About half an hour later, more than 20 bandit leaders and more than 100 leaders of Feixi Eighteen Villages followed Xu Rui and Yang Bayan to appear on the position of the heavy artillery brigade, looking at the monster-like large-caliber heavy field howitzer below the night, the eyes of these bandit leaders and bandit leaders were about to fall to the ground.

"My goodness, such a thick cannon? Thicker than Lao Tzu's thighs! ”

"His grandma, if he takes a shot, he won't be blown into slag?"

"Blown into slag? Iron rooster, if you still have a little scum left, Lao Tzu has your surname. ”

"Damn, this independent regiment is rich, I already knew that our chessboard village should also participate in the battle, so that we can get a few cannons, with such a large-caliber heavy artillery, our chessboard village is a cow, not to mention the security team, we are not afraid ******of the regular army, and we are afraid of his eggs?"

Listening to those bandit leaders whispering there, Xu Rui couldn't help but feel a little proud.

Xu Rui wants this effect, the reason why he invited these bandit leaders and big and small heads to visit the battlefield is to deter these bandits through these large-caliber heavy artillery, and to let them know that the independent regiment is by no means something they can provoke, and this way, whether it is integration or cooperation in the future, the independent regiment will take the initiative.

From the reactions of these bandits, Xu Rui knew that his goal had been achieved.

After a while, Sun Changhe also came forward with his guard platoon.

The people of the independent regiment were busy cleaning up the battlefield, but Sun Changhe's guard platoon was idle and had nothing to do.

Until now, Sun Changhe's guard platoon has not been clearly subordinated, that is to say, until now, Sun Changhe's guard platoon has not been regarded as the men and horses of the independent regiment, so this time the cleaning of the battlefield was unceremoniously blocked by the people of the independent regiment.

Sun Changhe didn't think about sharing the spoils or anything, he really got the spoils, could he still transport them back to the chief's department? This is not a few mortars or small-caliber mountain artillery field guns, but heavy cannons with a caliber of more than 150mm, I am afraid that the little devil's plane will be blown up before it reaches the halfway point.

So Sun Changhe didn't have any ideas.

"Xu Tuanzuo, congratulations to your army on another unprecedented victory." Sun Changhe saluted and said.

"An unprecedented victory?" Xu Rui shook his head, frowned and said, "What is the big victory, doesn't Adjutant Sun think that our independent regiment has picked up a big trouble?" ”

"Big trouble?" Sun Changhe was surprised, "Xu Tuanzuo's words, I don't understand the humble position." ”

"What's not to understand about this?" Xu Rui stretched out his hand and pointed to the heavy artillery with a swarthy barrel pointed directly at the sky, and said with a bitter face, "Let's just say that these heavy cannons are quite powerful to use, and a single shell can blow up a building, but the problem is that we don't have the conditions to use these heavy artillery." ”

Xu Rui was telling the truth, and he was really troubled by this.

These large-caliber heavy guns, the lightest of which weighed three or four tons, and the heaviest even weighed more than a dozen tons, could not move at all without being towed by trucks, although this time their independent regiment also captured more than 100 trucks, but this matter is not just a truck, you have to have gasoline and diesel fuel if you have a truck, and you have to maneuver on the road.

Unless you have the protection of the air force, as soon as you hit the road, the devils will immediately dispatch attack planes and blow you up.

You say it's out at night? Yes, if the target is within 100 miles, you can fight back and forth in one night, and there is no big problem in making a night sortie, but the question is, what can you do within 100 miles? Fight the devil's turret? , take a large-caliber field heavy howitzer to hit the turret? Isn't this really a cannon to fight mosquitoes?

Therefore, Xu Rui was really nerve-wracking, and he was happy to patronize it before the fight, but after the fight, he found that the more than 100 heavy field howitzers that he had taken so hard to seize were actually useless, at least at this stage, they were useless, and they might be used when launching a strategic counteroffensive against the Japanese army in the future, but they really can't be used now.

But then again, this is also a happy annoyance, in fact, it is cheap and good.

Sun Changhe was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "It's true, these more than 100 heavy artillery pieces are left in Xu Tuanzuo's hands, and they are really useless, otherwise he will coordinate with the Commander's Department of the Third War Zone, and Xu Tuanzuo can exchange these more than 100 heavy field howitzers with the Commander's Department, I believe that Commander Gu will be very happy." ”

"Swap?" Xu Rui's eyes rolled, and a thought suddenly flashed in his mind.

To be honest, Gu Shutong really didn't have what Xu Rui wanted, but Lao Jiang did.

What does Lao Jiang have there? Hanyang Arsenal! At that time, China's most complete products and the largest arsenal!

Of course, Xu Rui also knew that this was impossible, even if Chairman Jiang wanted heavy howitzers, he would never use the Hanyang Arsenal to trade with him, a small regiment commander, and the face was not good, the key Hanyang Arsenal was a cow that would continuously produce fresh milk, and his more than 100 heavy guns were just milk.

It is impossible to exchange these more than 100 heavy artillery pieces for the Hanyang Arsenal, but it is possible to exchange them for the Jinling Arsenal.

