Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 450 Beyond Shooting!
Time goes back a few minutes.

Outside Heyuan County, there is a mud-roofed and tiled house which is the front-line headquarters of the New 1st Regiment.

Under the hazy moonlight, the cold wind is still biting.

After a while, Li Yunlong left his secret observation position on the top of the mountain and walked into the command center.

"Commander, in addition to the four artillery battalions, I will also have the 82mm mortars and 60mm mortars from each infantry battalion participate in this bombardment."

Zhang Dabiao immediately came forward, his eyes sharp as a knife, and reported:

"In order to prevent the civilians' tunnels from collapsing, I ordered the heavy mortar battalion, the 105mm howitzer battalion, and the 152mm howitzer battalion to bombard the city walls, and the mountain artillery battalion, the 82mm mortars, and the 60mm mortars to carry out indiscriminate artillery fire on the city."

"After the two tank battalions have replenished their ammunition, they will also join in the bombardment of the city."

The 105mm howitzer, 120mm heavy mortar and 152mm howitzer have strong destructive capabilities against fortifications. Using these heavy artillery to carry out artillery strikes on the city will have a more powerful effect.

However, the high-explosive grenades they fired would also blow up the tunnels of the civilians in the city, burying them underground.

In comparison, the 60mm mortar, 82mm mortar and 75mm mountain gun have much less destructive power against fortifications, but it is also difficult to blow up the tunnels of civilians.

As long as enough shells are fired, the Japanese can still be dealt a fatal blow.

If power isn't enough, make up for it with quantity!
Among the four infantry battalions participating in the offensive, each infantry battalion had more than 20 60mm and 82mm mortars, plus 36 mountain guns and more than 50 tank guns, a total of nearly 200 artillery pieces, covering an area of ​​only a few square kilometers in Heyuan County.

Although the power and accuracy of small-caliber mortars are far inferior to those of howitzers, mortars have a faster rate of fire.

"good."

Li Yunlong nodded, his tone satisfied:
"Have all the ammunition been replenished?"

He came to the command center just to give such an order, but he didn't expect Zhang Dabiao to have made arrangements in advance.

It is important to annihilate the Japanese, but the lives of ordinary people are also important.

As for the property issues of the common people, we can’t take care of them now. Compared with the property of the common people, the lives of thousands of Eighth Route Army soldiers are more important.

When tens of thousands of artillery shells are fired, not only will tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers be killed, but also the lives of thousands of wounded soldiers of the New 1st Regiment will be saved. This deal is a win-win no matter how you look at it.

"Replenished." Zhang Dabiao said excitedly, "More than 500 large trucks from the motor battalion have just brought in a large number of artillery shells from the Ping'an County warehouse."

Each large truck can carry 4 tons of supplies. Even if the artillery shell packaging is removed, the motorized battalion of the new regiment can transport tons of artillery shells at a time.

Although the artillery firepower of the New 4st Regiment is powerful, without the logistical support of the motor battalion and other logistics units, it would be impossible to fire more than artillery shells in more than half an hour.

Li Yunlong's expression suddenly turned stern, his eyes filled with ice. "Immediately fire into the city according to the plan. Don't wait for the Japanese to pull the civilians out of the tunnels. That would be very difficult."

"Yes." Zhang Dabiao turned and grabbed the mobile phone. "This is Zhang Dabiao. The regiment commander orders an immediate 30-minute artillery bombardment of the city!"

Not long after Zhang Dabiao finished speaking, red flares rose into the air with a whistling sound.

All of a sudden.

More than two hundred cannons fired crazily at the city walls and the city itself, and the night sky was suddenly filled with the orange-red trajectories of the shells.

Li Yunlong immediately raised his telescope from the command center and looked over.

The shells exploded without any pause on the city walls and inside the city.

120mm mortars and 152mm artillery shells hit the city walls, blowing up rubble and flesh.

Before long, the entire city wall was riddled with holes. "Captain, this little Japanese is really stupid."

Zhang Dabiao put down the telescope and said:

"Seeing our New 1st Regiment approaching, they refused to retreat and wanted to fight us in Heyuan County in a street battle to attrition."

After the artillery units opened fire, the infantry stopped charging.

The soldiers covered their ears and watched the large fireworks show from a distance.

Artillery shells have no eyes, and it is night, so artillery shells with a caliber of 105 or above can explode in a large area. If the infantry go up to attack at this time, they will inevitably injure their own troops.

Li Yunlong snorted coldly: "Does the 14th Division have the strength to fight with our New st Regiment in attrition?"

"That's true."

Zhang Dabiao smiled slightly. "After we blew up the 14th Division's combat supplies, the Japanese are running out of ammunition. Our regiment has 14 men and only has eight bases of ammunition, while the th Division has men and only has two bases at most. The Japanese can't compete with us in terms of consumption."

Although the gap between the New 1st Regiment and the entire Japanese Army is still as huge as a chasm.

But when the New 14st Regiment is compared with the Japanese th Division, the gap is like that between adults and children.

Without material supplies, the 14th Division could not compete with the New st Regiment in terms of consumption.

At this moment, a series of booming sounds were heard from the southwest of Heyuan County.

Li Yunlong immediately raised his telescope and looked, only to see shells rising into the sky, drawing beautiful orange-red arcs in the sky, and falling into the city of Heyuan County like a large number of meteors.

This was when the two tank battalions opened fire into the city after replenishing their ammunition. Suddenly, the entire city was filled with more violent and dense explosions.

"Big trucks are a damn good thing!"

Captain Li let out a long sigh.

"Yes!" Zhang Dabiao nodded in agreement. "This thing is fast, easy to maintain, and only needs gasoline to run. Its transport capacity is much more efficient than mules and military horses. The only drawback is that it has high requirements for roads."

In just a few hours, a motorcade brought in more than a thousand tons of artillery shells from Ping'an County.

If they had used large mules for transportation, the New 1st Regiment would never have been able to launch a second artillery attack on the Japanese with hundreds of cannons in such a short time.

"So we need to build more roads," Li Yunlong said. "Once we build the steel and cement plants in Northwest Shanxi, we can build those concrete roads. Then our transportation efficiency will be even higher. We also need to vigorously develop transport battalions. Logistical supply capacity represents the firepower of frontline troops."

After a pause, Li Yunlong said, "After this battle, let's set up a second motor vehicle battalion."

The two men spoke quite loudly, and the rumbling sound of artillery could be heard over them. If they didn't speak loudly, they couldn't hear what the other person was saying.

Li Yunlong suddenly said, "By the way, Da Biao, do you know the transcendental shooting method?"

"I know." Zhang Dabiao nodded. "It's in the military book about World War I that Boss Lin provided. It's about raising the muzzle to 45 degrees, or even 80 degrees, and then pulling the trigger to shoot straight into the sky. Using the principle of parabola, you can strike enemies hiding in trenches. The German army used this tactic to kill British and French troops in a single day. Commander, are you thinking...?"

"That's right." Li Yunlong nodded, his eyes full of strategy and cunning. "After more than half an hour of shelling, there will be almost no intact buildings in the city. The surviving Japanese soldiers will definitely be hiding behind the ruins. We should deploy hundreds of machine guns around the city walls and fire upwards into the city. What do you think?"

"Captain, I think this tactic is great!" Zhang Dabiao said with admiration, "Before launching the general attack, we can give the Japanese a wave of overtaking shooting, inflicting 360-degree damage without blind spots. This will save us hundreds of lives."

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(happy New Year!)

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