Chapter 21 Advance general attack
As Lin Daba, who was both unlucky in history and now, he is indeed unlucky today.
If it weren't for his scolding of his colleagues in the Ninth Mountain Artillery Corps on the phone, the Ninth Mountain Artillery Corps wouldn't have borrowed several infantry artillery from other infantry brigades to send them to the artillery positions on the front line overnight in order to suppress the artillery fire of the National Army.
No one could have imagined that the best Japanese Type 41 75mm infantry artillery, which was currently the best Japanese army, directly drove more than 10,000 Japanese troops into the abyss. The Type 41 75mm infantry artillery has been widely used in the Japanese army from its launch in 1917 to its defeat in 1945. It has been used by the Japanese army in large numbers, not only in Japan, but also in China, but also in the backbone of the national artillery units, and was even used by the red troops on the Korean battlefield.
From the technical level at that time, the Type 41 mountain cannon was a mountain cannon with very excellent performance and was definitely the world's first-class level.
It adopts advanced hydraulic mechanical composite retreat mechanism technology, with the fire rate of the artillery up to 10 rounds per minute, and later adopts a more advanced integrated artillery shell with a speed of up to 20 rounds per minute.
More importantly, in order to shoot fixed targets and fortifications, the Type 41 mountain cannon can also shoot flat.
Perhaps in order to show his determination to support friendly forces more, there were six boxes of shells piled up on the six-wheeled truck. According to Zhao Ergou's shell supply when he was in the Northeast Army artillery unit, there were 3 bases.
However, it is now cheaper to Liu Lang and his soldiers.
"Blow me up." Liu Lang ordered.
"Yes" Zhao Ergou, who had already adjusted the angle and tested the gun distance, pulled it hard.
With a "boom", a ball of flame spit out from the flat muzzle.
The shells with an initial speed of 360 meters per second flew towards the target. After 3 seconds, brighter fires rose from the bright light.
Zhao Ergou quickly picked up the shell and pushed it into the cannon chamber again. Xu squinted his eyes and adjusted the shooting distance with his thumb. He pulled it again, and there was another "boom" sound in the distance. The rising flames of more than ten meters high made Liu Lang, who was 1,000 meters away, seemingly could feel the hot temperature coming to his face.
"Mom, it's such a big firework." Chi Dakui couldn't help but smash it.
"Be good, this cannon is so much more powerful than our cannons?" Zhao Ergou was also startled by the cannon he fired.
The first shell had already hit the target accurately, and without any suspense, Colonel Lin and Major General Jiro Sakata who came to find fault with him and the farmyard occupied by them turned into pieces without any suspense.
Liu Lang never expected that some unlucky guy had such a good attribute. He passed by the convoy transporting arms from the division ammunition depot twenty minutes ago. Because the chief officer of the baggage team wanted to report to Colonel Lin Daba, a car full of ammunition stayed next to the courtyard. In order to ensure that Zhao Ergou, who had slightly adjusted the angle, hit the second shot directly hit the chariot of arms. The explosion of 2 tons of ammunition not only blew the radius of 200 meters into white ground, but also directly took away the lives of nearly fifty Japanese.
The entire Seventh Regiment Command was gone.
The unlucky colonel was even worse than in history. In history, he was still carried back on a stretcher. Now, there is no need to burn it, and the only thing he can get is the ashes.
"Hurry, hurry up, push the cannon to the other side of the tunnel." Liu Lang had no time to think that the Japanese army's headquarters were still putting so much ammunition, so he turned around and ordered the soldiers to push the infantry cannon back quickly.
If this happens, the Japanese commander who should have been captured can still survive, he has nothing to say. The most important thing now is that he has to fight a bloody path for himself and the remaining soldiers, and at least resist the attack of a squadron of Japanese devils for 40 minutes.
And this infantry cannon that can be shot flat is the greatest guarantee.
