Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

The Japanese artillery bombardment continued until it was getting dark. They fired more than 40 shells, destroying three artillery bunkers, leaving several large pits near the artillery bunkers, and blowing up an underground trench near the artillery bunker.

Li Qinwu's sense of urgency increased again, and as soon as it got dark, he immediately launched an offensive.

The Japanese had two main regiments surrounding the hill. The 4th Regiment surrounded it from the south, and the 29th Regiment surrounded it from the north, cutting off the connection between the hill and the north bank of the river.

Li Qinwu planned to attack the 29th Regiment fiercely at night, because the distance from the high ground to the northernmost Nenjiang River was only 5 km, and the depth of the 29th Regiment was limited to this point. If the Punishment Army attacked fiercely, it might be possible to rush to the end and kill the 29th Regiment.

Moreover, it is impossible for the 29th Regiment to focus all its attention on the high ground. Behind them, on the other side of the river, is the defense line of the Northeast Army. They must allocate some soldiers to monitor the situation in the north to prevent an attack from the opposite side.

Li Qinwu hopes to attack the 29th Regiment fiercely to attract the attention of the Japanese army and see if they will come to support. If they do not come to support, he will try his best to inflict casualties on the 29th Regiment. If they do come to support, he will destroy the heavy artillery!

Li Jianfeng had discovered the location of the Japanese heavy artillery, but the Japanese defense of the heavy artillery was very tight. Two cavalry battalions were guarding the artillery on the left and right, making it impossible to launch a surprise attack on them.

Now it depends on whether tonight’s raid can cause heavy casualties to the 29th Regiment, and whether the Japanese will support the 29th Regiment!

At 9:10 pm, it was completely dark. With the technology of that era, large-scale night battles were something that all commanders needed to avoid, especially the advantageous side. As long as they held their positions and relied on heavy firepower, they could inflict heavy casualties on the enemy that launched the night battle.

The Japs believed they were the superior side, and held on to their positions tightly at night to prevent the Punitive Forces from launching a night attack on them.

They thought that with so many people on their side, the Punishment Army would definitely not launch a surprise attack. However, just as the Japs had just set up camp, artillery fire from the Punishment Army's high ground rang out.

The Punishment Army had the most artillery pieces aimed at the north on its high ground, a total of 12 pieces. The main purpose of pointing so many artillery pieces at the north bank was to block the Nenjiang Bridge and prevent the Japanese from attacking the north.

Now these artillery pieces with a range of 6km can directly strike the 5th Regiment at a depth of only 29km, and every shell that falls can almost take the lives of one or two Japanese soldiers.

A sniper with more than 300 vision points can clearly see the position of the Japanese in the dark. Both night vision and thermal vision can make the Japanese nowhere to hide.

They quietly moved to within 500 meters of the Japanese position, and without the Japanese being able to see them, they passed the Japanese coordinates to the artillery in the rear. After a period of calculation, the artillery were able to deliver shells into the Japanese stationed position with every bombardment.

The Japanese 29th Regiment suffered a devastating disaster. The front-line sentries were screaming in panic due to artillery fire. Five minutes later, almost all of the Japanese reconnaissance sentries were killed. Li Qinwu opened a portal, transported the mortars from the high ground down, and approached the Japanese positions to fire.

48 81mm mortars approached the Japanese positions to 1km away and fired. They were almost lined up in a row and kept firing shells at the Japanese positions.

There were patches of fire on the Japanese positions, and every explosion killed an enemy. These mortars were incredibly accurate because each gun had a front-line sniper reporting the location. After the Japanese in front were killed, the mortar position would move forward and continue to fire at the Japanese.

“Ahhh! Where’s the attack? Where’s the attack?”

The commander of the 29th Regiment of the Japanese army felt that he was attacked by a regimental artillery unit, and the dense explosions made his scalp tingle.

