. Juhan, this month, I have to catch up on another manuscript, so I can only update one chapter a day. Please forgive me, brothers)