Rise from the sword

Chapter 227 Artillery coverage!

At night, the group charged to the death.

At this moment, the effect of the Japanese army's excellent training is fully displayed.

During the offensive, officers at all levels of the Komatsu Battalion performed their respective duties, maintaining the stability of the assault formation and skirmish line. The positions of the independent regiment rushed forward.

And the little devil didn't bury his head to face the artillery fire. Among them, the two forward squadrons that were fighting against the independent regiment, while maintaining a high-speed impact, also reasonably avoided the oncoming machine gun fire, machine gunners and projectiles. The soldiers also launched counterattacks from time to time to suppress the firepower on the position.

Have to admit!
For this alone, the national government and even part of its own army cannot do it.

Many troops are fine during the day, but once they fight at night or launch an attack in bad weather, it is easy for the formation to gradually lose control. Either the formation is too dense and is severely damaged by enemy fire, or half of the formation is scattered and lost. aggressive.

It's not just weapons that are causing these disparities.

Grass-roots officers, soldier training, and logistical supplies of other materials, the gap between the two sides is multi-faceted and multi-level.

This is the gap in national strength.

Faced with an attack of this level by the Japanese army.

If it is an ordinary army, it must be in a hurry and respond in a hurry. In the end, it will be full of mistakes and be pierced by the Japanese army. Scattered, that is the loss of positions, the end of a complete rout.

However, at this time, the independent regiment was opposite them.

In the past year, the independent regiment and the little devils have fought more than ten times at the battalion and company level.

In other words, on average, almost every month, the Independence Regiment and the Japanese army had a different battle with more than 200 people. As for small-scale contact battles, there were countless, definitely over a hundred.

This allowed the soldiers of the whole regiment to grow rapidly while also accumulating a large amount of practical experience in dealing with little devils.

Every soldier has experienced many battles.

Grass-roots officers at all levels know themselves and their enemies.

At the beginning, the three company commanders on the frontal position, the deputy company commander of the artillery company and the other two infantry company commanders knew very well that they wanted to block the devil's three axes and firmly block the devil in front of the position. The troops surrounded and cut the gang of devils to buy time.

But these three axes are not so easy to block.

The front was fine, there was only one squadron of devils stationed near the small railway station in Wendian Village, and it was not difficult to block it, but the real difficulty was to wait for the entire brigade of little devils to gather and block the attack of the entire brigade.

Considering that the independent regiment has no flares, it is difficult to take advantage of the position at night, and there is not enough time to establish a solid defensive position. The three company commanders have done a lot of preparations for this.

The defensive position is built around the railway, and dense minefields are preset in front of the position, and a solid position is built as much as possible. The machine gun shooting area is preset, and combustible materials are collected to make fire piles in front of the position. When necessary, they can be directly exploded and ignited for lighting.

The artillery company measures the distance and calibrates the shooting elements according to the terrain, so that they can hit even if they can't see it.

"At a distance of 500 meters, fire at full speed."

After the devils launched their attack, the deputy commander of the artillery company had a cold tone on the artillery position 500 meters behind the position.

As soon as he finished speaking, on the position of the artillery company of the Independent Regiment, six muzzle blasts rose into the sky, and six 4.5 mortars weighing 82 kg crossed a curve and fell into the formation of devils in the distance.

Under the illumination of the fireworks at the muzzle, the entire artillery company was running at high speed, and the ammunition hand went back and forth to bring the shells up from the storage point at the back, while the gunner kept stuffing the shells into the barrel.

boom boom boom

The muzzle fireworks continued to flash, one after another.

Every time it flashes, a cannonball shoots into the sky.

boom!boom···

Cannonballs filled with more than one kilogram of black Sorkin explosives exploded in the devil formation. While the explosion fireballs illuminated the surroundings, they also swept across a radius of tens of meters at high speed accompanied by violent shock waves.

