The next morning, the bright wake-up call broke the calm of the floating island fortress.

A group of heavily armed soldiers gathered on the school floor, the sunrise has not yet fully risen, the name of the voice came and went, opened a new day.

I thought it was an ordinary day, and the long-term running of the morning weight-bearing run had not yet begun, and battle alarms were sounded all over the Fushu Fortress.

The troops were the first to gather the battle sequences at the regimental level, suspending all training tasks, and all military officers went to the divisional headquarters for the first time to report.

It was not until this time that the Red Guard Corps knew that the first annual live-fire exercise would be conducted.

All the soldiers on the floating island fortress began to march through the hyperspace portal in the barracks in a company unit, and gathered at the exercise field on the ground ten floors of the base.

The base of the ground ten floors, is a special exercise world, in this world, with a variety of complex combat terrain, complete trenches and urban buildings.

A team of soldiers gathered here, received orders to participate in the exercise of the Red Guard Corps Army 1st Division, ready to play subjects.

The exercise site, arranged in the hilly and rolling mountain forest area, through the Ministry of War issued only one task, that is, the cannon coordination.

The time to prepare the Red Guards Corps for the Army First Division is less than two hours, and two hours after the alarm goes off, Fan Yize will arrive at the exercise and watch the exercise.

Without preparation, it is difficult to complete the goal of this exercise.

Under the quiet attention of tens of thousands of Red Guards soldiers, the artillery units of the 1st Division completed the construction of artillery positions in an hour, marked, and ready for artillery and artillery shells.

At the distance of the exercise coordinates of the first division artillery brigade, forty-eight 105 mm howitzers are ready, four hot air balloons of the artillery brigade reconnaissance battalion are launched, and eight reconnaissance platoons on the ground are going to the coordinates of the exercise.

The exercise has actually begun, the actual combat test of the nature of the exercise, not the director of the script, Fan Yize also does not want to see a script director out of the exercise screen.

Without any prior notice, when the personnel of the 1st Division Artillery Brigade thought that the exercise had not yet begun, the eight reconnaissance platoons that went to the target of the exercise to conduct ground reconnaissance, three lost contact after reaching the target area.

The other five artillery reconnaissance platoons also used radio stations to alert them and began to provide bombardment coordinates.

At the same time, Fan Yize sat in the base console, watching the exercise.

Before the appearance of the tank in the army battlefield, only the artillery that dominated the ground war was the real king of war.

Throughout the world for the first time, human warfare has for the first time presented the obvious characteristics of comprehensive national strength competition and consumption.

This war is based on industrialization, the implementation of large-scale human and material mobilization and long-distance transport, with a strong artillery firepower of sustainable bombardment, airships, tanks, submarines and other new types of land, sea and air weapons have been put into the battlefield, and even gas has come in use.

But in terms of the key battle to determine the outcome, World War I is still essentially a land offensive and defensive war on the European continent.

Before World War I, in the face of solid defensive positions composed of machine guns, trench systems and barbed wire, it became more and more difficult for the attacking side to achieve victory by the number of infantry.

Even after a long, high-intensity shelling, coupled with the continuous assault of the group of infantry, it is often only a limited breakthrough on the enemy line.

Machine guns were impressive in World War I, but artillery was the weapon that really ruled the battlefield.The first war is a war of artillery, but before the First World War, the status of artillery in the war is far beyond the First World War.

On the edge of the exercise in Fan Yize's eyes is a list of several pages of artillery construction.

From small mortars to trenches, large to seven or eight hundred millimeters of super train guns, even if not pure artilleryists Fan Yize, see this dazzling variety of artillery, for a while is also a proud.

Cannons dominate the era of war at this moment.

In World War I, artillery killed more people than light weapons and airstrikes, and more people than any other weapon, for the first time in human history, and possibly for the last time.In the later period of the war, the advantages of the cannon were fully exerted, and the machine gun lost its role.Without cannons, the infantry can neither win nor defend themselves.

The conquest of artillery and the occupation of infantry became the mode of operation of the First World War, which placed high demands on a country's artillery supply capacity, which in turn depended on the industrial strength of a country.

As for the old army, there are veterans who are afraid of machine guns, and recruits are afraid of artillery, which is in Fan Yize's view, but in the case of war, it is a completely different understanding.

The main reason is that the number of artillery in the warlords of the hometown was small, and it was mainly mountain guns and infantry guns, and the shells were very few, and many so-called artillery guns would only directly target the firing, indirect aiming equal to indiscriminate shooting, and there was no difference with fireworks, and the symbolism of the shelling was much greater than its substantive significance.Therefore, recruits are often frightened by the sound of rumbling guns, but the veterans know that the real fear is the machine guns opposite.

The Red Guard Corps completely exerted artilleryism to the extreme, and throughout the First World War, no country's divisional forces were equipped with 48 large-caliber howitzers in one go, let alone before World War I.

In the armies of the world before World War I, only military-sized troops were equipped with a certain number of artillery, and various artillery pieces were installed in the troops step by step during this period, and only the Red Police Corps, which had a unique advantage.

And in all countries are wired telephone and cable telegraph as a command link in the war era, the Red Police Corps has been fully equipped with radio communication, and reached the battalion level, which is a huge advantage of the times.

At present, the radios of various countries are only equipped with warships, and due to the backwardness of technology, the wireless communication distance is only between a few hundred meters and an upper kilometer, and the practicality is very small.

Under the picture of augmented reality projection, Fan Yize sat in the high air of the exercise world, watching the dense artillery fire raging below, and the devastating burst of 48 105 mm howitzers, which were used as targets in the entire mountain area, was completely covered by the dense artillery fire.

During the shelling process, a large number of targets were quickly destroyed, and the hot air balloons and artillery reconnaissance units that approached the detection also guided the coordinates of the shelling again and again.

During the shelling, the two infantry companies of the 1st Division reached the foot of the target mountain and advanced to the edge of the bombardment coordinates in the midst of the rumbling artillery fire, and as the artillery fire extended, the two infantry companies followed the pace of the artillery advance, facing the heat wave of the artillery and advancing to the top of the mountain.

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