For Kyono Shunta, it is not his style to just take a beating without fighting back, nor is it the style of a proud artillery commander of the Japanese Empire. Moreover, he can also judge that the number of howitzers in the Chinese army will not be too many, otherwise it will not be possible. Possibly escaping the eyes of Imperial Intelligence.
So he decided to stand still and wait for an opportunity to counterattack.
Of course, it is sheer nonsense to ask the frontline troops to send people to investigate now. He relies on the analysis and calculations of the Army Aviation plane that just flew over and his professional team.
And he still has to wait for the second shot from the Chinese army. He knows that the first shot is usually a test shot, so that he can more accurately judge their position based on the impact point.
Wait, there must be an artillery observation post of the Chinese army nearby. Kyono Shunta immediately reacted and turned to look at Captain Kuraki Guiguchi who also reacted.
Kuraki stood up quickly with an ugly expression, turned around and rushed into the tent of the headquarters. He wanted to immediately notify the surrounding infantry and search the nearby area as soon as possible to find these damn Zina scouts, even if they were torn to pieces. Duan would not let him vent his anger.
Because he knew that this time the artillery position was found and shelled by the Chinese army, and he, the liaison staff responsible for coordinating the coordination between the 6th Division and friendly heavy artillery units, had to bear a very heavy responsibility.
Their 6th Division found the artillery position, and their 6th Division was also responsible for the deployment and security of the position. Now it was discovered by the Chinese army. He and the infantry commander responsible for guarding were suspected of dereliction of duty. If If the artillery position is really destroyed by the Chinese army, then he will face the fate of committing hara-kiri on the spot. There is no second ending.
Therefore, his only hope now is to find those Zina investigators, catch them for interrogation, and maybe reduce his guilt slightly.
However, Kyono Shunta knew that even if China's artillery observation posts were found now, it would be of no help to the subsequent battle. Because he could tell from this round of shelling by the Chinese army that they had found the correct shooting position, and they would just bombard according to the current parameters.
You must know that artillery is not a missile. Even if the same parameters are set, the impact points of each cannon cannot overlap, because there is a certain degree of error in the artillery, which is often referred to as the impact point dispersion of artillery shells. Artillery with high accuracy has a small dispersion range.
However, no matter how high the accuracy of the howitzer is, it still has the area-killing firepower of a short barrel. Therefore, compared with a cannon with a long barrel, the spread of shells is still relatively large, and it is almost impossible for the impact points of two shells to overlap.
This is also the reason why experienced veterans on the battlefield choose to hide in exploded bomb craters when avoiding enemy shelling.
Therefore, in general howitzer shelling, as long as the impact point explodes near the target, there will be no need to strive for excellence and adjust the parameters to the ultimate level of accuracy. Because even if the parameters are completely consistent with the target position, the error of the artillery itself will cause the impact point to deviate.
The correct operation is to fire the most shells in the shortest time as long as the impact point deviation is not large, so that the deviation of the shells itself can cause coverage and damage in a certain area.
You can escape the first shot, how can you escape my eight or ten shots?
Therefore, in the view of Kyono Shunta, a professional artillery officer, China's artillery observation posts have successfully completed their tasks.
But what he was thinking about now was not how to find these Chinese scouts.
Although, in his heart, he also had some admiration for these Zina soldiers who risked their lives to lurk into the center of their own territory surrounded by heavy troops.
But he has more important things to do now.
Waiting is painful, but for Kyono Shunta, he must not wait so passively.
His series of thinking and decision-making time may seem very long in description, but in fact it only took less than 3 seconds. This also shows that Kyono Shunta is indeed a very decisive and professional officer.
Just before he issued a new order, another round of artillery hit the Japanese position.
This time the artillery shell landed very accurately, falling right in the middle of the Japanese artillery position. The two shells exploded almost right next to each other, blowing away more than a dozen Japanese ammunition soldiers and blowing up a truck that had just been unloaded with shells into a pile of parts and a rising ball of fire.
However, this explosion was still some distance away from the four 150-mm howitzer emplacements deployed by the Japanese army in the last row. Even the Japanese artillerymen hiding in the deep pit of the emplacement, with their mouths open and squatting with their heads in their hands, No one was killed.
At this time, it was also seen that the Japs in this period were really not afraid of death. Just a few seconds after the explosion stopped, many Japs ran towards the burning truck with fire-extinguishing tools. They wanted to kill them in a short time. Extinguish the fire and prevent it from spreading.
Kyono Shunta ignored the explosion scene and did not even ask about the losses of the troops. Instead, he quickly issued a series of orders to his officers.
He didn't have to worry about contacting the Air Lines plane. He believed that Guiguo Cangmu, who was liaising with various ministries next to the radio and telephone in the tent, was already doing so.
The first emergency order he issued was to quickly move out the artillery shells piled on the gun emplacements. Before the target is determined, piling artillery shells on the gun emplacement is asking for death.
The second order was to ask several of his officers to analyze the trajectory and distance based on the enemy's two shellings and subsequent shellings, so as to try to know the approximate position of the enemy's artillery.
For him, even if he misses the enemy, hitting it near the enemy's artillery can scare the enemy. It would be better if the enemy's artillery withdraws because of fear of losses.
Just as his order was issued, the third round of shelling from the Chinese army arrived again. This time the shells landed very close to the Japanese gun emplacement.
However, since the two impact points were located on the sides of the Japanese gun positions, the thick sandbags piled up by the Japanese played a vital protective role.
It was only fragments of flying shells that took away a piece of the skull of a Japanese artilleryman at a gun emplacement. The air wave from the explosion also injured several Japanese soldiers. The heavy and thick barrel of the Japanese gun was only scratched by flying earth and rocks. A few patches of paint, but no damage to the gun.
But the Japanese soldiers, with blood-red eyes and braving the billowing smoke, tried their best to carry the shells out.
At this time, for these devils, it doesn't matter if they die, saving the artillery is the most important thing.
The Japanese seemed to have been blessed by Amaterasu. In the first three rounds of shelling by Li Han and others, within the huge damage range of the 105mm shells, the explosion of 6 shells did not damage any of the guns. Damage, luck is really too good.
