Global Wasteland: Upgrade from Abandoned Base

Chapter 188 The Importance of Artillery

Three days passed in a hurry, and Yue Chi, the head of the Shanhai base, also built all the special buildings he had exchanged from the system.

And they are placed in different positions according to their functions.

For example, the scientific research base was placed by Yue Chi in a relatively remote area in the southern area, and the second military camp was placed by Yue Chi at the gate of the outer west area of ​​the outer city.

Up to now, Yue Chi already has a second barracks that can be equipped.

Regarding this military camp, Yue Chi did not put him together with another military camp.

Instead, he was deliberately changed to another place.

The previous barracks, Yuechi, moved him to his inner city, serving as a barracks for the guards and part of the infantry of the field army, and those armored troops, Yuechi, put them all in the outer city in order to prevent them from destroying the dirt road of his base. In an existing barracks.

With the exchange of the new barracks, other arms of the field army will also be stationed in the new barracks.

In addition to housing, the army's weapon updates have also caused a slight decline in the actual combat effectiveness of the current Shanhai base.

The decline is because the current soldiers are still a little too far-fetched to control these weapons. Even if they have graduated from primary school, they still have to be taught carefully by specialized personnel to use these weapons.

But at present, there is no dedicated person in my own base!
This has caused everyone, including myself, to fumble a little bit forward with this new weapon, but fortunately, my soldiers still have some experience in the use of assault rifles and can operate them soon, but The operation of the artillery battalion's self-propelled artillery company and the 105 towed howitzer company is not so simple! !
It's really easy to fire shells. Under the guidance of the manual and their years of experience, they can still fire, but the role of artillery is not just as simple as firing shells! !

What do artillerymen do?

It is an important part of the army and the main fire assault force.

With powerful firepower, long range, good accuracy and high maneuverability, it can conduct concentrated, sudden and continuous fire assaults on ground and water targets.

It is mainly used to support and cover the combat operations of infantry and armored troops, and to cooperate with other arms and services, and can also conduct independent fire combat.

To put it bluntly, it is fire suppression! ! !
For the army, the goal is to fight accurately, otherwise it is meaningless to fight far.

And the distance of ten kilometers to thirty kilometers is the specialty of artillery!

Implementing firepower coverage or attacking small groups of individual targets are the artillery's forte, because there will be a variety of self-reconnaissance methods within the range of [-] kilometers to [-] kilometers to flexibly conduct reconnaissance against the enemy, guide the artillery to eliminate them after precise positioning, and aviation or Armed helicopters lack timeliness in terms of precise reconnaissance and precise guidance (still requires ground support), so there is still a gap in the strike effect compared with artillery.

Artillery has powerful firepower and high maneuverability, and can carry out concentrated, sudden and continuous fire assaults on ground and water targets.

It is mainly used to support the combat operations of infantry and tank soldiers, and cooperate with other arms and services to fight, and can also conduct firepower combat independently.

Usually according to the relationship of affiliation, it is divided into team artillery and reserve artillery.The team artillery is the field artillery, and the reserve artillery is the area artillery, which belongs to the guard army.

At present, Yuechi's guards are equipped with a small number of mortars for deterrence and enhanced firepower.

According to the mode of movement, it is divided into motorized artillery, also known as mechanized artillery and mule artillery.

Motorized artillery refers to artillery and its supporting equipment that use its own power, or artillery that is pulled and loaded by cars or tracked vehicles.

This is the current category of the Yuechi Artillery Battalion. Mechanized artillery, 105 artillery pieces are towed by armored vehicles, and 150 self-propelled artillery rely on their own chassis to move quickly.

The mule-horse artillery refers to the artillery whose artillery, instruments and other equipment are drawn or carried by mules and horses. This kind of artillery is suitable for traveling and carrying in the mountains.

According to the combat performance of equipment, the artillery unit is also divided into howitzer artillery, cannon artillery, cannon howitzer, mountain artillery, rocket artillery, mortar artillery, anti-tank artillery and ground-to-surface tactical missile units.

Mountain artillery is mainly equipped with light cannons, howitzers and mortars, and is used to fight in mountainous and difficult-to-pass large undulations.

