Others show their swords, I show my missiles!

In the early morning of March 3, the north wind became stronger.

The yellow leaves on the dead branches endured throughout the cold winter, and now they fell reluctantly.

The whistling north wind has not yet blown away the smell of gunpowder smoke from last night.

Huashui County Four was not idle last night. Since he had thought of the tunnel battle and now that he had another night, he naturally had to put it into practice.

About half of the Japanese took turns digging holes throughout the night, including the 4th Cavalry Brigade, who also transformed into engineers and worked together.

After the destruction of the Hessian Regiment, the Japanese cavalry units were transformed into infantry that marched on horseback and dismounted to fight.

Moreover, even such cavalry is constantly decreasing and being replaced by armored units.

Just like the [-]st Cavalry Division of Omanrik on the Korean battlefield ten years later.

There wasn't even a horse in the division, it was all tanks and armored vehicles.

The beasts of the 4th Cavalry Brigade are still riding horses, not armored vehicles. It has not yet become a mechanized force.

In the daytime, after both sides had enough food and water, they took up their positions and prepared for a big battle.

The Independent Brigade also did not start fighting when the Japanese were eating or at dawn, when the Japanese were likely to relax.

When the firepower is overwhelming, there is no need to use these methods.

Using these strategies will also disrupt your own rhythm and disrupt the fighters' biological clock.

This time I want to fight the devils openly!

We can't let the Japanese think that we only do small tricks secretly.

Of course, the Fourth Huashui County would be happy to see the Independent Brigade not attack. I heard that reinforcements were on the way, and it was not yet time to make a desperate charge.

It wishes that the independent brigade would never attack in this life!

In this way, its division was saved.

Zhang Dabiao had laid out today’s combat arrangements the night before:

除了担任主攻的3团、4团外，1、2、5团还要分出一半阻击来援之敌。

The 1st Regiment built a blocking position in the Gaolou area to block the enemy's independent reinforcements from the east, such as the 9th Brigade and the 41st Division;

The 2nd Regiment blocked the 21st Division, 35th Division, 4th Cavalry Brigade and other enemies from the north in Zuojiazhuang;

The 5th Regiment deployed defenses in the Xiaodonggou area to block possible enemies from the west and ensure the safety of the 4th Regiment's flanks.

At the independent brigade headquarters, Zhao Gang, Zhang Dabiao and deputy brigade commander Xing Zhiguo were all present.

Zhao Gang asked: "Old Xing, Da Biao, there should be no problem in annihilating the 33rd Division today, right?"

Zhang Dabiao replied: "It's not that easy! The Japanese have seen our cannons and must be on guard.

I guessed that the Japanese would probably dig holes. During our drill at that time, the 1st Regiment and 2nd Battalion used the method of digging holes to defend against heavy artillery, and the effect was very good. The Japanese strategy is not good, but the tactics are not bad! Otherwise, we would have been driven back to our hometown long ago! "

Xing Zhiguo also said:

"Da Biao is right! Before this, they just didn't know that we had a long-range rocket launcher. All other weapons had been unveiled. There was no secret at all.

After using rockets for a long time yesterday, the old devil Huashui must also be thinking of a solution. "

"Even if we cannot capture the 33rd Division as soon as possible, at least the casualties will not be too great. We have infantry fighting vehicles and the soldiers all wear body armor.

If you can't defeat it, just fight slowly. Anyway, you are not afraid of Japanese reinforcements! "Zhao Gang nodded and said.

It was still 7 o'clock, and all regiments released drones.

After eating, the 33rd Division got into the artillery defense fortifications. The independent brigade's general offensive also began.

There was no infantry charge. The upgrading of weapons has also changed the mode of war.

Now the independent brigades adhere to the principle of "what can be solved with ammunition, not without personnel". 10 rounds of artillery shells were destroyed in one morning.

These include 370mm rockets.

The rocket launchers focused on the Japanese in front of the 3rd and 4th regiments. This is the main direction of attack.

Although there is a hillside here, it is not too high and the top of the hill is relatively flat. Backslope is hard to find.

Even if there is a reverse slope, it will not be of much use. First, our army has a large number of mortars; second, the Japanese have been surrounded and can be hit from all directions.

The 33rd Division had to rely on digging deep holes on the spot to avoid artillery fire.

One night felt quite long, but without an excavator and without daring to take the lead easily, the work efficiency was not high.

Many holes have only one straight hole, not even a turn, let alone another exit.

Once the entrance to the cave is blown down, the Japanese inside can only pray for a few more shells to blow the entrance open again, but this hope is too slim.

Doesn't it mean that two cannonballs will not fall into the same crater?

The Japanese who couldn't wait for the second shell gradually began to have difficulty breathing. Some of them killed each other. Kill other devils and don't let them waste air, so that you can live a little longer.

Some desperate Japanese fired the explosives and gave themselves a good time.

Others did not have the courage and were suffocated to death in the end.

They had done many things to bury my anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians alive in the past, and now they themselves are being buried alive. This is karma.

Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, it's just a matter of time.

Some of the cave entrances were actually blown open, but these devils died faster! Torn to pieces by shells.

Therefore, in just half a day, Huashui County lost more than [-] livestock.

Of the 3 livestock that came from the four gatherings in Huashui County, 2 were left.

This time it was not a sudden attack, the 33rd Division got into the hole. The fact that there were still so many casualties while hiding in the cave shows that our army is relatively mature in the use of artillery fire.

This is mainly due to the widespread use of drone reconnaissance.

If artillerymen want to know the effect of shelling, they can use drones, and there is no need to launch reconnaissance shells.

Wherever there are Japs, the location and direction of the cave entrance, etc. are all clearly detected.

It is equivalent to one-way transparency of the battlefield to us.

Our army is well aware of the Japanese defense situation.

It can carry out precise strikes on the caves where the Japanese are hiding without using artillery fire coverage.

But by noon, the artillery of the Independent Brigade also slowed down, and there were not many shells left.

It was better than the previous day. About one-third was consumed in half a day, and the main consumption was still rockets.

Huashui County No. 3 also took this opportunity to shell our forward positions with the remaining three 150mm howitzers.

The other 150mm howitzers were all damaged by previous shelling.

Note, this is a howitzer, not the only eight 8mm cannons.

The biggest feature of the howitzer is that its barrel is relatively short, its initial velocity is small, its launch angle is large, its trajectory is parabolic, its projectile's landing angle is large, and its blasting effect is good.

The barrel of the cannon is longer, generally more than 40 times, and there are even barrels up to 80 times longer.

With such a long barrel, the shell has a high muzzle velocity, usually reaching 700 meters/second, and has a long range.

The elevation angle of the gun barrel is relatively small, and it can be fired almost straight, and can even be aimed directly.

Its main combat mission is to attack tough targets, such as armored targets, vertical targets and long-distance targets.

Howitzers are much lighter and cheaper than cannons of the same caliber.

Although there are only three towed artillery pieces, they are cannons after all, not guns. It also caused 3 minor casualties to our army.

Our military personnel are either in solid fortifications or in infantry fighting vehicles with frontal armor equivalent to 900 mm of homogeneous armor.

Of course, there are soldiers who have to be outside, such as the engineering troops.

But they were all wearing body armor. These slightly injured soldiers were all scratched by shrapnel from artillery shells.