The Sihang Group is equipped with the Liaozao Type 16 150mm mortar developed 12 years ago!

If this large-caliber mortar is placed in the future, just looking at its pitiful 3,200-meter range, it will naturally be the garbage among the garbage. Japan can knock it out any cannon.

But this kind of ancient mortar became the most urgent heavy artillery that the Chinese army needed at this time. After realizing that he could not get the heavy artillery he wanted from the Western world, the principal also began to order the arsenals under his command to start to imitate the Liao-made Type 16 150mm mortar in large quantities, and two years later named it the Min-29 150 mortar. It was this "old" artillery that played a huge role in the later regaining war in western Yunnan.

The 23-kilogram projectile can kill and injure the surface personnel, and even the fortifications cannot stop its explosive power. Even the well-equipped Japanese army has fortifications, there will be heavy casualties in front of this cannon.

In the Battle of Ice Field more than ten years later, the Chinese ace army also carried such large-caliber mortars. The ring fortifications arranged by the 1st Cavalry Division of the beautiful country were also in vain in front of such "simple" artillery. That is, the ace army equipped with too few cannons, but only 4. If the number is multiplied by ten, the fate of the infantry division may be completely changed.

The firing range is a disadvantage of a 150mm mortar, but the power of an explosion of more than 20 kilograms of projectiles is definitely several times that of a 75mm mountain cannon.

Even if the Japanese army hid in fortifications, they would probably be frightened, let alone in the unrestrained wasteland.

A round of six shells first exploded about 100 meters in front of the Japanese artillery position. The huge air waves directly shocked the Japanese artillery to lie on the ground.

This is the most correct way to avoid artillery fire. Although the landing point of the shell is still far from you, the speed of a person cannot keep up with shrapnel and air waves. Any attempt to escape is 99% chance of being torn to pieces by artillery fire.

The Japanese artillery reacted quickly, but some were in trouble.

Those were the two infantry squadrons of the Third Infantry Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, which was intended to support the 'Long Live Charge'.

The third infantry brigade, Master Shinmori, has actually done a good job in psychological construction. If the two infantry squadrons under their command want to carry out a "Long Live Charge", there will be heavy casualties.

Although the dead grass ignited by the incendiary bomb was burning very vigorously, the Chinese were tenacious like ground rats. Such a fire might not necessarily burn them all. With the firepower they had exposed before, it would be nice that half of the two infantry squadrons could rush into the Chinese positions alive.

But what he never expected was that the two infantry squadrons who shouted "onboard" to start charging had not fallen yet, and the two infantry squadrons who were staying on the edge of the battlefield and were ready to follow up at any time had an accident.

Something big happened!

Six bullet flowers bloomed in the area where the infantry were lying on their lying, and the broken limbs that could be seen in the naked eye were flying with the air waves!

Shenmu Zhensen's eyes went dark!

That's not angry.

As a veteran who has been in the army for ten years, Shenmu Zhensen has never seen anything before, and he will not lose some troops.

That's because, he was hit.

In order to prove his bravery to the corps captain, the Japanese Army's Grand Secretary was too close to the front line.

Even because of the urgent war, he did not even dig a temporary shelter, so he half-kneeled in the grass and hid in the bushes, holding a telescope and watching his subordinates running wildly on the burning grass.

His location is only 50 meters away from the remaining two infantry squadrons!

Although such a distance is not entirely at the killing radius of the shell, who says that it will not die if it is not at the killing radius?

A Japanese infantry was three meters away from the explosion center of a shell. The fragile human body was instantly torn into several pieces by the huge explosion energy of explosives. The rifle in his hand was also blown to pieces. The undestroyed barrel was fired by energy and accelerated to fly away.

It's so hard that Master Shinmori is on the route of the gun barrel racing...

Master Shenmu Zhenmori died!

That was the first Grand Chief officer to be killed in battle in the 2nd Infantry Regiment.

Deadly from the first round of test fire of the 1st Company of the Four-Road Regiment!

It can only be said that his life is not good, and Pang Dahai and his brothers are in great fire, just like they have accumulated a long time of anger.

After two rounds of test firing of the 1st Company of the Cannon, the Third Infantry Brigade lost 43 infantrymen, including their Grandmaster, and an infantry team was reimbursed.

The 1st Company of Artillery, but it has just consumed 12 shells.

However, there were five shell cars behind each mortar, and there were also shell cars transported here from the distant ammunition storage warehouse.

Tang Dao gave the ammunition consumption index of the 1st gun company to 30 rounds per gun!

Then, it was Matsumoto's turn to be in trouble with the rapid-fire artillery squadron at the right gate of Matsumoto.

