Tao Jingfei nodded when he heard the words: "I also feel it. Judging from the situation we understand, the headquarters has made up its mind to wipe out the Japanese army in the entire Northeast Manchuria area in one go. You see, once Du Kaishan and Yi Liangpin return to their positions, we will Each of the Japanese Eighth Division, Tenth Division, and Eleventh Division facing us will be put into one pocket."
Having said this, Tao Jingfei shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The headquarters is trying to solve all the problems in the Northeast and Manchuria areas in one go. I feel that not only except for the second column, I am afraid that all the troops on the east and west fronts will be transferred eastward. The headquarters here We are ready to sell the pot and sell the iron."
"It's not just the field troops. I'm afraid Liu Changshun's life is not easy now. The headquarters is urging him three times a day to reorganize the reserve troops. After the war in the past few days, the casualties in each department are not small. I'm anxious to wait." As for the additional troops, this is a head-on attack. Not to mention Wang Guangyu’s First and Second Brigades, their casualties will definitely not be as small as mine. It is estimated that Lao Liu’s place is now furious.”
Hearing Tao Jingfei teasing Liu Changshun, Ma Qichang smiled and said: "Old Tao, don't laugh at me anymore, think about what you should do next. Judging from the current situation, you will be the most important person in the next stage." The most important thing is that if the Japanese army breaks through here, it will be useless no matter how good Du Kaishan and Yizong are."
"Number 3 will be here in a moment. You can take care of it yourself under Number 3. Number 1 doesn't care about the details and only focuses on the big picture. Number 3 is meticulous about every detail and must do everything personally. If you don't fight well, sometimes Number 3 The gentle breeze and drizzle of No. 1 is more uncomfortable than the thunderous fire of No. 1.”
"When No. 3 comes to your place, he won't care how you fight, but if the fight doesn't work well, just wait. Just the look in No. 3's eyes can make you feel as if you have sores all over your body. At that time, I would rather let No. 1 get scolded like a storm than face No. 3, the look in the eyes that always makes you feel like you are wearing nothing."
"Our two chiefs, even though they are not very young, they always look like two old foxes who have been practicing for many years. One is a red face, and the other is a bad face. But they match up perfectly. Your old partner, Lao Duna Who is he? He is an unruly wild horse. Seeing these two, he is more docile than a mouse seeing a cat."
Tao Jingfei nodded when he heard the words: "Yes, but the current situation of the Anti-Japanese League is thanks to the two of them. At this time the year before last, I was still fighting guerrillas in the mountains, and the little devils returned to the villages and merged households all day long, repeatedly pulling up nets and clearing them out. , I couldn’t even eat a meal for several days, and each person only had a few bullets. At that time, it was a hard life.”
"But in less than two years, we have enough food every day, not to mention enough bullet tubes, and so many cannons. Although the training intensity is quite intense, the combat effectiveness of this unit has increased, hasn't it? Well, from a small fight in the past, to now it can eat up several divisions of the Japanese army in one bite."
"The development of the army to its present state, the hard work of No. 1 and No. 3 has been wasted. In less than two years, the two of them have obviously aged. No. 1 is only about the age of No. 1 and several years younger than me. This brain I have white hair all over my head. I heard someone from the Military Region General Hospital doing rounds in the first district tell me that No. 1’s serious injury has not yet fully recovered, and he has to work more than six hours a day. I’m really worried that they will continue like this for many years. I’ll break my body again.”
In response to Tao Jingfei's emotion, Ma Qichang also shook his head and said: "What else can be done? The enemy situation was so serious at the beginning, and Northern Manchuria was so vast and sparsely populated. In the winter, it was dozens of degrees below zero, and the dripping water turned into ice. The tens of thousands of troops had to eat and wear cotton-padded clothes in winter. , we must also break the Japanese and puppet army’s advance and suppression, and the most important thing is to develop.”
"It's not something that requires much effort. Don't talk about anything else. Just a winter coat is enough to be nerve-wracking. It's easy to say a few hundred people at the beginning, but this army must develop. Last year it was tens of thousands, and this year Better yet, hundreds of thousands. With so many people having to eat and clothe themselves, it would be strange if they weren’t tired.”
"Those of us who are subordinates can't help them much. Those of us who are subordinate commanders can train our troops well and don't let them down on the battlefield. This is the greatest help to them."
Regarding Ma Qichang's emotion, Tao Jingfei did not make any comments. Instead, he waved his hand, picked up the pistol and stuck it in his hand. He said, "Old Ma, I won't argue with you here. You can just wait here for your artillery training group." , I have to go ahead and take a look. We have just retreated to a new position. I don’t feel safe if I don’t take a look. Only the devil knows if the little devil will touch my night screw tonight."
Looking at Tao Jingfei's hurried away figure, Ma Qichang shook his head, picked up his pistol and left. The troops were about to arrive, and he had to go and take another look at the location of the selected artillery group, fighting in mountainous areas, especially with the opponent. In artillery battles with heavy artillery, it is not possible to choose the positions of the artillery groups poorly.
