Chapter 126 Mortar Achievement

"Fire! Hurry up and fire!"

Fang Jin stood behind the main gun of the bow, stamped his feet without demeanor, pointing to Amami Island not far away, and jumped and shouted. The gunners ** their upper bodies and shot out shells quickly. At the same time, they were also proud of their unstern captain.

Soldiers don't like polite officers. What they want is an officer who can drink and fart with them and talk about women's cannons. It happens that Fang Jin is such a best, so the gunners also have the ability to manually fill twelve 105mm shells per minute, which is much faster than usual.

However, it seems that his officer feels that it is not enough. In the face of the Japanese artillery, which has obviously no power to fight back, he is still urging him to speed up. The stimulated gunners worked harder, as if the shells were free, and kept splashing them from the front and rear two main guns.

The other three ships have just come from Hawaii and are responsible for providing artillery support during escort and landing. The partners who did not get the battle against the joint fleet also bombarded around Amami Island, as if to vent all their grievances on this large island of more than 700 square kilometers! Further away, several cargo ships have put down the gangway, and the dense army colleagues are riding on the boat along the gangway and starting to land!

At the same time, Okinawa Island, the main island of the Ryukyu Islands, has long been filled with smoke. Because the infrastructure of Okinawa is better than Amami Island, Naha Port has enough wharf to dock three or four large ships, so after the troops arrived, the escorted destroyer formation shelled the wharf as soon as possible.

The unprepared Japanese garrison was not the opponent of the wolf-like Pacific Army at all. In just half an hour, the dock was declared lost and began to retreat in the direction of the palace, hoping to rely on geographical advantage to resist the opponent.

After gaining control of the dock, the transport fleet finally had a safe mooring area. A team of Pacific soldiers began to disembark and rushed to the already selected target under the leadership of officers at all levels.

From the beginning of disembarkation, Zhang Shun rushed to the front. Unfortunately, this excitement did not last long, and he encountered trouble on the periphery of Shouli City.

"Singing!"

When a few sharp and harsh roars broke through the air, Zhang Shun took the soldiers of the Marine Corps and crawled to the ground. Although the power of the 75mm mountain cannon was not much, not even as powerful as a few grenades, the condescending Japanese army still relied on several mountain cannons arranged in front of Shouli City, suppressing the momentum all the way. Broken Marines. .

"Hurry up, hurry up! Damn, daw, like a woman, the stupid birds of the army are still watching behind! I don't want them to help! If the order goes down, who will occupy Shouli City first? I will let him be the battalion commander!" Zhang Shun patted his head, shook off the soil on the helmet, flew up, kicked the buttocks of the nearest soldier, kicked him so much, and then looked up fiercely and gritted his teeth at the opposite mountain cannon position!

To say that it is strong, the position on the opposite side only relies on a few piles of sandbags and wooden shelves is really not enough, but it is this position that seems to be solved with only one grenade, but it blocks him and thousands of marines outside the city. The reason is very simple, because the grenade still does not go up!

Looking at the Ryukyu Palace, which imitated the Forbidden City behind the Japanese army, Zhang Shun couldn't bombard it immediately, but he couldn't do it like this, because the young master said that the ancient cultural relic building above should be protected as much as possible!

The dog said, or will it be smashed first and then repaired as it is?

Looking at the soldiers who were pressed by mountain cannons and Maxim machine guns, Zhang Shun spat fiercely and was about to order someone to rush again. The staff suddenly grabbed him and suggested, "Chief, why don't you let the mortar come up and try?"

"Yes!" Zhang Shun patted his thigh, why didn't he think of it? I'm really confused. The powerful cannon can't be used. The mortar will be fine! And the mortar trajectory is curved, which is most suitable for this kind of bottom-up attack! I can't help scolding myself for being confused. Why didn't I expect such a good thing? However, it can't be blamed on him. Since the Pacific Army was equipped with mortars, it has really not been opened except for training.

With the reminder of the staff, Zhang Shun was also enlightened and quickly shouted, "Dog said, don't think that only you have cannons!" Come on, go and set up our mortars!"

The messengers rushed away. In a while, they saw dozens of soldiers rushing in front of them with mortars like iron pipes. Without waiting for instructions, they immediately started to level the position.

Seeing their own artillery coming, the soldiers were all excited. When more than a dozen guns were set up, Zhang Shun, who had been impatient, immediately shouted, "Give me!"

When the gunners heard the shouting, they used their thumbs to compare the Japanese artillery positions in the distance a few times. After a simple distance measurement, they immediately stuffed the already prepared shells into the barrel. After hearing a series of bangs, dozens of black spots were like firecrackers set off in the festive times, and after drawing a huge arc in the upper air, in the humble A series of fireballs exploded around the military artillery position.

Rumble... Under a series of explosions, sand and stones splashed on the simple gun position, and dozens of unexpected soldiers were lifted into the air by the air waves and rolled down the hillside. The angry Marines, who had already been suppressed by the Japanese army above their heads, cheered and pointed their guns at the rolling down Japanese army, venting their dissatisfaction.

