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Chapter 1347 Two weapons

Just as the fire in Sanhe County was raging and the Japanese troops in the county were crashing like headless flies, Lieutenant General Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu, commander of the 24th Division of the Japanese division and regimental headquarters in Xitaiping Village, also received an urgent report and quickly dispatched two wings of the 32nd and 89th and three Manchurian divisions north to support. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu is also regarded as an outlier in the rapid promotion of the Japanese army, last year's 226 mutiny, he was just promoted to major general, as the commander of the *** infantry brigade, this year the base camp has expanded the division to meet the needs of China's war, he and Honma Masaharu, Ishikawa Koichi, was quickly promoted to lieutenant general, as a prominent division commander.

Heiyan Yoshikatsu's policy of leading the troops is not to seek merit but to seek no fault, and the battle is peaceful and stable, so in the past few days of operations, he is not greedy for merit, steady and steady, step by step to force Sanhe County, with the 20th Division and the 27th Division to eliminate the squadron stationed in the south of Sanhe City, and then quickly retreated, naturally planning not to directly confront the Anjia Army, and to preserve the strength of the division is the best policy.

Now that he heard that the front line was fighting lively, and the artillery fire of the squadron was suppressed by the artillery wing of the 3rd Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery, the 110th Division, and the 116th Division, Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu felt that he was foolproof, and the time for the battle had come, so he sent troops to pick the fruits of victory.

But even so, he left a wing to protect his own safety, and he would never put himself and the division headquarters in danger easily.

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Listening to the Japanese army's overwhelming artillery offensive, Hu Jialin, who was in the temporary headquarters of the main hall of Lingshan Temple, looked as usual, and even ignored the fact that the horse lantern on the table was shattered and the glass shield was extinguished, and he personally dictated the order to the communications staff officer:

"All the officers and men of the 170th Division, the Corps Headquarters, the 17th Army Headquarters and the *** Division, the 17th Division, and the 40th Division have fallen into a desperate situation. Commander: Hu Jialin. ”

Zhang Chengzhu on the side sighed: "The 170th Division is a mixture of the engineer regiment and the new regiment, and the entire division only has 50 mortars combined. ”

Huang Zhi said helplessly: "At this time, only dead horses are regarded as live horse doctors, it really can't be done, we have all the shells, try to rush the iron barrel array laid by the Japanese army, if we can't rush down, we can only leave everything behind, drill into this continuous mountain to fight guerrilla ......"

Huang Zhi's words caused everyone to laugh bitterly, everyone knows what Huang Zhi means by leaving everything behind, not only ammunition and food supplies cannot be taken away, it is estimated that even the wounded and sick have no time to collect and rescue, under the encirclement and interception of the Japanese army, no one can predict how difficult it is to fight guerrilla warfare in the unfamiliar mountainous areas.

The staff officers took action one after another, drawing up various contingency plans, striving to take into account all the most difficult situations and to achieve the minimum losses in the event of a retreat.

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During the Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai in 32 years, Sui Kang, who was the colonel of the Engineer Regiment of the First Division, was an old brother who came out of the Third Company of Engineers. Since he was ordered to form the 170th Division last month, Sui Kang has been worried about the combat strength of his division.

However, Sui Kang did not rely on the fact that he was an old man in An Jiajun, so he asked An Yi and Hu Jialin for guns and cannons, and he was good at blasting and determined to solve these problems by himself. Since the unit was expanded from the engineer regiment, the last thing the 170th Division lacked was all kinds of explosives, so Sui Kang started to think about it.

Sui Kang had long heard that the Syrian Arsenal produced an anti-tank weapon called a rocket launcher, which was somewhat similar to the fireworks set off at festivals, so he wondered whether he could produce and install it on his own. He called Chang Baofang, the superintendent of the military station in Syria, Hu Zhijie, deputy director of the Ordnance Research Institute, and other old brothers to inquire about the situation, and soon understood the principle of this weapon and quickly had an idea.

In Suikang's view, the rocket is nothing more than relying on the projectile itself to spew gunpowder gas to produce a reaction force to push the projectile forward, and the demand for the gun barrel is not large, as long as a few guide rails are designed to determine the direction of shooting.

Sui Kang did it when he thought of it, and immediately worked with the officer in charge of quartermaster logistics in the division to make an original "rocket artillery" from the canned Nanyang fish shell that he had eaten. The warhead is a large-headed tin canister with an elongated iron rod made of iron pipes behind it and four tinplate wings on the butt to keep the shell stable when flying. However, the test failed, and the improvised rocket flew more than 100 meters before falling to the ground and exploding, almost injuring its own people.

Sui Kang was not discouraged, and after many experiments and improvements, by the time the rocket was finally finalized, the shell of the missile body had changed from iron sheet to paper made of wood chips, and the frame was covered with a layer of oiled paper, and the system was seven small bamboo tubes tied together, which were filled with powder ground from nitrocellulose, and the tail of the bullet was three inclined stable spiral plates to ensure the stability of the rocket flight and the accuracy of the strike. The maximum firing range of this kind of rocket has reached 2,200 meters, and the error has been reduced to 30 meters; in order to increase its lethality, the body of the papier-mâché bomb is filled with picric acid explosives and iron ball bullets, and when the iron balls explode, the iron balls fly sideways, greatly increasing the lethality and killing area.

