At 9:48 a.m. on November 27, after walking for more than ten minutes, Yamaguchi and the others came to the field observation post and walked into this very well hidden bunker, where there was no abnormality at all. Through the observation scope of the Type 37 heavy artillery 15x artillery team erected in front of him (the field of view is 3 degrees, The diameter of the exit pupil is 3.1 mm, and the total weight is 8.53 kg) saw the inside of Shenyang City from a distance, and several of them took turns to observe the artillery mirror for a while, intending to find out the hidden enemy in the city, but after observing for a long time, they did not see even a little pigeon or anything like flying out of it, so they used a telescope with a longer observation distance to observe, but the result was still that they were disappointed that the siege troops outside the city were already busy, and on the contrary, the city was still cold and lifeless, as if there was no life. After observing for a long time, Yamaguchi and the others, who had been bored for a long time, left this observation post and went to the heavy artillery position.

Not long after the three of them left the field observation post, the inside of Shenyang City began to change after they left, and the ripples that could not be identified by the naked eye shook in an instant.

At about 10:09, the three of them, who were one foot high and one foot shallow, arrived at the artillery position of the 1st Heavy Artillery Wing, which is currently equipped with the largest caliber and has now become in full swing.

It was the first time for Yamaguchi and the other three to observe so closely, the very huge body of more than 240 mm caliber in front of them was more than 10 meters, and the chassis was a tracked heavy artillery, facing this monster made by his own country, Yamaguchi issued a heartfelt emotion: "Yo Xi, I didn't expect the Japanese Empire to be able to build such an advanced cannon." These cannons are the latest type of heavy artillery in the Japanese Empire. Unfortunately, I've heard that there should be a mechanism like autoloading......"

The Wing Commander of the First Heavy Artillery Wing, Oyo Tensuke Daisa, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly greeted Yamaguchi and the others who sighed and said, "Your Excellency, Honorable Division Commander, as well as Takeshita-kun and Awasaki-kun, please allow me to introduce this cannon to the three of you. ”

Feeling that it was rare for him to show his face in front of the division commander, the high-spirited Dayang Dazuo pointed to the big guy in front of him and introduced to the three people who were carefully observing around him: "Everyone, please see, this cannon equipped by our wing was designed by Mr. Yashima Tomoyoshi, the director of the Yawata Military Construction Institute (probably this person is a traverser), and was manufactured and produced for the Hachiman Military Construction Institute (an arsenal suspected to have been built by the traverser) in Showa 4, and the current wing currently has a total of 8 guns. The name is (1931 is the year 2591 of the Japanese Shenmu Era, this gun was developed in the second year of the Jimmu Era 2589, and the trial production was completed in the second year and produced in the third year, so it was named. Trial production of the 90 type 28 cm self-propelled cannon, the gun diameter of 28 cm (283 mm), the gun body length of 14 meters, height of 3.77 meters, equipped with a new tracked self-propelled chassis, self-weight of 27 tons, maximum weight of 33 tons; The firing range is 31 km when using ordinary artillery shells and 50 km when using extended-range rockets; Each heavy gun is a reinforced squadron of 500 men, which is responsible for firing, loading and assembling, and is divided into three reinforced artillery squadrons, each with 150 men, for a total of 450 men, and the remaining 50 are squad leaders and other personnel such as artillery observation groups. ”

Wing Commander Takeshita Daisa of the Logistics Support Wing said: "Well, listening to what Dayang-kun said, I think it's not a waste to be curious about the need for so many people to operate such a huge cannon?" Five hundred people is not too much. ”

Oyo Osa replied: "Hehe, Takeshita-kun may have misunderstood this, but at present, we have adopted the formation method of three squadrons of each heavy gun to rotate operations, so that we can familiarize ourselves with this type of artillery." You know, we were transferred here when we first received these big guys. ”

Major General Yamaguchi: "Yes, you guys are really working too hard for Dayo-kun. ”

Dayang said with a haha: "Wherever and wherever you are, you will serve the empire and serve His Majesty the Emperor." ”

Dayang's eyes flickered and continued the topic just now: "By the way, and before we were transferred here, according to reliable information from an engineer from the Yaman Arsenal in Tokyo, there will be 24 such improved cannons in mass production at the beginning of next year......"

