In an era when siege means were scarce, it was not an easy task to capture a city surrounded by fortified walls. The two sides come and go, and it is no longer normal to have fought around the city wall for several years or even more than ten years without taking the city. It wasn't until the Mongols marched west and brought such a new thing as artillery into Europe that the white ghost animals suddenly realized that this was how the pipe was made!

After that, the artillery got a series of developments, and began to upgrade various monsters and accumulate experience. It wasn't until 1453, when Turkish turkeys wearing square turbans smashed through the walls of Constantinople with urban cannons, and after the tragedy of the city's Christian riots, that the cannon was truly elevated to the status of "anti-city treasure", and became the most eye-catching superstar in various fortress attacks and defenses.

The significance of the fall of Constantinople was not just to provide material for turkeys hundreds of years later, and to make a bad movie called "Conquest 1453" that made white ghost animals uncomfortable. More importantly, soldiers from various countries learned from this war and began to scramble to build giant artillery. The vast number of aspiring soldiers began to compare whose pipe was thicker, whose pipe was longer, who was fast, and who shot farther...... With the fall of Constantinople as the prelude, the vast number of cannon rioters and their pipes launched a magnificent, forward-and-on-going, dog-meat Zhang Dashuai called "cannons bombarding his mother" artillery history......

What the elves are preparing to deal with the walls of Azugrana is a defense version of the Karl 600 self-propelled mortar gun, one of the most terrifying artillery weapons in World War II. The basic parameters of the cannon are basically the same as the original, and the main changes are in the pitching mechanism. The original Carl was pitched with a manual crumpet, and now it has been replaced with an electro-hydraulic pitch. The original design of 10 minutes of one shot, an hour of 6 rounds of the index to 8 hours of the level. With a muzzle velocity of 220 meters per second and the ability to penetrate 2.5 meters of permanent concrete or 450mm armor plates, the walls of the Azugrana are no different from papier-mâché in the face of this cannon.

Surprisingly, as a deadly super artillery weapon, this self-propelled mortar is not under the jurisdiction of the Defense Forces, and its subordinate unit is actually the demolition team of the City Administration. R&D, production, repair, and maintenance are all paid for by the Authority out of its own pocket, and the purpose is, of course, to demolish houses.

Long. At most, the demolition team also borrowed 305mm self-propelled howitzers from the Defence Force for demolition. The effectiveness of this weapon is really good. However, the application procedures are troublesome, and it is not yet possible to achieve large-angle attack and shelling. There is still a distance from the high-precision requirements of the demolition team to "only demolish one building and not affect the surrounding area". In order to carry out the demolition work more quickly and economically, the Demolition and Relocation Office has developed this super mortar that can instantly dismantle a building of more than a dozen floors from the roof to the foundation with just one shot. and sent to the General Armament Department. Strive to formally equip the demolition team as soon as possible.

This Stardust operation just needs the demolition team to play professionally. Once contacted, the enthusiastic house demolition elites not only brought a full set of eating guys, including all 4 super mortars, but also pouted with the giant cannon hobby team above. Ba hopes that another kind of super cannon "Gustav equipment" can also be present, "give a shot" to Azugrana, and engage in a cross-departmental "meeting with artillery" to promote in-depth exchanges between the vast number of artillery friends from deep feelings to artillery fighting technology......

In the end, the General Staff still didn't give this group of guys who were focused on artillery a chance. The reason is simple, Gustav is still testing and has not yet reached the state of being ready for real combat. Even if it can be used, it will take a long time for this unprecedented giant cannon to be transported to the completion of actual combat deployment under normal conditions, not to mention the current situation of railway congestion, which is completely unable to catch up with the combat schedule. In the end, Azugrana is just a city with slightly thicker walls, not the "Third New XX City" that is buried hundreds of meters deep underground in a certain ACG work, protected by 28 layers of armor plates, and can grow watermelons and soak in bathhouses underground, which is specially used to beat the apostles. It was a waste to use Gustav.

At this point, the city administration can only be saddened. Fortunately, the General Staff cherished a set of skills they had already cultivated in demolition, demolition, and urban warfare. After more than 1,000 demolition team members received the necessary military training, they were magnificently transferred to the Wehrmacht's armored engineer battalion, which specialized in street fighting, or the demolition of houses.

In addition to the infantry weapons equipped with the regular army, the battalion had a large number of flamethrowers, shotguns, iron fist rocket launchers, chemical mortars that fired white phosphorus bombs, "Goria" remote-controlled tanks, gas generators and high explosives - everything that could be used to collapse a house.

In addition to this elite "house demolition" professional unit, there are also several special units in the Azugrana Raiders sequence. For example, a company of huntsmen, composed mostly of snipers, an accounting group directly under the General Staff, a transport unit of the Railway Bureau, and so on. Among the most taboo are Stasi's Einsatzgruppen and the Chemical Defense Company, which was formerly part of the health department, with which even the Defence Force soldiers are reluctant to deal with.

Although they are both violent agencies, the military has never been interested in Stasi's political detectives, and the two sides have not interacted with each other. This time, it was the highest commander who stepped forward, and the military reluctantly allowed Stasi to appear on the battlefield. As for the anti-chemical warfare company, only a few people in the upper echelons of the General Staff know what they are really doing. In the eyes of ordinary officers and soldiers, the anti-chemical warfare company is just a group of strange guys wearing bizarre and ridiculous rubber masks and wrapping themselves from head to toe in white protective clothing. Every day's work is nothing more than holding a binder, opening a few sealed boxes, checking, recording, and adjusting the power of the cylinder barometer. As everyone knows, these highly educated guys are currently the most ferocious and undefendable special killers in the world. Their presence on the battlefield is the greatest nightmare for the enemy.

Many middle- and lower-ranking officers were opposed to the presence of these irregular troops.

In their view, the battlefield is the domain of the exclusive military. And not a testing ground for other sectors, let alone the glory of conquering a millennium port to these irregular forces.

Conqueror of Azugrana, this title can only belong to the glorious defense army.

Having said that, in the planning above, the mood of the officers is only a factor that needs to be considered, and it is far from having to face it. In the order of consideration in their minds, there are things that take precedence over the mood of the army.

In view of the fact that the Navy used mines and U-boats, the Air Force completely blocked the waterways and air passages with aviation warships and MDS, and the Army infantry and tanks surrounded the city. Azugrana has become an island in fact, and all that remains is how to destroy it.

Major William Sherman's face was relaxed, and there was no sign that he was nervous about the impending battle. He looked at the city wall for a while, patted the boys on the shoulders for a while, and told a few jokes to relax the soldiers brought out of the demolition team. Onlookers could not help but suspect that the Major was in fact a personal humanist, overly caring for his men, and fearing that the Major and his troops might suffer in the ensuing battle.

Perhaps only Nona, in a hurried glance, noticed that the major of the same name as a certain general of the United States of America, who had been hated, cursed, and called a murderer by countless white men in the south, had a flame in his blue eyes—the mad flame of ruin. (To be continued......)

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Li Lin: The winning reader in the last issue is "Lin Cup is a cat", congratulations!

Nidhogg: What is the prototype of today's question 1.600mm self-propelled mortar cannon? (hint: there is an answer in this episode) 2.The "third new XX city" buried hundreds of meters underground, protected by 28 layers of armor plates, able to grow watermelons and bathhouses underground, and specially used to beat the apostles - what is the name of this city? (Hint: Childhood memories, introduced in China under the name of "Aquila Warrior", after the voice of Sister Ju Ping on the TV "Brave Sao Nian, go and create a zào miracle", the dog's ears were destroyed.) ...... Everyone, let's get started!