In the end, Okamura Neji couldn't keep his composure.
Wang Xuexin believes that the final loser will definitely be Okamura Neji, both in terms of objective conditions and psychological aspects.
Judging from objective conditions, the Japanese can't afford to waste artillery shells in such a fight.
To be precise, it’s not that we can’t afford to waste artillery shells. If the enemy’s artillery shells continue to fire like this, they can still fight for several days and nights. After all, it is Okamura Neiji. After all, it is used to fight a war of attrition in Yuncheng. There are still these ammunition reserves.
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The problem is...
Can such a low hit rate act as a deterrent to Yuncheng?
If it cannot act as a deterrent, the Eighth Route Army and the people will wait in the city for a few days, but in the end they will get nothing, just a waste of artillery shells.
What's more, the longer the bombardment lasts, the longer the aircraft will be ready in the air... This requires replacing batches one by one, and being ready to intercept at any time. It is really not easy to maintain it for several hours. If it were not for the extremely long "zero war"
The flight time was long ago abandoned due to scheduling issues.
From a psychological point of view, Okamura Neji also suffered a lot in these few hours.
There is a saying that "if you are reluctant to let go of your children, you will not catch the wolf." Okamura Neji now feels that he is in this situation.
So now the question is before us: is it "willing" or "reluctant" now?
If you are willing to give it up, you will need at least another heavy artillery regiment.
But he couldn't bear it, the enemy just wasted it, and he was never able to see the legendary "special bomb".
It's not even certain whether such a "special bomb" exists.
After thinking about it for a long time, Okamura Neji finally made up his mind that he should "give it up".
The reason is very simple. This enemy's "special bomb" is likely to be a piece of equipment that can affect the entire war. Compared with its importance, what is a heavy artillery regiment?
So Okamura Neiji gritted his teeth and ordered: "Order, 327th Artillery Regiment, fire! Evacuate immediately after firing!"
"Yes!" the staff officer responded and immediately conveyed the order.
The layout of this 327th Heavy Artillery Regiment is different from the previous dispersed artillery fire. They have a total of 28 artillery pieces, all in one artillery position.
It's just that they were prepared for evacuation in advance: three roads were built in three directions, and the ammunition on board the vehicle was only enough for three rapid fire rounds. This way, even if it was easy to evacuate, they would not be killed by explosions when bombed.
Secondary kill.
According to common sense, it is very safe for the devil to do this.
Because it takes six or seven minutes for "Gao Huo" to fly to this location more than 30 kilometers away. In addition, plus the scouts transmitting data, adjusting the various elements, etc., it takes more than ten minutes anyway.
Because the Japs were prepared, they quickly evacuated after three rounds. They even had a rehearsal of which cannon should go which way and in what order... This is the character of the Japs. Their battle plan could not wait to be detailed down to every detail.
How much air should be inflated for each wheel, and the towed car should be filled with a small amount of oil to prevent it from igniting a fire if it is hit.
With this arrangement, the evacuation time of the Japanese can be controlled within ten minutes, which is shorter than the arrival time of the "high fire".
The problem is...the Japanese artillery needs to test fire.
The action of test firing is obvious because other artillery will stop firing during this period.
This is to facilitate artillery observers to adjust the point of impact... Artillery observers can only make effective adjustments by seeing and determining which shells were fired by the gun to be adjusted.
Otherwise, if more than a dozen guns explode one after another, the artillery observers will not know which shell needs to be adjusted, and of course there will be no way to correct it.
The test firing process was immediately seen by the artillery observers of the Eighth Route Army, so at this moment, the ten minutes of "high fire" began to be counted:
The artillery observer discovered the location of the Japanese test-fired artillery. No matter what, he first calculated and transmitted the data to the "high fire" troops.
The "high fire" troops don't care, they just adjust the angle and prepare for launch first.
In the end, only one confirmation is needed... Once the enemy fires a large number of artillery shells from this position, it means that the target position is correct, and high-altitude fire can also be fired.
Time is life.
It took eight minutes for the Japs to test-fire and correct the trajectory. Including the time required for evacuation, it far exceeded the launch time of the "high fire".
This time, Zhou Yuankai did not report to Wang Xuexin... This was what Wang Xuexin meant. Since the command authority was delegated to him as the captain, he could make his own decisions in emergencies.
In fact, artillery, including artillery, is often unable to be commanded by superiors, because the outcome of an artillery battle is often decided within ten minutes. As phone calls come and go... the enemy artillery shells have already arrived.
"Launch!" Zhou Yuankai gave the order, and the catapult blasted the high-fire missiles into the sky with a "swish" sound and then flew towards the target.
This time, fifty were fired at once.
This quantity was set by Wang Xuexin. When Professor Su heard this quantity, he felt very distressed. He said to Wang Xuexin: "Battle Commander Wang, ten 'high fire' missiles were able to blow up an artillery position last time. This time
I used 50 coins in my last breath, isn’t that too much? Besides, our reserve only has more than 100 coins..."
Wang Xuexin answered this way: "Professor Su, this battle is not about whether we can blow up the enemy's artillery positions, but about psychological coercion! Since we can see during the day, we can't make any mistakes, because
We want to let the enemy, our army, and even more so the people clearly see that we already have a powerful piece of equipment that can defeat the Japanese!"
Professor Su said "Oh" as if he didn't understand.
Wang Xuexin did this to "make the storm more violent."
After the launch of "High Fire", it is foreseeable that it will cause a blow to the enemy's morale and at the same time boost the morale of our military and civilians. So why not strengthen these effects?
Ten is too stingy. What if none of them hit or only a few hits due to accuracy issues?
Fifty pieces is almost enough.
There happened to be a Jiazi 98 light-explosive reconnaissance plane nearby. The pilot was a captain named Nakano Konan. His mission was to scout Zhaojiaba dozens of kilometers away. However, in order to avoid the Eighth Route Army's Hawker 81, it deviated from the original plan.
route.
Nakano Konan, who was still looking at the map to find his position, suddenly saw a cloud of smoke rising from the ground out of the corner of his eye, followed by a large number of flying objects rising into the sky.
Nakano Konan was startled. He thought it was an enemy plane that had scrambled to intercept him. He quickly dropped the map and pulled it up. Then he looked back and found that the flying objects were not following at all, but were heading northeast.
Flying in the direction of Yuncheng.
The next second, Nakano Konan opened his mouth in surprise.
"Special bomb!" Nakano Konan exclaimed: "This... this is a special bomb!"