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[155] Cannon cluster

As the big action of the landing craft set off as the whole set off, at five o'clock, the 130mm cannon group deployed in Baifeng Town also began to shell Zhoushan Island.

In the artillery position in Baifeng Town, the 130mm caliber cannon roared and spewed out bright red flames and gray-yellow gunsmoke more than a meter long from the 7-meter-long barrel. The 130-mm cannons, with a total of 144 guns in six positions, were like a herd of wild horses that had just woken up in the morning, first sporadically exhilarating one by one, snorting like thunder to shake off the confusion of the night, and then the collective commotion of the horses, until the movement grew louder and louder, the horses began to run, and the earth shook.

From the very beginning, the six artillery positions were calibrated sporadically and the frequency of firing continued to increase until they reached a maximum frequency of 8 rounds per minute. In addition to the artillery calibration optical observation posts on both sides of the position and at the high ground in the rear, the artillery group was also calibrated for radio contact with the Bombardment No. 5, which had already been lifted into the air and hovering on the big island of Zhoushan.

As the cannon swarm began this increasingly intense warm-up movement, violent explosions and flames began to rise on the island, and mushroom clouds that swelled from small to large, and from black to white rose from the ground to the sky on the island.

Through constant aerial reconnaissance, China's East China Air Force has thoroughly penetrated the Zhoushan Island from the air, and a 130 mm caliber artillery shell weighing 50 kilograms has landed in the target area, the machine gun positions, artillery positions, mountainside gun positions, and garrison positions on the Zhoushan Island...... They all woke up!

The Kuomintang army had just gotten up at this time, and the soldiers had not eaten breakfast at the moment. The sudden explosion woke up all the garrisons on the entire Zhoushan island.

The soldiers guarding the machine gun positions on the beachhead were awakened and shivered in piles of three or five huddled in the sandbag fortifications.

"Brother, is this bombing or artillery in the Air Force?" A soldier asked aloud in fear.

An old soldier on the side, who was obviously experienced, leaned on the innermost ground of the sandbag and replied loudly, "Didn't you hear this ghost-like whistling!" It's a cannon shot! ”

A soldier lying on his side with a hunched body on the side joined in and shouted: "Where is the supply army to shoot the * artillery?" How can you hit so far! ”

The veteran was about to answer, and in the more and more dense cannon sound of more than a dozen per second, a 130mm caliber cannon shell whistled and landed a few meters in front of the sandbag bunker, accompanied by a loud sound that was enough to burst the eardrum, after the white smoke, the sandbag fortifications that were one meter high and half a meter thick were gone, or they were all over the ground, and the three corpses were torn apart in a blur of blood and flesh.

The 130mm cannon's anti-personnel blasting grenade has a radius of 30 meters, and those who are familiar with artillery know that the radius of destruction is an absolute field, in fact, if you stand 100 meters away, once you are hit by the shrapnel of this shell, you will still be killed on the spot. So what is the damage radius? To put it bluntly, as long as you are in this area, there is no possibility of surviving, and it is impossible to be injured and not killed. If the bunkers in this damage radius are not made of solid reinforced concrete, they are not covered, and dense bursts of shrapnel and lethal steel balls will penetrate those weak bunkers.

A good way here is to dig a trench, but recently it has been raining continuously, after the heavy rain is moderate rain, after the moderate rain is light rain, that is, when it does not stop, the water in the trench of Jiang Jun is almost up to the knees, and the beachhead is not dug at all, all pointing to this meter-high sandbag defense.

This situation was repeated repeatedly, machine gun positions were beaten to pieces, and the night defenders on duty in the beachhead fortifications suffered numerous casualties.

With the artillery cluster shelling the dense area of the garrison in the Zhoujiayuan area, the most tragic casualties of the Kuomintang army began to appear. The Zhoujiayuan area is close to the Jintang waterway, 20 kilometers across the bank is the Ningbo wharf, the beach is long and gentle, Shi Jue and Lao Jiang attach great importance to this place, and deploy more than 30,000 troops here, ready to use the tactics of the sea of people to drown the troops landing from here in one fell swoop.

