"On the front line?" Li Wei and the others were stunned for a moment, and then looked at Xu Zhuangzhi who was following Crawford, what the hell is going on with this product, just getting out of the car and shouting to go to the front.

Xu Zhuangzhi was also stunned, and he was also a little puzzled by Crawford's actions, but he also remembered the instructions of the Minister of Military Affairs when he set off, and his trip was to serve these Yankees, no matter what he asked, as long as it was not too outrageous, he would be satisfied.

After thinking about it, he said, "Chief Li, Chief Zhang, and Lieutenant Colonel Crawford are instructed by the U.S. government to observe our country. The commander of the Ministry of Military Affairs has also instructed us to meet their demands as much as possible, so since he said so, we will do so. ”

"Okay then." Li Wei nodded, the reason why he came out to greet Zhang Danian and others was nothing more than receiving a telegram from Su Jin and acting on orders, since these Yankees wanted to go to the front line, he naturally would not stop them, but despite this, he still instructed: "Lieutenant Colonel Crawford, since you insist on going to the front line, then I will not stop you, but for your safety, after arriving at the front line, you must obey the arrangements of our leading staff officers, and do not act without authorization, otherwise we will not be able to guarantee your safety." ”

"Of course!" Although Xu Zhuangzhi claimed to have come down from the Ministry of Military Affairs and was very arrogant on weekdays, he was not stupid, and naturally knew that the battlefield was not a place for him to put up a fight, so he happily translated these words to Crawford and others.

“OKOfcourse！” It's a matter of life, and Crawford and the others naturally have no opinion.

Soon. The group drove a jeep to an advance attack position at the front and stopped at an observation post at a regimental headquarters, where he was received by an operational staff officer of the 561st Regiment surnamed Lin.

Zhao Manlu and his party slowly followed behind Crawford and the others. Quietly observing the surroundings, trying to record the wartime state of the 202nd Army. It is also interesting to say that although Liao Liping, Zhao Manlu and others were assigned to the political department of the military headquarters and division headquarters as officers, they could only look at the daily training of the troops at best, and they could not afford to do some trivial things, as for the combat action plan of the troops, they did not have the opportunity to touch these things, after all, the officers at all levels up to the lower limbs of Su Jin knew that these people were spies sent by the Ministry of Military Affairs and placed in the 202nd Army. Fools would take them to play with them, and now that I finally have the opportunity to see it with my own eyes, I can't observe it well.

"Boom ......"

As soon as they entered the observation bunker, two earth-shattering explosions rang out in front of them. A bunker that had been pouring fiery snakes was blasted into the air by a violent shock wave in the explosion of distance.

"Large-caliber heavy artillery!" Seeing the explosion in the distance, Crawford's face changed slightly, and he turned his head to the chief of staff standing beside him and asked, "Captain, can you ask what type of heavy artillery you are equipped with?" ”

"Absolutely." The staff officer who had already received the explanation smiled slightly: "The explosion just now is a 203 mm caliber B-4 heavy howitzer equipped by the heavy artillery brigade of our military headquarters. It is also the largest caliber artillery currently equipped in our army. ”

"B-4 howitzer?" Crawford said with some surprise, "If I remember correctly." This is supposed to be a heavy howitzer that the Soviets equipped the troops in 1931, but I didn't expect you to be able to equip it, do you also have connections with the Soviets? ”

The other party smiled and said nothing, this question was not something that his little staff officer could know.

Seeing that the staff officer did not answer his own question, Crawford continued to ask: "What about your divisional support artillery?" What caliber of artillery are used? ”

"Our divisional support artillery is a heavy artillery regiment with forty-eight 155 caliber howitzers, while brigade units are armed with forty-six M101 howitzers and twenty-two M40 155 mm self-propelled howitzers"

And Xu Zhuangzhi and several officers who had just come down from the Ministry of Military Affairs behind him glanced at each other, and they all saw the horror in each other's eyes. Today's **** Even if a division of the most elite Central Army can have more than ten or twenty 75 caliber mountain artillery, it is already very good, but it is good here. Units at the corps level began to be armed with heavy guns of 203 calibers, while the standard equipment at the division level turned out to be howitzers of 155 calibers. This person can be angry more than a person.

Others haven't reflected it yet, but Nicholas's face is not very good-looking, because if he remembers correctly, this M101 grenade should be a light artillery being studied by the Iwashima Arsenal, and it should not be put into mass production until next year, but now he actually saw the production version of this gun in a foreign land thousands of miles away.

