Chapter 756: The little devil's cannonball can't hit

"In front of such a huge cannon, there is no fortress that cannot be attacked!" Kong Ci stood on the command tower of a Dora cannon, looking at the pillar of smoke and dust that burst into the sky in the distance, and couldn't help but say with pride.

This artillery general of the vanguard army, although he is only in his thirties, has already stepped into the sequence of generals with one foot.

He was already easily not going to move, but this time he also happily ran to the front line, just for the Dora cannon.

"This 800 mm cannon is definitely stronger than the ship cannon of the Zhenyuan!" Deng was laughing beside him, and his yellow teeth couldn't be closed.

If it weren't for his poor cultural level and repeated violations of military regulations and his deducted points, maybe he would have had an extra star on his shoulder.

Deng Dayan is already very satisfied with being able to become a general, and he still goes his own way on weekdays. However, when various artillery tests are running, he is always indispensable. Even when the guns of the third-class dreadnought-class battleships were tested, he got mixed up with the many connections of his disciples and grandchildren.

At that time, he was already amazed by the 50 times the diameter of the 500 mm naval gun on the Zhenyuan, who would have thought that not long ago he got the news of the birth of a new giant cannon belonging to the army.

"This 'Sky Shaking Thunder' is worthy of the title of the Cannon King." Kong Ci also nodded and smiled.

It has to be said that at any time, because of the conflict of interests and the balance of power, there is always so disharmony between the various branches of the army.

When the naval guns continue to set new artillery records, the army's top brass will also bubble up from time to time.

Because the Pioneer Cannon is limited to the principle of secrecy, it is only under the Second Artillery Corps, where the clones are dominant, and is generally directly under the leadership of Meng Xiang.

Therefore, even though there are more than 10,000 artillery pieces under the command of Kong Ci, the title of cannon king has always been the patent of naval artillery.

The young Kong Ci always had some regrets in his heart, but this time Meng Xiang directly attributed the two Dora cannons to him directly, which surprised him.

"The title of the king of artillery has finally fallen to the name of the army artillery unit." It was for the first performance of the Gun King that he hurried to the front line.

"It's too close to the enemy. Sir, you'd better go back! Major General Zhang Zongtang, who accompanied him, couldn't help but be careful and anxious.

As the on-site commander of this Dora cannon, he has always been very satisfied with this Gustav train cannon, which has been called a thunderbolt. But when Kong Ci came to the scene in person, he couldn't help but feel a little regretful and worried about the range of the Dora cannon.

Although the Dora cannon can have a firing range of up to 47 kilometers, it is generally erected at a distance of more than 30 kilometers for accuracy. At this distance, the few large-caliber fortress guns erected by the Japanese on the high ground could threaten here. He wasn't afraid, he was afraid that Kong Ci would have an accident.

"Afraid of what? With the suppression of the Vanguard cannon and the naval guns, as well as the bombs of the Air Force overhead, do you think the shells of the little devils can still hit here? Kong Ci saw his thoughts, and couldn't help but stare and shout.

This descendant of the once polite Confucian sage now has a temper like a cannon at times.

However, he was right, the first target of the 420-mm three-stage Pioneer cannon was the fortress guns that the Japanese had set up on the heights. One of the most threatening were the two 460 mm fortress guns converted from the 94 naval guns on the Yamato, which were called the two door gods by the Japanese. This is also the first goal of the vanguard army to clear.

In the first round of attack of the vanguard cannon, the 460 mm fortress cannon on the white jade mountain was dumb fire, although the 420 mm shells had not yet torn apart the fortress protection with thick steel plates, but the huge earthquake made the devils in the fortress dizzy for a while, and then the 500 mm armor-piercing shells on the Dingyuan came again, and it was completely paralyzed at the first time.

Another fortress gun was placed by the Japanese in the electric rock battery, which was said to miss a hundred rounds.

The location of the electric rock battery is special, with a cliff in front and a deep ditch in the back, and it is difficult for ordinary sea shelling to fall to this place with a width of only 50 meters. When this Super Fortress gun was first moved here, if it weren't for the fact that the length of this battery was more than 200 meters, I am afraid it would have been difficult to place.

In the end, the five Type 1895 254-mm coastal defense guns of the Russians were removed and replaced by this super cannon, supplemented by a 150 cannon on the left and right, which made the Japanese feel foolproof. At a slightly closer range, this Super Fortress cannon is enough to sink any ship.

Now, however, they are being attacked not from the sea, not even from land, but from the sky.

"Be careful, the Type 1 37 anti-aircraft guns there are very powerful!" Xiao Wounded Soldier finally gave a warning.

In order to keep Port Arthur, the Japanese couldn't help but be willing to spend money to place two Type 94 460 mm naval guns, and other new weapons were also equipped.

