Chapter 636: Shelling of Hongqiao Airport
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"Hehe......" Goro Ehata pulled the corners of his mouth with a smile, but Shimohara clearly saw the flash of fierce light in his eyes.
Quietly wiped a few drops of cold sweat from the corners of his forehead, and Xia Yuan didn't know what to say, and after a while he said: "Uncle Ehata, it's nothing to drink this thing secretly, but if you get drunk, it will be a big trouble, if the team leader comes to check later, I don't know how he will punish us if he finds that our people are full of alcohol." ā
"Stupid, if you don't want to drink, no one will force you." Ehata Goro scolded: "What kind of place are you here, if the people of China come here, we will be at the forefront here, do you think we can return to the mainland alive?" ā
Listening to Goro Ehata's pessimistic tone, everyone fell silent. When they were sent here, these people already had a faint premonition in their hearts, but it was one thing to have a premonition, but now it was another thing to be said so openly by Goro Ehata.
"Since I'm already doomed to die, then why can't I have a drink before I die, that idiot from the Marumao family would just know each other, if he dares to chirp crookedly in front of me, I don't mind letting them be the last of the Marumao family!"
The Marumo family that Goro Ehata said is the family of the team leader, but everyone knows that Goro Ehata is not talking big, his younger brother is a well-known ruthless person in Nagoya, if he knows that his brother was arranged by the people of the Ehata family to be sent to the forefront to die, I am afraid that he will really destroy the family of the captain of the Marushige.
Just when everyone felt uncomfortable, suddenly a soldier in charge of the guard pointed to the front and stammered: "Look, that ...... What is that? ā
Goro Ehata snatched the telescope and looked ahead, and then the whole person began to tremble a little: "Amaterasu...... The Shina people are coming, and they are going to attack! ā
Although he was still a little drunk, he couldn't help but scream when he saw something in his sight through the binoculars, although he hadn't seen that kind of weapon, but even though he hadn't seen it, looking at its short appearance and his thick cannon barrel made Goro Ehata understand what it was, it was a cannon, a large-caliber cannon!
"Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen...... XXXI. XXXII ......"
Goro Ehata stopped counting, and began to despair in his heart, there were thirty-two large-caliber guns, his heart was cold, according to his experience, the caliber of this kind of artillery must have exceeded two hundred millimeters, and the weight of one piece of people reached more than 100 kilograms, almost the weight of two adults, how could he resist this small guard post?
"Jiang ...... Uncle Ehata, I'm ...... We're going to ...... Do you want to flare the back? ā
The lower generation on the side asked with trepidation: The Japanese army has limited resources, so it is naturally impossible to equip their outpost, which is only five or six people, with telephones or radios, and the so-called signaling is to shoot into the sky or launch signal flares.
"Smack!" With a bang, Goro Ehata slapped Shimohara in the face, only to see him scold viciously in a low voice: "Yaga, do you bastard want to die like this?" If you're sure you want to die, just let me know, and I'll help you with a bayonet so that there won't be a trace of pain, but I still have my wife and three children waiting for me to go back! ā
Speaking of this, Goro Ehata turned his head to the people behind him and asked, "Tell me honestly, do you want to live?" ā
At this time, Goro Ehata's face was completely devoid of his usual ruffian, and he looked particularly hideous and serious.
Several Japanese soldiers glanced at each other, and none of them spoke, in fact, this is just nonsense, who would want to die if they can live......
āā¦ā¦ The more points observed at a target, the greater the distance between points, and the more accurate the azimuth angle of the intersecting target will be. We have made accurate calculations of the hundreds of targets at the Hongqiao Airport by combining them with the photographs taken by the reconnaissance planes at the intersection of the three o'clock intersection observation post, and the distance of the reconnaissance post from the baseline has been increased from 8oo meters to 37oo meters. After the first round of artillery fire ended, the second round of artillery fire began, and the fire of armored units and assault infantry accompanied the advance along the breach, which could tear through the Japanese defense. ā
In a private house five kilometers away from Hongqiao Airport, Zhang Shaojie, commander of the First Heavy Artillery Regiment of the Heavy Artillery Brigade directly under the group army, pointed to the map on the table and talked. After a hard battle, the 348th Brigade and the 349th Division of the 347th Division finally broke through the Japanese army's blockade along the way to the vicinity of Hongqiao Airport, as long as the Hongqiao Airport was taken, then to a large extent cut off the air contact between the Japanese army and the outside world, which was of great significance to the Chinese army, which also meant that the Chinese army returned to Shanghai after a lapse of three years.
