Chapter 1681: The Price of Carelessness
The Japanese artillery fire, the distribution is very reasonable, divided into several parts, at a specific position on the top of the mountain, the arrangement is divisional artillery fire, mainly composed of more than 108 heavy artillery, basically 108 and 125, only a small part of 155, or a little more old-fashioned, they as the main force of this counterattack, whether it is the new 155 artillery, or the firepower of the battalion company below 75 mm, did not participate in this counterattack. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The former is good to say that the artillery below 75 mm, his firing range is limited, and it is simply not enough to reach the artillery positions arranged by the US army, as for the new artillery, it is to hide a hand, 155 artillery, all placed in the rear, 155 The maximum range of 40 kilometers is enough to cover the entire battlefield, even far in the rear, it is enough to cover the entire front line.
Such a huge enveloping range, is the strategic artillery fire in the strategic artillery fire, the entire Japanese Alaska Army, 3 million troops, 155 artillery a total of only 1200, except for a small part of the front line, used to suppress vitality, the rest are distributed in the rear, at least 18 kilometers away from this front line, this distance is calculated, whether it is reaction, coverage, or other aspects, are very suitable distance.
Because it is a positional defensive battle, the strategic artillery is also arranged quite tightly even in the rear, not only all camouflage, but also temporary artillery positions, which are used for protection when attacked, a distance of more than 18 kilometers, such a distance, not to mention the land firepower of the US army, even the naval guns of battleships, may not be able to hit.
Of course, a 14-inch or even 15-inch gun must have an extreme range of more than 40 kilometers, but there are no aiming facilities and no sufficiently accurate shooting calculation methods, even if this artillery hits such a distance, it is still an anti-aircraft gun to hit mosquitoes, and the possibility of hitting is very small.
This time, it is mainly aimed at the front-line artillery of the US army, there are only 12 divisions, at best, thousands of guns, so that there is no need for a big killer like 155 at all, artillery has a life, 155 expensive price, as the most important component of heavy artillery, his barrel accounts for almost half of the price of the entire artillery, unless necessary, or it is a suppression task, generally speaking, 155 will not be out of the horse, otherwise it will be a big waste, high-intensity attacks, will damage the barrel, increase losses.
For Japan, the location of the U.S. artillery regiment, located in the mountains of more than 100 mm heavy artillery is enough, you know, they are located in the 392 heights, the altitude of the entire highland is 392 meters, even the relative height relative to the ground is more than 200 meters, the United States and Canada are attacking from the back, in this case, the range of artillery Japan will occupy a great advantage, not to mention that the Japanese artillery, not the original Japan is backward, or even Japan's own production of stupid big and coarse, All of them are new Chinese artillery, which is extremely high-tech and has a much longer firing range than ordinary artillery.
For artillery such a basic army firepower, China has not hidden its own secrets, and even the 155 has been taken out, even if it is an early model, the threat to China is also huge, and even in the case of confrontation between the two armies, as long as the artillery can have a certain amount of damage, the difference is that the more powerful the artillery, the greater the threat.
In real battlefield combat, the range of 155 is more than 40 kilometers, more than 40 kilometers of range, for artillery, the increase in range, there is not much strategic significance, sometimes, the range exceeds 40 kilometers, and the artillery position can not be arranged 40 kilometers away, you must know that with the speed of artillery, to leap a distance of 40 kilometers, it will take a few minutes, not to mention that it takes time for signal transmission, and it takes time for reaction and integration.
China has a radio system, there is also a battlefield telephone, but more than 40 kilometers, is not conducive to the grasp of the battlefield situation, generally speaking, strategic artillery fire is mostly arranged in the distance between 15 kilometers and 30 kilometers, of course, this refers to China's 155, other countries' strategic artillery, the range is up to 10 kilometers, there is no choice, generally in the farthest range.
China's artillery, because of its advanced technology and excellent materials, even the technical content of 75 artillery is very high, not to mention the larger 108,125, especially 125 mm, which is only 30 mm less than 155, but the firing range has also reached 25 kilometers, and it can already play a similar role as strategic artillery in ordinary strategic artillery.
At this time, the position on the top of the mountain, less than 12 kilometers away from the artillery camp of the US army, is not only the absolute range of 125 and 108, but also the place where they have the greatest lethality.
Kawasaki Meijing's order was transmitted to each gun position through the telephone, and the Japanese artillerymen, who had been waiting for a long time, began to prepare for the shelling. At the top of the mountain, among the hidden caves, it looks empty or full of rocks, but in fact, it is the position of strategic artillery, these rocks have been processed, each cave is dug out of pure rock, and through reinforced concrete pouring, the front is at least 3 meters thick reinforced concrete structure, even if the entire shooting range, it is only 25 degrees, less than 50 centimeters high, 2.5 meters long narrow area, there is almost no space for aiming, the artillery is behind, and the scenery in front can not be seen.
