Chapter 588: Ultra-Long Range Grenadier
"Captain, why don't we bring the tow gun back?"
Watching the devil use the tank as a mobile fortress, Skinny Monkey proposed.
Shi Yuan, Gou Dong and the others also agreed, after all, in this case, using the tow cannon to attack from a distance is indeed the best way to destroy the current position of the devil.
Otherwise, the detachment will only have one way to fight in close combat!
If you want to take out the devil's tank, you must first attack the defense range of the devil's tank gun, and at the same time, you must break through the position set up by the devil outside the tank, and finally attack with a flamethrower......
Fighting like this, the casualties are too great, and the detachment can't bear it at all!
Of course, Zhang Ran knew that using towed guns was the best way to clean up this batch of devil tanks, but he had to refuse in the end!
On the one hand, the Cangshui devils are huddled in the fortifications of the Yangjiaoya Ship Dam, and they obviously need the long-range attack ability of artillery fire - not to mention, Mao Drill and others in the ammunition department have already begun to actively develop home-made gas bombs with the theme of chili noodles, and after the successful development of home-made gas bombs, they will also have to be fired with tank guns......
At this time, the tow gun is transferred back, and there is too much time to delay back and forth, and it is easy to make mistakes.
On the other hand, although the tow cannon uses a walk-behind tractor to increase its movement ability, its movement speed is limited after all!
And now, the little devil not only deployed five tanks outside Dongjiang County, but also more than 20 mountain guns in the city, and seven or eight fighters in the air to escort them!
With such firepower, once the towed artillery is targeted, the little devils will definitely bomb intensively - the detachment will have only two towed guns, and the detachment will not be able to afford any loss!
"What then?"
Although they knew that Zhang Ran's worries were very reasonable, everyone was still very dissatisfied, and hummed: "Since the beginning of this year, our base area has suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and the vast majority of the entire base area can be described as a blank slate, we can no longer let the comrades rush up with their shoulders on their shoulders and heads - if we continue to fight like this for a few years, I am afraid that there will not be many masters left in our base area......"
"When did I say that I was going to let the comrades rush up against the fire of the little devils again?" Zhang Ran said angrily.
As soon as the people were asked, they immediately smiled and said, "So, captain, you have a plan?" β
"With your wooden fish head, can I still expect you to think about it?"
Zhang Ran rolled his eyes depressedly, then looked at the fighter plane above his head, recalled some parameters of the Japanese fighter plane in this period, and said: "The nearest airport for the little devils is three hundred miles away, and these fighters have also carried a large amount of materials to the devils in the city, so it is impossible for these devils' planes to retreat after protecting the little devils after chopping firewood - at most more than an hour, if these planes don't return, it is estimated that they will not be able to fly back......"
Thinking of this, the corners of Zhang Ran's mouth flashed with a sneer, and he turned around and asked, "How many ultra-long-range grenadiers are there in total?" β
"The cover worker said that this thing is not high or low, that is, it is a transitional thing, so I didn't do much ...... at all."
Gou Dong folded his fingers and calculated: "At most, there are only about twenty at most!" β
"That's enough - transfer all these ultra-long-range grenadiers to me, whether or not you can defeat the little devil's attempt to get out of the current predicament with tanks this time depends on our ultra-long-range grenadiers!" Zhang Ran said.
The ultra-long-range grenadier was further refined on the basis of the grenadier used to launch grenades after the arrival of the military expert Gai Heiliang.
This ultra-long-range grenadier has a longer barrel and thicker barrel on the basis of the previous grenadier, and of course, the grenade fired has also been modified......
After the modification, the ultra-long-range grenadier already has a bit of a small cannon posture - if it weren't for the barrel of the spiral multi-layer repeated forging of seamless steel pipes that could not withstand the explosive force of the launch, maybe this ultra-long-range grenadier would have been directly made into a cannon!
Although it was not made directly into a cannon but was converted into a grenadier due to the lack of strength of the cannon body, the distance at which it fired grenades was greatly improved compared with ordinary grenadiers!
The normal firing distance of an ordinary grenadier is between 120 and 180 meters, and when a grenade with a tail is fired, it can reach about 200 meters, and the ultimate range is about 500 or 600 meters.
However, beyond 200 meters, the stability of the melon grenade or grenade launched is greatly reduced, and it is often the case that the target is casually offset by tens of meters!
But the ultra-long-range grenadier is different!
The normal firing distance of the ultra-long grenadier is casually about 300 meters, and the distance of six or seven hundred meters, the actual landing point after launch and the predetermined landing point, the deviation range is generally within more than ten meters!
With such a range and accuracy, you don't have to worry about exploding, but thanks to Gai Heiliang, the previous Mao Diamond Niu Da and others, that is unimaginable!
The firing range can far exceed the range of firearms, for a detachment lacking artillery fire, it is definitely a huge addition to firepower, it is said that the detachment should be able to make it with all its might, but why, the detachment only made about twenty units?
In fact, the reason is very simple - this thing, just like Gai Heiliang said, it can't be high, and it's not low!
