Northeast of Sanhe County, at the west foot of Panshan Mountain, in front of an earth temple on the hills behind Xiaogang Village.
Due to the need to rescue wounded soldiers, the Chinese *** team lit a bonfire for lighting, and Ishikawa Koichi could clearly see everything that happened through the telescope.
After estimating the distance, we found that the ambush point was still about two kilometers away from the Japanese convoy. Although artillery fire could cover part of the convoy, it was unable to do anything further away, especially since the infantry following the car movement was not within the striking range of the ambush Japanese army.
The remnants of the Chinese *** team after being bombarded are very likely to escape into the winding mountains and cause trouble for the Japanese and puppet regime in eastern Hebei in the future. Therefore, Ishikawa Koichi strictly ordered all ministries to continue to be patient and wait patiently for the Chinese *** team to set off again.
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This delay lasted for nearly half an hour. Just when Ishikawa Koichi was about to lose his patience, the crowd slowly dispersed. As the bonfire was extinguished, the motorcade roared and slowly set off on the road again.
However, under the cover of night, no one noticed that the Chinese *** team had undergone tremendous changes.
A quarter of an hour later, when thirty or forty trucks, surrounded by infantry, passed by the road below the hilltop, the Japanese officers and soldiers, who had long been unable to bear it, finally forgot Ishikawa Koichi's warning, and five or six "pop-pop-pop" signs rose in the sky.
A flare was fired, and then the Japanese artillery bombardment began.
The artillery regiments attached to the two divisions of the Japanese army were respectively deployed on the gentle slopes on the left and right sides of the hilltop. At this moment, it was like a violent hurricane suddenly blew up on the two artillery positions. Pillars of smoke curled up, and then came the
The sound was like the sound of an indistinguishable number of cannons being ejected.
The officers and soldiers of the Japanese 20th Division and the 27th Division lying in the grass felt that the entire hillock with a radius of several kilometers began to shake violently, and then it seemed as if it would never stop.
A basket was shaking constantly.
"What a spectacular and beautiful poem! This situation reminds me of the words of Julius Caesar: I came, I saw, I conquered. To engage in this war may be my historical destiny.
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Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma did not lose his true qualities as a poet and sang again. Just as he was chattering and intoxicated, the shells were like dense lightning, quickly sweeping through the long convoy of An's army along the road!
Looking at the road down the mountain, streaks of fire were splashing, and the shrapnel was filled with brilliant fire.
Flowers roared and shot everywhere, various types of shells penetrated deeply into the soil, and then exploded violently. The smoke column was filled with fiery red colors! The air was full of the piercing and screaming sounds of different shells. For
For Masaharu Honma, who experienced the war for the first time, this was the most beautiful music and the most wonderful scenery.
In fact, the Anjiajun's experience was not as tragic as it seemed on the surface. The moment the cannon sounded, the officers and soldiers who had been mentally prepared immediately hid under the mountain wall at an angle of 70 degrees, and they clung tightly to the mountain wall.
On the wall, this is a blind spot for Japanese artillery and infantry. You only need to pay attention to avoid the shrapnel of shells shooting everywhere to protect yourself.
The most dangerous thing is the soldier driving the vehicle, but at this time the driver has already changed from two people to one person. They need to abandon the vehicle immediately when the gunfire sounds, jump out of the driver's seat and quickly move closer to the mountain wall. As long as there is more delay
In just a second, it could be torn into pieces by dense shells.
Five-ton Anjia Army-standard trucks were hit by artillery shells that fell like meteors. They were instantly torn apart, with fragments flying everywhere, and then ignited into raging fires and became road signs. The bright and extinguishing artillery fire spread for several miles, destroying the truck.
The road leading to Sanhe County is brightly lit.
At the same time, machine guns and rifles fired on the hilltop, using the light of the shells to pour a large number of bullets onto the road.
Ishikawa Koichi, who calmly observed the results of the shelling, frowned: "Something's wrong, why are there not many soldiers on the road? I didn't see the cannons of the Anjia Army. Didn't it mean that these vehicles are used to carry cannons and ammunition? Why -
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Just as this question appeared in my mind, a large number of meteors suddenly appeared in the sky. They instantly intersected with the Japanese artillery fire in the air, and then rushed towards the gentle slopes on both sides of the mountain at an extremely fast speed. Before Ishikawa Koichi could react,
I felt the ground shaking violently, and dense artillery shells had exploded in the Japanese artillery positions exposed under the hillside!
The 75mm field guns and mountain guns owned by the two artillery regiments of the Japanese army were suddenly submerged in the jungle of smoke pillars. Shrapnel representing the breath of death was flying everywhere. The Japanese artillerymen screamed and used all kinds of strange things.
He was knocked down by the shrapnel and torn into pieces.
