Rise From Eight Hundred

This may be the first time that the Japanese troops of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade have experienced the power of their 150-caliber heavy artillery at such a close range.

However, most of them can no longer express their feelings in person.

One shot that had not completely hit the target destroyed two twin 25mm cannons and more than 20 people associated with them.

"I'm going to wipe it. This bitch like Tietou is trying to take revenge on me!" Lei Xiong wiped the dirt and dust on his face that had been swept away by the air waves, and muttered in a low voice.

But his eyes were full of excitement. This big thing is easier to use than a mortar. With just one shot, two machine cannons were silenced.

Give the bastard a couple of more blows! The Chinese soldiers lying motionless were actually thinking the same thing as Lei Xiong, that is, it was better for them to stay away, otherwise they would be killed by their own cannons instead of being killed by Japanese guns.

Cheng Tieshou lived up to expectations.

While the Chinese soldiers were looking forward to it and the Japanese soldiers were waiting dumbly, the 150-meter heavy artillery that had tried its best to lower the muzzle sounded the horn of death again.

"Boom!" Another cannonball exploded.

However, this time it hit the position. A large pit with a depth of two meters and a diameter of about three meters appeared, and more than 20 tattered corpses of Japanese soldiers were scattered in the position.

"Baga! It's over!" Komura Hisashi almost collapsed in the trench on the other side.

People are very adaptable. He can now accept the fact that the brigade is being attacked by the Chinese, and he can even accept that part of the brigade's position has fallen into the enemy's hands, but he can never accept the outcome that his own position is being attacked by his own heavy artillery.

As the captain of the Heavy Artillery Regiment, he is very aware of the power of those 150-caliber heavy artillery.

The position he is currently in seems to be quite large, with four 25mm machine guns and hundreds of infantry artillery. However, under the constant bombardment of that heavy artillery, sooner or later he will become a dead soul under the fire.

And if the Chinese find that one cannon is not enough, what if they use other heavy artillery? In other words, their purpose is not to destroy these heavy artillery, but to capture them and aim the muzzles at those stupid pigs of the 18th Division?

Yes, in the current definition of the Japanese artillery commander, the 18th Division from Ushijima Sadao on down are all stupid pigs. If they hadn't transferred the escort infantry regiment, how could their heavy artillery brigade have encountered such a situation?

However, Komura Hisashi is definitely a 'noble' person, and he will never let his colleagues go with him to report to Amaterasu just because they are a bunch of pigs. The empire's grand plan still needs those pigs to help dig up the land.

Therefore, after the second artillery bombardment entered the position, the Japanese artillery commander quickly issued the most difficult, decisive and important military order in his life.

"Blow up the artillery! All imperial soldiers who are still holding on to the artillery positions must blow up the artillery. We must not let the empire's heavy weapons fall into the hands of the Chinese."

Compared with the Chinese army, the Japanese army has already entered semi-modernization in advance, especially for high-tech services such as artillery. In order to facilitate the issuing of orders, there are telephones at each artillery position. Although the anti-aircraft artillery brigade is not a headquarters, it is It also has access to every gun emplacement.

On the 150 heavy artillery position that was the first to be attacked, the Japanese army lost unified command in panic, and basically organized forces at each gun position for defense.

Although only the second lieutenant who led the team had a poor Southern 14 small pistol and a few spare 38 rifles that were taken out during training.

Therefore, there are still as many as 24 artillery positions that can receive military orders from His Excellency the Colonel Captain.

"Explode artillery?" Many Japanese second lieutenants were naturally in disbelief when they received this military order, but it was an order from the highest commander of the regiment and they were not allowed to question it.

No matter how distressed you are, the cannon will explode.

Therefore, Zhuang Shisan, who was studying how to completely blow up the 3-ton behemoth into pieces in the afterglow of the flare, was stunned.

Cluster grenades were being placed under the 150-meter heavy artillery, but they even felt that it was not enough. The soldiers of several demolition teams who took the trouble to bring in shells weighing more than 20 kilograms as detonators also looked into the distance with their eyes widened.

They are still carrying out technical operations here, why are there explosions in the Japanese artillery positions that have not yet been occupied? That's much more gorgeous than the fireworks set off during the Chinese New Year.

The huge explosion shook people's ears hundreds of meters away, and the flames that were more than ten meters high proved one thing - the Japanese artillery exploded.

