Chapter 8: Intelligence! Information!

"Any ideas?"

After Yan Sheng thought for a while with the intelligence information, Li Yunlong asked.

The devil railway armored car, in the intelligence information given by Chen Fan's brother, has very detailed data.

The Type 95 railway armored car, equipped with Japanese troops in 1935, weighs 8.7 tons, is equipped with 8 mm carburized steel armor, has a searchlight and a machine gun on the armored turret, has firing holes on all sides, and has a crew of six.

It has two travel systems, one tracked and one steel wheel, which allows the armored car to travel on both rails and the ground, and at no other speed.

In terms of data, this armored vehicle is only a little stronger than the devil's little bean ding, and it is not difficult to deal with the current independent regiment.

The German-made tumor is so powerful that it only takes three or four cluster grenades to explode at close range to ensure that this armored vehicle is blown up, and there is no need to charge with a dozen huge cluster grenades as before.

However, with devil soldiers guarding and searchlights illuminated, the death squad will have to pay a considerable price if they want to get close to the armored vehicle and throw heavy cluster grenades.

An armored vehicle is not a bunker, it is maneuverable, and its firepower is strong, which is far more difficult to gnaw than a fixed bunker.

According to Li Yunlong's estimate, the grenade charge tactics of the death squad, if the independent regiment wants to gnaw this armored vehicle, it will have to sacrifice a lot of soldiers, and it will take a lot of time.

Now that there is a Type 92 infantry gun and there is no shortage of shells, Grand Master Li is not willing to lose the soldiers of the Independent Regiment in order to deal with a few armored vehicles, and this battle must be quickly resolved to buy time for loading and unloading machines.

But there's a catch.

The area where the independent regiment is preparing to start, because of the connection to the road, is surrounded by flat and open land, and the devils have also emptied the weeds and ditches that can be concealed for hundreds of meters around the railway, and the vision is vast, even if it is a low Type 92 infantry gun, the position must be set up about 800 meters away from the railway.

The 800-meter, low-muzzle velocity Type 92 infantry gun, the target is an armored vehicle in motion, which is really not easy.

"Yes."

Putting down the intelligence information in his hand, Yan Sheng's tone was full of confidence: "Regiment Commander, I promise to kill all the two armored vehicles of the devil in the first round." ”

"How? Tell me about it? ”

Li Yunlong was interested, which he didn't expect.

The rest of the people, including Ding Wei and Zhao Gang, also looked sideways.

"However, if you want to kill the devil's two armored vehicles in the first round, you still need 60 mortars from the fire companies of each battalion, almost six are enough." As he spoke, Iwamori looked at his head of the group.

In this operation, the six 82 mortars of the artillery company were assigned to suppress and deal with the team located in Wendian Village, and only two Type 92 infantry guns were left for him.

In his plans, rapid-fire mortar fire was indispensable.

"Good!"

Li Yunlong nodded without hesitation: "The 60 mortars of the second battalion and the third battalion will be dropped to you." ”

60 mortars belong to the battalion level, equipped in each battalion fire company, each company has three guns, and is directly commanded by the battalion commander during the operation, and in addition to the first battalion that contains the devil brigade in Wendian Village, the second and third battalions are mainly responsible for dealing with the devil's train escort, as well as transport machines, and the demand for mortars is not large, and they can be deployed.

Later, Li Yunlong added:

"If it's not enough, the three gates of the first battalion can also be deployed to you."

In this battle, the first battalion was under the greatest pressure, and it had to face the crazy counterattack of a devil brigade, but the strength of the first battalion was undoubted, with the most veterans, the most machine guns, and the remaining six 82 mortars of the artillery company to support, and its own three 60 mortars were dispensable.

There are more artillery in the troops, so you can play with your hands and feet.

Listening to Li Yunlong's words, Ding Wei on the side was envious.

His new regiment, excluding the independent regiment, can be said to be one of the best mortars in the army, much more than the main regiment, but it still has to be used with buckles and ropes for every artillery, how can there be such a big deal as Li Yunlong.

"Six doors are enough."

As he spoke, Yan Sheng spread a piece of information paper on the ground, pointed to a line of words on it, and the corners of his mouth hooked, with awe-inspiring murderous intent:

"The little devil railway armored car is actually a thin-skinned coffin."

"The frontal armor is eight millimeters, and the top is only four millimeters, not to mention the Type 92 infantry gun, even our 60 mortar shell charge has more than 300 grams, and they are all black explosives, which are more powerful than yellow explosives, as long as they hit, this thin-skinned coffin, one can blow him up into a paralyzed."

The words of pure data made everyone's eyes light up suddenly.

All along, they have fallen into a misunderstanding.

Because of the past combat experience, everyone took it for granted that mortars could not deal with the armored vehicles of the devils, but at this time, the independent regiment was not the same as before, and the previous experience could not be simply applied to the independent regiment.

