The Second Field Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Japanese Army has more than 8,000 officers and men and is equipped with more than 70 large-caliber howitzers or cannons ranging from 100 mm to 155 mm. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In the eyes of later generations of Chinese people, Japan's heavy artillery seems to be far less powerful than the heavy artillery technology of the European and American armies. In fact, this is a misunderstanding, because in addition to the Japanese army in the East Asian theater where the Japanese army is mainly located, other countries such as the Chinese army do not have decent artillery at all, which makes the powerful heavy artillery of the Japanese army useless at all. The Japanese army only used small-caliber mountain artillery and field artillery to defeat the Chinese army, so most of the main divisions of the Japanese army were only equipped with 105 mm howitzers at most.

In fact, the technology of Japanese artillery is first-class in the world, and Japanese artillery mainly has the following characteristics: first, the bore pressure is extremely high; second, the muzzle velocity is extremely high; Third, it is extremely powerful; Fourth, the projectile is extremely heavy.

In addition, the accuracy of the Japanese artillery was second to none. Due to the limited resources of Japan, they took the route of elite artillery, and the artillery was not much more expensive, so the accuracy of the Japanese artillery was extremely high, and the Japanese artillery was almost all strictly trained elite, resulting in the early stage of the all-out war of resistance, the Kuomintang army equipped with a large number of German, American, and Soviet heavy artillery was often beaten by the Japanese artillery to lose their armor and collapse.

In addition to two heavy artillery wings, the Japanese army's field heavy artillery brigade also has a field artillery wing and a mountain artillery wing, with more than 200 large and small artillery pieces combined, and its strength is very strong.

The biggest reason why Lieutenant General Uemura Seitaro still had absolute confidence in defeating the instructor after losing air supremacy was this Second Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, and he believed that the instructor would absolutely not be able to withstand the artillery fire of the Second Field Heavy Artillery Brigade.

It's just that the Japanese didn't know that the number of artillery pieces owned by the instructor of the Eighth Route Army, the opponent in front of them, was simply terrifying.

"Division commander, it seems that the Japanese army is preparing to dispatch field heavy artillery brigades to strike at our army's positions with firepower, can our positions withstand it?" In the field headquarters, Zhang Wenlong, the commander of the Fifth Brigade, asked Zhang Cheng with a worried face.

Zhang Cheng said calmly: "Zhang Wenlong, you don't have to worry at all, if you encounter this field heavy artillery brigade before accepting Soviet equipment, then our instructor will naturally avoid as far as he wants, but now our heavy artillery brigade has been equipped with 36 152mm howitzers and 36 122mm cannons assisted by the Soviet Union, and we are on a par with the Japanese army in terms of heavy artillery."

In addition, after the expansion of our artillery brigade, we already have more than 10,000 artillery personnel and more than 1,000 mountain artillery, field artillery, and mortars of various calibers of less than 100 mm.

As the saying goes, if there are many ants, you can still bite an elephant to death, but I don't believe that under the condition that our heavy artillery brigade and their two heavy artillery wings cancel each other, the more than 1,000 artillery pieces of the artillery brigade cannot defeat the more than 100 mountain artillery and field artillery of the Japanese army.

This time, we continued to follow the previous strategy, and after the Japanese artillery positions were exposed, we would strike ahead and take out their field heavy artillery brigades. Without the field heavy artillery brigade, I think this 12th Division will become meat on the chopping block, at our disposal. ”

Thinking of the artillery brigade's more than 1,000 guns of all kinds, Zhang Wenlong's previous worries disappeared in an instant, under the blow of this thousand guns, the once arrogant Fifth Division has been wiped out, this time, I believe the 12th Division will not be an exception.

"Division commander, after the Japanese artillery is defeated, it is very likely that the Japanese army will dispatch a tank wing to charge our position, so should our armored brigade be dispatched in advance?" Li Yunlong then asked.

Zhang Cheng thought about it for a while, then shook his head and said: "No need, the Soviet Union has given us a large number of anti-tank guns, plus the Moutai Molotov cocktails produced by our arsenal, which should be able to deal with the little devil's Douding tank." But for the sake of safety, let's also use the anti-aircraft guns aided by the Soviet Union, and I will tell you a secret, using anti-aircraft guns to shoot tanks is more effective than anti-tank guns. ”

When all the brigade commanders heard this, they were all confused, and Li Yunlong was puzzled: "Commander, is what you said true?" Can anti-aircraft guns really knock out the tanks of the devils? ”

Zhang Cheng's face was firm, he nodded and said; "When did I lie to you? The trajectory of the anti-aircraft gun is very straight, and it is very accurate when fired horizontally, and with the weak armor of the Devil Peading tank, it can penetrate through it with a single shot. ”

Hearing what Division Commander Zhang Cheng said with such certainty, the brigade commanders immediately believed his words and immediately notified the troops to prepare a large number of anti-aircraft guns, and give the devils a big surprise when the devil tank attacked.

An hour later, the artillery position of the Second Field Heavy Artillery Brigade was finally completed, and under the order of Major General Shinichi Ando, the brigade commander, more than 70 large-caliber heavy guns and more than 100 field and mountain artillery guns roared at the same time to concentrate artillery on the instructor's position.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

On the Japanese artillery position, the Japanese artillery skillfully carried the shells, and then operated the guns that had been aimed long ago, and fired the shells one by one.

The dense shells accurately fell around the instructor's position, especially the 155 mm caliber shells, which were very powerful, and as soon as the cannon went down, the entire trench was shaking, as if it was an eight-magnitude earthquake.

"Boom!"

The earth-shattering explosions came one after another, and the soldiers hiding in the trenches endured the discomfort and desperately covered their ears so as not to be deafened by the powerful explosion of shells.

However, the power of the Japanese 155mm howitzer was too strong, and even though the position built by the instructor was very strong, it was still blown up several positions by the Japanese heavy artillery, and one after another, the casualties of the instructor continued to rise.

"Yo Xi, the heavy artillery of the imperial army is really invincible in the world, and the instructors of the Eighth Route Army are all going to die this time." Seeing that the position of the Eighth Route Army had been completely overwhelmed by artillery fire, the complacent Lieutenant General Kiyotaro Uemura couldn't help but smile.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, I believe that under such fierce artillery fire from the Imperial Army, the casualties of the Chinese people must be very heavy, and when our chariot wing crushes it in one fell swoop, the victory will belong to our Imperial Army." The staff officer on one side boasted.

At the same time, Zhang Cheng, who saw the soldiers suffering from the artillery fire, couldn't help but get anxious, and kept urging the heavy artillery brigade and artillery brigade, asking them to measure the coordinates of the Japanese artillery positions as soon as possible and quickly launch a counterattack against them.