Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 242 The Terrible 105 Howitzer

Devil, start shelling.

With the howling sound of shells, the soldiers at the lookout post on the other wall of Cangcheng immediately chose to hide their bodies deeply in the simple but the only fortification they could avoid.

The 67th Army fought against the Japanese army a few times in North China, and suffered a lot of damage. They then replenished in the rear and then drove to the Songhu battlefield.

This is also the experience that the Northeast Army learned from the Japanese. Although the second-line soldiers are less experienced than the front-line veterans, they have also been trained in the army and have seen the battlefield, which can ensure that the combat effectiveness of the front-line troops will not be weakened too much. .

One day a farmer with a hoe, and the next day he is given a gun and goes to the battlefield. What will the combat effectiveness be like?In the future, Guo Jun, who will be supplemented by a large number of young men, has been proved by facts that it is an extremely wrong choice.

Therefore, even though they were just a small supply soldier, the soldiers of the 67th Army who unfortunately became observation posts still quickly retracted their bodies into the fortifications, and their movements were much more agile than the two signal soldiers next to the young deputy squad leader over there.

In fact, not to mention the two signal soldiers who had been stunned by the sharp howling of the shells, even the young deputy squad leader did not immediately make tactical moves to avoid the shells.

Moreover, he leaned his body out of the fortifications and cast his gaze as far as possible.

Even if the two signal soldiers behind him were pulling him, "Deputy squad leader, the devil's shells are coming."

"Hurry up, the devil is just trying to shoot." The young 'veteran' looked into the distance and listened carefully to the whistling of the shells approaching.

He was still muttering to himself: "It's over, this is not a mountain cannon, it seems to be a 105 howitzer!"

As if to prove the accuracy of his judgment, two seconds later, a cloud of smoke rose from the field about 300 meters away from the south gate of Cangcheng!
Under the guidance of the veteran squad leader, the young deputy squad leader who had persisted in the Dachang Town position for three days and nights learned to distinguish the sound of shells, and also learned to determine the approximate direction of the Japanese artillery group's attack based on the location of the shelling.

Commander Tang Dao's judgment was very accurate. The Japanese army's first artillery shell fell 300 meters to the side of Cangcheng, which proved that the main target of the devil's bombardment would be Cangcheng.

In the light of the cold sunset, the thick gunpowder smoke that rises is like a cloud rising from the flat ground, rushing up to a height of more than ten meters, which can be clearly seen without a telescope.

That, as the young 'veteran' judged, is definitely not something a 75-caliber mountain cannon can cause.

If he had a telescope, he could clearly see that the bomb crater in the field was enough to fit a small beanbag, and it did come from the terrible 105 howitzer.

Six kilometers away, beyond the reach of the young deputy squad leader, the Artillery Wing of the 114th Division, which had just crossed the Huangpu River floating bridge, couldn't wait to choose a position.

The position is in the hilly area 300 meters away from the body of Fujimoto's entire cavalry squadron. Not only the woods and hills can provide sufficient protection for the artillery, but more importantly, Moji Suematsu, who is ashen-faced, needs revenge.

Those who fall there will get up there. The sharp artillery under his command will become a gift from the Japanese lieutenant general to the Chinese.

Moji Suematsu is qualified to say that.

Although it is one of the newly established 8 special divisions, it has been weakened in many ways and is not as good as the 17 permanent divisions, but it must not be said that the special divisions are not good.

In fact, as the supplementary divisions of the 17 permanent divisions, the equipment of the 100 supplementary divisions numbered after 17 will never be bad, and some are even stronger than the permanent divisions.

This is determined by the very special organization method in the Japanese Army. For example, the 101st Division corresponds to the 1st Guards Division. If the 1st Division's personnel consumption is serious, it will directly replenish personnel and equipment.

The reason why the Itagaki Division, the main force of the North China Expeditionary Army on the west front that is attacking Shanxi, can reach more than [-] troops is actually the result of the direct integration of the Fifth Division and its supplementary division.

To put it bluntly, the Chinese army is learning from Europe. It uses more than 10,000 infantry divisions as the basic combat unit, and two or three of them form an infantry army with a strength of 50,000 people to control a larger combat area;
The Japanese Army, on the other hand, can use a Class A division and a supplementary division to form a more powerful combat unit. In most cases, only one division headquarters can be retained, and the simple command structure makes military orders more smooth.

