I want to be emperor

Chapter 1199 Shotgun Blind Shot

The Chu Army's foreign legions have a lot of experience in how to fight street battles, because urban combat is one of their main tasks.

The Chu Army's foreign legions were mainly used for garrisoning overseas areas, conducting daily patrols, and small-scale stationing, including setting up checkpoints and sentries. These were the tasks that people in later generations called public security operations.

At the same time, the Foreign Legion also undertakes large-scale field operations, serving as an auxiliary force to cooperate with the regular army in carrying out field operations to defeat, annihilate and encircle large-scale enemies.

Then take on street fighting!

In the past decade or so, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties in street fighting, the Chu Army generally took over the outer areas of the city and then handed over urban combat to foreign legions.

Therefore, the foreign legion has rich experience in this area and has its own set of street fighting tactics.

Of course, even though the weapons and equipment of the foreign legions are generally one era ahead of those of the indigenous army, they will still inevitably suffer certain casualties.

As for the regular army, although they have been exploring and researching urban warfare in recent years, there have actually been very few large-scale actual combat operations. At most, there have been a few examples of urban security operations.

Therefore, for the regular army of the Chu Army, street fighting is a relatively unfamiliar field.

The Chu army leaders also saw this shortcoming. If they couldn't even fight in street battles, wouldn't they be at a loss if they really had to fight in street battles in the future?

Street fighting is difficult, especially in cities in the mainland and even in vassal states. As more and more cities are built of concrete, the difficulty of street fighting continues to increase.

  The Chu Army then developed a series of 783 tanks and 556 armored vehicles specifically for use in complex terrains such as cities!

These two types of weapons and equipment were specially developed for street fighting. The main feature is that no matter how complex the terrain is or how many sneak attacks there are, my tanks and armored vehicles can withstand the shooting of various light weapons and then calmly fire back!

However, design theory is only theory. Whether it can be used in actual combat and whether it is useful or not still needs further testing.

This time, more than 2,000 elite remnants of the Bosnian rebels were trapped in the city, which was a very good opportunity for actual combat.

In order to conduct actual combat tests and explore the effectiveness and tactics of fully protected armored vehicles in urban combat.

With special approval from the 33rd Army Command, the foreign legions will only surround the city from the outside during this siege, and the siege mission will be undertaken by the temporary armored regiment.

This is actually very rare in the combat examples of the Chu army... Most of the time, the foreign legions are sent to the street fighting as cannon fodder, while the regular army is outside to carry out siege missions and provide fire support.

  But this time it was the other way around!

The many powerful army brigadier generals who commanded the temporary armored regiment were also under great pressure!

Ordinary soldiers may not know, but as a senior general, he knows very well that a bunch of big guys above are keeping an eye on this battle. Not only the 33rd Army Headquarters, but even the Army Headquarters in Jinling City are keeping an eye on this battle.

In order to better and more timely understand the situation of this siege, the army even set up a special radio communication channel. The communications office of the 33rd Army went directly to the front line, pulling a large number of generators, large wireless telegraph machines and other equipment to transmit the corresponding battle reports directly to Jinling City.

  To some extent, this will be the first live broadcast of a battle in the history of the Chu Empire and mankind!

Before this, although there were radio and wired communications and battlefield communications were relatively advanced, the Chu army had never tried to directly transmit the detailed battle information on the front line to Jinling City via radio on the spot.

Because there was no need for this before, the amount of information transmitted by radio was limited, and the bigwigs in Jinling City could not pay real-time attention to a battle involving thousands of people, especially against indigenous rebels.

You have to know that the Chu army is deployed globally and is fighting different enemies almost every moment... From Africa to Europe, to West Asia and India, the Chu army and the indigenous people are at war almost every day.

However, these are sporadic small-scale battles. The relevant combat information will be summarized at the front line and then formed into military-level battle reports, which will be transmitted to Jinling City via radio or wire.

However, there has never been such a thing as transmitting battalion-level combat information directly from the front line back to Jinling City in real time...it is such a waste of communication power.

You have to know that in those days, due to technical limitations, the size and weight of wireless telegraph machines capable of intercontinental communications were very large, and required special generators and telegraph machines. The transmission power had to be high enough to be able to transmit relevant information across half the globe to the city of Jinling.

This type of equipment is usually only equipped at the division and army levels.

The battalion and regiment-level equipment is equipped with field-grade radiotelegraph machines that are lighter in size and weight, with a communication range of about hundreds of kilometers.

