Wen Yingxing, the head of the tax police corps who became the commander of Yongfeng County's urban defense, also thought deeply about this, although the tax police corps had Song Ziwen behind the god of wealth, but China was too poor, and he estimated that the enemy might be preparing to advance the mortar to the front line to bombard the positions of the national army, so the national army could quickly determine the location of its mortar after it opened fire and destroy it. He Wen Yingxing is a top student of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and the enemy's ignorance will surely bury their few artillery, Wen Yingxing can't help but feel a little sad when he thinks of this, "Not only is the domestic weapons and equipment not good, but the tactical concept is also decades behind the West!" ”

As for why the enemy's trenches were so close, Wen Yingxing thought that it was probably the enemy's artillery Jishu who couldn't do it, so he could only risk closing the distance to improve the hit rate. This idea tentatively launched a charge in the front line of the national army, but it did not change after being repelled by the Red Army's machine guns, although Wen Yingxing's evaluation of the enemy commander has been greatly improved, "The opponent's tactical literacy is very high, whether it is the crossfire of the machine gun, or the rapid transfer after repelling the enemy, but unfortunately the artillery jishu can not be improved immediately by changing the commander, it has to rely on hundreds of shells to feed out, he let the artillery risk to get close to such a high position, it is also a helpless move, right?" ”

That night, the independent division suddenly launched a surprise attack on the forward positions of the national army, fortunately, the tax police corps was well-trained, and Wen Yingxing sent reinforcements in time, and finally repelled the night attack, and the two sides each folded hundreds of people, which was undoubtedly a loss for the soldiers and equipment of the tax police corps, but this is the characteristic of the night attack, and the gap between the strength of the two sides in the night battle will be greatly narrowed, because many people died from their own manslaughter. In order to prevent the enemy from repeating his old tricks, Wen Yingxing had to send an additional battalion to the front line and asked them to be on strict alert, but he didn't expect that his order would cost the lives of these hundreds of people in vain

The next day, the sky was just a little white, and Wen Yingxing, who hadn't slept all night, suddenly heard a series of dull "thunders" sounding outside the city, and in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the front-line countries, they saw a lot of unknown objects in the sky, they were flying, rolling, whistling, drawing a terrifying trajectory in the air, and then falling down densely, smashing their heads and smashing their heads

In just a few seconds, the position of the national army turned into a hell on earth, and even if the officers and soldiers who were ordered to defend were not directly killed, most of them were shattered by the strong shock wave, or they were simply frightened into madness. Gao Zhicheng was one of the few lucky ones, because of his remote position, he was lucky to save his life, but when the earth stopped shaking, he looked as terrible as the evil ghosts of hell, his eyebrow bones were cracked, his teeth were missing, his ears were inaudible, his vision became blurred, blood was oozing out of his mouth and nose, and the military uniform on his body was as torn as a beggar's suit. He struggled to crawl out of the crater, and as soon as he took a step, he felt his legs go limp, his head was dizzy and nauseous, and he shivered so hard that he fell to his knees and vomited heavily

The positions outside the city were completely destroyed almost instantly, and the trenches were full of corpses, most of them without bloodstains on the outside, apparently killed by the shock wave. The ground was a mess, ploughed dirt mixed with broken pieces of wood, tattered uniforms, and even unexploded explosive packets

The artillery bombardment of the independent division did not end, after destroying the forward positions of the national army, Hu Weidong decisively ordered the artillery fire to be extended forward, and although the density of this round of bombardment was much smaller, the power was equally amazing, Wen Yingxing, who rushed out of the door, widened his eyes in horror, and screamed almost hysterically, "This is at least a 120mm caliber heavy artillery, how can the bandit army have such equipment?" ”…,

The Nationalist army in the city completely collapsed, and the "bandits" who thought that they were poorly equipped and could only rely on crowd tactics had such terrifying firepower, which caused them a great psychological impact (Note 1), even more than the physical damage to them, and those Nationalist troops who saw the "heavy artillery" of the Independent Division destroying Liliang were even more like walking corpses, watching the soldiers of the Independent Division rush into the city like a tide, but they even lost the sense of resistance

Wen Yingxing saw that the elite soldiers and strong generals he was proud of were actually beaten to the ground all at once, and everything was disillusioned for a while, but before he died, he still wanted to see who the enemy was, how could there be such fierce artillery fire? Could it be that after Zhang Zuolin in the past, there is another bandit in China who likes to play with firepower superiority? It's a pity that he didn't get this opportunity, because he was a little slow to raise his hand, and was considered a stubborn resistance by a young soldier who had just joined the army, and killed him with one shot. Almost ten minutes later, the county party headquarters was surrounded by officers and soldiers of the independent division, and the executioner, Kang Ze, committed suicide in the basement in despair

Where did the independent division get any heavy artillery? What left such a terrifying memory for the national army was actually the two new weapons produced by the Arsenal of the Independent Division, their jishu content was not high, but the first use received amazing results, to a large extent to make up for the firepower of the Independent Division (mortar flat fire can not destroy the enemy's trenches, direct curved fire can only bully those old troops who do not know the "ring fortifications", otherwise, even if the artillery is accurate, one shot will kill at most two or three enemies, with the current ammunition reserves of the independent division, Can't afford to consume it at all. Deficiencies

At the beginning, the independent division fired the "Flying Thunder Cannon" invented by an ordinary soldier during the Liberation War in history, commonly known as the "Conscienceless Cannon", which used gasoline barrels buried in the soil as cannon barrels (in fact, it was the soil layer that was subjected to the huge pressure of the chamber when fired instead of the gasoline barrels), and the explosives were thrown out to kill and injure the enemy by using the liliang of gunpowder explosion. Due to the caliber, the power of the "conscienceless gun" is very large, even exceeding that of a heavy grenade of 150mm caliber, but its firing range is only two or three hundred meters (the explosive package fired by the "standard" "conscienceless gun" weighs 20 kilograms, the firing range is 250-270 meters, and the radius error is about 10 meters. Therefore, when the independent division needs to extend its artillery fire, it has to use the second weapon of mass destruction - "super-caliber mortar shells"

Note 1: The effect caused by psychological preparation and non-psychological preparation is completely different, the Songhu Anti-Japanese National Army was bombarded by Japan's N heavy artillery for so long and did not collapse, and during the Battle of Jinzhou, Siye only two 240mm Japanese heavy howitzers bombarded, and the defenders who could still support it immediately collapsed. Of course, the underestimation of the intensity of enemy firepower and the large increase in casualties due to the excessive density of the array are also important factors