Chapter 243 Kong Jie: Old Ding, the devil's cards are over
Kong Jie didn't answer, and looked at the artillery position in the rear with a serious face.
After the Japanese's seventh round of artillery shells hit the No. 1 artillery position, there was finally movement from the No. 2 artillery position not far away.
Nineteen mortars were split into two and simultaneously fired shells at the two artillery positions exposed by the Japanese.
Kong Jie sighed and said: "The reaction speed of artillery is still too slow!"
"If this were a Japanese enemy, he would be able to fight back after being hit by five shells at most... Our gunners took seven rounds of shells before they started to fight back. The speed is too slow..."
As he spoke, he shifted his gaze to the mountainside.
Nearly twenty fireballs split into two and rose into the sky in two places at the same time.
Under the light of the fire, Kong Jie could clearly see the scene of the shell explosion...
The result made him very disappointed. Only 30% to 40% of the nearly twenty shells hit the target, and all other shells missed the target.
Fortunately, each Japanese artillery position only had six guns and 30 or 40 gunners. Otherwise, these few artillery shells would definitely be an irritant for them.
Kong Jie couldn't help but sigh.
"The hit rate is less than half that of the Japanese... Fortunately, we have more artillery than the Japanese, otherwise we would definitely suffer a big loss!"
After saying that, he looked at Li Yunlong and said: "Old Li, it's your turn for the mortar unit to join the battle!"
"I'm going to get them ready to fight now!" Before the battle, Li Yunlong also knew what was important and what was important. After saying that, he grabbed the microphone and contacted his subordinates!
In the former enemy headquarters of the Japanese army, Colonel Sakamoto also stood at the lookout to observe the battle situation.
With a smile on his face, he was obviously very satisfied with the effect of his subordinates' shelling just now.
"Your Excellency, Wing Commander, almost all the counterattack shells fired by the artillery squadron hit the target..." A captain suddenly came over and complimented.
"Your judgment is correct. Although our artillery firepower is not as large as that of the Eighth Route Army, our gunners have more combat experience than the Eighth Route Army. We can defeat them with very few artillery!"
"Rumble..."
Before he finished speaking, a series of explosions came from the artillery position that had just been exposed halfway up the mountain.
Several old devils were startled and quickly looked in the direction of the sound.
At this sight, the solemn expression on his face was replaced by a smile.
The captain who spoke just now complimented again: "Captain, the accuracy of the Eighth Route Army's artillery strikes is so bad..."
"With so many artillery shells, the hit rate is only 30 to 40%. The final winner of this artillery battle must be us!"
Colonel Sakamoto felt as if he had eaten honey, and the smile on his face became thicker and thicker.
The lower the hit rate of the Eighth Route Army's artillery units, the greater the chance of defeating them. He immediately ordered: "The No. 3 and 4 artillery positions will counterattack immediately... The troops on the No. 1 and 2 artillery positions will be transferred immediately... I am not asking them to prepare a lot of preparations."
Position, immediately move to the reserve position and prepare for battle!"
The reaction speed of the Japanese gunners was very fast. As soon as the No. 1 and 2 artillery positions received five rounds of artillery shells, the No. 3 and 4 artillery positions fired the first round of counterattack fire, which made Colonel Sakamoto nod his head repeatedly.
But this situation was quickly broken by a new round of artillery counterattack by the independent regiment.
More than twenty mortars from two artillery positions counterattacked together, and the sudden artillery fire killed several mortars in an instant...
Colonel Sakamoto did not expect that the Eighth Route Army would counterattack with artillery fire, but he did not panic.
He still has a lot of trump cards in his hand, enough to kill his opponent.
Without putting down the telescope in his hand, he directly ordered: "The artillery positions No. 5 and 6 will counterattack immediately. Kill the artillery positions just exposed by the Eighth Route Army... I don't believe they still have artillery to counterattack us."
Half a minute later, all thirty-six mortars equipped by the Japanese participated in the battle...
Just when Colonel Sakamoto thought that he was bound to win and could definitely defeat the Eighth Route Army artillery unit, a series of piercing screams suddenly reached their ears.
The artillery staff immediately reported it...
"It's mountain artillery... The Eighth Route Army is attacking our artillery position with mountain artillery!"
Colonel Sakamoto laughed when he heard this, and said with excitement on his face: "The Eighth Route Army is at the end of its rope... We have used up all their remaining mortars, and they have to use mountain artillery to counterattack us!"
"I have been waiting for their mountain artillery and infantry artillery to join the battle, and finally I have!"
"All the mountain artillery and field artillery we equipped are participating in the battle, and six infantry artillery pieces are on standby...just in case..."
Ding Wei was very angry at the enemy headquarters of the Independent Regiment!
The mortars equipped by the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment all participated in the battle, but Kong Jie bypassed the mortar unit of the New Regiment and directly ordered the mountain artillery unit and infantry artillery unit of the Independent Regiment to participate in the battle. This is so annoying.
"Old Kong, what do you mean... do you look down on my new mortar unit?" Ding Wei asked angrily as soon as Kong Jie's order came out.
"If you don't explain clearly today, I will never be done with you!"
"Old Ding...calm down..." Kong Jie was frightened by Ding Wei's overreaction and quickly comforted him!
"I don't look down on the New Regiment... The reason why I don't let the New Regiment participate in the battle is to let the little devils see the hope of defeating us and deliberately show them weakness!"
Ding Wei was very smart. He knew there was something in Kong Jie's words as soon as he heard it. He stared at him and asked: "When will the new artillery regiment join the war?"
"It's time to give the Japanese a fatal blow!" Kong Jie blurted out.
"The thirty-six mortars equipped by the Japanese have all participated in the battle. If we continue to use mortars to counterattack, they will definitely re-evaluate our artillery strength. They will be worried about the next artillery battle and dare not risk all their wealth."
take it out."
"If we directly use mountain artillery and infantry artillery to counterattack their mortars, the Japanese will definitely think that we have no mortars and have to use infantry artillery and mountain artillery to join the battle, and then fight back with all our strength to destroy the mountain artillery and infantry artillery we are firing."
Then he ordered his two old comrades: "The only ones participating in the battle were the mountain artillery and infantry artillery equipped by the independent regiment. The Japanese will dispatch at least half of the mountain artillery to counterattack..."
"Your mountain artillery unit will be ready for battle immediately..."
"As soon as the mountain cannons equipped by the Japanese are exposed, we will fight back immediately..."
The scream of artillery shells streaking across the sky soon reached Kong Jie's ears, and then he heard violent explosions coming from the mountain artillery position behind him.
"Reporting to the regimental commander, the Japanese have dispatched twelve mountain field guns to attack our artillery position..." the observation post shouted from a distance.
"Twelve mountain field guns are divided into two artillery positions..."
"There are six more infantry guns!" Kong Jie analyzed with a frown!
"Force the remaining six infantry cannons out, and the Japanese will have all their trump cards..."
"The mountain artillery and infantry artillery equipped by the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment immediately counterattacked..."
"The mortar unit of the New Second Regiment is ready for battle..."
"Boom, boom, boom..." More than a dozen larger fireballs quickly appeared on the mountainside of Jinniu Mountain, and the explosion was more violent than ordinary mortar shells.
The excited smile on Osaka Sakamoto's face was instantly replaced by seriousness...
He felt as if he had been fooled...
The artillery battle has progressed so far, and the Eighth Route Army's Guangshan artillery and infantry artillery have dispatched ten or twenty pieces... At first glance, it doesn't look like more than half of them have been lost...
"Are they deliberately showing weakness to us?" A bold idea came to Colonel Sakamoto's mind.
But he quickly shook his head and rejected the idea: "It's impossible..."
"More than half of the losses of the Eighth Route Army's artillery units are due to the information provided by the military headquarters. There will definitely be no problem..."
"The dozen or so mountain artillery and infantry artillery pieces that just participated in the battle must be the Eighth Route Army's last trump card..."
"Kill them and the Eighth Route Army artillery unit will be finished!"
The more Osaka Sakamoto thought about it, the more he felt that this analysis was correct.
And he has now reached the point where he is rushing to the shelves.
If they do not continue to counterattack, the Eighth Route Army artillery will suppress their own artillery units.
Only by counterattacking immediately and using artillery fire to suppress the opponent can we turn defeat into victory.
Bite the bullet and order: "Split the infantry artillery into two, counterattack immediately, and kill the Eighth Route Army's newly exposed mountain artillery and infantry artillery!"
Kong Jie kept staring at the battlefield, for fear of missing something.
As soon as the shells fired by the Japanese's six infantry guns whizzed past his head, he smiled and ordered with an excited look on his face.
"The Japanese have used all their cards, it's our turn to fight back!"
"Old Ding, let your mortar troops concentrate their artillery fire on the Japanese infantry artillery positions...kill the six infantry artillery pieces first, and then attack the other artillery pieces!"
After saying that, he grabbed the microphone in front of him and contacted Chen Daliang: "How many mortars and gunners do we have left!"
"Reporting to the regimental commander, we still have 184 mortar gunners and 16 intact mortars!" Chen Daliang's report soon came from the microphone.
Kong Jie felt heartbroken after hearing this.
In just a few minutes, more than half of the artillery he had saved so hard was lost.
But now is not the time to feel sad. He raised his eyebrows and began to give orders: "Gather all the remaining mortars and gunners to the reserve artillery positions and prepare to join the battle again..."
"The transfer and retreat order I just gave remains unchanged!"
"Once the artillery position is counterattacked by Japanese artillery fire, immediately abandon the artillery, move and retreat, and the speed must be fast. No one can be reluctant to fight!"
In front of the enemy headquarters of the Japanese army, Colonel Sakamoto suddenly panicked.
The Eighth Route Army actually hid ten or twenty mortars for its final counterattack.
These mortars did not participate in the battle early or late, but waited until the last six infantry guns under their command were exposed before participating in the battle.
Even a fool knows that this is a conspiracy...a conspiracy specifically targeting the artillery positions under his command...
Mortars have a fast rate of fire. Twenty mortars can fire a hundred shells in half a minute. No matter how inaccurate the accuracy is, twenty or thirty shells can hit the target.
No matter how fast the gunner on the infantry artillery position reacts, he will be bombed and suffer heavy casualties.
If nothing else, the six infantry cannons will most likely be destroyed...
Colonel Sakamoto decided to take revenge on them, no, he probably had to take revenge.
If they did not organize an artillery counterattack immediately and allowed the Eighth Route Army's last dozen or two mortars to participate in the battle to explode, they would have taken the initiative in the entire artillery battle and overpowered their artillerymen.
He immediately asked his subordinates on the side: "How many mortars have been withdrawn from the No. 1 and 2 artillery positions... Let them immediately counterattack the newly exposed mortar unit of the Eighth Route Army... Hurry up, we can't let them continue to be so arrogant!"
"There are four mortars left!" the artillery staff officer replied solemnly.
"Four doors are four doors... I can't control that much. Let them counterattack immediately. We must immediately regain the initiative in the artillery battle!"
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