The air bomb... although it is easy to use, it cannot be used frequently.
The reason must start with the principle of "air explosion"... As the name suggests, air explosion means explosion in the air... In fact, many military experts discovered this characteristic of artillery shells, that is, the shells are above the target.
The explosion has the greatest lethality to the enemy, and the principle is the same as the terrifying lethality of a cannon fire coming from the woods and bamboo forests.
This principle is very simple, but it is not easy to achieve "empty explosion".
Because shells are not smart things, they must touch the ground and trigger the fuse before they explode. They cannot explode automatically in the air. And if they exploded too early, it would not work... The trajectory of the shells is parabola, so they need to be exploded.
Even if it is just a little earlier, it may explode on your own head.
So military experts thought of many ways, such as using a probe rod, such as using a time fuse to calculate the landing time... But these are not very good solutions. For example, what we are using now is a time fuse, and then calculate the time before going forward.
Then a little detonation... It is actually difficult to achieve this. First of all, you need very detailed data, that is, the exact time the shell hits the target. We have achieved this based on our previous preparations, so
Only then can I use the air bomb this time.
However, even two shells fired by the same gun with the same parameters cannot be hit to the same place. Sometimes there will be a big deviation between the landing time and the trajectory... This is because the long-range artillery distance is long, and the shells move.
During such a long distance, the humidity, wind direction, wind, etc. of the air are randomly affecting the trajectory of the shell.
Therefore, using time fuses has become an unreliable air burst... It may be fine if you use it once or twice. And it must be not too far from the time interval during the test firing. The longer the time interval, the wind direction will change, etc.
The greater the possible, the more unreliable the time, and the more difficult it is to achieve the expected effect of the air bomb.
Of course, this problem was later solved, that is, install an electronic altimeter in each shell... so that the shells will explode accurately over the target, but this undoubtedly greatly increases the cost of the shells...
...As soon as these shells are shot out, they are often hundreds of thousands. We are still a poor country and naturally cannot withstand such tossing. In addition, most of our equipment is taken by the Soviet-style route. The equipment idea is for quantity.
A certain amount of quality can be sacrificed... Therefore, this kind of air-explosive bomb equipped with an electronic altimeter cannot be equipped in large quantities in this era.
This quickly turned our air bombs into ordinary grenades... The Vietnamese army also felt this change and immediately accelerated the attack on our high ground. At the same time, the Vietnamese artillery also joined the battle, so both sides
The artillery fire immediately blew up the 518.6 high ground into chaos, and soon it was impossible to tell which were the Vietnamese shells and which were our shells.
In fact, this is also a means of the Vietnamese artillery... Only by using artillery fire to disrupt our army's sight, so that our artillery observers cannot distinguish between enemy and us... This way, the artillery observers can prevent the artillery observers from guiding the artillery to launch air-detonated bombs at the charge of the Vietnamese army again.
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So, after a while, the sky was filled with the whistling of shells, and shrapnel were flying everywhere, and the strong smell of gunpowder in the air almost made people breathless.
This is the disadvantage of the 518.6 Heights... We are a forward slope for the Vietnamese artillery. In other words, all the artillery shells and firepower of the Vietnamese army are threatening us... This is just like when we attack the 518.6 Heights The army's mortars, recoilless guns, and even various machine guns can easily hit our positions, threatening the safety of our soldiers.
More importantly,... we cannot retreat to the top position or retreat to the back slope like the Vietnamese army to avoid bullets. The reason is very simple. The top position is too small and it cannot accommodate so many of us... If it is hard If you want to squeeze in, you will only gather into a bunch and become a good target for the Vietnamese army.
As for the reverse slope... we are actually surrounded by the Vietnamese army now, and there are attacks from the Vietnamese army on both sides, which means that neither side will be a reverse slope, and it can even be said that the side facing China is even more Steep, more stone, less suitable for combat.
So we could only follow the various firepowers brought by the Yue Japanese.
Fortunately, our army had built various fortifications, trenches, cat ear holes, traffic trenches... and even many caves were used by us as Tibetan soldiers and ammunition depots... There is a thick layer of soil on top and hard rocks are supported by it below. Even the Vietnamese long-range artillery cannons cannot do anything about them... What we have to do is connect these rock holes with traffic trenches and wait for the Vietnamese cannons. During the bombing, they lined up to hide in... and just threw a few sentries outside to observe the situation of the Japanese devils.
The weakness of the Vietnamese army... is that there is basically no heavy equipment except long-range artillery fire. The road is blocked by our artillery fire. Then all tanks and cars cannot pass through. There are heavy mortars and no recoil. There are undoubtedly many fewer cannons, heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, etc....
