readx;? After listening to Su Yu's words, Wang Haitao said with a smile: "Commander Su, you won't need your New Fourth Army in the next battle, I am going to use heavy artillery to cover this Japanese wing, and after a burst of artillery fire, I believe that as long as the second battalion of the independent regiment and the second battalion of the reconnaissance regiment can clean up the remaining Japanese troops." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Su Yu asked in surprise: "Commander Wang, do you still have heavy artillery?" Wang Haitao nodded and said: "Commander Su is not an outsider, would you like to go with me to see my heavy artillery regiment?" Su Yu replied with some excitement: "Okay, don't hide it from General Wang, I haven't seen what heavy artillery looks like." ”

So Wang Haitao and Su Yu gave their subordinates an order to rest and recuperate and be on guard at the same time, and then Wang Haitao and Su Yu each took the guards and went straight to the location of the heavy artillery regiment in a truck. After an hour of driving on a winding mountain road, the truck turned into a small road and passed three more checkpoints before entering a valley.

Several sheds have been erected at the mouth of the valley with camouflage, and dozens of trucks are neatly parked under the sheds. Leaning against the mountain wall, there are also warriors digging caves in the mountain wall. The truck stopped in front of the greenhouse, and Tang Shanhu, the commander of the heavy artillery regiment, led the three battalion commanders to wait for Wang Haitao here.

After parking, Wang Haitao and Su Yu got out of the car, and Tang Shanhu and others hurriedly stepped forward to salute. After Wang Haitao and Su Yu both returned to the military salute, Wang Haitao asked: "Shanhu, are you heavy artillery regiments ready?" Tangshan Hu replied after standing upright: "Report to the military seat, the heavy artillery regiment is all ready and ready to fire at any time." ”

Wang Haitao nodded, pointed at Su Yu and said, "This is Commander Su Yu of the advance detachment of the New Fourth Army, I will take Commander Su to see these heavy artillery." Then he said to Su Yu: "This is Tang Shanhu, the commander of my heavy artillery regiment, and those are the battalion commanders under him." Tang Shanhu and the others saluted Su Yuli again and shouted, "I've seen Commander Su later." Su Yu didn't dare to hold it up, so he hurriedly returned the salute.

After seeing each other, Wang Haitao said: "Let's go and see those heavy artillery, Commander Su, please." Su Yu replied, "Okay, Commander Wang, please." Wang Haitao smiled and led the way to the middle of the valley. After walking for a long time, they came to the middle of the valley, a leveled clearing, lined up with dozens of heavy artillery.

Su Yu looked at these big guys in surprise, and followed Wang Haitao to the heavy artillery. The soldiers who were busy by the heavy artillery saluted Wang Haitao and the others one after another. Wang Haitao touched a heavy gun and introduced it to Su Yu: "This is a German-made 150 mm caliber heavy howitzer, with a maximum firing range of 24.8 kilometers and a maximum rate of fire of two rounds per minute. ”

Then he came to another gun and continued: "This is the latest 130-millimeter cannon with a maximum range of 27 kilometers and a maximum rate of fire of six rounds per minute. Su Yu looked at these dozens of heavy artillery pieces under the camouflage net, and at the same time sighed in his heart, he was a little more convinced of Wang Haitao's achievements.

After reading it, Su Yu said: "Sure enough, there is no vanity under the fame, Commander Wang can have such a sharp weapon, why be afraid of little Japan's rampant! Today I understand what is the confidence of Commander Wang to be indifferent in the face of the attack of thousands of Japanese troops." Wang Haitao smiled and said: "Yes, no matter how powerful the weapon is, I won't care if Little Japan is less." Now, with the Japanese troops stationed nearby, I am afraid that it will be difficult to draw a large number of troops to deal with me, and when I defeat the invading Japanese army, there may be a period of peace. ”

As soon as Wang Haitao said this, a guard ran over and said to Wang Haitao: "Report to the military seat, the second battalion of the reconnaissance regiment has called." With that, he handed a telegram with both hands. Wang Haitao took it and saw that the telegram read: The Japanese army has arrived outside Yangong Town with a reinforced force and is preparing to attack the position guarded by the 2nd Battalion of the Independent Regiment of Yangong Town.

After reading the telegram, Wang Haitao said to the guards: "Call back to the second battalion of the reconnaissance regiment to determine the exact coordinates of the Japanese artillery position and garrison as soon as possible, and inform the heavy artillery regiment." After the guards recorded Wang Haitao's words, they turned around and left after saluting. Wang Haitao turned around and said to Su Yu again: "Commander Su, let's stay here and see what the result of the shelling is?" Su Yu nodded and said: "So I don't dare to invite you, Commander Wang invites you, I'll wait and see." ”

After Wang Haitao, Su Yu and others came to the command post set up by the heavy artillery regiment, Wang Haitao said to Tang Shanhu: "Mountain tiger, as soon as the coordinates of the second reconnaissance battalion arrive, it will be time for your heavy artillery regiment to show its skills. ”

Tangshan Hu stood up and said: "Our heavy artillery regiment will not let the military seat down, and I will go to prepare the military seat first." After Wang Haitao nodded, Tang Shanhu withdrew from the command post. Nearly an hour later, a telegram from the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion arrived, detailing the targets to be struck by the heavy artillery regiment and the specific azimuth coordinates.

The heavy artillery regiment that got the coordinates began to calculate nervously. Although there have been many trainings in peacetime, but the real actual combat is the first time for these soldiers of the heavy artillery regiment, plus the military seat is here in person, it is impossible to say that it is not nervous, fortunately, these soldiers of the heavy artillery regiment are veterans selected from the independent regiment, although they are nervous, but everything is being prepared in an orderly manner.

