930 The old man is brave and aims for a thousand miles - Mr. Lin
Those in the team are honestly accepting Mr. Lin’s instructions.
In addition to Commander Wu and his team of cadres affiliated with the headquarters artillery regiment, there are also faces that are particularly familiar to Kong Jie.
They were two artillery battalion commanders under a team, namely Wang Chengzhu, the mortar battalion commander, and Howitzer, the mountain artillery battalion commander.
Speaking of artilleryman Wang Chengzhu, when Li Yunlong was still leading the new regiment, he was the most precious figure in the regiment.
Later, Kong Jie was fooled.
In the battle of Cangyunling, Kong Jie led the independent regiment and followed Li Yunlong to attack Bantian's unit from the front, and then used the death squad to advance first, and finally used the mortar in Wang Chengzhu's hand to knock out Bantian with one shot.
Wing Headquarters.
In the past few years, I have always cherished the pillar of commanding large-scale artillery operations, and with Kong Jie, everything has been rising.
The artillery team he led developed rapidly.
Initially, he was the commander of the artillery platoon, which can be said to be an artillery platoon. There were only a few soldiers in the entire platoon, and there was only one mortar, plus one or two grenade launchers.
Later, the artillery platoon slowly developed into an artillery battery.
The national army artillery talent Howitzer, who was rescued by Kong Jie from the prisoner-of-war camp of the Yamamoto Special Agent Team, also officially became a member of the independent regiment and became the deputy company commander of the artillery company.
Later, the artillery company developed into an artillery battalion.
Later, an additional mortar battalion was even deployed.
Kong Jie's team had two artillery battalions.
Zhuzi serves as the commander of the mortar battalion, and Howitzer serves as the commander of the mountain artillery battalion.
But in fact, with today's development, these two artillery battalions are said to be artillery battalions, and their scale has long been comparable to artillery regiments.
The size of the entire battalion has reached seven to eight hundred men, and it has all types of artillery, including mountain artillery, infantry artillery, field artillery, and howitzers.
For example, the First Artillery Battalion led by Wang Chengzhu was equipped with 15 mountain guns, 10 field guns, 11 infantry guns, and 8 howitzers.
Of course, these artillery pieces are mainly artillery pieces captured from the Japs, such as the Type 92 infantry artillery commonly used by the Japs to support the brigade, and the Type 41 mountain cannon attached to the regiment.
Including the 75mm howitzer obtained from the Americans.
A total of 44 artillery pieces.
This is still considered some caliber artillery, excluding some small-caliber artillery, such as 50mm mortars and 60mm mortars.
The second artillery battalion of howitzers is basically in the same situation. The number of artillery pieces is slightly less than that of the first artillery battalion led by Wang Chengzhu.
In addition, there are the First Independent Regiment, the Second Independent Regiment, and the Third Independent Regiment under one team, including the Fourth Independent Regiment led by Wang Huaibao who still persists in resisting Japan in Zhongtiao Mountain.
Artillery units have been mobilized one after another.
Moreover, none of the four regiment commanders was willing to lag behind, and the artillery unit they created was directly the establishment of an artillery battalion.
In the words of the four group leaders:
"Then Chu Yunfei's team of the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army has a mountain artillery battalion, why should we be worse than him?"
As the saying goes, the first to get the moon is the one who is near the water.
Kong Jie, who has a lot of channels in the field of arms, will naturally not treat his old subordinates badly.
Therefore, the artillery units of the four regiments under the entire corps are all very loud.
As for the first and second artillery battalions directly under the detachment headquarters, if it were not for the impact of the organization, Kong Jie would have prepared to directly merge the two artillery battalions a few months ago, or to reorganize them into two artillery regiments.
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Two weeks ago, Li Yunlong successfully used mechanized combat troops to raid the largest artillery testing site and processing plant of the First Army in Shanxi Province in Santai Township, and seized a considerable amount of arms and equipment, including some large-caliber heavy howitzers.<
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According to the orders of the headquarters, most of these heavy howitzers were assigned near the Huangyadong Arsenal to assist in the defense of the internal base area of Huangyadong.
As for the unified command and training of the artillery defenses within the Huangyadong Arsenal, the commander of the headquarters artillery regiment is fully responsible.
Then Wang Chengzhu expressed that he wanted to try the heavy howitzer himself.
After all, even if a team has developed quite well, the First Artillery Battalion can even be regarded as the size of an artillery regiment.
However, none of the artillery calibers owned by the entire artillery battalion are larger than 90 mm.
Compared with some 105mm or even 150mm heavy artillery that Li Yunlong seized from the Japanese artillery testing ground, it is still far behind.
As for the commander of the Second Artillery Battalion's howitzer, let alone that.
"Old commander, you know, why am I called a howitzer? It's because, in my dreams, I want to try this large-caliber heavy howitzer myself!
