Captain Sakata Chiliren Was Slapped in the Face
"Fire!"
The order was transmitted to the commander of each emplacement. The commander waved the signal flag in his hand at the same time.
Three hundred 105mm light field howitzers opened fire almost at the same time.
With the deafening artillery fire, the Chi You Army outside the city was dumbfounded.
The cannonballs flew over their heads and headed straight for the artillery positions behind them.
"Howitzer, take cover!"
" Howitzer!" Captain Sakata shouted instinctively. He was too familiar with the sound of cannons. It was a sound that only large-caliber howitzers could make.
At the same time, at the artillery position of the Chiyou Army, when the roar came, someone exclaimed,"" Howitzer, hide…"
As artillery, no one was more familiar with the sound of cannons than they were, not to mention that they already had 12 105mm howitzers.
The whistling sound of this cannonball was all too familiar.
The cannonballs that were dragging drag light reacted faster than most people. The concentrated cannonballs all smashed into the inner and outer perimeter of the Chi You Army's artillery position.
Some of them landed on the artillery positions of the Chiyou Army, and the smoke from the explosions rose. Many of the Chiyou Army soldiers were blown away, and almost all of them died when they landed.
There were also many people who lost their arms and legs, and quite a number of Chi You Army soldiers were killed by the shockwave.
The main reason was that there were too many cannonballs. 300 cannonballs landed almost at the same time, covering a huge area.
If they were unlucky, it was useless no matter how hard they tried to dodge. Even some of the Chi You Army soldiers who had been hiding on the ground were sent flying by the waves.
The horses of the cavalrymen protecting the artillery positions were frightened and started to run wildly in all directions.
The first round of bombardment was enough to turn the entire artillery base of the Chiyou Army into chaos.
However, this was the first round of bombardment, so many of the cannonballs landed far away from their targets.
Rashu also saw the landing point of the cannonball through the system map. He immediately ordered a portion of the artillery to adjust their angle and begin the official rapid fire coverage.
The cannons that had adjusted the elevation and scale of the muzzles also began the second round of firing.
A team of qualified artillery must operate a cannon and fire a shot within ten seconds. This was the most basic requirement.
Even if there were only five of them, one of them was responsible for adjusting the firing elements, one of them was responsible for firing, one of them was responsible for closing the bolt, and two of them were responsible for loading.
This was also the minimum number of people required to operate the 105mm howitzer. Otherwise, they would not be able to handle it.
The three-minute rapid firing order was officially issued. This was a test of the physical strength of every artillery soldier.
However, they had to do so. On the artillery position of the Chiyou Army, cannons had been set up, so they could counterattack at any time.
However, the counterattack wasn't as fast. When the second round of concentrated cannonballs landed, the Chi You Army's cannons started to adjust their shooting elements.
The main reason was that he could not determine the location of the enemy's artillery position at once. He could only use Tracer's trajectory analysis to determine if it was within the armed base. As for the exact location, he could not be sure at once.
After all, in this era, there was no anti-artillery radar, nor was there a ballistic computer. Basically, it was all calculated and predicted by humans.
The better option was to raise an artillery observation balloon and lock onto the position of the enemy's artillery position, guiding the enemy's artillery to counterattack, or to have a reconnaissance plane scout.
However, it wasn't easy to lock onto a target's artillery position at night.
The second round of cannonballs landed more accurately on the artillery position of the Chiyou Army.
300 cannonballs suddenly landed, making a terrifying whistling sound and followed by a series of explosions. The entire artillery base of the Chiyou Army was instantly covered in dense explosions.
Many of the Chi You Army's artillery who were trying to counterattack suffered heavy casualties.
With rapid firing, the 300 105mm light field howitzers also unleashed their fastest firepower. They fired a round every ten seconds, and it was almost all in unison.
The cannonball that was pulling Tracer flew directly over Sakata's team and landed behind them.
Even from five kilometers away, they could feel the vibrations coming from behind them. It was the sound of a cannonball landing.
A large area behind them was also covered in the night sky, flickering with the flames of the explosion.
After three minutes of rapid shooting, the entire artillery base of the Chiyou Army was plowed several times.
In the beginning, a few cannons of the Chiyou Army retaliated. The shells landed in the armed base, but they couldn't aim at the artillery in the base. They only destroyed the houses.
The artillery fire of these cannons was also quickly silenced by the concentrated firepower.
Three minutes had passed, and the entire Chiyou Army's artillery base was littered with corpses. Not a single intact cannon could be seen.
A large number of artillery shells and trucks carrying artillery were basically all destroyed. The burning wreckage of the truck was still burning.
Many of the injured Chi You Army soldiers were basically disabled. Many of them were rolling in the blood, making the scene as terrifying as hell.
If it wasn't for the fact that Rashu had a 105mm light field howitzer, which was just a very common cannon in this era, if it was a cannon from the era before transmigration, using the destructive warheads of the era before transmigration, the destructive power would be even more terrifying.
Captain Sakata didn't even need to ask the rear. He didn't hear any counterattack from his own artillery, so he knew that the artillery in the rear was finished.
That was an artillery position made up of three artillery battalions.
Originally, Sakata's 1,000-man squad only had one independent artillery station, plus the 100 artillery soldiers from the three main infantry stations. In total, they only had the firepower of two artillery stations.
What was really valuable was the strengthened field artillery station, which was equipped with heavy artillery. But now, it was basically all finished.
This would be a fatal blow to the entire Sakata Thousand Men Squad.
Most importantly, without the protection of the artillery, the shells would soon fall on the infantry.
Thinking about the number of cannons that had just been fired in the armed base, Captain Sakata felt his scalp go numb.
He was not an officer of the slave army, so he had no idea what such a dense bombardment meant.
In the armed base, under the air strikes of the aerial troops, there was actually a larger group of cannons hidden. Moreover, they were all large-caliber heavy artillery. This was something no one had expected.
He had thought that the other party had no chance at all, but reality had given Captain Sakata a hard slap, making him dizzy.
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