Yunzaobang, during the first Battle of Songhu two years ago, became a battlefield repeatedly fought over by the Chinese and Japanese armies. The blood flowing from the Japanese and Chinese soldiers almost dyed the entire river red. After the battle, , no one came to collect the remains of many national army soldiers, and they were left to rot on the side of Yunzaobang.
To this day, you can see bones from time to time when walking along the river.
Perhaps because of the nourishment of corpses, the reeds and wormwood on both sides of Yunzao Bang have grown more and more wildly in the past two years. Precisely because of the cover of these reeds and wormwood, the Japanese reconnaissance planes roared past from a low altitude of tens of meters. Unexpectedly, there were twelve trucks hidden in this large thick patch of reeds and wormwood.
These twelve trucks are the simplified version of Katyusha prepared by Xu Rui for the little devils.
The canvas awnings of these twelve trucks have been removed, and even the truck bodies have been removed, and then a steel beam is directly connected to the end of the beam through a winch, and an I-shape is welded to the steel beam. The steel frame, this I-shaped steel frame, is the mount for the rocket launcher. Although it is very simple, it can also mount sixteen rocket launchers.
It seems that these twelve simplified versions of the Katyusha are quite similar. The only flaw is that the adjuster of the shooting angle and the launching device are very crude. For example, the adjuster of the pitch angle is actually just a wooden pier. Under the steel beam, when the elevation angle needs to be increased, the artillerymen climb onto the launch vehicle to lift the steel beam, move the wooden pier to the rear of the steel beam, and then reverse the operation when the elevation angle needs to be reduced.
The launch device is even more unsightly. It is simply sixteen nylon ropes tied to the launch trigger of the rocket launcher. The sixteen nylon ropes are then twisted into one strand. When launching, the nylon rope is pulled directly. However, in the middle It is inevitable that something will go wrong, and one or two rocket launchers will definitely fail to launch.
But having said that, it is not easy to build twelve simplified versions of Katyusha in such a short period of time!
The accuracy of these twelve simplified Katyushas must be horrific, but what does it matter? Because the rocket launcher is originally a covering type of damage, as long as the error of the impact point does not exceed 500 meters, it is within the allowable range, because the twelve simplified version of the Katyusha has a full 192 rocket launchers!
Xu Rui originally thought there were only ninety-six, but it turned out there were twice as many!
One hundred and ninety-two rocket launchers, even if a few of them malfunctioned and failed to launch successfully for one reason or another, at least one hundred and fifty rockets could be delivered to the enemy positions each time. Fifty rockets falling within a radius of 500 to 500 meters are already quite terrifying.
What's even more terrifying is that this is just a rocket salvo!
Before the Japanese reconnaissance plane discovers the target and then guides the bomber group to arrive, the rocket launcher position of the Songhu Independent Regiment can fire at least eight to ten times! This means that the rocket artillery battalion of the Songhu Independent Regiment can drop at least 1,200 rockets on the Japanese positions. This is very terrifying!
At this time, Xu Ruiren was at the launch position.
Since these twelve rocket launcher vehicles were temporarily built, Xu Rui didn't even have time to build a dedicated rocket launcher battalion. He just transferred a company of artillery from Bi Xiancheng's artillery battalion, and then deputy commander Yang Rui personally served as the rocket launcher. The battalion commander led the artillerymen of this company to control these twelve artillery carriages.
Yang Rui is an old artilleryman and has rich artillery experience, but he also encountered difficulties this time.
Yang Rui climbed to the high observation post and observed the Wusong Fortress and the Japanese positions on the north bank of Yunzao Bang for a long time. Then he came down and said to Xu Rui: "Captain, I still don't know what I'm doing. You have to let me test fire a few times first." Then I corrected the shooting elements based on the impact points of these rockets, so that I can be sure."
Three black lines immediately appeared on Xu Rui's forehead and said, "I didn't tell you anymore. I just ask you to control the error range of the impact point within 500 meters! Don't tell me that you can't even 500 meters." Can’t you control the error of one meter? The shooting requirements of field artillery and mountain artillery are that the error should not exceed ten meters within five kilometers!”
Yang Rui said bitterly: "But the key point is that the workmanship of this thing is too rough!"
Xu Rui said: "Don't talk nonsense. The workmanship of these twelve rocket launchers is already very good. Before the two British welders welded the steel frame, I followed them all the way, whether it was vertical angle, horizontality or parallelism. , the errors have been controlled to a minimum. As long as the levelness of the vehicle is controlled well, the accuracy is absolutely fine!"
Yang Rui flattened his mouth and whispered, "But I still want to test shoot."
Xu Rui was helpless and said, "Okay, but only for one shot!"
"Hey!" Yang Rui nodded vigorously.
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Wusong Fortress, observation post on the top of the mountain.
