Chapter 240 Yoshio Shinozuka: There must be a brave man under the heavy reward
The killing machine that Huang Yu wanted to build was well known to all, and everyone who knew about the Huaihai Campaign in later generations knew it.
In that battle, the enemy had advantages in strength, firepower, and terrain.
In order to break open the enemy's turtle shell and break into their position, an engineer company commander used gasoline barrels and explosive packets to invent the famous flying thunder cannon, commonly known as the "heartless cannon."
The range is very short and the accuracy is also very poor. However, because it is simple to make, easy to operate, and powerful enough, it was used on a large scale in the Huaihai Campaign and achieved considerable results.
But it can be said that the Flying Thunder Cannon made indelible military exploits in the Battle of Huaihai.
The Jinniu Mountain in front of you is the turtle shell that the Japanese army carefully built for themselves.
The flying thunder cannon can break open the turtle shells of hundreds of thousands of troops, and it can certainly break open the turtle shells of only three or four thousand garrison troops in front of them.
In order to build a flying thunder cannon with better quality and higher shooting accuracy, Huang Yu specially transferred several engineers from the Taiyuan Arsenal.
They are good at calculations and can control the effective range of the thunder cannon by calculating the amount of propellant and increase the shooting accuracy of the thunder cannon.
While Huang Yu was busy producing thunder cannons, the Japanese planes from surrounding provinces were not idle either!
Yoshio Shinozuka gave them a death order.
We must find the hiding place of the Eighth Route Army and the convoy, attack them from the sky, weaken their strength, reduce the defensive pressure on the blockade garrison, and destroy all the military equipment stolen by the independent group.
"Weng buzzing..." A plane roared over the road close to the ground.
Chief of Staff Li Wensheng was hiding in a ravine next to the highway. He was covered with thick thatch and did not dare to move.
There were six aerial bombs hanging on the belly of the plane. If they were exposed, the Japanese would blow up all six and throw them all into the ravine. Even the King of Heaven would not be able to save them.
It wasn't until the plane disappeared from above their heads that Li Wensheng climbed out of the ravine carefully!
"Chief of Staff, the search frequency of Japanese planes is too high... In less than three hours after dawn, there are already five planes carrying out aerial reconnaissance against our scalps... One comes every half an hour on average... In case any soldiers are accidentally exposed
If it happens, the entire convoy will be blown up completely."
Li Wensheng didn't reply. He quickly climbed up the small mound on the side and raised his binoculars to look around.
A minute later, his eyes suddenly locked on the small woods two kilometers away.
A very serious analysis: "The reason why the reconnaissance frequency of the Japanese planes is so high is because they have never found the bombing target and are anxious, so they are desperately searching for us!"
"Since they are so anxious, we will use our tricks to prepare a target for them to bomb."
"In order to prevent the cars from breaking down halfway, each car is not fully loaded. It should be no problem to free up two cars..."
"Did you see the grove over there? Drive the two vacated cars into the grove, put on some camouflage, and deliberately expose the target when the Japanese plane passes by at low altitude!"
"If you install a few hundred kilograms of explosives on the car, as long as the Japs find the car and detonate the explosives during the bombing... the noise caused is no less than the explosion of ammunition. The Japs will definitely mistakenly think that they have successfully bombed a convoy, and then relax their search for us.
Strength!"
"Weng buzz..."
More than half an hour later, the roar of the plane reached Li Wensheng's ears again.
A black spot suddenly appeared in the sky at the end of the field of vision, getting bigger and bigger, and slowly turned into a silver-white airplane, whizzing past everyone's heads.
The powerful air wave almost overturned the camouflage on the car.
The pilot did not find any suspicious targets and could only continue moving forward with disappointment on his face.
Suddenly, a shining object caught the pilot's attention. It flashed and quickly disappeared from sight.
The ground is full of deserted slopes and woods, so there can be no reflective objects.
But the pilot did see something reflecting light in the woods not far away, indicating that there was something hidden in the woods that did not belong here.
As soon as his eyes lit up, he immediately controlled the plane to swoop towards the forest.
The huge fuselage whizzed past the forest close to the treetops. The pilot stared at the ground, trying to find some clues...
Just when he was about to return disappointed again, a large and exaggerated bush came into his view.
The soldier's intuition told him that there was something wrong with this bush.
First, the aircraft hovers in the air, then suddenly dives and rushes straight towards the target!
When it was about to touch the ground, the nose of the aircraft was raised violently to climb, and powerful air waves were blown to the ground at the same time... The thatch covering the car body was blown everywhere in an instant...
"It's a car... I found the Eighth Route Army's transport equipment convoy, hidden in the woods below..." the pilot shouted with excitement.
Quickly turn on the radio to ask for help from nearby aircraft: "Headquarters...Headquarters...I have discovered something here...asking for support from other aircraft..."
In less than ten minutes, four planes gathered over the grove.
Fuel is limited and they can't wait here too long or they won't be able to return to the airport.
After a while, more than twenty bombs were dropped into the woods by planes.
Among the dense explosions, a more violent explosion suddenly sounded in the middle of the forest, and the fireball rose up like a mushroom cloud, twenty or thirty meters high.
Thick smoke billowed into the sky, rising to a height of 100 meters before stopping...
