Chapter 114 107 Rocket Artillery
The citizens of Qazvin have been transferred, after all, this place is about to become a battlefield, but there are still hundreds of young men who have stayed behind and asked to join the army.
Iran is mountainous, and the people in many mountainous areas are actually still in an uncivilized state, such as daily life, which is to carry a shotgun to hunt, such a person is born a warrior.
However, in the cities, it is different, most of the citizens of Qazvin have become civilized people, and many old traditions have been lost, for example, they have long since abandoned their headscarves and are dressed no different from the Western world.
Many of these young lads did not know how to shoot, and stayed entirely on their blood, and after receiving them, Moder did not let them participate in the front-line battles, but let them lead the way.
Yes, they are citizens here, they are very familiar with the terrain here, and they will play an irreplaceable role in the upcoming street battles.
According to Moder's arrangement, it is necessary to destroy a large number of Soviets in street battles, even if their tank units come over, they will be drowned in their own street battles, and the light weapons they hold can hit the side of the tank.
The large number of machine guns equipped in their troops will form a sufficient firepower advantage.
After withdrawing from the valley, Moder was about to prepare for a street fight, and now, when he suddenly proposed to go out and attack, the old load-bearing generals present frowned a little.
The first battle was a success, and Moder built up his prestige, and under normal circumstances, no one would have contradicted him.
However, it is not easy to sneak attack.
The first time, it was to catch the other party off guard, and now, the other party has obviously learned a lesson and become cautious, for example, although they are temporarily surrounded outside the city, but their sentries have also increased their vigilance, if they want to sneak attack now, I am afraid that if they do not approach, they will be discovered by the sentries, and then killed by the cavalry who rushed in.
Leaving the city to sneak up on the outside is not a clever idea, and it will even bring more casualties.
Looking at the expressions of the people around him, Moder knew what they were thinking, so he could only explain: "We will not touch the Soviets' position to sneak attack, we will only fire cold artillery from a distance." ”
Chill the cannon? The Iranians present were stunned, and the staff officers from Germany had already understood what Moder meant, and they all smiled.
Infantry divisions must also have sufficient suppressive power, and at the same time, they must also be light to be able to adapt to the battle of the troops, so the German infantry divisions are equipped with a large number of recoilless guns, which can achieve good suppressive firepower and can also fight tanks.
However, it is a direct-aim weapon, and many times, due to the limited firing range, it cannot be deployed effectively, so German infantry divisions, especially mountain infantry divisions, need another type of weapon.
Bazooka!
The principle of the barrel artillery determines that their barrel cannot be too thin, otherwise it will explode, and the movement when firing at the same time is still very large, while the rocket artillery flies by its own power, and the barrel only needs a thin steel plate.
Even, in many cases, rockets can be fired without a barrel, which gives you pretty much flexibility!
At the same time, the caliber of the rocket artillery is also quite critical for the infantry, the caliber is too large, it is inconvenient to carry, and it can only be put on a car, and if the caliber is too small, the power is not enough, and the range is too close.
It is necessary to consider all kinds of factors together, and when German military experts were arguing about the caliber issue, Ciric quickly made a decision.
107 mm! (Introduced earlier in Chapter 308)
From Huaxia in later generations, Ciric certainly remembers a unique rocket launcher suitable for guerrilla warfare in Huaxia, that is, the 107 rocket launcher that is famous in the whole world!
This kind of artillery has made the Americans suffer thoroughly, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, there are such rocket artillery attacks everywhere, hit and run, and the Americans, even with advanced infantry radar, cannot effectively find the launcher.
Even, this thing is not only used to hit the ground, but also in the air and at sea.
For example, two British Harrier fighter jets were attacked by rocket artillery at the US military base in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, destroying one and injuring the other.
Two large US warships, the USS Ashilan and the USS Chishaji, anchored at Port Aqaba in Jordan, were attacked by rocket artillery. The amphibious landing ship "Ashilan" was almost hit when the rockets went over the bow of the ship and blew a 2.5-meter-diameter hole in the roof of the warehouse at the pier. The two American ships immediately fled the port.
Later inspections revealed that the attackers had fired rockets at the U.S. warship from a hilltop warehouse in a slum on the outskirts of Aqaba, 8 kilometres from the port. It was a two-story building. The attackers carved a one-square-metre skylight on the roof of the second floor.
In later generations, AK-47, RPG-7 and 107mm rocket launchers were called the three magic weapons of the guerrillas, and they each had their own division of labor. For targets beyond 300 meters, only 107-mm rocket artillery is simple and practical, cheap and reliable.
Easy to use, stealthy, and lethal, the 107-mm rocket launcher was equipped to the German Army after a year of development, but unfortunately in previous battles, it was not very brilliant.
In the offensive war, the German tanks completely grabbed the limelight, the infantry division only needed to accompany the battle, and there was no offensive weapon at all, and the larger Ciric pipe organ could also provide suppressive firepower, and this small infantry weapon could only be obscure.
And in Iran, in the defensive operations of infantry divisions, this weapon is about to exert even greater power!
These rocket launchers arrived only yesterday, so they didn't catch up with the siege of the canyon.
In the darkness of the night, the small city of Qazvin was silent.
Two German soldiers, gently pushing something like a small cart, went down the street, and in front of them, an Iranian youth, was leading the way.
This trolley has two tires on both sides, and the goods in the middle are a twelve-tube device, the tube is less than one meter long, and the whole trolley is only more than two meters.
If you look at it from a distance, it is no different from an ordinary farm tool.
Behind them, there were several tall fighters, carrying ammunition boxes on their shoulders, they were a rocket launcher squad, and the squad leader, Kahn, personally pushed this trolley, and in his head, he still thought about the order he received half an hour ago, with his own artillery fire, to cover the command of the Soviets!