Tao Mingzhang took the artillery mirror, steering wheel, radio rangefinder and other objects, climbed to the mountain by the river, set up an artillery observation post there, and saw from a distance that there were lights flickering in the river, and under it was the background of a black warship, which seemed to be almost immobile, if it were not for the fact that the ship sent light signals from time to time, it would be difficult to even find it, the outline of the target was so blurry, sometimes hidden as darkness, the basic conditions for using the convalescence rangefinder did not exist, even if it was forcibly used, the readings obtained should not have any accuracy at all. He tried several times, and each time the values were very different, even contrary to the basic fact that the enemy ships were approaching.

He thought, no matter what, Chu Shizuo can't be brilliant this time, he has fought tanks, and he has also learned basic ballistics, and he knows that at this distance, for every 100 meters of distance difference, how much of a dense position needs to be corrected, it can be said that it is a matter of thousands of miles, and he judged that such a nonsense test, not to mention 100 meters, the error may be 1 kilometer. Even if the gods bless and correct the error, I am afraid that I can only help by a fraction of a millimeter, how can I do it when there is a difference of 108,000 miles? If they did, the Japanese wouldn't have run rampant across half of China.

While the heavens and men were fighting, Chu Tingchang called him over the radio and asked him if he saw the target. He said that he could hear the whistle of the enemy ship and see the signal flashing, but the outline was very blurry, and it was obviously impossible to accurately measure the range, and he suggested that he wait a little longer, wait for the enemy to enter the vertical position of the artillery position, and he would fire the flares and take advantage of the light to measure the range again.

This is the most reasonable way Tao Mingzhang can think of, he risked the danger of being discovered, and was ready to help the master once, so that he would at least have a chance to smash the cannonball in front of the enemy's eyes, and then look at the will of heaven.

This suggestion was immediately reprimanded by Chu Tingchang as nonsense, and it was obvious that he fired a flare on the top of the hill and would definitely be discovered. Tao Mingzhang also wanted to argue on the basis of reason, explain the reasonableness, where did Chu Tingchang have the strength to listen to his nonsense, so he emphasized the divination just now, everyone saw it, the Xun hexagram is the main wind, and the shock hexagram is the main thunder, that is to say, the power of the wind has a basis, why should you doubt it? Hurry up and report the numbers, he is good at shooting.

Tao Mingzhang reluctantly ordered his subordinates to set up the steering wheel and provide azimuth relationship data at any time, but the ranging was really difficult to do, and every time he reluctantly did it, the numbers he got before and after were very different, and he thought it would be better to take the average. The only good thing he could think of was that Brooke wasn't on the sidelines, otherwise he would probably be angry to death when he saw the Observatory working like this.

Brooke once regarded Tao Mingzhang as the only cultivable officer in the synthetic battalion (regiment). Teaching all artillery techniques is emphasized in no more than two words: regularity. He was very dissatisfied with the fatigue and collapse of the Chinese artillery in the past and the passable attitude of the data, and called some of Zhou Youfu's simplified operations based on experience as the style of an amateur army.

Tao Mingzhang himself of course recognized Brooke's approach more, because he had a little pride hidden in his heart, and he had to distance himself from Zhou Youfu, an old man who had not finished middle school, although Zhou Youfu had been instructed by a German instructor in artillery reconnaissance, in fact, he was very set.

He stubbornly reported the calculated average value to the rear through the radio, of course, Chu Tingchang would not really listen to him at all. Chu Tingchang installed a miniature receiver in his ear, and synchronously directly obtained the value of 419 calculated by Shu Ping's ballistic software, of course he could not allow someone to fire flares, so that the enemy ship would inevitably take evasive actions, so that 419's work of tracking the enemy's movement trajectory was wasted, and he must know that his artillery command and firing password were issued, and they had their own advance amounts. Let Tao Mingzhang go up, in fact, it's just pretending.

Shu Ping has postponed the time to predict the enemy's trajectory to 2 minutes in advance, but considering the accuracy and the reaction speed of the artillery battalion, he decided to set the firing window at 1 minute later, that is, after Chu Tingchang got the accurate position, he had one minute to adjust Zhu Yuan through the password, and then waited until the accurate time to order the shooting. Shu Ping considered that after the first round of shooting, the enemy ships would inevitably take some countermeasures, so he would reduce this time in advance as appropriate, and the current M7 crew are all veterans, and the lower limit of this number may be reduced by 10 seconds.

In terms of the artillery formation, Chu Tingchang discharged a nondescript three-layer wedge-shaped formation that would not appear on any lesson plan - three in the first row, four taels in the second row, and five in the third row, and they were very close. He explained that this was a secret combination of Qimen's techniques, in fact, to increase the coverage density under the unified artillery command. Because it was impossible for him to give each cannon a separate element, he had to be close to each other and make as small a dispersion as possible, which was very different from the previous situation of fighting infantry.

On the North, the commander of the North, Manzai Daisa, had returned to his cabin to rest, and before leaving the command cabin, he left a simple route request for the deputy captain: try to go in a straight line, because in the face of the * threat, the changeable path will not reduce the chance of being hit, 3 hours ago he just salvaged a piece of wood*, and he was also a little paralyzed, he simply admired the genius of the British, and even came up with this way to fool the ghost. In fact, what he was really afraid of was the British fortress artillery, and Yamamoto was a calculating, very picky commander, and generally did not want to send a more suitable heavy patrol to do this job, and always sent old ships to the shore to pull out points. The Kitakami was weakly armored and could not withstand direct fire from the British 183-mm guns. Especially at night, the reconnaissance planes could not detect such a threat, and as for the artillery group that was hiding behind a nearby hill by the British Army, he was not too worried; during the Songhu period, the Chinese army once used 150 guns to ambush the Third Fleet on the river, but the warship was basically not scored, and as long as the warship did not stand still, it would basically not be hit. He had seen Chinese artillery shells fall a kilometer from behind, or high over the hull of a ship, to Pudong on the opposite bank.

