The bombardment lasted all night, and the artillery of the 1st Division and the 32nd Division raged for seven or eight hours. The artillerymen fired at least 12,000 tons of artillery shells, so that when the bombardment ended, many artillerymen were exhausted.
The loss of the two squads of scouts had spread throughout the army, and the night bombardment was both catharsis and revenge against the Germans.
The scouts are a unit that the whole army aspires to. Everyone knows that the soldiers there are top soldiers, and all of them are first-class heroes. They are all brothers who get along day and night, and they are all prepared to die on the battlefield, but they die like this.
The silence was so unfair that the artillerymen decided to make some big noise to see off the scout brothers.
The movement was indeed quite big. Not only did they fire more than 12,000 tons of artillery shells, but they also destroyed 11 artillery pieces.
These eleven artillery pieces are all small and medium-caliber artillery pieces equipped by the 32nd Division. Compared with the artillery pieces of the 1st Division, the 32nd Division's artillery pieces are a bit old. Perhaps the artillerymen are using this extreme method to request replacement of weapons.
The artillery of the 1st Division is not bad. These are new ones. It will be no problem if they can fire with such intensity of artillery three or five times.
The artillery may still be able to hold on, but the artillerymen have reached their limit.
The 194mm artillery equipped by the First Division uses launching bags as propellant. The warhead alone weighs 81 kilograms. Each time the warhead is transported, two soldiers are required to transport it on a trolley from the storage room where the ammunition is stored.
When we arrived at the artillery position, in order to ensure a safe distance of more than 500 meters, we had to run back and forth twice every minute for seven or eight hours. Even an iron man would not be able to stand it.
Fortunately, these large-caliber artillery have a large number of auxiliary troops. Each cannon requires an average of 30 people to serve it to ensure the firing efficiency of the artillery.
When the sun rises again and a new day arrives, the battle begins again.
This time the battle broke out first among the artillery. Now that his strength had been exposed, Qin Zhiyuan no longer held back, demanding that the artillery must suppress the Germans and not give the Germans the chance to continue to wreak havoc.
It is foreseeable that Highland 185, which was almost lost yesterday afternoon, will continue to be attacked today. The current position 185 is defended by Chinese troops, and Qin Zhiyuan does not want his soldiers to be left unprotected.
So when the Germans began their routine artillery bombardment before charging, the artillery of the 1st Division and the 32nd Division responded vigorously.
The French artillery does have a unique skill. Although there is no anti-artillery radar yet, the French artillery can still calculate the approximate location of the German artillery position from the direction and arc of the artillery shells flying. Then what the German artillery position is waiting for is the first one.
Counterfire from the 1st Division and the 32nd Division.
The so-called fire countermeasures do not necessarily have to destroy all the artillery, but also kill the enemy's artillery. The high-explosive bombs used by the giant guns equipped by the First Division are an example of relying on shock waves to kill the enemy.
Of course, the Germans were not willing to be passively beaten. They were also organizing attacks on the artillery of the 1st Division and the 32nd Division.
Now we can see the cruelty of the artillery profession. No matter how the enemy attacks, they can only stay where they are and fire artillery shells desperately, trying to knock out the enemy's artillery first, and there is no way to avoid it.
This unavoidable cruelty does not include the self-propelled artillery equipped by the First Division. The biggest advantage of self-propelled artillery compared to fixed artillery is that it has legs. They stayed in place and fired three or four rounds before the Germans calculated the artillery positions.
, it will be transferred immediately.
This is also considered a different kind of cheating.
The artillery was busy fighting, and the infantry was not idle either.
Perhaps knowing that the artillery could not provide sufficient fire cover today, the German infantry launched an early charge without waiting for the fire preparations to be completed.
Or a wave-like skirmish line charge.
In fact, no matter what name it is given, as long as unprotected infantry is used to attack, it will cost people's lives. Compared with group charge, wave charge just has a more noble-sounding name, and there is nothing in fact.
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The Xu Sheng Regiment of the Greif Brigade is numbered as the Sixth Regiment within the First Division. This is a unit basically composed of veterans. More than half of the soldiers in the unit participated in the First Division's battle against the Germans in Elbecourt last year.
s attack.
Well, at that time, the First Division was still the First Brigade.
The Sixth Regiment has a total of more than 1,700 soldiers. Even the new recruits have undergone more than three months of training. It is currently the most powerful infantry regiment in the First Division. Originally, this title belonged to the First Regiment under Chen Kangjian, but
After Chen Kangjian's troops were transformed into armored troops, Xu Sheng's Sixth Regiment became the most combat-effective infantry unit in the First Division.
As the most combat-effective regiment, Xu Sheng would definitely not be beaten passively. So when it was determined that the artillery on both sides was bombarding the Germans and the Germans were unable to cover the infantry, Xu Sheng decisively sent troops to enter the fortifications in advance to attack the charging infantry.
The Germans launched a sniper attack.
It was indeed a sniper attack. At this time, the Germans were still five or six hundred meters away from Hill 185. Indeed, only precision shooters could shoot the Germans at this distance. Machine gunners did not count. Machine gunners relied on probability to hit people.
If a machine gun lasts half a year or eight months, don’t expect to use a machine gun to accurately kill the enemy.
In Xu Sheng's army, the proportion of precision shooters was astonishing. After Chen Kangjian's army was converted into armored troops, the precision shooters in the army lost their value, so these precision shooters were assigned to other infantry regiments. In this way
, in the two brigades of Liu Zizheng and Gu Lifu, the proportion of precision shooters was almost more than 10%. Among them, the Xu Sheng regiment was the most extreme, with nearly 30% of them being precision shooters.
The so-called precision shooters are different from snipers. Precision shooters accompany infantry in combat, while snipers mostly fight alone, with at most one observer. The required standard for precision shooters is a distance of 300 meters.
, the score of shooting chest targets must reach 5 out of 10. Although this is not as high as the hit rate of a sniper, it is already quite rare when optical sights have not been widely popularized.
So the scene on the battlefield was very strange.
Obviously the gunshots were not intensive, there was not a single shot fired, but people fell down from time to time in the German linear array, and they were not killed by one shot, most of them were just wounded, which actually caused more trouble for the Germans.
Because someone must rescue the wounded soldiers at this time, otherwise they can only watch the wounded soldiers die miserably in mourning. It is simply torture for the advancing German team, and the blow to morale is even greater.
The Germans also had precision shooters, and they were precision shooters who used rifles with scopes attached. These shooters were also looking for targets.
After all, there are still only a few soldiers who use sniper rifles, and they are quickly at a disadvantage in the exchange of fire with the shooters of the Sixth Regiment. Mortars in the Sixth Regiment have been equipped to the company level. Whenever a sniper is found, the Sixth Regiment will
The regiment does not use precision shooters to fight you, but directly uses mortar firepower to cover it. It doesn't matter if one shot fails. Three mortars will fire together to get two more rounds.
