Chapter 2511 Summary 1
"In addition, our ammunition consumption has also exceeded expectations. We must arrange ammunition supplies in advance. In addition, what I am most worried about is how we will fight in future battles. We cannot suppress the Japanese army with the lives of dozens of pilots every day. Long-range artillery, right?" Sims said.
"Then we can only hope that the army can advance faster and be able to take out the Japanese heavy artillery positions with its own strength." General Benson said a choice that seemed even more unreliable... If the U.S. Army had this ability, wouldn’t it be strong already? Will he be pushed down on the beach and beaten violently? From the preface to the Japanese heavy artillery positions, there is probably a straight-line distance of nearly 18 kilometers! The terrain is complex, with beaches, woodlands, hills and mountains all along the way! How does the Army fight this?
"We only have three days. We must find a way to solve the problem of suppressing the Japanese heavy artillery force. Otherwise, our naval aviation power will collapse before seeing the Japanese fleet. You know, the Japanese also have three aircraft carriers. , and can also receive support from land-based aviation. If our aircraft carriers are empty when it comes to combat, then you should know how tragic the situation of the United States Fleet will be," Benson said.
"But how to solve the problem! Our naval guns are out of reach, and our carrier-based aircraft cannot afford to lose. All our weapons cannot effectively suppress the target. If ammunition were not limited and the Japanese continued to cover the target area with artillery, I'm afraid it's impossible for us to even maintain the current landing site!" Sims was also a little anxious. As a gunnery expert in the U.S. Navy, he had no choice.
"Look for the Germans! They will definitely find a way! They will definitely encounter this situation on the Western Front." Benson thought for a while and said.
"Major General Karls is proficient in battlefield breakthroughs. He is not an expert in gunnery." Sims said.
"But there must be gunnery experts in the German fleet. They have at least participated in the bombardment of the British mainland, and they must have studied ultra-long-distance bombardment and ballistic issues." Admiral Benson said with certainty.
If we talk about the current artillery skills and artillery systems of various countries in the world, Germany is definitely the strongest. This is well deserved. Otherwise, it would be impossible to win the First World War. After all, the overall quantity is inferior and the quality is not superior. , it is surprising that it can overwhelm Britain and France in an epic showdown on the Western Front. This in itself is a manifestation of strength. The second one is France. After all, the main force of the army on the Western Front is the French. If France cannot do it, the Germans will not. It will take more than two years to bring down France, right? Having been able to confront Germany, the world's number one, for more than two years, the French's artillery skills and artillery skills are mediocre. The third place is naturally the United Kingdom. There is no weakling in the army that can have a sense of presence on the Western Front!
What? What level do Americans have, you ask? It must have fallen out of the top five. The Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Russians have more experience in artillery warfare than the Americans. This is true for both the army and the navy... Think about it, not long ago, a country decided to place a large order for the German K09 150MM cannon, which was finalized in 1908, as a long-range medium-caliber artillery for its own army.
How much practical experience can you have? (Historically, the U.S. Army used the French artillery system as a reference, a 75MM rapid-fire gun plus a 155mm cannon.) Therefore, the problems that the Americans cannot solve do not mean that the Germans cannot solve them!
So that night, Admiral Su Xiong and Major General Karls took a transport boat to Admiral Benson's period, along with the black old man Pershing and Major General Marshall. Together they will solve the problems currently encountered by the US military.
"It seems that our fears have finally become a reality. The level of equipment possessed by the Japanese exceeds our expectations. If these long-range cannons are not suppressed, our progress will be difficult because of all the logistics we plan to set up. The sites are all within the strike range of Japanese artillery. General Su Xiong, you are an expert in the navy and have in-depth research on gunnery. So is there any solution to the problem at hand?" General Benson asked.
"It's difficult. According to our previous agreement, the Bavaria-class battleships are equipped with armor-piercing bombs and semi-armor-piercing bombs. The former is used to deal with battleships, and the latter is used to deal with armored cruiser-level targets. For ultra-long-range targets, our attack method is to use Flicks, but in this battle, we were not prepared for a single shot, and even the entire United States did not have flicks suitable for our use. As for your country’s 14-inch naval gun, we can only say that we did not even have a complete firing table. I haven’t seen it, so I really can’t do anything,” Su Xiong said.
"What about the Army? Major General Karls, do you have any suggestions?" Pershing asked at the side.
"I would like to know if the new 155MM cannon in your army can be put into the battlefield at any time. It is the one modified from the German K09 150MM cannon. If I remember correctly, the firing meter of this artillery is almost the same as the original German product. ?" Major General Karls didn't dare to entrust him, so he asked.
"Yes, it's just that the caliber has been changed and the ammunition has been slightly adjusted. In order to facilitate this landing operation, we have lightweighted the gun mount, but the firing table and ballistics will not change." Pershing was very sure. said.
However, this time, Major General Karls did not immediately answer Pershing's words, because at this time, he was holding a document in his hand. It was a data file about the US military's M1A3 155MM cannon that Marshall had just given him.
"With all due respect, your army has gone too far in reducing the weight of the gun mount. It is barely possible to reduce the weight by opening holes in the hoe support, but reducing the strength where the hydraulic equipment and the artillery are connected is a bit too much. Because when shooting at a high elevation angle, the impact of the artillery on the rigid connection of the gun mount is very large. You can understand that every time a shot is fired, a heavy hammer hits the ground hard," Karls said.
"Is this a big problem?" Pershing asked.
"That's it. Although I cannot be considered a true artillery expert within the German army, after all, in the imperial army, if you can't command and coordinate a group of at least 400 artillery pieces composed of 8 different types of artillery, then don't I say that I am an expert, but I have personally commanded military-level battles, and I also had the opportunity to come into contact with weapons such as the K09 cannon and the 210MM heavy howitzer. I have also done some research on the performance and operation of artillery. I estimate that if If the returned M1A3 long-range artillery is used to fire at high elevation angles, the life of the gun mount may be only about one-third of that of conventional products," Major General Karls said.
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