The "High Fire" was fired at the Japanese at night. The first seven rounds were fired at seven locations at the same time, and two of them hit.
To be precise, it was not two hits. One of them was an explosion of shrapnel that flew two miles away and hit the Japanese heavy artillery. Then with a "clang", the shrapnel embedded deeply into the gun body and knocked the entire artillery to the ground.
, and after being lifted up again, he could no longer fight.
Another door was completely lifted up by the shock wave of the "high fire" explosion and then fell back to the ground heavily, and its parts were scattered all over the floor.
The Japs thought this was a random firing by the Eighth Route Army, but they did not expect another round of "high fire" half an hour later. Then the Japs understood that this was a targeted clearing of their heavy artillery by the Eighth Route Army.
Okamura Neiji quickly ordered the targeted heavy artillery to evacuate their positions... He thought that this would put an end to the trouble.
Unexpectedly, the Eighth Route Army's "high fire" then turned to seven other targets.
So Okamura Neiji understood that his method of scattered shooting could not work... The Imperial Army could use scattered shooting, and the Eighth Route Army could also use scattered shooting to counterattack.
More importantly, the Eighth Route Army could also calculate the position of the Empire's heavy artillery during the day and then fire one by one at night, but the Empire had nothing to do against the Eighth Route Army... "High Fire" was launched at night, and the distance was long, and the reconnaissance aircraft
It is difficult to determine the location and height of the target.
So Okamura Ningji became cruel and ordered: "Order the 329th Heavy Artillery Regiment to prepare for battle!"
"Yes!" the staff officer responded and immediately conveyed the order.
At this time, Okamura Neiji had already realized one thing: in order to draw out the target, and it was during the day, the only way was to actually invest the heavy artillery regiment.
Neji Okamura gritted his teeth with hatred. He punched the table and cursed to himself: "I want to see how you can avoid the bombing of our army!"
Okamura Neiji believed that this time he had air superiority, and the reconnaissance planes were deployed in the airspace west of Yuncheng like Mi. At the same time, the "Zero War" was allowed to cruise nearby. As soon as the Eighth Route Army's "high-fire" launcher was deployed, the reconnaissance
The aircraft will be able to detect it immediately and guide bombers and "zero combat" to destroy it.
But what I didn't expect was...
The heavy artillery unit had just fired a few rounds of shells when a staff officer immediately reported: "Your Excellency, General, our artillery position has been bombed, causing heavy casualties!"
"What?" Neji Okamura couldn't believe what he heard, and then he asked angrily: "Where is our aviation force? And our intelligence network? Why is it that the enemy launches 'special bombs' but we don't do anything about it?"
No news? What are they doing?!"
In fact, this is not to blame the Japanese intelligence personnel, nor the Japanese reconnaissance planes, nor the Japanese aviation.
Because they did not discover how the "high fire" was launched at all. It was not until the moment when the "high fire" hit the Japanese artillery position that they realized that the Eighth Route Army's "special bomb" had succeeded again.
There is no other reason. This is one of the functions of the missile silo... The missile silo not only provides cover for the missile, but also acts as a camouflage. There is no difference at all from the surface.
If this were the case in modern times, the moment a missile is launched, the location of the launch silo will be detected by spy satellites and it will no longer be a secret.
But there were no spy satellites in this era, and the radar's reconnaissance capabilities were extremely limited and could not even detect "high fire". Therefore, it was difficult for the Japanese to find the location of the launch silo. They even did not know that the Eighth Route Army had a launch silo after being hit. thing.
Unless...the Japanese happened to have a plane near the launch silo, and the pilot saw a "high fire" fired from the launch silo.
But of course, Wang Xuexin was also prepared for this.
There is an air defense guard post around each "high fire"... This air defense guard post is actually a few people standing in each direction to observe the sky. Once an enemy aircraft is discovered, they will immediately report to the headquarters.
Therefore, the "high fire" will not fire when there are enemy planes nearby, but will be launched as soon as the enemy planes fly away. Of course, the Japanese will not be able to discover the location of the launch silo.
If there is any flaw, it is that every time a "high fire" is fired from the launch silo, a cloud of smoke will be emitted, and because of the characteristics of the rocket engine... the path the "high fire" flies will leave a long trajectory.
The Japanese fighter jets could search in reverse direction along this trajectory to the sky above the launch silo, but when they got to the ground, they found nothing!
Therefore, when Okamura Neiji used a telegram to question the reconnaissance plane, Kawara Jiro, who was in charge of commanding the reconnaissance mission, was also confused.
"We didn't find any launch device!" Jiro Kawara said: "Although we can see the launch trajectory, there is nothing! There is no launcher and no car..."
Okamura Neiji was speechless for a moment when he heard these reports. He didn't know what method the Eighth Route Army used to achieve this.
Then, when Okamura Neji was silent, the staff reported nervously: "Another three 'special bombs' flew to our artillery position..."
"Organize an interception immediately!" Neji Okamura shouted almost hysterically.
After a while, the communications soldier reported: "One was successfully shot down, one was missed, and one blew up two of our army's heavy artillery!"
Okamura Neiji couldn't help but sigh: How could such a strange thing happen? The Air Force couldn't find their launch site!
Yoshio Shinozuka, who had been standing by silently, asked at this time: "Your Excellency, General, if this continues..."
Okamura Neji fell silent.
If we continue to fight like this, sooner or later the heavy artillery regiment will be blown up by the Eighth Route Army.
It didn’t matter that the heavy artillery regiment was all blown up. The point was that he was willing to let go of his children but couldn’t trap the wolf...
After hesitating for a moment, Okamura Neiji gave the order: "Stop the bombardment, the artillery regiment evacuates the position and takes cover!"
In fact, Wang Xuexin on the other side was also worried at this time.
Chen Songyong felt a little strange when he looked at Wang Xuexin's appearance.
"Batalion Commander!" Chen Songyong asked: "We have won several great victories in succession, beating the Japanese Heavy Artillery Department to the point of losing their temper. Why are you..."
"Consultant Chen!" Wang Xuexin said, "Do you think we can keep hiding the matter about our launch silo?"
Staff Chen thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I think we can only hide it for a while, and sooner or later the Japanese will find out!"
Wang Xuexin said "hmm" and said, "If you were a Japanese, what would you do after discovering our army's launch silo?"
"Bombing?" Chen Songyong suddenly realized: "So the battalion commander is worried about this. Don't worry, our launch silo is not afraid of bombing..."
Wang Xuexin shook his head: "What if the Japanese note down the location of each silo, plan the route, and prepare for interception with 'Zero War'?"