Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

"Captain Fan, I'm the platoon leader of the artillery company of the military sub-district. Under the commander's orders, I'm carrying three 60mm mortars and a recoilless rifle team to assist your Sichuan Army in the upcoming battle. We're carrying three hundred mortar shells and twenty recoilless rifle rounds, more than enough to handle all the upcoming battles."

"In addition, our platoon has a liaison team. If we encounter any obstacles during the attack, we can call on the artillery group in the rear to attack at any time. In addition, the tanks can also use their tank guns to provide artillery support."

After hearing this, the three battalion commanders of the Sichuan Army could not help but sigh in their hearts:

"This is really a big deal. For such a small battle, they have the support of an artillery battalion behind them, and they are available at any time. This can be regarded as the most prosperous battle fought by their Sichuan Army. They don't even consider the consumption of ammunition."

"Based on their current firepower configuration, the Sichuan Army Corps can easily defeat an enemy field force of the same size. This is something they never dared to think about before."

When preparations were almost complete, Kong Hao ordered his troops to launch a covering bombardment on the enemy in the trenches. After about five rounds, he ordered his men to fire a large number of smoke bombs at the enemy's front-line positions to block the enemy machine gunners' sight and cover our infantry attack.

At this time, the enemies in the stronghold seemed to have sensed the coming of their doomsday, and they just kept shooting wildly with their weapons to cover up the fear in their hearts.

Commander Fan led a reinforced company across the trench. According to the pre-war combat plan, their regiment was responsible for attacking the enemy's left front line position, and the troops of the fourth division were responsible for the right side.

After two days of continuous attacks, the enemy now has more than 400 people left, and we have also deployed two reinforced companies with about the same number of troops.

But our morale is high at this time, while the enemy is in despair. These two are completely different concepts.

When Captain Fan led his men close to the enemy's first position, they found that the entire trench had been collapsed by a large number of artillery shells. There were many enemy corpses lying in it, but there was not a single living person.

Only sporadic gunshots were heard from the second line of defense. It seemed that the enemy had abandoned the first line of defense and transferred all the movable forces to the second line of defense or the main artillery tower, attempting a final desperate struggle.

However, this also saved our troops a lot of trouble. Commander Fan ordered everyone to enter the trenches and use engineering shovels to reinforce the positions facing the enemy stronghold. At this time, we must adopt a steady and cautious tactic. Anyway, time is on our side, so we are not in a hurry.

Before preparing to attack the enemy's second line of defense, Commander Fan called the artillery company captain over and gave him the latest orders.

"Captain Steak, you see those two enemy Type 92 heavy machine guns up ahead. They're blocking our next attack route and creating crossfire, which is extremely harmful to us. Your artillery should prioritize destroying them later."

"Captain Fan, just wait and see. Dealing with open machine gun positions like these is what our artillery is best at. I'll make the arrangements right away."

About ten minutes later, three shells landed next to an enemy heavy machine gun position, followed by three more. After three rounds, the heavy machine gun position that had just been firing fiercely suddenly fell silent.

Captain Fan even saw that the Japanese heavy machine gunners on the position were blown away by artillery shells, and the heavy machine guns were all turned into parts.

Three more rounds of artillery fire followed, which completely eliminated the enemy's two carefully set up heavy machine gun positions and killed seven or eight enemies.

However, when Captain Fan put down the telescope, he couldn't help but sigh. In his heart, he had to admit that this tactic of hitting people with artillery shells really made people feel extremely refreshed.

As for the two heavy machine gun positions of the enemy just now, if the Sichuan Army Corps were asked to capture them, even if dozens of excellent soldiers were killed or wounded, they might not be able to complete the mission.

When the Japanese were building their stronghold, they had already estimated the attack route of our infantry. In such a place with no cover, it would be difficult to break through relying on the advantage in numbers. With the support of light and heavy machine guns in other bunkers, we should be able to be foolproof.

But the enemy never dreamed that our attacking troops were equipped with a large number of mortars and had no shortage of artillery shells, so tragedy struck in an instant.

The light mortars produced by our arsenal are the nemesis of the enemy's heavy machine gun positions in the field. As long as we are willing to consume ammunition, we can easily destroy such uncovered positions.

Seeing that the enemy's machine gun position had been destroyed, Captain Fan immediately ordered the main force to penetrate deep into the position and try to eliminate the remaining enemies there as quickly as possible.

It was also the first time that the soldiers of the Sichuan Army experienced this refreshing feeling. When attacking, they had an artillery support behind them that had no shortage of ammunition. As long as they needed it, they could have artillery support at any time, even if their troops only had one infantry squad.

Unlike before, the entire regiment only had one cannon. If one shell could not destroy an enemy heavy machine gun, the regimental commander would probably jump up and curse.

Just when the troops were making good progress, suddenly, some cover was pushed away from two hidden corners of the trench in front, revealing five or six firing holes, which contained a Type 92 heavy machine gun and three Type 99 light machine guns.

Several of the soldiers at the front of the Sichuan Army were caught off guard and were hit, and the rest were suppressed and unable to move.

Captain Fan carefully observed the situation on the battlefield with a telescope in the back, trying to think of how to break the deadlock. In this situation, they had to pass through quickly, otherwise it would be a huge trouble.

However, the more he looked, the tighter his brows furrowed. The Japanese were too cunning. The angles of the two bunkers they built were very tricky. They were covered with rubble and even reinforced with concrete. They survived the large-scale artillery attack by our troops before.

Because of this, even if our small-caliber mortars hit the top of the bunker, they would not be able to penetrate it and cause casualties to the enemies inside.

Moreover, the bunker was very low, and the Type 75 infantry gun and mm mountain gun behind us could not effectively hit the target due to the shooting angle.

In the past, when faced with this situation, only the bravest soldiers could be selected to use grenades or explosive packs, and under the cover of light and heavy machine guns, slowly approach the enemy's bunker, and then blow it up to open up an offensive route for the main force.

Of course, this process is extremely difficult and will result in great casualties, perhaps an infantry squad, perhaps an infantry platoon, or even more outstanding soldiers. There is no way around it.