Chapter 359: Giant cannon against train cannon

"We want to let the Pioneer Army take a look, we also have better giant cannons." Kenyoshi Ueda, the commander of the Kwantung Army, said fiercely.

The Kwantung Army needs to face the giant cannons that are Shanhaiguan when entering the pass.

The Pioneer Army arranged a large number of heavy artillery and blizzard cannons at Shanhaiguan. Without the support of the air force, the only possibility is to use stronger firepower to fight back. However, the existence of that giant cannon also caused great losses to the Japanese offensive force. Many large-caliber heavy artillery were bombarded if they could not reach the range.

"Let the navy try it with naval guns!" someone in the base camp suggested.

The base camp also needs to solve these problems before they can talk about attacks together. Otherwise, if the Kwantung Army is blocked outside Shanhaiguan, what is the unified command? Besides, there are not only Shanhaiguan, but at least there are four places now. The place in Qingdao beat the King Kong and the place in Xuzhou drove away the 13th Division. At this time, a place appeared opposite the Yellow River near Zhengzhou. The cannon shells landed in Zhengzhou and Jiaozuo from time to time, which also made them feel the trepidation of the 13th Division and did not dare to gather large numbers of troops.

The giant cannons everywhere need to be knocked out so that the momentum of the offensive will not be curbed. The best way to attack these giant cannons should be air bombardment, but the sky is at this time of the vanguard. If the Japanese want to occupy the advantage in the air, they must use quantity to win with the performance of the existing aircraft. When the quantity reaches a certain level, it will cause a qualitative change. When the ratio exceeds 3 to 1, the advantage of the weapon quality will drop significantly. The larger the proportion, the more effective the attack in the sea of ​​people will be until the final victory will be achieved.

According to the Japanese intelligence observations, the Pioneer Army can dispatch more than 200 fighter jets at a time, or even 300. If the Japanese want to gain air superiority, they need at least 1,000 fighter jets, and they are fighter jets. The Japanese Navy and Army combat aircraft have more than 2,000 aircraft, but there are many other types of bombers and other aircraft.

Using tactical arrangements, the required aircraft may be less, but the fighter aircraft consumed also felt unbearable for the Japanese. After fighting the Pioneer Army's air force and gaining air supremacy, the Japanese did not have many aircraft to protect the local area and the Soviet Union and other potential threats.

The prototype of the new Japanese aircraft has been successfully tested and is preparing to be put into production. Such an aircraft can easily shoot down the 96-ship battle, which can offset the advantages of the Pioneer Army's fighter jets. It does not require many, only a hundred such aircraft can partially offset the Pioneer Army's air superiority and open a gap in the sky.

Apart from the air attack and the propulsion attack of the land army, the losses were too great. The 12th Division's crushing defeat has shown that this method is unrealistic. So someone suggested that the navy attack.

"No, we also have giant cannons!" The army refused. They still had a secret weapon that was not used.

On the snowy field in the northeast, a train was slowly driving towards Shanhaiguan under the heavy escort of the Kwantung Army. The 12.82-meter-long gun barrel and complex operating table above have shown that this is a train gun.

During World War II, the Japanese had only one train cannon. This train cannon was originally a 240mm cannon ordered from the French in Tokyo Bay. Because it was in service for 30 years, it was named the Type 90 cannon.

After 918, in order to prevent Soviet attacks, the Japanese established many fortresses in the northeast. The Type 90 cannon produced by the French Schneider Company was converted into a train cannon from the shore defense cannon. This year, the modification was completed at Hitachi Manufacturing. The reason why the army people had this tone was because the train cannon had been transported to the northeast. After landing in Dalian, it was transported to Suizhong in a decomposition manner before it was assembled.

Originally, this cannon was not transported to Hutou Fortress in 1942. In 1945, when the Soviet Union attacked the Kwantung Army, its whereabouts were unknown. Later generations speculated that it might have been kidnapped by the Soviet Union. Nearly one million Russians moved in the Northeast, but they kept moving. At this time, there was a vanguard army, and because of the huge artillery of Shanhaiguan, the Japanese brought it in advance.

This news quickly reached Meng Xiang's ears.

"Train Cannon?" Meng Xiang still had a little understanding of it. After all, this is the only Japanese train cannon.

"This kind of gun has a long range, more than 50 kilometers, so all units should pay attention to it." Meng Xiang instructed. Although the specific performance of this train gun is unknown, the range of 50 kilometers is impressive. Since the golden finger of history has given Meng Xiang an inspiration, be careful not to make any mistakes.

The Japanese train cannon stopped far away from Shanhaiguan, about 42 kilometers away from Shanhaiguan. The giant cannon of the Pioneer Army was nearly 5 kilometers behind Shanhaiguan, which was beyond the attack distance of the giant cannon that the Japanese knew, but they still had to be careful.

