Chapter 735 Cannons in Hollywood Next

"Forward, move forward a little more, okay!"

"Put down the hoe and fix it."

"Unlock, ready to lift the barrel."

"Calculate the shelling of Zhuyuan."

"Amunition truck!"

"The No. 1 ammunition truck is in place, the No. 2 ammunition truck is in place, and the filling car is in place."

Under the milky yellow battlefield emergency light, Fu Zuoyi just jumped from the jeep and had no time to submit the damage assessment report of the navy after the shelling of Los Angeles yesterday to the shelling headquarters. He was attracted by several heavy self-propelled guns in front of him that were entering the shelling position.

This 203mm heavy self-propelled gun is one of the new guns only equipped during the Army's war. It weighs 41 tons. It uses a specially developed six pairs of load-bearing wheel sites and is equipped with two 160 horsepower gasoline engines. Due to its large weight and wide shape, it will form two deep track lines when driving from the ground, so the taxi The soldiers gave it a very interesting nickname "Road Roller", hoping that it could crush all the obstacles on the way forward for the infantry.

"Road roller" and "war hammer" are self-propelled guns, but the appearance is very different. The former is almost a simple combination of the track chassis dragging the gun frame. It is completely naked cannons, not to save materials, but to reduce weight. Even the front cab is like a matchbox, narrow and crowded. .

The emergence of the "road roller" should be said to have a certain accidental surname, but it is also one of the results of the army's pursuit of strong firepower and long-range super cannons.

More than two years ago, Deputy Chief of General Staff Wang Shizhen attacked the Belgian fortress in Germany. After seeing the power of Germany's "Great Belta" with his own eyes, he immediately sent a telegram to the General Staff and the Army Department, proposing to seek an army super cannon similar to this kind of artillery that could be seen in Germany and other countries in the future.

After the telegram returned to China, there was an uproar inside the army, because no one knew that the German army had such a powerful army gun at that time, and the army was indeed quietly engaged in several super artillery projects before, but due to the rapid emergence of aircraft and the expansion of its role, the weight and power of the bomb became stronger and stronger. Later, many people no longer supported the development of heavy army guns, but turned to let the air force fully take full responsibility for attacking and destroying fortified fortifications.

But Germany's Great Berta obviously stimulated the army and immediately put aside the idea of relying entirely on the air force to attack. According to Commander Zhao, "the army can't let the enemy have a larger gunhead than itself first", so it immediately accelerated its super cannon plan.

It should be said that during the period of developing naval guns with Germany, the domestic artillery technology department has indeed benefited a lot. Germany's excellent artillery technology has solved many technical difficulties for super cannons such as "road rollers".

Only three months after the appearance of the Great Belta, the army began to test the "road roller". The main reason why the army began to quietly develop super cannons as early as 1910. It had already made great progress, but it has not been solved in several key technologies. Now German technology has solved the difficulties, plus Stimulated by the Great Belta, he began to speed up in an all-round way, so he could take out the finished product so quickly.

In fact, when many people are attracted by a large number of new weapons by the navy and air force, they ignore that the army also attaches great importance to technological innovation. The army's enthusiasm for new equipment and new weapons is no worse than that of the navy and air force, and the investment is not small, such as the latest multi-barre rocket launchers, mine spreaders, and waterway amphibious tanks. The new six-wheel and eight-wheel chassis, automatic rifles, gyroscope stabilization sights, etc. It is even heard that there is a large rocket that can carry half a ton of explosives.

These new technologies have accelerated after the start of the war. Many of them have been moved to the weapons test site, and some of them have even reached the level of loading. However, the problem is that it is a wartime, and it is also a large-scale world war. The army has troops and numbers. When the use of basic weapons and ammunition has soared by dozens of times, it is necessary to focus on ensuring that soldiers can use weapons.

Therefore, simple and easy to manufacture, stable and reliable quality and cheap price can ensure the purchase quantity, which has become the three major principles of army equipment, which makes a large number of new equipment unable to enter the army for large-scale service before making major breakthroughs in logistics and reliability.

