Chapter 131: A Shot
I believe that with the advent of the era of white pollution, all countries will find that oil is becoming more and more important, and those countries that have enough strength but do not have oil will have more and more strong hopes to break the old world, especially countries like Japan, which like Japan like to endure humiliation and burden, will be as crazy as a volcano once it erupts.
Polyethylene has earned them a lot, especially in the European and American markets, and now they can know that the way to use the road is greenhouse membrane and tap water pipe, these two things are not in great demand in the Chinese market, at this time the Chinese can eat is good, a few people will care about the quality of the meal, not to mention the tap water pipe, Beiping City is now every household with pressurized water wells!
But the demand in Europe and the United States is very strong, even if these countries' own polyethylene projects are put into production, the Japanese are also very competitive, their labor costs are extremely low, even lower than China, sweatshops are all over the place, European and American countries want to compete with them in this regard, only the price of crude oil is undoubtedly the most unfair way for the Japanese, which will be a huge humiliation for the self-esteem of the Japanese soldiers who are immersed in the great military prestige of the imperial state, Yang Feng is looking forward to the moment when they strive for fairness and justice.
If one polyethylene is not enough, they will add polypropylene, and if the polypropylene is not enough, they will add polyvinyl chloride, and one day the Japanese will find that they will not find any way to unravel the cycle except for war with the United States or Great Britain.
Yang Feng soon welcomed another guest who was eager to break the old world.
"Your Excellency, how come you have time to come to Beiping?" Yang Feng welcomed the arrival of Taodeman very warmly.
"Some old friends have been separated for a long time, and people can't help but have the idea of visiting." Todman said with a shrug.
"Then I'm honored to be on your list of old friends." Yang Feng said with a smile.
"Yang, I heard that you are going to sell self-propelled guns to your government?" After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Toddman asked.
"What's the matter, it won't have an impact on Sino-German cooperation, right? In that case, I'd rather hold off on the deal. Yang Feng said with a look of surprise.
"Nope. No, the arms trade between China and Germany was bartered and was not affected in the slightest, but we are just a little curious about your artillery. Toddman said.
"Let's just go and see it together, if your country likes it, I won't mind sharing this good thing with friends." Yang Feng said with a smile. Another business has come to the door, and it seems that his investment in arms does not need to be reimbursed by the bald guy.
But to be honest, Yang Feng is not very willing to sell self-propelled guns to the Germans, mainly because they are too cheap, you must know that this is the technology of the Soviet Union in the sixties and seventies, but considering the current metallurgical level, it is not easy for them to copy, since this is the case, then sell it to them! Whether they can build it or not is their own business.
Sun Liren now serves those ten cannons more meticulously than his wife. It is spotless every day, and the light can be seen, but because it is still in the process of familiarization, his oversized chariot company has not fired a single shell so far, and it just so happened that they were also allowed to drive meat today.
The test gun could not be tested in Beiping, and it was not good to hurt the children of flowers and plants for more than ten kilometers with one shot, so Yang Feng simply brought them to a mobile exercise. Ten self-propelled guns, under the protection of an infantry battalion that can be described as mechanized, made a triumphant march straight to Gubeikou.
This is still the Guanlin Expedition and Defense Zone. Now each mouth of the Great Wall has a division on guard, starting from Dushikou is the 107th Division of the Northeast Army, the 25th Division of the Zhongyang Army of Guan Linzheng, the Zhang Zizhong Division of Xifengkou, and the Huang Guanghua Division of the Lengkou Shangzhen Division, and each of these four divisions has a division as a backup. The rest of the four armies of Fu Zuoyi, Yu Xuezhong, He Zhuguo, and Pang Bingxun were blocked between the eastern part of Beiping and the Luanhe River, and the 53rd Army of the Northeast Army was transferred to Jiangxi. In addition, there are several cavalry divisions of the Northeast Army, which belong to the 63rd Army but Feng Zhanhai can't control the two divisions of Shen Ke and Wang Duoquan, and North China can also be called a heavy army, of course, this has a lot to do with Yang Feng teasing the Japanese from time to time.
