Chapter 292: Myth Busted (11)

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All the invective, cover-ups, and calculations are over, two thin declarations of war have replaced everything, and after tearing off the disguise, both China and Japan no longer have to rack their brains every day to figure out how to deal with all kinds of problems, and the diplomats are happy to let the army and artillery do the talking.

In the Governor's Mansion of the Kwantung Prefecture of Japan in Lushun, there was even the sound of wine glasses touching each other.

"The Great Japanese Empire has a long military fortune."

Several brigade commanders who rushed to Kanto Prefecture to prepare in advance raised their wine glasses and cheered, and their eyes looked feverishly at the vast and fertile land outside the window, three months, three months at most! It will be incorporated into the Empire forever, and what could be more worth fighting for?

Next to him, as the commander of the Manchurian Army, Tang Jiyao and several Manchurian and Mongolian officers also got the opportunity to participate in the reception, but most of the Japanese officers present disdained to clink glasses with them, only Kawashima Speedy and Kanto Prefecture Governor Fukui Yataro smiled and talked a few words out of politeness.

"Your Excellency the Governor, I heard that a wing of your army is trapped in the Sky Ridge." Since the little emperor came back, Prince Su has completely changed as a person, as if he was dozens of years younger all of a sudden, and only occasionally showed nervousness when talking about the military situation.

Fukui Yataro said with a smile while secretly saying that these land snakes are really sensitive: "You don't have to worry, His Excellency Araki Daisaku and his wing are one of the most elite troops in our country, and if you want to trap him, you must send several times the troops, so that it is impossible for the squadron to invest more forces in Haicheng and Whistle River, so the Imperial War Department has decided to take this opportunity to let Araki Daisaku drag the enemy's main force, and then other troops will launch an attack, take Mukden and hand it over to you as the capital." ”

When the Manchurian and Mongolian officers around heard that Japan would make it their capital after taking back Fengtian, they nodded happily, and Prince Su's eyes were even red, the land of Longxing! The Land of Dragons is finally coming back! Only Tang Jiyao is not optimistic, the Wehrmacht he has encountered, the combat capability is far higher than the domestic troops, after absorbing the elite of Beiyang and after a year of crazy replenishment, it is not Wuxia Amun, reminded: "Your Excellency the Governor, I still think that reinforcements should be sent to the direction of Motianling immediately, and I would rather give up the attack on Haicheng for the time being and rescue Araki Dasa first, because ()." ”

Before he finished his words, Fukui Yataro snorted coldly in his nose and glanced at the defeated general: "Don't worry, Tang Jun, Araki Dazuo has promised to support it for half a month, and half a month is enough for us to reopen the South Manchurian Line." ”

Tang Jiyao wanted to say more, but several Manchurian and Mongolian officers who were usually trained and drunk by him took advantage of this to hit him, saying that he was making a big fuss, and the elite of the Japanese army could not be dealt with by Yang Qiu's miscellaneous army. Seeing these people holding the Japanese army to the sky, Tang Jiyao didn't feel good in his heart, he, the commander of the Manchurian Army, was just a dog under someone else, so he simply hid to the side and drank alcohol.

Zaitao and these people usually don't get used to Tang Jiyao, and after forcing him away, they were about to compliment him a few words like long live the emperor, but they saw a Shao Zuofei running over and whispering a few words in Fukui Yataro's ear, the corners of the latter's mouth hooked slightly, and he raised his hand to look around: "Everyone, there is good news, the Fifth Division is about to leave!" ”

"Onboard!"

Knowing that the elite Fifth Division was going to return to South Manchuria, the Japanese officers were even more excited and raised their glasses and shouted, but they did not know that the balloon of the myth of the Japanese army's invincibility was being punctured little by little.

"For His Majesty the Emperor Kudanzaka!"

In the early morning dawn, a Japanese soldier Cao shouted around like crazy, raised two grenades and rushed to the Xiaoguling position 100 meters away, this military Cao looked well-trained, rushed left and right to avoid a lot of bullets, but after throwing a grenade, he was still locked by two light machine guns at the same time.

Boom.

The grenade thrown and the one pinched in his hand exploded almost simultaneously, and at the same time that the debris flying in front of the trench cut a 22nd Regiment soldier's cheek into a gap, the upper body of the Japanese soldier was also blown to the point of flesh and blood.

From yesterday's chanting of "long military luck" to the current sound of "Kudan Sakami" one after another, the mentality of the Japanese army has taken a 180-degree turn, and these Japanese soldiers who already know that they are surrounded and know that they must open the Sky Ridge to have a glimmer of life have entered the most crazy state, and many people have simply stripped off their shirts and picked up bombs and rushed into the trenches.

