Okamura Neiji rushed to the artillery position with Akiyama Kenichi. They did not take a plane but took a train.
Needless to say, the reason was that the artillery position was close to the front line. At this time, the Eighth Route Army was equipped with Yingjiang aircraft. It was obviously too big a target to take the aircraft.
Okamura Neiji was discussing the equipment of the Eighth Route Army with Akiyama Kenichi on the train. Okamura Neiji had an idea. He asked Akiyama Kenichi: "The Eighth Route Army does not have the technology to produce artillery. Could this be a spray-injection bomb?"
A large spray bomb?"
Kenichi Akiyama from the Tokyo Firearms Manufacturing Factory immediately shook his head and rejected the idea: "This is impossible. Our artillery position is fifteen kilometers away from the enemy's front line. If it is a spray-injection bomb, its range will be at least more than twenty kilometers."
To be able to achieve such accuracy at twenty kilometers is something that rockets cannot achieve!"
Okamura Neji couldn't help but fell silent. Akiyama Kenichi is an expert in rockets and his analysis has a strong reference value.
At the same time, Okamura Neji also felt that this was impossible.
Because it is difficult to control the accuracy of the Empire's injection bombs within a range of several hundred meters... To be precise, this is a worldwide problem. The whole world has not been able to solve the problem of rocket accuracy, so why can the Eighth Route Army solve it?!
Thinking about it, Okamura Neiji once again suspected that one of his own might have tampered with this.
No wonder Okamura Neiji couldn't believe it, because with his current knowledge, no matter whether it was flying in the sky or running on the ground, he could never imagine that any equipment could have such a long range and such power.
If it was not the equipment of the Eighth Route Army, then it must have been one of our own who accidentally detonated the artillery shell.
As for Haseori Ryo's suicide by caesarean section...that can only mean that this matter had nothing to do with Haseura Ryo.
Perhaps, the instigator himself may have been killed in the accident.
Okamura Neji felt that this was reasonable, so he was half relieved, and he even took a nap on the train.
However, when Okamura Neji arrived at his destination and saw the "accident" scene with his own eyes, he immediately overturned his conclusion.
"This is not a crater that can be blasted by artillery shells!" Neji Okamura looked at the almost flattened artillery position with a livid face. The heavy artillery was either blown away or buried in the sand, with only the towering barrels sticking out.
It seems to be struggling to death.
Imperial engineers were digging around with shovels on the battlefield, rescuing soldiers buried in bunkers.
But it was all in vain. The corpses pulled out from the bunker were all bleeding and dying in extremely miserable conditions. Of the nearly a thousand soldiers in the entire artillery regiment, only about two hundred survived.
Akiyama Kenichi also looked solemn. He observed the scene and said: "Your Excellency, there are seven craters in total. Each crater has a diameter of tens of meters. The estimated charge is about hundreds of kilograms. Moreover, it should be flying
Things..."
Okamura Neji's heart sank and he asked: "Why do you think it is a flying object?"
"First of all, no artillery can fire hundreds of kilograms of shells!" Akiyama Kenichi said.
This statement is actually incorrect. The shells of the Hans Gustav cannon weighed more than 4,000 kilograms. Eight hundred kilograms is nothing.
However, there is no problem with Kenichi Akiyama's statement, because the Eighth Route Army obviously does not have giant cannons. Not to mention that giant cannons cannot be hidden, the technical difficulty of this thing is still quite high, and it is also very troublesome to produce, especially the barrel... If there is no industrial technology
, when the cannon barrel fires such a heavy shell, it does not eject the shell, but directly explodes the chamber.
"Secondly!" Kenichi Akiyama pointed at the craters and said: "If it is a crater exploded by a cannonball, because it has a large momentum when it hits the ground, the shell has a process of penetrating underground, so the crater is often deeper and the surface opening is narrower.
.If it is a flying object or an aerial bomb, the crater created by the explosion will be relatively shallow and the opening on the surface will be very wide!”
Okamura Neiji observed the crater and found that it was indeed as wide and shallow as Kenichi Akiyama said.
Of course, this "shallow" refers to an opening of tens of meters, and the visible crater is several meters deep.
At this time, the assistants sent by Akiyama Kenichi came back. They were looking for "suspicious fragments" nearby on Akiyama's order.
This is not an easy job to do, because the "nearby" mentioned here is likely to be several kilometers away.
Akiyama Kenichi picked up a fragment and looked at it, then frowned: "It is definitely the enemy's new equipment. Colonel Hase did not lie. This is indeed an attack by the Eighth Route Army. In addition... General, I think you guessed it
That's right, this is probably a large rocket from the Eighth Route Army. The only explanation now is that they have solved the problem of rocket accuracy!"
Okamura Neji did not speak, this was the result he least wanted to hear.
A problem that the whole world could not solve was actually solved by the Eighth Route Army.
How do these bastards do it?
But the scarier thing is yet to come.
Akiyama Kenichi said: "General, if I guess correctly, this kind of equipment... is likely to change the entire combat model!"
"What do you mean?" Okamura Neji asked.
"General!" Akiyama explained: "If the Eighth Route Army's rockets can hit dozens of kilometers, does that mean that they can also hit hundreds or even hundreds of kilometers? Now that the accuracy problem of rockets has been solved
, so the range for it is actually increasing fuel!”
Okamura Neji didn't even know how to answer the question now.
His eyelids twitched fiercely and he said: "You mean, the Eighth Route Army can directly hit our military airport with this kind of equipment?"
Akiyama Kenichi was startled by the murderous intent in Okamura Neji's eyes, but he still nodded and replied: "Theoretically, you can say so, but this is just my guess!"
"Don't make any unfounded guesses, understand?" Okamura Neji warned.
"Yes!" Kenichi Akiyama stood up and answered.
"And!" Okamura Neiji added: "Don't mention these words to anyone!"
"yes!"
Only then did Kenichi Akiyama realize that he had made a mistake.
If the Eighth Route Army really has such equipment and it exaggerates the range of this equipment, it will affect the morale of the entire army.
Soon there will be Imperial soldiers thinking, if the enemy only needs to keep producing this kind of bombs in the arsenal, can they hit wherever they want from a long distance?
So is there any safe place for Imperial troops?
Akiyama Kenichi may be an expert, he can analyze and speculate from a scientific perspective, but he does not understand military affairs or combat.
Although Okamura Neiji didn't let Akiyama Kenichi say anything, he knew that he couldn't pretend to know nothing.
He turned around and used his intelligence network to move around.
He hoped to get more information about this equipment from the Eighth Route Army through intelligence personnel.
But of course, before knowing this kind of equipment, Okamura Neji did not dare to act rashly.