my bright sword career

Chapter 204 Shelling
The night seemed to be getting darker, Geng Changshun raised his wrist and looked at his watch.

He couldn't remember clearly how many times he checked the time tonight, even though he knew that it was a bit of a shame for him to do so, he still couldn't help but want to check it.

Just last night when Gao Hongming personally assigned the task to him, he had explained that the two artillery battalions would launch the first counterattack, and after the two artillery battalions fired all the gas bombs, he would lead the whole regiment The infantry will launch a whole charge.

The word "all charge" sounds simple, but you must know that this is a charge against two divisions. Once the effect of the gas bombs is not as effective as expected, it will be a catastrophe for their entire regiment.

The hands of the watch pointed to 45:15, [-] minutes before the scheduled shelling time.

There is still more than an hour before dawn, and at this time it is the darkness before dawn, and the dark night is shrouded in the unique fog of winter.

The open plain ushered in a rare tranquility, as if time had stood still, and everyone was quietly waiting for the rising sun, but the warm rising sun did not represent hope, it might also be a new round of fighting.

In the criss-cross trenches, the militia soldiers who had just been woken up by the officers squatted in the trenches, hunched over their waists and gorged on high-calorie field food.

After this meal, who knows when the next meal will be.The field food bags boiled in boiling water buckets are not considered hot. They are sent from the rear to the front and then sent down, and they have become mushy. Even so, it does not prevent the soldiers from devouring them. Hot meals are hard to come by.

For the soldiers of the Liantai militia, it is a top enjoyment to be able to eat hot multigrain rice, each with a box of luncheon meat and wild vegetable soup, not to mention the chocolate and biscuits after the meal,

It's a pity that I can't come to smoke after dinner, otherwise this kind of life would not be exchanged for a god.

"Come and drink some hot coffee!"

In a tunnel, Xiaoshan Dong, wearing a three-color camouflage cold-proof suit, distributed coffee to his comrades in the same trench with a lunch box. His hands in cold-proof gloves tightly held the tin-plate lunch box. Eight people drank silently. coffee.

Although the taste of the coffee is quite bitter, after drinking it, the whole stomach is warmed, and the whole person is much more energetic.

"Let's talk about it first. After this battle is over, if any of our brothers can survive, remember to go to the homes of the other brothers and kowtow for them to show filial piety!"

After drinking coffee, a non-commissioned officer wearing the rank of sergeant took out a kettle from his waist and put the lunch box on the kettle. He looked at the other seven and said, "They are all brothers in the same class, and we will live and die together!"Once a charge is launched today, it is unknown who will die and who will live.

Holding a 98K sniper rifle, Xiaoshan nodded slowly. After serving as a soldier for more than half a year, he was also promoted from a private to a private.

At this moment, there was a slight sound of footsteps next to him.

"Who?"

"Whoa..."

Accompanied by the sound of pulling the bolt, the soldiers in the trench pulled the bolt one after another, pointing the muzzle in the direction of the sound.

"It's me...commander Xiao Guo...the company commander asked me to order you, everyone put on protective clothing and gas masks immediately, and execute immediately!" The soldier not far away whispered the order, and then crawled to the other side. a tunnel.

"Crash!"

The soldiers in the tunnel took out the dark green protective clothing from their backpacks one after another. The low temperature made the rubberized protective clothing make a crisp sound when unfolded. Although the officers had told them repeatedly that the quality of this protective clothing was still high. Not bad, under normal circumstances it will not be damaged, but out of fear of poisonous gas, the soldiers are still a little nervous.

"Whoosh..."

Putting on a gas mask, Xiaoshan Dong felt that breathing became a little laborious, and the air became a little sticky, and he could still smell a slightly pungent smell of plastic coming from his nose.

"Ring Ling Ling..."

The phones of the First Pao Battalion and the Second Pao Battalion where Geng Changshun and Zhuang Mancai were located rang at the same time, and the two, who had already been waiting impatiently, picked up the microphone at the same time.

"I am the head of the regiment, Gao Hongming, and now I am ordering the shelling preparations."

"Understood!" The two put down the microphone, then shook the phone a few times and gave orders respectively.

"Shooting mission, coordinate abduction hole-six, ten rounds of special ammunition for the whole unit, rapid fire, and the instant signal tube is ready to report!"

After hearing the order from the phone, the signal soldiers of each company immediately repeated it aloud on the ground, and another signal soldier on the side immediately shouted into the microphone, "Get ready for the shooting mission!"

The gunners who had been in their positions as early as in the combat position immediately became tense.The plotters of each artillery company use a fan-shaped ruler to measure the distance and azimuth between the coordinate turning hole-sixth and the company's position on the drawing, and the calculation hand uses the shooting distance reported by the plotter to read the corresponding position by pulling the cursor of the shooting ruler. At the same time, the artillery squad has prepared the appropriate amount of ammunition and combined warhead fuses according to the previous order.

