Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 171 The Power of the 105 Howitzer
Xingtai Japanese Army Command.

The three divisions of Shiyou in southern Hebei are in danger at the moment, but the head of the 108th Division, the highest officer of the Japanese army stationed in Xingtai, Shimomoto Mixiong, held a combat meeting unhurriedly.

Shimomoto Yakuma sat in the first place, on the left was Asaichi Terai, the head of the Xingtai Japanese Army Secret Service, and on the right was Hideyoshi Sugiura, the commander of the 117th Infantry Regiment.

"Your Excellency, Shiyou Sanbu has sent telegrams for help many times, asking our Imperial Japanese Army to send troops to support!" Hidekichi Sugiura tentatively reminded.

The 108th Division was formed by the reservists of the Eighth Division of the Japanese Army and was stationed in western Hebei for a long time to maintain law and order.

Although Hidekichi Sugiura is in the rear, he has always been a militant. He has always been unable to capture the main force when fighting the Eighth Route Army. This time, when the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei encircled and wiped out the third division of Shiyou, Hidekichi Sugiura saw the opportunity to make meritorious service and has been active in the headquarters. .

"Sugiura-kun, you are too impatient, Your Excellency the General has his own opinion!" Terai glanced at him with a hint of disdain, and thought to himself, a group of warriors who only know how to fight.

"Yoxi, Terai-kun, tell me!" Shimomoto Mixiong said.

"Hi, Your Excellency the General!"

"My intelligence department has contacted Shi Yousan many times, but this person is vacillating, or he is in the right and left between the Imperial Japanese Army and the Nationalist Government, and he ignores the wooing of the Imperial Japanese Army. He really deserves to die.

However, Shi Yousan is of great use to our Imperial Japanese Army. As the deputy commander-in-chief of the China-Ji-Cha War Zone, he came from the Northwest Army. There are many colleagues or subordinates from the Northwest Army in the North China region. If he can join us and do things for us, That would be a great blow to the national government both politically and militarily! "

Shimomoto Yakuma nodded slightly after hearing this, agreeing with Terai Asaichi's speech.

Terai showed a glint of joy in his eyes, and continued: "There are a lot of people in China, but in general, the people in China can be divided into three types. In the words of the people in China, one is hardliners like Ma Zhanshan, and the other is people like Wang Jingwei." This kind of capitulator, the rest is Shi Yousan, who sits on the wall, this kind of person has no concept of family and country, and whoever gives the bone with more meat will follow him!"

"For people like Shi Yousan, what we need to do now is to teach him a lesson, let him understand that only by relying on our Great Japanese Imperial Army can there be a way out.

For this reason, I took the initiative to send people to spread the news that Shi Yousan will join us, and even supported him with a large number of weapons and equipment.

A small unit of the Imperial Army in Southern Hebei pretended to be Shi Yousan's Sixty-ninth Army, and attacked the supply team of Gao Shuxun's Department of the New Eighth Army and the county brigade of the Eighth Route Army. "

"Yoxi, there is an old saying in China, if you are not of my race, you must have a different heart. In the eyes of the people of China, our Great Japanese Imperial Army is a foreign race and an invader, but we really need someone with such strength and reputation as Shi Yousan.

The head of the Eighth Route Army once said very well that the united front is to make more friends and make fewer enemies.

But what I want is not to cooperate with it, but to tame it into a loyal dog of the Imperial Japanese Army, and make it a minion of China to control China!Sugiura-kun, do you understand? "Xia Yuan Mixiong, the old devil, said.

"Hi"

"Your Excellency General's words are really thought-provoking, and my subordinates have a deep understanding!" Terai Tomoichi flattered Yuan Mixiong's words and flattered him.

"Mr. Sugiura, you stay here. You just need to lead the troops to Wei County before dawn tomorrow. Shizhuang's air force will provide air support. I only have one request to bring Shi Yousan to Xingtai to meet me. You understand !"

"Hi"

"My lords, for the great Japanese Empire, for the light of Showa, to shine in East Asia, you still need to work together!" Shimomoto Yakuma took a deep look at Terai Asaichi and said with a gratified smile.

