Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 656 Flying Thunder Cannon
Compared with the self-comforting happiness of the four infantry company commanders who easily earned dozens of catties of rice, the happiest person in the independent battalion was the artillery company commander Fat Hai.

Because Tang Dao was going to equip his artillery company with new equipment.

And, it's really a cannon.

cannon!

Super cannon!

Not only because there is a dedicated artillery testing ground.

Mainly the caliber of the barrel.

Looking at the cannon barrel with a diameter of 800mm buried tens of centimeters above the ground in front of him, Pang Dahai looked dull.

Including Major General Tong who rushed over with a supply company from dozens of kilometers away.

At this moment, he finally knew what Tang Dao asked the 145th division to collect for him with hundreds of empty oil barrels.

Unexpectedly, it is not used for building fortifications or loading supplies, but for cannons.

The 145th Division left the Mouse Mountain area three days earlier than the Tangdao Independent Battalion. Tangdao selflessly gave a large amount of rations to the remnants of the 145th Division.

After Tang Dao thought for a long time, he just asked the 145th Division to leave all the remaining explosive packs, mines and grenades to his troops, and to help him collect some empty gasoline barrels and explosives as much as possible.

The combat mission of the 145th Division decided by Tang Dao and Rao Zhongjiang was to guard the main roads connecting the mountains to the plains, and prevent the Japanese 18th Division from detouring and enclosing Tang Dao's troops in the mountains, but this possibility is actually very small.

The 18th Division of the Japanese Army is still dozens of kilometers away. If you want to bypass the mountainous area in southern Anhui, it will take less time than going directly into the mountainous area to conquer key areas. .

To put it bluntly, before the Kunisaki detachment attacked, the 145th Division would basically not fight.

Faced with such a small request from Tang Dao, General Rao, of course, fully agreed. He not only agreed to leave all the explosives and grenades to Tang Dao's department, but also left the only 100 rounds of 82-caliber mortar shells to the Tang Dao Department. Tang Dao.

As for the empty gasoline barrels needed by Tang Dao, Lieutenant General Rao certainly could not disappoint Tang Dao. He ordered the hundred camel horse team of the supply unit to take a group of seriously wounded people to march 16 hours a day with high intensity and at the fastest speed. Leaving the mountains, while generating electricity to the headquarters of the group army, requesting the defenders in the Wuhu area to provide empty gasoline barrels, [-] catties of rice, bullets, shells and other materials.

The record of killing and injuring countless Japanese troops in the Jiepai Village and Mouse Mountain area not only gave the 145th Division the confidence to ask for supplies, but also the 23rd Army Command's waistline was a lot thicker, and they asked the Jinling City Defense Command for supplies. Also hard enough.

Although the general in charge of defending the city was incompetent, he also knew the importance of the 23rd Army defending the periphery of Jinling. Facing the lions of the 23rd Army who were seeking meritorious service, he had to send a telegram to the Wuhu defenders. Help solve.

And the Wuhu garrison is just a mere infantry brigade. If they are asked to provide one hundred thousand catties of rice and various ammunition, they can't change it even if they want to!Especially at this moment when the battle line is retreating repeatedly.

This is Lieutenant General Rao's wisdom in life. Of course, he knows that his demands are almost unreasonable at this time, and Wuhu will not be able to get them out even if they sell them.

But the more this is the case, the more they can meet some needs and do their best.

Sure enough, Wuhu couldn't get much supplies, but within two days, they collected hundreds of empty oil drums, 5000 kilograms of rice noodles and 1000 kilograms of explosives. Send a convoy to transport the supplies to the town closest to the Guangde mountain area, and wait for the 145th division to receive them as soon as they leave the mountain area.

He also promised to help transport the wounded and send them to Jiangbei for effective treatment.

This has far exceeded the effect Lieutenant General Rao wanted.

Therefore, the camel horse team of the 145th Division, which was on the road in the starry night, spent two days and nights crossing hundreds of kilometers of simple roads in the mountains.

In order to show his importance, Major General Tong personally led the 145th Division's guard company to escort, and finally met Tang Dao's main force in the afternoon of this day.

