NCCnovel Chapter 614 Artillery Bombardment
Chapter 614 Artillery Bombardment
At nine o'clock in the evening, everyone finished their meal under the light of the moon and stars, and then immediately went their separate ways.
However, the puppet soldiers on the front position were sitting there to enjoy the cool air.
There are many trenches on the battlefield, but the weather here is quite hot and humid, and it is certainly not as cool inside the trenches as outside.
Besides, they had just taken a shower and changed their clothes, and no one wanted to sweat in the trenches again.
Moreover, three days had passed and they had not encountered anyone attacking their position.
In their opinion, the enemy must have abandoned this place and should have gone south to find the main force of the National Army.
In order to intercept the attack from this direction, the puppet army had deployed heavy troops in this direction.
There are as many troops as two reinforced battalions.
There was a reinforced battalion on the front line, with more than 800 people, including three mortars.
Each wing had two reinforced companies, each with two mortars.
The puppet army commander and his third battalion were in a camp not far behind the position.
However, the area where the puppet army’s positions were located and the trees were cut down was only over 3,000 meters.
Yuan Shuai’s 90 mortar has a maximum range of 3800 meters.
Marshal Yuan ordered the artillery to hide the mortars in a valley more than 500 meters behind the empty hillside. Its maximum range could just cover the puppet army's mortar positions in front.
Du Dafeng lay on the hillside, wearing a Japanese raincoat and shining a flashlight on his watch several times.
See that the scheduled time has arrived.
He immediately used his flashlight to signal the valley behind.
Seeing the signal, five mortars opened fire quickly.
They had four mortars before, but they captured one at the front and brought it over this time.
At this time they had five 90 mortars.
All five mortar shells whizzed towards the artillery positions in front of the puppet army.
At the same time, Jack's infantry guns had opened fire.
The maximum range of the Japanese 92 infantry gun is only 2800 meters.
The open area is more than 3,000 meters.
But the puppet army’s positions were also in open areas.
Because the infantry artillery advanced and was more than a hundred meters close to the open area.
Therefore, the puppet army's position halfway up the mountain is also within the maximum range of Jack's infantry artillery.
The puppet soldiers who were sleeping in the artillery position had almost fallen asleep.
Even the artillerymen on guard were sleeping with their eyes closed.
No one expected that three days later, someone would launch a surprise attack on them, or even directly attack their artillery positions with artillery shells.
Before the puppet army could react.
Five shells landed at the puppet army's artillery position.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
Five shells exploded, killing and injuring many puppet soldiers on the spot.
There was a sudden cry of grief on the battlefield.
Those artillerymen who were injured but not dead lay in a pool of blood, wailing in pain.
But the second round of artillery shells was already whistling in, continuing to bombard the puppet army's artillery positions.
The puppet army's artillery company commander was killed on the spot.
And here on the hillside, many puppet soldiers lying outside the trenches were killed in the explosion.
"Damn it, someone is attacking us, hurry into the trench!"
"Shit, they're over there!"
"Fire, fire!"
"Artillery bombardment! Signalman, notify the artillery bombardment on both wings, and notify the 75 field artillery bombardment in the rear!"
The commander of the first battalion of the puppet army rolled into the trench and roared at the top of his lungs.
Unfortunately, after experiencing six rounds of bombardment with 6 artillery shells, the puppet troops in the three infantry artillery positions behind him were almost wiped out.
The mortar quickly adjusted the distance and fired at the heavy firepower point on the position.
Because General Yuan already knew the heavy firepower points on the puppet army’s positions, and had even calculated the shooting elements at each position.
The artillery can continue bombing as long as they adjust the shooting parameters according to these set settings.
Jack's infantry artillery continued to bombard, eliminating each target given to him by Yuan Shuai.
However, the mortars on both wings were already firing towards them.
Unfortunately, the positions on both wings are far away, more than four thousand meters away from Jack's artillery positions.
The shells didn't land on Jack.
But the flames from the explosion and the heat wave also frightened Jack and the others.
"Damn it, luckily the puppet army's artillery is far away and can't hit us!"
"Stop talking nonsense, keep firing! The puppet army will definitely move if they can't see that they can't hit us! Keep firing! After firing two more boxes of shells, move to the left wing! Quick, quick!"
Jack roared loudly, and all his men did not dare to delay and continued to fire.
Just as he said, the puppet army artillery platoon leader saw through the light of the flares through the telescope that his shells did not hit the infantry artillery position. The artillery platoon leader on the right wing quickly ordered to stop firing and move the artillery to the middle position before firing at the infantry artillery position.
The timing of this transfer was just enough for Jack's artillery to fire quickly.
After firing two boxes of ten rounds of shells again, Jack and his men quickly moved their men and artillery to the left wing.
Seeing that the puppet troops on the left wing did not continue to use mortars, Jack hurriedly urged them loudly.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! The puppet army must have moved the mortars, hurry!"
After the team quickly moved more than a thousand meters, they stopped on a hillside.
At the same time, the platoon leader of the puppet army's right-wing artillery led his men to move the mortar to the middle and stopped after moving more than a thousand meters.
"Damn, where are they?"
The puppet army's artillery originally wanted to stop and fire at the infantry artillery position on the opposite side, but unfortunately, at this time, Jack's artillery had already ceased firing and there were no more flares.
"Flare!"
The puppet army platoon leader quickly shouted loudly.
A mortarman quickly fired a flare.
The flares were launched into the sky, illuminating the empty area.
However, the puppet troops forgot that their positions were empty.
All of General Yuan’s artillery were in the woods.
The puppet army was unable to see Marshal Yuan’s artillery position for a while.
But Yuan Shuai's artillery saw their position clearly.
Especially Jack.
He hid beside a big tree in the woods and saw through the telescope that the place where the puppet army fired flares was the artillery position.
After seeing the two mortars clearly, he pulled a wicked smile at the corner of his mouth, and quickly let the four mortars in the woods adjust their directions and angles, cursing angrily.
"Damn, Yuan Shuai is so awesome, this move is really powerful! The puppet army really came here!"
It turned out that this was all taught to him by Yuan Shuai before.
Moreover, General Yuan had already predicted that this location was suitable for shelling, and the artillery on the right wing of the puppet army would definitely move the mortars here.
At this time, Jack's position was 2500 meters away from this position in a straight line, which was just within the range of the infantry artillery.
Before, he was worried that his brothers would be killed by the enemy's artillery on the flank.
He was also worried that even if he moved here, his infantry artillery would not be able to hit the puppet army's artillery.
And now, he was smiling very happily.
"Ready, fire!"
Jack roared.
Four shells flew out of the gun barrel and whizzed towards the two mortars on the right wing of the puppet army.