Anti-Japanese Jedi Player

Chapter 342 Shelling
Behind a hidden hillside, a large group of guerrillas were hiding in the grass.

"Distance, five and a half kilometers..."

"Wind direction, southeast..."

"Wind speed [-] meters per second"

"..."

Three experienced artillery observers held up the sight glass and reported a series of accurate shooting data.

Three squatting, regular army gunners from the base area adjusted the pitch of the three 120-caliber heavy mortars according to these data. With the screwing of the bolts of the high and low machine, the muzzles of the three muzzles moved slowly and gradually became more accurate. Pointing to the devil's railway line in the distance.

Behind them, the three groups of gunners of the guerrillas were aiming in imitation of gourd painting, recalling the ballistic calculation knowledge they had been taught before, and twisting the high and low planes in their hands.

It’s just that they who have hardly received formal education are obviously scumbags. Although they have undergone a period of training a few days ago and their long life experience has given them a little foundation in mathematics, they are still very difficult to deal with complex artillery sights. The bald man scratched his head and scratched his ears.

"Five and a half kilometers, my dear, it's so far away, is it accurate?"

Behind the team, a guerrilla member was horrified after hearing the data, and then he continued:
"The railway is so thin, even this kind of heavy artillery can't hit it."

In the eyes of the guerrillas, the 120mm caliber mortar is already a real heavy artillery. It weighs 30 kilograms, the shell weighs more than [-] kilograms, and has a range of more than six kilometers. Moreover, it is even more powerful than the devil's mountain artillery. many.

Isn't this heavy artillery?
But the target of this attack is the devil's railway line.

Due to the previous large-scale raids, a large number of railway lines of the devils were destroyed in one fell swoop. After that, the devils strengthened the patrol of the railway lines. Every few kilometers there was a team of devil patrols stationed, and every ten kilometers there was a squad equipped with armored vehicles. Devil squadrons or cavalry squadrons were stationed, and devils also cleared all shelters within two kilometers around the railway.

Anyone approaching the railway line was shot without warning.

In this way, the guerrillas had almost no way to get in touch with the railway. Even if they attacked by force, in this open area, facing the timely support of the devils, there was no way to please them. Even if they could destroy the railway in the end, they would suffer heavy losses.

Faced with this situation, the guerrillas asked for help from the base area, and the base area directly sent a large number of small troops to support them with a large number of heavy mortars.

But what they didn't expect was that these support troops actually brought them to bombard the long-range devil's railway line, and also helped them train gunners.It was beyond their expectations.

Five kilometers, from this distance, the railway is a thin line, and the weather is slightly worse, so it is difficult to see with the naked eye.

From such a distance, even with a few hundred cannons, it would be difficult to hit the railway line, and after hundreds of runs, the devils would definitely rush up, especially the devil cavalry. In this kind of plain area, guerrillas would be very difficult to deal with.

"It's hard to say, this is a heavy artillery"

Beside him, a companion emphasized the word "heavy artillery".

What is a heavy artillery, in the understanding of the guerrillas, it is a cannon that can kill a large number of devils with one shot. Four years ago, 82 mortar shells with five kilograms were heavy artillery in their eyes, but now, the 120kg [-] Mortar shells took over the position of heavy artillery in the eyes of the partisans.

The word "heavy artillery", in the minds of the guerrillas, was also associated with miracles.

At the beginning of the war, the guerrillas were almost driven away by the devils, and now the devils hardly dare to enter the village, and dare not carry out the slightest mopping up plan, all because of the 60 guns and 82 mortars, especially the 82 mortars. Lightweight, large-caliber and powerful guns are simply an excellent configuration for guerrilla warfare.

A few kilometers away, the continuous shelling, regardless of the use of shells, random shelling, caused the devils to suffer heavy losses every time they raided.

"Yes, this is a heavy artillery"

The first team member nodded.

Soon, the artillery from the base area completed the ranging, and their hands had left the altitude machine and the direction machine.

After completing the calibration, the three gunners were the new guerrilla gunners walking to the rear, and began to teach the gunners how to aim in detail.

These gunners who were selected to study all had a good background and a lot of experience in operating 82 mortars. It's just that the skills they found out through a lot of actual combat were not systematic and lacked theoretical guidance.

But now, after receiving the guidance of systematic knowledge and theory from regular troops in the base area, they have made rapid progress.

However, judging from the bitter expressions of these gunners scratching their heads, it was obvious that this progress was not easy.

Those who play cannons play mathematics, and this thing, they can't or can't, no matter how urgent they are, they will teach them a few rounds, and after repeatedly emphasizing the knowledge points, the three veteran gunners returned to their positions.

"Cannonball, full charge"

The moment they returned to the artillery position, they regained their cold and resolute expressions, staring coldly at the railway line that was almost invisible to the naked eye in the distance, like artillery fire ready to go.

On the side, the ammunition that had already been prepared handed over a high-explosive bomb weighing [-] kilograms, and at the same time, pulled out the safety insert on the top of the shell.

The gunner holds the middle of the bamboo shell, and with hands that do not shake at all, accurately inserts the tail fin of the mortar shell into the barrel.

The caliber of the muzzle and barrel is actually almost the same as that of the shell, but when the shell enters the barrel, and before the shell leaves the gunner's palm, there is no sound between the shell and the barrel. The distance reached was precisely grasped by the gunner.

At this moment, the eyes of the guerrilla gunners who were still scratching their heads behind them changed.

The originally calm eyes became dignified, and the pride disappeared.

Four years of guerrilla career, the baptism of thousands of shells in actual combat, they are also veterans of mortars. Although the long-range shelling is not as good as these masters from the base area who have undergone systematic training, they shoot from elbows at close range. Poor, after all there is a big difference between a mortar and a barrel gun.

Mortars are inherently less accurate than barrel guns. Therefore, the gunner's shooting experience has a greater impact on accuracy. They do not have enough knowledge, they cannot understand what ballistic calculation is, and there is no way to substitute such complicated data into that view. In the calculation formula of dizziness.

However, they have a wealth of actual combat experience and superb artillery skills honed over the past four years. There is only a little knowledge gap between them and this group of base bosses, but judging from the action of placing the shells.

The gap between them and the artillery masters in the base area was far greater than they had imagined.

(End of this chapter)