As soon as the calculator figured out the data, he quickly picked up the phone on the stage, "Paoyiyingyilian No. 1 charge, direction 1150, elevation angle 40, get ready to report!"

"Self-propelled artillery battery, No. 2 charge, direction 1150, elevation angle 40, ready to report..."

As the orders are issued, the horizontal hands of each gun that received the order determine the direction, the upper and lower hands set the elevation angle, the ammunition hand throws the extra charge in the cartridge into the waste drug pit according to the designated launch charge, and the loader puts the ammunition into the waste pit. into the breech, the gunner locks the breech and returns loudly

"Hello Three Cannons!"

"Good shot!"

"Five guns are good..."

The commander of the whole company reported to the battalion headquarters, "Complete launch preparations!"

After all the reports were gathered to the two artillery battalion commanders, Zhuang Mancai and Geng Changshun connected Gao Hongming's phone at the same time, "Report sir...all the artillery is ready!"

Gao Hongming raised his wrist and looked at his watch, the pointer was pointing to exactly six o'clock.

He took a deep breath and said loudly, "Fire!"

A few seconds later, the sound of shelling rang out at the same time from the positions of the nine artillery companies. Huge flames spewed out from the positions of the nine artillery companies instantly, turning the entire sky red, and thirty shells flew out of the barrels towards targets several kilometers away. fly away.

The 105-caliber shells roared past with a characteristic sharp whistling sound, while the larger-caliber 155mm shells followed with a dull cry, and the sound of the shells pierced the night sky before dawn.

At six o'clock in the morning, the Japanese sentry on the commanding heights saw an orange fire suddenly erupting from the distant sky. Years of experience made him understand what it was. Many sentries rushed into the trenches and pushed hard. Companion, "Hurry up, the Chinese are firing!"

Awakened by the horrified shouts of the sentries, the Japanese soldiers quickly sat up reflexively, squatting with their backs against the trenches.

Due to the continuous shooting by the militia artillery for many days, the Japanese soldiers have gotten used to it, but this time they found that the sound of the shells flying became sharp and rapid, and the explosion on the ground was not as violent as usual.

Ishihara Wanji, who was more than ten kilometers away from the forward position, was also awakened by the sound of the guns. He put on his coat and came to the headquarters. At this time, the Chief of Staff Mitsuo Nakazawa was already standing there.

At this moment, the phone on the table rang, and Sanfu Nakazawa picked it up, "Moses, this is the headquarters of the [-]th Division... Nani? The Chinese started shelling you?

Let me tell you, you must stand up and prevent the Chinese chariot troops from launching a surprise attack on you! "

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to Ishihara and said with a smile: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, the [-]th Brigade Commander Cao Changchen has reported that the Chinese suddenly started shelling their forward positions. I have asked them to strengthen their guard and prepare to counterattack at any time."

Ishihara smiled for a moment, then shook his head slowly: "No, the Chinese people only have that little force, and after these days the consumption will be even less. Even if they have a chariot force, facing the strength of our two divisions If they attack us with that little force, they will die, Gao Hongming should not be so stupid, there must be something here that we don't understand."

"Boom...boom..."

Following several loud noises, the Japanese soldiers on the ground saw several groups of orange flames exploding violently, and quickly covered their ears with their hands, hoping to reduce the damage to their bodies, while some other experienced soldiers did not. Instead of covering his ears, he buried his head in listening to the sound of shells flying.

For experienced soldiers, they can even judge how far the shells fall from themselves from the sound they make when the shells fly.

The first batch of shells exploded when they hit the ground. The dull explosion sound was not violent, like the sound of someone covering their mouth, and then a not-so-strong air wave swept over.

While the air waves spread in all directions, dozens of clusters of white smoke slowly spread from the place of the explosion to the surroundings. The smoke soon flooded the uneven Japanese defense positions, lazily covering everything on the ground, and soon It swallowed up the bunkers that the Japanese soldiers had worked so hard to dig out in the past few days.

Soon, the Japanese soldiers in the trenches were astonished and the air seemed to be filled with sweet apple smells, and not long after that, my eyes gradually became blurred, and after a while it became pitch black, and my throat seemed to grow even more. Something, it feels very difficult to breathe...

"It's poisonous gas!"

"The Chinese people released the poisonous gas!"

"Gas mask... hurry up and put on the gas mask... hurry up..."

The experienced soldiers immediately realized that they had been attacked by poison gas, and hurriedly searched for gas masks, but it was too late.

Immediately there were terrible cries and desperate screams in the trenches. The terrified and irrational soldiers ignored the officers' strict orders and instinctively rushed to the direction they thought was safe... Most of them were gone before they even took a few steps. He fell heavily on the cold ground.

(End of this chapter)