The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

Although the 280mm naval gun designed by the Germans has a small caliber, its power is not small!The original artillery shell weighs 330 kilograms, which is almost the same as the grenade of the Yankee's mk7 305mm naval gun. The range is a full 54.5 kilometers!

After being introduced into China, the ultra-long-range electromagnetic extended-range heavy artillery, which has been improved several times, uses tens of kilograms to hundreds of kilograms of artillery shells. Needless to say, the rate of fire is 4 rounds per minute, and the power of special high-explosive shells is even more amazing. !

In fact, the Japanese Third Fleet had only a few remnants and defeated generals. Under the threat of the North Sea Fleet, it could only hang around in the port, the northern part of the Yellow Sea, and the coast of North Korea, and never dared to look forward.There is no new warship, and those with a little fighting power have been transferred back to the mainland or killed. Now the ones placed in the port can only be regarded as good-looking, safe for the Japanese and a deterrent to the Koreans.

The armor of these broken warships is so weak that even the 127mm dual-purpose guns and even the 30mm cannon of the Air Force can't hold it, not to mention the huge kinetic energy and the explosive power of the warhead are not advanced gadgets that belong to battleship grenades!

The accuracy of the land-based ultra-long-range cannon is frightening. After flying more than 100 kilometers, it can still accurately hit a 200-meter-long warship. After almost two shots, a battleship is basically scrapped!

Fleet Commander Cao Luren is patrolling defense work in case of sudden Chinese attacks—especially air attacks.The shallow Bohai Bay and the Yellow Sea do not allow giants like battleships to wander inside, and the coastal defense heavy artillery deployed by the Japanese army is not vegetarian. Its range and accuracy are enough to hit the battleships approaching the attack head-on, but the air force is hard to defend against. It is really.This distance of more than 100 kilometers is very unsafe!

In order to keep Liaoning, the future core of the empire, the Kwantung Army and the Japanese Navy set up air defense positions densely packed inside and outside Lushun Military Port, with hundreds of large and small artillery pieces, which can resist even a formation of hundreds of bombers. The rough and ugly shore-based radar is facing the south --- although the power is extremely low and the accuracy can be ignored, at least you can see the difference between the aircraft and the flock of birds, right?

But suddenly there was an explosion.And the continuous rumbling noise that followed made Cao Lu's head "Weng" stunned!He hurriedly found the phone on the spot to contact the person in front, and asked, "Where did the attack come from?! A Chinese fighter plane or a warship?!"

"Not at all! It's a cannonball flying from afar!"

Cao Luren became angry and scolded loudly: "Baga! Where did the shells come from without a battleship?!"

Looking out from the mountains near Lushun, in the absence of heavy fog, you can even see the Long Island Islands stretching from Penglai to the sea, and there are small gunboats patrolling day and night around the periphery. It is absolutely impossible not to see the attacking enemy!

The people in front were very wronged, they really didn't see anything!And the rumbling sound of the shells piercing through the air was so familiar.It is impossible to judge wrongly!

Cao Lu didn't believe in evil, and contacted the aerial reconnaissance plane to ask them to report back. As a result, no enemy ships were found, and there was not a single enemy ship within [-] kilometers from the coast!

This is already the limit distance they can go forward for investigation. If they go any further, they will be intercepted and killed by Chinese fighter planes, according to the experience of many years of fighting.The Japanese fighter planes failed one-sidedly, and every time they went out, they gave others their achievements.

Cao Luren was completely dizzy.What's the matter? !There are none forty kilometers away, which is beyond the effective range of naval guns, and there are no coastal defense heavy artillery on that string of islands, so where did the attack come from? !

He really couldn't figure it out, so he didn't bother thinking too much, and immediately notified the Kwantung Army Command of the situation.This is the prelude to a new attack by China, and the coastal defenses of Lushun must be strengthened!

On Liugong Island, the electromagnetically accelerated heavy artillery was still firing steadily, and the coordinates had to be recalibrated every time after each shot was fired.The miniature data acquisition unit and the high-g-force overload test electronic module carried in the warhead are constantly sending out signals. The radar stations on the island, the reconnaissance planes in the air, and the monitoring ships on the sea are all working intensively, recording every shot. The monitoring data are recorded in detail.

