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.    Chapter 290 The myth is shattered (9)

    On the clear Taizi River, the busy ore transport fleet in the past has disappeared. Two gray-painted gunboats on the river near Linjiatai Town are quietly bathing in the sun.

    Captain Komatsu was leaning lazily on the railing. At his feet was an inland river gunboat with two 120mm naval guns and two 76mm naval guns.  Although this small warship can only be regarded as a second-class gunboat in the powerful Japanese Navy, it is a symbol of the glory of the navy!  Because it was captured from the Russians seven years ago.  In front of it is also a second-class gunboat Uji, built in 1903 at Kure Port Shipyard, equipped with four Armstrong 76mm/L40 naval guns.  The usual work of the two ships is to engage in security work in Northeast China, northern North Korea and the Yalu River.

    The sailor came over: "Captain, I heard that this river was named in memory of the Manchu prince?"

    The learning atmosphere in the navy is much higher than that in the army, so the soldiers also like to discuss strange issues. Xiaosong has become accustomed to this, and he very much agrees that this is a progressive phenomenon. He smiled and said: "I am not a Manchu prince.  It¡¯s Prince Dan of the Yan Kingdom during the Warring States Period in China thousands of years ago.¡±

    "Thousands of years ago?"

    "Yes, this country has a history much older than ours, and the Yamato nation also drew nutrients from it to reach today After the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty hundreds of years ago, our country hoped to save it, but the national strength at that time was  Not good."

    "But we can now." The sailor said proudly, because he believed that Japan is currently the strongest and can fully shoulder the responsibility of co-prosperity in Asia.  Komatsu smiled and did not comment, but knew in his heart that the answer was in jeopardy: "Okay, get ready, I don't want to see the faces of those Choshu clan anymore." Komatsu, who was born in the Satsuma clan, also hated the army on the shore.  , just want to leave early.

    But at this moment, the army artillery position deployed not far from the shore became chaotic. After a while, artillery shells escaped from the barrel and flew several kilometers away.  "What's going on?" When Xiaosong was still surprised, the observer at the top of the mast began to shout: "Captain, the Chinese army is coming."

    After Komatsu quickly boarded the flying bridge of the ship, he saw explosions rumbling on the horizon several kilometers away. He was considering whether to provide fire support to the Army to avoid triggering the Army's saliva when he returned. When he returned, two Sparrow reconnaissance planes had already  It flew over the gunboat and began to circle.

    "Chinese aircraft? Impossible, maybe they are sold by Germany." Komatsu is not one of those scumbags in the Army. He is a serious cadet at the Greenwich Naval Academy in the United Kingdom. He was secretly surprised when he saw the two aircraft above his head clearly. Even though  Even if you don't know much about it, you can tell that the appearance and speed of these two aircraft are no worse than the most advanced models in Europe, and they are several times better than the "wood chip" reconnaissance aircraft equipped by our country's navy with even the cockpit open.  So it's natural to think of it as German "aid."

    Since both gunboats have no air defense capabilities, and the elevation angle of the 37mm rapid-fire cannon on the deck is out of reach, the sailors can only watch them circling in circles, but the man in the back seat of the "Sparrow" pioneered machine gun shooting on the ground.  However, the scout couldn't hold it any longer. After the machine gun had no effect last time, he came out with a bundle of grenades. Seeing that the gunboat was indifferent to him, he simply chose his favorite "side job" again and picked up one.  The grenade opened its mouth at the pilot: "Old Ji, if I sink the gunboat, go back and promise me your sister."

    "Cui Big Brain, don't even think about it. I'll throw you down first." The pilot glared at this idiot and simply deflected the fuselage so that the wings were perpendicular to the ground.  Fortunately, the scout had already had this experience, and he laughed and scolded: "For the sake of Third Sister, I won't care about it." After saying that, he laughed and threw the first grenade at the Uji gunboat.

    "What is that?" The sailor who just asked stood on the deck, pointing at a black spot flying towards the Uji and asking around.

    "It should be a bamboo tube through which the Chinese convey news."

    "It's probably debris. You can see that others are almost falling off."

    "It looks like a rock."

    "I think it's a surrender letter."

    Komatsu also saw the black spot, and suddenly had a strange feeling. He always thought something was going to happen, so he quickly raised the telescope in the hope of seeing it clearly, but as soon as he raised it to his eyes, a fireball suddenly exploded from above the Uji.

    "***! The Army fuse is too short, fly lower."

    The grenade exploded twenty meters above the gunboats. An explosion of this magnitude was not even a yawn, so the daring pilot quickly leveled the plane, made a circle, then lowered its altitude and flew towards the two gunboats.

    "It's a bomb! Sound the alarm and tell everyone to take coverbe careful of the bomb!"

