In order to prevent possible accidents and to cope with closer encounters, the Teaching Brigade and the Guards and Brave Guards brigades did not order all artillery to fire at this distance. The main ones that fired the artillery were the eighteen two-kilogram body-barreled heavy guns and thirty thousand-pound body-barreled heavy guns that were captured in Linqing before. After these days of actual combat and testing, the gunners, who have accumulated a lot of experience and knowledge over the past year or so, have begun to adapt to the drug standards and range ballistic characteristics. In particular, the momentum pendulum and the free fall formula, two artillery technologies that have not been mastered by the West today, make up for the shortcomings in actual measurement.

After only about seven or eight test firings, the hit rate began to stabilize, and the hit rate of shells fired by 1,000 or 2,000 catties of heavy artillery at a distance of about one mile was almost stable at about 30 percent.

Since the enemy had no intention of attacking on its own initiative, the officers of the artillery squadrons also understood that there was no need to fire at a rate of fire that was too hasty, and that the most important thing was the accuracy of hits. Therefore, it is almost noticeable that it takes more than a minute or so for the heavy artillery to launch a round of fire. This also gives enough time to clean the chamber and even cool down the firearm, allowing the fire to last longer.

But even so, in just a stick of incense, hundreds of shells were accurately fired into the defenders' camp after entering the state. Even at a distance of about a mile, the energy and power of the heavy shells fired by the 1,000-pound to 2,000-pound heavy artillery did not seem to have been reduced much, and even the improvised earthen ramparts and chariots did not play a good low-grade role.

Although the shells did not seem to have much power to kill the people behind them after they had broken down the earthen ramparts and overturned the car shields, there were still many shells that blasted into the crowd with a relatively low trajectory at a distance of about a mile, bringing a bloody streak of either death or injury.

Because the army was on the defensive, the casualties of hundreds of people were only a few waves in the tens of thousands of troops. However, when the shelling lasted for nearly half an hour or so, and more than 2,000 casualties had been lost under 40 rounds of fire, many of the car battalions began to become restless.

Sun Chengzong, who knew some facts, understood that Western heavy artillery like this was different from ordinary general or second general artillery, and even if it fired about 100 rounds at a relatively low rate of fire, the life of the barrel and even the accuracy of hitting would be reduced to a large extent. Thousands of casualties in the defense were clearly better than being defeated in the attack.

Seeing that after suffering a lot of casualties and losses, the defenders seemed to be still calm, Xiao Xuan also had to admit that he may have underestimated the Liaodong Army to a large extent. It can give the Houjin army a confrontation for many years. Even if the level of field offense is not too strong, the toughness of the defense is obviously out of the company. In the end, Xiao Xuan did not plan to waste most of the life of the captured heavy artillery when attacking the Ming army's position in the Xianghe area. Because these heavy artillery are also indispensable support in the future defense of the city.

"Get your firearms ready to practice firing from a distance! There is no need to concentrate on the hands of the shooters of each team, each group can play freely! Xiao Xuan began to give orders at this time.

In the past, individual firearms with three or two bombs as the core had only some applications in medium and close combat, and the firing effect at this distance did not seem to have been proven? Thinking of this, Xiao Xuan also felt that a more comprehensive firing exercise could allow more officers and soldiers to improve their marksmanship.

The continuous sound of guns and cannons rang out again, almost as dense as the sound of Liaodong Army artillery in the distance. However, it was the training brigade to the teams of at least 5,000 firearms teams that deployed firepower. The two-man firearms are also equipped with special mounts and observer hands. Having a backing when firing also greatly improves accuracy. However, the soldiers around Xiao Xuan, who were in charge of watching through the telescope at the beginning, felt a little disappointed. Because the hit rate of the cannon shells at this distance seems to be obviously somewhat unsatisfactory, it takes almost a dozen or so projectiles to have one shot that seems to hit the queue at the top of the line.

However, when the firepower gradually extended back, the entire Liaodong Army's military formation began to have some commotion again. At this time, under the orders of the officers, the firearms who had completed the actual combat test firing also accelerated the pace of firing. In just a few minutes, 20 rounds of fire caused more than 100,000 projectiles of more than 1,000 joules to fly into the enemy group, and although the relatively dense array of personnel against the opponent often missed one out of ten, it still brought thousands of casualties.

It can have such a firepower effect at such a long distance, which began to make the Liaodong Army, which still had some expectations, begin to lose confidence.

"After the strategy, is our army going to withdraw?" Yuan Keli began to remind at this time.

After thinking for a while, Sun Chengzong finally made a final decision and gave the order for the entire army to start retreating. The entire Liaodong Army, which had just formed an army and had not been in existence for a long time, was obviously not a strong team on the whole, and if it fought against such a strong opponent, if it launched an attack in the daytime, it would be defeated. And if to attack at night? Sun Chengzong, who knew a lot of things, also knew what kind of achievements and achievements this son of heaven had in blasting defense at night when he was only a few newly built troops.

The solidification of the hierarchy does not necessarily mean that it affects combat effectiveness. For example, the comparison of the quality of Soviet-German military construction in the thirties is typical.

The performance of the U.S. military in World War II was not as good as that of the Soviet Union, except for the training of the war and the transformation under the pressure of the crisis, and the overall personnel performance was at the same level as that of the Soviet Union before 1944. That is, the Stalinist Soviet Union, which was relatively high-security, egalitarian, and had a lot of personnel militarized and turned to training, generally had their own strengths and weaknesses compared to Americans who had been trained by the Great Depression and a high-stress society with a 0.6 Gini coefficient. It is only that there is a clear discrepancy between the performance of the top and the senior generals at the level of the commander-in-chief.

The British ruling class during World War I also had a casualty tolerance that was not inferior to that of soldiers, and the death rate of junior officers in the US military during the Korean War was almost the same as that of soldiers (the American officer class has never been a place to pay attention to the upward path, and it is slightly better and limited than modern European countries, and China is a special case)

During the Battle of the Nakdong River, the monthly casualties of 40,000 American troops were nearly 10,000, and the casualties of 8-100,000 American troops were nearly 30,000 in a few months. During the Battle of Changjin Lake to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, some grassroots companies of the 1st Marine Division died 30 or 40 casualties in a night and would not collapse. Even in the emerging U.S. military, there are significantly fewer prisoners than war deaths.

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