In April 1938, the pace of spring was getting faster and faster approaching the land of Qilu. When the spring breeze turned rain, the battle under the city of Taierzhuang entered a stalemate.

Under the orders of Li Zongren, the Chinese army deployed a counteroffensive from the beginning. As in history, the Japanese army besieged the city of Taierzhuang with 5 times its military strength.

Unlike history, the encirclement included the Seya detachment and the Sakamoto detachment, which came from the support. And what is even more different from the defeat battle in history is that this time the Kuomintang army, which was 5 times larger, actually put on a posture of gnawing away the two Japanese troops.

Why do you say "gnaw" it, because after the encirclement, all the Kuomintang troops were steadily and steadily fighting in accordance with Li Zongren's orders. Because instead of using charges that are easy to incur mass casualties, they use endless grenades and "Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers" to suppress and kill the enemy's defensive forces to the greatest extent, and then advance step by step.

As soon as the attack range of the "Celestial Maiden Scattered Flowers" and the "Accordion-Multi-Barrel Grenadier" is reached, the attack will come to an abrupt halt, and then there will be an endless bombardment.

Although the attacks of the "accordion-multi-barrel grenadiers" and "gasoline barrel cannons" were not very powerful relative to the positions, the density of the attacks that could not hold them was too great. Even if you want to fight back with artillery fire, those things are easy to make and have very few people to manipulate.

Jin Tao's design has made these ancient weapons all complete the "self-propelled" design, and they can run to another gun position dozens of meters away within a few seconds after firing the towed cart.

It's not even evil, it's only then that the truly vicious weapon really comes into play.

"Gazi cannon", this is a kind of artillery affectionately called by the soldiers of the counteroffensive troops. Speaking of which, this thing is very simple, and it is not much different from all the "ghost cannons" of the Chiyou Army when defending Tangshan. When dealing with little Japan, it is a weapon that hits others but is not allowed to fight back.

As we all know, in World War II, artillery counterattacks relied on calculating the opponent's ballistics to find the opponent's gun position. Before there was a ballistic computer, the only way to find the enemy's gun position and counterattack was to rely on the sound of artillery and the observation of ballistics.

It turns out that the imp is a human being, and an inferior person. Because on the battlefield, the frequency of their counterattacks against weapons such as "Gazi Cannon" is zero. Because they can't see nature, they can't hit, and the only thing they can do is to be beaten for this kind of "advanced" artillery that is silent when fired.

There is no doubt that this is a rocket that uses a ballista to fire cold, and the shell has changed dramatically when it reaches Li Zongwei.

Without exception, it was Li Zongren's hardcore troops who used these "secret weapons". As a general, Li Zongren did not know how this silent artillery was a threat to the infantry. If he doesn't even understand this, he won't be a fool.

"Hey, just these two kicks can make the little devil drink a good pot!"

As Guangxi soldiers who specialize in using secret weapons, they are too proud.

This "hybrid weapon" that fires hot and cold shells is called "Gazi Cannon". That's because when it is launched, it will sound a "quack". The cannonballs fired are also unique things. In other words, when any military industry at this time sees it, it will feel angry and funny, and it is really unbelievable.

The cannonball resembles a feathered arrow, except that the feathers are slices of wood arranged at an angle. The reason for this is that after firing, the entire shell spins up to increase accuracy and range because the air provides the power. On the shooting of the arrow shaft, it was simply four long cannon battles.

The second kick or the sky monkey should have been played, except for the non-explosion, in principle, this kind of shell and artillery is not much different. Naturally, the artillery is filled with gunpowder, and the only problem that needs to be solved here is the question of the time of firing.

Haha sounds a bit earthy, well, to describe it as a science fiction point, this is the simplest strap-on rocket.

In fact, the four cannons filled with gunpowder were indeed tied to the "arrow shaft". When the "Ga Zi Cannon" was fired with a "Gaga", the only pull fuse at the tail of the "arrow shaft" was pulled. When the "feathered arrow" with a warhead flies into the air.

Together, the four rockets began to shoot flames backwards, providing enough range for the "feathered arrows" of artillery shells in the air. The firing range of this gun is not very long, and the maximum firing range is only 450 meters. The reason for this is that you will understand the principle of parabola. Although the gunpowder provided only a few tens of seconds of propulsion, it greatly extended the range of the ballista.

In fact, at the time of the First World War, there were really people in the West who experimented with the ballistae of ancient Rome. It's just that the shooting distance is really not very good, and it can't reach the legendary distance of 800 meters at all. But with rockets, the trajectory can be extended far away.

At this time, China's aerodynamics research was basically zero, and if there was really enough scientific and technological accumulation, it would definitely not be difficult to create a silent rocket that could be launched silently and had a range of up to 1,000 or even tens of thousands of meters.