This is the difference between train guns and fortress cannons. Train cannons rely on maneuver and have very fragile protection. The fortress cannons have thick protection. The Japanese planes have no effect on bombing giant cannons, which means that their protection is very thick, but the Type 90 train cannons may not be able to be shot by the other party.

"Please rest assured that the range of this cannon can reach 50,120 meters, far exceeding that of the Chinese cannon." Umegawa Dibori said to Kawabian Masamu with confidence. Kiyotaro Uemura has been suspended, and Kawabian Masamu takes over the division commander of the 12th Division.

"Their fire rate is very fast!" Hebian Zhengsan reminded. He was the commander of the brigade who led the Lugou Bridge Incident. He was the one who ordered the shelling of Wanping County. When he was transferred to the 12th Division, he served as deputy chief of staff in the North China Front Army and knew the power of the vanguard army's giant cannon.

"No problem, such a long distance can only allow the dust from the Chinese shells to fall to our feet." Umegawa Dibori said arrogantly. The 90-type 50-kilometer ultra-long range attack, as far as he knew, few Europeans and Americans could compare, and the Chinese people were even worse.

With the order of Umegawa Dibori, the 2x6 wheeled wheel frame trolley on the 136-ton train cannon began to be deployed and fixed, and the huge recoil of the train cannon required these gun frames to buffer.

The Japanese initially investigated that the Pioneer Army had only two giant cannons, but such a high rate of fire made the Japanese speculate that there were hidden unknowns.

The positions of the two French giant cannons that the Pioneer Army had revealed had been determined. The Type 90 train cannons directly adjusted the parameters and entered the firing state.

"Fire the cannon!" When everything was ready, Umegawa Dibori ordered loudly.

"Boom!" A ball of flame spewed out from the muzzle raised with the gun barrel, and a stream of gunpowder spread out. A scream broke through the sky and passed away in the distance.

"While the distance is far, although the accuracy deviation is large, what we need is shock." At such a long distance, Megua Dibori knew that it might not necessarily hit the giant cannons of the Pioneer Army, but this threat would make the giant cannons of the Pioneer Army dare not attack at will.

The observation balloons in the sky and the reconnaissance planes hovering in the distance were closely watching there, and even agents lurking in Qinhuangdao were also staring at it.

"Be careful, the Pioneer Army's giant cannons attacked!" The reconnaissance plane in the sky first reported not the attack of the Type 90 train cannon, but quickly informed the flames and smoke from the muzzle of the Pioneer Army's giant cannons.

The screams in the sky just passed away and then appeared, and became louder and louder, heading towards this side.

Umekawa Dibori's face changed. This sound was so familiar. The place where the shells landed must be around them, and it might even be above their heads.

"Be careful! Protect the shelling!" he shouted, but he was cursing in his heart, "Bastard, these hateful guys. The intelligence of the Empire is too backward, and the range of the Chinese cannons may exceed 50 kilometers."

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the earth shook, almost causing Umegawa Dibori on the podium to fall down. The crunch of the shaking train was shocking, and the smoke and dust dissipated. A huge deep pit appeared more than 100 meters away from the front of the vehicle, and there were more than a dozen Japanese corpses bleeding from their seven orifices.

"It's on the left front, with a deviation of about 230 meters." The reconnaissance planes in the sky began to report on the battle situation of the train cannons.

At this time, Umegawa Dibori was no longer mentally aware of this. What he needed was to make the train cannon safer. If the shell was closer just now, I was afraid that the train cannon would be finished.

"Put the cannon stand! Retreat 3 kilometers!" Umekawa Dibori ordered anxiously.

"Boom!" Not long after, another loud bang exploded around him. Several Japanese guards who were guarding there disappeared directly in the roar, and even a strip of cloth was not left behind. Umegawa Dibori experienced the high-fire rate of the vanguard army's giant cannon, but this was the result of the giant cannon reducing the rate of fire in order to improve the accuracy.

"Boom!" When the train cannon mount was about to be closed, the third giant cannon shell fell not far in front of the front of the train cannon. On the edge of the deep pit, the broken railway track was twisted into a twist and rolled into the air, and the train cannon's front of the train cannon was knocked out of the railway track and fell aside.

"Escape quickly!" Before the gun mounts were all collected, Megua Dibori sent a signal of evacuation. Megua Dibori secretly thanked that this time the power of the towing train was arranged front and back. The front was destroyed, and it could still be driven by the dragging power behind.

"Boom!" The fourth shell landed where the train cannon was just around the corner, and a deep pit exploded on the rails. The train cannon that had been more than 300 meters had been fired, and Meguchi Dibori blew a cold sweat. The train cannon was beaten to the small-caliber artillery of the machine gun, but the only way to fight against the giant cannon was to have a very long range. However, the range of the cannon of the Pioneer Army was also abnormally long.
Chapter completed!