Chapter five hundred and fifty second balloon shot
Precisely because our own side is also equipped with these long-range artillery, they will pay more attention to preventing long-range artillery attacks when deploying positions on the north bank of the Mi River, especially when deploying artillery positions.
But what they didn't expect was that this time the Daheng United Army on the opposite side wanted to completely suppress the artillery units of the Jingzhou Allied Forces at the beginning of the battle, especially the 100mm field battles of the Jingzhou Allied Forces that were very threatening.
Cannon, 120mm field gun, 150mm howitzer.
A large number of long-range artillery were mobilized to prepare for a preemptive strike, and in addition to the traditional 100 mm field guns or 120 mm field guns, thirty-six 150 mm cannons and three train guns were also directly used.
Among them, the 53-year-old 150mm cannon is actually the ashore version of the Navy's 150mm 30-caliber naval gun. The whole gun weighs more than ten tons, and its maximum range reaches a terrifying twelve thousand.
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Even in order to guide this artillery to carry out shelling, the Daheng Unified Army specially produced a tethered manned hot air balloon, and used the hot air balloon to send artillery observers into the sky to observe the target from a high position and guide the heavy artillery to carry out shelling.
For this time's Battle of Mihe, the Daheng United Army took out a lot of stuff that was at the bottom of the box.
The entire army has only 200 mm and 20 caliber train guns, and the entire army has only thirty-six of the more than fifty 150 mm cannons. As for the 100 mm field guns, the 120 mm field guns
There are even more guns and 150mm howitzers.
In order to better guide the artillery troops to carry out long-distance bombardment, the Daheng United Army also used hot air balloons for artillery fire on a large scale for the first time. After the battle began, hundreds of hot air balloons took off, carrying artillery observers to search
Guide the artillery to attack important targets of the enemy. At the same time, sufficient ammunition is prepared for these artillery!
As a result of this operation, the Daheng United Army destroyed a large number of important enemy targets within the first hour of the bombardment, especially a large number of enemy artillery positions, which were subjected to targeted large-scale shelling.
In addition, long-range artillery bombardment was carried out on discovered enemy headquarters, barracks, warehouses and other high-value targets, causing a large number of enemy losses.
It has to be said that although the Jingzhou Allied Forces have been equipped with a large number of breech-loaded rifled artillery, many generals still maintain the same war habits as before.
This can be seen from the fact that many of the Jingzhou Allied Forces headquarters, although deployed in the rear, did not use any cover-up.
Perhaps they believed that their headquarters was still several kilometers away from the Mihe front line and could not be subject to any actual threats, so there was no need to take protective measures.
Ever since, these headquarters were named by the 150mm cannons from the Daheng Unified Army!
Within an hour of the war starting, the army's thirty-six 150mm cannons carried out fierce shelling on high-value targets within a distance of 7,000 to 12,000 meters, destroying a total of nine enemy long-range artillery positions.
, two barracks, thirteen clear command posts, and a lot of unclear enemy command posts, warehouses, etc.
As a result, the Jingzhou coalition forces were unable to prevent long-range artillery counterattacks, and a large number of troops even lost command and contact.
At ten o'clock in the morning, after an hour of fierce shelling and firing countless shells, Liang Chenglei officially ordered the troops to cross the river.
As the vanguard of the entire army to cross the river, the 16th Brigade of the 8th Division of the Third Army took the lead in carrying a large number of bamboo rafts. The wooden rafts rushed out of the beach and directly used wood pulp to paddle across the river!
At the same time, the engineering troops in the rear braved the enemy's artillery counterattack to enter the beach and began to lay the pontoon bridge.
Once the 16th Brigade successfully crosses the river and establishes a beachhead, it will be able to better cover the engineering troops building the pontoon bridge.
Once the pontoon bridge is successfully built, artillery and other heavy weapons as well as large amounts of supplies will be continuously transported across the river.
As for the soldiers crossing the river, it was even simpler.
This is the Karasuba Ferry, the most suitable ferry for crossing the Mi River within hundreds of kilometers up and down the Mi River. The water flow is gentle, and it is not wide. It is only more than 300 meters long. The river beach is gentle and strong...
The soldiers can just find a raft and paddle across it, just like the 16th Brigade now...
Those who know how to swim can even swim directly there!
Even if you don’t own it, you can still paddle across it with any piece of wood!
Therefore, the most difficult thing about crossing dense rivers is not actually the crossing of soldiers, but the timely crossing of heavy weapons such as artillery and a large amount of logistics.
This is why you need to build a floating bridge!
In order to quickly build the pontoon bridge, the engineering force has prepared a large number of specially manufactured small boats.
Even in order to save time, the upper parts of these boats have been laid with wooden planks in advance. They can be thrown down to the river and then fixed.
After being fixed one by one, a small pontoon bridge is completed.
Of course, this kind of pontoon bridge built in an emergency despite enemy artillery fire is very small, and can only carry people and light artillery. As for those four-wheeled heavy carriages loaded with supplies or artillery that can move several tons, you need to wait for the subsequent large-scale
The floating bridge was successfully built and passed.
For this time of crossing the river, many departments of the Daheng United Army have been preparing for months. In addition to the frontline combat troops, a large number of technical personnel have also been specially deployed to set up special river crossing plans, design pontoons, and even companies.
The sequence of crossing the river in the middle and later stages was carefully calculated.
Avoid chaos on the beach.
After all, this time the Daheng United Army plans to cross the river from Wuyu Ferry with at least 50,000 troops in a short time. It wants to transport so many people and corresponding heavy weapons and baggage across the river in a short time to ensure that
It is not easy for the troops to maintain their combat effectiveness after crossing the river.
When the soldiers of the 16th Brigade directly used a large number of rafts and small boats to cross the river, the two river warships also ventured close to the trestle of the ferry, and used the steam lifting device attached to it to start lifting the prepared multiple doors.
One hundred and fifty millimeter light howitzer.
After the transportation is completed, they will brave enemy artillery and beachhead interception fire and rush directly to the trestle on the other side of the river.
This is to allow the troops crossing the river to obtain heavy artillery in the early stage.
After all, the construction of a large pontoon cannot be completed in a short time. The troops crossing the river in a short period of time need fire support from a large number of artillery units in the rear. However, as the troops crossing the river leave the beach, the fire support from the rear may be
We are running out of power, so we need to take some special measures to transport some heavy weapons to the troops crossing the river in a timely manner.