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Chapter 249 Krupp's addiction to guns

Knowing that the New First Army had brought in the heavy artillery unit, Miyamoto was a little panicked.

He is well aware of the enormous power that a [-]mm caliber shell can produce.

The positions outside Xinwei City are not permanent fortifications, not even semi-permanent, they can only be regarded as ordinary field fortifications, which cannot withstand such artillery strikes at all.

If the enemy continues to shell, it is estimated that it will not take long for most of the outer positions to be destroyed. If we only rely on that earthen wall, how can we fight this battle?
The artillery of the New First Army is not what it used to be. The accuracy of the shelling is already quite high, and the intensity of the shelling is unprecedented.

Even veterans like Miyamoto have never seen such an intense shelling on the battlefield. After a while, hundreds of shells came over.

He felt that the whole Xinwei City was like an earthquake, and the ground was trembling violently.

The forward headquarters he was in were all reinforced with cement and covered with thick soil, but the soil above was blown up by shells and fell from the sky like rain.

Miyamoto even had a feeling of shock, the telescope was a little bit blurred by the dust.

Just at this time, a shell hit hard not too far in front of his headquarters.

With a bang, a wave of air directly hit the lookout hole.

Miyamoto shrank his head in fright, and the hula-la mud rushed in from the lookout hole, covering his body and face with mud.

Miyamoto coughed violently due to choking, sand got into his eyes, and it took a while to barely open his eyes.

He didn't care about thinking too much, got up and rushed to the lookout on the city wall, grabbed the binoculars hanging around his neck, and looked towards the attacking direction of the New First Army through the smoky outer positions.

At this time, under the cover of artillery fire, the infantry of the New First Army began to jump out of the trench positions and rushed towards Xinwei City.

"Enter the position! Enter the position!"

Miyamoto panicked at once, screaming hysterically at the soldiers outside the headquarters.

Under the fierce shelling of the artillery, many positions of the Japanese army outside the city have been destroyed, and the casualties of the Japanese army on the positions are not small.

Even if some devils hid in the anti-gun holes on the side of the trench, they were buried alive in it because the trench was bombed and collapsed.

The loss of weapons on the position was not small. When avoiding the artillery, the Japanese army had no time to carry all the heavy machine guns on the position back to the anti-bomb hole. One heavy machine gun had been blown up to only a pile of parts.

There are not many mortars defending the city, and the Japanese army prefers to use [-]-step guns.

This kind of [-]-step gun can be used as a cannon for flat shooting, which is enough to deal with civil engineering and general masonry fortifications. Although the muzzle velocity of the shells is low, it is powerful enough to hit unprotected vehicles and armored vehicles;

Curved fire can be used as a howitzer, and it can be used as a mortar when fired at a high elevation angle.

Since the Type 81 infantry gun was born as a howitzer, its ballistic trajectory is much more stable than that of a mortar, so its accuracy is much better than that of the [-] mortar of the same caliber level.

However, due to the fact that the Japanese army concentrated a large number of artillery to garrison Guijie during World War I, the loss in the early stage was too great. Now these artillery are either destroyed by the New First Army, or have been captured by the New First Army. The Japanese artillery on the Xinwei side has been left. Not much.

On the entire defense line in the west of the city, the Japanese army only had one [-]-step gun left.

Facing Krupp's fierce bombardment, he didn't dare to fire back at all, for fear that the position would be discovered as soon as the gun was fired, and then it would be covered by artillery fire.

Now he can only hide behind a low city wall and shoot a cannon secretly.

However, Krupp, with sharp eyes and sharp ears, found the position of the [-]-step gun as long as he fired a shot from the opposite side.

His fat body nimbly manipulated a battle anti-aircraft gun, stuffed a shell into it, and then pulled the tether, and shot it out with a bang.

Gao Fei followed the large troops to the front line. The advance group was resting now. He had nothing to do, so he came to see Krupp.

He stood behind Krupp's fat buttocks, looked at Krupp's busy figure, and asked Meng Fanan next to him: "You snatched the telescope, did you see the hit?"

Meng Fan looked through the binoculars, only to see a cloud of dust flying, and with the blocking of the city wall, he couldn't see anything clearly.

Krupp said very firmly: "Don't look at it, the enemy artillery that I'm eyeing will hit with one shot!"

