Chapter 145: Explosives

The two mortar squads left in the warehouse now would have been qualified only two months ago.

But after three months of bloody battles, each of their gunners fired no less than 500 shells, especially in the past few days, not only must they shoot accurately but also quickly, otherwise they will be killed by the overwhelming grenades from the Japanese. Under the pressure of life and death crisis, all the potential of the gunners is squeezed out.

Both hand speed and accuracy are better than before.

To describe them as excellent is already an extremely modest statement, they should be extremely excellent.

The mortar squad received Leng Feng's order and quickly adjusted the gun distance in front of a useless sandbag pile on the third floor and a specially reserved artillery window.

Its main gunner Xiong Dazhu, nicknamed Big Bear, is a big guy from Shandong. His sturdy body does not look like an artilleryman who does technical work at all.

In fact, until three months ago, he was just a small ammunition handler in the first squad. A soldier who had only been in the army for a year was in the mortar squad. He was not relying on skills, but on pure strength.

He could hold a 15-kilogram ammunition box with shells on each side and walk briskly. He was definitely an excellent ammunition handler.

Before entering Songhu, he knew how to fire the mortar. After two test firings, the war was about to come. The machine gun company asked the ammunition handlers to learn how to fire the guns. Otherwise, once the gunners were finished, the guns were still there but no one could fire them.

Then, in the first battle on the battlefield, Daxiong, a good ammunition handler, became the gunner of the mortar squad.

Because the gunners, deputy gunners and observers in his squad were accidentally discovered by the Japanese observers, and several 75 mountain artillery shells were fired at them, directly burying them in the ruins.

The 82 mortars were dug out and could still be used, but the people had long been dead.

As a last resort, the main ammunition handler was forced to become a gunner.

But no one expected that Daxiong was not only strong, but also very talented in artillery.

This guy who had only fired two shots before the war and looked a little rough became the star gunner of the 1st Battalion of the 524th Regiment in the following battle. In more than two months and nearly 20 bloody battles, he had a brilliant record of destroying five heavy machine gun fortifications and ten light machine gun fire points of the Japanese army.

His rank was also promoted from the most inferior private to sergeant, and his rocket-like promotion speed was catching up with Tang Dao.

Although it was in a building, in order to ensure enough firing space for the mortar, the window sill with a width of 5 meters and a height of more than 3 meters had no obstructions. The grenades thrown by the Japanese veteran grenade launcher more than 300 meters away had a terrifying accuracy, and it was not safe here.

So, Daxiong squinted his eyes to observe the location where Leng Feng asked to bombard, calculated the gun distance, and started his performance at the fastest speed.

Next to the mounted mortar was an opened ammunition box, one ammunition box with four shells, which was the base number he prepared for himself, and also the confidence of a talented gunner who had been tested in the battlefield of blood and fire for three months.

"Boom boom boom!" Three consecutive shots exploded around the No. 8 tank where Kikuta Yuzo was, and the flying shrapnel and the rubble rolled up by the air wave hit the steel plate of the tank with a "bang bang" sound.

But these were not enough to make Sergeant Kikuta Yuzo panic. Although the 12-ton Empire main battle tank was afraid of penetrating direct-aimed guns, it was not afraid of these small-caliber indirect-fire guns. Do you think the 12 mm thick steel plate is a fuss!

Even the building where he was hiding, although it was shaky, if you really used this small-caliber mortar to bombard it, you think it would be knocked down without ten consecutive rounds?

But what if there was an explosion of 30 kilograms of high explosives? Can the 12 mm steel plate still block it? Kikuta Yuzo didn't know because he had never experienced it, but it would definitely not be very pleasant.

This time he knew what it felt like to have thirty kilograms of high explosives detonated.

The last shell was thrown into the barrel by Daxiong, and then he squatted down with his ears covered. With a "bang!", the shell was fired, and one second later it exploded in a small building 200 meters away, and then there was another "boom!".

The fourth shell successfully detonated the thirty kilograms of high explosives that had been camouflaged and discarded in the pile of debris under the small building.

The huge noise made even the warehouse defenders 200 meters away feel numb, let alone the Japanese soldiers in the tanks that were no more than ten meters away.

"What is this? The Chinese used heavy artillery?" This was the last thought that Kikuta Yousan had left in this world.

Perhaps, the only benefit was that his Kikuta would never feel sour again.

In fact, the explosive power of thirty kilograms of explosives even exceeded the power of a 155-caliber shell with a body weight of 20 kilograms.

Although the location where the explosives were detonated was actually more than ten meters away from the Type 89 tank, and there were even two brick walls in between, this could not stop the terrible shock wave from completely collapsing the already shaky building, and also "blew" the 12-ton Japanese Army main battle tank into a rolling gourd.

In fact, the 12-ton deadweight of the Type 89 tank was too weak to face such an explosion. If it were replaced with a deadweight of 50 tons, it could barely withstand it.

The rolling was only a superficial phenomenon. Don't think that you can avoid the impact of the shock wave by hiding in the tank. The terrible shock wave directly tore the "countryside reactive armor" tied with ropes into pieces, and even lifted the steel plates on the tank that were riveted tightly by countless rivets.

Not to mention the several members who were in the tank. They were located in the core explosion area and were knocked unconscious in the car when the shock wave energy hit.

Of course, the Japanese soldiers who fainted could never wake up again.

Because their internal organs had been shattered. If someone dissected the bodies with no scars on the outside, they would find that the Japanese soldiers lying inside the tanks were all soft and their bones were shattered.

The detonated high explosives not only made poor Kikuta Tentensuan a victim, but even the Japanese soldiers who were still crawling forward dozens of meters away were also shocked by the shock waves from the ground and vomited blood. It was an internal injury that was basically impossible to survive.

In this war, there were many Chinese wounded soldiers like this. They were all injured in trenches or anti-gun holes by the large-caliber naval guns of the Japanese army. The continuous internal bleeding would kill people within two days.

In addition to the deadly shock wave, there were also the appendages brought by the violent explosion. Countless stones and tiles were sent into the sky by the energy of the explosion and then fell down in free fall.

A steel helmet might save the head, but no one could curl up the whole body in a steel helmet, not to mention that those reinforced concrete as big as a washbasin, whistling down from a height of more than 20 meters, even a steel helmet would be smashed into a piece of iron sheet.

The Japanese soldiers within a radius of 50 meters from the center of the explosion collectively died and jumped up and fled. Those lying on the ground were all idiots, and the area that was smashed was definitely larger. Leaving here is much more likely than waiting in place and expecting Amaterasu to bless them to survive.

Besides, Amaterasu has abandoned these little scums for several days.

Their idea is right, but they forgot one thing, this is a battlefield.

The warehouse did not fire before, which does not mean that they will not fire all the time.

The main reason is that they wanted to bury themselves in the soil and crawl before, and firing wasted too much ammunition.

But now, it is obviously not the case.

Then, the three light machine gun fire points in the warehouse opened fire.

Such an obvious target, if you don't give them a few rounds of bullets, you will be sorry for yourself.