The Japanese artillery fire began again, and this time it was truly covered by artillery fire.
Intensive artillery fire covered the main position of the National Army in Tangshan Col. Fortunately, Zou Quan's Second Battalion reinforced the position when it took over the position. Otherwise, it would not have been able to withstand the position in its condition when it first took over.
Continuous explosions occurred at the main position on the hillside. The fragments of the artillery shells were mixed with the raised soil and splashed in the air. The smoke erupted when the artillery shells exploded, which was very pungent.
The officers and soldiers on the main position of the Second Battalion of the 232nd Regiment in the center of the bombing zone felt as if they were in a collapsed space at the end of the world, with death all around them.
They hid in the artillery fortifications and covered their ears tightly for fear of being deafened by the violent explosion and causing their eardrums to burst!
The sound of intensive artillery bombardment also reached Zhang Tianhai.
Zhang Tianhai, who had just fallen asleep for less than three hours, had to get up to observe the situation at the front, and at the same time brought the radio set of the communication company with him.
The frontline combat intelligence must be collected by himself!
Since Zhang Tianhai has always had good exercise habits, he has not fallen behind in terms of physical fitness. The speed of advancing with the outpost observation troops is not ordinary.
Finally, half an hour later, Zhang Tianhai appeared on the commanding heights of a nearby mountain, holding a pair of high-powered binoculars in his hand.
After finding a bunker, Zhang Tianhai lay down and observed the combat situation on the front line.
"Xu Sangou, give me the gun!" Zhang Tianhai turned around and said to the guard platoon leader Xu Sangou behind him.
Ever since Liu Houming was ordered by Zhang Tianhai to stay in Lanling, Xu Sangou was used as an adjutant by Zhang Tianhai.
There's nothing I can do about it. He's the leader of a reinforcement group and he doesn't have a follower behind him. Doesn't he look shabby?
Ever since, this was the main reason why Zhang Tianhai wanted to use Xu Sangou as a guard adjutant. Furthermore, without an adjutant, it would be inconvenient for him to direct operations...
The firearm that Zhang Tianhai asked Xu Sangou to carry must be his 38-meter cover with an eight-fold optical lens.
After taking the firearm, Zhang Tianhai used it and began to observe the rising hot air balloon opposite and hanging in the air.
The distance of the hot air balloon is about 800 to 900 meters.
Zhang Tianhai had absolutely reason to believe that if a shot penetrated the surface of the hot air balloon, the hot air balloon would slowly land.
But if you shoot, you will definitely pay the price.
The price of shooting is that it may expose the hiding position of Zhiyi Regiment. After all, the shot was fired from his direction. As long as the Japanese commander is not an idiot, he will definitely send a small force to deal with it. An area is searched.
After some thinking, Zhang Tianhai still put down his gun - a small impatience will ruin a big plan, and it is not worth exposing the entire Zhiyi group's position just for this hot air balloon.
Therefore, Zhang Tianhai could only watch helplessly as the enemy's artillery fire bombed his friendly positions but was unable to do anything.
This is a very helpless but powerless thing. If he could, Zhang Tianhai would definitely lead the troops of the Zhiyi Regiment to kill the Japanese artillery position.
But obviously there are no fighter planes, and there is no plan to assist the frontline troops in Tangshan Au to launch a large-scale counterattack during the scheduled battle.
At this time, Zhang Tianhai regretted not bringing the spies with him.
If we bring along the special agent company, we can carry out raids on the Japanese rear positions.
But he had no choice. As a man and the commander of Lanling City Defense, his responsibilities forced him to leave the spy company in Lanling.
Moreover, Zhang Tianhai also had a particularly sinister intention, which he had never mentioned to anyone.
Zhang Tianhai's troops must not be handed over to others!
It is impossible to defend Lanling.
As the city defense commander of Lanling, Zhang Tianhai never believed that blindly defending Lanling was a good thing.
Intense fighting will only destroy the ancient city of Lanling. Fighting is necessary, but the Japanese army must be severely damaged before the Japanese army reaches Lanling. This is the best way to defend!
Just then, the gunfire stopped.
Japanese troops all over the mountains and plains have launched an attack on the second battalion of the 232nd Regiment.
"It seems that the Japanese army is still in the same old style, with the same three-sword axe!" Zhang Tianhai said slowly while watching the Japanese attack through the telescope.
After hearing this, Xu Sangou said with a wry smile: "But the regiment, Japan's little three-point ax has made our army suffer a lot! Artillery bombarded, aircraft bombed, and then the tanks came first, followed by the infantry. It just so happens that we don’t have such a good thing as anti-tank guns. If we had, we wouldn’t have suffered so much.”
Zhang Tianhai wanted to tell him that there would be a better support weapon in the future, and that was the rocket launcher.
Among them, RPG is the best among them. If it is used against thin-skinned tanks like the Japanese army, it is easy to catch it - with one click of the trigger, it is almost certain to hit within 80 meters.
But Zhang Tianhai thought about it and forgot about it. This kind of supporting weapon is probably still under development!
If advanced individual support weapons such as rocket launchers had come out on the Soviet-German battlefield, with the steel torrent of both sides having almost equal strength, it would not be certain who would win.
The Japanese army began to charge under the cover of five tanks. When he saw two Japanese tanks that had been burned black in front of the national army position, Zhang Tianhai knew that the charging tanks were most likely the newly arrived support troops from behind. .
The Japanese army is attacking, but the Chinese soldiers have not yet launched a counterattack, because their main targets are the infantry behind the tanks - tanks cannot penetrate them anyway, so why not concentrate their firepower on the infantry?
This is also the combat experience gained by the officers and soldiers of the Northwest when fighting the Japanese army.
"Prepare cluster grenades and explosive packs. When the Japs tanks get close, find a way to get rid of them!" Second Battalion Commander Zou Quan was shouting.
The Second Battalion's position was busy, everyone was preparing to meet the Japanese army that was about to rush in front of them!
Zhang Tianhai, who was looking at the scene in front of him with a high-power telescope in the distance, looked equally nervous.
"The Japanese army dispatched a lot of troops. A rough estimate is that there must be at least one brigade. It seems that these little devils received a death order, otherwise they would not have invested so many troops at once. The artillery fire just lasted for forty minutes. Alright..." Zhang Tianhai muttered to himself, making the people around him nervous as well.
No, just look at the look in their eyes. They are staring at the frontline battlefield, as if they are afraid of missing any detail.
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PS: The second update is here. . .
This update is also short and seems to have exhausted the talents...
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