It seems that they did not expect that the Pacific Army would have a turning cannon. The Japanese army behind the bunker could only stare at the shell draw an arc in the sky and fall behind the thick bunker. The explosion and screams suddenly mixed together, adding some blood to the century-old city.

With the continuous power of the mortars, the mountain cannons and Maxim machine guns that had been raging for a long time finally became dumb. The fortifications built by the Japanese army in front of Shouli City were also smashed open. The impatient Marines immediately rushed up and chased the buttocks of the Japanese army who fled inward and killed them.

Seeing that the mortars had made contributions as they wished, Zhang Shun was finally relieved. While thinking about whether to let the young master add mortars to the Marines, he commanded the troops to rush forward with a gun--

In the front-line headquarters of Naha Port, Li Mo smiled and curled his lips.

In the distance, there is still a rumble of gunfire from time to time on the sea, but this sound has made him not interested in the joint fleet operation. In addition to the main gun of the Sea Patrol sent him and a little attention, the others are small cannons, which are not majestic enough.

Only the golden and brilliant Shouli City made him frown slightly. As the former capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Shouli City is like the Forbidden City of Yanjing. It would be a pity if such a name with history and culture was destroyed by artillery fire.

But Shouli City is built on the mountain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. In addition, most of the Japanese troops stationed in Okinawa have retreated there. If you don't take something real out, it's really difficult to eat it! On the one hand, there is the ancient capital of the famous city, and on the other hand, there is the stubborn Japanese army. Even he is a little embarrassed.

Just as he was in a dilemma, Zhao Long, who followed the army to Ryukyu, came in from nowhere and handed over the telegram he had just received: "Young master, the Swordfish reported that the Lu Fourth Regiment had landed on Amami Island. According to their report, they did not encounter any major resistance." After handing the telegram to Li Mo, Zhao Long then stretched out his head in the direction of Shouli City and continued to suggest, "Young master, why don't you let a group go up?"

Li Mo took over the telegram, and the news of Amami Oshima had long been expected by him. Although the attacking four regiments was an army regiment formed after the Chilean war, at the beginning of the formation, 300 veterans and 20 officers who had participated in the Chilean civil war had been allocated to go, and Chu Tianjin was the latest to form, experience and war. For the reason that the fighting power was not enough, Zhao Long transferred all the first group of reserve soldiers who had been trained with Lu Yi Division for a long time. At that time, the matter was also caused by the other three regimental commanders to Li Mo.

Although Amami Island is very close to Yamato Kagoshima and Sasebo, it is because it is close, I didn't expect anyone to grab food under my eyes. There are only 400 garrisons and 1,000 reservists. If such a person is an integrated regiment plus the artillery support of four destroyers, Chu Tianjin The head of the regiment is over.

Originally, Master Li is not worried about the Ryukyu Island, which has been renamed Okinawa Island. It is now 1894. He said that his eyes are still focused on North Korea and the Yellow Sea. He has not yet entered the Pacific era, so there are only 3,000 people stationed here. As for the patrol gunboats. He had been congested by his eyes for a long time, and he was not divided up by the captains of the destroyers who fought against the main force of the fleet. They either raised the white flag and surrendered or were completely beaten into scrap metal.

But what people didn't expect was that the speed of the Japanese garrison obviously exceeded expectations. It was worthy of being a famous hard bone in later generations. After seeing the loss of the dock, he immediately fled into Shuli City in an attempt to rely on the geographical advantages here and resist to the end.

After reading the telegram, Li Mo immediately shook his head and turned around and asked, "According to your estimation, how long will it take for the Marine Corps to end the battle?"

Today's Zhao Long is not Zhao Long for a year. When the army was expanded last year, Li Mo felt that there was a shortage of grass-roots officers, so he contacted the German minister in Hawaii and invested 100,000 pounds to send Zhao Long and 200 other grass-roots officers to Germany for training for half a year. Now he has just come back, and he didn't expect to catch up with the Ryukyu War, although The scale is not large, but it also makes him blush with excitement.

But when he came here with a regiment, he was told that the regiment would not participate in the main battle, but only as a reserve team. This order made him feel as if he had been splashed with cold water on July, and he was a little confused! In particular, the boy Luo Feng cooed for a long time and asked him to talk to the young master and let the regiment also participate in the battle.

So when he heard the young master's question at this moment, he immediately said, "Young master, if you want to speed up, you might as well let a regiment also participate in the war!" The Ryukyu Island is a little smaller than our Oahu Island. If a regiment participates in the war, I promise to eliminate the remnants of the enemy in three days and give you a clean Ryukyu Island.

Li Mo was not fooled by Zhao Long. He had his own ideas about whether a regiment would participate in the war. Because both the Marine Corps and the last four regiments in the Luyi Division are the most inexperienced troops. Small-scale battles like this can be used to practice, so I heard Zhao Long say this and smiled and said, "Is that Luo Feng annoying you again?"

