A 203 mm heavy bomb hit a bunker built by the Japanese army, and a roar like a landslide spread to the 41st Army's position more than 500 meters away. It was as if the entire earth was shaken.
The trembling, landslide-like shock wave brought the fragments and bricks of the bunker to the position of the 102nd Division several hundred meters away. From time to time, it would hit the soldiers' helmets and make a "bang" sound.
It is already the fifth day of the siege of Jinzhou by the 41st Group. Tomorrow is the traditional Chinese Spring Festival, so Hu Lian decided to give the Japanese army who came from afar a new gift before the New Year. Since the heavy heavy equipment passed through last time
After a round of bomber cleaning, the Japanese defense positions had been greatly damaged. In despair, Rensuke Isotani had already planned to order the abandonment of the first and second lines of defense on the periphery, but Chahar happened to be on the opposite side.
The army did not launch an attack, but stayed outside and acted as loyal spectators.
"What to do?" This is the problem before Isotani Rensuke. Let's order the artillery to counterattack. Then please knock down the planes in the sky first. Otherwise, as soon as the Japanese artillery fires, bombs will fall from the sky.
Already.
There was no other way, so Isotani Rensuke had no choice but to hide in Jinzhou City and act like a coward. Anyway, Isotani Rensuke knew that Jinzhou City was the safest place, and there would never be a big bomb dropped in Jinzhou City. Don’t forget
There are more than 600,000 Chinese residents here.
So the Japanese army slowly retreated from the first and second lines of defense to the third and fourth lines of defense. Upon seeing this, the Chinese army on the opposite side immediately occupied the first two positions of the Japanese army, but they were not satisfied with Hu Lian's return today.
Artillery was ordered to bombard the Japanese army's third line of defense.
After three rounds of salvos, the artillerymen began to fire freely. This was not because the artillerymen did not want to fire salvos, but when the heavy artillery group carried out intensive fire suppression or assault, they could only fire three relatively neat rounds of firepower at most.
Didn’t you see in the movies that when the observation post calls for artillery support or the artillery commander orders the artillery or directs the artillery fire, he only calls for three rounds of rapid fire. I have never heard anyone shouting of four or five rounds of rapid fire.
That is when the artillery group fires three rapid rounds, the violent explosions and the uneven training levels of each artillery position will be reflected, and each artillery position and different caliber artillery fire will be based on the maximum speed and the maximum endurance capacity of the artillery.
Fire artillery shells. Originally, according to convention, each artillery unit, such as an artillery battery, had a commander holding a red flag. However, after firing a few artillery shells, these commanders basically lost their role, because at this time due to the sound of artillery
Or due to the influence of gunpowder smoke, no one can hear his whistle, and no one can see the red flag in his hand. Each artillery position can only work hard to fire artillery shells at its fastest speed.
These soldiers have never seen what a salvo of ten thousand artillery pieces looks like, but a salvo of a hundred artillery pieces is still common in Chahar's army. After more than 300 heavy artillery pieces of the Fourth Artillery Division intensively bombarded the Japanese positions for more than ten minutes, the artillery
He could no longer see clearly the scene around him. Thick gunpowder smoke had filled the sky above the entire artillery position. Well, even though humans had invented smokeless gunpowder, it was not that there was no smoke at all, but relatively speaking there was less.
Just a lot.
At this time, the artillerymen had only one thought in their minds: to fire artillery shells and fire more artillery shells.
On the third company position, there were many soldiers watching the excitement. One of the soldiers asked the third company commander Niu Gensheng impatiently, "Boss, when are we going to launch a general offensive?"
Niu Gensheng glared at the soldier, "You just want to block the hole of the gun. If you have the ability, rush forward now. No one will stop you."
The soldier touched the helmet on his head embarrassedly, "I'm just asking casually."
"Woo"
Suddenly a shrill whistling sound broke through the air, the sound was rapid and sharp.
Niu Gensheng's expression suddenly changed. This was definitely the sound of a heavy artillery shell piercing the air. The caliber was definitely not less than 200 millimeters. "Get down quickly."
"boom"
A heaven-shattering explosion sounded more than a hundred meters in front of Niu Gensheng. After a burst of gunpowder smoke, the place where Niu Gensheng and his men were originally brought was covered by a thin layer of soil.
This is a heavy howitzer fired from Japan's Meiji 45-type 240 mm. The weight of the projectile reaches 200 kilograms. Once the shot is fired, there will be no human or animal life within a radius of 60 to 70 meters, which is about 100 meters.
It also has a certain lethality.
Today, the Japanese heavy artillery brigade finally couldn't help but fight back from its hiding place. As soon as the Japanese heavy artillery fired, it was detected by our reconnaissance plane hovering in the sky. Waves of radio waves were transmitted from the sky to our various positions and were hovering in the sky.
The Stuka fleet was about to swoop down and destroy the artillery group that dared to challenge them under their noses.
Suddenly, dozens of Japanese planes with ointment flags rushed out from the opposite sky and rushed towards the Stuka fleet.
"Da da da da"
The dull sound of machine guns continued to sound, and immediately three Stukas fell to the ground with their weapons on board, and soon there were many more white umbrella flowers in the sky.
