Chapter 298 Hit a big watermelon ()!

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"Arson?"

After taking a gun for almost ten years, he was a new army and a Hubei military academy, and finally went to the famous Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School for further study, and got to know many Japanese veterans who participated in the Russo-Japanese War. First, the shocking three-three infantry tactics, then the long-range cannon, followed by the artillery observation balloon, and before these were finished, it was an arson bomb.

After hearing this new term, Chen Yushi's eyelids jumped, and he rode quickly towards Phoenix Mountain, and when he reached the foot of the mountain and climbed up in three steps and two steps, there was already a scream tearing the air behind him.

"Boom, boom, boom."

12 Warhammer 14B 105mm long-range cannons fired a salvo at the same time, flames and smoke gushed out from the muzzle of the guns, forming a beautiful and terrifying cannon fire, and 15 kg of special artillery shells flew straight into the sky and smashed towards the Hushan Fortress of Jiulian City, which was 13,000 meters away.

The cannon's high elevation angle shooting ability is very poor, the trajectory is straight, although the firing range is long, but in this case it is not as ideal as the howitzer, as for the cannon howitzer that Yang Qiu wants the most, several drawings have been copied and handed over to Hubei and Chongqing for study respectively, but far from water can not quench the thirst of the near, and now it can only be reluctant to let them fill the number.

When Chen Yushi climbed up to the observation post set up by the artillery on the top of the mountain, the artillery below had completed the target calibration and fired a full 10 rounds of salvos, 120 105 mm shells The power of the effective shells is very amazing, but he was not optimistic at the beginning, the Hushan fortress was built on the basis of the ancient Great Wall, although it lacks modern cement and steel bars, it is also all cast of mountain stones, and the ordinary 150 shells can not cause much loss, not to mention that after the Russo-Japanese War, Japan also spent a lot of effort in order to control this important place, There were thousands of people forcibly recruited from all sides alone.

However, when he climbed to the top of the mountain and raised the telescope, he was suddenly stupid!

Fire! Smoke! The bears are not extinguished, covering the sky and the sun!

The huge fortress has been covered with smoke and fire, and in the binoculars it is a Japanese soldier running around the wolf, a Japanese soldier was ignited by the explosion of fireballs, running in pain with fire, and finally fell from the fortress dozens of meters high in a panic. More Japanese soldiers rushed under the fortress, which was supposed to be a water storage tank, but it didn't take long for a column of water to rise in that direction, and the water storage tank was hit directly by shells.

Chen Yushi and the officers of the 39th Brigade who climbed up one after another were cold on their backs, they had never seen such a big fire, and a regiment commander swallowed his saliva: "Look, those Japanese soldiers can't put out it with their clothes." ”

"Not only clothes! Look at the one over there that drenched the kettle, and if you look at it, it doesn't work, it's still burning. ”

"Haha, burn ()! Burn hard, burn well! ”

"This is a big watermelon!"

While the officers' expressions were different, the artillerymen behind them continued to fire like machines, and the smoke that began to spread from a distance not only did not stop them, but became more energetic. It's just that this kind of shell is too dangerous, so they have to be careful, which also affects the speed of shelling.

The arson bomb is actually an incendiary bomb, many people think that this demon is napalm or aerial bomb, in fact, the earliest appearance of the incendiary bomb is in the form of artillery shells, the First World War in the face of the German trenches helplessly British exhausted their methods, in addition to the well-known poison gas tank, also used thermite incendiary bombs for the first time.

However, the price of thermite incendiary bombs was too expensive, and the wealthy Britain could not afford to use them, so they had to continue to use cheap gas shells. Yang Qiu couldn't afford to use it, and even completely licensed the standard white phosphorus incendiary bombs of later generations, because white phosphorus was difficult to manufacture, and the storage and processing were even more expensive. Fortunately, he hadn't forgotten what he had learned in his previous life, and even without using a data machine, he was able to piece together some arson materials that worked well.

The arson ability of Shimose gunpowder is much stronger than TNT, Beiyang had dozens of tons of reserves at that time, although white phosphorus is difficult but the ancestors have used it, and some can be made by soil production, and finally vulcanized rubber powder is added. Although there is still some way to go for industrial vulcanized rubber, the laboratory has already come up with the product, and finally got some aluminum powder from Chongqing, and mixed and solidified it with a viscous agent to form balls about one millimeter in diameter and fill the shells. When the central column of the cannonball bursts open and expands, it instantly squeezes these particles into powder and scatters them around. According to experimental data, the power of this simple arson bomb can reach 6 percent of the standard white phosphorus incendiary bomb of World War II and 3 percent of the thermite incendiary bomb.

Of course, the specific processing technology, process and formula are absolutely confidential, and the special artillery shell filling plant has been moved to the mountains on the border between Hubei and Chongqing.

But even after thinking about so many ways, Yang Qiu also had a headache for the high price, before the large-scale industrialization of chemical materials was realized, incendiary bombs were definitely money-consuming things, taking the current 105 mm arson bombs as an example, the price of each was 7 times that of the standard TNT high-explosive bombs of the Wehrmacht, which in addition to the high processing difficulty and time-consuming and labor-intensive, the cost of shell storage and transportation is even more ().

