The area covered by the howitzers is exactly where the Japanese army is now.
The fire coverage of these artillery shells is to help their armored troops attacking from the rear break through the Japanese defense line.
These Japanese soldiers now have no idea of ??the situation they are facing.
After the fierce bombardment arrived, these Japanese soldiers could only hide in their own air raid shelters or cat-ear holes.
Even where Otomo Katsumasa's headquarters was located, several artillery shells fell.
Seeing this, Otomo Katsumasa looked at the direction in which the enemy troops were advancing, and knew that it was already very difficult to launch a counterattack and drive away the enemy on the opposite side.
The enemy's artillery fire was too fierce, but for some reason, their rear artillery unit could no longer be contacted.
This made him very angry.
In fact, Otomo Katsumasa did not know that after their artillery positions in the rear were bombarded by bomber formations of the Fourth Army, they were also attacked by the River Crossing Forces of the Fourth Army.
A tank battalion directly attacked the Japanese artillery position.
Although those artillery pieces were powerful, there was nothing they could do against the enemies rushing into their faces.
Even their communication system lost contact with the headquarters during the violent bombing just now.
The current artillery firepower of the Japanese army is simply unable to support their artillery shells on their own positions.
Otomo Katsumasa looked at the map and the terrain around their position, and determined that although the enemies on the front were numerous, it was not that easy for them to cross the river to fight.
Because of the enemies on the opposite side, their tanks and armored vehicles cannot cross the river, and the bridges have been destroyed.
If we only rely on infantry attacks, the frontal impact of the Fourth Army will actually be relatively slow.
Therefore, what they really need to face are the enemies attacking them from the rear.
Those enemies are all armored units, and their tactical execution capabilities are very powerful. Whether they are ordinary infantry or their armored vehicles, they can execute orders and prohibitions. At the same time, the coordination is seamless, so that their infantry units can't get close to blast. Not too possible.
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Otomo Katsumasa pointed at the map and made his own judgment, "Immediately mobilize a brigade of troops, from this direction, detour to the enemy's side and rear, launch an attack from the enemy's side and rear, and rush into their armored formation. Conduct close-in blasting against enemy armored vehicles and tanks."
"yes!!!"
The staff officer on the side said, and began to carry out his orders.
The troops dispatched by Otomo Katsumasa, braving fierce artillery bombardment, began to make a detour to the sides and rear of the armored forces of the Fourth Army at this moment.
But their movements were clearly seen under the observation of infrared night vision devices.
The armored troops of the Fourth Army who were waiting for the shelling to end and planned to launch an attack immediately dispatched a unit to intercept the Japanese troops on the opposite side from the side.
As for their main force, they continued to attack the Japanese positions in front.
The Japanese army's position did have good defense depth, but now their rear was under fierce attack. The machine gun bunkers and reinforced concrete defenses originally built by the Japanese army along the way had lost their effect.
They can only use the physical body of the infantry troops to withstand the impact of the armored troops on the opposite side.
The shelling by the Fourth Army lasted for about half an hour before it stopped.
The Japanese position, which was already in a mess, was now completely destroyed by the bombardment of these artillery shells, even the machine gun position that had just been constructed before.
The armored troops of the Fourth Army in the rear launched their charge after the shelling stopped.
The flares fired by the Japanese army lit up their heads.
On the armored truck at the rear, the rocket nests installed in the compartment began to launch intensively at this time.
The rockets flying out of the rocket nest drew bright trajectories in the sky.
in secretUnder the heavy rocket bombardment, the Japanese troops who had just entered the defensive positions were unable to even raise their heads.
The soldiers of the Fourth Army on the front opened fire at them wildly.
The large-caliber bullets fired from the vehicle-mounted machine guns on armored vehicles and tanks formed a dense fire net that enveloped the Japanese positions.
"Many Japanese soldiers, if they just wanted to take a look, would be cut off half of their heads by flying large-caliber bullets.
The remaining Japanese soldiers were hiding in the trenches and did not dare to poke their heads out. At this time zhu iwen.org* Zhang Si
Finally, when the forward attacking troops of the Fourth Army were about to arrive at the Japanese position, the rocket nests they supported from the rear stopped bombarding the Japanese position.
If the bombing continues, those rockets flying past may cause accidental damage to the troops attacking in front of them.
It was also at this time that the armored units of the Fourth Army charging forward began to speed up their charge.
The Japanese soldiers on the front finally began to shoot at the position ahead at this time.
Otomo Katsu was observing the battle situation ahead.
He saw the shadow of the enemy armored vehicle on the opposite side being stretched bit by bit under the light of the flare.
Those armor plates reflected the light of the flares and were extremely cold.
"After the enemy's armored forces broke into our position, the troops on the flanks immediately launched an attack on the enemy."
Otomo Katsumasa said at this moment.
As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, a large number of flares suddenly shot into the sky from the side of the main Japanese position.
The Japanese troops hidden there were also exposed at this moment.
"not good!!!"
Seeing the flares flying out, Otomo Katsumasa felt a chill in his heart.
At the moment when the flare took off, the infantry troops of the Fourth Army buried on the side began to launch a sudden attack on the Japanese troops hiding on the side.
Under the cover of armored vehicles and trucks, they launched an extremely fierce attack on the Japanese army, overwhelming z.com Zhixiao
Those Japanese troops originally planned to conduct a sneak attack on the private armored units charging head-on.
But their attack had not yet started. Instead, they were violently attacked from the side by the fourth army.
When Katsumasa Otomo saw this, he knew that their troops on the flanks must have exposed their whereabouts in advance, otherwise the enemy on the opposite side would not launch such a precise assault