Yes, since around 6 a.m., the artillery fire of the Black Hawk Empire Army began to rage. In just 4 hours, there were three rounds of bombardment on the main defense position of Gu Yongfeng.

The Black Hawk Imperial Army infantry has not launched an attack yet.

A whole infantry regiment began to build field fortifications like hardworking little bees 1,200 meters away from the front of the main position of Guyong Peak.

Zhang Dongqun is also a very clear-headed army general in the Black Hawk Army. Although he was extremely eager to capture Gu Yongfeng, he knew that the kingdom troops on the opposite defense line had as many as one or two infantry divisions, and the inability to succeed would only lead to heavy casualties.

He now has 12 105 howitzers and 12 75-caliber field cannons. He can completely use the power of artillery to destroy the strength of the kingdom people bit by bit, and then wait until they are weak before they are invaded.

Moreover, since he learned that the enemy on another battlefield was Liu Lang and the Independent Regiment, Zhang Dongqun would not make the mistake that the stupid Eighth Division had made. Not to mention that he suffered heavy losses after a long period of time, he was also attacked by elite soldiers from Liu Lang. He eventually lost all his heavy equipment and was beaten to his ass by Liu Lang.

Therefore, while constantly letting artillery kill the kingdom troops on the battlefield, the Black Hawk Army sweated heavily and excavated fortifications in the autumn sun.

Although the Third Army learned the lesson of the first shelling and only placed an infantry platoon on the front line as a warning force, the rest of the infantry companies shrank to the second line of defense hundreds of meters later, the losses were still considerable.

Not to mention the power of the 105 howitzer of the Black Hawk Imperial Army is too powerful, but the 75 field cannons that also participated in the shelling later were also quite powerful.

If the 75 mountain cannon is a small-caliber howitzer, then the 75 field cannon is a small-caliber cannon. Compared with howitzers, cannons are straight-sighted cannons. The cannons are fast in the initial velocity, relatively low ballistic trajectory, high kinetic energy, high loading of shells, and relatively larger damage radius. Compared with howitzers, cannons are more suitable for straight-line point-to-point attacks. Especially for important fortifications exposed to the field of vision, field cannons have a greater effect.

Originally, the battlefield was located in the mountainous area, and the mountain cannons as curved cannons were obviously more suitable for fighting on such battlefields. However, due to the terrain of Guyong Peak, except for the most frontal pass, all positions were built along the mountain. Especially the first line of defense was in the open area halfway up the mountain.

The Blackhawk Empire, who had moved his artillery position forward to a position of 4,000 meters only 8 miles away from the front line of Guyong Peak, used the artillery observer to aim at the position with a large number of fortification marks through careful observation of the artillery observer.

The field anti-aircraft fortifications that use logs and use nearly one meter of soil as the anti-aircraft layer often avoid the officers and soldiers. Even if they cannot explode one shot, if they aim at more than a dozen cannons, even the most solid fortifications will be bombarded the day.

After two consecutive rounds of artillery bombardment, the two infantry platoons on the front line who were on guard were almost completely injured. But even so, the commanders on the second line of defense could only grit their teeth and continue to go to the infantry.

If the Black Hawk Army successfully attacks the first line of defense position without a single blockage, the attack of the Black Hawk Empire people with a foothold will make the second line of defense even more precarious. If the frontier position of the Guyongfeng defense line is lost, the originally formed Guyongfeng regional defense line will have a fault. With a point breaking through the surface, the Black Hawk Empire people can eat up all the troops in the defensive positions at one bite.

If Gu Yongfeng falls and the Black Hawk Empires advance straight into the battle, the attack on the entire Gu Yongfeng war zone will be fatal, and even the battlefields on both wings will be divided and surrounded, and there will be no chance of retreat.

No one dares but this responsibility.

I can only continue to send people to the position, even though I know it is death.

Although it was obvious from the telescope that many Black Hawk Empires were naked and digging trenches and fortifications without any defense. If they shot, they could at least kill several of them. However, their own artillery fire had never fired.

"Bastard, where are our artillerymen? I remember that the theater command equipped our division with four mountain cannons? Order them to open fire for me. My soldiers cannot die in vain." A middle-aged soldier with a colonel's seal lying in the bunker on the second line of defense, holding a telescope and looking at the Black Hawk Army position opposite, finally couldn't help but roaring angrily.

"Captain, I've asked. No." A lieutenant colonel next to him flashed a trace of bitterness on his face.

"Why can't it work? Ask me a division headquarters, and I have to ask the commander personally."

"The reply from the division command center, the only four mountain cannons cannot be fired easily. If the exposed position is retaliated against by the Black Hawk artillery, our army will have no counter-suppression ability when the Black Hawk infantry attacks the positions in large numbers." The bitterness on the lieutenant colonel's face became more and more intense.

"Damn, this battle is really cowardly." Colonel Wang Guojun threw his helmet to the ground. "I asked me to come to guard Gu Yongfeng, so I sent a few mountain-breaking cannons, and I was so scared that I didn't dare to fight this battle. I couldn't fight."

"Captain, be careful, that's the time of war." Lieutenant Colonel Wangguojun looked up at the surroundings and quickly reminded in a low voice.

"Hey! I feel so sad when I see my brothers can only fill in their lives!" Colonel Wang Guojun angrily turned his gaze back to the front line of positions just after the third round of artillery attacks. He looked at an infantry platoon who had just sent up to carry the bodies out of the trenches and handed them to the stretcher team, his eyes were gloomy.

