Chapter 655 The killing weapon came from the Kwantung Army

The first defensive position of Huangya Cave, which is a big palm, was bombarded by Okamura Ningci's secret weapon, and the old strong brigade of the Third Independent Brigade lost almost a regiment of troops, and Chang Feng, the commander-in-chief of the Huangya Cave garrison, couldn't swallow this breath, and Ma Chaoyang, the commander of the Third Independent Brigade, couldn't swallow this breath, and the commander of the regiment who was ordered to withdraw to the core position of Huangya Cave to rest and recuperate even more cried like a tearful person.

The seven-foot-tall man, with the remnants of hundreds of brothers under his command, when he saw the face of the brigade commander Ma Chaoyang, he cried and almost fainted, those soldiers, the tears in their eyes never stopped, Chang Feng felt sour in his heart, for the third independent brigade, this loss was really a nest, the Japanese army was a continuous shelling, the soldiers did not even have a chance to fight back, they were disabled, it was said that it was a little devil shelling, but this cannon is too domineering, according to the strongest Cheng dù designed fortifications, it is even vulnerable.

In his telegram to the division commander Tang Qiuli, in addition to reporting the defeat in the initial battle of the defense of Huangyadong, he also specially implored the division commander to activate the independent division intelligence system to find out what kind of weapons the Japanese army used.

After surrounding the Yellow Cliff Cave, Okamura Ningji was not in a hurry to attack, looking at the terrain around the Yellow Cliff Cave, it was obvious that there were bunkers and hidden forts, the old devil's back was cold, he understood, the strength of the brigade near the mountain dragon, why did it fill in, there was not even a little echo, just by virtue of this terrain, the troops in his hands were filled in, and I am afraid that it would not be able to break through the obviously well-designed defense system.

As the former chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Okamura Ninji knew all the deployment and equipment of the Kwantung Army, and had the heavy equipment he needed, that is, the independent third heavy artillery brigade of the Kwantung Army deployed on the front line of Dongning, Heilongjiang, which was equipped with 64 heavy artillery guns with a caliber of 205 mm, and was the only strategic heavy artillery brigade of the Kwantung Army.

According to the strategic assumption of the Kwantung Army Command, once the war broke out between Japan and the Soviet Union, these super-large caliber and super giant guns with a range of several tens of kilometers would instantly destroy the Soviet Union's Haishanwei military port and stop the Soviets' attempt to use it as a base and warships to cross the Sea of Japan and attack the Japanese mainland.

And Okamura Ningji took a fancy to these super big guys, when he saw General Minamijiro, he did not hide his thoughts, Nanjiro looked at his slightly tired front subordinates, and knew that his life in North China was not very easy, as the commander of the Kwantung Army, Nanjiro has always wanted to include North China in the sphere of influence of the Kwantung Army, and his chief of staff will serve as the commander of the North China Dispatch Army, and half of the purpose has been achieved.

Okamura Ninji's difficulties are his difficulties, so he will naturally support them unconditionally, and he will give guns to guns and people to people, and he has decided on a heavy artillery brigade in a few words, and dispatched 28 heavy artillery pieces to support Okamura Ninji's troops and attack the battle in the Huangyadong area. ”

Okamura Ninji nodded sympathetically, and Nanjiro continued: "I have already played the Emperor's Majesty, and the base camp of the book, from the perspective of overall strategy, Manchuria and North China should be divided into a war zone, so as to make better use of the human and material resources of the two places, therefore, Gangmura-kun's appearance in North China is not only for the honor of the Kwantung Army, but also related to the fundamental interests of the empire, please, Gangmura-kun"

After Nanjiro finished speaking, he held Okamura Ninji's hand tightly, in fact, in the eyes of all the senior generals of the Kwantung Army, the vast and rich Soviet Far East, rich mineral deposits, uncultivated fertile land, and extremely scarce aborigines, have always been a piece of fat on their lips, and these greedy Japanese people have difficulty sleeping and restless.

Since the middle of the last century, Japan, an island country that has been taught by the European and American powers, embarked on the road of industrialization, with the increase of national strength, for China, a thousand-year-old teacher and cultural mother country separated from the Japanese archipelago by a sea, there is a strong desire to kill.

At the beginning of this century, on the Liaodong Peninsula in China, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, and this war, to put it bluntly, was a war between two hungry wolves in someone else's yard for a sheep, which was nothing more than a decision that this sheep was destined to be devoured, and the wolf's mouth was just a matter of deciding that the sheep was destined to be devoured, and the owner of the sheep was ridiculously neutral, and that would not help.

As a result of the war, even the Japanese themselves at that time could not believe that the behemoth from the north and with its feet across Europe and Asia was summoned up at that time, but the Japanese who were actually trembling in their hearts hit it back, and their heads were bleeding, and their armor was lost, and the Liaodong Peninsula was replaced with a new master, and the victory of the Russo-Japanese War gave all the Japanese a stimulant, and there was no rival on the Asian continent, so they also embarked on the road of no return, and finally ended up in defeat and surrender, so that the Yankees colonized the end.

