"Captain! The commander just sent a telegram ordering us to rush to the battle position before lunch, otherwise we will kill you if we take off this uniform......" The telegraph soldier's face was a little strange, but this telegram did say so, as a telegraph soldier, especially in the face of such a high-stakes task order, it is impossible to mistake a word. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although the last sentence has nothing to do with the mission, it is actually equivalent to an ultimatum issued by Commander Cao Kun to their artillery regiment.

What kind of secret is contained in being able to make a commander fight to take off his military uniform and kill a regimental commander? In other words, the last sentence was to tell Wang Qi that he would either rush to the battlefield before lunch, or wait to be killed by him.

Wang Qi frowned deeply, looking at the troops who couldn't lift the speed no matter how hard they tried, and he was very anxious: "Tell the commander that if the artillery regiment can't catch up with the battlefield before lunch, you don't need him to do it, I'll solve it myself." ”

Wang Qi, a native of Zhongjing, that is, the future capital, Wang Qi's father was a soldier, but he had been home for several years.

Twenty-three years old, the youngest regiment commander of the artillery unit, born in the infantry, four years in the army, in 1901 joined the Han army at that time, in 1902 was promoted to second lieutenant platoon commander for merit, participated in the battle to recover Hubei and Hunan, when he was in Hubei, Wang Qi's unit encountered the stubborn resistance of the Qing army.

In the end, the troops captured an old-fashioned artillery, but no one could use it, so Wang Qi tried it himself, and after a few shells passed, Wang Qi quickly found the trick.

According to the battle summary of the commander of the army at that time, if it were not for the artillery controlled by Wang Qi to destroy several important enemy strongholds, the Han army is likely to leave hundreds of corpses when attacking these strongholds.

Duan Qirui, who was the commander-in-chief of the artillery at the time, was now the commander-in-chief of the artillery, accidentally discovered this battle summary and felt that Wang Qi was a good artillery seedling, so he applied to transfer Wang Qi to the artillery unit.

After coming to the artillery unit, Wang Qi quickly showed his strength, a brand new artillery, often only takes less than a month to be able to thoroughly understand its temper, by Wang Qi in charge of the artillery, the hit rate in the training assessment is as high as 60 percent.

This data is indeed a bit low in later generations, but we must take into account the equipment gap between the present and future generations, first of all, starting from artillery, the accuracy of artillery in this era cannot be compared with later generations.

Secondly, the current artillery sighting system...... Well, in fact, there is no aiming system at all, it all depends on the gun commander's visual positioning, calculation data, and then the gunner adjusts the shooting elements according to the gun commander's orders, so whether a gun hits accurately or not depends on whether the gun commander calculates or not.

Under such circumstances, the artillery hit rate can reach more than 60 percent, which can be counted with one pair of hands in the entire artillery unit.

The artillery unit calculates the hit rate not to let you shoot a few shells at a time and then calculate it, but since you entered the artillery unit, the first shell hit so far, the sum of all shells is calculated as a hundred, and then the percentage is calculated based on the hit rate and the error rate.

Like some old artillerymen in the artillery unit who are now more skilled, some of their data are also ugly.

The reason for this result is mainly because the hit rate was too poor when I first became an artilleryman, and the result affected the current results, but this can not be helped, the whole army is calculated in this way, and the hit rate is only a standard for the artillery command to assess an artillery group.

Wang Qi's total data is more than 60 percent, and he is one of the best artillery commanders in the whole army.

"Order the first battalion to go into battle lightly, drop all unimportant supplies, and the whole battalion to speed up, and before noon, must arrive at the battlefield." Soon, Wang Qi made a decision.

The artillery regiment is a relatively complex combat unit, and its internal division of arms is relatively strict, and compared with the infantry combat unit, the artillery unit is more like a comprehensive unit.

The standard equipment of an artillery regiment is four battalions with more than 2,600 men, of which two battalions are equipped with artillery, and one battalion is equipped with 24 37-mm infantry guns.

The number of artillery crews required for the 24 guns is 120 people, of which every four guns are a squadron, with a squad leader, and the whole battalion has a total of six squadrons, three squadrons are a squadron, equipped with a squadron leader, a deputy captain, and two squadrons are a battalion, with a battalion headquarters, a battalion commander, a deputy battalion commander, an operational chief of staff, a deputy chief of staff, a staff officer, and three communications soldiers.

So, the total number of combat units of an artillery battalion is one hundred and thirty-eight people.

The regular establishment of an artillery battalion is 500 people, so the remaining 362 people are divided into two companies, each company corresponds to an artillery squadron, and they are responsible for transporting the artillery shells and other materials they need, etc., basically two logistics troops serving one artilleryman.

Equipped with 37 mm infantry, the total combat weight is 91kg, the barrel length is 1050 mm, the maximum firing range is 4800 meters, the muzzle velocity is 460 meters per second, and high-explosive ammunition is used.

Even Duan Qirui, the commander-in-chief of artillery, felt that this was a great waste, and even Duan Qirui preferred to add one gunner, so that there were six gunners in a gun group, but these six gunners were divided into two groups, that is, two teams operated a gun together.

In this way, when they have enough artillery, they can immediately multiply the artillery unit and have combat effectiveness in a short time.

Duan Qirui's idea is certainly reasonable, but Wang Sirui refuses to agree, and resolutely wants five gunners as a gun crew, and the configuration of the 75 mm caliber infantry gun equipped with another artillery battalion is even more terrifying, a gun crew of eight people, eight people are enough to operate a heavy artillery.

But Wang Sirui knew very well in his heart that the 37 mm infantry gun was just an expedient measure, and when the empire had enough capacity to produce larger caliber artillery, this batch of 37 mm infantry guns would definitely be the first thing to be eliminated, so these artillery groups were actually prepared for the future.

The other artillery group was equipped with a total of 16 75mm infantry guns, which also used high-explosive ammunition, but with the addition of a high-explosive fragmentation shell, which was mainly used to attack enemy infantry, and fifty tiny lead balls were added to the inside of the shells.

The other two battalions are artillery regimental guard battalions, each battalion has more than 800 people, is formed according to the normal infantry battalion, each battalion is equipped with eight heavy machine guns, eight 60 mortars, the firepower is very fast, such a configuration, so that the artillery regiment has the ability to fight alone, can completely liberate the infantry troops, so that they can devote themselves to the battle.

Wang Qi had just been transferred from the artillery reserve to the northeast and promoted to the regiment commander, but the troops under his command were only two battalions.

In fact, when he received the order to transfer the army, Wang Qi's troops were training not far from Mukden, and after receiving the order, Wang Qi led his troops to North Korea without stopping.

Because of its poor ability to move, and the rapid advance of the infantry, it has caused the current embarrassing situation.

The artillery set off the earliest, but the distance was also the farthest, although the road was non-stop, every day before dawn began to hurry, and after dark they had to light torches to walk for a while, just about to catch up with the large army, did not think that in the blink of an eye the large army left them behind.

The whole regiment accelerated forward together, it was obviously impossible, the 75 artillery battalion could not raise the speed at all, the entire artillery battalion only had eight pack horses, but the artillery battalion had 16 guns, as well as a large number of material vehicles, these equipment could only be pulled by manpower little by little, besides, the road situation in North Korea was worse than that in China, and a variety of situations were superimposed, so that the artillery regiment could not be fast even if it wanted to.

But the order came, no matter what, Wang Qi had to find a way to let a part of the troops go up first, so he could only let the first battalion equipped with 37-mm infantry guns speed up the march first and arrive before lunch.

And Wang Qi was also a little worried about the situation in front, Cao Kun fired such a big fire, it was definitely the enemy's artillery bombardment in front, and the 37 infantry guns did not have any advantage in front of the enemy's artillery.

Therefore, Wang Qi called his deputy regiment commander over, and after explaining some things to him, he personally led a battalion and a company of guards to hurriedly break away from the large army and rush to the battlefield first.

On the battlefield, the sound of artillery was rumbling, there were holes that had been blown open everywhere, and there were some corpses lying around, and the troops at this moment simply did not have the energy to restrain these fallen soldiers.

And ahead, there is still the sound of gunfire.

Although the Japanese artillery fire was very fierce, the threat to the Royal Army was not very terrible, Wang Qi finally arrived at the battlefield before noon, looking at the battlefield in front of him, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, the infantry had already attacked, and the Japanese troops arranged on the periphery had basically been killed by the infantry, and at this time the two sides were engaged in a brutal white-knuckle battle about a kilometer or two outside the city.

The Japanese soldiers on the city wall were also a little anxious, but they never dared to shoot.

"The artillery is coming! Brothers, kill the little devils......" A sharp-eyed soldier saw the artillery in the rear, and his heart instantly rejoiced, and he shouted loudly.

ps: I'm obviously on time.,Why wasn't the first chapter released on time? Circle that fork...... (To be continued.) )