The armored confrontation at the front ended with the withdrawal of Vatutin's troops on all fronts.

Although Vatutin's troops did not make progress in deciding on the surname, they further weakened the combat power of the enemy's armored forces, and Zhang Shixin did not blame Vatujing and others.

After leaving Vatujing and the others on standby in the rear of the hilly area, Zhang Shixin had to think about what action he should take to deal with the enemy's next large-scale attack.

Zhang Shixin did not think about the large-scale use of gasoline drum projectiles, which is the legendary "conscienceless cannon".

However, the system's evaluation of this thing is that the surname is reliable, and the accuracy is very poor.

Just a reliable surname is not guaranteed, Zhang Shixin had to dispel such thoughts.

Because according to his understanding, the system must be a high-quality product.

But now there is such a thing...... It is conceivable that even the poor reliable surname of tank models such as King Tiger can be maintained under the guarantee of non-external force and no damage, but it cannot improve the quality of the gasoline drum projectile even by a star, so to speak, the system is really out of luck with this thing.

However, Zhang Shixin thought about it carefully and found that this was also a understandable situation. After all, the architecture of the gasoline drum projectile itself has inherent weaknesses, and the gasoline barrel as the core component has a thickness of about 5mm in the "cannon wall", which may be even worse than this data. During the War of Liberation, the failure rate of this thing was quite high, and the casualty rate of the workers was also very large.

After all, although the explosive package used as a shell was relatively backward (referring to the charge composition, there were only a few explosive packages mixed with TNT in China's explosive packs at that time, and the other more components were similar to black powder, which was a little more powerful than black powder). But I can't help but charge that weight.

An explosive bag weighing about 5 kilograms, with a charge weight of more than 4 kilograms, is as high as more than 80 according to the charge coefficient. In this case, the power of the explosives pack is also quite impressive.

Therefore, once the explosive package explodes inside the projectile, the casualties of people about 6 meters or even farther away will be very heavy.

It can be said that the prestige of the conscienceless cannon is far and wide, and it also has the "credit" of killing and injuring one's own people.

Zhang Shixin naturally couldn't pretend to be such a cheat, killing a thousand enemies and losing four or five hundred himself, Zhang Shixin didn't think about doing it.

Moreover, accuracy is also a problem, Zhang Shixin didn't want to be in the front line of fierce battles, and a missed explosive bag suddenly flew from the rear. It's not a fun thing to do.

Therefore, what Zhang Shixin can count on now is more weapons such as mortars.

The trajectory of the mortar is very high, and it is capable of hitting enemy targets behind cover that are difficult for howitzers to hit with a considerable probability.

In the game, any shell with a rather strange landing point is considered a mortar system. Among the representatives were the Su-5 (152mm mortar), the FV-304, the Conqueror GC, etc.

(The cannon of the Conqueror GC should be counted as a mortar, and in the game it should be a mortar ballistic, howitzer shell data artillery.) Realistic mortar shell types to correct the flight parameters of the shell. In fact, the range of the mortar is very short, but in the game, the maximum diagonal distance is only 1414 meters, which is still no range pressure.

It can be said that the highest theoretical DPM in the game should be the Conqueror GC instead of T92, after all, the Conqueror GC is able to hit the enemy's area, much more.

Moreover, it should be noted that in the same position, the enemy that none of the mortars can hit, and the other artillery guns are generally in vain. ）

Zhang Shixin doesn't have much feeling for mortars, because in many cases, the role of mortars is limited by their range, but they are rarely useful.

For example, in the case of "Blood in the Pacific" (referring to the TV series filmed in the United States), the casualty rate of mortars is very high when the battlefield is not dominant.

This can be regarded as a weak manifestation of the short range of mortar strikes.

If the projectile function limit of the howitzer system, that is, the maximum firing range is about 45 degrees (a slight error depends on the height of the body), then the projectile function limit of the mortar is 60 degrees and the high angle of fire is even more.

Because mortars are relatively light, the high angle of fire is used to increase the range of fire.

Although it is said that although mortars have great shortcomings, in such a battlefield, mortars can exert more combat effectiveness.

