The artillery company of the Independent Regiment pushed forward naturally with their two treasures of the regiment - the Bofors Mountain Cannon.
The Bofors Mountain Artillery had just entered China and made its first appearance in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War in 1932. Not to mention that the Jinsui Army, which was almost an independent kingdom in Shanxi, was not familiar with it, and many Central Army generals had never seen it.
However, this does not mean that the generals and commanders of the Jinsui Army are blind and ignorant.
What does the slender and elegant barrel of the Bofors Mountain Cannon represent? It doesn’t just look good, it provides the cannon with a greater muzzle velocity and a longer range.
The huge shield-shaped shield is not a trouble, but can provide greater protection for the artillery.
Seeing the busy artillerymen of the Independent Regiment dropping the four wedge-shaped steel legs of the Bofors Mountain Cannon to the ground, the eyelids of the generals of the Jinsui Army jumped sharply.
With such strong shock absorption measures, how powerful must this gun be?
Compared with the gun in front of me, which is just a gun body with two wheels and a steel shield of less than one square meter, the Jinzao Type 13 mountain gun looks like...
Judging from the appearance alone, if the cannon of the Independent Regiment is like a lady wearing a cheongsam and looking elegant, then the Jin-made No. 13 mountain cannon, no, to be precise, the Japanese-style No. 41 mountain cannon is just a lady wearing a cheongsam.
The large flower cotton-padded jacket shows off the "simple" village girl.
Before the fight even started, the cannon from the Independent Regiment was too embarrassed to put it in the middle compared to the mountain cannon pushed out like a treasure by the 200th Brigade.
"Brother Liu, what kind of cannon is that?" Comrade Li had a toothache and asked Liu Lang, pointing at the Bofors mountain cannon.
"This is the Bofors 75mm mountain gun..." Liu Lang pointed to the current treasures of the Independence Regiment and introduced them to them.
The Bofors Mountain Cannon was built by the Swedish Bofors Company and used pure German technology. The generals of the Jinsui Army did not listen to these things. However, the purchase price of a Bofors Mountain Cannon was 15,000 US dollars, and a shell was almost 60 oceans.
Let their mouths swallow a goose egg.
The Taiyuan Arsenal's imitation of the Jin-made Yisan Mountain Cannon cost only 10,000 yuan, which already made Commander Yan very distressed. Over the years, he had saved more than 200 of them. For a rich man like Liu Lang, one cannon cost nearly 40,000 yuan.
Not to mention the ocean, one cannonball is worth 60 oceans, and hundreds of shells fired are worth 6,000 oceans.
This isn't a fight, it's just a competition to lose money!
Let’s look at the range of the two guns. The Bofors gun is 9,000 meters, and the Jinzhuo No. 13 gun is 6,000 meters, which is nearly half the range.
Crush, crush completely.
This was the unanimous thought that came to all the Jinsui Army generals' minds after listening to Liu Lang's introduction.
In fact, they were not wrong. The two Bofors Mountain Cannons of the Independent Regiment had fully proved their excellent performance in the Great Wall Battle.
Not only did the range of the Type 41 mountain gun exceed half that of the Japanese army's mountain cannon, but the accuracy of the Bofors mountain cannon, which was half of that of a sniper rifle, was the scariest thing about it.
When the battle was at its fiercest, Zhao Ergou even pushed the Bofors Mountain Cannon out of the tunnel, moved it into the forest only 300 meters away from the front line, and fired at the Japanese 155mm heavy howitzer with a range of more than 10,000 meters.
Because the power of the 6.3kg grenade was too small, it did not pose much of a threat to the Japanese heavy artillery brigade, but it also suppressed the Japanese heavy artillery brigade and gave the infantry on the position a chance to breathe.
It can be said that from the day the Bofors Mountain Cannon was born, the Type 41 Mountain Cannon currently equipped by the Japanese army has been synonymous with scum, if the number of cannons on both sides is similar.
"You're afraid of a ball! It's just an imported foreign cannon! No matter how good the weapon is, it has to be shot by people. Go tell the brothers in the artillery battalion that as long as they shoot well, regardless of winning or losing, each of them will be rewarded with ten yuan.