The power of the mountain gun is not as powerful as other guns, but in the mountain environment, it can fire quickly with a perfect line of sight and quickly evacuate.

The anti-tank artillery is based on anti-tank weapons and its basic task is to destroy enemy tanks and armored vehicles. It is also called anti-tank destroyer artillery and anti-tank artillery.

Although most of the anti-tank artillery used are anti-tank guns, this kind of gun is not only very powerful against tanks, but also hits people with one shot.

But Yue Chi is not very optimistic about this anti-tank gun.

That's because in Yue Chi's view, the effect of this anti-tank gun is actually not as great as his impression!
If you want to solve the opponent's heavy equipment, then other guns can also do it. You only need to replace the original ordinary shells with armor-piercing shells.

And this method is only for small-caliber artillery, once the caliber of the artillery is large enough!

Then there is no need to replace the armor-piercing bullets at all, and these heavy-armed enemies can be directly torn apart with the help of large-caliber bullets.

What's more, your base army can also use RPG rocket launchers, which can completely replace the power of anti-tank guns, but the current models of the base are still backward after all, and you need to be a little closer to the reloading force.

Thinking of this, Yue Chi suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to exchange for a new type of RPG rocket launcher! ! ! !
Artillery is an umbrella term covering several different large-caliber weapons units, including mortars and field guns.Mortars fire explosive shells in a high arc and are particularly effective against small, stealthy targets.Field guns are long-range weapons that fire their shells in a flat arc, essentially using their penetrating ability to hit hard targets.

Artillery was powerful enough to pound enemy troops behind the strongest fortifications in succession, and it was also able to move quickly from firing position to firing position.This is an important feature when fighting in a mobile war or dodging enemy fire

The basic tasks of artillery are: destroying enemy artillery and command structures; destroying enemy tanks, ships and other armored targets; annihilating the enemy's active forces; blocking the enemy's transportation hubs;

Take a 152mm plus howitzer as an example, after it falls, unless you are a superman, half of the people in the football field can be blown up, let alone it explodes at your feet?

Beard has a famous saying "artillery is the god of war".The reason why it can be called "God" is because artillery, especially large-caliber heavy artillery, is still the backbone of firepower on the battlefield. With its advantages of strong firepower, flexibility, reliability, economy, and versatility, it has become a weapon in combat operations. The main content and important factors affecting the battlefield situation.

Since its invention, artillery has played an important role in land warfare due to its long range and great power, so much so that it has been dubbed the "God of War" and "God of Land War".

Of course, with the widespread use of combat aircraft and missiles, artillery is likely to be overtaken in terms of range, power, and accuracy, but it is still the Army's "favorite".

With the gradual upgrading of weapons, on the modern battlefield that the base will trend in the future, although some precision-guided weapons can accurately destroy the enemy.

But it can't achieve the stormy firing speed and violent strikes on cluster targets like large-caliber artillery.

It is impossible to create the astonishing soul and thunderous scene of the cannon, which can give the enemy a strong spiritual shock, defeat the enemy from the momentum, and make him lose the will to fight.

Therefore, even the precision-guided weapons that the base may be equipped with in the future can only be used as strategic or large-scale tactics. In conventional battles, for artillery, they are still the "gods of war".

Compared with aviation and surface-to-surface missile forces, artillery can strike a balance between firepower and cost.

First, artillery is more economical to use.Today's cruise missiles and stand-off launch missiles often cost millions of dollars per unit, which is equivalent to launching a super sports car. Even the "Jedam" guided bomb most commonly used by the Air Force costs about 3 U.S. dollars, plus 1 The average flight cost of a third-generation aircraft is 3 U.S. dollars per hour, and the combat cost is very high.

Shells, on the other hand, are much cheaper.In order to improve the continuity of ground strikes and reduce costs, some naval destroyers are specially equipped with 155mm large naval guns. For this reason, the number of vertical launch devices has been reduced. It can be called a giant cannon ship in the 21st century. economy.

The firepower of the artillery is also powerful enough to destroy most land targets.

