Chapter 252: Funny Drill Three
When Feng Laosi and their four 75mm rapid-fire guns began to roar, Sterz was completely shocked.
The four guns were hidden at the top of the mountain, and he could clearly see through the telescope that the four guns had been pushed to the firing position, followed by a series of shells that erupted from the muzzles of the guns.
He roughly estimated that at least fifteen rounds a minute would be more than fifteen, and those cannons seemed to have magical power, and they didn't move at all when they were fired, and there was no trouble like the guns in his army, which had to be pushed back into the running position after adjusting for each shell fired.
The artillery was like a burst of weapons, spitting out a continuous stream of projectiles on the mountain, and the projectiles that exploded when they hit the ground fell to his original artillery position as accurately as rain.
In an instant, there was a rumbling explosion from his artillery position, and the constantly rising fireballs with billowing smoke and dust tumbled into the air, bringing up small mushroom-like columns of smoke, but then they were hit by other rising smoke and dust, and they were connected into a sea of red and black alternating fire.
Sterz closed his eyes and lowered the heavy telescope in his hand, knowing that his heavy artillery was finished.
The arrangement of those artillery pieces is in accordance with the training regulations, the direct distance between the running position and the running position is quite close, and it is neatly arranged in two rows, and only this arrangement can better unify the accuracy of fire during artillery bombardment, but now the dense arrangement has become the biggest mistake.
According to the firing speed of the enemy's artillery, it took less than three minutes for the four guns to envelop the entire position in the sea of fire composed of manpower, and his heavy artillery wanted to move out of the range of shelling, at least six minutes or more, which was their best training achievement, and in the chaotic battlefield conditions, it was impossible to move the artillery out of the gun position and pull it away with horses in six minutes.
During this time, the enemy could calmly plow their artillery positions as if they were ploughing the fields, repeatedly plowing them back and forth, turning all his heavy 75-mm guns into piles of scrap metal or reducing them to parts.
In that area shrouded in enemy artillery fire, no one could survive such a rapid artillery bombardment, and the improvised anti-artillery facilities on those artillery positions were all used to prevent the enemy's grenade shotgun killing, and basically had no effect on the protection of explosive shells.
Even if he was lucky enough not to be killed by the fragments scattered by the explosion of those projectiles, the surviving personnel would have been injured by the strong shock wave generated by the explosion, not to mention the explosion of ammunition on the position caused by the strong explosion of those projectiles, and his 75-mm heavy gun was completely wiped out by the enemy in one shot.
"Colonel, look, two of our companies have fallen into their trap, they're finished." Andriy screamed.
When Sterz raised his binoculars and looked at the location where the two companies had assembled, it had become a world of fire and smoke, and only from the top and sides of the mountain bag, the Maxim heavy machine guns crossed the assembly area, and a series of projectiles formed a fire dragon loomed in the smoke and dust.
When all the smoke and dust cleared, a major in the bloodless referee group looked at the gray-faced Sterz with some pity and said, "Sir, your infantry company and heavy artillery company have been judged to be completely annihilated, now you can move on to the next step." ”
"I ask for a pause in the exercise, without artillery for the infantry to charge, it is simply to send them to death, I can't break through the enemy's positions." Sterz sent a request to the referee team to suspend the exercise, when the heavy artillery unit was eliminated by the enemy, there was no heavy artillery suppression, the enemy condescended and only needed to keep shelling his army assembly area, and he did not even have the possibility of organizing an attack, so the exercise was not necessary.
"Mr. Colonel, don't you still have a reserve of twenty heavy guns? I didn't find that they were defeated by the enemy, you can line them up in battle, do you just throw in the towel? A colonel of the referee team said with an unkind face.
"Twenty heavy artillery reserves?" Sterz looked at the colonel with some confusion, how did he not know about the reserve from there.
"Mr. Colonel, as an infantry regiment in the garrison of Vienna, do you only have twenty heavy guns? Is it stupid that you don't even keep the reserves? The Colonel asked viciously.
"Andri, inform the heavy artillery reserves to enter the position, let them shell the enemy's position, ten artillery pieces for me to cover fire with grenade shots five kilometers away, and the other artillery pieces to get me closer to two kilometers, knock out those machine gun nests with solid bullets, and push the 37-mm five-barrel rapid-fire guns and Maxim heavy machine guns to within one kilometer to cover the infantry charge, this time send six infantry companies to attack at the same time, we have to give them some color."
"Yes, Colonel, I'll give the order." Adjutant Andri replied loudly that if he had the slightest doubt at this time, he would be beaten and driven out of the army by a room full of officers.
"What do you say? They still have twenty heavy guns, and now they are going to shell the position? Feng Laosi asked with some suspicion.
"Yes, sir, they still have twenty heavy guns, now please withdraw from your positions at once, they are about to carry out a new round of shelling." A member of the referee team said to Feng Laosi sternly.
"There are still twenty heavy guns, all right, let's withdraw." Feng Laosi had no other ideas, and did not know that the Austro-Hungarian army had begun to cheat, so he had to obey the order and order to withdraw from the position.
The annihilated artillery units of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which participated in the exercises, after a circle on their side, returned to the site of the exercises from the new rank of reserve troops, rearranged and began shelling in accordance with Stelz's new orders.
However, with the lesson of being connected to the pot for the first time, the distance between the running positions has been significantly widened, and it is not in a row, but scattered in groups of three or four.
The first to fire was the howitzer fire responsible for fire suppression, Feng Laosi's artillery was hidden in the anti-artillery hole, and it would be launched for firing when it was used, but it was impossible to fight against the projectiles in the sky, so Feng Laosi's strategy was to squint and not move, allowing the enemy's artillery fire to rage on the position.
The grenade bomb had no effect at all against a solid bunker that could resist the bombardment of a 105 mm caliber high-explosive bomb, and the referee team did not dare to make a random judgment even if they wanted to make trouble, so they could only helplessly announce that Feng Laosi and their four guns had survived the artillery fire.
But the machine gun nests on the surface were not so lucky, and the 75-mm guns that were fired at close range were strongly dismantled with solid bullets, and the machine gun nests made of reinforced concrete were so badly wounded that they could not be used at all.
However, because the soldiers in the machine gun nests withdrew from the machine gun nests and hid in the anti-gun holes as soon as the enemy began shelling, although the machine gun nests were destroyed, the casualties of the soldiers were basically none.
At the same time, because Gao Hongsheng was generally equipped with light machine guns and general-purpose machine guns, the referee team finally judged that only four Makqin heavy machine guns were destroyed by artillery after shelling, and the other machine guns were intact.
Under the cover of heavy artillery, Sterz also successfully moved four 37-mm five-barreled rapid-fire guns to a distance of 1,500 meters from Feng Laosi's position, successfully erected them, and then began to cover the artillery bombardment of the infantry charge.