my bright sword career

Chapter 126 Why Are You Hitting So Accurately

Although it was very embarrassing, the most taboo thing on the battlefield is indecision, so after less than a minute of thinking, Koizumi Yukio still gave the field artillery unit an order to continue clearing the minefield.

"Boom...boom..."

Shells landed continuously in front of the fourth battalion's position. Seeing the landmines that had been planted so hard being detonated continuously, Ma Zhanfu felt distressed, "You son of a bitch, the landmines that I worked so hard all night are gone. , Is there too many shells for the little devil to put them? What about our artillery, are they all dead?"

No wonder Ma Zhanfu is distressed. In a defensive battle, there is a big difference between having mines in front of the position and not having landmines. The simplest example is that when the 67th Regiment attacked just now, the squadron that rushed to the front, in a short period of time The annihilation of the entire army within more than ten minutes is the best proof.

"Tuanza, our scout balloon is up."

"Let the observers lock the artillery positions of the Japanese army immediately, we can't just be beaten and not fight back."

"understand!"

In the sky five or six miles behind Qixiaguan, a huge observation balloon hangs at an altitude of 900 meters. A hanging basket is hung below the balloon. The small hanging basket can accommodate two members.

In fact, the observation balloon was applied to the battlefield as early as the First World War. Due to the appearance of the observation balloon, it quickly became the eyes on the battlefield, so it has the nickname of "eye in the sky".

The airbags of hot air balloons in the early years were filled with a large amount of highly flammable gas, which could easily explode when subjected to a little friction, and the appearance of observation balloons greatly threatened the enemy, so any place where it appeared would quickly Attract enemy aircraft.

In this case, the death rate of observers on observation balloons is very high, so taking observation balloons to the sky to perform reconnaissance missions is also called a game for the brave, which is why European countries basically did not see them during World War II. The reason for the observation balloon.

By the time of World War II, reconnaissance balloons had been replaced more by reconnaissance aircraft, and only the Japanese still regarded them as treasures. Of course, Gao Hongming and his militia had to be added now.

However, it is different in the Chinese battlefield. Since the Chinese aircraft were quickly exhausted after the first few battles, the Japanese army quickly dominated the sky. Therefore, under normal circumstances, whenever there is a big war, the Japanese army can always release it unscrupulously. Observe the balloon to detect the movement of the Chinese army.

Just imagine, in the sky above the battlefield where the battle is fierce, an observation balloon is flying high in the sky thousands of meters, and can have a panoramic view of the movements of tens of kilometers around. .

The weapons and equipment of the Chinese army are not as good as those of the Japanese army. Now even every move on the battlefield can be seen clearly. How difficult it is to win the battle under such circumstances.

Ma Zhanying wore a fur cap on his head and a military overcoat on his body. He was lying on the edge of the hanging basket and trying to observe the movement on the opposite side of Qixia Pass. "Zi" sound station.

Ma Zhanying put down the binoculars, "Xiao Lizi, have you fixed it? I have to report the location of the devil's artillery to the commander."

"Wait a minute, it'll be alright."

The second-class soldier known as Xiao Lizi pressed another button, only to hear a "ding" sound from the radio, and the small red light above suddenly turned green.

Xiao Lizi hurriedly said: "Brother Ma, the radio station is ready."

"Hurry up, give me the microphone."

Ma Zhanying answered the phone, "Roaring and roaring... I just stared, and found a Japanese artillery position... Azimuth 124...532, three test shots... let it go!"

"Whoosh whoosh..."

As his voice fell, a few seconds later, several shells flew past his feet and landed at the foot of a mountain a few kilometers ahead.

Ma Zhanying continued: "Roar...the direction remains the same, shrink back 30 meters, and shoot six shots...release!"

More than ten seconds later, dozens of shells swallowed up the exposed Japanese artillery position, and there were no traces of people and cannons inside.

Under the guidance of Ma Zhanying, the artillery at the back seemed to have eyes, and it took less than 5 minutes to swallow the exposed Japanese artillery position. Immediately afterwards, Ma Zhanying on the scout balloon discovered the second an artillery emplacement...

