Chapter 1196 Go forward, go forward
On the Guyongfeng front line, almost at the same time as Beizhao Pass, more than 3,000 people from two infantry regiments of an infantry brigade were silently approaching the already messy Black Hawk Army position from a position of nearly 2,000 meters. Almost all the heavy firepower of the Third Army's 12th Division was concentrated on both sides of them. The commander of the 3rd Army also arrived at the front line, and the commander of the 12th Division held a telescope and looked nervously at the Black Hawk Army position.
It was also a counterattack, but the Third Army was much more cautious than the Kingdom Army in Beizhaoguan.
It’s not that they lack blood, but that the battle report of the 12th Division was too exaggerated, so exaggerated that they could not imagine that even the huge fireballs rising from the Black Hawks’ positions could not dispel their doubts. Just entering the fairy tale, anyone needs an adaptation process.
In fact, the Black Hawk Army of the 78th Infantry Regiment in front of Guyongfeng's main position was no less bombardment density than the 77th Infantry Regiment in front of Beizhao Pass. In addition to 5 howitzers, there were at least 8 field cannons to help their positions.
The reason why all the captured field cannons were not because there were not enough shells, but because there were not enough people who could operate cannons. The artillery battalion of the Independent Regiment, which followed the 71st Regiment under the command of Brigade Commander Wang, was only one platoon of dozens of people. Even if everyone fired mountain cannons and mortars, they were experts. However, a cannon needed to be watched, gunners, ammunition players, etc. at least seven or eight people were served. Nearly 200 people from the Blue Army 2nd Company went to help, and each cannon was assigned three regular artillery soldiers, so only 18 cannons were used.
Otherwise, if the entire artillery battalion brought all the people and nearly 40 cannons roared, the Black Hawk Army positions on both sides would be even more affected.
But even so, the 78th infantry revolver left on the position also suffered a catastrophe.
Colonel Lin Heng was not as wise as his colleague Colonel Luo Min. Firstly, he did not fight as tragically as the 77th Infantry Regiment on the front line of Guyongfeng. Although the losses were not small, the losses of the 78th Infantry Regiment under his command were acceptable compared to the Third Army with a loss of more than 4,500 people. Naturally, those who have not been beaten naturally do not know how painful it would be to fall on the stick. Secondly, he did not think that the kingdoms would have the ability to attack the positions of the 26th Artillery Regiment. Even if the infantry with two infantry squadrons could not defend it, the field artillery deployed in the infantry to protect the rear was for a good meal? He did not believe that the infantry did not even have the combat power to block the kingdoms for ten minutes.
Therefore, except for a fully organized infantry brigade being transferred back to the division headquarters, the remaining half-infantry brigade, artillery squadron, and the direct logistics team of the 78th Regiment were still on the Guyongfeng front line.
Under the crazy artillery fire, whether you are the captain of the colonel or the private, your treatment is actually the same. Hiding in the trenches and leaving them to fate.
If you are lucky, even if the shells explode only 20 meters away, it may be fine. If you are not lucky, even if you are 80 meters away, a small stone splashing around may kill you.
If you want to survive the artillery fire, it depends on your military rank or strength. It depends entirely on luck.
Like Lieutenant Colonel Xu Lei, Colonel Lin Heng was not very lucky. His wing headquarters, 800 meters behind the position, was unfortunately hit by a field cannon. As a cannon, the explosion power of the 75mm field cannon is actually not as powerful as a mountain cannon, let alone now it is used as a curve cannon. However, the thick shell skin of the field cannon shell gave it enough armor-piercing performance. The wing headquarters, mainly based on logs and sandbags, may be able to block the explosion of the 75-caliber howitzer, but for this field cannon with stronger penetration, it hits its weakness.
After piercing through the sand and gravel layer and piercing through the thick logs, the field artillery shells did not blow up the entire corps headquarters like the 105 howitzer, but the shell skins splashed everywhere were enough to kill everyone in the corps headquarters. In an instant, there were no living people in the corps headquarters. The situation was much more terrifying than the dry black blood left by Lieutenant Colonel Xu Lei. The human body torn by the shell fragments covered the entire corps headquarters. The flesh and blood of the colonel and the second lieutenant were mixed together, and it was difficult to distinguish each other.
Therefore, the 78th Infantry Regiment, which has at least three times more troops than the Beizhao Pass, is actually much worse than the 77th Infantry Regiment. Not only did they lose the same heavy losses in the artillery bombardment, they also lost the unified command in the artillery bombardment. Not only did they lose the corps captain, but they also lost the captain.
In the face of crazy artillery fire, not only the kingdoms became vulnerable, but the Black Hawk Empires were the same.
When the Third Army cautiously sent an infantry brigade to advance carefully towards the Black Hawk Army position, the Black Hawk Army position, which originally had nearly 1,800 troops, was actually in a state of grief.
Compared with the Kingdom Army, which suffered great losses in the opponent's powerful artillery, the field trenches built by the Black Hawk Army mainly targeted their infantry raids, and there were few such artillery holes and hidden holes. It was not that the Black Hawk Empire was lazy, but that they could not use it even if they were dug. The Kingdom people must have cannons first.
Moreover, they came to attack, not to confront the kingdom, so the role of the trench naturally weakened.
