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The sound of artillery fire alarmed the First Army Headquarters. The Eighth Route Army actually mobilized an artillery regiment to participate in the battle. This was truly a surprising event.

He immediately called the 41st Division Headquarters.

"General Abe Heisuke, this group of Eighth Route Army soldiers is extremely cunning, please fight them seriously."

Abe Heisuke's expression was unusually calm. Everything was under control and there was no need for Iwamatsu Yoshio to worry.

His front-line positions would be destroyed by artillery fire, and he would lose thousands of troops, but he would use the loss of front-line troops to recapture the lost heavy artillery.

"Commander, I will lead the 41st Division to quell the flames of war and recapture the lost heavy weapons. The Battle of Changping in history will be rewritten here."

Yoshio Iwamatsu was stunned for a moment. What the hell is the Battle of Changping?

What's the connection? I'm asking you if you can hold on. If not, call for air support.

Kong Jie was squatting on the ground smoking his pipe, but Ding Wei called him with a smile.

"Old Kong, why don't you come and take a look? There will be a wave of porridge cooked by steel shells soon. The scene is bound to be spectacular."

Kong Jie stared with his big eyes.

"I've never seen you be such a loser. You didn't let your brothers charge and wasted the ammunition."

"I, Old Kong, have heard about the coordination between infantry and artillery, and I have also heard Captain Zhou talk about it. Don't think that I have always been a peasant with no education."

Haha, he's even teaching me, Ding Wei, a lesson.

Even if the shells were used up, they could be captured again. But now that all the elite veterans were killed, Ding Wei couldn't bear to let them go.

"I know you, Kong, are learning and you love to learn. Right now the Japanese are using a turtle shell defense, and only heavy artillery can break it. Try out the training results of my artillery regiment and have an intuitive judgment of the firepower of the troops."

Kong Jie was indignant.

"Use them sparingly, fire a few shells to test the waters. Save the remaining shells for the offensive."

"Isn't this a tough battle?"

Ding Wei suddenly asked back and gave the order to fire without hesitation.

Large-caliber howitzers are in place one after another. Operating these guys is much more difficult than field artillery.

The lack of experience was obvious, and the gunners and others were not very skillful in their operations.

I guess the accuracy won’t be much better.

Coincidentally, this was also the part of the performance that Ding Wei needed to perform. Let the Japanese know that we are not good at using heavy artillery.

After fiddling with it for a long time, the artillery positions were set up and ultra-long-range firing was carried out, and large-caliber grenades whizzed towards the positions.

Accompanied by a loud rumbling sound, the ground was shaking.

The power of large-caliber artillery is multiplied.

The 150mm howitzer has twice the caliber of the 75mm mountain gun, but its power is five times greater.

A shell weighs 31 kilograms and contains more explosives, so the explosion is more powerful. Even concrete fortifications cannot withstand the bombardment of howitzers.

The power of a high-explosive grenade is enough to destroy a meter-deep trench.

When the bullet hit the ground, a crater three or four meters deep immediately appeared. If there was accumulated water, it would be enough to drown people.

Comparison of the power of different artillery

The shock wave of the explosion left no grass growing within a radius of dozens of meters.

The shock wave can destroy armored vehicles and tanks within 3 meters.

It can destroy a 5 cm thick concrete wall within 20 meters.

It can destroy 8 cm thick masonry walls within 18 meters.

This cannot be compared with the power of mountain artillery. When a shell fell, the Japanese were terrified.

It is not difficult to explain why some recruits would be frightened by artillery fire.

The so-called solid fortifications that the Japanese had just built were vulnerable to artillery fire.

In one round of artillery fire, 30 shells fell, and the front line of the position was in a mess.

The Japanese soldiers guarding the cat ear cave suffered over a hundred casualties.

Many people were injured by shell shock.

Lieutenant Colonel Kojima believed that the firepower of the Eighth Route Army was too strong and the fortifications could not withstand it at all, so he should request air fire support and destroy the heavy artillery positions.

"No, no, no, this is our captured artillery. It is difficult to keep it intact under the bombing of the planes. I am still thinking about retaking it. Such heavy weapons will never be left in the hands of the Eighth Route Army."

