The trajectory of this shell was calculated exactly according to the projectile meter, but as Chu Tingchang expected, its * was too old, and the waterproof treatment of the silk surface stayed at the level of World War I. This, of course, led to a lower muzzle velocity than expected, and the trajectory of the shell, naturally, would not be as straight as it had been. A clever way is to slightly increase the elevation angle, since the lack of rate of fire will inevitably lead to a lower drop in the landing point, then increasing the elevation angle can increase the positive correlation, which is Chu Tingchang's idea. But Cook scoffed at this suggestion, for he had never heard such a layman's suggestion, and it was evident that only the Chinese peasants, who had not seen the sophistications of industrial society, and did not know what a shooting watch was, would have such naïve and ignorant ideas.

When the shell approached the bank of the river, it began to fall, and Cook was originally quite ambitious, aiming at the position of the middle ammunition depot of the Kaohsiung, the height of the waterline, and deliberately used a delay fuse to prepare to explode the ammunition depot, and at the same time let a large amount of water enter the bottom of the ship. It's about going to be done in one battle. This, of course, leaves little room for vertical drops.

The shell was 200 meters away from Kaohsiung and fell into the water. Hit the bottom of the river 100 meters away from the battleship, causing a huge splash. The Japanese soldier on duty turned his searchlight there and the time-delay fuse caused an underwater explosion. Everyone knew that it was a cannonball, because they heard the sound of the cannonball whistling, and they could determine that the position of the cannon was roughly to the west, but in the pouring rain, no one saw any fire.

The British's own observation group sent back a message that they didn't hit, saying yes, only a little short. Apparently God did not modify the Earth's gravity a little bit this time to help the British. Cook got the result of discouragement and sat down. The soldiers in raincoats at the post were waiting for his order to continue loading or rolling up the covers and fleeing.

He turned to Chief Chu.

"Major, I think we should get out of the way. They will definitely fight back immediately. ”

"No, since it's only a little bit close, we must immediately correct the shooting." Chu Tingchang cut the railway. There is no room for negotiation at all. He clutched Stilwell's sword and had to suppress the British warlike mentality.

Without waiting for Cook to speak, Chief Chu gave the order to reload immediately in his Hokkien accent.

The loading group was not far away, and it had long since lost its mind to load ammunition, so it was waiting to run. Of course, it was impossible for them to listen to Chu Tingchang. Seeing that they were about to instigate, Chief Chu immediately added a Chinese order, and the Chinese soldiers on the side rushed up, squeezed the British from their posts, and began to reload themselves.

"What are you doing here?"

Cook exclaimed.

"There is no room for error. I must take over here, you and your men can go, and I will report to your superiors on your heroic deeds, which can prove that you have abandoned your equipment as a last resort. ”

"But this is the British Empire equipment ......"

"I'll give it back to you in three hours." Chu Tingchang said and took out a note from his pocket and stuffed it into his hand, Cook glanced at it, it was an IOU, it seemed that he had foreseen it, and even the IOU was typed. It's just not known if the signature is his own.

"It will be safe for you and your men to cross the mountain beam, it is not within the reach of the Japanese direct artillery fire, you are there waiting to see our actions. If possible, create a concealed anti-aircraft position. So I'm relieved. ”

After Chu Tingchang finished speaking, he took out a stopwatch from his pocket and began to calculate the reloading time of his soldiers.

Cook was a little hesitant, originally this car was also going to Lanchi to be demolished, so it doesn't matter how important it is, since the Chinese are in a hurry to show their bravery, why not give them? However, the superiors did not explain that they could use weapons to teach and receive them privately.

The drone hovered in the air, it lowered its altitude, risked being struck by lightning, observing the landing point of the shell from the side of the thunderstorm cloud, and 419 immediately calculated the muzzle velocity of the shell and the tiny elevation angle that needed to be corrected. At this time, Tao Mingzhang also reported the news that the shells had fallen in front of the enemy ship, but of course he could not observe how much the water column was missing.

The Chinese soldiers began to operate the cannon back to the loading angle, and the overhead crane was suspended with a second shell and swung forward, as the train was still moving in the back seat inertia, making the process dangerous.

The operator was also a little frizzy, bumping and bumping along the way, and the warhead almost hit the iron shelf on the side several times, and Cook watched in horror from the side. He felt that no matter whether the Japanese would fight back or not, he could not stay here, and finally made up his mind to withdraw with his own people as soon as possible. But he didn't retreat far, and hid behind the mountain beam.

He Bisheng, the commander of the tank company, took a special cross wrench and found a small hole in the warhead dangling behind the gun latch, he suddenly forgot how the delay division came about, and only remembered that the British twisted it clockwise a few times, so he didn't care, and immediately turned this thing until it couldn't rotate at all, which was considered to have completed the delay setting.

Then give a thumbs up to the back. The hoister slowly lowered the shell to the bullet pushing slot, and the person carrying the * bag behind him put the medicine bag in the designated position. Originally, the British stipulated that the medicine bag must also be hoisted by a crane, that is to say, it must be operated twice by a crane, but after research, it was found that the efficiency was too low, and this thing could be carried by manpower, and the speed was much faster, so the bad habits were immediately reformed. If the shells could be carried, they would also omit the cranes, but unfortunately they couldn't carry them.