Wang Husheng put down the phone, turned to Digua, who was following behind him, and said, "Dugu, the rocket launcher camp is about to test-fire. Pay attention to the impact point, and then write down the error rate and report it to the other side."
Digua agreed and quickly stood behind the artillery mirror.
Wang Husheng also stood next to Digua, raised his binoculars and looked at the south bank of Yunzaobang. He was not sure where the rocket launcher camp's launch position was, but he still knew the general location.
After a while, a little red light appeared in the field of view of the telescope.
That red light was the flame ejected from the tail of the rocket as it flew through the air at high speed.
Wang Husheng immediately locked on to the rocket. Different from the rocket launches he usually saw, the flight path of the rocket he saw this time was not a straight line, but a curved arc. After crossing the highest point, the rocket started from The flames ejected from the tail weakened significantly, and it was obvious that the gun was about to be exhausted.
Next, the rocket will have to rely on inertial flight.
Wang Husheng moved the field of view of the telescope and followed the rockets for an instant. After a moment, the rockets fell from high altitude, landed on the ground, and exploded with a loud bang. From the field of view of the telescope, Wang Husheng could It can be seen that the impact point of the bullet is still several hundred meters away from the Japanese zigzag trench.
Wang Husheng's telescope does not have a range-finding function, but Digua's artillery scope can.
Through the artillery mirror scale, Digua immediately read the error of the impact point: five hundred and sixty meters!
At that moment, Digua reported: "Political Commissar, there is no problem with the horizontal shooting angle, and the direction is very positive, but the impact point is 560 meters short, and the pitch angle needs to be raised one notch!"
"I got it." Wang Husheng put down the telescope, turned around and picked up the phone, "Hello, Lao Xu? The horizontal shooting angle is fine, but the elevation angle is raised by one degree. Yes, that's fine."
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At the same time, at the enemy's attack position.
The captain of the Third Infantry Battalion, Saionji Kenkichi, walked up to Sanjo Kyosuke with a saber in his hand. He suddenly stopped his feet and nodded heavily and said: "Your Majesty, Colonel, all the tunnels have been capped! The four infantrymen of the Third Guards Infantry Battalion The squadron has all entered the tunnel, and the death squads are in place, and we only need to wait for the command from His Excellency the Colonel to attack."
"Yoshi." Sanjo Kyosuke nodded happily and said, "Saionji-kun, thank you for your hard work."
"Hai." Saionji Kenkichi paused again and said, "This is what a humble job should do."
Sanjo Kyousuke gave a slight hum, and then continued: "Saionji-kun, then let's start the attack."
"Hai!" Saionji Kenji paused for the third time. Then, just as he turned around to leave, there was a sudden boom in the distance, like the sound of an artillery shell exploding.
"Baga!" Sanjo Kyosuke's brows immediately tightened, "China's artillery?"
Saionji Kenji also retracted his steps and said: "Your Majesty Colonel, the explosion seems to have come from the southwest."
Immediately, the two little devils walked out of the attack position and stood on a high place next to the depression. The two little devils' adjutants and orderlies also quickly followed up and blocked their bodies with their bodies.
Saionji Kenji raised his telescope and searched for a moment, and soon he found the impact point.
"Your Majesty Colonel, direction of eleven o'clock!" Saionji Kenji said, "The impact point is right there!"
After Sanjo Kyosuke saw it clearly, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "The quality of China's artillery is really poor. The impact point is at least five to six hundred meters away from the imperial army's position. This level is simply extremely poor. Saionji-kun, you don’t need to pay attention to them and still attack as planned.”
"Hai!" Saionji Kenji paused again, turned around and prepared to leave.
However, as soon as Saionji Kenji lifted his front foot, a sudden change occurred!
From the southwest, bursts of crackling sounds suddenly came from the air. Sanjo Kyosuke and Saionji Kenkichi turned around quickly, and then the eyes of the two little devils suddenly widened! Baga, what the hell is this
But all I saw was that countless red light spots suddenly appeared in the originally empty southwest sky. Then, behind each red light spot, there was a trail of white smoke, and these red light spots were moving at an alarming rate. The speed is approaching here, and the crackling sound in the air is caused by these red light spots flying.
"Baga Yalu!" Xiyuanji Kenji said in shock, "What is going on?"
Sanjo Kyosuke swallowed hard, and suddenly felt an inexplicable tremor from the depths of his soul. Although he didn't know what it was, he could feel that this was very important to their First Guards Infantry Regiment. This is definitely not a good thing for the team. This is definitely a huge threat!
Then, under the stunned gazes of Sanjo Kyosuke and Saionji Kenkichi, the red light spots in the sky disappeared one by one, but the sound of crackling in the air became closer and closer, and finally turned into a huge scream. Then the streaks of white smoke fell on their zigzag trench area like sharp arrows.