Sure enough, the only surviving [-]-step gun on the outskirts of the city was now blown up by Krupp.

Looking at the destroyed infantry positions, the Japanese army wanted to cry but had no tears.

As for the Japanese army in the city, although they still had a small amount of artillery and counterattacked to a certain extent, the intensity of their firepower was nothing compared to the density of artillery fire of the New First Army.

Therefore, the units of the New 38th Division and the New [-]th Division began to charge while bombarded by artillery fire.

The New First Army continued to advance, and now it is not far from the city wall of Xinwei.

Krupp's artillery, due to their adequate training, was also bold and skilled, and dared to hit the artillery shells directly not far in front of the attacking troops, covering the infantry for the charge.

Even because of their trust in his technology, the infantry dared to rush forward at a distance of about 100 meters behind the artillery fire, which greatly reduced the damage before approaching the Japanese position.

When Miyamoto received the report, he suddenly discovered that when the enemy in the west of the city attacked in this way, the infantry of the New First Army was only 300 meters away from the city wall.

Krupp's artillery fire has not stopped, and gradually extended the firepower, and the artillery fire extended towards the rear of the Japanese army.

When attacking Nantianmen, Krupp knew that the Japanese army was all rats, and they were best at digging and digging holes, and they were good at building positions.

Because the Japanese army used this tactic to take advantage of it during the war, so that their thinking was a bit old, and many tactical ideas were still in the trench warfare stage of World War I.

The same is true of the representative Maginot Line, the defense system is very strong.

However, this pinnacle of fortifications did not stop Germany's armored and motorized troops.

The Japanese army could not build more tanks and cannons because resources and manufacturing industries did not allow it, so they could only pay attention to civil engineering and make up for these deficiencies through fortifications.

The well-defended tunneling technology of the Japanese army once caused the Yu division to suffer a lot in Nantianmen. Even in the battle for Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean, it caused heavy casualties to the Mi army who was armed to the teeth.

Sun Liren and Gao Fei, who were very familiar with the Japanese army, naturally couldn't let their subordinates suffer such a disadvantage again.

Krupp pouted his ass and fired hard, firing one shot after another.

After the gun barrel is overheated, it is poured with cold water, and then another gun is used for bombardment.

This time, he had had enough of the cannon.

Sun Liren might be able to understand Krupp's mood at this time, and specially asked the logistics to send two trucks of shells to the advance regiment.

"Krupp, load me a cannon, aim it, and I'll fire one too!"

Gao Fei went up and pulled the cannon bolt with his own hands...

"Boom boom boom!"

The Japanese positions outside Xinwei City were also painstakingly excavated and camouflaged, but due to the loss of air supremacy, the positions were completely exposed to the aerial reconnaissance of the Allied forces, and basically there was no secret at all.

At the beginning of the offensive, the artillery unit of the New First Army had already made a detailed plan, which was highly targeted. From the beginning of the shelling, it carried out cover bombing on the camouflaged area of ​​the Japanese army.

Now the charging infantry has approached the city wall, and the artillery fire began to extend according to the plan, extending to the middle of Xinwei City.

Such an extension of artillery fire is indeed a cruel move for Miyamoto's defense arrangement.

Because Miyamoto had expected that the forward position might be covered by firepower, he did not put all the main force in front, but dispersed behind the city wall.

He planned to wait until the infantry of the New First Army rushed up after the artillery fire ended, and then let the ambushed soldiers rush out, and launched a counter-charge by surprise, causing heavy damage to the New First Army, so as to block the attack of the New First Army.

However, Miyamoto met the battle-tested Sun Liren.

Generals such as Sun Liren and Tang Shouzhi had anticipated this move a long time ago, so they adopted the method of extending firepower to cover the infantry's charge.

The artillery shells continued to extend from the front position of the Japanese army to the back of the city wall like rolling thunder, and the soldiers behind them pushed all the way from the Japanese army's position with invincible bravery!

The artillery fire is too strong!
Miyamoto's face turned pale, and suddenly the words that Oda said to him before leaving appeared in his mind.

"The New First Army is no longer the Chinese Army that we chased and beat us back then! Feng Shui has taken turns, and in northern Myanmar, we have already failed!..."

(End of this chapter)