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Xu Le snatched the telescope from Liu Quanhua's hand, looked into the distance, and said nonchalantly: "Yes, we can't just take the beating in a war, we have to learn to attack as well!"

Liu Quanhua and several combat staff officers nearby were all stunned: "Young Marshal, are you mistaken? We are now in a defensive battle, or to put it more grandly, we are attacking Meidong Mountain to defeat reinforcements. I have never heard of attacking reinforcements and counterattacking!"

"Hey, Captain Liu, you are always so energetic, why are you so scared now when you hear about the counterattack?"

Liu Quanhua became unhappy immediately. You could say that he was impotent and he wouldn't even care. But if you said that he was a coward in fighting, he would jump three feet high.

"Young Marshal, I don't like what you said. Why don't you ask me when I, Old Liu, have ever been cowardly? In fact, I have long had the idea of ​​counterattacking, but I was concerned about the safety of the division headquarters, so I endured the defense!"

Si.....

Hypocrisy! Very hypocritical!

Several combat staff officers cast contemptuous glances at Liu Quanhua, but since he was not a chief of staff, his farts would not make any noise.

Currently, the entire Independent 176th Division does not have a chief of staff. Although these combat staff officers hold the rank of captain, in fact, the entire regiment is under the control of Liu Quanhua.

When Xu Le hadn't come just now, Liu Quanhua was still discussing with everyone how to defend, saying that they must hold on and must not get carried away.

Now, after being provoked by Xu Le, it seems as if Liu Quanhua had this plan all along.

"Captain Liu, is this possible? Don't force yourself. If it really doesn't work, your regiment will just hold on. I'll let the other two regiments carry out the counterattack mission!"

"Bullshit, no, Young Marshal, I'm not talking about you! Not to mention Wang Damazi, how can the new recruits of his 665th Regiment counterattack? When I was fighting, Zhen Laomao was still nursing! It's settled, I will make sure these enemies never return!"

"Okay, I get it! I know you lack heavy firepower, so I brought the escort team with me. They will help you deal with the high-level commanders of the Japanese. As long as their command system is disrupted, it will be much easier to fight!"

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Since Pu County is close to the Tongpu Railway and is an important county connecting southwest Shanxi, it has convenient transportation, especially the road from Pu County to Linfen is very well maintained.

The Japanese 114th Division took one day to assemble in Linfen, and then only half a day to reach the outskirts of Pu County and launched an offensive encirclement of the surrounding mountain villages.

Together with the devils and puppet troops around Pu County, the total force exceeds people.

Because the Type 58 anti-personnel mine has little power against armored vehicles and tanks, it can only blow up tires and tracks at most, and can only temporarily restrict their movement, and can be repaired in a short time.

So now the mountain village is facing 30 armored vehicles and 12 tanks of the Japanese, as well as more than 50 mountain cannons and field cannons.

In the early morning of the 12th, the two artillery battalions of the 666th and 665th Regiments in Shancun took the lead in launching an artillery battle with the Japanese artillery regiment.

The Japanese had 36 Type 75 12mm mountain guns and 75 Type mm field guns.

The Type 75 530mm mountain gun is one of the three mountain guns of the Japanese. It weighs only 8 kilograms and has a range of more than kilometers. Its performance is only slightly weaker than the Bofors mountain gun. It is one of the artillery that the Japanese are proud of.

However, this battle was not a field battle, but a frontal mountain assault, and the mobility of the Type 94 mountain gun was not fully utilized.

When facing the 176 Bofors guns of the 72th Division, the Japanese's 36 mountain guns were clearly at a disadvantage.

However, the Japanese still had 12 Type 1600 field guns, which weighed 14 kilograms and had a maximum range of kilometers. Fortunately, they were not fighting on a plain, so due to their small firing angles, their advantages could not be brought into play and they could not effectively attack targets behind obstacles.

However, this also caused considerable damage to the 176th Division's forward defense positions, and many fortifications were destroyed.

Wang Dafu was experienced in combat and had asked his soldiers to dig small holes similar to air-raid shelters at the rear of the trenches. Soldiers could hide inside to avoid most of the shrapnel damage.

If you are really unlucky, the shell will land right at the entrance of the cave...

If you encounter such a probability, then you should really reflect on whether you have done too many bad things recently.

This was the first time that the 176th Division felt that its artillery had no numerical advantage.

The situation did not begin to reverse until the escort team successfully found and approached the Japanese front-line positions and artillery positions.

The first is the Japanese artillery observer, who is the eyes of the artillery. Without the observer, the artillery is blind, and no matter how good its performance is, it is just superficial.

The 114th Division was the most powerful of the -system divisions other than the regular divisions. When the first observer was killed, the artillery regiment commander took the lead in organizing a counterattack.

Generally speaking, the locations of artillery positions are very concealed, so apart from the pistols carried by the artillerymen for self-defense, there is basically no additional close combat defense force, and they rely on other infantry regiments to assist in the guard.

The ones who ambushed them were just 20 guards. Although they were few in number, they were all all-round and powerful soldiers.

Before the Japanese found the location of the escort team, dozens of their observers and gunners had been almost completely killed. Without these two types of soldiers, even if the remaining assistants and ammunition handlers were temporarily replaced, their combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced.

Bang.....

"Mission accomplished. We should not stay here for long. The Japanese will soon send troops to conduct a carpet search of the surrounding area. Everyone retreat!"

Brush brush brush.....

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As expected, five minutes later, a whole battalion of Japanese soldiers and a regiment of puppet troops conducted a carpet search of the artillery position within a 5-kilometer radius, and light and heavy machine guns fired at all the bushes and hills.

But they got nothing. It was as difficult as climbing to the sky to capture a modern soldier king.

At the front line of the mountain village, the Japanese artillery fire suddenly came to a standstill because of the escort team.

Wang Dafu immediately realized that the escort team had succeeded, so he quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted:

"Attention, artillery battalion. The coordinates of the enemy artillery position have been corrected. Distance: 8860, horizontal: 122, vertical: 082, elevation: 588."

This coordinate method was taught by the Guard and is specifically used for small-range target confirmation without the assistance of any instruments.

Expressed in the form of rectangular coordinates, with the location of the artillery camp as the origin, two-dimensional rectangular coordinates are planned on the map.

The horizontal axis is the X-axis value, the first two numbers are the approximate position, and the vertical axis is the Y-axis value.

Therefore, the map is divided into several large square areas.

The last number is the value obtained by subdividing the square area again using rectangular coordinates.

As for the elevation, it is a numerical value that expresses the target object's altitude, making it easier for the artillery to adjust the firing angle!

The distance is naturally the straight-line distance between the artillery camp and the target.

Combined with the thumb measurement method, although the accuracy of this coordinate expression is a bit poor, it is very practical. Unless you have a pig brain, you can learn it in a short time.

This is the best way to express the transfer of artillery command to the squad level.

It just takes a bit of map time, and the location of the artillery battalion cannot be easily changed. The General Staff's Mapping Department has been extremely busy recently.

The artillery battalion was listening to the report while shouting loudly: "Distance 8860, lateral 122, vertical 082, altitude 588, No. 3 charge shells, 10 rapid fire, ready, fire!"