Chapter 71, Artillery Coverage
The moving tank suddenly braked sharply, stopped, and then quickly adjusted the barrel, pointed at the Japanese cavalry, and fired a salvo. The barrel of the cannon spat out long flames, and the shells quickly fell into the Japanese cavalry, blowing up a large number of Japanese troops.
The Japanese soldiers looked at the tank after firing the gun, their faces were hideous, holding the cavalry knife in one hand and pulling the reins, and the other hand on the fuse of the explosive bag, ready to ignite the fuse at any time.
"Da Da Da ~~" The tank's on-board 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun opened fire, and the thick bullets, whether they hit people or horses, were a big hole, and they were miserable.
The coaxial parallel machine gun is located on the side of the barrel of the gun, and is in line with the barrel, which is usually used to calibrate the artillery, and is also used as a melee weapon to clean up the enemy close to the tank, so there is a high and low fire boundary. The caliber of the coaxial machine gun is 7.62mm with 3500 rounds of ammunition, half of which are dragging bullets, and the loading method is also one drag bullet for every ordinary bullet.
It is best to use machine guns to deal with cavalry, with 12.7mm machine guns on the top and 7.62mm machine guns on the bottom. "Spread out, go around left and right." Seeing this, the commander of the cavalry was not stupid, and immediately gave an order, and now in this case, to gather together again is to send him to death.
The 76.2mm gun of the T-34 is constantly firing, and the 7.62mm machine gun on the inclined surface, operated by the commander, does not stop.
The storm made of metal drowned the Japanese cavalry, and with their flesh and blood, how could they hold back the hot weapons?
Feeling the strong firepower of the other side, the Japanese troops wanted to retreat, but they couldn't do it at all. They are not infantry, they are cavalry, they are destined to rush forward bravely, in their dictionary, there is no retreat, no retreat, either breaking through the enemy's positions, or the total annihilation of their own side.
"The cavalry has made contact with the flank of China, and I don't know how." The division commander said with some concern.
"Needless to say, it must have been easy to break through the flank defense line of China." A dog next to him bowed down and patted his ass and said.
"But why am I always a little uneasy?" The division commander said very calmly, calmly and a little unusual.
According to his understanding, the calmer the division commander is, the worse it is, and if he doesn't do it, he will kill people, so he was so frightened that his forehead sweated. "Your Excellency, the warrior of the Empire, march forward bravely, not afraid of life and death, and will definitely break through the position of China."
"I hope so." The division commander looked at the blazing battlefield and said.
This night attack was destined to end in the defeat of the Japanese army, the Japanese army in front of it could not last long under the rain of bullets, and the Japanese cavalry on the flank, facing the steel giant, came out and blew up a T-34 with an explosive pack at the beginning, wounding a 59 outside, there was no gain at all, but it was annihilated, leaving a corpse in the ground, and the blood gathered in the low-lying place, and it was impossible to distinguish whether it was human blood or horse blood.
The Japanese army's night attack failed, and the news quickly reached Lu Qiang's hands, and after looking at the content, there was nothing wrong with it, "Well, I know, you go down...... Oh, by the way, you inform the artillery positions that the shelling of the Japanese will begin at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. ”
"Yes." ……
The failure of the night attack made the commander of the Japanese division who launched the night attack very angry and unhappy, he wanted to kill someone to vent his anger, and his eyes quickly caught a glimpse of the dog's leg on the side. He slowly stood up from his seat and slowly walked to the dog's side. "Musashi-kun, there's something I'd like to ask you to help me with."
"Your Excellency General, if there is anything you can say." Dogleg said with a bow of his head.
"This thing is very simple, I want to ......" Hearing this, the voice suddenly paused, and the dog's legs bulged in his heart, and he was a little uneasy, and then he heard the sound of "choking~", he heard it very clearly, this was the sound of drawing a knife, and when he looked up, he immediately heard a roar,...... You die. The voice startled him, and the knife had been swung down.
"Huh~" A big head flew up, blood spurted all over the ground, and the major arteries were still spurting blood at the broken point of the neck.
Bright red blood poured the division commander on his body, but he ignored it all in a daze, calmly took out a piece of white cloth, wiped the blood off the command knife, put it in the scabbard, and shouted outside the door: "Someone is coming." ”
Soon two people wearing Japanese military uniforms pushed open the door and walked in, and saw blood all over the ground, as well as a headless corpse, and the two seemed to be accustomed to it, looking at the division commander calmly.
"You, get this body away." The division commander pointed to the man on the left and said. "You fetch water and clean the house." The person on the right said that these two people were his confidants, and he was relieved to leave things to him to do, and he had done them both in the past.
After cutting the dog's legs, the division commander suddenly became much more angry, but looking back, another fire came out, this time he didn't cut people again, but there was a smoldering fire.
