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Chapter 994 Who taught you to fire like this?

Under the Xinkou Pass.

As soon as the 12 Type infantry guns of the Fourth Battalion's artillery company opened fire, the young and strong men and the Japanese devils who were charging on the scene were instantly panicked.

The young men who had never been on the battlefield immediately shouted in fear:

"Ah - help - fire -"

Then they threw the gun in their hands and either ran back immediately or hid in the nearby woods.

Even ants try to survive, let alone them?

Among the Japanese soldiers behind them, there were more than a hundred elite soldiers who immediately lay down on the spot under the command of Sha Guangcai.

Then--

They were trampled by the young and strong men running backwards.

Countless feet in straw sandals and cloth shoes trampled on them, making them scream in pain and causing chaos.

The less than 200 unlucky guys left didn't listen to Sha Guangcai's orders at all and turned around and ran back without hesitation.

Unfortunately, what greeted them was the fierce stabbing of the sharp bayonets and the fierce roars of the Japanese:

"Baga! Don't retreat! Hurry up! Charge!

Otherwise, everyone will die!"

Seeing how ferocious the Japs were, the other Japs were so scared that they stopped and turned forward.

Now, those who were running backwards and those who were rushing forwards were squeezed together.

The shouting and screaming made one's scalp tingle.

At this time, the shells flying in the sky also fell to the ground with a bang——

"boom!"

……

The dense explosions resounded throughout the world.

The explosion of 12 high-explosive grenades weighing more than 7 kilograms produced shock waves and thousands of shrapnel that swept across the area.

But after a moment, everyone discovered that the young and strong men and the Japanese devils who were originally in the front were not hit by the bomb.

Instead, the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Brigade, which was following behind them, was severely hit.

One or two hundred Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded on the spot, and screams suddenly rang out, extremely shrill!
But it was difficult for their medical staff to rush over and provide them with treatment immediately, because shells continued to fall from the sky with almost no interval!

……

Behind the Japanese troops, the brigade commander Shiro Mano almost popped his eyes out when he saw this situation.

I couldn't help but exclaimed:

"Damn it! At least a dozen infantry guns?

Could it be that an artillery regiment of the Tubalu is ambushing us?"

The brigade chief of staff next to him quickly reminded:

"Your Excellency, Commander of the Brigade, we should immediately order the warriors of the First Battalion to temporarily turn back and not stay where they are to be bombed!

Wait until our mountain artillery destroys the infantry artillery of the Eighth Route Army before advancing!"

Mano Shiro also reacted after hearing this and immediately shouted an order:

"Hurry up, order Tian Shangjun to turn back!

Let Shasang and his men rush forward and destroy the Eighth Route Army’s artillery!
Once the mission is accomplished, the Locust Army will be rewarded handsomely!"

Hearing his order, the signalman beside him immediately waved the signal flag and issued a retreat order to the first battalion in the front.

Upon receiving the order, Lieutenant Colonel Yusuke Taue immediately led his soldiers and began to retreat as if they had been pardoned, braving the continuous falling of artillery shells.

……

Someone in the enemy's team turned around and saw the enemy soldiers behind him running away. He immediately looked up in fear and shouted to the battalion commander Sha Guangcai:

"Captain, the Taijun grandfathers have retreated, should we retreat quickly?"

Upon hearing this, Sha Guangcai immediately cursed:

"Retreat! Don't you see that Master Ba's shells are aimed at the Japanese?

Hurry up and crawl east with me, there are no bombs over there! Quick! "

Before he finished speaking, he took the lead and crawled to the east.

After he took the lead, his close confidants followed closely behind.

……

Amid the intensive explosions of Type 92 infantry gun shells, at the Japanese artillery position, the artillery battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Akira Ishii, was commanding the remaining 200-odd artillerymen under his command to adjust the artillery parameters and launch an artillery counterattack, enduring the pain from the burns on his arms.

This unfortunate guy had his right arm set on fire by a fire started by the special operations company soldiers during the previous march.

Although he was a veteran and experienced, and he used mud to forcibly put out the fire, his arm was still burned terribly.

As the commander of the artillery battalion, it was certainly impossible for him to stay in Gang County to recuperate just because of this injury.

At this moment, he held a telescope in his left hand, observing the artillery fire of the Fourth Battalion Artillery Company of the Special Forces Regiment, and could not help but roar:

"Baga! Which bastard taught these Eighth Route Army artillerymen to fire like this?

You didn't even test your firing, you just shot straight away?"

Little did he know that for the artillery of the special forces regiment, there was no need to pursue artillery accuracy.

Anyway, we have a lot of artillery shells, so we just need to pour them onto the enemy positions as quickly as possible to provide fire coverage.

