diskusbooks Chapter 439 Terrifying Firepower (3)!
Chapter 439 Terrifying Firepower (3)!
These 18 155mm howitzers caused huge losses to the Japanese. Some of them obviously deviated from the intended core target of the shells, but even so, the damage caused to the Japanese was great.
Because the density of the Japanese troops on this two-kilometer-long front was extremely high, even the 155 howitzer that missed the target still caused huge losses to the Japanese troops. At least three or four of them were killed on the spot.
18 155mm howitzers destroyed half of the Japanese Type 5 infantry gun positions, as well as 2 heavy machine gun positions, mortar positions, and three or four hundred Japanese soldiers.
It can be said that the harvest is quite fruitful.
紧跟着155榴弹炮之后的，是24架6管107火箭炮的饱和式发射，144枚增程高爆火箭炮落在了鬼子的阵地上。
Although the accuracy of the 155 rocket launcher is completely incomparable to that of the 107 howitzer, it has the advantage of large quantity and high efficiency, and the manufacturing cost and difficulty are much lower.
144 rocket launchers completed the ground-clearing mission that the 155 howitzers failed to complete, and completed a round of ground-clearing almost right next to the Japanese offensive front line.
This rocket launcher is almost free and even more exciting than the firecrackers during the Chinese New Year.
144 rocket launchers advanced one after another, and their targets were the places where the Japanese had attacked most fiercely and had the highest concentration of people.
As great as the Japanese enjoyed their attack just now, they are now suffering from the rocket bombing.
This round of 18 155mm howitzers and 144 extended-range high-explosive rockets almost wiped out all the advantages that the Japanese had previously enjoyed.
No matter how far the Japanese troops advanced at the beginning, this round of bombing directly blew them back to their original position.
All the Japanese grassroots commanders ordered the Japanese in their squads to lie down to minimize the contact area with shrapnel and reduce Japanese casualties.
However, it was this order that caused many unfortunate Japanese soldiers to die even more miserably.
Some unlucky Japanese soldiers happened to be lying around the landing point of the heavy artillery. After the heavy artillery landed, the huge shock wave directly broke the hands of these Japanese soldiers on the spot, presenting an extremely strange posture to the eyes of others.
No matter how crazy and strong the devil's spirit is, this kind of physical pain is not something that ordinary carbon-based life can endure. When their wailing reaches the ears of other devils around them, it greatly weakens their morale.
After 18 heavy artillery shells and 144 rocket launchers, the sound of artillery shells stopped for a moment.
It was this moment of tranquility that made these little Japanese soldiers feel like they had survived a disaster. A surge of ecstasy surged in their hearts. After all, they were blessed by the locusts in heaven.
But this ecstasy did not last long, just like a drowning person who just struggled to stick his head out to take a breath of air, but immediately sank into the water again, and what awaited them was even deeper despair.
The shrill sound that made the Japanese's scalps tingle rang out again. This time, there were endless rocket launchers in the front, and 155 howitzers mixed in.
The wailing of the Japs was drowned out by the bombing. The explosion was the main theme at the moment, and everything else was just supporting roles in this event.
Kenkichi Ikegami of the Ninth Brigade and Kiyomizu Nobuyuki of the 41st Division were hiding in the rear bunkers, watching the rain of shells falling from the sky helplessly.
There is a kind of despair called powerlessness, and there is a more painful despair which is to stand back and watch, and still be powerless to do anything.
Despair doesn't go away, it just moves.
The despair shifted from the faces of the soldiers of the 3rd Army of the Fifth Army just now to the faces of the Japanese at this moment. This despair came suddenly, but was also more thorough.
Those who participated in this operation were basically the Japanese's Type B combat troops. In their previous combat experience against China, they had no experience facing heavy artillery, so their formation at this time was basically based on the configuration of breaking through individual soldiers' light firepower.
Unexpectedly, we encountered such a large-scale bombardment here, and the losses were extremely heavy for a while.
The two Japanese officers in the rear could see clearly that the bombardment of these heavy artillery was very accurate, as if they had eyes, and they were specifically directed at various key firepower units or places where soldiers were densely populated.
After the second round of shelling was over, all the large-scale artillery positions and core heavy machine gun positions of the two Japanese units were targeted. Under this bombardment, there were only a few heavy firepower output units that could survive.
Although there were no very accurate statistics, the two commanders knew at a glance that the upcoming battle would be extremely difficult.
Even if the subsequent troops that could output such heavy firepower did not take any action, it would be very difficult for the Locust Army to gather its morale again given its current badly beaten state. If they wanted to tear through the National Army's defense line with only rifles, light machine guns and a very small number of heavy machine guns, the losses would be very great.
Just as the two Japanese commanders were thinking about how to gather these defeated soldiers and complete the military order of General Okamura to split the Fifth Army and the Fourteenth Army of the National Army before 12:00, the hair-raising scream rang out again.
The two Japanese commanders felt the urge to curse, "Fuck you..."
The two fierce bombings just now had basically reached the upper limit of the Japanese heavy artillery brigade's usual artillery reserves. The two Japanese commanders simply did not believe that the Chinese army was still capable of launching the next round of bombing.
But the more you don’t believe something, the more it becomes a reality.
The two Japanese commanders' mouths were filled with curse words, but they no longer knew how to say them. A deep sense of powerlessness surged from the depths of their hearts.
The two of them slumped down on their camp chairs, not even having the courage to look at the battlefield again.
Boom, boom, boom.
Boom, boom, boom.
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During the third round of shelling, the two devils initially had some habitual physiological reactions, such as twitching of the corners of their eyes or twitching of their facial muscles. But in the later stages, no matter how heavy the bombing outside was, the two devils were like dead, without any expression or movement.
This is probably what it's like to feel heartbroken.
Compared with the state of the Japanese, the National Army on the opposite position was like it was New Year's Day, even more lively than setting off fireworks.
This series of heavy artillery fire all fell on the Japanese positions. The two-kilometer-long Japanese positions were like being washed away, with bullet craters everywhere and loose soil and Japanese remains everywhere.
The old soldiers who were curious about the situation even started counting how many shells fell in this round. The sound was more exciting than setting off firecrackers during the New Year.
These veterans didn't know which unit fired these shells. At least in their impression, the National Army didn't have such powerful firepower. Anyway, they must have made up their minds that if they could win this battle and get out alive, they must give this artillery unit a kowtow.
No matter which side this artillery unit belongs to, even if the Japanese blow themselves up, it is worth giving this artillery unit a heads up.