On the top of the mountain, Tao Mingzhang still kept updating his numbers, except for the azimuth, he didn't dare to think about how much worse the rest of the numbers would be.

A few kilometers later, Chu Tingchang took out his pocket watch and read it silently. He even sent his company of Sherman tanks to the shore in ambush, perhaps to try his luck in the chaos.

In the last ten seconds, the countdown began in his mind.

"Put."

At the sound of an order, all artillerymen received his command at the same time, firing almost simultaneously.

The thunderous roar deafened the ears of the unsuspecting vigilance troops in the vicinity, and it was obvious that if there were Indian spies nearby within a few kilometers, they would notice this place.

The shells screamed and flew into the air at an angle of nearly 40 degrees, and then fell in piles in very close parabolic trajectoryes. Tao Mingzhang was the first to hear the screaming sound in the air, and he waited with his eyes wide open to look at the area where he fell into the water, hoping to get a rough correction number. He expects a conservative estimate of around 500 meters of error. Of course, the lighting doesn't necessarily allow him to see the impact point.

A ball of fire erupted in front of his eyes, he couldn't believe his eyes, the enemy cruiser was exploding? The bow, amidships, and stern of the ship were hit more than once. It seems that there are also those that hit the bridge and explode. He had never seen such accurate coverage, and his mind was a little hesitant, first remembering that Brooke had said that the accumulation of errors was inevitable and that the accuracy of the first round of fire could not be expected, so the real meaning of the artillery scout was to provide corrective data in time after the first round of shooting. Obviously, Chu Shizuo jumped out of the general law, and he began to suspect that Shizuo did not defeat the enemy by inviting gods, maybe he was an immortal himself?

Since middle school, he has always regarded himself as a progressive young man, decided to believe in science, scorned the rituals in the family ancestral hall or the temple of the city god, and took pride in spitting all old customs and superstitious thoughts, but in the past few months, Chu Tingchang has been banging on his skull and kicking Mr. Sai out of his head.

Of course, the power of the light * gun was limited after all, and this round of accurate shooting certainly killed the duty operator team in the command bridge and the members of the gunnery command post, but the explosion was concentrated on the surface, lifted the deck, and caused a fire, but it failed to completely destroy it.

Shu Ping's ballistic model is based on the standard ballistics of the 105 gun found by Qin Xiaosu, but there is no long-range curved ballistic data, and the US Army may not have done this kind of test firing at all. From the very first blueprints, this weapon was not given the mission of shooting naval warships.

The warship, which had completely lost its command, continued to maintain its speed and rampage across the river, and Tao Mingzhang took advantage of the firelight to find that it seemed to have reversed course, and he did not know that it was the deputy captain at the helm who was brought to the steering wheel when he was hit by shrapnel and fell.

He immediately reported to the rear, which was completely useless because it was impossible to determine the exact change in course and to provide exact distance change figures. However, the drone can accurately provide all the change data, and Shuping realizes that the only thing that has not changed the enemy ship is the speed, so that he can still continue to shoot in the same way.

Chu Tingchang immediately gave a new number, adjusted the height and direction of the shooting boundary, and then waited...... Again the window for firing was issued.

Another perfect cover, this time shooting, with one shot * passing through the deck that the first shot exploded and hit the below-deck ammunition magazine.

Like all light cruisers, the Kitakami had a somewhat cunning armor cover, and it was not defended everywhere. Of course, his foredeck main gun turret was armoured, but the loafers stacked in the lower boomer* could only protect against ammunition coming in a straight direction. This curved projectile just happened to fall from the sky and detonate the ammunition (maybe the ritual of inviting the gods really had some effect?). ）

The bow of the ship exploded violently. Tao Mingzhang excitedly and hoarsely reported to Chief Chu that the enemy's bow had exploded, and it had begun to tilt, and it was probably over. This roar interrupted the drone messages that Chu Tingchang was receiving. He quickly turned off the radio and listened intently to Shu Ping's news. Shu Ping told him that according to the current course, the cruiser would definitely crash into the shore, and the rest of the Japanese ships behind him stopped, and only one Wakatake-class destroyer followed, probably to salvage the overboard. He suggested letting go of the ship first. Once it is found that the artillery on the surface of the hull has been eliminated, you can consider sending tanks to fire straight from the shore, preferably to detonate the central ammunition depot, so as not to hit too accurately and arouse some unnecessary suspicions.

Chu Tingchang turned to the Ruozhu-class destroyer (Hibiscus) and destroyed the surface of the ship with a slightly rough salvo, and removed the turret. This shot was a bit sloppy, he forgot that he had turned off Tao Mingzhang's communication, and Tao Mingzhang saw the enemy ship behind him and realized that he didn't seem to have time to provide any information about the destroyer behind.

A company of tanks approached the shore, and the tank crews were up and down, they didn't know how thick the armor of the 5,000-ton giant thing they were about to face was, but since the hexagram said that it would be beneficial and harmless, then let's go and crash into the character.