"It's a little thing," Liu Duoquan said with a smile, "you are guests, what are you building a house for? Just stay in the city, and we'll give you some barracks. ”

"No, no," Han Xing quickly rejected him, "The brothers are used to living in the wilderness, and it is inconvenient to live in the county. Besides, the water can't overflow the bridge, and it can't drive you all away, so we live in your house. That's it! ”

"That's fine," Liu Duoquan said embarrassedly, "you will be wronged." ”

Han Xing said again: "It's just that we have just arrived, and we have to trouble you with the timber, purlins, straw and other materials for building the house." ”

"That's easy to say," Liu Duoquan said generously, "I'll call the magistrate of Fengxin County to prepare it for you." ”

"Thank you so much!" Han Xing said happily.

Liu Duoquan was happy in his heart, and said to Han Xing: "Since we are all friendly troops, then please visit my position, and if there is anything wrong, I can correct it." ”

Han Xing hurriedly said modestly: "I can't talk about correction, I can't talk about correction, but don't mention correction." You're all regular troops, and we're a local ragtag army at best. We are here to learn, and we need to learn some knowledge of positional warfare from Commander Liu. ”

Like good friends, the two walked out of the gate of the headquarters hand in hand to see the troops and some fortifications at the front.

At this time, there was no jeep, and a foreign sedan drove over, Liu Duoquan stretched out his hand and asked Han Xing to invite him first. Of course, Han Xing didn't dare to make a mistake, so he asked Commander Liu to invite first, but it turned out that Liu Duoquan got into the car first, and Han Xing followed closely and got into the car. Liu Duoquan's guard troops followed, and then Han Xing's command car, and Zhang Xiaosan's guards lined up behind.

A convoy headed for the positions of the 49th Army.

The convoy drove out a short distance and arrived at Beiguan, Fengxin County, the position of the artillery regiment of the 49th Army. After the car stopped, the commander of the artillery regiment immediately ran over, saluted Liu Duoquan, and then reported: "Wang Dawu, commander of the 49th Army Artillery Independent Regiment, reports to you. ”

Liu Duoquan nodded, and said to Wang Dawu: "You just report the situation of the artillery regiment, right?" ”

Wang Dawu immediately and fluently reported: "The artillery regiment has three battalions, and we have 24 Japanese Type 94 75mm mountain guns and 14 Soviet ZIS-3 76mm field guns, which are the best howitzers in China at present." The artillery regiment would like to ask the commander to review it—"

As he spoke, Wang Dawu stretched out his hand and asked Commander Liu and Han Xing to visit and guide.

Han Xing nodded and said to Liu Duoquan, "Commander Liu, I just want to learn it." Hou Dashan, come down-"

Hou Da immediately climbed down from the car, saluted Han Xing and said, "Report to Commander Han, please instruct." ”

Han Xing introduced Liu Duoquan and said: "This is our original artillery regiment commander, although it is also called an artillery regiment, but it is not as much as your artillery, and it is not as good as your artillery. ”

The peers are enemies, I heard that they are also the commander of the artillery regiment, this Wang Dawu and Hou Dashan glanced at each other, big eyes to big eyes, and stared at each other, and they were all energetic.

At this time, the artillery regiment was training, the Japanese Type 94 75mm mountain gun, each gun was operated by 6 people, one aiming, one operator, one gunner, one gunner, and two ammunition men. There are also two keepers who are responsible for feeding the six animals, and the mountain cannons are mainly dismantled and carried by these animals. The total weight of this mountain gun was 536 kg.

Soviet-made ZIS-3 type 76-mm field guns, each gun operated with 8 people, one sighter, one operator, one gunner, one squad leader, four ammunition men. This gun is much heavier than the Japanese Type 94 gun, with a total weight of 1.15 tons in combat condition, and is specially towed by a car. There is a driver and a co-driver on board, so the whole class is 10 people.

Liu Duoquan shouted to Wang Dawu: "Just talk about it, don't talk about it, don't talk about fake tricks, shoot a few shots, and tell the Southern Expeditionary Army to take a look." I heard that the artillery of the Southern Expeditionary Army was very good, and I also gave guidance. ”

Liu Duoquan said that he was asking the Southern Expeditionary Army to guide, which was really a provocative tone.

Wang Dawu comprehended and said to a Soviet-made 76-mm field gun: "Squad Leader Li, take a shot, the Southern Expeditionary Army is full of sharpshooters." It just so happened that they were all in front of us, and we didn't play well, so we asked them to give them guidance. ”

Squad Leader Li roared: "Yes, let the Southern Expeditionary Army give guidance." ”

Look, their arrogant spirit, their indulgent language, is completely a posture of showing off force. The first shot is released, just to give you a color to see, if you are not convinced, then you will also shoot a shot.

Han Xing couldn't hear it, so he glanced at Hou Dashan. Hou Dashan snorted and tilted his head, as if he was trying to hold his breath, but in fact, his anger was rising. Okay, you 49th Army, isn't this burying people, is it bullying me Hou Dashan, I don't know if my Ma Wangye has three eyes.

Of course, Liu Duoquan also saw these open and secret battles, and was secretly happy in his heart. That's what he wants.

About 8 kilometers ahead, there is a slope of about 45 degrees, on which a white circle of about 50 meters is drawn with lime, which is the bull's-eye. If you can hit anywhere in the bull's-eye, that's pretty good.

