"Battery Commander!" Staff Wei quickly ran back and reported to me: "There are serious shortages of 100 mortars, so we can only transfer 100 mortars from two battalions!"
"What? There are only two battalions?" I couldn't help but frown when I heard this. ===23wx=
Although I knew from the time of issuing the order, maybe there were not so many mortars left, especially 100 mortars.
The reason is very simple. Mortars are the powerful support firepower of infantry and are deeply trusted by infantry.
The reason why it gains the trust of infantry is of course because it can be carried on the back. We all know that things like recoilless cannons and rocket launchers are not as good as mortars.
It is easy to use, although they can be carried on their backs. For example, the recoil-free cannon has high requirements for launching position, which will cause great inconvenience to shooters in actual combat. The range of the rocket launcher is too close to play a role.
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Only this mortar is used to attack far, disassemble and assemble, and has basically no requirements for the launch site, so when infantry charge, they often need several punts to suppress the enemy's firepower.
Of course, the 100 mortar is not actually suitable for soldiers to carry them to the front line.
As mentioned before, the 100mm caliber mortar cannon body is too heavy. This thing weighs 73 kilograms in total, the gun body, the bottom weight of the gun frame, etc., and the back of the cannon body must be carried separately. One shell weighs 8 kilograms... In other words,
After all the hardships, I carried such a heavy thing on my back and fired two shots and then disappeared.
Therefore, the soldiers usually bring light mortars to the front line, such as 60mm caliber and 82mm caliber. The 100 mortars are generally responsible for fire cover tasks on the second line due to their long range.
That is, the 100 mortars in the army are probably dispersed and replenished to each battalion to provide fire cover for the infantry. It is already good to mobilize 100 mortars from two battalions.
But two battalions...
If the first 100 mortars are made in four, the two battalions have only twenty-four gates.
The reason why a company is equipped with only four doors is determined by the characteristics of the 100 mortar. Although the 100 mortar is easy to use, this thing is a bit too heavy to go up or down in terms of weight. If it is heavier, the caliber is larger.
Some, such as the Su-style 150mm caliber mortar equipped by the Vietnamese Japanese, needless to mention, they are transported directly by car or traction with three wheels.
But the 100 mortar is not that heavy, and after being split, it is within the range that human power can bear. So after this dismantling, and at least a certain number of shells, a company can only withstand four mortars.
The load...it would be useless if you have more equipment, and the shells cannot carry so many, otherwise there would be a situation where there were no shells on the battlefield.
But the Twenty-Four Gate is so different from the two groups I asked for.
But I thought about it again... I am still following my previous combat thinking!
It is indeed possible for the Vietnamese Japanese to concentrate the mortars of two regiments, but we don’t have to have so many, right? There is a gun-aided radar. We used the long-range artillery of one battalion to destroy the two regiments of the Vietnamese Japanese.
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Thinking of this, I nodded immediately. After looking at the map, I ordered Staff Wei: "Immediately let the artillery force of these two battalions be within three kilometers of Laoshan and prepare for combat, and the speed is fast!"
"Yes!" Staff Wei responded and immediately conveyed the order.
The range of 100 mortars is six kilometers, and the reason they are arranged to be three kilometers away from Laoshan is because the enemy we are going to deal with is likely not in Laoshan, but hiding behind the incline of Laoshan.
Our army's long-range artillery fire in the dead corner of Vietnamese mortars, so it is necessary to throw a distance of three kilometers.
The war was indeed as I imagined, and the heavy mortars of the Vietnamese army quickly played their role.
Because I heard Chen Weihua's scream: "150mm mortar, three nine holes and two..."
The Vietnamese long-range artillery reaction was slower than I thought, while the mortar reaction was much faster than I thought.
But this seems normal. The Vietnamese army is used to using artillery to fight guerrillas. So a large-caliber mortar, like a large-caliber mortar, has a fast firing speed and a moderate range, and is naturally very suitable for them.
Compared to howitzers that require cars to pull and have long gun barrels are easily discovered by the enemy, the 150 mortar only requires three rounds of traction, and there is no requirement for the position. You can even fire a few shots on the road.
