"Boom... Boom... Boom!"
Scattered artillery shells began to land near the position. The Red Alert soldiers on the position quickly retreated into the anti-cannon hole. Although their accuracy was not very good, they might not be lucky.
The regiment commander saw this scene and immediately said,""Get the artillery to knock them out!"
Artillery posed a huge threat to the enemy's position. Since the enemy had already used their artillery, there was no need to hide anymore. The 3rd Company he sent out was about to move to the rear and cut off their retreat.
This was also the reason why they had set up camp at Jiaba Bridge. They had been waiting for this moment.
As long as they could stop them or delay their retreat, Chu Zian was confident that he could swallow them whole.
When they saw the shells fly over their heads and smash into the enemy's position, the morale of the soldiers of the 7th Regiment of Liu Wenhui's troops increased greatly. Under the leadership of the officer, they launched another attack.
However, when they were halfway there, they heard the sound of a cannonball above their heads again. Soon, some people felt that something was wrong because the cannonball seemed to be flying behind them.
Four 75mm mountain cannons were placed on the flat ground below a mountain depression. Dozens of soldiers were happily loading the cannons.
"Wuuu!"
" Cannon, quickly protect the cannon!" Experienced soldiers immediately recognized the sound of artillery shells, but it was too late for them to retreat.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Two 75mm grenades landed on the artillery position. One of the grenades landed three to four meters away from one of the artillery positions. The air wave immediately sent a 75mm cannon flying, and the shrapnel harvested the lives of the nearby people.
These two shells were just for practice shooting. When an artillery reconnaissance plane in the sky saw the landing point of the shells, it immediately contacted the artillery position below through radio communication and asked them to adjust their elements.
The soldiers who were busy moving the remaining three cannons heard a series of intense whistling sounds coming from the sky. Their expressions changed drastically. Some of them even ignored the cannons and immediately found cover to save their lives.
Boom! Boom!
The dense barrage of artillery shells set off a series of violent explosions. More than ten artillery shells directly covered the artillery position. Two cannons were directly destroyed, leaving one cannon standing alone in the same spot.
In less than half a minute, another wave of artillery shells landed and destroyed the last cannon.
The response of the artillery unit was still a little slow. However, most of them were new recruits. It was already very good for them to be able to do this. At least they had passed.
"Cannon, my Cannon!" When he heard the continuous explosions coming from the artillery position, the brigade commander wailed. If he threw away the few cannons, he could only bring his head back to see Liu Wencai. Of course, the premise was that he could return.
After seeing that there were no shells falling from the opposite camp, the soldiers of the 7th Regiment had a bad feeling, but they could only grit their teeth and charge forward.
"Fight!"
When they were within 300 meters of the enemy, gunshots rang out again. The soldiers at the front fell one after another. The human wave tactic seemed so powerless in the face of fierce firepower.
Although there were only four to five hundred men in a regiment and a battalion, their firepower was considered top-notch even among the western armies.
No matter how they attacked, they couldn't even get within 200 meters of the camp. Their counterattack was also quite weak. There weren't many machine guns in each group. They could only rely on rifles and machetes.
Hand-to-hand combat might still be useful for the Japanese, who did not have strong firepower. However, under such firepower, a fearless charge was just a suicide mission.
After throwing down over 400 corpses, the 7th Regiment had already thrown down 700 to 800 corpses in front of the formation, and they were all crippled.
"Reporting to the regiment commander, we have received news that they have arrived at the designated location and are building a position!”a signalman shouted.
The regiment commander's spirits were lifted when he heard that. He ordered,"Immediately inform the artillery positions in the rear that we can fire at the enemy. Let our artillery battalion fight freely and consume the enemy's strength!”
It was very quiet in the artillery position behind the bridge. All the cannons had been loaded with shells, and the elements had been adjusted. Their target was the main force stationed near Liziping. There were two regiments of troops stationed here, with more than 5000 people.
The 7th Regiment was just a unit that the brigade commander had been dragged out to be cannon fodder. All the men in it were just able-bodied men who had just been recruited less than two months ago. He would not feel any heartache even if they were wiped out. China lacked everything except people. After they were wiped out, they could just go to the nearby areas and recruit more people.
It was not as if he was not smart. Yanyuan County had the support of a seemingly powerful firearms company. Their equipment was definitely not weak.
Of course, he did not expect them to be so strong. He decided to wait a little longer and wait for the troops from Panhua to arrive before launching an attack on them from both sides.
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