The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 276 Battle of Annihilation 9
Boom
The violent bombardment continued, and the sound of shrapnel tearing the air came one after another. The smell of gunpowder smoke in the air was mixed with the pungent smell of yellow phosphorus explosion and burning, and was blown everywhere by the biting cold wind.

In the forward observation post, He Wei and He Shaozhou were admiring the raging performance of artillery shells and flames on the Japanese positions while discussing the upcoming attack and annihilation operations.

"He Wei, do you have any rules for this specific style of play?"

In the Frontier Observatory, He Shaozhou put down his telescope and looked at He Wei. Their eyes collided slightly and he asked

As for the attack tactics against the positions occupied by the Japanese army, He Wei had already known something about it, so he immediately replied: "Yes, my strategy is to attack in an all-round way, with a little breakthrough, and to concentrate the attack!"

"Be more detailed."

"Sir, the Japanese army we are facing now is not just a handful of Japanese troops, but several organized field infantry brigades, equipped with a considerable amount of artillery. Our army does not have an absolute advantage in terms of strength and firepower. Coupled with its own combat quality, They are not as good as the Japanese army. Therefore, we must have the courage to fight to the last man and the determination to exchange human lives for victory. You must be prepared for this. "

He Wei looked at He Shaozhou with a solemn expression and said, and He Shaozhou was also a veteran on the battlefield. He immediately understood the hidden meaning of He Wei's words, and said: "I understand what you mean, and I have been mentally prepared for this. I know how much the Zero Third Division can eat. This time I asked for the battle so actively because I wanted to train the troops and fight the Japanese to the death. Otherwise, why do you think I killed all those big smokers? Pull me up?"

After He Shaozhou finished speaking, a trace of determination flashed in his eyes, and he said to He Wei: "I was born in the first phase of Huangpu, and I only trained in the military academy for half a year. When it comes to specific tactics, I am definitely not as good as a junior Huangpu student like you, but I After all, I have been fighting for so many years. There is one truth I understand. A unit that can fight must dare to kill people. If a bad unit wants to become a capable division, it must die. A lot of people. You Don't think about it, as long as I can eat these devils in front of me, I can accept it at any price."

He Wei had already made plans for the tactics, but the tactics adopted by He Wei were destined to cause the 103rd Division, which was the main attack, to pay a considerable price in casualties.

In other words, if another god came, commanding a third-rate unit like the 103rd Division to fight against the elite Japanese army would be the same result. Therefore, He Wei decided to lay the groundwork before revealing his strategy to let He Shaozhou be mentally prepared.

Although He Wei also saw that He Shaozhou was determined to destroy the ship and was decisive enough to fight and kill, this was still the nephew of Minister He of the Ministry of Military Affairs. He Wei did not use other people's troops without warning him before the war. The courage to be cannon fodder.

Otherwise, her mother is too incompetent to be a human being, let alone an official.

But now it seems that He Shaozhou actually didn't need to remind himself at all. He had long been prepared to use the little remaining capital of the 103rd Division to fight it all.

He Wei thought about it carefully, and it was indeed true, because He Shaozhou not only pulled up the reorganized 103rd Division troops, but also all the soldiers who had been excluded from smoking.

If He Shaozhou hadn't been prepared to fight to the end, He Shaozhou wouldn't have been able to pull those two-gun men to the forward position.

It seems that this time I am too worried.

After thinking clearly about the key points, He Wei went straight to the point and said: "Sir, my strategy is the so-called comprehensive harassment, that is, using large forces to conduct a full-scale feint attack on the positions occupied by the Japanese army, and for a breakthrough, the use of elite troops The troops carried out the main attack at the weak points on the Japanese army's front, and the concentrated attack was after our elite troops opened a breakthrough in the Japanese army's position, and the large forces used intensive attack formations and even human sea tactics to attack the Japanese army's position, and then reached The purpose of annihilating the Japanese army."

"The large force you are talking about is our 103rd Division, right? And which one is the elite force?"

He Shaozhou asked in surprise.

He Wei pointed at himself and said helplessly: "What other elite troops I have on hand are naturally the remnants of my special agent battalion. Now I still have an infantry company, a special agent platoon and a communications platoon left in my battalion. The platoon cannot go up and charge, so it can only point to one of my infantry companies and a special agent platoon."

"You want to lead the troops yourself?"

He Shaozhou asked.

