"What's the matter? Prime Minister...... Prime Minister!" Xiang Shaolong chased to the door and asked loudly, "What is the matter?" Looking at Xiao Letian's back in the distance, Long Ye knew that it must be a very bizarre and incredible thing, it must be an unexpected special event, otherwise Xiao Letian's character would never have such a strange expression. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"What the hell is strange? I'm curious," he was saying......, when suddenly the adjutant behind him shouted for instructions, "Report to the commander-in-chief! The artillery position has completed its firing preparations, and the last hot air balloon is requested to be lifted into the air!"

Long Ye raised his hand and looked at his watch and nodded, "Agreed!" Tell the observation post of the Air Force to wear a few more sets of warm clothes, bring more fuel, and bring more high-calorie food, maybe they will have a cold sleepless night at high altitude tonight!"

"Before the sun goes down, the hot air balloon and artillery positions must be adjusted for many parameters of blind firing......"

"It's sir!" the adjutant commanded to leave.

Xiao Letian's concept of governing the army has always attached importance to firepower, and army artillery has always been the royal road of firepower output in war, and he believes that he must not forget this big killer.

However, limited by the road traffic and logistical supply capacity of this era, the field artillery did not dare to make the caliber too large, one is not easy to transport, and the other is that the ammunition supply is also very troublesome.

In the absence of an unlimited increase in caliber, the only way to increase the efficiency of artillery fire output is to proceed from both accuracy and all-weather conditions.

If you are fighting in the plains during the day, you may not feel the power of the Chinese artillery, and you think that this is basically the average of Europe.

But if you are fighting in complex mountainous areas, hilly areas or even in the field, then you can know how powerful the Chinese artillery is.

The third Doraemon rose into the sky, and this time there were a total of three observation sentries in the observation basket in rotation, each wrapped in three layers of thick leather clothing, the close-fitting fox skin underwear, the wolf skin lining in the middle, the bear skin coat outside, and even the head was wrapped in a mink fur delicate hat, and all the facial features were wrapped to reveal a pair of eyes.

It is no wonder that other branches of the armed forces affectionately call the Air Force a well-dressed beast, and it costs thousands of taels of silver to pull off the skin of this animal and send it to the capital to sell.

The flames in the furnace were blazing, the heat was blown into the balloon, the huge buoyancy dragged the gondola into the sky, and there were three long fixed cables, tied to the foundations of the three stone houses, no matter how strong the wind in the sky was, there was no fear of blowing it away.

The fuel is coke, which is pure fuel after carbonization of top-grade anthracite, light and high in calories and no smoke, and the corners are full of all kinds of spirits, chocolate, jerky, cheese, rock sugar and other high-calorie foods.

The balloon was rising, the earth was getting smaller, and God's perspective was beginning to appear in front of the sentinel.

"Open the map and locate the artillery positions...... The flag-bearer sends a signal to prepare the artillery field for commissioning!"

At an altitude of 50 meters, the balloon was bound by three taut cables, and the air pressure was adjusted to keep the balloon at this altitude.

The ground and sky are now communicating entirely by naval flags, and at night there is a series of light signals to convey information. This is the eye of the artillery flying in the sky.

"Five degrees west-north...... Shooting elevation angle thirty ...... Standard high-explosive shells...... Three artillery shots in a row......" The flag came from the hot air balloon, the artillery position below, and the loading angle of the three cannons was adjusted according to the requirements of the observation sentry, and the boom boom is the three artillery.

The edge of the distant woods suddenly exploded into three clouds of gunsmoke, and the observation sentinels on the balloon nodded, and drew an area on the map: "This is the first area of Jiayi, five degrees west-north, and an elevation angle of thirty ......"

"Below is a firing experiment in the second area of the first two, five degrees east of due north...... Elevation angle 45 ......"

The artillery position is again a three-shot artillery shell, and these three runs are not randomly selected, but a high-performance artillery is selected for the coordinates of the three nodes in the middle of the head and tail.

Soon the map of Area A and 2 was also completed...... Now everything they did was completely prepared for night battles, although the dark night cavalry sneak attack was not easy to detect, but at a height of fifty meters, the sentry could rely on the advantage of altitude and detect the enemy's motives with the help of faint starlight and moonlight.

What's more, once the forward army finds a strange movement, it will instantly shoot bright fireworks as flares, as long as the sentry on the balloon finds the location of the enemy, it can quickly locate it on the map, and then feed back the signal to the artillery position under its feet.

If the enemy appears in the first area, then the artillery does not need to be observed with the naked eye, as long as the direction of the muzzle and the firing angle are adjusted according to the coordinate points marked in advance, and then the gun can be loaded and fired. In this way, in the dark of night, the artillery is like having eyes, and the response is quick and accurate.

The principle seems simple, but the difficulty is the coordination between high-quality soldiers and friendly troops, these observation sentries do not have to rush to the front line to fight the enemy desperately, but they can still get a higher salary than the front-line soldiers, and they can be promoted faster.

Why is this? And why is there not a single soldier who is not convinced by the desperate white-knuckle fighting? In fact, the key lies in the word knowledge.

It is absolutely impossible to become an artillery observation post and an air force soldier without a diploma issued by various universities in the Ryukyus, and at least you must be proficient in algebra, calculus, English, German, etc., without these basic knowledge, you can't do this porcelain job.

The work of the target coordinates is intense and orderly, and gradually the entire battlefield has been gridded above the artillery map, A-A, A-2, B-1, C3...... Each area was marked with data such as the direction, angle, and elevation angle required for shooting, and the radius around the Vladivostok defense line within a radius of 15 miles had become a bombing area without dead ends.

"Ding 5 area coordinate mark...... Triple shot!"

Boom, boom, the monotonous sound of artillery came to mind again, and gunpowder smoke suddenly rose in a dense forest in the northeast of the battlefield, but no one expected that this bombardment would actually blow up big fish, and hundreds of Cossack cavalry would rush out of the woods.

"There are enemy troops! The enemy is lurking in the northeast direction...... Adjusted the firing angle, and fired three consecutive rapid shots in the fourth area...... Then immediately adjust to the C5 area, and adjust to C2 after three consecutive shots......"

Without the slightest hesitation, the artillery commander on the ground immediately ordered that there was no need to look at the battlefield at all, the soldiers just mechanically adjusted the artillery according to the parameters, and after a while, more than 40 artillery pieces began to roar, and the rushing cavalry suddenly screamed miserably.

This is a group of vanguard troops that sneaked into the northeast direction, belonging to Fumanov's Second Army, a total of two companies of troops, originally they hid in the woods and waited for the rear large forces to gather, but they did not expect to be hit by three shots.