Chapter 293: Myth Busted (12)

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Artillery is the king of the army in this era, the soul of the army, and the courage of the infantry!

From the beginning of the establishment of the Wehrmacht, Yang Qiu, who was deeply influenced by the artillery of later generations, was trying every means to form his own powerful artillery, as the most important technical branch of the army, artillery is by no means a day or two can be done quickly, excellent gunners determine the number and ability of artillery, sometimes even he envies the Japanese artillery talents who have been trained in the Russo-Japanese War, and in this regard, the Wehrmacht has no comparison for the time being, fortunately there are data machine drawings, plus European procurement of gun barrels and other major components can achieve technical advantages.

No one knows whether the new equipment that has been piled up hundreds of millions of yuan will be effective or not; although since the founding of the army, the soldiers have been strengthened in various forms such as night schools and barracks cultural classes, but he still has no idea whether he can pass this examination. For an army, there is nothing more convincing than actual combat, so in order to test the results of the training, the 3rd Battalion of the Artillery Regiment directly under the 101st Division directly erected the cannon 15,000 meters away, which is beyond the visual distance, and it is completely necessary to rely on the field telephone and the artillery observation post on the distant hill to carry out blind shooting.

"Wind speed correction."

The officers were writing and drawing on the data on the other end of the phone, and even the incessant sound of the cannon seemed to be forgotten, and soon the new coordinates were provided with a cannon squad, and the gunners fine-tuned the cannon according to a series of numbers. This was obviously difficult for the Chinese artillerymen, who had a poor mathematical foundation, and this was evident not only to Jerome, but also to the other two German observers, but unlike Jerome, who stood by and watched, they took the initiative to participate in the actions of the artillerymen, and one of them took advantage of the artillery adjustment to observe the details of the gun in detail.

Germany also has a similar 105 mm cannon, although the range is not much different, but the weight is much larger than this one, so they are very interested in this cannon, especially the double-wheel open foot design, if it is not for wartime, they may use their own identity to find a way to test fire to experience.

An ordinary ballistic correction took more than a minute for the 3rd Battalion, and it only took thirty seconds for the Germans, and this is the reality gap. However, what made the three observers nod was that the artillerymen were very attentive and adaptable quickly, and they were able to play freely after getting through the tension of the initial stage. Experimental data Warhammer 14B can reach 6-8 rounds per minute at the earliest, although maintaining a constant rate of 4 rounds per minute, 60 15-kilogram high-explosive grenades per minute still caused great damage to the Araki Wing, especially the artillery positions that were not warned were devastated.

When the shells just fell, many Japanese artillerymen dragged and evacuated in order to save their field guns, and even army soldiers went to help, it was good to rescue the artillery, but they still miscalculated the intensity of the opponent's firepower, and the high-explosive fragmentation grenades with a killing radius of up to 20 meters often swept across a large area after exploding, and the vast majority of the exposed soldiers died from the fragments and the steel balls inside. The most terrible thing is the two 150 heavy guns, although they tried to reduce weight when they were imitated, but the weight of two tons was too heavy for the infantry when the mules and horses could not come up, and they were taken care of, so in less than five minutes, the two 150 heavy guns turned into scrap metal.

Fortunately, due to the large amount of shells consumed in three days, and the Japanese artillery, which had learned the British habit of piling shells next to the gun emplacements, did not suffer a mass explosion, several 75-mm field guns were finally dragged into the bunkers and hidden. However, this did not mean that things were getting better, on the contrary, as the artillery regiment directly under the 1st Division rushed from Lin Jiatai arrived at the predetermined position, and the infantry quickly cleared the surrounding Japanese cavalry and laid down the defensive line, Sadao Araki finally experienced the pain of the Yamazaki brigade.

The threefold increase in firepower projection made the Araki Wing, which urgently switched from offensive to defensive, suffer enough, and countless examples of later generations proved that if there was adequate preparation, the Japanese Army's great defensive battle was extremely tenacious, but in the field it was the opposite, especially when the artillery was completely suppressed by the opponent, it was almost a disaster ()! This is the case with Sadao Araki now, although after receiving the news from the Yamazaki brigade, he strengthened the outer fortifications and prepared to meet the enemy, but the poor countryside could not scrape together enough materials for a while, so many of the fortifications were built with demolished houses, and the places that should have been made of cement were replaced with loess, and the stone slabs were replaced with bricks could not stop such a fierce shelling.

"There's too much firepower."

On the foothills of the north side of the Motianling, Jiang Zuobin, who had just climbed the main peak with him, saw the Japanese garrison Qijiabao a few miles away, which was already filled with gunsmoke, and couldn't help but sigh at the changes in the world, who would have thought that China, which was still in a comprehensive weakness a few years ago, would be able to gather such an artillery force in a short period of time, no wonder Yang Qiu dared to take the initiative to attack and enter this war.

Yue Peng agreed with his statement, it is a good thing that the artillery firepower is strong, but it is always the infantry that solves the problem, but when he walked into the position of the 2nd Brigade with the officers and staff officers, he immediately gave up the idea of saving shells! Several officers who were not able to bear it almost burst into tears. At a glance, there are almost no straight trees on the southern slope of the entire main peak, there are craters and rubble everywhere, and corpses and blood are covered all over the hillside!