Many people have the not, not to blame, belief that mortars can play a huge role in siege warfare or street fighting.

However, there is also a premise for this. In contrast to the tin city in the game, mortars are also less likely to hit enemies behind tall cover, such as those behind tall buildings, and the chance of hitting them is zero.

Therefore, as a light artillery system, the mortar can give full play to the area with the best combat effectiveness, just like the current combat environment separated by hilly areas.

It is also true that the flight speed of mortar shells is relatively slow, because the mortar shells in World War II have very few charges and propellants, because it is necessary to maintain the light weight of the shells as much as possible to ensure the impact surface of the mortar. Therefore, the flight speed and power are smaller than howitzer shells of the same caliber, which is also inevitable.

Although mortar shells are not very powerful, the fragments from the explosion are a huge threat to unprotected targets.

Mortars have a special situation, that is, it is easier to hit the top position of enemy armored targets. This is also a benefit of high-curve ballistics. If you play games, such as the Su-5 and FV-304, aim at the top of the opponent as much as possible and there is a certain chance that you will give the opponent an empowerment.

However, Zhang Shixin did not develop the Y series, and he also complained about the Su-5, which was a jeep assault vehicle equipped with a 105mm mortar.

Jeep assault vehicle, as the name suggests, is an ultralight combat vehicle converted from a jeep.

Most of the main armament of this thing is a heavy machine gun in the back seat of the hull. But Zhang Shixin spent a certain price to reinforce the bottom plate of the rear seat, and installed the PN-57-105 mortar in the system.

Although there are mortars with a larger caliber to choose from, the problem is that mortars also have a certain amount of recoil, and the recoil of 120mm mortars is not something that a small chassis like a jeep can withstand, even if the chassis is reinforced.

Zhang Shixin was also quite speechless about this situation, but he also knew that he had no better choice in such a situation. Anyway, it's not specifically against enemy heavy armored targets, and it's going to be fine.

A high-speed self-propelled mortar with such a Jeep assault vehicle as a chassis has a very many weak points.

First of all, the mortar was fixed on the bottom steel plate of the installation, and the actual horizontal firing angle was only ±5 degrees.

At the same time, in order to ensure the firing needs of the artillery, the heavy machine gun that was supposed to be installed was removed.

It can be said that the Jeep assault vehicle, which originally lacked firepower, can now be said to be able to rely only on individual firepower for self-defense.

Zhang Shixin didn't think about matching it with another weapon that seemed to be very good. But that kind of price is not something that Zhang Shixin can easily afford.

This thing is a video remote-controlled anti-tank missile, and the representative of this thing should be the "Tao" anti-tank missile that first appeared in the Vietnam War (this thing is not limited to vehicles and airbornes, but can also be used by infantry).

The surname of this thing can be said to be a few streets away from the active tank artillery of Zhang Shixin's troops.

But you get what you pay for, Zhang Shixin calculated it and found that after a battle, the ammunition alone was enough for him to install a squadron dominated by ninth-level tanks.

Moreover, the remote control function is only effective within 500 meters, which also makes Zhang Shixin cry out. Although the accuracy of the missile is much better than that of conventional artillery shells, there are also errors, and the error of the vehicle-mounted "Tao" anti-tank missile is about 0.2, which means that if you hit an enemy of about 1,000 meters, the maximum error is 2 meters.

Although this error does not cause most of the shells to fly directly, it cannot be ruled out that embarrassing things happened on the sidelines.

Therefore, out of consideration of the surname price ratio, Zhang Shixin has always turned a blind eye to this thing.

After all, you can't expect to configure a large number of cheap items like RPG-7, and all of them will be replaced with luxury things like "Tao" at once, and Zhang Shixin's current financial resources can't accept such a situation at all.

In fact, after Zhang Shixin unlocked the rank of major general, he did not lack the high-end weapons of his original world, the fifties and sixties, but the problem of price had to make Zhang Shixin give up the idea that the army was completely inferior to modernization.

Anyway, according to his current configuration, it can be considered more than enough to deal with the enemy. Therefore, Zhang Shixin has always taken a reserved attitude towards high-end weapons.