Even so, a small number of new weapons equipped with troops still gave the army a great surprise. They must be "Iron Fist" rockets. Although the number is small and many divisions of the army have not yet got them, they are very effective. There are also recoilless cannons, the latest 120mm mortars, the "road roller" in front of them, etc. A model of a small amount of equipment.

"Road rollers" can appear, thanks to the navy. A few years ago, because countries began a crazy naval arms race, the Imperial Royal Navy was also involved. Under the situation that the enemy's muzzle became larger and larger, the navy began to clean up the inventory and prepare to save every penny for new equipment investment, and it will always be backlogd in the warehouse. The 203mm naval gun in the warehouse sold scrap iron back to the furnace.

203mm naval gun was once one of the main naval guns of the Imperial Navy in the last century. The number of reserves is very large. In addition, there are a total of 120 spare guns. Originally, the navy was ready to use it as a shore defense standby after being eliminated, but after the navy determined that the minimum caliber of the heavy artillery was 305 mm, even the shore defense was not used. It's up.

Considering the huge number, many of them are still new. It's a pity to return to the furnace as scrap iron. Some people proposed whether this batch of ships and guns could be changed to be used in the army's super cannon plan. At that time, the army was engaged in a "warhammer" self-propelled gun, and the super cannon also began to be developed, so after getting the news, I was very interested and immediately came from the sea. The army took over the naval guns.

At the beginning, the army was going to do a towing type similar to a 105mm gun, but later it was found that it was too heavy and it was very difficult to drag the truck, so it simply made a self-propelled gun with Warhammer.

It happened that the Army was also developing a large armored chassis project with six pairs of load-bearing wheels, so the two were combined to have today's "road roller".

The "road roller" uses the naval front L40/203mm naval gun, but it has undergone major changes, because the structure of the naval gun and the army gun are different, and the armored chassis is impossible to withstand the recoil of the naval naval gun, so the muzzle retreater is added, and the naval full charge mold is no longer used when launching. Type, using half charge, the range dropped from the original navy's maximum of 15,000 meters to 12,000 meters.

It seems that the range has dropped a lot, but it is much farther than the "war hammer". What's more, the exhaust expansion bomb at the bottom of the navy was still in the final experiment at that time, and the army model has not even been finalized. In addition, the shells used in the "road roller" are also 110 kilograms of high explosive bombs improved in the original naval inventory, full of charge and powerful. It can easily deal with large-scale solid fortifications, so the "road roller" deserves to be the "first gun" of the army.

However, it is also troublesome to give full play to the power of the "road roller", especially the loading is more difficult. 110 kg of shells can't be moved by anyone, so the Army Department also used the M3 cheetah site to modify a special shell filling and conveyor truck, not only with simple booms and other filling on it. The installation of equipment can also store 12 shells and propellant, which solves the problem, but the most important delivery of shells depends on trucks.

In the final analysis, trucks are the most urgently needed equipment in the army after guns and cannons. Even if the U.S. railway network is developed, it is not so easy to use it, so truck transportation has become the key. At present, all automobile factories in China have stopped the production of other vehicles and concentrated on manufacturing military trucks, because The development of the automobile industry has kept pace with the world, especially the leading engine, which has also made the empire the world's second largest manufacturing speed, which can reach 100,000 vehicles per year, second only to 120,000 vehicles in the United States.

Seeing that the barrel of the "road roller" began to rise, he had become the staff officer of the army. Fu Zuoyi, who began to contact some high-level documents, knew better than ordinary soldiers that in today's Royal Army, the "roadrunner" was actually not the first gun.

With the small batch delivery of the army-type of bottom exhaust ranged bullets, the Warhammer can reach nearly 20 kilometers when using the bottom row of bullets, so the army is determined to get rid of its heavy dependence on the strong firepower of the air force and navy and began to pursue a 30-kilometer firepower suppression ability of artillery.

For this goal, the Army has taken out two other super cannons, one is to use the Navy's L45/305mm naval gun to improve the extra-heavy cannon, and the other is more perverted. It can be regarded as a Xinhua version of the super cannon that Germany is secretly developing, with a 203mm caliber and a 27-meter ultra-long. Body tube, when using 110 kg standard shells, you can hit a full 75 kilometers away!

