Japan's army, even during World War II, was not world-class, that is, bullying the colonial army of Britain and France in Asia, before fighting bayonets, to push off bullets to prevent misfire, what to save bullets, pig tactics, these tactics that have been eliminated by the European powers during World War I, trench warfare announced the end of intensive charges, under artillery and automatic weapons, intensive skirmisher charges, no less than suicide.

At this moment, under the command of Kawamura Jingming, the vanguard troops transferred the strength of 6 wings, on the 12-kilometer-long frontal defense line, under the cover of artillery fire, to carry out an assault, a large number of screaming Japanese troops lined up in a relatively dense camp, and the artillery in the rear also sounded, aiming at the front line position of the Northwest Army, and a cloud of smoke was filled.

Seeing the artillery sounding, the officers and lieutenants at the bottom drew their swords and rushed up under the cover of artillery fire, according to their training, in such artillery fire, they could rush through the previous danger area of several hundred meters, and before they had crossed half the distance between each other, a strange howling sound suddenly remembered in the sky.

Some professionally trained officers, hearing the sound, immediately changed their faces, this is the sound of large-caliber artillery shells flying, almost instantly lying down, but there is no sound of explosions around, these shells passed over them, towards another section, obviously, the target is not them, but the artillery positions located in the rear.

From the beginning of the era of thermal weapons, artillery has gradually become the most important weapon of the army, artillery is the king of the army, whether there is artillery or not, it is quite critical in the army battle, the battle of Bali Bridge during the second opium war, announced the end of the cavalry, the key is that one side has artillery. On the other side, there was no artillery, and around 1860, muskets were far less advanced than those of later generations, and in the era of platoon guns, cavalry still had a considerable role, provided that. The artillery must be equal, otherwise, under the dense artillery fire, the horse is also a living being, and it is impossible not to be afraid of the artillery.

In the 20th century, the power of artillery has become more and more powerful, and it is no longer a question of having and not having it, range, power. Maneuverability and many other aspects have been greatly improved, and the performance comparison between them is becoming more and more important.

Because of the previous defeat in Qingdao, Japan was prepared for this time, and after equipping the American artillery, the morale was even higher, and a large number of people such as Kawamura Keiaki appeared as the backbone of the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. It also further consolidated the strength of the army, a huge number. It can be regarded as flattening the problem of a large decline in combat effectiveness, but the result only misses an important aspect, the problem of range and the problem of power.

The Japanese soldiers who charged in the middle found that the shells were coming, and they were in a mess, but the Japanese artillery position. But it was even more chaotic, they saw more clearly than the Japanese troops who rushed forward, and they didn't know how many large-caliber shells rushed towards them over the middle position.

What the artillery was most afraid of was that the enemy had artillery fire to block it, and the Japanese artillery was very strange. Why does the other side know their location so accurately, and the range is so far, the current Japanese artillery, or in the Russo-Japanese War, the artillery fire of the two sides is far apart, basically, they can only reach the army attacking in front, they are also arranged in this way, and they have the maximum range.

However, the artillery fire in the northwest is far beyond their imagination, whether it is the level of artillery, as well as the quality of running rigid, and many other aspects, it is far more powerful than the Japanese, in this case, the range of the artillery, increased by three or five kilometers, it is simply casual, after all, when the carrying capacity of the barrel increases, it can be filled with more gunpowder, more gunpowder, more power, naturally can increase the range of artillery.

Of course, if it's just an increase in this aspect, the increase in artillery is only a little bit, and it is impossible for the opponent to just attack your front line, and the artillery group you place in the rear will be able to hook the position of the opponent's heavy artillery. Under the leadership of Yang Yuanzhao, the Northwest has thoroughly understood many sub-projects in artillery, and even under his suggestion, it began to study more in-depth things, such as what shape of shells can fly farther, what is the initial velocity, what is the state of flying out, and what is the aerodynamic force.

Yang Yuanzhao also knew in the military in the era of consulting explosions that the so-called electroslag remelting, self-tightening of the tube body, bottom row bombs, etc., can greatly increase the range of artillery, 155 can even hit 40 kilometers away, that is the reborn change, but the level of science and technology in the northwest does not have that ability for the time being, and it must be when the pneumatic force, or even the computer and numerical control reach a certain level, and the smelting technology can only be done after it reaches a certain height

Rao is so, after the northwest has eaten a large number of foreign artillery, after having a unique feature in metallurgy, the development of artillery is also quite strong, take the current 155 mm, heavy infantry support artillery. In terms of weight, compared with the previous use of German Krupp, at least 36% less, the firing range has increased by more than 30%, a series of advanced facilities have been added, so that the operator has also been reduced from about 15 to 9 people, in some more critical moments, 7 people can also fire, which saves a large number of grassroots gunners, and the number of artillery is further increased.

