Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 483 Small Abacus

Neiji Okamura's idea is correct, and artillery defense is the best choice for Yuncheng.

Because the artillery stored by the devils in Yuncheng was not used for fighting in Zhongtiao Mountain, let alone against the Eighth Route Army... Zhongtiao Mountain is already under the control of the devils, and the mountainous area is not suitable for large-scale use of artillery. The Eighth Route Army does not have many artillery pieces. The guns are enough to provide fire support for the devils, and large-caliber artillery is not needed.

The artillery in Yuncheng was planned by the devils to be transported to Zhongtiao Mountain to confront the stubborn army south of the Yellow River.

Therefore, most of these artillery have the characteristics of long range and high accuracy... The devil's target is on the other side of the Yellow River, at least a few kilometers away. If the range is too short, these artillery can't even cross the Yellow River, so they won't be able to function.

For example, most of the 75MM caliber artillery are 90-type field guns.

This kind of field gun has a barrel length of 2.8 meters and a range of 14 kilometers. Its ballistic trajectory is more straight and has greater penetration.

The devils are going to use this kind of artillery to destroy the bunker fortifications built by the recalcitrant army on the other side of the Yellow River.

Another 105MM caliber artillery is the Taisho 14th year field cannon.

This artillery is one of the heavy artillery used by the Devils for suppression purposes, with a maximum range of 15 kilometers. The Devils intend to use this artillery to suppress the artillery of the stubborn army, and at the same time, it can also complete the task of destroying the bunker fortifications of the stubborn army, as well as important buildings and military facilities.

At this time, these artillery pieces were all in Yuncheng, and there were dozens of them.

It is conceivable that after the Ninth Mixed Brigade is equipped with these artillery, it can immediately expand the defensive circle to more than ten kilometers.

And for a distance of more than ten kilometers, it takes half an hour for the T26 to move forward even at the highest speed.

This means that the T26 has to withstand the bombing of the devil for half an hour. Unless the devil's shells are exhausted, it will be used as a target all the way and there is no way to fight back.

Furthermore, the closer the T26 is to Yuncheng, the higher the accuracy of the Devil's artillery.

At that time, let alone clearing the bunkers outside the city with tanks, it is a question of whether the fifty T26s can reach their destination.

Therefore, if it is only the Eighth Route Army, then Neiji Okamura is [-]% sure.

The Eighth Route Army has no air power and does not have much artillery. The tanks in their hands are just targets for the imperial artillery!
Wanting to capture Yuncheng is wishful thinking!

But now, with the addition of the Jinsui Army, it will be different.

The Jinsui Army has 88MM field artillery and 150MM howitzers in their hands. The range of these artillery can reach 10 kilometers.

When the artillery of the Imperial Army concentrated its firepower on the Eighth Route Army's tanks... If the artillery of the Jinsui Army covered them with firepower like the Imperial Artillery, it would cause heavy casualties to the Imperial Artillery.

Artillery battles are no joke, as long as the enemy accidentally calculates the artillery position, the entire army will be wiped out.

This is also the reason why Okamura Ningji mobilized the chariot wing for reinforcements.

What Neiji Okamura didn't know was that his worries were unnecessary.

The Jinsui Army will not be as powerful as he imagined, and Wang Xuexin never planned to use the strength of the Jinsui Army from the beginning to the end.

On the Jinsui Army side, on the surface, they sent out the 358 regiment led by Chu Yunfei and the three artillery regiments led by the artillery commander Zhou Zhen, with a total of 72 artillery pieces of various types.

You must know that when the Jinsui Army had the strongest combat power, there were only nine artillery regiments... Its so-called ten artillery regiments actually only had nine, and the numbers were No. 20, 29st to [-]th, and [-] regiments were missing.

Since the war, many artillery regiments of the Shanxi-Sui Army have retained their designations, but they are actually dead in name only, because the artillery was exhausted during the battle, and some artillery regiments only had single-digit artillery, and they were actually used as infantry.

At this time, there were only four artillery regiments left in the Jinsui army, and the Jinsui army dispatched three of them in one go to fight Yuncheng... Only one artillery regiment was left to save their lives.

It can be seen from this that Yan Laoxi attached great importance to the battle of Yuncheng.

But Yan Laoxi had his own little plan in mind.

When Artillery Commander Zhou Zhen was leaving, he whispered into his ear, "Commander Zhou, do you know how to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army in combat?"

Zhou Zhen nodded understandingly: "Don't worry, Commander, your subordinates understand!"

Of course Zhou Zhen understood what Yan Laoxi was thinking.

In the land of Shanxi, whether the Japanese are strong or the Eighth Route Army is strong, it is not a good thing for the Jinsui Army.

Now the Japanese are too powerful. Out of the need for balance of power, the Jinsui Army really wants to stand together with the Eighth Route Army in the war of resistance.

But if the Eighth Route Army has so many tanks to overwhelm the Jinsui Army, this is not what Yan Laoxi wants to see.

Yan Laoxi said to the officers of the Jinsui Army in a previous meeting: "The Eighth Route Army will be willing to give up all of Yuncheng, probably because they think they can control Zhongtiao Mountain. If the Eighth Route Army controls Luliang Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain Mountains, then Yuncheng is actually surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, and we will be shackles at that time, whatever the Eighth Route Army can do. Therefore, the battle of Yuncheng is very crucial!"

Zhou Zhen heard this in his heart.

The reason for the "key" is to cause the Eighth Route Army to suffer losses as much as possible on the premise of ensuring that Yuncheng can be taken back.

In this way, the Jinsui Army can sit firmly in Yuncheng and remain invincible... The Jinsui Army has artillery, and the range of the artillery is not weak. The artillery in the hands of the Eighth Route Army is just some crude "ghost cannons", or they don't have any A rocket launcher with a shooting range barely reaching six kilometers.

The Jinsui Army's heavy artillery has a range of ten kilometers. This range advantage can keep the Eighth Route Army out of Yuncheng, just like the devils are now planning to use artillery to defend the Eighth Route Army.

This is also one of the reasons why Yan Laoxi dared to take it even though he knew that Yuncheng was a hot potato. Another reason was that Yan Laoxi had no choice.

but……

Riding on a horse, Zhou Zhenyuan looked in the direction of Yuncheng, then looked back at a long line of troops marching hurriedly behind him, and sighed in his heart:
The tanks of the Eighth Route Army cannot be kept!
If the Eighth Route Army had tanks, it could cut off the Jinsui Army's logistics supply line at any time.

If the supply line is cut off, it will be useless for the Jinsui Army to have more artillery in Yuncheng... Without shells, the artillery is just a pile of scrap iron.

Therefore, Zhou Zhen's goal is very clear. This battle is to make the tanks of the Eighth Route Army fight the devils cleanly. At that time, it will not be too late for the artillery of the Jinsui Army to make a move.

The problem is that Neiji Okamura didn't know this. Both he and Kenkichi Ikegami thought that the artillerymen of the Jinsui Army were hiding in the dark and waiting for the imperial artillery to fire first...

Once the imperial artillery fires, the position of the artillery position will be exposed, and then the artillery shells of the Jinsui Army will come.

Therefore, although Chi Shang Xianji said that he had prepared the artillery, he did not dare to act rashly. He planned to bring the Eighth Route Army tanks closer and then fight. Artillery of the Jinsui Army.

(End of this chapter)