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I watched a video of a self-proclaimed 58-year-old man playing artillery, maybe everyone's gameplay is different, Ben Wolf can be said to be a senior artillery player, for his playing artillery skills, there is not much sense of identity.

The positioning of the SPG in the game is long-range fire support. And if you want to play artillery well, what you need to do is to judge the situation. There are many ways to judge the situation.

But only knowing that the artillery that outputs as much as possible is not a good artillery. Sometimes, when you judge that a broken enemy will have a serious impact, you have to take them away with a single shell.

You may lose money, but if you win because of your move, you will gain a lot more.

At the same time, when supporting your teammates facing a dense crowd of enemies, you must determine which tank vehicle is a threat before providing support.

You want to output as much as possible, and you don't care about that. But if you want to win, you have to learn to analyze how you can support.

For example, when an ISU-152 and a Tiger are in your range, then I think a lot of people will target the Tiger.

This is also understandable, because artillery attacks Tiger tanks are more likely to cause high injuries.

However, in terms of threat, the threat of an ISU-152 is quite high, even if the opponent uses a whiteboard gun, in the case of using gold coin shells, it is relatively easy to seriously damage a level 9 or 10 tank with one shot.

So, if you want to win, it's best to change your goals.

And this situation is the choice that a passing SPG will make.

In some cases, even if your crosshair is locked onto an enemy, but a more threatening enemy is not far away, you have to learn to determine whether you should change your target.

For example, if you lock on to an E-100 heavy tank, but you spot a Baiyun that is about to attack at close range, then you have to determine in advance whether you can hit Baiyun or not.

The gun's movement penalty is severe, so if you don't make such a prediction and turn the hull easily, you may not be able to hit anyone.

Therefore, if you want to be a good artillery player, anticipation is more important than positioning.

Because in a more generalized case, prediction needs to cooperate with the movement to play a role. But on the other hand, no matter how good your position is, if you don't predict well, it will also be in vain. And sometimes, if you make good predictions, you can be more accurate.

There are many tricks to playing with artillery, just like for a long-barreled howitzer, it is easier to hit the enemy by aiming behind the enemy, but in difficult terrain, the hit rate is very low. Each type of shooting you choose has a small impact on whether or not you can hit the opponent.

It can be said that it is very difficult for artillery to achieve high hits, but if you master the attack method of artillery, although it will not make you more accurate, you will find that playing SPG in this way is quite interesting.

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The enemies of the Second Spanish Republic did not seem to have expected that Zhang Shixin's troops would be a highly armored mixed force. Therefore, these pure infantry of theirs, after holding on for less than a few minutes, quickly broke and fled backwards.

Although the Spanish army also had a certain amount of infantry heavy firepower, because many of the troops of the Second Spanish Republic were equipped with various weapons purchased from the Soviet Union. For example, light infantry anti-aircraft artillery. Small-caliber mortars, as well as light towed howitzers, and much more.

These weapons are quite a threat to light tanks like the Crusaders, which are not much different from papier-mâché.

However, Zhang Shixin's troops are not ordinary armored troops, and Zhang Shixin has always paid great attention to the number of self-propelled guns and how to use them.

At the same time, because of the characteristics of the summons, once the summoners on the front line discover the enemy, then the members of the various artillery crews supporting the rear can be said to know the enemy's actions, although they are not very aware of the enemy's actions, but they also know the existence of the other party.

In the case of street fighting, the ability of Hawkeye in a simple 2D mode will be limited a lot.

But in a relatively flat space, to limit the terrifying hit bonus brought by Hawkeye's ability, only God knows where the cannonball actually lands.

Therefore, whether it is a "Bishop" self-propelled mortar that moves with the army, or an M12 self-propelled howitzer, as long as the shells fired are not really too outrageous, they can harvest the enemy's lives with the high-explosive shells they fire.

For the enemy's point of fire, the shells of the "Bishop" self-propelled mortars are able to hit the enemy more effectively by virtue of the advantage of higher ballistics.

This is where mortars have the advantage of being able to hit more enemies.

However, this advantage sacrifices a lot of things in exchange for it.

The power and range of the shells accounted for a considerable factor in the actual combat effectiveness of a self-propelled gun in Zhang Shixin's eyes. Before the massive use of jeep assault vehicles equipped with infantry mortars, Zhang Shixin had never been equipped with a large number of self-propelled assault guns.

Because in many cases, mortars are also not very easy to use.

Although mortars can easily penetrate the weakest top armor of enemy tanks and combat vehicles due to the principle of ballistics, on the whole, due to the power factor, self-propelled mortars have not been very effective for armored vehicles.

There is another factor, that is, a mortar, for reinforced concrete fortifications, very powerless, because this thing basically can't penetrate the top of reinforced concrete fortifications, and sometimes, it is more likely to not be able to hurt the enemy inside the fortified bunker.