Exploding a cannon sounds simple.

In countless TV dramas in the future, such scenes will often involve throwing a grenade into the barrel of a cannon, and the cannon will be destroyed.

But actually, how strong is the gun steel used to make the gun barrel?

What's more, if the barrel of the gun is destroyed, won't someone get another barrel to install it?

Without getting more explosives and detonating them from a long distance, we really can't do anything with this behemoth that can send 20 kilograms of artillery shells to a distance of 10,000 meters.

But obviously, only you can understand yourself better in this regard. The Japanese artillerymen are definitely ahead of the Chinese soldiers in their professionalism in blowing up their own cannons.

"Is the cavalry battalion so awesome?" At that moment, Zhuang Shisan could only think of the cavalry who had rushed into the distance. It seemed that only they had this ability.

However, the cavalry battalion is too strong, and there are still thousands of Japanese! Not to mention being rushed in by them so forcefully, they still had enough energy left to explode the cannon.

No wonder Commander Tang would choose them to help the entire army break out of a smooth path! This fighting power is too strong.

Little did they know that the cavalrymen who had already destroyed the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery positions were also a little confused when they felt the shaking of the earth behind them and more than a dozen flames rising into the sky.

Are the infantrymen so good? In just a short while, not only did they run so fast, but they also blew up all the artillery. We have six legs, so is our combat effectiveness too weak?

"Brothers, the infantrymen are coming up, follow me and keep rushing forward!" Gong Shaoxun shot and killed a Japanese soldier who was fleeing madly into the darkness, and his confidence increased greatly. He shouted loudly to close the formation.

The cavalrymen who were already chasing the Japanese army received the order and moved closer to their commanders.

The cavalrymen reorganized their ranks, and no one looked back.

Even if their comrades who had been together day and night were lying there.

As comrades, their mission was to continue to move forward in the direction where their comrades fell.

Because, this is the battlefield.

The Chinese soldiers responded to the sudden bombing of the Japanese army, while the morale of the Japanese army completely fell to the bottom.

"Damn! Are the Chinese attacking so fast? How many people have they brought?" Looking at the flames rising to the sky more than 500 meters away, the commander of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade of Japan, Sumita Yoshiro, who had just sent a telegram for help to the 18th Division and the 36th Infantry Brigade, felt dizzy.

Does that mean that the thousands of Chinese he had estimated earlier were still too few, and did the Chinese bring an infantry division?

The staff officers in the heavy artillery brigade headquarters looked at each other, and no one could give an accurate answer to the pale-faced brigade commander.

The 3rd Artillery Regiment, Colonel Komura Hisashi, who was in dire straits, had lost contact, and the sound of Chinese cavalry hooves was rumbling, showing the strength of the Chinese troops.

Therefore, Sumita Yoshiro, who had never encountered such a situation, made a wrong judgment. The Chinese had at least two infantry regiments or even more troops participating in the attack. They were absolutely capable of transporting the cannons away, and they might even aim the muzzles at the 18th Division.

"The 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade will hold on and wait for help until the whole army is destroyed. In order to prevent the empire's heavy weapons from falling into the hands of the enemy, we will blow them up on our own!"

So, the Japanese Army Major General, whose confidence collapsed, sent a farewell telegram to the Tenth Army Headquarters.

The fact that Sumita Yoshiro, who still maintained his courage, was not cowardly enough to order the whole army to retreat is worthy of being whipped on the pillar of shame in history by future military experts, but his stupidity is on par with Colonel Hisashi Komura.

According to the analysis of the battle situation at the time, if the Chinese, who had only more than a thousand people, wanted to annihilate the thousands of Japanese artillerymen distributed in various positions on a very wide battlefield and had to blow up the artillery themselves, it would take at least three to four hours.

However, the entire 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade artificially shortened this time to less than two hours, resulting in the 36th Infantry Brigade, which bravely extended a helping hand, also having its arm broken.

I am an artilleryman! They are not infantrymen, so Major General Sumita Raishiro, who was drinking tea with Amaterasu, could only complain desperately.

But no matter what choice they made, it could not change the fate of a group of Japanese artillerymen who had no guns but only cannons, even if their number reached thousands.

No matter how many sheep there were, they could only be shaved or made into soup.

The Chinese army, which had various long and short guns, machine guns and even mortars, was the wolf pack on this battlefield.