Chapter 66: The first test of the cannon without conscience

Yuwang Mountain, Japanese attacking troops took advantage of the artillery fire to move below the steep wall. As soon as the artillery fire stopped, the Japanese army set up a wooden ladder and tried to climb over the steep wall. The ** basin on both sides opened the secret door. The two Japanese pyrodisiacs who were ambushing immediately aimed at the secret door. One of the scoundrels was sprayed directly into the secret door by the high-temperature flames. A scream came from the secret castle. The ** soldiers were surrounded by flames, and the high-temperature scorched the ** soldiers' bodies and were burned in an instant. Another scoundrel reacted quickly. While the Japanese army pulled the flamethrower, a long string of machine gun bullets shot on the Japanese soldiers "clicked" and the Japanese soldiers' flamethrower also sprayed out hot fuel. They penetrated into the secret door, covered the surroundings of the secret castle, and kept burning. The flames burned wherever they touched.

The Japanese pyrodisiacs were shot into sieve by machine guns, and the ** machine guns were surrounded by flames. The machine guns in the burial were still sprayed with bullets outwards, killing the Japanese soldiers who were climbing the ladder in a series. It was not until the end that the flames covered the burial that the shooting in the burial stopped. The Japanese infantry artillery and grenade launchers moved forward as much as possible, and used powerful artillery fire to support the attacking Japanese army. The ** soldiers braved their fierce artillery fire, held their battle positions, poured rain-like bullets towards the Japanese army, and knocked down the Japanese army from the ladder.

The bomb droppers rushed to the ruins of the bomb drop trench in the fire of the Japanese artillery, and kept throwing grenades under the steep wall. Flying shrapnel cut the bodies of the Japanese army, and under the steep wall, Japanese soldiers screamed like pigs. The Japanese army was indeed brave, and despite the huge casualties, they still insisted on attacking from the ladders. The threats of the castle on both sides were lifted, and the Japanese soldiers like tides set up more than ten ladders and climbed up one after another.

**The machine gunners at the forefront were constantly hit by artillery fire, and the machine gunners changed one after another, but the machine guns were still spitting out flames, hitting the barrel hot. The Japanese army piled up a layer of corpses under the steep wall, either blown into pieces by grenades or beehively bombed by dense bullets from the machine gun. The powerful firepower of the automatic weapons possessed by the 36th Brigade allowed the Japanese army to experience the taste of steel.

After three strong attacks, they were repelled. The attacking troops of the Nagase Brigade completely lost their courage and confidence. Faced with the bullets like water splashing, the Japanese soldiers were so scared that they lay on the ground when they heard the submachine gun and the light machine gun sounded. They just didn't move, but the commander refused to move.

On the periphery of Yuwang Mountain, Chen Zhongshu Brigade of the 60th Army concentrated all the artillery fire and bombarded the Japanese positions. The Chinese team had never been so comfortable. They could only suppress the Japanese and had no choice but to fight back. Xiao Jiaji, a small market town, was covered by such dense artillery fire from Chinese artillery. But the Japanese army was really impressed by the level of fortifications constructed by the fortifications. The fortifications were so complete and scientific. Although they were attacked by artillery fire in the Chinese team, the fortifications were not damaged much. The fierce Japanese army still relied on the strong fortifications to stubbornly resist the attack of the Chinese team. Brigade Commander Chen Zhongshu was anxious. At this time, the machine artillery battalion of the **36 Brigade, led by Yue Hanping, rushed to Xiao Jiaji.

Hearing the war report, Yue Hanping sneered, "Braft Commander Chen, I have been thinking about how to deal with the Japanese tanks and fortifications. Now let you see my masterpiece." Chen Zhongshu was stunned, "Braft Commander Yue, do you have war defense artillery?" Yue Hanping shook his head, "It is more powerful than war defense artillery." After saying that, he waved his hand, "Push to the battalion commander, push the guy up."

"Good guy, can this thing work?" Chen Zhongshu saw the big guy launched from the Machine Cannon Battalion of **36th Brigade.

It turned out that Yue Hanping felt a headache about the serious shortage of ** artillery during this period. Without artillery, he could not attack. The Japanese often resisted stubbornly with their strong fortifications, but there was no way. Yue Hanping suddenly remembered the "flying thunder cannon" of the People's Liberation Army in the Huaihai Campaign. That guy was powerful, simple to manufacture, low cost, and could be manufactured on a large scale. So he instructed the engineer company commander Qin Zuhua to create "flying thunder cannons".

The flying thunder cannon is actually a tool to use gasoline barrels as a launcher to shoot out large-sized bags. Yue Hanping told Qin Zuhua the information about the flying thunder cannon he had in history. Qin Zuhua was a top student who graduated from the engineering department. Hearing the introduction of the brigade commander, he could fully meet the requirements of the brigade commander by calculating the charge amount by himself. Therefore, under the research of Qin Zuhua's team, the giant cannon modeled on the flying thunder cannon of the People's Liberation Army began to enter the development stage.

Yue Hanping directly plagiarized the technical achievements of the ** army from the situation mastered by later generations. Soon, three gasoline barrels with a diameter of 50 cm and a length of 90 cm were lifted out. The engineers were preparing to have an experiment. The caliber was so large, but the cannon body was less than one meter. The old artillery soldiers of the **36th Brigade shook their heads repeatedly after seeing it. No one had seen such a strange cannon. The projectile barrel was placed in a dirt pit that was tilted on the side, and the soldiers made a substitute that had not been put into the ** to fire.

