Wang Xuexin was not worried about whether Zhou Yuankai had any objection to the "Gao Huo" commander.
Because Wang Xuexin knows that as the battle deepens, when the "high fire" troops win again and again, their status and reputation will rise like a rocket. By then, being able to join the "high fire" troops is the ultimate goal of the soldiers.
The soldiers of the "High Fire" unit are all the envy of others, so what kind of resistance can Zhou Yuankai have? I'm afraid he will only be lucky then!
Facts have proved that Wang Xuexin was right to let Zhou Yuankai command the "high fire" troops, and he played an effective role in his first mission.
The original launch location was the south side of Baoping Township, because the south side was further away from Zhaojiaba where the feint force was stationed, and it was also covered by woods... You must know that the launcher is not a small thing, with a track dozens of meters long pointing diagonally into the air.
, although it can be set up in more than an hour, if there is no camouflage, the Japanese reconnaissance planes can easily detect them.
But Zhou Yuankai immediately discovered that there was a problem with the location he chose. He reported to Wang Xuexin through the radio: "Batalion Commander, although there are woods here, the mountains have changed the direction of the air flow, making the wind direction in this area very complicated, 'high fire'"
It may be affected by this airflow and fail to hit the target."
Wang Xuexin felt that Zhou Yuankai's worries were justified.
"High Fire" is a first-generation missile, and its control system is not sensitive enough to respond quickly and promptly to various airflows.
That is to say, once the airflow and wind direction are too complicated or even vortex-type airflow exists, it will be difficult for the control system to take out the "high fire".
More importantly, this is the airflow condition at the launch site.
From now on, "Gao Huo" will have to fly dozens of kilometers.
If it is just a little bit off when launching, it may be off by a few kilometers when it reaches the target.
Therefore, Wang Xuexin did not hesitate and immediately called back: "I agree, you can choose the launching position according to the situation, and act quickly! The enemy may take action at any time!"
"Yes!" Zhou Yuankai responded and immediately sent out scouts to inspect the terrain.
The reason why Wang Xuexin was so anxious was because he estimated that the Japanese would adopt the strategy of "leading the snake out of its hole".
To put it simply, the Japanese would probably use heavy artillery units as bait to force the Eighth Route Army to launch "high fire".
The reason is simple. Isn't "high fire" used to deal with heavy artillery troops?
The "high fire" was launched at night so that the Japanese could not see it. As a result, they never knew what blew up their heavy artillery regiment. What if it was during the day?
To fight with "high fire" or not to fight?
Fight!
The Japanese reconnaissance aircraft can immediately discover the specific location of the launch position, then fighter jets intercept the "high fire" and bombers bomb the launch position.
If the Eighth Route Army had not been prepared, the Japanese would have achieved a perfect victory.
What's more important is that this time the Japanese can see "Gao Huo" clearly and know more information.
Don’t fight!
So what’s the point of the existence of “high fire”?
So the next battle would be as planned before, with the Japanese bombarding Yuncheng with heavy artillery and the Eighth Route Army being helpless.
Therefore, Wang Xuexin urged Zhou Yuankai to act quickly.
Once the Japs throw out the bait, the heavy artillery troops will bomb Yuncheng.
The "high fire" troops must respond in time, so as to tell the people of Yuncheng that the Eighth Route Army has the ability to counter the Japanese heavy artillery, and there is no need to panic or even cause riots.
While Zhou Yuankai was busy, Wang Xuexin was not idle either. He seriously directed the construction of the Zhaojiaba "launching position".
This was the news spread by spies.
However, the spies only know the approximate location, such as which road the convoy followed and where it entered, and then they cannot track it.
Wang Xuexin used the aviation force to fuel this intelligence... Wanxian Airport immediately took off twelve planes to drive away the Japanese reconnaissance planes.
In addition, twelve fighter planes took off to patrol near Zhaojiaba.
The meaning is obvious, using the Hawk 81 to provide air cover for "high fire" troops.
Okamura Neji immediately received the information.
Yoshio Shinozuka said excitedly: "Your Excellency, the target has been determined, it is in Zhaojiaba!"
Okamura Neji was silent for a while. He felt that everything went so smoothly, so smoothly that he couldn't believe it.
The intelligence from the spies pointed to Zhaojiaba, and the intelligence from the reconnaissance plane also pointed to Zhaojiaba... Isn't the Chinese battalion commander very shrewd? Why did such a big flaw appear?
If Wang Xuexin knew what Okamura Neji was thinking at this time, he would secretly feel ashamed, as what he did was indeed a bit obvious.
However, Even so, Okamura Neji still had no choice but to continue as planned.
What else could happen?
Is the heavy artillery unit standing still?
The intelligence did not identify the specific location of the enemy's firing position, so the heavy artillery troops stood still and the enemy's "special bombs" would not be launched, so the two sides remained in a stalemate.
But the stalemate would not do the Empire any good, because at this time, the Imperial troops on the front line were attacking the solid Yuncheng defense line, and Imperial soldiers fell on the way to the charge every minute.
The purpose of their doing this was not to break through the Yuncheng defense line, but just to delay the production of "special bombs" by the Eighth Route Army.
After thinking about it, Okamura Neiji gritted his teeth and ordered: "Order the heavy artillery unit to open fire!"
"Yes!" Yoshio Shinozuka responded and went to convey the order.
In only ten minutes, the Japanese heavy artillery troops opened fire, and shells flew towards Yuncheng one after another.
However, there were not many artillery shells at the beginning. Only six cannons fired. After several rounds of fifty or more shells, only a dozen of them hit the city.
The reason for this is that the Japanese heavy artillery was used dispersedly.
This is also what Okamura Neji thought of:
If, like last time, all 23 heavy artillery pieces of a regiment are concentrated in one artillery position, once locked by the enemy's "special bombs", all 23 heavy artillery pieces will be blown up into the sky by the enemy in one go.
But if the heavy artillery is dispersed in a brigade, and even the artillery positions of the brigade are dispersed, and each gun is far apart, will the enemy's "special bomb" still work?
This is an attempt by Okamura Neji.
The idea is right, the problem is... "High Fire" is a piece of equipment that is cheap and easy to produce. It is much cheaper than the Japanese Type 89 heavy artillery. If one hundred "High Fire" missiles are fired, it can hit one person.
The Japanese heavy artillery is a good deal.
What is the concept of one hundred "high fire"?
They were all over the sky, like rockets being launched.
Especially since each of them holds more than 800 kilograms of explosives, I'm afraid it will turn over the entire land!
But of course, Wang Xuexin would not use more than a hundred "high-fire" missiles to hit these six heavy artillery pieces.