Others show their swords, I show my missiles!

My frontline troops knew that the artillery regiment was running out of shells, so they did not call for long-range artillery support. Instead, they used the artillery battalion within the regiment to counterattack.

The artillery of the artillery battalion of the combined regiment is a 120mm mortar.

The range is shorter than the Japanese 150mm howitzer, but it can also reach about 10 kilometers. The maximum range of the Japanese Type 150 12mm howitzer is less than [-] kilometers, so the difference is not big.

The Japs are surrounded in an area with a radius of about 12 kilometers. Unless the Japs can place the artillery in the middle, they can exceed the range of our army's 120mm mortar in all directions.

Besides, the enemy's position is not a perfect circle!

What's more, when necessary, the 120mm mortar also has a shell that can travel about 13 kilometers.

Therefore, no matter where the enemy places their heavy artillery, as long as it is fired, it will be discovered, and being discovered means being destroyed.

Even if a howitzer is much lighter than a cannon, it still weighs more than 4 tons, and it still can't hit and run away.

As for our army, it only takes ten seconds for the counterattack shells to be discharged!

Thanks to the excellent fire control system, these three Japanese heavy artillery were quickly eliminated. Including a squadron to serve these three heavy guns.

With the help of artillery fire, each regiment also continued to move forward, further compressing the Japanese activity space.

In Qinchi Town, it was not called a town at that time, but a village.

There was a landlord named Wang Qidi, who openly defied the Eighth Route Army's laws and regulations and did not implement the policy of reducing rents and interest rates. He committed evil acts, bullied men and women, and took human life lightly. He found the Japs from Husband and Wife Ridge and became a traitor.

He also threatened the people, "If you don't pay your rent on time, I'll let the big plaster locust army kill you!"

The Eighth Route Army has long announced its policy: landlords who do not want to be traitors or surrender to the Japanese will only ask for rent and interest reductions, but will not confiscate their fields and distribute them to farmers.

On the other hand, what if you want to be a traitor? I'm sorry, that will definitely lead to a revolution among your tenants to divide their land.

And this seventh brother Wang thought that our army could not defeat the Japanese, and since it had the Japanese as its backer, there was no need to take our army seriously.

After our army occupied Qinchi Town, it became afraid. It has never seen such a powerful army!

But now it was too late to regret it, so I ran to the Japanese stronghold at Fuhuling Ridge.

There is a small turret there.

It thought it was safe, and when the reinforcements of the Big Plaster Locust Army arrived and beat them away, it went home and continued to wreak havoc.

Of course, that small turret didn't even survive the artillery fire on the 12th.

On the 13th, under the guidance of our local organization, the 1st Regiment rushed to Fuhuling Ridge in an attempt to capture Wang Qidi and bring him to justice.

As a result, when we arrived at the stronghold, we found that the original gun tower had turned into a rubble field.

The soldiers were cleaning the battlefield when a bullet was suddenly shot from a broken wall, hitting the body armor and knocking down a soldier.

Other soldiers immediately fired back and threw several grenades.

After blowing down the broken wall, a tunnel opening was revealed.

There used to be some tunnels dug by us here.

Later, after the December Incident in 39, this area became the hardest hit area.

Later, the tunnel was discovered by traitors and dedicated to the Japanese.

After Huashui County officials arrived here, they asked the traitors and the Japanese to dig holes and tunnels together.

The Japanese used the original tunnels to widen and dig deeper.

Thanks to limited time, a complete tunnel network was not connected.

The main weapons used to deal with tunnels are:

An earth-penetrating bomb is mainly composed of a penetration part and a warhead. Simply put, the penetration part is like a drilling probe, which will split the underground bunker like tofu.

For example, decades later, Omanrik's GBU-57 ground-penetrating bomb could easily penetrate 200 meters of ordinary land and can easily hit 60-meter-thick reinforced concrete underground fortifications.

Used to deal with such crude tunnels, it is completely overkill.

Embarrassingly, the Independent Brigade doesn’t have this! There is not even a first-generation earth-penetrating bomb that can drill 5 meters.

Poison gas bombs can also be used, but our army does not use these. There is a simple version of the poison gas bomb, which uses smoke.

However, smoke is produced by lighting a fire. It will rise when heated and will not easily penetrate into the tunnel.

There are also cloud explosive bombs, such as our army's gas tank grenade, which contains 75 grams of cloud explosive agent.

Its explosion method is very unique. The atomized fuel will flow with the air in the narrow tunnel, forming multiple explosions. The high temperature, high pressure and lack of oxygen caused by this will completely kill all "living things" in the tunnel. .

Flooding is also possible, but Jin Province is generally short of water, so this method is not useful.

Decades later, seismic weapons were invented, capable of inducing local earthquakes and damaging tunnels. Considered a weapon of mass destruction.

What our army has now is cloud explosive bombs.

Now that you've found the entrance to the cave, it's easy. Just throw a few cloudburst grenades inside and wait for the Japs inside to suffocate to death.

Later, they were still worried and put explosives on them, completely blowing up the tunnel.

The remaining Japanese inside experienced the feeling of being buried alive.

That seventh brother Wang is also in this tunnel. He personally participated in the design of the tunnel, and in order to please the Japanese, he even went down to dig some soil with a shovel.

Before the tunnel was discovered, it was bragging about how well designed the tunnel was.

It is designed with ventilation holes, and some places are expanded to make rooms.

There are tables, chairs, benches and beds inside.

You can let the locust army rest inside.

How difficult it is to find tunnel entrances.

Just after being introduced here, the trance-headed Japs fired a shot without knowing it, exposing the entrance to the tunnel.

The seventh brother Wang was suffocated to death before he could be buried alive.

Later, when our army could not find it, it was regarded as dead, its land was confiscated and distributed to tenants; its property was confiscated.

This incident had the effect of killing the chicken to scare the monkeys. The next day, some landowners who had done little harm turned to our side.

They helped the common people avoid being chased by the Japanese; they took the initiative to guide our army and find the Japanese underground fortifications.

Taking the initiative to shout to the villages where he knew people, he alienated the relationship between the Japanese and the puppet soldiers.

With their help, our army quickly occupied Laowangzhuang, Lujiazhuang, Baliwan and other places.

On this day, the goal was not to capture the city but to annihilate the effective forces of the Japanese and puppet troops.

After the morning bombardment and the afternoon encroachment on the Japanese positions. A total of more than 3000 Japanese and puppet troops were annihilated.

So far, the Japanese have lost one-fifth.

At night, our army stopped attacking and built fortifications on the spot.

In Huashui County, the Japs continued to fight and dig holes.

At the same time, he once again sent a report to Shao Dijun, asking for tactical guidance.

"The enemy in front of the division shelled me multiple times from all directions every day, causing heavy casualties to the soldiers. Although our army requested a rush attack, due to the complex terrain and troop movements, the progress was not satisfactory. If it was delayed, At that time, I was afraid that the situation was not good, so I asked for tactical guidance to the division."

The Japanese always save face, so it would be considered inappropriate to say "Come and save me" directly. Even if you win in the end, you will be considered an incompetent leader.

So the term "tactical guidance" was invented.

When a subordinate asks for tactical guidance from his superior, the meaning is equivalent to saying: "For the sake of the locusts coming down, let's help our brothers!"