Chapter 253 The curtain opens (2) (Happy New Year!)

Time passed little by little, and as the orders were issued and executed, all forces involved in the battle were basically in place;

120 'Bombarder 1 Modified' 420mm rail guns equipped with supply carriages were pulled south by the moose, and three of them were connected front to back to form an artillery array, dispersed on three horizontal shelling rail lines in the front, middle and rear.

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600 'Armored Breaker Type 1·Modified' self-propelled combat vehicles that had also been modified for nutrient supply were also loaded onto rail cars and headed south after retracting their eight limbs, and entered the camp near the southern volcanoes;

The 220 "Ancient War Trees" responsible for close-range control and face-to-face armor-piercing, after being equipped with hand-held armor-piercing cannons and adding a nutrient supply system, also went south in the third batch and took root at the base of the volcano to lurk;

200 (60 at the front + 140 at the rear) '420·5' gunboats, also assisted by tow boats and supply ships, are on standby at the mouth of the river. Because they will give up their mobility after deployment, they will only be deployed when the battlefield is truly determined.

Only then will formal deployment begin.

After all, these weapons are not really 'fully automatic' or really 'fully remote-controlled'. They still need operators to complete their respective missions.

Among them, the 'Bombarder Type 1 Modification' does not have a 'self-propelled' function, so only two gun crew members need to work together to complete a series of operations such as corresponding loading control, command reception, firing range adjustment, and attack.

In addition, 20 moose are required to transfer positions after the attack;

When a group of three guns is combined into a line artillery array, the number of gun crew members can be reduced by 2 with the assistance of additional totem equipment. Only 4 soldiers are needed to complete the operation, but the moose pulling team needs to be increased to 50

only left and right;

As a result, the 120 rail guns were divided into 40 bombardment groups, requiring a total of 160 operators and 2,000 moose to support their operation;

In addition, there are also many fixed stations distributed along the line, with a total of 300 conscripts, who are responsible for artillery supply, rail gun maintenance, moose appeasement, etc.

On the other hand, the smaller Armor Breaker Type 1 Kai has a complex self-propelled system, so in addition to the two gun crew members, it is necessary to add two additional pilots to control the eight-legged limbs.

'Control its corresponding mobility, so each self-propelled combat vehicle requires a total of four soldiers to achieve the most efficient use;

A total of 600 tanks of this type participated in this battle, and a total of 2,400 front-line operators who also served as maintenance troops needed to visit the front line within 3 kilometers.

But the war in front of us is different. With the emergence of long-range weapons like 'cannons', coupled with the rapidly changing battlefield conditions in the scenario, the propagation speed of sound waves in the atmosphere is no longer able to meet actual needs.

But today, she still went crazy for more than ten hours before falling asleep holding her husband in her arms in the middle of the night.

The nine ‘area bombardment command centers’ at the next level will also be staffed by 27 second-level witch doctors;

They will be formed into a group of three, and each will sit in a command center. On average, each witch doctor needs to be responsible for the adjustment of various elements of three forts at the same time, and pass the adjustment results to the lower-level operational units.

To be more specific, the ‘information acquisition speed’ is not up to par.

At this time, the Republic basically used 'infrasound' as a medium to transmit information;

For witch doctors, mastering this knowledge is naturally not a problem.

Therefore, in order to solve this problem more efficiently and scientifically, they turned their attention to 'metal'.

This is indeed the case. The production lines at all levels related to these two models were basically finalized at the end of the 51st year of the Rune Calendar, and their production capacity reached its maximum in the middle of the 51st year.

In addition, in order to make more effective use of their attack power, and in order to cooperate with the military's previous instruction of "handing over the command of the artillery arrays to the witch doctor", these forts were divided into 9 areas according to the orientation of the nine-square grid, and each area has nine areas.

There are 90 guns in one fort, and the bombardment is unified by the same area bombardment command center.

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What needs to be known is that of the newly added ‘420·5’ gunboats, 200 were produced within one year, with an average output of 16.7 ships/month, and the actual finalized output was as high as 26.7 ships/month;

As for the 'Bombarder' and 'Armor Breaker' which have been finalized for a longer period of time, the production quantity should be much higher than the current scale.

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When all these preparations were completed, the time had come to July of the 55th year of the Rune Calendar;

At this time, five months have passed since the order was issued, and the deployment of many equipment has reached the planned scale;

Neither trolls nor elves have the habit of celebrating birthdays;

Because except for the archives of the ruling government, there is no concept of 'parents' here who will remember this day from the beginning.

At about 40 kilometers, a 3-ton composite bomb can be launched to the target with an initial velocity of 900m/s;

And now that the question of "whether there is remote information exchange capability" has just been solved, the requirements for other aspects will naturally not be too stringent.

In addition to the problem of 'wires', such a command system also has very high requirements for the number of witch doctors;

On the '420·5' gunboat side, every five gunboats will share a bombardment command and operation department;

However, no matter how fast and lossless it is, it only uses sound waves.