Compared to the range of fire, it is not as powerful as artillery, which can easily travel several miles, and the accuracy and explosion power are far inferior!
It's lighter, it weighs more than fifty pounds and sixty pounds, several times heavier than an ordinary grenadier canister, and it's okay to carry it for a short time by one person, but after a long time, it can't hold it at all, let alone carry it for rapid maneuver transfer......
So, this thing is a chicken rib at all!
At the beginning, Gai Heiliang himself designed it and was aware of this flaw, so he didn't plan to promote it at all, that is, Zhang Ran took into account the appearance of the detachment, it was a useful thing, so he would first get it out and prepare it, and it would be better to use it than to use it when the time came!
As the saying goes, you can't walk the lame road, and you still have the face to dislike the bicycle?
What I didn't expect is that this thing is really coming in handy now!
Thinking that the detachment used this ultra-long grenadier to wash the ground outside the firing range of the little devil tank's periphery position, the little devil who blew up the little devil screamed, the little devil couldn't hit the gun, the artillery bombardment, the detachment was in the tunnel again, and their artillery long-distance bombardment effect was limited, Zhang Ran couldn't help but chatter and laughed, and said in his heart that this thing is really, don't care if it's easy to use, the key depends on how to use it!
While discussing countermeasures on Zhang Ran's side, the direction of the devil was not idle.
Under the escort of fighter planes, the deterrence of the artillery fire of the little devils in the city, and the coordination of five tanks, a large number of soldiers who were ambushed in the surrounding tunnels did not dare to move......
So the plan of the devils to dismantle or forcibly go to the mines went quite smoothly......
In just over an hour, under the coercion of bayonets, those puppet soldiers finally opened a passage six or seven miles long between the ruins of Dongjiang County and the wood-covered mountain bags outside the city, after thirty or forty people were blown to pieces and more than a dozen people were seriously injured......
At the same time, five tanks and thousands of devil elites, at intervals of one mile, formed a long snake formation, with the devil infantry fortifications outside, the tanks in the center, assisting each other, ready to deal with the detachment's sneak attack at any time.
Seeing that the passage was opened, the clothes in the city were burned to tatters, and they were not even as good as calling Huazi, and the devil soldiers who were freezing dead and alive at night couldn't help but let out bursts of cheers, thinking of finally being able to gather around the fire at night to keep warm, I don't know how many devils couldn't help but have a sour nose, and almost cried out......
These vicious devils couldn't have imagined that they would want to cry because of such simple happiness......
Seeing this scene, Eguchi was also very excited, and while ordering more puppet troops to go out of the city to chop firewood in the mountains, he said to Sakai: "Although the mines of the Jindong detachment are too troublesome, but now it seems that we can't find a way to crack them - we have no good way to take their mines, and they take our tanks, so there is no way!" β
"Not bad!"
Sakai said with a cruel smile: "Now there are airdropped supplies, although they are insufficient, but with our own reserves, we can barely support it, as long as we give us a few more days, let our burned wounded take care of their injuries a little bit, and at that time, even if the reinforcements of Major General Xin under Pingtongguan cannot arrive on time, we can still use today's strategy to launch an attack on Nayanggou Town - I don't believe that Zhang Ran's Jindong detachment really has so many mines that can cover his entire base area, hum!" β
"That's what I thought too!"
Eguchi nodded, gritted his teeth and said to Sakai: "In case you find out that those damn Shina pigs live in the Jindong base area, I hope Sakai-kun, you must not use the policies of the Lieutenant General Gangcun to be friendly and probationary to persuade youβeven if the emperor is here in person, I have to let his Jindong base be full of corpses and blood!" β
When he thought of the grievances of these days, Eguchi only felt that the bones all over his body were itching, and if he didn't kill all the pigs he saw in this base, he swore that he would not be at peace in this life!
"Don't worry, I won't stop you!"
Sakai said in a muffled voice: "Believe me, maybe before, I thought that these pigs saw our army overwhelmed, and they might get lost and return to the precipice, but now, I have no illusions about this-since they can't be obedient, they are enemies of the Empire......
Since it is an enemy, it is sure to die! β
"Yes, if you are an enemy of the Empire, there is only one way to die!"
Eguchi said hatefully, hoping that the moment he was thinking about would come as soon as possible!
At the same time, those Imperial Allies had already left the city and trotted in the direction of Shanbao......
On the side of the road, from time to time, there were screams of the Imperial Association army with missing arms and legs that were blown up when they were clearing mines, not to mention that someone bandaged them, and no devil was even willing to look at them more......
Obviously, the fate of these wounded soldiers of the Imperial Association Army is to wait for death!
Looking at these wounded, the hundreds of Imperial Allied soldiers who were forced to go out to chop firewood didn't know how many people had red eyes - after all, they felt the same way!
But they can only endure it, after all, they chose to be traitors and lackeys to lead the party, so now, even if they are crying, they have to continue to be the party......
Otherwise, not only the little devils around them would not have let them go immediately, but also the fighters of the Jindong detachment, the guerrillas, and even the ordinary people on the periphery would not have been able to let them go......