"Ha ha." Zhao Long rubbed his hands with a smile.

"You brought out a regiment with one hand. I know this, but when you don't know how to use them now, you have to remember that bringing a regiment out is just to ensure victory. This kind of small battle is just for other troops to train, and your army..." Li Mo paused for a moment, suddenly pointed to the east and said seriously, "That is the main battlefield of the army. In the future, this will become our frontier base."

Looking at the direction of the young master's fingers, Zhao Long immediately understood. In an instant, his blood surged up and shouted, "Young master, don't worry, Zhao Long knows what to do!" Just as Li Mo was about to continue to teach this confidant, Du Dazhuang suddenly ran in and shouted, "Young master, Shuli City has been opened!"

"Oh!" Li Mo suddenly turned around and went to the observation window and raised his telescope. He saw that countless marine soldiers in dark blue military uniforms in the distance were charging to Shuli City along the mountain road.

Zhao Long also raised his telescope. He was a little surprised. He had just seen the fortifications of the army outside Shouli City. Although the repair was not perfect, it was also in a dangerous place, easy to defend and difficult to attack. How could he be broken in a short time? Thinking of this, he hurriedly asked Du Dazhuang, "Zhang Shun, why did he kill those mountain cannons so quickly?"

"It's a mortar!" Du Dazhuang danced excitedly and said that the Marines attacked the military artillery position with mortars upwards. In the end, he couldn't help licking his lips, as if he had some regret for not being able to rush into Shuli City with the army.

"Come on, go! I'm fine here." Li Mo kicked and looked around. Du Dazhuang, who was obviously absent-minded, laughed and said, "Take your helmet and protect yourself."

"Yes!" Seeing that the Marines had opened the passage of Shouli City, Du Dazhuang couldn't stay for a long time. If it hadn't been for the protection of the young master, he would have followed the army. Now when he heard that the young master allowed him to fight, he almost wanted to hug the young master and kiss him a few times. After saluting, he quickly grabbed the helmet and ran to Shuli City.

"Yeah, it's okay. I didn't forget the salute."

" Mortar?!" Zhao Long put down the telescope and muttered to himself. It seems that he will study more about this kind of cannon that he was originally despised in the future!

Since even the most difficult channel of Shouli City has been opened, Li Mo's mind has turned to the fleet that is still spinning in the sea of Japan. Normally, after the annihilation of the joint fleet, there was no naval force that could be used, but Duan Fei's intelligence showed that I actually concentrated more than 40 warships, large and small in Yokosuka in a short time. Although these ships were 2,000 tons larger and only 50 tons small, and even armed with merchant ships. The ship, but I can also see my determination to fight to the end.

Although it is not uncommon for ants to bite to death, Li Mo does not think that he will drive these old warships to fight hard. For Japan, it is no longer a matter of the continuation of the war, but to start preparing to end the war!

It is only a matter of time to open up the passage of Shuli City and eliminate the garrison army. As long as you completely control Ryukyu and weaken the war potential of Japan, your first stage goal has been achieved. Unless you can turn out 200,000 troops now, it is just a joke to attack Japan.

Li Mo naturally can't change 200,000 troops, so ending the war is the only choice, but to end the war is not as simple as letting the fleet withdraw immediately. It is the best choice to promote peace.

So the next step is to see whether Chen Ping and others can block themselves in Tokyo Bay, and even if necessary, whether they can successfully enter Tokyo Bay to directly shell the Japanese heart, which is a difficult problem!

Especially entering Tokyo Bay, which is the heart of the Japanese and the most important Yokosuka base of the Japanese navy. If you want to enter there, you must first pass through the narrow Uraga waterway!

Thinking that it might have blocked the waterway through landlaying, forcing the fleet's large warships to enter, and possibly using a large number of small boat tactics, Li Mo couldn't wait to send all the destroyers in his hand to support the fleet.

You know, when you are about to win, any damage to the fleet is unacceptable, so the destroyer formation should be freed up as soon as possible to support the fleet.

"Tell Zhang Shun that the Marine Corps must solve the main battle within three days. If he can't do it, I will let the First Lu Division participate in the battle!" After thinking of this, he mentioned the corners of his mouth. With the excitement of Lu Yishi in the back, I believe that the Marines will be full of energy.

"Send a report, contact Chen Ping and Long Guozhang, tell them that the destroyer formation will leave early tomorrow morning to meet them, and let them be ready." Before Li Mo finished speaking, a staff officer suddenly rushed into the headquarters and reported after a salute.

"Report, the Sky Survey arrived at sea with a cargo ship."

"The Sky Survey is coming?!" Li Mo looked at Zhao Long, and his heart suddenly beat. The Sky Survey arrived at this time, indicating that his cheap father-in-law and wife finally came.

"How should I face them?" ......

(to be continued)