Chapter 470 The enemy has become a spirit, what should we do? (Please subscribe, please vote)

"Boom boom boom"

The British artillerymen hiding behind a ridge near Robber's Beach finally had the courage to shamelessly fire 6-inch (152 mm) and 3.7-inch (94 mm) missiles at the "gorgeous" Ming Dynasty iron-clad ships and armored vehicles on the beach.

2.75-inch (70 mm) artillery shell.

The reason why I say "brave" and "shameless" is because the caliber of the artillery assigned to the Brisbane militia by the British Australian Legion is too small and the number is too small. The largest caliber artillery is only 6 inches.

There are only 12 guns in total, and there are a little more 3.7-inch and 2.75-inch guns, with 24 guns each. Together, these barrel guns are only 60 guns, and they are not used to support the robbers on the beach.

Yes, it will also be used to support the three bandit camps deployed at Murderer's Beach, Arsonist's Beach and Kidnapper's Beach.

In addition, each of the four militia barracks is equipped with twelve 3.2-inch (81 mm) mortars to provide fast, efficient, and precise fire support for frontline infantry.

To be honest, a brigade-level combat unit equipped with 60 barrel artillery and 48 mortars cannot be said to have weak firepower. Even if it adheres to the artillery doctrine and still suffers from the firepower passed down from King Zhuge Wuzhong

The artillery firepower of the mixed brigade of the Ming Army, which is not enough, is actually just like this. If you don’t count the more than 200 vehicles equipped with 120 mm mortars, 30 mm rapid-fire cannons, 13 mm anti-aircraft machine guns or 7.5 mm caliber ordinary machine guns

Various models of 6-wheeled armored vehicles.

However, using these 108 cannons and mortars to bombard dozens of square miles of Ming warships that have not yet become "masters" and dozens of ironclads that have become "masters" and have even climbed onto the beach, is really the only way to do so.

It can be described as courageous and thick-skinned.

However, these brave and shameless British artillery fire was quite accurate! The shells rained down on the robber beach, and then exploded on the soft sand, setting off waves of sand and dust mixed with shrapnel and gunpowder smoke.

From time to time, there will be shells directly hitting the "become fine" ironclads with a standard displacement of 2,000 tons and a full load displacement of more than 5,000 tons. These ironclads that washed up on the beach are actually vehicle landing ships of the Ming Army. They only have very thin armor. If they encounter

The armor-piercing shells fired by the enemy's naval guns do not require 150mm class guns. 120mm, 100mm, 75mm and 60mm class naval guns used to hit torpedo boats are enough to hit them all over.

They are all holes.

But that requires the use of cannons to shoot armor-piercing projectiles, and the British Army's Brisbane "Thieves' Brigade" is not equipped with long-barreled cannons or armor-piercing projectiles - there are no "tracked water tanks" these days, and the Army is equipped with long-barreled cannons.

Cannons and armor-piercing shells with relatively small charges can only hit a bunker at most. Most bunkers can also be destroyed with direct aim from a 2.75-inch caliber mountain gun.

Therefore, the 108 cannons and mortars of the British army all fire high-explosive shells. Except for the few high-explosive shells fired by the 6-inch cannon that can cause certain damage if they hit directly, other high-explosive shells of small and medium calibers

The bullets can't hit those "refined" armored ships at all.

As for the armored vehicles that were "vomited" out by the armored ship, because they were moving targets, the probability of being hit by unguided munitions fired by the direct-fire artillery was very slim. Instead, the infantry who followed the armored vehicles and rushed out from the "bloody mouth" of the armored ship opened

They were hit by fragments of high-explosive bombs that fell from time to time. However, their losses were not too great, because over the Robbers Beach, there were already more than 100 Ssangyong 2 reconnaissance bombers with eight 25-kilogram bombs circling.

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These small biplanes are also very clever. They do not bomb the British positions on the robber beach, but wait for the British artillery to fire. The artillery maneuverability of these days is very poor.

Yes, how can this mobility be improved? And there is no anti-artillery radar now. If you want to launch artillery counterattacks, apart from letting artillery observers sit in balloons or airships to go up to the sky to see, the only way is to use sound measurements to estimate, and these two methods

Neither of them are very reliable. The former is a bit difficult to transmit information, and balloons and airships are also easy to shoot down. The accuracy of the latter is very problematic, and whether you can hit it or not is completely up to chance.

