12dz Chapter 299 Type 94 Mountain Cannon
Chapter 299 Type 94 Mountain Cannon
The tall battalion commander estimated that the other two reconnaissance battalions were almost ready, and smiled at the Japanese artillery.
"Yes, yes, we are friends of the Empire!"
The Japanese artillery lieutenant colonel looked at the tall battalion commander's strange smile and felt a little uncomfortable, with an indescribable discomfort all over his body.
"You, what are you laughing at?"
"Little devil, did I ever tell you that my smile is deadly?"
"Nani?"
A 92 pistol was pointed at the forehead of the artillery lieutenant colonel, and with a "bang", he was sent to see the god of sunshine.
The other scouts also picked up their loaded 95 automatic rifles, and cleared out all the Japanese inside and outside the fortifications.
"We can't stay in this place, quickly place the bomb!"
The tall man ordered the soldiers to load bombs onto all the Japanese's artillery positions and to replenish their guns so that they would die more thoroughly.
Then he took the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion to reinforce a company that was blocking the Japanese reinforcements.
The elite Japanese soldiers were on the city walls or at the gaps to block the independent column, leaving only a small number of Japanese soldiers and puppet troops on guard in the city.
Those who came to support after hearing the gunshots were naturally mainly puppet troops.
The soldiers of the company left behind at the gate were having a great time fighting. The powerful firepower of the Type 95 rifles forced the puppet troops, who had no fighting will to begin with, to retreat again and again.
The tall man who came to support jumped and fell into the sandbag shelter.
"How about it, Captain, can you hold on?"
"No big deal, these puppet soldiers are just ears for the deaf, just decorations!"
The tall man leaned against the sandbags, confirmed with the commanders of the reconnaissance battalions of the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Divisions through the walkie-talkie that everything was ready, and then pressed the detonator with ease and joy.
Three mushroom clouds appeared one after another in the center of Linfen City, and the entire city shook.
Ishida Keio, who was shaking with shock, picked up the telescope and looked at the center of Linfen City. His heart trembled immediately. If he remembered correctly, there were three artillery positions!
"Baga, where did the explosion happen?"
Ishida Keio asked the question unwillingly, hoping for a lucky break. After all, he was very confident in the concealment of the artillery position and its solid fortifications.
"General, are these our three artillery positions?"
"What? Aren't these three positions hidden in the yard? How could they be discovered by the enemy?"
"There's a spy who's sneaked into the city! He must have dug a tunnel in!"
In a rage, Keio Ishida drew out his command sword again and slashed at the air to vent his inner anger.
"Baga, find them! Tear them apart!"
The elite Japanese soldiers surrounded the artillery positions, and the three reconnaissance battalions that had repelled the Japanese had been broken up into small pieces and disappeared in the vast Linfen city.
All that was left were the corpses of Japanese soldiers scattered all over the ground and cannons that had been blown into pieces.
The reconnaissance battalion was divided into companies and platoons and began to move freely in the city, specifically targeting field hospitals with weak defense capabilities, logistics troops and transport teams, and of course the puppet troops who offered prizes.
Without the threat of artillery fire from within the city, the tank troops and infantry continued to advance into the city and reached the inside of the gap in the city wall.
There were gaps in the city wall and rubble all over the ground, making it easy for one or two Japanese soldiers covered with bombs to hide here, and there were also many "human bombs" falling from the sky.
"Flametroopers, move through quickly!"
The flamethrowers swept along the way, burning the Japanese soldiers who were hiding in the rubble and preparing for a surprise attack into firemen. Finally, they and the bombs on their bodies exploded into a bloody mist in the sky.
"Three infantry divisions reporting!"
Li Yunlong could no longer hold back in Pingshun Fortress and asked the radio operator to inquire about the situation of each division.
"The First Infantry Division reports that under the cover of the Armored Division's Tiger Tank Battalion, two infantry battalions have entered Linfen City and started fighting for the city wall!"
"The Second Infantry Division reported that three Type 5 tanks that came to support were lost, but they also entered the city. A reorganized infantry regiment has completely penetrated!"
"The Third Infantry Division reports that the city defenses in the northeast of Linfen City are relatively weak. They have already taken control of the northeastern city wall and are preparing to use it as a base to break through on both sides!"
Li Yunlong looked at the makeshift model of Linfen city wall, and the stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.
As long as he allowed the Natural Infantry Division to break into Linfen City, he was confident that he could completely capture Linfen.
Ding Wei, Kong Jie and Xing Zhiguo did not disappoint him. They entered Linfen City and prepared to send elite troops to attack the city wall and engage in hand-to-hand combat.
"Order the artillery to stop bombarding the city walls and the city, and focus on suppressing the fortifications in the moat to ensure that our troops can enter the city smoothly."
Ishida Keio, who was on the city wall, felt relieved when he saw the independent column's artillery fire gradually become sparse.
"Let the soldiers go up to the city walls and block the Chinese soldiers from entering the city!"
"Hayi!"
The Japanese soldiers filed out from the bunkers inside the city wall. Some of them reinforced the gap in the wall, while others prepared to run onto the wall to attack the infantry who were preparing to enter the city from top to bottom.
The infantry divisions and tanks that entered the city had occupied the gaps in the city walls and established defense lines to ensure that subsequent troops could pass through quickly.
The tank troops and infantry also pushed forward along the base of the city wall and ran head-on into the Japanese reinforcements.
The Japanese soldiers, ready to fight to the death, organized a suicide squad with bare upper bodies and sanitary napkins on their heads, and rushed towards the tanks with explosives in their arms.
The commander looked at the Japanese soldier with contempt, picked up the machine gun, and fired him into the sky.
From the window of a small bungalow, a black gun muzzle was stealthily revealed, and the firing angle was being adjusted. It was the Japanese "Type 75" mm mountain cannon.
The Type 75 mm mountain gun is small in size and light in weight, but its firepower is not weak.
It can be fired at an elevated angle or directly horizontally, with a maximum effective range of more than 8 kilometers.
If the gunner is skilled and quick, he can load and fire 15 to 18 shells in one minute.
When dealing with target infantry positions in normal times, the shells equipped by the 90mm mountain gun are all ordinary explosive shells. If it is used against the enemy's armored forces, it is equipped with cone-shaped high-explosive armor-piercing grenades, which can penetrate armor with a thickness of more than mm at close range.
During the Pacific War, the M Army's first-line main battle tank, the M4 Sherman tank, had the thickest front turret armor of only 89 mm, and the rest of the front protective armor was mostly around 70 mm thick. In the battles with the Japanese, many of these tanks were destroyed by the mm mountain artillery.
Afterwards, the M Army conducted calculations and confirmed that the thickness of the armor-piercing grenade that this type of gun could effectively penetrate was equivalent to the maximum armor thickness of the M4 tank.
Ishida Keio, who was transferred from the Pacific battlefield, naturally regarded the Type 9 mountain gun as his weapon against tank troops.
Therefore, in addition to equipping the mountain artillery position in the center of Linfen City with mountain artillery, he also built several hidden artillery positions outside important targets to attack the tank troops of the independent column.