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Chapter 157: Difficulty Traveling 2
Looking at the sight reflecting the sunlight on the cannon, Ma Chao could only say: "That is not important now. The most urgent thing is to transport the cannon up first, and then slowly adjust the accuracy when I have time later."

"Yes, I'll start now." After hearing Ma Chao's words, Lei Xiong didn't hesitate anymore, and immediately responded, and began to disassemble the French-made M1987 75mm gun.

Lei Xiong first carefully disassembled the scope on the upper left of the cannon's tail, and carefully put it aside after wrapping it with several layers of fabric.Then, there are the breech block, barrel, height machine, steering machine and other components.

After dismantling all these parts, only a complete gun mount and various parts that had been scattered all over the place remained for the artillery just now.

After Lei Xiong tied all these parts to the mules and horses that were pulling the cart just now, he turned around and continued to disassemble the gun mount that was just left.

Speaking of this, I have to sigh with emotion. As the world's first rapid-fire artillery equipped with a hydraulic retreat and re-entry mechanism, his appearance can be described as an epoch-making existence.

Moreover, France has been very successful in keeping this artillery secret.It was not until [-] that the world saw the power of this artillery!It was also in this year that the dirge of rigid gun mounts began to be sung.But the reputation of this artillery is built on the white bones of the Chinese people.Miss Seventy-Five's battlefield first cried out in [-] during the Eight-Power Allied Forces' War of Invasion of China, outside BJ City, on the battlefield against the boxers and the Qing army.

This confrontation allowed the rest of the countries to see the terrifying rate of fire of this artillery.At the same time, the artillery equipped by other powers were generally Armstrong breech-loading artillery or Krupp breech-loading artillery.Their average rate of fire is about two rounds per minute.The seven-fifth lady in France is about fifteen rounds per minute.If the gunner is proficient enough, he can even maintain a rate of fire of 1 rounds per minute for a short period of time.

This made this cannon famous!In the following period of time, this artillery was regarded as the jewel in the palm of the French Army, and it also extended the formation of the school of omnipotence of rapid-fire guns, which excited the whole of France, and directly used various other Howitzers, mortars, etc. were all swept into the garbage dump.

However, in the ensuing World War I, this theory was severely pressed to the ground by Germany, hanged and trampled!The French also paid a huge price for their choice.

The reason is that no matter how high the fire rate or the excellent theory of Miss Qiwu's artillery, it can't change the fact that it is essentially a direct-firing cannon!As for the direct-firing artillery, its attack is basically not known for its distance advantage.

When facing this artillery, the tactics adopted by Germany are also very simple.It's just a warm greeting with a howitzer.In contrast, the German howitzer can rely on a higher elevation angle, hide behind the line of sight and rely on terrain cover to shoot; the range of the German [-]mm howitzer is also much higher than that of the French [-]mm lady; The artillery shells are no longer shrapnel shells spraying steel balls and fragments, but whole high-explosive shells stuffed with explosives. What the gun shield resists is no longer fragments, but violent shock waves enough to make the artillerymen bleed.

After the war started in August [-], the French Army was basically unilaterally slapped in the face by the Germans in the first three months-the rapid-fire guns they were proud of could not get close to the Germans at all, and they would be attacked by the long-range firepower of howitzers Torn to shreds.Even digging a bunker to build a gun position is still ineffective, because even if the high-explosive bomb of the howitzer misses the gun fort itself, the shock wave of just one or two close-range bombs is enough to kill all the gun crew, let alone the Germans developed The armor-piercing explosive projectile with delayed fuze can detonate inside after penetrating the outer layer of the bunker.

The French artillery unit was beaten all over the place by the Germans on the front line, but the senior military officers in the rear still swore their true love to Miss [-]mm until death. The French refused to adopt or design larger caliber heavy artillery, But stubbornly insisted that as long as the [-]mm rapid-fire gun can be improved so that it can increase the elevation angle for curved fire attacks, the problem can be solved.But the war situation did not allow the French to show their loyalty to Miss [-]mm. As a result, at the end of [-], the French began to remove their old large-caliber heavy artillery, mortars, and siege guns from museums and garbage dumps.There are even many front-loading weapons from the Franco-Prussian War and even the Napoleon era. In the face of the powerful offensive of the Germans, the French had no choice but to drag them to the battlefield for emergency.

With the end of the First World War, this kind of artillery on the battlefield has been proved to be only a sham artillery, and a large number of them have been exported to China.This is why, on every battlefield in China, they can basically be seen.

It is also fortunate that the artillery parts at this time are not as complicated as those of later generations, so after distributing those heavyweight parts to the mules, the remaining few lightweight parts can be divided among several people. up.

After the seventy-five girls were broken into pieces, the speed of the heavy weapon company accelerated a lot.Although it is still not as fast as the other companies, it is already a snail-like speed than before, which is already a world of difference.

"Wow~~~Wow~~~Wow~~~" Just as everyone was trying their best to climb to the top of the mountain, the Baihuang kept running up and down beside him, and made noises from time to time, as if he was Urge them to go faster.Relying on their own wings, they either spread their wings and glide down towards the tail of the team, or they fluttered and flew towards the head of the team.It can be seen that this guy is very happy at this time.That's right, as an elf in the mountains, it must be very pleasant in this environment.

"Look at their speed, and then look at our speed, people are really not as good as birds!" Yang Ruifu said enviously after wiping the sweat from his brow with the breech bolt on his back.

"Why, Lao Yang, are you jealous? Why don't you reincarnate and see if you can become a bird too. Then, you don't have to envy him." Xie Jinyuan held the gun's scope and pointed at it. Yang Ruifu joked.

"You can pull it down, Xie Tuan. I haven't lived enough in this life, and I will have another life. Let's talk about it when I live enough." Yang Ruifu rolled his eyes and said.

(End of this chapter)