Yamashita Shuizhong hurriedly turned his head and asked the artillery squadron leader, "Can we bring another cannon up?" ”

The artillery squadron leader looked at the frostbitten hands of the artillerymen, and said helplessly: "It's a little difficult, and it's too late in time, you see, the artillery of Lin Yuan's troops has been prepared, and it can be fired at any time, and it will take more than ten hours for us to get another artillery."

Shui Zhong said helplessly: "I see that Lin Yuan's troops have a light cart that can walk on rugged mountain roads, and many artillery parts are transported by that guy, why don't we have that kind of cart?" ”

The commander of the artillery squadron spread his hands helplessly and said, "We artillery also want to have those things!" But no, we can't do it! ”

Yamashita Shuizhong sighed and said, "Okay, please take your subordinates down to rest." After saying that, Shan Xia Shuizhong turned his head and called a soldier and said, "Make them something to eat." ”

The soldier said with an angry face: "What? Make them something to eat? They didn't do anything to help us, and they still have to give them something to eat? ”

Yamashita Shuizhong thought for a while and said, "Okay, don't give them anything to eat, I'm going to deploy for battle, you can entertain them well." ”

After saying this, Yamashita Shui Zhong walked out of the tunnel and walked towards the command room, where the soldier walked up to the artilleryman and said, "Please come with me to rest." ”

The artillery squadron leader said: "Don't be in a hurry to rest, we have worked all night, should we be given something to eat?" ”

The soldier shook his head and smiled, "I'm sorry, I didn't receive this order. ”

As soon as the artillerymen heard this, they became angry and shouted: "We have worked all night for you, and now we are not even given food, there is no such bullying as you!" ”

The Japanese army was originally very united, but in this situation of lack of food, everyone was thinking about themselves, so they made a noise, and the subordinates of Yamashita Shuizhong simply pretended to be deaf and dumb, and let the artillery shout and scold, just did not give food, and when they were noisy, everyone felt that the ground under their feet shook slightly, and then they heard a deafening explosion from outside, this sound was so loud that they almost never heard it!

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what was happening in the road, but the leader of the artillery squadron reacted first and said, "Oh my God, it's the cannon of Lin Yuan's troops, it's loaded, it's ready to fire!" That's what it hit! The Japanese troops present immediately fell into a panic!

The Japanese army guessed correctly, the loud noise just now was indeed from the 155mm cannon howitzer of Lin Yuan's troops, and this steel giant beast had already woken up and began to erupt in anger.

Lu Xinghua's artillery position was very well chosen, and the Japanese fort on the entire hillside was almost within the direct sight of the artillery, so the launcher used the scope to aim directly, he operated the handwheel while aiming, turned the gun body to point, and only stopped the gun body after aiming at a target, and the other launcher opened the gun latch at the end of the gun and prepared to load the shell.

Large-caliber artillery is divided into charges, the warhead and propellant of the shell are separated, so the warhead must be loaded into the breech first, and then put in the propellant, 155 mm howitzer, a shell weighs forty-seven kilograms, to load such a heavy shell, two people need to use the shell loader to lift the shell, and then load the shell into the chamber.

Two fighters use a cannonball loader, lift the shell, put it into the chamber, and then put it into the cartridge bag, this cannon is a cannon howitzer, both cannon and howitzer characteristics, when using a small angle of fire and a large charge, you can have a very straight trajectory like a cannon.

The shooter pressed the launch button, a shell made a deafening sound, flew to the Japanese fortress, and landed impartially in front of a fortress, the warhead was equipped with a delayed fuse specially designed to deal with the fortress, and the warhead penetrated a distance into the outer wall of the fortress before it exploded, the explosion was very violent, and the fortress was directly uprooted!

The Japanese soldiers on the position were stunned, although it was not the first time they had seen such a violent explosion, the charge of the 240 mm mortar shell equipped by Lin Yuan's troops was larger than that of the 155 mm grenade, and the explosion was more violent than it, but the 240 mm mortar shell The Japanese army was not afraid, because although the lethality of that kind of shell is large, one is enough to destroy a fortress, but the range of the landing point is too large, in other words, the mortar shell is not accurate at all, in the previous shelling, 240-mm mortar shells even fell a kilometer from the Japanese positions.

But today's grenade is different, this shell is like an eye, directly hit the fortress, the Japanese people thought: "Maybe their shells hit our fortress by great luck, we don't have to worry." But the illusions of the Japanese army were soon shattered, and another shell hit the fortress, and the fortress that had been hit was instantly turned into a flat ground in a cloud of smoke.

The commander of the Japanese fortress group hurriedly reported to Yamashita Shuizhong: "Captain Yamashita, our fortress can no longer be defended, the artillery of Lin Yuan's troops is too powerful, and if a shell falls, our fortress will be gone!" ”

Yamashita Shuizhong hurriedly ordered: "Immediately withdraw from the fortress and move into the tunnel for defense." When the Japanese soldiers inside the fortress heard this, they pushed open the cover door behind the fortress and got out of the fortress, and there was a trench behind the fortress that led directly to the tunnel, which allowed the Japanese soldiers to quickly withdraw to the tunnel.

As soon as the Japanese soldiers withdrew, the scouts who were monitoring in front of the Japanese position quickly noticed it, and they immediately reported the news to Lu Xinghua, who immediately ordered the troops to rush through the Japanese fortress and attack the Japanese tunnel.

But as soon as he rushed to the front of the fortress, there was a loud gunfire from inside the fortress, and the infantry were quickly pressed back to their positions. The little devil still dares to play this trick with me! Order our artillery, according to the predetermined plan, to open a gap in the enemy's fortress group, Spitfire attack, and wait until all the Japanese fortress group is destroyed before attacking! ”

The 155-mm howitzer was ordered to immediately fire shells at the Japanese forts according to the predetermined plan, and soon blew up more than a dozen forts, and as soon as these forts were destroyed, there were more than a dozen gaps in the Japanese fortress group, and the Pyro detoured from these gaps to the outside of the other forts, spewed flames, and blew up the Japanese forts.

At 12:50 p.m. on 13 March, after more than two hours of fighting, the Japanese army's outlying fortifications had been cleared by Lin Yuan's troops, so Lu Xinghua reported to Lin Yuan: "Lin Shuai, we have cleared the Japanese army's outlying fortifications, are we launching an attack on the Japanese army's tunnels?" ”

Lin Yuan didn't think about it and said: "Attack immediately and wipe out all the Japanese troops!" ”