Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

The firing rate of the Type 10 mountain gun is 14 rounds per minute. If operated by special forces, this rate can be increased to rounds per minute.

Special forces soldiers always keep the bullet time on when operating the artillery. They all have super physical strength and super fast reaction speed, and can put the shell into the barrel and fire it the moment the shell exits the barrel.

Seven Type 7 mountain guns poured fire on the Japanese artillery positions at a rate of 14 rounds per minute. Most of the Japanese artillerymen were killed or injured immediately. Several artillery pieces were destroyed directly or indirectly, and even some ammunition boxes were affected by the artillery fire and caused huge explosions.

The Japanese artillery positions were set up in a rather crude manner, mainly because it was impossible to dig artillery bunkers in the middle of winter, resulting in the artillery being placed on bare ground. If a shell exploded 20 meters away, the Japanese artillery crew would be killed by shrapnel.

Seven artillery pieces fired for one minute, with 98 shells each, creating a large bombing area that covered half of the Japanese artillery group.

But the Japs knew they couldn't dig bunkers, so they scattered their artillery positions very widely, so at least some artillery pieces were not affected.

Those artillery pieces that were not affected were also brave. They did not run away even after being bombed, but immediately began to fight back.

But the artillery of the Punishment Army was hidden in the bunker, and the Japanese artillery shells could only blow up a handful of soil on the bunker and could not even touch the main body of the concrete bunker.

Instead, their artillery fire exposed their position. Li Dapao immediately locked onto the Japanese artillery and adjusted the muzzle to attack them.

This small-scale artillery battle lasted for more than ten minutes. The Japanese artillery suffered heavy casualties and began to retreat. Li Dapao also ordered the shelling to stop. They fired too fast and the gun barrels turned red. If they fired again, the barrels would explode.

In this battle, the Punishment Army suffered no casualties, only some soil on the bunker was blown away.

On the other hand, 13 Japanese artillery pieces were destroyed, 5 were damaged, and more than 300 Japanese artillerymen were killed.

When the Japanese artillery regiment commander learned of such heavy losses, he became furious. He rushed to the artillery position and beat and scolded the officers below.

"Baga! The enemy's artillery is defended by bunkers. You should have retreated immediately when you were hit by artillery fire! You bastards! It was your misjudgment that caused the empire to lose precious artillery!"

Several artillery officers were speechless after being scolded by him. The Japanese regiment commander went up and slapped them one by one. The officers stood at attention and put their faces close to him to be slapped.

At this time, a Japanese soldier ran over and shouted: "Sir, the general ordered us to use heavy artillery to continue attacking outside the range of the enemy's artillery. We must completely destroy the enemy's position!"

When the Japanese regiment commander heard that there were more orders, he temporarily let a few officers go and ordered the four 4mm heavy artillery to prepare for firing.

The four heavy artillery pieces equipped by the Japanese were Type 4 105mm field guns, one of the most commonly equipped heavy artillery pieces by the Japanese. This type of artillery weighs 2.5 tons, has a range of 10km, and can fire Type 18 grenades weighing up to kg.

The Japanese artillery immediately set up positions and launched artillery fire from outside the range of the Type 41 mountain artillery on the Punishment Army Hill.

After a burst of rumbling artillery fire, the shell streaked across the sky and landed accurately on the high ground. The 18kg warhead smashed into the soil, ejecting hundreds of kilograms of soil and creating a large pit about half a meter deep and about 5 meters wide.

Although the fortifications on the high ground were complete, casualties still occurred under the heavy artillery attacks of the Japanese.

Four artillery pieces concentrated their attack on Hill No. 1. An underground trench on Hill No. 1 was hit by three shells in succession. The soil buried on the top of the tunnel was blown up, and a shell hit the concrete cover, causing a huge explosion.

Although the explosion did not penetrate the concrete slab, the shock wave still killed the three clones hiding inside.

Li Qinwu, who had been hiding in the island space, sensed casualties and immediately ordered his clone to run back to the headquarters and enter the island space through the portal to hide from the artillery fire. Only sentries were left on the position to watch the movements of the Japanese troops.

In the island space, Li Qinwu found Li Dapao and asked, "Can you find a way to destroy the Japanese cannon?"

Li Dapao shook his head.

"No, we can tell it's heavy artillery. The range of heavy artillery is over 10km. Our Type mountain artillery can't even reach it. We can only bear with it.

But there is no need to worry too much. The power of the Japanese artillery is not very strong. Look, after such a long time of bombing, only three people were killed or injured. It doesn’t matter if they bomb more…”

Li Dapao had just finished speaking when a sentry who was watching the position outside sent a warning through mind sharing that a cannon was about to be destroyed!

Li Qinwu was shocked and immediately got the sentry's view. He saw a half-buried artillery bunker with blue smoke coming out of it. The concrete roof was blown open, several bunker walls were destroyed, and a Type 1 mountain cannon installed inside was also smashed.

Although the concrete thickness of this bunker reached half a meter and a large number of sandbags were placed on the top, during the previous artillery battle, this bunker had been marked on the map by the Japanese sentries and sent to the artillery positions in the rear.

The Japanese's four Type 4 105mm guns cleared the firing points one by one. The four cannons fired three rounds at the bunker, firing 12 17-kilogram shells. Although the accuracy of long-range artillery attacks was not high and many shells fell next to the bunker, as long as three shells fell on the bunker, it could be successfully destroyed.

Li Qinwu's heart sank. If the Japanese called out names one by one and blew up the artillery bunkers on the positions like this, then the Japanese Type 41 mountain artillery could join in the bombardment, and they would be able to take down the high ground with artillery.

Seeing Li Qinwu's serious expression, Li Dapao comforted him, "Master, there's no need to be nervous. The Japanese's Type 38 artillery has poor accuracy at such a long distance. If they want to destroy one of our artillery bunkers, they will probably have to fire three or four rounds. The Japanese definitely don't have enough shells."

Li Qinwu shook his head.

"No, you are relying on luck. We don't know how many shells the Japs have. If they use their heavy artillery to destroy our artillery bunkers, their Type 41 mountain artillery will be able to get in close and shoot at our machine gun bunkers. If we lose these bunkers, it will be difficult for us to fight this battle. We must knock down the Japs' heavy artillery!"

Li Qinwu had a stern look on his face. He had already made up his mind to go out and fight the Japanese. It was getting darker and night was about to fall, and he was about to enter the home court of his Punishment Army!

He immediately ordered the other clones: "Brothers, prepare your weapons, we will launch the attack after nightfall!

Li Jianfeng, have the special forces go out for reconnaissance and find out where the Japanese heavy artillery is. We don't expect you to sneak in and destroy it, just a general location will be enough!"

After saying that, he opened the clone system and spent money to create 300 clones with full vision points. Li Qinwu equipped these clones with Type rifles, letting them act as snipers and provide night vision support.

After dispersing the 300 snipers with full vision points into the team, Li Qinwu waited for dark.