Comrade, your ingredients are too complicated.

Half an hour later, the Eighth Route Army artillery position.

On the high ground northwest of Fengmen Village, there is a temporary platform. This is the artillery command post for this operation, and Director Zhao is sitting here with a portable communicator in his hand.

Next to him was a group of young staff officers who had just graduated from the Eighth Route Army Artillery Academy. These fledgling comrades were carefully checking the data at hand.

After making sure that all preparations were correct, the artillery commander looked at the clock on the table, and then issued the final order on the overall communication channel.

"The general attack begins!"

"Artillery Regiment One and Two! Bombard for half an hour first. I want to see how tough the enemy's shell is! No one is allowed to stop until the gun barrel reaches its limit!"

"attack!"

Following Director Zhao's order, the soldiers of the two artillery regiments immediately removed the camouflage on their respective positions.

One after another, the 105mm guns were pointed directly at the Japanese defense line in the distance, waiting for the signal flare to be launched into the air before they began to unleash a metal storm.

"Hey~"

"put!"

The moment the signal flare was launched, a torrential rain of artillery shells, with a whistling sound that tore through the air, came from multiple different angles and flew forward towards the defense line west of Jiyuan.

When the Japanese were confused and had not yet reacted, hundreds of huge fireballs formed by the explosions had already covered their carefully constructed "Maginot".

In this battle, there were 105 mm artillery pieces involved, in addition to two battalions of Red Arrow self-propelled rocket launchers.

This quantity, which far exceeded the intensity of the Asian battlefield, brought the artillery's peak projection volume to an astonishing 41 tons per minute.

The case has been solved. Today is the most powerful chapter. We found a very small amount of human tissue among a large amount of metal fragments.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The continuous bombardment caused the earth to groan in pain, and even Wangwu Mountain in the northwest was affected.

The continuous shaking of the mountain and the falling rocks were like a unique version of Yugong moving the mountain.

Under the reckless output of the two artillery regiments of the Eighth Route Army, lucky Japanese soldiers were constantly being executed on the spot. Even if they hid in the solid anti-artillery fortifications in time, they would be killed by the shock wave generated by the explosion.

Blood, ashes and body parts mixed with soil, moistening the land of northern Henan again and again. Perhaps after the war, Jiyuan will be the first region to get rid of this great famine.

"Attention all departments!"

"Howitzer Battalion, start moving in an orderly manner according to the combat plan!"

"Howitzer Battalion, Self-propelled Rocket Artillery Battalion! Follow the main force and attack together! Put the gun barrels on the shoulders of the commandos!"

That’s right, even though the current Eighth Route Army has lived a prosperous life, the bayonet on the cannon is still the artillery units’ trump card skill.

After the artillery preparation phase, the Red Arrow self-propelled rocket launcher, which had been reloaded on time, and the relatively light M1935b howitzer, resolutely continued to move forward with the attacking forces.

Comrades will form artillery groups of several sizes in the open areas of the battlefield to provide fire support to the assault troops by direct aiming.

The reason for this simple and crude tactic is simple.

Compared with some sacred mule and horse empires on the European battlefield, the Eighth Route Army artillery is equipped with a large number of traction trucks, which has obvious advantages in mobility.

With air superiority and heavy firepower suppression, the Japanese artillery had no chance to counterattack.

The most efficient way of attack is to strike him while he is weak and shoot him in the face at close range.

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Time goes back five minutes ago, to the Japanese military headquarters in Jiyuan.

After inspecting his own defense line, the supreme commander of the Manchuria-Mongolia Youth Corps returned to his combat meeting room. Looking at the busy staff officers, he asked in a hoarse voice:

"Where is the reconnaissance team? Have they sent back any useful information?"

In large-scale battles, intelligence support is also an important component of combat effectiveness, which directly affects every decision-making of the command system.

In order to guard the gateway to northern Henan, Onodera and Deng sent out the elite of the Special High Technology Department a week ago in an attempt to spy on the troop deployment of the Eighth Route Army before the war.

Faced with the questioning of their superior, the Japanese staff in the combat meeting room suddenly fell silent, and for a moment no one dared to stand up and answer the questions.

Seeing this, the old devil could only sigh helplessly.

There was nothing we could do, because we were inferior to them. Whether it was the puppet army squad recruited from the local area or the professional agents who had experienced many battles, they all fell into oblivion after setting out, and failed to send back any useful intelligence.