As the commander of the army, the most heartbreaking thing is not that their soldiers were wrapped in corpses, but that they were about to die before they even saw the enemy's face. They had no chance to shoot the enemy.

This is the sorrow of most soldiers in an era. Don’t laugh at them as one division or another brigade being chased and beaten by the Black Hawk Imperial Army, which is far inferior to their number. Only those who have experienced the battlefield understand that even if they are seeking survival, they are forced to do so.

People want to live. Under the fire of cannons all over the sky, how many people have heroic steel will? Many of them, a year or six months ago, were just farmers holding hoes, and they simply wanted to live.

Perhaps, only by retreating and having no choice but to escape will they die in a desperate battle, even if there is a sky full of cannon fire that can melt all the steel above their heads.

Now, the group of soldiers in front of Gu Yongfeng have no choice but to retreat. Once they retreat, they will be Chengguan City. There are 80,000 extremely vicious Black Hawk Imperial Army in the north of Chengguan City. If they are attacked on both sides, the 100,000 troops here will disappear.

You can only defend, and you can defend to the death.

No one dared to retreat, whether it was the Third Army, the 7th Army responsible for the entire south of Guyongfeng, or the 22nd Army of the 26th Route Army, which was rushing forward.

The main defense line of Gu Yongfeng was bombed by three consecutive rounds of howitzers and fields cannons, and the Beizhao Pass was not much better.

The artillery position of the 105 howitzer with a range of more than 10,000 meters is between Beizhao Pass and Guyong Peak. It can easily adjust the muzzle and attack two positions with a distance of 7,000 meters.

Through the telescope, Cai Dadao's special team informed Liu Lang of the location of the Black Hawk Imperial Army artillery position through a walkie-talkie. But Liu Lang could only sigh.

The shooting distance of the Bofors Mountain Cannon was as high as 9,000 meters, far exceeding the 41 mountain cannon of the Black Hawk Empire Army. However, Zhao Ergou transported six Bofors Mountain Cannons to the closest position of the Black Hawk Empire Army through three jumpers. As soon as the gun was fired, the six Bofors shot only 30 rounds of shells at the fastest speed, and were counter-fired by his howitzer.

If the dozen or so guns in the front were not the Black Hawks artillery that had not yet figured out the position of the artillery battalion of the Independent Regiment, the Bofos mountain cannon with the carrying capacity of the three-bangzi ran quite fast, and then the more than 100 shells covered by the entire valley could turn the artillery battalion's mountain cannon company into dust in the valley.

This is the advantage of heavy artillery. The shells are powerful and have a long range. Even the Bofos cannon with excellent performance can only barely fire against it, let alone suppress it.

However, more than a dozen artillery shells that were only two or three hundred meters away from the Black Hawk Imperial Army's artillery position also scared the howitzer brigade and took the initiative to retreat the position nearly 1,000 meters.

As for sending infantry attacks, Liu Lang could only give up temporarily when sending information from special forces, who were one thousand meters away from the artillery position.

Obviously, in the battle of the ancient city, whether it was to fight the Fourth Infantry Brigade or the Eighth Division first, Liu Lang's tactics of sneak attacking artillery units had been understood clearly by the commander of the Black Hawk Army.

This time, Zhang Dongqun prepared three infantry squadrons for the Howitzer Brigade, which could withstand at least one infantry regiment's attack for more than four hours.

If Liu Lang still hopes to ambush and attack the Black Hawk Imperial Army artillery like the battle in the ancient city a few years ago, it would be impossible to imagine. The alert range of his artillery positions has expanded by 800 meters outward, and the special forces can only hide in the mountains and forests 1,000 meters away and observe quietly to avoid being discovered.

Even if you want to attack a cold gun, it will be difficult.

Starting from 9 a.m., the 105 howitzer launched a full half hour of artillery fire to the main position of Beizhaoguan and the two wing positions, and at least more than 300 shells were poured out on the entire front line.

After seeing the power of howitzers of the Black Hawk Imperial Army, the officers and soldiers of the 66th Regiment finally knew why the number of kingdom troops far exceeded that of the Black Hawk Imperial Army but they lost consecutive battles. Compared with the artillery of the Black Hawk Imperial Army, the mountain cannons and mortars they encountered on the road to the strategic transfer of thousands of miles were simply children playing house, and they were not of the same level at all.

The only thing that made the regiment commander Ye and Deputy Commander Wang on the front line was glad that they not only spent six days and six nights on the front line with Liu Lang's supervision and the help of the Independent Regiment's engineer company to dig trenches on Shitou Mountain, but also used infantry platoons as units to blast explosives on the defense line of each infantry platoon, and built two layers of logs supported by logs as the top, and laid two meters of loess on it to hide in medium-sized anti-aircraft artillery holes that were enough to hide in more than 30 people. As long as they were not hit on the front of the bomb with more than 250 pounds, they would basically not collapse.

Of course, the most important thing is the fortifications of the three defense lines built by Liu Lang. On the first defense line, whether it is the two wings or the main position, there is only one infantry platoon as the early blocking force, and the main force is hidden in the fortifications behind the mountain that cannot be covered by artillery fire.

So although it was bombarded for more than half an hour, the first battalion and the 66th Regiment of the Independent Regiment, which had been prepared, were not as heavy as the Third Army.

The fierce artillery fire of the Black Hawk Army razed many hard-built fortifications to the ground. However, six people were sacrificed on the entire Beizhao Pass defense line and three were seriously injured. The strength of an infantry company on the front line was basically not greatly damaged.

However, the Black Hawk Imperial Army only used howitzers.
Chapter completed!