"Sir, the top of the city is too small, and our people are concentrated. If the shells hit, there will be casualties. We can't hide from the shells by lying on the ground!" the adjutant crawled to the captain and shouted!
Seeing the captain's face silent and silent, he continued to shout!
"The Eighth Route Army fired at least twenty artillery shells just a few minutes ago. We have already suffered casualties of nearly thirty warriors. If we continue to let the artillery shells explode, our casualties will increase!"
"Baga!" The captain finally spoke and cursed loudly!
"The Eighth Route Army must be trying to force us out of Lingqiu City. This is already at the top of the city. If we retreat, we will be out of the city!"
"We paid such a heavy price to enter the city yesterday, we must not retreat!"
"Where's the artillery? The Eighth Route Army has artillery, and so do we! Order them to counterattack immediately and kill the Eighth Route Army artillery unit!"
Before the adjutant could move, the artillery staff officer next to him shouted: "Sir, it's useless!"
"I just observed that the artillery shells fired by the Eighth Route Army came from different directions, and none of the artillery shells were fired from the same position as other artillery shells!"
"The Eighth Route Army is too cunning. They must have used the usual artillery tactics of firing a shell from the artillery to move an artillery position. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for three mortars to fire more than 20 shells at us in just a few minutes!"
"It's useless even if we concentrate all our mortars to counterattack!"
"The Eighth Route Army keeps moving artillery positions, and we have no chance to lock them in, let alone destroy them!"
"Nani?"
The captain opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word. His face was full of shock!
"Boom boom..."
Two artillery shells hit and exploded not far away, and the fire let the captain clearly see the tragic scene after the shells exploded!
The two soldiers lying on the ground were directly overturned by the air wave generated by the explosion, with blood flowing from the corners of their mouths, and they lay motionless on the ground!
There was also a Japanese soldier who was injured by the explosion and was lying on the ground, squirming and screaming in pain!
Death so close at hand suddenly woke up the captain!
He made a decisive decision: "Retreat, everyone leaves the city, and we leave the city directly!"
"We lost more than 500 people in the afternoon. The Eighth Route Army's sneak attack just now and the current artillery bombardment have lost nearly a hundred people. If we continue to hold on here, the entire brigade of combat troops will be killed by the Eighth Route Army!"
"Warriors cannot die in vain!"
"Everyone should keep useful bodies and continue to attack the Eighth Route Army tomorrow, kill them all, and avenge the warriors who died in the battle!"
On the road nearly ten kilometers away from Lingqiu City, the road has been winding in the mountains until here it is rare to encounter a plain!
Three to four hundred meters on both sides of the road are wheat fields that have harvested wheat. They are very flat!
Major General Sakai commanded two infantry brigades, worked hard all the way, and finally arrived here at two o'clock in the morning!
"General, the soldiers have been on the road for more than ten hours continuously, and there is only less than two hours away from Lingqiu! The terrain here is flat and there is no possibility of an Eighth Route Army ambush. Do you want to order the troops to rest here for half an hour?" Horseback riding
The Major Captain who was walking beside the Major General suggested!
Although he had a horse to travel with him, he was very tired from walking for such a long time without stopping in the middle!
Especially the inner thighs, which have been reddened by riding horses and maintaining one movement for a long time. The slightest movement will be very painful!
Another captain immediately came up to support: "General, I also support resting here for half an hour!"
"The soldiers are too tired. I heard that the Eighth Route Army still has troops outside the city! If we encounter them sneak attack outside the city and the soldiers are very tired, there will definitely be heavy casualties!"
"Then rest!" the brigade leader finally ordered!
He had his own reasons, and at dusk the military headquarters came with an order that he must arrive at Lingqiu before dawn, otherwise military law would be enforced!
In order not to be sent to a military court, he could only endure the fatigue that kept coming over him and force his body to lead the troops on their way!
Now that he was sure that he could reach Lingqiu City before dawn, the brigade leader was like a deflated ball, with no strength left in his whole body!
He needs rest too!
The two brigades are not equipped with cavalry, but with the attached mountain artillery squadron, the total strength still reaches 2,300 people!
As soon as the order to stop advancing was given, more than two thousand Japanese soldiers collapsed on the ground and gasped!
No matter what formation or sentinel, it all has nothing to do with you... no matter how much your commander curses you, you won’t even want to move!
On the high ground two kilometers away, Li Hao held up his binoculars and stared motionlessly at the fire dragon on the road!
I saw the Japanese suddenly stopped to rest, their formation was gone, and the whole team was in chaos!
A flash of excitement quickly flashed across his serious face, and he shouted excitedly: "God is really helping me, the little devils are stopping to rest now, they are just waiting for us to blow them up!"
Yuan Qingfeng stood nearby and immediately asked: "Commander, do you want the artillery to fire now?"
"Are you all ready?" Li Hao asked seriously without looking back or putting down the telescope!
"Ready!" Yuan Qingfeng replied quickly!
A smile appeared on his face involuntarily, and he continued: "Including the ones captured just in the middle of the night, the mountain artillery battalion already has a total of twenty mountain cannons and four infantry cannons. I have set them all up!"
