In the darkness of the night, Dussand, four Navy commandos, and a dozen younger Finn County residents were briskly moving down the path.

When he met the four naval commandos, Dusaud had no clue what they were asking for - where do I know the coordinates of the artillery position?

Fortunately, the residents who had been trained by Finn were nearby, and Dussaint grabbed a resident with a weapon and asked him a question, and then immediately received an affirmative answer.

"I'll take you!"

On the way to lead Dussaint and the others to the nearest artillery position, the young woman who looked to be in her twenties kept shouting to the others, and it didn't take long for an eighteen-man artillery squad to quickly assemble and run towards the preset artillery position.

"There are not many shells stored on the position, and there are seventy-two more in this position we are going to now." On the way, several members of the artillery squad gave Dussend a general description of the equipment of their position, "We have six artillery guns, and if a salvo is needed, it will take at least a quarter of an hour to prepare and aim. ”

"We also need precise shelling locations, and if they are not within the preset shelling range, then someone has to calculate the angle and direction of the shelling." Another member said, "We don't count. ”

Calculation of the firing elements of an artillery strike, which is a mathematical application. In order to accurately hit the target, a rather complex process of mathematical calculations is required before the cannon is fired.

The distance between the shelling position and the point of impact, the relative altitude difference, the ballistic characteristics of the shells, the differences in the charge of the shells of different batches, and even the air resistance and the rotation of the planet need to be taken into account.

In order to make the artillery hit the target more accurately and quickly, the mathematicians of the empire carried out many calculations over the course of several hundred years, and successfully shortened the calculation formula to the point where it could be quickly deduced with a slide rule.

But such calculations required reconnaissance artillery to return a large amount of data - in fact, the most common method of shelling used by the Imperial Army was still covered shelling.

By covering a large number of artillery groups, the lack of accuracy of artillery firing calculations is compensated. This is the favorite shelling mode of the Imperial Army, which has a lot of people, artillery, and ammunition.

And the Imperial Navy was different.

The triple 28-inch turrets on the capital ships of the Imperial Navy weighed nearly five tons each, and even with the design of separate loading and firing of propellants and projectiles, firing such a behemoth was still cumbersome – and extremely expensive.

Therefore, the combat style of the Imperial Navy was more inclined towards accurate shooting. And this style of combat was carried over to the Navy Commandos - every member of the Imperial Navy Commando was the best artillery scout.

"We'll count the shooting elements, and you'll be responsible for loading and aiming." The sergeant of the Navy Commando expressed his determination to the artillery crew, "You just need to shoot according to our instructions!" ”

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Brigadier General Horn was no longer in command.

He took the place of a wounded machine gunner, firing short bursts from the water-cooled machine gun in the direction of howling in the darkness.

The soldiers of the Confederate deserve respect. Their fearless style of acting and their thorough execution of officers' orders have made them the most formidable enemies in this sea of stars.

Brigadier General Horn would not belittle the Alliance in the same way that other Imperial people do, in fact, General Horn was very disgusted with aristocrats who had never been on the battlefield but dared to despise the Allies as "barbarians", "uncivilized apes" and "cowardly thieves" at a drinking party.

They are savages, cowardly thieves. What is the Imperial Navy, which has been fighting with these thieves and barbarians for hundreds of years and still not being able to defeat the other side? A swarm of slugs eating rotten leaves?

General Horn is convinced that to insult one's enemies is to insult oneself. As the Empire's only rival in the sea of stars, the Alliance is, of course, a formidable enemy.

For example, these allied soldiers, who have broken through the blockade of more than 600 mines on their legs, armed with tattered rifles, and under the banner of their characteristic "howl", are rushing towards their positions.

There were Confederate soldiers on Nyusar, something that General Horn had not expected at all. If he had known that such an enemy existed, even if the people of the Olin Admiralty were furious, he would have to pull at least two regiments over to rest assured.

