Chapter 167 The concentration of cattle people

Coming out of the communications room, or rather, the communications tent, they entered a third military tent with the word "computing room" on it.

The officers and men here are obviously not as prepared as the soldiers in the communications room, and they are still cleaning up the stalls left over from the training of the last batch of officers and soldiers: some soldiers are cleaning, some soldiers are transporting waste paper and garbage, and some soldiers are arranging their own tools such as paper, maps, slide rules, pencils, and other drawing tools such as triangles, compasses, and so on.

Only an old comrade, who was obviously an expert or insider, and another middle-aged man sat on the side and drank tea relaxedly.

When a soldier passed by him, the old man shouted in an impatient voice: "Hurry up, it will be our turn soon, ♀ you must calculate and set the parameters by yourself, you have been trained for so long, whether it is a mule or a horse, you will be led out for a walk today." ......, when there is a war in the future, you will have to rely on yourselves. ”

The roar was loud, but it was obvious that it was faked, and the words were full of trust and pride in his subordinates.

When it came to their appearance, Guo Zhuocheng was curious, so he stopped his steps. He quietly stood still against the edge of the tent ▲ Seeing that Guo Zhuocheng was not moving, he also stood next to him.

Seeing that the two of them did not move, the combat staff officer felt a little strange in his heart, but he also stood aside and said in his heart: This is just a boring number, what is it? If you really want to be lively, you should go to the scene of the shelling or the command post.

At this time, someone blew a whistle violently outside, and after everyone had quieted down, he shouted again: "The training preparation time of the 3rd Battalion of the 22nd Artillery Regiment has arrived, and now the timer preparation begins."

The whistle sounded like a powerful electric current, causing everyone in the "computing room" to stand still. And the word "start" that followed was like a boulder thrown into a pond, and the "calculation room" that had just calmed down immediately started running at high speed, and even the expert who was sitting still just now immediately put down the cup in his hand, and rushed to the middle of those calculators with quick movements, picking up paper and pen with the people next to him and waiting nervously, staring at the entrance to the tent for sending and receiving newspapers.

The officer at the head of the calculation room straightened his uniform, strode to the door of the tent and waited. Almost no one noticed the existence of Guo Shucheng, Liu Yuanchao and others.

"Report the number of artillery observers," a soldier strode in, saluted the officer waiting at the door of the "calculation room," and handed out a piece of paper.

The officer barely had time to return the salute before snatching the piece of paper in his hand, turned around and ran to the group of soldiers and experts who were "waiting to be fed", and said: "Hurry up, hurry up, calculate quickly, and strive to calculate it within ten minutes."

The soldiers swarmed up the paper like fodder for a flock of ducks, looking for the numbers related to their calculations, and then sat down quickly, picked up the paper and pen and did the math quickly: square, multiplication, division, cubic dividation, trigonometric values, calculus、......

Obviously, this piece of paper is a variety of parameters sent by the observer in front: distance, target coordinates, altitude, air pressure, altitude difference, wind speed, wind direction, etc., and so on, and the number of jù♀ is transmitted to the communication room by radio and then sent here in the first place. Then, the technical officers and men here quickly calculate the various elements required before the artillery is fired: the angle of fire, the direction of fire, the amount of propellant, the working mode of the fuse, the general type of ammunition, the length of the fuse, and so on.

After these numbers come out, they will be sent to the command post in the shortest possible time, and the officers of the command post will pass them on to the artillery officers and soldiers, who will adjust and shoot the Zhuyuan according to these numbers, and fire the shells in the fastest time.

Obviously, the efficiency of the computing room was very large, and the accuracy and rate of fire of the artillery was determined. After the first round of shells was fired, the officers and men in the calculation room also needed to make the necessary adjustments to the firing elements according to the observations of the artillery observers in front of them in order to improve their accuracy.

Guo Zhuocheng felt very novel about the scene in front of him, but he was even more surprised: all the calculations here were done manually←, and the officers and soldiers in the calculation room were all hand-calculated, and the speed of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division was extremely fast, even the opening of squares and equation calculations were so fast that Guo Zhuocheng was dumbfounded.

There was a young soldier who barely used paper and pen, and when he encountered addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division within four digits, he could report the correct calculation results in one breath, and he could also report some simple trigonometric function values at will.

His comrades-in-arms were accustomed to his talent, and were convinced of the numbers he had reported.

In it, there are also occasional people using a simple slide rule to perform calculations, others quickly look up various function values, and some people are nervously discussing the effects of wind speed, temperature, altitude difference, etc. on the shooting elements, and discussing the relevant correction coefficients.