This time, Commander Li came back from the Japanese artillery testing site with a lot of heavy artillery seized. I can't miss such a good opportunity!"
Kong Jie quickly helped his two old subordinates, and after applying to the headquarters, he also transferred the two artillery battalion commanders to the Huangyadong base area to help.
Unexpectedly, when he turned around, he saw that Wang Chengzhu and the howitzer were being lectured and taught by Mr. Lin together with the artillery cadres at the headquarters.
While Kong Jie and Li Yunlong were talking, Mr. Lin was finishing his lecture.
The deputy chief of staff led Li Yunlong, Kong Jie and his entourage to greet them.
"I just want to take you all to pay homage to the old man!"
When the two parties met and saw the deputy chief of staff coming with the cadres in person, Mr. Lin was not as serious as he had been when he was giving the lecture. Instead, he seemed like a humble old man.
"Chief of Staff, you are here!"
The deputy general staff member quickly replied: "Old man, why are you here again! We have agreed that officers and soldiers of our Eighth Route Army are equal and are all comrades. With your age and prestige, just call me Xiao Zuo!"
"Oh, by the way, I would like to introduce some comrades to you."
"This is Li Yunlong, leader of the new second regiment!"
As the Deputy Chief of General Staff spoke, he let the big-headed Li Yunlong step aside and introduced Lin Weiquan.
Then, before the deputy chief of staff could continue to speak, Mr. Lin looked at Li Yun with a straight face, nodded and said: "Commander Li Yunlong, well, I have heard of it.
It is said that Captain Li is a top-notch troublemaker, regardless of whether he can fight in a war. Even the boss often mentions Captain Li and expresses a headache.
Today I actually saw a real person, but I looked quite well-behaved!"
"Old man, I have admired you for a long time!"
Li Yunlong gave a respectful military salute, but the old man's words made him somewhat depressed, muttering in his heart:
Damn it, how dare we, Mr. Li, not behave well in front of you? I don’t want to feed the brigade commander, let alone take the blame for the boss!
Then, the deputy chief of staff introduced Kong Jie: "This is the captain of our first independent detachment in northwestern Shanxi, Kong Jie!"
Mr. Lin nodded again, but this time, the difference was that the stern face towards Li Yunlong quickly turned into a smile and appreciation.
Mr. Lin said: "I have heard too much about Comrade Kong Jie these days.
In fact, before I joined our Eighth Route Army, I had heard of Commander Kong’s name when I was in the Taihang Mountains.
I won’t mention anything else for now, but I will point out that whenever the surrounding villagers and even children mention Comrade Kong Jie, they all give thumbs up and praise him.
Even the vegetables and rice that I, a teacher, eat for two meals a day are heard to be high-yielding crops developed and produced by Comrade Kong Jie.
Some people have even said that in the past two years in our Taihang base area, the troops have been able to have full meals and do not have to fight the Japanese on empty stomachs. The villagers have been able to live a good life, and Commander Kong must have at least half of the credit!"
Kong Jie was flattered by such a high evaluation and replied with a smile:
"The old man is ridiculous. This is the result of our Eighth Route Army soldiers working together and working together."
The two continued to talk freely, and for a while it seemed as if there was no longer a gap of twenty or thirty years in age, and they were having a great conversation.
Kong Jie calls him "Mr. Lin," and Lin Weiquan calls him "Little Kong" in a friendly manner.
Then when talking about the defense of the arsenal within the entire Huangyadong base area, Lin Weiquan said:
"The headquarters once sent us a design drawing about the overall defense construction of the arsenal inside Huangyadong. The design of that defense drawing can be said to be quite exquisite.
Xiao Kong, I heard that you designed that defense map?"
Kong Jie replied, "Some superficial suggestions were finally perfected by the veteran leaders who added a lot of additions, which made Mr. Lin laugh!"
Lin Weiquan said: "Laughing? Who dares to laugh? It is no exaggeration to say that this defense design is wonderful. It combines the natural topography of the entire Huangyadong area as a whole, and finally creates an exquisite overall defense system. Once the overall defense construction is completely completed, it can even be said that our Huangyadong Arsenal will be equivalent to falling into a safe."
Kong Jie said: "We have to rely on Mr. Lin to lead everyone to mobilize and coordinate all the artillery offensives deployed in the core area of the base area.
Otherwise, passive defensive fortifications alone will not be enough to completely destroy the Japanese troops who broke into them."
No one would refuse to hear compliments, let alone those from a talented leader like Kong Jie. Lin Weiquan smiled and said:
"Don't worry, before I joined our Eighth Route Army, I thought our Eighth Route Army was just like the rumors, with scarce ammunition and backward equipment.
It wasn't until I saw it with my own eyes that I realized that the equipment development of our Eighth Route Army troops has reached such an extent.