For example, anti-tank guns have a high initial velocity, and the use of long-rod armor-piercing projectiles can effectively deal with main battle tanks.

The curved trajectory of the mortar can hit targets on the reverse slope of the mountain.

Large-caliber cannons and howitzers can effectively deal with various bunkers and suppress firepower.

In addition to using traditional artillery shells, these artillery can also use cluster shells, terminal sensitive shells, precision-guided shells, and even artillery-launched missiles. They can be used to suppress surface targets or precisely hit point targets. They can deal with soft targets and large-scale combat Hard targets such as armored vehicles.

In fact, because the artillery has its own unique advantages, Yue Chi believes that even if his own Shanhai base has a strong aviation force and an army of armed helicopters in the future, he will attach great importance to the development and use of artillery.

In addition, considering the current situation around the base, Yue Chi wants to strengthen his artillery force!

Because there are continuous high mountains and steep mountains in the north of the base.

There must be a large number of mutated creatures hidden in this high mountain, and as the industrialization process of his mountain and sea base continues to accelerate, obviously he will not let it go to dig out the wealth in the mountain!
If this is the case, the army will have to clean up the mountains.

When fighting on plateaus and mountains, the status of artillery is even more important.

Even if he gets an airplane in the near future, it won't help.

On the one hand, plateau operations will weaken the support capability of aviation.

For example, if a fixed-wing aircraft takes off at a plateau airport, it may need to carry less bombs and fuel, which reduces the ability to sustain strikes.

If the helicopter is not specially designed, the armed helicopter will not only carry less equipment when flying on the plateau, but also will not fly high (relative altitude), its maneuverability will deteriorate, and it will be more likely to be attacked by mutant beasts.

Some mid-altitude and long-endurance reconnaissance drones, even if they fly at the limit of the flight altitude, are relatively low in the plateau and mountainous areas, and are more likely to encounter some high-energy firepower in the mountains.

In this case, the artillery used directly by the army is even more important.

Moreover, artillery can fight farther in plateau areas.

Because the air on the plateau is thin, the muzzle velocity increases and the resistance decreases, which will increase the range of the artillery and the penetration depth of the armor-piercing projectile to a certain extent.

Of course, due to the thin air and large height difference, if you want to shoot accurately, you need to re-correct the firing table of the artillery.

In addition, in order to adapt to the special geographical environment of the plateau area, the artillery must make appropriate adjustments in the use of techniques and tactics in the plateau and mountainous areas, so as to maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses.

For example, in some plateaus and mountainous areas, the terrain is rugged and not suitable for heavy artillery maneuvers. At this time, light towed artillery, especially mortars, should be used as much as possible.Long-range heavy artillery and rocket launchers can be deployed later.

This is also an important reason why Yuechi will equip the infantry battalion with a corresponding number of mortars and light direct-fire guns.

Therefore, Yue Chi treated the artillerymen of his own base relatively high. Of course, their training volume was also very large during regular training.

The most important thing in the artillery unit of the Shanhai base is the scouts, not the defensive infantry.

Although artillery scouts are ordinary soldiers, they are not special forces. They can't capture and fight, they can't penetrate Yang with a hundred steps, and they can't tear demons with their hands.

But compared to the armed reconnaissance of infantry regiment scouts, artillery scouts need all technical work, so their cultural level is higher.

This is also a very important reason why ordinary infantry in the base can expand rapidly, but the artillery unit has almost always maintained the status quo. It is also why when exchanging soldier summoning tokens, the demand for artillery points is often higher than that of infantry of the same specification. [-] times.

Among the five occupations of "observation, communication, artillery, driving, and cooking" in the artillery battalion of the Shanhai Base, scouts are listed as the first of the five occupations, and are also known as the eyes of the "God of War".

Although with the rapid advancement of military technology and the upgrading of military equipment, the older generation of scout equipment will be replaced by battlefield commanders and navigation systems.

Reconnaissance shells, unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, and reconnaissance satellites have also become the protagonists on the battlefield.

But the current base, there is no such thing! ! !

Therefore, manpower has to be tested. Compared with those high-tech gadgets, Yue Chi trusts his soldiers more.

(End of this chapter)