Chapter 258: Cannonism

Regrettably, those important facilities in the eyes of the Islamic State may indeed be very valuable in the eyes of the Iraqi government.

But in Cai Ruichen's eyes, those things are all rubbish and defective products.

It is not worth wasting the lives of soldiers for those useless industries.

While the Iraqi government was weighing left and right, the Red Police Corps began preparations for a full-scale shelling after striking an active attack 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 pulled to the position by an armed mining vehicle, and a large number of shells were unloaded from the truck under the modified vehicle-mounted small hoisting equipment.

Boxes of shells were neatly stacked beside the artillery, and the automatic loading mechanical arm on the artillery gently picked up 70 to 80 kilograms of shells and placed them on the gun mount ready for shelling.

In the rear, at a distance of another ten kilometers, thirty tank killers lined up, with their thick barrels raised high.

The artillery position is located under a slope, and the excavator dug out a trapezoidal groove, just for the tank killer to dock. Above the position, the camouflage net was also pulled open immediately.

In order to better counteract the recoil, so as not to damage the shock absorber of the vehicle chassis, behind the huge turret of the tank killer, two huge auxiliary pears are stretched out to the ground under the hydraulic system and inserted directly into the hard Gobi land. .

The fourth artillery position continued 20 kilometers further, just on the edge of Marin Town.

It is also lined up to form a wild goose-shaped formation of rocket launcher vehicles, which is much quieter.

Because they don't need to launch an attack immediately, but when necessary, fill in the gaps in firepower.

Therefore, they are not the main force of the shelling, but only as supplementary forces when necessary.

On the front 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 also a steady stream of artillery being produced.

artillery. For Cai Ruichen, it is cheap and easy to use, and he is not afraid of supply difficulties when fighting right next to the base.

Thousands of tons of shells can be produced casually. Then it can be sent to the position in less than an hour.

Cheap shells, priced in tonnage. One ton is only one hundred dollars, which is cheaper and more practical than the V-1 rocket launcher, which costs hundreds of dollars each.

After all, a shell goes down. The damage can be more powerful than rocket launchers of the same caliber.

Even the powerful U.S. military and countries around the world have very advanced combat weapons. Still did not give up the former king of land warfare.

Even in the 21st century, the world's top five hooligans are still researching more advanced land artillery.

Even a traditional naval country like Britain. They also did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to import artillery from the United States to increase the firepower of their own army.

Not to mention those continental countries. The current number of Russian artillery is still terrifying, and Indian artillery is also the most important ground fire support for the Army.

Even all the transport helicopters developed have the same indicator. That is whether it is possible to lift active field artillery.

But in modern warfare, it is rare to see the intensive use of artillery in large numbers.

The number of artillery in a fire support battalion of the U.S. military is only 18 artillery pieces, and even the fire support battalion of the Marine Corps has only 12 artillery pieces.

Therefore, Cai Ruichen's move is not considered to be not doing business properly. And as the saying goes, a black cat and a white cat can catch mice is a good cat. Whether a weapon is practical or not depends not on its performance, but on whether it is suitable for the needs of the army and the war environment.

For Cai Ruichen's large-scale use of artillery tactics, it was unanimously approved, and Zhao Long even demanded that the current army needs more artillery to meet the operational needs of the next stage.

After the Red Police Corps had prepared for two days, and saw that the 150 artillery pieces prepared after twelve days had formed a heavy firepower group, they decisively ordered Mutal to withdraw the troops in Samarra from the city.

Originally, he thought that Cai Ruichen had other purposes, but after seeing the huge group of cannons, he just shut up.

You must know that the artillery position of 150 artillery pieces, even if it is divided into three echelons in depth, is still very large in scale.

The distance between the artillery positions reached 30 meters, and the vertical and horizontal length reached a thousand meters.

The most important thing is that, except for the fifty 155mm guns on the first artillery position, the rest are all 175mm guns.

And there are still a lot of artillery on the way. According to Cai Ruichen's plan, in a month's time, the size of the artillery group will reach 500, of which there will be 150 tank killers.

Of course, such a huge artillery group needs to occupy a lot of troops. The mobilized soldiers of the four battalions under the first brigade of the Red Police Corps were all used as artillery and reorganized into the first artillery group.

If it is true that there are more than 500 artillery pieces in one month, then the strength of the First Artillery Group alone will reach more than 5,000.

Everything was ready, and after the Iraqi government forces withdrew from Samarra, the artillery attack officially entered the countdown.

On the first day, 50,000 tons of artillery shells will be projected into Samarra.

As for this matter, due to the relationship of confidentiality, the Islamic State troops who are licking their wounds have not received any news.

Just when they were wondering why the government forces suddenly withdrew their troops, the dense artillery made deafening noises under the detection of reconnaissance satellites and drones from various countries.

The dense artillery was all large-caliber artillery, and the recoil generated by the first salvo almost made the ground tremble.

In the vicinity of the artillery, the huge recoil force acts on the ground from the auxiliary pear, directly shaking up layers of dust around the artillery.

In the first minute, the high-speed firepower covered the entire artillery position, and it was dusty for a while.

In the city of Samarra, gunpowder was instantly filled with smoke, continuous bombardment, and the whistling sound of shells, even the refugee camps on the outskirts were all boiling.

In just a few minutes, the entire city was covered in gunpowder smoke, and the intensive shelling was no less than the carpet bombing of the bombing fleet.

In the base, Natasha did not admire the mighty and domineering side of the heavy artillery like Cai Ruichen.

Instead, according to the enemy density shown on the map, correct the elements for the troops that are shelling.

If it were not for the convenience of the base map, Cai Ruichen would not have thought of destroying the entire Samarra.

With the convenience of a map, he can check the casualties of IS forces in Samarra at any time.

Targeted artillery strikes, even the rats hiding in the sewers, will never be let go. (To be continued.) Enable new URL