During the Japanese artillery bombardment, the accurate shooting sights had been used to measure ballistic trajectories, allowing almost all the artillery shells to explode accurately in the middle of the Japanese artillery group. Some artillery shells had their fuses intentionally shortened by the Anjiajun artillery, and they were directly fired.
It exploded above the heads of the Japanese artillery, leaving the Japanese below almost unable to escape.
These artillerymen, who were so arrogant about blowing up others, suddenly suffered such an unprecedentedly accurate and ferocious blow. They almost didn't even have time to think about hiding, and most of them fell down! The gunners tied in the woods on the side of the artillery position
The packhorses responsible for towing the cannons broke free from their reins and ran around amid the constant explosions of the artillery shells. After the shells exploded one after another, the packhorses fell down mournfully, causing pieces of flesh and blood!
The saturation bombardment of up to five minutes was almost devastating to the artillery regiments attached to the two Japanese divisions. The Anjia Army captured 120mm caliber howitzers and 75mm mountain guns and field guns from the 4th and 6th divisions.
The fired artillery shells turned the exposed Japanese artillery back and forth several times.
Over and over, hundreds of cannons fired at least four to five thousand rounds in five minutes. Almost every cannon in the two artillery regiments of the Japanese army was hit by four or five bombs. It was not blown up and disintegrated in the air.
, that is, it is directly broken into several pieces, and makes a "clang", "clang" impact sound under the steaming air waves.
The remaining Japanese artillerymen, which were pitifully small in number, after the initial panic and confusion, quickly jumped into huge craters, enduring the shells of the squadron they had just despised.
Plowing and plowing, finally, intensive
The shells hit the ammunition storage points of two artillery regiments one after another, quickly causing large-scale explosions. The earth-shaking explosions and obvious shaking of the ground almost shook the Japanese soldiers who were ambushing on the hill to the bottom of the mountain. The originally dense gunfire
The sound suddenly became much sparser.
"Baga!"
The gentle and elegant Honma Masaharu lost his poetic spirit and his graceful demeanor. He asked Ishikawa Koichi loudly: "Ishikawa-kun, what happened? Why did our artillery suffer a near-destructive blow from the Chinese army's artillery fire?"
Ishikawa-kun, didn’t you say that your plan was foolproof? How do you explain this mistake?”
"There is no perfect plan in this world!" Ishikawa Koichi said solemnly: "As expected of the famous An Jiajun, they actually discovered our army's ambush in advance, and then used their convoy to attract our artillery attack, and then they
From the trajectories of our artillery shells, we can clearly and accurately calculate the location of our artillery positions and strike later. This calculation is so vicious!"
"Then please tell me, what should I do now?" Masaharu Honma, who was entering the battle for the first time, was in a state of confusion and was completely unable to accept the situation in front of him.
"It's very simple. Immediately call the 3rd Field Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 110th Division that are responsible for interception. The artillery wing of the 116th Division immediately launched a ruthless attack on the artillery positions of the Chinese army. The mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole.
Later, in this endgame, even if we exchange money with the Chinese army, we will still gain."
After speaking, Ishikawa Koichi immediately gave an order to staff officer Morimoto Kiyohide and asked friendly forces to cooperate in the operation. His eyes were full of perseverance and confidence.
At this time, the Chinese Army's artillery, through the earth-shattering sound of explosions, knew that it had won the artillery battle, gave up bombarding the Japanese artillery positions, and instead attacked the mountains of several square kilometers at the top of the mountain.
Artillery fire coverage.
Listening to the loud whistling artillery shells exploding not far away, the broken limbs and internal organs of officers and soldiers were flying into the sky with loud noises. Fragmented objects fell around them, and they were constantly being wounded.
Splattered with blood, Masaharu Honma, who was originally full of poetic and picturesque feelings, turned pale and almost wanted to vomit. However, seeing Koichi Ishikawa always showing a calm and composed look, he couldn't help but smile and shook his head repeatedly, sighing to himself.
Finally, the mountain temple more than fifty meters behind the two men was hit by a cannonball. As the wall collapsed, flames shot into the sky, and splashed masonry fragments scattered all over the ground, hitting trees far and near.
There was a "swishing" sound. Masaharu Honma was greatly frightened, and quickly hugged his head and fell to the ground. Only then did he realize that his pants had become wet without knowing it, and he couldn't help but clenched his fists shyly——
Is this the true face of war?
Ishikawa Koichi was still standing on the high hill, counting the time. Soon, on the line of Mafang Town, five kilometers west of the hilltop, meteors quickly appeared, and they rushed towards the artillery position of the Anjia Army in the distance. When they landed, they bloomed the most brilliantly.
The dazzling light and the majestic momentum that seemed to destroy everything.
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