Chapter 276: Chengbei counterattack
The reason why the rate of fire of heavy artillery is very poor is mainly a series of operational processes, which are too cumbersome and difficult.
Heavy artillery transport and installation is a major problem, and aiming and various estimates, calibrating and firing are even more verbose and require extremely advanced professional ability.
During World War II, the super mortar guns on the battlefields in the West, 600 mm and 800 mm train guns, could only fire one shot in half an hour.
However, in the Hanfeng artillery group of the Chinese army, the situation changed dramatically.
You don't need to observe, you don't need to correct, you don't need to calculate, just install and fire.
After Han Feng watched and locked on the enemy cruiser, four heavy guns were aimed at the enemy and bombarded fiercely, so that the speed was much faster, with an average of 4 rounds fired in half a minute per gun!
What a waste!
Because, the Japanese 5,000-ton cruiser was sunk early.
About 20 shells, hit the position where the Japanese cruiser was located, cough cough, it was the position, because, the first seven shells had already blown off the middle of the cruiser, and the huge cruiser broke in the middle, and with a clatter, it broke into two like a toy, and whew, it sank directly into the river.
Half of the more than four hundred Japanese soldiers on the cruiser had already been blown up, burned, and stunned by the burning poisonous gases.
After the shipwreck, only about 30 people were eventually rescued.
After sinking the enemy cruiser, the Japanese fleet was completely frightened.
It is not about the number of casualties, not about the tonnage of the battleship, but about the accurate shooting of the artillery of the Chinese army, which is extremely powerful!
This kind of power of every shot far exceeded the psychological bottom line of the officers and men of the Japanese naval fleet.
Suddenly, the Japanese fleet, two battleships, a cruiser, a destroyer, dozens of gunboats, plus landing ships, transport ships, and so on, scattered in panic and fled for their lives.
Run away?
No way!
The enemy must be dealt a complete blow so that he will never dare to come again!
Han Feng manipulated a cannon and aimed it at one of the enemy's battleships and began to bombard.
Other artillery groups, also given orders, to fire freely!
However, the officers and men of several artillery guns have quickly mastered the use of artillery observation and sighting equipment, and the Chinese are very smart.
In order to take revenge, once the Chinese unite, they are even smarter.
16 field grenade large-caliber guns, blazing at the enemy.
However, their hit rate is not flattering.
Because, they shoot blindly, and they probably know the direction of the enemy, and they start shooting.
Even so, the colorful whistling shells also set off columns of water on the surface of the river, which was spectacular.
There was only artillery fire operated by Han Feng, which was precisely aimed.
He fired four shells in succession, all of which hit the same Japanese battleship!
Two holes exploded in the deck, exploded inside, and a fire ignited.
The mast was blown up beyond recognition, and the mighty battleship, with 460 mm huge naval guns and more than a dozen 250 mm guns, did not dare to return fire and fled in a hurry.
Smoke and flee in embarrassment.
No matter how powerful your cannon is, you can't see the enemy, you can't aim, how can you fight?
Seeing that the enemy had fled, Han Feng decided to let the enemy go!
Forget it, for now, leave the enemy fleet alone for the time being.
He ordered all artillery fire to stop firing.
Then the troops were divided into three directions, one artillery group, west, one artillery group, south, one, southeast.
He instructed everyone on how to use the most advanced observation and sighting equipment to lock on to the enemy's target and achieve the greatest results.
Soon, these artillery fire became active, firing constantly.
In more than ten minutes, they fired hundreds of shells, and with precise locking, they destroyed many strongholds, highlands, and firepower points of the Japanese army in Jinling City.
Wherever the enemy had mortar and heavy machine-gun positions, they were immediately locked and critically fired.
One shot is dozens of enemies, one or several points of fire!
Chinese artillery, completely grasped the initiative on the battlefield!
suppressed the Japanese army.
On this day alone, the artillery killed more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers, and the injuries were several times greater!
The Devil Army unit was also hit catastrophically.
The Japanese army fell into total passivity.
At this time, Han Feng had already given up the artillery command through observation, and everyone was familiar with the operation and could leave the division!
Han Feng officially ordered all troops to attack in an all-round way!
Everyone got out of the tunnel and entered the battlefield.
The commanders, brigade commanders, regimental commanders and others of the various regiments mobilized to all units one after another, announcing the brilliant results of the most powerful artillery of the Chinese army.
The heavy artillery wing of the devil's army has been eliminated, the enemy's battlefleet on the river has been crushed, the enemy's aerial bomber group has been deterred, and now, the enemy's naval and air superiority, artillery superiority, has completely collapsed!
The next step is that our army will be fully active, and the enemy will be slash-to-knife and gun-to-gun!
Half an hour after mobilization and establishment, more than 20,000 people of the Hanfeng Regiment counterattacked in an all-round way.
Field heavy artillery, striking the enemy with precision, blew up the enemy's infantry groups again and again, clearing obstacles.
On this day, Hanfeng's troops recovered almost one-third of Jinling City, to the north.
The Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, and under the fire of our army, it was completely unable to gain a foothold!
The command system, arsenals, and reserve units of the Japanese positions in depth were bombed.
The Japanese command system was in disarray.
In the most ruthless time, a cannon locked on to a command post of the enemy, because the devil officers and soldiers there kept coming and going, attracting the attention of the observers, who quickly locked on and fired two shots.
It was the headquarters of a Japanese wing, and as a result, the building built in the semi-underground collapsed, burying the commander of a certain Japanese wing and dozens of his staff officers alive inside.
No one made it out alive.
Because, the second shell blasted over and blew them to pieces!
On another occasion, our troops, directed at an artillery group to the south, discovered the enemy's reserves, about three squadrons, which were assembling and preparing to strike a roundabout blow to our troops from the flank, and immediately, four heavy guns, began to bombard the enemy.
Skillful operation experience, allowing them to increase the rate of fire to 10 rounds per minute.
This is almost the maximum rate of fire.
The artillery was rotated in two shifts, which ensured the physical strength of the personnel and the continuity of firing.
Four artillery guns, a total of one minute of bombardment, 37 shells, so that the Japanese army was well concealed infantry cluster, three squadrons of more than 700 people, a tactical-level killer, was completely disabled.
The Japanese army was able to escape from purgatory, but there were only about 50 people.
Two-thirds of these people were injured in a variety of ways.
The remaining 500 Japanese officers and men were all blown to pieces and blown up to death.
On this day, the Japanese army also mobilized troops at the level of the previous division and regiment to comprehensively besiege the Chinese army, but suffered a crushing defeat.
More than 10 Japanese divisions, brigades, and wing-level officers were killed or wounded.
Of the total strength of the Japanese army, the losses were close to half.
At the same time as the all-out counteroffensive of the Hanfeng troops, the guerrilla troops scattered by our army in the streets and alleys also felt abnormal and attacked the enemy one after another.
By night, the Japanese army was in a complete rout.
Some of them retreated to Hepingmen, and fled to the area of Longjiang Bridge and Coal Port, and some fled to Rujiangmen, and ran to Xiaguan and Zhongshan Wharf.