Jinling Arsenal is much smaller than the Hanyang Arsenal, and the product category is also single, specializing in the production of Makqin water-cooled heavy machine guns, after the defeat in the Battle of Songhu, all the equipment and personnel of the Jinling Arsenal have been packed and transported to Hankou, from the point of view of time, this batch of equipment and personnel should still be stranded in Hankou.

At that moment, Xu Rui's mind began to quickly calculate the pros and cons.

If you keep these more than 100 heavy artillery, not to mention that they will not be useful in the near future, you will have to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to preserve, in case the devil comes to another sweep like the last time, and the base area is lost again, then it will be difficult to keep these more than 100 heavy artillery, this is more than 100 guns, the target is too big, and it is not the same concept as an airplane or a tank.

Again, if these more than 100 heavy artillery pieces are given to the Nationalist Army, I am afraid that the Battle of Xuzhou will not be able to catch up, but the later Battle of Wuhan and the Battle of Changsha can come in handy, if Chairman Jiang can use these more than 100 heavy artillery pieces to form an artillery brigade, and then integrate this artillery brigade into Xue Yue's First Corps, then the results of the Battle of De'an may not only be as simple as severely damaging the 106th Division, but also Okamura Ningji will plant a big fight!

Thinking of this, Xu Rui immediately made a decision, this transaction is worth it!

Sun Changhe just said this casually, in his impression, the Communist Party's troops are all poor, and a few broken guns can be held in his hands like a treasure, so Xu Rui must be reluctant to let go of these cannons, but after saying that, Sun Changhe unexpectedly found that Xu Rui seemed to be a little moved?

At that moment, Sun Changhe asked again: "Xu Tuanzuo, what do you think?" ”

Xu Rui said: "It's not that it can't be exchanged, what can the key Gu chief take in exchange?" ”

Sun Changhe said: "It's nothing more than weapons and ammunition, isn't that what Xu Tuanzuo needs?" ”

"Weapons and ammunition? There is no shortage of this in our independent regiment, and now our independent regiment has more guns than men, and there are enough bullets. Xu Rui waved his hand again and again when he heard this, Xu Rui's words are really not nonsense, the independent regiment is really more guns than people now, but it needs to be noted that most of these redundant guns are damaged guns, which cannot be used, or need to be repaired, but now the independent regiment does not have its own firearms station, nor technicians, so there is no way to repair it.

As for the bullet tube, it is pure nonsense, without its own arsenal, bullets will always be a scarce commodity.

Sun Changhe smiled, didn't poke Xu Rui's cowhide, and asked, "Then what does Xu Tuanzuo want to exchange?" ”

"Arsenal!" Xu Rui stared at Sun Changhe's eyes and said word by word, "I want Hanyang Arsenal!" ”

"Hanyang Arsenal?" Sun Changhe's head immediately floated two black lines, and said, "Xu Tuanzuo, you really dare to think about it, and you really dare to speak, what, I didn't say what I said just now." ”

Xu Rui said: "Adjutant Sun, don't be in a hurry to refuse, if you can't succeed, you might as well talk to Chief Gu first." ”

Sun Changhe turned his head to look at Yang Bayan, Yang Bayan nodded imperceptibly, after all, Yang Bayan and Xu Rui have been together longer than Sun Changhe, and he also knows some of Xu Rui's character, Xu Rui wants the Hanyang Arsenal but just asks for a sky-high price, this matter has to be discussed, and even if it is not negotiated in the end, there is no loss for the three war zones.

"Okay, I'll convey Xu Tuanzuo's meaning to the Chief's Department." Sun Changhe said.

"Okay, then I'll wait for Adjutant Sun's good news." Xu Rui smiled, turned his head and shouted, "Rabbit cubs, hurry up, it's already dawn this day, and the devil's attack plane will arrive when he speaks, hurry up and pull these cannons, trucks and shells or something, all of them are camouflaged, hurry up, hurry up!" ”

Xu Rui really didn't say nonsense, the independent regiment had just transferred the captured artillery, trucks, and shells, and made the necessary camouflage, and a huge roar of aircraft engines sounded over Feicheng, and then dozens of Type 97 carrier-based attack planes pierced out of the clouds and swooped down towards the artillery position of the heavy artillery brigade.

Judging from the time, these dozens of Type 97 carrier-based attack planes should have taken off from Nanjing Airport before dawn.

It can be seen that Shunroku Hatata, an old devil, had also foreseen that the 5th Brigade of his Independent Field Heavy Artillery would not be able to keep it, so he ordered the attack planes of the Aviation Corps to take off early, preparing to blow up more than 100 heavy artillery pieces of the Heavy Artillery Brigade on the position.

Although there were no more artillery on the artillery positions of the heavy artillery brigade at this time, the attack planes of the devils did not give up, and still carried out wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the artillery positions for more than 10 minutes, and it was not until the last aerial bomb was thrown that these dozens of Type 97 carrier-based attack planes pulled up again, and then began to return in a big circle in the air.