In the rapidly approaching shot, one tank after another painted with the rising sun logo is rapidly advancing amidst the billowing smoke and dust. Putting down the telescope, Lan Shanhao straightened his right hand and gave a thumbs up. He closed his left eye and looked at
When he found that his thumb could completely shield the Japanese tanks, he switched to his little thumb. Then, after some mental calculations, he said to Zheng Zhukai, the radio operator next to him: "Power generation, the Japanese tank troops are about 8,000 meters away from me.
!The speed is about fifty kilometers per hour! The bearing is three quarters past."
Zheng Zhukai immediately sent these two figures to Wen Mingjian's headquarters. After Wen Mingjian received the report, he immediately called the commander of the front-line artillery unit, Major General Deng Chao, commander of the 3rd Self-Propelled Artillery Brigade, and ordered him to immediately block artillery fire.
According to Wen Mingjian's command style, when he detects the size of the enemy's army in advance and predicts its attack location, he will often choose to concentrate artillery for an ambush. In that case, even if he is insufficiently prepared and cannot assemble an artillery with an absolute numerical advantage, but
Because the attack can be made unexpected, there are often additional gains. But now, because he does not know the performance of the Japanese "Agility" tanks, and is also worried that the Japs have other means, he decided to take a safer approach.
That is to say, it is not necessary to severely damage the enemy, but it is necessary to slow down the enemy's attack speed as much as possible.
Miyamoto Nobu did not know at this time that his troops had become the target of the Chinese artillery force. It was not that the Japanese army did not have reconnaissance planes on the unknown battlefield, but because they did not belong to the establishment of the Southern Front Army, so the Japanese reconnaissance planes did not know at all
With such a unit approaching the battlefield, naturally it would not pay attention to the sudden stationing and aiming of Chinese artillery units on the front line.
The moment the gunfire sounded, Miyamoto's division was less than five kilometers away from Lan Shanhao and the others. A shell roared from the west and exploded about two thousand meters away from the front line of Miyamoto's division.
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"Your Excellency, it seems that the Chinese have discovered us!" The voice of Chief of Staff Goto Colonel immediately sounded in Miyamoto's headset.
"A shell of about 100 millimeters cannot do anything to our 'sensitivity' class." Miyamoto first replied to Goto. Then he changed the switch and loudly ordered: "Colonel Higashino, let your people disperse and advance immediately!"
Higashino's full name is Shotaro Higashino. He is the commander of the 3rd Armored Regiment of the Miyamoto Division. He has three armored brigades under his command, each equipped with fifty-four "Zero" armored vehicles.
Shotaro Higashino immediately replied "Hai", and then issued an order on the regiment channel, ordering all the armored vehicles to disperse and move forward. So, in Lan Shanhao's eyes, as the artillery unit on the side fired a shell for ballistic correction
, the width of the smoke raised by the Japanese armored troops on the opposite side suddenly increased by more than three times.
Lan Shanhao first reported the distance between the impact point of the artillery shell and the Japanese tank troops, and then asked Zheng Zhukai to send a message to Wen Mingjian: "The Japanese army has dispersed."
When all the tanks of a division were laid out in front of Lan Shanhao, even though he had been in battle for a long time and was very courageous, he couldn't help but feel a wave of worry in his heart. He was worried that our artillery troops could not completely contain the Japanese army.
offensive.
Time always flies when people are nervous. Lan Shanhao and Zheng Zhukai only felt that they had just blinked. Suddenly, they felt the ground beneath them tremble suddenly, and then they heard the "rumbling" sound of cannons.
Rolling in from the rear. They knew that their own artillery began to fire with full force!
The main force of the Third Expeditionary Army was the direct descendant of the former Central Army, and if we do not consider the student army, they were the most elite troops in China at that time. If you want to stand out in such an army, you will definitely not be able to do it without two brushes.
From this, it can be inferred that Deng Chao’s ability cannot be too bad.
If Wen Mingjian was given complete autonomy, Deng Chao would choose to fire the artillery five minutes later, because in that case, the Japanese army would be in the minefield. Then, even if the artillery shells they fired could not hit the enemy tanks or tanks, they would easily hit them.
By triggering the mines buried in the ground, the bombardment efficiency and lethality will naturally be greatly enhanced.
With this in mind, Deng Chao felt a little regretful when he ordered everyone to open fire. So, after the five-minute rapid fire was completed, when he asked the front line lookout about the artillery efficiency, he got the answer "very few kills."
When he replied, he was in a terrible mood.
"Is there any mistake? Are the little devils dispatching heavy tanks?" Adjutant Yuan Lin said with wide eyes.
"It's definitely not a heavy tank. No matter, since the chief of staff asked us to focus on containment, let me continue to bombard you. By the way, let the brothers expand the strike range. The Japanese army has dispatched a lot of armored vehicles, and we can't attack tanks.
There’s definitely no problem with fighting a chariot!”
The largest artillery caliber under Deng Chao's brigade is 105 mm. Because they are equipped with conventional artillery shells, they naturally cannot pose much threat to the "sensitive" class tanks that are actually medium tanks. Lan Shanhao, the lookout
He was still very competent. His timely feedback of correct battlefield conditions made Deng Chao immediately realize the "cruelty of reality" and began to seriously implement the orders issued by Wen Mingjian.
Lan Shanhao's reaction was transferred to Wen Mingjian. Wen Mingjian was a little surprised. He ordered his men: "Deng Chao's 105 self-propelled artillery can't do anything to the Japanese tanks. It seems that the Japanese new tanks are at least medium-sized. In addition, maybe their
The performance of the armor has been improved! Let Feng Hongsun hurry up, if the little devil breaks through the minefield, then we will be passive behind!"
The 120mm caliber self-propelled artillery did not move in very quickly, and the requirements for the shooting range were strict. Therefore, although they had nearly half an hour of preparation time, they still failed to keep up with the Miyamoto Division.
The advance was so fast that when Miyamoto's division began to mine mines, it had not yet completed preparations for the bombardment.
However, this may not be without benefits. What Wen Mingjian and Deng Chao did not expect was that because of the early firing of Deng Chao's brigade and the subsequent crazy bombardment, Miyamoto Nobu had this understanding: "China's artillery suddenly became so crazy. Look,
Come on, they have realized that there is nothing they can do to us! Xixi! Gentlemen, make the final sprint for victory!"
It was not blind confidence that Miyamoto had such an idea, because no matter how you look at Deng Chaolu's performance at the moment, it seems that he is at his wits end but refuses to admit defeat.
The range of the 105 self-propelled artillery is about 26 kilometers, and the distance between Deng Chao's brigade and Miyamoto's division is now about 18 kilometers. Miyamoto can clearly understand by observing the flight arc of the incoming artillery shells.
This conclusion was reached. At this distance, the Chinese artillery was unable to pose a fatal threat to its own "sensitive" tanks. In Miyamoto's view, it was impossible for the Chinese army to have any other means to target them.
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