    Komatsu listened to it last yearPeople have said that planes dropped bombs to the ground during the Italian-Turkish War, but I didn't expect that the Chinese would actually start to use them. Although bombs of this level cannot damage gunboats, if personnel are exposed, they are still very likely to be bombed.  hurt.  The siren caused chaos on the deck. When the Japanese sailors were running for cover, the "sparrows" had already passed overhead. The scouts threw them back and murmured: "This one greets your mother, this one greets your sister, this one greets the emperor, and this one greets the emperor."  Lao Ji, is there a queen mother in Japan?"

    The "Sparrow" reconnaissance trainer aircraft, which was imitated from the Curtiss JZ-4 Jenny, had excellent low-altitude performance. It almost brushed the mast tops of the two ships. Six of the dozen grenades landed on the deck and exploded. One of them actually  He brought greetings and blew up the two Japanese sailors who were huddled together until they were bloody and bloody.

    "It hit! It hit! Haha I will report when I get back. Aircraft bombing of warships is effective and will make the navy withdraw from the stage!"

    While the scouts were dancing, there was a counterattack from the warship deck. Several Japanese sailors began to shoot in the air with rifles. The sound of bullets flying scared the pilots and quickly raised the altitude to 1,000 meters.  Komatsu was also startled by the grenades being dropped continuously. When he saw the bloody sailors, he stamped his feet angrily. He was thinking about whether he should use naval guns to support the army and teach the squadrons some lessons to save them from coming.  When he provoked the navy, a black spot quickly enlarged in his eyes, and then a water column several meters high rose from the left side of the gunboat.

    "Boom!"

    The water column dissipated and the smoke filled the air. The experienced Komatsu immediately understood what it was: "Damn it, get ready to fight! There are heavy artillery nearby!" His judgment was not wrong. Two artillery pieces from the Artillery Regiment directly under the First Field Division west of Linjiatai  The battalion has been fully deployed, and 12 Mende-made S.LH13 150mm howitzers and 12 Mende-made Le. FH09 howitzers are all aimed at the Japanese positions.

    "Heavy artillery! It's heavy" Army Commander Cao reminded everyone as he ran, but before he shouted a few words, a 105 mm artillery shell fell beside him. When the smoke cleared, everyone around them raised their heads and discovered that,  Chief Cao, who kindly reminded everyone, couldn't even put the body together.

    In fact, there is no need for any reminder. The roar of 105 and 150 mm howitzers and the 75 mm field gun are completely different things. Those veteran Japanese officers who have experienced the Russo-Japanese War are very aware of the power of large-caliber heavy artillery, so they are all confused!  Is the Russian army on the opposite side?  Or the Chinese ** team?  !  No, even the Russian army does not have that many heavy artillery!  A total of 24 heavy artillery pieces stunned the Yamazaki Brigade stationed in Linjiatai in one fell swoop. Although they had built fortifications along the town early and believed that the 12 75mm field guns and the two 150mm heavy artillery that arrived last night were enough to withstand the attack.  A Chinese division attacked, but when the shells fell, it was discovered how wrong it was!

    The shells fell on the temporary fortifications that had been repaired, but this bunker built by demolishing the beams and slates of residential buildings was not able to face 150mm grenades, even if it faced 16 kilograms of 105mm grenades, it was of no avail. One bunker after another  It was completely blown to pieces, and the machine gun fort was blasted into the sky by an indiscriminate bombardment before it could take effect. The Japanese infantry with strong forbearance thought that they could avoid it by hiding in the trenches, but the "ploughing tractor" with the 150mm heavy artillery  " style attack method almost filled the entire trench. Many Japanese soldiers were buried in the soil and could not breathe, so they had to lean out and be torn apart by the shrapnel that followed.

    The worst thing was the Japanese artillery position. After the reconnaissance plane dropped the bamboo tube with the coordinates written on it, the Meiji 38-type 75mm field gun with sufficient range but insufficient power was immediately destroyed by four S.LH13 150mm howitzers and 12  The Mende Le. FH09 howitzer was focused on. It seemed that the thick sandbags were useless against this level of attack. In less than ten minutes, the entire artillery position was ravaged. When the artillery regiment turned its target to the troops deployed in the town,  When two Meiji 38-type 150mm howitzers were fired, the entire field artillery position fired less than 30 rounds.

    "Where are our heavy artillery?"

    "Counterattack! Counterattack immediately!"

    The two 150mm howitzers deployed in the town and treasured by the Japanese army were covered with camouflage, so the reconnaissance planes did not detect them at first, but after they opened fire and counterattacked, the scouts who were still holding grenades immediately wrote down the coordinates and loaded them.  The bamboo tube allowed the pilot to fly back and accurately drop it over the position.

    "There are two 150 gates in the town." After the staff officer took the bamboo tube and opened it, his expression paused for a moment and he handed the investigation coordinates to Cai Demao.  After Jiang Tai was transferred to the Mobile Artillery Regiment, this expert artilleryman in the Hubei New Army became the commander of the First Division Artillery Regiment. Probably because Yang Qiu liked to use numbers to describe it, it became popular in the army, as the staff officer said at the moment.  The 150 is a 150mm caliber heavy artillery.

