Strictly speaking, it's a lot, a lot of big guns.

The waiting naval gunners and their commanders rushed to the junction with a hula, their necks stretched and their eyes wide as they stared at the rolling convoy.

The leading crawler tractor is like a mobile building, and the steel crawlers more than half a meter wide clanged into each other, leaving a deep groove on the ground that had been crushed, causing a vibration that made people think that some monster was about to crawl out of the ground.

Coupled with the chimney at the front of the car that can stuff people into, the boiler that burns heavy oil emits black smoke, like a ghost out of a volcano.

The navy, which worked on steel battleships all day long, was also stunned by this behemoth weighing dozens of tons running on land. But when they saw the guy dragging behind them, all the shock was immediately renewed.

The first cannon is enough to make people frightened.

The artillerymen looked at it and immediately exclaimed: "What a big caliber!" I'm afraid there won't be 20 births! ”

The gunner of the "Laiyuan", who faced the 210mm Krupp gun all day long, was particularly familiar with the inner diameter. It seems that the two are actually about the same, at most the length of the barrel is slightly shorter, and the barrel wall is obviously thinner. But with the chassis with its own tracks, a sense of threat from a peerless beast suddenly came to the face!

If there are experts who have won awards decades later, or army equipment enthusiasts a hundred years later, they will definitely recognize at a glance that this cannon is the famous Stalin's hammer - the B4 howitzer!

203mm caliber, 5087mm barrel length, maximum range 17.5 km. One shot down. You can blast out a large crater with a diameter of 15 meters and a depth of 3 meters! If used to bombard positions. The radius of destruction can reach 70 meters, and the fragments can fly as far as 400 meters!

They had always seen huge 10-12 tons fixed on turrets or mounted in turrets, but today for the first time they saw them running on land.

A sailor couldn't help but say: "With such a short body, I'm afraid the range is not far, right?" How can you fight the main guns of enemy ships? ”

He probably guessed that the reason why they came here was to help fire the cannon.

Artillery fire on the battleship. Anyway, there is an open turret or turret to cover it, and this ground is against the enemy...... It's chilling to think about!

This was heard by an officer standing outside the tractor, and immediately snorted disdainfully: "What's the use of being in charge?" Your old naval guns only have a range of seven or eight thousand meters, but ours can hit more than 17,000 meters! The explosion is more than ten times more powerful than yours! ”

17,000 kilometers!

The sailors looked incredulous. Is there really such a god? Brag about it!

However, they immediately remembered that the 305mm cannon they saw in the morning had a half-charge range of more than 12,000 meters, which was only 7 times the length of the barrel. The new smokeless propellant is the key!

Sensing that there might be more surprises to come, the sailors held their breath. Staring wide-eyed at the tractor that kept moving behind him.

The second, still a B-4 howitzer. The third gate. It looks like the caliber is smaller again, and it's clearly a 152mm guy, and the body tube still looks relatively short, and it's only a single tube, which makes people wonder if it's going to be blown up as soon as it fires.

The officer who jumped down from the first car to direct the traffic simply gave them a temporary science: "Don't look at the short barrel of this 152mm howitzer, the firing range is the same as seventeen kilometers!" And the rate of fire was as high as 6-8 rounds, which was no worse than the rapid-fire guns of small Japan. ”

Tang Chungui, the second deputy of the gun, hesitated: "But the barrel of the cannon is only as thin as one layer, how can it withstand the huge chamber pressure?" ”

The officer gritted his teeth and smiled: "The metallurgical technology is advanced!" Don't look at a single tube, the strength and life are several times higher than the current 6-inch rapid-fire gun of the Navy! ”

There are four doors in a row, all of them are this kind of guy.

This time, even Qiu Baoren couldn't sit still. These six guns alone can block an area ten kilometers away from the front, and a fleet can be exhausted. If you want to rush in, you have to pay a lot of casualties. The army artillery is not dangling, and it seems that the other side is equipped with advanced control and retreat devices, and the power of continuous strikes will be very fatal!

It was followed by a cannon that came up, and the barrel was surprisingly long. It's still a scary single tube, with a huge brake on its head.

