Unparalleled Warriors of Anti-Japanese War

The 105-caliber artillery accompanied by the artillery brigade opened fire first, and the full bombardment of an artillery regiment also caught the sleeping Japanese No.11 Division by surprise.Even this division also has an artillery brigade.

Even if the Japanese army had considered the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack, they really didn't care much about the Eighth Route Army's shelling.According to their intelligence, the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side, which was in charge of defense and blocking, was only equipped with 75 caliber artillery.

At this moment, based on the explosive power and range of the shells, many Japanese officers have judged that these shells were fired by 105 caliber artillery.Once the shot is fired, the soldiers next to the shells will not end well.

This also means that the artillery unit shelling them at this moment is not at all what the intelligence shows.What shocked the Japanese army the most was the direction in which the shells came from, which was obviously the area they had scouted during the day.

Naito Masaichi, who hid in the temporary underground headquarters, also said angrily after experiencing the previous chaos: "Baga, how do we do our intelligence work? Why did these heavy artillery units of the Eighth Route Army appear on our flank?"

Faced with such inquiries, the captain of the cavalry regiment didn't know how to answer.In fact, during the day, their cavalry units had scouted out of the barracks to a range of ten kilometers away, and they did not find any large troops of the Eighth Route Army at all.

If there were really a large force of the Eighth Route Army, why didn't those reconnaissance planes scouting the sky during the day find it?

In response to such an inquiry, no one could give Masaichi Naito an exact answer, only the chief of staff of the division said cautiously: "General, the Eighth Route suddenly launched a night attack, and I am worried that they might want to attack our barracks tonight! "

From such fierce artillery fire, it can basically be judged that there is a problem of a decisive battle.If the deployment is not made early, the Japanese divisions concentrated in the temporary barracks may really not have any good fruit tonight.

'I know it too!It's just that if we don't destroy the artillery power of the Eighth Route Army right now, our troops will not be able to enter the position for defense at all.However, the order to prepare for defensive operations was passed on, so that the warriors were ready for night battles. '

After the order was conveyed, a piece of news that surprised Masaichi Naito came.The intelligence officer in charge of the radio station said in a panic, "General, we have lost contact with the outside world!"

'Na? '

Don't say Naito Masaichi couldn't believe this news, even the rest of the Japanese generals gathered in the underground headquarters also found it incredible.Losing contact with the outside world is undoubtedly very dangerous!

'General, we activated several contact frequencies, but unfortunately they all failed.Near our camp, there seems to be messy radio waves interfering with us.If there is no accident, I am afraid that it is also the work of Eight Routes! '

The implementation of radio wave interference can affect the sending and receiving and transmission of telegrams. Many military officers also understand this.It's just that in their opinion, they have never encountered such electronic warfare before!

'idiot!how so?Damn it, why hasn't our artillery unit counterattacked yet?What are they going to let the artillery fire from the Eight Routes blow us up to?Go, let our artillery units speed up the counterattack! '

Knowing that this situation has arisen, they don't have much choice.Now that the artillery battle has just started, it is impossible for them to issue an order to break out.If they lost the protection of the camp, they would be even more dangerous in the wild.

Naito Masaichi, who has thought about this clearly, can rely on his own strength to survive this level.As long as they persist until dawn, he believes that the Eighth Route Army will collapse without a fight, and they will worry about the Japanese air threat.

And attacking at night, this threat does not exist!

Just when Masaichi Naito urged the artillery brigade to launch a counterattack, the little devil who was also expecting his own artillery to counterattack soon heard a loud shelling sound from the artillery brigade's position.

A string of cannon fire was quickly launched against the incoming shells.Regarding the rapid countermeasures of the Japanese army, Zhu Yifei, who learned that the artillery positions of the fourth regiment were damaged, never felt any surprise.

