Warlords: Rising from the Northwest Border and Sweeping Across the Powers

Half an hour later, the First Army of the Northwestern Revolutionary Army began to gather on a large scale towards the front line, and was divided into ten dispersed combat units in the front and back by regiment. As soon as the Northern Expedition Corps took action, the Fuso front-line commander Okada Yasushi received the news that the position of the First Army troops was just at the edge of Fuso's long-range artillery range and was extremely scattered.

Okada Yasushi immediately ordered all soldiers to return to the trenches, as the enemy was about to launch a large-scale charge for a general attack.

Under such circumstances, Fuso was no longer afraid of the rocket artillery units of the Northern Expedition Corps. Once the two sides engaged in close combat on the battlefield, the large-scale firepower coverage of rockets would most likely hurt their own people.

In other words, the following battle basically declared that the rocket force had lost its due role.

Under the order of Battalion Commander Hata, hundreds of white phosphorus smoke bombs were loaded into the barrel of the Nebelwerfer rocket launcher. As it was ignited and fired, under the action of the rocket thrusters, a large number of smoke bombs cut through the sky and flew rapidly towards the Fuso position.

The soldiers occupying several high ground reconnaissance points outside the Fuso position immediately issued a danger alarm signal. For safety reasons, a large number of Fuso soldiers entered the bunker again. Compared with the panic the first time, the Fuso soldiers who now knew that rocket launchers could not bring devastating damage to the bunker fortifications with amazing defenses began to retreat into the bunker in an orderly and extremely fast manner.

Okada Tai looked grimly, holding a telescope and looking at the rockets falling from the sky with long tail flames. He blurted out: "Baga, Su Zhengyang, that bastard, is he crazy? In this situation, continuous fire coverage will not only make it difficult to cause serious damage to us, but will also hinder their large-scale offensive strategy."

Unlike the devastating roar of artillery shells that Okada Yasu had imagined, although these rockets exploded after being fired into the Fuso position in large numbers, the power of the explosion was simply incomparable to the previous high-explosive rockets.

A large amount of smoke diffused and gathered above the trench positions, forming a large patch of thick white fog that was so thick that one could not see one's hand in front of one's face. In this situation, the Fuso soldiers in the bunker could not return to their garrison positions at all. Once they left the bunker, they had completely lost even the most basic sense of direction.

This is not the first time that the Northwest Revolutionary Army has used such a strategy. As early as a few months ago in the battlefield of Fu'an City, Liu Chengxu used this method and implemented a textbook classic trench attack tactic.

Su Zhengyang was not stingy with the so-called No. 150 special rocket. The price of this kind of smoke bomb was only one-third of the normal high-explosive rocket, which was very cheap. The Viking Division Rocket Battalion fired thousands of smoke bombs in four consecutive rounds. Unlike the small white phosphorus smoke bombs carried by most armored vehicles, the caliber of the smoke bomber was as high as MM.

This means that the main fuel and special substances that can form smoke screens are contained in it are very sufficient. After thousands of smoke bombs exploded, the huge amount of smoke quickly generated formed a layered smoke wall that covered an area of ​​four or five kilometers and was dozens of feet high.

Even Okada Yasushi, who was standing on the high ground near Tsuruga Castle and observing the situation on the front line with a telescope, had his vision completely blocked and could not see the movements of the large-scale main force of the Northwest Revolutionary Army's First Army at all.

Okada Yasushi had a bad premonition and immediately issued orders to the artillery units scattered in the positions, asking them to launch large-scale artillery strikes on the area in front of the positions that the enemy troops must pass through.

Under the command of Okada Yasushi, the six artillery regiments had no choice but to bite the bullet and grope in the fog. After determining an approximate direction and distance, they opened fire in succession. A large number of shells bombarded the front area of ​​the Fuso trench position, directly blowing the originally flat land upside down and turning it into a pockmarked area covered with shell craters.

However, the cunning Liu Chengxu did not command his troops to charge immediately, but waited in place for a full twenty minutes, watching countless whistling shells from Fuso blow up the plain less than 800 miles in front of him.

After three rounds of fire, Okada Yasushi felt relieved. Although his field of vision was extremely disturbed and a considerable number of shells did not hit the designated coordinates accurately, Fuso had more than a thousand howitzers and mortars of different calibers firing in succession. As long as more than 40% of the shells did not deviate from the target area, it would be enough to cause devastating damage to the enemy's assault troops.

It was not until Fuso had fired three or four rounds of blind fire that Liu Chengxu calmly gave the order.

"Notify all regimental units to put on their gas masks and charge with the trench assault team as the spearhead!"

At this time, the smoke covering the heads of the Fuso garrison troops not only did not dissipate under the action of the wind, but became even thicker. This was because Su Zhengyang continued to order the rocket artillery battalion to drop smoke bombs towards the target area.

Although the smoke produced by this white phosphorus smoke bomb has no lethality and is not a chemical or bacterial weapon, when the concentration reaches a certain level, the Fuso soldiers will still suffer dizziness, vomiting, short-term breathing difficulties and other consequences if they inhale a large amount. At this time, the main force of Fuso has not yet developed to the point where everyone can be equipped with gas masks. Most of the Fuso soldiers can only tear off some corners of their inner clothes, soak them with water if they can find it, and tie them to their cheeks to prevent inhaling too much smoke. The other soldiers whose water bottles they carry with them are empty are in a miserable situation.

I could only take out my little earthworms, soak them in yellow urine, and tie them on my face. The north wind whistled past, and the smell it brought was extremely sour.

The charge horn sounded, and the ten regimental combat units of the First Army dispersed from all directions. They identified the direction of the Fuso trench position in the smoke, and launched a general attack wearing gas masks that were completely capable of getting rid of the effects of the smoke.

At the front line of the Kwantung Army, in a trench position with an area of ​​600 meters in radius, the Fuso soldiers had just experienced a difficult groping and stumbled back to the trench. On the First Army side, a company commander of an assault force had already jumped into the trench with dozens of soldiers. Under the cover of heavy fog, although the soldiers of the First Army, as the attacking party, were also subject to certain restrictions and interference, their long-term tactical training had made them familiar with groping their way forward in the smoke.

A three-edged military bayonet attacked from the side. The Fuso soldier, who was feeling dizzy, having difficulty breathing and coughing in the smoke, was instantly pierced through the chest and bleeding profusely. It was not until the other party faced him face to face that the Fuso soldier realized that the man on the other side was wearing an extremely strange mask, with an extremely fierce look in his eyes, staring at him coldly.

In order to avoid accidental injuries to friendly forces caused by hot weapons, the commandos who jumped into the trenches were all equipped with a Mitsubishi bayonet. Once they found the enemy, they would deliver a fatal blow without hesitation. In just a moment, the trenches were filled with the sounds of close combat and the screams of Fuso soldiers. A weapon like the Mitsubishi bayonet could cause a triangular wound, and the person could basically be declared dead if he was not treated in a short time.

An hour later, the smoke gradually became thinner. By this time, the First Army had occupied a large area of ​​trenches in Fuso and killed thousands of enemies. The blood gathered in the trenches to form small streams, making the soil here loose and muddy.

The soldiers of the First Army gritted their teeth and attacked the enemies in front of them fiercely. It was a one-sided horrific massacre.