Then drag it away.
Therefore, after a period of application, the large-caliber artillery force of the Vietnamese army became another main force of the Vietnamese artillery.
"What's going on!" I quickly received a call from Commander Jiang: "Why is our army still bombarded by the Vietnamese artillery fire? What about the artillery radar?!"
I know that Commander Jiang was hit by the Vietnamese devils. In fact, the infantry had not started charging at this time, but the artillery force on the front line was also cooperating with our artillery to bomb the Vietnamese fortifications and obstacles... Long-range artillery fire
It was a carpet bombing on the front line of the Vietnamese army. Although its power was great, it would always be missed. Therefore, the front-line artillery force needed to make some supplements within the range of sight.
These mortar units became targets of the Vietnamese large-caliber mortars.
It can be imagined that our army attacked the Vietnamese position, and there were a large number of Vietnamese troops on the formation we faced. Of course, there were many soldiers who knew how to calculate the coordinates, even artillery observers were on the head.
Under the guidance of artillery observers, the mortar shells of the Vietnamese army were easily guided into our army's mortar positions.
"Report to Commander!" Thinking of this, I reported to Commander Jiang: "We still need..."
As I said that, I turned my gaze to Staff Wei. Staff Wei understood and immediately asked on the walkie-talkie, and then quickly replied: "It will take fifteen minutes!"
"Terminal Commander, we need fifteen minutes of preparation!" I replied: "It is best to let the front-line artillery force not take action for the time being. It is not too late to take action after our army suppresses the Vietnamese artillery force!"
Now time is undoubtedly on our side... Simply put, if we can successfully suppress the Vietnamese artillery units, these artillery units will of course include long-range artillery and mortars. Then the Vietnamese troops in Laoshan area are almost ready to be slaughtered
Lamb. So delaying fifteen minutes is not a big deal for us. Moreover, there is still half an hour before the infantry charge.
Of course, Commander Jiang understood this, and just said, "I'll wait for good news!" and hung up the phone.
"One hundred mortars, three or eight holes, five gates..." Chen Weihua continued to shout.
"Cut down all these coordinates!" said my Staff Wei, "When the 100 mortars are ready, you can hit them first according to these coordinates!"
"Yes!" Staff Wei responded.
But although he responded, a strange expression appeared on his face.
I know he is wondering what... the Japanese mortars are big caliber, as mentioned before, they are all swimming cannons that are easy to transfer.
Since it is a swimming cannon, is it useful to mark these coordinates? When we fight, wouldn’t the Japanese artillery soldiers be transferred long ago?
But what Staff Officer Wei didn't know is... The Vietnamese artillery was the 150 mortar artillery. They should be ecstatic at this time because they thought they had finally discovered a new style that could counter the Chinese team.
Telescope's measure: It is safe to shoot guns in the dead corner of the artillery behind the back slope.
So things always have their own two sides. It is of course a mistake for our army to not prepare 100 mortars. This mistake directly causes casualties to the front-line artillery force. But it also has benefits, and the advantage is that the Vietnamese artillery force forces have been in a period of time.
There was no counterattack from our army, which was completely different from the previous situation where the long-range artillery fire had no chance to fire a second shell.
It is precisely because of this that the Vietnamese army was convinced that our "new telescope" had no choice but to do anything to them, that is, they could organize a large number of mortars in the dead corners of long-range artillery fire on the back-slope surface and provide fire support to Laoshan.
This idea is indeed very good, because in this way, the Vietnamese army only needs to arrange enough mortars and arrange some artillery observers on Laoshan... Then no matter how our army's long-range artillery fire is bombarded, the Vietnamese army urged it,
Cannons can cause a large number of casualties to the charge infantry of our army.
But wishes are beautiful, but reality is cruel.
Under this wrong understanding, the Vietnamese army quickly assembled a large number of heavy mortars on the back slope of Laoshan, and many of them were too lazy to convert positions... To be precise, the Vietnamese army thought that
There is no need to change, anyway, the "new telescope" of the Chinese people can't see it!
