Chapter 277 Wei Mingyang's First Naval Battle(1/6)
Division commander Tomosaka Shun watched the National Army's tanks enter the firing range of the mortars, infantry guns, and grenade launchers deployed by the entire division.
Give the order to fire immediately!
Staff Sergeant Ono Yuxiang is a grenade launcher, looking at the tanks that are a full 1,500 meters away.
This is not within its capabilities, the grenade's range is only 600 meters.
Military orders are like mountains, and they dare not disobey them!
The commander of the 1st Division Tomosaka Shun saw a large cloud of gunpowder smoke erupting six hundred meters in front of the position, which was more than the smoke and dust that exploded around the tank 500 meters away.
I couldn't help but get furious: "Eight grids! The bombing target is a tank! It's a tank!"
When Battalion Commander Gong Hongwen and his tank team were about to withdraw their troops and return to the camp, they were suddenly bombarded by Japanese artillery fire.
Immediately launch the tank and rush towards the location of the Japanese artillery fire.
In the smoke of gunfire, the commander of the 1st Division Tomosaka Shun could not see clearly how many tanks had been destroyed in the sneak attack just now.
But it saw: the artillery positions were also being bombarded by artillery fire.
Tanks, guns, and machine guns were all bombarding the Japanese.
Gao Hongmin, who was hovering in the air, finally discovered the location of the Japanese artillery when they opened fire.
Immediately reported the latest findings to the Artillery Regiment of the Third Division.
This location was visited by Commander Guan, who also believed that this place could be used for garrisoning infantry.
Now you have a target and the shooting parameters are set.
Two minutes later: "Boom, boom, boom!"
Captain Zhong Tianyang commanded the infantry artillery to fire at the tanks in the distance.
The first shot looked like it hit the tank.
Before it was clear whether there were hits or not, many mortar shells exploded in that area, and the smoke filled the air, making everything become hazy.
It can only continue to fire and bomb towards that hazy place.
Others who have the same thoughts and actions as it are mortarmen such as Tomoya Sora.
The division commander gathered all the mortars and infantry artillery in the entire division and used them as an artillery regiment.
These Japanese gunners who were gathered together had a sense of honor that was needed by the division commander, and each one of them was fighting very hard now.
However, the good times did not last long. After they fired the second and third artillery shells, they encountered a counterattack from the national army.
The machine gun on the tank is the first to fire, followed by the tank gun.
The artillery fire from more than a hundred tanks was really fierce.
Ono Yuxiang really couldn't bear it: these grenade launchers.
The grenade's range is insufficient to hit more than 1,500 meters.
After firing the first grenade, he received the order: "Stop shooting temporarily!
When the commander of the First Division Tomosaka Shun cursed angrily, Chief of Staff Nakadai Daisuke had no choice but to report the actual situation.
The commander of the First Division, Shun Tomosaka, who knew that his order was wrong, immediately corrected it and asked the grenade launchers to stop firing.
It wanted to wait until the remaining tanks of the national army rushed over, and then let the gunners open fire.
The plan was perfect and the execution was awesome.
With the naked eye, you can clearly see the tanks of the national army looming in the smoke. Presumably, they must have suffered heavy casualties from this round of bombing.
However, in the hazy smoke, you can still see some tanks rushing towards you despite artillery fire.
The commander of the Tomosaka Jun 1st Division sneered in his heart: "Come on! Come more!"
It hopes that this bombing can blow up all the tanks of the national army, but now it is afraid that the tanks of the national army will escape.
It once again underestimated the national army's tanks, and the shells fired from the smoke seemed to make the commander of the Tomosaka Shunichi Division a little uneasy.
There is no other reason except that the national army has too many artillery shells.
If the bombing by the tanks only made it a little uneasy, then when the bombing by the heavy artillery regiment started.
The commander of the First Division, Shun Tomosaka, was a little desperate: he couldn't figure it out.
Why can the Chinese army's artillery be so accurate?
Watching ball after ball of fire explode on its carefully organized artillery positions.
The commander of the First Division, Tomasaka Shun, was heartbroken.
Staff Sergeant Ono Yuxiang is different, his body is broken.
It stayed quietly at the artillery position, quietly waiting for the order to fire again.
However, before it received the order, it received a large artillery shell, which exploded less than ten meters away from it.
The 150mm caliber artillery shell exploded less than ten meters away from Ono Yuxiang.
Its body was torn apart in an instant, and hundreds of Japanese grenadiers within a radius of 70 meters were hit by the shell.
When the commander of the First Division, Shun Tomosaka, saw this scene, he spat out a mouthful of blood.
This is the grenade launcher gathered by the entire division!
One shell wiped them out.
At this time, the commander of the Tomosaka Jun First Division had a vague realization: they should not attack Xingcheng.
They should abandon the railway as soon as possible and escape towards Lingnan.
They should not even invade the national army at all. This is fundamental.
It's a pity that it realized its enlightenment a little late, and the Chinese army's artillery fire came even more fiercely.
One shell after another exploded on the newly built artillery position.
When the first large-caliber artillery shell exploded on the position, Captain Zhong Tianyang immediately ordered: "Take the infantry artillery and retreat!"
Its voice was loud, but it couldn't be heard clearly by the other Japs.
The sound of the explosion of large-caliber artillery shells was so loud that the Japanese in this position were temporarily deafened.
Unlike these infantry artillery devils, Tomoya Sora is a mortarman.
Its reactions and actions are the fastest: just pick up the barrel and run away.
Tomoya Sokora's actions speak louder than words.
Without saying a word, all the Japs in the mortar team understood.
One by one, they scrambled to pick up the barrel, pick up the base, shoulder the shells and start running.
They run fast and react very quickly.
However, it could not outrun the artillery shells fired by the national army. This position was inspected by Commander Guan yesterday.
This has been set up as a trap a long time ago. Exposing these devils means death.
Although Tomoya Sora ran fast, he couldn't run faster than the fragments that flew out after the shell exploded.
When it stumbles to the ground, there is no chance of survival.
The same goes for Zhong Tianyang. Although it wanted to order the entire unit to retreat, it had not yet let its Japanese soldiers understand its thoughts.
The entire squadron was taken away by a single shell.
Battalion Commander Gong and the others rushed to a position five hundred meters away from the Japanese and waited, observing carefully.
I immediately discovered the difference in this mountain forest.
Tens of thousands of Japanese were hiding in the mountains and forests, and the signs of human activities could no longer be concealed.
Battalion Commander Gong ordered: "Incendiary bombs!"
Their tanks also carried sulfur incendiary bombs seized from Xingcheng Station.
The battalion commander ordered that all the 120 tanks here use incendiary bombs to bombard the mountains and forests ahead.
Chief of Staff Nakadai Daisuke looked at the fires burning everywhere, and immediately asked the commander of the Tomosaka Shun First Division: "Your Excellency, division commander! We can't stay in the mountains and forests any longer."
The commander of the First Division, Tomosaka Shun, also knew that he could no longer stay in the mountains and forests.
"Retreat!" This time it had to give the order to retreat.
But its division was located in the mountains and forests, and at first it was still proud that it had perfectly avoided the reconnaissance of the national army aircraft.
Now it is on the verge of tears: now it cannot find a way to retreat.
There are fires and smoke everywhere in the mountains and forests.
They can't see the road clearly at all, and the key thing is: they can't pass through the blazing fire ring.
what to do?
No one knows what to do!
To be continued...