It seems that cultural classes must also keep up. It can only be blamed that China at this period did not have universal compulsory education, and children from poor families were not eligible to go to school.
Lu Xiaojia secretly made up her mind to implement compulsory education as soon as possible. Education is the foundation of the country. Looking at the powerful countries, they undoubtedly attach great importance to education.
In the anti-Japanese war in the previous life, why was the combat effectiveness of Chinese soldiers not as good as that of Fuso soldiers?
One of the factors is cultural issues. You must know that Fusang Country across the river has implemented compulsory primary education nationwide during this period. Even when the government's finances are unable to make ends meet, the Fuso government still insists on providing free lunches and textbooks to primary school students.
Based on this alone, Fusang Kingdom is 10,000 streets away from today's Hua Kingdom.
"Well, the artillery regiment still has this kind of weapon."
Lu Xiaojia was a little surprised when she saw 12 Skoda VZ14 100mm howitzers lined up in front of the artillery formation.
This artillery gun, manufactured by the Skoda factory, uses a 24-caliber barrel and fires 16-kilogram grenades with a maximum range of 9,800 meters.
Seeing this, Lu Xiaojia suddenly wanted to test the gunnery skills of the howitzer battalion commander in front of him and see how much he weighed for this bowl of rice.
"You are the howitzer battalion commander, right? Let me ask you, do you know indirect aiming?"
"Reporter, this... um... this... subordinate..." Seeing the artillery regiment in front of him, he hesitated and couldn't say a word for a long time.
Lu Xiaojia couldn't help but be a little disappointed. Artillery in this period had two ways of aiming at enemy targets, namely direct aiming and indirect aiming.
The attack distance of the direct-aiming shooting method is relatively short, usually about 1 to 5 kilometers, and the enemy target needs to be within the visible range. The gunner directly measures the range, angle, and speed to shoot in a straight line.
This is the aiming method used by 99% of the artillery currently armed by the Chinese warlords.
The second indirect aiming and shooting method is a long-distance attack. When vision is impossible, the artillery shells fired are in the form of a curve to attack invisible enemy targets, attacking several kilometers or dozens of kilometers. There is no problem with enemy targets outside.
But this requires the gunner to know certain basic mathematical knowledge, because this requires the use of space geometry, trigonometric functions, vectors, matrices, mechanics, arithmetic... and an accurate military map.
At the same time, it is also necessary to send scouts to establish artillery observation posts at forward positions, or to send reconnaissance aircraft to observe the location of local targets.
And use the irradiation table to calculate the distance, angle, range, height difference between our artillery position and the enemy target...etc.
Then the artillery observation posts and reconnaissance aircraft reported to the rear artillery positions via radio and wired telephone.
This enables our artillery positions to obtain the basic gun elements so that they can attack enemy targets.
And after that, there will usually be a test firing process. Test firing is also called calibration firing. The difference between the impact point distribution of the test fire and the target is determined by the test firing.
The forward artillery observation post can quickly make corresponding adjustments based on the test firing situation to ensure that the hit rate will be higher the next time the salvo fires.
All in all, this is quite cumbersome, and you can't hit the target with just a few words of mouth.
As for some anti-Japanese dramas in later generations, the protagonist can judge the plot of the Japanese artillery positions based on the trajectory of the Japanese artillery shells. That is even more nonsense.
Because this requires the use of a product that has not yet appeared at all, artillery sighting radar.
That is, a fire control radar that can automatically detect the position of an enemy target, or accurately lock the enemy target through a computer based on the trajectory of the enemy shell, and then control the artillery and missiles to directly attack the enemy target.
This high-tech product would not be invented until 1944. In 1944, Sam State installed the world's first fire control radar on a navy night combat aircraft to quickly search for enemy targets, pioneering the fire control radar. the first of its kind.
In other words, many big warlords in China have purchased large-caliber artillery from foreigners.
However, with the skill of their artillerymen, they simply cannot take advantage of the long-distance attack range of large-caliber artillery.
"Master, I know how to shoot directly."
Lu Xiaojia came back to her senses, stared at the short-haired man in the artillery team who was about thirty years old and had a masculine look, and asked with a smile:
"What is your name, what is your current rank, and have you attended military school? Do you think there is anything that needs to be improved in our artillery regiment?"
"Reporting to the deputy division commander, my name is Cai Zhonghu, and my position is the platoon leader of the 2nd platoon of the 2nd company of the Howitzer Battalion. I graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. As for improvement, I think our artillery regiment currently has too few departments and we should add new ones. Set up a frontline observation post and communications team.”
"Okay! Second Lieutenant Cai Zhonghu, from now on I appoint you as the commander of the artillery regiment."