After a while, he said: "Send a report to the 75st Infantry Division, let their [-] artillery fire first, and focus on bombing the Japanese barracks. At the same time, order the [-]st, [-]nd, and [-]rd regiments to carry out shelling alternately, covering the little devil's barracks!"

In Zhu's view, he now has four artillery regiments under his command, and he is not afraid of dealing with a Japanese artillery brigade.The most important thing is that the dozens of artillery pieces equipped by a regiment are all heavy artillery produced by themselves.

Just when many Japanese soldiers felt that the number of shells flying in the distance seemed to have decreased a lot.After receiving the telegram from the Artillery Brigade, the Artillery Regiment of the First Infantry Division immediately started shelling.

Compared with the artillery positions of the various regiments of the Artillery Brigade, the deployment is relatively concentrated, while the artillery positions of the First Infantry Division are very messy.But the direction the guns were aiming at was the temporary camp of the Japanese army, and the area of ​​that camp was naturally not small.

As long as the shells are shot into the camp, no matter whether they can kill people or not, I believe that these shells flying around will also make the little devils in the barracks run around.In this way, it can also disrupt the rhythm of the Japanese artillery countermeasures.

Sure enough, the artillery regiment of the [-]st Infantry Division opened fire.Hearing the sound of shelling behind him again, Masaichi Naito, who was hiding in the bunker watching the artillery game, also felt a breath of cold air in his heart.

Some said in disbelief: "Well! The eighth road on the opposite side also bombarded us? Could it be that they really want to encircle and wipe out our entire division tonight? How confident are they?"

From Masaichi Naito's point of view, the Eighth Route Army should be lucky that he didn't trouble the Eighth Route Infantry Division.But at this time, the eight-way blocking force, which was still bombed by them during the day, even participated in the shelling of them.

Even if they are all 75-caliber mountain artillery and field artillery, the barracks hit by these shells are everywhere.Many Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard also fell under these shells, which made the situation of the Japanese army in the camp worse.

Also surprised were the artillery brigades who were going all out to destroy the artillery units of the Eighth Route Army.Seeing the shells flying suddenly from behind, the artillery brigade had to mobilize artillery units, turn around the muzzle and start suppressing.

This meant that they, who had previously played against the Eighth Route Heavy Artillery, suddenly had another difficult opponent.But in the face of such messy shells flying, the artillery of the Japanese army also seemed a little crazy.

After all, the trajectory of the artillery shells was messy, and it was difficult for them to accurately analyze where the artillery positions of the Eight Routes were.What they can do right now is perhaps to concentrate their artillery fire and analyze the positions of the Eighth Route Army's artillery positions one by one.

It was also at this moment that a huge explosion suddenly came from the position where the artillery brigade was located.The division commanders in the bunker were dumbfounded when they saw the huge whistling sound coming from a distance and the huge explosion sound falling on the camp.

'idiot!It's a heavy artillery, at least a 150 caliber heavy artillery!Holy crap, we fell for it!Balu is beside us, and there is actually a heavy artillery unit hidden.What a mistake we have made staying here! '

But some officers still asked: "Where did this heavy artillery unit come from? According to our air force reconnaissance during the day, there was no sign of any large Eighth Route Army troops in a radius of tens of kilometers. They came out of the ground. Did you come?"

It does!

In the eyes of these officers, to use such a large-caliber artillery, vehicle traction is a must.With such a large artillery unit, as long as they appear on the grassland, they cannot escape the detection of reconnaissance planes.

But the problem is that during the day, their reconnaissance planes did not find any signs of the Eighth Route Army's large troops.Even if the Eighth Route Artillery Unit starts to attack at night, it is impossible to arrive here so quickly, even if it is too fast!

As the 150-caliber artillery of the Eighth Route Army joined the bombing, the positions of the Japanese Artillery Brigade also began to become a mess.What frightened the Japanese artillerymen the most was that the Eighth Route Army had far more artillery fire than them.

And the shells flying from the opposite side were all heavy artillery.This also means that it is undoubtedly impossible for them to rely on the artillery brigade to counter the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army.

