Chapter 3: The Battle of Gelsarin (3)
Zhang Shixin did not know how serious the damage of a 155mm high-explosive bomb would be to a house, because he had not done relevant tests.
But now, Zhang Shixin has a more intuitive view, that is, using a 155mm caliber high-explosive bomb to blow up a house is not as effective as the explosives buried in the house of the same weight.
For example, a cannonball just now smashed into the superstructure of the basement where Zhang Shixin was located, and both rooms were splashed with rubble of different sizes and some large objects that were slightly shaken.
However, the two north-facing rooms were blown apart, and the building, which had been bombarded by a dozen shells, still stood solidly on the ground.
But in appearance, it looks similar to pockmarks, especially in the direction facing the north, there are large holes of different sizes, which also proves from the side that the cannonballs in the other world are not very powerful.
However, high-explosive shells are limited by combat use, and they are not a type of shell used to demolish houses, and they are used to hit strong buildings, and the effect is naturally not very good.
Xinia looked at Zhang Shixin, who was choked half to death by the dust, and glanced at him with contempt: "Aren't you talking nonsense?" Can point-of-point blasting compare to shells flying outside? Otherwise, why did your world come up with a concrete destruction bomb? And one more thing is, it's really the first time I've seen you look like this. ”
Zhang Shixin rolled his eyes speechlessly, and then observed the situation on the battlefield.
He wondered why the other side did not take the opportunity to attack after this round of shelling for more than ten minutes.
It's just that, compared to this, a member of the communication group who was also a little disgraced reported a message to Zhang Shixin, a news that made Zhang Shixin very excited:
"Commander, a squad of light tanks has detected the opponent's artillery position! We are here three degrees north-west, about 5,100 meters from the plain! There are more than 400 long-range howitzers of all kinds! ”
"......" Zhang Shixin was a little speechless, although it was a good thing to know the opponent's artillery position.
However, with a range of more than 8,000 meters, although Zhang Shixin's Black Panther self-propelled artillery and Tiger P-150mm rocket launchers can also hit it, the accuracy of this hit is ......
As for the S-51, Zhang Shixin knew that this thing was at this distance, and there was no hope.
"To fight back or not to fight back, this is really a difficult answer to choose." Zhang Shixin patted the dust on his shoulder helplessly, he naturally knew very well that it was not a good thing to let the opponent's artillery bombardment all the time, especially since the number of the opponent's artillery was more than 400, which was always a threat, and it was a very serious threat.
"Order the artillery units to counterattack the opponent's artillery positions, indiscriminately covering the artillery bombardment!" Zhang Shixin gave this order, which made Sinia look at him speechlessly......
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"There's work to be done!" One by one, the summoned soldiers who received the order quickly moved under the command of the head of the artillery group.
The Panther self-propelled gun (Note 1) also lowered the movable armor plate behind the hull, and the second loader pushed the small artillery cart off the multi-purpose armored vehicle, and then pushed it onto the moving armor plate of the Panther self-propelled gun, ready to reload at any time.
Although the self-propelled artillery itself has shells, in the case of fire support, Zhang Shixin generally does not use the shells of the self-propelled guns themselves, because the self-propelled guns must leave some shells on the vehicle to deal with emergencies.
At the same time, each artillery piece is accompanied by a multifunctional armored vehicle, so in this case, Zhang Shixin does not rely too much on the shells of the self-propelled guns themselves, which is also another consideration.
That is, the Panther self-propelled gun that fights with the tailgate removed, because there is more space, the combat efficiency of the crew members is also correspondingly improved.
It's like the Panther self-propelled gun in the game, with a gunner standing in a small position of the warhead, two loaders, and it's difficult to think of high efficiency.
The addition of a new position makes the loader more efficient, as the loader can easily get his job done without hindrance.
So, after all the Panther self-propelled guns have completed their preparation for firing, the first round of test firing begins.
Eighteen 150mm shells quickly unloaded after the gunner pressed the launch button.
The gunner pulled open the gun door and withdrew the yellow and clear empty cartridge case, and the deputy loader took a barrel cleaning stick, stuffed it into the barrel and twitched back and forth a few times, then pulled out the cleaning stick, and then the main loader stuffed a 150mm shell into the gun chamber and locked the gun door.
The gunner was waiting for a test firing.
Half a minute later, however, the communicators of the various artillery groups shouted: "Missed!" Adjust the elements again! Shift right by four degrees! ”
After a few seconds, the gunner finished adjusting the barrel range and pressed the shell launch button again......
