Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

In fact, even if the Sichuan Army was given a mechanized unit, they probably couldn't afford to maintain it. Tanks are known as oil-guzzling troops. Once they are started, they consume a lot of fuel, which costs money, not to mention logistics maintenance and ammunition supply. Huge investments are required in each aspect.

If we really have the money and resources, we might as well form a few mountain artillery battalions or even mortar regiments. The improvement to a unit will be obvious.

Commander Yun, who was standing by, immediately asked after learning about the performance of this lightweight instant messaging device:

"Captain Kong, when will this new technology be deployed to our division's troops? Being able to communicate at any time within a four-kilometer radius will be incredibly useful for regimental-level combat units."

"This also means that when fighting the enemy, I can clearly understand all the situations on the front lines and even directly command infantry companies or even infantry platoons. This will greatly enhance our tactical flexibility."

As a frontline troop commander, Captain Fan obviously understands the benefits of this communication equipment, but now he can only envy it.

The Eighth Route Army will definitely give priority to equipping its own troops with this kind of equipment, which can greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the troops, and will never sell it to other troops.

Moreover, this kind of thing is only useful if there are a lot of them. If there are only a few of them, they are basically of no use.

The strength of the troops with the arsenal is very powerful. If they need something, they just need to apply to their superiors. On the other hand, it is useless for the Sichuan Army to apply because the division headquarters does not have it either.

Kong Hao responded with a smile, "This new communication equipment has just been developed and is currently in the testing phase. It is generally used by mechanized troops, guard troops, and intelligence personnel. If field troops want to be equipped with it, they will have to wait a few months."

"Okay, let's not talk about this for now. Our tanks are already moving. I hope they can give us a surprise this time."

After he finished speaking, he picked up his special telescope and began to observe, as did Commander Yun and Captain Fan.

After our tank unit received Kong Hao's order, Tank Platoon Leader Wu immediately commanded the four tanks to move forward slowly.

At the same time, he saw that the gunner Xiao Ma was depressed because the shell just now did not hit the target, so he deliberately said something to comfort him.

"Xiao Ma, there's no need to be so dejected. It's normal to miss the target from such a long distance. If you did hit it, it was purely luck."

"But Platoon Leader, when I was training, my hit rate was generally quite high. If my comrades in the artillery battalion knew that my shells often missed, I wonder how they would laugh at me."

"Silly boy, we used to fire from the ground, so the hit rate was definitely higher. But now we are in a cramped tank, and you can hear the noise of bullets hitting the armor outside the tank. Any slight change in any parameter can affect the result of the artillery fire. Don't worry too much about the smallest mistake."

"You were carefully selected from the artillery of various units. You must be confident."

"Alright, let's keep going. Drive another 200 meters. The closer we are, the higher our chances of hitting the target will be."

After our tanks drove forward another two hundred meters and stopped, they fired four more shells at the enemy's bunkers.

This time the distance was much closer, and our gunners had learned from previous lessons. They also calmed down from the initial panic, so the hit rate of this artillery shell naturally increased.

Among the four artillery shells, two directly hit two small bunkers of the enemy in front, overturning the tops of the two bunkers and causing heavy casualties among the puppet soldiers inside. The other two artillery shells flew past the target and hit the puppet army positions nearby.

"Okay, I hit it, awesome!"

When our soldiers saw their tanks hit the enemy's bunkers, they immediately cheered.

The morale that had just been low quickly recovered, and the enemy seemed to have been hit hard. Both the puppet army and the Japanese army fell into endless panic, mainly because our artillery shooting level improved too quickly.

If the hit rate remains at this level, it will probably take less than half a day for all their small bunkers to be targeted one by one. By that time, all the people still remaining in the small bunkers will be buried under the rubble.

So some clever puppet soldiers wanted to sneak out of the bunker and come to the communication trench. After all, no matter how powerful the tanks on the opposite side were, they probably would not be willing to use tank shells to attack the trench.

If things really don't work out later, you can still hide. It's not like in a bunker. Once it collapses, everyone inside can't escape.

Upon seeing this, Commander Yun immediately ordered all artillery units to open fire. Two 75mm mountain guns, one Type 82 infantry gun, two 8mm mortars and eight 60mm mortars immediately opened fire.

A large number of artillery shells directly covered the puppet army's positions, causing heavy casualties to the puppet soldiers who had just escaped. This was mainly because Commander Yun had only used mountain artillery to attack, and a large number of mortars did not participate. Just this one blow caused the puppet army to suffer a great loss.

Now there are only two choices before the puppet army: either stay in the trenches and be killed by groups of artillery shells, or hide in the bunkers. Once the bunkers are destroyed, they will be crushed to death by falling bricks. In short, they will not die a good death. This is the end of these people who betrayed their ancestors.

The enemy in the original stronghold was also equipped with an artillery squad with two Type 92 infantry guns, which could also pose a certain threat to our tank troops.

However, the arrogant Captain Fujita ordered the artillery squadron to open fire when our troops just started to attack the stronghold. He did not expect that our troops had two 75mm mountain guns, two 82mm medium mortars and one Type infantry gun.

After our artillery confirmed the enemy's artillery position, it only took one round of salvos to destroy the enemy's only artillery.

To be on the safe side, Commander Yun ordered the artillery unit to fire another round. From then on, the enemies in the stronghold had no ability to fight back.

This is also the reason why Kong Hao dared to test the tank's performance so boldly. Otherwise, our tanks would easily become sitting ducks if they were parked so brazenly.

At this time, Captain Fan felt bitter when he saw the effect of the bombardment.

The Fourth Military Division has only two regiments of troops, but is equipped with thirteen artillery pieces, and this is just one regiment. If the mortars assigned to another regiment are included, the total number of artillery pieces exceeds twenty, which is already an artillery battalion.

In contrast, his Sichuan Army had only two old-fashioned light mortars and only 22 rounds of artillery shells. The two were completely incomparable.