The 105mm caliber cannon, even the A-type division of the Japanese army, is a rare weapon and is naturally an important weapon. The Sixth Division only has 12 such cannons.

In the battle sequence of Japan, the 105mm cannon is a division-level fire support weapon, while the 155mm cannon is an army-level support weapon. This time, the Sixth Division dispatched a heavy artillery brigade and pulled 12 105mm cannons to reach here, and wanted to take a risk.

The artillery fire of the Independent Division was too terrifying, and the Japanese were completely scared of being beaten. Naturally, Man Niujima naturally tried every means and tried to destroy the Independent Division's heavy artillery group at any cost.

As soon as he learned the exact location of the heavy artillery brigade, Niujima Man immediately sent out his 12 105mm cannons, and it was led by the colonel captain of the little Japanese.

When the sneak attack order was issued, Niu Daoman was very excited when he thought that the heavy artillery group of the Independent Division might be 48 155mm caliber heavy artillery pieces. Once the sneak attack was successful, it would not only destroy the terrifying heavy artillery group of the Independent Division, but also protect his third line of defense and persist until the arrival of a large number of reinforcements.

The Japanese never expected that each infantry brigade under the Independent Division had its own artillery regiments, and each artillery regiment was equipped with 105mm American howitzers, and a regiment was equipped with 105mm caliber artillery far more than the 12 of the Japanese, but reached an astonishing 24.

If we know that in addition to the heavy artillery brigade, there are three artillery regiments under the jurisdiction of the three infantry brigades, Niu Daoman would definitely want to find a piece of tofu to kill them directly. Niu Daoman worked hard and had all the mechanisms. In the end, even if the heavy artillery group of the heavy artillery brigade was destroyed, the independent division had three artillery regiments, which could completely smash their third line of defense.

Niujima Man only knew that in front of his third line of defense was a huge group of chariots of the Independent Division. These armored vehicles may have hundreds of them. Behind this armored cluster, there were about tens of thousands of infantry following up. Behind these infantry units was the huge group of chariots of the Independent Division, which was the heavy artillery brigade that Niujima Man was preparing to attack.

Of course, Japan didn't know that the tens of thousands of soldiers followed were two infantry brigades of the Independent Division, and each infantry brigade was equipped with an artillery regiment with 24 American 105mm howitzers.

And these two infantry brigades were one left and one right, following the mechanized infantry brigade. The artillery regiments to which these two infantry brigades were also ready for artillery attacks, preparing to shell the third line of defense of little Japan with the heavy artillery brigade.

The two artillery regiments are also one on the left and one on the right, three to five kilometers apart from each other. The two artillery regiments reached this area earlier than the Heavy Artillery Brigade. Now, it is completely dark. The Heavy Artillery Brigade is still doing preparations for firing, but these two artillery regiments have already been prepared for firing, and one cannon is aimed at the third line of defense of the little Japanese in front.

Of course, it is impossible for little Japanese to know all this. The little Japanese always thought that the independent division had only one heavy artillery group, that is, the heavy artillery brigade that already knew the specific location.

After reaching the designated position, the Japanese artillery began to build their own artillery important places in a tense and orderly manner, making preparations before firing. Each of the 12 105mm caliber cannons in the Japanese needs to serve more than a dozen or even twenty people. In addition, a large number of auxiliary personnel are required.

It took time for the Japanese to prepare the cannon. Although it had successfully reached the position where they wanted to deal with it, the wide and flat wasteland was full of Japanese figures. In order not to expose the target, the Japanese did not light up the lights because these Japanese knew that they were not far from them, and there might be troops of the independent division within three or five kilometers. Once a large amount of lights were lit up here, they would be exposed immediately.

However, because there is no light, the difficulty of preparation will increase exponentially. It is usually possible to do a preparation work in one hour, but now it may take two or three hours when there is only moonlight.

The leader of the Japanese colonel, after looking at the location of the heavy artillery brigade several kilometers away with satisfaction, began to watch his artillery busy setting up the cannons.

The Japanese colonel also knew that without lighting and relying solely on moonlight, the preparation work would be longer. So don’t look at the Japanese colonel’s appearance, but in fact, he was already very anxious inside.

The longer you stay here, the more dangerous it is. In addition, according to Niujima Mitsuma's plan, sneak attacks must be completed before the heavy artillery brigade fires. Once the heavy artillery brigade has begun to mass-air bombard the third line of defense of Japan, and these sneak attacks are not ready to fire, then the sneak attack will be half failed.

Even though these Japanese attacks successfully later and completely destroyed the heavy artillery group of the heavy artillery brigade, the Japanese's third line of defense was almost destroyed at this time because the heavy artillery brigade fired first. If such a situation occurs, the Japanese would never want to see it, so the Japanese colonel was very anxious.

