For these problems, Han Xing couldn't explain them in detail to him, and he didn't have time to talk about them at the moment, so he had to say: "Master Zhong, if you have time, I'll talk about it again!" ”

Zhong Yi said happily: "Okay, you can accept me as an old student." You are not only my good brother, but also my good teacher. If only the Southern Expeditionary Army had come a little earlier, we wouldn't have been beaten so badly by the little devils. ”

Han Xing said to him: "Are our infantry also going up to help you defend your position?" ”

Zhong Yi said gratefully: "I think you should rest!" What we were afraid of was Japanese planes, artillery and tanks. Now it's okay, the Japanese planes were beaten hard by you, we all saw it, the Japanese tanks suffered heavy losses again, and we can already cope with the rest. That's thank you very much! ”

At this time, the bombing sound of Xu Da's air force air raids stopped, because they had exhausted the missiles they had brought and needed to go back and reload. The 13th Wing of the Tank Regiment, taking advantage of this opportunity, is about to attack the positions of the 173rd Division again.

The Japanese seemed to have made up their minds to destroy the 173rd Division, and the tank regiments in front of them formed a long snake formation and marched towards the front of the Chinese army. The tank engine rumbled, and a huge sound came from far and wide, and the black smoke from the engine alone polluted a large area.

The 173rd Division had no anti-tank weapons at that time, only German 37-mm anti-tank guns and Soviet 45-mm anti-tank guns. In comparison, the German 37-mm anti-tank gun was better than the Soviet 45-mm anti-tank gun.

After round after round of fighting, the anti-tank guns of the 173 Division have lost a lot. But there were still a few anti-tank guns that survived, constantly changing positions and firing shells at the Japanese tanks.

The two sides first engaged in fierce artillery battles, and from time to time, a Japanese tank was overturned, and an anti-tank gun of the Nationalist army was beaten into a flight and became dumb under the fierce bombardment of Japanese tanks.

Zhong Yi held the phone and kept shouting: "Anti-tank guns, hit hard-hit hard-increase firepower-increase firepower-"

Han Xing's heart was also very anxious, according to this way of fighting, the Japanese tank troops would still rush up sooner or later. As soon as the Japanese tanks rushed to the infantry positions, another massacre was to be carried out. If the guard battalion called Zhang Xiaosan had only 8 heavy machine guns, it would be difficult to deal with a tank attack of a wing.

At this time, Hou Dashan's mechanized regiment arrived. His face was flushed, and he sweated profusely and gave a military salute to Han Xing and said, "Report to Commander Han, the mechanized regiment has been ordered to arrive, and ask Commander Han for instructions." ”

Han Xing was so anxious that he didn't even return the salute, and immediately said to Hou Dashan: "Heavy artillery bombardment of the enemy's tank troops, immediately!" Immediately! ”

Hou Dashan agreed: "Yes!" He immediately ran out and carried out the order.

Hou Dashan waved his hands while running, and issued an order to the mechanized regiment behind: "Heavy artillery bombards the Japanese tank troops, and heavy artillery bombards the Japanese tank units." ”

If you want to say that the traction of the mechanized regiment is quite good, it is all based on the drawings stolen by Han Xing, and the imitation Jiefang brand cars produced as traction. Although the performance is not very good, especially the off-road transportation is very unsatisfactory, but it is much better than horse-drawn and donkey-pulled.

Pulling a cannon in the back, an artillery sits in the carriage, and a box of shells can be pulled, which at that time was also considered modern.

Fortunately, this is the Great Plains, and the transportation is smooth, if it is in the mountains, the road is destroyed again, and then these artillery will suffer.

The heavy artillery regiment was divided into 1st battalion, 2nd battalion, tank battalion. Because the tank battalion is very important, it is under the direct leadership of Han Xing, so the mechanized regiment mainly has the first heavy artillery battalion and the second heavy artillery battalion. The first battalion of heavy artillery was based on Hou Dashan's original coastal guns, plus some captured Japanese guns. The second battalion of heavy artillery is based on Wang Dawu's howitzer regiment of the original 49th Army.

After receiving the order, each battalion and company quickly found a slightly leveled place and set up artillery positions.

Wang Dawu's heavy artillery battalion is mainly composed of 38 howitzers, half of which are Japanese Type 94 75mm mountain guns and half are Soviet-made ZIS-3 76mm field guns.

At this time, Li Booth had already been promoted to the commander of the second battalion and the first company. His company had mainly 6 Soviet-made ZIS-3 76-mm field guns.

This artillery operates with 8 people per gun, one sighter, one operator, one gunner, one squad leader, and four ammunition men. These guns were much heavier than the Japanese Type 94 guns, weighing 1.15 tons in combat condition and being towed by a special car. There is a driver and a co-driver on the bus, so the whole class is 10 people and one shot.

"Aim," Libbs looked at the binoculars, then visually inspected them again, and shouted loudly, "basically in a horizontal position, at a distance of 3,500 meters." Direction, 11 o'clock, height 43 degrees. Each gun fired one round on a test basis, ready to be fired. ”

Six 76-mm shells, with the sound of "clang, clang, clang," were ejected, drew an arc in the air, and flew towards the enemy's tank positions.

