Originally, Huang He was going to shut down the system and go to Chang Jiang to discuss the follow-up experiments.

After all, the next decision in "atomic energy research" is a "nuclear reactor", and after this decision is unlocked, he can make enriched uranium through the system.

At that time, all the plans will no longer be empty talk, and the actual implementation will also have a stage for the other party's profession to play. As long as they can make some achievements on their side, then they can consider informing those gentlemen as appropriate.

But as soon as he got up and was about to go out, he suddenly remembered a very important thing, that is, he forgot about the mortar. This weapon was and will be important as an accompanying firepower for infantry.

Because the interface of this awakening system is too similar to the unspeakable game, he forgot about the support weapon for a long time.

Originally, the support weapons consisted of light and heavy machine guns and mortars, but the system classified light and heavy machine guns as light weapons, while mortars were classified as artillery weapons.

Just now, when he was looking at artillery, he only paid attention to those big pipes, but the mortars on the side were snubbed by him. In the lower left corner of the artillery page, there is also a mortar tech tree.

In the initial position was the Stokes mortar, which was supplied to the 386th Brigade by the Yellow River last year, but everyone did not evaluate this weapon very well.

Even Shosha's evaluation is a little better than it.

After all, it was an old object that was born to deal with the trenches of World War I, so it can only play its role in specific terrain most of the time.

As the ancestor of modern mortars, this gun has indeed found the direction of future development. However, because of the limitations of the times, many details have not been perfected.

If nothing else, just its shells. The cannonball is actually cylindrical. Even if the range is not far, it is easy to fly around after hitting it.

Plus the Stokes mortar, there was no design for the matching sights. When using it, it basically relies on combat experience, not to the level of the pillar, and the target basically has to be piled up by quantity, and it depends on luck to fight.

This kind of problem is too deadly on the battlefield, and it is directly sentenced to death, unless it is exhausted, the army will definitely not pull this thing out.

After all, the Eighth Route Army has high requirements for mortars, and many times it requires mortar groups to be able to hit the enemy's firepower point at the first time and provide cover for the troops in a certain direction.

But! Weapons behind the initial tech tree are now getting serious. Behind the Stokes mortars was the Blond Mle 50 with a caliber of 1937 mm.

Before we go into detail about this weapon, we have to mention the inventor of this weapon.

Blund and Mustache have something in common in that they were both art students in Vienna. It's just that one failed the list, and the other was admitted.

The one who loses the list is good at giving speeches in beer halls or other public places, and infects the people around him with his "personality charm". The one who continues to study art is good at special decorations, and both of them are showing their ambitions in their own fields.

When Blond returned to Gaul, he soon had his own studio and gallery. Some of the local luxury liners come to him for interiors, and even the staircase of the Louvre has been used in his work.

As we all know, the families who study art are generally quite wealthy.

Blond is no exception, and his family has an ancestral hardware tool factory. Moreover, during the war, the factory also turned into a civilian to a military and received a lot of orders for military products.

As an artist, it makes sense to be proficient in the transformation of weapons, after all, there is no pressure on the skill.

So Blond set his sights on the new gadget of mortars and explained his understanding.

First of all, he redesigned the appearance of the shells. A teardrop-shaped scheme with multiple tails is adopted, which makes the trajectory very stable after launch.

It will no longer be the same as before, where everything will be hit.

Secondly, he set a closed air ring for the shells. When fired, it was heated and expanded, and the gunpowder utilization rate was high, and it hit farther, greatly increasing the firing range, and getting rid of the limitations of the trench.

Eventually, he invented the collimated sight for mortars, and artillerymen no longer had to rely on numbers.

These three moves alone immediately changed an industry. Even in later generations, traditional mortars have not changed much.

With this design, Blond became the mortar authority of the Gallic chicken, and opened the arms company that bears his name.

At that time, the 81 mm caliber Mle 35 was an instant hit, and then various countries that bought licenses or directly copied them abounded, including the current Republic of China.

The Min 20 type 82 mm mortar, which was made by the Jinling Arsenal in 32 years, was once the standard weapon of the fruit preserved troops.

Although the caliber has increased by one millimeter, anyone in the know can see its blood at a glance.

But! The mortar tech tree in the system is a bit dead-eyed! This made the Yellow River very unhappy. The guns of the same vein are actually arranged according to the caliber and not according to the year.

Although 50-mm mortars were of great effect when devolved to units at the platoon level.

But as a patient in the advanced stage of fire deficiency phobia, Huang He looked down on this small water pipe. However, existence is reasonable, and each caliber has its own division of labor.

It's a pity that the troops will have to wait a while longer before they can use mortars at the battalion level.

Although the Yellow River calls it a small water pipe, this 50 mm light force can be regarded as the pinnacle of World War II. After all, Blund has mature experience, and whether it is to scale up or down, it becomes easy to solve.

Next, let's compare the 50mm mortar of Sandezi side-by-side, the GrW 36 weighs 14 kg, and the Mle 37 weighs only 3.6 kg, which is a difference in weight alone.

And although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs. Although the Mle 37 is light, it has a seat, a stand, and a sight.

The gun body and bracket can be put away in the carrying state, and a soldier can carry it and run. Due to its lighter weight than a rifle, the mortar crew could carry more ammunition for combat.

Sandezi's GrW 36 is really hard for artillery, and the Gallic chickens on the opposite side can quickly transfer their positions after fighting, and the two really can't compare.

The Mle 37 has an effective range of 80 to 460 meters, which is what it should be. And in special cases, it is also possible to fire anti-tank warheads.

As for comparing it with the devil's eight-nine grenadier, it is completely unnecessary. Although the responsibilities of the two are similar within the troops, they are both platoon-level support firepower, and even the range is about the same.

But when the devil's grenadier is fired, it is completely relied on the shooter to hold it with his hand, so as to determine the direction and height.

When facing a firepower point, it basically depends on feel and experience. It's not so much that the grenadier is powerful, but that the devil's veteran is powerful.

But veterans are mortal, and even elite soldiers are expendable in modern warfare. When the source of troops on a small day cannot keep up, the role of the grenadier will become lower and lower.

But in terms of the accuracy of the shelling, it is relatively simple for the mortar shooter to hit the target. Even if he only needs an experienced artilleryman to command, even if his soldiers are a group of novices, he can deliver a precise blow.

And the future of the two is also different, the devil has worked hard to train a grenadier veteran. Then in his later military career, he will always hit 50 caliber grenadiers.

But even without systematic learning, a mortar operator can use his combat experience to maneuver a larger caliber mortar.

It is completely possible to rise from the squad level to the regimental level, and the room for improvement is infinite.

Originally, in history, there was a kind of 50 small cannon in the army. It was developed by a group of bigwigs after the Battle of the Hundred Regiments after many failures and repeated research and experiments, and this weapon imitated the devil's eight-nine grenadier canister.

But now that there are drawings and production lines for Mle 37, I believe that everyone in the military industrial zone will be able to understand this technology in a short time and make the firepower of the troops to a higher level.

Here it is, I really forgot about the mortar when I wrote it.

(End of chapter)