But in this battle, the Chu army directly pulled over all the military-level communication equipment, which shows the importance attached by the superiors.

This also puts great pressure on many strong people!

As the deputy commander of a Class B division deployed in actual combat after mobilization, Xu Qiang is considered a young general with a relatively bright future in the army.

Well, even though he is already forty years old, he is a serious young general in the army. Few of his classmates in the Army Officers School have now passed the hurdle of colonel and become brigadier general.

By the way, the brigadier general in the Chu army is also a general officer, and his shoulder strap has a golden peony flower.

As a brigadier general in the young and promising sequence, Xu Qiang had direct contact with armored warfare. When he was serving in the country before, he served as the battalion commander of a reconnaissance battalion of a Class A division, and this reconnaissance battalion was equipped with some wheeled armored vehicles.

He was considered one of the first senior generals in the Chu army to come into contact with armored vehicles.

After I took up my post in Europe, I came into contact with more things. Because the Chu army tended to test things in actual combat, they liked to send any new things to places like Europe, West Asia, and India.

  Therefore, the Chu army deployed overseas for combat actually has more opportunities to come into contact with some advanced weapons and equipment than the army stationed in the mainland. Of course, heavy artillery is not included!

However, airplanes, armored vehicles, and firearms are basically first equipped and used by overseas garrison troops...well, or tested.

After the Chu Army's air force was established, an aviation regiment was sent directly to Europe after proper training. At that time, the Chu Army's air force had only two and a half regiments in total.

Not to mention armored vehicles, the Chu army had deployed and tested various types of armored vehicles in Europe a long time ago.

For this reason, many strong officers who come to Europe to serve have many opportunities to come into contact with, or even command, armored vehicles and other mobile vehicles.

However, I have never come across armored vehicles with such strong protective capabilities as 783 and 556.

  Because of the different characteristics of the equipment, the specific tactics are certainly different. For example, various armored vehicles in the past, due to the relatively weak protection capabilities, in order to avoid losses, they mostly rely on mobile operations, changing positions through fast and frequent mobile movements, and then output firepower through machine guns. This mode is very useful in field operations, especially in places with flat terrain and wide views. The Chu army's armored vehicles are almost invincible!

But in the city, the previous fragile armored vehicles are not very useful. They are too fragile. Even ordinary rifle bullets can penetrate the side and rear armor. But they cannot perform high-speed and frequent maneuvers in the urban environment... You have to stop and go to search and shoot. At the same time, a large number of buildings and even building ruins will become the best cover for the enemy.

Sometimes the natives would sneak up with weapons, and some bolder ones would even bring smuggled or secretly obtained machine guns to within a hundred or two hundred meters.

Then, when they found an opportunity, they would strafed the Chu army's unprotected motor vehicles, such as trucks, tricycles, and even some small and medium-sized armored vehicles with only thin armor.

Even in front of the early machine guns using black powder 11mm bullets, these vehicles were vulnerable.

Since a few losses, the Chu army has been very cautious in using armored vehicles in urban areas, often accompanied by infantry cover. The infantry deployed on both wings, gradually searching for enemies in buildings, while the armored vehicles mainly provided fire support.

And this time when entering the city to fight, many strong forces are also prepared to take this approach.

Although on paper the protection capabilities of the 783 tank and the 556 armored vehicle are very good, it is better to be safe than sorry.

Therefore, necessary infantry-tank coordination is very necessary.

This is also because in addition to the armored battalion, there is also an infantry battalion in the temporary armored regiment. In order to cooperate in combat, this infantry battalion also received a batch of additional armored personnel carriers.

Under the gaze of a large number of people, many strong men began to command the temporary armored regiment to enter the city to fight.

First, with the cooperation of the foreign legion, some enemy fire points and positions in the suburbs and even on the edge of the city were eliminated.

Then the 783 tank took the lead and acted as a pioneer to kill forward.

At the back is the 556 wheeled armored vehicle, which has slightly weaker protection capabilities but better maneuverability, better observation field, and is more flexible... This armored vehicle is a pure firepower output vehicle and does not have troop transport capabilities.

This thing is actually a product of the same concept as the 783 tank. It can rely on comprehensive protection to withstand the enemy's light weapons fire attack in extreme environments, and use heavy machine guns to output firepower.

The reason why they developed this five-ton wheeled armored vehicle in addition to the 783 tank is naturally because the 783 tank is too expensive... This is the first tracked tank, and the price is still relatively expensive.