The two 240mm heavy howitzers over there are not easy to mess with, and the **-type 150 cannons are not easy to mess with. Not only do they have a long range, but their lethality is not that of ordinary 75 mountain field guns. It can be compared, especially the two 240mm heavy howitzers. One shell is enough to kill half of his battalion.
Although the artillery staff officers he brought this time are the earliest batch and have rich experience, they are facing the opponent's heavy artillery and long-range firepower this time. If the first salvo cannot kill them, then I was unlucky, especially since the artillery I brought this time were all direct-fire artillery. The trajectories were flat and the range was long, but the trajectories were a bit low, so it was extremely important to choose a good artillery firing position.
The artillery group must be dispersed to prevent them from being swarmed by the opponent's counterattack fire, and the firing range must be adjusted so that the ballistic trajectories of each gun are the same and can hit the same target. This matter is all left to his subordinates. Ma Qichang is more or less capable. I don’t feel at ease, but I always think it’s better to go see it with my own eyes.
As soon as Ma Qichang stepped out of Tao Jingfei's new headquarters, he ran into a familiar face. Seeing the person, Ma Qichang was startled and saluted quickly, and said with some surprise: "No. 1, why are you here too? Isn't it? Did you say you were just coming on the 3rd? When did you arrive?"
It was Yang Zhen who had joined Guo Bingxun yesterday. Seeing Ma Qichang's surprise, Yang Zhen waved his hand and said: "On the 3rd, I went to inspect the front-line positions. He is a master of positional warfare. He went to see Tao Jingfei's defense situation. I Idle people can only come to you. Where are you going? Why are you so afraid of me? If you see me, you will run away."
Yang Zhen's joke made Ma Qichang startled, and he quickly said: "No. 1, I didn't mean that. My troops are coming soon. I'm a little worried and I'm about to go take a look at the selected position. You also know that the people we are facing this time are all big Japs, and I didn’t know you were coming. If I had known you were coming, I wouldn’t have gone.”
Hearing this, Yang Zhen smiled and said: "Just in time, let's take a look together. In addition to the supplementary artillery shells, I can bring you some good things this time. They are the latest products of our arsenal, specially designed for The development of your one-two-two rocket launcher cost me a lot of effort."
Ma Qichang scratched his head. He didn't know what the commander was up to. What a good thing. It was specially developed for the 122 rocket launcher. What is this? Could it be a new type of artillery shell? The current 122 rocket launcher already has explosive damage. Grenades, new incendiary bombs and smoke bombs, what other shells can be used?
When they arrived at the convoy that was replenishing artillery shells, they saw the long wooden boxes being carried in their hands. Several soldiers who were unloading were actually wearing gas masks and gloves from Japanese protective suits. Ma Qichang said in confusion: "No. 1 , these can't be poison gas shells."
Yang Zhen shook his head and did not take the gas mask handed over by a security staff officer next to him. He turned around and said: "We are not inhumane little devils. We like to use poison gas when we have nothing to do. What's more, I want to use it, but we don't have the conditions." Go make that thing, these are a new type of projectile called a fuel-air projectile."
"I asked the soldiers to wear gas masks because the ethylene oxide used in the main charge of this artillery shell is somewhat toxic. I was worried that soldiers would be poisoned if exposed to it for a long time, so I asked the soldiers to wear gas masks when transporting them. These things were imported from Jiangbei and used as dyes, and I only discovered that there is such a good thing."
"This is a good thing. Under the same quantity, it is 2.5 to 5 times more powerful than TNT explosives, and the shock wave range it generates is 40% larger. It is very useful for killing enemy groups, infantry on the position, and mines. Field is extremely effective, especially against infantry in fortifications and front-line minefields, and is extremely lethal."
"However, due to the limitations of our production process and technology, the maximum value of five times cannot be reached, but two to three times should be no problem. As for the real killing effect, it still depends on actual combat testing. However, this thing has a shortcoming. It can only be used on sunny days and cannot be used on rainy days. The 500 rounds of artillery shells distributed to you this time are the first actual combat of this kind of artillery shells."
"This kind of ammunition is top secret. Remember, if the entire artillery is used, it must be approved by one of you or Qiu Jintang. It can only be used in battle-level operations, and it will not be distributed to you until wartime. In peacetime, , it will be kept and reserved by the headquarters."
"Even if it is issued to you during wartime, you can only control it in the hands of the Artillery Headquarters. It is absolutely not allowed to be distributed to each unit before it is finally used. If necessary, you would rather throw away other things and put them first. Time will destroy all these shells."
"You must strictly keep confidentiality in various procedures. No writing or materials are allowed. All results can only be counted and reported by you personally. In other words, in the artillery unit of the military region, there is no such artillery shell. Organization and name, the name of this kind of artillery shell is not allowed to appear in your artillery ammunition organization list."
"As for other matters, you also know the rules of confidentiality. There is no need for me to say it separately. What I am talking about today is that this weapon is not only for the troops below, but also for Jiangbei. It should not be leaked by your Soviet artillery instructors. You are not allowed to know. Once I know that these shells were leaked from your artillery, I cannot spare you."