Redemption of WWII

Chapter 140 Four: Cannon Test

All the British troops were captured outside Cairo, and the Egyptians who were packing up the spoils were too busy. 【】The heavy artillery of the British is really too heavy, and they can't be moved by just relying on human camels to move these things.Fortunately, there was still a lot of gasoline in the warehouses of the British army in Cairo, so the Egyptians filled up all the trucks abandoned by the British with gasoline, and then used the trucks to get all the heavy artillery to Cairo.

The Egyptian National Defense Forces have followed the British buttocks over the years, but they haven't gotten a few good weapons. This time it's a shotgun change.All of them were replaced with standard equipment bought from the United States at a high price in the UK.Liu Qi has no complaints about these.Anyway, I only have two hundred or so people, so it's useless to ask for so many weapons. It's better to be a favor and give it to the Egyptian Defense Forces controlled by the Great Elder.

But this is not without conditions. Liu Qi kept 20 armored vehicles.And asked the Great Elder to borrow 3000 Egyptian Defense Forces.Then let those Egyptians start learning how to fire cannons from their own men.

Not many of Liu Qi's men knew about running.They were the same old men who were attacking the headquarters of the British army in Ah Lehman back then.Two SS officers and five Italian officers.So Liu Qi appointed these few people as the army's instructors, each of whom was a first-rank officer and student, to guide everyone how to use these cannons.

Liu Qi wondered whether under the guidance of the radar in his brain, the heavy artillery could still be in the state of pointing and hitting.If the heavy artillery can also reach the level of those British 2-pound trots, then Liu Qi will really be afraid of no one.Even if the British come to provoke again, direct these cannons to fight with you.It also gave the British a taste of what precision strikes are.

Liu Qi didn't care about the captured British, or directly handed over the British to the Egyptian Defense Forces.But this time Liu Qi was not very polite to those Egyptians, he just escaped with his pistol, then patted the Egyptians in front of them, and said, "If there is any problem with the British escaping this time, I will shoot you of."

What Liu Qi said was not to scare those Egyptians. The officers of the Egyptian Defense Forces had long known that the German in front of him was a man who could not be provoked. Even the elders were respectful when they saw him.Although the Great Elder looks very amiable, the members of the Great Elder's underground organization are very clear about the punishment for disobedient people in the organization.When the time comes to say that they will be shot, they will definitely be shot.Therefore, these Egyptians were extra careful when directing their subordinates to manage the British.

No mention of the Egyptians.Liu Qi quickly brought his own men and 3000 borrowed Egyptian Defense Forces, and brought the British heavy artillery to a remote place outside Cairo.With one order, dozens of cannons were placed on the ground one by one.At this time, Liu Qi also switched to the short-wave radio used by the British. While commanding his men to set up those cannons, Liu Qi separated some people to pull a few carts to a distant place.Liu Qi wanted to get a few targets, so what was the effect of the shelling?

Artillery shooting is a specialized discipline in the military.A well-camouflaged artillery position must first be set up, and then the artillery observers will provide the shooting elements.Then it was shooting.This is especially true for the shooting of heavy artillery. In a battle, the role of heavy artillery is often strategic.Because the power of the heavy artillery is quite large, especially the large curved shooting weapon such as the howitzer, it can be said that as long as it is shot accurately, no official business can resist the howitzer's artillery.And the nearly vertical landing angle of the pomegranate also gives the pomegranate a nearly 360-degree killing range, as long as people are within ten meters of the cannon explosion, they will be dead.Even if the range is expanded to tens of meters or even hundreds of meters, it is not a safe distance, and life will be in danger.

In a large-scale battle, the power of the howitzer can be said to be quite huge, and the striking distance is very far.It is simply a death harvesting weapon.But how to make the cannon fall on the correct target requires a lot of artillery knowledge, and the surrounding environment such as humidity, wind direction and other factors are taken into account in order to effectively hit the target.

Generally speaking, howitzers use cover strikes to eliminate targets.Several or dozens of cannons fire at a target at the same time, so that it is possible to hit the target.Of course, it is impossible to hit the target directly, but the target of the howitzer is generally relatively large, like a large-scale infantry that is charging.So as long as the cannon can explode at a distance of more than ten meters or even tens of meters from those soldiers, it is considered a hit target.

