Chapter 236 Ding Wei: Kong Jie set up the stage, I sang a good show
Winning or losing does not matter!
The Japanese were unstoppable on other battlefields, and artillery played a vital role.
Li Yunlong had the courage to wipe out a Japanese infantry brigade, and the artillery also gave him enough confidence.
When the ambush lasted for almost thirty minutes, a mountain artillery shell hit the Japanese captain.
No matter how hard a few guards try, they can't stop the powerful shock wave caused by the explosion of the shell...
The battalion leader died, the artillery squadron was destroyed, the heavy machine gun squadron suffered heavy losses, and the four infantry squadrons had more than 300 remaining soldiers. They were also divided into two by the intersecting troops, huddled in the ravine and fought independently, and the whole army was not close to being destroyed.
It's just a matter of time...
Li Yunlong's face was already beaming with joy. If Zhao Gang hadn't stopped him, he would have run to the battlefield and led the charge himself.
Stand at the lookout point of the headquarters and have fun while observing the enemy's situation!
"That idiot Zhang Dabiao, is the mortar I gave him just a decoration, and he personally led the people to rush forward? Does he think he is made of iron and is invulnerable?"
Zhao Gang stood nearby and reminded: "The battlefield is changing rapidly, and Battalion Commander Zhang doesn't know that there are Japs blocking the way in front of him. It's normal to suffer a small loss. Why are you anxious?"
"When he reacts, he will definitely deploy mortars to kill the enemy's hidden firepower points!"
As soon as Zhao Gang finished speaking, three fireballs shot up from the Japanese machine gun fire point that had just been exposed. The machine gun misfired at the same time. Under the light of the fire, the scene of the two Japanese soldiers being blown away was clearly visible.
Li Yunlong didn't have the chance to go to the battlefield in person, and his heart was on fire.
Although Zhang Dabiao quickly changed the storm to shelling, he still looked dissatisfied and cursed: "The reaction is too slow!"
"If I had led the assault, the accident just now would have definitely reduced the casualties of two people!"
"Old Zhao, the battle is almost over... I haven't fought such a neat battle in a long time... If you don't let me go to the battlefield to have fun again, I promise not to go to dangerous places!"
"No!" Zhao Gang refused without hesitation.
"I know you too well. If I really allow you to go to the battlefield, you will definitely turn into a wild horse and rush wherever there is danger!"
"You are the leader of the new second regiment. Anyone in our regiment can have an accident, but you can't!"
"This is where the leader should stay. Unless the battle is over, you must not leave here!"
Seeing that Zhao Gang's expression became more and more serious as he spoke, Li Yunlong could only reply: "Stop...stop...stop...Old Zhao, please stop talking here. I won't go to the battlefield!"
After finishing speaking, he turned his attention again to Zhang Dabiao, commander of the 1st Battalion.
After three rounds of artillery took out the enemy's hidden firepower point, Zhang Dabiao got up from the ground again, holding the box gun and continued to attack the Japanese positions.
This time his reaction was much faster than before.
As soon as a machine gun fired, the soldiers following Zhang Dabiao fell to the ground, and the three machine guns accompanying the team's attack counterattacked at the same time.
Half a minute later, three artillery shells hit the Japanese machine gun in a perfect glyph pattern.
It didn't hit the target, but the second round of three shells soon hit it...
The machine gun and the machine gunner were blown away together...
Li Yunlong nodded repeatedly after seeing this: "We performed well this time, so we should fight like this... The kid who can be defeated with artillery shells will never risk his life... Our soldiers are all treasures, and I will be heartbroken if I lose even one of them!"
A new group ambush the battlefield, Ding Wei's killer move...
First take out the Japanese artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions, then concentrate the artillery fire on their infantry, disrupting and scattering the newly assembled Japanese soldiers, making it impossible to form a unified command.
The outflanking force and the blocking force took the opportunity to intersect...
In less than ten minutes, the more than 500 remaining Japanese soldiers were divided into four large pieces.
The troops attacked one by one, first narrowing the encirclement, forcing the surviving Japanese soldiers together, and then concentrated their artillery fire... Finally, the infantry rushed forward to eliminate the remaining enemies and clean up the battlefield...
In less than an hour, all the little Japs in their early 1,000s were killed.
"Commander... please pinch me and see if I'm dreaming... our regiment actually wiped out a Japanese infantry brigade in one hour!" Looking at the dense corpses of the little Japanese at his feet, the chief of staff said with doubt.
Ding Wei didn't really go to pinch the chief of staff, he himself was shocked.
However, his reaction was not as exaggerated as that of the Chief of Staff. He quickly regained his composure, looked at the battlefield and said with emotion: "I finally understand why the little Japs can compete on a frontal battlefield!"
"In the face of powerful artillery fire, even the well-trained Japs will still suffer heavy casualties and lose their combat effectiveness, let alone the Chinese army whose training level is far lower than that of the Japs!"
“All this is thanks to Lao Kong!”
"The independent group set up a stage and provided us with a large number of artillery pieces, allowing us to sing such a great show!"
"Pass my order: Each battalion and company will immediately count casualties and clean the battlefield!"
"In addition to replenishing the lost weapons and ammunition, all the captured light and heavy machine guns and artillery will be used to strengthen the troops to further improve the firepower level of the troops. All the extra weapons, ammunition and wounded will be sent to the supply company! Evacuate the battlefield in half an hour!"