As soon as he heard that there would be so many such cannons next year, Major General Yamaguchi, who suddenly came to the spirit, hurriedly asked Dayang Daisa: "So, Dayang-kun." How many of these cannons will be in our hands at that time? ”

For the words asked by the division commander, Dayang, who was a little embarrassed, didn't know how to speak: "This ......"

Yamaguchi squinted his eyes and looked at Dayang, feeling as if there was an inside story that he didn't know, thinking that there must be a problem in this, Yamaguchi waved his hand and asked his subordinate Dayang Dazuo not to sell Guanzi: "Dayang-kun, this place is all your own people." It doesn't matter, you name it. ”

Seeing that his division commander insisted on this, Dayang Dazuo could only answer hard, and gritted his teeth when he talked about the navy: "Hai, Your Excellency the division commander." Here's the thing, according to reliable information, our army can only get 8 of them at present, and the remaining 16 are all divided by the navy!! ”

Yamaguchi heard that the navy had snatched the remaining 16 cannons, and he was stunned for a while, and directly crooked his nose: "Baga Yalu, how can those fishermen who can only fish at sea and can't get ashore want to rob our army of everything!" It's just so hateful! Didn't they already have advanced warships! Why are you still grabbing these cannons with us!! Don't they know that the army of the Japanese Empire would have to pay a heavy price to storm the city without these cannons!! ”

Dayang continued to add fuel and vinegar to the ear of his division commander: "Your Excellency, the fishermen of the navy think that if they hand over all these big guys to our army, it will be a tyrannical thing and a waste of the empire's resources. In addition, they thought that it would be more cost-effective to install these cannons on the two Imperial Hanoi-class battleships that had been converted into shore defense battleships, rather than handing them over to our army for siege operations and the like. ”

Hearing this, Yamaguchi's eyes widened and he trembled angrily: "Nani!! What is more cost-effective than handing it over to our army!! Could it be that our army is born to be a stepmother who picks up the garbage they don't want!! ”

At this time, the captain of the Heavy Artillery Escort Wing, Ah Huanqi, who had not spoken, asked Dayang: "Your Excellency the division commander is a little restless, by the way, what was the situation of Dayangjun like at that time?" ”

Seeing that his colleagues said this, Dayang had no choice but to say helplessly: "At the beginning, this kind of large-caliber heavy artillery was developed by Mr. Yashima Tomoyoshi, director of the Yawata Military Construction Institute, for our army, and during the test, only the representative of our army's military procurement office was present, and this news is only known to our army, I don't know where the navy got the news or how to know the news that the new cannon is being tested, in short, they also sent a lot of people to the scene." At the beginning, before the test gun, the guys in the navy who were above the top were sneering and almost slandering the new model of cannon in front of them, until this cannon highlighted its huge power, ultra-long range and extremely high accuracy in the next two shooting tests, the guys in the navy were stupid on the spot, and then they changed their expressions and wanted to swallow the cannon in front of them like fat, as for the original slander of this gun, they seemed to have forgotten. ”

Ah Huanqi continued to ask, "And what happened later?" ”

Dayang sighed and said, "Alas, later, we really didn't expect it." The so-called troika of the Navy: Vice Admiral Mitsumasa Yonechi, Rear Admiral Yamamoto 56, and Inoue Narumi Osa were also present at that time! What our army didn't expect was that they actually knew that 24 of these guns had been built! That's 24 cannons, these were originally for our army, and they actually wanted to take all these guns away to install them on the newly renovated old battleships, if it weren't for the fact that His Excellency Admiral Ugaki Issei, who knew about this at the time, personally negotiated with Admiral Anan Kiyosa of the Navy, I am afraid that we would not even want to get a heavy cannon now! ”

Hearing what the navy had done, Yamaguchi, who was so angry, scolded: "Damn, navy fishermen who deceive people too much! Without our mud-legged army desperately expanding its territory overseas, how could they have so many resources to build flashy steel coffins!! ”

A radio communications officer came to the ocean: "Report... Report!! ”