The area of 12 square kilometers was densely guarded by more than 30,000 troops, so that the shelling was almost inconclusive, and countless unjust ghosts were sent to the western sky. Especially the shelling of the densely populated area of the garrison, once the cannon goes down, there are not many living people in an area almost the size of half a football field, and within the radius of thirty meters of the explosion center, it has become the center of death, and even the slightly intact corpse capital cannot be found. A single shell landed in a dense camp area, often killing or wounding seventy or eighty people.

When these soldiers of Chiang's army heard the shelling, they rushed out of their tents one after another, crowded around the camp in a chaotic manner, packed up their equipment, and suddenly a volley of shells came down, blowing up a large road of ruins long and wide, and the ground was full of stumps and flesh, and rivers of blood flowed like a river. With the rumbling explosions and cries of rows of artillery fire, this place has become a hell on earth.

These Chiang's soldiers, who had just woken up, began to bomb the camp, running in all directions, and a large number of soldiers rushed towards the mountains to the north. Most of the officers had no desire to restrain their troops at all, and fled with the soldiers up the hill.

The guards of Lao Shenghuan, commander of the 45th Independent Division of the Jiang Army, cried and shouted: "Division commander, can we run away? ”

"Nonsense, Lao Tzu is here to counter the landing, not to counter the shells. Evacuate! Mountain! ”

In the artillery emplacements halfway up the mountainside, the defenders had begun to waver, and they really saw the appearance of fiery explosions under the mountain, and the fights were accurate and orderly.

Qiu Changsheng, who was guarding the mountainside, was in charge of an American-made 105mm howitzer here, and his task was to blockade the beach with artillery fire. Hearing the shelling, he immediately climbed out of the tent on the hill and ran into the gun emplacement.

Qiu Changsheng was shocked by this shelling and swept away the confusion after getting out of bed, excitement and fear were intertwined with the nerves that hit him, he counted the density of artillery fire under the mountain on an empty stomach, and his legs and stomachs began to tremble.

"Company commander, the artillery fire is so fierce!"

Qiu Changsheng stared at the rumbling cannon and shouted hoarsely: "It's over, I can't hold it!" You see that this platoon of 12 guns is being pushed by a team of 100 meters, which shows that the artillery bombardment of the supply army is coming from the other side of the sea, and this must be a cannon cannon with a range of 30 kilometers! ”

At that time, in China, guns with a caliber of more than 100mm were shocked, and many soldiers called them giant cannons. Hearing Qiu Changsheng say this, the soldier became even more frightened and asked, "Company commander, will we be bombarded on the mountain?" ”

Qiu Changsheng didn't know the bottom in his heart, he continued to use words to relieve his fear and pressure: "These 12 platoon guns of a team are bombarding everywhere, such an artillery density, I think there are at least ten teams and 100 giant cannons for the supply army!" No, maybe two hundred! There is no need to land like this, as long as there are enough shells and keep bombing, we will all die here......"

The Kuomintang soldiers on the gun emplacements were frightened when they heard what he said, and asked one after another: "Company commander, don't the supply troops land and keep bombing like this?" ”

Qiu Changsheng was also asking himself the same question, when did the supply army become so wealthy, doesn't this artillery fire all over the place need money? It's been almost half an hour of bombing, hasn't the landing force appeared yet? ”

Because of the rain, the sky was just a little dark at this time, and the crazy artillery fire was like a terrifying ghost and god shrouded the island. Qiu Changsheng couldn't see the situation at sea. He estimated that the abusive artillery fire under the mountain was bombarded like this, and the casualties would be at least more than 5,000 people.

The most critical point is that Qiu Changsheng found that the shelled people under the mountain were the fortifications and pillboxes built after the troops fled to Zhoushan, as well as the strongholds and camps of various troops. He felt more and more that something was wrong in his heart, did the supply army have a detailed deployment map? At this speed of roll call, wouldn't it be the next time to start bombarding the mountain?

As if to verify his conjecture, the shelling began to extend to the foot of the mountain, and Qiu Changsheng didn't know where the inspiration came from, and shouted: "Brothers, run!" ”

After saying that, he was the first to climb up the mountain, and he knew that as long as he crossed the mountain, he would be safe.