Age of Rebirth

According to the plan of the division headquarters, such a large ambush field was set up in Mogok. In order to ensure that the troops sent out by Ito were hurt, Le Yiqin's Southern Flying Group and Zheng Yong's artillery jointly carried out an air-to-ground fire strike. Tang Qiuli also judged that with Ito's cunning and veteran experience, he would not put all his troops into it. Therefore, in the Mogok ambush, it was necessary to cleanly wipe out this part of the advancing Japanese troops.

According to the rhythm of the battle, all the fighter planes of the Southern Flying Group should be bombing tons of Japanese soldiers in the airspace of Mogok at this moment, but in this terrible weather, Le Yiqin's eyes widened, The staff officer yelled, "Get me the meteorological director of Kunming Field Airport immediately, and I'll ask him, what kind of bullshit weather forecast?"

A veteran combat staff officer glanced at Le Yiqin with a gloomy face, and said, "Commander, don't worry, the airspace of Mogok is so big that it can't be covered by artillery alone. Now, the visibility has improved a bit, so we can take off into the air to fight! At the end of the battle, we still need our aviation troops."

Le Yiqin said angrily: "You don't know, just the guy Zheng Yong's eating habits, the first-class food protection, and he won't let go when he catches the little devil. This time, he finally caught the opportunity of an artilleryman to play the leading role alone. Even the bones and the meat, if he doesn't eat all the meat, he is not Zheng Yong. Believe it or not, at this moment, Zheng Yong promises to shout at the neck, and he will never stop if he doesn't make the cannon barrel red. I thought I could save some for us!"

Le Yiqin turned around on the ground a few times, and muttered, "No, I can't just wait, I have to ask the teacher for a fight, and if it's a little later, I won't even be able to drink the soup," she said angrily, picking up the phone : "Please accept the instructions from the teacher. Commander, I am Le Yiqin. In order to ensure the smooth end of the battle, our Southern Flying Group requests to rush to the airspace of Mogok immediately to participate in the bombing operation against the Japanese army. Please approve it!" [

Tang Qiuli took the phone receiver away from his ears, "Le Yiqin, what are you talking about, the aviation army is going to join the war? Are you kidding me? Such a thick fog. The visibility on the ground is almost zero. What can you see at an altitude of thousands of meters? , can’t see the target, where are you throwing your bombs? Le Yiqin, are you unable to sit on the bench anymore? Tell you, just stay there and wait for the order from the teacher.”

A sharp reprimand.Well, no play, Le Yiqin swallowed and spit.Putting down the phone, it happened that the meteorological director of the Kunming Base of the Aviation Force came in. This is a middle-aged man wearing glasses, in his 40s, weak in writing, and at first glance he has a delicate personality. My brain is foggy.

Le Yiqin turned around, saw the meteorological director, and asked, "Director Wen, what did your meteorological department do? Yesterday's forecast. Isn't there only light fog today? Look, it's light fog? Director Wen was tongue-tied, he really didn't know how to explain it to the commander, the light fog turned into a dense fog, and this couldn't be explained, seeing how the commander was going to eat people right now.Sweat dripped from his forehead.

Le Yiqin didn't pay attention to Director Wen's face, and then asked: "According to the judgment of your meteorological department, how long will it take for the fog to dissipate?" , The heavy fog can dissipate to the extent that ground targets can be discerned around twelve o'clock at noon."

Le Yiqin slapped his thigh, "It's over, it's only past six o'clock, and in more than six hours, Zheng Yong's thousands of cannons can overturn Mogok, and it's our turn to play? Damn it , this damn fog, you go back!" Saying this, he waved his hand at the meteorological director, Director Wen couldn't laugh or cry, "Oh, I came here in such a hurry, just for these few words, I asked him on the phone Wouldn't it be enough?" Seeing the commander's face, these words could only be muttered in his stomach.

The uninterrupted shelling has been going on for two hours, showing no signs of weakening. Beside the artillery positions of the Independent Division, the piles of gun boxes, like snowballs in the sun, shrunk and turned into whistling metal pellets. , Flying towards the top of the Japanese army in the dense fog, all the vehicles in the logistics department kept shuttling between the various artillery positions, unloading boxes of guns.

The head of the logistics department of the independent division who rushed to Mengmi from Myitkyina and Major General Zhang Quan, the commander of the Joint Service Command of the Myanmar Theater Command, muttered, "Zheng Yong, a prodigal son, after such a short time, just beat me to 10,000 yuan." +Fire the cannon, let's see how I settle the score with him," while shouting into the phone non-stop: "Insufficient manpower, send everyone in the logistics organization to ensure the needs of the frontline artillery, the transport unit delayed the matter , see if I can spare him!"

