"Company commander, a lot of them were captured this time, but I didn't expect there to be two mortars, and now our company finally has its own artillery."

Lehi looked at the mortar in front of him and was surprised.

Not counting grenadiers, in fact, the Japanese army does not like mortars as we understand them normally, and a wing only has 4-6 Type 97 90mm mortars, while the German armament division of the National Army has 2 82mm mortars in a battalion, and other Central Army also has a large number of mortars, which are basically imitations of France, and the caliber is enlarged by 1mm, that is, 20-year mortars.

The maximum range of the 20-year artillery gun is 2850 meters, which is the range that can only be obtained by firing a grenade.

Compared with mountain artillery, the number of 20-year-old mortars in the national army is not small, and because of the low technical requirements, only in the 20 years of the Republic of China, the Jinling Arsenal produced 180 pieces.

In addition to the Central Army, the Jin Sui Army is also a unit with a large proportion of mortars, an army (the number of people is equivalent to a division of the Japanese army), there are hundreds of mortars, and a division of the Japanese army is generally about 20 artillery guns.

Of course, if you count the grenadiers, it's different.

It's not that the Japanese army is poor and can't use mortars, but that mortars with 80 and 90mm caliber are not of much use in the Japanese army.

Close artillery support, grenadiers will do.

The Type 89 grenadier has a maximum firing range of 700 meters and an effective distance of 500 meters.

You must know that the Japanese army has 3 grenadiers in one squadron, 9 in a squadron, and 36 in a brigade.

If the grenadier can't solve the problem, the 92 infantry artillery can't solve it, and if the 92 infantry artillery can't solve it, directly call the mountain artillery of the wing or the field artillery and important support of the artillery wing under the division and regiment headquarters.

So in the Japanese army, the position of medium-caliber mortars was replaced by grenadiers and 92 infantry guns.

Although the Type 97 mortar is a Japanese standard mortar, it is more important to fire poison gas bombs, followed by blasting shells.

The Type 97 90mm mortar and the Type 20 mortar are actually brothers, because they are both imitated from the French Blund 81mm mortar, but the magnified caliber is different.

Thinking of the usefulness of this mortar, Lehi hurriedly asked people to look for a warehouse, and sure enough, they found several boxes of poison gas bombs, and of course, some gas masks.

"College student, what's wrong?"

Seeing Li Hai's appearance as if he was facing a great enemy, Li Xiangbei was taken aback, and hurriedly asked.

Looking at the poison gas bomb in front of him that was not affected by the battle just now, the heart hanging in Lehi's heart was also put down, patted his chest and rejoiced, "It's okay, it's okay, it's almost over." Company commander, what do you think this is? ”

Li Xiangbei came over with curiosity and found four boxes of ammunition with skulls painted on them, and was a little puzzled, "What is this?" ”

"Gas bomb, it's good that we didn't blow up this warehouse just now, otherwise there are hundreds of us, at least half of us will be finished."

"So powerful?"

Li Xiangbei was also taken aback, he had only heard of poison gas bombs, but had not personally experienced them.

The Japanese army will only be equipped with this Type 97 mortar at the wing level, and occasionally at the brigade level.

However, since entering the Jin Dynasty to resist Japan, they have fought with the Japanese army at the brigade level and above, and the others have fought with Japanese squadrons or squads.

Encountering a whole brigade of devils, they can only hide far away.

"Why don't you destroy it, this thing is so harmful."

Saying that, Li Xiangbei was about to ask someone to move this dangerous thing away and destroy it, but Li Hai hurriedly stopped, "Company commander, it can't be destroyed, it's useful." We treat others the way we do, so why do we allow the devil to use it against us, but we don't use it on the devil? ”

"But this thing is so dangerous, what if it hurts your own people?"

"Company commander, are there protective suits and gas masks here from time to time? Just be careful. ”

Attacking the stronghold of the devils, in addition to the dozens of guns and three grenadiers, the biggest gain may be these two Type 97 mortars.

In addition to a few boxes of poison gas shells, there were still a few boxes of ordinary mortar shells, which was good news for the 6th Company.

With these two mortars, a squadron in the face of devils can be regarded as having the strength to fight.

To be honest, the grenadier is the most suitable support weapon for the Eighth Route Army.

Because the Eighth Route Army was mainly a guerrilla warfare, heavy artillery was inconvenient, but the grenadier was different, even the Type 89 grenadier was only 4.7 kg, which was lighter than the crooked handle machine gun, and it was simple and easy to operate, and it was easy to imitate.

Of course, this is easy for the national army, although the arsenal of the national army is not good, but there is no problem with imitating grenadiers.

It's just that in a short period of time, it is difficult for the Eighth Route Army grenadier to form combat power, and the reason is very simple.

Although the grenadier is simple and easy to operate, if you want to hit accurately, you have to rely on a large number of shells to raise it, but the Eighth Route Army does not have such conditions.

So mortars are more useful for a short time.

However, Lehi was soon slapped in the face, because there were Jin Suijun who took refuge in the company and would use grenadiers.

"Company commander, let's prepare to withdraw, the devils patrol every day, if we know that a stronghold has been destroyed by us, we will definitely not give up.

In the short term, we still don't want to engage a squadron of devils, we can't beat it. ”

Li Hai did not deliberately belittle himself in this remark, don't look at the fact that there are now more than 200 people in the 6th Company (some people died in this battle), but except for those who had just formed the 6th Company and were adapted from the Red Army and the Jin Sui Army took refuge, the remaining nearly 200 people were basically peasants who had just put down their hoes.

Many people have never touched a gun before, so they rely on sneak attacks to fight against the devil squad, a full squadron, no different from sending them to death.

Li Xiangbei nodded, obviously knowing the situation of his company, "What you said makes sense, when the battlefield is cleaned up and the remains of those comrades who died are buried, we will retreat." ”

Lehi came to the command room of the Japanese army, and nothing changed except that the flag and map were replaced by the Japanese army's.

It's a pity that there is no radio station, and the Japanese army uses the telephone of the former Jin Suijun to communicate with each other, and even the telephone line is the same.

This Jin Sui army, when they retreated, they didn't know that they had pulled the phone line.

There is a military map in the command room, which is not big, it is the whole of Shanxi, but it is quite detailed.

After taking a look, Li Hai realized that he seemed to have made a mistake, he always thought that the Tongpu line was completely connected, but after looking at this map and the exploration during this time, he realized that the North Tongpu line was not repaired at all because of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.

Therefore, he still thought about learning from the railway guerrillas to blow up the devil train, but the idea was shattered, because there was no railway, and the Japanese army relied on road transportation.

Just as Lehi wrapped up the map and was about to leave, the phone next to him suddenly rang, very abruptly.