my bright sword career

Chapter 96 Not a Dream
"boom!"

The huge explosion blasted the ground into a crater four or five meters wide. Seeing that the soldiers of a small group of Japanese troops who had gathered there disappeared in an instant, Nakagawa Jiro almost burst into tears.

He knew at a glance that this was definitely a large-caliber heavy artillery exceeding 150 mm. In the Japanese army, such heavy artillery was only equipped with the Mountain Artillery Regiment of the Permanent Field Division and even the Heavy Artillery Brigade. None of the qualifications.

"Why... how could the Chinese have such large-caliber heavy artillery? Is this still the poor and cowardly Chinese army?" Like all the Japanese who fought against the Rentai militia for the first time, Nakagawa Jiro exclaimed almost angrily. .

At this moment, just below Qixia Pass, a group of twelve huge steel monsters are lined up.

The thick and long gun barrel points directly to the sky, and the huge body is like a tiger squatting on the ground. This is the new toy of Geng Changshun, the commander of the First Pao Battalion, the American-made M40 155 self-propelled howitzer.

This self-propelled gun also has a weird nickname: Tom Long Legs.

There is a Chinese proverb that there are only wrong names, but no wrong nicknames.

The same is true for this artillery. The reason why the M40 self-propelled artillery has this nickname is because this artillery has the power and range of up to 23.5 kilometers that other artillery of the same caliber cannot match in this era.

On the other hand, in Japan, what they call the most perfect howitzer, the Type 150 11.9mm field howitzer has a maximum range of only [-] kilometers, which is half shorter than that of Long-legged Tom.

Not to mention the power, when the 43.1 kg shell fell to the ground, it would be a large crater of four or five meters. Without protection such as trenches, there would be almost no humans or animals within the explosion range of tens of meters.

When he saw the first explosion point, Nakagawa Jiro closed his eyes in despair, he knew that his second squadron... was over...

Nakagawa Jiro's judgment was correct. When the first shell fell, the second shell fell more than 200 meters in front of the second battalion's position, and the smoke instantly engulfed the three Japanese soldiers.

Followed by the second, third...

After three consecutive rounds of shelling, the sound of the cannons stopped abruptly. The overwhelming loud noise suddenly disappeared, and the whole field seemed to be suddenly cleared. If the front of the position was not still covered by thick gunpowder smoke, Nakagawa Jiro almost thought that the bombing just now was Field illusion.

The front of the Second Battalion's position was completely covered by artillery fire, and the Second Squadron, which had launched an aggressive attack just now, had disappeared.

The first company of the second battalion is located in the salient part directly in front of the position, and is naturally the closest to the Japanese army. In the battle just now, the Japanese army was even less than 200 meters away from their position, so the soldiers of the first company were also the ones who could feel the power of the shelling just now.

Although it was more than 100 meters away from the explosion point, and the soldiers also built simple fortifications, the power of the 155 howitzer was too great, and many fortifications were still collapsed by the huge explosion shock wave.

"Quick... dig them out quickly, don't bury them for too long and suffocate them." A sergeant was leading a few soldiers to dig up the floating soil desperately with his hands, his eyes showing an anxious look.

Several soldiers also dug desperately with their hands without saying a word, and quickly dug out the three soldiers buried in the soil.

One of the soldiers who was dug out was stunned for a while, glanced at the people around him, spit out a few mouthfuls of soil, hugged the sergeant and cried loudly.

"Squad leader... I thought... I thought I was going to die just now, and I'll never see you again!"

There was silence for a while, then a burst of laughter suddenly appeared.

The squad leader also couldn't laugh or cry, and broke free from his hands, "I'm not a girl, what are you doing with me, get out!"

"That's right, Xiaoshan... You haven't married a wife yet, so it's not okay to cry like this, no woman will like you like this." The comrades around joked.

"That's right, I heard that girls from Shandong are all bold and forthright. No girl with your personality would want to marry you."

"That's not right... We are in Shanxi now, maybe some girl who is blind will fall in love with him."

"Okay, shut up the damn thing." The squad leader stared, "Are you all busy? What the hell are you digging? A shell that is more than 100 meters away can collapse. If After being seen by the company commander, you will all be fined to run ten kilometers after you go back, now hurry up and dig the fortifications for me again!"

The squad leader made a speech, and the soldiers didn't dare to act like monsters anymore. One by one, they pulled out their engineering shovels from their backs and began to dig their positions again.

While working, Xiaoshan Shandong asked the squad leader next to him: "Squad leader, what kind of cannon was fired just now? It's too powerful. I just saw that the explosion point was more than 100 meters away from us. Why is it so far away? It knocked down our fortifications."

"You have the guts to ask." The squad leader put his foot on your Xiaoshanshan's buttocks, "Look at what kind of broken fortifications you idiots dug, even an explosion that is so far away can collapse, I usually How did I teach you?"

Xiaoshan Dong, who was kicked, looked aggrieved and dared not speak, so he could only dig fortifications honestly.

After kicking the squad leader, he felt a little better, and explained: "I don't know much about this. I only know that after the expansion, our artillery battalion will be divided into two. The second artillery battalion is still equipped with the original 105 howitzer.

But the first battalion of the Pao is very powerful. It is a bull nose with green onions. It is awesome. They are equipped with 155 caliber self-propelled artillery.Do you know what a self-propelled artillery is?It's the kind of artillery that can walk without being pulled by a truck. The barrel is so thick that you can stuff your whole body into it. As for the power, you just saw it. "

"My dear." Xiaoshandong exclaimed, "Our group seat is too powerful, we can even get such a big cannon."

"That is."

The squad leader of Xiaoshan Mountain is from Liantai, and he said proudly: "I told you a long time ago, our Tuanzuo is a famous landowner in Liantai. The family has thousands of acres of land and dozens of shops. There is too much money to spend.

It's just because Mr. Gao was beaten to death by the Japanese devils a few days ago, the Tuan Zuo paid his own money to build our militia, just to trouble the little devils, you are lucky to come to our militia , as long as you work hard for a few years, the military salary you receive is enough for you to go home and buy a few acres of land and marry a wife to live a good life. "

"It is."

Xiaoshandong grinned when he heard the words, he is now a private soldier, and his monthly salary is two oceans, the second year he is a private, then he is three oceans, and in the third year he is a first class, then That's four oceans.

Calculated in this way, as long as I work hard for a few years, it is not a dream to get enough money to go back to my hometown in Shandong to marry a wife...

(End of this chapter)