The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1445 A Premeditated Artillery Attack (Part )

The Kitamura Regiment was also reinforced by Lieutenant General Fujita with twelve large-caliber mortars.

But because they are firing shells from a low place to a high place, the effective range will not increase, but will be reduced by several hundred meters.

This means that Huang Yu set up the mortar on the Dongshantou high ground and could attack the Beicun Brigade’s base from a high position.

However, the artillery of the same caliber equipped by the Beicun Regiment was unable to fire shells to the Dongshantou Heights and could only passively take the hit.

If you want to attack Dongshantou Heights with artillery fire, you must send troops to push twelve heavy mortars forward more than a thousand meters.

If we use ordinary mortars to counterattack, we must advance at least three kilometers.

Huang Yu obviously would not let the Beicun Unit easily advance the mortar to the best shooting position.

11pm.

Apart from the Kwantung Army patrols moving back and forth, the sentries rolling their eyes, and the crackling of the burning bonfires, there were no other sounds in the Kwantung Army base in Noda.

The commander of the regiment, Colonel Kitamura, also went to bed early.

As the supreme commander of the entire mopping-up force, he had a small tent to rest in, and did not have to sleep in the open air around a campfire like ordinary soldiers.

So he slept very soundly.

I fell asleep before nine o'clock.

"Woooooooo..."

The roar of shells streaking across the sky suddenly rang out in the sky.

It was night time and very quiet, so the shrieking sound was not only heard far away but also very piercing.

Because heavy mortars have a long range and their shells fly at high speeds, they inevitably produce some whistling noises as they pass through the sky, unlike small-caliber mortar shells which are silent during flight.

The quiet Beicun Brigade Base suddenly became lively.

The Kwantung Army soldiers sitting around the campfire were awakened by the screams and immediately picked up their machine guns and prepared for battle so that they could join the battle immediately if their base was attacked.

"Rumble..."

Six shells fell from the sky, creating six huge fireballs in the night sky.

One of the shells hit right next to the campfire. In the splashing firelight, the burning wood was instantly blown away and scattered in the sky, which was very beautiful.

But the Japanese had no chance to appreciate this beautiful scenery.

Although the killing radius of heavy mortar shells is not as large as the explosive packs fired by flying thunder cannons, it is still about twenty meters.

As long as these shells hit the Kwantung Army’s base, more or less results would be achieved.

If a shell hit the crowd, it would be easy for one shell to take away twenty lives.

The sound of the explosion had not yet completely ended when the screams of the Japanese soldiers were heard in the base.

The Japanese soldiers around the impact point were the first to get into chaos. Some were rescuing the wounded under the command of their superiors, some were transporting weapons and ammunition, and some were moving away from the impact point...

"Woooooooooooo...boom..."

The second heavy artillery shell soon fell, once again setting off a huge sea of ​​fire at the Beicun Brigade’s base.

Two shells in this round of attack hit the chaotic crowd.

The shell exploded, and all the soldiers within a 20-meter radius of the impact point were either killed or injured, and all fell in a pool of blood.

The tent where Colonel Kitamura was located was not far from the impact point. When he rushed out of the tent, he saw the huge fireball caused by the explosion of the shell. He even saw the soldiers blown away by the shell with the help of a telescope.

He immediately cursed with an angry expression: "Bageyalu..."

"It's a large-caliber heavy mortar..." "The division commander just reminded us that the Eighth Route Army had captured heavy mortars. It's been less than a day, and they used these heavy mortars to attack us. This is simply too much..."

"Order the artillery to counterattack immediately..."

"We can take this opportunity to destroy the six mortars that the Eighth Route Army just captured. I wonder what else they can do to us."

Colonel Kitamura's order was quickly passed on by the messenger, but the shells that kept falling from overhead did not stop.

Face this situation.

Colonel Kitamura was not nervous at all, but very happy.

After fighting with the Eighth Route Army for such a long time, he has gradually figured out the Eighth Route Army's guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare.

What we are most worried about now is that the Eighth Route Army will stop its artillery fire and immediately relocate its artillery positions.

In this case, even if the artillery units under his command reacted quickly, it would be difficult to lock onto the Eighth Route Army artillery that had already moved, let alone kill them.

But if they continue to fire, it means that the other side has not moved their artillery positions, and their artillery will still have a chance to lock onto their artillery positions and kill them.

"Boom boom boom..."

The explosions continued, and Colonel Kitamura clearly saw the tragic scene of several of his subordinates being blown away, but there was no expression of heartache on his face.

The harder the Eighth Route Army artillery fired, the more miserable their deaths would be in the subsequent artillery counterattack.

As long as they could destroy the few heavy mortars that the Eighth Route Army had just captured and make them lose the ability to attack them from a distance, it would be worth it even if the troops lost a few hundred more people in the subsequent bombing.

Otherwise, the several heavy mortars captured by the Eighth Route Army would become a sword hanging over the heads of the mopping-up troops, threatening everyone's safety at any time and making everyone unable to sleep well.

Half a minute passed, and the explosion in the base was still continuing. Colonel Kitamura subconsciously thought that his next artillery counterattack was stable. The corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously, and he thought he had won.

Unfortunately, he did not hear the sound of his artillery's counterattack.

Colonel Kitamura consoled himself: it would take time for his subordinates to pass on the order to counterattack.

It takes time for the artillery units to set up mortars, lock onto the Eighth Route Army artillery positions, calculate firing parameters, and adjust the mortars.

As long as the Eighth Route Army continued to attack the garrison with artillery fire, perhaps its own artillery would open fire in retaliation in the next second.

This wait lasted half a minute.

The garrisons within the field of vision were hit by dozens of heavy mortar shells. Assuming that one shell killed five soldiers, these shells killed at least an infantry company of the Kitamura Regiment.

However, the artillery unit that they had placed high hopes on still showed no signs of counterattack.

Colonel Kitamura began to get anxious.

No matter how slow the artillery's reaction speed is, it shouldn't take so long. There must be something wrong.

Could it be that the heavy mortar squadron was severely damaged in the previous artillery coverage and was killed by the Eighth Route Army's first round of artillery fire?

This is wrong...

If Colonel Kitamura remembered correctly, the heavy mortar squadron's base was not in the same direction as the base that was being bombed.

Just when he was puzzled and couldn't help but send someone to the artillery unit to find out the truth.

The artillery staff officer actually rushed towards him with a panicked expression.

Colonel Kitamura's heart skipped a beat and he had a bad feeling.

He immediately asked the other side: "Why didn't the artillery launch a counterattack..."

"Don't you know that if you counterattacked one minute later, one or two hundred people in the garrison would be killed by the Eighth Route Army's artillery shells? You are killing people..."