In many novels, there is a high-end ticket all of a sudden, which is quite nonsense in Zhang Shixin's eyes. For example, if an epoch-making warship can threaten the enemy with a fairly strong force, but it can eat up almost all of the financial resources of the force, such a situation can in fact be considered to be self-digging. After all, you can't put all your financial resources on one thing.

If the finances really allowed, Zhang Shixin wouldn't mind the kind of ideal thing that rats are everywhere and -7 plugged garages. It's a pity that such a situation can be said to be an unattainable dream for Zhang Shixin.

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The sun was setting, but for the enemy forces in the Papal States, it was as if it had only begun at this time.

Zhang Shixin, who was struggling to twist the can opener and was about to eat canned food, received the news that the enemy was preparing to act, and was speechless for a while to the herald before saying: "TNND, it's not good to eat canned food, those bastards still won't let me eat!" Others finish eating as quickly as possible and then ...... Give me a hard beating for me!! ”

Zhang Shixin's roar made the herald and nearby allies tremble subconsciously, because they felt an incomparably strong resentment from Zhang Shixin.

"Isn't it just a meal? Can you use this? ”

A lot of people think so.

But regardless of what others thought, many people quickly ate the small cans or military rations they had on hand.

And in the hilly area ahead, the battle is already in full swing.

……

After the battle at noon, the area east of the hilly area was full of large and small craters, and if someone grabbed some blackened soil and put it in front of his nose to smell it, he could even smell a relatively strong smell of blood.

Although after a short period of cleanup, it is difficult to find obvious corpse fragments in the hilly area, but for the officers and soldiers of the Kapani Kingdom, this area is not only the remnants of dead colleagues, but also their spirit of fighting to the death.

Many of them were afraid of death, but they did not want their dead colleagues to find a reason in heaven to laugh at them.

Therefore, many of these people are already preparing to fight the enemy in this place.

The artillery support first kicked off the prelude to the battle.

Nearly 1,000 artillery pieces of various types were constantly pouring shells at the charging enemy.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the sky in the east became darker and darker, and from time to time red or blue rose red or blue, mixed with gunpowder dust and blood stains from broken limbs, and fireballs constantly rising on the ground.

The enemy took the offensive of coordinated infantry and tanks, and a considerable number of artillery shells hit the opponent's tanks, and it was difficult to give the opponent effective damage.

This is quite directly related to the artillery that Zhang Shixin is now configuring, and more of them are relatively small-caliber artillery.

The crew members of these tanks couldn't help but be slightly stunned, because they had no idea that such an attack would be of little use to them.

After being stunned for a moment, their commander couldn't help but laugh arrogantly: "We don't need to be afraid of each other at all for such an attack!" ”

The commander then asked the driver to speed up.

However, after a few seconds, the commander heard what seemed to be a sound coming from the top armor, and his body felt a scorching air flow quickly sweep over him......

In the eyes of the commanders of other tanks, the tank was killed by shells a few seconds later, and the turret was blown away, and no one in the crew of this wingman was alive.

After all, they can be said to have almost never fired a single shot now, and the base number of shells that have just been replenished, once they are killed, is enough to directly kill all the members in the car body.

The chance that someone is alive in this situation is no higher than the probability that there are still people alive in the crater after being dropped by a large-caliber shell.

But in contrast to this situation, among the artillery pieces that Zhang Shixin is now mounting, the 420mm-2A1 self-propelled gun with the largest caliber, even if it did not directly hit any target, but in the crater blown up by the shell, whether it was the crew members in the tank or the infantry advancing together, they all went directly to heaven.

There were even a lot of unlucky infantry, whose bodies were cut in two by quite large fragments.

Some people who did not die directly can only slowly lose their vitality in wailing, waiting for death to come.

The larger the caliber of the shell, the larger the volume of fragmentation produced, and many times, the fragmentation produced by large-caliber shells may even cut through the weak armor plates on the side of the armored vehicle. Because the kinetic energy generated by large-caliber shells is not comparable to shells with a caliber of about 155mm.

Although it is said that one hundred kilograms of TNT is not more powerful than ten parts of ten kilograms of TNT, the output capacity of kinetic energy is still several times stronger than that of one ten-kilogram TNT.

