The eight mountain artillery shelled the main position in the middle of the Eighth Division and the positions on both wings back and forth for a total of more than two hours.
The Independent Regiment had no intention of conducting fire reconnaissance, and simply used almost brutal artillery fire, as well as a posture that was short of artillery shells, and flattened almost all the visible protruding fortifications on the Japanese position.
The rumbling sound of artillery that resounded throughout the battlefield almost deafened the eardrums of the Japanese invaders on the battlefield. They finally understood a truth. Without artillery, they were actually not much better than the Chinese soldiers they once looked down upon.
The only thing they can do now is to wait, wait for the unlucky one to be hit by a falling shell, wait for the Chinese to launch an attack, and maybe they will have a chance to shoot the bullet in the barrel.
Chi Dakui's third battalion, located in the middle, has moved to 300 meters in front of the Japanese position, and the two flanks have been handed over to Qi Guangyuan's first battalion and Dong Shengtang's second battalion.
Finally, after the Type 41 mountain artillery shelled for two and a half hours and the bright sky began to darken, the shells falling on the Japanese position gradually changed from dense to sparse, until there were no more.
The Chinese were about to attack. The Japanese infantry, who had been frustrated for a long time, quickly got out of the anti-gun holes, rushed into the trenches, and got into their fighting positions.
But what they saw was not an infantry attack in the traditional sense.
Six big guys with caterpillar tracks slowly but surely rushed towards the position, puffing out black smoke. Following behind them were the infantry. A full company of infantry were hiding behind the big guy's generous figure.
Of course, the Japanese army should be familiar with those big guys. The tracked tractors they once used to drag large-caliber howitzers weighing several tons have now become weapons used by the Chinese to attack them.
However, it was just a familiar sight. The diesel tractor had been modified beyond recognition. If they hadn't heard the familiar roaring sound of the diesel engine, they wouldn't have believed that it was once their equipment.
That was Liu Lang's idea. The entire diesel tractor, from the front to the rear, was surrounded by wooden boards more than fifteen centimeters thick. Not only that, Liu Lang even tied several pieces of wood in front of the engine in the front.
bags of sandbags, and the cab was sealed tightly with airtight thick wooden boards and sandbags, leaving only two palm-sized glass windows for the driver to see ahead.
Six crudely modified and somewhat ridiculous heavy-duty tractors rushed towards the Japanese position with determination despite the rain of bullets from the Japanese army.
But no one in the Japanese army could laugh. Thinking about it, they also knew that the Chinese did not create these six big guys just to use them as targets.
The Japanese infantry fired wildly at the clearly targeted tractor-trailer, firing rifles, light machine guns, and heavy machine guns. If they were rushed to the position by the Chinese, they knew what the consequences would be.
Now, not only are they inferior to the Chinese in heavy weapons, but they have also lost in light weapons such as machine guns. That kind of light machine gun with an extremely high rate of fire has already tested its huge power at the Luo Wenyu Pass.
When the machine gun fires at full speed, it is simply unstoppable. Compared with the 500 rounds per minute rate of fire of the Type 92 heavy machine gun that was once relied upon as the Great Wall, it is simply a scumbag.
The 6.6 mm caliber rifle bullets and the 7.7 mm caliber 92 heavy machine gun bullets sent pieces of wood flying, but they could not stop the tractor tracks from rolling firmly.
With just a pile of rotten wood attached, the tractor drove like a tank.
For heavy machine guns that dare to fire, at a position 600 meters away, the mortar platoon of Zhao Ergou Artillery Company has lined up sixteen mortars of various types, six 60-guns and ten 82-guns
Artillery was designed to hit the Japanese invaders' firepower points.
Once the data reported by the artillery observer is received, up to two mortars will attack at each coordinate.
Not to mention the Eighth Division, which now has no artillery support, in fact, even in the past time and space, the strong Eighth Division also suffered from mortars when facing the 29th Army, which was only equipped with mortars.
A big loss. A mortar company of the 29th Army once covered a Japanese squadron with artillery fire. The Japanese squadron was caught off guard and was almost canceled by the mortars.
Whether it is infantry artillery, mountain artillery or even howitzers, in terms of the function of striking heavy firepower points in the trenches, they are not as good as mortars, which are born to send artillery shells into the trenches.
Mortars are so powerful, why don’t the Japanese army equip them? The main reason is of course that mortars do not conform to the Japanese army’s economical combat concept. Weapons like mortars cannot guarantee special accuracy and require covering shelling to attack the enemy.
It is simply a huge waste of resources and simply a crime.
Well! The innate biting nature of the islanders made them abandon the mortar and choose... the grenade, which is that small flashlight-like thing, but it was rated as
The most rationally designed weapon of the Japanese army.
The grenade is good. It can send a grenade to a hostile target 500 meters away like a miniature mortar. It is easy to carry.
However, in terms of range and power, compared with mortars, even the smallest caliber 60mm mortar, the grenade is a piece of cake.
The simultaneous shelling of 16 mortars on eight heavy firepower points soon taught the Japanese army what large-caliber means. The effect of several consecutive mortar shells weighing 3 kilograms was that not only was the enemy surrounded by sandbags
The heavy machine gun was blown to pieces, and the Japanese troops surrounding it with a radius of 20 meters were blown into the sky.
The trenches are the most helpless thing for direct-aimed guns, but the trenches are the favorite thing for mortars. Without a semi-enclosed environment like trenches, how can the power of shock waves be exerted?
The Japanese army was not stupid. After the light and heavy machine guns were targeted, the grenadier soldiers quietly hid behind and used grenades to attack the six behemoths.
But the six tractors are not stationary, they are moving. Unless they are directly hit by the grenade thrown by the grenade, otherwise, a small grenade explodes nearby, which is really a blow to the wooden protective gear and sandbags.
Tractors weighing several tons are not affected at all.
What's more, when it was close to 200 meters away from the Japanese position, the machine gun platoon of the third battalion and the first company responsible for the attack had already put down five MG42 machine guns, plus three 60mm mortars. The MG42 shooters who were informed that they did not need to save ammunition almost fired.
The shooters who fired the 300 rounds of bullets in one go suppressed the Japanese invaders and could not even raise their heads.
What made the Japanese invaders even more miserable was that six tractors slowly turned their huge bodies sideways, revealing the fortifications built with wood and sandbags on the carriages.
and, a twin 20mm cannon.
No, on a 1,500-meter-wide position, they were facing six machine guns that were originally used to shoot aircraft but were now firing at full range for horizontal fire.
In front of the violent torrent of metal, almost no living thing dared to show up. There can only be one ending for showing up, being hit again and again by bullets as thick as cigars and then torn to pieces.
Amidst the huge roar of six machine guns, the Japanese invaders collectively misfired whether it was a Type 38 rifle, a crooked light machine gun, or a 92 heavy machine gun.
The Great Wall Regiment used super firepower to demonstrate what it means to be overwhelmed by firepower. No matter how elite the army is, after losing its advantage in firepower, failure is waiting for them.
Perhaps there is only one army in the world that can fight for eight years against bandits who invade their homes while wearing bullet belts with sorghum stalks inserted into them.
But that kind of terrifying tenacity does not belong to the Japanese invaders.
In the face of the terrifying torrent of metal, they also gave up. They laid their heads down in the trenches, like frightened quails. No one dared to clamor like before to claim that the Imperial Japanese Army was invincible in the field.
In just three minutes of crazy shooting, a Japanese brigade on the position was reduced to a pug with a broken backbone.