There are even a lot of heavy artillery, which really opened my eyes!
The so-called clever woman cannot make a meal without rice.
On the other hand, even the heavy artillery has been pulled over now. If I can't even use the power of the artillery, wouldn't it be a disgrace to eight generations of my ancestors?"
During the continued conversation, Lin Weiquan and Kong Jie seemed to be friends who had been together forever, and they seemed to regret seeing each other so late.
There is no limit to the topics the two can talk about, ranging from the defense of the Huangyadong Arsenal to the current Sino-Japanese war situation, even the evolution of the international situation, and the future direction and development of China.
When parting, the old man took Kong Jie's hand affectionately and suddenly asked: "Xiao Kong, are you getting married?"
"Ah???" Kong Jie was stunned.
Lin Weiquan said seriously: "My wife has a niece who is in her second and third year of life..."
Li Yunlong on the side saw that there was such a good thing, and quickly came forward: "Old man, I haven't asked for a mother-in-law yet!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the cadres accompanying him couldn't bear it anymore and burst into laughter.
Farewell to Mr. Lin, who has always been strong and strong, yet still funny.
After meeting Howitzer and Wang Chengzhu, who had been studying with Mr. Lin for several days.
When Kong Jie asked about what the two of them had learned in the past few days.
The howitzer said with emotion: "Captain, you don't know, this old man is indeed a senior member of the artillery family, and he is proficient in the research of artillery technology.
In the past few days, the old man has led us to carry out targeted artillery bombardment training and corresponding theoretical study with multiple artillery groups, including the large-caliber heavy howitzer we captured this time. The old man said that we can get started with it, which is called a proficiency.
The old man said, if you can get through with one shot, you can get through with all the other guns.
Whether it’s a big cannon or a small cannon, the basic theory and gunnery experience are pretty much the same.”
Wang Chengzhu expressed the same emotion: "Captain, guess how the old man has been training us these past few days? Also, what kind of training has the entire artillery group fortifications inside Huangya Cave done now?
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Seeing everyone's curious faces, Wang Chengzhu continued: "According to the results of the past few days of training led by the old man, we have divided the entire artillery group fortifications at the core of the Huangyadong Arsenal, and all areas within the coverage range of artillery fire, into total
Nearly 300 target points.
From No. 1 to No. 300, each target specifically deals with a certain area within the entire fortification.
After the usual theoretical teaching, the old man may conduct spot checks on us students at any time."
"For example, what is goal number one?"
"You have to answer immediately, that is the end of the entrance to the Yixiantian Canyon Passage."
"If a large number of Japanese soldiers are found gathering in target area No. 1 at this time, how will we launch an artillery attack?"
"Aiming, distance, elevation, wind direction, humidity, elevation, ruler, direction, how many secret points should be added... There can be no mistakes. If there is any mistake, the old man will definitely not save any face and reprimand you severely.
A meal."
"What is Target 101?
If the Japanese are passing by the advanced mountain artillery position in target area No. 101 and are firing artillery shells at you, one round every 30 seconds. As the commander of the outer mountain artillery group, how do you counterattack and destroy the Japanese artillery position? <
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The questions the old man asks will always catch you off guard."
But as he spoke, Wang Chengzhu showed considerable admiration. He concluded:
"The old man said, what level will our artillery combat drill in the core area of Huangyadong reach in the end?
We must ensure that once the little devil passes through the entrance of the first line of sky and enters our various defense areas, no matter where the little devil is, no matter whether it is day or night, as long as our artillery fortifications are not completely destroyed, we must
To do:
Even if a mosquito lies within the defense area of our Huangyadong Arsenal, our artillery shells can fall accurately at the first time and blow it to pieces!
This is considered to be almost up to standard!
When to use what shells, what kind of cannon to use for different terrains and targets, whether to use full propellant or reduced propellant, all the things you need to know about shooting.
Once the old man started training, he was very strict. Even the commander of the martial arts group accidentally answered the wrong question once. Because it was a very simple question, the old man picked up the crutch and started swinging it without any politeness.
The old man said that just as a stick produces a filial son, he also produces a wise disciple. He cannot let us go to the battlefield and gain experience at the expense of the lives of the soldiers.
Finally, the old man even made up some jingles."
"The Japs on Target No. 1 are coming. Wherever there is flat ground, we will fire No. 1 howitzers. The Japs on Target No. 2 are coming. Wherever there is a hillside, we will fire No. 1 mortars... The Japs are going forward with shrapnel shells.
, the Japs retreat and fire bombs, the Japs build fortifications and fire grenades, cover the troops’ attack and hit Xu Jin’s barrage..."
Wang Chengzhu and Howitzer subconsciously sang together.
Li Yunlong admired: "It's amazing, this old man is really capable!"
Kong Jie deeply believed that, with such lofty ideals, why worry about not being able to win the war?