"Boom, boom-" The shell exploded about 200 meters from the left flank of the enemy's tank convoy, flashing clouds of fire and clouds of smoke.

Artillery aiming, it is not so simple, the general artillery range is more than one or twenty kilometers, even this kind of Soviet-style artillery, the range is also 12 kilometers. The target is not at all within the reach of the naked eye.

The general procedure should be that the forward observation post, when the target is detected, will notify the artillery of the coordinates of the shot. The artillerymen adjusted the barrel according to the design coordinates provided by the observation post and fired a few rounds first. The observation post further observed the landing point of the shells, corrected the coordinates again, and notified the artillerymen. The artillery fired again until the target was knocked out.

Now that the war is raging, there is simply no time to place artillery observation posts.

Libus re-trimmed the shooting Zhu Yuan: "Armor-piercing shells, direction, 11:20, altitude 43 degrees, three shots per gun, rapid fire." ”

"Clang, clang, clang......" The sound of the cannon being ejected came from each cannon, the cartridge case quickly retreated, the ammunition man quickly loaded the second shell, the gunner quickly pulled the gun rope, and the second shell flew out again. Then a third shell was fired.

In almost a dozen seconds, 18 armor-piercing shells fell in the 13th wing of the tank regiment. Clusters of fire shone brightly, and thick clouds of black smoke rose.

Of course, there is only one enemy tank a few tens of meters away. Several shells fell between the tanks, nothing exploded, and the thick armor of the tanks covered the shell skin, which was not affected much, only a slight shock. A few shells fell closer to the tank, and the huge shock wave shook the tank violently, and one tank suddenly tilted to the side, almost overturning, relying on its own gravity, the tank came back and shook a few times.

However, a few shells were too accurate, and the armor-piercing shells pierced through the thick armor at once, and the shells got into the tank, causing a large explosion in the tank. The big explosion detonated the shells in the tank again, and with a "boom" sound, it caused a secondary explosion and blew the tank cover off at once.

The blown up tank ignited again.

There were also shells that exploded, and because they were so close to the tank, they blew up the tank in one fell swoop. The crew of the tank, who did not die, desperately crawled out of the tank and escaped with his life.

Hou Dashan's 1st Heavy Artillery Battalion also bombarded the Japanese tank wing. The first battalion of heavy artillery is mainly coastal artillery, all German-style 105mm howitzers, and the power of this kind of artillery is even greater, as long as it is within ten meters, the tank can be blown over.

The Japanese Army's 13th Armored Wing can be said to have suffered a catastrophe. They were shrouded in shells, surrounded by countless clusters of firelight, and tightly wrapped in black smoke.

In the command post of the Japanese army, the division commander Murakami Keisaku also felt a great panic: "Nani! What's wrong with China's 11th Army, isn't there just a few anti-tank guns, their air force has long been out of the picture, why has the air force been added at this time, and there is such a powerful artillery. What's going on? What about the intelligence services, what about the intelligence services? ”

The chief of staff hurriedly said to him: "Your Excellency, commander, you should consider how to save our armored troops, right?" ”

Keisaku Murakami said loudly: "Immediately order our 39th Wing of Field Artillery to immediately bombard the artillery of the Chinese army and destroy the artillery of the Chinese army." ”

The Japanese artillery wing had four brigades, with a total of 36 75mm mountain guns and 12 75mm field guns, which were comparable to the artillery of the Hou Dashan Mechanized Regiment. After receiving the order, they immediately bombarded Hou Dashan's mechanized regiment.

However, it is not so easy for artillery to attack each other, because at a distance of several thousand meters, it is not clear where the enemy's artillery is, how far away from him is when your shells hit, and how to shoot Zhu Yuan at once. Especially after the two sides exchanged fires, the smoke filled the air, and it was even more difficult to see the enemy's gun positions clearly.

There is a lack of an artillery scout, that is, an observation post, to see where the enemy's gun emplacements are, and how far away the shells are from them after the test fire, so that they can shoot at Zhu Yuan at once.

Then send an observation post, and run to the enemy's side at a distance of several kilometers, as if it was too late.

Therefore, if the shells of both sides want to destroy the artillery of the other side that cannot be seen by the naked eye, it is just wishful thinking.

In the command post of the 173rd Division, Han Xing keenly observed this, and he said to Zhang Xiaosan: "Call Wu Xiaoming or Li Dazhong over, I have a task to arrange." ”

Zhang Xiaosan agreed and quickly called someone to go.

After a while, Li Dazhong arrived. He saluted Han Xing and said, "Report to Commander Han, Li Dazhong, the platoon commander of the first company and one platoon of the guard battalion, has been ordered to come." ”

Han Xing said to him: "Now the Japanese army is afraid that there are no anti-aircraft guns, you take a platoon, sitting on Zhang Fei's helicopter, quickly go to the enemy's sky, and indicate the direction of shooting for Hou Dashan's artillery." Do you understand? ”

Li Dazhong repeated Han Xing's order and said: "I understand, that is, Zhang Fei's helicopter flew to the enemy's artillery position and pointed out the direction of shooting for our artillery. ”