In the words of Yang Yuanshan, I will not allow even a rat to survive on the battlefield!
"Captain, the bombardment parameters have been adjusted!"

A squadron leader suddenly shouted.

Upon hearing this, Ishii Akira was immediately excited. He wanted to draw his sword and make a majestic commanding gesture, but the pain in his right arm stopped him.

He could only reveal a mask of pain and shout:

"Quick, fire!
Teach those damned Eighth Route Army artillerymen what it means to be an excellent artilleryman! "

As he shouted, the gunners around him pulled the gun ropes one after another.

"Bang bang bang... bang bang..."

The sound of the huge shells firing gave all the Japanese soldiers on the battlefield endless confidence.

Everyone was thinking: Our Locust Army's mountain artillery has opened fire, and the Eighth Route Army's infantry artillery will surely be destroyed!
……

At the Fourth Battalion's artillery company, Zheng Erxi saw through his telescope that the Japanese artillery had opened fire, and felt that things were not going well. He immediately ignored their planned five-round rapid fire and only fired four rounds, shouting:
"The Japanese are counterattacking with artillery fire. Everyone abandon your artillery and retreat!"

After hearing this order, the soldiers of the artillery company felt sorry for these new artillery pieces.

But no one disobeyed the order. Without hesitation, they dropped the artillery or the last shell in their hands, suddenly lay on the ground, and quickly crawled out of the position.

Before the war broke out, Li Dahe and Zheng Erxi repeatedly stressed to them not to engage in a head-on confrontation with the Japanese.

The most important thing is to protect yourself!

Now no one dares to ruin the group's important plans.

And just a few seconds after they reacted, eight huge mountain artillery shells hit nearby -

"boom!"

……

Amid a series of explosions, Zheng Erxi yelled wildly:
"Platoon leaders and squad leaders, check your men and drag away the injured. Quickly!"

In fact, the platoon leaders and squad leaders of the artillery company were already doing this without his orders.

Fortunately, this was only the first round of artillery fire from the Japanese, and the accuracy was not very good.

Coupled with their quick response, only four or five soldiers were injured by shrapnel.

The soldiers worked together, dragging the wounded, and quickly retreated towards the Xinkou Pass.

……

Seeing that his artillery had successfully retreated, the Fourth Battalion Commander Li Dahe was very satisfied.

He turned to the instructor Chai Renfeng and said, "Erxi is a very quick-witted kid, not bad!

The Japanese's eight mountain guns are all 3 kilometers away, beyond the range of our infantry guns. It is meaningless to leave them behind to fight back."

Chai Renfeng nodded slightly:
“Yes, they only had five rounds of ammunition, and now they only have one shell left, so a counterattack would not have any effect.

It’s a pity about our 12 infantry guns!

Just left it to the Japanese!
Lao Li, how about we wait until the Japanese bombardment stops and have someone tow the gun away?"

Li Dahe shook his head:
"There's no need to drag them away. There are so many of them, I'm afraid they won't give us a chance.

Just arrange a few people to find a way to remove the breech block.

This way, when the Japanese rush to our position later, they won't be able to use these cannons immediately.

Once the regiment has wiped them out, we may be able to recapture these artillery pieces."

"Ok."

Chai Renfeng nodded and immediately called a communicator to give orders to Zheng Erxi, leaving a few people behind to find an opportunity to return to the artillery position to dismantle the breech block.

……

The Japanese saw that as soon as their mountain artillery opened fire, the enemy's artillery all went silent.

Artillery battalion commander Akira Ishii was not happy but shocked.

As an old artilleryman, he is very familiar with the accuracy of the mountain cannon in his hands.

Immediately he murmured suspiciously:
"What? We destroyed 12 artillery pieces of the Eighth Route Army with just one round of bombardment?
This seems unlikely!
Could it be that the Tubalu have a conspiracy?"

……

As for the 2nd Brigade, the brigade commander Shiro Mano did not have such concerns, but laughed loudly:

"Yoshi! The Tubalu's artillery only has 4 shells!
From now on, we can call them 'Three Guns, Four Cannons, Eighth Route Army'!"

Then he issued two orders:

"Order Ishii-kun to stop shelling after one round of artillery fire."

"Order Tian Shangjun to wait for the artillery fire to stop, and then immediately lead those damned locust soldiers and Chinese troublemakers forward!
See if the Tubalu have any other ambushes!"

……

It is said that Sha Guangcai, the commander of the Locust Association's army camp, secretly took more than a hundred of his iron rods and crawled across the battlefield into the mountains and forests in the east.

However, before he entered the forest, he found that the situation did not seem good.