Similarly, shells with different aerodynamic shapes fired at intervals also form different destructive forces.But no matter which one, they will be smashed to pieces after hitting the target in the end, but the power of the explosion is different.

Pieces of data are aggregated through the data bus and finally flow into the brain of the research center of Guzhenkou Base. Thousands of scientists from different departments are very interested in inputting the separated data into the system of their research projects to determine their Whether the content of the research is consistent with the actual measurement.

Among them, the most are aerospace research units, involving hundreds of subjects including materials, electronic units, aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, atmospheric physics, supersonic speed, etc.

If the Japanese army knew this fact, they would probably commit mass suicide in anger!Zhu Bin actually didn't forget to use them as live targets for experimental testing while bombarding them from a distance!The whole thing is an act that kills two birds with one stone. In the name of scientific research, it is really shameless to fool a group of scientists into making amazingly powerful killing weapons!

Zhu Bin did just that.Otherwise, why bother Bala to set up a giant electromagnetic tower and a heavy fort on Liugong Island?The cost of those two things is too expensive, just to bombard them?Is it worth it!

The threat of ultra-long-range cannons is astonishing!The warships at anchor were named one by one by the shells, and the sky in half of the city was covered by explosions and fireworks. Amidst the shrill sirens, the people in the city fled with their heads in their arms. The merchants and workers fled one after another!Anyone who is not a fool knows that the flames of war are finally here!

The Kwantung Army headquarters was full of chaos. Commander Ueda Kenkichi and Chief of Staff Neiji Okamura looked at each other, and were stunned for a while!

Ueda Kenkichi twitched his cheeks and asked, "Didn't it mean that China would not launch a violent attack for the time being?! Why did it attack suddenly?!"

His dissatisfaction was directed at Neiji Okamura.This master who showed superhuman wisdom in the defense of Manchuria and established a whole military supply line and strategic defense system from the mainland to North Korea and then to Manchuria, rarely made mistakes in his judgment of the situation of the enemy and us. The depletion of imperial army soldiers, and the maximum weakening of the resistance forces in Manchuria and North Korea, achieved multiple results in one fell swoop.

It can be said.Without his strategizing, the Kwantung Army would have been defeated by the 100-mile siege of more than [-] million squadrons!

This time, because of the instigation of the Yankees and the British, good news came from the base camp first, and then the intelligence from China also showed all the good news. Neiji Okamura propagandized with great confidence.In a short period of time, the war will not start!Whether it is the success of the truce initiated by the people led by Chiang Kai-shek, or the factional struggles within China are dragging its feet, in short, the already precarious Manchurian offensive will surely disintegrate!

It's only been three days since I said this?All the shells are coming!

Okamura Ningji was trembling with anger, this slap in the face was the worst in his life!It's so embarrassing!

Of course, he can't just admit defeat. He has experienced a lot of ups and downs in his life, and he won't get frustrated. He still seems calm and said: "The situation is not clear now! Maybe the Chinese side is trying to contain us. It's unknown!"

Ueda Kenkichi hummed: "It's best! Otherwise we will face an unprecedented severe situation!"

The attacks have always been unilateral by the Army, and the Chinese Air Force has only guaranteed air cover, and has not bombed and damaged industrial facilities in Northeast China and North Korea.The staff judged that they were reluctant to part with those precious production resources, or worried that it would be too risky to bomb deep into the hinterland, so they were reluctant to part with the air force.

As for some people who think that the Chinese side did it on purpose, to prolong the war... They were ignored. Although it is said that the old man Ishihara Waner preached this, no one believed it.

Both China and Japan are poor people.The war is afraid that it will drag down the economy if it takes too long, and it will never take half a year to finish the war in a few months.If it can be done in a week, it will never be delayed for half a month!A quick battle is the kingly way!There are people who are trying to spend money to make the war protracted!

