Just when Zhang Mingyu was struggling with how to crack the artillery towers and pillboxes that had been reinforced by the Yue army, Chief of Staff Liu Chengxing strode in.

Seeing Liu Cheng's happy face, Zhang Mingyu couldn't help asking, "Chief of Staff, what's wrong?" ”

"Good news, Boss!" Liu Cheng said excitedly: "Just now there is news from the Taiyuan Arsenal that the artillery experts you invited from the Soviet Union have successfully developed a powerful rocket artillery. ”

"Artillery specialists? Which one? ”

"The name seems to be Lyon's father."

"Is it Leon's Husband?" Zhang Mingyu asked in surprise.

"Yes, yes, that's him." Liu Cheng nodded again and again.

When Zhang Mingyu heard this, he was immediately overjoyed and said: "Great, I'm worried that there is no way to break through the devil's turret and bunker!" ”

"What's wrong? The front-line attack didn't go well? Liu Cheng asked, "Hmm" Zhang Mingyu nodded and said: "Just now there was news from the guard regiment that the bunker turrets on the periphery of the devils have all been reinforced, and our artillery will not be able to destroy them at all, and the infantry will suffer heavy casualties." ”

"But now it's okay, with Leon's new rocket artillery, the little devil's turret is nothing to worry about."

"Hmm." Liu Cheng also nodded and said: "I heard the people over there in the arsenal say that rocket artillery can easily penetrate a steel plate with a thickness of one meter during the test firing. And then the artillery expert also said that this is not the limit of the penetration of rocket artillery, and he still has a way to increase the power of rocket artillery again. ”

"Great, you immediately give an order to the arsenal, let them work overtime within three days to produce at least five new rocket launchers, and after three days, organize a transport team to send rocket artillery to the front line!" Zhang Mingyu hit the knot.

"Okay, by the way, do you want to reward the artillery expert with some rewards, and also, did you also apply for a patent for rocket artillery in the United States?" As he spoke, Liu Cheng smiled at Zhang Mingyu with a smile. Since **Sha applied, it has been sold for at least more than three million dollars, and it is obvious that Liu Cheng, who was born as a businessman, has tasted the sweetness.

"A merchant is a merchant who is a merchant! I'll leave it to you. For the same reward, reward Leone wedger a million oceans. Zhang Mingyu said with a smile.

"Haha! Then I'll do it right away. Liu Cheng laughed, then turned around and strode away.

Zhang Mingyu turned his head to a combat staff officer and said, "Go buy a power generator from the guard regiment, let them stand still for the time being, and stand by in place." ”

"Yes!" The combat staff officer snapped to his feet, then turned and strode away.

……………… Cangzhou, known as the Army Garrison Headquarters.

Okamura Ninji and his entourage had already moved their headquarters to Cangzhou, and as soon as they walked into the headquarters, Okamura Ninji said to Major General Tanabe Moritake, who was in charge of the Cangzhou defense line: "Tanabe-kun, how is the current battle on the front line?" ”

"Returning to the general, the front-line defensive position is as stable as Mount Tai, the front line reports that the people of China have used artillery to bombard the bunkers and turrets of our imperial army, but the reinforced pillboxes and turrets are unscathed, and the people of China have organized infantry to launch several attacks that have ended in failure!"

"Yo Xi!" When Okamura Ninji heard this, he nodded with satisfaction and said, "Order all departments on the front line to strengthen vigilance and prevent the people of China from taking the opportunity to sneak attack!" ”

"Hay!" Tanabe Moritake bowed his head suddenly, and immediately followed Okamura Ningji into the headquarters.

Moritake Tanabe is now the deputy chief of staff of the Northern Group Headquarters led by Okamura Ninji, and the chief of staff is Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe.

Now in charge of the Baoding defense line is Naosaburo Okabe.

………… Southwest of Baoding, Yi County.

Lai San led the 3rd Division to this place, and the army also built a large number of pillboxes and artillery towers around Yi County, and blocked the ditch to form a tight blockade line.

Just now, the soldiers of the 3rd Division, 1st Brigade and 1st Regiment launched three attacks on Yixian in a row, but they were all unsuccessful, and the reason and the guard regiment were already that the regimental artillery of the 3rd Division could not destroy the artillery towers and pillboxes of the Yue Army.

At this time, only 150 heavy artillery pieces of the 42nd Group Army could destroy the reinforced turret pillboxes of the devils, but these heavy artillery pieces were deployed in Ordos, Taiyuan, and Datong, and were used as permanent defense equipment to guard the safety of these places.

If you want to assemble and transport those heavy artillery pieces from these places one by one, it will take a lot of effort, and you can't do it in half a month and 20 days, which will be an extremely delayed time, and it will not be cost-effective to miss the fighters.

