Chapter 316: Long Live the Artillery (I)

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In the face of an unprecedentedly strong enemy, Sun Liren struggled to suppress his urge to fight, and let the troops retreat in time to avoid being directly impacted by the Japanese mecha army on the plain. However, if you want to rely on the original Japanese position, there is also a problem, because it has always been on the defensive, so there are only a few trenches on the south side of this line that are neither deep nor wide but also very straight, and there is no defense against tanks at all. Fortunately, the method of rapid construction of simple bunkers proposed by Hu Weidong has long been well known in the 15 th Group Army, and for the new 38th Division of the motorized troops, the conditions are even more ready-made. The officers and men of the new 38th Division seized the time to dig some more "gaps" on the basis of the original trenches, and only then did it barely look like a line of defense. Considering that the enemy had more than 1,000 combat vehicles, Sun Liren also immediately sent a telegram to the group army headquarters, requesting air support......

Compared with Sun Liren's cautiousness, Shinozuka Yoshio is much bolder, he saw that the enemy retreated, and immediately ordered a pursuit, in his opinion, although the enemy was able to break through the Japanese army in Lunan showed a strong strength, but after the war, the casualties were only afraid that they would not be small, and more importantly, the chariot troops came and went like the wind, even if they could not take it down, they could retreat calmly, if the enemy dared to chase, it would be even more unbelievable, and the armored forces were invincible on the plains!

But before giving the order, Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly unconsciously remembered the fiasco that almost made him never have a chance to return to the army, which made him faintly have a little foreboding, but Yoshio Shinozuka still shook his head vigorously. Trying to dispel the distracting thoughts in his mind, "The enemy is also hastily transferred troops south, and the number of troops is also limited, and the enemy this time cannot be as many as last time, and more importantly." The strength of my mecha army is ten or a hundred times stronger than that of the first brigade of independent mixed formation. They won't let me down! ”

Although the speed of the plane is fast, it will take some time to reach the battlefield, and the Japanese armored torrent has already rushed towards their positions, Sun Liren ordered 48 40-barreled 122 rocket launchers to fire early. Although the rocket launcher was troublesome to reload, it had been a while since the last launch, and it was enough to load the shells again.

With a terrible scream, the rain of fire fell on the head of the Japanese First Mecha Army, which was advancing at high speed, although the accuracy of the rocket artillery was too poor. There were only a few direct hits, and the sub-shells that flew out were too powerful, and they were all steel ball shells with anti-personnel as the main target and could not penetrate the tank armor at all, but Sun Liren's goal was basically achieved, at least a dozen tanks were forced to stop because the tracks were blown off or mechanical failure was induced in the detonation due to the concentrated attack of rocket artillery, and the momentum of the rapid advance of the enemy's armored torrent was not felt sluggish......

But the greater threat to the Japanese army was the 24 heavy cannons of the 38th New Division 150, and the charge of the 150 shells was several times larger than that of the 122 rockets, and if they fell near the tanks, even if they failed to blow up the armor. It is also enough to stun the occupants in the car, and if it is a relatively thin-skinned armored car or a Type 95 light tank, it can directly damage the hull. In particular, Sun Liren also had the artillerymen use a special shell that was originally intended as a secret weapon, which was equipped with a proximity fuse like an anti-aircraft shell. It can explode in the air from a few meters to more than ten meters above the ground when shelling from the ground, so it is extremely lethal to infantry, and for armored targets, its hit rate and killing efficiency are much higher than ordinary shells......

After discovering that the enemy's new weapons are emerging one after another. Yoshio Shinozuka's uneasiness grows stronger, but he considers that retreating will hurt his morale. And the number of the enemy's new weapons does not seem to be too many, so Yoshio Shinozuka still gritted his teeth and gave the order to urge the troops to speed up. In the meantime, the 36 122 howitzers of the new 38th Division also began to bombard fiercely, but because of the lack of power and small number, the effect was not as good as the 122 rocket artillery, and after more than 40 combat vehicles were damaged and more than 70 combat vehicles broke down, Yoshio Shinozuka finally saw the dawn of victory, at this time the enemy's forward position was in sight, and the estimated distance should be less than 10 kilometers, and Yoshio Shinozuka was about to order more than 100 "artillery fighting vehicles" under his command to suppress the enemy's position by fire, so as to cover the rapid breakthrough of the tanks, However, I saw that "fireworks" that were more dense than before suddenly flew out of the enemy's position.........

Hu Weidong's 150 12-barreled 107 rocket launchers that Hu Weidong strengthened to the new 38th Division before the war have not been able to come in handy because of their short range and the fact that the devils have been routed too quickly, but now the artillerymen can finally show their skills. Although in terms of the total number of tubes, 150 12-barreled 107 rocket launchers are actually not as much as 48 40-barreled 122 rocket launchers, and the power of the rockets is even worse, but 12 tubes means that they can be completed in just 68 seconds, so the instantaneous firepower density is naturally far from being comparable to before. What's more, due to the relatively long preparation time, the artillerymen had time to replace with armor-piercing rockets, and because the distance was greatly shortened, the accuracy of the shelling was naturally greatly improved, this round of rocket attacks actually destroyed no less than 20 tanks and armored vehicles, and all of them were completely destroyed, not to mention the crew was either dead or wounded, and the destroyed combat vehicles basically had no possibility of repairing, even if they were lucky to have a few vehicles, they could only be dragged back for repair, relying only on the maintenance personnel brought by the First Army of Mecha, It's absolutely impossible to fix it and rejoin the fight. In addition, even a little earlier, the 54 105 multi-purpose light howitzers of the new 38th Division, the so-called "105 mountain guns" in the mouths of the commanders and fighters of the 15th Group Army, were also loaded with armor-piercing shells and opened fire violently......

As an island country with scarce resources, it is really not easy for Japan to build some chariots, but now it has lost so many in the blink of an eye, Yoshio Shinozuka can't help but bleed in his heart, but he finally rushed here, how can he fall short? At this time, Yoshio Shinozuka finally returned to the usual paranoid style of the Japanese, roaring and ordering his troops to advance at full speed, vowing in his heart that he would break through the enemy lines and bring victory to the empire......

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