The two large attack groups, which were tactically concealed, were basically at least 1 kilometer away from the Japs' advance route. They were separated by several hills. At this moment, they were a bit slow to react to the Japs' attack.
There is no way, with the current communication conditions, communication basically relies on horses. If the scouts on the front line have reconnoitred the enemy situation of the Japs, riding or running on this bumpy mountain road is almost the same, and it will take at least more than 10 years. minute.
Therefore, Gao Jianwu, who was in the central attack position, decisively gave up the remote command from the headquarters and instead laid the wires to the front. Gao Jianwu directly advanced to the hilltop less than 500 meters away from the Japs' artillery position!
This location was confirmed after speculation on the possible site selection of the Xiaojiazi artillery and on-site reconnaissance of the Xiaojiazi's movements near Zhao Jiayu.
The hilltop is not big, but the bushes are thick, making it difficult to spot from a distance.
In order to conceal themselves from the Japs, there were not many people in ambush on the hilltop. Following Gao Jianwu were only about 30 people from Song Tiecheng's commando team and the heavy machine gun unit, who were ambushing on the back of the hilltop.
Therefore, no matter the fire reconnaissance of the Japs or the three rounds of advance reconnaissance on the left side of the outpost, they could not find Gao Jianwu and the others unless they covered all the hills one by one for reconnaissance.
But this is impossible.
Shen Quan led a large force to hide in the northwest valley and set up an artillery position there, which was far within the reconnaissance range of the little Japanese.
This time, Gao Jianwu was not going to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japs' artillery. Instead, he used his own advantages to play a technical game against the Japs!
The three-dimensional high-definition map made Gao Jianwu qualified to launch a wave of remotely commanded artillery attacks. Through several hills, he used the ballistic table and his forward command to observe the impact point, directly allowing the little Japanese to fight against the cow across the mountain.
Whether it is the Type 97 81mm mortar produced by Xiaoguizi, the Type 20 82mm mortar, the Type 97 90mm small steel cannon, or the Type 92 infantry gun, the range of the Dagushan guerrilla brigade is Basically, it is around 2800 meters. If you are conservative and hit 2500 meters, there is no problem.
Therefore, the artillery position ambushed in the northwest corner of the valley can cover the 5-mile fan-shaped area from the south entrance of Zhaojiayu to the Xiaojiazi artillery position.
When the Japanese launched an attack at the south entrance of Zhaojiayu, Gao Jianwu happened to be calculating various parameters for attacking the Japanese artillery position.
But before that, Gao Jianwu had already called Shen Quan to come out with the ambush troops, preparing to directly take away the little Japanese's rear base after the bombardment was over!
The two squadrons of little devils are nothing to Gao Jianwu now. Dagushan's six infantry detachments came out, and Li Yunlong fished for fish. Under normal circumstances, this group of little devils in the rear would be crushed!
Ten minutes after the war started, Gao Jianwu observed Shen Quan leading the team and immediately began to command Liu Shiqiang and Han Gang's two artillery detachments to start test firing!
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"Nani?" Yuji Watanabe's head was buzzing when he saw two mortar shells roaring towards him.
As a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time, Watanabe Yuji naturally has something. By listening to the sound and observing the position, he confirmed that the enemy's mortars came from several hills away.
But what confused him was that without close observation and correction, it was impossible for artillery such as mortars to hit the target. Was the enemy harassing or premeditated?
When Yuuji Watanabe saw the mortar shells falling more than 100 meters away from the artillery position, he felt relieved.
"Order! The artillery immediately launches artillery fire according to the targets provided by the front line!" Watanabe Yuuji felt that the current situation was a bit complicated. The enemy not only deployed heavy troops in Zhao Jiayu and was ready, but also had troops outside for harassment.
The attack by two mortars is proof of this.
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At the southern entrance of Zhaojiayu, after the Little Japs committed a squadron to attack, the war suddenly became intense. Zhao Gang's command worked and destroyed part of the Little Japs' machine gun position. The heavy machine gun also blocked the Little Japs' pig attack. Now it is changed to Creeping way.
This delayed the second company's attack by the Japanese infantry and began to change positions and redeploy in the trenches.
After all, the four 90mm mortars of the independent regiment had a geographical advantage and were familiar with the local topography, so the artillery observers reported their positions to the artillery squad relatively accurately, which resulted in victory in the first round!
With a 3-shot burst, the shells landed around the little Japanese target, spreading out to form a killing zone with a radius of nearly a hundred meters! The killing radius of the two 6-round artillery shells was superimposed, forming an oval area with a radius of almost 200 meters. Nearly half of the little devils in the area suffered different injuries.
On the heavy machine gun position, the little Japs were wailing. Although they heard the roar of mortars, they subconsciously hid on the ground to avoid them, but the little Japs who were closer to the explosion point were not so lucky.
Near the grenade hand, a cannonball fell directly on the crowd, taking away half of the grenade hand in one wave, leaving no room for struggle!
Aiming at the first and second 90mm mortar positions attacked by the Little Devil 92 Infantry Cannon, the first round of calibration firing has been completed, and the second round of three rapid fire rounds is now being prepared!
But the artillerymen of the little devils were not stupid either. Before the first round of mortar shells landed, these little devils began to move their positions.
The power of the 92 Infantry Cannon is average for artillery, but its flexibility is really nothing to criticize. I saw the two little devils pushing hard, quickly moved to a hundred meters away, and began to follow the artillery observers Report the position, adjust the angle and launch a counterattack!
The artillery on both sides had no time to support the infantry at this moment.
Each aimed at their opponent and began to catch each other and fight.
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The terrain at the north entrance is relatively steep, and there is not much terrain where the village entrance can be deployed. Trenches were dug on the hills on both sides, and half of the firepower battalion's heavy machine guns were deployed on the hills on both sides.
So when the battle started, Horuchi Katsumi's center left immediately found that he had encountered a tough opponent!
As many as 6 heavy machine guns instantly crushed the first wave of charging squad-level Japs! Horuchi Katsuki discovered that his team would not be able to enter unless the enemy's heavy machine gun firepower was destroyed.
The narrow entrance to the village only allowed people at the squad level to charge one after another. It was impossible to form a formation and form a skirmish line to attack in a large area!
In this way, no matter how many troops he has, he can only use fueling tactics to consume the opponent's firepower!
Of course, Horuchi Katsuki would not do this kind of tactic of killing people, so he commanded several grenade groups and the 92nd Infantry Artillery to move forward and start bombarding the heavy machine gun firepower points of the independent regiment.
However, these firepower points were strengthened by Sun Desheng to a height of more than one meter, so they could not be flattened in a short period of time.
The battle at Beikou became a stalemate.
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