In addition to the attack on the No. 5 position this night, the other 8 positions were unharmed, it is estimated that the Japanese army attacked the No. 5 position at night, just wanted to feint and see how the night attack or the flank defense was, now I know, the other party does not know how to know their night attack, and the flank defense is also very strict, and the chariots are actually placed on the flank.
At half past five in the morning, the artillerymen got up, washed as fast as they could, and rushed to the artillery positions. It was almost six o'clock, and it was still dark, but there was already a faint bright color in the east.
The Japanese army's garrison point, the distribution of military camps took a day yesterday, sent spies, and exchanged 5 drones (drones, not aerial photography), and made it clear, and the coordinates were all marked.
The artillerymen calibrated the elements according to the coordinates marked on the map, combined with factors such as wind speed.
It is impossible for more than 1,500 guns to hit one target, so according to the plan, 15 targets were hit at a time, that is, every shot, 100 guns were aimed at one target.
"The coordinates are determined, fire." When the minute and second hands of the hands slid simultaneously to the number "12" in the watch, the artillery commander immediately gave the order and waved a small red flag, although it was not always visible.
In an instant, there was an earthquake on the artillery position, and a roar shook people's heads and ears.
The 1,500 guns thought out of order, after a salvo, which gun would be loaded with ammunition first and fire first. The 203mm gun is slower to fire, because it is slow to reload, and its cartridge and projectile are several times larger than the cartridge projectile of the 152mm gun, and it is heavier, and it is more difficult to load.
However, the sound of the 203mm gun is indeed louder than that of the 152mm gun, and the projectile is much more powerful.
The barrels of the guns pointed at the sky in unison, spitting flames. Smoke from the opening of artillery fire hung over the position, and thick shells were thrown one after another. When the shells were transported to each gun position, they were driven by people driving jeeps, carrying ammunition boxes, and sending them to each gun position, so that the fire continued continuously.
The shells streaked through the night sky with brilliant ballistic traces, and then landed on the Japanese positions, each shell, like a shooting star, was beautiful, but this beauty was fatal.
"Boom Boom~~" The shells fell to the ground, exploding with each shot. The system is produced, it must be a high-quality product, how can there be a dud.
At 6 o'clock, when the Japanese were about to blow the bed whistle, a shell fell on their camp, replacing the wake up post, and the subsequent shells, raining down, covered the entire Japanese camp.
A 203mm shell fell into a house, and then exploded, boom, this room and the surrounding two rooms were all gone, and the Japanese soldiers who were awakened on both sides also evaporated from the world, leaving only a huge pit on the ground.
The Japanese soldiers, who were suddenly attacked in such a panic, ran around with guns and tried to get out of this artillery-inundated place.
The headquarters of the various divisions and regiments completely exploded, and urgent telegrams were sent, all saying that they had been shelled and suffered heavy casualties.
The Japanese soldiers did not have the kind of earthwork ability of the Red Party, so under this kind of shelling, there was almost nowhere to hide, and one after another mutilated corpses were lifted into the sky, or directly evaporated by the high temperature of the explosion, and there was not even slag.
"Run!"
"Mom, I don't want to die!"
"Aunt Amaterasu, you must bless me."
"Your Majesty the Emperor, I will be loyal to you in the next life."
“……”
The panicked Japanese soldiers ran and shouted, in this case, they no longer had the pride they had before, and some were just panicked.
More than a dozen Japanese soldiers who were forced to huddle together by artillery fire were taken away by one cannon in an instant, and in the flying dust, mixed with stumps and broken arms, and splashed flesh and blood, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers were gone.
The shelling lasted for half an hour, completely reducing the Japanese camp to ruins, and the Japanese troops in the camp were already gone, and the casualties were very heavy.
Several division commanders of the Japanese army were also frightened by this shelling, and the scope of the attack was so wide that during this time, at least 100,000 shells were fired.
The reason why the cannon is still smoking is because the hot barrel evaporates the moisture in the air because it encounters cold air, so it looks like it is smoking. A pile of bullet casings was thrown haphazardly on the ground, waiting to be collected after a while.
"I'm tired." A loader sat down on the ground, leaning on the gun's hoe, wiping the sweat from his forehead, and at his feet, a pile of shells.
"Who made you work so hard, others only load 4 rounds a minute, you are good, you load 6 rounds a minute, it's no wonder if you are not tired." The loader next to him, who was specially loading the cartridge, gasped and said, he was also taken by his comrades, so desperately reloading.
"Don't talk, let me rest for a while." The projectile loader closed his eyes and gasped.
"I've got to rest, too, I'm exhausted." The cartridge loader leaned against the other hoe and said slowly.