He Wei nodded: "The situation is now critical, and we don't have many troops at our disposal. In this case, I can only take the lead and fight! We must face the enemy with the firepower of the Japanese army, and we have to open up the Japanese army's position." A breakthrough, this kind of mission can only be accomplished by risking one’s life!”

He Shaozhou looked at the Japanese positions that were constantly bursting with bullets, and muttered: "It has to be like this, it has to be like this."

Immediately, he suddenly turned back to look at He Wei: "What tactics should our 103rd Division adopt and how should we cooperate with you? You just say it's okay. If you dare to put yourself in danger, I will personally command the troops to cooperate with you." ! We must round up the devils on the other side today!"

"Yes!"

Seeing that He Shaozhou was ready to risk his life, He Wei then without reservation informed He Shaozhou of the more specific attack deployment plan that had been planned.

While the attack team at the main position was making intensive preparations for the final annihilation attack, the mobile team far away from the main position came into contact with the Japanese reinforcements returning to the main position before the attack team. He Wei said The sudden exchange of fire between the dispatched mobile team and the Japanese returning troops preceded the general attack on the main position, kicking off the bloody battle of annihilation.

Mobile team, infantry position, Fu Chen, the commander of the first infantry company of the special agent battalion, was lying on the outer edge of the trench of the company command post. He looked at the Japanese troops slowly approaching in front of the position and murmured: "This bitch, really Damn it, I brought so many tank defense cannons. It seems that I really made the tank hit hard by Captain Zhao. "

Fu Chen looked at the black mass of Japanese troops rushing towards him in the telescope, as well as the Type 94 37mm rapid-fire cannons in the Japanese assault queue, with a sneer on his lips.

The tank battle between the Chinese and Japanese armies just now was a blow to the Japanese returning troops.

The reappearance of Chinese army tanks on the battlefield made the commander of the Japanese reinforcements extremely alert. Originally, the support troops were preparing to drive to the battlefield where the Japanese artillery was raided to collect the artillery equipment and materials discarded by the artillery. , but I didn’t expect that the Chinese troops that had already withdrawn would come back again, blocking the way for the Japanese reinforcements to return!

Judging from the deployment situation, this tactical action of the Chinese army almost outflanked the Japanese army in the main position, and the Chinese army in the main position formed a double-team on the Japanese army in the main position. Realizing that something was wrong, the Japanese reinforcement commander immediately organized a small group of Japanese infantry to conduct forward reconnaissance, and the results of the reconnaissance also shocked the lieutenant commander.

On the return road that was in a mess not long ago, not only was there the Chinese tank unit that had raided the artillery marching column not long ago and had just severely damaged the armored vehicle unit of the Japanese return force, there was also a field battle of the Chinese army appearing out of thin air. Defensive position!

The Chinese army in this field defense position also assumed a defensive and blocking posture ready to attack.

The Japanese lieutenant colonel, who was sweating coldly from behind, had already vaguely guessed the purpose of the sudden advance of the Chinese army. In order to prevent the war situation from developing in the terrible direction he had guessed, the Japanese lieutenant colonel immediately commanded the troops under his jurisdiction to attack the Chinese troops lying in front of him. The army's defensive positions launched an attack.

The Japanese Lieutenant Colonel knew very well that only by capturing the blocking position of the Chinese army in front of him and leading the reinforcements back to the main position could it be possible to reverse the situation of the war!
As a result, there was a dark Japanese army in front of Fu Chen, as well as the Type 94 37mm rapid-fire cannon in the Japanese attack queue.

The two attacking Japanese infantry brigades each dispatched two infantry squadrons, and at the same time, eight Type 94 37mm rapid-fire guns from the two squadrons were reinforced to each squadron.

Therefore, after the four Japanese infantry squadrons at the front were reinforced by two Type 94 37mm rapid-fire cannons, they immediately launched according to the standard three-row, three-advance squadron attack formation in the Japanese infantry drill. The four The infantry squadron lined up and launched a rapid attack directly on Fu Chen's position!
"Onboard!"

"Onboard!"

Amidst the howling cries of the Japanese army, four Japanese infantry squadrons, reinforced by eight rapid-fire cannons, fully deployed an attack formation with a front and flank width of two hundred meters each during the rapid impact. The four infantry squadrons advanced head-on. , formed an impact formation with a frontal width of 800 meters, and rushed towards Fu Chen's infantry defense position with great momentum.