I can make such a judgment, of course, because of the position coordinates calculated by the gun aiming radar.
In the recorded series of artillery positions and gate numbers, we can simply classify them, that is, classify the same positions into the same category... It is obvious that this category shows that the Vietnamese heavy mortars do not have
Change the position and fire continuously at the same location.
There are also new coordinates constantly added to this, and of course this part is the new mortar that has just arrived and been put into battle.
If you add the number of these gunfires, I will get the number seventy-five.
Good guy, there are seventy-five heavy mortars, and two mortar regiments. No wonder the Japanese are not in a hurry to replenish the gap in howitzer. These heavy mortars are enough to make up for this gap!
What I don't know is that the Vietnamese army did not have so many heavy mortars in the direction of Laoshan before, and it was precisely because the two artillery regiments were broken and could not be replenished for a while, so I quickly pulled another one
The resurgent team came up to respond.
What the Vietnamese commander thought was... Since the howitzer was not even in time to fire the second shell under the "new telescope" of the Chinese people, what's the use of adding more howitzers? It's not the same for China to add them.
Artillery bombs as targets. It is better to add some more convenient and faster-motorized heavy mortars.
According to the commander of the Vietnamese army, they wanted to use heavy mortars to develop a way to compete with China's "new telescope", that is, to use heavy mortars to cover it up immediately after a shot.
It was proven later that this could indeed be done.
The Vietnamese army's approach is to dig a hidden artillery hole on the back slope first. This hidden artillery hole is not too large, and it can accommodate artillery and heavy mortars. During operation, the Vietnamese army will use manpower to drag the heavy force.
Go out, and immediately drag it back to the hidden cannon hole after a shot...
It can be imagined that when the cannon is out of the bore and flew into the air, the artillery radar still needs to detect and calculate the data. After obtaining the data, our army will notify the artillery position through communication equipment. In this process, the Vietnamese army has already forced it.
Drag it back into the cannon cave.
On the contrary, the howitzer cannot do this because the gun body is too heavy to maneuver in such a short time.
Unfortunately, the Vietnamese commander's idea was indeed correct, but now he suddenly broke out before he was ready... Because this plan was still being prepared, the hidden cannon cave was not opened at all.
Digging, even at this time, the Vietnamese army thought it seemed unnecessary to dig a cannon hole, just hide in the back slope!
But they quickly knew that they were wrong and that they were very wrong!
"Battery Commander!" Soon Staff Officer Wei reported to me: "100 mortars are ready!"
"Very good!" I nodded and handed the coordinate record in my hand to Staff Wei: "In terms of battalion, mark these coordinates once, and the repeated coordinates will be preferred!"
"Yes!" Staff Wei responded, and immediately tore the coordinate record in half and distributed it to the two correspondents.
From this point, we can also see how quickly Staff Wei reacted... If this task is given to ordinary people, we may have to consider how to allocate or how to coordinate with the artillery troops. After all, my requirement is based on battalions.
That means that the two combustible artillery battalions are going to attack different places.
So there will be at least a few minutes here to divide these coordinates and establish connections with the two combats.
But this matter was resolved in a few seconds in the hands of Staff Wei... The coordinate record was torn in half and distributed to the two correspondents.
Although this allocation method may be a bit unscientific, because there is a high possibility that one battalion has a heavier task and another battalion has a lighter task. But time is the most important thing on the battlefield, so doing this is undoubtedly a
The best choice.
So in less than a minute, Staff Wei reported to me: "It's ready!"
"Open fire!"
With my order, 100 mortars fired rows of shells in the direction of the Vietnamese army.
Although the 100 mortar is not as good as the 150mm mortar of the Vietnamese army in terms of range and power, and even the Vietnamese army has an absolute advantage in terms of quantity, this is the case with artillery battles. It is often not about which side of the artillery is better.
It depends on who can accurately find the opponent's artillery position.
At this point, our army obviously has an absolute advantage because we have gun-aided radar, which makes us invincible. (To be continued...)