The biggest advantage in the face of the Japanese army is that because it is ignited in mid-air, even if you see a point ballistic, it will be difficult to measure the actual position of the "Gazi Cannon" because the distance is too short. Even with aerial reconnaissance, it is impossible to predict where the "Gazi Cannon" that fired these shells is.

With this kind of weapon, which can only bully others and cannot fight back, the morale of the counteroffensive army has been greatly boosted. It is also worth mentioning here that most of the warheads are large "hail personnel personnel bombs" called "Tiannu scattered flowers". A small part of it was used against the Japanese army tanks, and because of the small number, they could not be used excessively.

"Spot enemy tanks, request shelling from the front!"

The soldiers of Li Zongren's descendant unit, who were guarding the "Gazi Cannon", reported to the commander of the artillery team after receiving the report from the infantry at the front.

"Change the knives!"

The reason why it is necessary to say that it is changed is because the shells of the "Gazi Cannon" are actually modular. That is, the warhead is separated from the "arrow" itself, which not only improves the safety factor, but also facilitates combat.

The soldiers who received the order were busy in their gun emplacements.

The "Gazi Cannon" was large and did not transfer as easily as the "Gasoline Drum Cannon" and the "Accordion-Multi-barrel Grenadier", but simply lay in an anti-gun hole with a log cover, and a 10-man gun squad was responsible for handling such weapons.

Because the winding is a sprocket system that resembles an automatic car, it is possible to quickly pull away the heavy "ballista" with a simple change of speed. At this time, the gunner, who had changed the warhead, hurriedly placed the shell on the slot for firing, and the tail fuse was hung directly on the preset hook of the ballista. It's as simple as that, and the ballista, powered by a system of four bicycle sprockets, can fire bursts of up to 20 rounds per minute.

Finally, let's talk about the so-called "anti-tank shell", which can be said to be the most vicious weapon.

There was no more gunpowder or explosives in the warhead, except for a striking fuse. The porcelain bottle was filled with gasoline, which was about a liter. When the shell hits the ground, the impact fuse acts. The burning gunpowder ignites the gasoline and explodes almost faintly, making the area where the gasoline burns larger.

It's such a simple thing, but the little devil's tank met the nemesis for the first time.

Seriously, this kind of anti-tank shell, which is affectionately called "burning knives" by soldiers because it can fly and has a warhead shape that resembles a wine bottle, is even more powerful than anti-tank rocket launchers.

Just think about it, in addition to the tanks that can be defended in the future, are there any tanks in World War II that can be sealed? As far as tanks are concerned, can a sealed tank deal with the continuous combustion of 100 liters of gasoline?

You can use your imagination again, what about napalm in it? What about thermite? Or maybe it's just a "cloud burst agent". Not to mention the thin-skinned coffin of the little devil, even if you put the German Tiger King in front of you, you can't stand a hundred liters of gasoline and burn it. Not to mention what to do with "napalm", "thermite", "depopulator" and the like.

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It is said that it is a tank group, but there are only a few dozen of them.

But the "Gazi Cannon" on the battlefield is two cross-attacks against one. When anti-tank shells, known as "burning knives", come near the tank, they have completely dissipated due to the ballistics formed by the rocket launchers.

"Boom ......"

The shells that fell to the ground immediately sprayed gasoline with flames in all directions, and the shells that did not hit formed a fire in a radius of 10 meters. Now, the infantry who followed the tank did not leave, they knew that this thing would fall on the tank, or that the tank would be able to take a few shots. But if this thing falls on a person's body, I'm afraid that it won't be long before it will be cooked.

Therefore, the "burning knife" shells that fell on the left and right of the tank easily drove away the infantry accompanying the tank. Inside the lone tank, the attacking tankmen screamed, checking the source of the enemy's shells from all the places they could observe.

It is a pity that it is the "ballista" that fires the shells, and compared with the battlefield of hot weapons, it is a kind of "three-no weapon" that is silent, lightless, and impossible to smoke. Maybe the Japanese infantry training is good, but if you want to fight the ghost-like things that you can't see, it's better to wash and sleep, that's not a problem they have the ability to solve.

At this time, the attacking Japanese tanks felt very embarrassed and used artillery to counterattack, but could not find the target. I wanted to leave, but there was a fire on the left and right, and I couldn't even turn a corner. And they are full of bushido spirit, and they are not very willing to flee.

So the question now is what to do?

We mentioned that the frequency of firing of semi-automatic ballistas is 20 rounds per minute. And because of the formation of the tanks, a continuous, gasoline-based fire dragon was laid almost in a minute.

This fire dragon was in front of the Chinese army's position, and the Japanese army could neither attack nor leave. At this moment, with the adjustment of the shooter, the landing point of the "burning knife" fired by this "ballista", which has no recoil at all, became more and more accurate.

"Boom ......"

The tank, hit by several successive shots of "burning knives", immediately turned into a mass of fire with flames.

Tanks, at least when the Japanese tanks are faced with "burning knives", they still roll as far as they want!