As for the Tiger self-propelled rocket artillery, the gunners are waiting for the results of the test firing of the Panther self-propelled guns, and they are now, the main thing is to adjust the firing of the Zhuyuan.
It's not that they can't test fire, but because the reloading speed is too slow, if the test shot misses, it is estimated that the opponent's artillery position will run out, and they will have something to do.
The second round of test firing of the Panther self-propelled guns was successful, except for a few shells that missed, all of them fell on the artillery positions of the coalition forces, and carried out powerful destruction.
A cannonball directly detonates a small shell storage point, and the detonated shell immediately consumes a certain range of objects in the vicinity.
Some shell fragments even cut a deep wound in the neck of a soldier more than 40 meters away, and he covered his neck, but blood continued to flow out of his fingers, and what awaited him was death......
Some of the self-propelled guns that missed were adjusted again, and after the reloading was completed, after the third test firing, the self-propelled guns determined their firing position.
At the same time, self-propelled rocket artillery began its own roar......
Rockets continued to be sprayed along the rails, and after more than 30 seconds, the 150mm rockets with increased range enveloped the coalition artillery positions in a sea of fire.
For a time, rocket artillery shelling even brought a much more serious lethal damage to the artillery positions of the coalition forces, and to a considerable part of people and objects than the shelling of self-propelled artillery.
The artillery positions of the coalition forces were carpet-bombarded, and a series of fireballs rose from the ground......
Different from the straightness of carpet bombing, the shelling range of self-propelled rocket artillery and self-propelled artillery is much more messy, just like Zhang Shixin's evaluation of self-propelled rocket artillery, only God knows where these things land.
At the same time, because it relies on shooting Zhuyuan for blind shooting, the hit rate is even worse.
Rocket artillery is far more powerful than self-propelled artillery for unarmored or lightly armored targets, mainly because the impact area of self-propelled rocket artillery is very large.
However, the SPG will be able to continue firing while the SPV assembler loads each rocket behind the launch rail.
This is the other biggest difference between self-propelled rocket artillery and self-propelled artillery, which is extremely slow to reload, while self-propelled artillery can bombard enemy troops with a constant rate of fire in the presence of shells.
The loading speed of the 12-barreled self-propelled rocket launcher, naturally, was a little faster than that of the 16-barreled self-propelled gun, and after a little more than three minutes, the gunner, who had again slightly adjusted the firing of the Zhuyuan, pressed the electronic ignition button again.
Hundreds of more rockets, after flying off the rails, sprayed flames from their tails, and flew towards the target location one after another......
And in the weeds of a small river southwest of the coalition artillery position, an artillery mirror was erected on the turret of an AMX-13 tank to observe the already chaotic coalition artillery position.
While observing the situation, the commander kept pressing the intercom in his ear to report the situation......
In fact, he had two wingmen, but in order to keep him in this hidden area to continue reconnaissance, they were exposed to the noses of patrols from enemy artillery positions, and then ......
No more, under the attack of a dozen enemy tanks, they were all killed......
The AMX-13 has a very short hull, and although the shell area is also very small, basically as long as it is hit by a powerful enough shell, they are doomed.
The price of the mobile surname and the concealed surname in exchange is that the armor protection is not much different from the paper paste.
As a result, they are able to hide in the weeds to better conceal their size, and because the vehicle is stationary, the exhaust emissions are reduced to a minimum, which also makes them difficult to detect.
However, this kind of silent investigation also has a very serious drawback, that is, if the other party discovers their existence, they will also be killed.
They are naturally very aware of this situation, but they are summoners, and they will only obey Zhang Shixin's orders.
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Unlike Zhang Shixin's self-propelled artillery formation, which ravaged the coalition artillery positions, the coalition commander roared angrily after hearing that his artillery unit was countered by the enemy's huge number (the credit of self-propelled rocket artillery): "What are the escort troops doing?" I ordered them to take out the other side's artillery units! ”
He didn't ask how many of his artillery units were still capable of fighting, he was not stupid, and naturally he knew very well that the artillery fired at each other, and it was more of a situation of endless death.
Moreover, such a situation is also a very serious problem for towed artillery.
Although when Zhang Shixin's Panther self-propelled artillery formation conducted its first test firing, some clever artillerymen had already run away, others were still looking at the shelling at a long distance and talking about something.
However, the gap of less than a minute, the second, corrected shelling, has already begun to fall on their heads.