One of the chiefs of staff asked, "Sir, should we call in the Air Force for support before the shelling?" ā
Zhang Shaojie shook his head: "No need, the 1st Air Division is now overloaded, these days their main energy is on the Fujian side, and yesterday they just had a fierce battle with the Japanese Sixth Flying Division, now they must be very tired, let them rest for a while, if it really can't stop us, it's not too late to call for air support!" ā
Since the Japanese army learned of the idea of the Third Army attacking Shanghai, while desperately reinforcing it, it also mobilized a large number of planes to bomb the cities of Hangzhou in an attempt to divert the attention of the Third Army. The Japanese Army and Navy in Fujian and Shanghai were already struggling to attack, and there was no extra strength to take the initiative to attack the Japanese army, so Zhang Shaojie said what he said to let the air force rest.
The first artillery deployed to Hongqiao Airport was the largest caliber artillery of the Third Army to date, and in another time and space became known as Stalin's Hammer B-4 howitzer heavy artillery, which has proven to be a very powerful artillery in recent years of fighting, especially when it comes to overcoming heavily fortified enemy forts.
Behind the artillery positions was an armored group of more than 80 tanks No. 4 and No. 2, which were part of the 1st Panzer Division Tank Regiment. Because there are too many water networks in the Jiangnan area, which is not suitable for the operation of armored troops, these armored vehicles were also transported to the front line with great effort by the logistics troops, in order to break through the Hongqiao airport in one fell swoop. Behind the armored cluster were the 348th Brigade and the 349th Brigade, and the 400th Brigade, as a mobile unit, was on standby in the rear.
Twenty minutes and hours later, Zhang Shaojie's heavy artillery regiment had all entered the position and was ready to shoot, and behind the heavy artillery regiment there were still sixty-two M40 155 caliber automatic howitzers, a total of nearly 100 large-caliber guns had already faded their armor and shook the gun body, the loader pushed the first wave of shells into the gun chamber and closed the bolt, and the aiming hand positioned the muzzle according to the Zhu Yuan assigned in advance.
The time pointed to 7:27 a.m., and with the order of Huang Weiguo, the commander-in-chief of the front, the gunners of the heavy artillery regiment began to move.
"Whoosh......"
Many Japanese soldiers guarding Hongqiao Airport were the first to hear a heavy whistling sound, and a dense and somewhat strange sound came overhead, which sounded a little like a sharp whistle, and the battle began!
At 7:27 a.m. on April 5, 1940, the Third Army launched an attack on the Japanese army stationed in Shanghai, and history should remember this day, no matter what the outcome of this battle is, this means that the Chinese army has the ability to launch an attack on the large cities held by the Japanese army, which is a huge change in the international community's impression of the Chinese government.
You can imagine that if on a calm and peaceful morning, suddenly there is a violent earthquake, tsunami and thunder, lightning and lightning, mountain collapse, avalanche, river and lake drying, this kind of scene can already scare most people to the soul.
Human beings have been fighting since their birth, they have been fighting against the harsh natural environment, fighting with ferocious beasts, fighting with diseases, when human beings gradually moved from slave society and feudal society to capitalist society, with the development of technology and thermal weapons, human beings began to form groups and began to fight each other.
Destruction manifests itself in natural disasters as natural disasters, and in humans it manifests itself in war. Whether human beings admit it or not, since the evolution of apes to humans, war has become a commonplace that accompanies the exhibition of human survival, and unlike cold weapons, the war of killing machines that introduce modern technology is certainly more cruel and more exciting than the real era of cold weapons.
