"Order the artillery to fire at the Chinese position immediately.”
After watching for a while, Mizukawa Yifu decided to let the artillery continue firing. Otherwise, it would be impossible to break the situation. At the same time, he roughly understood the reason why the 78th regiment was destroyed.
With such powerful firepower, it was understandable that the 78th regiment, which lacked artillery, was defeated, but it was somewhat unreasonable to wipe them out.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" A series of explosions rang out in the camp. Caught off guard, many soldiers of the 1st Battalion were injured by the shells.
F * cking Japanese, if it wasn't for the lack of ammunition, would you be so arrogant? Zhao Menghai said angrily.
"Old Zhao, we can't go on like this. Without artillery support, our troops will be at a disadvantage.”Zhang Tian frowned and said.
"I know, but we don't have enough ammunition.”Zhao Menghai said gloomily.
At this moment, the curtain of the temporary command center was opened. A man walked in with a smile and looked at Zhao Menghai."Battalion Commander Zhao, the Regiment Commander knew that you were lacking ammunition, so he asked me to bring some people to deliver a batch of ammunition to you overnight.”
Zhao Menghai revealed an excited expression when he saw who it was. He laughed and said,"Old Song, you came at the right time. With this batch of ammunition, the Japanese are doomed.”
The person was called Song Yingxing, who was in charge of the logistics of the militia. Zhao Menghai knew that he did not have to worry about the Japanese's bombardment anymore.
The Japanese's bombardment had only lasted for five minutes, and the artillery of the 1st and 2nd Battalions had begun to return fire.
The 30 105mm howitzers fired at the same time. Compared to the Japanese artillery regiment, the 54 75mm mountain cannons were not inferior at all. In fact, they were even better.
"Woo…"
Hearing the whistling sound, Mizukawa Yifu's expression changed drastically. With his rich experience, he knew that this was a heavy cannon with a caliber of at least 100mm.
"Nani, a local militia has heavy artillery? Was this a local militia? This is the main force, right?" Mizukawa Yifu's brain was a little fried. He felt that Amaterasu was playing a joke on him. Since when did the local Chinese militia have heavy artillery?
Could it be that the bald troops had secretly disguised themselves as a local militia and lured him to attack?
Major General Mizukawa Yoo felt that this was highly possible. Otherwise, how could he explain why a local militia group had so many heavy artillery? Moreover, from the firepower configuration of the infantry, there were at least 50 light machine guns. The number of heavy machine guns was unknown.
Such a firepower configuration was definitely world-class. Even the German Machinists did not have such a configuration.
Major General Yoo Mizukawa's mood was getting heavier. In just a few hours, he looked much older.
"Send a telegram to the Kwantung Army headquarters. Tell them that the independent mixed 79th Brigade's attack on Zhina has been blocked, and the 78th Brigade has been completely destroyed.”
After finishing the last round, Major General Yifu Mizukawa seemed to have been drained of all his strength. He knew very well that after this telegram was sent, his fate would be either to return to China for investigation or to be transferred to the reserves.
It would be a long time before they could make a comeback. Before long, the results of the artillery battle were determined. The 1st Battalion only lost nine cannons, while the Little Joker on the other side lost more than 30 infantry cannons.
As the range of the 105mm howitzer was higher than the enemy's 75mm infantry cannon, the losses were smaller. If the Japanese artillery had not moved forward at the last moment, the nine cannons would not have been lost at all.
However, even so, the 105mm howitzer was still able to fire without restraint. In all fairness, the quality of the artillery on both sides was not much different.
The quality of the Japanese artillery was even slightly higher than the artillery of a battalion. After all, they were just newly recruited system soldiers and did not have enough experience to level up. When they became level three soldiers, they would be the best artillery in the world.
However, Yang Xin's cannon was more powerful than the opponent's, which was why it could produce such a great result.
Seeing that the Japanese artillery had been beaten to the point of not daring to fight back, the artillery company commander Yu Lian immediately ordered the artillery to switch fire to the Japanese infantry regiment.
Twenty-one cannons instantly landed on the 2nd Battalion of the 79th Regiment, which was preparing to launch another attack. Caught off guard, the 2nd Battalion suffered heavy losses.
"Bagaya, where are our artillery?”The second captain roared angrily, but unfortunately, no one could give him an answer.
Helplessly, he could only order the troops to retreat. After a round of counting, the results not only made the second captain want to cry, but also the commander of the Japanese regiment. Since the establishment of the 79th regiment, they had never suffered such a huge loss.
Adding on the previous losses, the entire regiment had lost more than 500 people, which was equivalent to losing one-sixth of their combat strength.
"Stop the attack first and wait for the command.”Mizukawa Yifu said helplessly after seeing the battle through the binoculars.
"Hey!"
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