But when the news came that the European war had suddenly broken out, smart people like Neiji Okamura believed it!He is very clear about how big a threat the existence of China and Japan is to the western powers. If China defeats Japan with all its strength, or if Japan easily kills China, it will definitely be suppressed by Western countries!It's no secret!

So.When a full-scale war breaks out in Europe, almost all the big powers are involved, and there is no time to look around. Only the United States, which is watching the fire from the other side, sells arms and supplies on both sides to make money without conscience, but it will not cause too much interference in the war between the two countries for the time being.Taking advantage of their short time can not tell the winner.It is a wise move to solve the problem first after a beating here!

The Chinese have been procrastinating, probably just waiting for this opportunity.The United Kingdom and the United States also saw it, so they secretly supported Lao Jiang and even tried to disrupt their plans in person, because Japan has already shown that it is invincible!So now, is it because the Chinese side is unwilling to be dragged back and wants to forcefully break the situation?

Neiji Okamura was not sure.If it were him, I'm afraid the internal troubles would have to be cleared first, otherwise the backyard caught fire while fighting with Japan, it would be a pain in the ass!With the strength of the Zhu Bin Group, the north-south attack suddenly launched, shouldn't it be too much effort to kill the Jiang Group?Maybe it can be done in half a year.

This period of time is extremely precious, and it must be ensured that Japan will not counterattack, so sudden harassment from the side, or even sending the navy to intercept the attack, are very effective means!

So today's shelling, isn't it like this?

There is too little information to guess, Okamura Ningji dare not bet, even if the opponent is really feigning, the front attack must be hit first.He immediately fully activated the planned response strategy, and ordered the entire Kwantung Army to mobilize to overcome this wave of incoming threats first!

The military order was like a mountain. Nearly [-] Kwantung Army and North Korean Army mixed and rushed towards Lushun. When it is in place, countless ammunition supplies are dragged out from the warehouse below and pushed onto the battlefield!

In the afternoon of the same day, when the ultra-long-range cannon blasted more than 100 shells and had to stop to overhaul the barrel, the front line, which had been tepid, suddenly heard a series of earth-shattering explosions!

Starting from the Beining railway line and extending to the front line of Harbin, thousands of cannons of various calibers fired together, including hundreds of multi-tube long-range rocket launchers, the smallest caliber of which was 105mm cannons. Tens of thousands of shells were thrown out at the center of gravity of the Japanese army's defense that had been calibrated earlier!

Just on the front line of Liaoyuan, there are more than a thousand heavy artillery pieces and hundreds of rocket launchers.As soon as the firepower was turned on, the first round of shells blasted out the Japanese army huddled in the defense line to pieces. The most outrageous thing was the Zhu Jiajun who was in charge of the main offensive task and was directly under the Armored Mountain Brigade. A 203mm rocket launcher battalion attached to them breathed a sigh of relief. Among the more than 1000 rockets thrown out, there were hundreds of small cloud bombs mixed in!After the overwhelming number of warheads fell, the five-kilometer-wide Japanese defense line was cleared at one time.After all the mushroom clouds dissipated, the Japanese army spent a year working hard to build the permanent fortifications, except for the crackling and crackling of the burning fire, there was not a single moan or scream!

From the evening until midnight, artillery of various calibers shot out all the first rounds of ammunition in different ways. It was not until all the artillerymen were exhausted like dead dogs that the armored soldiers who had rested for a long time came out of the hiding place. All over the mountains and plains, they rushed out and rolled towards the fiery battlefield!

Luo Zhendong, head of the Fifth Regiment, personally drove a "Hammer" double-barreled tank and slowly drove in following the heavy engineering obstacle removal vehicle. As the commander himself, he scanned the sides and the front through infrared night vision goggles, but I saw that six-meter-high steel monster bulldozed the trenches.The heavy shovel in front detonated the weak anti-tank mines from time to time, and the ten-centimeter-thick high-strength alloy steel shovel knocked by the fragments jingled and exploded, but it was difficult to wear away the fur.