Just when Lai San was worried about how to break through the blockade of the devil's bunker, at this moment, Lai Changqing, the commander of the Third Division and the First Brigade, walked in with a telegram in his hand, and said uprightly: "Division!" Call from the main seat. ”

"Oh?" Lai San was stunned and said, "What did the chief seat say?" ”

"Just two sentences, let's stand still and stand by in place!" Lai Changqing replied.

"Standing still?" Lai San pondered for a while, and then said to Lai Changqing: "Changqing, you immediately order all troops to stop all military operations, and the troops are on standby!" ”

"Yes!" Lai Changqing stood upright, and then happily took the order and left.

……… South of Baoding, Guantou Town.

The Fourth Division also received Zhang Mingyu's telegram, and Wang Tiehan, commander of the Fourth Division, immediately ordered the troops to stop attacking and stand by in place, and the battlefield that was originally filled with gunpowder instantly returned to calm.

…… The second said, Cangzhou said the army headquarters.

Deputy Chief of Staff Tanabe Moritake hurriedly walked into Okamura Ningji's office, and suddenly retracted his feet and said: "General, since yesterday, the Shina Army has stopped attacking!" ”

"Huh? Has the Chinese army stopped attacking? Okamura Ninji obviously didn't think that Zhang Mingyu would retreat, but he just wondered why he didn't attack.

"Yes! The Chinese army did stop attacking, but they did not retreat, but stood there and confronted us. Moritake Tanabe replied.

"What about the direction of Baoding? What is the movement of the Chinese army? Okamura asked.

"According to the news from General Okabe, after several failed attacks by the Shina Army, the offensive was stopped." Tanabe Moritake was also full of doubts: "What the hell are the people doing in China, they actually stopped attacking on all fronts, could it be some conspiracy." ”

"There is this possibility, our opponent is as cunning as the dirt eight roads!" Okamura Ninji nodded, and then as if he suddenly remembered something, he said to Tanabe Moritake: "Tanabe-kun, you immediately telegraph to all troops in the front line to strictly guard against the use of tunnel excavation tactics to carry out sneak attacks on the pillbox turrets. ”

"Tunneling?" Moritake Tanabe was puzzled.

"Tanabe-kun, have you forgotten that in the Battle of Nanjing, the Chinese Army successfully raided the division headquarters of the Sixth Division by tunneling? The commander of the division, Lieutenant General Tani Toshio, and all the members of the division and regimental headquarters were all broken, and this was the lesson of iron. We must not repeat the mistakes of the past! Okamura Ninji explained.

"Hay! Humble duty understood! Tanabe Moritake suddenly lowered his head, and then turned around and walked away.

Okamura Ningji, this old devil, is indeed cunning, if it weren't for the birth of rocket artillery this time, maybe Zhang Mingyu really ordered the troops to attack and destroy the devil's bunker and artillery tower by digging in the earth.

But with rocket artillery, the 42nd Army no longer needs to take an extremely slow earth excavation offensive, and when the rocket artillery is transported to the front line, it will directly bombard his son of a bitch.

……… At this time, Germany and Italy occupied almost all of Europe, and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany after carving up Poland with Germany.

At this point, Hitler, a war maniac, began to prepare for an attack and landed on the British Isles, while Stalin was busy with the Soviet army after the Great Purge of Zunton.

In Southeast Asia, the Pacific War had not yet broken out, because at this time, the Japanese army had reached a series of agreements with the United States, and the Japanese army did not launch an attack on the British Army in Southeast Asia, nor did the navy attack Pearl Harbor.

……… Three days later, the arsenal successfully developed and produced the first batch of rocket artillery, and Leonchev, the founder of the rocket artillery, named it the Qiqiu rocket artillery.

The first batch of rocket artillery produced was 150 mm caliber, with a six-tube ignition launch and a fuse line 20 meters long, so that the artillery could fire the rocket artillery at a distance of 20 meters, which could effectively avoid the damage to the artillery caused by the flames sprayed when the rocket artillery was launched.

This rocket launcher is a towed rocket launcher, which is similar to the German Type 41 towed artillery. In fact, rocket artillery has been researched and produced by Western powers during the First World War, but it was not officially produced to equip troops after the war.

However, since then, the research on the development of rocket artillery in various countries has not stopped, from the original black powder to the birth of a new type of rocket propellant.

The original black powder was handmade, the craftsmanship was very poor, and the black powder was easy to ignite, so scientists from various countries began to prepare to develop a more excellent propulsion power, and in this way the rocket propellant was born.

