Fierce gunfire was heard.
Gao Jianwu, who had just arrived on the other side of the hillside after a rapid march, was very anxious. He heard the intensive explosions of machine guns, mortars and grenade launchers in his ears. The number was incalculable.
This is far more than the two squadrons of the Little Devil. There is no doubt that the original plan was seriously miscalculated. The reinforcements from the Little Devil's Mianshan Fortress and Lincheng arrived in advance!
This means that Shen Quan and the others are undergoing crazy attacks from a large group of thousands of little devils!
"Lao Liu, after turning around the hill ahead, artillery positions will be deployed at the foot of the hill next to Lao Shen's blocking position. Infantry artillery and most of the 90mm mortars are deployed there. Your task is to extend along the highway. Artillery bombardment blocks the Japs’ attacks on the sniper position within 1 kilometer of the position. At the same time, it attracts the attention of the Japs’ artillery.”
Gao Jianwu speeded up, but while running, he explained to the guerrilla captains who were following him.
"Han Gang, take the 60 mortars and divide them into several clusters to knock out the machine guns and grenade launchers at the front of the Japs! Then directly attack the Japs' clusters."
"Dalei, take two infantry detachments and go to the hillside to reinforce Lao Shen."
"The remaining infantry detachment and assault are ready to fight back along the road!"
"In addition, all 81/82mm mortars follow me and prepare to counterattack to suppress the Japanese artillery."
"The heavy machine guns are divided into two groups. One group will establish the second line of defense here, and the other group will follow the infantry to counterattack, go around the hillside and face the little Japs over there to establish the first machine gun position!"
Gao Jianwu issued a series of combat missions quickly, and now it was too late to explain.
Based on his advance understanding of the terrain, infantry artillery and 90mm mortars, which are relatively difficult to move, were deployed behind the mountains, while the agile 60mm mortars were used to enhance forward strike firepower.
Gao Jianwu is ready to take the 81/82mm mortar, which is more powerful and relatively flexible, to the artillery decisive battle in search of the Japs!
Now even though the little Japanese reinforcements have arrived, the number of artillery under his command still far exceeds that of his opponents.
In this battle, the troops are not superior. Gao Jianwu's only chance of victory is to defeat the Japs with superior artillery fire!
One of the most important goals is to deal with the Japs' artillery.
Now compared to the little devil, what Gao Jianwu can use is not only the number of artillery, but also the precise understanding of the terrain.
The sniper position he chose originally took into account the terrain. The road is sandwiched between two mountains and the intersection is locked, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Therefore, even though Harada Jiro had superior troops and firepower, he attacked for more than an hour without making any progress. This is not to say that Harada Jiro was stupid, but that the terrain limited the deployment of troops and firepower, and the sinking spring on the side of the mountain made the king The Xilai mortar team occupied it and posed a threat to the Japanese artillery at any time.
If the Jaap Artillery left Wang Xilai and shifted their field of vision to the back of the hillside, their accuracy and flexibility for forward strikes would be greatly reduced.
Wang Xilai and the others can calmly attack the Japs' attacking team.
Shen Quan and the others can also dodge appropriately on the position according to the direction of the Japs' bombardment.
Horei Katsuki's left center is qualified to slap Harada Jiro and change the combat deployment because his resources greatly exceed Harada Jiro.
Already have the strength to carry out higher-density covering artillery bombardment on Shen Quan's position.
As the saying goes, when you are rich, you are covered by artillery fire, but when you are poor, you are interspersed with tactics. With these completely different resource conditions, who should Harada Jiro find to reason with? !
The little devil still doesn't know anything about the arrival of Gao Jianwu and the others.
But Shen Quan and the others were surprised to find a miracle.
Shen Quan, who had fought back and forth between heaven and hell, was even more confident in Gao Jianwu.
Because he knew that Gao Jianwu's arrival meant that Gao Jianwu had really achieved his goal of annihilating the little Japanese on the Eastern Front!
Now following Gao Jianwu, he has the artillery support that Shen Quan needs most!
Although Shen Quan didn't know yet, Gao Jianwu had almost increased the strength of the artillery by one-third.