Xiaoguling is still the center of contention, this position independent of the east of the main position, because of the higher terrain, has become the winner of the defense line of Motianling, taking this place can overlook the entire Motianling, so the Japanese army, who is eager to drag up the artillery to bombard the Wehrmacht, almost constantly attack here. The trenches had long been shattered by shells, and the strangely shaped and crooked corpses under the dust poked their heads out or stretched out their hands. The entire hillside in front of the position was covered with corpses, the trees were uprooted by shells, the fire had not stopped since last night, and the smell of burning was everywhere. Seeing that a section of the position began to crumble again, a company commander simply led the soldiers to fight a white-knuckle battle, and when the flesh and blood splashed and the Japanese army gradually lost the enemy, the shells fell suddenly.

Sadao Araki, who had already been killed, unbuttoned his collar and ordered an artillery bombardment of Xiaoguling, even if there were many of his own soldiers on it. The powerful 150-mm artillery was still the main force of the shelling, and the shells exploded without warning among the hand-to-hand soldiers, their bodies were torn to pieces, and the flesh and blood were completely mixed together, plus the 75-mm field guns that helped, and in less than a few minutes, a company of the 22nd Regiment and more than 100 Japanese infantry who attacked were all killed.

"Your grandma!"

Fang Wei's lips were bitten and bleeding, due to the special terrain of Xiaoguling, at most only one battalion or so of troops could be deployed, so after the 22nd Regiment arrived, it could only be pulled up one battalion at a time, originally one battalion was not strong enough, this time the entire company was killed, and how to keep people calm. "Captain! The overall situation is important, and the most important thing now is to make up for the gap in the 4th company! Pointing to another wave of Japanese infantry, the instructor and staff officer had to suppress the angry brown bear.

"Balian, give it to me!" Fang Wei wiped his tears and broke his heart: "Block them and kill these little Japan!" ”

The Eighth Company, whose eyes were red with the ferocity of the Japanese army, quickly rushed up from the sortie position behind the ridge, and the Japanese squad, which was just about to use artillery fire to cover the occupation of the position in one go, was beaten by a dense stream of machine guns and grenadiers before it could get close. Sadao Araki, who was at the foot of the mountain, saw that the 22nd Regiment had blocked the gap so quickly, and he had always regarded General Nogi Noshinori as an idol, he pointed to Xiaoguling and jumped to his feet: "Have you forgotten the assault tactics?" Assault, I need to keep assaulting, don't care about casualties! ”

"Assault, assault ()!"

After the continuous attack was unsuccessful, and even the artillery was helpless, Araki Sadao finally sacrificed the Japanese heirloom pig to charge suddenly, and in an instant the entire Xiaoguling hillside sounded the slogan of the assault, and the Japanese infantry who received the order all let out a beast-like howl, and the formation quickly opened up like a wounded wild boar, bending down and bowing his head to launch a decisive charge towards the Wehrmacht position. This crazy tactic, which became famous all over the world after the Russo-Japanese War, was indeed shocking, and although I had heard it many times, it was the first time I saw the pig rush tactics of thousands of Japanese soldiers rushing with their heads down regardless of their lives, and the officers and men of the 22nd Regiment could not help but feel numb in their scalps.

"Machine guns, gather all the machine guns!"

"Grenadier, I need a grenadier!"

"The artillery target is directly in front of Xiaoguling."

Yu Dehai, who quickly noticed the abnormality, grabbed the field phone and ordered all the remaining infantry guns to twist towards Xiaoguling, and at the same time, Fang Wei also organized all the machine guns, and an imitation MG08/15 Han II heavy machine gun was the first to roar, and the speed of 600 rounds per minute formed a metal barrier in front of the position, and then more than ten light machine guns also joined the roar. The infantrymen also knew that the most dangerous moment had come, so they picked up all the equipment that could fight and piled them on the trench in front of them, and all the grenades were unscrewed.

"Be careful not to be burst in! Call me! ”

After a loud shout, the light and heavy weapons in the position were fully opened, and the Japanese infantry of the pig burst fell like cutting wheat, but the Japanese army was worthy of being known for its tenacity, and continued to rush wildly regardless of casualties, and when it was about to break into the position, the submachine guns of the divisional guard company were powerful, and they were regarded as the last barrier because they did not have much ammunition, and they were hidden after the first support of distance and range, and now no one cares about the supply problem at this most dangerous moment.

Xiaoguling itself is not wide in front, according to the deployment of one submachine gun every 5 meters, the double-row magazine 32 rounds provide much higher firepower and speed than the 20 rounds of the Stern magazine, and in an instant, those Japanese soldiers who were about to complete the assault fell one after another, making the officers such as Sadao Araki at the foot of the mountain gasp and breathe cold air The Chinese have become rich enough to have a machine gun in their hands? This *** is still a fart!

