"How is the battle situation on the front line?" General Peng asked in the front line command center.

The division commander and others looked a little solemn. It was good to launch an attack in the night, but because the Okazaki Brigade built a sufficiently solid fortification, the attack of the front-line soldiers was not smooth. The biggest victory fruit of the front-line was that the artillery team of the 386th Brigade successfully killed the Japanese mountain artillery squadron!

Without the mountain artillery squadron, the Japanese could be much easier when attacking on the front line. But even so, the soldiers still suffered a lot of casualties during the attack. In particular, the Japanese occupied the caves where villagers lived on the front slope of Guanjiawan, and opened up the machine gun positions set up after opening up each cave, which made it difficult for the soldiers to kill the Japanese stationed in the caves.

"The attack on the front line was not smooth, and the Japanese opened up the caves where the villagers lived one by one, and arranged machine gun positions in it. The firepower was fierce, so it was difficult for the soldiers to solve it." The division commander said.

The people present looked bad. It was undoubtedly embarrassing that the two regiments could not successfully seize the cave defended by the Japanese. It was undoubtedly a bit embarrassing! It was difficult for the soldiers to attack the Japanese in the cave with grenades. The Japanese were very smart and arranged bulletproof trenches in front of the machine gun position arranged in the cave. Unless the grenades directly hit the Japanese machine gun position, otherwise the grenades would fall into the bulletproof trenches and it would be difficult to kill the Japanese machine gun directly.

"No matter how bad the attack is, you have to fight! Isn't the mountain cannons brought by the 386th Brigade still there? Use these mountain cannons to blow me up the cave occupied by the Japanese!" General Peng looked at the brigade commander, his face full of murderous aura! General Peng walked out of the front line command center and could see the front line soldiers constantly launching charges again and again!

But this time, the charges were always repelled by the fierce firepower of the Japanese, but even so, the soldiers did not stop charging!

"Yes! I will immediately issue an order to the artillery team to kill the Japanese who occupied the cave!" The brigade commander said seriously.

Mr. Peng nodded, "At the same time, order the soldiers to attack Liushuwan quickly, so that the Japanese cannot form cross-fire power, which will affect our attack on Guanjiawan! If necessary, the artillery team of the 386th Brigade can provide artillery fire support!"

Liushuwan is opposite Guanjiadian. When fighting, the crossfire formed by Liushuwan and the Japanese on Guanjiadian completely blocked the path leading to Guanjiadian. Instead of attacking from this path, there are defensive fortifications built by the Japanese in other directions. It will undoubtedly be more difficult to kill the Japanese fortifications.

"President, I'm afraid it won't work. I don't bring many shells this time, only about fifty rounds. If you want to kill the cave occupied by the Japanese, the remaining shells are impossible to be enough. There will be no extra shells to cooperate with the soldiers to attack Liushuwan." Looking at the face of President Peng's somewhat unfavorable look, the brigade commander said with a wry smile.

Mr. Peng frowned. He didn't expect this to happen. It was right. In order to arrive at Panlong Town in time, even if the 386th Brigade was not far away, he could not slackew too much material and ammunition. Mr. Peng shook his head and looked at the division commander and others, wanting to know if they had any extra shells in their hands.

"Boss, we didn't bring any shells for mountain cannons this time. You also know that in order to get here in time, all units are light vehicles and do not carry any heavy weapons." The division commander said helplessly. Who would have thought that the 386th Brigade would bring mountain cannons? If they had known about this, they would definitely bring enough shells.

"If there are not enough shells, there is nothing we can do. Since that's the case, let's kill the cave occupied by the Japanese first! I can see that if the cave occupied by the Japanese are not killed, the casualties of the soldiers will be greater." Mr. Peng said in a deep voice.

Soon, the corresponding orders were transmitted to the artillery team. When the soldiers received the order, they took action quickly! Based on the information feedback from the front line, they quickly calculated the location of the cave occupied by the Japanese and the corresponding distance. Instead of engaging in artillery battles with the Japanese mountain artillery squadron, the soldiers naturally had enough preparation time.

Twenty minutes later, the artillery soldiers had sufficient accuracy and it was enough to use mountain cannons to deal with the caves occupied by the Japanese. A cave that had not been specially reinforced would require up to three shells to directly destroy them!

"Fire the cannon! Launch!" The artillery soldiers commanded the cannon! Bang, the shells flew out of the cannon chamber, bringing out a bright flame!

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"

The shells fell down and accurately hit the cave occupied by the Japanese. It even said that a shell directly flew into the cave of the Japanese. The loud explosion sounded in the cave, which seemed a bit dull compared to the ordinary sound of shells! The Japanese defending in the cave had no time to escape in the face of such a six-kilogram shell.

The Japanese machine gun positions in the cave could not withstand the power of shells and were directly destroyed by shells. Faced with the Eighth Route Army's artillery team, the Japanese decisively chose to hide. As for the Japanese who defended in the cave, they could only choose to hide in the excavated trenches, hoping to escape the Eighth Route Army's shells by chance. As for being hit directly, it only means that they are not lucky.

The Japanese knew very well that they could not give up the machine gun positions arranged in the cave. Once they retreated and were seen by the Eighth Route Army soldiers and then occupied by the Eighth Route Army, it would undoubtedly be even more difficult for them to resist the attack of the Eighth Route Army troops! With the machine gun positions in the cave, the Okazaki Brigade could hold on for a while. Without the cave, the Eighth Route Army would probably be able to attack the top of Guanjiawu today.

"The shells are used up!"

"So too!"

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Twenty shells were used quickly, and they could not destroy all the caves occupied by the Japanese! But even so, the soldiers became much more relaxed during the attack. With the help of mortars, it was difficult for the Japanese to defend in the caves to defend for too much time. In order to help the troops destroy the Japanese defense, the soldiers of the artillery team went to the front line to control the mortars they carried. With their artillery skills, they could undoubtedly better exert the power of the mortars!

The brigade commander had a headache for these artillery soldiers to go to the front line to participate in battle. Now there are only so many artillery soldiers in the brigade headquarters. Once they suffer casualties on the front line, it will undoubtedly be much more difficult to get supplemented. However, in the face of these soldiers who strongly demanded to go to the front line, the brigade commander had no way to stop them, and could only hope that these soldiers would not suffer any casualties.
Chapter completed!