This unusual explosion instantly attracted the attention of all pilots.
"It was the ammunition that exploded... we must have detonated the ammunition captured by the Eighth Route Army..." a pilot shouted excitedly.
The other pilots all showed expressions of approval and flew their planes away from the battlefield with great satisfaction.
At the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, Yoshio Shinozuka was rehearsing the upcoming battle with his subordinates.
The results of three consecutive deductions are exactly the same: the artillery strength of both sides is almost the same. Both sides will be damaged by the bombardment at the beginning of the battle, and they will not be able to provide much artillery support to the infantry!
After the decisive battle began, the Jinniushan garrison held their position and relied on the favorable terrain and a large number of artillery holes and bunkers to successfully repel the Eighth Route Army's attack and block them at Jinniu Mountain!
After the follow-up reinforcements were in place, they surrounded the remnants of the Eighth Route Army and wiped them out. Only some stragglers of the Eighth Route Army took advantage of the chaos to escape!
Of course, the three brigades responsible for the blocking mission will also suffer heavy casualties in the battle, with at least two infantry brigades lost.
Yoshio Shinozuka was very dissatisfied with the results of the deduction and felt that the casualties of the troops were too high.
In the previous battle, the Shanxi garrison suffered enough losses...
If more than 2,000 people were lost in the subsequent decisive battle, the direct losses of the Shanxi garrison in the entire sweep would exceed 10,000 people. This price was definitely not something that Yoshio Shinozuka could bear.
"Airplanes...we didn't include airplanes in the deduction just now!" Yoshio Shinozuka asked, staring at the sand table and his eyes lit up.
"If the aviation forces from surrounding provinces that are reinforcing us can find the main force of the Eighth Route Army and their artillery units during daytime operations, launch attacks from the sky, and severely injure them, the defensive pressure on the Jinniushan garrison will definitely be much less, and their casualties will also be much less!"
A staff officer participating in the deduction reminded: "But we don't know if the aviation force can find the main force of the Eighth Route Army and their artillery force!"
"The opponent is too cunning and will definitely be on guard against our air strikes!"
"I think we must prepare for the worst in advance!"
Shinozuka Yoshio insisted on his opinion and had no choice but to answer bravely: "No, the aviation force will definitely not let us down!"
"Your Excellency, Commander...good news...the aviation reinforcements to us have been harvested!" the communications staff officer hurried over to report.
"So far, they have discovered three convoys and two Eighth Route Army secret camps..."
"A total of twenty-five aircraft sorties were dispatched, one hundred and fifty aerial bombs were used, and all targets were successfully destroyed!"
"During the air strike, the pilot saw a large amount of ammunition being detonated and the Eighth Route Army running for their lives!"
"Completely achieved the bombing effect..."
What the pilot saw could not be faked. Yoshio Shinozuka believed 70% to 80% of it on the spot.
He said with excitement on his face: "The air raid on the convoy was all military equipment, weapons and ammunition seized by the Eighth Route Army from Taiyuan, that's why the explosion occurred!"
"There are two camps. If we hide a company of troops at each camp, the aviation force can also severely damage the two companies of the Eighth Route Army."
"There are still five or six hours before dark, so it will definitely be no problem to destroy another five or six secret camps!"
"It means that the aviation force that reinforces us can severely damage at least one regiment of the Eighth Route Army."
"It will definitely greatly reduce the combat pressure on the Jinniushan defense forces and reduce their losses in battle!"
"Chief of Staff, immediately send a telegram to the aviation force that is reinforcing us: Shanxi Garrison Headquarters thanks them and promises them that if they destroy an Eighth Route Army troop hiding spot or kill a convoy, we will reward them with ten thousand oceans!"
"There must be a brave man under a heavy reward..."
"Under the stimulation of money, their actions must be more passionate!"
At the enemy headquarters of the Independent Regiment, the telegraph operator Zhang Xuelinxing hurried to Kong Jie and reported: "Regiment commander, chief of staff telegraph!"
"They used six cars and more than a thousand kilograms of gunpowder to deliberately expose the target, attracting Japanese planes to bomb it, and successfully diverted their attention."
"Commander Shen of the First Battalion arranged for a squad to set up a fake camp and successfully attracted the attention of the Japanese. They dispatched six planes and dropped more than 30 bombs before retreating. The scrap metal exploded by the light bombs could pick up more than a thousand pieces.
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"The commander of the third battalion also used false targets to attract five planes to bomb..."
"The air raid is over, the Japanese gave up on the spot to investigate the hiding place of the Third Battalion!"
Kong Jie said happily: "Well done... I asked the battalion commanders to arrange more false targets for the Japanese to blow up... In order to make the trick more realistic, I allowed them to allocate some ammunition to blow up for the Japanese!"
After saying that, he suggested to Li Yunlong and Ding Wei: "You can also ask the troops to prepare some false targets to attract Japanese planes to bomb, so that Yoshio Shinozuka mistakenly thinks that we suffered heavy casualties in the daytime raid and underestimated us..."
"If you do it well, you might be able to catch the Japanese off guard!"
"Let's get some fake and bad cannons for the Japanese to blow up, to make them believe that our artillery also suffered heavy losses in the daytime air raid!"
"When the artillery battle between the two sides starts, kill the other side by surprise!"
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