Seeing that his elite infantry ** fell, Hanada Shaozuo's teeth were about to be crushed (). However, the second wave of charges that followed gave everyone hope, nearly a hundred Japanese infantry who were buried in the rush suddenly broke the left side of the defensive line, seeing that the gap there was getting bigger and bigger, and when Sadao Araki just wanted to give the order to concentrate his forces, a ball of fireball suddenly rose from not far away!

"What's going on!"

"Where did the artillery come from?"

"Damn, why didn't the cavalry company return the favor!"

After learning that the Wehrmacht had heavy artillery, Sadao Araki expanded the cavalry reconnaissance circle to 12 kilometers to improve the early warning of heavy artillery, but now the cavalry actually appeared heavy artillery without reporting it, what is going on? And the experienced gunner immediately judged by the sound of the whistling of the shell and the fireball after the explosion of the projectile that this was supposed to be a 105-mm cannon.

The caliber of 105 mm is not equipped by the Japanese army for the time being, but judging from the models of European and American countries, it has a range of about 10 kilometers, which is completely within the early warning range of the cavalry, so how can it not even send a signal back? Hundreds of cavalry won't all be killed silently! Sadao Araki couldn't care less about continuing to tear up the Xiaoguling defense line at this moment, so he immediately ordered all departments to retreat, hide in front of the bunker and scold the cavalry captain. But this cavalry captain is also very innocent, because at the moment the artillery positions of the Wehrmacht are 15 kilometers away!

15 kilometers away on the east side of the Ferris Ridge, a mountain bag has been leveled out of a vacant land by engineers, deep tractor wheel print, at the end of the 101st Division artillery regiment 3 battalion just prepared 12 latest Hubei war hammer 14B 105 mm cannon, this kind of cannon imitates the famous Japanese 92 type 105 mm cannon, although the caliber is not large, but it is the world's longest range cannon of the same caliber at that time, the firing range reached 18200 meters!

What is even more rare is that the Japanese designers forcibly reduced the weight to 3.7 tons at such a large range, while the similar Czech Skoda M1935 105-mm cannon weighed more than 5 tons.

At the beginning of the artillery construction, Yang Qiu thought in detail about what weapons were needed, taking into account the need to face opponents, financial, logistical and industrial levels, etc., first after the emergence of the 70 mm improved infantry gun, the 75 mm field guns that could still be urgently needed to be developed were eliminated, and infantry guns and mortars were used as infantry firepower supplements, and the divisional suppression task was handed over to the lighter 105 mm caliber ().

There were a lot of 105 mm caliber guns, He chose the German LE.FH18105 mm howitzer and the Japanese Type 92 105 mm cannon to Hubei for imitation, because the latter's 45 times the body tube does not have the processing capacity in China, so a year ago imported 250 L45 barrels and 250 L31 barrels from Germany, the latter is mainly to supplement the lack of manufacturing capacity in Hubei, by the domestic imitation of artillery mounts and mechanical sights, and finally finalized four months ago, respectively, named Warhammer 14 A 105 mm howitzer and 14 B 105 mm cannon.

As for the important 150 mm class, due to the fact that domestic road and logistics problems are not very urgent, and Yang Qiu himself is hesitating between choosing 150 mm and 155 mm, so he only temporarily imported eight battalions of S.LH13 type to Germany first, and later, considering the lack of long-range suppression means, when purchasing two armored trains with a total of 10 knots, an additional L43/150 mm barrel was ordered from Skoda, but this gun barrel is too expensive, plus this caliber is already a major interest in the arms market, So even Skoda, which has a good relationship, asked for $80,000 each after a discount, and in the end only 16 were ordered.

In addition to the navy and 76 and 120 mm calibers, the rest of the calibers have been temporarily eliminated or changed to technical reserves, after all, the current domestic steel production is less than a fraction of Europe and the United States, and no country can afford to play armor and artillery without a strong steel capital.

Warhammer 14B is one of the core long-range suppression forces of the Wehrmacht, plus the gun carriage and attachments are not manufactured quickly, so only two mobile artillery regiments and four central guard divisions are currently equipped, and even the 1st and 2nd divisions will have to wait a while longer if they want to get them.

The artillery battalion that opened fire at full speed was terrifying, and Major Jerome from the U.S. Marine Corps, who was one of the observers sent by the United States, opened his mouth wide when he raised his binoculars when the first round of shells was fired.

It seems that its range exceeds 16000 meters ?!

Oh, God!

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