Rise from the sword

Chapter 463 Everyone is satisfied!

"Target, Guizishan artillery position."

Using the phone, Iwamori gave the order:

"Fire."

In the area three kilometers behind the first position of the Independent Regiment, five artillery positions, a total of fifty Bofors Mountain guns burst into flames, and the dense shells drew an arc, hitting the Devils artillery positions several kilometers away.

boom boom boom

Dense explosions rose behind the devil's position.

The momentum is quite large.

However, according to the feedback from the artillery forward observation point through the phone, the first round of shelling completely missed the target and deviated far away.

"continue."

Hearing the news, Iwamori's tone remained unchanged, and he ordered the gun crews to calibrate and continue firing according to the observation data.

This situation is expected.

The regimental commander meant to let novices experience more actual combat and grow up quickly, so all the [-] artillery crews participating in the battle were novices, and the veteran gunners were watching from the sidelines, occasionally pointing out operational mistakes, and not participating in corrections and shelling.

Calibrate, reload, shoot, calibrate again, keep shooting...
A round of shells streaked across the sky, like meteors, falling towards the direction of the devil's position in the distance.

Even the new gunners of the Independent Regiment have completed the basic artillery training and had a lot of live ammunition training. In the actual combat environment, the gunners gradually matured as each shell was vacated.

Slowly, the shells became more and more accurate, and the artillery crew became more and more confident.

With the addition of these fifty mountain cannons, the battlefield, which was already boiling like a pan of oil, heated up again, and the overall situation on the battlefield changed suddenly.

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Fifteen kilometers away from the frontline position in mid-air.

Devil Artillery observation balloon.

"Is this really the Eighth Route Army?"

The artilleryman who looked down at the whole situation and observed the devil naturally immediately discovered the group of mountain artillery that suddenly joined the battlefield in the distance. After the first round of firing, he was so scared that he almost fell from the hanging basket.

As an artillery observer, he had developed a superb observation and counting ability, and he roughly figured out the number of cannons on the opposite side at the first time.

About fifty mountain cannons.

Comparable to a semi-imperial artillery regiment.

And it was the artillery wing of the elite division at the beginning of the war.

As the war progressed, the empire's military strength was insufficient, and its weapons production capacity was insufficient. Now even if it is an elite division, an artillery regiment only has 24 guns. However, the total number of artillery pieces of more than 2 troops still exceeds [-].

But the Eighth Route Army in front of us still has a huge number of nearly two hundred mortars of various calibers.

Artillery firepower far exceeds that of the Imperial Army.

Even the Type A divisions, the kind of Type A divisions fully loaded, don't have such powerful artillery firepower!The only advantage of the empire is a little long-range artillery.

and!

It is said that it is just a regiment of the Eighth Route Army?

Continuing to look down on the battlefield from the balloon, seeing the explosion and gunpowder smoke falling on the rear position, the devil's heart sank even more.

Because he found that the enemy's mountain artillery had a very long range, with a maximum range of more than nine kilometers, which was farther than the Empire's cutting-edge Type 94 mountain artillery. This meant that the imperial artillery suffered a disadvantage during artillery battles.

The enemy can hit the Imperial Artillery positions, but the Imperial Artillery cannot hit the enemy.

"what happened?"

Cold sweat began to drip from the devil's forehead, his face became more and more gloomy, and he was so nervous that he almost stopped breathing.

But as the observation continued, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, because he found that although there were many cannons on the opposite side, the gunners who manipulated the cannons seemed to be very incompetent, like novices.

The opponent aimed at the imperial artillery positions, but after nearly ten rounds of fighting, they still failed to suppress the imperial artillery positions much.

"Fortunately."

After heaving a sigh of relief, he provided the projectile landing point for the long-range cannon below him, and also passed on the news he observed.

Too many ants killed the elephant.

The opponent's cannon has an obvious range advantage.

However, the long-range firepower he belongs to is insufficient in number and limited in suppressing power, and it is impossible for artillery to quickly destroy enemy artillery in counter-bombing. The most common thing is to interfere with shooting and force enemy artillery to shift positions.

