"Uh...... Only ten minutes? The artillery is hiding so far behind, how can the enemy find it? Cao Kun was a little puzzled, he felt that what Cai Ye said was a bit exaggerated, what kind of joke was this? Ten kilometers away from the artillery position, the enemy can find it so easily? He didn't believe it. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Hu Ke also expressed his doubts, and didn't seem to believe Cai Yi's words.

Seeing the doubts of the two commanders, Cai Ye did not feel dissatisfied, the development of the imperial army over the years has been too fast, that is, many infantry generals are a little unable to keep up with the development speed of the army, and they can't even play their old jobs, who will care about artillery?

This is also the reason why the above wants to form artillery alone, one is to form strategic artillery units, and the other is to concentrate on training qualified artillery for each unit, so that those infantry units can be directly put into use after getting the artillery, without worrying about their training.

Because Cai Ye came back from studying in Japan, and he was also more concerned about the military affairs of the empire, he unconsciously knew more about it, and with the convenience of his position, Cai Ye also learned a lot about things that other people did not know.

Of course, the more you know, the more shocked you will be by the empire, Cai Ye never imagined that in just a few years, the empire's military strength has completely surpassed Japan, although there are many loopholes, but those are all personnel loopholes, but the overall plan is still very advanced, almost ahead of the times.

"Commander, Chief of Staff, it is not easy to train an artilleryman, and in normal times, we always think that artillery has something? Isn't it just to teach them how to fire, where to hit targets, and what kind of shooting elements to set? Such a simple thing is to let any individual learn, and it can be easily learned, and even we mistakenly think that it is easier than the training of infantry. Cai Yi explained with a smile.

"Isn't it?" Cao Kun was stunned, how could he listen to Cai Yi's meaning, as if the artillery they had learned earlier was wrong?

"Of course not, our idea is wrong, and it's a mess wrong, the cost of training a qualified artilleryman is even more than the cost of training three infantrymen, and if you are an excellent artillery commander, the cost of training him can even be about the same as training an infantry captain officer.

And there are many things that artillery needs to do, not to mention choosing a position to build a gun position, aiming and shooting, those are all basic skills, let's talk about those who don't know, and every artillery commander, and even every artilleryman, must learn how to measure the trajectory.

There are two main uses for this, the first is to make your artillery more accurate, an excellent artilleryman can achieve an error within the range of five meters, and for artillery, an error of five meters is not an error at all, and the killing radius of large-caliber artillery is tens of meters.

And this error is to draw a square or circle on the ground, centered on a point in the middle, and the distance from this point, this is the standard for calculating the error.

Like the kind of artillery that relies on personal feelings, and can hit every shot, the whole army can find one, even if it is blessed by God, but by learning ballistics calculation, it can train excellent artillery in batches, although it takes more time and energy, but the quality of artillery can be improved by more than one grade.

And the calculation of ballistics, in fact, is not so easy, first of all, it is necessary to know all the data of the artillery, and even take into account the wear and tear of the artillery, and fine-tune it when setting the coordinates.

To calculate the trajectory, it is necessary to consider the position of the artillery, the position of the shooting target, the bearing, the weather conditions, the humidity, the elevation angle of the artillery, the type of shell, the muzzle velocity of the shell, the speed after the discharge, and a series of data, which must be taken into account.

On the other hand, the same knowledge is needed to calculate the position of the enemy's artillery position, but because we do not know the wear and tear of the enemy's artillery, it is still somewhat difficult to accurately calculate, but at least we can roughly determine the position of the enemy's artillery, and if at this time, when a reconnaissance post is dispatched to conduct guided shooting, the hit rate of long-range artillery fire can reach more than 95 percent.

As far as I know so far, one of the best artillery measurement staff officers in our artillery can calculate the exact position of the enemy's artillery position within two shells, and our artillery will be able to carry out covering fire on the enemy's artillery position before the fourth shell of the enemy strikes.

And according to the rate of fire of our artillery, the maximum rate of fire per minute is four shells, that is, he can find the position of the enemy's artillery positions in half a minute, and launch a counterattack within fifty seconds. Cai Ye said what he had learned in one breath.

"So fierce?" Cao Kun was shocked, this was the first time he had heard that artillery could still play like this?

But if that's the case, doesn't that mean that their artillery is already terrible? As long as the enemy artillery dares to open fire, they can find them in a minute, and kill the enemy artillery in five minutes?

Cao Kun was secretly a little shocked, how does this feel a bit mysterious?

"This is just a reference data, and the hypothetical enemy's artillery is the artillery we are equipped with, and the estimating staff officers are well aware of the performance of the artillery, and that's it, the whole army has such a freak, and the other estimating staff officers don't have this ability, but most of them will find out the location of the enemy's artillery within five to ten minutes.

If, on the battlefield, the enemy artillery is replaced by artillery that we are not familiar with, it is not easy to say, unless we can capture the enemy's artillery, and then calculate their data for the reference of the calculation staff, in this way, we can basically achieve a comprehensive counterattack by our artillery group within fifteen minutes after the enemy has opened fire. Cai Ye said, and at the same time secretly sighed in his heart, how good would it be if no one of the staff officers had that kind of ability?

When the time comes, you can take advantage of the night to send someone over to snatch a piece of artillery, and then study their performance, and when you meet them in the future, won't it be a big deal? But obviously, that is not realistic, only exists in ideals.

"This is also very fierce, I really didn't expect that our artillery would really play tricks, it seems that we need to grab some Russian old Maozi artillery to study." Hu Ke couldn't stop being shocked, none of them knew what the artillery was doing? If Cai Ye doesn't say it today, how will they know?

Even, they will simply think that artillery is actually like that. As for the understanding of artillery, in fact, it is similar to the understanding of the navy in later generations, and many people do not understand, why put forward the concept of a century-old navy? In fact, there are many difficulties in it, and this one takes time and experience to precipitate, not that you can have advanced equipment.

"What's going on with measuring ballistics? Is it currently available in the world? Cao Kun subconsciously asked, this is an important basis for whether he will kill the Russian artillery in the future, and he can't help but ask more.

"I don't know much about this, anyway, when I was in Japan, I didn't hear the Japanese mention it, but the theory already existed at that time, but most of them were used to adjust the firing of Zhuyuan to ensure that the artillery hit more accurately, and it has been several years since I returned to China, so I don't know what the development of foreign countries is now." Cai Yi shook his head. Then he continued:

"But no matter what kind of development has come abroad, let's just treat it as if they have mastered this technology, we can generally find out the coordinates within ten minutes, then it is as if they can also do it, then we can only shoot in one position for five minutes at a time, and then just load the car and leave, and continue to shoot in another place."

And five minutes is enough time for one artillery to shoot fifteen to twenty shells, and if it is an artillery group, these five minutes are enough to shoot thousands of shells.

Of course, if there is a guided shot, then the hit rate will be more accurate, and it is even possible to attack two or even three coordinates in one position. ”

"Well, I think this method is feasible, wait for the artillery to come over first, let's spend a few more days and kill the Russian artillery first." Cao Kun nodded, only then did he realize what a terrible thing it was for a commander to not know what level of his army was.

If he had known about this earlier, he wouldn't have had to be so entangled before, and he would have let the artillerymen do it a long time ago.

The train continued to move forward in a hurry, more and more troops had already stepped into the territory of Russia, and the sappers were still working intensively to open the connection between Manchuria and the Russian railway as soon as possible.

Fortunately, they only dismantled a small section of the railway, about 100 meters long, and now they can reinstall that section of the railway.

Although the train had to slow down, even at a turtle speed, and the sappers couldn't get out of it, it was much better than getting off the train and walking.

And after opening up the railway line, they also need to deploy a large number of troops along the railway line to prevent the Russians from sabotaging the railway. This is a top priority, and if one of the railroads is destroyed, it will affect the entire battle and may even lead to the defeat of the entire battle.

Regarding the railway, Cao Kun has decided to send a reserve division to defend, along the railway line of about 120 kilometers, with a division to defend, an average of 150 people per kilometer, considering the logistics headquarters or something, in general, about 100 people per kilometer, every 10 people to defend 100 meters, if this will also allow the Russians to destroy the railway, then Cao Kun thinks that the only thing he can do is to write to the emperor and apply for the disbandment of this reserve division.

ps:There's no update today.,There's something to do later.,Tomorrow's five watches.,All the twelve watches will be made up.,As for what you owe these days.,Find an opportunity to make it up next month.。 (To be continued.) )