allonlinenovel Chapter 168 Artillery Bombardment of the Sakata Regiment
Chapter 168 Artillery Bombardment of the Sakata Regiment
The Japanese temporary command center.
Pu Youji, looking grim, strode out of the command post and approached Sakata Tetsu.
"Reporting to the regimental commander, we can't get in touch with the support troops. Do you think we should send a messenger to the direction of the explosion to scout out the situation?"
"Nani?"
Sakata Tetsu felt a pang of anxiety when he heard that he couldn't contact the Mitsui Battalion that was supposed to provide support.
He couldn't help but wonder if there really were Blue Party troops blocking the Mitsui Battalion.
Thinking of this, Sakata Tetsuya spoke to Pu Youji.
"Then send a messenger to investigate. If someone is indeed blocking the Mitsui Battalion, make sure to find out whether it is a Blue Party unit or a Red Party unit."
"Hi."
After the regimental commander agreed to his suggestion, Pu Youji immediately arranged for a messenger to ride a horse to scout out the situation of the Mitsui Battalion.
But just then, the sharp whistling sound of shells cutting through the air shattered the tranquility of the battlefield.
Upon hearing this voice, Li Yilong's expression changed instantly, and he shouted loudly.
"Take cover, artillery fire is coming!"
At the same time, he cursed the Japanese devils in his heart for being cunning. He had just looked through his binoculars and saw that the Japanese devils below were always in a defensive formation and had no intention of attacking at all.
But unexpectedly, this was a feint by the Japanese, who opened fire immediately, catching him completely unprepared.
All I could do was hope that the casualties from this shelling wouldn't be too great.
Sakata Tetsuya also heard the whistling sound coming from the sky.
He was momentarily stunned. Had the Mitsui Battalion already arrived?
But no one notified him! He hadn't even had time to set up the infantry attack formation.
Sakata Tetsu couldn't help but shift his gaze to the ordinary postman standing to the side.
But then he saw that even the ordinary postal worker was turning his questioning gaze toward him.
As the whistling sound of artillery shells grew closer, Sakata Tetsu's expression suddenly changed drastically. This sound wasn't from their artillery firing.
As a seasoned officer, he knew all the sounds of his troops' artillery by heart, and this piercing whistling sound was definitely not something their artillery could produce.
A guess suddenly popped into Sakata Tetsuya's mind.
Blue Party troops.
Sakata Tetsuya couldn't help but get goosebumps all over his body when he thought about this.
He shouted loudly to the Japanese soldiers around him who were still somewhat stunned.
"Beware of artillery fire!!!"
The surrounding Japanese soldiers were startled by their regimental commander's loud shout.
They were all a little stunned and did not immediately obey Sakata Tetsu's order, thinking to themselves, "Isn't this what our own artillery is saying to fire?"
But the next 300mm high-explosive incendiary bomb landed directly in the Japanese camp.
"Boom."
The shells exploded violently the moment they hit the ground, their power causing the entire Yunling position to tremble.
The Japanese soldiers closest to the explosion were instantly torn to shreds by the shockwave and then burned to ashes by the intense flames.
The Japanese soldiers within 70 meters of the blast radius, while not reduced to ashes, were engulfed by the intense flames.
Amidst their piercing screams, they were reduced to charred remains, a sight that terrified the remaining Japanese soldiers.
They all seemed frozen in place, staring blankly at the site of the explosion, wondering how the shells had hit their direction.
But just then, the sharp whistling sound of shells slicing through the air came from the sky again.
The Japanese soldiers were instantly jolted awake by the sharp whistling sound and involuntarily looked up.
The rocket's over 7-meter-long barrel and its crimson tail flames immediately came into view of the Japanese soldiers.
Upon seeing the dozen or so cylindrical objects, each the size of a small tree trunk, hurtling towards them at high speed, the Japanese soldiers immediately reacted and rushed towards the nearest bunkers and trenches.
But the second-stage acceleration of the Eagle 400 was no joke. Before the Japanese soldiers could even make a move, the first rocket had already hit the Japanese defensive position.
"Boom boom boom..."
Sixteen rockets in succession turned the Japanese positions below Yunling into a sea of fire, with 300mm mortar shells fired from tulip mortars falling at intervals.
This made the Japanese soldiers, who were already engulfed in flames, feel even more like they were in heaven and hell.
When the first explosion rang out, Sakata Tetsu was pulled down the hillside by the awakened Puyou Jier and hidden behind the reverse slope, where he was pinned down.
Thus, he escaped the bombardment that was like a raging inferno, but it was not easy for him. The vibrations from the shells hitting the ground made Sakata Tetsu dizzy and his ears bleed.
Fortunately, they were far from the position, otherwise it would have been much worse than just bleeding ears.
All the Red Party fighters on Li Yilong's side were stunned, looking at each other in disbelief.
I have no idea what happened?
Why did all the shells land on the Japanese positions?
Zhang Biao was also clueless, so he turned to Li Yilong for help.
"Commander, what's going on? Did the Japanese shell miss its mark?"
Li Yilong shook his head when he heard Zhang Biao's words.
"No, this cannon fire doesn't sound like the Japanese. The noise it makes is even more powerful than a Japanese aerial bomb. We didn't hear any planes flying by either. If the Japanese had such terrifying weapons, we would have been dead long ago."
"Who did that? The KMT? Would they be so kind as to help us?"
Li Yilong shook his head again.
"Not sure, but it's our turn now."
Li Yilong knew that now was not the time to speculate about who had bombed the Japanese; he only knew that the stage had been set up and it was time for him to take the stage.
"Bugler, sound the charge! Every single one of you in the regiment, attack!"
The bugler next to him heard his regimental commander's order.
He immediately pulled out his bugle from his waist and began to blow it.
"Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep~~~beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep~~~~~~~~"
The next moment, all the soldiers of the West First Regiment heard the loud bugle call and jumped out of their bunkers, rushing towards the Japanese positions below the mountain, where the ground had been burned and was cracked.
After firing a round of shells, Bai Luo immediately cleared the traces on the hillside and rushed to the trucks left behind by the Japanese soldiers. He found that only one Type 92 field gun was usable, while the others had been rendered unusable by Sha Niu's Gatling gun.
Bai Luo didn't mind and was about to put it into his space, but then he remembered that the cannon was useless to him and that he already had two more of the same cannon in his space.
Bai Luo decided to give the cannon to the Red Army, but he needed to come up with a better reason.
By the way, let the KMT troops take the blame. They've done it several times already, so they're probably used to it by now.
Thinking of this, Bai Luo took out the two cannons from his space, one on the cat car and two on the still drivable Japanese truck.
Silly Girl is driving a cat-themed car. If it's an automatic, even though she can't drift or fishtail, she can drive it normally without any problems.
Meanwhile, Bai Luo was still in the truck bed, loading all the dozens of boxes of mortar shells, more than 10 boxes of infantry gun shells, and more than 10 mortars he had collected onto the truck.
Little did Li Yilong, who had just charged into the Japanese position, know that an immense fortune was about to arrive on the battlefield.