However, it is said that the War Department is not satisfied, because according to confidential information, Germany's similar cannons can be shot 120 kilometers away, so the army is asking for improvement, but the army is obviously not enthusiastic about these two cannons. They have been included in the technical research and reserve, because they are extremely incompetent in transportation and use. Convenient rail gun, so the target of the army has turned to the long-range, fast and powerful rocket launcher.

At present, both rail guns have preliminary actual combat capabilities, but no one knows whether they can appear in the United States, so the "road roller" is still the largest-caliber army gun in the North American continent for the time being.

Yesterday, the navy used 712 bombers and 18,934 shells to give the U.S. military stationed in Los Angeles a good course on "difficult years without navy". Today, the Second Army also pulled almost all the cannons that can be mobilized by all divisions, ready to tell them again what army firepower coverage is.

In addition to 12 203mm "road rollers", there are also 288 152mm "war hammers", 480 105mm "Thunder" and the latest 110 120mm "hail" heavy mortars.

As for a large number of 60mm mortars and 80mm recoilless guns, because they belong to the battalion-level suppression firepower, mainly to provide support to infantry at close range, they are not included in the artillery cluster.

By the time Fu Zuoyi came out of the headquarters, the dense guns had all pointed to the sky. Trucks were lined up behind like a long dragon, and the edges of each cannon were full of shells. The soldiers were nervously wiping the shells and installing fuses.

Fu Zuoyi looked at the table. According to the plan, the shelling would start at 4 a.m., with 12 minutes left, so he did not choose to go back immediately, but sat in the jeep and began to wait with everyone.

According to the plan of the Army Group Command, the gunfire suppression will last until 6 a.m. According to the speed of 2 pieces per minute, it is expected to consume about 270,000 shells in 2 hours!

It can basically cover the three trenches with a super-specification firepower.

The most important thing in the war is to kill the other party on a large scale. The plane has long legs, but the projection intensity is far less than the artillery, so as long as you take the port of Los Angeles as soon as possible, solve the big problem of logistics transportation, seize the whole territory of Florida and destroy millions of U.S. troops here, the western United States and even the whole country. The power will be exhausted.

" Artillery!"

Just as Fu Zuoyi was thinking about the war, a loud shout suddenly came over. Countless emergency lights in the night suddenly turned on, and the Lin Li Li's gun barrel made everyone who saw this scene tremble.

" Artillery, shoot quickly!"

"Boom."

At the moment when the firing order sounded in the phone, except for the 120mm heavy mortars that did not fire, 780 cannons from 105 to 203mm roared at the same time.

The earth seemed to shake at that moment!

The recent "road roller" that Fu Zuoyi was most interested in broke out with a shocking roar, and the orange cannon flame broke out, forming a rapidly enlarged cannon flower in front of the muzzle.

The 110kg high-explosive bomb rushed to the enemy 10 kilometers away at a speed of 720 meters per second. When the gunfire passed, the artillery, who had just opened its mouth and covered its ears, had begun to fill the second shell. Although it was very powerful, the speed of the "road roller" was not fast, and one per minute was already fast.

Fortunately, there are also "Warhammer" and "Thunder" as a supplement.

The explosion lit up from the darkness in the distance, and it was impossible to tell that the flame was made by the roller. There were simply more flickering flames than the stars in the sky, and the U.S. military a few kilometers away was submerged in the endless rain.

====== "Mel."

"Come here, come here!"

The smoke made Mel almost lose his way. Fortunately, Griffith grabbed him and kicked the door of the windmill tower. The two quickly ran to the top of the tower.

The heavy breathing echoed in the tower. When the two climbed to the top of the tower and walked to the air window, they were stunned for the second time!

If the sea bombardment and aircraft bombing during the day have made him understand the horror of the war, then compared with what happened in front of him at this moment, this is simply nothing!

In the morning light in the north, countless fire points exploded from the defense line two kilometers away. The dust raised by the explosion even covered the view. The earth kept trembling in the explosion, and the sky seemed to have turned black and red. Even the huge windmill impeller outside the tower seemed to have been shaken and could not be turned again.