But even if he was very unhappy, Nicholas didn't dare to say anything, after all, this artillery has not been produced in his own country, but everyone has already started mass production, what else can you say? Accusing others of plagiarism, it's not enough for people to laugh at it.

"First the Wildcat fighters, and now the M101 howitzers, what secrets are still hidden in this unit?" Nicholas was both unhappy and curious.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Just when everyone was thinking differently, in a series of earth-shattering explosions, black dark clouds rose up in the Japanese position, and the violent explosion made them feel a vibration under their feet even from a few miles away.

"Tsk...... Your artillery fire is really well prepared. Carl on the side was amazed, as a Lu Hang, he really had never witnessed such a fierce shelling on the ground.

"Look, they're charging." Nicholas shouted as he watched through the binoculars.

These Yankees began to get excited, although Crawford and Carl were both active soldiers, they had never experienced actual combat, and now they were a little excited after seeing actual combat.

The crowd did not speak, and began to watch the battle with binoculars. I saw about five or six hundred soldiers of a battalion forming several long skirmishers running quickly towards the Japanese position, and those soldiers kept changing their positions under the command of the officers, and quickly advanced towards the Japanese position under the cover of the terrain.

Seeing this, Crawford turned his head to Xu Zhi'an behind him and said: "Colonel Xu, I have to say that the tactical movements of this army are very skillful, and they can skillfully use the terrain advantage to advance quickly under the cover of artillery fire, which I think even the European army powers are nothing more than that." ”

"Lieutenant Colonel, they're attacking!" Carl shouted loudly.

"What, attacked?" Crawford hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked over, and found that many soldiers had touched the front of the Japanese position, but so far they still did not see the Japanese counterattack fire.

"Those Japanese are probably killed by the bombing." Karl shouted excitedly: "It seems that whoever masters the cannon in the war has the basis for victory." ”

But before Karl could finish his words, a remnant of the fire point on the Japanese position suddenly erupted two fire snakes, knocking the two unprepared soldiers to the ground. Faced with a sudden attack by the Japanese army, the attacking soldiers found cover and began to return fire, during which some soldiers took advantage of the suppression of Japanese fire to run over and drag the shot soldiers to a hiding place.

"Tsk...... It is a well-trained army, and it has done it all skillfully. Crawford was amazed.

"This 202nd Army is really fighting well." Even Xu Zhuangzhi, who came to watch the battle with a critical eye, and several other officers who came down from the Ministry of Military Affairs nodded frequently, and the actions of this unit, whether it was attacking or the reaction and dance steps after being suddenly attacked, showed their training level and rich experience in actual combat.

"Oh...... Look, what are those soldiers going to do? Nicholas suddenly pointed ahead and shouted.

With the direction of Nicholas's finger, everyone saw from the telescope that several soldiers suddenly put a few grenades in front of the remaining fire point of the Japanese army, with the sound of the explosion, a stream of gunpowder smoke spread, while the smoke of gunpowder blocked the sight of the Japanese army, a soldier with an iron bucket on his back and an iron pipe in his hand ran to a place forty or fifty meters away next to a fire point, only to see him lying on the ground and pulling the trigger violently with a round pipe in his hand against the Japanese firepower, An orange-red flame erupted from the pipe, and as the flames erupted, the remaining point of fire was filled with a thick flame.

"God, what are they...... This...... It's a flamethrower! Crawford let out an exclamation, he was no stranger to this weapon that appeared in World War I, but he didn't expect to see such a murderous weapon here.

As Crawford exclaimed, four or five burning men with their bodies on fire ran out of the flaming bunker, and they were jumping and jumping in strange and painful movements, and even Crawford seemed to hear each other's terrible cries even when they were miles away.

"God, this weapon is too unkind and cruel." Nicholas was the first to shout, and as an engineer, he felt a little unbearable to see several people being burned alive in front of him.

"Mr. Nicholas, this is just a weapon, and the result is the same whether you are shot or burned." What is surprising is that in the face of Nicholas's accusations, the first to refute was Xu Zhi'an, who came with him.

Nicholas shook his head and said, "But don't you think it's too cruel to burn a person alive with fire?" ”

"So that's the difference between a scientist and a soldier." Zhao Manlu, who was on the side, suddenly retorted in English: "Compared to the atrocities committed by the Japanese in Nanjing, I think this is already very merciful." (To be continued.) )

PS: Someone asked Ah Ding, why don't you use computer codewords, because the hospital has no network, and there is no computer!