In the face of such a situation, you may be more effective with armor-piercing shells on tanks.

However, for unprotected or almost negligible fixed points of fire, mortars are quite effective. For example, if the firing point in the trench fortifications hits the enemy's central area, the enemy will still suffer heavy casualties and mourn.

So, every weapon has its own advantages and disadvantages. Of course, with thermal weapons, who will use large-scale cold weapons?

The Bishop self-propelled mortar is also quite cunning, that is, in the attack formation, it is difficult for the enemy to see at first glance that this thing is not a tank, but a self-propelled mortar.

This can also be regarded as an advantage that is not an advantage, because for SPGs, the survivability on the battlefield has a very important correlation with the direction of the battle.

Once the tide of battle collapses, it will be difficult for you to turn the tide with a large number of SPGs left. Because of the presence of self-propelled guns, it is to give the front line as much fire support as possible, and not to charge into battle.

Reality is not a game, and the personnel of this Spanish infantry division, even if they found a rather strange "Bishop" self-propelled mortar, did not think for a while that this thing was actually a self-propelled gun and gave priority to calling their companions for fire strikes.

Truth exists only within the range of a cannon, and the same applies to the "bishop".

With even the damage data, the Bishop can even achieve more damage than the M12.

However, in this battle, the armored forces are not the protagonists. Because in terms of pure effect on infantry, an armored vehicle equipped with an M2 heavy machine gun can more effectively harvest the lives of Spanish infantry.

The presence of armored units is more of a moving bunker, covering infantry in battle, and at the same time trying to hit the enemy's various points of fire.

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The commander of the Spanish troops, at this time in his temporary command, kept roaring: "What are our artillery units doing? ”

This Spanish infantry division was fought in tandem with a reading artillery brigade. In Spain, artillery units were more of a read-a-force formation than a mixture of other units.

There are advantages and disadvantages to such a compilation model.

The advantage is that it can be used in combat without being affected by the situation of splitting the troops, and the effect of concentrated and fierce fire support can be exerted as much as possible.

But the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the effect of coordinated operations, which is quite poor.

The commander of this Spanish infantry division, even at this time, believed that it was the commander of the artillery brigade who used the excuse to not provide them with support.

In fact, this is not the case.

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In fact, the reason why this artillery brigade did not provide support was that more than fifty Crusader cruiser tanks were constantly storming their positions.

In this case, they were very reluctant to blow themselves up, let alone provide effective support to the front line.

There are many cases of risking death to support the front line, but for the light tank formations that have already rushed to their positions, this artillery brigade is powerless even if it wants to,,

The Second Spanish Republic, although it is said that it has not joined the ** international on the surface, but anyone with a discerning eye knows what it is all about.

Not to mention that the Second Spanish Republic did not have the support of international columns in a short period of time, just before the Second Spanish Republic War, it also purchased a large number of light and heavy weapons from the Soviet Union, so to speak, this alone, even if the Second Spanish Republic did not join the International, the relationship between the Spanish Party and the Soviets was also extraordinary.

This artillery brigade uses a considerable number of 107mm long-barreled howitzers. These weapons were also quite a threat to the Crusader cruiser tanks. However, the number of artillery pieces in an artillery brigade is, in fact, not too much. Zhang Shixin's strength is about 10,000 people, the number of people at the division level. But the number of Zhang Shixin's artillery cannons, strictly speaking, can be regarded as a number that an artillery division may not be able to match.

Although the number of dozens of "small toothpicks" in this artillery brigade seems to be quite large, once the enemy rushes in front of them, the crew members of these artillery pieces drop their weapons one after another, turn around and run away.

They can't run away, because if the tank runs over directly, it is quite possible that the artillery and them will be crushed into pieces.

The commander of the artillery brigade was in the command car at this time, looking at this scene without tears. Because he thought it would be a fairly easy job. However, he knew very well that not to mention him, nor the commander of the infantry division, even the people who ordered the assault on this refugee area did not expect that there was actually a reinforced armored infantry division in this area.

"Are those bastards at customs, as well as at the border, idiots? This number of enemies mixed in, they didn't find out, and this is not a simple division, but a whole mixed armored division that can be called a fully armored division! The commander of the artillery brigade smacked the armor plate of the command vehicle and roared angrily.

In fact, this question has nothing to do with the people mentioned by the commander of the artillery brigade. It is true that Zhang Shixin "smuggled" over, but the way Zhang Shixin arrived in the Spanish city of Real was unexpected even by himself.

At the same time, Zhang Shixin's summoning troops also did not appear here through normal means, or to put it bluntly, they did not appear here through normal means.

And the Germans also secretly went out to investigate where Zhang Shixin's motorcade in Munich came from. However, after the border guards and customs investigation could not find the slightest trace, they had to give up this move.