But Shen Quan knew that just the dozen artillery pieces of the artillery unit were enough to bring the artillery strength of both sides back to the same level.
Obviously, when the enemy's artillery is restrained by one's own artillery, the enemy's sudden attack tactics are no longer a problem.
Without the artillery threat of the Japs, Shen Quan retained the firepower team that has not been dispatched until now. Facing the dense Japs' pig-rush formation, machine guns and submachine guns harvested Japs' heads like wheat!
News of the arrival of reinforcements slowly spread on the battlefield, and the morale of the soldiers who were originally determined to fight to the death was now even higher.
After turning around the hilltop and observing the enemy's formation and artillery shell flight paths, combined with his precise understanding of the terrain, Gao Jianwu basically confirmed the location of the Jaap's artillery position.
After all, in addition to being deployed along the road, the terrain on both sides is hilly, which is not suitable for larger artillery such as the 92 infantry gun and 90mm mortar. Only light artillery like the 60mm mortar can find a place to set it up regardless of the terrain.
Based on the height of the hillside and the curvature of the road, Gao Jianwu judged that the Little Japanese artillery position was suitable for deployment on a section of about 50 meters of road that turned around the opposite hill.
After sketching the terrain in his mind, he virtually brought the Jaap's artillery position into it, and then calculated the bombardment of Zhu Yuan. Gao Jianwu personally deployed and adjusted the 6 82mm mortars and 10 81mm mortars left for him. 16 mortars covered the Little Japanese artillery position in the target area!
In order to surprise the little devil, Gao Jianwu decided to fire three rounds!
At the rate of fire of an 82mm mortar, three shells can be fired rapidly in about 20 seconds. In such a short period of time, let alone moving the position of the artillery, the artillerymen had no time to avoid the dense coverage of up to 48 artillery shells!
Therefore, when Gao Jianwu ordered the artillery fire, 16 mortars opened fire almost simultaneously! The roaring sound of dense mortar shells seemed like the scythe of death flying towards the Jaap artillery position!
The little devil Horuchi Shenzhong looked at the direction of the flight of the group of small black dots in the sky, and his expression changed at that time.
However, this was just the beginning. A few seconds later, another group of mortar shells flew in the same direction!
And then there’s the next wave!
Next, more artillery shells began to fly towards the little Japanese infantry team assembled on the road!
There were too many to count. Such a sudden change almost suffocated Horiuchi Zhongzuo on the spot!
At the front of the position, the crooked machine guns and grenade launchers supporting the Japs were protected by more than a dozen 60mm mortar shells, and were taken away in a wave without any surprise.
Chen Quan seized the opportunity and ordered the long-suffering fire team to suddenly launch a counterattack, knocking the little Japs to the ground like mowing grass. Then the remaining guerrillas in the second trench launched a wave of grenades. , and all of a sudden the little Japanese who had attacked the first line of defense were eliminated on the battlefield!
On the road, the third infantry unit responsible for the counterattack took the opportunity to rush out and captured Harada Jiro's defeated kid. The commando responsible for the arrow almost killed Harada Jiro on the spot.
But the grandson was lucky and managed to escape by rolling and crawling.
It’s just that the other little devils didn’t have such good luck. There were 300 people from the Mianshan task force, but less than 50 people escaped. It can be said that they are basically finished!
The situation reversed, and Horuchi Katsuki almost did not hesitate, and immediately ordered the troops to retreat towards Mianshan and Lincheng!
In this inexplicable encounter, he was hurriedly beaten and stunned before he had time to express himself.
In his eyes, before the enemy's artillery fire, it was comparable to a division of the Central Army, no, even more powerful and terrifying than a division!
So how many troops came from the opposite side? Faced with the fear of the unknown, Horuchi Katsumi had no choice but to decisively choose tactics to avoid the annihilation of the entire army!
He didn't even have time to ask the brigade headquarters for tactical guidance.
After escaping to the other side of the hillside, the parked car did not have time to turn around, so the swarming infantry soldiers followed the car and backed out of this section of the road of death!
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