This time, the arsenal produced a total of five advanced rocket artillery, and Zhang Mingyu ordered the artillery to pull all of them to the guard regiment, intending to use actual combat to test whether the rocket artillery could be qualified for the role of a sharp weapon.

Guards regimental positions.

Xu Wen, the commander of the guard regiment, personally came to the artillery position, watched the artillery begin to prepare, and saw this kind of artillery for the first time, Xu Wen also felt fresh.

I saw that the overall gun body is about three meters long, the barrel is about 1.3 meters long, and the whole is green.

After about half an hour, the artillerymen were all ready, and the firing and shelling directions were demarcated by the gunners.

An artillery company commander jumped out of the tractor, strode towards Xu Wen, and said uprightly: "Sir! The artillery is ready and ready to fire! Please instruct! ”

"Good! Brother, it's up to you this time! Let's go! Xu Wen patted the artillery company commander on the shoulder and said.

"Yes!" Then the commander of the artillery company snapped to his feet, and then turned around and strode away.

At this time, all the officers and men of the third battalion and the first company had already received the order, and all entered the attack position, and only waited for the artillery bombardment to be over, and the commander would launch a charge against the position of the army as soon as the commander gave the order.

Soon, with the order of the artillery company commander, five rocket launchers were ignited at the same time, and the twenty-meter lead Zizi began to burn rapidly with green smoke.

Soon the burn came to an end, and the "boom boom" rocket launcher began to fire rapidly, and a shell was fired at intervals of two seconds, and the thick flames and smoke immediately surrounded the entire rocket artillery.

At this time, the artillery tower of the opposite side has fallen into a sea of fire, in the thick smoke, the rocket accurately hit the artillery tower of the army, the powerful explosive force will knock down the entire artillery tower, some pillboxes were directly lifted off the upper cover, and the ghost soldiers and puppet soldiers inside were directly burned alive by the scorching flames.

As the turret collapsed, a puff of smoke rose into the air along with the violent flames from the explosion of the rocket.

A huge mushroom cloud rose into the sky and did not disperse for a long time. The company commander picked up the ** sand submachine gun in his hand, stood up and roared angrily: "Brothers, follow me!" Kill! With that, he jumped out of the trench and took the lead in rushing towards the opposite side.

"Kill!" The soldiers in the trenches got up one after another, jumped out of the trench, and followed the company commander with the steel guns in their hands and began to charge, and the two hundred soldiers rushed towards the front mill town like a flood of digging.

Xu Wen saw the power of rocket artillery through the telescope, and immediately said excitedly: "Order the artillery to continue firing and hit hard!" Five minutes later, the whole regiment was loaded with bayonets! Offensive! ”

"Yes!" Shen Jun, the deputy head of the regiment, stood upright and immediately turned to leave.

In less than five minutes, the powerful firepower of five rocket launchers carried out a fierce bombardment of the entire Qianmotai town, and more than seventy percent of the pillboxes and artillery towers were destroyed.

Seeing the opportunity, Xu Wen immediately ordered: "Guard regiment, attack!" ”

The order was quickly passed on, and immediately after that, the shouts of the officers and men of the guard regiment sounded in the town of Qianmotai, and more than 3,000 officers and soldiers launched an attack on the town through the forward positions filled with gunsmoke.

An hour later, the guard regiment basically cleared the remnants of the devils in the town, eliminated a brigade of devils and a regiment of puppet troops, captured 27 devils and more than 300 puppet soldiers.

Xu Wen strode into the town surrounded by the deputy head and others, only to see that the town was full of scorched earth, because the people in the town had already fled, and those who did not escape were also persecuted by the devils, so the town at this time seemed extremely deserted.

Xu Wen saw that there were collapsed houses and charred beams everywhere, he turned to Hu Ming, the chief of staff, and said: "Chief of staff, after cleaning up the battlefield, you will immediately organize sappers to help the villagers build new houses, and when the villagers come back, they can have a place to live, as for the cost, I will apply to the headquarters." ”

"Yes!" Hu Minglang responded.

At this time, Ma Bukun, the commander of the third battalion, walked over with a dusty face, and when he saw Xu Wen, he hurriedly saluted: "Tuanza!" ”

"Well, the third battalion commander, your three battalions fought well! I'll ask the head office for a reward. Xu Wen nodded.

"Thank you! It was only the wise command of the regiment that the brothers could fight so smoothly. Ma Bukun said humbly.

"Okay, Lao Shen, hurry up and send a report to the headquarters! Let's just say that our guard regiment has successfully taken Qianmotai Town and annihilated more than 2,000 puppet soldiers! Xu Wen turned his head and said to Shen Jun, the deputy head of the regiment.

"Yes! Go for it now! Shen Jun snapped and straightened up, and then turned around and left.

(To be continued)