But Liu Qi didn't understand all this. Liu Qi also thought of the wonderful moment when the howitzer's cannon fell on those bullock carts.

Liu Qi didn't understand these things, and his two-handed gunners were not very proficient either.Of course the two SS officers would not know this.These two SS officers were also exposed to cannons for the second time, and they both thought that this was the same working procedure as the original 40-caliber small cannons.The other five Italian gunners still know a little bit, but they used to operate some light artillery.These few people are not very clear about what to do with heavy artillery.

But these people are very face-saving, aren't they just heavy artillery, anyway, they are just firing cannons.Nothing is different.In this way, a group of blind people can be regarded as touching the horse into various things.

In this way, under Liu Qi's order, the first 150mm heavy artillery shot out of the barrel.With the sound of the cannon, Liu Qi looked excitedly at the carts that were targeted a few kilometers away.Looking forward to the appearance of those large vehicles when they were smashed to pieces, but those large vehicles were safe, but the guns landed not far from their own armored vehicles.Suddenly, an explosive air wave hit his face, and directly blew Liu Qi's hat to the ground.Along with the air waves came fragments of those cannons.

Looking at the fragments of the deeply penetrated gun on the armored vehicle five centimeters away, Liu Qi couldn't help but sucked in a breath of cold air.Liu Qi couldn't help but angrily grabbed the cable and directly yelled at the soldiers on the artillery position, "You blind people. I told you to hit those targets, not me. Did you all surrender to the British? , prepare to blow me up so that you can go to the British to collect the bounty money."

Liu Qi yelled continuously for nearly 10 minutes before he stopped talking.At this time, the officer of the radio artillery position dared to say timidly, "School, I'm sorry. We have never used these cannons. It will not be like this in the future, I promise you."

"Okay then, I'll give you another chance, you just aim at those targets and fire, do you hear me? Don't blame me for being rude if you aim at me again with cannons," Liu Qi said.

"Yes, Colonel. This time we promise to complete the task." Said the artillery officer.

"Well, that's it. But you wait for me to retreat before you fire." After Liu Qi finished speaking, he hurriedly made his armored unit retreat another few hundred meters.Liu Qi was really frightened by the power of this heavy pomegranate, and he didn't dare to approach this target area anymore.

Liu Qi was almost 5 kilometers away from the target, and if he moved further away, he would not even be able to see those large vehicles, so he gave the order to fire at the target again.

He only heard a loud noise behind him, and then nearly 10 seconds later, Liu Qi observed through the telescope that a black column of smoke rose one kilometer to the left of the targets.It took about ten seconds for the booming explosion to be heard.

Liu Qixin said, "The accuracy of this heavy artillery is really good enough, and the error is more than one kilometer."

Liu Qi knew from where that the shooting of heavy artillery usually has professional artillery observers to check the errors of the cannon.They are the eyes of the cannon, and the coordinates of the shelling they report every time are carefully calculated. Generally, the first shot will become a ruler for checking the artillery fire.According to the distance and azimuth of the first shot from the target, it is reported to the artillery, and the artillery then modifies the shooting angle and direction of the cannon according to the position of the first shot, so as to further accurately strike the target.

This requires a lot of mathematical calculations, so the artillery generally recruits relatively high academic qualifications.Especially those gunners who calculate gun angles.It can be said that this is very different from infantry.Of course, not all cannons are like this. The requirements for the 75mm direct-pointing guns used by infantry battalions are not so strict, but it also requires a lot of actual combat experience to truly achieve a high hit rate.

For this, Liu Qi didn't understand at all, Liu Qi just picked up the cable and shouted, "It's off, 1000 meters to the left."

After receiving Liu Qi's instructions, the gunners with the two knives hurriedly adjusted the direction of the cannon to the right, and then fired a third cannon.

"Missed again, 2000 meters to the right."

The artillery position was busy again.

"Another 2000 meters to the left. Come again"

Just like this, the one after the other fired nearly 20 rounds, and Liu Qi's wish to reach the target blossomed did not come true. What made Liu Qi even more difficult was that all the cannons did not hit the target within a radius of one kilometer. inside.This made Liu Qi very puzzled.

Liu Qi didn't understand that in the British Army's Ah Lehmann headquarters, the cannons of these people could almost penetrate the machine gun holes in the bunker.But today, they couldn't even hit those bullock carts with huge targets.How could this not make Liu Qi feel strange?