Guo Zhuocheng, who had never seen such a scene, was very curious, and only after a long time did he ask the combat staff officer who accompanied him: "May I ask if they didn't calculate...... Don't have a calculator? ”。

Although the combat staff officer was a little dissatisfied with taking the two idlers around, because this was an order personally given by the division commander, he knew that Liu Yuanchao's father was the top boss of their immediate superior, so he had to accept this task head-on. As for the mood, it is naturally not good, and now seeing Guo Zhuocheng asking, he said in a standard military tone: "Because the calculator input number jù is too troublesome, the calculation accuracy is not high, and there are often mistakes, so they prefer to calculate by hand." In our division, there is an artillery command instrument, which is equipped with a computer made by a factory in Shanghai, but it is even more complicated to use, and it cannot be used without specialists. ”

This time, Guo Zhuocheng really didn't believe it: "Now some people in China are applying computers to artillery command?" Just now, he said the word "computer" by himself, and let this staff officer say that he was a monster, but he didn't expect him to take the initiative to say it.

In fact, this is Guo Zhuocheng's own loneliness, and China has actually begun to develop and apply computers a long time ago. In 970, he used a domestic computer to calculate and control the orbit of an artificial earth satellite, and also created a combination of multiple computers to share the calculation tasks, so that the simple computer could inherit the functions of a large-scale computer. It's just that the Chinese technicians at that time didn't know the advanced technology and thought that it was another local method that couldn't be put on the table, and no one paid too much attention to it. It wasn't until a decade later that this technology was introduced as high-tech by American computer experts.

In June 974, China also manufactured a small computer named DJS-0, which was actually an imitation of the American NVA200, and China's computer technology was a big step forward.

It's just that the computer at this time did not have the keyboard and screen of the previous life, and the input and output were all teletypewriters, punching machines, and paper tape input machines. Many times the operator is to count the number jù acquaintance perforating machine, after the paper tape is typed out, let the inspector check whether the number jù is correct, and then put the paper tape into the paper tape input machine for the computer to read. The results of the computer calculation are also output on paper tape for the technician to interpret.

It takes a lot of time and is very demanding on the operator. Fighters who do not have much culture are simply not competent and cannot use such high-tech equipment.

As a result, the artillery unit still uses manual calculations and manual command, rather than relying on those foreign gadgets. In many cases, because of the accumulation of many years of experience, manual calculations are much faster and more reliable than computer calculations of this era.

In fact, there were also calculators in this era, which were generally brought back from Western countries by overseas Chinese, not only the price and cost were high but also the quantity was small, and they were basically monopolized by scientific research units or higher-level units, and they could not be assigned to the level of artillery battalions.

Therefore, Guo Zhuocheng is now in such a hot spot.

Here, apart from him, no one here felt anything was wrong. And the soldiers, who were busy calculating, and the experts, had pride clearly written on their faces: we ate technical food, and no one else did

It took about thirteen minutes, the relevant calculation results finally came out, and the calculation masters breathed a sigh of relief one by one, their eyes were fixed on the note ♀ full of calculation results, and the note stayed in the hands of the officer in the calculation room for a few seconds, and the officer swept a few key numbers jù, quickly signed on them, and then quickly ran out of the tent and ran to the command post to hand over the number jù.

Guo Zhuocheng didn't know the following process, but guessed in his heart.

By this time, the note had reached the head of the command post, and the supreme head there frowned and muttered, "Why is it so slow?" It's a minute faster than last time," while signing.

Another officer rushed to the communication room with this signed note, and the signal officer in the communication room reported the parameters to the officers and men operating the guns at the gun position, and the officers and men at the position adjusted the cannon according to the shooting elements and completed the firing

The cannon firing here is far more complicated than the firing of front-line weapons such as mortars, recoilless guns, and those small artillery.

This long-range artillery is different, the soldiers who operate the guns are completely blind, and their eyes are the observers in front. After the shell is fired, the artillery observers on the front line must also quickly report the observed results to the rear, and there is another flurry of chickens and dogs in the calculation room where the shelling results are received, and only after a few minutes do they propose to correct the parameters, and order the gun operators to revise the firing elements to make the next round of shelling more accurate.

If the result of the shooting after correction still does not work, then the procedure must be repeated until the shelling effect is satisfactory.

The shelling worked well, and the forward observers reported that the shells fell in the target circle. When the news came, everyone was smiling. Even the lively Liu Yuanchao and the operational staff officers were overjoyed with their achievements.

Chapter 167 The concentration of cattle people

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