196 Catching Fire (2)
Ye Han couldn't help but start to wonder if there would be another 203 heavy artillery group nearby, but he quickly dispelled this idea. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The military is equipped with not many 203 heavy guns, so how can it be said that an artillery group will be transferred?
In terms of cost performance, the 203 heavy gun is also not cost-effective.
The radius of destruction of a 155 grenade is about fifty meters, that is, a person in this range will be hit by at least one shrapnel, and the radius of a 203 grenade is eighty meters, and two 155-mm shells will definitely have a killing range of more than one 203 shell.
And the firing rate of the former is four to five times that of the latter, a 155 artillery group can fire with all its might, and all the shells can be used up in a few minutes, how many base shells do you have to consume to deal with such a large swarm of giant locusts?
Not to mention how much these shells are worth, the transportation of shells alone can make the logistics department tired and cry.
It is said that the military should not put several artillery groups on the same section of the same road, and daring to do so in a war is simply asking for death.
However, dealing with giant locusts naturally cannot be compared with real war, the above arrangement, probably in order to give full play to the firepower of the vehicle-mounted machine gun, after all, the ammunition load of the machine gun is much more than that of the cannon, and the giant locust is not a praying mantis cockroach with super vitality, and it does not ignore the huge size of the bullet, and it is also a good choice to use bullets to deal with them.
The roar of the heavy artillery soon ended, and the northern swarm of locusts had been covered twice by artillery fire, and the fields that had been neatly organized were full of half-dead locusts, and the good crops were ignited by incendiary bombs, and the raging fire burned fiercely in the evening wind, forming a wall of flames two stories high.
The flames lit up the fields, and the fiery red light reflected half of the sky, and at this moment, there was no need to fire flares to see the locust swarms clearly.
However, the swarm of locusts from the north did not retreat in front of the wall of fire, but rushed forward and threw themselves into the flames, many of the giant locusts had their wings burned by the flames, and fell out of control from the sky, and the lucky ones fell beyond the flames to survive, and unfortunately fell directly into the flames, desperately struggling strongly, but it only took a short moment for them to die in the hot flames, leaving only the corpses to continue burning.
The belly of the locust is very soft, and due to the high temperature of the flames, the bellies of many giant locusts exploded in the flames, and the internal organs and bodily fluids in the abdomen extinguished some of the flames, but it did not take long for that little liquid to evaporate in the heat.
Although many locusts were angry in front of the flames, many more managed to cross the flames and continue to advance southward, determined not to die.
Ye Han, who witnessed all this, suddenly remembered the scene of catching grasshoppers when he was a child, and a thought suddenly flashed in his mind: Isn't this thing active during the day and resting at night? How could this swarm of giant locusts in front of him make a big move at night? Could it be that the giant locust has undergone some kind of mutation that affects the habits of the locust?
He couldn't help but have some doubts, but he quickly put the doubts in his mind behind him and began to think about how to completely eradicate the locust swarm.
If the weather is good, as long as the Air Force sends bombers to drop a few cloudburst bombs, the effect is definitely better than the artillery group coverage.
As soon as he thought of this, a bluish-purple electric light suddenly exploded in the clouds in the distance, and a few seconds later, a dull thunder rolled over the cannon group...... And it doesn't dissipate after it's gone!
How can thunder be continuous? Ye Han couldn't help but start to suspect that something was wrong with his ears.
But he soon heard the problem, where was the thunder, but the whistling of missile flight!
Ye Han lifted the top cover, took off the night vision device and looked at the sky, but the clouds were too low, he could still only hear the sound and could not see the flames - the tail flame of the missile was very conspicuous in the night sky, with Ye Han's eyesight, if there was no cloud block, he would definitely be able to see where the missile was.
However, it didn't affect anything if he couldn't see it, he got into the car and buckled the top cover, and after a short wait, a cloud of mist exploded again over the locust swarm.
However, this time the white phosphorus that did not burn flew around, and a faint gunpowder suddenly burst in the center of the exploded fog, and then the fog suddenly turned into a dazzling flame, and the flame quickly rose into a small dark red mushroom cloud, and a strong shock wave instantly swept across the locust swarm, and countless giant locusts were blown to pieces by the shock wave, and some of them were actually blown to the highway by the shock wave, and fell at a distance of 100 meters from the road.
Fortunately, those giant locusts that seemed lucky were actually very unfortunate, and they died thoroughly before they could hit the ground, unable to pose any threat.
Ye Han secretly breathed a sigh of relief, although the bomber did not appear, it was the same as sending the cloud burst bomb with a missile.
More than a dozen cloud bombs exploded in the locust swarm, and the rising mushroom clouds were one after another.
The cloudburst bomb wiped out a large number of giant locusts, and the shockwave blew out the burning wall of fire, but a new point of fire soon appeared at the center of the explosion, and it would not be long before the fire re-ignited.
At this time, Long Jianguo heard a voice from the command channel: "Rocket artillery fired, machine guns ready to shoot!" ”
Long Jianguo couldn't help but have a thought in his heart: The giant locusts were all killed by artillery fire, what did the machine guns shoot?
The multiple rocket launchers parked on the reverse road opened fire in unison, and one after another rockets flew into the sky with conspicuous tail flames, flew into the night sky and disappeared, but in ten or twenty seconds, the full nest of bombs was launched, and if it were not for the thick clouds in the air, a large number of rockets flying into the night sky would definitely be able to see the spectacular scene.
But Ye Han suddenly made a mistake again, the rocket artillery is known for its range, but the locust swarm is only a few kilometers away, and the target of this batch of rockets is obviously not the group of giant locusts in front of him.
The power of the cloudburst bomb gradually dissipated, and the giant locusts that escaped the catastrophe did not repent and rushed towards the road again.
At present, the two artillery groups are replenishing ammunition, and the rocket artillery groups can't be counted on, if Long Jianguo doesn't understand where the target is, the past 30 years will be in vain.
He immediately assigned targets, and all the armored vehicles that received the order were ready for battle, just waiting for the giant locusts to come into range - the range of machine guns was far inferior to that of real artillery, so they could only deal with targets at close range, and could not do anything against swarms of locusts several kilometers away.
Closer, closer, the giant locust in front was less than a kilometer away from the road, and Long Jianguo's eyes suddenly shot a fierce color: "Free fire - fire!" ”
More than 30 armored vehicles received the order, all the gunners began to fire at the same time, more than 30 machine guns suddenly shot out neat flames, and dozens of small-caliber shells rushed forward, breaking through the darkness and flying towards the target, leaving a fleeting trajectory in the air.
At the same time, large-caliber machine guns on wheeled assault guns also began to fire, and shells and bullets pulled out one red flame after another in the night.