"Baga...is the pig standing on the scout balloon? Why haven't we found the artillery position of the Chinese for so long?"

Hearing that two more artillery positions had been destroyed, Yukio Koizumi couldn't help but cursed.

Although he divided the field artillery unit into many places, no matter how scattered they were, they couldn't stand being bombarded by the Huaxia people.

Ogiwara Toda's face was also a little ugly and he said: "Your Excellency, division commander, in fact, our scout balloons have discovered the artillery positions of the Chinese people and locked their positions."

"Now that you see it, why don't you destroy them right away?" Koizumi Xingfu became even more angry when he heard it, and almost roared. If the field artillery captain was in front of him, he would have to pull out his command knife and chop him up.

"Your Excellency, Commander, please calm down." Ogiwara Toda said with some embarrassment: "It's not that we don't want to destroy it, but the artillery positions of the Chinese people are arranged outside the range of our artillery."

"Nani?"

Yukio Koizumi's expression froze, and then he showed an inconceivable expression, "How is it possible...the Field Artillery Squadron is equipped with the most advanced cannon in the empire, how could it not be able to fight?"

The field artillery unit of the 41st Division is equipped with twelve Japan's most advanced Taisho 14th-year 105mm field cannons. The range of this cannon has reached 15300 meters. In the eyes of the Japanese, there is no one with the same caliber in the world. The artillery range can exceed this artillery.

In fact, what Koizumi Yukio said is not wrong. The range of the Taisho 14th 105 cannon is indeed not comparable to the M2 105 howitzer equipped by the Second Artillery Battalion, but he forgot another thing.

"Your Excellency, division commander, according to the artillery report, the artillery used by the Chinese to suppress us is the 155 heavy artillery, and its range is farther than our Taisho [-]th artillery."

Yukio Koizumi was stunned for a while, and he didn't make a sound for a long time. At this moment, he suddenly remembered the Second Battalion of the 133rd Regiment that had been wiped out outside Ping'an County two days ago.

Before the destruction of the second brigade, the captain of the second brigade, Major Jiro Nakagawa, sent him a telegram saying that his brigade had been attacked by heavy artillery with a caliber of 150 or more. Excuse.

He still firmly believed in this idea until just now. He knew very well that before the Anti-Japanese War, the National Government imported a total of 48 150-caliber howitzers in two batches, which were organized into two heavy artillery regiments.

After the Anti-Japanese War, because Germany cut off the military aid channel of the national government, the national government has never received any heavy artillery with a caliber above 150 since then.

And these 48 150 heavy artillery pieces have also been damaged a lot in these years. Later, the two heavy artillery regiments were downsized into one artillery regiment.

Koizumi Yukio just felt confused for a while, what happened to this world?
It’s just a local militia. With 105 caliber artillery, it’s already shocking, but you also have 150 heavy artillery. Are you sure you are just a Chinese local militia, not the German Wehrmacht?

Distraught by the news, Koizumi Koizumi walked out of the command post while thinking, looking at the opposite Qixia Pass in a daze.

It's just that he forgot at this time that behind Qixia Pass, which is several miles away from him, a pair of sharp eyes are constantly observing this place through a telescope at an altitude of 900 meters.

"Xiao Lizi, come over and have a look, are there more than a dozen people walking around by the woods?"

In the gondola of the scout balloon, Ma Zhanying put down the binoculars, rubbed his eyes that were a little astringent from observing for too long, and handed the binoculars to Xiao Lizi beside him, "Help me see, are there any sights in the direction of six o'clock?" A ghost is dangling around?"

Xiao Lizi curiously took the binoculars and looked at the place Ma Zhanying said for a while, hesitantly said: "There are indeed some people, but they are a little far away and it is difficult to see clearly, but it seems that these devils are wearing command knives."

"That's right." Ma Zhanying nodded, "The devils who can wear command knives are all at least second lieutenants and above, and what does it mean that a group of people are all wearing commanders?"

Xiao Lizi's eyes lit up, "Could it be that the devil's headquarters is there?"

