The rumbling cannon sound completely stopped in the second half of the night, which made the Japanese troops in Kagoshima secretly breathe a sigh of relief, the 75mm infantry gun was not a terrible weapon in the first place, compared to the Japanese naval guns, the 75mm infantry gun was not ranked at all. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

But because the navy wanted to use the limited ammunition in more important places, it had to ignore the loss of infantry.

Fortunately, the Chinese shelling did not have a clear purpose, and their shelling was more like a demonstration to the Japanese army, hoping to tell the Japanese army in Kagoshima in this way that the Chinese were capable of hitting any corner of Kagoshima.

In terms of psychological warfare alone, the Chinese were undoubtedly successful in doing so, and this shelling did bring a lot of psychological burden to the Japanese army.

From a tactical point of view, however, the shelling basically did not produce any decent results, and during the four hours of shelling, the 64 75-mm infantry guns fired a total of almost 15,000 shells, which were basically two-thirds of the stock of shells of the 51st Division.

If the rear troops need artillery support, it is likely that the artillery will have the same worries as the Japanese navy.

What is even worse is that after 15,000 shells were fired at the Japanese position, the results produced were very speechless, and about 400 Japanese soldiers were directly killed, and the Japanese troops affected by the explosion of the shells were about less than 2,000 people, and all the casualties added up to less than 2,050 people, and on average, for every Japanese soldier killed or wounded, it was necessary to use about six shells.

If it is the lethality of the rifle, this ratio is completely acceptable, but the artillery has the results of the infantry, this is more ......

In addition, it blew up a lot of houses, and even caused a fire in Kagoshima City, which may be considered a bonus, and the fire caused by the shelling forced the Japanese soldiers who were hiding in the houses to leave the houses and find a safer place to continue hiding.

As for fighting fires, the Japanese army did not have the heart to fight fires, the black lights were blind, all wooden houses, the speed of fighting fires was not as fast as the speed of burning, besides, the Chinese from time to time came a few more shells, maybe this side just extinguished the fire, that side of the shells came again, in the end it was a waste of work, maybe there may be unnecessary casualties to the troops.

Anyway, there are basically no civilians in Kagoshima City, and all those who can walk are gone, and those who can't go are helpless. Most of the people who remained were elderly people with limited mobility, and despite the lack of ammunition for the Japanese troops, they gave each of these old men a grenade, and told them to pull the grenade as soon as the enemy entered the house, and do their last bit for the empire.

Some of these elderly people with limited mobility, as well as some young people who were reluctant to leave their hometowns, died in the bombing, and the rest stayed on the ruins in some panic, and the grenades issued to them by the Japanese army have long been thrown into the unknown where?

And now, they have a faint regret in their hearts, in this war, Japan is completely at a disadvantage, they had a chance to survive, but because of the reluctance in their hearts and buried their fate here, even if they regret it, they have no way to leave here.

Therefore, under the persuasion of some Japanese soldiers, these remaining Japanese civilians went crazy to find their lost grenades in the ruins, and they were already in despair, and they no longer had any belief in life and death at the moment, they only wanted to be able to pull a few Chinese on their backs.

At the same time, on the sea, Heihachiro Togo couldn't close his eyes for a long time, standing on the bridge and looking up at Kagoshima, which was burning with fire, and his heart was full of emotion.

Now that even the capital of Kagoshima Prefecture is in the midst of war, what about his hometown, the Satsuma Domain, which also belongs to Kagoshima? Could it be worse than the situation here?

Once upon a time, Heihachiro Togo even wanted to directly order the fleet to open fire directly, killing the enemy's artillery in one fell swoop, so that they could no longer attack Kagoshima.

But as soon as this idea was born, it was quickly suppressed by a deep sense of reason, because the Chinese bombed continuously for such a long time, but the artillery never changed positions, which was a very abnormal move.

Although Heihachiro Togo is a navy, he also has some understanding of artillery operations, and he knows very well that when artillery is fighting, it must always be ready to change positions, and theoretically, there is a time limit for changing positions, and once this time is exceeded, regardless of whether the enemy launches a counterattack or not, it must change positions.

During the day, this time will be a little longer, and if you are sure that the opponent has no artillery, and your own side has an absolute advantage, you can be sure enough to ensure that the artillery will not be found by the enemy, and you can also do not need to change positions.

But at night, whether the enemy returned fire or not, the artillery had to change positions frequently.