Seeing that some of the officers and men of the navy began to pout, thinking that this guy was about the same as a 120mm rapid-fire gun, the officer raised his eyebrows and glared: "Don't look down on this guy, sue you, in terms of power and lethality, it is a master!" This 130mm cannon has a full 52 times the barrel and a range of 30 kilometers! ”

Tang Chungui was stunned, thinking that he had misheard: "What? Thirty kilometers? Are you mistaken! How can a cannon hit so far! Sixty miles, ....... ”

The rest of the sailors were also buzzing. None of them dared to believe it. Thirty kilometers, how is this possible? How many propellants are stuffed into such a thin tube, and it can't be blown up all at once?

The officer didn't explain, but waved his hand: "You'll know when the fight starts." ”

There are more such big guys, and Hu Longlong passed the twelve gates in one breath!

Qiu Baoren couldn't help but breathe a little fast. He believed that what the officer said was true, so the question was, a full twelve cannons that could hit thirty kilometers, even if all of them were solid armor-piercing shells, what kind of damage would be caused if they hit a battleship at ten kilometers?

And that astonishing rate of fire, which can ensure that these twelve guns can fire more than 100 shells in one minute. This is thousands of catties of steel, even if it is an ironclad ship, it can't carry it, right?

The power in the hands of the Yang family is amazingly powerful!

Although it seems that the other side does not have enough artillery to have to rely on the strength of his side, he believes that it will not be long before the other side may have all the strength. At that time, I'm afraid that there will be a hundred and eighty thousand elite soldiers to be worthy of so many cannons, right?

Thinking about the rumored terrifying combat power of the Yang Clan's escort team, Qiu Baoren felt that the Great Qing Dynasty seemed to be a little shaky!

The last one to come up. was a total of twelve smaller guns. The long, thin tube. It makes people suspect that this guy can break his pestle on the ground.

However, with the experience of the past, the naval artillerymen honestly closed their mouths and only stared to see what difference was made. Pricked up his ears and listened to the officer's ostentatious introduction: "Don't look at this guy's only 85mm caliber, it can still fight 15 kilometers away!" Hehe, it's all long-range guns today, blessed are the little devils on the other side! ”

Four calibers, a total of 30 cannons. From the test battery to the middle of the breakwater, on a three-kilometer-long curved front, three rows were opened in front and back, and the excavated No. 1 gun position was opened with a bang.

It seems that compared to the number of dozens of cannons on a battleship, it seems to be a little small. However, whether it was Tang Chungui or Qiu Baoren, as long as they calculated their rate of fire, they found that the number of intensive blows faced by the enemy attacking on the opposite side was definitely not less than that of the entire Beiyang Naval Division!

85mm cannon. Exactly the imitation of the former Soviet D44 with a rate of fire of up to 15-20 rounds per minute! This opens up the fight. Enough to block the entire sea in front of you. The Japanese army wanted to break into the attack 11 kilometers apart, and it is not known how many fatal blows they had to take.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn his head and take a deep look at the test battery in the distance. What kind of terrible effect would the still roaring 305mm cannon have if it had been fired with a full charge?

In his heart, he suddenly had a lot of confidence in whether he could hold the position.

The artillerymen of the two warships immediately rushed to the artillery assigned by their respective squads with the cooperation of their original squads, and seized the time to learn a series of tasks such as observation and operation.

Thanks to the advance training in the past 20 days, they basically understand the use of optical observation equipment for gun positions, preliminary calculation of elements and rapid adjustment. Even if you don't know how to calculate, there is a special soldier next to you, guarding the telephone and listening to the coordinates provided by the special personnel at any time.

Just when they were busy and busy, in the northwest of the two cities, thousands of strong people, under the command of the battalion leaders, frantically dug and built layers of trenches along the Chaohe River and the Jili River.