    Unexpectedly, the Japanese army also came with heavy artillery. Cai Demao became interested and immediately ordered two companies from the 150th Artillery Battalion to focus on dealing with these two heavy artillery pieces, which were a great threat to the infantry.  When the two companies with a total of eight s.lh13 150mm howitzers began to adjust their coordinates, the Japanese heavy artillery counterattack also arrived, but after a few rounds,??De Mao and everyone almost laughed, because all the artillery shells landed two thousand meters in front of the artillery position, posing no threat at all.

    Due to the pursuit of lightweight, the maximum range of the 2-ton Meiji 38-type 150mm howitzer is only 5890 meters, while the German-made s.lh13 150mm howitzer has a range of 8675 meters when firing German-made 41kg shells. It adopts the new launch of the National Defense Forces.  Even if it fires a standard 45kg high-explosive grenade after the drug is fired, the range can reach 9100 meters.  The huge gap between the two caused the Japanese heavy artillery to be completely behind the times. However, several 120mm naval gun shells flying from the river made the artillery regiment more vigilant.

    "Forget it, use 105s to deal with them, and let me use 150s to blast those two gunboats with all their strength!" Cai Demao thought about it and changed his strategy. The 12 150mm howitzers quickly adjusted their muzzles and fired at the reconnaissance planes flying around again and again.  With the help of the enemy, it took only three volleys to lock the position.

    ¡°Boom¡­.¡±

    Thick water columns kept rising from the river, and Xiaosong's face turned a little pale. He didn't expect that the Chinese ** team on the opposite side had so many cannons!  This was not something that an artillery brigade and an infantry brigade could withstand. It was only a matter of time before Linjiatai changed hands, so he immediately ordered a breakout without considering support. He who dreamed of crossing the sea did not want to die in a "small ditch".

    But the order was still too late. With the help of reconnaissance aircraft, it was much easier for artillery to lock targets outside visual range than before. The s.lh13 150mm howitzer battalion with a maximum firing rate of 5 rounds per minute only used less than  273 41-kilogram high-explosive grenades were thrown onto the river in 5 minutes, and five minutes was not enough for the two gunboats to escape to a safe distance. Although it was not an armor-piercing projectile used by the navy, this level of firepower was for a gunboat with no armor protection at all.  It is also unbearable.

    When a shell landed directly next to the bridge, Komatsu and the officers on the bridge felt a heat in their ears and lost all consciousness.

    "It's aborted! It's aborted!"

    When the two gunboats were on fire, flooded and began to sink, the two 150mm heavy guns regarded as treasures by the Japanese army were also destroyed. The le.fh09, which had a longer range than them, kept throwing shells around the gun positions.  , the Japanese artillerymen barely had time to react before being blown to pieces. After learning that the gunboats and the most threatening 150 heavy artillery had been destroyed, Cai Demao took the initiative to give the 150 artillery battalion a temporary rest. It was not that he did not want to fight, but that he came out this time to speed up the attack.  , 150mm shells are not carried much.

    However, the remaining 12 105mm howitzers were still unable to withstand the Yamazaki Battalion. In the next half hour, 1,687 artillery shells were fired, allowing soldiers on both sides to experience what it means to rain down bullets. It was difficult to survive until the rain of bullets ended, but when the Japanese infantry  After crawling out of the bunker covered in mud, mortars and infantry artillery made them complain again.

    "Artillery! Where is our artillery!" Captain Yamazaki's eyes were red and he grabbed an artilleryman who had escaped. The artilleryman had already been frightened by the violent bombardment and turned pale. He was not woken up until he was slapped several times and swallowed.  He said with saliva: "Report, the artilleryhas all been smashed to pieces!"

    The artillery is gone?

    The officers of the Yamazaki Battalion never expected that all their artillery would be gone in just 45 minutes.  Having experienced the Russo-Japanese War, they know very well that artillery is the soul of infantry!  It¡¯s the courage of an infantryman!  Without artillery support, the infantry's combat capability will be reduced by more than half.

    "Infantry, their infantry is coming up!"

    In order to ensure that Linjiatai was captured as soon as possible and cut off the retreat of the main force of the 38th Regiment, Yue Peng decisively invested in four armored vehicles in addition to the two regiments of the 1st Brigade. The Japanese infantry, which had never seen an armored vehicle, had not yet woken up from the heavy artillery bombardment.  After encountering the baptism of the 12.7mm Venom Fang heavy machine gun, bullets that can easily penetrate earth walls and thick wooden boards make the enemy unprepared. Your own bullets can't even hurt your skin when they hit them. How can you fight this battle?  !

    Seeing that Linjiatai could no longer be saved, the Yamazaki Battalion had less than 500 soldiers left and had to retreat to Motianling to join the main force. Their departure also meant that the main force of the 38th Regiment of the Japanese 16th Division was surrounded between Motianling and Linjiatai.  , almost at the same time as he learned the news, Yue Peng issued an order for all troops to shrink the encirclement.

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