Chapter 261: On the eve of the decisive battle, make a conscienceless cannon!
Jinling, the headquarters of the Central China Front of the Japanese Army.
Shunroku Hata was reviewing documents in his headquarters when a rush of footsteps suddenly came from outside the door.
As soon as Shunroku Hata raised his head, his chief of staff, Masao Kawabe, had already hurriedly walked in: "Your Excellency, Commander, the vanguard of the 9th Division of the Imperial Army was ambushed by the Tiger Regiment of the Chinese Army in Fuyang, Anhui Province.
We would like to request an air force to provide tactical guidance! ”
"Nani?" Hata Junroku couldn't help but suspect that his ears had heard it wrong, and asked in confusion: "Isn't the Tiger Ben Regiment of the Shina Army in Lanfeng?" How could it appear in Fuyang. ”
"Here's the thing......"
So, Kawabe Shozo told the whole story as it was. Of course, all of this he said was polished by Ryosuke Yoshika.
After hearing this, Shunroku Hata couldn't help but be furious: "Yaga! This Tiger Regiment of the Chinese Army is really a big trouble for the imperial army!
If you want to conquer China, you must annihilate it!
Order land-based aviation to take off immediately and bomb Fuyang!
In addition, order Yoshika Ryosuke to annihilate the Tiger Regiment in Fuyang at all costs!
Break Yang Jing's body into thousands of pieces, crush bones and scatter ashes, so as to prevent future troubles! ”
"Hello!"
Kawabe Zheng paused three times, and then proposed: "Your Excellency, looking at the past achievements of the Tiger Regiment, with only one Imperial Army's 9th Division, I am afraid that it may not be able to wipe it out!"
Therefore, it is suggested that we should send another reinforcement army over to make sure that everything is in order. ”
After pondering for a moment, Hata Shunroku nodded heavily and agreed to Kawabe Shozo's proposal, and then said: "Chief of Staff, which unit of my Central China Imperial Army is closest to Fuyang now?" ”
Kawabe Zheng came to the map in three steps, pointed his finger and said: "The 6th Division of the Imperial Army has conquered Suxian this morning, and is now advancing westward, preparing to conquer Bozhou, so as to block the westward retreat of the main force of the Fifth Theater of the Chinese Army.
If nothing else, it should have arrived in Lixin County at this time!
If you set off immediately, you will be able to arrive at Fuyang City early tomorrow morning at the latest!
Along with it, there is also a heavy artillery wing of the Imperial Army, armed with 36 howitzers of 150mm caliber! ”
"Yo Xi!"
Shunroku Hata nodded, with a grim look on his face, and said, "Order the 6th Division and the Heavy Artillery Wing of the Imperial Army to immediately stop the original plan and go south to join the 9th Division of the Imperial Army!"
Tell Yoshika Ryosuke and Gu Shoufu that they must complete their efforts in one battle and annihilate all the Tiger Ben regiments of the Chinese Army in Fuyang City, so that no one of them can escape! ”
"Hello!"
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If there is anyone among the commanders of the Japanese division who has the deepest hatred for Yang Jing, the division commander of the 6th Division, Gu Shoufu, is definitely the first to bear the brunt.
At the beginning, his 6th Division was defeated at the hands of the Tiger Regiment at Songjiang, so that for a long time afterward, he could not raise his head in front of his imperial colleagues.
It wasn't until later that more and more Japanese troops were defeated by the Tiger Regiment, and other Japanese generals gradually forgot the stubble of the 6th Division's defeat at Songjiang.
But no matter what, the first battle of Songjiang was destined to become a shame for Gu Shoufu for the rest of his life.
If you want to wash away the shame, the only way to defeat Yang Jing's tiger group is to defeat or even annihilate it.
Now that the opportunity has finally come, he is naturally unwilling to give up this great opportunity!
Therefore, after receiving the urgent telegram from Shunroku Hatatake, Gu Shoufu almost did not hesitate at all, and directly stopped the pursuit plan of the various wings under his command.
Then he ordered them to go south as fast as possible and rush to Fuyang to join him.
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The picture pulls back to Fuyang County.
After safely transferring the people in the city, the wounded soldiers of the Tiger Regiment, and the medical staff of the field hospital out of the city, Yang Jing and the others quickly returned to their normal state.
After all, the devil is only temporarily retreating, and he may come back at any time!
Moreover, the next attack will inevitably be a thunderstorm, and now it is just the last peace before the storm.
Inside the headquarters of the Tiger Regiment.
He called Bi Yuntao, Fan Tietou, and Rake Ear over, gathered together, and began to discuss countermeasures.
Fan Tietou, the commander of the 2nd battalion, saw that everyone looked like they were facing a great enemy, and couldn't help but say with some disapproval: "Tuanzao, just a Japanese 9th Division, there is nothing to be afraid of at all, why are you so worried?" ”
The commander of the artillery battalion raked his ears and said: "I'm afraid that the Japanese army attacking this time may not have only one Japanese 9th Division!" ”
Yang Jing said: "What the rake ear said is right, the little devils have already regarded us as a first-class henchman, so they will definitely mobilize heavy troops to strangle us!"