The Type 1 37-mm anti-aircraft gun, which was put into service last year, was later recognized as the best anti-aircraft gun of the Japanese army in World War II. Although the arrogant navy was resolute not to use it, two of them were arranged on the electric rock battery.

In addition, there are two Type 98 20-mm machine guns that steal from the Swiss Erikon, although their performance exceeds the Navy's 25-mm anti-aircraft guns with magazines, but they shoot at a maximum height of 3,500 meters, and have little impact on the high-altitude B-17.

This time, the three modified B-17s that took off from the airport in Dalian at close range, each carrying a 5.4-ton tall cabinet bomb, were responsible for the first round of bombing. The B-17's high-altitude bombing was accurate, and the Vanguard Air Force trained more, which was far more suitable than the British Lancaster bomber.

"Keep going down!" However, the wounded soldier waved his hand backwards and asked to continue to lower the height.

Xiao didn't want his first attack to fail, so he couldn't help but ruthlessly reduce the bombing altitude from more than 4,000 meters to 3,000 meters.

The six Hellcats escorting on both sides were useless in the sky above Lushun, where the air supremacy had been firmly controlled by the vanguard army, and they also dived down, throwing out the 50-kilogram bomblets they carried with them, interfering with the bombardment of the four Japanese anti-aircraft guns below.

The performance of the 37-mm Type 1 anti-aircraft gun was indeed high, but the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery, which lacked anti-aircraft radar guidance and a proximity fuse, lacked some fire after all, and could only bite out two holes in the air fortress of Xiao wounded soldiers, who easily dropped bombs, in the clouds of gunpowder smoke that continued to spread, and then disappeared in a sea of fire.

The 460-mm fortress gun fired a close-range deterrent high-explosive shell at the Dingyuan, and its mission ended once and for all. Where it is located, there is only a deep pit with a diameter of more than thirty meters. The monstrous sky-frustrating steel bars in the pit showed the existence of a large fortress, but the broken barrel of the fortress cannon had long since been lifted into the deep ditch behind.

"It's all rounded up by the kids in front!" Lin Rizun on the aerial fortress behind him muttered reluctantly.

The pit visible to the naked eye below had already indicated the completion of the mission, and there were records from the camera system on board.

"Then I'll have to go find some tasks!" He muttered. Although there are some other giant fortresses, they don't necessarily need the air force's tall cabinet bombs to shoot, the vanguard cannon and the naval guns at sea are enough to finalize one by one. However, the cooperation of the three armies may not be accurate in delineating their respective goals, and Lin Rizun wants to take food in the air.

"Boom!" Smoke and dust from the tall cabinet smashed into the ground again in the sky above East Cockscomb Mountain, and the three corners of the irregular pentagonal north fort reinforced by the Japanese were directly bitten by a steaming pit in the ground.

Just three minutes before Kong Ci reprimanded, the sound of a third tall cabinet falling to the ground again erupted in the sky above Port Arthur, taking away the figure of a 356-mm naval gun removed from a Fuso-class battleship on a fortress somewhere. At this point, all eight large-caliber fortress guns of more than 300 mm arranged by the Japanese in Lushun were cleared.

The threat of the remaining cannons has been lowered to the level of alert, at least due to the location and other reasons, it is difficult to pose a threat to the Dora cannon, otherwise Meng Xiang would not dare to let the Dora cannon take the risk easily.

After all, there were more than 4,000 people in charge of commanding, controlling, and guarding near the Dora cannon, and one carelessness would be a huge casualty.

The two Dora cannons had been dragged out of a nearby tank factory three weeks earlier and assembled in a fixed position, and it was not until the attack that the camouflage that had confused the Japanese was removed, revealing their towering muzzles.

Watching the loader reload a 7.1-ton armor-piercing shell into the barrel, Kong Ci couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "If there are a few more such artillery kings, then our artillery will be invincible in the world!" ”

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"I can't afford it!" With the attack on the Northeast and the Far East, Meng Xiang, who moved his headquarters into Qidu, listened to the battle report from the front line in real time, and sighed excitedly.

The Dora cannon cost almost five or six million marks, even if the base only needs one-sixth of the price, Meng Xiang thinks the cost of one million yuan is a bit high. Although the Dora cannon is very powerful, it is very inconvenient to move, and the range is relatively small, making it vulnerable to attacks from the opponent's giant cannons and the air. The cost of sex on it is somewhat low.

For many missions, high-altitude bombing is faster, even if it is a ground attack, with the expansion of the direct jurisdiction of the base, the cost is low, and the cost performance of the convenient Pioneer cannon, V3, etc. is more appropriate.

When money is used everywhere, the Dora cannon looks a little chicken. Therefore, Meng Xiang only built four gates, one for secret experiments, and two for this battle. The rest of the gate, which Meng Xiang sold to the Germans for six and a half million marks, was on its way by sea.

"It's another good deal!" Meng Xiang said with joy in his heart.

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