As the largest caliber ―――――― in the National Socialist Army, it also includes the navy.

As the largest caliber artillery in the National Socialist Army, and even the largest caliber in China, the 280mm heavy howitzer naturally shouldered the burden of the first gun.

And after a minute of busyness, with the order of the artillery company commander, the 260-kilogram shell also flew directly to the Yuhuatai position.

"That's amazing..."

Looking at the huge dust pillar that appeared on the Yuhuatai position, Wang Yaowu, who was covering his ears, blinked.

In the past, the National Society Army was equipped with 210mm caliber heavy artillery, and Wang Yaowu had also seen that kind of power, although it was also very large, but it was by no means as big as the current 280mm heavy artillery...

Although Wang Yaowu's position was almost 10 kilometers away from Yuhuatai, he could see how much damage the shell had dealt to the defenders of Yuhuatai.

After listening to Wang Yaowu's words, the commander of the artillery brigade on the side said proudly.

"That's natural, the shell of the 210mm gun in the past was only 120 kg, while the ammunition of the 280mm gun was 260 kg, and in terms of power, the latter is naturally several times larger than the former..."

Wang Yaowu didn't care about the tone of the artillery brigade commander, and just nodded after listening to his words.

"Okay, the city wall of Nanjing will also depend on you later..."

As he spoke, Wang Yaowu looked at his adjutant.

"Go, contact Liu Guanxiong, and let him cooperate with the army's artillery to carry out a comprehensive attack on the defenders of Yuhuatai."

Wang Yaowu's adjutant also seemed to be shocked by the performance of the 280mm heavy artillery just now, so after listening to Wang Yaowu's words, it was a spirit.

"Yes!"

Just when the adjutant gave the order to Liu Guanxiong's troops on the river, looking at the huge pit more than ten meters wide and five or six meters deep on the Yuhuatai position, Huang Xing and the others also changed color, and an officer on the side shouted with a pale face.

"280mm heavy artillery, that's right, this is definitely a 280mm heavy gun..."

Although the war broke out, these officers were all sent to Nanjing to help the Kuomintang train the army. So as long as they didn't let them go back, they continued to stay in Nanjing.

Of course, because of the war, they have been staying at the Nanjing Consulate for some time.

It's just that some time ago, a lot of leaflets suddenly fell from the sky, which not only claimed to let the people go out of the city as soon as possible to avoid the disaster of war, but also stated that their army had heavy howitzers with a caliber of up to 280mm.

Many people in the Kuomintang changed color when they heard this, but many people did not believe it at all, but in the Kuomintang, even those who had studied abroad, they did not know much about the 280mm caliber heavy artillery, so in the end, as long as they sent someone to the consulate, they hoped that the consulate would let a few officers come out to find out the truth.

In fact, there is no need for Nanjing Political Axe to send someone to invite, and he himself in Nanjing has already made some moves. In the final analysis, it is because the 280mm howitzer is too scary, you must know that there is only one kind of heavy artillery of this caliber in the world, or the bronze cannon body 28 cm howitzer made in Italy during the Sino-Japanese War.

Up to now, it can't be said that it has been eliminated, but the bronze 28 centimeters of pomegranate is still far behind the times after all. Therefore, the new large-caliber howitzer is only a 240mm sensible 45-year-old model in the army.

240mm heavy artillery, said that I will not be too proud, they also have self-knowledge, understand that in Europe, as long as the Europeans want, 3, 400mm super heavy guns can be built at any time. However, there is still a lot of superiority in front of the Chinese, after all, in 1912, even in the National Army, the largest caliber was only 150mm heavy artillery. Then two years later, the 210mm one also came out, but after all, it was still worse than the wise 45-year-old style 30mm...

However, now the National Socialist Army has a 280mm heavy artillery, which somewhat makes the army a little discolored...

It is not a secret that the artillery equipment of the National Social Army is subordinate to the German system, at least anyone who wants to know understands this. Thinking that there happened to be a 1904 Krupp 280mm howitzer in the German artillery sequence, how could I not know what the National Socialist Army was equipped with?

