Valley Emperor

So you can see that the empire is very supportive of the European countries and the Tatar Golden State to fight, even if the Ottoman Empire does not want to fight, the empire is forcing them to fight.

In fact, the Tatar Golden Kingdom has always sought a truce, and they don't want to fight anymore. This has occupied most of Europe, and they also want to slow down.

However, under the pressure of the Tang Dynasty, the European countries continued to fight them.

Europe, must be in a scuffle!

The purpose, of course, is to prepare for the future localization of Europe!

The current strategic layout of Datang in Europe is actually the same as that of the Fusang Islands back then.

If you look at it from a purely military perspective, there is no problem in directly pushing Europe. The Army can even make a rhetoric to enter Europe in one year and completely recover in three years.

This one year and three years, in fact, is not the time of war, but the time of marching...

However, the war is won, and military occupation is useless.

Even if it has been a melee for so many years, there is still a population of tens of millions. What do you want the Datang Empire to do with so many people, throw it all into the Atlantic Ocean to feed the fish, this is not acceptable, Datang's international image has always been Righteousness is the main thing, and you will never do such a rude thing.

So just wait!

In this overall situation, the third westward expedition has been dragged down year after year. For this reason, the upper echelons of the empire, especially those cabinet officials, have not forgotten to comfort the army in this westward expedition to Europe. It must cost a lot of ammunition. Yes, ammunition is so expensive now, but if you wait ten or eight years and the technical conditions come up, the price of ammunition will naturally be cheaper, and it will be more convenient for your army to fight.

Why be in a hurry!

In this regard, the upper management of the army is also quite helpless!

In order to solve the European problem, many army generals have proposed the so-called European relocation plan, that is, after conquering Europe, the local indigenous people will be relocated to Africa.

However, the migration of hundreds of thousands to millions is okay, even a few million people can barely do it, but tens of millions of people migrate?

Of course, if your army pays, the cabinet will definitely have no problem.

The policies implemented by the Empire in Europe are similar in India.

That is, unless the situation is suitable, otherwise the Empire will not carry out military occupation, and the Empire would rather let these natives continue to play by themselves.

The same is true for the Kingdom of Caro!

It's not for occupation, it's purely for arming and testing new guns, changing kings by the way, and as for the rest, there's nothing else.

In order to better test the performance of the new rifle, this time Tian Qinyun ignored the opposition of the artillery generals and directly refused the artillery unit to prepare for 30 minutes of artillery fire.

What a joke, really let the 18th Artillery Regiment of the 18th Division come with a thirty-minute artillery bombardment, plus the artillery on a few gunboats, it can blow the entire city of Caro into ruins.

So what's up with the infantry there?

Therefore, Tian Qinyun allowed an artillery company to participate in the battle, mainly to destroy some front-mounted artillery in the indigenous army.

As for the rest, leave it to the infantry to solve it.

However, the artillery unit is also easy to provoke. Although they cannot change Tian Qinyun's decision, they can decide which artillery company to participate in the battle.

So, before the battle started, the 18th Artillery Regiment pulled up their heavy artillery company!

Seeing these six 150mm howitzers, Major General Tian Qinyun was a little speechless, and the heads of several infantry regiments directly cursed their mothers.

You are paralyzed, you artillerymen have been cool all the way, this is the last battle, and you still haven't let go!

It's just a small indigenous city, and you even pull up a 150mm howitzer, how shameless!

Is this thing something these natives can resist?

These 150mm howitzers are also the latest new type of artillery. They were developed and produced by the Northern Arms Company.

This thing was originally developed as a support artillery for divisions and brigades and other troops. In order to keep up with the speed of the troops, the weight control was very strict.

The 40 howitzer, with a caliber of 150 mm, weighs 2.3 tons and has eleven times the barrel. It is fired at a large elevation angle, and its effective range can reach six kilometers.

This is also the lightest 150mm gun in the Datang Army.

The others are all heavy artillery.

For example, the main 33-type 150mm howitzer in active service has 23 times the barrel, the whole gun weighs more than five tons, and the traveling weight is more than seven tons.

Of course, the weight is heavy and the range is just right, and the effective range can reach 8,000 meters.

In addition, there is a Type 36 150mm cannon used as a strategic-level heavy artillery. The barrel diameter of this thing has reached 30 times, the whole cannon weighs more than ten tons, and the effective range can reach 12,000 kilometers.