Even, along with the artillery scouts of the special division, they continued to provide the artillery brigade with shelling parameters.These heavy artillery also began to shoot shells into the Japanese camp and defensive positions, causing heavy casualties to the little devils on the positions.

Faced with this kind of cluster artillery fire that almost covered the entire camp, Masaichi Naito knew very well that their division would lose their combat effectiveness even if they were not wiped out tonight.Such an intelligence loophole is undoubtedly fatal to them!

Order the defenders on the position to hide in the dug underground anti-gun holes as much as possible, and only keep some security personnel to guard against surprise attacks by the ground troops of the Eighth Route Army.But they didn't know that the real nightmare was yet to come.

When the artillery brigade started shelling, the armored brigade had already set up an assault formation, and the tanks, armored vehicles, and accompanying infantry all advanced at a relatively slow speed.Doing so also ensures maximum concealment.

It wasn't until the assault tour was three kilometers away from the Japanese camp that the commander of the armored brigade gave the order: "Assault at full speed!"

The tanks and armored vehicles that were moving slowly before quickly increased their speed.Facing the sound of rumbling artillery fire, they began to rush towards the temporary camp of the Japanese army.The Japanese soldiers in the camp knew nothing about it.

When the artillery fire from the artillery brigade began to extend, the experienced Japanese army quickly urged the soldiers to go to the defensive position.From their point of view, the artillery fire of the Eighth Route began to extend backwards, realizing that the infantry of the Eighth Route was about to attack them.

Just wait until these Japanese soldiers get out of the underground bunker and start planning to repair the bunker.Some soldiers were very puzzled and asked: "Why is the ground shaking? There seems to be the sound of cars?"

Just when the Japanese troops on many positions looked in the direction of the sound.The tanks that arrived at the front of the Japanese position finally turned on their headlights.With the appearance of these lights, the little devils on the battlefield were completely dumbfounded! (To be continued.)

Chapter 53 Wings Can't Escape!

<> In the eyes of many Japanese soldiers who had never fought against the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army was an anti-war force with worse equipment than the Nationalist Army.Only in the way of marching and fighting, it is also very different from the national army, and is best at night raids and guerrilla warfare.

Most of the Japanese troops who fought against the Eighth Route Army knew the weapons and equipment used by the Eighth Route Army, many of which were captured on the battlefield.It can be said that in terms of weapons and equipment, they are completely incomparable with the elite Japanese divisions.

It is this kind of situation that everyone knows that made the No.11 Division of the Kwantung Army who participated in the battle feel that their main division would have no problem dealing with the main force of the Eighth Route Army marching into the Xilin Grassland. .

What's more, in addition to their elite main battle division, the Kwantung Army headquarters also mobilized a lot of reinforcements to double-team the Eighth Route Army.If Balu doesn't want to retreat, he can only fight them hard.

But no one expected that the sharpness of the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire tonight was completely beyond their imagination.The fierce artillery fire of the four heavy artillery regiments, even the elite divisions of the Japanese army, did not have such extravagant equipment.

If the heavy artillery troops dispatched by the Eighth Route Army were beyond the expectations of the Japanese army.So they knew to some extent that the Eighth Route Army unit that fought against them also captured a lot of heavy artillery equipped with them earlier.

Perhaps they have been keeping it unused, intending to use it to raid them tonight.So psychologically, they can still accept it to some extent, and feel that they are a little too careless, which caught the Eighth Route Army by surprise.

But at this moment, looking at the triangular formation, the sudden lights and the roar of the engine, no matter how stupid the Japanese army is, they know that this is an organized armored force.When encountering this kind of troops on the grassland, they are simply powerless to stop them.

Just relying on the fortifications they built outside the camp earlier to deal with the infantry attack of the Eighth Route Army, there is naturally no problem.But to deal with such iron tanks and armored vehicles, except for artillery, infantry can't play much role.