The clerk of the county house explained to the local township boss arrogantly: "You folks don't have to worry, when you finish beating the little devils, you will fill in the original situation." Besides, you don't know, do you? The land that the cannon has bombarded grows crops very well, and it is said that there is something in the gunpowder...... Oh, it's called 'nitrogen fertilizer'! But it's very expensive! ”

The old man was also seventy years old, trembling with a jujube stick, as if a gust of wind could blow away. But there was no worry on his face, and he shouted a little energetically: "Don't be afraid! I wanted to make trouble with the twist back then, and the master led the whole villager to fight with them, and it didn't! Now there are Oriental ghosts who come to fertilize the fields, and the men will eat the grain watered by their blood next year! ”

The head of the house told him that he was trembling, and he understood that this old guy was more ruthless than himself. Well, let's stop talking nonsense.

Between the villages, in the woods near Tuling, groups of cannons were working overtime to pull in.

Yang Hao was sweating profusely, and he commanded them all the way to build the artillery positions properly, and temporarily lay out the communication lines hardened by sand and stone, but his face was full of excitement.

And that's just one direction, he has a battalion of artillery in place! Adopt a six-gun system, a total of twelve 75mm imitation M1930 Bofors mountain guns, plus six 54-type 122mm howitzers, that is, the domestic version of Maozi's M1938 type.

To say that Yang Hao has so many artillery pieces in his hands now, he can completely arm the equipment of an army.

He asked the arms dealers to collect samples of various classic guns, and after obtaining the relevant design materials, he began to imitate them.

The arsenal of the second plane was built, the shipyard was projected, and the craftsmen trained did almost nothing else, and devoted themselves to the manufacture of guns.

In the beginning, they simply could not be expected to start with basic refined steel. All of them are from various private steel pipe factories in the world, according to the needs of special steel pipes, refining, forging, open hole rolling, and even various caliber steel pipes produced by centrifugal casting technology. After getting the B plane, in the workshop, start from the squeezing and self-tightening, and start from the mountain cannon of the short tube.

These young students, who have been engaged in shipbuilding, iron-making and other handicrafts for more than ten years, have very solid basic skills, and their eye-to-hand cooperation is by no means inferior to that of qualified workers in this world. After scrapping some pipes, they quickly got to work on machine tools from the fifties and sixties, boring and rifling, milling outer tubes, and so on.

Although the refinement of the finished product is far from being as good as that of a worker who has been familiar with the machine for three or five years, it is enough to be used.

They produced artillery much faster than they trained artillerymen, and most of the parts were purchased from the world, and for several months, imitations of guns of various calibers were piled up in warehouses. Today I can finally pull out a bright debut!

In the southeast of Antonwei, Lu Dusi and Pang Qianzong, who were completely bought, heard that there was an attack by devils, and without saying a word, they led people to get out of the way - they didn't do the business of fighting and sending them to death!

A company of regular soldiers, more than 1,000 reservists, and tens of thousands of soldiers, assisted by dozens of naval gunners, stepped up the construction of a 12-gun position.

At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, small loudspeakers throughout the county broadcast an order, and the left-behind militia members in all villages immediately mobilized the people to hide and prepare.

At two o'clock, fishermen, fishing boats, and cargo ships in various ports along the coast also got the news, and they set sail one after another, untied their cables, and took up their anchors, seizing the time to flee to Haizhou in the south.

This scene was discovered by the Japanese reconnaissance posts roaming in the distance, and the land route was blocked from noon, so that they could not get further information on the defense situation of the county. Mu Hong and Saburo Zhongqi sensed that something was wrong, and hurriedly let the boat go out.

At this moment, two gunboats suddenly came up with two shells, and two guns bombarded in and out, ordering them to stop the ship for inspection!

The American devils hired by the merchant ships immediately rushed out and protested, and the gunboats circled around twice and let them go. Saburo Nagasaki breathed a sigh of relief, and vowed in his heart that he would personally cut off a few Chinese heads when he turned back!

In the distance, after more than half a day's sailing, the Japanese fleet finally made a detour back to the sea more than 50 kilometers away. Ito saw through the binoculars the shadows of the sails that had left in a panic, and smiled, "They have sensed the danger. ”

Dashan Yan snorted coldly: "I don't know now that it's too late!" Please Lieutenant General give the order to immediately press forward, and we will land in three hours! (To be continued......)

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