Then the army is also equipped with a 150mm fortress heavy artillery, which is basically the naval artillery on land. The gun length of these naval artillery can reach 35 times or even 40 times, the effective range is easily more than 10,000 meters, and the accuracy is also high. , but the weight is not to say, far more than ordinary field artillery. Therefore, these heavy artillery are generally attached to coastal fort.

For example, these new 150mm naval guns are attached to the coastal defense fort in Denmark, which is very effective in blocking the strait. Anyway, the Tatar fleet is completely divided.

Although the Type 40 howitzer of the Datang Army is only a light howitzer, it is still a solid 150mm.

This shot was more powerful than the previous artillery bombardment with 75mm artillery.

This made the heavy artillery bombard several times, and what about the infantry?

However, Major General Tian Qinyun did not see the actions of the artillery unit, and the four zero artillery pieces were also within the scope of the test.

This howitzer, which has just been finalized this year, was created by the Army to solve the problem that the 150mm cannon and howitzer are too heavy to accompany the troops to maneuver. This has just been dispatched to the troops, and Tian Qinyun naturally wants to see the actual combat effect.

Major General Tian Qinyun did not object, so the next battle would be particularly boring.

The six 40 light howitzers fired, although the rate of fire was not fast, but the huge formidable power was to blow up the defending army of the opposite Caro Kingdom.

This is a 150mm grenade, and it is also a cylindrical shell of a rear-mounted rifled gun. The charge is very large. When this gun explodes, it is enough to cover a range of tens of meters, even if it is hiding in In the fortifications, the vibrations caused by it can also shake people to death.

When a few infantry officers saw it, they couldn't do it. There was no way to play like this. They went directly to Tian Qinyun to file a complaint.

Next, the infantry stepped forward to fight. One by one, the infantry came forward in skirmish formation and shot when they saw the person on the opposite side. As a result, after about ten minutes, the opposite side simply surrendered.

Army Major General Tian Qinyun saw this scene and nodded a little, how should he write the test report of the new rifle this time?

Could it be that our own infantry had only launched the attack for ten minutes, and before they rushed up and fired a few shots, the opponent surrendered.

However, the 40 light howitzer is a good thing, and the shells it fires are not many, but it is very powerful, much stronger than those 75mm small-caliber artillery.

Although the range is like those cannons, howitzers, but this is not the slightest impression.

For the current Datang Army, there is actually no difference between artillery with a range of 3,000 meters and 30,000 meters, because they are all unilaterally hanging on the enemy.

Therefore, as long as the range is four or five kilometers, the generals of the Datang Army basically don't say anything. They pay more attention to the performance of lightness, rate of fire, and accuracy.

If it is changed to another time and space, then in the normal artillery development trajectory, the range should be very important.

Because of this, we can win the artillery battle against the enemy, and then support the infantry.

However, in the Datang Army, the range is only a secondary factor. As long as a certain standard is met, it is sufficient to have an advantage over the front-mounted artillery. Generally speaking, a five-kilometer range is sufficient. Even an army of about four kilometers can also accept.

Outside the range, they pay more attention to the three elements of maneuverability, rate of fire, and accuracy.

Needless to say the rate of fire, naturally the higher the rate of fire, the higher the rate of fire.

As for the accuracy, it is naturally because artillery shells are very expensive. The army and navy all practice artillery skills hard, trying to kill a hundred enemies with one shot, so the accuracy requirements for artillery are relatively high.

As for mobility, that's a separate story.

If it is in the local area, in fact, the requirements for maneuverability are average, because Datang has a complete railway system, inland river and offshore transportation systems, and the official roads in various places are in good condition. The maneuverability of artillery is more convenient~www .wuxiaspot.com~ But not overseas.

The Datang Army is a globally deployed army, and troops deployed overseas basically don't expect any railways to be available.

There is no way to even ask for a road. Those indigenous countries don't build any cinder roads. Cement roads are basically all dirt roads, and some places don't even have roads.

This is also the reason why the Datang military's overseas operations are basically carried out along the coastline or rivers. The reason is very simple, that is, they can travel by boat to provide supplies.

Overseas traffic is lagging behind, so the Datang Army has always attached great importance to the maneuverability of equipment, especially the troops deployed overseas. Artillery with a weight of only a few hundred kilograms is the most used.

Although the test report is not easy to write, the battle is over, and naturally there is no way to continue the actual combat test. After cleaning up the Karo Kingdom, I will support the new king sent from the Indian Affairs Yamen to become the queen.

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