If there is a more special battle situation, like the Tenth Army currently composed of two Type A divisions and one ad hoc division, it is a temporary wartime organization, and the combat tasks and objectives are met, and it can be disbanded at any time.

As the supplementary division of the 114th Division, the 14th Division became one of the eight ad hoc divisions before the war. Naturally, it followed in the footsteps of the 8th Division. However, its current division commander is famous in this war.

Kenji Doihara, in charge of intelligence work at the Japanese Army Headquarters, is the third generation of Japanese spy chiefs who engaged in espionage activities in China after Aoki Nobusumi and Sakanishi Rihachiro. Known as "Thomas Edward Lawrence of the East".

After the war began, Kenji Doihara served as the commander of the 14th Division of Japan. In the future, he participated in the Battle of Lanfeng and was promoted to the commander of the Seventh Front Army, the director of education, and the commander of the First Army.

Such a person not only has great influence in the headquarters of the Japanese Army, but also has a very high status in the entire Japanese military circle. It is not the attempt of Hisao Tani, the head of the Sixth Division, and Mitsuru Ushijima, the head of the No.18 Division. Relying on expanding the territory can prove that his lieutenant general can compare.

Otherwise, how could the Fujiwara family, which has a voice in the Japanese political arena, let the family's most promising direct line member go to the 114th Division for training?That was also a small thought to win over Tu Feiyuan.

It's just that the head of the Japanese spy may not have thought that the adulterer had just taken a passionate bath, and Xiao He had just showed her sharp corners and hadn't even started to get down to business. But the younger brother accidentally played with the other child to death.

Of course, how the adulterer will fight in the future is another story. The current 114th Division has benefited from the power of Tu Feiyuan, and the equipment of its artillery wing is still very good.

The artillery wing of the Japanese army is generally composed of 3000 people and is divided into 3 artillery brigades. Each artillery brigade is equipped with 12 artillery pieces, most of which are 75 caliber mountain guns or field guns. The artillery wing of an ordinary permanent division is equipped with 4 to Six 6 field guns are awesome.

但114师团做为一个特设师团，在其炮兵联队内，却拥有一个了12门日本陆军在1935年开始服役的91式105榴弹炮。

Of course, this is not his own establishment, but before arriving in the southeast, Moji Suematsu felt that the strength of an infantry brigade he brought was too weak, so he asked his boss Doi Yuan for support, and Doi Yuan used his influence from North China. A 105 howitzer brigade borrowed by the dispatched army was added to him.

With this trump card, Moji Suematsu suddenly felt that he could do it again, otherwise, he would not have driven an infantry brigade to touch Matsue, where an infantry army was stationed, in a fit of anger.

That is Moji Suematsu has enough confidence.

This artillery imported from France has a weight of 1750 kg and is drawn by horses. It has Type 91 grenades (projectile weight 16 kg, charge 2.52 kg, and a killing radius of 31 meters), Type 91 pointed bullets (projectile weight 15.7 kg, charge 2.27 kg, the killing radius is 28 meters).

As for the armor-piercing capability of another type of ammunition, does China have tanks?In fact, Japanese weapons experts did not pay much attention to this technology, and most of their artillery carried grenades that killed infantry.

The 12 105 howitzers, according to the coordinates sent back by the artillery observers who advanced with the vanguard, have already raised their muzzles high. Accompanied by these 12 large killers, there are also 12 75 mountain cannons and 12 75 field cannons. 36 guns.

In addition, the six 6 naval guns of the Fuxue-class destroyer located on the Huangpu River also aimed their guns at Songjiang City 127 kilometers away.

Although the Japanese naval fleet that is still on the Jinshanwei sea does not admit that it has been beaten by Chinese artillery, it is also deeply humiliated in its heart. Otherwise, how could it send a light destroyer at the risk of being stranded? What about the army millipedes?

They also had to show some color to the daring Chinese Songjiang defenders.

Regarding the "generosity" of the navy's idiots, Moji Suematsu naturally had the mentality of a scumbag who did not take the initiative, refused, and was not responsible. He pretended not to know and let the division staff send the coordinates sent from the front to the destroyer.

The muzzles of the 42 cannons in the distant space, under the observation of the young deputy squad leader with a stiff face, are emitting fiery flames one after another.

(End of this chapter)