In the northwest of Mengmi, the Artillery Headquarters of the Independent Division, Commander Zheng Yong, as if appreciating a symphony, listened to the indistinguishable number of cannon sounds, and felt comfortable in his heart. Compared with today's scale, it is not worth mentioning. "Reporting to the commander, after receiving reports from various artillery groups, the Japanese artillery began to counterattack and suppressed our artillery positions." A staff officer came in and reported,

Zheng Yong rolled up his sleeves, "Hey, the little devil's artillery finally sticks out his bastard's head, and he still can't find him, so what are you waiting for, order the heavy artillery group to quickly measure the position and coordinates of the Japanese artillery positions, and give me a hard blow." Bomb, turn the little devil's cannon into a pile of scrap iron!" Zheng Yong roared excitedly.

The staff officer said in embarrassment: "Commander, because the fog is too thick, we can't measure the exact position and distance of the Japanese artillery positions according to the Japanese artillery's path, so we can't carry out an effective counterattack." Zheng Yong became angry when he heard it. "What? I can't fight back, so let me ask you, how did the little devil's artillery find our artillery position? Their artillery must not have eyes, right?"

The artillery staff officer was right, yes, how did the little devil's artillery find our artillery positions?In fact, after receiving the order from Commander-in-Chief Ito to bombard the artillery positions of the Independent Division, heavy fog also plagued the artillery of the Japanese army.

It was also a senior artillery staff officer of the Japanese army who made a suggestion that the troops of the first attack wave, which were being hit by the artillery fire of the independent division, risk their lives to get close to the front of the artillery position of the independent division to observe, and then report the data to the artillery headquarters and order Arrived at the Japanese troops who were attacked by overwhelming artillery fire on the line from Mogok to Mengmi.

These Japanese infantry soldiers who had no hope of survival heard that there was hope for their lives, and each of them braved the roaring artillery from the sky. A group of several people, carrying a radio, sneaked into the front of the artillery position of the Independent Division, and Fortunately, the hundreds of observation teams sent out were able to get close to the artillery positions of the independent division in the end, but there were only a dozen groups, which were the Japanese infantry observation posts, which provided the Japanese artillery with accurate positions.

When Meng Xiaozhu was in the cave, he felt that the whole mountain was shaking. The huge shock wave seemed to come out of the ground, and the soles of his feet were numb. In the explosion area of ​​the cannon, the feeling is absolutely uncomfortable, even though he knows that it is his own artillery shelling the little devil.

Meng Xiaozhu was quite normal. It was the first time he had experienced such a violent and large-scale bombardment. However, his rich battlefield experience minimized his discomfort. Watching the two assistants almost couldn't bear it Meng Xiaozhu tried every means to divert their attention.

He said: "As an artillery observer, you should distinguish the types and specifications of all artillery in any battlefield environment in order to judge the effect of shelling." "Listen, this is our [-]mm caliber howitzer, from The Soviet Union, this is a German-style [-]mm caliber cannon," said Meng Xiaozhu. From the sound of explosions, he mentioned the different calibers, power, range, and coverage area of ​​each gun.

The two assistants were stunned, their eyes full of admiration, don't look at their team leader, who is several years younger than him, but he has no combat experience and said, "Team leader, we really admire you, when will we both have This ability?" Suddenly, Meng Xiaozhu stopped their words and listened intently, and the two assistants became nervous.

A few minutes later, Meng Xiaozhu said seriously to the two assistants: "The sound of the cannon piercing the air just now is not quite right. It should be the [-]mm caliber field artillery of the Japanese army counterattacking our artillery. Dense fog, our artillery law has measured the exact position of the Japanese artillery positions according to the Tao, I want to go to the top of the mountain to observe, contact by phone, you are in the cave, and quickly report the data I observed to Pao Zhi.”

Before the two assistants could reply, Meng Xiaozhu's figure had quickly disappeared into the sky full of gunfire and gunpowder smoke. After a while, the two assistants received a series of data. Meng Xiaozhu's observation targets were only a few places that could be judged. The artillery position of the Japanese army is enough. The staff officers of the Artillery Command of the Independent Division are all experienced veterans. Since their own observation post can observe the artillery position of the little devil, the little devil will send an observation team to do the same. things. [

Zheng Yong sneered, and said: "Damn, the little devil is cunning enough, report this situation to the division commander, request to send troops to blind the little devil, and order the heavy artillery of the first and third artillery groups to destroy immediately Japanese artillery positions, yes, Meng Xiaozhu is a good guy, I will definitely give him credit when I come back!"

After Meng Xiaozhu reported the observation target, he was about to withdraw to the cave when suddenly, several cannonballs flew in. The two assistants saw only a burst of dust and gunpowder smoke at the entrance of the cave. drowned.

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