Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 635 Boom!

Look at the infantry and cavalry fighting for their lives in the fire!
Look at the subordinates running wildly on the hillside like a flock of frightened quails!
There was a flash of golden stars in front of Master Takeuchi Yunzan's eyes.

If nothing else happened, the infantry brigade under his command had been completely 'disabled' by his infantry regiment captain, and he had to bring half a cavalry squadron along with him.

"Baga! Fire me back, order all artillery units, all Chinese artillery units, no, including the position of the infantry, to fight back!" The Japanese army commander, who was staring at the stars in front of him, was relieved for a full minute, flushing red An ugly face issued the military order.

Takeuchi Yunshan's move is more accurate than saying it is an indiscriminate retaliation rather than preventing the Chinese mortars from continuing to hit his cavalry on Height 3.

The Japanese mountain artillery, howitzers, and infantry artillery opened fire here after 2 minutes.

Some artillery fire exploded on the top of the No. 1 and No. 2 highlands, and some shells crossed the three highlands, blasting flowers in the forest hundreds of meters away.

This is also the first time that the fine Japanese have used precious shells for their unclear coordinates so aimlessly.

In other words, except for the two highlands of No. 1 and No. 2, the rest of the area basically belongs to the blind fight. . .

But the Kunisaki detachment has more than 40 artillery pieces, large and small, and of course they have such willful qualifications.

As the saying goes, if you beat the old master to death with random punches, I'm afraid Takeuchi Yunshan himself didn't expect that the military order he issued in shame and anger only missed Tang Dao's artillery company.

In order to better support the front-line operations, the artillery company chose not to be in the rear, but at the foot of the mountain less than 3 meters away from three highlands, surrounded by two infantry companies of the Sichuan Army as guards.

Because of communication, together with the defensive infantry trenches, the area of ​​the entire artillery position does not exceed 2000 square meters.

A few gunfire from the Japanese army blew up the area closest to the artillery position, even just a dozen meters away from the trench, and the flying shrapnel almost cut a caught off guard infantry observation sentry in half.

It was also the first casualty on the artillery position.

If the barrel of the Japanese artillery is slightly off, not to mention the 105 howitzer shells weighing 18 kg, even the 6.5 kg shells of the [-]-type mountain guns, can also roll up a bloody storm on the artillery positions.

This is the characteristic of artillery. There are shells hoarded on the artillery positions. Once they are detonated, basically all the staff will die.

According to normal circumstances, when the artillery fire is very close to them, the most important thing for the artillerymen to do is to raise the artillery and move quickly to avoid damage to personnel and equipment.

But at this moment, the officers and soldiers of the artillery company who have been ordered to die have only one thought at the moment: kill the Japanese on the hill, as for the others, we will talk about it later!

"Brothers, reload me and beat him to hell." From the usual calm Pang Dahai waving his arms on the battlefield and shouting, it can be seen how persistent the artillerymen are at the moment.

The determined artillerymen simply ignored the crazy counterattack of the Japanese artillerymen, and persistently fired one after another hatred-filled cannonballs at the hill that was stained with the blood of Chinese and Japanese soldiers.

Most of the shell reserves left by the 63rd Army before leaving also contributed to this bombardment.

In less than 30 minutes of shelling, the artillery company fired 80 mountain artillery shells, plus 400 mortar shells and 200 machine gun shells.

The small highland was plowed back and forth at least twice from top to bottom, and from bottom to top, and it took nearly half an hour to shell it.

This was also the most ferocious shelling by the Chinese side in the entire Mouse Mountain blockade, because the shell reserves had reached an extremely dangerous situation.

But it was this shelling that also made the Japanese army realize the power of Chinese artillery.

It turns out that when the Chinese have artillery, even the most humble mortar can blast them into pieces of meat and become the fertilizer of the earth.

Perhaps even Tang Dao and Kunisaki Teng, the two top commanders of China and Japan, did not expect that a battle for high ground turned into an artillery battle in the end.

The Japanese army relied on its large artillery, and launched an artillery battle that only targeted the opponent's possible hiding places.

Hillsides, foothills, canyons, woods, all positions and areas that may hide the opponent's infantry are likely to be shelled.

The Chinese infantry can only hold their heads and hide in the trenches, hoping that they are not so unlucky
On the other hand, the Chinese side is attacking the fixed target of the No. 3 highland, and there is a tendency not to stop until the No. 3 highland that is about to fall is blown up.

On the positions of China and Japan, all the artillery was rumbling.

When the artillery of both sides finally stopped, the Japanese army withdrew.

The order to retreat was given by Kunisaki Takumi himself.

Even if Height No. 3, which he had tried his best to besiege with all kinds of tactics, was right in front of him, and even this major general of the Japanese army knew that it was impossible for any Chinese soldiers to be on that small highland, even if he sent An infantry squad can also be easily occupied.

But he didn't dare, he was afraid that the crazy Chinese would use this as a trap, and after his men went up, they would shell again.

Even if you don't need to look at the tops and slopes of the hills, you know that there will be no more positions on them, and the infantry going up are just living targets for shells.

The final result is that he will become the biggest joke of the imperial army in the entire Songhu area, constantly sending people to become the target of Chinese artillery, and the biggest result of the battle is nothing more than consuming some Chinese artillery shells.

Then let the Chinese reoccupy the high ground, he can turn the Chinese on the high ground into targets for shells.

That's what Kunisaki Teng, who has completely given up the quick-fix tactics, intends.

To this end, he has requested 18 rounds of artillery shells from Lieutenant General Ushishima Sadao of the 5000th Division.

Since the Chinese are so tenacious, here he is, answering them with enough shells.

No matter how strong the position is, no matter how tenacious the will is, it is just a hard shell, and the shell is the factor that breaks that shell.

Kunisaki stunned this move is vicious enough, making full use of his own advantages, using his own strengths to counter each other's weaknesses.

It's just that he misjudged the Chinese soldiers on the opposite side, and even more so, the Chinese commander on the opposite side.

Tang Dao, who was emotionally agitated by the death of two infantry companies, was much more vicious and tenacious than he imagined.

300 people can die, and 3000 people can die.

But just these 300 deaths have already consumed 800 people in the first brigade of the Jing'an Army plus an infantry brigade.

If 3000 people died, how many people in Kunizaki's originally awesome mixed brigade-type detachment would survive to the end of the war?
No one can know the answer!

Just like the war between China and Japan, don't look at the Japanese triumphantly, in fact, even they themselves don't know how the war will end.

Everything has to be fought first to know the outcome.

However, the only thing Kunizaki can be sure of is that the first day of this offensive and defensive battle ended with his failure.

The blood-red sunset slowly fell into the mountains amidst the sound of gunfire.

But the fighting didn't stop just because the sun went down.

(End of this chapter)