This day on the main battlefield of Beizhao Pass is actually very boring.

Although the Black Hawk Army's artillery fire was still fierce and the aircraft and cannons took turns to fight, after the hard battles in the previous three days, the officers and soldiers of the 66th Regiment were familiar with the Black Hawk Army's routines and became more and more skillful in dealing with it. As soon as the Black Hawk Army retreated, they immediately withdrew the main infantry force from the position and entered the tunnel behind the mountain. At first, there was an infantry platoon on the position, and then an infantry squad. Later, like the independent regiment, there were only four observation posts.

They are also growing up, growing up in the fierce artillery fire of the Black Hawk Empire Army.

No matter how powerful the howitzers are, they cannot threaten the inclined surface behind the hillside. The enemy planes in the sky competed with the three triangular air defense positions with independent regiments for several times without taking advantage, and did not dare to easily drop to a height below 1,000 meters. At such an altitude, even if they wanted to drop bombs on the tunnel behind the hillside, their accuracy could be almost negligible.

The hillside was blown into a sea of ​​fire, but none of the powerful bombs that could really threaten the tunnel were blown up.

In this mountain defense battle, once the aircraft cannons lose their threat, the Black Hawk Army was in trouble. Although Liu Lang did not provide personnel support to the two wings, he used the night to quietly send 6 mortars concentrated by the fire squad to each of the 60 mortars, which are all small-caliber mortars of the six fire squads.

The First Battalion of the Independent Regiment has three infantry companies and two fire platoons, and 9 infantry platoons have 9 fire squads. Commander Liu has provided most of the platoon-level firepower support.

The 12 60-caliber mortars on the left and right wing positions are a complete disaster for the Black Hawk Army. The mortar position hiding at the dead corner of the Black Hawk Army's artillery fire behind the mountain has almost no dead end to the Black Hawk Army at the forefront of the position. Whether it is infantry, light and heavy machine gun fire points or even grenade launchers, the longest range is 1,500 meters, and the nearest small-caliber mortar with a range of 40 meters can completely cover the entire battlefield.

There are soldiers on the position with tenacious willpower and superb shooting skills to guard the battles and cannot get in. They want to lie down and take a breath! Every second, seven or eight mortar shells are smashed down, and the machine gun firepower points are constantly engaged in mobile warfare, and the mortars also beat infantry. Anyone who attacks enthusiastically will basically be patronized by mortars.

In the end, the Black Hawk Army has also learned to be smart. If you want the Kingdom people's mortars to stop patronizing you, then be honest and attack slowly, so that those brave warriors cannonballs to consume Kingdom people's shells!

It can be said that in the past two days after the Black Hawks' offensive slowed down, there were actually not many Black Hawks who died of guns and bullets, but those who died of mortars accounted for 80% of the total casualties of the Black Hawks. Even Liu Lang couldn't help but sigh, no wonder the military history experts of the Black Hawk Empire had called mortars a magic weapon of the Kingdom Army for many years after the war. Although the structure was extremely simple, it was extremely practical.

However, the consumption is also amazing.

This time, the Independent Regiment came to Ling Pizhou East, but it was prepared for the Independent Regiment's logistics company. Nearly 2,000 mountain artillery shells were transported, and each of the six Bofos mountain artillery can fire more than 300 per 6.

The independent regiment is mainly equipped with two calibers: 82 mortars and 60 mortars. Among them, 60 mortars are equipped with more equipment, and the shells are transported in a total of 5,000, ensuring that each can shoot more than 100.

However, in just these four days, 20 60 mortars equipped by the first battalion of the Independent Regiment fired 2,200, and on average, each cannon poured more than 110 crazily into the Black Hawk Army. This is definitely an extremely terrifying number.

This means that every day, the Black Hawk Army in front of the position can reach more than 700 pieces of artillery fire from the Kingdom Army, plus the shells fired by the 82-caliber mortar.

Although the Black Hawk Army had to bombard the entire Beizhaoguan front line on average, at least three rounds of shelling were required every day. The 12 howitzers, 12 field guns, 3 mountain guns from the 77th Infantry Regiment, 5 infantry guns rescued from the battlefield, and the chariot brigade's troop have only dared to hide 1,000 meters away. When a fixed artillery battery was fired, the total amount of shells fired was far more than 700 rounds.

According to statistics from artillery observers, the Black Hawk Army poured no less than 2,000 shells of various types on the Beizhaoguan front line every day.

However, the Independent Regiment and the 66th Regiment had trenches of 1.8 meters deep as a cover on the position, and they could retreat to the reverse slope tunnel at any time. What about the Black Hawk Army? The only things that could provide them with cover were the natural rocks in the mountains and the craters caused by their howitzers, and a small 3-kilogram shell that weighed 3 kilograms could blow people within five meters into blood-spreading sieves, or the kind that could not be blocked no matter how hard they were.

Although the caliber is much smaller than the Black Hawk Army's artillery, the main type of artillery is curved cannons. Compared with howitzers, mountain cannons, field cannons, tank cannons, etc. of the Black Hawk Army, it is the younger brother. However, the damage caused is not less than that of the Black Hawk Army's artillery, which is far stronger than that of both its power and number.

