People are shining their swords, secretly helping the Iron Triangle in Northwest Shanxi

Chapter 4 Effective Shooting

The Sakata Wing is currently fighting with all its strength in the Cangyunling area. They intend to break through the Cangyunling blocking position and pursue the transferred division headquarters.

But here in Cangyunling, Li Yunlong's new regiment and a part of the death column fought desperately to cover the transfer of the division headquarters.

At this time, Sakata Shintetsu commanded the first brigade to attack from the front, while the second and third brigades made detours from both sides.

The troops of both sides fell into a fierce battle, the Xinyi regiment defended tenaciously, and the first brigade's group charges were repelled several times.

Even though the Japanese army started hand-to-hand combat, they did not make any progress, which made Sakata Xinzhe very angry.

Therefore, he pushed forward the wing headquarters, personally supervised and commanded the battle, and wanted to quickly break through the new blockade from the front.

As for the 358 regiment, Sakata Nobuzhe was also on guard.

Even though he thought it was unlikely that the Jinsui Army would join the war, he still arranged for the Shanpao Squadron directly under the wing to deploy and guard against it.

The Mountain Artillery Squadron received the order and immediately advanced to an open space.

At this time, on its artillery position, four 358-type mountain cannons were placed in a row, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at the position of the [-]th regiment.

According to common sense, the Japanese artillery tactics are relatively advanced, and such exposed positions would not have been set up for a long time.

However, in the view of Captain Sakai of the Shanpao Squadron, his deployment in this way can completely deter the troops of the Jinsui Army and make them have no courage to participate in the war.

Four mountain cannons frightened a 5000-strong regiment of the Jinsui Army.

Captain Sakai was very proud of this, and felt that the 358th regiment was completely a group of drunkards.

"The only thing that the Jinsui Army poses a threat to us is nothing more than artillery."

"But their artillery doesn't know the artillery tactics of covering the position and firing indirectly."

"They will shoot directly. As long as their artillery is shooting directly, we can quickly lock their position and strike!"

"Even if the artillerymen of the Jinsui Army want to shoot indirectly, they don't have enough equipment to accurately calculate the coordinate parameters of our artillery positions."

Facing the worries of his subordinates, Captain Sakai said solemnly.

He didn't pay attention to the Artillery Battalion of the 358th Regiment. He even felt that his four mountain cannons could deal with the eight mountain cannons of the Artillery Battalion.

However, soon, Chen Ziyun test-fired a series of benchmark guns.

The grenade fell directly on the Japanese artillery position, and as the explosion sounded, the shrapnel quickly spread around.

The scorching air wave spread towards the surroundings along with the flying dust, and a bomb crater soon appeared on the ground.

The four mountain cannons of the Japanese army were in an open space without any cover, and the shrapnel hit the cannons with tinkling sounds.

And as the shrapnel hit the Japanese artillery, these little devil artillery began to howl in pain.

One after another Japanese artillerymen fell in a pool of blood, and the air was filled with the smell of blood.

Captain Sakai couldn't help being dumbfounded when he saw this scene.

"Your Excellency, Squadron Leader, the observation post has not found the location of the enemy's artillery!"

"It is very likely that the enemy has set up a sheltered position, and they are conducting indirect fire!"

Soon, some little devils ran to Captain Sakai to report.

"This...they...covered positions...indirect fire!"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible, they cannot have such a level."

"This is a test shot. Even we can't make a test shot and hit the target accurately."

Captain Sakai shook his head. He didn't believe that the Jinsui Army artillery on the opposite side would have such strength.

But as soon as his words fell, the overwhelming shells continued to shoot over.

Under Chen Ziyun's personal command, the four Jin orogenic cannons launched effective fire directly!
One after another, shells landed on the position of the Japanese Mountain Artillery Squadron, and there were explosions one after another.

As if in the blink of an eye, the Japanese artillery positions were filled with gunpowder smoke.

Four Jin orogenic cannons fired a full twenty rounds.

The Japanese Mountain Artillery Squadron was directly bombarded by covering the exposed positions set up by the enemy.

A 30-style mountain artillery was blown up on the spot, and the Japanese artillery suffered more than [-] casualties.

Captain Sakai's face was full of mud and gunpowder smoke. He stared dumbfounded at the scene in front of him, full of disbelief.

"Baga, move the artillery quickly!"

"The first team, the second team, the ammunition team quickly moved the mountain cannon!"

"Baga, they...how on earth did they manage to launch such a precise bombardment!"

Captain Sakai gritted his teeth, and he roared viciously.

The Japanese army attached great importance to artillery. To describe it in one sentence, it is that the artillery is there, and the artillery is dead.

Now Captain Sakai's first thought was to quickly save the remaining three cannons!

As for Chen Ziyun, he had already received the latest news from the Artillery Watch.

A group of shooting elements were re-passed, and the four Jin orogenic cannons were re-calibrated under the command of the cannon commander.

Immediately afterwards, the four Jin orogenic cannons fired again!
The Japanese mountain artillery squadron that wanted to transfer was again covered by shelling.

A grenade landed precisely near the Japanese artillery as if it had eyes.

With the sound of the explosion, a large number of shrapnel quickly spread around.

Bullet craters appeared on the ground, and the thick gunpowder smoke completely covered the artillery positions.

Captain Sakai didn't have any feelings at this time, because during this round of shelling, a grenade fell near him.

The shrapnel and the shock wave instantly tore Captain Sakai's body, and he was reduced to puddles of flesh!

The Artillery Battalion of the 358th Regiment launched a series of four Jin orogenic cannons under the effective command of Chen Ziyun.

They fired a total of 81 grenades, and the Japanese Sakata United Squadron directly under the Mountain Artillery Squadron suffered heavy losses.

Four 150-type mountain cannons were destroyed one after another, and there were about 100 casualties among about [-] little devils.

There were more than 40 people left, and they dismantled the important parts of the artillery in a panic and took them away, and evacuated towards the wing headquarters in a panic.

When Chen Ziyun got the report from the observation post, he decisively ordered a series of four mountain cannons to move forward quickly.

The four horses took the lead in pulling the two Jin orogenic cannons in the second row to transfer, while the first row here quickly dismantled the Jin orogenic cannons.

The Jin-made Type 13 mountain cannon can be disassembled into eight large pieces, which can be carried and transported by pack horses and mules.

Of course, at critical times, it can also be transported by manpower.

The draft horses are very precious, there are only four in a row, and the rest are pack horses and mules.

Therefore, Chen Ziyun stipulated that the second row should be transported by draft horses, and the first row should be dismantled and transported on pack.

In addition, the few remaining shells in the company were directly transported by manpower.

Chen Ziyun commanded a company to move forward quickly, preparing to start shelling the Sakata Regiment Headquarters.

At the same time, the regiment headquarters of the 358th regiment is here.

With the sound of shelling, Chu Yunfei took Chief of Staff Fang Ligong to the roof to observe again.

At first, when they heard a test firing of the reference gun, they thought it was the eight-way artillery that launched the shelling.

But with round after round of shelling, they realized something was wrong.

After they came to the roof to observe, they realized that the shell was fired from the position of the 358 regiment!
(End of this chapter)