At that time, Tang Dao and several subordinates were eating potatoes while roasting a bonfire. Major General Tong, who was in charge of transporting supplies, and the officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army's 145th Division transportation team were sleeping soundly at the station one kilometer away.

Two days ago, in order to buy time, they rushed on the road frantically. They ran hundreds of kilometers in two days and two nights. After receiving the supplies, in order to reduce the possibility of encountering Japanese infantry, they marched on the rugged mountain road for two days and one night. Even Iron Man couldn’t stand it. up.

After resting for a few hours, Major General Tong heard that Tang Dao was going to test his secret new weapon, so of course he wanted to come over to observe it out of extreme curiosity.

Then, like Pang Dahai, he was stunned by the large-caliber gun barrel in front of him.

It turned out that the oil barrel he sent over after so much painstaking efforts was Tang Dao's so-called new weapon.

But can this thing really work?
The so-called artillery testing ground is nothing more than a valley with a width of more than 200 meters.

Among the mountains, there is such a large open space, which is very rare. The rice fields cultivated by the mountain people have been harvested, leaving only empty fields, but it is not known whether there will be green seedlings in the coming year.

This, no one can answer.

War, not only destroys towns, everyone is struggling in this chaos.

As a soldier, looking at this area that can become a grain-producing area, it is inevitable that I will feel a little embarrassed.

However, the 'cannon' is not in the valley, but on the ridge.

Tang Dao obviously ordered people to make preparations. A gasoline drum with a small hole dug was placed on a mound of soil. Most of the lower half of the drum was buried in the soil and was lifted high by the mound. The mouth of the raised oil barrel faces the mountain at 45 degrees.

The earthen cannon that will shine on the battlefield in the next ten years, in this era, is presented in such a "shameful" appearance in front of a group of Chinese soldiers with rich battlefield experience.

And Tang Dao obviously attached great importance to this so-called experiment. The guard platoon and Cheng Tieshou's fire support company served as the security force, and the security range reached 500 meters.

In addition to Major General Tong, the guest-level general, Tang Dao, the other three chief officers of the Independent Battalion, and the two company commanders in charge of long-range firepower, Pang Dahai and Cheng Tieshou, were present at the scene.

"Commander Tang, what are you trying to do! Use gasoline barrels as cannons? This is not acceptable! It will explode, if you want to." Major General Tong, who has been fighting for a long time, of course saw through Tang Dao's purpose at a glance. Immediately shook his head to deny it.

This still depends on Tang Dao's brilliant results in the battle of Mouse Mountain. Otherwise, this big man in western Sichuan will definitely give Tang Dao's behavior a "mess".

"Hey, Officer Tong, an old man in my hometown said that practice is the only criterion for testing the truth. You haven't seen the results of the experiment, so how do you know it's not working?" Tang Dao said with a light smile.

The person who once wrote a rich and colorful stroke in Chinese history is also from Sichuan. Of course, there is no psychological burden for Tang Dao to be pirated. It must be from his hometown.

Will Commander Tang's hometown always be so awesome?Where did such philosophical words come from?No wonder the chief is so powerful!It turned out to be based on this.

The two company commanders looked at each other and sighed in their hearts.

"Success, I'm just saying this to you. I have to see how you can turn an empty gasoline barrel into a cannon. Otherwise, you, Battalion Commander Tang, will be sorry for me, the Major General and Brigadier Commander. I will personally serve as the captain of the transport brigade for you." Major General Tong He is not an old-fashioned person. Hearing what Tang Dao said is reasonable, he is not stubborn at the moment, so he stepped forward to observe carefully at the gasoline barrel placed on the mound.

But looking left and right, I didn't see any flowers, gasoline barrels... or gasoline barrels.

It is not because Mr. Lu casually wrote a sentence like "There are two trees in front of my house, one is a jujube tree, and the other is a jujube tree" can produce thinking about the yearning for light.

Is my narrow vision limiting my imagination?The army major general's heart is undoubtedly messy at this moment.

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