Fortunately, under the leadership of China, Japan has popularized the telephone system, and the observation post on the other section of the mountaintop, after the calculation of optical instruments, is even better than the artillery position, and there is no need to worry about being obscured by the smoke of continuous artillery firing.
In fact, this kind of training is very much in line with the appetite of the Japanese, in the past 7 months, most of the Japanese artillery is so non-artillery training, although the level of shooting is not high, but aiming at certain areas, both the reaction time and the speed of shooting are quite good.
The U.S. army has 12 divisions, and the Japanese army has only more than 4 divisions, but in terms of the number of artillery, the U.S. army is only 20% more than the Japanese army, and this is not counting the strategic artillery fire, and even the existing front-line artillery fire, the Japanese army has more artillery than the U.S. army in the 75 mm or more artillery.
In the artillery with a range of more than 15 kilometers, Japan occupies an obvious advantage, and the 200-meter-high altitude has an extremely obvious effect on the addition of artillery, and even some new 75 guns can be dog-sized artillery positions of the US army.
Thousands of artillery pieces began to wield, no need to aim, pure shooting, similar actions, Japanese artillery has been trained countless times, has been skilled to the extreme, a minute even guaranteed a rate of fire of 1-3 rounds, which is super fast for artillery over 75.
The U.S. military is also well-trained, they felt it at the same time as the Japanese artillery fire appeared, most of the Japanese artillery is long-range artillery fire, the muzzle velocity is extremely high, in the first half, the sound of the artillery exceeds the speed of sound, but in the second half, the speed of sound exceeds the speed of the artillery, the whistling cannon came, some sensitive American officers, immediately thought of the rear position, the Japanese hid the artillery until now, certainly not to those who have fallen into machine gun fire, do not know what to do with the Canadian Army, That is already the result of the battle on the table, and if you want to expand, you can only deal with the American artillery in the rear.
They almost forgot that on the opposite side was not some native, nor colonial soldiers, but one of the great powers, although only the weakest ones, but behind them, stood the American henchmen of the great trouble Chinese, God knows what the Chinese equipped Japan, they actually did not think that Japan still has artillery, and did not even make any defensive moves, now, the artillery has been deployed, there is no way to defend at all, as long as the number of the opponent's artillery exceeds a certain level, under one face, it is possible to suffer huge losses.
The Americans could only hope that the Japanese were not well prepared, did not have enough artillery fire, or their shooting skills were not good, and there was no way to pose enough threat to their artillery regiments.
However, when the first spark appeared accurately in the position of the artillery regiment, they were completely desperate, the Japanese accuracy was extremely high, from the first artillery hit, to the next series of hits, the Japanese gunner's strength, of course, was not as good as the Chinese Army, but it was also above the level. Every gunner of the Chinese Army is trained with at least 5,000 rounds of shells, and with such a number of shells, the average talent can become an elite gunner, not to mention some talented, 5,000 rounds is enough for him to master the essence of artillery, and there is no problem with his eyes closed and pointing wherever he hits.
The Japanese can't be so extravagant, a gunner uses 5,000 shells, I'm afraid the consumption of this gunner is huge, one or two maybe, really to popularize a gunner in every regiment and every battalion, even if Japan is now, the economic situation has just improved, and it can't afford it, you know, 3 million troops, at least more than 300,000 artillery, even if most of them are mortars, large-caliber artillery is at least more than 30,000 pieces, according to each with an elite gunner, three or four skilled gunners, just shells, It was enough to bankrupt the Japanese.
Fortunately, you can use other methods, Japan has been here for a long time, and they have made accurate measurements of these, that position, that area, there is an icon, as long as you aim at that area, each area is about a hectare, but when the artillery falls, covering the attack, the accuracy is already quite high, when several guns in a coordinated way, under the premise of cross-attack, this area is even more invisible.
Only a small number of the Japanese are particularly talented, and they use the method of live ammunition to improve the overall quality of these artillerymen, and the rest are basically this kind of training day after day, year after year; in this case, even if the standard of individual soldiers is not too high, the overall quality of carrying out orders has been significantly improved, especially on the fixed, familiar battlefield, and this efficiency is beyond the expectations of the United States.
The artillery roared, crossed the distance between the two sides, less than 12 kilometers, and fell to another section of the battlefield, not only the officers heard the sound of the artillery firing, but even those artillerymen also discovered this, at this moment, there was not much time to delay, they had to move, but how could the speed of people be compared to the speed of the flight of the shells, some smart ones, directly ran outside the artillery regiment, as for the artillery, how could the artillery that had been deployed move in a short time.
It cannot be said that the US military is not rich in experience, and it is not easy to get back from the bloody battles on the European battlefield, and it has seen the European battlefield, the war between the large armies, the crazy killing between each other, and it can be said that it spares no effort to protect artillery, machine guns and fixed fire points, but the US military is still careless.
This time, the U.S. military is only facing the Japanese army, and they underestimate the Japanese army, because what they learned before is that whether it was during the Russo-Japanese War or the Chinese War, the Japanese firepower was quite poor, and in the basic firepower of the U.S. army, 100 mm artillery was only regimental artillery fire, but in Japan, 75 mm can be regarded as heavy artillery, and 100 mm can be called strategic firepower, which is quite small in the entire army.
Perhaps this idea of inertia makes the US military place strategic artillery positions 5-6 kilometers away when arranging artillery positions, which is also a distance that is difficult for most 75 mm or even 100 mm guns to reach, even if it can be touched occasionally, it is harmless. However, the current situation has caused the US military to suffer a big loss, and the strategic artillery fire may be dealt a devastating blow.
But they forgot that Japan had joined the Chinese camp, and that the level of artillery fire shown by China, whether in Siberia or in Australia, was absolutely incomparably strong, and in this case, this loophole could be said to be very fatal.
In the eyes of the Americans, after getting some data from Britain and France, the Americans have surpassed the two allies of the Entente in terms of artillery, and their firepower should be much less than this in the technologically poor Japan.
But they didn't count China, China has the habit of hiding things in later generations, the best thing has always been a cloud and mountain fog cover, until the last one, it will never be exposed, Yang Yuanzhao is the same, whether it is an all-in-one machine, or his identity as a traverser, he is too sensitive, when he has no strength, he hides carefully, and it is easy not to be exposed, after controlling the situation in China, the whole world coincides with the First World War, and the three states of Europe, Asia and the United States are all involved in the war, which is the only good opportunity for China to take off, In the midst of opportunities and foresight, China has made great progress, expanding its territory by three times, winning enough living space for the future, and has also achieved a lot of development in many aspects.
But it is precisely in the past 8 years that they have been hiding a hand, hiding, and hiding, and have become accustomed to it, and even under the premise that China occupies Siberia and Australia, when China sneaks up on the United States and occupies Hawaii, the Americans and the Entente even think that China's technological level is on par with them.
It was between the two in World War II, not in World War I, China has caught up with and exceeded the average level of World War II in most of the weapons of war, but the United States has just surpassed the level of World War I, or on the premise that Britain has completely opened up its technology to the United States.
If you don't count the emergence of China, the United States is probably the most profitable in this world war, although he did not have a history of World War I, earned enough capital, and finally joined the war, becoming the winner at the lowest cost, but later, from the Paris Peace Conference in World War I to the outbreak of World War II, Britain and France continued to weaken the United States, the United States not only did not get enough technology, but also the right to speak, which was maintained by Britain and France, which is also the fundamental reason why the United States supported Germany and invested heavily in Germany before World War II, in the era of peace, Relying on the victorious country and the right to speak, there is no way to get what the United States needs, and the United States can only start a war and let the war help the Americans establish their authority.
In this time and space, Britain suffered a much greater blow than during the First World War, and he did not care about the blockade of the United States, and the post-war events were still too far away from them, in order to defeat Germany, in order to defeat the Allies, they had to make reasonable use of all resources, in this case, the United States obtained the technology that it dreamed of, and greatly expanded its great strides forward in many technologies such as warships and artillery, and in a sense, the United States was able to burst out with such a strong war potential, which is also directly related to these technologies.
But on the battlefield, no matter how much the production capacity and artillery strength of the sky, they could not save these running regiments, and the artillery regiments divided into 12 were almost the same hands and suffered a devastating blow, and the Japanese frantically maintained continuous shooting, and in the shelling, the American artillery positions were dumb fire, and there was almost a one-sided slaughter.
In 20 minutes, at least 60 rounds of artillery salvos, the number of artillery by the US army is huge, but the Japanese artillery is also a lot, it has not been opened much, but under the premise of attacking the position, it was counterattacked, 12 divisions of the US army, the artillery regiment was devastated, 7 percent of the 20 minutes were destroyed, without the cover of the artillery regiment, the Canadian infantry on the front line really became alone. (To be continued.) )