7.98 The eye of the cannon

The artillery units of any country are equipped with a considerable number of impact point observers or forward observers, and the Chinese and Japanese armies are no exception. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It is no exaggeration to say that the artillery advance observer is the eye of the artillery unit. After Sun Lianzhong telegraphed back to express his acceptance of Huang Haoran's artillery battle plan, Shi Jincai asked Fan Jie on the phone that the North Shore Artillery Unit should send impact point observers or advance observers to help the artillery, which was fully satisfied by the headquarters of the 2nd Army and the 25th Group Army.

Not only did Sun Lianzhong order the units of the 2nd Army in Taierzhuang to send a large number of artillery observation squads to the Japanese defense line, but the 188th and 187th Divisions, two units of the 25th Army on the north bank of the canal, also sent a considerable number of artillery advance observers to the Japanese Seya detachment opposite them. Now what the artillery regiment directly under the 25th Army needs to do is to wait and prepare for war.

Shi Jincai, who was sitting in the regimental headquarters of the artillery regiment, looked at a large number of coordinates and parameters on the table, which were all mapped by the artillery regiment's own artillery observation squad to the north shore before the all-out war in Taierzhuang. Originally, according to Shi Jincai's own artillery manual, the part-time observers of the infantry units were required to assume responsibility only when the forward observers of the artillery regiment directly under them were killed, wounded, or incapacitated. If it weren't for the lack of time to send people to the north bank of the canal, Shi Jincai was reluctant to let the part-time observers in the infantry guide his artillery.

Shi Jincai's heart actually didn't have much confidence in the artillery observation squad sent by the 2nd Army, which had never cooperated with large-scale artillery, and his treasure was basically pressed on those artillery observation squads of the 25th Army on the north bank.

Basically, every unit of the 25th Group Army had a group of backbone officers and soldiers from the 99th Division before the Anti-Japanese War, and these people had received relatively standard infantry artillery combat training under the "oppression" of the German advisory group and Shi Jincai. Therefore, Shi Jincai should pay more attention to these part-time artillery advance observers of the 25th Army.

Another important reason is that the number of radio stations equipped by the various units of the 25th Army is far greater than that of Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Army, so Shi Jincai believes that the first artillery observation squad to send back the news must be from the two divisions of the 25th Army on the north bank.

Shi Jincai had such an idea in his mind, it was by no means to look down on Sun Lianzhong's troops, but because the work of an artillery observer requires extremely strong professional knowledge, and it is not something that can be done by just a few scouts.

Personnel assigned to forward observation missions were required to get close enough to the Japanese and observe their movements, and then use artillery terminology to communicate with the artillery regiment on the south bank. These artillery advance observers can be said to be a thorn in the enemy's side, and the slightest carelessness will endanger their own safety, and sometimes even affect the artillery units in the rear.

What to consider and calculate to summon a cannon support. All this requires the artillery forward observer to complete it within a few minutes or even seconds, and mistakes and delays may delay the fighters and even cause the troops to pay great losses.

Within any career field, there are "jargon" that those working in that field must understand and apply. For the artillery advance observers, they have a set of "jargon" for issuing attack parameters to the artillery group.

In order to avoid possible misunderstandings in the transmission, the shelling was made as precise and swift as possible. These "jargon" follow the principle of a short, easy-to-understand setting. A professional observer of the advance of the artillery, using "jargon", could make it clear in just a few sentences the entire data on shelling that the commander of the rear artillery needed. The professional tools in their hands, the observation tools - the telescope and the BC scope with a scale net - are even more powerful! Lateral distances can be measured with considerable accuracy. By using the contour lines marked on the military map, the observer can better identify the coordinate orientation of the target. To put it in layman's terms, the BC sight is as important to the forward observer as the rifle is to the infantry.

There is also the "mil method" used by artillery advance observers to measure angles, where 1 mil is one thousandth of the circumference. This is not knowledge that an ordinary scout can grasp!

Difference in profession makes one feel worlds apart! Although the difference between infantry and artillery is only one word, the doorway here is very different!

Shi Jincai now only hopes that those part-time artillery advance observers sent by the 188th and 187th Divisions have not returned all what they have learned from the German advisory corps and artillery to their teachers! Tonight's artillery battle will be a result and a majestic one, but it will all depend on these part-time artillery advance observers!

To the north of Taierzhuang, in a small forest on the side of the Liujiahu position of the Japanese Seya Detachment, binoculars and BC sights with scale nets emerged from behind the branches and leaves of the trees, and an artillery observation squad sent by the 187th Division was hiding here.

"Squad leader! The position we are staying in now is still a little far away from the devil's position, and this kung fu little devil does not shoot flares, and the observation conditions are even worse! I think we have to move forward! ”

The guy who stayed behind the BC scope and said grumbling was called Luo Laoqi, a native of Anhui. There are eleven brothers and sisters in the family, and he is the seventh. Due to the small number of people in Tian, Luo Laoqi has not eaten a full meal for a few days since he was a child, and in 33 years, when Huang Haoran was pulling the team in Wucheng, Luo Laoqi slipped out of his home and joined Huang Haoran's command.

After a few years of military rations, Luo Laoqi not only became much stronger, but also became a captain and company commander of the 187th Division. This time, if it weren't for the 701 Regiment where Luo Laoqi was located, which received an order from the division commander Liu Zhaomu asking them to send artillery observers to cooperate with the artillery regiment directly under the group army, Luo Laoqi would probably still be staying in the fortifications in Taierzhuang and bragging and farting with the brothers in his company.

The troops of the 187th Division on the north bank of the canal were only such an infantry regiment stationed in Taierzhuang. There are even fewer backbones from the 99th Division in the regiment, and in order to complete the task assigned by the general assembly, company commanders like Luo Laoqi were also put into the artillery observation squad and sent to the place closest to the devil.

"You're talking lightly! The front is all open land, and there is no place for hiding people at all, so if the devils continue to shoot flares into the sky, where will we hide? ”

The person who answered was Liu Yutian, the commander of the reconnaissance company of the 701st regiment, usually artillery observers rarely perform tasks alone, and usually scouts come to serve as guards and guides for artillery observers.

"I don't care! Here I can't see the target clearly, I can't give the imprecise parameters to the artillery regiment, right? It's going to leak! Company Commander Liu! In order to let all the shells fired by our artillery fall on the heads of the devils, you find a way to continue to send me forward! I'll give you credit when I turn around! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )