'......Boom'

A violent explosion instantly drowned out the roar of the mortar, and twenty-nine shells landed almost indiscriminately on the heads of the charging Imperial Chinese Army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The original invincible 60mm mortar finally dimmed at this moment.

Cannonballs mercilessly tore through the clothes of the air, and the air was like a helpless girl, and there was no other way but to let out a sad scream.

Clusters of orange flames, after the violent explosion, instantly rose into the air, and the huge flames devoured everything around them, whether it was people, trees, land, ravines, or air, and no one could escape its wrath.

The violent explosion sounded, and no one or thing could withstand the monstrous fury of this cannonball, and even the earth couldn't help but tremble.

The brownish yellow soil was instantly burned into black soil by the high temperature of the flames, and the surrounding air became the best accelerant for this mass of flames, and the artillery greedily devoured all the oxygen in the surrounding air, although they could not do it, but they never gave up.

Fragmented shrapnel flew aimlessly across the battlefield, aimlessly searching for its target, bringing up pieces of dirt, gravel, and burning wood chips towards the surrounding Royal Army.

This round of shelling alone has brought hundreds of casualties to the Royal Army, and if there are a few more rounds, even the Royal Army will have to weigh it carefully.

But fortunately, after these 29 shells landed and exploded, the Japanese artillery in Pyongyang did not immediately deliver the next shell to their heads.

The technical performance of the Trinity gun did not have any particularly big highlights, and even, this was an extremely backward artillery.

The three-year-old gun is not designed to install a retreat machine, so after each shell fired, the huge recoil will push the gun back sharply, so the biggest disadvantage of this gun is the low hit rate, even if a seasoned gunner, if you operate this gun, it is difficult to guarantee a 20% hit rate.

Because the moment the shell is fired, a huge impact force will be transmitted, and the position of the artillery has already begun to shift, and the originally set coordinates will change with the movement of the artillery.

After each shell fired, the Japanese artillery needed to reset the artillery, and then unload the shell according to the operation process of the artillery, clean the barrel, adjust the new shooting elements, and then load the gun and continue to fire.

It only takes less than half a minute for a skilled artillery squad to do all this, but for a 75 mm caliber gun, the rate of fire of a shell in half a minute is a little too slow.

Moreover, it is necessary to take into account the time when the personnel retreat and fire the shells, so under normal circumstances, the actual rate of fire of the Japanese army's 31-year-old artillery is about 40 seconds.

But on the battlefield, what does forty seconds of time mean? It means that the troops that are charging at full speed can move the formation forward by more than 200 meters.

According to the distance between the Royal Army and the Japanese at the time of the first round of shelling, the Japanese could only fire three salvos at most, and the troops in front were basically able to make contact.

Considering the difference between the front and back of the whole army, the artillery in the Japanese city could only fire ten rounds at most, and for a battle with a scale of more than 100,000 people, the artillery only fired ten rounds and 290 shells, which was really unbearable.

Even if each shell could hurt ten soldiers, then ten rounds would only be 2,900 soldiers, of course, this is only the result of ideal data.

What does it mean that the Royal Army's charge formation uses a decentralized cluster charge?

It is the front of a squad, there are five soldiers forming an irregular diamond-shaped quadrilateral, in the middle is a veteran in charge of command, with the veteran as the center, and the remaining four soldiers are kept between five and ten meters away from the veteran, which is the arrow of the squad charge tactics.

About 10 meters behind this arrow is the combat position of the squad leader, and with the squad leader as the center, about 10 meters on both sides behind him, two soldiers are responsible for covering, and the two soldiers are generally separated by 15 to 40 meters, depending on the battlefield terrain and the tactical arrangements of the superiors.

Because this was a large corps charge, the lineup of each squad was compressed to a minimum spacing to ensure that more troops could be involved.

After the three-person formation of the squad leader, four soldiers formed a parallel position, of which the middle one was the deputy squad leader who was responsible for command and dispatch, keeping a distance of ten to fifteen meters from the last soldier in front, and the outermost two soldiers keeping a distance of twenty-five to thirty meters.

No matter which position in front of you has a casualty, the people behind can immediately go up.

And from the first man of a squad, to the last soldier, the distance is at least fifty meters, and the whole squad forms a huge triangle, and a platoon forms a larger triangle, and after that a company is formed.

Although the shape of the triangle may be a little off, after all, it is a human and not a machine, but in general it is not wrong.