In addition, it is not light, with a design weight of more than eight tons. However, the armored soldiers of the Chu army have a tradition of laying additional steel plates... The main reason is that the previous armored vehicles were too fragile, and in order to protect themselves, the armored soldiers would often just put a few steel plates on top to strengthen the protection.

At the same time, they also like to transport extra ammunition and supplies to enhance their sustained combat capabilities.

In the end, the 783 tanks were installed on Bosnia's tanks. In fact, the weight of the entire vehicle has exceeded ten tons... Those armored vehicles not only have steel plates installed, but also sandbags are piled around the turrets.

Although the maneuverability is reduced, it actually has no big impact when fighting on the flat roads in the city. It's just a matter of going slower... But there is no need to drive at high speeds in urban combat. It's all about moving slowly and stopping.

This also resulted in the 783 tank being expensive, and because of its heavy weight in actual combat, many bridges were unable to bear its weight when deployed overseas, and its maneuverability was also relatively poor.

In order to make up for these shortcomings, the Army proposed a high-low matching idea, equipping the 783 tank with a low-cost, wheeled chassis with good maneuverability and a relatively light weight, which can be used as an armored vehicle in most overseas regions.

Finally, the 556 armored vehicle was produced.

At this time, a group of 783 tanks and 556 armored vehicles cooperated with each other and slowly advanced into the city. From time to time, their heavy machine guns could be seen firing.

  One of the 783 tanks, perhaps having discovered the enemy's traces, the machine gunner inside it immediately operated the mm main gun and fired intensively at a brick building about a hundred meters ahead!

This vehicle-mounted air-cooled 53mm heavy machine gun was developed by the Huguang Weapons Company. Its equipment number is Type 11 mm heavy machine gun. It has the characteristics of a heavy and long barrel. It has both vehicle-mounted and ship-mounted models, and is also equipped with special semi-armor-piercing shells for attacking civil engineering works.

It is the new generation of standard 11mm heavy machine gun in the Chu army, widely equipped on armored vehicles and ships produced and put into service in the past two years.

  When this heavy machine gun fired at the building in front, the scene was scary!

A series of bullets were fired, causing the brick and stone walls to collapse and splash, with smoke and dust billowing. Even when the bullets hit some hard stones or iron products, sparks would burst out due to the high-speed impact.

By the time the machine gunner stopped shooting, the smoke and dust from the building in front had dissipated a little, and the wall on the second floor of the building within sight was already full of pits and dents... It seemed that the wall was still basically intact, but in fact the wall had been pierced through, and those pits and dents were bullet holes. The bullets penetrated the wall and ran rampant inside, and the several indigenous rebel soldiers with guns hiding inside were beaten beyond recognition.

If this thing fires a volley of bullets, its power won't be much less than that of small or medium caliber artillery shells!

The sound of machine guns rang out intermittently, and the armored regiment's vehicles slowly moved in, followed by a group of infantrymen carrying light machine guns, Type 27 rifles, some shotguns and a large number of grenades.

These infantrymen followed in from behind, then began to occupy the buildings on both sides and gradually cleared them out.

And these infantrymen were also different from the foreign legions in their aggressive fighting. When the regular infantrymen of the Chu Army entered urban areas, especially when they entered buildings to fight, they seldom rushed forward and fired guns, but instead threw a large number of grenades.

These infantrymen were using a new type of offensive grenade that had just entered service in the Chu Army in the past two years. It did not have the traditional wooden handle shape, but a melon-shaped shape, and the internal charge was not the traditional black powder, but the newly used yellow explosive.

When the infantrymen encountered a situation, they would often throw a grenade in first, and then use a shotgun to fire through the door, or simply hold the shotgun in their hands but without showing their bodies, and fire a few bullets into the room through the window.

This mode of shooting directly into the target without aiming or even looking is also called blind shotgun shooting. The army has even developed a type of shotgun shell that can be dispersed on a large scale at medium and short distances, specifically for this type of blind shotgun shooting at medium and short distances.

At first, many people criticized the blind shooting of shotguns by the front-line soldiers of the Army, saying that it was pure nonsense and a waste of ammunition. However, when the military sent several generals who had been away from the front line for a long time and had strong opinions about this, they stopped criticizing it... and instead praised this shooting mode.

They say that there are plenty of bullets, but only one life...

This is what the Chu army soldiers did nowadays. They first threw a few grenades in, and after the explosions, they used shotguns to fire blindly at different angles from hidden positions such as windows or door corners, without revealing their identities.

The few indigenous rebel soldiers hiding inside fell in a pool of blood without even seeing the shadow of the Chu army infantry.