**The bag was launched, but the range was not satisfactory, only fifty meters!

The distance of the projectile is not difficult for the engineers. If you want to fight further, just increase the amount of gunpowder in the gasoline drum pharmacy room. The key is how to accurately control the landing point. Everyone unanimously asked to continue experimenting to see how powerful the real ** bag is? The ** bag is shot, but then it becomes a celestial girl! Everyone was stunned!

The engineers picked up the broken bags and compared them repeatedly, and then found the problem. The bags of the shots cannot be separated from gunpowder, and they can be tied. The bags are wrapped with hemp ropes and sacks. They can easily catch fire and disperse. What should I do? Qin Zuhua thought for a moment and solved this problem was very simple, and he used iron wire to tie the bags. After experiments, the re-bound bags will never splash like flowers like a goddess.

After repeated adjustments and calculation of the charge, the charge amount of the flying thunder cannon developed by Qin Zuhua was at least five kilograms. The blasting force was greatly improved, and even the appearance was significantly different. In order to minimize the air resistance during the ejection, the engineers learned from the appearance of the artillery shells, and the square ** bags were tied to the front and round back.

After the debugging is completed, three thunder cannons are fired together. After each launch, Qin Zuhua will poke his head out and carefully observe the landing point of the bag. Then he turns around and directs other soldiers to readjust the pit where the gasoline barrel is placed. Adjust the shooting accuracy of the gasoline barrel by filling or reducing soil.

In order to improve the blasting accuracy of the flying thunder cannon, the engineers thought of a lot of ways. Pure visual inspection is definitely not enough. After each launch, the soldiers had to adjust the slope of the earth pit and the angle of the barrel support to control the gun body to ensure that the landing point of the shell will not deviate. The conditions of ** are better. Qin Zuhua thought of installing an artillery angle meter on the gasoline barrel, and only needs to adjust the angle of the gasoline barrel body according to the measured angle, and then they can continue to fire, greatly saving adjustment time. The shooting frequency is accelerated and the shooting accuracy is ensured.

Therefore, according to Qin Zuhua's idea, after a sight is installed on the top or tail of the flying thunder cannon, after each launch, the engineers can quickly adjust the angle of the gun body according to the angle meter without repeatedly digging soil and adding pits. This greatly shortens the launch interval and basically achieves uninterrupted launch. The engineers can provide operators with a reference through the data they explored by themselves.

Under the repeated calculations of Company Commander Qin Zuhua, his engineer company soldiers also proposed a complete set of detailed data for the design of the flying thunder shells. They clearly set the shell weight (** pack weight), the length of the fuse, the amount of the push-fired gunpowder charge, and other details to facilitate the imitation of the soldiers of other troops. After repeated testing by Qin Zuhua and his engineer company, the flying thunder cannon with a range of 70 meters and a load of 5-6 kilograms was successfully developed.

Today, Yue Hanping used the actual combat to test his own results. Yue Hanping directed the soldiers to dig tunnels and approached the Japanese position. Then he pushed 20 thunder cannons from the tunnel to 60 meters ahead of the Japanese position. He lit the fuse at the tail of the gasoline barrel, and twenty loud "boom" sounded, and twenty packs were pushed out of the gasoline barrel (muzzle). When the bottom fire burned, the fuse of the pack was ignited with the flow of white smoke. The raindrops fell on the Japanese position like a 5-kilogram large pack, and the huge explosion waves shook the Japanese soldiers into the sky. The huge explosive power of the fierce and powerful bomb ruthlessly blew up all objects on the position. The smoke dissipated and the enemy's bunker disappeared. The barbed wire at the front of the Japanese position was blown to the point of twist and break, and the position was broken.

Two consecutive waves of fire, forty flying thunder shells were thrown to the enemy's positions. The opponent finally saw the power of these white cloth bags falling from the sky, and the enemy's frontier fortifications were basically destroyed!

Although the range is short, the destructive power of the flying thunder cannon is stronger than that of some heavy artillery. Its explosion not only destroys the enemy fortifications, but also produces amazing lethality for the enemy combatants, the earth-shaking sounds made by the flying thunder cannon bombs when they explode! The Japanese soldiers exclaimed: "On the night, the Chinese people have heavy artillery that is stronger than us!"

Chen Zhongshu's brigade captured the Japanese position without any effort. Some of the Japanese corpses on the position were bombed and there was no human form at all, while others were fine. It seemed that they were shocked to death. Chen Zhongshu looked at the results of the war and was so shocked that he stuck out his tongue, "Be good, it's amazing! This guy is so powerful." "Brave Commander Yue, what's your name for this secret weapon?"

Yue Hanping wanted to say "Flying Thunder Cannon", but then he thought about it and said with a smile: "Braft Commander Chen, I'm called a conscience-free cannon! The son of the turtle, little Japanese, must use this kind of conscience-free cannon to bombard the dog-donish beast!"

Chen Zhongshu whispered, "Braft Commander Yue, you really have it. Your unconscience-free cannon is good! It is simple to make and extremely powerful. It seems that I have to study hard and use it for more than a dozen of his subjects."
Chapter completed!