"Quick, set up the camera."

"F film box, black cloth, bring the black cloth to block the light."

Griffith and Mel, who came out of the shock, began to get busy, and soon the camera aimed at the battlefield, but when everything was ready, Griffith and Mel looked at each other and thought of the biggest problem!

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault!"

Mel was so nervous that he even cried, because he forgot to bring a piece of white cloth. If the [[***] team hits in after a while, I'm afraid both of them will not be able to live without the white cloth!

"Don't worry, Mel, calm down, calm down!" Griffith shouted loudly. Although he was very nervous, and even with white cloth, he may not be able to survive, but in the face of Mel, who is smaller than himself and obliged to help himself, he still tried to keep calm and said, "You are here, master the shooting speed, remember to save film, I'll look for it, I know. There is a white cloth in it!"

"No, Mr. Griffith, it's too dangerous outside."

"Mel, I heard that I'm Mel, master the speed, don't waste the film, I'll be back soon, believe me!" After appeasing Mel, Griffith quickly rushed to a film company not far away.

Mel stood in front of the air window and saw Griffith rush out of the windmill tower. He was so nervous that he was dying. When a shell fell not far from him, he was stunned and almost knocked over the camera.

Griffith quickly got up from the rubble and felt a little hot on his face. After wiping it, he found that his forehead was bleeding, but he didn't have time to take care of this and rushed into the film company building.

The film company, which had been swept by shells, was full of rubble and debris. When he finally found a piece of white cloth, he suddenly saw two boxes of intact and unopened film boxes in the corners of his eyes.

"Great!" The moment he shouted and took the film box into his arms, a huge explosion suddenly sounded from behind him. He only felt as if he had been pushed by something, and then countless rubble and stones were smashed down.

"God, Mr. Griffith!"

When Mel, standing in front of the air window, saw this scene, she was so scared that her whole body began to tremble. The power of the 203mm shell was not blown out. After the explosion, the building where the film company was located almost completely collapsed.

Just as he was anxious and ready to go and see, a shadow stumbled out of the ruins. Then he saw Mr. Griffith, who had been paying attention to his image. His clothes turned into rags, and then nervously held the film box and a piece of white cloth and returned to the windmill tower.

"Mr. Griffith, you are bleeding."

"It's okay. I'm fine. I just fell." Griffith waved his hand and immediately said, "Come on, support the white cloth with a wooden stick. Maybe we'll use it later."

With the white cloth representing the surrender, Mel was finally a little relieved, but when he thought of the legendary Chinese soldiers who killed people, he was still very nervous: "Mr. Griffith, is this useful? Will they?"

Griffith shook his head and didn't know how to answer. He walked to the camera and began to work. After a long time, he looked up: "Mel, I will do everything I can to protect you."

"Thank you, Mr. Griffith." Mel held the white branches and slowly sat in the corner with his hands trembling. His work had been completed, and now he had to consider whether he could survive.

Looking at Mel, who was shivering all over, Griffith sighed. In fact, he was also afraid, but after yesterday, he finally figured out that even if he died here, he would leave something behind.

lens.

Re-targeted the battlefield, the sun rose, the sky began to light up, and the explosion in the distance gradually became sparse. A team of American soldiers, as nervous and panicked as Mel, began to emerge from the undestructed bunkers in the city.

Suddenly, another voice sounded again between heaven and earth.

"Tick tick!"

"That's it." Griffith pricked up his ears, listened to the loud trumpet, and gradually thought of a possibility.

"Atthong!"

The [***] team launched a full-scale charge against Los Angeles!

Are they crazy? Even if they were bombed by aircraft cannons for two days, there are still nearly a million soldiers here. Why don't they continue to bombard for a few more days and wait for the follow-up troops to attack?!

Griffith quickly adjusted the lens and put a homemade telescope lens in front of him. Then he saw tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers in khaki military uniforms appearing on the horizon!

"Let's go!"

The double-headed eagle battle flag, which has been seen countless times in a newspaper, almost abruptly appeared on the horizon. Under the sun that just jumped, it looked so dazzling!

(to be continued)