It's just that although I have already understood, I am still a little reluctant to give up after all. So as soon as the Nanjing political axe sent someone to find it, a few officers from the officer corps came out, and the leader of them was naturally Chengshan Meng...

Before coming to the front line, or before seeing the power of the 280mm gun, Takeshi Shiroyama and the others were somewhat lucky, thinking that the 280mm heavy gun on the leaflet was probably just a fraud by the National Social Army. But looking at the huge pit in front of them, the faces of Chengshan Meng and the others also turned pale―――――― 280mm heavy artillery? I don't know yet, but it's definitely more powerful than the wise 45-year-old style...

Taking a deep breath, Chengshan turned his head sharply to look at Huang Xing on the side.

"Mr. Huang Xing, it seems that this is indeed a 280mm heavy artillery..."Saying that, Chengshan Meng glanced at the deep pit again, and said very directly after hesitating for a while. Now that it's been confirmed, let's retire with my companions first..."

Hearing Chengshan Meng say this, Huang Xing and the others' faces changed, and the officers who came with Chengshan Meng were also puzzled. However, Chengshan Meng is the highest-ranking officer after all, although the military rank is not really worth much in the army, but Chengshan Meng is a rare rational person in the army, so Chengshan Meng said this, and they obeyed.

It wasn't until after leaving that someone asked why he was in such a hurry to leave.

But Shiroyama's answer was.

"There is no need to work for the Chinese..."

The shells do not have long eyes, especially the 280mm heavy guns, and even if they do not die within a radius of 100 meters, they will be disabled for life. Chengshan Meng didn't want to work for the Chinese, but now that he has heard the truth, there is naturally no need to continue to stay in such a dangerous place.

Hearing what Takeshi Shiroyama said, although a few people felt that they should stay a little longer so that they could continue to observe for a while, they also felt that what he said made a lot of sense.

After more than ten minutes, Chengshan Meng and his party on horseback had just entered Nanjing City, when they heard a deafening roar behind them...

took out the documents on his body, and Shiroyama and the others climbed the city wall.

On the city wall, looking at the huge dust pillars constantly rising on the Yuhuatai position, Chengshan Meng and the other officers couldn't help but be glad that they were able to get out of danger in time, such a fierce artillery fire, if they continued to stay, not to mention casualties, it was difficult to say whether they could tear it off...

"But it's not a good thing that the Chinese have such strong firepower..."

Looking at the Yuhuatai, which was almost a sea of fire, an officer muttered.

Hearing this, Takeshi Shiroyama and the other officers also kept frowning.

An agreement had been reached in the Entente that after the start of the European War, Germany's rights and interests in Jiaozhou Bay would be inherited by Yu himself―――――― provided that they could take it.

Of course, this matter is too secret, so they don't know about it. But another thing, that is, the country's ambition for the Mongol Manchurian region, is well known in the army.

Although they are intellectuals, they also know that if they want to grow and develop, the only way is to march into China. Among them, the most priority is naturally the northeast, which is adjacent to North Korea...

Originally, when Yuan Shikai was still there, North China was under the control of Beiyang, and he only had the strength of a division in Northeast China. At that time, although they felt that things would be very troublesome, they were not hopeless, after all, there were now a total of 18 standing divisions, and these 18 divisions were stronger than Beiyang no matter which division, even if it was the six core divisions of Beiyang...

However, at this time, a Yan Guang much younger than Yuan Shikai suddenly appeared in the southwest of China. And what this Yan Guang holds is the National Social Army that is more fierce than Beiyang...

first Badong, then Qianjiang, and then defeated the more than 100,000 troops gathered by Yuan Shikai in Wuhan...

This kind of combat power, even if it is said that he himself does not dare to boast of it.

Now that he has seen the strongest artillery cluster in Asia, he originally thought that these Chinese would not be able to threaten Yuben, no matter how strong they are, Chengshan Meng began to worry...