However, no matter how anxious he is, he can only wait for all the preparations to be completed. Fortunately, the Japanese are well-trained and have a lot of personnel, and everything is not slow. Seeing that his soldiers are orderly and very skilled, the Japanese colonel feels a little more at ease, and his impatient mood is a little lighter.

All changes often occur at the most critical moments.

For these Japanese devils, it seems that they have been half successful in being able to quietly and safely reach the designated area they want to deal with. The next thing is to prepare for the artillery as soon as possible, then fire the gun at the location of the Heavy Artillery Brigade, and finally destroy the Heavy Artillery Brigade.

However, it was not long before the Japanese unloaded his cannon from the towing truck. He had just selected the cannon position for each cannon. Before he even started digging and construction work, a team of scouts with only a few people appeared in the distance.

The independent division has a direct reconnaissance company, and each regiment has a reconnaissance platoon. These reconnaissance companies and reconnaissance platoons naturally carry out relevant enemy reconnaissance work. Although these reconnaissance soldiers are not as good as those of the members of the Lijian Special Forces Team, they are also selected through the selection. They are all good soldiers selected from a hundred, and they are all good at it.

Since Ye Feng proposed to focus on preventing the field artillery wing and cavalry wing of the 6th Division of the Little Japan and preventing any troubles in these two units, the troops have also attached great importance to it and strengthened the relevant reconnaissance work. Even at night, there was no relaxation at all.

Not far from the Japanese artillery position were several soldiers who were reconnaissance platooned by the First Infantry Regiment of the Infantry Brigade. There were not many people, only five or six people, but these few people were a reconnaissance team.

This reconnaissance team has been away from its large army for several kilometers. With the cover of the night, everyone is quietly investigating the enemy situation in this area. At this time, everyone vaguely saw that there seemed to be several people standing guard in front of them.

Because the light is dark, we can only see that there are several black shadows holding spears, a total of three people. If you want to see who they are, you must naturally get closer.

The team leader was a squad leader. When the squad leader saw the three black shadows in the distance, he immediately lowered his waist, waved his hand, and led everyone to touch them quietly. It was not until the distance between the three black shadows that everyone could see clearly that they were three Japanese devils.

How come there are three Japanese warriors in this place to watch?

Although he was full of doubts, the squad leader was still ready to kill the three Japanese devils first. So the squad leader personally led the team and quietly touched the two soldiers, and successfully killed the three Japanese devils.

Kill these three Japanese devils, the squad leader waved his hand, and the other three soldiers lurking in the distance immediately came over. Everyone gathered together and carefully inspected the bodies of the three Japanese devils through the night, but they did not see any name.

"Squad leader, the Japanese are evil. What are you guarding here?" One of the soldiers said softly with confusion.

The squad leader also thought about it, but couldn't figure it out. It was pitch black all around and it was not far away. Even with the moonlight, he could only see the blurry figures a hundred or ten meters away.

"Let's go, everyone follow me. Not far ahead is a road. Let's go to that area to investigate and see if we can find anything." The squad leader said.

So, the group of six people stood up and quietly touched forward under the cover of the night. In just ten minutes, they quietly advanced three to four hundred meters.

At such a slow speed, we are mainly to beware of the Japanese. Since there were three Japanese guards there just now, there would naturally be a large Japanese army in this area. So everyone was very careful, careful, and more careful.

Be careful, no big mistake. Everyone found several Japanese sentry positions along the way, including open and secret sentry, and even found a small team of Japanese patrolling. However, everyone was very careful. Every time, everyone discovered Japanese first and then avoided them well, or directly killed Japanese sentry.

At this time, everyone was lying on a weed and did not move anymore. They thought everyone had seen an amazing scene ahead. In front of everyone, there might be only more than one hundred meters, and there was a flat wasteland, which was adjacent to the highway.

There were many people in the wasteland, and a large number of black shadows were busy. It could even be seen that a large number of trucks were vaguely parked in the distance. What made everyone even more frightened was that in the dark, everyone saw a large caliber heavy artillery, at least a caliber of 100 mm or above.

In the eyes of everyone, the Japanese were secretly building artillery positions. Seeing this scene, everyone almost held their breath and didn't dare to move. Everyone lay in the grass. If they were discovered by the Japanese in the distance, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The team leader was quite experienced. He was also lying on the ground and did not dare to move. He stared at the artillery positions of the Japanese in the distance. He breathed rapidly and felt very nervous.

This is so scary!

The Japanese were actually building artillery positions, and they were all heavy artillery, and no one knew about all this.

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