"According to your order, commander, the twenty-four artillery pieces were divided into two. Half of the artillery pieces fired first to hit the little Japs within a hundred meters of the front!"
"In one minute, five rounds were fired rapidly. After firing the remaining half of the artillery, the remaining artillery fire continued. The area covered by the artillery fire extended back a hundred meters!"
"During the bombardment, half of the artillery that had just ceased fire immediately adjusted its firing crews and prepared to bombard the Japanese and puppet troops within the next 100 meters!"
"Twenty-four artillery pieces fired continuously, blowing up section by section, blowing up the road at the foot of the mountain all over!"
"Then fire!" Li Hao ordered decisively without hesitation!
"Fire... boom... woo hoo..."
As soon as I finished speaking, there was an order for bombardment, the sound of artillery fire, the scream of artillery shells across the sky...
Pass it to Li Hao’s ears together!
After waiting for less than three seconds, more than a dozen balls of fire exploded on the highway!
It took a long time before the sound of the explosion reached Li Hao's ears!
The leader of the Japanese Major General Brigade was so tired that he collapsed on the ground and didn't want to get up!
However, after hearing the explosion, his whole body seemed to be suddenly vibrated and he jumped up from the ground!
He grabbed the telescope handed over by his subordinates, raised it and looked towards the place where the explosion sounded!
You won’t know until you see it, but you will be shocked when you see it!
His face suddenly turned pale, and then he exclaimed with a dumbfounded look on his face: "On Bage Ya Road, at least ten mountain cannons in front are shelling our forward troops!"
"The troops will disperse and hide immediately..."
"Artillery unit, find the enemy's artillery position immediately, counterattack and kill them, quickly..."
Explosions kept ringing on the battlefield!
Mountain cannons are different from mortars. In addition to the shrapnel that can kill people, the shock wave generated by the shell explosion can also kill people!
Even if the Japanese are lying on the ground, as long as the shells hit nearby, the powerful shock wave can still kill and injure them!
So every time a cannonball hit, his subordinates were killed on the road. The brigade commander saw it and was anxious in his heart!
The artillery of the two mountain artillery squadrons were dismantled and mounted on mules and horses. If the Japanese wanted to counterattack, they had to assemble the artillery first, and then build artillery positions for counterattack!
For the brigade leader, this is definitely a very painful wait.
Before the artillery unit could wait for the news, a burst of exclamations from his subordinates made his heart jump directly into his throat!
"General, the enemy seems to be extending their artillery fire, and the impact point is getting closer and closer to us!"
The artillery staff officer next to him immediately shouted: "That's not right!"
"General, the enemy must have more than ten artillery pieces attacking us!"
"From my humble judgment, they have at least twice the number of artillery. After half of the artillery fired, the other half of the artillery continued to fire, and the impact point continued to approach us! Only in this way can they ensure the continuity of the artillery fire, and the impact point approached us without interrupting the bombardment.
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"Hiss, hiss..."
The brigade leader took a breath and shouted!
"How is it possible with more than twenty artillery pieces? Isn't our opponent the Eighth Route Army? When did they have such a powerful artillery unit? The number of artillery pieces is even more than that of the Imperial Army!"
The facts are before our eyes, and the brigade leader cannot help but not believe it!
Seeing that the impact point of the artillery shells was getting closer and closer to him, without stopping in the middle, he continued to shout: "I don't care how many artillery pieces the enemy has, our artillery will fight back!"
"Even if the Imperial Army of Japan dies, they will die on the frontal battlefield instead of being passively beaten and killed by artillery shells!"
"The troops disperse immediately, avoid artillery fire, and wait for the artillery troops to counterattack!"
After this order was issued, the brigade commander completely led his soldiers into a dead end!
Facing the rapid assault of the cavalry troops, the troops gathered together and relied on light and heavy machine gun firepower to counterattack. There was still a chance of a battle!
But once the troops are dispersed, there will be no chance!
It is impossible for scattered troops to block the firepower of the cavalry. Facing the attacking cavalry, there is no other way out except being chased!
When the roar of cannons and violent explosions enveloped the entire battlefield, the cavalry battalion moved!
More than a hundred cavalrymen, with their sabers raised high above their heads, rushed towards the battlefield covered by artillery fire, and the speed became faster and faster!
At this time, the Japanese forward troops were struggling in pain!
On the road full of craters, there are corpses everywhere, seriously injured people who are screaming in pain!
A full infantry squadron, with not even a small squad of intact little Japanese!
Everyone has complex expressions of shock and fear on their faces, and they shuttle back and forth between the craters to treat the wounded!
The sound of the cavalry's hooves at the beginning of the assault was not loud, and was completely covered up by the sound of the artillery!
When they were less than a hundred meters away from the Japanese, the assault speed had reached its extreme, and the thundering sound of horse hooves finally overwhelmed the sound of artillery and reached the Japanese ears!
"Baga, cavalry! There are cavalry coming towards us, fight back immediately!" A Japanese second lieutenant was the first to realize the danger, stared at a pair of big eyes, and cried out!
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