This means that your time is 50 meters off. According to the howitzer's killing radius of 70 meters, if you hit this one, the enemy will not run.

Of course, there is also a 30-meter bullseye and a 10-meter bullseye not far away, which are almost invisible to the naked eye and can only be seen with the help of a telescope. Compared to the 50-meter white circle next to it, which was messed up, it was very smooth, and it seemed that it was just a posturing, and no one touched the two bullseyes.

The Li squad leader was very bullish and shouted loudly: "Load the grenade-" A loader quickly filled a 6.2-kilogram high-explosive bomb into the chamber of the gun.

"Aim at the aim," Squad Leader Li looked at the binoculars, then visually inspected it again, and shouted loudly, "Direction, 11:36, altitude 44 degrees." Prepare - Put. ”

Artillery aiming, it is not so simple, the general artillery range is more than one or twenty kilometers, even this kind of Soviet-style artillery, the range is also 12 kilometers. The target is not at all within the reach of the naked eye.

The general procedure should be that the infantry in the front, when they detect the target, notify the artillery of the coordinates of the shot. The artillery adjusts the barrel according to the design coordinates provided by the infantry and fires a few rounds first. The infantry further observed the landing point of the shells, corrected the coordinates again, and notified the artillerymen. The artillery fired again until the target was knocked out.

Han Xingxin said, this Li squad leader is a good cow, the coordinates of his artillery, the coordinates of the target, the formula of the ballistic characteristics, and then calculate the firing azimuth, the height and elevation angle of the artillery, the amount of charge, etc., it seems that he has long been familiar with this set.

The operator is quickly adjusting the firing azimuth and elevation angle of the gun according to the instructions of the sight. The aimer finished shouting, he finished the operation, and as soon as he left the gun, the gunner quickly pulled the rope of the gun.

With a "bang", there was a sound of cannon discharge, and a black projectile flew towards the target.

"Boom-" with an explosion in the distance. The grenade landed accurately in the bull's-eye, raising a cloud of mud and smoke.

There was a cheer from the position.

This squad leader Li looked at Hou Dashan with an arrogant face.

Wang Dawu was even more hateful, and directly said the words to Hou Dashan's face: "Commander Hou, our artillery is not good, please give me some advice." You name a good experience, and we can learn from it. ”

Hou Dashan's nose snorted again, and he thought, what's the big deal about this, you don't have to test the gun, it's because your cannon is set up here, and you already know the coordinates of this place and the coordinates of the target. At this time, it's nonsense to say anything, and if you want to prove your strength, it's to make them see it.

Hou Dashan said unhurriedly: "Good fight, good fight, our Southern Expeditionary Army didn't fight well without your artillery!" However, your target is a little bigger. I see, there is a small target next to it, or I'll try it and see how much it is missing. ”

Wang Dawu laughed when he heard this, and said, "I said Captain Hou, is it a little too big." It's good for us to draw this little target, that's just to draw and play, our people have never hit it, or else, you can shoot it and see? ”

Hou Dashan was modest at this time, and said embarrassedly: "I'm just talking casually, in fact, whether I can fight or not, I don't know at all in my heart." If we can't fight, won't we be ashamed of the Southern Expeditionary Army in vain? ”

The more Hou Dashan said this, the more Wang Dawu wanted to see Hou Dashan's joke: "The cowhide is not blown, Mount Tai is not a base, and the train is not pushed." It's okay to try a shot, but it's normal if you can't hit it, brothers, isn't it-"

As soon as Wang Dawu was agitated, his brothers were in the mood, and of course they all shouted at him, "Try it with a shot!" "It's not bragging!" "Don't give us brethren these more edges. Do we want to see what you really do? ”

At this time, Liu Zhiyuan was also dissatisfied with Hou Dashan: "If you can't do it, if you can't do it, don't embarrass us for the Southern Expeditionary Army." ”

Han Xing also stimulated Hou Dashan and said, "Why are you talking so nonsense!" If it doesn't work, just hide for me, and don't hang out naked—it's okay to find trouble. ”

At this time, Hou Dashan really didn't work anymore, so he touched his head and said embarrassedly: "Oh, you guys are forcing ducks to put on the shelves." Okay, I'll be relieved, brothers, don't laugh at me, whether you're fighting or not! ”

As he spoke, he approached the Soviet-made 76 mm field gun, looked here, touched there, shook his head vigorously, and said: "Don't say that this cannon has really not been fired, which brother came over and helped me adjust the firing azimuth and high and low elevation angles?" ”

This Li squad leader came over and said, "I'll transfer it to you!" With that, he sat down on the gun position.

"Also, which brother is going to load me with a cannonball?"

Another brother came and helped load the cannonballs.

Hou Dashan looked at the target in the distance with the pergola, shook his head, and said to Squad Leader Li: "Please also ask Squad Leader Li to borrow me a telescope to use." ”

Squad Leader Li took off the telescope and handed it to Hou Dashan.

Hou Dashan looked at the target again, then looked at it with a telescope, quietly calculated a shot Zhuyuan, and then shouted loudly: "Direction, 11 o'clock 375, altitude 44 degrees." Prepare - Put. ”

The gunner quickly pulled the rope.

With a bang, a black projectile burst out, slicing across the blue sky, and then approached the target.

With a "boom-" sound, the shell exploded, and the projectile hit the bull's-eye exactly 30 meters away, causing a cloud of dirt and a cloud of gunsmoke.