Devil's Army

Compared with the brutal fighting outside Tiaobinshan County, the situation in Tieling County was much milder.

Although Kaiyuan had a large number of Japanese troops stationed there, they had been severely beaten by Wang Zhuangfei's Fourth Brigade when they reinforced Fengtian last time, and they had not recovered yet. This time, when attacking Tieling County, he and the Japanese troops in Changtu gathered more than 8,000 people, eight tanks, twelve small mountain guns and twelve heavy mortars and marched towards Tieling County.

At noon, approaching Tieling County, Major Fujie was shadowed by the mines of the 4th Brigade when he reinforced Fengtian last time, so the Japanese large force stopped more than 500 meters in front of the anti-tank cone group.

A Japanese lieutenant sent two engineers to start clearing mines.

The Japanese engineers had just started to clear mines when two soldiers with good marksmanship from the first company of the first battalion of the second regiment of the fifth brigade fired the first shot in the defense of Tieling County.

The battle in Tieling County started half a day earlier than the battle outside Tiaobinshan County.

As the first company fired two rounds of Type 38 rifles, two Japanese engineers fell one after another. The Japanese tanks began to bombard the company's fortifications.

Since the enemy was still more than 700 meters away from the company's fortifications, which was beyond the effective range of the Type 38 rifles and machine guns, the enemy's return fire was sparse, and there was no more gunfire from the fortifications.

The Japanese tanks continued to bombard for a while, and the entire company hid in the anti-artillery fortifications, so there were not many casualties.

The Japanese lieutenant did not dare to send engineers forward to clear the mines for fear of being shot, so he had no choice but to order the grenadiers to blast a path more than 500 meters in front of the anti-tank cone group.

"Boom boom boom boom boom" the Japanese grenadiers bombed a round more than 500 meters in front of the anti-tank cone group, but did not find any mines.

The Japanese tanks and infantry confidently walked to the front of the anti-tank cone group, which was more than 500 meters away.

The Japanese tanks advanced while bombing the anti-tank cones in front of them, trying to blast a passage.

As they got closer to the company's fortifications, the company commander ordered to open fire. In an instant, light and heavy fire from the fortifications rang out.

At this time, the six small mountain guns and four heavy mortars of the Japanese artillery position fired at the same time, and the shells fell on the fortifications of the first company one after another.

The fortifications were soon blown down and the company's casualties began to increase.

The artillery positions of the 5th Brigade quickly locked onto the Japanese artillery positions. Feilong also flew towards the Japanese artillery positions and transmitted the location data of the Japanese artillery positions.

At this time, the Japanese artillery position fired another round of salvos, completing his mission in this battle.

The shells from the three 150mm howitzers and two small mountain guns at the Second Brigade's artillery position whizzed towards the Japanese artillery positions.

Although Zhili had only half the number of artillery pieces as the Japanese, the lethality of his three 150mm howitzers far exceeded the Japanese's small mountain artillery and heavy mortars.

After one round of salvos, the artillery of the Second Brigade fired another round of salvos.

The Japanese artillery positions were ablaze. The pressure on the company's fortifications was suddenly reduced a lot without the bombardment of the Japanese artillery.

The artillerymen of the Second Brigade cheered on the battlefield for killing the biggest threat of the Japanese. At this time, the artillery company commander of the Second Brigade seemed to hear the whistling sound of artillery shells flying towards them. So he stopped the artillerymen from cheering, listened carefully, and shouted: "Not good!"

At this time, the first batch of Japanese shells had already landed on their artillery positions, and the two small mountain guns were blown into a pile of parts on the spot. Many artillerymen fell down.

It turned out that Major Fujie's artillery position was destroyed by the Fourth Brigade last time, so he played a trick this time and built two artillery positions. When his first artillery position was bombarded by the Devil's heavy artillery, the artillery of his second artillery position calculated the approximate position of the Second Brigade's artillery position through the trajectory of the Second Brigade's artillery shells, and the scene just now appeared.

If the Japanese also had a flying dragon to transmit the exact location coordinates of the enemy's artillery positions, then all five artillery pieces of the Second Brigade would have been destroyed.

The first round of artillery fire from the Japanese destroyed two small mountain guns and several artillerymen of the Second Brigade.

Then the Japanese artillery launched a second round of coverage.

The artilleryman on the left side of a 150mm howitzer of the Second Brigade heard the whistling sound of shells coming from far away. He took a look at the two open boxes of 150mm howitzer shells next to him, shouted "No!" and threw himself on the howitzer shell boxes. Almost at the same time, the artilleryman on the right side of the howitzer also jumped on the two boxes of howitzer shells.

He moved a little slowly and fell on the first artilleryman.

The two artillerymen knew that if the Japanese shells detonated the two boxes of howitzer shells, the entire artillery position would be razed to the ground.

A Japanese artillery shell exploded next to the howitzer shell, blowing off a wheel of the howitzer next to it and causing the entire howitzer to fall to one side.

When the artilleryman next to him ran over, Xiao Wang, who was lying on top of the howitzer shell, was covered with shrapnel and bleeding profusely. He was no longer breathing.

Shanwa, who was being held down by Xiao Wang, also had shrapnel stuck in his arms and legs, and blood was gushing out of him.

The artillery commander probed Shanwa's nose and shouted:

"He's still breathing. Quick, rush to the hospital."

The artillery wanted to move these three howitzers, but the 150mm howitzers weighing three or four tons cannot be moved just by pushing them, and they have to be pulled by trucks.

It would take too long to wait for the truck to start the fire and then pull the howitzer in reverse. It was not realistic. During such a long time, there was no telling how many rounds of artillery shells the Japanese would fire at us.

Just when the artillerymen were in a dilemma, the Jackal ordered Feilong to pounce on the Japanese artillery position.

The Japanese artillery are loading ammunition and preparing for the third round of artillery fire.

Feilong dived towards the Japanese artillery, firing as he rushed.

The Japanese artillerymen fell to the ground one after another. Feilong flew over the Japanese artillery positions and turned around to fly over. The Type 92 heavy machine gun in Feilong's abdomen kept firing.

At the same time, the Jackal called the artillery position and told them the coordinates of the Japanese artillery position.

The artillery company commander quickly adjusted the muzzles and firing parameters of the remaining two 150mm howitzers.

"Two volleys, fire." Two howitzer shells, carrying the fury of the artillerymen, smashed into the enemy's artillery position.

Two howitzer shells accurately hit the Japanese artillery position, and the area within 50 meters around the impact point was razed to the ground.

Then came the second wave of attacks, which caused the Japanese artillery positions to explode.

The Japanese artillery position was also destroyed.