In the confrontation with the Eighth Route Army's reconnaissance troops, they were completely defeated.

After a moment, Onodera and Deng adjusted their mentality as much as possible, pretending to be confident and forcibly boosting morale:
"Continue to send out agents. This time, have them sneak into the control area of ​​the First Preserved War Zone first, and then pretend to be civilians fleeing north to cross the Yellow River to see if they can sneak into Zhongtiao Mountain."

"We can't just defend, so intelligence is very important."

Hearing this, the Japanese staff officers in the combat meeting room all echoed it enthusiastically.

Now that the entrance was blocked, the only way out was the dried fruits.

After all, the bald guy’s ability to prevent infiltration is very poor, and many departments can even be described as unilaterally transparent.

If the agents are lucky enough, they might be able to find out information about the Eighth Route Army in western Henan.

After arranging a series of battle plans, Onodera and Deng silently came to the military map and ordered the staff in the conference room:

“Inform the troops at all levels that in the first phase of this campaign, we should make full use of the strong fortifications to consume the manpower of the Eighth Route Army and strive to defeat the enemy’s first echelon offensive.

"Once the enemy shows signs of fatigue, we will throw all our troops into battle."

"Combine the main force, the reserve force and the Imperial Army, combine the big fight, the medium fight and the small fight, and strive to bring the flames of war to the territory of Shanxi Province."

The above battle plan is basically the best solution that the old devil can come up with at this stage. According to him, this is called using the enemy's tactics to fight the enemy.

The Eighth Route Army managed to hold on for more than two years in this way. I only need to hold on for three months, there shouldn't be any problem.

As if he had thought of something important, he emphasized:
"The enemy's artillery is indeed superior in quantity and quality, but their tactics are very rigid, and they always conduct a round of test firing before each attack."

"As long as we make good use of the time difference, we will be able to reduce the losses of our troops."

As soon as the old devil finished speaking, a thunderous explosion sounded from the west. The violent vibration almost collapsed the command post that had been built just a few days ago.

"what's the situation!?"

Realizing that something was wrong, Onodera and Deng rushed outside, picked up a telescope and looked towards the first line of defense.

We saw dense and synchronized explosions constantly rising on our own positions. Many half-buried bunkers and artillery towers were like paper-mache and were easily wiped out by the enemy's artillery fire.

Soon, news from the front line came back through the telephone lines.

"Major General! The 155th Independent Mixed Brigade called! They encountered an attack from a mm artillery group! At the current intensity, the fortifications on the defense line will definitely not last until tomorrow!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Onodera and Deng felt a burning pain on their faces, as if they had been slapped hard in the ass.

I just said that the Eighth Route Army artillery was very rigid and would not fire without a test. I never thought that just a few seconds later, the other side would slap me in the face with actual actions.

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In fact, it’s not the Japanese’s fault that they have never seen the world.

Strictly speaking, the Japanese troops in Jiyuan were just too lucky, because their direct enemy was the first batch of outstanding graduates from the Eighth Route Army Artillery Academy.

TG artillery, which has undergone systematic learning, will pre-calculate a large number of shooting parameters based on the results of reconnaissance by various means before the battle.

Whenever there is a battle, comrades only need to find the data corresponding to the current conditions and apply the formula to complete accurate artillery bombardment.

In this way, the enemy will not encounter any warning of a test firing of one or two shells.

Faced with the sudden attack of a large number of artillery shells, using the time difference to avoid it became a pipe dream.

It is worth mentioning that in order to get off to a good start, Director Zhao specially chose a simultaneous attack tactic that combines visual effects and surprise attacks.

Before the attack begins, all artillery groups within range will be notified, and comrades need to calculate the shooting parameters based on the flight time and distance of the artillery shells.

The cumbersome process ensures that the first shells fired by each gun will hit the target point almost at the same time.

This kind of concentrated fire will produce a thunderous, devastating direct damage effect. The enemy position will be torn to pieces by the almost brutal artillery attack, and the target personnel will have no room to dodge or cover.

Overall, the biggest difficulty with this tactic lies in coordination.

It not only requires each unit to have complete communication equipment, but also has high requirements on the military quality of commanders and fighters.

However, for TG, the above difficulties are not a problem at all, because the simultaneous attack tactics happens to be one of the primary training courses of the Eighth Route Army Artillery Academy. (End of this chapter)