21. Rush to the door of the color (25)
When it comes to destruction and dragging others to destroy together, generally speaking, most of the people who think about these problems are dangerous people with antisocial personality disorder, and it is impossible for normal people to think about such problems, let alone put them into practice. But the battlefield is not a normal society, and in the Shura hell of killing and being killed, there is no room to think about morality and ethics. Especially the soldiers who face life and death every day, they don't know what the big truth is, they only know that you want my life okay, but don't expect me to stand straight and wait for you to kill. When they know that they have no way out, killing one is enough, killing two and earning one is their common idea.
Therefore, when the opposite Iron King Eight began to charge, the vast majority of people chose to resist desperately, even if they died with the other party.
Their mood is understandable, and there is nothing wrong with their thoughts.
The ghost beasts on the other side understood Charlemagne's thoughts very well - not only did they know the parameters and performance of their tanks well, but they also directly experienced the feeling of being beaten by anti-tank hunters dozens of times on the training ground. After being beaten in various positions by the hypothetical enemy units of the Blue Army, possessed by various aliens and on the upper body of the kamikaze, the defenders have fully understood the strengths and weaknesses of the tank, and how to deal with the enemy tank hunters and trench systems. So they gave a full death meal to Charlemagne, who was about to die.
Chariot guns with straight ballistics and low depression angles are not suitable for destroying trench fortifications, and light weapons such as machine guns and assault rifles must also be in the trenches to exert firepower, large-caliber howitzers and mortars with high parabolic trajectory are covered by artillery fire, and grenade launchers and grenades may be able to exert a certain degree of power, but the power of zigzag jagged trenches will be greatly reduced.
So what is the fastest and most effective way to deal with the trench system?
The answer is cluster bombs, incendiary bombs, fuel-air bombs, flamethrowers, or what is often referred to as "burn, burn, burn".
Cluster bombs can cover the entire depth of a trench in a short period of time, and various fuses can be installed as needed to meet various tactical needs. For example, an air-detonation fuse can be detonated at an altitude of 5 to 10 metres above the ground, shrapnel can be used to kill unprotected infantrymen, a time-delay fuse can be turned into a time bomb, and a special mechanical fuse can be turned into a mine or remote-controlled bomb designed to deal with sappers and carry out blockade tasks. As long as a sufficient number of cluster munitions are deployed, any fortified area and trench will become a dead zone.
Fuel-air bombs, which are often referred to as thermobaric bombs, will not only release high heat and shock waves at the moment of detonation, but also quickly deplete the air within the range of the combustion wave, even if the enemy soldiers are hiding in the fortifications and are not killed or burned, they will also die of suffocation due to lack of oxygen. Incendiary bombs are roughly similar in that they also burn a large area to kill enemies. Although flamethrowers cannot achieve surface kill, it is good to use them to carry out targeted killings on specific targets, whether it is a pillbox or an anti-artillery hole, there will not be half a living person after a barbecue.
If you add the "special ammunition" fired by mortars, there really won't be any living creatures in the trenches.
The battle group attacking St. Manger was not short of any of the above-mentioned trench sweeping artifacts, and as soon as they found that Charlemagne was ready to play for their lives, they immediately served Charlemagne a tailor-made death feast according to the situation on the spot.
The first to come up was the air attack, a squadron of attack planes screamed at a nearly vertical angle to the ground, the pneumatic bagpipes installed on the wingtips let out a terrible howl, as the attack planes dive faster and faster, the scream also turned from thick to sharp, until flying less than 1,000 meters from the ground, the two 250 kg bombs suspended under the belly and the four 50 kg bombs suspended under the wings left the fuselage together and fell straight to the ground. When the bomb fell 500 meters above the ground, the built-in barometric altimeter activated the shell lock, and the shell split in half, scattering countless blue-and-white spheres and raining down on the entire Saint-Mangri. Before the defenders and the villagers could understand what the heavens were doing, death and destruction indiscriminately visited the unprotected lambs.
Each 250-kilogram cluster bomb carries 102 submunitions, while the 50-kilogram cluster bomb can carry 21 submunitions, each of which can produce about 300 pieces of metal fragments and steel balls.
Now 2,592 submunitions evenly cover every inch of the village, and any unprotected target will be bathed in an all-metal storm.
Boom! Boom!
Thousands of explosions rang out at the same time and turned into a huge thunder, and people involuntarily covered their ears and closed their eyes, and when they opened their eyes again, the living people who had been fine just now had become a pile of bloody rotten flesh in the blink of an eye. In the face of the almost conical dispersion of this kind of air-burst shotgun, whether lying down or standing, it is impossible to escape the fate of being killed by high-speed flying fragments and steel balls, even if it is hiding under the eaves or in the anti-artillery hole, if the angle is not good, it will be swept away, and if it hits any vital part, it cannot be handled at the level of a field hospital. It is important to know that some steel balls have undergone special treatment, and after entering the human body, they will bend, and the shrapnel may be relatively easy to take out, but the shrapnel full of rust and sulfur smoke will also send deadly carry-ups into the body after entering the human body, and even if they do not die on the spot, the wounded will die painfully in the complications such as tetanus and sepsis caused by wound infection. From this point of view, it may be easier to die on the spot.
