The sky in the north of the kingdom is always a little later than in the south.

Especially at 6 a.m. before dawn, it was still dark, but in Luojin County, half of the sky was illuminated by fire.

The four 41 mountain artillery pieces of artillery squadron of the 77th Regiment of the 39th Brigade, the 20th Division, and the 12 75-caliber field artillery pieces of a field artillery brigade that the division was assigned to them to fight, have poured more than 200 shells into the positions of the 17th Division.

The Black Hawk Army's current way of fighting against the Kingdom Army is very simple and crude. After the artillery bombarded the infantry attack, the artillery continued to bombard the artillery when the infantry attack was blocked. The huge weapon gap between the two armies made the Black Hawk Army almost invincible in the early stages of the war.

The number of people and courage played almost no role in the face of artillery fire that illuminated half of the sky. The 77th Regiment was placed at the forefront of the 17th Division's position by only 400 infantry squadrons. Although they were facing a defense line of more than 2,000 people in a regiment of the 17th Division, Colonel Luo Min of the 77th Regiment already thought it was enough.

In his opinion, not to mention the only infantry regiment or division of the Kingdom people, he and his 77th Regiment had also been defeated in frontal offensive and defensive battles.

Not counting the artillery of the division, his 77th Regiment was equipped with 4 75mm mountain cannons, 10 70mm infantry cannons, and 6 37mm anti-tank rapid-fire cannons. These cannons were enough to send the Kingdom Army Division, who was only equipped with five or six mountain cannons, to hell.

Moreover, his confidence does not come from the comparison of data. In fact, in the past three months of fighting in the Kingdom Elephant Valley and other places, whether it is the Kingdom 29th Army or the Kingdom's so-called Central Army, the Kingdom's army of more than 150,000 were defeated in the charge and pursuit of more than 50,000 of them.

I think there will be no exception this time. Looking at the battlefield where artillery fire in the distance was raging for half an hour, Colonel Luo Min issued an order to charge the infantry at the moment when the dawn light appeared.

Two infantry squadrons began to charge along the 2-kilometer defense line of the 97th Regiment of the 17th Division. Because of their confidence in the half-hour artillery fire of sixteen mountain cannons on their side, Luo Min did not even send two wing troops to attract the firepower of the Kingdom side.

Then, he was punished. Although the 12 75mm mountain cannons of the 17th Division's mountain artillery battalion were not deployed to the front line to provide them with support. However, in order to increase the cost of the 17th Division's defense in Jiangrui Mountain, he quietly brought them 6 82mm mortars.

The 6 mortars plus the original 6 of the 17th Division were all 12 mortars formed by Huang Lanfeng into a mortar company and strengthened to the defense position of Luojin County. The mortar with a range of only more than 2,000 meters was naturally hidden tightly by Li Weimin, the commander of the 97th Regiment. The 97th Regiment, which entered Luojin County three days in advance, had already dug an anti-aircraft hole that was sufficient to defend against 75mm guns. As long as the Black Hawk Army did not use 105 howitzers and aircraft bombs to bomb, it would be fine to resist for one day.

Seeing the Black Hawk infantry began to charge, Li Weimin, who was located at the 600-meter underground bunker command center behind the front line trenches, put down his telescope and sneered: "Order, the mortar company will fire five rapid-fire at the Black Hawk Empire's storm formation, and then immediately transfer the position. All light and heavy machine guns must not be exposed without my order."

"Bang bang..." With the continuous muffled sound, more than ten fireballs instantly bloomed in the Black Hawk Army's charge queue.

The Black Hawk Army, which is only more than 400 meters away from the front position of the 97th Regiment, is very sparse in the Black Hawk Army. There is only one Black Hawk Army every six or seven meters. This can prevent the fire of machine guns that have not been destroyed by the Kingdom Army, causing increased casualties.

The killing radius of a mortar shell is only five or six meters. In fact, the killing of such scattered infantry is also very limited. However, limited lethality does not mean that there is no killing.

Even if the individual Black Hawk infantry, with excellent quality, immediately lie down and dodge when they hear the unique sound of the familiar Kingdom 82 caliber mortar, the mortar shells with a flight speed of more than 200 meters per second arrive, and the instant fireballs splashing the shells. The steel sheets of shells splashed everywhere are not the main cause of the damage, but the huge shock wave formed by the explosion of explosives. They are not something you can hide by lying on the ground.

Otherwise, what's the use of trenches? Why should we protect against artillery holes? When shells come, everyone fell down together. On the battlefield where shells dominate, the only way for infantrymen to survive is to pray to the gods they believe in to open their eyes and not let the shells fall within five meters beside them. If it is a shell with a larger caliber, then it has to be farther away.

Obviously, in this regard, the god believed in by the Black Hawk Army is, buddy, my magical powers are limited and I can't stop the cannon!

In just 30 seconds, 12 mortars shot out 60 shells in one breath. In Colonel Luo Min's telescope, the fireballs that kept exploding high in the bodies of his infantry in the yellow military uniform, and then fell heavily.

There was almost no need to ask the result. When they were dancing and flying, Luo Min knew that these unlucky guys were dead. In the face of such shock waves, even steel would be twisted into a ball.

