370 Siege 2
"What should I do?" Will Jon said with a gloomy face putting down the telescope in his hand.
"There is really no way to do it for the time being. We have tried various means and sent a blasting team to blow up the railway or lay mines. However, the British still have a line of defense behind the railway. The blasting team that barely blocked through the fire of the armored train will still be shot and killed by the British troops behind the defense."
"We tried to use mortars to attack railways and trains across the chest wall, but the accuracy of the mortars is inherently bad. Unless a simple high-explosive bomb hits directly, it will cause little damage to the train." Pershing said at a loss. The situation in front of him was beyond his expectations. He did not expect an armored train to be so difficult to deal with!
"Why should we push the 75mm rapid-fire cannon up?" Will Jon said carefully.
"It's useless. The ballistics of the rapid-fire gun are too straight, and the earth walls are enough to block most of the shooting world. Moreover, it is difficult to move the gun body of more than 1 ton. It may be covered by the opponent's 37mm machine cannon before entering the position. If it is bending, the effect will not be much different from the mortar, and it is even worse than the former. What's more, the opponent is moving, and it is too difficult to hit the moving target." Kariput said calmly.
"What should I do? Use someone to fill it out? Or just retreat? Or wait for the other party to exhaust all the ammunition?" Will Jon was anxious and said angrily.
"We can blow up the entire earth wall and then destroy these iron turtles from a distance." Kariput said with a smile.
"What a joke? The opponent's chest wall is a gravity structure, and it is very stable. Even if it is blasted, it will only make it shorter. It is difficult to completely blow it up! If we use the 75mm rapid-fire cannon, we may not be able to open a large enough gap if we use all the shells!" Pan Xing couldn't help it.
"Don't forget, we destroyed a British train before that, with 4 120mm naval guns on it! After the vehicle was in thunder, it just overturned and did not explode. Three of the four cannons on the car could be repaired and used. At the same time, there were a large number of shells in the last car. With these things, we can completely kill this iron turtle!" A good commander must learn how to use all favorable conditions!
"That's great, why didn't you bring these things up earlier!" Pan Xing said excitedly.
"These guys have just been repaired and transported to it. The artillery is too heavy, weighing more than 4 tons. There are also these shells. I mobilized more than 100 horses before I sent the personnel, artillery and ammunition." Kariput said with a smile.
The original 75mm cannon was limited in power, and it was very difficult to destroy the chest wall, but now it was different with heavy cannons. Once several gaps were opened to these chest walls, other light cannons could find the flat-fire window. The offensive troops also had several channels.
What the British did not expect was that several artillery pieces they accidentally lost became the key to this battle! The heavy 120mm naval gun successfully entered the position under the tow of 6 horses and more than 30 people. They were far from the front line, about 4 kilometers. A strong gun nest was set up around the position, and the ammunition was placed 200 meters away from the gun position, and the ammunition was also built. At the same time, the ammunition transport work was carried out completely in the trenches. Neither the British field gun nor the thunderbolt cannon could hurt these intimidating things.
The thick and long barrel of the 120mml40 artillery slowly pointed to the far chest wall. The accuracy of flat ejaculation at this distance is not high, but it doesn't matter. The Boers have as many as one carriage ammunition for waste! The gunner sent a shell weighing more than 20 kilograms into the barrel chamber and then sent a launching medicine bag in. Some of them had seen the power of these heavy naval cannons, and they were full of confidence in it.
Boom! With huge recoil force, a shell flew out of the gun mouth. This is an armor-piercing shell. Yes, it is an armor-piercing shell! Generally, the heavy artillery of the army is not equipped with armor-piercing shells, but when these naval artillery are sent down from warships, there are no suitable shells. In the principle that it is enough to be used, the armor-piercing shells on the warships are also received by the army.
A huge ball of smoke gradually spread out, and the shell flew out at a speed of more than twice the speed of sound. The hard warhead easily penetrated the soil layer of 1 meter thick on the chest wall, and then continued to advance and hit the armored train behind the earth wall!
This time, God helped the Boer again! Not to mention how difficult it is to hit a moving target 4 kilometers away, nor how much the ballistic changes are there after breaking through the earth wall. Just by simply hitting the first motorcycle, the British lost without any temper!
The so-called armored train is just a blocking machine gun and shrapnel. The shells are absolutely unblocked, and even the 57mm cannon cannot be blocked. Therefore, the British built a chest wall to block the vision of the opponent's artillery and fire the fire. Even if the 75mm high-explosive bomb used by the Boers can theoretically penetrate, it will most likely be detonated. However, the 120mm heavy cannon is different, and it will be even more different when using armor-piercing shells! After breaking through the chest wall, it is easily penetrated into a boiler with only 10mm steel plate protection!
Boom! The boiler in front of the entire vehicle body exploded like a volcanic eruption. A large amount of high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor and flame debris squirted out, sweeping across the entire armored train. The two nearby cars were directly destroyed by the steel storm, and the remaining cars also derailed under a huge vibration! A few minutes ago, the iron beast that was still showing off its power, as if the indestructible steel has now completely lost its combat power, lying on the rails like a corpse!
When the armored train was destroyed, the British army had no more force to stop the Boers' attack! The Boers pulled the cannons to the front line and almost set up artillery on the other party's forehead! Accompanied by a few slightly hoarse shooting orders, artillery of various caliber spewed out fire snakes and cleaned the target very efficiently!
Arcs of various caliber flew out of the gun mouth with various ballistics, marking arcs that indicate death in the air. They hit the British bunker that was still resisting very accurately, blowing these civil structures into pieces. Under the cover of machine guns and artillery, the Boers divided their troops into four directions to rush towards the core fortifications of the town.
The two troops launched an encirclement. The troops on the left wing attacked various trains parked in the parking lot. A grenade could paralyze a locomotive, and a pack of explosives could turn the locomotive into a pile of debris! The Boers did not hesitate to the explosives in their hands. They methodically crossed the ravines and broken barbed wire, and then blew all the destructible trains and facilities to pieces, and even the water towers were not spared. In just 2 hours, 30 locomotives and more than 200 decomposition vehicles in the entire station turned into a pile of scrap iron in the flames!
Chapter completed!