Therefore, in the earlier Battle of Adrianople, the barrel artillery of both sides was rarely knocked out by the other side's artillery. Therefore, the British army did not pay much attention to the mobility of artillery. Of course, they just wanted to improve the mobility of artillery.

There is no such condition, so we can only put more effort into the concealment of artillery positions.

But no matter how hard the British artillery is hidden, as soon as the artillery is fired, there will be more than a hundred pairs of eyes looking down in the sky!

Before half of the 60 British artillery guns had been fired, more than a hundred planes roared down from the sky and dropped bombs. One plane dropped 8 bombs, and more than 100 planes dropped 1,000 25-kilogram bombs.

The bomb was dropped by a dive bomb at a 40-degree angle!

When 1,000 25-kilogram bombs were dropped, the British artillery position was suddenly a sea of ​​​​fire, and it was not a "one-time sea of ​​​​fire", but repeated "fire" several times. Wait until these "fires" are over.

Later, there were no more complete cannons on the British artillery positions, and most of the artillery had been blown into parts! Even those few good cannons with excellent "gun quality" could not be fired because of the casualties of the artillerymen.

All the bombs were exhausted, and all those without casualties ran away. Moreover, the ammunition piled around the artillery positions was also blown up. It took a long time after the Ming Army's Feilong 2 carrier-based aircraft dropped the bombs and flew away from the battlefield.

The British artillery positions were still overfired over and over again, and shells were exploded one after another. The explosions lasted for another five minutes before they gradually stopped.

While the British artillery positions were firing over and over again, the Ming Army's wheeled armored vehicles had passed through the soft sand and began to lead the armored infantry carrying assault rifles to launch an assault on the British positions next to the robber beach.

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The dozens of "refined" ironclads fired fiercely with the 120mm short-barreled howitzers installed on the ships, tilting the 120mm high-explosive shells towards the positions held by the British "thief troops".

After a burst of artillery fire, the armored vehicles rushed straight up. Although they were not tracked, but wheeled, their impact was definitely not comparable to that of infantry! Those barbed wires that only relied on wooden stakes to be wound and fixed, faced with this kind of

Wheeled armored vehicles are very fragile. Moreover, some of the wheeled armored vehicles used in assaults are equipped with anti-collision bars in front of the vehicle. A few hits against the wooden piles wrapped with barbed wire can knock the latter down.

There are also some armored vehicles with logs hanging on the back of the carriages. When the British trenches block the road, the infantry following them will remove the logs and add sandbags to them, quickly filling in several passages.

Facing this seemingly unstoppable armored vehicle, the British thieves were so frightened that they almost went crazy. They desperately used their rifles and machine guns to fire at these six-wheeled steel monsters. The machine guns and rifles fired.

It became a piece, bullets clanking on the tank and splashing sparks. But these steel monsters are still advancing! Not only are they advancing, but they are also equipped with 30mm rapid-fire cannons, 120mm howitzers, 13mm anti-aircraft machine guns and 7.5

millimeter ordinary machine guns fired wildly, suppressing the firepower of the "thieves' troops". The "thieves' troops" on the entire front were flying with flesh and blood! One after another artillery shells penetrated the machine gun firing point, followed by the remains of human beings mixed with them.

Limbs and weapon parts exploded and splashed out. The fate of the "thief troops" guarding the trenches was not much better. They were repeatedly ravaged by various anti-infantry firepower on the tanks and the firepower of the armored infantry following the tanks.

, and soon the entire trench was filled with the corpses of the "thief troops".

The "bandit army" that had not turned into corpses could not withstand such casualties, and the entire line began to collapse! In just one hour, the Brisbane 3rd Rifle Battalion, which was stationed at Robbers Beach, fell into a complete collapse!

Faced with this situation, the British commander on the Brisbane front line had no idea at all, so he had no choice but to send a message to Admiral Gough in Sydney for instructions - the armored ship landed on the beach, and opened his mouth to spit out the armored car. There are bombs in the sky. You have not discussed it.

aircraft, and a large fleet of dozens of square miles on the sea. How to fight this battle? Commander-in-Chief Goff, please think of a way quickly!
Chapter completed!