A Japanese squad leader said to Yamashita Shuizhong: "Captain, the cannons of the people of China have been erected, and I am afraid that they will be able to attack us with artillery after a while, so the captain should quickly think of a way." ”

Yamashita Shuizhong said: "There are only two ways now, one is to use our artillery to bombard their firing positions, but the superiors have been delayed in transporting the artillery to us; The other is to send troops, carry explosives, and blow up their launch positions, but this method is very difficult! ”

The Japanese squad leader said: "Captain, I am willing to personally lead the death squad to attack that launch position!" ”

Yamashita Mizutada said, "You think that launch position is so easy to attack? With the cunning of the Ichina, they will definitely set up an ambush on the way, waiting for our death squad to take the bait! Moreover, many of our warriors have lost their strength due to hunger, and we are no match for the Shina people. ”

The Japanese squad leader was speechless, and Yamashita Shuizhong said: "You immediately take people to the back mountain to chop some dry firewood, and then prepare some water, and when the cannons of the people of China are erected, we will burn the dry firewood, and then sprinkle the water on the burning dry firewood, which will produce a lot of smoke, and those smoke can cover our position, and it will not be discovered by the people of China." ”

The team leader shook his head and said: "Captain, this method doesn't work, smoke is afraid of wind, if Lin Yuan's troops attack in windy weather, won't this method fail?" ”

Yamashita Shuizhong said helplessly: "Then I can only ask my superiors to send cannons to support." So Yamashita Mizutada continued to call his superiors, and this time Yamashita Mizutada's tone became very tough: "Captain, if you don't transfer the artillery to us again, you will be fully responsible for the loss of our high ground, but General Kishimoto personally called us and told us to defend!" ”

The superiors of Yamashita Shuizhong were a little panicked, so they ordered the transport squadron under the jurisdiction of the brigade to transport an artillery piece to the 301 Heights at all costs, and the transport squadrons hurriedly loaded a 75 mm caliber howitzer onto the car and transported it to the 301 Heights.

The reason is very simple, the mountain road is very rugged, the car can't go up at all, but the livestock can go up, but where to find the livestock for a while, so the Japanese army decided to disassemble the artillery, but the Japanese artillery was not designed to consider the use of dismantling and transportation, so many key components have to take a lot of effort to dismantle.

The Japanese soldiers in the transport squadron were all automobile soldiers, who could only drive cars and could not do anything else, let alone dismantle the artillery, so the transport squadron reported to the higher authorities and asked the artillery squadron for support, which delayed a lot of time.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of 13 March, after a night of assembly, a howitzer was assembled in the eastern position of the Japanese army, and the pre-launch debugging began.

At this time, the Japanese artillery was still dismantled at the bottom of the mountain, the temperature in the mountain was as low as minus 15 degrees, the cold wind gusted, the Japanese army did not have light gloves to keep out the cold, and most of the time the dismantling of the artillery needed to be carried out with bare hands, which made the Japanese artillery miserable, their hands could only be rubbed when they were frozen and could not stand it, and it slowed down the speed of dismantling and transportation. The strength of Lin Yuan's troops and the Japanese army is judged in the detail of the glove!

At 10 o'clock in the morning of 13 March, the Japanese army finally dismantled a piece of artillery and transported it up the mountain, after all, the Japanese artillery was small in caliber and light in weight, so it was quickly transported, and the Japanese army then assembled it on the high ground, and the Japanese artillery was simple in structure and relatively fast to assemble, so there was great hope of firing the cannon first.

Lu Xinghua on Lin Yuan's position quickly saw this, he immediately ordered the mortar unit to fire on the Japanese artillery position, the range of Lin Yuan's mortar can cover the entire Japanese heights, which is far beyond the Japanese mortar troops, the reason why Lin Yuan's troops have not used mortars is because they understand: the power of mortar shells is not enough to blow up the Japanese fortress, and it is also Lang Fei shells to shoot out, and now that they see people exposed outside the position, how can they let it go!

The mortar unit then hid behind a dirt slope, and two observers climbed up the dirt slope and measured the position of the Japanese firing position with a steering wheel and theodolite, and soon a set of data was transmitted to the launcher, who shook the hand wheel, adjusted the firing angle of the mortar, and then put a shell into the barrel.

With a "boom", the shells came out of the chamber, flew to the Japanese firing position, and landed next to the firing position, and the splashed soil was immediately scattered on the bodies of the Japanese soldiers, and an officer hurriedly reported to Yamashita Shuizhong: "We have been attacked by shells!" ”

Shan Shita Shuizhong hurriedly asked, "Could it be that the cannons of Lin Yuan's troops have already been loaded?" ”

The officer shook his head and said, "The shell doesn't look like it came from that cannon, because there is always a person standing in front of the muzzle of that cannon." ”

Yamashita Mizutada said, "Where did that cannonball come from? ”

The officer shook his head silently and said, "We don't know from behind which hillside the road flew from. ”

Yamashita Shuizhong slapped the table in front of him fiercely, and said angrily: "It must be a mortar, that kind of cannon has good concealment, so we can't find it!" ”

The officer asked, "Then do we want to continue assembling?" ”

Yamashita Shuizhong gritted his teeth and said firmly: "Assemble, continue to assemble!" We must raze the artillery firing position of Lin Yuan's troops to the ground, otherwise we will be completely annihilated! ”

The officer replied in a loud voice: "Yes! We get it! The Japanese artillerymen then shook off the dust on their bodies and continued to assemble the artillery, and at this time the observers of Lin Yuan's troops had already seen the landing point, and then sent a correction message, the launcher adjusted the position of the gun, and fired another shot, this time the shell fell directly more than ten meters away from the artillery firing position, and the scattered shrapnel instantly knocked the three artillery members who were assembling the artillery to the ground.

The rest of the artillery hurriedly hid in a nearby tunnel, and the assembly of the Japanese artillery came to a halt instantly, and Yamashita Mizutada hurriedly found the artillerymen, but he was not the direct boss of the artillery, so he couldn't give a strong order to these artillerymen, so he could only say: "Everyone is a samurai of the Japanese Empire, I hope everyone ......"

Before Yamashita Shuizhong finished speaking, he heard a deafening explosion coming from the position, Yamashita Shuizhong looked back outside, only to see a cloud of smoke shrouded in the artillery, Yamashita Shuizhong had an ominous premonition in his heart, and silently muttered in his heart: "Don't blow up our cannon!" ”

When the smoke cleared, he saw that the cannon had fallen to the ground, the gun wheel on one side had disappeared, and there were all kinds of parts scattered on the ground. ”