The peculiar smell of Shimose gunpowder still permeated the air, and the corpses of the soldiers on both sides were twisted together in strange shapes, and many of them showed signs of decay due to the high temperature and the inability to dispose of the corpses in time. Yue Peng's eyes were red and he stood in front of the corpse of a dead battalion commander, this 27-year-old young man was a veteran in the Hubei army, and he walked out of the 42nd standard with him to the present, and he also recommended him to go to the officer training class from squad leader, company commander to battalion commander, is a combat hero who has received medals.

But now he was lying quietly on this deserted hill, a three-finger-wide piece of shrapnel was stuck in his stomach, and his intestines were flowing everywhere from the wound, and it could be seen that he still had a breath at that time, so his nails scratched white marks on the rocks, but no one could save this kind of injury under the current medical conditions, and the military doctors could only watch him howl and die.

There are many, many soldiers who died like him, many of whom Yue Peng knew, these young men who were still jumping around on the street a few days ago and whistling at the big girl, and then went home to be locked up and dedicated their young lives for the country and their ideals, who could be more touching than them? With tears in their eyes, two military reporters took the last photo of these soldiers ().

And the main peak is not the worst, when everyone set foot on Xiaogu Ridge, even the strongest Ke Shao howled, the entire 23rd Regiment 3rd Battalion only had 147 people left, and the 22nd Regiment that came to support suffered more than 466 casualties! On this position alone, more than 700 soldiers died! Later, it was calculated that the entire 2nd Brigade had a total of more than 1,500 casualties in the Motianling Resistance Battle, with a total of more than 30% casualties and countless minor injuries, which also made the 2nd Brigade have to retreat to Mukden until the end of the war.

However, they also took away nearly 3,000 elite infantry of the Araki Wing, plus lost in Linjiatai, even if the Araki Wing was the formation of the Japanese Army's hidden strength large wing, it lost almost half of its strength, and this is not counting the artillery that was almost completely annihilated, which greatly consumed the enemy's vital strength and laid a solid foundation for the general attack. However, although the annihilation of the Araki Wing had been settled, the heavy losses of the 2nd Brigade still made Yue Peng feel that the troops in his hands were a little stretched, and now it was up to him to see when the 101st Division would be able to arrive in full force, if he didn't have two or three core main divisions in his hands, he couldn't guarantee whether he could block the Japanese counterattack.

Hearing that he was going to withdraw himself to Fengtian to rest, Yu Dehai, who had already killed red-eyed, roared: "Commander, let's get on!" If you don't destroy these little Japan, I'm sorry for my dead brothers! ”

"After cleaning up the battlefield, continue to hold out until the end of the battle, and then give me a retreat!" Looking at Yu Dehai, whose arm was pierced by a bullet and wrapped in thick gauze, Yue Peng pointed to the general star on his shoulder: "This is an order!" ”

"But." Yu Dehai originally wanted to argue, but after seeing his movements, he had to grit his teeth and nodded.

A few hours ago, the Motianling Ridge, which had shouted to kill the earth-shattering sky, was temporarily quiet, and the soldiers took advantage of the interval between the attack of the brother troops on Qijiabao, where the Japanese army was stationed, and spat fiercely on that side while cleaning the battlefield, hoping to rush over and fight together.

Three kilometers away, Qijiabao had completely fallen into madness, and the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division, the 41st Brigade of the 14th Division, and the 38th Brigade of the 12th Division from Changchun to Fushun from the east of the river bank by train a total of three brigades launched a final general attack on the Araki Wing that had penetrated deep into Qijiabao in Motianling.

"Your Excellency, the east side of the village and town has been lost ()!"

"Report, heavy artillery, their infantry and heavy artillery."

"The western position has been breached, they have too many machine guns!"

In the half-buried wing command post, soldiers rushed in from time to time to report the situation outside, Araki Sadao sat on the ground, the snow bright saber next to him was already out of the sheath, and the flag guard Shaozuo behind him pinched the wing battle flag and listened to the machine guns and explosions getting closer and closer outside, and his palms were already sweating.

"Dazuo."

Hanada Shaoza rushed into the command post with a bloody face, looking panicked: "Yamazaki Shaoza, he sacrificed." ”

Sadao Araki didn't say anything, waved his hand to let Hanada leave, and then unfastened his collar suddenly, if this was a city or a fortress, it might be able to block it for a while, but there was a lack of enough terrain to support the defense in the field, and the artillery was all killed, and in the face of at least a hundred or more machine guns and cannons in three brigades, the small Qijiabao could not hold it at all.

"Shame! It's a shame on me! Sadao Araki shouted a few times in the sky, glancing at the flag guard behind him. The army has not lost the battle flag since the first noon, but it did not think that the first loss was actually in its own hands, and the object was still the Chinese who looked down on it before!

"Jade shattered, Kudanzaka!"

Sadao Araki shouted his last words before committing suicide, and the flag guard Shaosa also followed suit and lit the battle flag of the wing. When smoke rose from the vents in the bunker, several 120-mm mortars also spotted the target at the same time.

"Boom, boom."

In a series of explosions, the Araki Wing command post was blown to pieces, and although the dust extinguished the flames on the Wing flag, the main body of the flag was completely burned, leaving only the flagpole and a few broken flower spikes.

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