Quite a few artillerymen began to run away, not because they didn't want to take care of the artillery, but because the 155mm howitzers were too heavy. Moreover, the shells piled up nearby all around also hindered their rescue artillery operations to a certain extent.
Some smart people have long since snatched the truck parked behind it and sped away, hoping to avoid the disaster.
Therefore, the real damage caused by Zhang Shixin's shelling was very small.
But for those shell piles that no one cares about, the 155mm towed howitzer, it is not so lucky.
Zhang Shixin didn't care too much about the life or death of these artillerymen, he hoped to suppress the opponent's artillery positions and destroy the combat effectiveness of the opponent's artillery units as much as possible.
Although, it is more practical to destroy the enemy's artillery than to destroy the enemy's artillery.
But, well, everyone is gone, so it's better to settle for the next best thing.
During the full 15 minutes of shelling, there were not many artillery pieces left on the enemy's artillery positions.
Zhang Shixin also temporarily let go of his hanging heart, after all, being bombarded by artillery is not a fun thing.
It's just that on the other side's position, there is a pair of light tank units of about 30 vehicles that are rapidly searching in the direction where Zhang Shixin's self-propelled artillery unit stays.
Zhang Shixin inquired about the other party's movement speed and the size of a single tank, and got a reply of about 65 kilometers per hour, about the size of an A-32.
Zhang Shixin smiled, because according to what he knew, the armored defense capabilities of these tanks should not be much better than the AMX-13.
He was a little expecting the other party to see his light tank being easily worn by the ambushed AMX-13 light tank gun.
Although his AMX-13 formation was also a one-shot thing, the AMX-13 was much smaller than the A-32, and in an ambush, even if some tanks were discovered by the enemy, they would not be wiped out all at once.
Moreover, Zhang Shixin was also able to call on some armored vehicles to assist in the defense.
What is different from the past is that Zhang Shixin now equips armored vehicles with 20mm vehicle-mounted machine guns.
These are marked as FLAK45-L100-20mm cannons, which can actually be regarded as anti-aircraft cannons, and the advantage is that the average penetration depth of ordinary armor-piercing shells is 500 meters 42mm (corrected), and the armored vehicles directly facing the opponent can beat the opponent into a sieve, not to mention these light tanks that do not sound very good at armor protection.
The 60-round chain gun, with an average rate of fire of 150 rounds a minute, also ensured its own firepower output.
It's just that the shortcomings of this thing are also obvious, that is, the recoil is too large, and the reload shooting time is a bit long, and the effective range is only about 600m.
Zhang Shixin also knows very well that the distance of 600m is actually enough in many cases, although the rate of fire is only 2.5 rounds per second, but will it be a waste to use a machine gun to hit people......
Zhang Shixin is hard to say, but well, since the street fighting has been determined, the penetration of a good machine gun is often more effective than a machine gun for the enemy hiding behind the cover, and the 20mm machine gun is often more effective.
The M2 heavy machine gun can also deal with enemies behind brick walls, but it is obviously a bit less powerful against enemies hiding in houses.
After arranging the defense of the perimeter area of the self-propelled artillery position, Zhang Shixin found that the coalition forces actually rushed up again, and subconsciously licked his lips that were a little dry, revealing a smile:
"Guys, since you're here, I'm not going to let you occupy this place easily. Don't worry, there are plenty of 'gifts' waiting for you......"
Note 1: In fact, many of the tailgates of Germany's self-propelled guns in World War II were able to move, because the ammunition of the self-propelled guns themselves was not able to meet the needs of a high-intensity operation. Therefore, for example, the Panther self-propelled gun, the rear baffle should also be movable.
After all, the height of the body is there, and WG makes a sealing baffle without a fixed shovel, so I won't spit out the fixed shovel first, anyway, the weight of the Panther self-propelled gun is relatively large, and I don't pay attention to such a little recoil, because the impact is not too big.
However, how can you make the gun crew embarrassed by such a hull structure?
So I'll modify it:
The position of the exhaust pipes has been changed to a separate row type on both sides of the rear of the body, and the position is a little lower.
The tailgate was changed to an equal rectangle, and the attachment position was changed to a movable pulley lock, which allows the bezel to be lowered to the ground.
Although the design concept of the Panther self-propelled gun is to act with the army, more often than not, the Panther self-propelled gun should and must fulfill the obligation of fire support as an artillery.
Anyway, the Panther self-propelled gun also came out with a wooden model, and the game belongs to the game.
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