"Inform the two engineering companies to immediately send the thunder cannons they built to the front line. I want to give the Japanese and puppet troops who attack us a feast of artillery fire..."
"Let's see which one is more powerful, their flesh and blood, or the explosive packs..."
The flying thunder cannon is a self-made weapon that has been used by the Eighth Route Army for a long time. The raw materials are very simple and the manufacturing process is also very easy. Engineers can produce them in large quantities.
As the Eighth Route Army captured a large number of artillery on the battlefield, especially the Eighth Route Army in the Wing, mortars were directly equipped at the battalion level.
Artillery such as thunder cannons, which had a short range, poor shooting accuracy, and were prone to problems, were gradually eliminated.
In order to put aside the worries of the Japanese and puppet troops attacking Xiongxian, the artillery unit of the Solitary Brigade attacking Xiongxian must not stay here.
Otherwise, if dozens of heavy artillery and mountain field artillery were deployed into Xiongxian City, the more than 10,000 Japanese puppet troops would be intimidated.
The Yizhong Eighth Route Army's operational plan to besiege the Japanese and puppet troops in Xiong County and send reinforcements southward could not continue to be implemented.
After the mountain artillery and heavy artillery units were transferred away in order to deceive the Japanese and puppet troops, the troops left behind in Xiong County lost their artillery advantage and could only be suppressed and beaten by the Japanese and puppet troops on the battlefield.
In order to solve this problem, Huang Yu once again thought of the flying thunder cannon.
Before the First Brigade attacked Xiongxian, the number of troops stationed in Xiongxian was gradually reduced from more than 10,000 to a few thousand.
Although it is not equipped into an organic tank unit, dozens of transport vehicles can still be assembled.
If there are cars, there will be fuel, and if there is fuel, there will be gasoline barrels.
The Xiongxian garrison successfully destroyed the Xiongxian ammunition depot before it was destroyed. This was because once the Eighth Route Army captured the weapons and ammunition there, its overall strength would become stronger and stronger.
The hundreds of gasoline barrels piled in the yard meant nothing to the Japanese. Even if the Eighth Route Army captured them, they were just a pile of scrap metal. It didn't matter whether they were blown up or not.
So after entering the city, the only brigade seized more than 200 gasoline barrels alone.
Huang Yu had an idea and decided to turn them all into flying thunder cannons.
As for the explosive packets fired by flying thunder cannons, there is no shortage of them in Xiongxian City.
Although the Japanese bombed the arsenal, the Solitary Brigade still seized thousands of kilograms of gunpowder from other places...
I originally planned to save these thunder cannons and gunpowder for counterattack.
The attacking troops of the Japanese and puppet troops were caught off guard. Before they could react from their confusion, the entire army attacked, and they would definitely be able to take advantage of the situation and defeat the Japanese and puppet troops.
Unexpectedly, the Japanese and puppet troops attacking Xiong County were too desperate, so they had no choice but to use this trump card in advance.
By severely inflicting heavy damage on the Japanese and puppet attacking troops, they slowed down their attack speed and gave the troops left behind in Xiongxian some breathing time.
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On the frontal battlefield in the south of the city, the commander of the fifth regiment of the Sole Brigade took the lead. After paying the price of more than one platoon of casualties, he finally recaptured several yards that the Japanese and puppet troops had just occupied.
But the Japanese major captain who faced him was not too discouraged.
He is a veteran in fighting, and he can tell from the firepower that the Eighth Route Army's counterattack is weak and there are not many troops left.
Although his troops lost several yards, they were able to kill the opponent's No. 30 or 40 soldiers, which was not considered a loss.
When the Eighth Route Army has insufficient troops, it can regain the position it just lost at any time as long as it wants to.
A fierce expression quickly flashed across the captain's face, he drew out his command knife and pointed forward to give an order.
"The mortar squadron set up all the mortars and blasted the yard we just abandoned again..."
"The infantry artillery squad and the mountain artillery squadron also participated in the battle...razing all the courtyard walls to the ground..."
"Didn't the Eighth Route Army want those yards?"
"Then I will let all their counterattack troops be destroyed in those yards..."
"Boom boom boom..."
Violent explosions soon sounded in the south of Xiong County. Soon, several yards that the Japanese army had just abandoned were covered by artillery fire. There were fires rising into the sky and bricks and stones flying everywhere...
The Japanese captain was very satisfied with the shelling scene in front of him.
Before the artillery fire preparations stopped, a reinforcement team was immediately dispatched to prepare for the attack with two platoons of the Imperial Alliance Army.
The Japanese captain is very smart and knows that street fighting is the most life-consuming battle.
Let the puppet troops launch an attack in front of the Japanese, attracting the Eighth Route Army to shoot and expose the target. The little Japanese following behind can immediately counterattack the exposed Eighth Route Army on the battlefield and kill their opponents.
He has used this method of attack several times with no disadvantages, and every time he can kill a large number of Eighth Route Army troops with a small cost of casualties.
Of course, the casualty costs mentioned here only refer to Japanese casualties.
As for the casualties of the puppet troops, they completely ignored them.
The captain sincerely looked down upon the Chinese who worked for the imperial army.
No matter how many deaths there are, it won't hurt. At the worst, after the battle, we can sweep the villages around the station and capture some young men, so that we can casually replenish the Imperial Alliance troops lost on the battlefield.
Time passed by second by second. In the view of the captain, the artillery fire preparations in front of him were very thorough. The nearly two-meter-high courtyard wall had been completely destroyed by mountain artillery and infantry artillery. The courtyard was also bombed into a mess by mortar shells, which could be seen everywhere.
The rubble of collapsed houses, the corpses of soldiers who lost their lives...
Just as he was about to stop the artillery, the infantry rushed forward to launch an attack. An explosive package the size of a millstone suddenly came into view, rolling towards him...
The captain didn't know what it was at first, but when it landed in the ruins ten meters away and there was a spark on the explosive package, he realized what it was.
His face suddenly turned pale, and he threw himself on the ground, shouting out loud: "It's an explosive pack... Get down and take cover..."
"Rumble..."
A thunderous explosion soon sounded in the captain's ears, deafening. He felt that his internal organs were tumbling in the explosion, and then he felt dizzy and lost consciousness...
"Rumble..."
More than twenty explosive packets were dropped on the offensive positions of the Japanese and puppet troops one after another, and several explosive packets were dropped directly in the middle of the Japanese and puppet troops that had completed their assembly.
The powerful shock wave generated by the explosion is like a death harvester, blowing up a large area...
In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred Japanese and puppet troops were all blown over and fell to the ground without any movement.
More than a dozen Japanese and puppet troops closest to the impact point of the bomb disappeared without a trace, and their bodies were completely destroyed in the explosion...
Even if someone lay down in the ruins and hid behind a broken wall, the powerful shock wave would shatter their internal organs and kill them on the spot...
The Japanese and puppet soldiers who were lucky enough to survive were also stunned by the bombing, their ears were ringing, they were dizzy, and they couldn't react for a long time.
After being brought back to reality by his commander and comrades, his first reaction was to retreat back and quickly escape from the killing range of the thunder cannon.
"Rumble..."
Half a minute later, a second round of explosives the size of a millstone fell from the sky and hit the Chinese and Japanese puppet positions again.
Compared with just now, due to the increased amount of propellant, each explosive package flew fifty or sixty meters further than before.