The Japanese attack force consisted of four reinforced infantry squadrons, while Fu Chen's force was just one reinforced infantry company. In comparison, the Japanese attack force was almost four times the capital in Fu Chen's hands.

But Fu Chen didn't panic at all. Looking at the approaching Japanese attack formation, he grabbed the phone leading to the artillery position, and calmly said into the phone's transmitter: "Company Commander Chen, it's up to you. Give it to me." The enemy is ready to make a pot of steel broth."

The excited voice of Chen Xinsheng, commander of the artillery company of the Secret Service Battalion, soon came from the other end of the phone: "Don't worry, no problem, leave it to me!"

In the artillery battery shooting observation command post behind the infantry position, Chen Xinsheng stood in front of the Type 93 artillery mirror captured from the Japanese army. He hung up the phone to the infantry position and looked at the assault queue coming from the Japanese attack. In the middle of winter, Chen Xinsheng's head was covered with fine beads of sweat, but his mouth was grinning like a flower.

"There are all guns, loaded with shrapnel, target, No. A shooting area, wait for orders to fire three rounds!"

Chen Xinsheng roared in a low voice. Behind him, an order sergeant answered the phone to the artillery position and repeated Chen Xinsheng's combat shooting order again.

"There are all guns, loaded with shrapnel, target, No. A shooting area, wait for orders to fire three rounds!"

The firing order was transmitted along the telephone line to every artillery crew on the artillery position. Thanks to the large number of materials and equipment dropped by the Japanese artillery, the fourteen 94-type mountain guns on the artillery position, each gun operating The team was equipped with captured Japanese telephones.

On the artillery position, fourteen 94-type 75mm mountain cannons were laid out with their muzzles raised high. Amidst very unfamiliar commands, the gunners who had not been exposed to the captured Japanese mountain cannons for a long time were operating. The still unskilled gunnery maneuvers opened the horizontal slide breech of the Type 94 mountain cannon, loaded the black shrapnel slug and golden cartridge, closed the breech, and slightly clumsily adjusted the height and height of the cannon. The direction was adjusted to the parameter position of the No. A shooting zone designated by Chen Xinsheng, and the gunners responsible for firing held the match rope.

Soon, the fourteen mountain cannons completed their firing preparations.

Fourteen guns were produced by Japan's Osaka Artillery Factory, incorporating France's Schneider's hydraulic-pneumatic composite retractor, open-leg gun mount, single-layer self-tightening gun barrel, and Germany's Krupp horizontal slider gun. Latches and other state-of-the-art technology.

The Japanese Army's new mountain artillery, which has a range of nearly 8,400 meters and was specially designed to reduce weight for the Chinese battlefield, has become the equipment of the Chinese army, pointing its black muzzle at its former owner.

Repeated orders were also sent to Chen Xinsheng's firing command post via phone.

Chen Xinsheng, on the other hand, stared closely at the charging queue of Japanese infantry, carefully counting the distance between the Japanese army and the forward infantry position.

The Japanese attacking troops were getting closer and closer to the front-line infantry positions, and the shouts of killing were getting louder and louder. However, the closer the Japanese troops rushed, the happier, more excited, and more excited Chen Xinsheng became, as if what was coming was not the enemy. , but something beautiful in general.

Finally, when the Japanese attacking infantry formation was 1,500 meters away from the front-line infantry position, Chen Xin gave a fierce roar and gave the command to open fire.

"open!"

Boom
The fourteen Type 94 75mm mountain guns that had just been laid out roared one after another, with clouds of green smoke coming out of the muzzles, and fourteen 75mm shrapnel shells flew out with a roaring sound. The barrel of the gun overturned the attack queue of the Japanese infantry.

And when these fourteen shrapnel shells equipped with air explosion fuses flew over the heads of the Japanese infantry but had not yet landed, they exploded with loud noises.

Suddenly, the heads of the Japanese infantry were filled with smoke, and shotguns were flying everywhere. After the fourteen shotshells exploded, hundreds of small steel balls had been installed in the projectile in advance, mixed with fragments of the projectile, like a goddess scattering flowers. The top of his head exploded.

The Japanese infantry was caught off guard and was hit by fourteen 75mm shrapnel shells without any preparation. The infantry's impact queue suddenly screamed again and again.

And this was just the beginning. After the first round of shells exploded, the second and third rounds of shrapnel shelling followed.

(End of this chapter)