Chapter 309: Genius Gunner
When he left Chimney Hill, Guan Hong left a squad in charge of reconnaissance.
As soon as the team walked more than ten miles, they got the news that Sasaki Aomori was chasing after them.
Guan Hong smacked his lips and said with a smile:
"It's fucking good, let him enjoy what it's like to be bombarded!"
With a wave of his hand, he commanded loudly:
"Come, push those two mountain cannons over and let the little devils have a good time!"
But then, Guan Hong made a difficulty.
There are cannons, but no one can fight.
It is said that the Qiao daughter-in-law is difficult to cook without rice, but now that the rice is available, the Qiao daughter-in-law ran away with someone.
Gao Yuan and most of the people in the special operations team followed Liu Cheng to Xinjing, and the only four remaining Rock Rocks, including Guan Hong, had not used this thing, and they could only stare at it with big eyes for a while.
During the training before, Gao Yuan explained the use of the 75-mm mountain gun to these company, platoon, and squad leaders, but it was all theory, and no one dared to easily drum it up.
If this thing blows up, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Guan Hong called the three platoon commanders and nine squad leaders together, and before he could ask, everyone directly stuck their heads into their crotches, not daring to look up at him.
Guan Hong's nose was almost crooked, and he scolded angrily:
"You fucking waste eggs, usually shouting very loudly, as if you can pry the earth if you are given a lever, and at the critical moment, you will be fucking scarce? In the future, when Lao Tzu hears which braggart competition, he will go up and give a big mouth first! ”
But scolding and scolding, it would be nonsense to say how angry you are.
Guan Hong knew in his heart that none of these people had ever touched this thing, but they had learned some theoretical knowledge, and at such a critical moment, no one dared to take risks.
Just as they were about to give up, a weak voice suddenly came from among the captives:
"Sir, sir, why don't you give it a try?"
Guan Hong subconsciously looked back and almost raised his hand to give the man a shot.
Among the more than 200 captives, he can consider any of them standing up, after all, even if this 19th Regiment is a team that fights soy sauce, it was once a member of the Northeast Army, and the old Zhang family is not short of this thing, and it is normal for someone to use it.
But this person alone, Guan Hong can't believe it at all.
Seeing Guan Hong's expression, Zang Hao shrank his neck in fright, squatted back on the ground, and struggled back into the crotch of his pants.
Guan Hong opened his mouth and was about to scold, but was pulled by Ni Daguang, the leader of the platoon.
Ni Daguang leaned into his ear and whispered:
"Company commander, at this juncture, why don't you let him try? Let's not give him the shell first, observe his action of adjusting the angle of the gun, and if you think it is reliable, let's withdraw first. ”
Guan Hong pondered carefully, it was also the case, he simply raised his hand and pointed at Zang Hao, and said in an unkind tone:
"You kid come and try, if you dare to fool me, don't blame me for settling your new and old accounts together!"
Zang Hao hurriedly stood up, ran to Guan Hong with the fat body trembling and trembling, and said with a salivating face:
"Please rest assured, sir, the small one will not disappoint you!"
Guan Hong raised his hand and pointed to the two mountain cannons, and said impatiently:
"Less nonsense, go adjust the direction and angle and I'll see."
Zang Hao turned his head and glanced at the two mountain cannons, and said with some embarrassment:
"Sir, you'll have to give me an accurate number first, Imperial Army...... No, no, no, how far away is the little devil from us, and there is a specific direction, otherwise I don't know where to look. ”
Guan Hong thought about it, turned his head and said to Ni Daguang:
"You go and pull out the horse pulling the cart, and ride the horse to reconnoiter the direction distance, and you must try to ensure the accuracy."
Ni Daguang agreed, turned around and left.
Ten minutes later, Ni Daguang came back, turned over and jumped off the horse, panting and saying:
"Company commander, the reconnaissance is clear, the devil is in our left rear, there are still eleven or twelve miles when I come back, and now it should be just ten miles, and the travel speed is about two hundred meters per minute.
Guan Hong nodded, turned to Zang Hao and said:
"Okay, right? Hurry up, don't delay! ”
Zang Hao swallowed his saliva and whispered:
"Sir, it's dark now, and I can't see the target location, so I can only aim according to the data, if it's a little off, please don't blame me."
Guan Hong waved his hand impatiently:
"I said, where did you get all this nonsense? Hurry up! ”
Zang Hao didn't dare to make a sound again, walked to the side of the two mountain guns, beckoned someone to help him adjust the gun position, keep the gun body level and stable, and then began to shake the high and low wheels and the direction wheel for aiming.
After three or four minutes of busy work, Zang Hao stopped, turned to Guan Hong and said:
"Alright, sir, it's time to reload the shells."
From the moment he walked over, Guan Hong's eyes never left the fat body.