Even if the gunners are inexperienced, relying on numbers, they can still suppress the empire's mountain cannons.

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"Fifty 75 caliber guns."

In Ping'an County, in the headquarters of the Japanese Army, Shinji Kosa was shocked when he got the news.

"so much."

Yamamoto also looked gloomy.

The two had long expected that the independent regiment would have a large number of barrel artillery.

Mortars were originally designed to support infantry in a timely manner. They are not suitable for artillery battles, nor for long-range fire suppression. Therefore, the two concluded that the independent regiment has a large number of Bofors cannons, and even equipped with other new types of artillery. artillery unit.

Moreover, based on previous experience, the two also made bold and bold predictions.

It's just that when the independent group really showed up, they were still taken aback, and the fact was once again beyond their expectations.

"idiot."

Shinji Kozawa couldn't help but cursed.

He recalled carefully just now, his prediction of Li Yunlong was never accurate, every time, no matter how bold his prediction was, Li Yunlong was far beyond his expectations.

"Where did they get so many artillery?"

Shinji Kozu didn't understand.

Mortars are not very demanding, and a few infantry with small calibers can go to the battlefield with a little training. Even for large-caliber mortars, it doesn't take too much time to train the gun crew.

But barrel guns are different, especially long-range barrel guns, which require forward commanders to calibrate and fire. They have high requirements for artillery, and even require knowledge of mathematics and drawing, which cannot be trained in a short time.

Even in an empire with a good training system, an artilleryman needs a year of training before he can barely use it.

Where did the army composed of mud-legged beggars get so many artillery?
In their speculation, Li Yunlong has a tank unit and an anti-aircraft artillery unit, and there should not be many people to form a unit equipped with long-range barrel guns.

"possible··"

Yamamoto sullenly speculated:
"These artillery units were improvised."

His tone was unconfident. Regarding the independent group, after being beaten by Li Yunlong many times, Yamamoto didn't dare to draw conclusions casually.

Before the two had time to continue their discussion, a telephone staff officer ran in and sent a message, which was still about the front line, and it was also sent by an artillery observer at a high altitude.

"Master Yamamoto, you guessed right."

When Shinji Kozu heard the report from the staff officer on the phone, he was pleasantly surprised:

"Although the enemy's artillery unit is large in scale, the actual combat effect is very poor. Most of the artillery shells are missed, and the suppression of the imperial army's frontline artillery positions is very small."

"Although Li Yunlong's independent regiment has sufficient weapons, there is a serious shortage of operators, and it is impossible to exert its full strength."

Yamamoto was not very happy when he heard Shinji Kozuo's words, but sighed instead.

This good news is only temporary. Even if Li Yunlong lacks excellent artillery, a single cannon is still a deterrent even if it is shot blindly. Moreover, as time goes by, novice artillery will gradually mature.

Moreover, the opponent's artillery range also has an advantage.

In addition, the reason why Yamamoto felt uncomfortable was that compared with Li Yunlong's equipment, there were more people and less equipment. Today's Imperial Army is the other way around.

More people and less equipment.

Just like Tuba Road six years ago.

"Order."

Shinji Kozuo didn't notice Yamamoto's expression, he immediately issued an order:
"The long-range cannon brigade, the artillery squadron equipped with Type [-] mountain artillery, suppress and destroy the enemy artillery with all their strength. The rest of the artillery suppresses the enemy's mortar fire."

Kozuo Shinji naturally knows that Li Yunlong's Bofors mountain cannon has a long range of ten kilometers, while some of the mountain cannons he garrisoned in Ping'an County are 105-type mountain cannons with a range of only more than six kilometers, which is not enough to see at all. Only the [-]-type [-] long-range cannon And the [-]-type mountain artillery can be suppressed.

Following Shinji Kozuo's order, the frontline devils also responded.

The long-range cannon gave up the bombardment of the road bridge and turned to suppress the artillery positions of the independent regiment. The mountain artillery in the rear was also divided into two. The new type [-] mountain artillery suppressed the barrel artillery positions of the independent regiment, and the remaining type [-] mountain artillery suppressed the independent regiment mortars.

Suddenly, shells flew across the battlefield, and explosions followed one after another.

