A Japanese squad leader said to Yamashita Mizutada: "Captain, the Chinese cannons have been erected, and I'm afraid they will be able to attack us after a while. Captain, hurry up and think of a way."

Yamashita Mizutaka said: "There are only two ways now, one is to bombard their firing positions with our artillery, but the superiors have not brought the artillery to us for a long time; the other is to send troops with explosives to blow up their firing positions." Launching positions, but this method is very difficult, "

The Japanese squad leader said: "Captain, I am willing to personally lead the death squads to attack the firing position."

Yamashita Mizutaka said: "You think that launch position is so easy to attack. With the cunning of the Chinese, they will definitely set up an ambush on the way, waiting for our death squads to take the bait, and many of our warriors are gone because of hunger. strength, we are no longer the opponents of the Chinese people,"

The leader of the Japanese army was speechless, and Yamashita Mizutada said: "Immediately take people to the back mountain to cut some dry firewood and prepare some water. When the Chinese cannons are set up, we will burn the dry firewood and sprinkle water on the burning firewood." There will be a lot of smoke on the dry wood, and the smoke can cover our position for a while, so that it will not be discovered by the Chinese people."

The captain shook his head and said, "Captain, this method won't work. The smoke is afraid of the wind. If Lin Yuan's troops attack in windy weather, won't this method fail?"

Mizutada Yamashita said helplessly: "Then I can only ask my superiors to send cannons to support me." So Mizutada Yamashita continued to call his superiors. This time, Mizutada Yamashita's tone became very tough: "Captain, if you don't Send us the artillery, and you will be fully responsible for the loss of our high ground, but General Kishimoto personally called us and told us to hold it."

The superior of Mizutada Yamashita was a little flustered, so he ordered the transportation squadron under the jurisdiction of the brigade to transport a cannon to the 75 Highland at all costs. Highland [-], the Japanese army built a road in Hamgyong Mountain, so the Japanese army easily transported the howitzers to the highland, but at this time they found that the artillery could not go up the mountain at all.

The reason is very simple, the mountain road is very rugged, cars can't go up, but animals can go up, but where to find animals for a while, so the Japanese army decided to disassemble the artillery, but the Japanese artillery did not consider it at all when designing it For the purpose of dismantling and transportation, it takes a lot of effort to disassemble many key components.

The Japanese soldiers in the transportation squadron are all auto soldiers, they can only drive cars, and they can't do anything else, let alone dismantling the artillery. So the transportation squadron reported to the superior and asked the artillery squadron for support. There was a lot of delay.

At [-] o'clock in the morning on March [-]th, after a night of assembly, a howitzer was assembled in the eastern position of the Japanese army, and the pre-launch adjustments began. Lu Xinghua originally wanted to arrange artillery in the western and northern attack positions, but These two places are far away from the rear, and the transportation conditions are not good, so this plan was dropped.

At this time, the artillery of the Japanese army was still being disassembled at the foot of the mountain. At this time, the temperature in the mountain was as low as minus [-] degrees, and the cold wind was blowing. The Japanese army did not have thin gloves to keep out the cold, and most of the dismantling of the artillery required bare hands. This made the Japanese army The artillerymen were miserable. They could only rub their hands when they were too cold, which slowed down the speed of dismantling and transportation. On Lin Yuan's side, the artillerymen were equipped with light and warm gloves. Gloves can be worn most of the time during the process, and the strength of Lin Yuan's troops and the Japanese army can be judged by the details of gloves.

At ten o'clock in the morning on March [-]th, the Japanese army finally disassembled a cannon and transported it up the mountain. After all, the Japanese army's artillery was small in caliber and light in weight, so it was transported up quickly. The Japanese army then assembled it on the high ground. The artillery has a simple structure and is relatively quick to assemble, so there is great hope of firing the cannon first.

Lu Xinghua in Lin Yuan's position quickly saw this, and he immediately ordered the mortar troops to fire at the Japanese artillery positions. The range of the mortars of Lin Yuan's troops could cover the entire Japanese high ground. The troops were far behind. The reason why Lin Yuan's troops did not use mortars was because they understood that the power of mortar shells was not enough to blow up the Japanese fortress, and it would be a waste of shells to shoot them out. People, there is no reason to let go.

The mortar unit immediately hid behind a soil slope. Two observers climbed up the soil slope and used the steering wheel and theodolite to measure the position of the Japanese firing position. Soon a set of data was sent to the launcher, who shook his hand. wheel, adjusted the firing angle of the mortar, and then put a shell into the barrel.

With a sound of "boom", the shells flew out of the chamber, flew towards the firing position of the Japanese army, and landed beside the firing position. The splashed soil immediately scattered on the Japanese soldiers. s attack,"

Yamashita Shuizhong hurriedly asked: "Could it be that the cannons of Lin Yuan's army have been installed?"

The officer shook his head and said, "The shells don't seem to be fired from that cannon, because there are always people standing in front of the muzzle of that cannon."

Mizutada Yamashita said, "Where did the shells come from?"

The officer shook his head silently, and said, "We don't know which hillside it flew out from,"

Yamashita Shuizhong slapped the table in front of him fiercely, and said angrily, "It must be a mortar. That kind of gun is very concealed, so we can't find it,"

The officer asked: "Then shall we continue to assemble?"

Yamashita Shuizhong gritted his teeth and said firmly: "Assemble, continue to assemble, we must level the cannon firing positions of Lin Yuan's troops, otherwise our entire army will be wiped out,"

The officer replied loudly: "Yes, we understand." The artillerymen of the Japanese army shook off the dust on their bodies and continued to assemble the artillery. At this time, the observers of Lin Yuan's troops had already seen the landing point, and immediately sent out a correction message and fired. He adjusted the position of the muzzle with his hand and fired another shot. This time the shell fell directly more than ten meters away from the artillery firing position. The scattered shrapnel instantly knocked down the three artillerymen who were assembling the artillery.

The rest of the artillery hurriedly hid in the nearby tunnel, and the assembly of the Japanese artillery stopped instantly. Yamashita Mizutada hurriedly found the artillery, but he was not directly under the artillery, so he could not forcefully order these artillery, so he could only say: "Everyone is a samurai of the Great Japanese Empire, I hope everyone..."

Before Yamashita Mizutada finished speaking, he heard an ear-shattering explosion sound from the position. Yamashita Mizutada turned his head and looked outside, only to see a cloud of smoke shrouded the cannon. With an ominous premonition, he muttered silently in his heart: "Don't blow up our cannons."

When the smoke cleared, he saw that the cannon had fallen to the ground, the wheels of the cannon wheel on one side had disappeared, and various parts were scattered on the ground. Yamashita Shuizhong felt cold and thought: " It's over, now we can only use our own fortress to fight the shells of Lin Yuan's troops, "

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