At the same time as Wang Chengzhu's hand fell, the eight gunners suddenly pulled the muskets in their hands.
During the firing, the gunners knelt down on one knee, bent over and covered their ears with their hands.
Boom boom…
Amidst the rumble of cannon fire.
As the gun barrel suddenly retracted, the muzzle suddenly burst into orange flames. Hot waves of wind swept past, and a large cloud of smoke and dust was raised on the gun position.
"continue…"
Wang Chengzhu’s rough voice shouted:
"We need to shoot out all the cannonballs in the shortest possible time."
At a distance of about 7 kilometers, the precision method is used to shoot Zhuyuan, and the enemy airport can be hit without pre-shooting in advance.
certainly.
If it is a precise target of the enemy, such as the enemy's gun tower or guard tower, and there are only one or two guns, you can only conduct a test firing in advance.
At Wang Chengzhu's urging, the gunner stood up and opened the gun's breech, turned around and took the 75mm high-explosive shell from the ammunition hand, quickly stuffed it into the gun's bore, and then closed the gun's breech.
The gunner held the matchlock and pulled it back sharply. The gunner bent down to avoid the explosive sound of the cannon.
This set of movements is crisp and perfect.
This time, Wang Chengzhu brought to perform the mission the best gunner of the 1st Artillery Battalion and the most experienced gunner of the new regiment.
The conventional rate of fire of the M1A1 75mm mountain gun is 5 rounds per minute, but under the operation of an experienced gunner, it can reach 7 to 8 rounds per minute.
The initial velocity of this 75mm mountain gun shell is not very high, at 381 meters per second. It takes about 20 seconds for the shell to come out of the barrel and hit the airport.
So when the second and third rounds of shells rushed out of the muzzle, the first round of shells was still flying in mid-air.
"Move quickly!"
Wang Chengzhu's eyes showed calmness and murderous aura, and he issued orders loudly.
As soon as the third round of shells came out of the chamber, the gunner turned around and took the shell from the ammunition hand, turned around and stuffed it into the barrel, closed the breech and pulled the matchlock.
…
"Long live the Locust!"
"Long live the Locust!"
"..."
At the same time, at Taiyuan Wusu Airport, under the passionate speech of Lieutenant Commander Mitsutake Hosono, the fanaticism and bushido spirit in the hearts of the Japanese pilots and crew members were completely ignited.
There they shouted in unison "Long live the locust."
The Japs were shouting so feverishly that the shells reached their heads, and they didn't even hear the whistling sound of the shells piercing the sky.
suddenly…
boom!
A violent explosion sounded, startling Hosono Mitsutake and the Japanese pilots, and the shouts stopped abruptly.
Xun Sheng looked around and saw that an unknown artillery shell hit the secondary runway. In the violent explosion, fire and gunpowder smoke burst out to the surroundings almost simultaneously.
"Nani?"
Hosono Mitsutake suddenly opened his eyes and was stunned. What was going on? Where did the shells come from?
The next second, a sharp whistling sound sounded in his ears. Mitsutake Hosono's expression suddenly changed, and he was about to take action, but it was already too late, the shell had already reached his head.
Immediately afterwards, the shells landed in the middle of the plane.
The 75mm mountain cannon shells are not that powerful, but half of the aircraft are already equipped with aerial bombs.
The mountain artillery shell hit the aircraft carrying the aerial bomb, causing the aerial bomb to explode. The power of the aerial bomb was much greater than that of the 75mm mountain artillery bomb.
Boom boom boom…
The Japanese plane parked on the secondary runway was followed by a series of explosions, like a string of firecrackers, exploding violently one after another.
A violent explosion erupted at the airport, and one of the 75mm shells hit a Type 97 bomber loaded with aviation bombs.
The Type 97 bomber can carry 1,000 kilograms of aerial bombs. One aerial bomb carried is 100 kilograms, which is extremely powerful.
The power of a 100-kilogram aerial bomb is at least as powerful as the power of dozens of mountain artillery shells exploding simultaneously.
Following the explosion of the 1,000-kilogram aerial bomb, a huge cloud of explosive smoke and fireballs rose up. A shock wave visible to the naked eye swept across, and several surrounding aircraft were destroyed as if they were shattered.
Because Hosono Mitsutake was standing on a Nakajima fighter jet, the air wave from the explosion suddenly came over and directly lifted Hosono Mitsutake away.
In mid-air, Hosono Mitsutake was like a leaf blown up by the wind, spitting out a mouthful of blood and hurting his internal organs.
Then he fell heavily to the ground and made no sound.
The fanatical eyes and madness on the faces of the Japanese pilots and bomber crews have long since disappeared.
Instead, they were panicked. These pilots who had just come off the training ground did not have much practical experience.
Some are just trained fanatical worship, and a crazy and twisted Bushido spirit.
Faced with this sudden bombardment, the Japanese soldiers suddenly panicked and lay on the ground without daring to move. Some pilots even ran away and ran like crazy.
The deputy commander of the 17th Flying Regiment took out his pistol and shot two escaping pilots to death, thus stopping the flight.
