Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

"I'm a big idiot if I don't say more."

"Heavy artillery with a caliber of no less than 150 mm?"

"Or a large-scale artillery group with hundreds of them?"

Hearing the above two keywords, Onodera and Deng's face suddenly became extremely solemn. He expected the Eighth Route Army to be very brutal, but he never expected that the other side would be so arrogant.

Doesn't artillery steel cost money?

We are also people of the Republic of China. Steel mills in Guojian have closed down one after another. How come you can't use up all the steel of the Eighth Route Army? You really have to use artillery shells to kill people!

That's equivalent to the firepower of several independent heavy artillery brigades!

Using this kind of campaign suppression-level offensive means just to deal with a second-line brigade-level infantry unit? Don't you think it's a bit of a waste of talent?

However, although he was surprised, the old devil's fighting spirit was not defeated. He quickly adjusted his mentality, and then ordered the communications staff beside him:

"Quick! Notify the front-line troops"

Before Onodera and Deng finished speaking, he was rudely interrupted by a thunderous sound like a muffled thunder.

In the air, one could see curved ballistic trajectories extending continuously to the fortifications deep in the "Maginot".

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The shells exploded on the ground, creating a sea of ​​fire.

Under the watchful eyes of the high-ranking Japanese military officials in Jiyuan, the bombardment of the Eighth Route Army became more and more intensive, and the targets of the bombardment gradually spread from scattered small dots to a brilliant sea of ​​fire.

Such a magnificent war picture made the old devils completely realize the gap between the enemy and us.

"Damn, it's really a large-caliber heavy artillery! This amount of projection is really a ghost!"

"The Special High Technology Department, this bunch of rubbish, actually let the enemy gather hundreds of heavy artillery without knowing it, what use do I have for you!"

To be honest, as one of the first senior commanders to land in the Republic of China, Onodera and Deng had a rich personal resume.

At the peak of his military career, he had participated in many large-scale battles with several Type A divisions, and naturally knew that heavy artillery had the ability to determine the outcome of a war.

In the current situation, the old devils immediately realized one thing, that is, they were in big trouble.

The various types of fortifications on the first line of defense in Jiyuan were basically laid out according to the power of 105mm artillery. In the previous experiments, they would not be directly damaged even if they were hit by shells head-on.

But now.

The enemy's artillery fire has exceeded the defense capacity of the defense line. If it is not quickly suppressed and eliminated, the gateway to northern Henan will soon be occupied by the Eighth Route Army.

This will greatly affect the subsequent combat plan, and the above situation must not be allowed to happen.

Thinking of this, Onodera and Deng forced themselves to calm down. While the staff were stunned, he quickly issued a combat order.

"Notify the combat troops on the front line and ask them to find the heavy artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army at all costs and get the specific coordinates!"

"Contact Xinxiang Airport and order the Army Aviation to dispatch all fighters at hand! Even if we can't destroy the enemy's artillery, we can't let the enemy output recklessly!"

"Finally, report the current situation truthfully to Lieutenant General Shigeta Tokumatsu and Commander Tsuchihashi Ichi, and ask the two generals for tactical guidance!"

"Hi!"

Considering the security of the command system, the old devil hurriedly led the staff to move after passing on the combat orders one by one.

When he came to the underground bunker, he slumped in his chair and began to curse the navy idiots.

At this point, Onodera Kazuto did not hate his direct superior who sent him to the front line, but was full of resentment towards the theoretical friendly forces.

"Baga, if the fleet of the navy hadn't taken up too many resources, how could the army of our brother country of Japan lose to the army of the Republic of China in terms of firepower!"

"We shed blood and sweat for His Majesty Tianhuang in a foreign country, but we don't even have 3,000 guns above 105 mm. They are better, living in a hotel on the sea and drinking imported coffee, but the barrels of the guns on their warships are thicker than each other."

"If the money for building Yamato and Shuanghe could be given to the army, the Republic of China would have been in our brother country's pocket long ago!"

In fact, the lack of artillery in the Japanese army can't really be blamed on the navy for grabbing resources.

Thanks to the special matching mechanism of the Asian battlefield, before the Eighth Route Army officially rose, the Japanese did not absolutely need large-caliber heavy artillery when fighting any Asian or Asian-based army.

Even against Marshal Mai, the battalion-level Type 92 infantry guns and the regiment-level 75mm mountain and field guns were enough to adapt to the intensity of the war.

What's more, the infrastructure of the Republic of China was already very backward, and most of the roads in the provinces were dirt and gravel roads.

Once the rainy season arrives, the silt on the road can reach tens of centimeters deep. Any artillery weighing more than two tons basically has no possibility of passing.

The devils are not the Eighth Route Army. They have never had the tradition of building roads before fighting and building roads wherever they fight.

The above reasons have led to the embarrassing situation that the entire 12th Army has no heavy artillery available.

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Onodera and Deng's order was quickly passed to the front line. At this time, the artillery commander of the Manchuria and Mongolian Youth League had no confidence in the preparation stage.

Under the artillery attack of the Eighth Route Army, the artillery battalion led by Takeshi Kobori suffered heavy losses, and more than 60% of the equipment was destroyed without firing a single shot.

What's more tragic is that due to the gap in range and performance, they can only hide in fortifications and tremble, without any way to fight back.

The infantry had no advantage, and there was no chance of winning the artillery battle. This battle seemed to have become a board game from the beginning.

With the helpless mentality that those who couldn't kill me might as well kill me directly, Takeshi Kobori directly ordered the observation balloon in the rear to take off.

The commanding view, coupled with the super observation skills developed by the elite observers, allowed the Japanese to quickly discover the approximate location of the Eighth Route Army artillery position.

No matter how concealed hundreds of large-caliber artillery were, the earth-shaking firing movement could not be covered up, not to mention that it was still daytime.

"The location of the enemy's heavy artillery group was discovered."

"Azimuth xxx, distance."

Halfway through the distance report, the Japanese observer suddenly stopped moving.

This inexplicable change made the squadron leader who was waiting for data below anxious.

After losing air superiority, the observation balloon that took off alone was basically a live target, not to mention that the Eighth Route Army Air Force on the opposite side was known for its elusiveness.

Without this balloon, their artillery battalion would be at least half blind in the subsequent battles.

"Lieutenant, distance is no longer important! I saw the enemy's armored forces!"

"Ah?" (End of this chapter)