"The light of Showa, shining in East Asia!" Asaichi Terai said loudly, a hint of madness flashed in his eyes.

"The light of Showa, shine in East Asia!" Hideyoshi Sugiura, who was eager to make contributions, also shouted the slogan.

That night, the confident Sugiura Hideyoshi set off from Xingtai with half the troops of the regiment.

The conversation was divided into two parts. After Zhou Weihan returned to the independent detachment, he wanted to dare the little devil to take a plane.

For this reason, Zhou Weihan confessed two things to Dong Jiang. One of them used the two trucks seized from the heavy artillery company to buy some fine grains and a big fat pig from the local people.

Second, through local comrades in southern Hebei, some blacksmiths and carpenters were urgently recruited to create simple prevention and control brackets. For this reason, Dong Jiang deliberately took away a heavy machine gun.

After Dong Jiang left, Zhou Weihan gathered a total of 35 heavy machine guns and 160 light machine guns outside Xu Dali's second regiment to deal with the low-altitude strafing by the little devil planes.

If you want to fight the little devil's plane, machine guns alone are not enough, and you need a special person to calculate the amount in advance.

Fortunately, Chen Feng's artillery battalion has trained many fighters proficient in mathematical calculations during this period, otherwise Zhou Weihan and Zhao Gang would have to play in person.

If the little devil's plane wants to blow up the target, it needs to drop several bombs before it can blow up the target. The little devil's bomber must also lower its altitude, or even dive bomb, which gave Zhou Weihan a chance.

It was [-]:[-] in the afternoon, it was summer, and the sky was still bright.

The units of the Eighth Route Army had already had dinner ahead of time, and the three divisions of Shi You, who were huddled in the village, were lighting a fire to cook, and each division took this opportunity to attack from all sides.

Since Shiyou Sanbu did not have long-range artillery, Zhou Weihan ordered Chen Feng's artillery battalion to let go of their hands and feet and play to their full potential.

Several artillery positions arranged by the artillery battalion in the green gauze tent opened fire at the same time.

"Tom tom" the two Krupp 105 howitzers made a dull sound.

At this time, the enemy troops on the south side were gathering together for dinner in twos and threes, and the piercing of the shells made a sharp piercing sound.

The enemy army who had gathered for dinner just now was in chaos. An officer had no time to remind him, dropped the lunch box in his hand, turned over into the trench, put it on the ground, and covered his ears with his hands.

Two high-explosive bombs weighing nearly 16 kilograms exploded near the enemy's trench, and more than half of the more than 100 enemy soldiers who had gathered for dinner just now disappeared in an instant.

"Damn it, this large-caliber 105mm caliber howitzer is 75mm more than the 30mm mountain cannon, and its lethality is too great!" The second regiment leader Xu Dali stammered as he saw the devastation in the enemy's position.

"What is this? Both the national army and the little devils have 150mm heavy artillery. The power is really earth-shattering. To put it mildly, there are no living things within four or five hundred square meters!" said Zhang Hao, the political commissar of the second regiment.

Independent Detachment Rear Command.

Zhou Weihan was also deeply shocked when he saw the power of the 105 howitzer, after all, it was the first time to experience its power at such a close range.

Zhou Weihan finally understood how our army's traditional firepower phobia came about!
"Old Zhao, I hope that the enemy will never encounter such a large-caliber heavy artillery!" Zhou Weihan muttered to himself.

"Hmph, you fucking thought I wanted to meet you! Fortunately, Dong Jiang's reconnaissance company captured the enemy's two heavy artillery, or else with such power, it would blow up on the battlefield, and if it doesn't work, one company will be reimbursed!" Zhao Gang Said in fear.

"Monk, go and tell Chen Feng not to save me the cannonballs, but give me a slap in the face of Shi Yousan!" Zhou Weihan said loudly.

"Old Zhao, if things go on like this, the enemy's first line of defense will collapse in a short time, and they may be able to eat up Shiyou's three remnants in one go!"

"There are more than [-] shells in total. Can you plow the whole village once? You see, Shi Yousan will never give up easily!" Zhao Gang said.

(End of this chapter)