Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

The next day, the sun rose high, and the golden sunlight sprinkled on the snow, exposing the results of last night's battle to the world.

A large number of Japanese corpses were lying in the snow. Most of them had been torn to pieces by heavy machine guns, and were in a broken state. It made people who saw so many corpses for the first time feel nauseous.

Not only the Japanese who were under attack couldn't sleep last night, but the Northeast Army on the other side of the river couldn't sleep either. There were gunshots and artillery fire on the south bank, and the intensity of the battle was like two army-level units facing off.

The Northeast Army had a favorable impression of this armed group claiming to be spontaneously organized by the civilians. After all, if the Japanese wiped them out, they would have to face the Japanese directly in the next wave. They hoped that the winner last night would be the Punishment Army.

After dawn, the Northeast Army was stunned when they saw the other side of the river covered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers. This was a great victory!

They also saw the disciplinary soldiers coming down from the high ground and going to the riverside to collect the Japanese weapons and equipment, and the disciplinary soldiers waved at them.

The Northeast Army soldiers reported it immediately, and the reporters who had fled to the north bank because of the Japanese attack ran back to the south bank and came to the high ground to request an interview with Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo was happy to publicize the punitive army's achievements and was interviewed next to four captured heavy artillery pieces.

Reporters surrounded Li Weiguo, holding up their cameras and taking pictures, chattering and asking all kinds of questions, which made Li Weiguo a little overwhelmed.

"Everyone, please be quiet. Ask questions one by one. You go first!"

Li Weiguo pointed to a Chinese reporter, who was a little excited and asked, "Captain Li Weiguo! Excuse me, were the gunshots last night the Punishment Army attacking the Japanese invasion force?"

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Yes, last night our soldiers boldly walked out of the high ground and launched a night attack on the Japanese Second Division.

Our troops transported the mortars down the high ground and approached the enemy positions 1 km away to fire. After a night of heroic fighting, our officers and soldiers killed about 4000 to 5000 enemy troops! "

Reporters were shocked. 4000 to 5000 people were wiped out? This killed a quarter of the 2nd Division. If it was a patrol unit, it would have lost its combat effectiveness!

"Captain Li Weiguo, may I ask how your unit's casualties were when it inflicted such heavy casualties on the Japanese troops?"

Li Weiguo straightened his military cap and put on a somewhat sad expression.

"Last night, more than 300 people were killed or wounded. They were all heroes who died bravely in the battlefield against the invaders. May their souls return to the ancestral temple and enjoy offerings from generation to generation. May the people remember them.

Of course, in addition to losing these brave soldiers, we also lost a lot of weapons. Last night, we used a lot of mortars to inflict heavy casualties on the devils, and now the mortar shells have been used up. "

As soon as this was said, the reporters looked at each other in bewilderment. This seemed to be a military secret, right? Wouldn't it be bad to tell them this information? If the devil knew about it, wouldn't the Punishment Army be in a passive position?

Li Weiguo actually did this on purpose. He just wanted to spread the news that there were insufficient artillery shells so that the Japanese would continue to attack the high ground. Otherwise, how could he drain the Japanese blood?

As for mortar shells, there are indeed not many left. After yesterday night's bombing, each mortar can only get more than 20 shells. With such a small number of shells, there will be nothing left after a battle.

Li Qinwu didn't know where to get the supply of artillery shells for the time being, but fortunately, there were enough shells for the Type 41 mountain artillery to support them in fighting several tough battles.

However, the consumption of the heavy machine gun made Li Qinwu a little confused. This thing almost accompanied him from the beginning to the end. Now, the barrel of the heavy machine gun is broken. The 12.7mm bullet has a large caliber and causes great wear and tear on the gun.

On average, each of the 12 heavy machine guns had replaced three barrels, leaving only two barrels remaining and not much ammunition. It was estimated that they would be gone after one or two tough battles. Li Qinwu was thinking about where to get some useful heavy weapons.

The reporters took notes in their notebooks. A foreign reporter raised his hand and asked, "Commander, are those four heavy artillery pieces behind you what you captured last night?"

Li Weiguo nodded.

"Yes, the main target of our night attack last night was these four heavy artillery pieces. Everyone, please pay attention. These are the Type 105 10mm howitzers equipped by the Japanese Army. They can strike our high ground from km away. If we leave them alone, the Japanese can remove our fortresses one by one from a safe position, and our punitive army will have to retreat.

However, this night attack was very successful. Our attacking force successfully got close to the heavy artillery. The original goal was to destroy the heavy artillery, but we did not expect that the Japanese combat effectiveness was so weak. Our soldiers still had enough strength in the hail of bullets and captured the artillery.

Look, 4 heavy artillery pieces and 12 artillery vehicles, with a total of more than 600 artillery shells of various types, have all been seized. Now our punitive forces have the ability to strike enemies 10 kilometers away."

The reporters took pictures of the four cannons, exclaiming in amazement.

Li Weiguo smiled, asked the reporters to move away from the artillery, and said, "Everyone, please step back a little. From now on, our artillery will bombard the Japanese troops continuously until the Japanese retreat to 10 kilometers away. From now on, the area within 10 kilometers outside the Nenjiang Bridge is a restricted area for the Japanese!"

The reporters took several steps back with surprise on their faces. It was great that they could capture the artillery bombardment scene!

Under the camera of the reporter, the soldiers of the Punishment Army carried the shells into the barrels, and then stuffed the propellant barrels wrapped in brass shells into the barrels. After Li Weiguo shouted fire, the four cannons roared in unison.

At this time, the Japanese soldiers 6 kilometers away were still licking their wounds when they suddenly heard a sharp whistling sound of an object passing through the air from the sky. The next moment, explosions occurred everywhere at the location where the largest number of Japanese soldiers gathered, causing casualties again for the Japanese soldiers who had been frightened all night.

Li Jianfeng was lying in the snow in the distance. He looked at the place where the largest number of Japanese soldiers gathered, muttering to himself, reporting the Japanese soldiers' coordinates to the artillery in the rear, guiding the shells to fall one by one and kill the Japanese soldiers.

Each artillery piece was assigned to a special forces observation group. These special forces members hid in the woods around the Japanese base and reported the accurate coordinates of the Japanese base to the artillery, allowing the four artillery pieces to explode among the Japanese group as if they had eyes.

The Japanese troops were thrown into chaos by the bombing. Lieutenant General Duomen was furious. He already knew that four of his heavy artillery pieces had been captured by the enemy. Now looking at the artillery fire, wasn't it those four heavy artillery pieces?

Lieutenant General Jiro Domon of Hongwen could only order his soldiers to retreat 10km away.

During the retreat, Jiro Domon was horrified to find that the artillery shells of the Punishment Army seemed to have eyes and kept bombarding their retreat route. Each shell could accurately take away a dozen soldiers.

As a last resort, he had to order his soldiers to abandon marching in formation and disperse into smaller units so that the enemy's artillery fire would not take away so many soldiers at once.

But the mighty Second Division had to break up into such small groups to escape. Doesn't this look as embarrassing as a defeated army?

Jiro Domon felt humiliated. When he finally led his troops out of the shelling range, the Japanese intelligence agency obtained an interview with a reporter. The highest commander of the punitive army, Li Weiguo, commented that his army was pitifully weak. This made Jiro Domon Laodeng, who had been ravaged by a night of shelling, faint from anger. If the military doctor had not rescued him in time, Laodeng would have died on the spot.