And Wang Shizhen, who witnessed the shelling scene of Miss 75, was also frightened, he was born as an artilleryman, so he naturally knew what the performance of the field guns in the world, at least the Qing army had been equipped before, and a direct comparison could understand how terrible Miss 75 was.

"Krupp's 75mm camp gun can fire up to 3 shells a minute, and judging from the shelling just now, this new field gun can fire one shell in almost two seconds, and this rate of fire is simply ", Wang Shizhen unconsciously wiped a cold sweat, but the more shocked he was, "In other words, this kind of field artillery is equivalent to the firepower of ten 'old-fashioned' field guns?" ”

As an artillery officer, Wang Shizhen clearly knows that the larger the corps fights, the greater the impact of the strength of the heavy firepower, 36 of these so-called "Miss 75" is equivalent to 360 old-fashioned field guns, which is equivalent to the heavy firepower of 10 Japanese full-fledged divisions. It's like killing quails with a knife! The Datong Party is really wealthy!

If it is just that the weapons are powerful, it is not once or twice that ancient China lost to the barbarians whose weapons were inferior to their own, and the weapons used by many Qing troops who were defeated during the Sino-Japanese War were not lagging behind the Japanese army. However, as a veteran artilleryman, Wang Shizhen profoundly realized the excellent quality of the rebel artillerymen from some details.

Not to mention anything else, the artillery skills alone made him breathtaking, Miss 75 was able to hit 20 miles away by their excellent performance, but the shelling can accurately fall into the Japanese camp without deflecting, which reflects the superb artillery skills of the rebel artillery, it is estimated that if you pick one out at random, you can be called a sharpshooter in the artillery team of the Qing army.

The weapons are powerful, and the people are also awesome, Wang Shizhen finally fully realized how powerful the rebel army is, but it is ridiculous that he actually wanted to provoke Yuan Shikai to fight against him before, it is simply too stupid, "With such a powerful violence to suppress the field, even if the Datong Party implements real tyranny and even forces the world to rebel, there is nothing to be afraid of, right?" ”

Wang Shizhen, a bystander, was so shocked, not to mention the devils who were directly bathed in the rain of bullets, the shells that fell like raindrops bombarded the camp temporarily built by the Japanese army, and countless devils cried and ran everywhere, but they couldn't find a place to hide, so they could only desperately hand over their fate to God

In this shelling, the backwardness of the layout of the Japanese camp was exposed, and the wooden temporary fence could only resist the low-velocity shrapnel released after the explosion of the shrapnel, but it could not stop the kinetic energy of the blasting bullet was much greater (the number of shrapnel of the blasting shell was smaller, but because the charge was much larger, the kinetic energy and lethality of a single shrapnel could be compared with that of a shrapnel). Even a lot of shredded wood chips also caused secondary damage to the Japanese officers and soldiers who were scurrying around, and the overly compact barracks greatly increased the efficiency of the enemy's artillery bombardment, and at the same time caused many chaotic soldiers to trample on each other, injured, and even killed.

However, I don't know if the bad guys are very tough, but Katsura Taro, the division commander, was unscathed in this shelling, and he even put on a commanding appearance and pretended to be forced. However, after the shelling was over, after his subordinates counted the losses, he could no longer maintain his composure.

"What? The casualties were so large? Katsura Taro looked at the statistical report in disbelief, 1,322 people were killed, 965 were seriously injured, and 5,786 were slightly injured, and the loss of the equivalent of nearly two infantry wings at once was just because of a round of shelling that lasted less than 3 minutes, which really made him unbelievable. For the 3rd Division, which had already suffered heavy losses in the previous attack, the casualties of more than 8,000 were really unbearable, although not all the elite soldiers were killed and wounded this time, but it was enough to make the situation of the 3rd Division even worse.

For a moment, Katsura Taro only felt that his eyes were black. However, he still barely pulled himself together and comforted himself, saying, "Fortunately, the cavalry was sent out to guard, and the losses were somewhat reduced." ”

But after the cavalry brigade hurried back to the camp, it brought a new bad news, and the newly formed puppet cavalry had all run away!

It turned out that although the cavalry sent out to be in charge of the guard was fortunate to be spared from the shelling, the earth-shattering shelling still caused a huge shock to them.

The Japanese officers sent by Katsura Taro could only manage to the squadron level, and it was only three days later, which was far from enough to control the troops, and when the Japanese army was strong, the Japanese officers could still hold the field with a false tiger, and after the third division suffered heavy setbacks one after another, it was not so easy to make those puppet troops honest and obedient.

In the end, nearly half of the puppet army chose to go north to Heilongjiang General Enze, of course, this is because Heilongjiang is adjacent to Tsarist Russia, and there is hope to get assistance from Tsarist Russia.

More than a third of the puppet army deserted en masse, and most of them later became bandits and horse bandits, and due to the vast and sparsely populated northeast, they were not completely wiped out until three years later.

There were also hundreds of cavalrymen who had hated the life of the rootless Ping in the past few days, and had seen with their own eyes the incomparable strength of the rebel army, among which those who were neither from the Eight Banners nobles nor had done anything to hurt the heavens and reason simply returned to Mukden and surrendered

No matter what choice those puppet soldiers made, the Japanese officers who were sent to command them all suffered the same fate, and Katsura Taro sent those 16 people over to completely control this cavalry for his own use, but he didn't expect that the result was "stealing chickens and rice", and his face turned black with anger

At the beginning, none of the puppet soldiers who were eliminated and reduced to horsemen and coolies were left in the Japanese army camp because they were left behind, but after this incident, Katsura Taro obviously could not have any trust in them, coupled with the increasing scarcity of supplies, these puppet soldiers were almost used as slaves by the Japanese, most of them were tortured to death, and only a small number escaped

Even Iktanga, who was once considered by Katsura Taro to have great political value, was thrown aside by him and ignored, but it is no wonder that the Third Division is now difficult to protect itself, where does Katsura Taro still have the heart to care about Iktanga, a general? (To be continued.) )