Besides, it's not the original history now, the Great Wall War of Resistance actually lost, so that the Japanese were forced to sign the alliance under the city, but this time it was a draw, although they lost Rehe and Jidong, but after all, they were not beaten to the city of Beiping, so the bald guy had a little expectation of being able to block the Japanese army in North China.
Yang Feng's convoy rolled up in the early summer drizzle all the way to Miyun, where the second division was stationed, and the division commander Zheng Dongguo heard that the German minister had arrived, and immediately took his subordinate officers out in the rain, and then made the scene in front of him startled.
Yang Feng, dressed in SS leather clothes, walked out of his Maybach sedan with a scepter, and did not even play an umbrella in order to pretend to be cool.
"Brother Yang?" Zheng Dongguo didn't know him, and when he saw that it was Yang Feng, he couldn't help but say in surprise.
As he spoke, there was a roar like thunder, and then the ground under his feet began to tremble, and then behemoths appeared in the rain and fog, and the weapon shape of the old mao has always been full of evil, and 2C3 is no exception, the rain-soaked iron gray body reflects the ghostly light, and it is difficult for people who see this thing for the first time not to be startled.
"Brother Gui Ting, how is this new guy, brother?" Yang Feng, who was wearing leather clothes in the summer, touched the steel beast beside him and said proudly.
"This is your self-propelled cannon?" Zheng Dongguo said with a shocked face, although he had never seen it, he had heard of it.
At this time, Tao Deman also got out of the car, and after a few words of greeting Zheng Dongguo, he told him that he invited Yang Feng to find a place to test the gun.
He didn't dare to be disrespectful to Zheng Dongguo, now the bald guy and Adolf were so good that they were about to wear a pair of pants, the German advisory group was guiding him in Jiangxi to suppress bandits, and a large arms deal was being negotiated, and the German minister was undoubtedly the most respected person now.
Since he wants to test the cannon with Yang Feng, Zheng Dongguo is naturally not easy to refuse, and besides, he also wants to see how powerful this thing is, but he doesn't understand that Yang Feng has to go to Gubeikou to test the cannon.
"It's too close to the front line, and the Japanese army has a brigade stationed on the opposite side, as well as a division under Zhang Haipeng, so it's not good if it causes a misunderstanding." Zheng Dongguo said.
"I didn't get close to the fight, and it was twenty kilometers away, and it was impossible to hit the other side of the Rehe. We don't care about anyone on our side. Yang Feng said.
Zheng Dongguo thought about it for a while and finally agreed, Tao Deman naturally had no opinion, now he is begging Yang Feng, of course, Yang Feng can do whatever he says, and he doesn't think Yang Feng's words are problematic, in his opinion, this kind of short-barreled howitzer. It is unlikely that it can hit fifteen kilometers, and now the best FH18 in Germany can't hit such a range, this is a howitzer and not a cannon, and he doesn't know that there will be a kind of artillery shell called the bottom row extended range shell in the future.
Soon after the rain passed, the sky was clear, Yang Feng drove his self-propelled guns outside Gubeikou, and even Guan Linzheng, who was stationed at Gubeikou, also came, and a group of people watched his cannon fire with great interest.
Because Yang Feng said that the maximum range is 15 kilometers, it is on a mountain fifteen kilometers away. A huge target was marked in the pile of rubble with red paint, and it was still nearly 20 kilometers away from the Great Wall, and even if it was high, it would definitely not be able to fly out of the Great Wall.
Guan Linzheng and Zheng Dongguo also picked a group of artillery under their own command, followed into the turret to observe and learn, ten self-propelled guns lined up, each aimed the muzzle at a distant target, of course, did not expect to hit, such a long distance as long as it is not too far off, it is completely qualified.
Yang Feng was personally in charge of the command. With an order from the on-board radio, ten cannons opened fire at the same time.
Ten 152-mm guns fired at the same time, which can be described as shaking the ground. Even if the group of people blocked their ears, they felt a buzzing in their heads, as if they had been punched, and the muzzle flames shot out, and in the blink of an eye, the distant mountains were covered with gunsmoke.
Before everyone could come to their senses, the automatic loader quickly supplied ammunition, and soon the second round of firing began.
"How. The power of this cannon is okay! Yang Feng motioned for everyone to take off the earbuds, and said quite proudly.