In this case, the various lethal effects brought by a single more powerful shell are not comparable to those of small-caliber shells.

It's like the front of a rat tank, which has the potential to completely defend itself against the bombardment of 155mm grenades from World War II (as is the case in the game, several attempts have been made to hit the rat with a Lorraine 155-51 without bleeding). In reality...... God knows), but it is absolutely impossible to block a direct hit of a grenade of about 203mm.

It can be said that if small and medium-caliber artillery is more about winning in quantity, then large-caliber artillery is the lethality and threat generated by a single shell.

In any case, the vanguard of the Papal States had not yet formally engaged the troops stationed in the hilly areas before they were smashed by a considerable number of artillery strikes with a good hit rate, and suffered heavy casualties.

The major general of the Papal States, who was in charge of directing this attack, was eager to ask for support from the rear, and even had the idea of retreating temporarily. However, because of several lessons from the past, for the sake of his own life, he had no choice but to continue to command the troops to attack.

……

The stars were already in the east, and the sunset in the west was hidden in the sky.

The fighting in the hilly areas has entered a fever pitch.

Although the Pope [***] was killed and wounded by Zhang Shixin's artillery unit. But for these crazy people who have been brainwashed and can even be said to be not afraid of death, Zhang Shixin's artillery coverage is not threatening at all.

Zhang Shixin sat in the temporary command tent and constantly listened to the various battle reports coming from the front line.

And in front of him was only Dimitri, who was the commander of the reserve forces.

And Dimitri's own artillery unit commander is now concurrently held by Zhang Shixin.

As for the other generals who can be named, they were sent to the battlefield by Zhang Shixin to command the troops to fight the Pope [***].

"How many troops are these?! At this point, when the armored forces are getting smaller and smaller, the infantry is still charged desperately, and the commander on the opposite side is a cold-blooded butcher? After reading a telegram handed to him by the herald, Zhang Shixin was very puzzled and expressed his doubts.

After hearing Zhang Shixin's complaints, Dimitri could only say nothing, because he could also be said to have no understanding of the situation in the Papal States.

However, at this time, Binion appeared in the tent.

"Your Highness, why are you here?" Zhang Shixin was very puzzled about how this woman could appear here. Because according to his thoughts, this woman should still be behind.

Although Zhang Shixin does not have much affection for religion, the identity of the other party makes Zhang Shixin have to maintain his usual polite attitude. Although according to Zhang Shixin's understanding, he was cheated by the other party several times, but because the two sides were still partners on the surface, Zhang Shixin could only tolerate it.

"Your Excellency, are you curious about why the enemy would fight to the death?" Binion didn't answer Zhang Shixin's question, but said a question that made Zhang Shixin have to nod.

"Her Highness knows this...... What the hell is going on? Zhang Shixin glanced at Binion, who looked thinner compared to the first meeting, and expressed his concern.

"Of course." Binion smiled.

……

A few minutes later, after Zhang Shixin got the answer he wanted to know, he regretted a little in his heart why he didn't buy a few nuclear shells to bomb the enemy directly.

However, he just thought about it, after all, this area is no better than Wendell City, if Zhang Shixin uses nuclear weapons here, his cooperation with the Holy See can be regarded as the end of this, and he will even hate the other party. Zhang Shixin has no intention of doing such a loss-making transaction.

But this did not prevent Zhang Shixin from giving an order not to leave prisoners.

……

After receiving Zhang Shixin's order, the troops of the Kapani Kingdom can be said to be like fighting chicken blood, and their combat effectiveness has been directly improved to a higher level.

Although there was no benevolence in the war, the officers and soldiers of the Kingdom of Capani did not have the slightest affection for the enemies of the Papal States. And Zhang Shixin's order allowed them to find a fair reason for revenge.

Even if...... The so-called revenge can only be carried out after defeating the enemy. But inevitably, let them harvest the lives of one enemy after another.

……

The sky had completely darkened, and the last rays of light had disappeared into the night sky. Under the starry sky, flares continue to pierce the sky.

The battle continues......