Thousands of sparks

Chapter 76 Shelling
In the dark night, Dusand, four members of the Marine Commando, and a dozen younger Fien County residents were walking quickly on the path.

When he met the four Marine commandos, Dusand had no idea what they wanted—where would I know the coordinates of the artillery positions?

Fortunately, the residents who had received Finn's training were nearby. With the mentality of giving it a try, Dusand grabbed a resident with a weapon and asked a question, and immediately got an affirmative answer.

"I'll take you there!"

On the way leading Dusande and others to the nearest artillery position, this young woman who seemed to be in her 20s kept shouting to the others. It didn't take long for an artillery team of 18 to quickly assemble, and Run towards the preset artillery position.

"There are not many shells stored in the position. There are still 72 shells in the position we are going to." On the way, several members of the artillery team roughly described the equipment of their position to Dusand. Six cannons, if a salvo is required, it will take at least a quarter of an hour to prepare and aim."

"We also need the precise location of the bombardment. If the location is not within the preset range of bombardment, then someone has to calculate the angle and direction of the bombardment." Another team member said, "We can't count."

Calculating the firing elements of a bombardment is an application of mathematics.In order to accurately hit the target, a fairly complicated mathematical calculation process is required before firing the cannon.

The distance between the shelling position and the point of impact, the relative height difference, the ballistic characteristics of the shell, the difference in charge of different batches of shells, and even air resistance and planetary rotation all need to be taken into account.

In order to make the artillery hit the target more accurately and quickly, the mathematicians of the empire have carried out many calculations in hundreds of years, and successfully shortened the calculation formula to the point where it can be quickly deduced with a slide rule.

But such calculations require reconnaissance artillery to report a large amount of data to do it-in fact, the most bombardment method used by the Imperial Army is still covering bombardment.

The lack of calculation accuracy of artillery shooting is made up for by large-scale artillery group coverage.This is the favorite shelling mode of the Imperial Army, which has more people, more guns and more ammunition.

The Imperial Navy is different.

Each shell of the triple-mounted 28-inch turret on the capital ship of the Imperial Navy weighs close to five tons. Even if the propellant and projectile are separately loaded and launched, it is still very troublesome to launch such a behemoth—— And very expensive.

As a result, the Imperial Navy's combat style was more oriented toward precision fire.And this combat style has been extended to the naval commandos - every member of the Imperial Navy commando is the best artillery scout.

"Let's do the shooting, and you are responsible for loading and aiming." The naval commando sergeant expressed his determination to the gun crew, "You just need to follow our instructions and shoot!"

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Brigadier General Horn no longer commanded troops.

He took the place of a wounded machine gunner, firing a water-cooled machine gun in short bursts howling in the darkness.

Confederate soldiers deserve respect.Their fearless behavior and their thorough execution of the officers' orders made them the most terrifying enemies in this sea of ​​stars.

Brigadier General Horne would not belittle the Allies like other Imperials. In fact, General Horne was very disgusted with those who had never been on the battlefield, but dared to despise the Allies as "barbarians" and "uncivilized apes" at the reception and the nobles of the "cowardly thief".

They are savages and cowardly thieves.What about the imperial navy that has fought against these thieves and barbarians for hundreds of years and still failed to defeat them?A bunch of slugs eating rotten leaves?
General Horn firmly believes that insulting one's enemy is insulting oneself.As the Empire's only rival in the galaxy, the Alliance is of course a formidable enemy.

For example, these allied soldiers who broke through more than 600 landmine blockades with their legs, armed with tattered rifles, and rushed towards their positions with their unique "howling" as their banner.

There were Confederate soldiers on Newsail, something General Horne hadn't expected at all.If he had known that such an enemy existed, even if the people in the Olin Navy Department went crazy, he would have to bring at least two regiments over to be at ease.

Now, these Confederate soldiers howled, launched a continuous charge to the position with rifles in hand, and made some progress and breakthroughs at close range.

This made Horn very anxious.

Although it is not known why, the Confederate soldiers who appeared on Newsail suffered a serious decline in physical strength, and their night vision also became extremely poor.However, under the charge that was several times greater than his own, members of the naval commandos were constantly injured or even killed.

Brigadier General Horn, who had only one arm left, had difficulty handling a rifle, so he first fought with a pistol and then took over as the machine gunner.

In the dark night, the howling Confederate soldiers seemed endless.Even with short bursts, the bullets of the heavy machine gun still bottomed out quickly.

Condensation bothered Horn more than bullets.The water-cooled heavy machine gun has a strong continuous shooting ability, but the premise is that the water pipe on the cooling sleeve needs to be connected to a larger radiator to continuously dissipate heat with the help of water flow.

In order to ensure the speed of marching, the water-cooled heavy machine gun equipped by the naval commando has no water pipe connection for continuous heat dissipation at all-it is replaced by a "chimney" that is much higher than the sleeve to discharge the steam generated by boiling.

In order to continue to use such a heavy machine gun, naval commandos need to keep pouring water into the water cooling sleeve to help dissipate heat.The longer you shoot, the more water you will need.

And now, the water that can be used to cool the machine gun has been used up.

"My lord, hurry up and fire." General Horn fired two more bursts, and then muttered in his mouth, "If we don't fire again, we won't be able to survive!"

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"Aiming completed, cold gun rapid fire!" Everyone on the bombardment position was ready to fire.

According to the orders received by several naval commandos before departure, they set the bombardment location to a distance of [-] joules in front of their own position, and continued to shoot at the distance of the road until all the ammunition was fired.

Such a shooting plan is certainly not the most efficient, but in the dark night when there is a lack of battlefield communication and observation of shelling effects, such a plan is already the most daring plan that the naval commandos can allow.

Cold gun shooting is likely to have a relatively large impact point error, and cold gun rapid fire will exacerbate such error values.It is the safest plan to aim at the front of one's own position two hundred joles away, and switch to extended shooting.

If it was the Navy's own bombardment, they might set the aiming point at a distance of fifty joules from the front of the position.

Dusand squatted behind the bunker, shut up and covered his ears according to the posture taught by the commandos, and then secretly vowed in his heart that he must get out the wireless communication equipment as soon as possible-even a radio station is better than it is now.

"fire!"

In the dark of night, the cannon began to speak with six-inch calibers, huge orange balls of fire, and 30-pound pellets.After the six artillery pieces fired a volley with an earth-shattering voice, the loaders of the artillery squad rushed to the side of the artillery and pulled the bolt to release the used cartridges.

During cold rapid fire, the gunners had to clean the barrel after the first two shots.There may be gunpowder left in the cold barrel that has not been completely burned, and after multiple rapid fires, these gunpowder residues stuck in the barrel can easily cause the gun to jam or even explode.

While the gunners were busy cleaning the barrel, Dusand exchanged the current information with the naval commando sergeant on the side.

"The other party may have allied soldiers." "The ones attacking us are allied soldiers..." Both sides mentioned the most critical content at the same time, and then Dusande interrupted the sergeant and continued, "Except for a large number of allied mines In addition to slaves, there is an imperial mine supervisor team of at least 300 people, and we face a large number of enemies!"

The sergeant asked, "Where do these miners come from? There is no mining complex nearby."

"It's all the Duke's property. It is said that there are four mines." Dusand shouted and gestured with his hands and feet, "The scale of the mine is not clear, but there must be a lot of people-the mine supervisors of the four mines have a total of 500 people!"

"Damn it, this is treason!" The sergeant yelled angrily, jumping on his feet. "Only the mines of the mining complex can use the Allied prisoners of war! There must be senior officers in this group of prisoners of war, otherwise they would not be so desperate!"

(End of this chapter)