I, Li Fu, will come up with this money." Comrade Li slapped the table and shouted.
Liu Lang smiled slightly. It had to be said that the most unlucky general in the history of the Anti-Japanese War still had some military qualities in his personality. At least Liu Lang didn't hate him yet, and even liked him a little.
Then, Comrade Li turned around and said something that made Liu Lang like him even more.
Why? He met someone of the same kind! The shamelessness of Comrade Li, who had completely relaxed his mind and was shameless, made Liu Lang start to think about whether he should have in-depth exchanges with this Bingzhuye.
"Captain Liu, we don't need anyone else to operate the artillery. Let's use the artillery platoon that fought with bayonets earlier! Tell the brothers, it doesn't matter whether they shoot well or not. Each person will be rewarded with ten yuan.
It’s all mine.”
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The other generals of the Jinsui Army looked strange.
I'm sorry, when the master said there was no competition before, he was just retreating in order to advance! Didn't you see that he had already selected the candidates for the opponent to participate in the competition? They didn't believe the cannon and almost pushed it away. The commander looked at it like it was nothing.
arrive.
Yan Qiwu, the artillery battalion commander of the 278th Regiment who was waiting for orders, could only give an apologetic look to Zhao Ergou, who was also standing upright next to him. That means don't blame me for bullying your third artillery platoon. This is what the officers on both sides meant.
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It wasn't until the third platoon of artillery sent by Zhao Ergou defeated the elite veterans selected by his 278th regiment in the art of stabbing, that Yan Qiwu finally believed that this platoon was really the third platoon, and it was the artillery shells that Zhao Ergou said he was carrying every day.
Three rows of fun.
Otherwise, they would be so "irrelevant" in playing the things that infantrymen only play.
If you work on a side job every day, then the main job is certainly not that great, right?
Just like the commander said, it doesn't matter how awesome their cannon is? Ultimately, it all depends on the person operating it.
Regarding this point, Yan Qiwu, who has to fire at least fifty rounds of artillery shells in a year's training, is still very confident. His soldiers are definitely much better than most of the national army in terms of artillery fire.
The rules of the artillery contest are very simple.
The two cannons were placed on the training ground, bombarding two hills ten miles away. Each hilltop was built with three earth bags. Each earth bag contained rapidly burning black powder. As long as it hit the target, it would be
There will be thick smoke.
Each gun is equipped with 6 rounds of shells, which means there are 6 opportunities to fire. Whoever uses the fewest shells and hits the most targets will be the final winner.
Because the artillery competition was scheduled from the beginning, the 200th Brigade had already started preparations before all the competitions.
Although the two hills were barren and uninhabited, as a precaution, the Independent 200 Brigade sent a company to search within a radius of five miles to make sure that no one was there and piled up three weapons at three different locations on the two hills.
There were big soil bags, and flags of different colors were planted as markers.
Because there are almost no trees in the mountains in Shanxi and only bushes, the large soil bag with the flag is still very clear in the artillery observer and telescope.
One is at the foot of the mountain, one is on the mountainside, and one is at the top of the mountain. Although the shooting distance is not much different, the adjustment of data such as elevation angle is still very demanding.
If the technology is not good enough, it may not even be possible to hit the top of the mountain, let alone a dirt bag that is no bigger than a house.
But judging from the artillery squad under Yan Qiwu, the two artillery observers skillfully reported various data and skillfully placed the artillery and conducted a series of operations.
This should not be their first time doing such artillery training.
A distance of 5,000 meters is close to the limit of range for the Jinzhou Type 13 mountain cannon, but it is too close for the Bofors mountain cannon with a range of 9,000 meters.
Geng Dashan didn't even take part in the command personally. He just lit a cigarette and squatted beside him to watch his squadron busy preparing for the bombardment.
Although the Bofors Mountain Artillery is the two treasures of the artillery company, they will never skimp on training just because they are treasures. No matter which platoon they belong to, they have used these two treasures to conduct live ammunition training with fifty rounds of artillery shells.