As Lin Daba, who was unlucky both in history and now, he is indeed extremely unlucky today.
If it weren't for the fact that he cursed his colleagues in the Ninth Mountain Artillery Regiment on the phone, the Ninth Mountain Artillery Regiment would not have borrowed several infantry cannons from several other infantry brigades and sent them to the front-line artillery positions overnight in order to suppress the national army's artillery fire.
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No one could have imagined that the Type 41 75mm infantry gun, currently the best of the Japanese army, would directly drive more than 10,000 Japanese troops into the abyss. From the advent of the Type 41 75mm infantry gun in 1917 to Japan's defeat in 1945, it has been a large number of Japanese troops.
Used not only in Japan, but also in China, it is also the backbone of the National Army's artillery force, and has even been used by the Red Army on the Korean battlefield.
Judging from the technical level at that time, the Type 41 mountain gun was a mountain gun with very excellent performance and was definitely the best in the world.
It uses advanced hydraulic-mechanical composite braking mechanism technology, and the gun's firing rate is as high as 10 rounds per minute. Later, more advanced integrated artillery shells were used, and the firing rate was as high as 20 rounds per minute.
More importantly, in order to shoot at fixed targets and fortifications, the Type 41 mountain gun can also shoot horizontally.
Perhaps in order to show his greater determination to support the friendly forces, there were actually six boxes of artillery shells piled on the six-wheel truck. According to Zhao Ergou's artillery supply when he was in the artillery unit of the Northeast Army, there were three bases.
However, Liu Lang and his soldiers are now at an advantage.
"Blow the hell out of me." Liu Lang ordered.
"Yes" Zhao Ergou, who had already adjusted the angle and tested the gun distance, pulled hard.
With a "boom" sound, the flat muzzle spit out a ball of flame.
The artillery shell with a muzzle velocity of 360 meters per second roared towards the target. After 3 seconds, a brighter flame appeared in the bright spot.
Zhao Ergou quickly picked up the cannonball and pushed it into the barrel of the cannon again. He squinted his eyes and used his thumb to adjust the shooting distance again. He pulled it hard again, and there was another loud "boom" in the distance, and it jumped more than ten meters.
The flames were so high that even Liu Lang, who was thousands of meters away, could feel the blazing heat coming towards his face.
"Mom, pull your ass, it's such a big firework." Chi Dakui couldn't help but smash it in his mouth.
"My dear, is this cannon so much more powerful than ours?" Zhao Ergou was also shocked by the cannon he fired.
The first artillery shell had accurately hit the target, without any suspense, it reduced Colonel Lin Dahachi and Major General Sakata Jiro who had come to find trouble on a whim, as well as the small farmyard occupied by them, into pieces.
Liu Lang never expected that a certain unlucky guy had so many bad luck attributes. The convoy transporting arms from the division ammunition depot passed by just twenty minutes ago because the chief officer of the baggage team had to report to Colonel Lin Daba.
The truck loaded with ammunition was parked next to the small courtyard. Zhao Ergou, who adjusted the angle slightly to ensure the hit, hit the truck of ammunition directly with his second shot. The explosion of a full 2 tons of ammunition not only blew up a 200-meter radius into a white field
, and also directly took away the lives of nearly fifty little devils.
The entire 7th Wing headquarters was gone.
The unlucky Colonel was even more miserable than in history. In history, he was carried back intact on a stretcher, but now, without burning, all that can be recovered are ashes.
"Quick, quick, push the cannon to the other side of the tunnel." Liu Lang didn't have time to think about how much ammunition there was in the little devil's headquarters. He turned around and ordered the soldiers to push the infantry cannon back quickly.
If this was the case, he would have nothing to say if the Jaap commander who was supposed to be captured could still be alive. The most important thing now was that he had to fight for a bloody path for himself and the remaining soldiers, and at least resist the attack of one squadron of Japs.
Attack for 40 minutes.
And this infantry gun that can shoot flatly is the greatest guarantee.