Guan Hong glanced at Ni Daguang, Ni Daguang nodded lightly, and said in a low voice:
"Company commander, I think it's about the same, that kid is very skilled in his movements, he should really be able to fiddle."
Guan Hong glanced at Ni Daguang:
"I'm not blind, I can see, the question is whether this kid is cheating? In this way, once you find out that he has any abnormal behavior, you will directly collapse him! ”
Ni Daguang whispered yes, and walked towards Zang Hao.
He personally took a cannonball and handed it to Zang Hao, standing by and watching his movements.
Generally, this kind of mountain cannon requires ten people to cooperate with the operation, but now Zang Hao has only one person, except for adjusting the cannon body, all the operations are completed by himself.
This is definitely extremely physically exhausting for a fat man who weighs more than two hundred and fifty pounds.
After filling the shell into the barrel, Zang Hao took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, adjusted the muzzle height again, turned his head and said to Ni Daguang:
"Sir, cover your ears, I'm going to shoot."
Ni Daguang glared:
"Hurry up! ……”
He didn't even hear the rest of the words.
At the moment when he said "hurry up", Zang Hao's hand fell violently, and the mountain cannon "boomed" loudly, and the ground under his feet trembled.
Since it was dark, Sasaki Aomori was worried about an ambush, so the team did not move fast, but only sent two detachments to reconnoiter in front.
As he was walking, he suddenly heard a faint sound of breaking the air overhead, and it was getting louder and louder.
Aomori Sasaki reacted suddenly, and immediately shouted:
"Lie down!"
Those Japanese soldiers also heard the sound of breaking the sky gradually clear, and many soldiers did not wait for Aomori Sasaki's order to find cover nearby and lie down.
However, at that time, the Japanese army had not launched a full-scale war, and there were no hard battles at all to occupy the northeast, and most of them were fought by puppet armies, so the combat experience of the Japanese soldiers was not rich at all, even if they were veterans, they just came here for a longer time.
Zang Hao's artillery hit was still a little off, and the shell just landed seven or eight meters to the left of Aomori Sasaki's team, and the casualties caused were not large.
As soon as Ni Daguang's ears eased a little, he saw Zang Hao holding a cannonball and filling it into the barrel.
He quickly covered his ears with his hands, but did not hear a sound.
Zang Hao did not fire immediately after loading the shells, but turned around and walked to Ni Daguang's side and said loudly:
"Sir, I have to trouble you to make a trip to see how much the landing point of the last shell is off, I can adjust it!"
Ni Daguang's ears were still "buzzing", Zang Hao said it twice, he barely understood, immediately turned around and ran back to Guan Hong, turned on his horse, and ran in the direction of Aomori Sasaki's department.
At this time, Aomori Sasaki was about to go crazy, but he could only stare dryly.
Originally, he hoped that no one in the "dirt bun" team would operate and use the two mountain cannons, but the cannonball that almost hit his head shattered that illusion.
Fortunately, although Aomori Sasaki was angry, he did not lose his mind, so he gave the order to retreat as soon as the explosion subsided.
After he came to the Northeast, he fell in love with an old Chinese saying: "Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood." ”
Aomori Sasaki calmly analyzed the situation in front of him: if the cannonballs can land here, it means that the team in front has discovered themselves and will operate the two mountain cannons.
In this case, if you continue to chase forward, you can only kill yourself.
Although the firing range of the 75-millimeter mountain artillery is not too far, it is also six or seven kilometers, and even if the troops are ordered to advance at full speed, such a distance will take at least more than 20 minutes.
And in these more than 20 minutes, according to the theoretical rate of fire, a mountain cannon can fire 200 shells.
There were two mountain cannons on the opposite side, and even if more than 90 percent of the shells missed, the remaining 10 percent would allow his team of more than 200 people to account for all of them.
Sasaki Aomori believes that rushing up knowing that he is invincible is not bravery, but stupidity.
Ni Daguang came back after a while, and from the expression on his face, Guan Hong knew the result of that shot.
He didn't wait for Ni Daguang to speak, so he motioned for him to go and talk to Zang Hao directly.
After hearing this, Zang Hao immediately adjusted the height and direction of the cannonball, and then shot the cannonball out without hesitation.
Nine shells were fired in front and back, and Sasaki Aomori, who was chasing, almost jumped into the river, but only one barely caused effective damage to the Japanese army.
In order to reduce casualties, Aomori Sasaki ordered his troops to disperse during the retreat, with the distance between each soldier being between five and seven meters, and also constantly changing directions.
Although this increased the possibility of being hit by shells, it effectively reduced the number of casualties, and a single shell could kill or wound up to three or five soldiers.
The only shell that caused effective casualties was the second, and before Aomori Sasaki's team could completely disperse, it landed right in the middle of the group, killing more than 30 Japanese soldiers on the spot.