"In order to transport these two giant cannons to the front line, we first hoisted them onto the ship at the port, transported them by sea to the port in Dongdingzhou, and then hoisted them onto the train. After preliminary installation, they were transported by rail. They arrived at noon today. Follow-up operations
If so, because of the strong recoil, it must be temporarily reinforced before it can be launched."
"If a standard charge is used, the maximum effective range can reach five to five hundred kilometers. If a strong charge is used, the maximum effective range can be further increased to six thousand meters."
Since he had spent so much effort to bring such large-caliber artillery over, it was natural that it could not be wasted. Soon Lin Ziran saw the shelling scene of these two 200mm giant cannons!
When these two giant cannons were fired, Lin Ziran himself was stunned!
That power is breathtaking!
This thing is definitely the most powerful artillery made by Blue Star in human history so far!
Even Lin Ziran himself was amazed by the power of these two hundred millimeter cannons, while Hou Zheming in Nanzi City was stunned.
He is also a veteran general who has been in the army for many years. He has seen many big scenes, including heavy artillery bombardments.
The troops under his command had a batch of 200mm or even 300mm mortars. Unfortunately, they failed to play any role. They were completely suppressed by the South Korean Navy's long-range artillery early in the morning.
But now he dares to pat his chest and say that the power of the shells fired by these mortars under his command is definitely not that powerful. No, it should be said that it is far from that powerful.
Hou Zheming is not new to the world. He also has a batch of 75mm breech-loading guns that are imitations of the Southern Navy. He knows very well that rifled guns have a huge advantage over smoothbore guns.
That’s the amount of medicine!
Smoothbore cannons use spherical projectiles, and due to the size of the projectile, the amount of powder inside them is limited.
As for the rifled guns, whether they are used by the South Korean Navy or the steel breech-loading rifled guns they imitate, they all use cylindrical shells. For the same caliber, the volume of the projectile is several times larger than the spherical shells.
This also means that the amount of explosives will be more, much more!
This is also one of the main advantages of rifled guns!
The steel breech-loading rifled gun developed and equipped by the South Korean Navy not only has a long range, high accuracy, and fast rate of fire, but it is also very powerful!
Otherwise, why would other vassal towns want to imitate the breech-loaded artillery of the Southern Navy? Even if some vassal towns clearly know that their industrial strength is insufficient, they still want to forcibly imitate it.
Some vassal towns have a very simple idea. If their own technology is not good, especially the gun barrel technology, then I will make the gun barrel shorter and thicker to reduce the life requirements of the barrel.
So the final product is not as good as the original product of Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, but it is not a breech-loaded artillery, and its performance in all aspects is still superior to smoothbore cannons and front-loading rifled cannons.
In order to be able to quickly copy and produce, the First Machinery Bureau of Zisheng Prefecture actually took the initiative to lower the performance requirements, so that the range of their artillery was not as good as the same-caliber field artillery of the Southern Navy.
However, this does not have a big impact in actual combat. It is better to not use it than not at all.
The Zisheng Army itself had breech-loaded artillery, and Hou Zheming naturally had a deep understanding of breech-loaded artillery. Hearing the sound of enemy shelling and the astonishing power of the explosion, he immediately judged that this was definitely not the enemy's one hundred
Fifty mm howitzer.
They have been bombarded a lot in the past two days, and they have a basic understanding of the bombardment threat from the South Korean Navy's artillery of various calibers.
The 150mm howitzer was indeed powerful and a major threat to them, but it was still not as big as the two huge explosions just now.
This is at least a 170mm or more, or even a 200mm breech-loaded heavy gun.
Facing such heavy artillery, how can we support our defense line?
Although Nanzi City is strong, it has also focused on how to defend against shelling!
However, it should be noted that the standard for almost all fortresses in this era to protect against shelling was to protect against front-mounted artillery. Even if the standard was set to protect against 300 mm caliber mortars, no matter how large the standard was, it would not be possible.
How meaningful.
However, the emergence of breech-loaded artillery has doubled the power of artillery. The anti-gunnery fortifications built in the past are far from meeting the demand.
That’s it for Southern Purple City!
Originally facing the bombardment of a large number of artillery guns with a caliber of less than 150 mm from the South Korean Navy, it was already on the verge of collapse and could not withstand it at all.
Now that such a larger-caliber heavy artillery has arrived, how can the Southern Purple City be defended?
Can't keep it!
The attack of the South Korean Navy, especially in this kind of frontal position battle, is quite arrogant and unreasonable. In many cases, it will not even compete with you on any tactics, but just use artillery!
Hundreds of artillery pieces continued to bombard the defense line of Nanzi City, and Nanzi City became the focus of the bombardment. The small Nanzi City was almost completely covered by artillery fire.
The artillery force of the South Navy plowed almost the entire South Purple City with artillery shells.
Faced with such a fierce bombardment, the defenders were unable to move out at all. Even if they did not move out and hid, they would still face huge casualties.
At the same time, the infantry units of the South Navy continued to attack, especially the outflanking troops on the right led by the 2nd Division.
The attack continued that day, and by night they had completed their strategic detour.
In addition, good news came from the cavalry regiment further north. They defeated part of the enemy's cavalry and infantry, captured Guanquan City, fifteen kilometers north of Nanzi City, deployed defenses, and destroyed the railway.
Guanquan City is a stop for the railway line. Capturing it is equivalent to cutting off the railway line and organizing the enemy's rapid reinforcements. It also cuts off the enemy's retreat route and supply line on the southern line. In the future, they can take the initiative to attack southward and cooperate with the enemy.
The infantry troops are conducting a pincer attack from the front and rear.
The cavalry unit moved smoothly, as did the second division. After the successful detour, the Southern Navy had separated the entire Southern Purple City from the surrounding enemy forces.
When the enemy's various units lost contact and were unable to support each other, they were still at a military disadvantage. More importantly, facing the South Korean Navy's new offensive tactics combined with infantry and artillery, they had difficulty adapting and the fight was very uncomfortable.
Under such circumstances, the complete defeat of the Purple Victory Army's 150,000 troops marching south has actually become a foregone conclusion!
In this battle, the Southern Navy had absolute advantages in all aspects.
It has superior strength, cavalry superiority, and artillery superiority, and the South Korean Navy also took the initiative to launch a surprise attack.
Even the morale of the military is at a high level in the South China Sea.
Under such circumstances, it is reasonable to win the battle north. It can even be said that as long as there are no accidents, then victory is appropriate.
The victory in this battle was within expectations!