Fortunately, in normal times, neither the communication within the headquarters nor the reception of information from mainland base stations has high timeliness requirements;

In several consecutive experiments, the institute has successively determined the impact of factors such as type, cross-section, temperature, etc. on its working efficiency, and has successively added anti-rust coatings, sound-insulating interlayers, and anti-gnawing outer skins to create a user-friendly

Metal wires to conduct sound waves;

But it is obvious that such a solution is both difficult and uneconomical. The increase in advance will exponentially increase the computational difficulty, and there will be a large number of parts that are "chaotic and cannot be calculated".

On the upper floor, there are ten second-level witch doctors in charge of four positions;

When the bunker operation room of the 81 forts received the adjustment instructions from the 'area command center', the three scholar-type war witches stationed in each of them would fine-tune the forts based on the determined calculation plan.

Each of the ten guns was given specific instructions, and then the conscript gunners completed the specific operations.

However, things have encountered obstacles in the 'transmission' link. The distance between forts, often tens or tens of kilometers, has become a huge flaw in actual tactical applications;

As for the possible development process of the entire war, the parliament, the ruling government, and the military all have rough figures;

It is precisely because of the existence of these factors and the lack of these long-range artillery positions based on electromagnetic radar fire control systems that witch doctors need to sit in the command system at all levels and use their biological brains to act as radars, calculators, etc.

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The calculation time saved by the witch doctors on their own was consumed in the transmission process due to the limitation of 'atmospheric sound speed';

The turret can indeed hit wherever you point it, but it is just a "high-frequency warrior", and its response is always more than one beat slower.

Of course, this is not an unsolvable problem.

The 'simplest' method only requires the witch doctors to put in more effort and include a larger 'advance amount' into the calculation range, and this matter can be easily solved.

So what should we do?

Due to the differences in the standards of projectiles used at different ranges, their power also has different presentations. An interesting function curve will be formed between projectile weight, initial velocity, and power.

But even so, the four years of continuous production have allowed the headquarters to have more than 1,100 doors of this model in stock.

As for the 'Armored Breaker Type 1', its peak production has been slowed down a lot due to the difficulty of manufacturing the arthropod system, but with more investment, it once reached 20 units/month.

And maintain this production efficiency for a total of 36 months;

In the next 12 months, for the same reason as the 'Bombarder', many upstream and downstream production lines were transferred to the '420·5' gunboat, reducing its own production to 2 units per month;

Through simple calculations, it can be seen that in the two stages, the headquarters produced a total of 744 units of 'Armor Breaker 1', and all of them have completed the nutrient supply modification;

The plan seems to be complete. With the brain power of the witch doctors, their respective data analysis capabilities can solve the problem of artillery accuracy to a large extent. However, a big trouble was discovered in the earlier small-scale exercise.

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The effective attack range of a turret equipped with a 70L·420mm gun is basically within the range of 5-65 kilometers;

In addition, since the target is a living body, changes in distance, angle, etc. caused by its movement on the battlefield will affect the firing range of the turrets;

Sometimes, these changes will render certain turrets incapable of attacking for a certain period of time;

Even a turret that retains attack capabilities will have needs to change the type of artillery shells due to changes in these factors.

Among them, 600 units will directly participate in this battle in the first batch, and the remaining nearly 150 units will be on standby in frontline camps as loss replacement.

Such a result made this set of bombardment correction system really useful, and the distance of tens of kilometers was no longer a celestial stream at the speed of sound.

With the assistance of these metal wires, voice commands can be transmitted in just a few seconds, so that the witch doctors not only do not need to continue to increase calculation variables, but also reduce the size of the data involved in the calculation, thus further reducing the cost of bombardment command.

hour.

Because it can transmit information to long distances with almost no loss, infrasound applications can be said to play an extremely critical role in communications, scientific research and other fields now that there is a lack of alternative means.

Among these three layers, the 'wires' connecting sections 1-2 are laid by land, and the section connecting sections 2-3 is laid by sea and land;

For example, within 10 kilometers, super-heavy bombs weighing 13 tons can be projected with the lowest exit speed;

At about 25 kilometers, a heavy bomb weighing 7 tons can be launched with an initial velocity of 600m/s;

The artillery command system is divided into three sections, from the 'observation station' close to the front line that can visually observe the battlefield, to the area command center where shooting elements are calculated, and then to the bunker operation room of each fort.

The 'Ancient Tree of War' is a 'fully automatic weapon' in a sense. Its core body can complete all tasks such as walking and attacking, and does not need to be controlled by a warrior.

The former has prepared various joyful experiences at home

The time has come to a quiet night. Azshara, who has been meditating on breaking ranks and reincarnating between war missions in the headquarters, has not had a good rest for a long time before today;

A group of witch doctors, and even the newly emerged ‘war witches’, did indeed complete this mission very well during the exercise;

Especially for the advanced second-level pure witch doctors, the time it takes to calculate these data is not even much slower than addition and subtraction. As long as the upper-level data is in time, they can complete it in a short time.

'Calculate' step.

The application methods for civilians are left to be considered later. The first batch of products produced by factories in a hurry are often taken away by the military as soon as they come off the production line;

They were successively buried between the three-level command system of the artillery attack, which increased the speed of information transmission at each stage by nearly twenty times.

On the next level, there are four witch doctor observers who directly confirm and predict the target's movements on the front line.
To be continued...