On the Zhujiapo battlefield, preparations for a new round of artillery fire from the Independent Regiment are underway.
Mountain field artillery shells roared into the trenches, and the powerful shock wave instantly collapsed the retaining walls on both sides of the trenches. The ammunition boxes and logs used to reinforce the trenches were all torn apart in the explosion...
The same scene occurred in every corner of the Japanese army's third line of defense.
After a while, the trench that stretched for several hundred meters was completely damaged by the bombing, with gaps everywhere...
"Boom, boom, boom..." A series of low-pitched, but denser explosions suddenly sounded on the mountainside. This was the mortar equipment of each battalion of the independent regiment joining the battle.
Their rate of fire was more than twice as fast as that of mountain cannons, and their number was several times that of mountain cannons. The shells they fired hit the position like rain.
The trenches were destroyed by field artillery, and the surviving Japanese had to leave the trenches and lie down in craters to avoid the gunfire.
After all, shell craters are not bunkers. As long as mortar shells hit nearby, the Japanese will still be killed.
Facing the rain of mortar shells falling from the sky, the surviving Japanese soldiers could only pray that the shells would not fall around them.
But no matter how much God Amaterasu protects him, he can't withstand the number of cannonballs raining down from the sky...
The artillery barrage lasted only three minutes, but more than 600 mortar shells were fired.
Two or three shells killed one Japs, and two to three hundred Japs were also blown up.
"Start the attack...take Zhujiapo as quickly as possible..." Kong Jie looked forward to the order.
"Dong dong dong..."
Heavy machine guns replaced mortars as the protagonist on the battlefield. The Japanese position that had just been baptized by artillery shells was once again wildly fired by more than a dozen heavy machine guns...
Densely packed bullets were intertwined with each other and flying everywhere against the surface of the position.
As long as any Japs raise their heads, they will be blown up in an instant...
"Comrades, fight with me..." The fourth battalion influenced Yang Wanhe to take the lead and rush out of the second line of defense they had just occupied.
The crooked handles he held against his chest opened fire at the same time, hitting a target he thought was suspicious...
"Charge...kill..."
More than twenty machine gunners in the first echelon rushed out of the trenches at the same time, formed a row to attack and fired...
By the time the war reached this point, there were less than a hundred Japs surviving in Zhujiapo.
Some people were so disoriented by the bombardment just now that their eyes were dull and they had not yet recovered from their shock.
Some people were wounded and lay on the ground wailing, unable to fight back.
Dozens of old Japanese who were quicker to react were already ready to counterattack, and they would fire at the attacking troops whenever they saw the opportunity.
But their opponents are too strong.
As soon as he fired the bullets from the gun chamber, several bullets rained directly towards him.
The Japs who react quickly can retract their heads immediately and save their lives.
If you react a little slower, your life will be lost.
But those Japanese who were lucky enough to escape didn't mean they were safe.
The three grenade squads accompanying the attack have not taken action yet.
"Boom boom boom..."
More than a dozen grenades passed over the heads of the attacking troops, in groups of three, all hitting the Japanese who had just escaped.
The shell crater can block the rain of bullets fired from the head, but cannot block the grenades falling from the sky.
In the violent explosion, many Japanese soldiers lost their lives!
The chief of staff and Huang Yu were not around, and the first battalion commander Shen Quan also served as the temporary staff officer of the regiment, staying by Kong Jie's side to make suggestions.
Seeing that the attacking troops were overwhelming and the remaining Japanese soldiers on the position were completely suppressed and beaten, with almost no room to fight back, Shen Quan said confidently: "Commander, we will definitely win this attack!"
"The artillery is still powerful!"
"I've been fighting little devils for so long, and it's never been as smooth as these days!"
Kong Jie was originally very happy, but after hearing what Shen Quan said, his brows immediately wrinkled.
He remembered what Huang Yu said to him a few days ago!
Before the Eighth Route Army's own military production system develops and expands, no army can even hope to build a particularly powerful artillery by relying solely on seizures...
Even if you are lucky and capture a sufficient number of artillery, there will not be so many shells for the troops to consume.
The current battles can only be regarded as accidents and experiments, and cannot be promoted for the time being.
This means that after the independent regiment returns to the base area, it will return to its original days of lack of artillery.
The troops must not rely too much on artillery, otherwise they will definitely not be able to adapt to the hard times in the future.
After thinking about his words, he replied: "No matter how powerful the artillery is, we cannot defeat the enemy with artillery alone. In the end, we still have to rely on infantry to capture the enemy's position... So infantry is the key to victory or defeat!"
"If the infantry is not well trained, does not cooperate well during the attack, and makes random attacks, no matter how great the results achieved by the artillery, the infantry will be decimated by the enemy's remaining soldiers in the battle!"
"We don't have that many artillery shells to fight the Japanese!"
"If it weren't for the purpose of quickly returning the military equipment to the base! No matter how extravagant I am, I will never agree to use one or two thousand artillery shells in a battle!"
Shen Quan was very smart and instantly heard the hidden meaning of the regiment leader's words, and immediately answered: "Captain, don't worry... I know our conditions, it is impossible to have artillery support in every battle!"
"When I return to the base area, I will definitely train my troops!"
"Even without strong artillery support, the independent regiment can still be overwhelming and invincible!"
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