In fact, these things are not very heavy in themselves. For example, the 100 mortar has a total weight of 73 kilograms, which is also divided into three parts: the body, the gun stand, and the bottom seat is for three people to carry. The 82 mortar has a total weight of 35 kilograms. Three people carry... The difference is actually not very big.
The key is the shells... Each shell of 100 mortar weighs 8 kilograms, and each shell of 82 mortar weighs 3.16 kilograms... In other words, with the same capacity, two heavy mortar shells can be transported by five lightweight Mortar shells. In addition, the battle requires at least a few hundred shells, so the difference between the two is too different.
The same principle determines that the Vietnamese army dare not bring too many heavy machine guns. Anti-aircraft machine guns are not meant that they cannot bring them, but because the logistics capacity is limited, even if they bring them, there will be guns but no ammunition...
This is the importance of transportation to war. Once traffic is restricted, performance on the battlefield will not only affect the speed of reaction, but also directly affect the combat effectiveness of the troops.
Fortunately, this is the case... Otherwise, we will have to bear greater firepower suppression on this 518.6 high ground.
Now, the Vietnamese army can only attack our army with the limited light and heavy weapons they have in their hands. Their only advantage is that long-range artillery can attack directly at our positions... But if the Vietnamese army wants to charge, long-range artillery will always have to be necessary When the shells stop, otherwise the shells will not recognize people and will also blow on themselves.
Sure enough, the sound of artillery soon decreased a lot... The less said here, because the bombing continued, but most of the artillery soldiers of our army were bombing.
"Beep beep beep..." A few rapid whistles came from outside the cave, so the cadres of each company quickly pulled the soldiers out of the cave.
My command center is in a relatively independent small cave. The reason I chose the small cave is because there are not many personnel in the command center. In addition to me and a few staff officers, they are also correspondents and guards. Another reason is that they have been on the battlefield.
I know that the smaller the cave, the safer it is, just like a cat's ear piercing is not suitable for digging too big.
I ran out of the cave with a telescope and lay on the trench and looked... At this time, a flare happened to hit mid-air, so the battlefield was clearly visible in front of me... One by one, the Vietnamese soldiers were holding guns and carrying fire toward our positions, rushing toward our positions
Charge, they are worthy of being the 320th Division, known as the Ace Force. They are all very agile and their judgment of artillery fire is also very accurate... In my telescope, we can clearly see that whenever they lie in the crater.
After you fall down or fall down, there will always be a few shells exploding nearby.
This is the performance of the veteran. It is said that the veteran judges the shell in this way... If the shell whistles sharply and sharply, then its explosion point is farther away, so there is no need to worry at all, but if it is slightly low, it seems like it is panting,
Then don't think about it... This explosion is nearby.
Of course, experience on the battlefield is always easier said than done. You should know that the two kinds of whistling sounds are not very different, and they have to be distinguished when various shells explode into a ball of noises intertwined...
...That is the only warrior who has been through many battles.
The Vietnamese army in front of us seems to be such a team, because they have successfully passed the artillery blockade of our army and entered the dead end of the artillery fire - Tongmian, which has become a ruin.
The Vietnamese army was not busy with attacking, but lay at the foot of the mountain and dug individual bunkers and fortifications... This is of course a correct choice, because the attack emphasizes continuity, and only continuous attack can put pressure on the enemy.
It means. Otherwise, the enemy can calmly replenish ammunition, replace the wounded or replenish firepower gaps when the attack is interrupted.
The purpose of the Vietnamese army doing this is to gather enough troops and then launch a charge on our defense line...
"Battery Commander!" Zhao Jingping asked me from the side: "Do you want to give them some?"
I know what Zhao Jingping meant, our first line of defense was only 400 meters away from Tongmian... The reason is that this distance is to be able to control the turning point between the foot of the mountain and the high ground with firepower... This part is the enemy's charge speed.
Fast and slow (the terrain turns from flat ground to uphill) is also a place where explosives or grenades can roll to and stop... So this line was called the "Line of Death" in the previous battlefield, but because it was later
With the development of artillery, highland defense relies more on the "mountain top position" and "reverse slope" to defend, so the "line of death" is somewhat unworthy of its name.
In other words, the Vietnamese army located in Tongmian is within the range of our light and heavy machine guns, and we can use firepower to interfere with the movements of the Vietnamese army.
But I shook my head, not only did not do so, but ordered: "Let the artillery stop shooting!" (To be continued...)