With this good start, the enthusiasm of the officers and men of the 170th Division was stimulated, and a staff officer of the division headquarters named Zhang Fengyun, who had returned from studying in Germany, made 12 "rocket artillery" racks made of iron guides, which were usually thrown on trucks at random and followed the troops. When needed, place the iron frame on the ground and adjust the angle to ignite and launch.

Sui Kang saw that this thing was good, and asked the quartermaster department to urgently make fifty doors. The "rocket artillery" all uses submunitions, and a salvo of 50 guns can produce 600 rockets in one minute, so many explosives and small steel balls are enough to form an extremely terrifying surface lethality.

Not long after the rocket was successfully developed, Zhang Fengyun, who was inspired by the rocket, came up with another new weapon.

Major Zhang Fengyun converted those oil drums into "explosive bag projectiles" according to the principle of rockets, and filled the bottom of the oil barrels, which were firmly bound by iron wires to prevent explosions, as push charge, and covered them with explosives packets. After the gunpowder is ignited, the explosive bag bound by copper wire is thrown out, and the fuse on the explosive bag is ignited.

In the first experiment, a 10-kilogram bag of explosives was ejected nearly 300 meters away, with an error of only 12 meters, and the effect was extremely good.

In the subsequent improvements, the explosive package was bundled into the shape of a cannonball with a sharp front and a round back, the amount of charge charged and the amount of explosives were scientifically improved, and a sight was added to the top, and Major Zhang Fengyun even summed up a set of shooting formulas for calculating the ballistic trajectory of the projectile after standardization, and the error of the skilled gunner was narrowed to five meters within 400 meters.

This accuracy is already very impressive, according to the calculation of the standard projectile explosive package of ten catties, within a radius of ten meters, even if there is a strong fortification defense, the people inside will be shocked to death by the huge blast shock wave.

After having these two weapons, Sui Kang felt that his waist as a division commander was much thicker, and he was not so worried about the team pulling the team to the front line and working with the best people, so after receiving Hu Jialin's order, he immediately held an emergency military meeting in the Nandi Temple of Dasun Gezhuang Town, five kilometers west of Mafang Town.

"The commander's words have been made very clear, destroy the Japanese artillery at all costs, and even if our unit dies to the last man, we must kill the Japanese artillery in front." Zhang Fengyun, who has been promoted to division commander and promoted to lieutenant colonel, said angrily.

Deputy division commander Fang Tianming nodded: "The fight is definitely going to be fought, but the question is how to fight?" Our aim is to destroy the Japanese artillery in front, and as long as we can do this, it will be worth the sacrifice, on the contrary, if we sacrifice and get nothing, it will be worth the loss. ”

Zhang Fengyun said disapprerovingly: "Let's bombard the fuck with rockets, I don't believe that such dense firepower can't destroy the devil's artillery position." ”

Li Tong, the chief of staff, who had been thinking calmly, laughed: "Fengyun, I see that you have been very confident recently...... You must know that the range of our rockets is only 2,200 meters, and the range of your super-large-caliber artillery is only 4,500 meters. Don't wait for us to clean up the *** people, but let the *** people's artillery fire clean us up. ”

Sui Kang nodded: "We have to make a good calculation, not only to give full play to the strengths of our two secret weapons, but also to avoid unnecessary losses." You'd better be quick, the military seat and the commander are still waiting for our good news. ”

Although Fang Tianming has served Xia Jian as an adjutant for a long time, he doesn't like to do things like Xia Jian, he likes to fight and rush, he thought about it and said:

"The current situation is that the enemy is strong and I am weak, if we adopt a hard-hitting style, it will obviously only be cheaper. My opinion is to divide our fifty mortars into two parts, and send two regiments to make a feint attack from both flanks of the enemy's battle line, so as to attract the attention of Japanese artillery and infantry. Taking advantage of the brief confusion of the Japanese troops, our main force sneaked up to 500 meters in front of the Japanese artillery position with rockets and explosives packets, and launched a sudden and precise strike. As long as the Japanese army does not discover us at the first time, we have a great chance to complete the important task assigned to us by the corps. ”

"Yes!"

Li Tong nodded: "In order to make the feint a little more like, you might as well take out some of our gunpowder and detonators, create some pyrotechnic effects, and try to make the battle as lively as possible." It's a pity that there are no firecrackers, otherwise the sound of firecrackers being lit and thrown into oil drums is not much different from the sound of heavy machine guns. ”

"We have firecrackers."

Lieutenant Colonel Yu Wenjie, chief of the training and administration section, who had been silent, said with a smile: "In order to make the celebration ceremony of the reconquest of eastern Hebei a little more grand, the theater command has issued some ...... Dogs will only do these face-saving efforts, but now they can be used to scare *** people, which is worth the money. ”

"Okay, so be it!"

Sui Kang stood up, "Lao Li, Lao Fang, the task of feint attack will be handed over to you." You have been following Commander Yin and Commander Xia for a long time, and you have rich combat experience and know how to fight the enemy while protecting yourself. I personally led the main force to bomb the artillery positions of *** people, and if this battle is not successful, it will become a benevolent, everyone work hard! ”

"Yes!"

The generals gathered and stood up in salute, their faces full of determination.