Now, these Confederate soldiers howled, rifle in hand, and launched a continuous charge into the position, and made some progress and breakthroughs at close range.

This made Horn anxious.

Although it is unknown why, the Confederate soldiers who appeared on Newsar had a severe decrease in physical strength, and their vision at night had become extremely poor. But under the charge of several times their own, there were constantly members of the naval commandos who were injured or even killed.

Brigadier General Horn, who had only one arm left, had difficulty handling his rifle, so he first met him with a pistol and then took the place of the machine gunner.

In the darkness of the night, the howling Confederate soldiers seemed endless. Even with a short burst of fire, the bullets of the heavy machine gun still quickly bottomed out.

More upsetting than bullets was condensation. The water-cooled heavy machine gun has a strong ability to fire continuously, but only if the water pipe on the cooling sleeve is connected to a larger radiator to continuously dissipate heat with the help of water flow.

In order to ensure the speed of the march, the water-cooled heavy machine guns equipped by the naval commandos did not have a water pipe connection for continuous heat dissipation at all - instead a "chimney" that was much higher than the sleeve to exhaust the steam generated by the boiling.

In order to continue to use such heavy machine guns, the Navy commandos had to constantly pour water into the water-cooled sleeve to help dissipate heat. The longer the shot, the more water is needed.

And now, the water that can be used to cool the machine gun has run out.

"Lord Lord, hurry up and fire." General Horn fired two more shots, then muttered, "If we don't fire, we won't be able to hold on!" ”

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"Aiming complete, cold cannon rapid fire!" On the shelling position, everyone was ready to open fire.

In accordance with the orders received by several naval commandos before departure, they set the location of the shelling at a distance of two hundred yols in front of their positions, and continued to fire extended fire far into the road until all ammunition was exhausted.

Such a firing scheme was certainly not the most efficient, but in the dark night of lack of battlefield communications and observation of the effects of artillery bombardment, such a scheme was already the most daring plan that the naval commandos could allow.

Cold cannon firing is likely to have a relatively large impact point error, while cold cannon rapid fire will exacerbate such an error value. Aim two hundred yols away from the front of your position and switch to extended firing is the safest option.

If it were the Navy's own shelling, they would probably set the aiming point to a distance of fifty yols from the front of the position.

Dussart crouched behind cover, shut up and covered his ears in the manner the commandos taught, and then vowed inwardly that he would get the wireless communications equipment out as soon as possible - even a radio station would be better than it was now.

"Fire!"

In the dark of the night, the cannon began to speak in a six-inch caliber, a huge orange ball of fire, and a 30-pound projectile. After the six guns completed a salvo with earth-shattering voices, the loaders of the shelling squad quickly rushed to the side of the guns, pulled the bolts and released the used cartridges.

In the case of rapid-fire cold guns, the gunners had to clean the barrel after the first two shots. There may be no fully burned gunpowder left in the cold barrel, and after many cold cannon rapid fires, these gunpowder residues stuck in the barrel can easily cause the shot to jam or even explode.

While the gunners were busy cleaning the chambers, Dussart exchanged information with the naval commando sergeant on the side.

"There may be allies on the other side." "It's the Confederates who are attacking us...... both sides mentioned the most crucial thing at the same time, and then Dusson interrupted the sergeant and continued, "In addition to a large number of Allied miners, there are at least three hundred Imperial Overseers, and we are facing a large number of enemies!" ”

The sergeant asked, "Where did these miners come from?" There are no mining complexes in the vicinity. ”

"It's all the property of the duke, and it's said that there are four mines." Dussander shouted and danced with his hands, "The size of the mine is not clear, but there will certainly be no shortage of people - there are a total of 500 people in the four mines!" ”

"Fuck, it's treason!" The sergeant jumped to his feet and scolded angrily, "Only the mines of the mining complex can use Confederate prisoners of war!" There must be high-ranking officers in this group of prisoners of war, otherwise they wouldn't be so desperate! ”