After all, those commanders of the little devils are not stupid, they are not stupid enough to think that one 9th Division can wipe us out! ”
Chen Lindao, the commander of the 3rd battalion, said: "Tuanzao, in that case, should we ask Wuhan for reinforcements?" ”
Yang Jing shook his head and said: "It's useless, Fuyang is located in the plain area, which is very suitable for the Japanese army's aviation troops and mechanized troops.
Even if you increase the number of reinforcements, it is no different from being cannon fodder!
Moreover, now all the divisions are busy withdrawing and redeploying the defensive line to block the westward advance of the Japanese army, and there are no troops to send at all! ”
Wang Dali said: "If this is the case, we need to make some preparations!" ”
Rake Ear frowned and said: "We have just gathered hundreds of remnants of the Fuyang Security Regiment, and now the troops are quite abundant, the only deficiency is that the artillery fire is weaker."
Especially in the battle of Lanfeng, the artillery of our battalion was destroyed on a large scale, and now there are only more than 40 guns left in our hands.
In the absence of replenishment, it may be difficult to resist the next frantic attack of the Japanese army! ”
The problem of wild artillery, Yang Jing can solve it, after all, for spending some merit points, you can buy it directly from the system mall.
But now there is no suitable opportunity, and if more artillery is suddenly out of thin air, then his secret may be exposed.
That's what he doesn't want to see.
After frowning and thinking for a moment, Yang Jing suddenly had an idea, raised his head and said, "Ma Tong, you lead the brothers of the guard company to go around the city and see if you can collect a batch of gasoline barrels!"
Fuyang is located at the junction of Henan and Anhui, with Hefei, Bengbu, Huainan and other places have fallen one after another.
Many local military and government departments, as well as a large number of wealthy families, have withdrawn here, and then turned to the Central Plains and Hubei through here.
So, there should be a lot of car-related stuff in the city, so you check carefully and see if there are any storage warehouses that we don't know about.
You might find it there! ”
Ma Tong's eyes suddenly lit up and asked, "Tuanzao, are you planning to make a conscienceless cannon?" ”
He had participated in the Battle of Baoshan, so he naturally knew the power of the conscience cannon.
Yang Jing nodded and said, "That's right, it's just to create a conscienceless cannon!" And this time, the TNT explosives in our hands are more powerful than the previous ones! ”
Wang Dali said: "Tuanzao, what is a conscienceless cannon? How come I've never heard of it before? ”
He only joined the Tiger Ben Regiment after the Battle of Kunshan, so he had not seen the conscienceless cannon.
Yang Jing smiled: "Wait a minute, you'll know." ”
Wang Dali said again: "Is it powerful? ”
Yang Jing said: "The only drawback of the 150mm caliber heavy artillery is that the firing range is too short, which can be two or three hundred meters.
Then there's the lack of accuracy.
But it is perfect to deal with the cluster charge of the little devils! ”
Yang Jing still didn't say one thing, that is, he has a proficient artillery and personally controls the unconscionable cannon, as long as it is within the range, he can also shoot wherever he wants.
Wang Dali was overjoyed: "That's really good! ”
"Buzz!"
"Buzz! ——”
Just then, there was a rapid and piercing roar of airplane engines outside.
"Tubu!"
"Bump Bump! ——”
"Boom!"
"Boom, boom, boom! ——”
Before Yang Jing and the others could react, the bombing of the devil's aerial bombs and the roaring strafing of the airborne machine guns came one after another.
Yang Jing's faces changed slightly, and they immediately ran out of the regiment headquarters.
When I looked up, I saw that in the sky, at least 30 Japanese fighters and bombers were covering the sky and the sun, bombing and diving and strafing Fuyang City.
One after another, the bombs continued to fall to the ground in a free-fall manner.
The city of Fuyang was blown up into flames, and the smoke and dust were filled.
The civil houses were directly bombarded by the devils and turned into pieces of ruins.
All kinds of masonry and rubble, accompanied by the shock wave generated by the explosion, scattered in all directions.
Yang Jing ordered with a gloomy face: "Bi Yuntao, Fan Tietou, you guys hurry back to their respective positions, since the little devils have sent planes to come to the air raid, maybe their main force will also come soon."
Now that our defense line has not yet been built, we must beware of the little devils taking advantage of the situation to attack! ”
"Yes!" Bi Yuntao, Fan Tietou and others responded in unison, and immediately left in a hurry with their guards and risked the devil's air raid.
Fortunately, the main force of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army has not yet arrived, and this air raid by the devils is just a retaliatory bombing.
It lasted for more than half an hour, and after the devil bombers dropped all the bombs they carried, they returned one after another under the cover of fighters, ending the air raid.
Left behind a ruined county town full of ruins, messes, and fires!
This time, Yang Jing gave up the decision to build flank firepower and fight street battles with devils.