After continuing to look at the city wall for a while, he found that the Nationalist Army not only had a lot of heavy artillery, but also had fierce firepower, and it seemed that he was very full of ammunition, so Shiroyama greeted his companion.

"Let's go back to the consulate."

The consulates in Nanjing are all next to each other, and it is also the safest place, after all, no one has dared to attack the consulates of the great powers since Gengzi...

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On the Yuhuatai front, the artillery group of the Kuomintang Army has never stopped firing since it opened.

And it's not just the artillery group of the National Social Army, on the Yangtze River, the Sichuan Navy Division and Liu Guanxiong's Beiyang Navy also joined in and joined in the fun.

Of course, the caliber of the naval guns of the Sichuan Navy and the Beiyang Navy is definitely inferior to the 240mm and 280mm howitzers, and even the howitzers of the 210mm caliber are 7mm worse, but the main guns on the ships such as Hairong and Haichou are also 203mm cannons after all, and the power is by no means small, plus nearly 100 secondary guns of more than 100mm caliber on the warship, although the fleet on the Yangtze River is not as dazzling as the artillery group of the National Society, but the momentum will not be much smaller...

Looking at the dust pillars and limb fragments that were constantly lifted on the Yuhuatai position, Wang Yaowu looked at the pocket watch in his hand.

"Inform the 2nd and 3rd Divisions that the shelling will end in an hour, and when it is over, they will take the Yuhuatai position for me in one go..."

"Yes!"

The adjutant on the side replied loudly with both legs.

Just when Wang Yaowu announced that he would attack an hour later, Huang Xing and the others also left the Yuhuatai position under the escort of everyone―――――― stayed, and no one dared to guarantee that Huang Xing would be unharmed, so Li Liejun, who was in charge of the Yuhuatai position, immediately made a decision and sent someone to escort Huang Xing out of the position.

Just looking at Yuhuatai, which was almost a sea of fire behind him, thinking about the feeling of the sky falling apart when he was in the position just now, the faces of Huang Xing, Chen Qimei and the others were all gray.

Even though she had already walked into the Nanjing City Gate, Chen Qimei still regretted why she didn't watch from the city wall just now, and had to come to Yuhuatai in person, but she almost fell there and couldn't get out...

Huang Xing and Old Man Huang didn't have as many ideas as him, but after seeing the feeling of the sky falling apart just now, Huang Xing was worried, how long could Li Liejun's Gan army last in Yuhuatai?

You must know that he, Huang Xing, and Huang are also considered to be "long-lived" and "military formations", but they have never seen such a big artillery bombardment. Li Liejun's Jiangxi army was nothing more than an old unit reconvened in Jiangxi, plus some recruits with no experience at all, although after several months of training, it could only be regarded as a rabble in front of the Beiyang and the National Social Army...

"I don't know how long Xia Ru can last...", he said and glanced behind him again. Let's hope he's okay..."

Li Liejun really didn't last long.

Although whether Huang Xing is a "long-experienced army formation" or not, this is really the opinion of the benevolent and the wise, but just like Huang Xing thought, Li Liejun's Jiangxi army was just an ordinary miscellaneous army during the Second Revolution, like the fierce battle at Hukou that gave way to Li Chun in just two days. Now, after the Jiangxi army was dispersed, it can only be called a rabble...

Therefore, after an hour of shelling, the morale of Li Liejun's Jiangxi army was on the verge of collapse, and many soldiers ran out of their positions one by one to escape back to Nanjing――――――, because they couldn't bear this feeling similar to the end of the world, and they didn't want to think about it, hiding in the positions that had been built under the guidance of Yue himself, after all, many fortifications in the Yuhuatai position were still very strong, such as 210mm, 240mm and 280mm heavy artillery, as long as they were not directly hit or too close. Almost nothing will happen, but if you run out of the fortifications...

Running out of the fortifications? Not to mention the flying shrapnel, even if they were lucky enough not to be torn apart by shrapnel, the air wave generated when the shells exploded was enough to lift them into the sky...