Five minutes later, the calculated and checked data was handed over to the gun sight on the gun position, and the muzzles of the cannons were moving slowly, and when all the muzzles were pointing in one direction, Tang Shanhu ran to the command post and shouted: "Report to the military seat, all the guns are ready and can be fired." Please instruct. Wang Haitao replied: "I order, the heavy artillery regiment fires!"

Tang Shanhu replied loudly: "Yes, open fire!" The commander standing by the artillery position received the order, and the red flag in his hand fell hard, and as the red flag fell, dozens of artillery pieces roared in turn. For a moment, the whole valley was filled with the roar of cannons, and the air was shrouded in dust.

After firing three shells from each gun, the position was adjusted again, and then the firing continued, and the shelling lasted for forty minutes, and the bearing was adjusted three times, and after each gun fired dozens of shells, the shelling stopped. It took a long time for the dust in the valley to slowly fall. The scene of dozens of heavy artillery firing at the same time is very shocking, as if Xiang Su Yu, a person who has hardly seen heavy artillery, will not forget this shelling.

As soon as the shelling ended, the telegram from the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion arrived, and Wang Haitao took the telegram and read it, which read: The artillery shells have basically destroyed the target, the Japanese army has been defeated, and the 2nd Battalion of the Independent Regiment and the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion are pursuing the remnants of the enemy. After Wang Haitao handed the telegram to Su Yu, he said to Tang Shanhu: "Shanhu, your heavy artillery regiment has fought well! Sure enough, it didn't disappoint me, and I will give you a credit for the heavy artillery regiment." After finishing speaking, Wang Haitao turned his head to Su Yu, who had finished reading the telegram, and said, "Commander Su, let's go back to the Jing County Headquarters and wait for the results." ”

When Wang Haitao and Su Yu returned to the headquarters in Jing County, the pursuit battle in the direction of Yangong Town had ended, the 2nd Battalion of the Independent Regiment and the 2nd Battalion of the Reconnaissance Regiment pursued out 20 kilometers together, and the remnants of a reinforced wing of the Japanese army, which had less than 1,000 soldiers, fled back to Jingde County, and the remaining nearly 3,000 officers and soldiers died in this attack, but due to the shelling, there were not many captures in the direction of Yangong Town.

In the evening, except for one company stationed in each of the four directions of Jing County, the rest of the troops, including the advance detachment of the New Fourth Army, returned to the county seat of Jing County, and Wang Haitao asked the logistics office to buy dozens of pigs, plus the Japanese horses that were killed and some wild game in the mountains, Wang Haitao set up a celebration wine in the barracks of the independent regiment.

As in the past, the guard battalion did not participate in the banquet but served as the vigilance and defense task of the county seat of Jing County. At the banquet, Wang Haitao and several battalion and regiment-level officers took turns to toast Su Yu and several cadres of the New Fourth Army. Su Yu is also a bold person, and they drank with Wang Haitao. After drinking to the half-hearted, Wang Haitao said: "Commander Su, this time your department and our department fought together, and achieved good results, and the capture of this battle in the afternoon has been so large that it has been counted, and this is the spoils distributed to your department." With that, he took out a few pieces of paper from his body.

In fact, after the battle in Qinxi Town, when cleaning up the battlefield, Su Yu's advance detachment had already taken a lot of loot, and in the eyes of the soldiers of the New Fourth Army, it was already very good that they had paid very few casualties and obtained so many booty, but now Wang Haitao said that he would share the spoils with him, and the cadres of the New Fourth Army, including Su Yu, were stunned.

Su Yu took the pieces of paper and looked at them, which read: 1,000 Type 38 rifles with 100,000 rounds of ammunition; 50 Japanese light machine guns with 50,000 rounds of ammunition; 30 Yue heavy machine guns with 30,000 rounds of ammunition; 100 Japanese grenadiers and 2,000 grenades; 20 Japanese 80 mortars with 10,000 shells; 50 war horses and 100 pack horses.

After reading the list, Su Yu knew very well in his heart that with this batch of weapons and ammunition, plus the trophies on the battlefield, it was enough to equip two to three thousand troops, and the combat effectiveness of this army was definitely not low. Wang Haitao did not share the spoils of war for himself, but funded the New Fourth Army. For Wang Haitao's kindness, how can he and the New Fourth Army not appreciate it?

Thinking of this, Su Yu picked up a bowl of wine and said to Wang Haitao: "Commander Wang's affection for our New Fourth Army, we understand it, in order to express our gratitude, I borrow flowers to offer Buddha, and pay tribute to Commander Wang A bowl of wine." Wang Haitao also picked up the wine bowl and said: "They are all anti-Japanese troops, so why be polite, come and do it." With that, he drank all the wine in the bowl.

The next morning, Su Yu was leaving Jing County with the New Fourth Army, and dozens of carriages were loaded with weapons and ammunition for the New Fourth Army. Wang Haitao said to Su Yu: "When you New Fourth Army first arrived in Jiangnan, it will be more difficult to gain a foothold. Here are 10,000 oceans and 10 German-made pistols, which are my gifts to you Commander Ye and Political Commissar Xiang, please don't necessarily pass them on to the two of you for me. ”

When Su Yu heard that it was a gift to Commander Ye Ting and Political Commissar Xiang Ying, he had to accept it after thanking him repeatedly. A team of more than 1,000 people of the New Fourth Army left the county seat of Jingxian with dozens of truckloads of weapons and ammunition, and Wang Haitao and his men sent Su Yu and them out of the city before returning to the headquarters.