The intensive firepower composed of six 82 mortars fired at full speed almost reached the density of [-] shells per second, allowing the devils of the Komatsu Brigade to experience the enjoyment of artillery coverage for the first time.

Even if the skirmisher line has been pulled very wide, the effect is not obvious in the face of this level of shell density and damage range. Before the team approaches the position, two small teams of devils are directly reimbursed by the artillery fire, and the formation is completely destroyed. Blow up.

"idiot···"

"How can there be such a fierce artillery fire!"

Among the little devils who were charging, watching the shells explode in his formation, and watching the soldiers of the imperial army being blown to death, Makoto Komatsu, holding a samurai sword, was tearing his eyes open, and his roar was full of anger. incredible:

"who are they?"

"Who is on the other side?"

Is this the kind of firepower that only the armed forces can have?
Lieutenant Makoto Komatsu has been on the battlefield for a long time. He was originally a squadron leader of the third division. He participated in Songhu all the way, and then returned to China for treatment due to injury.

As a person who has participated in the whole process of Songhu, he has never seen such fierce artillery firepower in such a small position, even in the face of the most powerful and elite German weapon masters in the country.

Don't they pay for shells?
Didn't the empire say that the bigger the army, the weaker it is?
This artillery fire is more powerful than the full brigade of the permanent division of the empire.

No one can answer his doubts, and he has no time to think about it.

In the face of unprecedented intensive artillery fire, his brigade's charge formation was interrupted, and the troops even began to appear chaotic.

After all, the troops in his hands at this time were no longer the elite squadron of the permanent third division, but a second-line division, the garrison brigade of the 33rd division.

In terms of actual combat experience, these little devils are not even as good as the independent regiment!
"idiot."

"Don't panic, keep attacking."

Seiji Komatsu could only command his subordinates to control the troops, which stopped the gradually chaotic troops, but the troops' charge inevitably stopped. Fire contact.

The Komatsu brigade's desperate charge was covered by a round of artillery fire from the artillery company, and hundreds of rounds of 82 mortar shells were interrupted alive.

Fortunately, at this time, the devil's artillery team also arrived.

boom boom boom

The fireworks at the muzzle exposed the location of the artillery position. The Devils artillery team that had just arrived pointed their muzzle at the artillery company. The shells continued to explode around the artillery position, so the artillery company had to choose to move its position.

"attack."

Seeing that the enemy's artillery was suppressed, Seiji Komatsu immediately made a decisive decision and quickly launched a second wave of group charges.

Although the first wave of attack lost a lot, at this time, the Komatsu brigade still had nearly [-] people.

Nearly [-] devils yelled again and rushed towards the independent regiment's position.For a while, the defensive positions of the two companies were crumbling, and even the two company commanders went to the front to fight in person, repelling the first wave of devils with grenades, but the second wave of devils that followed immediately made the soldiers on the position The soldiers didn't even have time to catch their breath, so they could only fight hastily.

Just when the devil's forward was about to break into the position, the artillery fire from the artillery company arrived again.

"The first, second, and third artillery squad suppress the enemy artillery."

"Support from the fourth, fifth, and sixth artillery squads."

On the reserve artillery position that had been prepared before, the deputy company commander calmly ordered that the three guns and the Devil's Type 82 bombard. Whether it is power or range, the [-] mortar can completely suppress the Type [-] infantry artillery.

The other three guns were to support the front-line positions.

boom boom boom

The shells fell again and exploded in the devil's position, stalling the devil's offensive and giving the two companies on the front line a breath of air.

However, when Seiji Komatsu was about to continue his attack and break through the precarious position in front of him...

Li Yunlong made a move.

Four companies, with a total of nearly 500 independent regiment fighters, rushed into the formation of the devils from the left and right flanks, carrying the momentum of thunder, and cut off the little devil's troops at the middle.

　After all, amateur.

　　Insufficient knowledge reserves, the battlefield screen is a bit chaotic...

　　The next chapter will be greatly revised, and will be posted later...
　　
　
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