The Rise of the Empire

"What should I do?" Will Jon put down the telescope in his hand and said with a gloomy face.

"For the time being, there is really no way. We have experimented with various methods, dispatched blasting teams to blow up the railway, or planted mines, but the British still have a line of defense behind the railway, and the blasting teams that barely pass through the firepower of armored trains will still be blocked. The British in the rear line shot and killed."

"We tried to use mortars to cross the parapet to attack the railway and trains, but the accuracy of mortars is inherently poor. Unless a simple high-explosive bomb hits directly, it will do little damage to the train." Pershing said helplessly, the situation in front of him To his surprise, he didn't expect an armored train to be so difficult to deal with!

"How about we push the 75MM rapid-fire gun up?" Will Jon said carefully.

"It's useless, the trajectory of the rapid-fire gun is too straight, the earth wall is enough to block most of the shooting range, and it is very difficult to move the gun body of more than 1 ton, and it may be covered by the opponent's 37MM cannon before entering the position. , if it is shot curved, the effect is not much different from that of a mortar, or even worse than the former. What's more, the opponent is moving, and it is too difficult to hit a moving target." Caliput said calmly.

"Then what should we do? Use people to fill it? Or just retreat? Or wait for the opponent to run out of ammunition?" Wiljoen was in a hurry! Said angrily.

"We can blow up the entire earth wall, and then destroy these iron bastards from a long distance." Caliput said with a slight smile.

"Are you kidding? The opponent's parapet is a gravity structure, and it is very stable. Even if it is blasted, it will only make it shorter. It will be very difficult to completely blow it up! If we use a 75MM rapid-fire gun, I am afraid that it will be impossible to use up all the shells." Can't open a gap big enough!" Pershing couldn't help it anymore.

"Don't forget, we destroyed a British train before this, and there were 4 120MM naval guns on it! At that time, after the vehicle was hit by a mine, it just overturned. It didn't explode, and the 4 artillery pieces on the car had The 3 doors can still be repaired, and there are still a lot of shells on the last carriage. With these things, we can completely kill this iron turtle!" A good commander must learn how to take advantage of all advantages!

"That's great, why didn't you send these things up earlier!" Pershing said excitedly.

"These guys have just been repaired and transported. The artillery is too heavy, weighing more than 4 tons. And these artillery shells. I mobilized more than 100 horses to send the personnel, artillery and ammunition over." Caliput said with a smile.

The original 75MM guns had limited power, and it was very difficult to destroy the parapet, but now that there are heavy artillery, it is different. Once a few gaps are opened in these parapets, other light artillery can find the flat firing window. And the attacking force also has several more channels.

What the British didn't expect was that the several artillery pieces they accidentally lost became the key to this tough battle! The heavy 120MM naval gun successfully entered the position under the drag of 6 horses and more than 30 people. They were far away from the front line, about 4 kilometers away. Solid gun nests were set up around the position, and the ammunition was placed at a distance At the position 200 meters from the artillery position, fortifications were also built, and the ammunition delivery work was completely carried out in the trenches. Neither the British field artillery nor the guns could hurt these formidable things.

The thick and long barrel of the 120MML40 artillery is slowly pointing to the distant parapet. Flat shooting at this distance is not very accurate,

But it doesn't matter, the Boers have as much as one wagon of ammunition to waste! The gunner sent a shell weighing more than 20 kilograms into the barrel of the gun. Then another propellant package was sent in. Some of them had seen the power of these heavy naval guns, and they were confident of it.

boom! Accompanied by a huge recoil, a shell flew out of the muzzle. This was an armor-piercing shell, yes, it was an armor-piercing shell! Generally, the army's heavy artillery is not equipped with armor-piercing shells, but these naval guns have no suitable shells when they are sent off from the battleship. Based on the principle that they can be used, the armor-piercing shells on the battleship are also accepted by the army.

A huge cloud of smoke gradually spread, and the shell flew out at a speed of more than twice the speed of sound. The hard bullet easily penetrated the 1-meter-thick soil layer on the top of the parapet, and then continued to move forward and hit the soil wall On the armored train behind!

This time, God helped the Boers again! Let’s not talk about how difficult it is to hit a moving target 4 kilometers away, nor how much the ballistic trajectory changes after penetrating the earth wall. The British lost out simply because of the luck of hitting the first locomotive with this shot. There is no temper at all!

The so-called armored train is just to block machine guns and shrapnel. Cannonballs are absolutely unstoppable, even 57MM guns can't stop them. That's why the British built parapets to block the opponent's artillery's vision and firepower. The Boers used 75MM high Even though explosive shells can penetrate theoretically, most of them will be detonated, but the 120MM heavy artillery is different, and it is even more different when using armor-piercing shells! After breaking through the breast wall, it easily penetrated the boiler with only 10MM steel plate protection!

boom! The boiler in front of the entire car body exploded like a volcanic eruption. A large amount of high-temperature, high-pressure water vapor and flame fragments gushed out, sweeping across the entire armored train. The two adjacent carriages were directly destroyed by the steel storm, and the remaining few carriages were also destroyed Derailed under the huge shock! A few minutes ago, it was showing off its power, and it seemed that the indestructible steel behemoth had completely lost its fighting power, lying on the rails like a corpse!

When the armored train was destroyed, the British army no longer had the power to stop the Boers from attacking! The Boers pulled the artillery to the front and almost set up the artillery on the opponent's forehead! Accompanied by a slightly hoarse firing order, artillery of various calibers sprayed out fire snakes to clean up the target very efficiently!

Shells of various calibers flew out of the muzzle with various trajectories, drawing arcs in the air that heralded death. They hit the British bunkers that were still resisting very accurately, and blew up the fortifications of these civil structures into pieces. Under the cover of machine guns and artillery, the Boers rushed towards the core fortifications of the town in four directions.

The two troops outflanked, and the troops on the left attacked the various trains parked in the parking lot. One grenade can paralyze a locomotive, and one explosive package can turn the locomotive into a pile of fragments! The Boers did not spare the explosives in their hands. They methodically crossed ravines and broken barbed wire, and then blew up all the trains and facilities that could be destroyed, even the water towers. In just 2 hours, 30 various locomotives and more than 200 unwrapped wagons in the entire station were turned into a pile of scrap metal in the fire!

Thanks to the book friend Fisherman Zhi, for the reward~~~! It seems that the subscription is even more sad today.....