A Japanese soldier ran into the regiment headquarters and shouted: "Sir! The enemy is rushing down from the high ground! They pushed the mortar down and advanced to one kilometer in front of our position to shoot!"

The commander of the 29th Regiment was furious. The Punishment Army was so bold that they dared to charge into the positions controlled by the warriors of the Empire of Japan!

He glared and shouted orders.

"Baka! The enemy dared to fire artillery at close range! This is a huge humiliation! Gather the troops and launch a charge! Get rid of their artillery, charge! Launch a long live charge!"

The order was issued to all the Japanese troops. The Japanese soldiers began to gather under the shouts of the officers, and then launched a long live charge. They wanted to rush directly to the group of enemies who dared to come down the mountain and kill them all!

During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese relied on the resolute Banzai charge many times to break through the Russian lines. This tactic, which had been tested in actual combat and was fully in line with the law that spirit overcomes all, was very popular among Japanese officers.

Of course, the reason why they adopted this tactic was that the Japanese did not understand the Punitive Army. They did not know that the Punitive Army had night vision capabilities, and they thought that the Punitive Army's artillery could not fire accurately at night. They had the opportunity to rush into the Punitive Army's artillery formation and kill these weak Chinese enemies with bayonets.

"Tata open!"

A Japanese officer drew his samurai sword and swung it forward. The prepared Japanese soldiers charged forward in a line formation. When it got dark, the howling of the Japanese soldiers on board resounded through the night. The Japanese soldiers rushed towards the mortar position of the Punishment Army in row after row. The four shining swords flashed cold light. If it were an ordinary army, it might be possible that they would be defeated by their momentum. But unfortunately, their enemy was the Punishment Army, a Punishment Army equipped with a large amount of automatic firepower!

The Japanese launched a charge from the left, middle and right sides at the same time, with about 2000 people charging. During the charge, individual flares were continuously fired into the sky, but these flares were shot down by the snipers of the Punishment Army shortly after they were launched into the sky.

At this time, some Japanese soldiers have already discovered that something is wrong. Why can't the flare fly? Is the gunner on the other side too accurate?

The Japanese soldiers could only charge in the dark. When they charged to a certain position and saw the muzzles of mortars lighting up from time to time in the darkness in the distance, everyone was ecstatic. Mortars cannot hit positions that are too close, and the closer they run, the safer they are. The Japanese charged faster, as if those mortars that were being fired were lambs to be slaughtered.

Then, a large amount of fire suddenly exploded in the darkness in front of the mortar, and hundreds of bullets shot into the Japs' charging line, cutting them down like wheat.

An avatar with full vision was lying behind the Liao-made Maxim. In his vision, the Japanese charging team 500 meters away was bright red. The avatar gripped the trigger and fired a row of bullets, and the red Japanese heat sources fell down one after another.

The machine gunners behind each heavy machine gun are clones with full visual points. They control the heavy machine guns precisely and turn the charging Japanese into balls of blood mist.

But these Japanese devils are indeed fierce. Faced with this level of firepower attack, they still rush forward like crazy. They will not retreat until the commander gives the order to retreat.

As a result, this group of stupid devils suffered the worst casualties since the September 918 Incident. In the face of the firepower of heavy machine guns, the method of spiritual victory was bullshit, and the human body would always succumb to physical attacks.

The Japanese suffered heavy casualties in the frontal attack. The most ferocious Japanese only rushed to 300 meters in front of the machine gun position. He was locked by four heavy machine guns at the same time and was beaten into a pulp.

However, the Japanese on both wings suffered less attack. Li Qinwu felt that it was better to cut off one finger than to hurt ten fingers. Therefore, he wanted to concentrate his firepower to kill all the Japanese in one direction. As for the Japanese in the other two directions, he let the tanks deal with them.

Eight Renault FT tanks were divided into two groups, guarding the two wings of the machine gun position. The 37mm cannons began to roar and bombarded the Japanese assault team.