The shells exploded in front, back, left and right of the rapid-fire cannon. The bullets rose up, and the earth seemed to be trembling.

There is no manpower to resist the largest caliber "heavy artillery" that the Chinese army can currently equip. Not to mention the Japanese artillery soldiers lying on the wasteland without any restraint, even if they give them a 94 tank to live in, they probably can only recite in their hearts: Bless by God Amaterasu!

The rapid-fire cannon weighing hundreds of kilograms is like a piece of paper in the terrifying air wave caused by the shells, which can be rolled out more than ten meters away, not to mention the weak human body.

What's even more terrifying is that the Chinese shells seemed endless, and the sounds kept exploding in the ears of the living Japanese army, with even louder explosions mixed in between. It should be that the shells on their own were detonated.

The position of more than 10,000 square meters was completely covered by gunpowder, like hell!

No one knows how many people still survive in this hell. Seeing all of this hundreds of meters away, Sadazo Ishiguro's face was already pale.

He thought that his opponent would have cannons, but he didn't expect that it would be such a terrible heavy artillery, and he didn't expect that the Chinese would have shelled out so unscrupulously. When his mountain cannon squadron was "scam-eating"?

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! "Order the mountain artillery squadron to find the Chinese artillery positions and destroy them!" Ishiguro Sadazo gritted his teeth and ordered.

This is the only thing the Japanese commander could do. Based on his experience, he judged that the Chinese were not using howitzers but large-caliber mortars. The biggest shortcoming of this kind of gun is that the firing distance is too short.

As for why the Chinese could find the position of his rapid-fire artillery squadron in such a short time, it was probably because the cunning Chinese equipped artillery observation posts on the front line and sent the coordinates to the rear using field radio stations.

Judging from various signs, the Chinese artillery position must be located on the bank of the Bi River, and the most correct way should be on the south bank.

Because no matter how crazy the Chinese are, they will definitely not bring such heavy firearms too close to the infantry. If you are not careful, you may be attacked by the infantry and lose all your losses.

It can only be said that Shinzo Ishiguro is worthy of being the captain of the infantry regiment that Tuotae is valued by him. He roughly determined the approximate area of ​​the 1st Company's position by just analyzing and judging.

Tang Dao really dared not place the 1st Company of Cannon on the north bank of the Bihe River, even if he was more than 80% sure to annihilate the Japanese army.

Cannons are the god of war, but when they are distanced a certain distance, if they accidentally encounter infantry, especially if the distance is closer to 200 meters, they can only be a lamb to be slaughtered.

Just like he led more than 1,000 people to attack the Sixth Artillery Brigade at night in Jiashan, in terms of force comparison, the more than 1,000 people under his command were from the Sixth Artillery Brigade with a force of thousands of people. However, special troops such as artillery are rarely equipped with machine guns and rifles. It is not that they are unworthy of it, but that they will become a burden for artillery.

A cannon costs hundreds of kilograms, and a hundred shells cost hundreds of kilograms. The artillery must carry and pay attention to safety. If you have the spare energy to carry rifles and bullets on your back, that isn’t it putting the cart before the horse!

Even if most of the artillery soldiers in the 1st Company were infantrymen who had been on the battlefield, Tang Dao did not equip them with rifles. At most, they would be equipped with pistols after they developed new pistols in the future for self-defense.

The safety of the artillery troops will basically be handed over to the infantry, but Tang Dao has played almost all the cards in his hand. Even the spy company and the New Eighth Division engineer company were regarded as reserves and they were put into the battlefield at any time. Whoever can ensure the safety of the artillery company can only rely on the terrain.

The broad Bihe River is the safety line for the 1st Company of Cannon!

Tang Dao's opponent was calm and wise enough. When the 1st Company of the Japanese mountain cannon was still madly shooting, the four mountain cannons began to adjust the elevation angle, shooting range, and the four mountain cannons roared.

The shells fell into the river that had already rippled, and burst into balls of water splashes, and some fell on the shore, causing bursts of smoke to rise.

The closest place is only more than 400 meters away from the 1st Company of the Cannon.

You know, this is all based on a few guesses. The kind of rat that blind cats catch kills also indirectly proves the strength of the Japanese artillery.

Unfortunately, Ishiguro Sadatsu still underestimated his opponent.

Pang Dahai has more than 6 150 mortars under his command, and four 41-style mountain cannons "sent" by his fellow dead ghosts from Ishiguro Satozo.

What's even more terrible is that the Japanese commanders and artillery soldiers are purely relying on the mystery, but the 1st Artillery Company has a "six-mile eye".

"The artillery brothers did a good job, the rough coordinates of the Japanese mountain cannon positions..." Gu Xishui's telegram wrote.