The biggest feature of the Type 41 mountain cannon is not that its shells are powerful, but that it is very light compared to other mountain cannons. It weighs 500 kilograms and can be pushed around by two soldiers. It can maneuver on almost all terrains. It is only a short distance from the tunnel here.
With a distance of less than 200 meters, seven or eight remaining soldiers dragged me and were quickly deployed to the location designated by Liu Lang.
While Liu Lang was busy preparing to fight the Japanese, he was in an underground tunnel less than ten kilometers away from here.
A soldier with a white face and no beard, wearing a yellow woolen military uniform and carrying two golden three-pointed stars on his shoulders was frowning and pacing back and forth in a very simple war room with lanterns lit. Suddenly, a huge sound came from the distance.
The thunderous sound of the explosion startled him. He looked up quickly and saw a red light at the edge of the dark sky in the distance.
This national army general who had a significant mark in the history of the Anti-Japanese War soon realized that the Japanese army on the opposite side was in trouble, because he knew very well how strong his artillery was and was determined not to cause such a violent explosion.
, can transmit sounds ten kilometers away here, even the huge naval guns of the Japanese invaders' maritime fleet are not so powerful.
At the same time, the major general's chief of staff who was watching the map under the lantern also raised his head in surprise and looked at the fire in the distance and asked: "Military seat, where is the explosion coming from?"
After taking another careful look through the observation hole, the national army general showed a trace of doubt on his face and responded: "The explosion point should be in the northeast, no less than ten kilometers away from us."
"To the northeast, 10,000 meters away." The chief of staff quickly slid his fingers on the desktop map, and the look of surprise on his face became more intense: "That is north of Miaohang Town, only about two kilometers away from the position we lost during the day.
, they should all be little devils, what are the little devils doing?"
"Which unit of the National Army is guarding that position? Check it out." The National Army general's expression suddenly changed and he said.
"No need to check, that is the defense area of the third regiment of the 61st Division of the 19th Route Army Commander Cai. After the whole army issued the order to retreat, because the regiment received the order too late, it had to order a reinforced company to break up. After that, no one of the 223 people in the company survived.
." The major general's chief of staff replied with a sad expression.
"No one will survive..." The generals of the national army were also silent.
The casualties were indeed a bit too heavy.
Immediately, the faint sadness was replaced by more perseverance. As the saying goes, there is no victory without mercy, and there is no victory without sacrifice. Now more than 20,000 soldiers under his command are still waiting for his orders.
At this moment, the door of the underground bunker was suddenly pushed open, and a colonel rushed in panting, and shouted loudly with his legs together: "Report."
"speak"
"Military seat, the Japanese army's telegrams have suddenly become more frequent, like a pot exploding. Do you think the original battle plan is...?"
"Well..." The national army general frowned again, pondered for a moment, seemed to have made up his mind, and ordered loudly: "I order."
The two generals in the room looked attentively and stood up straight with their legs together.
"The 88th Division Yu Jishi's headquarters, the 61st Division Mao Weishou's headquarters and the 87th Division's headquarters of the 19th Route Army. The 88th Division is responsible for the main attack, and the 61st Division and the 87th Division are responsible for the two wings. The entire army must kill the enemy with all its strength and must not retreat even half a step." There was a slight pause.
After half a second, he continued: "Anyone who retreats will be shot on the spot. Zhang Zhizhong."
The major general, chief of staff, and the colonel looked at each other, then looked at the determined eyes of Army Commander Zhang Zhizhong. Without any hesitation, they responded in unison: "Yes."
"By the way, send the intercepted Japanese military messages to the Central Secrecy Bureau and let them see if they can decrypt them." Zhang Zhizhong immediately ordered the chief of the Confidential Section of the Military Ministry.
Zhang Zhizhong, the general who was evaluated as a patriot by the first prime minister of the Republic, undoubtedly made a wise decision at this moment in his life that was no less wise than that of the uprising sixteen years later.
The attack that was supposed to take place twenty minutes later was brought forward.