At this time, if there are soldiers in the position of the National Socialist Army whose eyes are sharp enough, and if you are lucky enough, you can enjoy such a spectacle.

But it's a pity that the soldiers of the Gan army who ran out of the fortifications really rarely had such excellent luck.

Therefore, except for a very small number of soldiers who could escape back to Nanjing, the vast majority of the soldiers who ran out of the fortifications were torn to pieces by the flying shrapnel at the same time as they ran out. Flesh and blood were sprinkled on the ground, making the entire Yuhuatai a piece of blood red...

By the end of the hour-long shelling, the 2nd and 3rd Divisions each sent two regiments, with a total of more than 8,000 men from four regiments, rushing to Yuhuatai.

At this time, the defenders of Yuhuatai had almost collapsed in morale after experiencing the shelling, so it was just a face-to-face effort, and Yuhuatai had already fallen into the hands of the National Social Army. As for Li Liejun? This burly Jiangxi man, surnamed Ge Shuang, has been insisting, and after the shelling is over, he wants to gather the defenders with his own soldiers to beat back the National Social Army that rushed up.

It's a pity that at this time, even Li Liejun's personal soldiers have almost collapsed, so in desperation, Li Liejun had no choice but to flee to Nanjing under the escort of a few personal soldiers.

Fortunately, Nanjing City is not very far from Yuhuatai, and there is also a Qinhuai River, so after escaping the Changgan Bridge (good name), Li Liejun does not have to worry about the pursuers behind.

After escaping back to Nanjing, the first people to run out to greet him were Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing.

Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xingzhi did not blame Li Liejun for losing Yuhuatai, because just now, they stood on the city wall of Nanjing and watched the battle. They naturally saw everything on Yuhuatai clearly, under that kind of fierce shelling, maybe an army could hold on, but Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing knew that in the Kuomintang, there was no army that could reach this point...

So after seeing Li Liejun come back, Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing were just there to comfort that he could come back alive. Chen Qimei was thinking on the side, why didn't Li Liejun die in the bombardment of Yuhuatai just now―――――― in the Kuomintang, Chen Qimei's green-skinned scoundrel's problem, and Li Liejun, whose surname is straightforward, naturally can't pee in a pot.

Later, Li Liejun went to Jiangxi and Chen Qimei went to Shanghai, and the two had fewer disputes, and now that they are reunited, the contradictions will naturally appear again.

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When Yuhuatai was bombarded, Huang Xing knew that Li Liejun would definitely not last long in Yuhuatai, and it was quite rare to even survive today. Therefore, after returning to Nanjing, Huang Xing gathered two divisions of the Soviet Army (→_→) in the city, and deployed them together with Chen Qimei's Shanghai army.

Fortunately, Huang Xing had already prepared, and Nanjing still had the Qinhuai River and the Nanjing City Wall to rely on, so the arming work was very easy.

Just looking at the Nanjing city wall more than ten or twenty meters high, after seeing the shelling of the National Social Army, Huang Xing didn't know if he could stop the 280mm howitzer of the National Social Army...

It's just that if you don't block it, you can block it, otherwise Nanjing will have nothing else to rely on.

At this time, in the headquarters of the National Social Army, Wang Yaowu and the commanders of several other divisions were congratulating each other.

Because just now, the National Social Army only paid a very small price to take Yuhuatai, the only barrier in Nanjing City.

And just like the literal meaning, in the process of taking Yuhuatai, the price paid by the Guoshe Army was really minimal, because at that time, almost all the Gan troops in the Yuhuatai position who could survive were blown up by artillery fire, and when the Guoshe Army rushed up, there was no resistance even slightly, so when Yuhuatai was taken, the casualties paid by the Guoshe Army were not even a hundred...

"I can take Yuhuatai at such a small price, and by the way, I can defeat a division of the Gan army, it seems that I am going to ask the governor for the two of you..."

Alcohol is not allowed in the army, so Wang Yaowu saluted the commanders of the second and third divisions with a glass that looked like fruit juice but was actually fruit wine.

