"Boom boom boom..."
The British artillerymen hiding behind a ridge near Robber's Beach finally had the courage and shamelessness to fire 6-inch (152 mm), 3.7-inch (94 mm), 2.75-inch (70 mm) shell.
The reason why I say "brave" and "shameless" is because the artillery pieces assigned to the Brisbane militia by the British Australian Legion are too small in caliber and too few in number. Among them, the largest-caliber artillery is only a 6-inch gun, and there are only 12 in total. There are a little more 3.7-inch and 2.75-inch guns, with 24 each. Taken together, these barreled artillery pieces amount to a mere 60 guns, and they are not only used to support the robbers' beach, but also to support the three thieves deployed at the murderer's beach, arsonist's beach and kidnapper's beach. Equipped with military camp.
In addition, each of the four military battalions is equipped with twelve 3.2-inch (81 mm) mortars to provide fast, efficient, and precise fire support to 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 though the artillery firepower of the mixed brigade of the Ming Army, which adheres to the artillery doctrine and suffers from the phobia of insufficient firepower passed down from King Zhuge Wuzhong, is actually just like this. If you don’t count the more than 200 six-wheeled armored vehicles of various types equipped with 120mm mortars, 30mm rapid-fire cannons, 13mm anti-aircraft machine guns or 7.5mm caliber ordinary machine guns...
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 climbed onto the beach is really the only option. To describe it, I am brave 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, a shell directly hit the standard displacement of 2,000 tons, and the full-load displacement exceeded A 5,000-ton ironclad ship that has become a "masterpiece". These ironclad ships that washed up on the beach were actually vehicle landing ships of the Ming Army. They only had very thin armor... If they encountered armor-piercing projectiles fired by enemy naval guns, they would not need 150mm level guns. 120mm, 100mm, etc. Millimeters, the 75mm and 60mm class naval guns used to hit torpedo boats are enough to make holes all over them.
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, nor is it equipped with 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... and most bunkers can be destroyed with direct aim from a 2.75-inch caliber mountain gun.
Therefore, the 108 cannons and mortars of the British army fired all high-explosive shells. Except for the few high-explosive shells fired by the 6-inch cannon, which can cause certain damage by direct hits, other high-explosive shells of small and medium calibers The bullets can't hit those "gorgeous" armored ships at all.
As for those armored vehicles that were "spit out" by the armored ships, because they were moving targets, the probability of being hit by unguided munitions fired from the direct-fire artillery was very slim. On the other hand, the infantrymen who followed the armored vehicles and rushed out of the "bloody mouth" opened by the armored vehicles were hit by fragments of high-explosive shells 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 carrying 8 25kg bombs circling!
These small biplanes were also very clever. They did not bomb the British positions on the robber beach, but waited for the British artillery to fire. The mobility of artillery these days is very poor...it is pushed by people and pulled by horses. How can it improve its mobility? And there is no anti-artillery radar now. If you want to launch artillery counterattacks, apart from asking artillery observers to go up to the sky in balloons or airships to see, the only way is to use sound measurements to estimate, and neither of these methods is very reliable. The former is a little bit difficult to transmit information. It is difficult, and balloons and airships are also easy to shoot down. The accuracy of the latter is very problematic, and whether or not to hit it is completely up to chance.
Therefore, in the early Battle of Adrianople, the barrel artillery of both sides was rarely used by the other side's
The artillery was shot down. 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, but they did not have the conditions, so they could only work more on the concealment of artillery positions. .
But no matter how much the British artillery is hidden, as soon as it is fired, it cannot escape the more than a hundred pairs of eyes looking down in the sky!
Before half of the 60 British barrel artillery 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 bombs. 1,000 25-kilogram bombs, and they were dropped using a 40-degree dive bombing method!
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 "fire" repeatedly several times. After all these "fires" were over, there were no more complete cannons on the British artillery position, and most of the cannons had been blown into parts! Even those few good guns with excellent "gun quality" could not be fired, because the artillerymen suffered all casualties, and those who had no casualties also ran away. Moreover, the ammunition piled around the artillery positions was also exploded. For a long time after the Ming Army's Dragon 2 carrier-based aircraft dropped bombs and flew away from the battlefield, the British artillery positions were still overfired over and over again. The shells were exploded one after another, and 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. .
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 vehicle rushed straight up. Although they are not tracked, they are wheeled. But the impact is definitely not comparable to that of infantry! Those barbed wire fences that only rely on wooden stakes to be wound and fixed are very vulnerable to such wheeled armored vehicles. Moreover, some of the wheeled armored vehicles that charge are equipped with anti-collision bars in front of the front of the vehicle. As long as they hit the wooden piles wrapped with barbed wire a few times, the latter can be knocked down.
There are also some armored vehicles with logs hanging on the back of the carriages. When the British trenches block the road, the following infantrymen 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. Machine guns and rifles were fighting, bullets clanking and sparks flying on the tank. But these steel monsters are still moving forward! Not only are they advancing, but they are also using their equipped 30mm rapid-fire cannons, 120mm howitzers, 13mm anti-aircraft machine guns and 7.5mm ordinary machine guns to fire wildly to suppress the firepower of the "thief troops". The "thieves' army" on the entire front were bloody and bloody! One after another shells penetrated the machine gun firing point, and then a mixture of human limbs and weapon parts exploded and splashed out. The fate of the "thief's 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. Soon, the "thief's troops" were The entire trench was filled with corpses.
The "thieves' army" that had not turned into corpses could not bear such casualties, and the entire line began to collapse! In just one hour, the 3rd Brisbane Rifle Battalion, which was stationed at Robbers Beach, fell into a complete collapse!
Faced with this situation, the British commander on the front line in Brisbane had no idea at all, so he had to send a message to Admiral Gough in Sydney for instructions - the armored ship landed on the beach, and even opened its mouth to spit out the armored car. There are bombs in the sky. You have not discussed it. aircraft, and a fleet of dozens of square miles on the sea... How will this battle be fought? Commander-in-Chief Goff, please think of something quickly!