As one of the core figures of the Kwantung Army, Okamura Ninji, doesn't understand Nanjiro's painstaking efforts, North China, only as stable as Manchuria, and Manchuria as one, the Kwantung Army has the capital and the giant bear in the north to shout, this is also the overall strategy of the Kwantung Army's unswerving, throughout the War of Resistance against Japan, although with the Japanese occupation of China's land area is getting larger and larger, the strength has been stretched, the vast land of China, diluted the strength of the Japanese Army.

But the millions of Kwantung Army, always stationed on the very safe Sino-Soviet border, the German army is under the city of Moscow, Stalin is no longer able to look east, the Kwantung Army neither goes south to join the Central Plains battlefield, nor goes north to attack the empty Soviet Far East, it seems to be indecisive, inactive, and stand by, let the Japanese army in other directions, fall into a quagmire, it is really incomprehensible, always keep eyes on the north, a million troops are vacant, is the Kwantung Army's strategic decision-making mistakes, or the greedy personality determines the fate, maybe, Only those maniacs who invaded China back then knew it in their hearts.

If the millions of Kwantung Army poured southward and swept through the past like a flood, neither the Central Army nor the Communist Eighth Route Army would be able to resist this violent force, and China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression would be much more difficult to fight, and it was still difficult to determine whether the Nationalist Government would finally be able to gain a firm foothold in Chongqing, which is located in the southwest, and the final victory would certainly not be 1945, perhaps another three or five years, or even longer.

The behemoth-like cannon, after dismantling, loaded on the train and urgently going south, this kind of giant cannon, in actual combat, not to mention that Okamura Ningji has not seen it, even Minamijiro has not seen it, can have the opportunity to test the power of the actual battle, Nanjiro is also happy to be a favor, and he also gave Okamura Ningji a big gift, the Kwantung Army Command is actively considering the formation of a new southward corps to support the North China battlefield, and the strength will not be less than three first-class divisions and 110,000 people.

Okamura Ningji, who returned with a full load, returned to North China in a hurry, busy deploying heavy artillery, and it took a lot of effort to transport these terrifying big guys into the Taihang Mountains, and the results of the first shelling proved that Okamura Ningji was a senior general of the Japanese army with great tactical cultivation and strategic vision, and could be called Tang Qiuli's opponent.

After the shelling stopped, stepping on the rocks and concrete fragments all over the mountain, the Japanese army dispatched a division of troops, and without encountering a little resistance, they easily occupied the first fortification of the Huangyadong base, and then, the results of the battle were reported to Okamura Ningji, looking at the battle report, the old devil Okamura Ningji was very satisfied.

"Your Excellency Commander, after preliminary statistics of the results of the battle, this shelling, a total of more than 200 reinforced concrete bunkers of the defenders of China were destroyed, according to the calculation of each bunker equipped with 30 people, a total of more than 6,000 soldiers of China were annihilated this time, the specific number is being counted, and I will report it later," I don't know what kind of psychology, maybe since the war in North China, the imperial army has been beaten everywhere, this is the only big victory, out of the need to boost morale, the Japanese front commanders, exaggerated the results of the battle several times.

It was strange that Okamura Ninji actually believed such a battle report, and he had reason to believe that the power of this huge cannon was so horrified that even he, who claimed to be a battle-hardened and well-informed, saw with his own eyes that when a cannonball went down, the huge rock was overturned and shattered in its entirety, and a huge crater appeared on the ground.

Okamura Ninji was at the scene in person, he wanted to carefully observe the effect of the shelling, where was Commander Minamijiro, and he had to count the ears in detail, a large group of senior Japanese commanders, with a large group of artillery commanders and engineers, arrived at the scene of the shelling, and the empty earth that overflowed the uppers, the rubble and concrete fragments everywhere, the bare steel bars, the specks of blood, and the trees that had broken into sawdust, all of which showed the catastrophe that had been suffered here.

The Japanese technicians began to measure the craters and calculate the explosive force, Okamura Ninji carefully looked at the explosion point of the shell, the hard stone wall, the craters all over the white forest, he picked up a piece of concrete, which was more than eighty centimeters thick, not counting the dirt covered on it, it was such a pillbox, in front of the giant artillery of the Imperial Army, it was also vulnerable, how many such pillboxes and fortifications were in front, Okamura Ninji did not know.

He only knew that if he bombarded all the way, no matter how strong the defense system was, it would also collapse in front of the giant artillery of the imperial army, and the soldiers of Tang Qiuli's troops who were cowering inside were the ghosts of his own knife, and this base for Tang Qiuli to produce ammunition would become a ruin that was more desolate than the desert, and unfortunately, he could not cut off the head of the soldier with his own hands, and in three days, Huangya Cave would become a historical term.

(To be continued)