In the past, there were fewer mortars and fewer shells, and a regiment with one gun was a rich regiment, and a regiment had a dozen shells at most, plus the mortar accuracy was relatively low, especially in the face of moving armored vehicles, it was extremely difficult to hit, unless it was several covered shelling, don't want to hit, who is willing to use it for mortars.

Another point is that the power of self-produced shells is small, even if the armor of the devil armored car is pitiful, but it can't withstand the explosives in its own shells, and it may not be effective if it hits.

But now, not to mention the reserves in the warehouse, there are nine 60 mortars equipped alone, and as for the number of shells, isn't that gun on this trip more than a hundred shells? And there are more than 10,000 rounds in the warehouse.

It's okay to run out, and after doing business with Boss Chen once or twice, it's all replenished.

As for the power, Boss Chen's product must be a high-quality product, one can catch up with more than five self-made, and there must be no problem with frying the little devil's thin-skinned armored car.

"But ·····"

Li Yunlong also felt that it was now possible to use mortars to deal with the little devil's thin-skinned armored vehicles, after all, the independent regiment had a solid foundation, but he still raised a question: "The little devil armored car in motion, it is not easy to hit from a distance of several hundred meters, can it be done?" ”

Not to mention a mortar with a curved trajectory, even if it is a straight ballistic Type 92, it is not easy to hit a high-speed devil armored vehicle, which has very high requirements for the gunner, and Grand Master Li does not think that his gunner has such good technology.

Not to mention that his artillery company has only been formed for less than a year, even if it takes him a few more years, it will be difficult to reach this level of technology, which is simply beyond the scope of artillery technology.

Unless, they can have an anti-tank gun, the kind of guy with a muzzle velocity of more than 800 meters, then the accuracy is much higher, and it is much easier to hit the sports target, and I don't know if Brother Chen can provide this thing in the future.

Everyone immediately looked at Yan Sheng, including Ding Wei, waiting for his answer.

Mortars hit armored vehicles in motion, which is more than a bit difficult.

It is simply more than ten times more difficult than hitting a fixed target.

This is also one of the reasons why mortars were not used to deal with the little devil Xiaodouding armored vehicles before, it was too wasteful of shells, even the national government army with a better life could not afford to consume it.

However, since this plan is proposed, then this issue must also be taken into account, after all, the other party is the commander of an artillery company, and after playing with artillery for so many years, it is impossible that this point has not been taken into account.

"It's easy."

Yan Sheng learned from his own head and smiled, his tone was still confident:

"The little devil's armored car was driving on the railroad tracks at the beginning, at a speed of about 30 kilometers per hour, and traveling about three or four hundred meters in front of the train, which made it extremely difficult to plant a bomb to blow up the armored car directly, but when we blew up the railway, he had to slow down and then get down from the tracks."

"It's stated in the intelligence materials."

"The design time for the devil armored car to change from the state of running on the railroad to the state of the road form is one minute, but in fact it is difficult to achieve, even if it is an excellent crew, it takes a minute and a half, and the error is about ten seconds."

"That is, for this minute and a half or so, the little devil armored car must stop and stay put."

"Considering the stopping distance of the devil armored car from a reduced speed of 30 kilometers per hour, as long as the position is set up in advance, one and a half minutes is enough for three mortars to fire nearly a hundred shells."

"Coupled with the supplement of the Type 92 infantry gun, it can definitely blow up the little devil armored car to pieces."

"Good idea."

Zhao Gang couldn't help but praise: "This idea is good, just do as you say." ”

"Hahaha, well done, just do as you say."

Li Yunlong also readily agreed.

Ding Wei didn't speak, but took a deep look at Yan Sheng, and his eyes were about to fall with envy.

Li Yunlong has always been jealous of Wang Chengzhu under his command, this person is a good gunner, the artillery is extremely accurate, and the artillery technology can be said to be impossible to find a few in the whole division, and he is also the hero who killed the captain of the Sakatian wing, Wang Chengzhu is now the commander of his artillery company.

But this kind of plan, Wang Chengzhu is still far behind.

Now, it's his turn to envy.

That's a good artillery company commander.

And what made him pay more attention was something else.

Ding Wei looked at the piece of intelligence information that was spread on the canvas on the ground.

That's the real good thing.

Good stuff comparable to these machine gun cannons.

Information! Information!

Why did the government, the little devils, or the Eighth Route Army spend a lot of effort to collect information about the enemy? For this reason, it is almost unscrupulous. It's not because intelligence is so important for warfare.

For example, this time, I know the garrison strength of the Japanese army along the way, I know the train schedule of the devil, I know that the little devil's train will not be delayed, I know the strength of the devil's guard, I know the data of the devil's armored car, and even know the time interval of the conversion mode of the devil's armored car.

This information finally enabled the independent regiment to carry out this battle plan with confidence and boldness, and was able to formulate an almost perfect battle plan.

Otherwise, no matter how bold Li Yunlong is, he will not dare to take the strength of an entire regiment and go deep into the hinterland of the devil alone, if he does not have this information, he is completely looking for death, no, it is simply to surrender to the enemy.