21 Sullen thunder
In Fengtian City, in the Jiliao Governor's Mansion of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Nu was holding the telegram from within the Wang family, and was already stunned by the news transmitted inside. He thought that he had come to Jiliao to come to a comfortable paradise, but he didn't expect that this was a hell that was even more terrifying than everyone assumed.
"Check it out for me! Check it out for me! Where did all that ammunition go! Everyone involved gives me control! The king slapped the table angrily and shouted angrily to some of his henchmen.
How did the newly appointed Governor of Jiliao know how deep this troubled water was near Fengtian City? How many predecessors have moved this cake, and how many enemies are coveting this small place.
He knew that he probably couldn't keep his position, but he was more worried about whether the land under his feet could be kept - even if the corrupt officials and corrupt officials were in the East Window incident, they would just be corrupt officials, but if they became generals who lost their land, it would really be a stench for 10,000 years.
He didn't know exactly what kind of problem he was facing, so he had to ask his men to find out how much ammunition was missing from the front line. But how to deal with the next problem and how to solve it, he Wang Fu is really not very clear.
"Besides, didn't I send someone to keep an eye on those arms depots? Why didn't you report it to me? Why not escalate? At this time, although it is useless to pursue the problem, Wang Nu still wants to know why the subordinates he sent out have concealed such an important matter.
"This ......" The officers around Wang Nu also had constipated expressions on their faces, who would have thought that the incident would happen so quickly and make them so unprepared? Even among these officers, there are people who hold others to report truthfully, and they don't need to mess around with their own thoughts.
The Chin Cha from Jingshi and other investigators are still on their way. If these people come to Mukden, everyone in the office of the Governor's Mansion in Mukden will be investigated, and the lightest one may be sent to the rubber plantations of Burma to scrape rubber trees for the empire.
But these people don't know that the fate that awaits them is not much better than going to a rubber plantation.
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At this time, near the Jiliao front line of the Jin State, as the most capable general in the Jin State, the old general Todeltay put down the binoculars in his hand, and the hypocritical peace between the Ming Dynasty and the Jin State lasted for several years, and even in the past three years, the two sides have not even let go of a single shot. Today, he will single-handedly break this long-lost tranquility and kindle the flames of war once again.
"Prepare the secret weapons of the Japanese, adjust them, and open fire on time at 9 o'clock......" He glanced at the pocket watch on his chest, and then ordered his subordinates: "After hearing the sound of artillery, the three armies will move forward and kill the enemy bravely, and they are not allowed to take half a step back without an order!" ”
Behind him, a long barrel is being erected, these cannons with extremely slender barrels have an astonishing 350 mm caliber, and even more terrifying because of technological innovations, so that these behemoths that apply French artillery technology have an unprecedented terrible range of 50 kilometers.
In fact, if the accuracy of the fire is not guaranteed, these cannons can even reach a distance of nearly 100 kilometers. However, this time, it was used by the Jin State to attack several field ammunition depots close to the front line of the Ming Dynasty, and the accuracy of the artillery bombardment must be guaranteed.
With an order, these cannons, guided by the correction aircraft piloted by the Japanese, began to shell the Jiliao defense line of the Ming Dynasty.
The experience of previous wars, including the Franco-Prussian War and later the Anglo-American War, proved that heavy artillery was absolutely indispensable for attacking fortified trenches. Therefore, Japan introduced French artillery technology, and secretly developed a giant cannon in 1819, which used a 350 mm caliber and was named after Amaterasu, which was called "Amaterasu Cannon" by the Japanese Army. With a barrel length of more than 25 meters and a weight of 170 tons with a gun truck, it can fire nearly 600 kilograms of shells to targets up to 50 kilometers away. Each shell weighs nearly 400 kilograms of ******, and it takes more than 400 gunners to work together to fire a second shell in an hour.
What is even more desperate is that because this kind of cannon will produce a huge recoil force when firing, it is necessary to pour a solid launch base several meters deep with cement in advance as a firing position to ensure the stability of its firing - and then blow up this cement foundation when moving...... Therefore, it would take more than 9 hours to place this concrete gun emplacement, so there was no way to quickly follow the troops.
In World War I, the largest naval gun caliber was the Queen Elizabeth-class 381 mm gun, but it was still inferior to the Grand Berta gun.
In the early days of the German attack on the fortress of Liege, the light field artillery tickled the reinforced concrete underground fortifications of Liege, and instead killed and wounded a large number of fighters. I had to wait for the cannon to arrive.
When the cannons fired, the Japanese gunners fell to the ground, covered their eyes, ears and mouths with various thick protective measures, and used wires to control the launch switch at a distance of more than 300 meters from the gun position, firing the four cannons with ultra-long range.
"Boom!" After a loud bang, the shells flew towards the positions of the Ming Dynasty in the distance, completely ending the armistice that had been near the Line of Actual Control between the two sides for several years. And at the same time that the mountains shook with this loud noise, the officials of the Ming Dynasty in Fengtian City were still busy with the lost ammunition and all kinds of trivial matters.
Sitting in his office, Wang Nu, who was trying to summarize the stolen ammunition as clearly as possible, couldn't help frowning when he heard the sound of thunder in the sky. Before he could figure out what was going on, the phone on the desk rang.
"Hello?" He grabbed the phone in front of him and fed it impatiently. The muffled thunderous voice on the phone was also echoing, but it was much louder than what was heard in Fengtian City.
But before he could ask where the other party was, the frightened voice on the other side had already taken the lead in shouting: "Hey? Hey, hey? Mukden Governor's Palace? I am the command post of the front-line defenders...... Jin Guo is shelling Mukden defensive positions! They are shelling defensive positions outside the city! ”