Chapter 794 Gathering Momentum (2) The National Army's Weapons of Destruction
What kind of mountain is considered a high mountain is an interesting question.
Some people say that Mount Everest is a high mountain, well—that's for sure, because at least there's no taller mountain on earth than it is.
However, the mountains in question here are not referring to Mount Everest, nor are they referring to Kilimanjaro, which is thousands of miles away in China.
Is Tarzan considered a high mountain?
In fact, Mount Tai is not high, the altitude of its main peak is only 1545 meters, let's not compare it with Mount Everest, or the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
However, the low surrounding area makes it a high mountain, so there is "How is Dai Zongfu?" There is an answer to the question of "seeing the mountains at a glance".
So from the perspective of this comparison, is a mountain at an altitude of 300 meters considered a high mountain?
The answer also lies in who to compare with, so in the vicinity of Changsha, which is dominated by the plain basin, Yuelu Mountain is a high mountain.
It is the commanding heights of the whole Changsha periphery, there are many trees on the mountain, although it is said that the leaves are withering in winter at this time, but there are soldiers who have suffered from the Japanese artillery bombardment and point to the trees on the mountain and say, those are the artillery of our national army, how good it would be!
Does the national army have a cannon as thick as the Japanese devils? Yes, there are eight gates in total, and they are standing in the mountains and forests at this time.
The eight artillery pieces are already the "masters" of the artillery of the Ninth Theater of Operations, and all eight of them are imported, because this thing cannot be made in China today.
2 are Bofors 75mm mountain guns, 2 are 150mm German-made Krupp heavy howitzers, and 4 are Soviet-made 76.2mm field guns.
Among them, the howitzers with a muzzle diameter of 15 centimeters are also the top howitzers in the world, with a range of 15 kilometers and a shell weighing more than 30 kilograms.
It must be known that the aerial bombs dropped by the Japanese bombers were only 50 kilograms, so the 30-kilogram heavy artillery used on land was definitely a big killer on the battlefield.
Of course, this is the most important thing for the artillery unit of the national army nowadays, but unfortunately there are only too few, but the two Bofors field guns and 150 heavy guns have experienced all the major battles of the national army since the Songhu Anti-Japanese War.
It was these four guns that hit the planes on the Japanese airfield, the Japanese battleships on the Huangpu River, the permanent fortresses of the Japanese army, and the countless infantry of the Japanese army.
It's just that there are only two such big killing weapons and only two small killing weapons, and in order to prevent the Japanese artillery from counterattacking, they only run away after a few shots each time.
If there are not four such guns in China today, but 40 or 400 guns, then the course of the War of Resistance is destined to be rewritten.
Compared with the above two field guns and two heavy guns, the four Soviet-made field guns are quite chicken.
As for the reason, one is that they are too old, these four cannons are still old antiques used in the First World War in Tsarist Russia, and the other is too heavy, and it takes 8 horses to pull them.
As far as the big country in northern China is concerned, regardless of whether they are Tsarist Russia or the Soviet Union, the people of that country have a unified name, called "Lao Maozi".
As for why they are called Lao Maozi, it is because they have a lot of body hair, there was a joke that the old Maozi men can't suck their blood in the summer.
That's because their exposed hair is definitely long enough, and the mosquito is attached to the surface of their skin, but the "needle" of the mosquito bite is not as long as the hair, so it is destined that the needle can't touch the skin of the old hair.
There is one of the most significant characteristics of the things made by Lao Maozi, called "stupid, big, black and coarse".
Not to mention their cannons, it is the kind of electric shaver called "not afraid of beards" made by people in Russia who bought it in later generations, and it sounded after the electricity, and the people in the Northeast spoke, and the "hum" voice said that it was the sound of a motorcycle passing by, that was to look down on people, to be precise, it was a motorcycle driving by but the silencer was broken, if there is a person with life experience, you will know how domineering and Dora the wind is!
Well, let's talk about the four cannons given by the Soviet army, these four cannons were originally eliminated and planned to be re-made for steelmaking, but they supported China's War of Resistance.
Thinking about the current road conditions in China, the cannons that can be pulled by 8 horses are really love-hate, and the Chinese cannons have to run after a few fewer shots, so it is conceivable that these four cannons that require 32 horses to pull struggle to escape for their lives on Chinese roads after giving the Japanese a surprise.
So if you want to pull away these four cannons, it is definitely not enough to use only 32 horses, and you have to take a row of people to push it behind! If you are blown up by the devil's fire, it will be heart-wrenching, but if you want to change them, it will really sink away!
However, the artillery of the national army transported the four cannons that could only be pulled by these 32 horses to Yuelu Mountain, and the hardships can be imagined.
However, although it was difficult to go up the mountain, it was good to go up the mountain now, and the artillerymen suddenly found that these four cannons were used for the defense of Changsha City.
Because Yuelu Mountain is high enough, because the mountains and forests on Yuelu Mountain are dense, there is no need to move them to the mountain, and they can look down on the inside and outside of Changsha City with the four cannons.
The condescending shooting of Yuelu Mountain did not worry about the counterattack of the Japanese artillery at all, because they could not find an artillery position, and this time the Japanese heavy artillery did not cross the new wall river due to the road, so there was no heavy artillery available.
As for the bombing by the Japanese planes, first, whether they could find it or not is still a matter of two questions; second, more than 20 anti-aircraft machine guns were erected around the artillery positions, and it was not ordinarily difficult for the Japanese planes to drop the bombs without diving.
But a thousand ways and ten thousand, everything is only the east wind, and now these eight cannons are in good condition, but not a single cannon has been fired, and the artillerymen who are bent on making the cannon show their might are more eager than ever to let them appear in this battle.
Seeing that another day had passed, it was almost dark, and the artillerymen felt that there was no drama today, so they all sighed.
In modern warfare, artillery is known as the god of war.
When can artillery be used, the first choice of positional warfare, whether it is attacking or defending, the overwhelming momentum of the invaders, so that the invaders are wiped out in the sound of welding explosions, that is what makes every artillery fascinated.
But the artillery of their national army is not good, they feel that their artillery is too aggrieved!
Whenever there was a positional battle, the infantry stood up to the Japanese artillery fire there, and the casualties were very heavy, and then they looked forward to their own artillery fire, but their eyes were blue.
So they came, fired a few shots, and as soon as the infantry saw that the shell had blown off one of the little devil's thighs, they shouted hello, and their own artillery fire stopped.
Why stop? Afraid of retaliation from Japanese artillery!
Two horses and four horses ran with cannons, and eight cannons with horses.
After a long drought and dry dew, I thought it was a pouring rain, but just after a few heavy rains, the pimple sky was sunny and the sun came out.
Therefore, when the artillerymen meet the infantry, the artillerymen always feel that they are at a loss, and the infantry's ardent hope for them is always overflowing.
Most of the infantrymen who don't speak hurtfully will say, "We are looking forward to your coming, so vent your anger for us!"
But the few infantrymen who talk hurtfully don't attract people's attention, but you can't find fault with others, and there's nothing wrong with what people say, because that's what our artillery has always done.
The infantry will say, "Are you fighting positional warfare?" How do we feel that you are fighting a guerrilla war? When people fight guerrilla warfare on the eight roads, they all run with their hands and feet and their legs raised, and we have never seen dozens of horses dragging cannons to fight guerrilla warfare!
Originally, I was expecting you to come and give out, but as soon as you came, did you get angry? It's out of gas, but just a moment, can't you just put the cannon on the ground and put it on the ground? What else do you order besides gunshot?!
How can the artillerymen be embarrassed by this?