Zhang Shixin's inability to be so elusive is quite a threatening thing for a country. For example, if a country is suddenly attacked by an entire armored force outside the capital, even if the other party does nothing but shows up and leaves, the impact of this situation can even seriously affect the international reputation of a country. (Zhang Shixin didn't think about going directly to Tokyo and letting the problem be solved fairly simply.) However, the system won't let him do that. So that's how he thinks about it. ）

So, when Herman? When Goering told Hitler that he wanted to deal with Zhang Shixin, he was directly scolded by Hitler for nearly half an hour, and had to give up his original suggestion.

Hitler is not a stupid person, not to mention that he has a very good impression of Zhang Shixin, and is willing to continue to cooperate with the other party, even if there are no these two factors, Hitler knows very well that if he wants to deal with Zhang Shixin, he must face the forces behind Zhang Shixin.

Because Hitler thought about it, all this Zhang Shixin owned was more given by a secret force than Zhang Shixin's own.

And he didn't think about whether all this would be the foundation laid by Zhang Shixin himself.

But no matter what the situation is, it is enough to show that Zhang Shixin is not an existence that Hitler and Germany easily offended.

It can be said that Zhang Shixin's stake in the new oil refinery is in fact a welcome gift from Hitler to Zhang Shixin and the goodwill released. Although this gift was a bit too expensive in Hitler's eyes, Hitler hoped that Zhang Shixin's return would make him feel worth the money.

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At this time, his adjutant walked up and was silent for a while before saying, "Sir, there is no way to fight this battle, retreat." ”

The commander of this artillery brigade was naturally well aware of what the adjutant said, he took a deep breath and ordered: "Retreat!! ”

The order of the commander of this artillery brigade undoubtedly allowed the surviving personnel of this unit to grasp the idea of survival and give it to implementation.

The Crusader cruiser tanks did not hesitate to fight, and after crushing and destroying the heavy firepower of the Spanish army, they quickly moved to the flank of the Spanish infantry division.

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Shortly after the battle was fought with the return of this Crusader cruiser tank and a multi-pronged offensive with the main forces, the Spanish infantry division collapsed on all fronts.

Zhang Shixin did not order the troops to pursue, because after all, it was a battle on the mainland, and Zhang Shixin had to be careful.

Contrary to the situation where the victory in the battle should have been joyful, Zhang Shixin looked a little worried. Because he didn't know why the enemy left Franco's rebels alone and sent valuable troops to attack here.

He also directly ruled out the exposure of his heavy equipment. Because the opposite of this thing is that the enemy did not use armored forces. Although the Second Spanish Republic is said to be a large number of stupid people at the top level, it does not mean that the other side is really stupid enough to use pure infantry to smash an armored infantry division in such a flat terrain.

This is no longer something like hitting a stone with an egg, but a matter of pure death.

So what is the reason, Zhang Shi couldn't think of a reason for breaking his head.

In contrast to this situation, the summoner came to him with a middle-aged man who was fairly neatly dressed, but was obviously malnourished for a long time.

After looking at Zhang Shixin for a while, the man knelt in front of Zhang Shixin and said something that surprised Zhang Shixin: "This gentleman, I hope you can allow me and my companions to follow you." ”

Zhang Shixin was surprised for a moment, then was silent for a while, and said, "Why? ”

Why did Zhang Shixin say, the middle-aged man naturally knew what he meant, so he said a lot of things.

Zhang Shixin didn't interrupt the other party's words, what he needed was to know the man's true thoughts from these words.

However, after listening to these words, Zhang Shixin knew that what these poor people said was true.

Because, he and his companions were small landowners in small villages.

What does this stratum mean......

Zhang Shixin knew very well that many of these small landlords, many of whom were no more than kulaks in their numbers, were the hardest hit by the Second Spanish Republic.

Especially at this time in 1936, it was already a very lucky thing that these people were able to survive.

Although Zhang Shixin sympathizes with these people, it does not mean that he needs to help them. But Zhang Shixin couldn't refuse the sincerity of these people......

Therefore, Zhang Shixin said a sentence:

"You go and clean up the battlefield first, you don't need to bury the other party's corpses, you just need to find some weapons and ammunition that can be used."

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Looking at the people who checked whether the weapons could be used from the battlefield, Zhang Shixin put down the binoculars, he didn't know if these people would change their lives because of his appearance.

Because these people, as long as they survive until the end of the Spanish Civil War, they can live a stable life......

Although it is said that few people can live to that time, such things also make the future of these people uncertain.

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Zhang Shixin didn't know that his move directly affected the trend of the Spanish Civil War.

And that middle-aged man, because of what happened later, became a person who was highly respected by the Spanish people.

Of course, that's another story. (To be continued.) )