The biggest feature of the 41 mountain cannon is not that the shell is powerful, but it is very light in mass compared to other mountain cannons. With a weight of 500 kilograms, two soldiers can push and run around, and almost all terrain can move. It is less than 200 meters away from the tunnel here. Under the drag of seven or eight remaining soldiers, they were quickly deployed to the location designated by Liu Lang.
While Liu Lang was busy preparing to fight the Japanese, he was in a straight line in an underground tunnel less than ten kilometers away from here.
A soldier with a white face, wearing a yellow tweed military uniform, carrying two golden triangle stars on his shoulders, was frowning tightly, paced back and forth in the extremely simple combat room with horse lanterns, thinking. Suddenly, the huge explosion like thunder sound from a distance alarmed him. He looked up quickly and saw a red light on the edge of the dark sky in the distance.
This general of the Kuomintang, who had a strong mark in the history of the War of Resistance Against Japan, soon realized that the Japanese army opposite was in trouble, because he knew very well how strong the artillery under his command was. He decided not to cause such a violent explosion and could spread the sound ten kilometers away here, even the huge naval guns of the Japanese invaders' naval fleet were not so awesome.
At the same time, the Major General Chief of Staff, who was watching the map under the lantern, also looked up at the fire in amazement and asked, "Staff, where is the explosion?"
After carefully looking through the observation hole, a trace of doubt appeared on the face of the general of the National Army and replied: "The explosion point should be in the northeast direction, no less than ten kilometers away from us."
"Northeast direction, ten thousand meters away." The Chief of Staff quickly slid his fingers on the desktop map, and his face became even more surprised: "That is the north of Miaoxing Town, and it is only about two kilometers away from the position we lost during the day. It should be all Japanese devils. What the hell are Japanese devils doing?"
"That position was guarded by the Kuomintang army? Chacha." The general of the Kuomintang suddenly moved and said.
"No need to check, that is the defense zone of the Third Regiment of the 61st Division of the 19th Route Army Commander Cai. After the entire army issued a retreat order, the regiment received the order too late, and no 223 people in the company survived." The Major General Chief of Staff replied with a sad expression.
"Nothing will last forever..." The generals of the national army were also silent.
The casualties were indeed a bit too heavy.
Immediately, a faint sadness was replaced by more perseverance. As the saying goes, "Love is not in charge of the army, and there is no victory without sacrifice. Now more than 20,000 soldiers under his command are still waiting for his orders."
At this moment, the door of the underground bunker was suddenly pushed open, and a colonel rushed in panting, shouting with his legs: "Report."
"speak"
"Martial Commander, the Japanese army's telegrams suddenly became frequent, like a blowout. Do you see the original combat plan...?"
"Um..." The general of the National Army not only frowned again, but also pondered for a moment, as if he had made up his mind and ordered loudly: "I order."
The two generals and schoolmen in the room looked straight, and their legs were together and their bodies stood up straight.
"The 88th Division Yu Jishi's unit, Mao Weishou's unit of the 61st Division of the 19th Route Army and the 87th Division are the main attackers, and the 61st Division and the 87th Division are responsible for the two wings. The soldiers of the entire army must kill the enemy with all their strength and must not take a step back." He paused for a moment and continued: "Anyone who retreats will be shot and executed on the spot. Zhang Zhizhong."
The Major General Chief of Staff looked at the colonel, then looked at the firm eyes of the commander Zhang Zhizhong, and hesitated without hesitation, and responded in unison: "Yes."
"By the way, send the intercepted Japanese military telegram to the Central Secret Service to see if they can be declassified." Zhang Zhizhong immediately ordered the head of the confidentiality section of the military headquarters.
Zhang Zhizhong, the general who was regarded as a patriot by the first Prime Minister of the Republic, undoubtedly made a wise choice in his life that was no less than that of the uprising sixteen years later.
The attack that should have been twenty minutes later was ahead of schedule.
Chapter completed!