"No, reinforcements from the Japanese army have arrived."
The reconnaissance plane in the sky quickly observed the strange situation on the battlefield, "Flying Eagle Brigade, Flying Eagle Brigade, Japanese reinforcements have arrived. Come to support quickly. Come to support."
Under the control of the reconnaissance aircraft in the sky, more than twenty war eagles emerged from the sky not far away and rushed towards the Japanese plane that had just flown in.
The batch of Japanese planes arriving now are the planes of the First Guards Flying Division transferred from the mainland. After they landed at Dalian Port by boat, they immediately flew to Fengtian to assemble, and then joined the North China Expeditionary Force who had just arrived.
The dispatched reinforcements rushed to the Jinzhou battlefield together. This time the Kwantung Army was supported by more than 400 fighter planes. Umezu Yoshijiro, who felt much more confident for a while, immediately started to compete with the Seventh Theater for air supremacy.
However, the Kwantung Army, which had already suffered several heavy losses, no longer dared to engage in a decisive battle in the air. To engage in a decisive battle when the aircraft could clearly lag behind its opponents was simply seeking death. Therefore, the Japanese Kwantung Army was the first to fly
The division commander, Lieutenant General Kuroda, divided the planes into groups and took turns to provide reinforcements over Jinzhou. He did not seek to shoot down many Chinese fighter planes, but only wanted to cover his own ground troops and prevent the ground troops outside Jinzhou from being attacked again.
The ravages of war zone seven.
Under the guidance of this tactical thought, the Japanese fighter planes began to learn guerrilla warfare, but it did have some effects. The bombing momentum in the seventh theater was suddenly suppressed a lot, at least they could no longer carry out low-altitude bombing as they pleased.
Not to mention the fighting in the air, and due to the arrival of air support from the Japanese army on the ground, the Japanese heavy artillery brigade, which had been silent at the last line of defense, became bolder and began to attack the Chinese artillery that was bombarding its own positions.
Fight back.
The quality of the Japanese artillery is still very good. In the first round of test firing, they clearly hit the infantry position. Soon they adjusted their angle and moved towards Wang Qinglong's 4th Artillery Division, which was bombarding them desperately. They were caught off guard.
Next, the Fourth Artillery Division was immediately blown away by six or seven artillery pieces.
"Counterattack, counterattack immediately"
Angry, Wang Qinglong immediately ordered the artillerymen to turn their guns and bombard the Japanese heavy artillery brigade that had exposed its position.
For a moment, the artillery roared, sand and rocks flew, and the artillerymen of both sides began the most brutal artillery battle. In a hidden observation post a few miles away from the Japanese defense line, the telescope held by Hu Lian did not pay attention to the artillery battle on the ground.
Instead, he carefully observed the Japanese fighter planes fighting in the sky.
After observing for a long time, Hu Lian turned to Luo Zhuoying, who had just put down the telescope, and asked: "Brother You Qing, what do you think of these newly arrived Japanese fighters?"
Luo Zhuoying was silent for a while and then replied: "The fighter planes are still the Ki12 Nakajima fighter planes used by the Japanese army in the past, but the quality of these Japanese pilots is obviously higher than that of the previous Japanese army, but they cannot be
People from the Japanese Naval Aviation Corps can be concluded that they were transferred from Japan and must be the elite of the Japanese Army Aviation Corps. Then there is only one possibility: they are members of the Japanese Guards Flying Division."
At this point, the two people's eyes lit up, "The Japanese aircraft and pilots are no longer as sufficient as when the war just started."
"Okay," Hu Lian said with a smile: "It seems that the potential of small Japan is not so endless. There are times when they are stretched." The look on Hu Lian's face was very happy, not at all because of what he had just eaten.
A small loss and an angry look.
Luo Zhuoying also smiled and said: "Well, we need to send this news to Commander Su as soon as possible so that Commander Su can make strategic adjustments as soon as possible."
Hu Lian looked at the smile and excitement on Luo Zhuoying's face, and nodded secretly in his heart. As the saying goes, if you are not in your position, you will not seek to govern. Now that Luo Zhuoying has sat on the Chahar boat, he knows his future of honor and disgrace.
Already closely connected with Chahar, the issue under consideration is naturally based on Chahar. This made Hu Lian, who was originally worried about the old army commander and feared that he would not be able to position himself correctly, put down
Come to your senses.
In fact, with Luo Zhuoying's talent, it is more than enough for him to lead a group army alone, but why Su Tong put Luo Zhuoying in his group army as a chief of staff was a point that both Hu Lian and the person involved, Luo Zhuoying, were wondering about.
Understand, they all know that no one can let a newcomer take charge of a heavy army.
Luo Zhuoying is still in the investigation stage, and Hu Lian also believes that as long as this stage is passed, Su Tong will let Luo Zhuoying work under him as chief of staff.
"Well, in that case, let Brother You Qing sign and send this telegram himself." Hu Lian smiled and said to Luo Zhuoying, thinking to himself, Old Army Commander, I helped you fight for the opportunity, and you want it yourself.