Zheng Dongguo and his gang took off their earplugs, held the binoculars and looked at the mountain covered in gunsmoke in the distance, where they were complimenting Yang Feng! At this time, a herald hurried over.
"Report to the division commander, the Japanese defense area opposite Gubeikou was shelled. There were four fire clusters of heavy artillery shells exploding, one of which was in the middle of a Japanese outpost, and another was in the puppet army barracks.
"What?" Guan Linzheng's eyes almost popped out.
"How far is it from here, and what caliber of shells explode?" He grabbed the herald by the collar and shouted.
"It's about 20 kilometers away, I can't judge the caliber, I've never seen that big." The herald said weakly as he looked at the cannon beside him.
"I'm going to kill you!" Guan Linzheng glared at Yang Feng, hurriedly got on his horse and went straight to Gubeikou, and even Zheng Dongguo hurried back to the station.
"Your Excellency, you have to testify to me, I really didn't mean to, and I didn't know that Lu Dao could fight so far!" Yang Feng said to Todman with an innocent face.
"If you tell me why your shells can hit so far, I can not only testify to you, but also give you the responsibility to explain to the Japanese side." Tao Deman said expressionlessly, he didn't know how to let Yang Feng cheat.
"Actually, it's nothing, it's just that a new shell range extension technique is used, which can probably increase the range of the shell by 30 percent." Yang Feng said with a smile.
The entire Great Wall defense line made his artillery boil all at once, hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides were all alarmed, from Duolun to Tianjin, all the departments entered a state of imminent battle, and Liu Huan's department had to get off the train again, and the two divisions of the Northeast Army that had already arrived in Henan turned around and came back, He Yingqin was so anxious that he hurriedly distributed ammunition, and the original arrears of military salaries were also hurriedly issued.
The same is true of the Japanese side, a division that was encircling and suppressing Tang Juwu urgently went south, and a division that was originally stationed in Heilongjiang to guard against robbery also had to go south, and even the puppet army mobilized more than 100,000 people, and all of them rushed to Rehe.
Just when the whole of North China was full of rumors and the grass and trees were all soldiers, Tianjin Ta Kung Pao published a statement of apology from Yang Feng in a shy reply: "A few days ago, the contemptible people and the German minister Mr. Todmann test-fired the newly purchased 152-mm self-propelled gun at a distance of 20 kilometers south of the Gubei Pass. If there is no one to take care of your wife and daughter, you are willing to take care of them on your behalf.
Once again, I apologize for the deep sorrow, but Yu Shi did not expect that its range could exceed 20 kilometers. ”
His apology statement almost distorted the nose of the Japanese minister, Ariyoshiaki, and killed four Japanese soldiers, including a young man at an inspection post. Your apology statement is over, at least,
There is Ji Ming at least but he found that he really has nothing to do now Yang Feng can t be offended the four major consortia have issued a strict order Imperial Plastics obtained polypropylene technology before the operation. It is strictly forbidden to offend Yang Feng no matter who it is, and the pressure from North China must be appropriately weakened, and Yang Feng must never be forced to leave China.
Although the four major conglomerates are not emperors, in fact, what they say is not much different from what the emperor says, which means that they can only endure this matter.
And there is another point, Yang Feng's apology statement said that he went to test the cannon with Tao Deman, which means that the Germans are worried about Yang Feng's self-propelled artillery skills, and Japan is approaching Germany at this time. If this matter is not handled well, it will have to offend the Germans.
Ariyoshiaki was depressed to find that in the face of Yang Feng's deliberate provocation, the only choice for the Japanese Empire was to swallow his anger.
Of course, the necessary steps must be taken, such as going to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to protest, not directly protesting against Yang Feng's killing of Japanese soldiers, but only protesting against the Chinese side's connivance with the development of private groups hostile to the Japanese Empire.
Anyway, the bald guy was also angry with Yang Feng, of course he already knew that Yang Feng was the one who broke into the disaster, and Yang Feng's apology statement should be said to be to relieve him, but are you an apology statement? If there is a wife and daughter, there is no one to take care of them. May you take care of you, and you simply say that I killed your people. You can send his wife and daughter to me to play with.
