Unfortunately, those important facilities in the eyes of ISIS may indeed be valuable in the eyes of the Iraqi government.

But in Cai Ruichen's eyes, those things are all garbage and defective products.

It is simply not worth wasting the lives of soldiers for the sake of useless industries.

While the Iraqi government was weighing the right and left, the Red Guard Corps began preparations for a full-scale artillery bombardment after striking an active attack by the Islamic State.

Combined with the fire support battalion that had been originally there, a second artillery position was quickly built ten kilometers behind the artillery position.

A 175-mm gun weighing eight tons was towed to the position by armed mining vehicles, and a large number of shells, under the modified on-board small lifting equipment, were unloaded from the trucks.

Boxes of shells were neatly stacked beside the artillery, and the self-loading mechanical arm on the gun gently picked up the shells of seventy or eighty kilograms and placed them on the artillery carriage ready for shelling.

In the rear, at a distance of another ten kilometers, thirty tank killers lined up, their thick barrels raised high.

The artillery position was located under a slope, and the excavator dug a trapezoidal groove just enough for the tank killer to dock, and above the position, the camouflage net was also pulled open for the first time.

In order to better counteract the recoil and avoid injuring the shock absorbers of the vehicle's turret, behind the huge turret of the tank killer, two huge pears extend under the hydraulic system, reach out to the ground, and plunge directly into the hard Gobi earth.

The fourth artillery position, but continued twenty kilometers back, on the edge of the town of Marin.

Again, it's lined up. A rocket launcher position that forms a goose-shaped array. It's a lot quieter.

Because they don't need to attack right away. Rather, when necessary, fill the firepower gap.

So they were not the main force of the shelling, but only as a necessary replenishment.

On the front three artillery positions, there are still many soldiers driving military engineering vehicles and continuing to expand the scale of the artillery positions.

Because in the base, a steady stream of artillery is produced.

Artillery, for Cai Ruichen, is cheap and easy to use. And the battle on the edge of the base is not afraid of supply difficulties.

Thousands of tons of shells can be produced casually, and then they can be delivered to the positions in less than an hour.

Cheap artillery shells, the price calculated in terms of tonnage, a ton is only a hundred dollars, compared with the V-1 rocket launcher, which often costs hundreds of dollars for each one, it is cheap and practical.

After all, a shell can kill more people than rocket artillery of the same caliber.

Even the powerful U.S. military and countries around the world, even with very advanced combat weapons, still have not given up on the former king of land warfare.

Even in the twenty-first century. The world's five major hooligans are still researching more advanced land artillery.

Even a traditional naval country like Great Britain. They also did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to import artillery from the United States to improve the firepower of their own army.

Not to mention those continental countries, Russia's current artillery numbers are still terrifying, and India's artillery is also the most important ground fire support for the army.

Even all the developed transport helicopters have the same indicator, that is, whether they can lift field artillery in service.

But in modern warfare, it is rare to see the concentrated use of artillery in large quantities.

The number of artillery pieces in a fire support battalion of the US army is only eighteen, and even the fire support battalion of the Marine Corps is only twelve guns.

Therefore, Cai Ruichen's move is not a bad job. And as the saying goes, a black cat and a white cat are good cats that can catch mice, and whether a weapon is practical or not depends not on performance, but on whether it is suitable for the needs of the army and the war environment.

Cai Ruichen's tactics of large-scale use of artillery were directly and unanimously approved, and even Zhao Long demanded that the current army need more artillery in order to meet the operational needs of the next stage.

After two days of preparation by the Red Guard, and seeing that one hundred and fifty pieces of artillery had been prepared for twelve days to form a heavy fire group, Mutar decisively ordered Mutar to withdraw Samarane's troops from the city.

originally thought that Cai Ruichen had other purposes, but after seeing the huge artillery group, he shut up directly.

You must know that the artillery position of 150 guns, even if it is divided into three echelons in depth, is still very large.

The distance between the positions between the artillery reached thirty meters, and the length of the vertical and horizontal reached a kilometer.

The main thing is that all the rest were 175 mm caliber guns, except for fifty 155-mm guns on the first artillery positions.

And there is also a large number of artillery, which is on the way to be delivered, according to Cai Ruichen's plan, in a month, the size of the artillery group will reach the level of five hundred, of which there will be one hundred and fifty tank killers.

Of course, such a huge artillery group needs to occupy a lot of troops, and the mobilized soldiers of the four battalions under the command of the First Brigade of the Red Police Corps were all used as artillery and reorganized into the First Artillery Group.

If it really had more than 500 artillery pieces in a month's time, the 1st Artillery Cluster would have more than 5,000 troops alone.

Everything was ready, and after the withdrawal of Iraqi government forces from Samarra, the countdown to the artillery strike officially began.

On the first day, 50,000 tons of artillery shells will be dropped on Samarra.

As for this matter, due to secrecy, the ISIS forces, which are licking their wounds, have not received any information.

Just as they wondered why the government forces had suddenly withdrawn their troops, the dense artillery made a deafening sound under the detection of reconnaissance satellites and drones of various countries.

The dense artillery, all large-caliber artillery, and the recoil generated by the first salvo at the same time almost made the earth tremble.

In the vicinity of the artillery, a huge recoil force is applied to the ground by the pear, which directly shakes up layers of dust around the artillery.

The first minute was covered with high rate of fire and made the entire artillery position, for a time dusty.

In the city of Samarra, the smoke of gunpowder was filled in an instant, and the continuous shelling and the whistling of shells, even the refugee camps on the outskirts were all boiling.

In just a few minutes, the entire city was covered in gunsmoke, and the dense artillery bombardment was no less than the carpet bombardment of bomber groups.

In the base, Natasha is not like Cai Ruichen, admiring the mighty and domineering side of heavy artillery.

Rather, according to the density of the enemy shown on the map, the troops that are being shelled are corrected.

If it weren't for the convenience of the base map, Cai Ruichen wouldn't have thought of destroying the entire Samarra.

With the convenience of a map, he can always check the casualties of ISIS forces in Samarra.

Targeted artillery strikes, even if they are rats hiding in the sewers, will definitely not let go. (To be continued.) )