As the wing commander, Dayang had not yet spoken, and the division commander Major General Yamaguchi, who was angry, asked directly: "What is the matter?" What kind of system is panicked. ”

Ignoring the captain of his own wing, who was not speaking in front of him, the communications officer faced his angry division commander and reported: "Hai, I'm sorry for Your Excellency, Division Commander. It was like this, the siege troops in front of us called us and asked us what we were going to do for the shelling, and they were already impatient and asked us to hurry up and launch the shelling, so that they could storm the city and have lunch. ”

Yamaguchi didn't continue to ask his communications officer, but directly asked the three people in front of him, "Have lunch?" What time is it? ”

Takeshita raised his right hand and glanced at the watch on his right wrist: "Hai, Your Excellency the division commander, the current time is 10:27, and there are still 33 minutes left until 11 o'clock." It should not be possible to miss the time for the front-line troops to eat lunch. ”

Yamaguchi glanced at Takeshita and Ah Huanqi and motioned for the two to follow him: "Well, we've been talking for so long, Dayang-kun, you are busy, Takeshita-kun, Ah Huanzaki-kun and I are watching not far away, so don't worry about us." After speaking, he pointed to the position of a small hill in the distance where the entire position could be observed.

Dayang Dazuo hurriedly saluted: "Hai." Division commander, please rest assured, we will complete the task!! ”

Seeing that the commander of his division and others had walked away, the officers of the squadrons under the command of Dayang Dazuo, who was the commander of the heavy artillery wing, greeted all the artillerymen: "All move for me!" Get ready to load the cannonballs!! ”

Shouting loudly and shouting an unknown trumpet, the short and sturdy Japanese artillerymen who were shirtless in the winter because of carrying heavy huge objects and sweating heavily pushed the 8 283 mm shells with a length significantly longer than the previous shells of the same caliber through a special gantry crane to the tail of the 8 trial 90 type 28 cm self-propelled cannons that had already been opened, and then a shell pusher lever that two people could pick up pushed these shells onto the barrel, and then 8 silk-wrapped propellant packets were hoisted up by the gantry crane. The bolt was again put into the chamber of the gun, and then the bolt at the tail of the gun was closed. This is not over, 8 heavy cannons with thick caliber and extra-long barrels are adjusted one by one at a suitable elevation angle under the operation of the direction adjuster operated by the artillerymen to the 91-type field rangefinder just now (imitating the latest high-magnification field rangefinder from Zeiss in Germany, which is used horizontally when observing in a long straight shape, facing the observation object is a large-diameter objective lens at each end, and facing the observer hand is a small-diameter eyepiece that resembles a telescope, with a baseline length of 150 cm, The total weight is 17.6 kg, and the range is 550~30,000 meters).

When everything was done, the rest of the men ran to the dug trench as if they were facing a great enemy, and only the gunners responsible for firing the artillery flowed. After glancing at it and making sure that there was nothing wrong, Dayang Dazuo gave the order to shell, and after receiving the order, the devil artillery standard-bearers standing in the distance waved two signal flags of different colors in their hands and waved the flags of several shelling: "Fire!!" ”

The devil artillery gunner, who had long been familiar with the operation process and hid far away, immediately pulled the long gun rope after seeing the flag, only to hear: "Boom ......", 8 huge 283 mm shells passed through the fourteen-meter barrel engraved with six right spiral rifling wires at a speed of 980 m/s with the help of strong gunpowder propellant, and spun and flew out of 8 huge gun muzzles that sprayed orange fire at the same time, and the large-caliber shells went through the clouds with a sharp whistling, with the deafening roar of artillery, The entire self-propelled cannon weighing 3 tons moved backwards one meter under the recoil of huge kinetic energy, fortunately after loading the shells, all the people left a distance of four or five meters, and fortunately the artillery had tracks to play a certain role, otherwise it would be directly crushed into meatloaf by the moving cannon if it was too close. After the first wave of shells was fired, all of them withdrew to the trenches built at a safe distance, and the devil artillerymen ran out of the trenches one after another, and under the command of officers such as the squad leader, they began to repeat the actions just now.