Tang Dao smiled slightly. If you can see the principle by looking at a gasoline barrel, that army that has been either fighting or on the road of fighting since its birth will not use this kind of force similar to the British in World War I ten years later.
Vince Lee's projectile cannon is a "heartless cannon".
"Come on, Heavy Rain, come and show Chief Tong and the others how to fire the thunder cannon." Tang Dao rushed to the bald boy at the rear and ordered.
"Yes!" Xia Dayu was very excited and came out to accept the order with his head held high.
But it frightened Fatty Dahai so much that his face turned pale.
He is a veteran artilleryman, but his vision is different from that of a brigade commander like Major General Tong, who is an infantryman.
He was shocked at first sight when he saw the "Flying Thunder Cannon" named by Battalion Commander Tang Da, but he soon recovered from the surprise. From a professional and technical perspective, he analyzed the differences between this artillery installation and the mortar.
The principle is actually exactly the same, except that the barrel is not as strong as the mortar barrel made of gun steel.
Instinctively, he believed that this kind of cannon could be fired, not because he had any personal admiration for Commander Tang.
Although it is difficult for him to eliminate this factor, maybe not only him, but also many officers of the Independent Battalion are the same as him.
However, artillery can never be used by everyone, especially this extremely crude "artillery", and coupled with the young man Xia Dayu, this thing is too unreliable!
Even soldiers like Pang Dahai, who had almost blind trust in Tang Dao, now began to have a shaky trust in Tang Dao.
"Don't worry, Uncle Fatty. Under the guidance of the commander, I have fired six or seven shots, and they have basically been successful."
Xia Dayu had become acquainted with Pang Dahai during the Battle of Songjiang. Seeing his pale face, he hurriedly stepped forward and explained in a low voice.
Hearing what Xia Dayu said, Pang Dahai finally came to his senses. Looking at Tang Dao's smiling face, he instantly understood what Tang Dao meant by asking Xia Dayu to fire.
Tang Dao means that this kind of gun is very simple to control and can be used by individuals with simple training.
"Okay, be careful in the heavy rain. Do you want Uncle Fat to help you?" Pang Dahai was overjoyed instantly and was looking forward to seeing this amazingly simple big guy.
With such a large caliber and so easy to use, if it can really be used on the battlefield, how much help it can bring to the infantry brothers!
"Okay! Uncle Fatty, please help me with this..." Xia Dayu was not humble at all. He imitated Tang Dao and commanded Fatty Dahai to help him.
Pang Dahai, an important general in the independent battalion, worked extremely hard under the command of a small signal corpsman.
This kind of operation fell in the eyes of Major General Tong, but he was even more impressed by Tang Dao's ability to command troops.
Isn’t this the integration of officers and soldiers often mentioned in military books?
But this thing sounds simple to say, but it is extremely difficult to operate in practice. The battalion and company commanders under his command never give up the attitude of being officers. No matter how difficult the military supplies are, officers still have more money than ordinary soldiers.
A few more grains of rice.
He didn't know that Tang Dao itself came from the army that was dedicated to the eradication of all classes, and that mark had already been engraved in his bones. With his own practice, the habits of the old army in the independent camp had already changed a lot without even realizing it.
Xia Dayu and Pang Dahai are usually very familiar with each other as uncle and nephew. Pang Dahai also wants to find out the secret of this so-called "flying thunder cannon". Of course, he has no psychological burden about attacking a small soldier.
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Tang Dao and a few others were fifteen meters away, hiding behind a bunker and watching.
Although he personally took Xia Dayu and Erya through seven or eight practical trainings on flying thunder cannons, there was no guarantee in anything. The 'heartless cannon' that was born in that army had also exploded in actual combat.
There are a few people here, not to mention Major General Tong, who will become Army Lieutenant Generals in the future. He and Lei Xiong are the backbone of the independent battalion. If there is an explosion accident, they will all be wiped out.
Not to mention that it was impossible to kill the murderer of the Kunisaki Detachment. Two thousand people from the independent battalion suddenly died in this mountain due to the sudden change. That Tang Dao really wanted to wipe his neck and hang himself.
It's OK to show off, but you absolutely can't bring your core combat power with you to show off and fly together, otherwise you might fall to your death together.
Tang Dao has long passed the age of a passionate young man, especially after he became a commander in charge of thousands of people.
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The flying thunder cannon seems very simple, with a total of four key steps: launch tube, propellant, isolation plate, and explosive package.
