If you want to improve shooting accuracy just by "sharpening your guns in battle", it is basically impossible. After all, you only have a few hours, and marksmen and the like are fed with artillery shells. At this time, there is obviously no time and no ammunition supply.
They waste.
However, there are traces of firing artillery at operational targets, which are some techniques that soldiers of this era do not know.
There was no problem for the Engineer Regiment to dig anti-tank trenches. With Major Gavrilov's order, soldiers from the Engineer Regiment and the 333rd Regiment were mobilized. Half an hour later, even the people of Tula were called to dig traps.
...The entire front, a passage more than ten kilometers wide from the Yauza River to the lagoon, is full of traps layer by layer.
The interesting thing about these traps is that they are filled with mud after they are dug, and there is no problem at all from the surface.
As for the tank crews and anti-tank gunners, Shulka was left in charge of "pre-war training."
"The method is very simple!" Shurka said: "There are three guns in a group, and the same goes for tanks. Each gun is arranged in a straight line at the same interval and faces the enemy, and then fires in sequence. Do you understand?"
The gunners were stunned when they heard this.
Captain Akimchik, commander of the tank battalion on the side, asked: "Comrade Shulka, what is the difference between this and our usual shooting? Can we shoot more accurately this way?"
"Of course there is a difference!" Shulka explained: "Your usual shooting is three guns firing at random without any connection. There is no mutual correction or comparison between the guns!"
Captain Akimchik couldn't help but said "Oh" when he heard this: "You mean... after the first gun fires, we can observe the distance between the impact point of the projectile and the target and conduct a gun battle?"
"Yes!" Shulka replied: "Because the heights and intervals between the cannons are the same, and they are lined up in a straight line facing the target... If the first cannon misses, the second cannon can be used according to the mastered information.
The data and offset are adjusted to each other, and the same is true for the third cannon!"
"Understood, Comrade Shulka!" Captain Akimchik stood up and saluted Shulka, and said: "A very good method. There is no doubt that this can improve the hit rate to a great extent.
And all it requires is simple training!”
So the problem was solved, Shulka let Captain Akimchik finish it.
The principle is actually very simple. All other external conditions are the same, even the wind direction and wind force are basically the same. Therefore, as long as the gunner's calculation speed is fast and accurate (this is an artillery must have ability), then three rounds of artillery shells will not be counted.
It's hard to hit the target.
"Comrade Captain!" an artilleryman asked Captain Akimchik: "What if we still miss the target?"
"Then let's have another round!" Captain Akimchik replied without thinking: "Otherwise, even if the enemy rushes in front of you, you will not be allowed to retreat. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Comrade Captain!"
Returning to the headquarters, Shulka said to Major Gavrilov: "We need more tanks and anti-tank guns!"
it is necessary.
The reason is that this kind of tank ambush warfare has a flaw: while trapping the enemy, your own anti-tank guns and tanks cannot move because there are traps everywhere, abnormal traps that cannot be found on the surface.
This also means that the tank and tank gun have to be abandoned after being exposed in an ambush, because it will soon be bombarded by enemy artillery.
It is even possible for tanks and anti-tank guns to be discovered by the enemy and rendered useless before they can take effect.
So, of course more anti-tank firepower is needed.
Major Gavrilov nodded: "I have asked Moscow for reinforcements, and they will immediately transfer fifty anti-tank guns..."
"Fifty doors?" Shulka shook his head: "Maybe not enough!"
"They only have so many!" Major Gavrilov replied: "You know, Moscow has invested almost all its troops and equipment on the front line, even the troops and equipment reinforced from the rear!"
Shulka certainly knows this, but the problem is that the difficulty is unsolvable: the combined anti-tank firepower of the 333rd Regiment and Tula is only 79 units, and an ambush with three units at the front and rear, and three units on the left and right, would require 12 units.
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This is still the minimum requirement. In order to ensure that the target can be destroyed and blocked, especially the front part, because enemy tanks may push the wreckage of the destroyed tank away, a few more doors must be deployed.
If one ambush is calculated based on 20 units, including the 50 newly-reinforced anti-tank guns from Moscow, they can only conduct about six ambushes.
Six ambushes... Shurka didn't know how many German tanks this could consume. Shurka only knew that this might not be enough in actual combat.
Because the Germans are not fools, they may suffer losses once or twice, and then they will have corresponding countermeasures.
But now that the situation is like this, we can only take one step at a time.
At least one thing the superiors were correct was that the enemy arrived at Tula before dawn.
They first cut off the railway south of Tula.
In fact, the German reconnaissance detachment should have already done this, which would make it impossible for the frontline troops to return to Tula.
And just behind the 333rd Regiment's defense line, there are several railways extending to the front lines in different directions.
Therefore, just like Major Gavrilov said, once the transportation hub of Tula is occupied... the consequences will be disastrous.
"Five hours!" Major Gavrilov said: "In just five hours, a group of reinforcements from Leningrad will arrive here!"
This information made Shulka relax a little.
Although the German army has always been known for its "blitzkrieg", it was not easy to break through this trap line of defense within five hours under such circumstances.
Just as I was thinking about it, there was suddenly a whistling sound of artillery shells in the sky... The German army launched an attack.
If it were in the past, Shulka would have just hid in the trench, huddled and shivered, hoping that the shells would not hit him near him.
But after experiencing so much, Shulka knows that there is not much difference between being afraid and not being afraid...the shells will not spare you.
Therefore, Shulka has learned to stick his head out during the explosion of artillery shells, and only shrink back when the shell explodes and stirs up a cloud of mud nearby.
The result of the observation was that it was determined that the Germans were not aware of Shulka's trap tactics.
Because, their artillery preparations were still the same as before, advancing layer by layer.
This is used to blow up and detonate mines, and of course fortifications and barbed wire.
It is obvious that such bombing will not blow up the traps, but will create more traps... because the crater itself is an excellent trap.