"Whoosh! ā¦ā¦ā
Listening to the huge and heart-touching loud noise that flew high overhead almost as if tearing the sky, constantly oppressing the air, Goro Ehata and the others were holding their heads in the fortifications, watching in horror as the cannonballs whizzed over their heads, and the only flare gun was still hanging behind Goro Ehata's buttocks, and as a guard guard, they did not show the signal flare.
"Maybe this will really save your life, right?" This was what Goro Ehata and the other four soldiers really thought in their hearts.
Looking at Goro Ehata who was half-squatting on the side, Shimohara was secretly thinking in his heart. Although he was a little worried about whether he would be shot by the captain after the battle, but now he had figured out that if they really wanted to shoot a signal flare just now, the humble fortification they were now would definitely be razed to the ground by the heavy artillery of the Huaxia people, although he didn't know what would happen in the future, but at least it was safe for now.
At this time, there was a continuous and somewhat dull explosion in the distance, and for a while it seemed that the whole world was shaking, and even Goro Ehata and the others who were squatting on the guard post could faintly feel the shaking of the ground brought about by the shelling.
"Reload!"
Just after the first round of shells was fired, the hoarse and excited voices of the artillery commanders sounded on the position of the 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, and a high-explosive shell lying flat on the top of the ammunition container was immediately lifted by a small crane next to it, and the thick steel chain sent the shell weighing 153 kg to the loading pulley, and two burly and powerful soldiers worked together to carry a long bomb delivery lever to push the shell into the chamber of the 203 mm B4 heavy howitzer that had been shaken flat.
Then another loader also hurriedly packed a five-kilogram standard medicine into the barrel of the gun, and the whole loading process was as smooth as a cloud of water, just like the usual training in one minute, after the reloading, the thick cannon body was once again shaken up and pointed directly at the sky overhead that had been blackened by gunsmoke.
"Put!"
With the order of an officer with the rank of major, the position of the entire heavy artillery regiment shook again, and this vibration was like the whole world had become a big drum, and a giant who stood up to the sky was beating the whole earth violently with a drumstick as heavy as Mount Tai, so that the whole earth shook, although all the gunners of the heavy artillery regiment wore rubber earplugs, they were still buzzing in their ears, and the ground under their feet was also shaking violently.
Thirty-two heavy artillery shells were fired out and then formed a series of devastating explosions, accompanied by the scream of shells piercing the sky, at this time the outer position of Hongqiao Airport has been completely covered by clusters, white smoke and orange firelight, when this batch of shells with a piercing roar fell into the forward position of the Japanese army, the artillery observers hiding in the commanding heights can clearly see dozens of huge clouds of smoke and death rising from the front of the Japanese position, the smoke cloud composed of smoke and death soared into the sky, This column of smoke was hundreds of meters high, and the fragmented remains of the corpses that had been blown up in the smoke cloud were almost thrown hundreds of meters away, and the Japanese trenches that were directly hit by the shells were then thrown into the sky hundreds of meters high like children's building blocks.
The 203mm heavy howitzer was a siege weapon of the Soviets in another time and space, and its best skill was to attack the enemy's reinforced concrete fortifications and underground pillboxes, and the German soldiers gritted their teeth and were very afraid of him, which gave him the nickname of Stalin's hammer. In the field, its 153-kilogram warhead can destroy all targets within a 50-meter radius, and its violent shock wave is enough to shock the internal organs of enemy troops up to 100 meters away, even if they are not killed by steel fragments.
Susumu Fujita, who had just gotten up from a geisha, was woken up by the rapid ringing of the phone.
Nani ...... The people of China have already begun to attack the Hongqiao airport, didn't the air force report yesterday that they were still far away from the Hongqiao airport, why did they come under our noses this morning? ā
ps: I'm sorry, just now Ah Ding thought it had changed, so he went out for a walk, and when he came back, he found that he had made an oolong! (To be continued.) )