Instead, the main battalions were basically deployed outside the city, and at this time they were stepping up time to repair the field ring fortifications.
It was planned to open the battle line and start a decisive battle with the Japanese army.
Otherwise, if all the troops were stationed in the city, they might not even be able to withstand the combined ground-air bombardment of the Japanese army, and there would be no chance for street fighting.
Even if the soldiers of the battalion could hide in the underground anti-aircraft fortifications, once the buildings on the ground were destroyed, it would not be so easy for them to rush out again.
It is precisely because of this that the devil's retaliatory air raid on Fuyang City seems to be huge, but the actual casualties caused to the Tiger Ben Regiment are not much.
After the end of the Japanese air raid, Ma Tong, Bai Laosan, Shi Yibiao, Niu Dazhuang and others took some soldiers and began to look for gasoline barrels in the city.
It didn't take long to find a lot of discarded gasoline barrels.
Several people excitedly reported the news to Yang Jing.
Yang Jing immediately summoned some veterans of the artillery battalion and began to instruct them to make unconscionable cannons.
The troops were temporarily handed over to Wang Dali, deputy regiment commander, and the commanders of each battalion to take responsibility for themselves.
At the same time, the reconnaissance company and the cavalry company were also dispatched by Yang Jing to guard within a radius of dozens of miles outside Fuyang City, so that they could grasp the traces of the Japanese army at the first time.
The unconscionable cannon, that is, the flying thunder cannon, is made on a very simple principle, not so much a cannon as an explosive pack launcher.
Yang Jing had made a batch of them according to the system data before.
Now because there are too many oil barrels, there are hundreds, and he alone wants to transform all these oil barrels into conscienceless cannons, and he doesn't know how long it will take.
That's why all the veterans of the artillery battalion were summoned.
Soon, the first batch of 10 unconscionable cannons were transformed and test firing was completed.
Thanks to the system, the firing angle, the amount of gunpowder in the primer, and the weight of the explosives package are all properly controlled.
So much so that the 15-kilogram explosive bag flew 350 meters away before it landed and exploded.
"Boom!"
The momentum of the explosion was even more terrifying than the devil's bomb, and the fire of a scarlet and dazzling mushroom cloud rose violently, reaching dozens of meters into the sky of the clouds.
Wang Dali, Bi Yuntao and other people who were watching from the sidelines, hundreds of meters away, seemed to be able to feel the heat wave coming to their faces and the tremors on the ground.
"Let's go, go up and have a look!" Yang Jing took the lead and ran out.
Everyone rushed over to take a look, and they were all stunned and their scalps were numb!
A huge pit with a depth of more than 1 meter and a diameter of more than 30 meters was directly blown out of the ground.
At this time, there was still gunsmoke rising from the earthen pit, accompanied by a pungent smell.
Wang Dali, the deputy head of the regiment, said with a shocked face: "Tuanzuo, the power of this conscienceless cannon is even more powerful than the devil's 150mm caliber heavy artillery!"
If this is used to deal with the devils, you can't blow them all into mud? ”
Yang Jing said: "Don't look at the shells of the devil's 150mm caliber heavy artillery weighing more than 30 kilograms, while the explosive package of the unconscionable cannon is only 15 kilograms.
But the devil's shells, a large part of the mass is on the shell, and the amount of explosives is not as large as ours.
As for lethality, lethal will be looked at separately.
Because we have a larger amount of explosives, the power of explosives is naturally stronger, so for the killing near the landing point of the shells, it is stronger than the devil's 150mm caliber heavy artillery.
But since we were firing explosives packets, there were no hard shells on the outside, and there was a lack of damage from shell fragments.
Therefore, the effective killing radius is much weaker than the devil's 150mm caliber heavy artillery. ”
After seeing the power of the conscienceless cannon, the veterans of the artillery battalion began to continue to transform the flying thunder cannon.
And Yang Jing also took out all the TNT explosives in the system space, and exchanged them for a batch of merit points, adding up to more than 50,000 kilograms.
He also arranged for the baggage battalion to assist the artillery battalion, and began to transform it into 15-kilogram bag-shaped explosives in the shape of a round cake according to the needs of the unconscionable artillery.
It is worth mentioning that although Zhao Hong is the nominal commander of the baggage battalion, Yang Jing is basically personally responsible for all kinds of things in the baggage battalion, especially the material data.
So, he just exchanged explosives, shells, and ammunition for my items, but he didn't have to worry about revealing his secrets.
In particular, whether it is an officer or a soldier of the Tiger Regiment, he has long been accustomed to his omnipotence.
I have become accustomed to all this.
to be able to eat well and earn more; If you can still win battles and make meritorious achievements, why should you think so much?
Of course, it's not that no one has noticed these, such as Ma Tong and Zhao Hong.
But they are all smart people, so a lot of the time, they are pretending to be confused.
After all, isn't it better for them to be better at their group?
What's more, their group seat Yang Jing, for brothers, there is nothing to say.
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