Shell boxes in groups of two need to be reinforced with wooden planks, and there must be a fixed bracket in the middle to prevent displacement and collision, and the gaps need to be filled with sawdust or hay, and even cheap hay needs to be ground and compacted. Because Shimose gunpowder was extremely unstable, and it was even more dangerous when mixed with phosphorus and other materials, it was necessary to use waterways and railways as much as possible during the final transportation, and if it was a long time of bumpiness, it would be a lot of fun, so trucking has been banned, and it is better to rely on a manual wheelbarrow than a truck.

Because of the addition of a lot of corrosive chemical components, arson shells are not resistant to storage, and the temperature and humidity are several times more stringent than stable TNT shells.

Rumble!

With a loud bang all day long, there was a violent explosion on the Fort of Hushan in the distance, a 120-mm shore gun was uprooted and flew to a height of dozens of meters, the fatal weakness of the Japanese artillery was ruthlessly knocked out by the flames, and the shells piled up next to the cannon became the last straw that crushed the fortress.

A full 2,500 105 mm arson shells, each with an effective killing range of 100 square meters, theoretically these shells can cover an area of 620,000 square meters, excluding the superimposed damage can still reach more than 400,000!

How big is a fortress?

By the time the last ammunition box was loaded onto the ship for recovery, there was no human figure on the entire Hushan Fortress, and the explosions continued to sound one after another, and even the ancient Great Wall on the left collapsed violently after a while. All the officers and soldiers of the 39th Brigade who saw this scene gasped! Many Beiyang officers only now understand how merciful Commander Yang was during the Northern Expedition, if these shells were smashed in the sky over Xinyang, 100,000 troops would not be enough to burn them!

"The brigade commander is the battle flag of the 10th Division."

Soon after the artillery fire ended, an infantry regiment emerged from under the fortress of Hushan, and the officers recognized from the flag that it was the 10th Infantry Division, which had arrived from Rehe. It's just that Chen Yushi still has the heart to compete with the 10th division at this moment, and he already regrets dying when he looks at the flame-blazing fortress.

For the first time in all these years of wearing a military uniform, he felt ashamed ().

Is a soldier who does not study advanced military technology and tactics, but puts too much thought on the sidelines? Now he began to regret that if he had studied military affairs well during his study in Japan, and then followed the example of Song Ziqing, Jiang Baili, and Zhang Xiaozhun and others to go to more advanced European powers for further study, would there still be such a "joke" as today? It's ridiculous that so far there are still a large number of people who think that the Japanese army is such a great army, the demeanor of a world powerhouse, and now the living facts are in front of them, and in front of powerful artillery and new infantry, they are not even a dish! I'm too much of a frog at the bottom of the well! At the beginning, the Kuomintang was also short-sighted, and everything held Japan to the sky, but now I know who is dragging Yang Qiu's retreat, if he can unify the whole country immediately after Xinhai, I am afraid that now the heavy artillery regiment can be popularized to every division.

No matter how much Chen Yushi regretted that he didn't concentrate on military affairs, he couldn't change the reality that the Hushan Fortress of Jiulian City changed hands.

On June 3, the day Terauchi Masashi arrived in Lushun, the fortress of Jiuliancheng was lost, and the two Japanese brigades stationed here were all wiped out, and no one escaped, so that it was not until the Japanese observation post on the top of Baekma Mountain in Sinuiju on the opposite side of the Yalu River reported that the Wehrmacht Flying Tiger Flag had been raised over the fortress of Tiger Mountain.

The 10th Brigade of the 10th Division, the 31st Brigade of the 12th Division, the 43rd Brigade of the 14th Division, and the 101st Brigade of the 1011st Division of the Wehrmacht from Rehe were stationed in the fortress of Jiuliancheng. After a later cleaning, it was found that most of the heavy artillery in the fortress was destroyed by the explosion of shells, only 2 Krupp 240 heavy guns were spared because the Japanese army had not had time to take out the shells from the ammunition depot at that time, the skin and flesh were thick, the flames only burned out some small parts, and the arson bombs were too powerful, and most of the Japanese infantry were burned to death before they had time to destroy, and only some of them were also smoked alive by poisonous smoke.

After the arrival of the three brigades, it took only one night to clean the fort, and the next afternoon the truck team brought 16 famous Schneider 75 misses, this batch of guns turned out to be one of the 100 guns that Germany ordered from Yang Qiu in order to get Schneider technology, but Hubei has only delivered 48 guns so far, and the rest was originally intended to be delivered at the end of last month, but Germany waved a big hand and symbolically received 200,000 yuan as support materials for the Wehrmacht.

Yang Qiu, a 75 gun with the same weight as the Warhammer 14 A howitzer, did not consider equipping it at all, until Sa Zhenbing found that the rate of fire of this batch of guns could reach 15 rounds per minute, and the firing range was also 11,000 meters, so he immediately approached Yang Qiu and suggested that they be transported to the northeast to be used as a fixed battery to block the Yalu River.