And the last sentence, are you showing off? Isn't the heavy artillery of the Japanese not as far as you? However, this twenty km range really makes the bald guy feel itchy, he just ordered the FH18 from the Germans, the maximum range is less than fifteen km, and the Japanese are now not to mention 150 howitzers. Even 150 cannons can't hit twenty kilometers.
Of course, for the protest of Yoshimei, he dealt with it very simply.
"Your Excellency, I will order the Beiping side to thoroughly investigate this matter, and I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer." He said to Ariyoshiaki with a smile.
He Yingqin of Beiping was also angry enough. He was confronting Yang Feng at this time.
"You don't know how far your own cannon can hit?" He glared at Yang Feng and asked.
"I really don't know, you see that it is not a problem for us to secretly assemble abroad, but where can we find a place to test the gun? We play with anti-aircraft artillery, guns, and even combat vehicles can be kept secret, but what do we keep secret with 152mm heavy guns? A cannon shot can be heard more than ten kilometers away, and people still think we are going to rebel!
Although there have been a few tests, it was also in the indoor soundproof environment as much as possible, with empty ammunition to test the amount of charge, the first shot with live ammunition was in Tianjin, that time I purely played with direct sighting.
After it was transported to Beiping, my subordinates were familiar with it all the time, and they never fired a single shot at all, and we only estimated that the firing range was 15 kilometers based on the data, and no one expected that it would be able to hit more than 20 kilometers. Yang Feng explained innocently.
He Yingqin believed what he said, he was just a graduate of the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, who knows how many tests it takes to finalize the design of a heavy artillery in Ludao, if Yu Dawei is here, Yang Feng will not dare to say so.
"Then what are you doing in Gubeikou?" He then asked.
"I admit that I really want to tease the Japanese, anyway, let's play on our side, and they can't say anything, who knows that this kind of thing will happen."
"In the future, don't run to provoke the Japanese, this time do you know that the two sides almost fought!" After He Yingqin finished speaking, he quickly sent him away.
As for how to deal with the protests of the Japanese, this is also simple, just find two scapegoats, so Guan Linzheng and Zheng Dongguo did not govern the army strictly, and let idle personnel enter the war zone at will, and each of them was removed from their posts to see the after-effects.
However, the consequences of this incident were irreparable, Yu Zhishan, who was abandoned by the Japanese in Dongbian Road to encircle and suppress Tang Juwu alone, suffered a crushing defeat, and even he was almost killed by a shell, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese army to move south, a team of bandits ransacked a Japanese settlement, killing hundreds of Japanese civilians, the most pitiful of which were those women, who suffered inhumane torture.
The bandit suppression cause on the bald guy's side has also been affected to a certain extent, especially after this trouble, when he transferred the North China army to the south, the resistance suddenly became much greater, and the forces in all sides opposed him to continue to evacuate the North China garrison.
At this time, Yang Feng is naturally the happiest, he likes to do this, creating a little tense atmosphere from time to time, so that all parties are always worried, even if the Japanese fart and quickly raise the alarm.
"Brother Yang, you cheated us, shouldn't you also show it." Guan Linzheng, who was drinking with him, said dissatisfiedly that he was now removed from his post and retained, so naturally he couldn't let go of the culprit.
"Well, what do you want? If you want money, you want guns, you still want women, you want money, brothers will give you 10,000 oceans, it's easier to do women, Russian Yanmar, Japanese chicks, Indian water snake waists, whatever kind of brothers you like, go and get them for you. Yang Feng said with a righteous face.
"Don't harm us again, let the chairman know, are you going to let us go to the Judge Advocate General!" Zheng Dongguo said with a smile.
"Give us a hundred and ten of the kind of guns with scopes that you men's wield." Guan Linzheng said.
"There are still 100 of them, I have a total of 100 of them, which are called sniper rifles, the range is about the same as that of machine guns, and they are specially designed to hit important targets from a distance, but it is really suitable to deal with the Japanese grenadiers, I will send you 20 pieces per person, and you go back to pick those with good marksmanship and smart brains, and get a sniper team." Yang Feng said.
"But that gun is good, and the bullet is also special, so the effect of ordinary bullets is much worse." Yang Feng said again. (To be continued......)