Therefore, in this case, unless it is a large-caliber heavy artillery, it is absolutely impossible to take out an infantry squad with one shot. And the Japanese army's three-year-old artillery, even if it hits the middle, at best, it will kill half a squad of troops.

Wang Sirui, as the elite grassroots commander of our army in later generations, has long played the tactics of the squad and platoon, although after the crossing, a ten-person squad was changed to a twelve-person squad, and the tactics have also changed accordingly, but in fact the change is not big.

The tactics of the Royal Army now are basically copying the infantry tactics of our army in later generations, although our army has not fought much in later generations, and the tactics used by the troops are still not effective, but what is the problem? Wang Sirui only knew that this kind of squad and platoon tactics was a tactic that our army had used for half a century, and it had also undergone countless revisions and demonstrations in the middle, and it was the most basic tactic and the most core tactic of our army.

This tactic was gradually improved by our army after the repeated ravages of the Japanese army, and after several large-scale wars, there were basically no shortcomings.

Even the machine gun side fire, which is the most feared by all armies, casualties two squads (three people in a team), while the ordinary line has dozens of casualties, which is also the reason why the Japanese army's 'pig rush' tactics can easily kill three or four soldiers with one magazine.

Of course, this tactic is not without its drawbacks, and again, soldiers are people, not machines. In order to maximize the effectiveness of this tactic, it is not enough for a squad or platoon to do a good job, but for a battalion and a regiment to be able to cooperate tacitly.

And this can only rely on time to train, so that the troops look for a tacit understanding with each other, once the training is completed, a tacit understanding has been formed between a regiment, then in the face of the same number of troops, it can basically already be declared invincible, even if the equipment is inferior to the enemy, it is not a big problem.

Well, having said so much, in the end you will understand with just one sentence, if this tactic is done well, it is a crowd tactic, and in the Korean War in later generations, our army adopted this tactic, and our army, which has been tempered by the anti-Japanese and civil wars, has already practiced this tactic to the point of perfection, so on the battlefield, wave after wave of troops keep attacking the US army.

In addition, another major feature of this tactic, that is, under the same size, the density of troops is much lower than others, to put it simply, only one person standing in a 100-square-meter house is the same as five people standing, this tactic is to visually give people the illusion that there are dense and full of enemies, in fact, the enemy may not have as many comrades-in-arms as himself.

(The author Jun saw an old photo, which was a photo of the attack on a mountain, and from the photo, it can be seen that the number of people participating in the attack is densely packed and large, but you can check them one by one, and there is actually only one platoon waiting at the foot of the mountain to serve as a reserve.) ）

However, after hearing the sound of the Japanese artillery, Cao Kun frowned tightly in the headquarters several kilometers away.

Cao Kun was not worried about how many casualties the Japanese artillery would bring to himself, after all, the advanced tactics were placed there, from the sound of artillery, Cao Kun also judged that this was very likely to be 75 mm artillery, although the number of artillery was quite a lot, but in the face of the attack of five divisions, this artillery was not much, and after this battle, the casualties brought by the artillery to themselves were only 1,000 people, and the price was still acceptable.

But what worries Cao Kun the most is, where is his mother's artillery?

Regardless of whether the little devil's artillery can control the situation of the war, it is like this to let the little devil continue to be arrogant, and it is also a huge blow to his own morale, even if there is only one artillery on his side, at this time, firing two artillery demonstrations can immediately have the effect of inspiring the morale of the army.

"Artillery! Artillery! Artillery! Where the hell is the artillery regiment? Damn, I can't find anyone when I should show up, and these grandsons hang in front of me every day when I shouldn't. Cao Kun slapped the table with some anger, being able to accept the casualties caused by the Japanese artillery fire, but it did not mean that Cao Kun did not want to change this result.

If you can solve the problem without dying, or if fewer people die, then why choose to fill this hole with human lives?

"Commander, according to the telegram sent by the artillery yesterday, it is predicted that the artillery will arrive on the battlefield in the afternoon." Cai Ye responded.

This time, their intelligence was inaccurate, so they didn't know that the Japanese army still had a large-scale artillery unit in Pyongyang, but this can't be blamed on the scouts, after all, there are tens of thousands of Japanese troops surrounding Pyongyang, not to mention scouts, even if the special forces come, it is difficult to get in.

"Send a telegram to Wang Qi, if the artillery regiment can't get to the combat position before lunch, Lao Tzu will fight to take off this military uniform and get him ......" (to be continued.) )