Chapter 578 Wang Guojuns Confidence
The advancement site of the Independent Regiment Artillery Company is naturally their two treasures of the regiment-the Bofors Mountain Cannon.
The Bofos Mountain Cannon had just entered the kingdom, and it only made its debut in the Battle of Haicheng. Not to mention that the Kingdom Army, which was almost an independent kingdom in Lingpizhou, was not familiar with it, even many generals of the Central Army had never seen it.
However, this does not mean that the generals and officers of the Kingdom Army are blind and ignorant.
What does the long and elegant barrel of the Boforts cannon represent? It is not good-looking, it can provide a larger initial speed and a longer range for the shell.
The huge shield-shaped shield is not a problem, but can provide greater protection for artillery soldiers.
Watching the busy Independent Regiment artillery fell four wedge-shaped steel feet of the Bofos Mountain Cannon to the ground, the generals and captains of the Kingdom Army jumped violently.
With such strong shock absorption measures, how powerful is this gun?
Compared with the cannon in front of you, it is a type 13 mountain cannon with two wheels inserted into a steel shield of only one square meter, just like...
Just from the appearance, if the cannon of the Independent Group is a lady with a cheongsam in a cheongsam, then the 13-style mountain cannon, or exactly the 41-style mountain cannon is a village girl wearing a big flowery cotton jacket that shows "simple".
Before they even started firing, the cannon of the Independent Regiment compared the mountain cannon that the 200th Brigade was pushed out like a treasure and felt embarrassed to put it off in the middle.
"Brother Liu, what kind of cannon are you?" Old Liu asked Liu Lang with a toothache and pointed at the Bofos Mountain Cannon.
"This is the Bofos 75mm mountain cannon..." Liu Lang pointed to the current treasures of the Independent Group and introduced them to these people.
The cost of the Yisan Mountain Cannon imitated by Chengguancheng Arsenal is only 10,000 silver coins, which has already made Chief Shi feel very distressed. Over the years, he has saved more than 200 pieces. He is a rich man like Liu Lang. Not to mention a gun of nearly 40,000 silver coins, a shell is 60 silver coins, and hundreds of shells are shot out, which is 6,000 silver coins.
This is not a war, it is a total loss of money!
Let’s look at the range of the two guns. The Bofos Mountain Cannon is 9,000 meters and the Type 1 and 3 is 6,000 meters, exceeding nearly half of the range.
Crush, complete crush.
This is the unanimous thought that all the generals and generals of the Kingdom Army had heard Liu Lang’s introduction.
In fact, they were not wrong. The two Bofos mountain cannons of the Independent Regiment had fully proved its excellent performance in the battle of the ancient city.
Not only does the Black Hawk Army mountain cannon have half the range of more than the Type 41 mountain cannons make the Black Hawk Army mountain cannons look for teeth, but the Bofos mountain cannon is like half the accuracy of sniper rifle.
When the battle was at its most intense, Zhao Ergou even pushed the Bofos mountain cannon out of the tunnel and moved it to the forest, which was only 300 meters away from the front line, and the Black Hawk Army's 155mm heavy howitzer with a range of more than 10,000 meters was fired.
Because the power of the 6.3 kilogram grenade is too small, it does not pose too much threat to the Black Hawk Heavy Artillery Brigade, but it also suppresses the Black Hawk's arrogant heavy artillery Brigade, winning the infantry on the position a chance to breathe.
It can be said that since the birth of the Bofors Mountain Cannon, the 41 mountain cannons equipped by the Black Hawk Army have been synonymous with Zhazard. If the number of cannons on both sides is similar.
"I'm afraid of a ball! Isn't it just a foreign artillery imported from the door? No matter how good the weapon is, it must be someone who will fight. Let me tell the brothers of the artillery battalion that as long as they fight well, no matter whether they win or lose, each person will be rewarded with ten yuan in silver coins. I, Liu San, came out for this money." Old Liu slapped the table and shouted.
Liu Lang smiled slightly, and I have to say that the most unlucky general in history is still of a soldier's character. At least Liu Lang doesn't hate him yet, and even likes him a little.
Then, the words that Lao Liu turned his face and said made Liu Lang like him even more.
Why? I met a similar person! The shamelessness of Lao Liu, who had completely relaxed his mind and shamelessness, made Liu Lang start to wonder whether to have an in-depth exchange with this person who had to talk to him at night.
"Captain Liu, the artillery platoon that carries artillery no longer needs others. Just use the artillery platoon that used to fight bayonets! Tell my brothers that it doesn't matter whether it's good or bad. Each person's reward of ten silver coins is mine."
The other generals and officers of the Wang Guojun looked strange.
It turns out that the division commander said before was just to retreat to advance! Didn’t you see that he had already chosen the candidates for the opponent to participate in the competition? They didn’t believe that the cannons were almost pushed in front of them. The division commander was like air and could not see it.
Yan Qiwu, the commander of the artillery battalion of the 278th Regiment, who was waiting for the order, could only throw a sorry look at Zhao Ergou, who was also standing beside him. That means, don’t blame me for bullying your artillery 3rd platoon. This is what the commanders on both sides mean.
It was not until the third platoon of artillery sent by Zhao Ergou that the third platoon defeated the elite veterans selected by his 278th Regiment in a crushing manner in the artillery battle, Yan Qiwu finally believed that this platoon was really the third platoon, the third platoon that Zhao Ergou played with every day with the gun shells.
Otherwise, they would have played the things that infantry only played with.
If you do your side business every day, then the main business is of course not a big deal, right?
Just as the commander said, how awesome is their cannon? In the end, it depends on the person who operates it.
Regarding this, Yan Qiwu, who had to shoot at least fifty shells in a year of training, was still very confident. His soldiers were definitely much stronger than most of the Kingdom Army's troops in terms of artillery shooting.
The rules of shelling competition are very simple.
The two cannons were placed on the training ground and bombarded two hills ten miles away. Each hill was made of three earthen buns. Each earthen bun was placed with black gunpowder powder that could burn quickly. As long as it hit the target, thick smoke would appear.
Each gun has 6 shells, which means there are 6 chances of firing. Whoever uses the least shell and hits the most targets will be the final winner.
Because there was a shelling competition from the beginning, the 200th Brigade had already started preparing long before all the competitions.
Although the two small hills were barren and Liao was uninhabited, in case of precautions, the 200th Independent Brigade sent a company to search within a radius of five miles nearby, and confirmed that no one had stacked three large land buns in three different locations on the two hills, and put flags of different colors as marks.
Because the mountains in Lingpizhou have almost no trees but only bushes, the large earth bundle with flags is still very clear in artillery observers and telescopes.
One is located at the foot of the mountain, one is located at the side of the mountain, and the other is at the top of the mountain. Although the shooting distance is not much different, there are still high requirements for adjusting data such as elevation angle.
If you don’t have the skills, you may not even be able to make a mountain, let alone get a landblock that is only the size of a house.
But the artillery squad under Yan Qiwu skillfully reported various data and skillfully fired guns and operated guns in a series of operations.
It is probably not the first time they have trained such shelling.
The distance of 5,000 meters is almost at the limit of range for the Type 13 mountain cannon, but it is too close for the Bofos mountain cannon to be as high as 9,000 meters.
Geng Dashan didn't even participate in the command personally, but just lit a cigarette and squatted beside him and watched his squad busy making preparations before the shelling.
Although the Bofos Mountain Cannon is two big treasures in the artillery company, it never stings in training just because it is a treasure. No matter which platoon, they used these two treasures to conduct live ammunition training with fifty shells.
Chapter completed!