Chapter 946: The Japanese's trump card
Mito Sankai and the wing commander in the command room were unexpectedly confident.
Logically speaking, their morale should be low after losing half of their troops in the battle, but at this moment, they are all as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
Mito Sanjie's energy comes not only from the reinforcements, but also from the killer trump card that he had secretly hidden when he just arrived at the battlefield.
In the valley, there were five camouflaged tanks hidden carefully.
These five tanks are the secret weapons specially requested by Mito Sanjie - the M270 rocket launcher.
Originally, the Japanese thought that the guards on Wangye Island were insufficient and did not have many heavy weapons, so in order to enhance mobility and concealment, they did not carry heavy weapons and all soldiers were equipped with conventional equipment.
They had no artillery, only some mortars with the army.
But unexpectedly, there were not only heavy firearms on the island, but also quite a few of them. The Japanese suffered heavy casualties after the artillery bombardment.
Mito Sanjie learned from his mistakes and spent a lot of effort to transport their American father's new equipment, the rocket launcher.
The M270 rocket launcher carries two disposable containers, each containing six rockets.
Rockets can be stored in containers without any maintenance for up to ten years.
The M270 uses a standard 227mm high-explosive fragmentation rocket, which is 3.96 meters long and weighs 307 kilograms...
Led by the United States and developed by many countries, it can be said to be extremely powerful and is known as the Thor on the battlefield.
"Everyone, look, this is the survey map!" Mito Sanjie finished his mobilization and began to discuss tactics. "The enemy is likely to form a defensive force on these two high grounds and block our advance from behind the high ground...
"Yamada-kun!"
"Hi!" The Japanese soldier Yamada who was called was a short man with bow legs. He was not very old, but he was a top student among the Japanese soldiers and had studied in the United States.
"Your mission is to provide artillery support!" Mito Sanjie grinned, "The enemy certainly doesn't know that we already have powerful rocket launchers. You... stay hidden. Don't fire without my order!"
"Hey!" Yamada said proudly after agreeing, "My unit's rocket launchers can easily destroy all enemy defenses. I've seen those two high grounds, and I can guarantee that we have enough ammunition to blow them up..."
"No, no, no, Yamada-kun!" Mito Sankai grinned even more wildly, "We don't need to blow it up. We have to wait until the enemy reaches the high ground before opening fire. In addition to bombing the two high grounds, your mission is to take care of the flat ground behind them. I want them to have a taste of... our artillery fire."
"Hey! The general is really tall..."
If Zeng Wangcai were here, he would be very speechless and think that there were also flatterers like the translator among the Japanese.
However, Zeng Wangcai was not here, and he didn't know that the Japanese possessed large-caliber weapons.
The Japanese have trump cards, so Zeng Wangcai naturally has no shortage of trump cards.
In fact, from the moment he learned that Chen Hong intended to fight to the death, Zeng Wangcai had been thinking about what weapons to give his brothers.
Chen Hong's troops were mainly equipped with the Type 81 rifle. After being presented by Zeng Wangcai, this mass-produced gun became the main force. There is no need to say much about the others. Zeng Wangcai made no contribution, and it was similar to the history.
Zeng Wangcai does not intend to take any action in this regard. After all, the soldiers are used to it and would not be used to suddenly changing the equipment.
The first thing he targeted was the life-saving equipment, a full set of helmets and bulletproof vests. The production of these did not pose any burden to the space and they were not in bulk.
One set per person, just count the number of people.
His life was saved, but after seeing the artillery of the army, Zeng Wangcai felt very sad and blamed himself.
I am too backward. I didn’t work hard in this area at the beginning.
When Zeng Wangcai led his men to the car factory, he said to the brigade commander sent by Chen Hong, "What's your name, comrade?"
"Reporting to the commander, my last name is Wu, you can just call me Xiao Wu!" Brigade Commander Xiao Wu stood at attention.
Brigade Commander Xiao Wu is very young, and looks to be no more than thirty years old.
Zeng Wangcai can judge from the age of Brigade Commander Xiao Wu that the people we sent this time are all elite soldiers.
"Oh, hoho..." Zeng Wangcai laughed a little dizzily when he heard being called the chief, "Don't call me chief, I haven't been in the army for many years, haha, relax, little guy..."
Brigade Commander Xiao Wu was immediately upset and said, "I'm not calling you Chief, what do you mean by calling me little devil?"
"Chief, please give me an order!"
"I order you to gather all the comrades in your unit who can drive!"
"Yes......"
Brigade Commander Xiao Wu acted quickly and brought out the soldiers who could drive in a short while.
Zeng Wangcai estimated that there were many people who could drive, so he selected 200 of them, and then assigned each of them to be paired with four people, forming a transport team of 1,000 people.
Choose a car first. The car factory has plenty of cars in stock.
All the Wulin cars produced here are for export. There are several hundred finished vehicles, most of which are vans and modified pickup trucks.
Zeng Wangcai asked Brigade Commander Xiao Wu to take people to select 200 pickup trucks. If there were not enough pickup trucks, they could use vans instead by removing the seats inside.
After arranging all this, Zeng Wangcai and Xiao Bao drove to the warehouse area of the automobile factory and found a suitable target to move the supplies.
"Go and guard the door!" Zeng Wangcai asked his younger brother to keep watch, and then closed the warehouse door.
Within minutes, containers of bulletproof vests and helmets filled the warehouse!
After opening the door and going out, Zeng Wangcai patted Xiaobao on the shoulder and said, "Let's go to the next warehouse. Xiaobao, what kind of gun do you think we should equip the troops with?"
"Of course it's a rocket launcher, of course?" Little Leopard answered without thinking, "It's the same kind we used at the border. One can hit many targets. It's convenient and has strong firepower."
You are quite picky!
The Type 191 rocket launcher is indeed awesome, but for Wangye Island, it is a bit of an overkill as it can fire too far. According to the layout of the battlefield, it has to be replaced with the Type 03. Even then, the gun has to be moved to the other side of the island for it to fire.
"Okay, that's it!"
......
Hey yo, hey yo!
The Japanese soldier Yamada led a team of artillerymen and pushed the M270 with great effort.
It's not that the car can't be driven, but they dare not drive it, because after calculation, they face the same problem as Zeng Wangcai using the 03 rocket launcher. They have to pull away and fire, otherwise the range is too short.
The Japanese soldiers led by Mito Sanjie were only ten kilometers away from the target launch silo, while the M270 had to be at least thirty kilometers away.
Therefore, Yamada had to take his men to get the five M270s out and find a suitable position.
The Japanese soldiers struggled to push the car out of the valley, and then took the risk of starting it in the dark.
A group of Japanese soldiers followed the car, and it was not until dawn that Yamada's Japanese soldiers determined their position.
"Right here, we're lying in ambush next to this hill..." Upon reaching the destination, Yamada was very satisfied that his actions had not been discovered. "From this place, we can bomb the entire island, Wahaha..."
At the same time, Zeng Wangcai identified the artillery positions on the map.
"It's right here. It's not too far and we can attack any corner of the island. There is also a mountain here. We can set up a position on the mountain to guard against the Japanese sneak attacks..." Zeng Wangcai clicked on the map.
Coincidentally, this mountain is the same mountain as the one that Yamada the devil targeted.
If you want to blame someone, blame Wangye Island. It's not big, but it's not small. In such a battlefield, they have to use high-end equipment like rocket launchers...