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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 199: Cannonballs

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    But times have progressed, and after the emergence of explosive shells (shrapnel shells), artillery shells have become more and more lethal to infantry - this does not include special bombs such as poison gas bombs and incendiary bombs secretly developed by various powers.  This heroic statement left by the French Army was also swept into the trash in France - otherwise France would not be busy building large-scale reinforced concrete permanent fortifications with a thickness of 3.5 meters on the defense line.

    Three or three years ago, the artillerymen of both the Central Army and local miscellaneous units were faced with the problem of three shortages: few artillery pieces, few artillery shells, and few excellent gunners.

    The result of these three problems is that each army deliberately saves the use of artillery shells on the battlefield. In addition, the lack of training itself makes the shooting inaccurate. Generally, the Japanese ignore the artillery of the Chinese army on the opposite side - the Japanese considered the biggest threat at that time.  They are machine guns from various Chinese armies, especially heavy machine guns that can fire continuously, which are the most damaging to the Japanese's human wave charge.

    Even if a few old-fashioned heavy machine guns form a crossfire, no matter how many people charge, it will be in vain. For this reason, the Japanese artillerymen have developed a unique skill of attacking machine gun positions.  The poor firepower and range of the 92nd Infantry Cannon destined it to be used for attacking machine gun positions rather than artillery positions - it could only suppress the 60th mortar position.

    But the 60 mortar's ability to survive on the battlefield is all due to its lightness and quick transfer - it picks up and runs when it hears the sound of shells breaking through the air, so at most it can only suppress it.

    ¡°Ding ding bell~~~~~¡± Just as Jin Batian was having fun playing, a phone in the artillery group¡¯s spare room rang. Jin Batian picked up the phone and it turned out to be Zhang Zhizhong calling.

    "You should save some shells for me. The inventory of 150 mortar grenades is now less than 10,000 rounds."

    Zhang Zhizhong also accidentally discovered from the document today that the inventory of 150 mortar grenades was too low. Shaanxi does not produce arms. Most of the materials used by the Central Army were transported by rail from Peking to Nanjing. Originally, Zhang Zhizhong had reserved them for the Shaanxi campaign.  According to the estimates of the General Staff Headquarters, there are many guns and artillery shells that can fight at least three large battles or battles.

    According to the plan of Zhang Zhizhong and others, Yan'an was recovered in World War I, Yulin was recovered in World War II, and Yimeng was recaptured in World War III to drive the Japs down the Yellow River.  But is it true that plans can never keep up with changes? Jin Batian's super artillery regiment came from outside the plan. Although Jin Batian also shipped a batch of 150 mortar shells with the artillery when he came, the quantity was not high enough.  One day during the battle, he was shot down by the artillery regiment.  Most of the time, the artillery regiment used the stocks that Zhang Zhizhong had in Shaanxi during this period.

    Peiping sends thousands of 150 mortar shells to Shaanxi by train every day, but what can this amount do? The artillery regiment said that if five hundred or dozens of guns were fired at full speed, they could kill thousands of them in one minute.  Firing artillery shells - generally far from reaching this maximum theoretical speed.

    Besides, it is not just the ** artillery regiment that uses this kind of artillery shells. The artillery regiment at the reorganized division level of the Central Army has a heavy mortar battalion - although each battalion is only equipped with 18 150 mortars, the number is higher than that of Jin Batian.  The artillery regiment is incomparable.  In the fierce fighting a few days ago, the number of artillery shells dropped sharply.

    "Commander Zhang, you should be more open-minded about everything. You still want to transport the remaining shells back to Nanjing."

    "Hang up." After hanging up the phone, Zhang Zhizhong didn't care so much. Anyway, the message was delivered. When there are no more bombs, you can just watch the show.  Anyway, the remaining more than 10,000 rounds were allocated to other troops. Only after looking at the consumption did Zhang Zhizhong understand how many shells these guys had fired.

    Especially these artillery battalions directly under Jinjiang Oil, they are not ambiguous at all when it comes to the use of artillery shells. Although Zhang Zhizhong also admitted that the results of these artillery battalions directly commanded by Jinjiang Oil were also quite great, but the problem now is not that they are out of artillery shells.  The remaining eight thousand and several hundred rounds distributed to other troops are not enough to provide a basic ammunition for each 150 mortar.

    Including the inventory of the artillery battalions of those troops, the maximum number of troops does not exceed three bases. It seems that Peking will need to increase the transportation capacity of 150 artillery shells in the near future.  But that was far away water, now it is a matter of near thirst.

    Zhang Zhizhong was enlightened on the phone, and Jin Batian also ordered: "Stop the shelling, and all departments in the artillery battalion will check the number of remaining artillery shells."

    The three artillery battalions currently under the direct leadership of Jin Batian have a total of 300 150 mortars.  A few minutes after the bombardment stopped, the number of remaining artillery shells was counted. The three artillery battalions had a total of more than 2,600 artillery shells.  On average, there are less than 9 shells per artillery head. After one minute of rapid fire, the artillery battalion will be faced with a situation where there is no ammunition available.

    Even if Lieutenant General Zhang Zhi allocates all the remaining thousands of 150 mortar shells to himself, it would not make much sense.

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    Jin Batian sat in the artillery regiment to rest, occasionally checking on the progress of the Japanese.  After the Japanese realized that the shelling had stopped, they quickly realized that the Central Army had no more artillery shells.  The Japs are in Northern ShaanxiThis kind of thing has happened many times. The Middle East Railway of Lao Maozi's family is not omnipotent, and in addition to railway transshipment, there is also a short distance that requires mules and horses for transshipment.

    Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Japanese troops that had been dispersed by the heavy artillery cluster regrouped and advanced towards Yan'an. If they were not lost, they would step into the pocket formation encirclement of the 71st Army. It depends on whether they will be captured in one fell swoop or to the death.  It was a final struggle between the two sides.

    "I really don't know whether to live or die, so I informed the first battalion to fire three rounds of extensions." Jin Batian didn't know what saving was. It's amazing that we can still buy it after the shooting.

    Three hundred rounds of 150 howitzer shells were smashed down within tens of seconds, and there was another burst of limbs and dust. There was a brief panic in the Japs' team, but the Japs who had not waited for the follow-up shells thought this was the last one.  There was an artillery bombardment - although they had not found the artillery observation post not far away.

    The Japanese gathered and advanced again and were bombarded again. After several times in a row, Jin Batian finally gave the details to the battalion commanders of the three artillery regiments on the phone: "The headquarters just made a difficult and painful decision. The specific content is:  , it seems we have to buy our own artillery shells to fight the Japanese."

    One gold coin can buy one hundred loose rifle bullets or three thirty-round magazines.  But in terms of artillery shells, the price is much more expensive. The 60 mortar shells are the smallest, weighing 1.4 kilograms each. Two rounds per gold coin are not a discount.  150 mortar shells cost 15 gold coins each.

    If this cannon can¡¯t hit the enemy, then it¡¯s really a waste of money. The advantage is that three people for each cannon take turns buying the shells, which is equivalent to everyone spending only 5 gold coins for each cannonball.  Even if you kill a Japanese soldier with twenty rounds, you will still make money.  (Each Japanese is worth one thousand gold coins in the system. As the employer, Jin Batian will first take half of the 500, and the gunners in a group of three will share the remaining 500 equally)

    Next, Jin Batian told each artillery battalion the reward measures he had thought of: "After the battle, I will replenish the gold coins for the other artillery groups according to the artillery group with the greatest victory. The artillery group with the greatest victory will be rewarded with 10,000 gold coins each.  ."

    This is somewhat suspicious of eating in a big pot, but not all eating in a big pot is bad, and what you get without using a big pot is not all good.  In the current situation, the big pot rice cooker and the pacesetter system can ensure everyone's enthusiasm during the battle - cluster coverage shelling will not kill the Japanese with every shell fired, because of the location, they will always be unable to hit those people in this battle.  No matter how you calculate the wasted gold coins, it would be too wasteful to change positions next time.

    ?????????????????????????????????????? But this time what we are going to fight is real money after all, Jin Batian is waiting, waiting for the best opportunity - waiting for the Japanese forwards to enter the pocket formation of the 71st Army again.

    Now Jin Batian can also see that this time the Japanese are far more than just three or two divisions. Otherwise, the 71st Army and himself would have crippled at least two second-class Japanese divisions. From the perspective of God, the Japanese now  It seems there are so many more.  This is still the part that can be seen. Now the scanning radius of God's perspective is only fifty kilometers, and there may be things that cannot be seen later.

    At this time, the 71st Army had completely annihilated the two regiments of the first echelon of the Japanese that had penetrated into the encirclement. Even the battlefield had been cleared by more than half. The bombed tanks and cars had been dismantled and loaded into trucks for transportation.  - All this is done by various miscellaneous troops in Shaanxi. Zhang Zhi cannot trust them on the battlefield, but a disciplined team can switch to transportation very quickly.

    The troops cleaning the battlefield also secretly said that these were more than 8,000 and 10,000 Japanese soldiers. According to their own opinion, these Japanese soldiers were armed to the teeth, with cannons, small artillery, chariots and tanks, light and heavy machine guns, rifles and bayonets. In just a few hours,  It's all reimbursed.  The two reorganizers who took action almost solved the problem with machine guns and artillery, and there were not many casualties at all - transporting stretchers to the rear field hospital was also one of these miscellaneous tasks.

    When Liu Xiang saw this scene, he wanted to say: "It's not that I don't understand, but the world is changing too fast."

    Liu Xiang sent Fan Shaozeng as his second-fifth son to Nanjing for training, and he also had information about the trainer.  Fan Shaozeng's division consisted of two brigades and four regiments, plus an artillery regiment and directly affiliated troops, with more than 14,000 men in total (Fan Shaozeng's troops were not accepted by Fei Paoge at that time, and Fan Shaozeng also spent great efforts to find enough soldiers.  Sichuan collects Pao Ge's).  There are a lot of fast guns and artillery that were second-hand goods that were replaced by the Central Army (the first batch of training divisions were like this).

    After hearing the organization of the training divisions, I thought it was just one more brigade per division and one regiment per brigade, which is equivalent to two training divisions. Now I see it is more than that. At least the number of artillery, tanks and machine guns is beyond the comparison of training divisions.  .

    Even if our 23rd Group Army is fully equipped, if it wants to take down more than 8,000 Japanese soldiers, it will have to pay the price of at least a few divisions, and they may even be run away and end up with a tooth broken in vain - they are either tanks or cars.  Yes, even if the Sichuan Army wants to run away, even two legs can't stop it.  Look at people?The Central Army can fight like this, and there is no need for superiors to blockade the enemy directly with firepower.

    As for now, don¡¯t think so much. The superintendent of education, Zhang Zhizhong, and the principal are from the same school (Liu Xiang said here that my accelerated major and Baoding major are naturally at odds with each other). They are both masters of mixing sand.  Now Zhang Zhizhong has some strong men of Sichuan origin, and some Sichuan Wazis are mixed into the 23rd Army. When all the strong men of Sichuan origin are used up, the 23rd Army in his hands will become an army of all nations.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe and reward (this site). Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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