Lieutenant General Abe Heisuke is full of confidence.

Judging from the opponent's strong offensive, it would be a waste to give them 8 heavy artillery pieces.

They didn't even understand the simplest coordination between infantry and artillery, and didn't even arrange for an infantry charge. Instead, they took advantage of the mess in the fortifications and didn't arrange any troops to charge forward.

I couldn’t understand how those brigades and regiments had suffered defeats in the past.

In the afternoon, a second round of shelling came.

The shells rolled and destroyed the Japanese fortifications along the river.

The fighting subsided temporarily.

The next morning, there was another round of artillery fire, with 24 shells each time.

The gunners seemed to be becoming more skilled, constantly training themselves on setting up the artillery, putting it away, moving positions, and firing again.

Ding Weiming has made his cards clear, and he is going to use the positions along the river as targets to train the heavy artillery battalion.

Such a blatant artillery position was not bombed by aircraft, and the Japanese were obviously still obsessed with taking back the heavy artillery.

At this time, Kong Jie began to understand a little.

So they are using the heavy artillery battalion as bait to force the Japanese to come out and fight?

What a big heart.

Ding Wei has a very big heart.

For three days in a row, the heavy artillery battalion opened fire continuously and launched a fierce attack on the positions along the river.

The fortifications that the Japanese had carefully repaired had been completely destroyed.

There's something wrong with Abe Heisuke's condition.

The enemy had only launched 144 artillery shells, 24 in the morning and 24 in the afternoon, which had already made the morale of the Japanese soldiers extremely gloomy.

More than 500 infantrymen were injured in the artillery fire. Many of them suffered damage to their internal organs and internal bleeding. Although they were not dead yet, it was difficult to save them.

I can only rely on painkillers until I die.

You have to know that the heavy artillery battalion sent out more than 600 artillery shells and 20 tons of ammunition in one go.

This only used up one-fifth of the ammunition reserves.

How many more rounds can his front-line troops hold out?

Should we withdraw the front-line troops? The Eighth Route Army is not attacking anyway.

While I am hesitating, a new day has arrived.

As usual, the bombardment began. After the heavy artillery battalion was in position in the morning, the howitzers roared in, continuing to suffocate the Japanese.

The Type 96 howitzer has a maximum range of 12 kilometers, which is longer and more powerful than the artillery in the hands of the 41st Division.

Even if the artillery battalion was mobilized, with 36 75mm guns, there would be no way to fight against it.

The range of an artillery is like a man’s lifeblood, the longer it is, the stronger it is.

Li Yunlong of the independent regiment observed for several days and felt puzzled.

"The Japanese are made of clay. They didn't resist even after being bombarded repeatedly."

"This old guy Ding Wei has really made a fortune. He has even pulled out the heavy artillery battalion. If I had this firepower, I would overturn the First Army Headquarters."

I'm jealous. I'm so fucking jealous.

The 358th Regiment of the Shanxi Suiyuan Army was also grumbling that Chu Yunfei had an artillery battalion under his command, which was already considered a tall one in the Shanxi Suiyuan Army.

The Shanxi-North Column pulled out a heavy artillery battalion and an artillery regiment.

"Oh my god, this group of Eighth Route Army soldiers is incredible. They will definitely be a serious threat to the Party and the country in the future."

At the Eighth Route Army headquarters, the general manager and the division commander also had a quarrel.

The boss thought that Ding Wei was fighting recklessly and wasting so many artillery shells.

"We, the Eighth Route Army, are not landlords. Many of our troops are still very poor. Why is Ding Wei pretending to be so high and mighty? We have fired hundreds of shells but there is not even a puddle."

Commander Liu had just promoted Ding Wei and appointed him commander of the Northern Shanxi Column.

When it comes to artillery, the Eighth Route Army's many columns, military sub-districts, brigades, and divisions are probably not as well-equipped as Ding Wei's.

Since he fights like this, he must have his reasons.

The commander still trusted Ding Wei and believed that he would not do anything rash.

The heavy artillery battalion was wiped out and he couldn't take down the 41st Division, so he killed Ding Wei.