The so-called super-caliber mortar shell is a mortar shell with a larger caliber than the mortar barrel, again at the expense of range and accuracy (but it is still much better than the "conscienceless gun", but the "conscienceless gun" is cheaper. In exchange for a substantial increase in power, the super-caliber shells fired by the independent division with 82mm this time were larger than the ordinary shells used in 120mm mortars, and their power can be imagined. Moreover, since the first 82mm mortar was captured by the independent division, Hu Weidong asked the arsenal to stop other work and go all out to produce it, and dozens of shells have been accumulated so far

In fact, although these two weapons seem to be very fierce, but the flaws are also obvious, just the pitiful range is enough to fatal wounds, if the enemy has a gun and shell to detonate the ammunition, the consequences are absolutely unimaginable, and the power becomes a shortcoming.

Among them, the "cannon without conscience" is particularly troublesome, and ordinary artillery cannot be used, and it must be installed and discharged by specially trained engineers, because the slightest mistake in the process of operation will cause a big disaster, but fortunately, Hu Weidong began to reserve talents for the engineer units as early as the militia period, and after capturing the county town of Xingguo, he immediately personally conducted emergency training for the selected flying thunder artillery, and it has been nearly a month now, and today he is responsible for firing the "cannon without conscience" The dozens of sappers were all calm, cautious and meticulous when firing the artillery, and did not make a single mistake, which is exactly in line with the saying "everything is foreseen."

In fact, even so, Hu Weidong was still a little uneasy, after all, no matter how hard the sappers trained hard, less than a month was still a little shorter, for this reason he did not let the "heavy artillery" troops stationed in the forward positions during the day, and only after discovering that the enemy did not send troops to seize the positions did he secretly arrange them in the trenches at night, during which in order to cover up the noise on the position, he also specially sent troops to attack at night

Even if it was so carefully prepared, after all, it was the first time to use it, and the enemy's strength was so strong, Hu Weidong was so nervous that he was so nervous that he was calm in front of his subordinates, and his calm performance in front of his subordinates was just pretending to be calm and appease the army. Fortunately, the "heavy artillery" has made great achievements as expected, and Hu Weidong can finally breathe a sigh of relief and secretly complain, "When we have real heavy artillery in the future, we will no longer work on your great power."

Because the morale of the defenders had been crushed by the artillery fire of the independent division, and their own side had an absolute superiority in strength, the losses of the commanders and fighters of the independent division that attacked the county town were not very large, killing more than 1,000 enemy troops and capturing 6,000 (no matter how tenacious the army is, once it is broken up, it may also graze sheep on a large scale, see the number of Japanese captured at Nomenkan. Its own casualties were less than a thousand, of which only more than 300 were killed, and there was no doubt that it was another complete victory. A batch of supplies that were originally intended to be transported to Xingguo were stranded in Yongfeng County for a while because of the fall of Xingguo, but they were not able to be transferred by the independent division, and the number of garrisons in Yongfeng County was large, and most of them were elite troops, so the capture of this battle was much richer than the previous battle

"Report to the division commander, our army has captured more than 12,000 rifles, more than 3,000 pistols, most of which are 20 rounds, more than 1,100 submachine guns of various types, more than 170 light and heavy machine guns, 61 mortars, 36 mountain artillery, more than 90,000 tons of grain, and more than 30,000 sets of clothing," said the soldier who reported the good news, and the spit was almost sprayed on Hu Weidong's face

But Hu Weidong, who was immersed in ecstasy, didn't care at all, and just asked, "How can there be so many mountain cannons?" ”…,

"12 guns were seized from the arsenal and 24 from the surrendered White artillery." , the communications soldier replied loudly.

"Didn't the enemy destroy a single cannon? How is this possible? Hu Weidong couldn't help but be a little surprised, this luck is too good, right?

"They all said that they were reluctant to blow it up, didn't they really know that the cannon fell into the hands of the enemy and would soon be used to fight their troops again?" , He Huzi walked in with some tears and laughter.

"It's really weird, it seems that they have always been like this in history, whether it's for the devil or the People's Liberation Army, no wonder they will be called the 'transport captain'", Hu Weidong also agreed in his heart, but he laughed softly, "This shows that they don't regard us as enemies at all, you have to work harder to transform them all into our soldiers." ”

At this time, He Huzi's face sank and asked, "Xiao Hu, this battle makes me worry to death, in fact, the enemy in the city is much stronger than us, how dare you take the initiative to attack the city?" And you have so many prisoners directly into the sequence to participate in the battle, are you not afraid that they will fight back? ”

"The enemy's strength is strong, if they kill it, we have only one way to retreat, but they can't flinch, I just want to try the effect of the new weapon. Of course, this is the same as putting prisoners into the army before the war, it is risking everyone's lives, but if you develop step by step, you will only be continuously consumed by the enemy's superior forces, and it will be difficult to develop and grow. Hu Weidong then explained to He Huzi the conditions and precautions for the application of the "capture and replenishment" strategy

"First of all, we need our army cadres to love and respect these soldiers, share weal and sorrow with them, and give them care in their daily lives. Secondly, our political and ideological work must be in place, and if it weren't for the fact that you were in charge of this part, I really wouldn't have the determination to let them defect in a day or two. Both of these conditions are not possessed by the White Army, so only we can quickly turn the White Army into our soldiers as soon as we capture them, but the White Army cannot do this. However, these two items alone are not enough, the most important point", Hu Weidong said here, his tone suddenly increased, "It is that we want to win the battle, win the battle again and again!" ”

"I understand, no wonder you can pull up such a large team in such a short period of time", He Huzi sighed, he finally understood the hardships and dangers hidden under Hu Weidong's series of brilliant achievements since the beginning of the army, the team of the independent division is equivalent to his determination to "succeed if you don't succeed" again and again