The use of automatic loading system, the use of tube retreat technology, automatic homing system, in short, everything that is conducive to the range of artillery, the rate of fire of artillery, have been deeply transformed, its firing range, so that the Japanese immediately suffered, Japan in accordance with the previous experience of the Russo-Japanese War, the artillery in the direction of the maximum firing range, this point was predicted by the northwest, the strategic artillery units in advance, not in the rear, but in the middle of the entire position, just into the range of the Japanese artillery.

The high-magnification telescope, the camouflage of the special forces, these two together, less than 3 kilometers near the Japanese artillery position, in a very inconspicuous grass, the nearest Japanese soldier to him, only less than 300 meters away, stunned to see him, and this special forces can clearly see the artillery, and use the radio to send back the position code of the artillery.

The 2nd and 3rd Divisions had roughly determined several suitable positions for placing artillery, and during the long period of 4 months, the Japanese were preparing, and the Northwest Army was also not idle, and they were also spending time preparing, including a large number of fortifications and tunnels, as well as various rehearsals.

In order to better stop the Japanese army, in three months, the staff officers of the First Army traveled all over Dezhou, and even all parts of the Shandong front, outside the city of Dezhou, there were 21 offensive rehearsals and 18 military exercises. In this case, the special forces only need to send the code very easily, and for the special combat personnel who are lurking on the front line and have been monitoring the Japanese all the time, they only need to press the two buttons on the radio transmitter to form a message with the position coordinates of the horizontal and vertical directions.

When the artillery was fired, the approximate position was determined, and then the guidance of the special forces guided the precise location, and this result was first sent to the headquarters by the special forces, and then from the general headquarters, to each artillery position, and the commander gave an order and said a bearing code.

It took less than half a minute, all the 155 guns, all ready, the mechanical rotation system, under the control of the skilled gunner, accurately aimed at that position, 48 155 guns fired together, with anger, through the distance of more than 12 kilometers between them, flying towards each other.

The initial velocity of 900 meters per second, the time for the shell to fly in the air, will not exceed 15 seconds, and the scream of the high-speed shell, so that everyone is shocked, the artillerymen after a short period of stunned, began to escape, but has unfolded the true meaning, it is not easy to escape at all, some ran in the wrong direction, some stumbled on the shells on the ground, some hit people, 15 seconds passed, in the panic, few ran out of the artillery position, even if they left the artillery position, it was also in the hit range of the 155 gun.

High-explosive shells, new gunpowder, brought the power of the chain, each shell, at least shrouded and dozens of square meters, 48 rounds is four or five acres of square area, due to the unified command, also practiced in advance, not a single shell deviated too much, the entire artillery position was shrouded in a sea of fire.

The flames were soaring, especially the Japanese artillery that had already opened the camp, and most of the shells were placed in easy-to-reach positions, that is, next to each gun, the shrapnel of the high-explosive shells and the martyrdom brought by the explosion suddenly turned the artillery position into a sea of ice and fire.

Later statistics showed that this was enough for a wing of heavy artillery units, and in the first round, it caused the serious consequences of 60% of the artillery being destroyed and 73% of the personnel being wiped out, and what made them even more desperate was the rate of fire of the 155 guns in the northwest.

In this era when 155 artillery may be one or two rounds per minute, three or four rounds per minute, the rate of fire of the 155 guns in the northwest is very amazing, reaching 10 rounds per minute, an average of one round per 6 seconds, in just one minute, it tilted almost 500 large-caliber shells to the Japanese artillery position, each artillery is 3 high-explosive, staggered 2 infantry casualties, and in the end, a wing, more than 3,900 combatants, basically only 127 survived, 12 intact!

In less than a minute, under the action of efficient and powerful artillery, a heavy artillery wing of the Japanese army did not even cause any damage to the northwest, and the front line in the northwest had anti-artillery positions made of reinforced concrete, and most of the defenders were hiding in the permanent fortifications, and the Japanese only carried out a round of salvo fire, and were dumbed down by the artillery, and the casualties were minimal. (To be continued.) )

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