The 1.5-meter-wide crawler tracks can not only support the car body weighing hundreds of tons, but also crush all hidden traps, and the passage opened is extremely safe.

After tens of thousands of shells, rockets, and cloud bombs bombarded, the frontal battlefield was in a mess. The Japanese soldiers hiding under the reinforced concrete bunkers that could withstand the long-range bombardment of 152mm cannons were killed and wounded, and most of their lives were drained by the cloud bombs. The air is suffocating!

The double-barreled turret of the "Hammer" tank slowly rotated left and right.But they didn't even find a single target worth shooting.Luo Zhendong was disappointed for a while, it seemed that he was under advanced weapons.Positional warfare is becoming more and more useless. Whoever sticks to the position and is passively beaten will probably have no other way out except to be beaten to death.

In the sky, several flares suddenly lit up, and the trajectory was seen to be fired from a mortar several kilometers ahead.In bright light.Scattered and advancing tanks and infantry fighting vehicles loomed.

In a pine forest nearly ten kilometers away from the battlefield, a dull loud noise came from the ground, and the rising fireworks revealed their identities—the Japanese artillery position!

A dozen or so 75mm shells flew into the sky screaming, and fell before they reached the finish line, following the self-propelled artillery battalion behind the tank.The anti-gun radar vehicle that was always rotating slowly locked on the target keenly. As the ballistic arc narrowed, the coordinate data were released one after another. Before the Japanese army's second round of shells hit the ground, let's all fire!

The tanks and chariots that were moving loose were hardly hit, and the hit probability of bombarding armored targets with sparse shells at night was too low!But the retaliatory artillery fire was surprisingly accurate!In the blink of an eye, the pine forest fell into the loud noise of dense grenade explosions. In the clusters of bright flames, the Japanese infantry guns scattered and covered with camouflage nets and pine branches were blown to pieces. The Japanese artillerymen who were working hard in thin shirts were caught off guard, and the shells swept away, together with the surrounding pine trees, were all wiped out!

Eighteen howitzers fired together, and one shell could cover an area of ​​two or three acres of land. After a few rounds, the evenly distributed craters almost completely destroyed the pine forest where the artillery position was located!The crooked and broken trees were ignited by the high temperature of the explosion and caused a raging fire. Bright pillars of fire shot up tens of meters high one by one, and there were continuous explosions that exploded one after another.

This is not over yet, that is, a few minutes later, two attack planes flew at low altitude with bombs all over their bodies, and unceremoniously dropped the two heaviest incendiary bombs over the burning pine forest!

The five-hundred-kilogram submunitions that fell at intervals of less than one kilometer each split into hundreds of small bombs and spread out in the low altitude. Amidst the loud noise, two walls of fire that were one kilometer long rose into the sky, and the instant explosion produced a blazing explosion. The bright light almost blinded the pilot's eyes!

Immediately afterwards, there was an even more mournful roar from a distance!It was the retaliatory shooting of the 152mm and howitzer heavy artillery group with a super long range. Hundreds of cannons tilted tons of shells into the pine forest from different positions. Can't find any corners.

Luo Zhendong considers himself a ruthless person, and he never fears fighting. At this time, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he muttered in his heart: "Is it necessary to be so ruthless? It's just a small group of Japanese artillery. The cost of this shell is more than the damage." What did you get? What a luxury..."

In fact, this is also a helpless move. On the Liaohe Plain, there are dense pine forests everywhere, and the riverside beach is full of dense reeds. The effect of aerial reconnaissance is not very good, but it is very good for hiding. If you want to push forward quickly, It is necessary to wipe out the resistance as much as possible.

Another reason is that those artillerymen are probably holding back?All the way from the Mongolian grasslands are mountains and mountains, and there are few places for them to play.

Liaoyuan is a railway hub, stuck in the center of going south to Fengtian, north to Changchun, and east to Siping Street. The Japanese army laid down heavy guards here and made up their minds to fight to the death among the pine forests and mountains, but never expected that the opponent would die as soon as they made a move. Inside!After a shell bombardment, several exposed and hidden artillery positions were wiped out! (To be continued..)