What I had imagined, that the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese would engage in an artillery battle for half an hour or an hour, did not happen at all.

After the Japanese artillery fired a round, the 12 infantry guns of the Eighth Route Army that had just been firing so happily suddenly stopped.

It really surprised him.

He quickly stopped running away and turned back to observe.

Just then, they saw the Japanese artillery fire beginning to extend, and the First Battalion led by Yusuke Tagami, which had originally been preparing to retreat, turned around and was shouting to form a team.

Seeing this, he couldn't help but turn around with a dull look on his face and ask his old partner:
"Old Hou, these Eighth Route Army seem... seem to be of little use!

What should we do? "

Hou Gui's face also looked gloomy.

After looking at the distance between himself and the forest, and then turning his head to look at the Japanese soldiers behind him, he gritted his teeth and suggested:
"Captain, let's retreat and hang out with the Grandpa Taijuns!
Although this group of Eighth Route Army soldiers have many cannons, they seem to be completely defenseless!
Once Grandpa Taijun's mountain cannon opened fire, he easily dealt with them!"

After listening to his advice, Sha Guangcai's face became uncertain and he looked very struggling.

He was well aware of the dangers of the battlefield.

If we turn back now, we will have to face the strong wind!
But he also knew that this was not the time to procrastinate.

No matter which path you choose, you must make a decision immediately.

In a flash, he suddenly shouted an order:
"Brothers, the Grandpas have won, let's go and kill the enemies and get the rewards!"

After saying that, he suddenly jumped up from the ground and quickly ran towards his own Japanese soldiers.

While running, he scolded his men who were lying on the ground, asking them to get up quickly and prepare for battle.

Be very positive.

……

Over there, Lieutenant Colonel Yusuke Tagami, after reorganizing his First Battalion, found that after being bombarded by 800 infantry artillery shells, there were only less than 48 brave warriors left of his original men who could still fight.

There were at least a hundred people who died, and more than a hundred were injured and lying on the ground wailing.

Suddenly he was furious and roared to the sky:
"Damn you! Damn you, all of you!"

At this time, he saw Sha Guangcai running over. He immediately drew the saber from his waist, waved it at the other party and cursed:
"Baga! You are a coward who fears the enemy and is afraid of fighting!
Hurry up, organize your troops and prepare to charge!"

When Sha Guangcai saw the sharp saber dangling in front of him, he was so scared that he almost couldn't control his urge to pee.

He nodded and bowed hurriedly to reorganize the team and capture the escaped young and strong men.

……

However, just as they were busy, suddenly, a series of "whoosh" sounds of flying shells were heard in the sky.

Someone reacted quickly, looked up, and immediately shouted in fear:

"Bombardment!!!"

Then he just fell to the ground like a dog eating shit.

Sha Guangcai also heard the shouting and looked up quickly, and saw dense black spots flying in the sky in the direction of Xinkou Pass.

He suddenly felt his heart and soul shattered, and he led the way and ran away quickly in the direction he had just fled, while shouting loudly:
"Brothers, run!"

At this moment, he felt infinite regret in his heart.

I regretted that I had just made a wrong decision and decided to run back and continue to follow the Japanese!

As he ran, deputy battalion commander Hou Gui also followed him.

While running, I asked:

"Captain, will the Eighth Route Army's artillery fail after firing two rounds?"

Sha Guangcai answered breathlessly:

“Being able to fire from behind the city means that Master Ba’s artillery has a range of at least four or five kilometers!

Even if they can only fire two rounds, we will definitely be blown to pieces if we don’t run away!”

……

The Japanese saw the artillery shells flying in the sky, and of course the Japanese couldn't have failed to see it.

The captain of the first brigade, Yusuke Tagami, also quickly lay down and shouted:
"Bombardment! Get down and avoid the bombardment!"

At this time, he saw Sha Guangcai and others running away, and he couldn't help but get furious.

He pounded the ground and roared:
"Damn Chinamen! Cowards!

You dare to desert the battlefield, you all deserve to die!"

……

At the artillery position behind them, artillery battalion commander Shohei Ishii was commanding his men. After the first round of shelling silenced the infantry guns of the artillery company of the 4th Battalion of the Special Service Regiment, he quickly extended the artillery fire for another round according to the order of brigade commander Shiro Mano.

Then he was full of pride and called on the gunners to clean the gun barrels, restore the gun positions, and prepare to wait for the next round of artillery fire.

At this time, they saw the black mass of artillery shells in the sky.

Ishii Shohei's eyes widened, his face looked like he had seen a ghost, and he shouted:

"Bombardment—

Warriors, get out of the way!!!"

……

The next second, a barrage of shells rained down on their positions.

"boom!"

……

(End of this chapter)