Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 963 Attack
The battle in the direction of Yuncheng was different.

The devils have invested a whole division of troops on the defense line of Yuncheng, and also invested two heavy artillery regiments and three artillery regiments. At the same time, they have also prepared two air defense regiments... These two air defense regiments are used to prepare for the attack. The Eighth Route Army Air Force and the "high fire" that may hit its depths.

In addition, coupled with the infantry artillery, mortars and other light and heavy artillery carried by the devil infantry, once the defense line of Yuncheng was opened, the roar of shells was everywhere.The artillery shells exploded in pieces near the trenches of the Eighth Route Army, throwing barbed wire, sandbags, and earth mines on the defense line into the air.

Then, the devils charged under the cover of artillery fire.

The place where the devils focused their charge was the line of defense guarded by the Hundred Battles Regiment. For a time, regiment leader Li Changfu and his subordinates were unable to lift their heads under the artillery fire.

This is because the devil's artillery fire has hardly stopped...

In previous battles, no matter how fierce and intensive the artillery fire was, there would always be a window of time during which the devils charged and the defending Eighth Route Army soldiers would emerge from the trenches to organize defenses during this window of time.

But this time, the devil's cannon fire was still "booming" overhead, but the devil had already rushed up, and there was no time to spare.

Li Changfu scolded: "Damn it, you little devil is planning to fight us all!"

Li Changfu scolded him like this because he thought the devils were charging under the cover of artillery fire.

This style of play is not uncommon on the battlefield, but devils don't often use it.

The reason is that if the devils rushed up when the artillery fire cover did not stop, it meant that the devils' artillery fire would inevitably accidentally injure their own people.

The devils think that this method of fighting is not worthwhile, because this is to exchange elite imperial soldiers for the Eighth Route Army with much poorer equipment and quality.

But this time Li Changfu was wrong.

The devils did not use this method of attack this time, but the connection between the shelling of the devil's infantry and the shelling of the artillery was too tight... As soon as the artillery fire stopped, the infantry artillery of the infantry continued to bomb, and as soon as the infantry artillery stopped, the mortars continued. After the mortars stopped, the devils had rushed to a distance of about 200 meters from the defense line, so the grenades continued to explode, and finally the grenades were thrown forward.

Because the devil's various artillery units cooperated very closely, Li Changfu did not feel the pause in the middle, which made him mistakenly think that the devil's artillery preparations had not stopped.

When Li Changfu realized this, he felt a "thump" in his heart: the devils in front of him are not simple. The cooperation between infantry and artillery can do this. This is by no means trained on the training ground, but on the battlefield. It was typed out again and again last time.

Li Changfu guessed right, it was the 21st Division of the Devils that attacked his defense line.

This division is the first Type B division organized in Japan in 1938... Although it is a Type B division, its combat effectiveness is not much different from that of the Devil A Division, and even surpasses it .

The reason is that the Guizi Class A divisions have been severely damaged in battle for many years on the battlefield, and a considerable part of the recruits who have been recruited are recruits who have never fought, which makes many Class A divisions in name only.

On the contrary, the Type B division can maintain its own organization and fight more and more powerfully, so under the ebb and flow, the combat effectiveness of the Type B division has the potential to surpass the Type A division.

比如鬼子的第21师团，其组成部份有四分之一的士兵是1935年的征集老兵（7年兵），四分之一是1938年的征集兵（4年兵），约二分之一是38年以后征集的补充兵和临时召集的补充兵。

(Note: Although the 21st Division was formed in 1938, it does not mean that all the soldiers are recruits from 38)

In other words, more than half of the soldiers of the 21st Division are veterans with rich combat experience, so they can play a whole-shaped artillery cover on the battlefield.

The advantage of this kind of artillery cover is that before the Eighth Route Army could react, that is, before they had time to organize fire defenses, the devils had already rushed close and started firing grenades.

After a row of grenades exploded, the devils roared and rushed to the Eighth Route Army's position holding bayonets.

Li Changfu is not a good man and a faithful woman, the devil is a veteran who fought tough battles, and his Hundred Battle Group is also an elite of Hundred Battles.

In front of the devils rushing up like a tide, Li Changfu did not hesitate at all. He waved the box cannon in his hand and knocked out the two devils rushing forward, shouting: "Comrades, go!"

The soldiers shouted: "Kill! Go!"

He straightened his knife and launched a countercharge against the devil.

Li Changfu's choice is quite correct.

Because when the enemy has rushed to a close distance of tens of meters, the trench sometimes not only cannot provide you with cover, but also becomes your burden.

The two most intuitive points:
Is it easier for the devil's grenade to be thrown into the trench and explode in a semi-closed trench to cause greater damage?
When the devil rushed to the front of the trench, did he hold the bayonet so that the space was open and easy to use?
On the contrary, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in the trenches would be unable to fight the enemy because they were blocked by the trenches and could not move at all while holding a long spear.

These shortcomings can be avoided by launching a counter charge, and can be strangled with the enemy in an instant.

More importantly, when the Eighth Route Army soldiers launched a counter-charge to block the enemy's impact wave, the Eighth Route Army's machine gunners did not need to follow up. They could safely aim at the enemy in the trenches and shoot at the densely populated areas of the enemy.

In addition, the [-] small artillery also played a role in time, and the shells hit the devil's rear one after another, suppressing the devil's grenadier shooter.

The most powerful is the anti-infantry rocket launcher.

At this time, the bazooka shooters don't need to consider any accuracy. They only need to raise the bazooka slightly...higher to hit far.

Then, when the trigger was pulled, there was a "chirp", and the rocket fired into the sky above the enemy with an irregular trail, and then with a crisp explosion sound, the rocket exploded in mid-air, and the hundreds of steel balls contained in it exploded. Shooting in all directions, the devils were knocked down on the spot.

In the end, there was no need to think about it. Because the follow-up troops could not effectively reinforce them, the hand-to-hand combat with the Eighth Route Army in front became weaker and weaker. After more than [-] people were killed and injured, they retreated helplessly.

This situation was beyond Kono Shinta's expectation.

Kono Shinta had experienced many wars in Hans' army, and even saw Mao Xiong's attack, but he had never seen the Eighth Route Army's defensive tactics that combined hand-to-hand combat and rocket launchers.

"I underestimated the Eighth Route Army!" Shinta Kono sighed, "I always thought that their military strength was far inferior to that of the stubborn army, but now it seems... that's not the case!"

(End of this chapter)