Chapter 258: Cannonism

Regrettably, those important facilities in the eyes of the Islamic State may indeed be valuable in the eyes of the Iraqi government.
But in Cai Ruichen's eyes, those things are and defective.
It is not worth wasting the lives of soldiers for those useless industries.
Just as the Iraqi government weighed the left and right, the Red Police Corps began to prepare for a full-scale shelling after striking an active offensive by the Islamic State.
Combined with the original fire support battalion, a second artillery position was quickly built ten kilometers behind the artillery position.
A 175mm heavy artillery weighing eight tons was towed to the position by an armed mining vehicle, and a large number of artillery shells were unloaded from the truck under the modified small hoisting equipment.
Boxes of shells were neatly stacked next to the artillery. The auto-filling mechanical arm on the artillery gently picked up the 70 to 80 kilograms of shells and placed them on the gun stand ready for shelling.
In the rear, at a distance of ten kilometers, thirty tank killers lined up, and the thick barrels were raised high.
The artillery position was located under a slope, and the excavator dug a trapezoidal groove, just to let the tank killer stop. Above the position, the camouflage net was also opened for the first time.
In order to better offset the recoil, so as not to damage the shock absorption device of the vehicle site, behind the huge turret of the tank killer, two huge pears are extended to the ground under the hydraulic system and directly inserted into the hard Gobi land. .
The fourth artillery position, but 20 kilometers further back, was on the edge of Marin Town.
The rocket launch vehicles are also lined up to form a geese-shaped formation, which is much quieter.
Because they don't need to launch an attack right away, but when necessary, supplement the firepower gap.
So they are not the main force of shelling, but only as a supplement when necessary.
In the first three artillery positions, there are still many soldiers driving military engineering vehicles to continue to expand the size of the artillery positions.
Because in the base. There is a steady stream of artillery being produced.
artillery. For Cai Ruichen, it is cheap and easy to use, and he is not afraid of difficulty in supplying the battle just beside the base.
Thousands of tons of shells can be produced casually. Then it can be sent to the field in less than an hour.
Cheap shells, the price calculated by tonnage. A ton is only one hundred funds, which is cheap and practical compared to the V-1 rocket launcher, which costs hundreds of funds each.
After all, a shell goes down. Killing can be more powerful than rocket launchers of the same caliber.
Even the powerful US military and countries around the world have very advanced combat weapons. Still did not give up the once king of land warfare.
Even in the 21st century, the world’s top five hooligans are still studying more advanced ground artillery.
Even a traditional naval country like the United Kingdom. He also did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to import artillery from the United States to increase the firepower of his army.
Not to mention those mainland countries. Russia’s current artillery numbers are still terrifying, and India’s artillery is also the army’s most important ground fire support.
Even all transport helicopters developed have the same index. That is whether it is possible to hoist active field artillery.
However, in modern warfare, there has been seldom seen the concentrated use of artillery.
The number of artillery in a US fire support battalion is only 18 artillery, and even the fire support battalion of the Marine Corps has only 12 artillery.
Therefore, Cai Ruichen's move is not considered to be a bad job. And as the saying goes, black cats and white cats are good cats that can catch mice. Whether a weapon is practical depends not on performance, but whether it is suitable for the needs of the army and the war environment.
Regarding Cai Ruichen's large-scale use of artillery tactics, he passed it unanimously, and even Zhao Long also demanded that the current army needs more artillery to meet the combat needs of the next stage.
After the Red Police Corps prepared for two days, and saw that one hundred and fifty artillery pieces had been prepared for 12 days to form a heavy firepower group, they decisively ordered Mutal to withdraw Samara's troops out of the city.
Originally thought that Cai Ruichen had another purpose, after seeing the large-scale artillery group, he shut up.
You must know that the artillery position of one hundred and fifty artillery pieces, even if it is divided into three levels in depth, is still very large.
The distance between the positions of the guns reached 30 meters, and the vertical and horizontal lengths reached kilometers.
The most important thing is that, except for the fifty 155mm guns on the first artillery position, the rest are all 175mm guns.
There are also a large number of artillery pieces that are on the way. According to Cai Ruichen's plan, in one month, the artillery group will reach 500 pieces, of which there will be 150 tank killers.
Of course, such a large artillery group needs to occupy a lot of troops. The mobilized troops of the four battalions under the First Brigade of the Red Police Corps are all used as artillery and are organized into the first artillery group.
If one month later, with more than five hundred artillery pieces, the first artillery group would have more than five thousand troops alone.
Everything was ready. After the Iraqi government forces withdrew from Samarra, the artillery strikes officially entered the countdown.
On the first day, 50,000 tons of shells will be projected to Samarra.
Regarding this matter, due to confidentiality, the Islamic State troops licking their wounds did not receive any news.
When they were wondering why the government forces suddenly withdrew, the dense artillery made deafening noises under the reconnaissance satellites and drones of various countries.
The dense artillery was all large-caliber artillery, and the recoil produced by the first salvo at the same time almost made the earth tremble.
In the vicinity of the artillery, the huge recoil is acted on the earth by the help pear ~EbookFREE.me~ directly around the artillery to shake up layers of dust.
The high rate of fire in the first minute covered the entire artillery position with dust for a while.
In the city of Samarra, there was instant gunpowder, continuous shelling, and the roar of shells, even the refugee camps on the outskirts, all boiled.
The entire city was covered in gunpowder in just a few minutes, and the intensive artillery bombing was no less than the carpet bombing of the bomber group.
In the base, Natasha did not appreciate the mighty and domineering side of heavy artillery like Cai Ruichen.
Instead, according to the enemy density shown on the map, the troops are being bombarded to correct Zhu Yuan.
Without the convenience of a base map, Cai Ruichen did not expect to destroy the entire Samarra.
With the convenience of a map, he can check the casualties of the Islamic State forces in Samarra at any time.
Targeted artillery strikes will never let go of even a rat hiding in the sewer. (To be continued.) Enable new URL