Lu Xinghua immediately ordered the troops to retreat so that the troops on the riverside would not be attacked, and in this way, Lu Xinghua and the armored regiment retreated all the way back to the Kaishantun area, so as to avoid the Japanese artillery bombardment.

Lu Xinghua asked his subordinates to count the number of people, only to find that in the shelling that took less than 20 minutes, the armored regiment had lost 32 tanks, 27 infantry infantry fighting vehicles, and the total number of killed and missing was close to 300!

Lu Xinghua immediately reported the news to Xiao Yingwu, and when Xiao Yingwu heard it, he was furious in the communicator and said, "How did you get it? How did you lose so many people? Why didn't you conduct reconnaissance on the other side of the river in advance? Why didn't the Japanese artillery positions be discovered in advance? ”

Lu Xinghua said: "I was careless, the Japanese artillery position is more than ten kilometers away on Mount Hamgyong, we didn't expect that they would arrange the artillery position so far away, so ......."

Xiao Yingwu reprimanded Lu Xinghua again, and then told Lin Yuan the news, and Lin Yuan immediately said: "Immediately find out the location of the Japanese artillery position, and then use all means to destroy the Japanese position." ”

Lin Yuan immediately instructed the drone troops to reconnoiter the Japanese army on the river Hamgyong Mountain, but found nothing, and there was no artillery position on the aerial pictures at all, so Lin Yuan said to Xiao Yingwu: "Our drone flies too high, so the aerial pictures do not work, you can only send scouts to reconnoitre." ”

Xiao Yingwu agreed to come down and personally rushed to Kaishantun, at this time the Seventh Division had all assembled in the Kaishantun area, Xiao Yingwu arrived at Kaishantun and asked about the situation of the Japanese artillery position, Lu Xinghua said: "We have eliminated the scouts, and it is estimated that the news will come back soon." ”

In a short time, the scout's call came from the radio in the command headquarters: "Eagle Eagle, I'm a vulture, please answer when you hear it." ”

Xiao Yingwu directly picked up the microphone and said, "I'm an eagle, please speak." ”

The scout said: "The Japanese army has deployed heavy troops outside Hamgyong Mountain, and our reconnaissance speed is hindered!" ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "Then you will withdraw first." Then he put down the communicator and said to the people in the headquarters: "The scout's was blocked by Lin Yuan's troops outside Hamgyong Mountain. ”

Lu Xinghua said: "Division commander, with the Japanese army's observation and sighting ability, they will definitely not be able to see us at a distance of ten kilometers, so the shelling just now must have been corrected by Japanese scouts for the artillery behind, are we going to find out these scouts?" ”

Xiao Yingwu sneered: "Find out? How easy is it to say? There were probably so many positions that Japanese scouts were there, and we simply didn't have that many troops to get there. ”

Lu Xinghua was silent, Xiao Yingwu called a scout and asked, "Can our existing observation and sighting system see the Japanese artillery on the mountain?" ”

The scout shook his head and said, "I can't see it, our telescope caliber is not that large, if you want to use the telescope to directly see the Japanese artillery positions in the mountains, you need to bring in a larger caliber telescope." ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "Okay, I'll notify Lin Shuai and ask him to send us a large-caliber observation system." Xiao Yingwu immediately reported the situation to Lin Yuan, and Lin Yuan immediately sent a reconnaissance brigade directly under the group army, carrying a large-caliber observation system, to Kaishantun, where the Seventh Division was located.

The reconnaissance brigade arrived at Kaishantun on the next day, that is, on 11 January, and as soon as they arrived at Kaishantun, they immediately began to set up high-magnification telescopes to observe the Japanese mountains where artillery positions might be set up, while Xiao Yingwu was anxiously waiting for news in the command headquarters, and after two hours passed, the captain of the reconnaissance brigade came in and reported: "Division Commander Xiao, we have not found any Japanese artillery positions on the opposite mountain. ”

Xiao Yingwu was anxious when he heard this, and said loudly: "Didn't find it? How can it be? Did the Japanese dig a cave in the mountain and hide the artillery in it, so you didn't find out? ”

The captain shook his head and said, "Impossible, we carefully reconnoitred the mountain and found no traces of fortifications on the mountain. ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "Could it be that the artillery position of the Japanese army is not on the mountain? ”

Lu Xinghua said on the side: "Senior Commander Xiao, it must be on the mountain, if it is on the ground, they can't fight so far!" ”

Xiao Yingwu said angrily: "Do you know the artillery that the Japanese army put into this time? ”

Lu Xinghua shook his head, and Xiao Yingwu said: "Since you don't understand, how do you know that their artillery is placed on the ground?" ”

Lu Xinghua was speechless, lowered his head, and Xiao Yingwu said: "Since the Japanese artillery position is not on Mount Hamgyong, it must be in the jungle under Mount Hamgyong, and we still can't find them." ”

After Xiao Yingwu finished speaking, he stopped talking, there was silence in the headquarters, and everyone knew in their hearts: if you can't find the Japanese artillery position, you can't destroy the Japanese artillery, then you can't cross the river, and Lin Shuai's strategic intention can't be realized.

After being silent for a long time, Lu Xinghua finally said: "We should still ask Lin Shuai to think of some way." ”

Xiao Yingwu sighed and said, "That's it." After speaking, Xiao Yingwu contacted Lin Yuan and said, "Lin Shuai, our long-range telescope did not find the Japanese artillery position?" ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Isn't the working capacity of the existing telescope equipment enough?" ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "The problem is not the telescope, we have used the telescope to observe the opposite mountain, and we have not found the opponent's artillery position, so we think: the Japanese artillery position is very likely to be located in the jungle below the mountain, but we are not able to determine it now, so we have reported to you." ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said, "We have recently been working on the battlefield damage assessment system, and now that we have preliminary results, I will hand over the core components inside to you to use." ”

Xiao Yingwu suddenly asked, "Battlefield damage assessment system?" What is that? ”

Lin Yuan said: "It is a system used to evaluate the killing of the enemy on the battlefield, its core component is the video reconnaissance bomb, which is a kind of artillery shell equipped with a camera, when it hits the area to be reconnoitred, the parachute in the bullet will automatically pop out, so that the shell stays in the sky above the area to be reconnoitred, because this kind of bomb is very close to the ground, so the imaging accuracy is much higher than that of the drone, with it, you will be able to find the position of the Japanese army, and I will let the comrades of the army tell you about the specific use." ”

When Xiao Yingwu heard this, he said, "That's great, when will they be able to come to us?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "They are now located in the expert center in Lushun, if you use the train, it will take almost a day, don't worry." ”

The next day, on 14 January, the video reconnaissance missile unit came to the position of the 7th Division, and the commander of the unit smiled at Xiao Yingwu: "Division Commander Xiao, I am the commander of Unit 101 of the General Armament Department, Yang Hai, and we will cooperate often in the future." ”