The only thing Kitada Yasun can count on now is the pitiful number of artillery and artillery technology of the Chinese army. Artillery alone will keep the Japanese army behind. He believes that the current Chinese army cannot do this, so in the end, infantry and machine guns will have to be used. Rush to the river to intercept it.
He believed in the fighting ability of his soldiers. As long as the Chinese army dared to show its head on the shore, with the white line of fish belly that had begun to appear on the horizon, the Imperial Japanese soldiers were ready with various machine guns and missiles on rubber boats and assault boats. The cartridges will cost them dearly.
It is a pity that although Beitian Kanglian guessed Meng Yuting's plan, he seriously underestimated the number of artillery and the quality of the artillery of the Chinese army in front of him.
Just yesterday when Chen Wanli led people to inspect the Japanese landing site, a group of artillery experts from the mercenary regiment such as Xu Dacheng, Zhu Jinhui and Tang Jian had already planned the artillery positions and calculated the shooting parameters of various types of artillery. Artillery of various calibers divided the bombardment areas from far to near.
Moreover, from the beginning, Meng Yuting had no intention of using artillery to support the infantry company and machine gun company that ambushed the Japanese troops who landed ashore. In such a narrow area, with so many and fierce machine guns, submachine guns and semi-automatic rifle fire coverage Under the situation, there is no need for artillery to add anything to the problem.
The artillery has only one target, which is the various Japanese boats on the river.
Meng Yuting indeed has the ambition and ambition to eat up an entire Japanese army brigade in one bite.
This is not his overly arrogant conjecture, but the weather, location, people and people are all on his side, and he is prepared to be unprepared. His side is controlled by 18 soldiers who are well-trained and have excellent artillery skills. Brandt 81 mm slap cannon, six Schneider 75 mm infantry guns with a range of six kilometers, and two Jin-made heavy mortars with a diameter of 150 mm.
The enemy is composed of seventy or eighty unprotected boats floating on a narrow river that is only two hundred meters wide at its widest point and one thousand meters long. At the same time, there is no means of counterattack. Without artillery support, the Japanese army's numerous machine guns and grenade launchers became mere decorations.
This is completely target practice, even simpler than target practice. Anyway, the number of artillery shells is enough, so just focus on this area and fire as much as you want.
When the sound of the first volley of artillery fire from the Chinese army came, Major Beitian Kanglian suddenly fell into a desperate situation, and the despair rose from the depths of his soul, making his whole body tremble involuntarily. The Chinese army Are all the artillery on the front line moved here?
Two of the sharp whistling sounds were very loud. Kitada Kanglian knew that these were large-caliber artillery shells flying from the sky. At this time, he had no intention of doing anything about the tragic outcome of the more than a thousand Japanese troops under his command. Fantasy, and he had no time to fantasize.
The loud sound of "Boom!" almost shattered Kitada Kanglian's eardrums. In his eyes that had become numb, he saw that right next to the assault boat he was riding in, there was a squadron of 13 Japanese soldiers on board. The rubber boat was like a paper toy. It was thrown up high in the fierce explosion and air waves, and fell apart in the air. The figures flying in the air momentarily escaped the gravity of the earth, and the blood and limbs on their bodies were swayed in the wind. Like the cherry blossoms that fall one after another in April in Imperial Kyoto.
The power of the 150mm heavy mortar shell is not just as simple as blowing up a rubber boat. The first 24 kilogram gun of the Jin army's heavy mortar platoon forced by Marshal Yan to Zhou Wen - The bomb accidentally hit the middle of several boats on which the Japanese brigade headquarters were riding. The absolute killing radius of 50 meters and the powerful shock wave continued its glorious results.
The air waves then swept around. Before Beita Kanglian had time to pity the trapeze artists, he was instantly separated from the earth's gravity and was pushed into the air by a huge force. At the same time, countless shell fragments happily penetrated into him. body of.
"The 143rd Brigade...it's over!"
This was the last consciousness of Major Beitian Kanglian in this world.
Meng Yuting did not know that in the first round of shelling, a 150 mm mortar shell sent the Japanese army captain and the entire group headquarters to hell.
However, with the help of the ray of morning light rising in the eastern sky, his telescope already revealed a spectacle that he had never seen in his life. Dozens of huge water columns rose high on the river almost at the same time. Like a fountain, this area of water is covered with a dense layer of mist. If it weren't for the ugly stumps and blood mixed in the fountain, this landscape would surely be called beautiful.
Then, the continuous explosion of water jets finally blocked his sight. The artillerymen's accurate coverage of the shelling let him know that not many Japanese troops on the water could escape, because the shelling order he gave to the artillery was not based on the base number of shells, but on the basis of the number of shells. Time calculation.
For ten minutes, regardless of whether the enemy was dead or not, all the artillery fired continuously at the fastest speed for ten minutes.
Calculated based on the largest number of Brandt 81mm mortars, each gun has a firing rate of up to 18 rounds per minute. Taking into account the heating of the barrel or other safety factors, it is actually fired at a rate of 10 rounds per minute. Even so, more than 1,800 artillery shells fell and exploded in ten minutes, not counting the six Schneider 75mm mountain guns with the longest range and two terrifyingly powerful 150mm heavy mortars.
Anyway, the mercenary group has a lot of artillery shells.
Anyway, Boss Zhou, the boss of the mercenary group, has a lot of money.
Anyway, the brothers in the logistics team, engineer platoon and artillery transport platoon who had been busy all night carrying artillery shells were exhausted. We couldn't let them work so hard to carry the artillery shells back again, right?
Moreover, the theory that Zhou Wen has repeatedly instilled in his subordinates is: if a problem cannot be solved with one shell, use 10. If that doesn't work, use 100.
Therefore, after the ten-minute bombardment ended, there was no more intact boat on this kilometer-long river.
A whole brigade of Japanese troops, nearly 100 assault boats and rubber boats of various kinds, only a dozen small boats at the tail of the landing fleet were able to escape, and almost all the rest were destroyed on the Yunzaobang river.
This is also due to the fact that the adjutant of the Japanese 143rd Brigade saw the opportunity quickly. If he was not responsible for commanding the rear group and issued the retreat order immediately, it is estimated that the establishment of the 143rd Brigade of the Japanese Mixed 24th Brigade would have been removed from the Japanese Army's establishment series. .
You must know that the Japanese army's combat discipline is also very strict. Without the order of the highest commander of the headquarters, no one is allowed to retreat even if they know that they will die in an attack. Otherwise, they will be tried by a military court and carry the status of a deserter for the rest of their lives.
When the deputy commander of the Japanese brigade issued the order to retreat, the brigade captain and other officers of the brigade headquarters had already been taken to see their Amaterasu by a 150mm heavy mortar-bomb.