Because of the night artillery, there is no need for the enemy to go to great lengths to find your artillery position, only need to quickly determine your position by the fire when firing the shell, at this time as long as the enemy only has even one artillery, after locking the target, there will be a great chance of directly killing an entire artillery position.

But the Chinese did the opposite, the artillery positions were divided into four, each with about a dozen guns, and these positions were fought from beginning to end, always maintaining a frequency of about one shell a minute, and there was no intention of changing positions at all.

This aroused the suspicion of Togo Heihachiro, and according to Togo Heihachiro's knowledge of the Chinese Army, he knew that they had at least one artillery regiment in one division, and this artillery regiment had about four battalions, two of which were equipped with 75 mm infantry guns (field guns) and 105 mm howitzers.

Moreover, in its military-level units, it is equipped with two mixed regiments equipped with 32 cannon howitzers of 155 mm and 203 mm, and Togo Heihachiro does not know if this heavy artillery regiment affiliated with the military headquarters is also here.

If they are also here, then it is quite possible that thirty-two battalions of 105-mm howitzers and sixty-four regiments of 155-mm and 203-mm cannon howitzers were hidden on the opposite side, and what was the purpose of hiding these ninety-six heavy guns? The answer is self-explanatory.

The Chinese would never do this to save shells, and in Togo Heihachiro's consciousness, the Chinese never seemed to know what saving was.

And these artillery pieces are just directly subordinate units to the artillery unit, which is very puzzling to Togo Heihachiro, and the Chinese dismantle the artillery in pieces, if they only split it according to the caliber, it can be understood.

But the Chinese's approach is difficult to understand, for example, their grassroots units are also equipped with artillery, this kind of artillery is listed as fire support artillery, mainly 37 mm and 75 mm caliber, these guns are issued to the company and battalion level combat units, but in order to facilitate portability, most of the company-level units are equipped with 37 mm guns, only the battalion and regiment level will be equipped with 75 mm guns.

The brigade-level units have a special artillery battalion, which is also equipped with 75 mm caliber artillery, and divisional units are not equipped with separate artillery, because from this level their artillery is all under the artillery unit, and from this level, the artillery also begins to be equipped with large-caliber heavy artillery.

At this time, it seems somewhat incomprehensible to be equipped with 75 mm guns, but the other battalion is equipped with 32 105 howitzers, which seems to be a reasonable combination, and the intensity of fire can be guaranteed from far and near.

And what Togo Heihachiro is most worried about is that once they open fire, although there is a high probability that they will take out the Chinese artillery positions, but at this time, it is very likely that the ninety-six heavy artillery hidden in the dark will quickly lock on to them, and then before their second round of attacks begins, ninety-six shells will be fired over in an instant.

Although 105 mm and 155 mm shells are a little weak for warships, 203 mm guns, even warships, are leisurely, not to mention nearly a hundred artillery salvos? If this is true, I am afraid that these nine warships of his will have to kneel in one round.

So Togo Heihachiro finally resisted firing and just sent someone ashore to inquire about the casualties on the ground, and the answer he got was also to make Togo Heihachiro breathe a sigh of relief, although the artillery fire was very fierce, but the casualties were not serious, and they were still within the acceptable range.

"Your Excellency, it seems that we have noticed something unusual." Togo Heihachiro's former staff officer gently walked behind Togo Heihachiro and said in a low voice.

"Anomalies?" Heihachiro Togo frowned slightly, as if there was nothing abnormal, could it be that he missed something? Immediately, he looked at Kagoshima City, which was burning with a raging fire.

"Yes, it's just a suspicion, but at the moment there is not enough evidence to prove it."

"Tell me about it!" The worry in Togo Heihachiro's heart is even stronger, he still knows his former staff officer very well, and he is very steady, as long as he speaks, he will definitely be sure enough to prove what he said, even if there is no evidence, it will also be proved afterwards.

"According to the lookout's report, at least sixty artillery pieces were fired from the enemy's firing positions that he saw, and the trajectory testified to this, but according to observations, it appeared that only about fifty shells were found to have exploded on the ground, and this was the case with each launch.

I asked the lookouts of the other warships, and they didn't pay much attention to this, but after recalling it, it seemed that this was really the case. And the other soldiers also feel this way, and their subordinates have already sent people to the land to seek evidence, and it is estimated that they will get a reply soon. ”