Zhong Yi was applauding loudly, but the three old devils on the cruiser Ashigara were scolding his mother.

In particular, Moritake Tanabe saw that the small steamer used to project troops was continuously hit by Chinese artillery, and one of the guns even broke the engine of the small steamer, and the old devil was so angry that his face turned green.

The advance detachment's beach-grabbing and landing operations have been hit one after another, and his prestige has been seriously shaken!

Tanabe Moritake was very worried that if the price paid for the beach landing was too great, Yanagawa Heisuke might replace him as the chief of staff who asked the base camp!

At that moment, Tanabe Moritake said: "Your Excellency Commander, I really didn't expect the quality of the Chinese artillery to be so high!" ”

The old devil Tanabe is shirking his responsibility when he says this, what he means is that the advance team has been hit one after another, not that the plan I drew up is not good enough, but that the artillery of the Chinese is too powerful!

Yanagawa Heisuke did not blame Tanabe Moritake, and said with deep understanding: "The Shina artillery is not only well-educated, but also very cunning, they know that they will be retaliated against by the imperial naval guns, so they release the smoke screen in front of the artillery position in advance, but it makes it very difficult for the naval guns to retaliate!" ”

Vice Takeshi Toyoda echoed: "Yanagawa-kun is right, under the premise that the exact position of the Shina artillery cannot be demarcated, the naval guns of our navy can only fire at range, and if you want to destroy this artillery of the Shina Army, the price you have to pay will be amazing, although the Fourth Fleet has sufficient ammunition, it cannot withstand such a squander!" ”

After a pause, Deputy Takeshi Toyoda said again: "But fortunately, there is still a weather team!" ”

"Weather team?" Yanagawa Heisuke said, "Toyoda-kun sees that the weather team condescendingly conducts observations from the air, and you can ignore the smoke screen released by the Shina army and easily mark its exact position!" ”

After a pause, Yanagawa Heisuke said again: "Toyota-kun, then please!" ”

"Hello!" Deputy Toyoda bowed back to Yanagawa Heisuke, then got up and instructed the adjutant beside him, "Order, the weather team will immediately release the balloon and determine the exact location of the artillery position of the Shina Army!" ”

"Hello!" The adjutant shook his head, turned and walked away quickly.

When a few old devils looked back again, just a moment ago, two more small steamers were shelled, and one of the small trains was directly hit by the fuel tank, causing the small steamer to explode and catch fire and burn!

"Yaga!" Yanagawa Heisuke's facial muscles began to twitch violently.

What Heisuke Yanagawa cares about is not casualties, but the loss of capacity!

This time, with the help of the Shanghai armed merchant group, they were able to barely gather more than 70 landing craft, and now every loss of one means that it will be difficult to land on the beach in Jinshanwei!

……

"Sounding balloons?!"

Seeing the sounding balloon raised by the devil warship, Wang Zilong's eyes suddenly froze.

As a battalion commander, Wang Zilong is no stranger to the devil's sounding balloon, on the battlefield, the reason why the little devil's artillery is so accurate is because of the existence of the sounding balloon!

Moreover, there is nothing that Guojun can do with the devil's probe balloon.

"It's useless!" Zhong Yi pursed his lips and said abruptly, "Lao Tzu has long been guarding against the devil's hand!" ”

Wang Zilong hummed lightly and said: "The devil thinks that we only put a smoke screen in front of the artillery position, but it is a big mistake, we put a whole piece of smoke!" ”

While the two were talking, the devil's small steamer approached a few hundred meters.

After suffering a few losses, the devil's little steamer also began to learn to behave, no longer moving in a straight line, but began to walk in a serpentine shape on the sea, preferring to spend more time than to ensure safety.

The hit rate of the national artillery dropped sharply.

This result was expected by Zhong Yi and them.

After all, the cannon is not a rifle, it is originally an area of effect weapon!

However, the lack of accuracy can also be compensated for by quantity!

At that moment, Zhong Yi said: "Adjutant Wang, go and notify the rest of the artillery platoons to carry out concentrated fire!" ”

Wang Zilong turned around and nodded at the guard standing behind him, and the guard immediately turned around and rushed out of the observation post, and came to a high ground and waved two small pennants.

It is the flag language, and the artillery platoons communicate with each other through the flag language.

The next moment, on the coastline of Jinshanwei, the six Bufus mountain guns of the Guojun Mountain Artillery Company began shelling at the same time, dumping rows of shells onto the sea in front.

In the face of the concentrated fire attack of the six mountain guns, the situation of the devil's little steamer immediately became difficult.

After a while, two more small steamers were hit by artillery fire and caught fire, and the devil infantry on the small steamer were also forced to jump into the icy seawater.

……

On the cruiser Ashigara.

The faces of the old devils became more and more embarrassed.

In particular, Deputy Wu of Toyota felt very shameless, and immediately roared angrily at the adjutant behind him: "Baga, what is the weather team doing?" Why hasn't the exact orientation of the Chinese artillery been demarcated? ”

"Hello!" The poor adjutant bowed and hurriedly ran over to ask.

After a while, the adjutant hurried over again and replied with a dark face: "Your Excellency Commander, the meteorological team said that the artillery positions of the Chinese army are full of smoke and cannot be seen clearly!" ”

"Nani?" Deputy Toyoda said in surprise, "There is smoke everywhere, isn't it just a smoke released in front of the artillery position?" ”

"Hello!" The adjutant paused.

"Yaga!" Vice Takeshi Toyoda cursed and said, "Cunning Shina! ”

Yanagawa Heisuke also said with a gloomy face: "It seems that the commander of Shina on the other side is a smart man, and he seems to have expected that the Imperial Army will use the weather team to determine the position of his artillery!" ”

Tanabe Moritakeshi said: "Your Excellency Commander, now you can only ask for support from naval aviation!" ”

Yanagawa Heisuke said: "Sosdai, immediately call the command of the Third Fleet and ask for tactical guidance!" ”

"Hello!" Tanabe Mori Wu shook his head heavily, ordered the adjutant to send a telegram to the Third Fleet, and then said, "Your Excellency, the price of forcibly rushing to land on the beach against the artillery of the Shina Army is too great!" Why don't you let the advance team withdraw first? Wait for the aviation to destroy the artillery of China, and then rush to the beach to land? ”

Yanagawa Heisuke shook his head categorically and said, "No, the advance team can't be withdrawn!" ”

After a pause, he continued: "Order, let the landing craft widen the distance between each other!" ”

"Nani?" Tanabe Moritakemi, "Your Excellency, the widening of the spacing between the landing craft will inevitably lead to the inability of the infantry of the advance team to assemble quickly after landing!" ”

If you can't assemble quickly, it will inevitably lead to the dispersion of fire!

Yanagawa Heisuke said: "If you can't assemble, you can fight separately, the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army are all warriors, and even if you fight alone, you can easily defeat the cowardly Shina people!" ”

Tanabe said no more.

And this is the fourth fatal mistake made by the devil!

Yanagawa Heisuke's order was quickly issued to the landing craft in front of them through the flag.

The dozen or so landing craft that had originally gathered together immediately dispersed, widening the distance between them, and in this way, the threat of Guojun's artillery was greatly weakened.