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"The quality of the little devil's artillery is really not boasting."

In the back of the position, listening to the news on the phone, Yansheng said with emotion.

As the Devil artillery launched a counterattack, Pao Yilian immediately felt the huge pressure, and at the same time felt the huge gap between the artillery crews of the two sides.

I fought on my side for almost half an hour, and only slightly interfered with the devil's artillery fire, reducing the devil's artillery firepower.In ten minutes, the devils forced the guns to move two gun groups in a row.

There were even losses.

A Bofors Mountain artillery position was hit by a 105 grenade. Fortunately, it did not directly hit the artillery position and ammunition storage point, and the loss was not large.

The reason for this result is not only the inexperience of the novice gun crew.

Although the new artillery crew was inexperienced, it was only inexperienced. With the old gunners teaching them hand in hand, it was not difficult to complete the aiming. The gap was nothing more than a matter of proficiency and efficiency.

Artillery forward observation posts are also problematic.

It was the first time to face enemy artillery, and the front-line observers of the artillery company were inexperienced. Even if they were on the commanding heights, they could not accurately judge the artillery positions of the devils.The information exchange with the artillery crew behind is also not proficient enough, and there have been many communication problems.

There is no devil's artillery observation balloon on my side.

There is also a problem with the layout of the artillery positions. Too much consideration is given to the shooting range, and the safety of the large cannons during the artillery battle is not considered. As a result, the entire artillery position is completely exposed to the sight of the devils.

The transfer of positions has gone through many times of training, and the speed is very fast, but the recalibration has been delayed, and it takes a long time to fire again. At this time, the Devils cannons have already moved, which greatly delayed the fighter.

On the other hand, devils.

The artillery position selection is also very tricky, hiding behind the mountain, unable to look directly, difficult to find, difficult to hit.

The observation balloon in the air is condescending, overlooking the entire position, and can quickly observe the entire battlefield. The artillery crew is also well-trained, and the front and rear cooperate tacitly, quickly completing the calibration and hitting the target accurately.

The shift position is quick, and it can fire again quickly.

The devil artillery, which has been battle-tested and suffered relatively small losses, does have something.

"Hmph, I got it."

After hanging up the phone, the corners of Yansheng's mouth curled up.

Although the equipment is ready, the artillery of the Independent Regiment is still immature. Compared with the artillery of the Devils, there is a huge gap, and there is still a lot to learn.

Fortunately, there is such a good 'master' as the little devil.

After this artillery battle, the next artillery company will be reborn.

Anyway, the head of the regiment said that the purpose of this battle is to fight actual combat, find out the shortcomings of the troops, and then improve them.

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As the artillery battle between the two sides heated up, the frontline troops also began to contact.

Compared with the dominant artillery, the devil infantry on the front line can be described as miserable.

After most of the mountain artillery and long-range cannon suppressed the independent regiment artillery, the remaining ten or so old-fashioned 120-type mountain artillery were less than ten 36-type infantry artillery, which could not resist the twelve 82 mortars of the two battalions. [-] mortars.

To be honest, the range of the 120mm mortar is only a few hundred meters away from that of the Type 82 mountain cannon. The former is much more powerful, has higher maneuverability, and has a faster rate of fire. The [-] can also chase the Type [-] infantry artillery.

What's more, there are more than one hundred 60 small steel guns.

Under the cover of powerful artillery fire, the two attacking battalions were devastated, defeated the devil brigade who wanted to occupy the road, expanded a front salient, and crushed the devil all the way.

But just as the two battalions occupied the frontier scattered positions of the devils and approached the devils' No. [-] position, the situation suddenly changed.

boom boom boom

A round of mortar shells suddenly soared into the air from behind the devil's fourth position and landed in the two battalions that were charging.

It was the Japanese Type 90 [-]mm mortar that fired.

Devils are rarely equipped with mortars, but they are not unequipped.

After being taught how to be a man by mortars in China, the little devil quickly developed the Type 90 [-]mm mortar. Because of the obstruction of the old antique officers of the military industry department, it was said that it violated the goal pursued by the Imperial Army: to obtain the maximum ammunition consumption with the lowest ammunition consumption. results.