"Here, I'll reward you with two glasses!"

Because Yan Guang likes to drink juice, there are many juices for officers and soldiers in the National Social Army, but...

Many people in the army think that fruit juice is really not something that the big men should drink, so the sales have not been able to rise. Coincidentally, the commanders of the second and third divisions were also this kind of person, so when they saw Wang Yaowu toasting them with juice, the faces of the two of them became quite interesting.

Looking at the "juice" in front of them, the two of them didn't know whether to drink it or not, drink? They really don't like juice, but what if they don't drink it? You must know that these "juices" were personally given to them by Wang Yaowu.

The Minister of Military Affairs saluted them with juice, and they dared not drink it? Aren't you afraid of being put in small shoes in the future?

So in the end, I had no choice but to grit my teeth and take the cup in Wang Yaowu's hand.

It's just that just when the two of them were about to close their eyes and swallow the "juice" in the cup, they found that the contents of the cup looked like juice, but it was actually fruit wine...

After tasting it carefully, the two people who hadn't drunk for a long time were rarely happy, and at this time they finally understood that Wang Yaowu was going to reward them with two glasses!

"Thank you, Minister Wang."

After drinking the fruit wine in the cup, they glanced at each other, and the commanders of the second and third divisions said with a smile.

Although it is not their favorite liquor, it is enough fruit wine to satisfy cravings. After all, they haven't had a drink for almost three or four months...

And just when Wang Yaowu and they were celebrating each other, Wang Yaowu's adjutant also came over with a telegram.

"Minister, the telegram that Division Commander Yang just sent back, saying that they have preliminarily selected several positions..."

"Old Yang?"

Hearing that it was Yang Xincheng's telegram, Wang Yaowu took it and looked at it, and then handed it back into the hands of the adjutant.

"Make a copy of this telegram and send it to the Governor."

Wang Yaowu didn't care about the affairs of the iron factory, and now he only cared about the affairs of the battlefield. However, he also knew how much Yan Guang cared about the iron factory in Ma'anshan, so after reading the telegram, he asked the adjutant to copy a copy and send it over.

And after receiving the order, the adjutant also nodded.

"Yes."

At this time, Yan Guang was feasting the gentry in Wuchang, and by the way, he comforted the local people who had just returned to Wuhan.

When the telegram came, Yan Guang was drinking bitterly with the gentry who were invited over at a banquet―――――― which was naturally a rare good thing for the generals and colonels in the army, but Yan Guang didn't like to drink, so this kind of thing naturally became a rare torture.

Fortunately, the telegram came at this time, and Yan Guang had a reason to leave the banquet.

So after secretly writing down a credit for Wang Yaowu and Yang Xincheng in his heart, Yan Guang left the banquet with a telegram.

"I didn't expect Lao Yang's movements to be quite fast..."

Sitting in the carriage, after flipping through the contents of the telegram, Yan Guang said with a smile on his face.

In the telegram, Yang Xincheng had already stated that with the help of British and German prospectors, he had selected several addresses in the Ma'anshan area, all of which were close to several surrounding mines. At the same time, after the preliminary exploration of these British and German explorers, these explorers have also determined that there are at least one billion tons of iron ore reserves in Ma'anshan...

"Billion," Yan Guang thought carefully as he closed his eyes. It's as good as memory, but I don't know what the reserves of the existing iron mines are, and I hope there are a few 100 million tons..."

Thinking so, Yan Guang said to Yue Chang, who was sitting opposite.

"Later, you go and send a telegram to Wang Yaowu, asking him to send a group of soldiers and horses to Yang Xincheng to assist him in his work in Ma'anshan..."

"Yes..."

When Yue Chang got out of the carriage, Yan Guang looked at the telegram again.

"In the billion-ton class, it's already early April, and the Germans' equipment is already on the way......... I wonder if a 100,000-ton iron plant could be built 15 years ago? In this way, it will be easier for Fuzhou Shipyard to do it."

(To be continued)