"Tell Fat Dahai that this time, his mountain cannons cannons cannons cannons, but don't hit them too hard. It would be bad to scare Shinzo Ishiguro away. There is a Japanese Army Colonel's head hanging on the Yellow River Railway Bridge to apologize to his ancestors, so that he is sincere enough!" Tang Dao glanced at Gu Xishui's telegram and ordered.

Tang Dao's words were not nonsense on a whim.

In historical records, the engineering company of the New Eighth Division exploded for two days before completely destroying the dual-purpose railway and highway bridge that was built 32 years ago.

Tang Dao was very strange. What kind of bridge was so strong that it actually caused an engineer company to explode with a large amount of explosives for two days.

The day after arriving at the Yellow River Railway Bridge, Tang Dao took Lei Xiong, Leng Feng, Li Jiujin and others across the iron bridge to patrol.

When the army carrying the retreat of the First Army was passing by the railway bridge, the train driver should have seen the soldiers who were punching holes on the thick bridge pier. He knew the fate of passing the bridge countless times, and kept ringing the whistle to say goodbye to the bridge.

Many officers and soldiers of the New Eighth Division Engineer Company burst into tears at that moment.

But this is obviously not at the sad point of Tang Dao, who already knows the ending of history. What is the loss of city and land at this moment? In the next two years, most of China will fall into the opponent.

However, the city can be lost and the land can be lost, and the desire to resist is necessary. The ancestors of this era did not disappoint their descendants after all.

Even if the enemy occupied 6 million traitors, which is rare in the world, China still has hundreds of millions of people who do not want to be slaves of the country.

The lost city and the lost land were finally taken back!

However, when Tang Dao walked under the majestic bridge pier in the south of the bridge, the words written on a stone plaque made him feel like thousands of arrows piercing his heart.

Tan Tai Mingyue whispered: "On the day when the Qing Dynasty Railway Corporation built the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway, the court sent the crown prince Shaobao, the former left minister of the Ministry of Works, Sheng Xuanhuai, and the first-rank chief of the Ministry of Commerce, Tang Shaoyi, the left minister of the Ministry of Commerce, to celebrate the ceremony!

In addition, this bridge was completed in three years, and 26 migrant workers were damaged! I sincerely engrave my ambition! October 16, 31st year of Guangxu, Qing Dynasty!”

Lei Xiong, who was generous in character, burst into tears and cried bitterly: "Brothers, this is the monument left by his ancestors! But today, this bridge is going to be destroyed by our unworthy descendants. We are sorry for them!"

It may be a bit inaccurate to say that the memorial monument is a bit inaccurate, but Tang Dao couldn't help but think of the bridge built on the 318 National Highway Tongmai Heavenly Risk in the future. The pier contains the bones of the Chinese soldiers who built the bridge. If one day the Chinese soldiers had to blow it up, what would it feel like?

Due to the situation, I am sorry for the efforts my ancestors have spent, so I have to have something to apologize. After thinking about it, Tang Dao has nothing more suitable than the head of a Japanese Army Colonel.

When the bridge bombing was launched the next day, Ishiguro Sadazo's head was hung on the bridge and was destroyed along with the bridge.

"Baga!" Hearing the sound of the shell sharply cutting through the sky and flying overhead, Shizusa Ishiguro almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.

What kind of Chinese army was he facing? Not to mention large-caliber mortars, there were actually mountain cannons. Is this Baga still a regiment? It’s an infantry army!

Fortunately, perhaps because the mountain artillery position is more than 1,300 meters away from the infantry front line, the Chinese cannot obtain accurate coordinates. Most of the shells fired are hundreds of meters away from the artillery position. They look very lively, but in fact they do not cause damage to the mountain artillery position.

"Order the mountain artillery squadron to temporarily stop the artillery attack and retreat 500 meters!" Ishiguro Sadazusa quickly issued a military order. After thinking for a while, "The same is true for the infantry artillery squadron!"

"Your Excellency the corps commander, but the third infantry brigade ahead still needs artillery fire support, and the infantry artillery squadron may also have to approach artillery fire!" The deputy of the Zhongzuo Regiment who was standing beside him was a little anxious when he heard this order.

"The Third Infantry Brigade..." Ishiguro Sadaho's face looked extremely ugly. He paused for a moment before saying sobbingly: "Maybe, they don't need it anymore."

"Transfer my military order. The third infantry brigade will no longer attack the Chinese defense line. All personnel retreat 300 meters to dig field trenches. The first and second infantry brigades will fight with the Chinese according to their respective terrain. They told them that the main force of the division is approaching our corps. At the same time, air support will arrive at any time. As long as it is delayed until the evening, our army will counter-encircle the Chinese.
To be continued...