At that time only small batch equipment.

With the erosion of the war situation, coupled with the high cost of barrel guns and insufficient production, recently, this kind of mortar has begun to be equipped with locust troops on a large scale.

Gibbon sent a batch to Ping'an County immediately.

With the cover of mortars, the retreating devils also successfully entered the fourth group of positions, and with the help of the solid bunkers that had been built long ago, blocked the attacking independent regiment troops.

Facing the sudden mortar fire and the intersecting machine gun fire of machine gun fortresses in the Devil's No. [-] position group, Xu Husheng, the first company commander of the front line commander, immediately ordered the troops to stop the attack and go into hiding on the spot.

"82 presses to suppress the devil's mortar, 120 press to destroy the devil's machine gun fortress."

Xu Husheng shouted loudly.

The situation is different, now there is no need to charge against the devil's artillery fire and machine guns, and there is no need to think of ways to penetrate the flanks. If you encounter obstacles, you can directly call the artillery fire to solve them.

boom boom boom

Behind the two battalions, battalion mortars fired.

The dense mortar shells of various calibers fell on the devils' positions, and there were bursts of gunpowder smoke. However, after a burst of intensive shelling, Xu Husheng found that the shelling effect was not great. Only part of the foxholes and trenches were destroyed. No.

On the distant positions, there are still firepower points everywhere.

"Little devil, this is well prepared."

Xu Husheng saw the name at a glance.

"Company commander, you can't hit it, the mortar can't hit it."

The machine gun fortress of the fourth position built by the little devil is very strong. The top floor is a multi-layer civil structure, and the location is also very tricky. It is built against a slope or an earth wall.

Commandos from the front debrief:

"To fire directly, we have to push the Type [-] up."

"Straight-fire artillery."

Xu Husheng was taken aback.

Although the regiment has sent most of the Type [-] infantry artillery to the headquarters, a new type of artillery is about to be equipped recently, and the first battalion reconnaissance company is exploring the performance of this weapon.

He has seen it.

This thing, the artillery shells are very advanced, and they are much more destructive to the bunker than the Type [-] infantry artillery.

"interesting."

Glancing at the machine gun bunkers in the distance, Xu Hu tucked his tongue, looking forward to the recoilless guns that will be equipped soon. As a battalion and a company, his troops will be the first to equip them.

With a wave of his hand, he retreated with two battalions:

"withdraw."

According to the scheduled plan, it was time to retreat at this time.

However, unexpectedly, it was originally planned that the troops would be blocked by the half-buried fortress in the devil's fourth main position, but unexpectedly, they were stopped here.

At this time, the confrontation between the artillery units of the two sides has already decided the outcome.

Devil Artillery is really powerful.

Four 105-type [-] long-range cannons, plus eighteen [-]-type mountain cannons, combined with the devil's high-altitude observation balloon, fired a series of [-] Bofors mountain cannons without temper, and could only constantly shift positions.

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"Yo Xi."

Ping An County.

Yamamoto breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the news of the retreat of the Independence Regiment, and Shinji Kosawa was overjoyed and shouted hello directly.

"Humph."

Then Jia Zuo snorted coldly:
"The quality of the independent regiment's artillery is worse than we expected."

According to the report of the long-range cannon unit, the artillerymen of the independent regiment were very inexperienced, unresponsive, and chaotic, which was worse than expected, like a novice who had just been exposed to cannons for a long time.

"It seems."

Yamamoto also nodded:
"Although our opponents have plenty of soldiers, they are very short of technical arms."

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at the same time.

"very good."

Li Yunlong of Gecun also received the report from the front line and was also very satisfied.

The [-]st and [-]nd Battalions made a live attack.

The loss of the troops was small, but the harvest was great, and many problems that had not been discovered before were discovered.

Artillery is also full of harvest.

The [-] new gun crews formed a month ago have also carried out actual combat for up to six hours.

Moreover, after this actual combat, a large number of deficiencies in the artillery unit were also discovered, and targeted improvements could be made.

　Change first, change later...

　　This chapter was written in a hurry!
　　
　
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