If the Third Army opposite them encounters such a bombardment, the losses of 2,000 people in an infantry regiment may exceed one-third, while the losses of the simple trenches of the Black Hawk Army on the opposite side are definitely more than several times their losses.
Therefore, the Black Hawk Army, who was punished, suffered heavy losses even exceeded Liu Lang's expectations. Originally, before leaving, he had a special discussion on how to use superior firepower to attack the Black Hawk Army's positions, just to have such a day of counter-defense and offensive attack on the Black Hawk Army's positions. He did not doubt the courage of the Duchy Army's army, but their current tactics against the Black Hawk Army, a new enemy, still need to be trained in the next war.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! On the Beizhao Pass, Lieutenant Colonel Xu Lei's first infantry brigade, with only more than 400 people, was left with dozens of people after the shelling. After the charge of thousands, there was no time to fire the mortars in the rear. The hundreds of grenades dropped fifty meters away were almost equivalent to a round of cannonage.
The more miserable side of Gu Yongfeng, the Black Hawk Army with more than 1,800 people left, there was no more than one infantry squadron. The rest, whether it was infantry, artillery, machine gunners or baggage, all turned into ashes in the anger of 105 howitzers and field cannons.
When the Black Hawk Army, who was blown up by artillery fire, got up from the trenches tremblingly, they were facing a black kingdom army.
Although the two infantry regiments and six infantry battalions were not satisfied, it was enough to push up just like these 3,000 people in the dark morning light, not to mention the Black Hawk Army, which had just been fainted by the crazy artillery fire?
It has to be said that the Black Hawk Army is strong enough. Although one out of ten or even one of them can't find their own commanders, they still fulfilled their duties as soldiers and fired at the Kingdom Army, which was nearly 400 meters away, on a position of 1,500 meters wide.
In a sparse burst of guns, more than a dozen kingdom soldiers fell down and stopped the more than 3,000 people who were slowly approaching the Third Army. It was not that the Black Hawk Army's firepower was fierce, but that the Black Hawk Army's firepower was beyond expectations. You must know that there was an infantry corps on the opposite side, so how could it be that little firepower?
At least two infantry battalions have entered the range of their heavy machine guns or even the range of light machine guns, but not to mention heavy machine guns, even light machine guns, no more than three.
Except for the two infantry battalions on both sides that began to move towards the two wings, the three infantry battalions in the middle stopped, and one infantry battalion tentatively started the attack under the cover of four heavy machine guns on each wing.
Until this infantry battalion advanced to only 150 meters away from the Black Hawk Army's position, there was no sign of the firepower point of the Black Hawk Army's heavy machine gun. At this time, the weapons that the Black Hawk Army could take out were except for the three heavy machine guns that were tightly suppressed by eight heavy machine guns and had to be transferred everywhere, and were just a few grenade launchers that were fired in vain.
However, the effective range of only 500 meters is no threat to setting the machine gun position specifically at a heavy machine gun position 700 meters away.
Seeing that the Black Hawk Army had always been shooting like this, "I'm not alive" and had advanced to the distance that I could charge to the death. I could neither see any powerful firepower points nor show the force that an infantry corps should have. Even if they had just been tortured by a round of artillery attacks, it was impossible for them to be killed by shells! This is almost a fairy tale for anyone.
The leading infantry battalion commander saw that his three main infantry companies had entered within 120 meters, the slowest, and it only took fifteen seconds to rush into the Black Hawk trenches. "You're so kind, no matter what tricks you are playing, I'm going to fight you today." The major battalion commander bit his teeth, stuffed the Browning pistol in his hand into the hand of the orderly soldier who had been following him, and then grabbed a rifle from him that had been bayonetized, and shouted angrily: "Brothers, listen to me, take a bayonet, follow me, charge the whole bayonet, throw bombs in the first row forty meters, throw the grenades on my body to me, Li Ermao, blow the charge of me."
As the charge sounded, "Kill!" The infantry battalion commander wearing the major leader roared and rushed towards the Black Hawk Army position with his gun. Behind him was nearly 500 infantry battalions. In front of the Black Hawk Army position, which was nearly 1,200 meters wide, he launched a decisive charge at the Black Hawk Army position that they once could not reach. No longer worrying or hesitating, under the leadership of their commander, he ran towards the unpredictable Black Hawk Army position, and at the same time, he tried hard to shoot the loaded bullets in the gun chamber.
The regiment commander and brigade commander probably did not expect that the infantry battalion of his subordinates would charge so resolutely. While his face suddenly tightened, he ordered heavy machine guns on both wings to fully suppress the firepower of the Black Hawk Army's trenches, and at the same time ordered the infantry moving on both wings to speed up. This is a very safe way of attack. If the Black Hawk Army plays tricks, the two infantry battalions on both wings can restrain part of their firepower, so that the infantry battalion that rashly enters the charge state will not be wiped out.
The Black Hawk Army in the trenches were also crazy. Although the heavy machine gun bullets shot from the Kingdom's position made the trenches smoke burst out, many people still tried their best to shoot at the infantry battalion of the Third Army, which was rushing towards them. The gunshots of "Ba Gouer" resounded throughout the battlefield. In just seven or eight seconds, at least sixty or seventy soldiers fell to the ground while running, some rolled in pain, while others didn't say a word or a sound.
But no one stopped charging.
Chapter completed!