The third battalion of security platoons who were the first to arrive at the stronghold were desperately digging fortifications a few hundred meters away to establish a temporary headquarters!
Dozens of sandbags surround the city with a one-meter-high circular fortification, and a large pit one meter deep is dug in the ground. The soil is piled outside the sandbags, covered with a layer of logs and a layer of sandbags, and a semi-underground headquarters is created.
Got it!
Battalion Commander Huang Sheng and regimental commander Li Hao had just walked in. Seventh Company Commander Zhang Chengcheng was the first to rush over, with smiles on their faces and they were very happy!
"Battal Commander, this battle was fought so neatly. The artillerymen smashed a few explosive charges over them, and all the little devils were blown up. All we need to do is clean up the battlefield!"
"If the troops were equipped with this kind of artillery earlier, it would not be so difficult for us to fight the Japanese, and so many comrades would not be sacrificed on the battlefield!"
"No, you are wrong!" Li Hao suddenly spoke and denied directly!
"Hello, Captain!"
Only then did Zhang Cheng calm down from his excitement. When he saw Li Hao standing behind Huang Sheng, he quickly saluted!
"Hello, Captain Zhang!" Li Hao returned the military salute and then replied!
"Even if we equip flying thunder cannons in advance, the bad situation of our Eighth Route Army will not be greatly improved!"
"As for fighting the Japanese, it's how it was before and how it is now. There won't be much change!"
"This is impossible!" Zhang Cheng retorted subconsciously!
"The thunder cannon is so powerful that it can blow up a large area. If you are lucky, you can kill a whole squad of Japanese soldiers if you are lucky. Even if the Japanese have gun towers and bunkers to defend them, the explosive bag can kill them alive through the gun towers!"
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"If the troops are equipped with a large number of thunder cannons, even if we are not equipped with siege artillery, we can easily capture the gun towers held by the Japanese!"
Li Hao shook his head and replied: "That's because you don't understand the flying thunder cannon, and you only see the advantages of the flying thunder cannon, and then you have this idea!"
"Yes, the thunder cannon is very powerful. As long as the explosive package is successfully thrown to the enemy's position, the enemy within twenty meters of the impact point will definitely be killed. Maybe the enemy within thirty meters will also be killed!"
"But he also has shortcomings, and there are many of them!"
"Let's talk about the first one first. The barrel of the thunder cannon is made of empty gasoline barrels!"
"Despite the reinforcement, the shortcoming of the barrel wall being too thin has not been solved!"
"This means that each thunder cannon that continuously throws three explosive packets must stop for half an hour to cool down!"
"After a total of twenty explosive packets are thrown, the entire gasoline barrel will be useless. If it continues to be used, there will be a risk of exploding the barrel!"
"The enemy cannot hit him, but he will hurt himself instead!"
"Second: Do you know the amount of explosive package thrown by the thunder cannon each time?"
"Twenty kilograms of yellow explosives. You heard me clearly. They are yellow explosives, not black powder!"
"One explosive pack holds twenty kilograms of explosives. We just used six explosive packs to capture each stronghold, which is equivalent to one hundred and twenty kilograms of yellow explosives!"
"Although we now have an arsenal, we can produce our own gunpowder!"
"But due to the shortage of raw materials, the gunpowder produced by the arsenal is only enough for the ammunition factory!"
"In order to provide a sufficient number of explosive packets for the flying thunder cannon for this attack, we not only used up all the yellow explosives in stock, but also used up all the explosives captured from Datong!"
"If we are equipped with thunder cannons on a large scale, the explosives alone will defeat us!"
"We can use black gunpowder!" Zhang Cheng put forward his own idea!
"The requirements for black powder are not high, and the raw materials are very common, so mass production can definitely be achieved!"
Li Hao did not deny it: "Black powder is indeed possible, but it is too weak!"
"The explosive power of a dynamite bag containing twenty kilograms of black powder is not as powerful as that of a dynamite bag containing ten kilograms of yellow explosive!"
"Even if it is successfully ejected to the enemy's position, the limited power will not be able to hurt the little devils protected by gun towers and bunkers!"
"Dingtian can kill some little Japs on the surface of the position!"
"There's a third one!"
"The flying thunder cannon is not as powerful as you think!"
"It has two fatal flaws: the range is too close and the precision reading is too poor!"
"The short range means that if the torpedo cannon wants to hit the enemy's position, it must be mounted within the effective range of the enemy's artillery. Even the grenades commonly equipped by the little devils can hit them!"
"On the battlefield, this shortcoming may cause them a devastating blow!"
"If the enemy's grenade hits or detonates the explosive package when the explosive package is thrown, the entire artillery position will be destroyed!"
"Poor accuracy in shooting is also a very important reason why we only use yellow explosives for the explosive packages we throw!"
"Only with yellow explosives, the lethality of the explosive package can reach twenty meters, or even thirty meters!"
"With the shooting accuracy of the thunder cannon, even if it is more than ten meters away, such an explosive package can still kill the target!"
"If you change the yellow explosive into black powder, the lethality of the explosive package will be directly reduced to ten meters. Once it deviates from the target by more than ten meters when ejected, it will not be able to pose a threat to the target!"
"In addition, the thunder cannon has the shortcomings of short range and slow firing rate!"
"If you can't hit the first hit, it will bring a devastating blow to the enemy, allowing the enemy to react and have a chance to counterattack!"
"Then they will lose the second chance to shoot and become a living target for the enemy!"
Zhang Cheng looked suddenly enlightened and shouted: "I understand!"
"Even if flying thunder cannons are easy to produce, the troops cannot be large-scale. They can only be used as heavy artillery to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy at critical moments!"
Li Hao replied with a look of appreciation: "Not bad!"
"Although the appearance of the flying thunder cannon cannot change the situation of the war, this weapon can save lives at critical moments!"
"It's like now, because there are no heavy artillery, flying thunder cannons have become our only way to kill the little devils!"
"So although the flying thunder cannon can't change the situation of the battle, it gives us one more tactical method and one more choice when fighting the Japanese!"
Zhang Cheng's eyes lit up and he replied: "It's true!"
"With the flying thunder cannon, we can attack the Japanese by surprise!"
"For example, let's attack the Japs head-on to attract their attention. We can quietly sneak the thunder cannon back behind the Japs, and then suddenly fire the cannon to give the Japs a fatal attack!"
"good idea!"
The expression of appreciation on Li Hao's face became even stronger!
"I plan to attack the Japs central stronghold this time!"
"Three companies under the third battalion will attack from the front. Each company will strengthen the mortars, heavy machine guns, and two thunder cannons you just captured!"
"The remaining six thunder cannons and the guard company I brought as surprise troops will give the Japanese a fatal attack!"
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