"The enemy's artillery position is in the northeast, take the plane into the sky and kill the enemy!"
The two captains of the flying team of the 17th Flying Regiment have quite a lot of actual combat experience. They can roughly judge the location of the enemy's artillery position based on the flight trajectory of the artillery shells.
Upon hearing the order, the pilots ran towards the fighters and bombers on the secondary runway.
However, at this time, the second round of artillery shells had arrived. Amidst the rumbling explosions, the explosion smoke once again enveloped the entire airport, and another aircraft carrying aerial bombs was hit by the artillery shells.
…
at the same time.
The special agent team, who had left Wusu Airport by car but had not yet arrived at Taiyuan City, heard a rumbling sound coming from the distance.
Sitting in the driver's cabin of the lead car, the communications soldier and adjutant Goro Oka on the co-pilot sounded puzzled:
"Major General, I seem to hear thunder."
Sitting in the driver's seat was Yamamoto Kazuki. Although he now held the rank of major general, he drove the car himself.
"How can there be thunder in this season?"
Yamamoto Kazuki frowned slightly, listened carefully for a moment, and then his expression suddenly changed:
"The sound of gunfire came from the airport."
Koro Goro asked: "Did an aerial bomb explode?"
"Go back to the airport immediately!"
Yamamoto Kazuki listened carefully for a while, and his originally cold expression turned gloomy:
"The airport is under fire!"
Yamamoto Kazuki drove the modified 94-type truck to a wider road, turned around, and drove towards the airport again, followed closely by several vehicles behind him.
…
Due to the loud explosion of aerial bombs.
Far away in the inner city of Taiyuan, Yoshio Iwamatsu, Masa Hanagani and others at the First Army Headquarters also heard the explosion.
"what's going on?"
Iwamatsu Yoshio was suddenly startled. The old Japanese's first subconscious thought was not that the airport was under bombardment.
But I was wondering if the Eighth Route Army was attacking Taiyuan?
As the Eighth Route Army grew stronger and suffered several consecutive defeats, Iwamatsu Yoshio was now frightened.
The Eighth Route Army was not the Jin-Sui Army. It was pretending to be a fox and a tiger. The Eighth Route Army really dared to attack Taiyuan.
"Your Excellency, Commander, there seems to be an explosion coming from the southeast."
A guard hurried in and reported to Iwamatsu Yoshio.
"Find out what happened immediately." Yoshio Iwamatsu ordered with a gloomy face.
"Hi!"
The guard paused, turned around and left in a hurry.
Yoshio Iwamatsu put his right hand on the phone on the table. At this moment, he wanted to take a plane and leave Taiyuan.
After a while, Chief of Staff Hanatani Masaru and Deputy Chief of Staff Masao Miyazaki walked in quickly, and Yoshio Iwamatsu quickly removed his hand from the phone.
"Your Majesty Commander, what happened?"
Hanatani asked.
Yoshio Iwamatsu shook his head solemnly, saying that he didn't know either.
Ding ding ding…
The phone on the table rang, and Yoshio Iwamatsu answered the phone:
"Moxi moxi."
"Nani?"
After hanging up the phone, Yoshio Iwamatsu said with a gloomy face: "Musu Airport was bombarded."
The expressions of Masao Hanatani and Masao Miyazaki changed drastically at the same time.
Today is the day when the 17th Flying Group arrived at Wusu Airport. At this time, it was bombarded. The 17th Flying Group was afraid...
…
Three kilometers away from Wusu Airport, on the turret occupied by the Sharp Sword Squadron.
Duan Peng and Wang Yousheng watched as the shells flying from the direction of Wujin Mountain continued to fall into Wusu Airport, and huge explosions of fireballs and gunpowder smoke rose up.
The two of them were in a very comfortable mood.
This time the shooting Zhuyuan was measured by Duan Peng himself according to the precision method, and it was extremely accurate.
Almost all the shells landed very close to the secondary runway.
At this time, Wang Yousheng finally knew why the captain had to wait a while before firing.
The captain guessed that the Japanese plane was going on a mission and would be equipped with aerial bombs. These aerial bombs were to feed the Japanese soldiers themselves.
Originally, the new regiment had 8 mountain guns and 320 rounds of artillery shells, which would be difficult to destroy all the Japanese aircraft.
But as long as the Japs are giving themselves extra food, it will be difficult not to destroy all the Japs planes on the runway!
"Shoot Zhu Yuan like this, use the fastest speed to shoot out all the cannonballs!"
Duan Peng took the walkie-talkie and gave Wang Chengzhu the last order.
Then he called Wang Xikui: "Xizi, let's evacuate now and be ready to respond!"
"yes!"
Wang Xikui's voice rang in Duan Peng's ears.
"withdraw!"
Duan Peng gave a loud order, and then the members of the special agent team carried the Type 92 heavy machine gun, Type 96 light machine gun, and ammunition boxes onto the truck.
All the team members jumped on the truck, which quickly started and drove in the opposite direction of the airport.
However, the sudden bombardment of Wusu Airport continued.
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