It can be said that Beizhao Pass is just a meat grinder. Although the Independent Regiment and the 66th Regiment suffered a lot of casualties, the Black Hawk Army, as the attacking side, was even more miserable.

The number of dead enemies recorded by the Independent Regiment and the 66th Regiment exceeded 800, which is not counting the Black Hawk Army wounded and the wounded men who were dragging back and were blown to pieces by artillery fire.

Liu Lang estimated that the casualties of the 77th Infantry Regiment were at least 1,500. In fact, they were just the last of their strength.

However, Liu Lang was a little surprised by the Black Hawk Army's logistics capabilities. The Black Hawk Empire people of this period prepared much stronger combat supplies and transportation capabilities than described in the war history.

The Black Hawk Army's ammunition truck transported by ammunition was in the sight of the special forces team led by Cai Dadao, from Luojin County to its artillery corps stationed day and night.

In Luojin County, there are as many as 5 military trains transported by Xiongxinzhuang along the Zhengtai Line, and thousands of tons of various materials.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The two special teams of Niu Er and Cai Dadao who were wandering in the occupied areas of the Black Hawk Army have asked Liu Lang for battle several times. They want to start from the Black Hawk Army's baggage force. If they are not good, they will destroy his transport convoy. If the Black Hawk Empire wants to obtain supplies, they have to transfer heavy troops to escort it, otherwise they will be the food of elite special forces lurking in the mountains and forests.

But Liu Lang refused their request for battle. The special forces are not yet exposed. Their existence, like playing games, is responsible for lighting up all the battlefields and becoming Liu Lang's eyes and ears, so that Liu Lang knows the existence of the troops stationed in various places of the Black Hawk Army.

Instead of destroying some supplies, the Black Hawk Army commander sent a large number of elite teams to chase the mountains. The Black Hawk Army's current front line is not long enough, and their weak logistics can still be guaranteed. Even if some of them are destroyed, the Black Hawk Army, which has made sufficient preparations to invade the north, will quickly replenish the supplies again.

Moreover, it was not the time for the decisive battle, the more the special forces team fought the Black Hawk Empire, the more worried Liu Lang was to retract the Black Hawk Empire. The purpose of the Independent Regiment and the 66th Regiment firmly blocking Beizhao Pass was to force the 20th Division of Qiao Yinshuo's troops to rush to support the Canghuai Valley Battle and send the main force to detour like in the play, and then annihilate its main force. That was a stick hitting the snake's seven inches.

If a brigade of the right wing Black Hawk Army is not killed, the 20th Division is a strong army that the 100,000 troops on the eastern front of Ling Pizhou will not dare to ignore. No matter how awesome the independent regiment is, it will not be able to swallow this piece of fat in one bite, and it may even collapse its teeth.

The key to the entire Lingpizhou East Battle is whether the big pit that has been waiting for several days can bury the Black Hawk Army.

Compared with that, the rest is not important, even if there are more sacrifices.

Although Liu Lang looked at the shocking casualties in the war report late at night and asked himself, in five years, he had gradually grown into a qualified commander.

At least, he never led the way to the front line of the position like the Battle of the Ancient City. It was not that he became timid, but that he knew very well that his life, at the moment he left Anton City, did not belong to him or his parents and wives, but to the 4,000 officers and soldiers of the entire Independent Regiment.

If he dies, the combat effectiveness of the independent regiment without a leader will be reduced by at least 30%. Although the prestigious regiment deputy Zhang Ruhao and Lin Li can control the troops, they cannot make the rebellious Zhao Ergou bow their heads like him, nor can they let the infantry battalion commanders such as Zhou Shiyu, Ling Hong, and Liu Dazhu obey their will like him. The decline in combat effectiveness means that more people will die.

A qualified commander must accept the smallest casualties for greater victory.

Cruel but realistic.

There will be no pie falling from the sky, and there will be no victory on the battlefield without losing one soldier.

Only by sacrifice can we win.

On this day, I saw the Black Hawk Army on both wings of Beizhaoguan attacking like a tide, and then retreated like a tide without lasting for long. After two hours of repair, attacked again and then retreated again.

It was very mechanical. In one day, the commanders of both sides could only watch the increase in casualties on their own, but they were helpless.

Both offense and defense must be carried out.

Death and injuries are inevitable under artillery fire and bullets.

The Black Eagle Army, which had been repairing Jiangrui Mountain for a day, was not completely idle, and several valleys were filled with black smoke.

The fire that burned the wreckage of the Black Hawk Army that died in battle burned from early morning to late night. In Jiangrui Mountain, the Black Hawk Army had killed as many as 1,000 people. Even the trucks of their baggage squadron could not be loaded, so they could only burn them on the spot and then packed them into urns.

Zou Yun did not transport the urn back to Xiongxinzhuang, but instead hung the urn of a dead infantry squadron leader on his neck in front of the brigade soldiers.

Taking comrades to fight, Zou Yun's move restored the heavy loss and a little sluggish morale after several days of bloody battle.

Thousands of Black Hawks had their close comrades hanging around their necks, and they were once again motivated to start tomorrow's military operations.

Undoubtedly, no matter whether it is an invading army or not, they are the same as the kingdom soldiers in dealing with their comrades-in-arms.

In other words, this is also a very important cohesion for the army.
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