"Where are our artillery? Why didn't they send reinforcements to us?”The captain had too many questions that needed to be answered.
A signalman stood up and replied,""Reporting to the captain, our artillery has been suppressed by the Chinese artillery. Now that we have suffered heavy losses, our strategy has changed!”
The captain's mouth twitched as he cursed,""Baka, what a bunch of trash. They can't even defeat the Chinese artillery. They're simply rice buckets!”
The Japanese Artillery Regiment was also in a heavy mood. They never thought that they would be suppressed by the long-range artillery of the Chinese.
The Japanese Artillery Regiment had three artillery battalions, two of which were 75mm mountain artillery battalions, and one of which was 105mm heavy artillery. There were 36 of them, and such an artillery configuration was enough for the Japanese army to gallop in China.
However, who would have thought that they would encounter a problem here? The Chinese were equipped with 105mm cannons that had a longer range than them. Now, there were only 8 105mm cannons left. In less than 10 minutes, they had lost 4 of them.
This was already a heavy loss for the artillery unit. After all, Nippon was a country that lacked resources. Most of the resources were invested in the navy, which made the navy so prosperous.
Therefore, every heavy cannon was very important. They had already lost four cannons in the artillery battle just now. In addition, they could not hit the other party at all. Therefore, after asking Kawagishi Bunsaburo, the Artillery Regiment chose to change their strategy.
When Kawaishi Bunsaburo received the request, he agreed. At this moment, the raging anger in his heart could no longer be hidden.
"Baka Yalu! These white beasts all deserved to die! Selling such advanced artillery to the Chinese, their conscience was greatly damaged!”
After calming down, Kawagishi Bunsaburo ordered,""Let the army bomb their artillery positions!”
"Hey!"
"Mo Xi, Mo Xi…!"
The battle here had also caused a huge commotion in Wanping City. Many of the soldiers of the 219th Regiment were shocked when they saw the corpses of the Japanese.
Even on the battlefield, there were only so many Japanese, right? It had only been a short while, and nearly 200 Japanese soldiers had fallen here.
Especially when the 20 MG42 machine guns fired at them, it gave them a huge shock. It was as if the only sound on the battlefield was the sound of the tearing machine.
"Oh my god! They had so many machine guns, so powerful!”
"Is this still the security team? Even the Central Army wasn't this powerful!”
In their impression, the most luxuriously equipped army in China was naturally Old Jiang's Central Army. After all, Old Jiang had the richest Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai regions in China. This was a money bag.
Xu Ziqiu didn't think much of it when he saw the Japanese being beaten back. In his opinion, the Japanese were not as well-equipped as them, and their marksmanship was better than the other party. Their firepower was much more concentrated, and they had the advantage of defense. If they still couldn't beat the other party back, they might as well find a brick and kill themselves.
Xu Ziqiu could not help but look up at the sky. Now that the Japanese had completely stopped firing, it was very likely that they had been heavily injured by their own artillery and retreated. Otherwise, there would be no movement at all.
If he was the commander of the Japanese army, he would definitely dispatch the air force to bomb the enemy's artillery. This was the fastest and most effective way.
Thinking of this, his face turned serious. He did not have any good ideas in the face of the Japanese air force. The best way to deal with aircraft was always the aircraft. Air defense was just a means of self-protection.
It was a pity that they did not have a single fighter on their side. Fortunately, Lu Jie had already considered the air superiority of the Japanese army, so he incorporated an air defense company in their battalion, equipped with 12 40mm Bofors anti-air cannons.
Moreover, Lu Jie had specially equipped this anti-air cannon with expensive VR shells. These shells were equipped with radio proximity fuzes, which were also the shells that were paired with the Bofors anti-air cannon.
The hit rate of this bomb was 18 times higher than that of conventional shells. This was based on some data from World War II.
During World War II, the Germans used V-1 missiles to bombard the British. The British had a headache about this until the appearance of the ZT fuse, which allowed the British to stop this crazy bombing.
On average, only 150 shells were needed to shoot down one, and if they used conventional shells, they would need 2800 shells. From this, one could see what kind of black technology this was.
Although this technology would be obsolete in the future, it was still considered a technology in this era.
The 40mm cannonball was especially advanced, but it also had its shortcomings. The high cost was nothing, but the power of the cannonball was reduced, which also sacrificed the power to increase the hit rate!
Xu Ziqiu ordered," Pass down my order. Have the air defense company prepare for air defense. The Japanese bomber unit is likely to come!"”
"Yes, sir!"
After the order was passed down, the entire air defense company shifted their position and set up an air defense net around the artillery position. As long as the Japanese fighters appeared within the range, they would not be able to escape their claws.
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