The kingdoms actually had so many mortars hidden? The explosion of dozens of shells caused at least dozens of casualties. This was the result of the kingdoms' defense line being very wide and the charge line being very scattered. If the charge formation was a little denser, just this artillery raid... Colonel Luo Min knew with his butt that it was very likely that an infantry squadron would not have to go to the battlefield again.

"Bastard! Order the infantry to stop the charge, the artillery squadron and the 8th Field Artillery brigade continued to shell the artillery for half an hour, and ordered Lieutenant Colonel Tooba's first infantry brigade, the second and third infantry brigade to move to the left and right wings of the kingdom people. No charge can be launched without my order." Colonel Luo Min is worthy of being an old corps and immediately realizes the mistake he has made.

The Kingdom army on the opposite position is not so vulnerable. They must have built trenches and anti-aircraft holes that can withstand artillery fire in the past few days. The firepower of more than ten mortars is not something that ordinary kingdom army can provide. If you want to capture the defensive position in front of you, but don’t want to increase casualties, it is not as easy as you imagine.

However, for Luo Min, there was not much frustration, and a small charge was only frustrated. When it was dawn and his bombers came to help, the kingdoms on the position would know what the gap was.

The battle in Luojin County was in full swing, and an infantry corps of the Black Hawk Army was blocked from the county town. The 102nd Regiment of the 17th Division on Snowflake Mountain was desperately strengthening its fortifications, just like the defenders in Beizhao Pass. However, the firelights in the county town ten miles away showed the strength of the Black Hawk Army's artillery fire. The fortifications that had been piled up on the rocks with sacks were just the spoils of the Black Hawk Empire Army's artillery fire in front of the artillery fire.

If you want to survive, you have to dig, dig on the hard stone as hard as iron, dig the stones, and hide yourself. More than 2,000 officers and soldiers from the regiment commander Zhang Shijun understand that the brothers of the 97th Regiment located in Luojin County are using their lives to exchange for the time they build fortifications. Every stone they dug is stained with the blood of their brothers.

Snowflake Mountain will be the second line of defense of the entire 17th Division. Here, they can die in battle, but they must leave enough lives of the Black Hawk Empire. Otherwise, their parents will not be willing to cry.

Even if you die, you have to drag someone to the back.

The 102nd Regiment did not have as much explosives as the independent regiment reserved. They could only use the pickaxes and shovels transferred from the remaining troops from the theater command through personal relationships to dig between the rocks and rocks. Even with the permission of Huang Lanfeng, they could not hesitate to use the explosive packs that had not been stored for blasting operations.

The explosive pack can kill the Black Hawk Imperial Army, but the premise is that those who can use the explosive pack must survive first.

This is the most important suggestion that Liu Lang put forward to Lieutenant General Huang after negotiations with Huang Lanfeng, the commander of the 17th Division. Without complete fortifications, in the face of the crazy artillery fire of the Black Hawk Army, just courage cannot reduce the casualties of soldiers.

The soldiers of the Kingdom can die in battle, but they cannot die silently. In the play, the 17th Division, which used only sacks of sand and gravel to build fortifications, killed more than 2,000 people in Xuehua Mountain alone.

The three anti-aircraft gun platoons supported by Liu Lang had already been ambushed in the shape of a font on the two wings of Xuehua Mountain and a position on the back of Xuehua Mountain. Each anti-aircraft gun position was 2 kilometers apart, and the sky above Xuehua Mountain was all at their range.

It is said to be an anti-aircraft gun platoon, but the number of people is even close to one company. Each 20mm machine gun is equipped with a main and secondary gunner and observation soldiers, and the ammunition hands exceeds 10 people. The 4 machine guns are as high as one platoon. With six anti-aircraft machine guns, each machine gun is equipped with two shooters and four ammunition hands. With these three air defense positions alone, Liu Lang supported nearly half of the battalion of 300 people.

If a Black Hawk Imperial Army bomber enters the 2,000-meter airspace and is in the center of three anti-aircraft gun positions, then, let alone propeller aircraft with a speed of less than 450 kilometers per hour, even the first generation of jet aircraft with a speed of more than 800 kilometers per hour in the future will be fired by 12 20mm machine guns with a rate of more than 100 rounds per minute and a total of more than 18 "chainsaw" anti-aircraft machine guns with a rate of more than 1,000 rounds per minute, they will be a flaming firebird.

The 20mm dual-mounted machine gun is not only the most powerful anti-aircraft gun in the Kingdom War Zone, but also a wide range of equipment, even looking around the world. Just from the fact that the White Eagle people equipped a full hundred pieces on their destroyers like hedgehogs to defend against air, we can know how powerful this kind of small cannon with an effective fire as high as 2,300 meters is that although the Kingdom Army only imported 200 pieces, the war broke out.

If the Kingdom is given another year and import 2,000 doors, the Blackhawk Empire pilots will have a headache. If bombs are dropped at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, the hit rate will not exceed 10%.

The first large-scale battle between the Kingdom Army and the Black Hawk Empire Army was first launched by the 17th Division in Luojin County, an important junction between Heyuzhou and Lingpizhou East.
Chapter completed!