With 16 75 guns, 2 240 heavy guns and 24 75 guns and 70 guns each of the three brigades, the Humun Fortress was rearmed within five days, and the muzzles of the 42 cannons were all aimed at the Yalu River in Sinuiju, and the problem of insufficient ammunition depots in the fortress was also solved after the theater command mobilized 10,000 civilian transport teams and 12 transport ships.

June 6. Before the Japanese could wake up from the loss of the Hushan Fortress, the 32nd Brigade of the 10th Division joined the 101st Brigade and the 1st Brigade of the 101st Division to storm Xiuyan with the support of 112 artillery pieces of various types, and succeeded after defeating the two Japanese brigades.

Seeing that the Wehrmacht had already arrived in Kwantung Prefecture, the navy did not dare to delay this time, and immediately leased 16 foreign freighters, and dispatched 7 transport ships to speed up the transport of infantry to assemble in the direction of Kwantung Prefecture and Baekba Mountain in Sinuiju, North Korea.

June 8th. The 3 wings of the 9th and 19th divisions of the 16th Japanese Division all arrived in Kanto Prefecture. Three wings of the 20th Division arrived at Baima Mountain, and one wing of the 1st Division of the Fifth Division also arrived in Lushun. But while the Japanese army was waiting for supplies and heavy equipment behind, the 101st Brigade of the 101st Division and the 44th Brigade of the 14th Division of the Wehrmacht launched another attack on Yingkou, and the 74th Wing of the Japanese Army still lost more than 1,500 people although it was supported by several warships of the Second Fleet.

On June 12, the Wehrmacht attacked Andong from Xiuyan and Jiuliancheng at the same time, and in the face of the crazy blockade of the Japanese-occupied Dagushan Fortress, they once again sacrificed arson shells, and occupied the Dagushan Fortress in only one day, because the shell consumption was too large and the 6 210 caliber heavy guns and 6 150 heavy guns did not explode, so that Sa Zhenbing, who learned the news, was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the marines stationed in Shanghai to go to the starry night and bring 12 75 ladies to take over this heavy naval fortress lost in the first afternoon.

Velocity! Velocity! Velocity!

After mastering the time element, the new-style Wehrmacht under the command of Yang Qiu gave full play to its advantages in firepower and equipment before the Japanese army could complete the build-up, and launched a series of breathless onslaughts with lightning speed, which not only annihilated tens of thousands of Japanese troops, but also compressed the three divisions of the Japanese army in Korea and Kwantung Prefecture in one fell swoop.

All the countries of the world that are watching this war are dumbfounded! Although they had already learned through various channels that Yang Qiu was ready to launch a few months earlier, and they also knew that the Japanese army had been in a state of contraction in the past few years due to domestic financial problems and other problems, and they had no time to react in a short period of time, they still did not expect that the Japanese elite army, which is known as the strongest in Asia and can even rank among the world's strongest armies, would be defeated so quickly.

It's just that they don't know that when they began to make careful plans two years ago, Yang Qiu thought about building 80 tanks, spending five days to sweep through Kwantung Prefecture and occupy Korea in two months, and finally focused on strengthening artillery and infantry tactics only because of the poor industrial base and the temporary inability to build tanks.

The equipment taken out by the Wehrmacht also caused a sensation in the world, and the 105-mm long-range suppression cannon set off a boom in the development of long-range artillery, and Germany took advantage of the relationship established before to buy four patents and all manufacturing technologies for $8 million in cash, including the Warhammer 14B 105mm cannon, the imitation ZB26 Han II light machine gun, the Sparrow trainer reconnaissance aircraft, and the arson bomb formula. After learning that Germany had purchased four technologies, France was the first to sit still and ordered the country to immediately develop corresponding products, while Britain, which also has deep pockets, in order to ease Sino-British relations, and the war in Europe is inevitable, so in Whitehall personally sent a letter expressing its willingness to improve relations with China, willing to engage in dialogue to seek a political solution, and to ensure that the technology will not be leaked before the end of the Sino-Japanese war, it also bid 6.5 million to buy five technologies of grenadiers, mortars, long-range 105 cannons, light machine guns and sparrow training aircraft, As for the arson bombs, they are still top secret in the hands of China and Germany.

The check that was enough to build a million-ton steel plant made Su Hongsheng and Zheng Tingxiang, the two big factory directors, smile crookedly, but Yang Qiu didn't have the heart to pay attention to how much money he could make now, because he knew that the supply and transportation capacity of the troops had also reached the limit, and it was very rare for the Northeast Theater to quickly complete the first phase of the combat goal, so after the Dagushan Fortress was successful, he ordered to rest on the spot and build trench fortifications, and at the same time, the Northeast Theater Command also seized the time to replenish ammunition and materials to the various troops to meet the more difficult battles behind.

On June 15, Wang Zhengting was suddenly ordered to pay a high-profile visit to Russia, and shortly after his first stop appeared in the palace of the Russian Far East Governor-General in Vladivostok, a "news" about Russia's imminent attack on South Sakhalin Island and the joint partition of Korea with China ignited the entire Far East!

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