"It's a war, not a confinement, and it's still grinding." Chief Chu shouted from the command post.

The loader was in the process of making the final hoisting and homing operation, and as soon as he let go of his hand, the shell fell to the cartridge slot. But fortunately, it just fell from a height of ten centimeters and did not explode.

The pusher stick stuffed the heavy shell into the chamber along with the *. Then lock the bolt. The gunners began to shake the handwheels, simply returning to the previous angle, while the train started and slowly moved to the position in front of the back seat to avoid any error. Of course, Chu Tingchang also gave a new correction value in the high and low directions. He was quite sure, because the drone was still at a loss when it saw the enemy, and the cruiser had neither restored power nor turned the turret, as if thinking that it was very hidden, completely unaware that it had been targeted. However, the bad news is that the drone has spotted that the rain clouds are moving south, and the rain may stop after a while. He needs more smoke to hide himself.

"Master, it's done."

Someone shouted below.

Chu Tingchang glanced at the stopwatch, it took 26 minutes, it was too disappointing for him, this time was enough for the enemy to anchor and escape, if their boiler was ready, and the pressure in the pipes was enough. However, he expects that the next shot will not be so rushed, and he should be able to squeeze out a lot of water.

"Open your mouth." Chief Chu quickly covered his ears, sat on a chair, and then observed the thunderstorm clouds overhead, waiting for the opportunity. At the first shot just now, he pretended to be calm with his coffee, but the huge shock was unexpected, and the coffee spilled on his body. Let him out of a clown. After all, he was on an errand on a submarine, and thought that the salvo of the 105th battalion was nothing more than that, but how did he know that the movement of this cannon was so powerful.

"Fire."

With a loud bang, the shell flew straight through the fog. For 419, it is still not enough to calculate the new ballistic parabolic model with just one shell, but Shu Ping expects that this time it will be almost, after all, the distance is only 9407.5 meters, and the side projection area of the target is quite large, the bridge of the Kaohsiung, although it is not as exaggerated as the top-heavy construction on the Japanese battleship, but it is really not small. In fact, if the British commander had just predicted that the ammunition would be damp, add 1 dense position in the positive direction. Eight achievements can be hit. But the British is so old-fashioned that he defies common sense, and he even shoots exactly according to the data of decades ago, and he deserves to fight.

This time the shell was still a little off, overcorrected, and went above the ship's side. But the Kaohsiung's huge bridge stood in front of it. If the cannonball is strong enough to penetrate a bridge with only 30 mm of armor, it will not cause much damage for the time being with a delay of up to half a second manually set by a certain muddyman. However, at this time, the kinetic energy of the shell was greatly reduced. It slammed into the weakly armored bridge and penetrated diagonally downward, almost completely penetrating, and fell into the sea behind, but stopped at the machine-gun command post behind the side and smashed the sleepy duty officer there into a puddle of meat sauce.

Inoguchi Daisa, who had just put on his clothes and rushed to the command bridge, felt the significant kinetic energy at the moment of the impact and fell to the ground, but there was no explosion, and in his experience, this should have been just an energy bomb. It was as long as a minute, and just as Osa began to get up and was a little lucky, a violent explosion occurred. The 4.5-meter rangefinder and communication room on the side were destroyed, and the air wave overturned the seaplane into the sea, and Dazuo, who had just stood up, was pushed down by the air flow and hit his head and broke the blood flow. However, because the night combat posts were not fully manned, the damage caused by the explosion was still modest.

At the same time, the train cannon, under the action of huge recoil, galloped backwards, of course, because of its back against the ramp, quickly slowed down and stopped. Of course, another benefit of stopping on a hill is that it doesn't need to be towed by a train, and by releasing the brakes, it can go back on its own at a slightly slower pace than walking. In this process, the third round of loading has begun, and the Chinese do not care about any rules and regulations, where there are so many rules on the battlefield.

Commander Chu ordered the rest of the troops not to be idle, and quickly set fire to the front, he had already arranged dozens of gasoline barrels in front of the wet branches to ignite, and even the smoke and vapor filled the area of several hundred meters. At this time, you must quickly replenish the fuel, or it will be doused by the heavy rain.

Based on the drone's observations, he decided not to change the direction of the firing range, but to slightly reduce the elevation angle. The drone found that the target was anchoring and began to make a fire, but the infrared detection steam turbine did not move, it seems that the enemy is too big and has not maintained the steam pressure.

The British, who were hiding a kilometer away, braved the rain to watch the battle, waiting for the Chinese, who were completely laymen, to be unlucky. They can't just walk away now, and the order given to them by the upper peak is that if they give up the battle, they must destroy their weapons before evacuating. Now they are waiting, the weapon was blown up by the Japanese, so that they would not go to court-martial, and maybe receive a medal, after all, they fired a shot. But the retaliatory counterattack of the Japanese was delayed. It's weird. Why are they so clean and neat every time they beat themselves, and when it is the turn of this group of Chinese, they become so sluggish? Could it be that the superstitious activities that the Chinese just used a pig's head to engage in are at work?