"I'm not sure if it's the headquarters." Ma Zhanying rubbed his chin and thought for a while, "But anyway, it's true that these people are a group of officers. Shall we call the gunfire to shoot him?"

Xiao Lizi hesitated for a moment and asked: "Brother Ma, you mean to let the artillery battalion carry out artillery coverage?"

Ma Zhanying glared at him: "What are you thinking? You are still covered by artillery fire. You really think that shells are free. A heavy artillery shell costs at least 50 yuan. The heavy artillery battalion throws out [-] yuan for a single salvo. That's the five or six years of military pay for the two of us combined.

If the battalion knew that we called the salvo of the artillery battalion to blow up a few suspected officers' targets, believe it or not, he let us float in the sky for several months? "

"How many months?"

At the thought of floating thousands of meters in the sky for several months, Xiao Lizi couldn't help shivering. It was fine during the day, but if he was going to float in the air at night, he would rather jump off the gondola and finish it off.

It's just that he was a little unwilling, "Then let's forget it?"

Ma Zhanying smiled slyly: "That's not necessary. Let's report to the artillery battalion and tell them that there are suspected devil officers gathering together, let them shoot that place to scare those devils?"

"Cheng... just do it."

Xiao Lizi also likes to watch the excitement, and soon connected to the channel of the artillery camp: "Glaring and shouting, I found that there are many suspected Japanese officers, bearing 245... 452, 105 grenades, a test shot... Let it go!"

"Whoosh..."

More than ten seconds later, with a sharp whistling sound, a 105-caliber shell whizzed past their feet, whistling and hitting the edge of the woods.

Ma Zhanying saw with his own eyes that the place where the dozen or so officers were was instantly covered by thick smoke. When the smoke cleared, Ma Zhanying could still see several officers carrying a person away like a rabbit being chased by a dog. In the woods.

"Okay... well done!"

Ma Zhanying waved his hand excitedly, and grinned, as if he was happy with his judgment, but what he didn't know was, if what he called just now was not a test shot, but a salvo, or if he called If the 155 heavy artillery is used, I am afraid that this war will end early. Among those officers, there is an officer named Yukio Koizumi.

In fact, the grenade landed less than 30 meters away from Yukio Koizumi, and the strong shock wave immediately blasted all the people in a radius of more than ten meters into the air.

Even Yukio Koizumi, who was nearly 30 meters away from the explosion point, was pushed to the ground by the shock wave. At the moment he fell to the ground, he seemed to feel a sharp pain in a certain part of himself, and then he was stunned by the powerful shock wave.

When he woke up Yoyo, he found that he was lying in a tent, and there was a loud noise in his ears.

Soon, a pretty young nurse in a white nurse uniform appeared in front of him. Seeing his joyful expression after waking up, she immediately shouted: "Your Excellency, General, you are awake... Doctor Sanyuan... ...Dr. Mihara...you come here quickly."

Accompanied by the nurse's voice, there was a rush of footsteps, and soon Ogiwara Toda appeared in front of him.

"Master Division Chief, you are awake, this is really great."

"What time is it now, and where is this?" Koizumi Yukio hurriedly asked, but after the voice came out, he found that his voice became a little hoarse.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, this is the field hospital in Ping'an County. It is already 09:30 in the evening. You were stunned by the shelling during the day today, and we sent you here immediately. Fortunately, Amaterasu God bless you, You finally woke up."

"How is the situation of the troops now?" Koizumi Yukio ignored his injury and immediately asked the question he was most concerned about.

"The condition of the army is normal. I stopped the attack after I was nearly injured, and the Chinese did not take the initiative to attack us. We are still in a stalemate. However, the situation of our field artillery unit is not very good. We have already lost half of it. artillery."

Hearing that the troops did not fall into chaos because of his coma, Koizumi Xingfu first breathed a sigh of relief, but then frowned again: "What happened to the artillery shells that injured us today? How did the Chinese artillery fire so accurately?" ?”

Ogiwara Toda quickly replied: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, the shell that hit me was a stray bullet. They only fired one round and then stopped firing any more shells."

"Stray bullet?" Koizumi Yukio was stunned, he was actually hit by a stray bullet?
(End of this chapter)