At this time, Zhou Wen led a detachment to sneak to less than 50 meters away from the Japanese army's outer position. However, the Japanese soldiers in the position were still observing blankly in the darkness, not realizing that there were countless guns pointed at them.
"start!"
Zhou Wen issued an attack command into the microphone.
At the same time, in the bunker of the 14th Huncheng Brigade Headquarters, Hattori Jiro picked up the phone and ordered to Major Inoue, the artillery battalion captain on the other end of the phone: "Inoue-kun, fire on the top of the mountain. Remember, it is Wu
Differential attack, do you understand?"
"Hey!"
Major Inoue's decisive response came from the other end of the phone.
They all knew that this attack had failed. The Chinese army set a trap and deliberately did not expose the many artillery they had. After all their main forces went into the attack, they used artillery to make the attacking troops suffer halfway.
A fatal blow.
The Chinese army has always concealed so many artillery pieces. It is very difficult for the troops on the top of the mountain to retreat safely, so let more Chinese soldiers be buried with them.
"Boom boom boom..."
Violent explosions, dazzling fireworks, and blazing fire suddenly rose.
However, these explosions did not occur on the top of the mountain, but in the Japanese military camp.
Just before Jiro Hattori issued the order, the Chinese artillery fired first.
In the southeast, Zhang Huzhu concentrated three Schneider 75mm infantry guns directly under the regiment headquarters and a total of twenty-eight 80mm mortars in the regiment to simultaneously launch artillery attacks on the Japanese positions.
To the west, the mercenary regiment's 6 Schneider infantry guns and 18 81mm mortars roared.
These more than fifty artillery pieces of various types directly created countless colorful fireworks in the Japanese military camp and on the outer positions. In just one minute, various light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army that had been detected earlier were
The positions were immediately enveloped in smoke and fire.
At the same time, the two German-made 105mm howitzers of the heavy artillery platoon commanded by Li Han also fired two heavy explosive shells for the first time in actual combat since arriving in China.
The first target of these two howitzers was the brigade headquarters of the Japanese 14th Brigade.
As the highest command of the Japanese army on the front line, the Japanese brigade and regiment headquarters must of course be established in a hidden and strong place.
The bunker at the brigade headquarters is a deep hole dug from the ground. The top is made of two layers of thick logs cut down from more than ten kilometers away, and is also covered with a thick layer of solid soil. It can be said that
It's extremely sturdy.
However, this kind of fortification was built to protect against attacks from 75mm mountain artillery, and could not protect against heavy artillery with a caliber above 105mm.
Because the Japanese army did not expect that the Chinese army actually had 105 mm caliber heavy artillery.
Today, the primary target of the two 105mm howitzers of the mercenary group was not the Japanese artillery position, but the brigade headquarters, which had long been locked by Zhou Wen through the tall antenna on the bunker.
In all war modes, decapitation tactics are always the most effective and the most effective way to deal a heavy blow to the enemy.
In the history of war, there are many examples of winning wars or battles through decapitation.
In ancient my country, there was a famous saying: "To shoot a man first, shoot a horse; to capture a thief first, capture the king." This is actually the ideological embodiment of the beheading tactic.
However, the methods of beheading tactics are not the same.
During the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Zhou Wenshi led an elite detachment to penetrate behind enemy lines, raid the Japanese headquarters, and directly kill Major General Xia Yuan Xiongmi, the commander of the Japanese Huncheng 24th Brigade, completely destroying the Japanese headquarters and command system.
But this time, in the heavily guarded camp of the Japanese army, Zhou Wenke was not so bold as to do another heroic feat of going deep into the enemy's heart alone.
This time, with more advanced weapons and the exact location of the Japanese military headquarters, there was no need to use people to take risks.
The German 105mm heavy artillery known as the sniper howitzer did not disappoint Zhou Wen. "Boom! Boom!" Two huge fireballs wrapped in thick smoke rose from the bunker at the Japanese brigade headquarters.
Then there were two more "Boom! Boom!" sounds, and two big fireballs followed.
Hattori Jiro, who had just put down the phone, felt that the ground suddenly shook, and he fell to the ground before he could stabilize his center of gravity. This was followed by a loud noise that shattered his eardrums, a second huge earthquake, and then an explosion caused by the air wave.
Those logs and clods of soil changed their posture in the air, and then fell rapidly under the influence of gravity acceleration.
Hattori Jiro's last consciousness was that a log as thick as an adult's thigh hit Xuan'er in the night sky and quickly enlarged in his eyes, then there was severe pain in his head and darkness swarmed in, and then... nothing more.
After four rounds of shelling by the heavy artillery platoon commanded by Li Han, the brigade headquarters of the 14th Brigade and its surrounding area of 200 square meters could no longer find a body or intact object that could even squirm. There were only confusing
Amidst the smoke and fire, there were collapsed bunkers and large craters as hideous as black holes.
Zhou Wen had no time to think about whether the Japanese brigade headquarters had been destroyed. When the first round of artillery was shot down in the Japanese military camp, he had already jumped up, opened his bow with both hands and fired. There were also gunshots around and behind him at the same time.
dull gunfire,
"Puff puff puff..." The sound kept coming.
The heads of those dozens of meters away who looked back due to the explosion behind them were bursting with blood. The heads of the Japanese who were exposed 50 meters wide on the front position were all shot without exception.
Zhou Wen didn't have time to count whether he had killed ten or twelve. At this time, he was already running as fast as a cheetah. In just the blink of an eye, he crossed the Japanese outer positions with several leaps and rushed towards the second position.
go.
Dozens of black shadows followed him closely behind him. Any Japanese soldier along the way had no time to react and was shot to death without even making a sound.
In fact, at this time Zhou Wen seized on the weakness of the Japanese army's insufficient defense forces. Even though the Japanese still had nearly 2,000 people in the camp, they had to defend a camp covering several square kilometers, and the artillerymen of the artillery brigade had to be ready at any time.
To control the artillery and distribute the limited troops in three circular positions, it was difficult for the Japanese army to gather the strength of a small team in each direction.
At this time, it is necessary to attack quickly and slowly, and directly penetrate the three defensive positions of the Japanese army while the Japanese army is still in chaos.
You must know that no matter which unit of the Japanese army they set up camp in strict accordance with the regulations of infantry drills, whether it is defense or offense, they must establish at least three defensive positions around their camp to protect the safety of the camp.
Their protection measures for the camp were completely unmatched by the current Republic of China army. This was also the reason why it was difficult for the anti-Japanese army to completely annihilate an integrated Japanese army brigade after the all-out war of resistance broke out.
But it is a pity that the people stationed on the position now are not the experienced veterans, but the transport squadron of the artillery brigade. And most of these Japanese packhorse soldiers have just received their rifles today, and their alertness and reaction capabilities are poor.