The blow alone killed nearly 60 percent of the defenders on the spot, and some shrapnel shattered Molotov cocktails stacked in the trenches, triggering several fires and explosions that further exacerbated the chaos. While the defenders hurriedly began to organize rescue and extinguish the fire, the mortars carried by infantry fighting vehicles began to speak.
In the process of developing infantry fighting vehicles, the defense forces once had similar differences between light and heavy fighting vehicles, and the entire history of infantry fighting vehicle research and development equipment is a historical microcosm of the relevant departments pulling skins, raising bars, increasing weights, bargaining, and flipping the table. This kind of quarrel continued from the establishment of the project to the finalization of the equipment, and its excitement is comparable to the process of developing the "Arjun" combat vehicle in India. Of course, with the direct or indirect intervention of the dictator, it did not become the kind of Bollywood-style comedy that built a tank in 30 years and was forcibly retired by the military within a few years of equipment. However, there are also a lot of joyful elements in it.
In the beginning, the military and weapons development departments were at loggerheads over whether to use an open-top half-track armored transport vehicle or a fully enclosed infantry fighting vehicle. Then the two sides fought for the thickness of the armor and what kind of material to use for the armor, and then for the configuration of the weapon, and then the engine and transmission became the fuse of the cup war...... It wasn't until the dictator flipped the table in anger that the two sides stopped.
Speaking of which, the reason for the dispute is that the focus of the two sides is different. The military's focus is on price and quantity, and it is acceptable to abandon some of the performance indicators in order to maintain sufficient quantities within a limited budget. Designers argue that the battlefield is evolving faster and technology is being updated at a much faster rate than the military thinks, and that an armored transport vehicle that is currently sufficient to meet the needs is likely to become an iron coffin with a low survival rate in just one year, and then developing a new replacement will not only waste time, but also increase the cost of outfitting and training personnel. Instead of rushing around at that time, it is better to produce a fully enclosed tracked infantry fighting vehicle that is enough to fight a complete war at this stage. Instead of calculating the price, the military should apply for more budget to develop and equip this "perfect battlefield taxi".
The views of the two sides are completely different, and they don't pee into a pot at all, and there is no ghost if they don't quarrel.
Finally, there is a big boss who can make a decision in one word, otherwise the two sides can quarrel for decades for everyone to see.
In the end, the dictator personally slapped the board: to ask for infantry fighting vehicles. You must know that the next battle is a general war, and the large-scale use of NBC weapons will not necessarily stay in the battle plan or war literature in the safe, biological weapons, chemical weapons, and even nuclear weapons are very likely to go to the battlefield, and at that time, half-track armored transport vehicles and all cheap armored transport vehicles with insufficient three-defense capabilities will not be able to survive on the battlefield. Taking 10,000 steps back, even if the NBC weapon is not used in the end, the security battle after the end of the frontal battlefield is an unavoidable problem, and an infantry fighting vehicle equipped with multiple fire projection means and heavy protection is obviously better able to survive and function in this harsh environment than a half-track armored transport vehicle.
The big boss set the direction, and the rest of the things were naturally much easier, and the research and development of the entire infantry fighting vehicle quickly got on the right track, and finally came up with the "Infantry Fighting Leopard" - based on the lightweight chassis of the Leopard fighting vehicle, equipped with a miniaturized machine gun turret, equipped with a soldier cockpit and an 81 mm mortar, it is like a shrunken version of the Merkava infantry fighting vehicle (Merkava 4 is an infantry fighting vehicle, no problem). As if this firepower configuration was not enough, "special ammunition" such as poison gas bombs, smoke bombs, and white phosphorus smoke incendiary bombs fired by mortars were also distributed in actual combat. Now the infantry fighting vehicles are pouring white phosphorus smoke incendiary bombs on the pilgrimage to Mangri.
Soon, Charlemagne's officers and soldiers, who were busy extinguishing the fires everywhere, heard a unique sound from the sky, which was a strange scream similar to a woman's cry, starting with a woman crying, and soon the crying became a loud one. Many people set up the pergola with their hands in confusion and looked at the sky, and when a group of black dots quickly magnified in the field of vision, the people who finally reacted roared out the belated alarm hoarsely.
"Shelling!Get cover!!"
The alarm was sounded only once, and then it was drowned out by the loud sound of the shell exploding, first one and two explosions—this was a range-measuring test firing at the right head, and soon the explosion sounded. Even seasoned veterans could not distinguish the caliber and model of the shells. They couldn't even estimate how many cannons the ghosts had brought in to target the small village.
The ferocious shelling lasted about a quarter of an hour, and countless meteors trailing white smoke splattered to the ground, leaving trails of smoke depicting jellyfish with venomous tentacles sticking out of their venomous tentacles toward the ground. As the smoke gradually spread, the whole of Saint-Mangri became a purgatory on earth.