Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 62 The Battle of Huanggang ([-])

At this time, Tang Ning was in the direction of Beicheng. According to the information fed back by several scouts, the enemy attacking from the direction of Beicheng was the closest to Huanggang City.

And this road was also led by Shi Fu himself, with a force of about 3000.

As for the early warning of the signal gun, it was agreed between Tangning and the scouts that the signal would be fired as soon as the enemy entered the position he had planned in advance.

All the camouflage has been lifted, finally revealing the true face of the hidden things inside, as long as you have a little knowledge, you can guess that it is a cannon.

Although the style of this artillery is somewhat different from that of the Franco machine gun, the red cannon, etc., the basic shape and structure are still very similar, with a long barrel and a gun mount underneath.

The soldiers of the new army knew that this was another new guy brought out by General Tang, and they were no longer surprised by it.

And this new guy, of course, was taken out by Tangning from the arsenal. It was the German Le.FH18 howitzer, now called General Zhaoyong [-] Cannon.

This howitzer is one of the main artillery of the German Army in World War II. It is produced by Krupp and is the standard artillery of the German Wehrmacht.

From 1940 to 1945 alone, more than [-] guns were produced.

口径105毫米，战斗全重1525公斤，炮全长：2.94米宽：1.98米高：1.88米。

Artillery pitch angle: -10 degrees - +40 degrees Artillery range: left and right plus or minus 57 degrees.

Shell weight: 14.97kg Maximum rate of fire: 7 rounds/min.

Muzzle velocity: 469 m/s

The maximum range is more than ten kilometers, and the staffing is eight people.

Due to the excellent performance of the gun, it can carry out long-distance curving and suppressing shooting, and can flexibly adjust the trajectory of the gun.

In addition, it also has the direct-fire ballistic characteristics of an anti-tank gun at close range, so direct-point shooting is possible.

It is precisely because of these characteristics that the gun is deeply loved by the German army and has been successfully exported to many countries.

In the past few days, Tangning has devoted most of his energy to training artillerymen, who will be taught by him and practiced repeatedly.

The few days that Shi Fu stayed here also gave Tangning a rare few days. He set a fixed position in each direction. This position is the place that the enemy must pass through when they want to attack Huanggang City, such as Huangguling in the direction of Beicheng .

Using this position to calibrate the shooting elements, a few days is enough for Tangning to calculate the shooting elements clearly, and then let the artillerymen repeatedly operate and make appropriate fine-tuning.

Although there is a feeling of cramping, but there are already some basic artillery, and the progress is still very fast.

After all, these people are based on the previous artillery, and each group has at least two veterans in charge.

They have practiced countless times in the past few days, and they have already mastered the normal operation process.

The only thing lacking is that no real test firing and actual combat have been carried out, after all, the current conditions do not allow it.

Tangning has kept the cannon hidden until now, and put the training base in a secret place, the purpose is to keep this hole card until the end, and catch the opponent by surprise.

Yesterday afternoon, Tangning used mules and horses to pull the cannons to the cannon positions outside the city in batches and set them up.

No one but the operating artillery knew what it was that was so well covered with camouflage netting.

This was because Tang Ning deliberately camouflaged the gun barrel with obvious features, and then wrapped it tightly.

They were placed on the construction site again, and even the patrolling soldiers of the new army regarded them as valuable building materials, and never thought of them as cannons.

So the spies sent by Zheng Jun didn't think that this hidden thing was Tangning's biggest trump card. When they saw what it was, they all turned pale with fright.

"Cannon, this should be cannon."

"What to do, what to do, at this distance, even the red-clothed cannon can hit it. The new type of artillery that Tangning specially brought out should not be inferior to the red-clothed cannon."

"We fell for it..."

Although he knew it was too late, some spies ran back like crazy, trying to bring back the fatal news.

The enemy had already entered the strike circle, so Tangning naturally didn't wait any longer and started giving orders immediately.

He stood next to a cannon and shouted: "The target is Huangguling..."

"Target Huangguling..." The deputy gunner of the operation responded loudly, indicating that he had received the order and confirmed the accuracy of the order.

"The distance is one thousand." Tangning called the distance not in meters, but in steps. One step is about 1.5 meters and five, so the distance of one thousand steps is about [-] kilometers.

"A distance of a thousand."

"One shot loading..."

"One shot loading..."

"One shot of the standard gun, rapid fire..."

"A quick shot..."

"put……"

"put……"

The operating soldiers backed away, and the second gunner in charge of firing yanked the matchlock.

With the sound of "boom", following the flash of the muzzle fire, there was a thunderous explosion, stirring in this hazy morning, as if to wake up this small town that hadn't woken up yet.

Three seconds later, like a meteorite falling to the ground, with a terrifying bang, a piece of ground seemed to be torn apart by a terrifying force, and the force violently vented to the surroundings.

The soldiers in the center of power were torn to pieces on the spot, and before they could even scream, this terrifying force directly affected a radius of nearly 20 meters.

In this range, it is almost an absolute dead zone.

Although the strength is constantly weakening after leaving this death zone, but close to the death zone, how can it be easy to be alone.

An invisible force acted on the whole body, and many people held their heads and covered their ears and howled in pain.

Some people lay down on the ground, only feeling that their chests were so tight that their hearts were about to jump out.

There are also people whose ears and noses are bleeding continuously, as if their bodies are about to be broken.

There are even some people who are bleeding profusely in one or several places on their bodies.

Those who can scream mean that they are still alive, and those who are motionless mean that their lives have come to an end, and their internal organs have already been shattered.

The gunpowder smoke slowly dissipated, and a large pit with a diameter of more than three meters appeared. With the large pit as the center, the surrounding area was in a mess.

Anyone with a little experience will be familiar with it. This is a large-caliber artillery, but how big is this artillery to have such terrifying power.

This shot not only stunned many soldiers of Shi Jun, but also woke up Shi Fu. He turned his head to look to the side and rear, inexplicably horrified, before he could make a decision.

I saw two clusters of fireworks-like rays of light suddenly rising in the sky one after the other, and then three clusters of rays of light rose successively.

Shi Fu could see these rays of light, and Tangning could also see them, because they were his orders.

Real-time communication is inconvenient now, and the field of vision is not that good. He is eager to understand the effect of the test firing, so he needs the scouts who are observing from the front to report the deviation of the impact point as soon as possible.

The two flare guns fired for the first time were one from the left and the other from the right, and the second shot was slightly to the left, indicating that it would be another [-] steps to the left.

Then there were three flare guns, the last two shots were placed a little behind the previous one, and each shot represented thirty steps, which meant that the distance had to be shortened by sixty steps.

Seeing the summons, Tangning immediately became hesitant, and adjusted the order again, "The distance is 940."

"The distance is 940..." All three cannons moved, and the deputy gunner who had operated thousands of times immediately lowered the firing angle adjustment.

"Thirty to the left..."

"Thirty to the left..." The muzzle slowly moved a little to the left.

"Three salvos..."

"Three salvos..." The first gunner, second gunner, third gunner, fourth gunner, and fifth gunner were each responsible for their own task according to the familiar operating procedures, and loaded the shells into the chambers.

"put……"

"Let it go..." With loud shouts, the second gunner yanked the match to fire.

"Boom boom boom..." three times, the gun barrel suddenly shrank, and the shells in the barrel were fired violently.

The order to fire a volley was to fire effectively, so Tangning didn't need to order again, the gunners immediately reloaded quickly, and then fired the shells as quickly as possible.

All of a sudden, the roaring sound was heard continuously, the ground trembled and the mountains shook, and the smoke and dust filled the air, as if a giant beast was roaring.

The artillery position with only three cannons is like this, and the enemy army in the center of the shelling is almost in purgatory when it goes deep into Huangguling.

(End of this chapter)