"In addition, our ammunition consumption has exceeded expectations, and we must arrange ammunition supplies in advance. In addition, what I am most worried about is that how we fight in the future, we can't have dozens of pilots' lives every day to suppress the Japanese long-range artillery, right?" Sims said.

"Then we can only hope that the army will advance faster and be able to kill the Japanese heavy artillery positions with its own strength." Admiral Benson said a seemingly unreliable choice... If the US Army had this ability, wouldn't it be too strong? Will it be pressed on the beach and be beaten up? From the foreword to the Japanese heavy artillery positions, it is probably not a straight line distance of nearly 18 kilometers! And the terrain is complex, with beaches, woodlands, hills and mountains all the way! How can the army fight?

"We only have three days, and we must come up with a way to solve the problem of suppressing the Japanese heavy artillery force. Otherwise, our naval aviation forces will collapse before seeing the Japanese fleet. You must know that the Japanese also have three aircraft carriers and can also obtain support from land-based aviation. If there is nothing on our aircraft carrier at the time of war, then you should know how tragic the situation of the United States of America fleet will be." Benson said.

"But how to solve the problem! Our naval guns cannot reach them, and the carrier-based aircraft cannot afford to lose them. All our weapons cannot effectively suppress the target. If the Japanese were not limited in ammunition and continued to use artillery to cover the target area, we would probably not even be able to maintain the current landing field!" Sims was also a little anxious. As an artillery expert in the US Navy, he had no choice.

"Look for Germans! They will definitely have a solution! They will definitely encounter this situation on the Western Front." Benson thought for a while and said.

"Major General Karls is proficient in battlefield breakthroughs. He is not an artillery expert." Sims said.

"But there must be artillery experts in the German fleet. They have at least participated in artillery bombardment on British mainland and have definitely studied the issues of ultra-long-distance shelling and ballistics." Admiral Benson said with great certainty.

If the artillery and artillery systems of countries around the world are the strongest, Germany must be the strongest, which is well deserved. Otherwise, it would be impossible to win the First World War. After all, with the overall quantity disadvantage and quality, it is impossible to overwhelm Britain and France in the epic showdown on the Western Front. This is a manifestation of strength. Second, France is the main force of the army on the Western Front. After all, the main force of the army on the Western Front is the French. If France is not strong, it will not take more than two years to push France down, right? If it can fight against the world's number one Germany for more than two years, the French's artillery and artillery level can also be seen. The third is naturally Britain. There is no weak army that can have a sense of presence on the Western Front!

What? What level do you ask the Americans? It must have fallen out of the top five. The Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Russians had more artillery battle experience than the Americans. This is the case both in the army and the navy... Think about it, it was not long ago that the country that ordered a large number of M cannons that the Germans had in 1908 as long-range medium-caliber artillery. How much practical experience can they have? (In history, the US Army referred to the French artillery system, 75MM rapid-fire cannons plus 155 cannons.) Therefore, the problem that the Americans could not solve does not mean that the Germans could not solve it!

So that night, General Su Xiong and Major General Carls arrived on a transportation boat during the period when General Benson came. The old black man Pershing and Major General Marshall arrived together. They will solve the current problems encountered by the US military.

"It seems that our concerns have finally become a reality. The level of equipment the Japanese possesses exceeded our expectations. If we do not suppress these long-range cannons, our progress will be difficult, because all the logistics stations we plan to set up are within the range of Japanese artillery attacks. General Su Xiong, you are an expert in the navy and have in-depth research on artillery techniques. So is there a way to solve the problem in front of us now?" General Benson asked.

"It's very difficult. According to our previous agreement, the Bavarian-class battleships are equipped with armor-piercing and semi-piercing bombs. The former is used to deal with battleships, and the latter is used to deal with armored cruiser-level targets. For ultra-long-range targets, our attack method is to use flickers, but in this battle, we were not prepared for a single shot, and even the entire United States did not have flickers suitable for us. As for your country's 14-inch naval gun, we can only say that we have never seen a complete firing watch, so we are really powerless." Su Xiong said.

"What about the Army? Major General Carls, do you have any suggestions?" asked Pershing on the side.

"I want to know whether the new 155MM cannon in your army can be put into the battlefield at any time, it is the one modified with the German M cannon. If I remember correctly, the firing watch of this cannon is similar to the original German product?" Major General Karls did not dare to be arrogant, so he asked.

"Yes, the caliber was changed and the ammunition was slightly adjusted. In order to facilitate this landing operation, we lightened the gun stand, but the firing meter and ballistics would not change." Pershing said with great certainty.

However, this time, Major General Carls did not immediately answer Pershing's words, because at this time, he was holding a document in his hand, which was the data file Marshall had just given him about the US military M cannon.

"I am bluntly, your army has done a little too much in the issue of weight loss on the gun stand. It is barely possible to reduce weight by opening the hole, but reducing strength at the connection between hydraulic equipment and guns is a bit too much, because when shooting at a high elevation angle, the impact of the gun on the rigid connection between the gun stand is very large. You can understand that every time you shoot, a heavy hammer hits the ground hard." Karls said.

"Is this a big problem?" asked Pershing.

"That's right. Although I am not a real artillery expert within the German army, after all, in the Imperial Army, if you cannot command and coordinate at least 400 artillery groups composed of 8 different artillery types, then don't say you are an expert. However, I personally have commanded military-level combat, and I have also had the opportunity to come into contact with weapons such as K09 cannons and 210MM heavy howitzers. There are also some research on the performance and operation of artillery. I estimate that if you use the returned M1A3 long-range artillery to shoot at a large elevation angle, the life of the artillery stand may be only about one-third of that of conventional products." Major General Karls said.
Chapter completed!