The launch tube is a gasoline barrel, the propellant is the gunpowder used to knock out the explosive package, and the isolation board is a thick wooden board. The size of the explosive package is up to you, as long as it is not stuck in the gasoline barrel.
If it's really stuck, everyone, just run! See who can run a distance of 50 meters in five seconds. The explosive package that can jam a gasoline barrel with a diameter of 800 mm, even a 20-kilogram explosive can't.
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Twenty kilograms of explosives are enough to kill all living things within a radius of several hundred meters.
As a result, several Chinese soldiers who had been on the battlefield looked dumbfounded as they watched Xia Dayu, a young soldier, skillfully throw an explosive package covered with a thick wooden board into a gasoline barrel, and then ignited it and stretched it out from the small hole in the gasoline barrel.
A fuse came out.
Oh my god, is it so simple and crude? The army major general and Zhuang Shisan fell down almost at the same time. Under the temper of the dangerous battlefield, Chief of Staff Zhuang's military skills are countless times stronger than before, and he has been fighting with the man who has been fighting for more than ten years.
The old troops all have a chance to fight.
A few seconds later, there was a loud "boom" sound, and a stream of fire and gunpowder smoke erupted from the mouth of the gasoline barrel.
The naked eye can clearly see that the explosive package tied to a thick wooden board is rolling in the air but flying stubbornly into the sky, and then falls in a beautiful arc.
It landed in the open space at least 200 meters away in the valley.
Although it did not explode, the gasoline barrel actually dropped an explosive package 200 meters away.
"Sir Tong, this explosive package is not equipped with a delayed detonator. It will be installed during actual combat." Tang Dao explained to the Army Major General who could not help but widen his eyes.
"Are you... an explosive charge launcher?" the Army Major General asked in a muttered voice as he stared blankly at the explosive charge still rolling on the ground in the light of the torch through the telescope hung under his neck.
"No, I named it Cannon without conscience." Tang Dao shook his head and named it something from the future.
"What a heartless cannon, very appropriate! Battalion Commander Tang, your invention is amazing! From now on, even if we don't have cannons, we won't be afraid anymore. As long as there are enough explosives, the enemy will not be a concern." The look on the face of the Army Major General
The excitement is beyond words.
How could an army major general who has been in the army for almost 20 years and has extremely rich combat experience not know the usefulness of being able to drop explosive packets more than 200 meters away?
That is almost equivalent to a super-large-caliber mortar, which can throw a 10-kilogram explosive package at an enemy position 200 meters away. Whether it is a bunker or a fortification, under the attack of a 10-kilogram explosive package, even if it is not blown up,
It can also shock the lives of those in it to death.
"Chief Tong is too complimentary. First of all, this is not the invention of our Tang Dao, but the British projectile artillery principle during World War I. Secondly, Chief Tong cannot have too high expectations for this. If we are not on the mountain, we are condescending.
For delivery, the range of a 5-kilogram explosive package is only about 150 meters, and because it needs to be tied with a partition board, its accuracy cannot be guaranteed at all due to factors such as wind speed." Tang Dao explained.
In the future, although heartless cannons are highly praised in various TV dramas, it clearly means that once the heartless cannons are released, all mountain artillery, howitzers, and cannons will have to kneel down.
But as an elite special forces soldier who has been trained for more than ten years, Tang Dao actually knows very well that unscrupulous artillery cannot determine the victory of a battle at all. At best, it is the icing on the cake of victory.
The first is that the accuracy is appallingly poor.
When the heartless cannons are fired, at least hundreds of them are fired in rows at the same time? That's because the heartless cannons have no accuracy at all. If you want to fire at a target, it is very simple. All the cannons are fired at the same time, and one of them will hit.
It counts as success.
This thing, let alone precision strike, can't even be called probabilistic attack.
Secondly, the range is too close.
With a range of 150 meters, for a defensive position that is often hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters deep, is it just for fun?
The most terrible thing is that this thing has a very fatal flaw. The Japanese army is equipped with a large number of grenade launchers, and the torpedo cannons are still preparing to fire a few hundred meters away. If a grenade is fired at it, the explosive will be detonated.
Bag.
Well, that's a lot of fun. Are you digging a hole for yourself by creating a heartless cannon?
Therefore, even if the Tang Dao Independent Battalion had no large-caliber artillery, it would never consider using it in a confrontation.
Moreover, the Japanese are not idiots. What if we use reverse reasoning to study the principles of unscrupulous artillery and use it to attack Chinese army positions that do not have much defensive depth?
