Military industrial hegemony

Chapter 417 Doubt
"Captain Jiang, is there a problem?" Xu Jianguo looked at Jiang Chen staring at the map on the table for a long time, so he asked a little uncertainly.

Jiang Chen turned around and smiled, "Hehe, it's nothing, let's talk about things."

Xu Jianguo was taken aback for a moment, and then he realized brother: "Sit then, everyone sit."

Jiang Chen, Lei Jun, and a group of people sat down and came out. Besides Jiang Chen and Lei Jun, there were several cadres accompanying the team, as well as the staff assigned by the former to contact the staff, and of course the people from Xu Jianguo's team.Although there were not many people, it still crowded the entire small fortification.

After the two parties exchanged polite greetings, Jiang Chen asked, "Company Commander Zhang, did you exchange fire here today?"

Zhang Wei glanced at Xu Jianguo and nodded, "Yes, in the morning, the Nanman army launched a tentative attack on the 2134 position where our company is located, but we beat them back."

"Can you give us a detailed introduction." Jiang Chen opened his mouth and asked.

Seeing Xu Jianguo nodding, Zhang Wei introduced, "It's like this. At about 200:20 this morning, a row of soldiers in my company found that there was a figure at the foot of the mountain about 6 meters in front of their position. Flashing. Soldiers who discovered this situation did not dare to be careless, and immediately reported to their squad leader, and then reported to the platoon leader. The platoon leader did not report it immediately for the sake of caution, but continued to observe closely by himself, and found about [-] Many members of the Nanman squad are sneaking towards our position. The platoon leader immediately reported to us after confirming that it was correct. Comrade Ma Guanghua, the instructor, and I notified our battalion as soon as we heard the news. Then we blocked this group of people. After about an hour and a half, we successfully repelled the enemy, killed two enemies, injured six people, and slightly injured two people on our side. What happened is so."

Jiang Chen replied with a smile after hearing the words: "Didn't you suffer any retaliation from them, such as shelling?"

Zhang Wei looked shocked, then looked at Jiang Chen in disbelief and said, "How do you know that?"

Jiang Chen looked at him and smiled and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the two soldiers you injured were not hit by bullets, but scratched by the gravel stirred up by the shells."

After listening to Jiang Chen's words, Zhang Wei nodded and said, "It's like this. About two hours after repelling these people, our place was bombarded. Because this time the shelling was relatively sudden, and the caliber of the enemy's guns was relatively large. It was so big that two of our soldiers were injured by the shock wave of the shell."

Jiang Chen thought for a while and replied: "Wait, you mean that the shelling this time was relatively sudden and the caliber was relatively large, that is to say, these shellings were not from their forward positions?"

Xu Jianguo on the side interjected: "Certainly not. The mountains here are relatively steep, which is not suitable for large-scale army gathering, so we and the opponent here are mainly defensive, and basically there is no big battle. So I put it on the large The caliber artillery and the local large-caliber artillery have all fallen to places where the two sides compete fiercely. The largest caliber here is the 107 mountain artillery and the 120 mortar. Today, it should be the 152 howitzer. In this case, we It’s also the first time I’ve encountered it.”

Lei Jun said: "The range of the 152 howitzer is about 17-18 kilometers. According to this, it should be fired from the enemy's rear, and it is specially used to deal with the forward positions."

Jiang Chen nodded and pointed to the map and said, "Look, we are now located here. Because the terrain of this place is relatively steep, the positions of the enemy and us are intertwined and complicated. Therefore, the confrontation distance between the two positions is relatively large. It's close. I looked at it when I first came up. It seems that the closest distance is only a few hundred meters. It may be easy to defend and difficult to attack because of the terrain, so no one can do anything to anyone. But you see, in this forward position of the enemy, as well as the second line Outside the camp, here."

Jiang Chen pointed to the map and looked at everyone and said, "From here to their rear, it basically belongs to the subsidiary mountain range of the entire Zheyin Mountain extended by the enemy. From the perspective of terrain, we occupy the main ridge of Zheyin Mountain, which is the riding line. , the enemy is occupying the sub-peak, and we are condescending, occupying a favorable position. But on the other hand, although the enemy occupies the sub-peak, the terrain behind them is much more relaxed than ours, so the transportation of supplies and equipment transfer maneuvers are faster than ours. It is much more convenient. I speculate that the enemy may have built a combat readiness road behind their positions, connecting their positions, so that their 152 guns can maneuver here to attack you."

"You mean that the enemy has changed their original tactics and maneuvered their support firepower back and forth to avoid direct conflict with our support firepower?" Xu Jianguo suddenly asked.

Jiang Chen said with a slight smile: "Typical travel tactics, the Nanman used the one we gave them to the artillery."

"But I have some doubts. Although the terrain on the Nanban side is relatively gentle, it is also full of mountains. Does it take a lot of time and effort to send their artillery back and forth?" Xu Jianguo wondered.

Jiang Chen waved his hand and said, "They don't want to do this either. Who would want to put in so much effort to move tens of thousands of kilograms of cannon around in the mud? This is what we forced them to do."

"You were forced by us?" The liaison staff officer who followed Jiang Chen from the side asked in surprise.

"Yes, it was forced by us." Jiang Chen replied with a smile: "Since last year, we have had an overwhelming advantage in firepower, especially in large-caliber firepower. In the battle, we were unable to fight back, which led to heavy losses on the large-caliber artillery they bought from the Soviet Union with a lot of money. You must know that these artillery Nanban cannot be produced, and can only be imported from the Soviet Union. Su *Although it is said to support them and have a good relationship with them, once it involves interests, it still requires money. So the war has been fought until now, the Nanban is basically at the end of its rope, and can no longer withstand large-scale consumption, so I thought about it Use this method to deal with us."

"However, road construction also costs money." A young cadre on the side opened his mouth and asked.

Hearing this, Jiang Chen and everyone laughed.Jiang Chen looked at the young cadre and said with a smile: "For the Nanban authorities, their money is not called money at all, but just printed money. The price they need is very little, maybe they only need a little money. It's just electricity bills."

"Chief, according to what you said, what's going on with these people today, this 152 gun is here, what do they want to do?" Zhang Wei, the company commander, was worried.

Jiang Chen looked at the sad Zhang Wei with a smile and comforted him, "No matter what the Nanman devils want to do, let's go and see."

(End of this chapter)