Chapter 550 Hammer Drop (Part 3)

There are two types of artillery fire.

One is the slow-moving barrage that advances slowly in a straight line. The artillery group is responsible for clearing a forward passage for the attacking troops with artillery shells while suppressing the enemy's counterattack ability, but it requires the artillery to have good training and organizational skills.

The slow-moving barrage is used to suppress the enemy's counterattack fire. The slowly moving artillery barrage will detonate mines, destroy barbed wire and roadblocks, so it is often accompanied by a charge of clustered infantry on the battle line.

The other is to draw a center and let the artillery attack all targets within the center of the circle for indiscriminate fire coverage.

The purpose of this attack is to destroy the bunkers and building facilities in the target area as much as possible, which is also a more traditional fire support method.

The industrial command ship adopts the second fire coverage attack mode that does not consider infantry cooperation and simply completes the regional destruction work.

The requirements for fire coverage on the artillery group are not as high as the slow-moving barrage - after all, they don't have to worry about sending shells to their teammates' heads because of mistakes. The shooting angle of the slow-moving barrage is slightly deviated and it is possible to hit the shells on the heads of their own infantry.

After all, the barrage is a rather risky way of attack, and accidental injuries are inevitable.

Firepower coverage sacrifices a certain degree of accuracy and orderliness in exchange for faster reloading and suppression capabilities.

The shipborne artillery of the No. 113 Industrial Command Ship only took 7 minutes to launch a full base of 60 152 shells.

The additional charge mounted on the tail of the shell sent the shell 25 kilometers away, landing in a circle with a radius of 300 meters centered on the banquet hall. The room area began to flash a large number of burning red flames that the Vatican soldiers had never seen before.

Along with the burning red flames, there were also mud springs rising from the ground, rising into the air one by one in the flames, mixing the deep red color with the black and brown of the soil. When the mud springs erupted, they also brought the objects on the ground into the sky.

Whether it was a high-end residence built of marble, a house built of solid wood, or the Crusaders who should have been complete and the weapons in their hands.

Stones were destroyed, wood was set on fire, and human bodies were torn apart.

The complete and orderly camp was turned into hell by the flames in an instant. The high-explosive incendiary bombs replaced the high-explosive warheads with shrapnel and shock wave killing performance with fuel charges that were enough to create large-scale fires.

One 152 shell was not enough to shake the earth, but sixty 152 shells were enough to make everyone in the bombing area feel the ground shaking.

Like a heavy hammer swinging down on the ground, smashing all enemies in the way.

Enemy attack? But where is the enemy?

They can't see the enemy, and all they see is death falling from the sky.

It's just that the war that was delayed for three months has begun to arrive.

"God... Have you abandoned us..."

A soldier held the silver-white cross in his hand, looking at the mud pillar rising not far away and the raging fire that spread with it. Another Vatican soldier rolled on the ground because he was not in a hurry to dodge and was stained with flames.

Within ten meters of the landing point of the shell, even the Knights Templar in full armor were killed on the spot by the shock wave and high temperature. Only a few lucky ones were able to buffer part of the shock wave and high temperature with the ruins, and finally survived near the landing point of the shell.

This is a real bombardment, not the emergency stuff built with small-caliber artillery and mortars in the past. The projection distance and power cannot be generalized with the past.

The industrial command ship hovering at an altitude of 2,000 meters is indiscriminately projecting firepower towards the Vatican camp 25 kilometers away. At the same time, the Peregrine interceptor mounted on the side of the command ship began to leave the ship.

If the industrial command ship can drive to their heads, the major does not mind using the 500kg bombs that the industrial command ship usually uses when mining to send everything on the ground to the sky.

It’s just that the risk of dropping bombs close to high altitudes is too great, and he doesn’t want to gamble whether these people have the ability to fly.

Even if all these Vatican people are killed, their value is not as good as a fully equipped industrial command ship.

The officers in the observation window of the bridge were in a hurry. They needed to record the killing effect of the 152 heavy artillery when it was first put into the battlefield, and then organize it into an action report and submit it to the headquarters.

This is an excellent opportunity to achieve actual killing effect.

For this reason, the major even delayed the time of the second round of shelling for five minutes.

In preparation for the second round of shelling, they had completely calibrated their artillery after a round of shooting, and shrunk the shelling circle to an area with a radius of 100 meters in the banquet hall.

They also have a second job.

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The 30-meter-long Peregrine Falcon interceptor descended rapidly, and the energy storage array was desperately inputting energy into the floating stone engine. The high-speed floating stone engine flashed a very weak lavender light in the night sky.

Twelve Peregrine Falcon interceptors are approaching the square where the cloud whale is stored. Their goal is to recover the body of the cloud whale.

The bombardment suppression of the industrial command ship effectively attracted the attention of the high-level combat power of the Holy See, and they had enough time to mount the cloud whale on the Peregrine Falcon and bring it back to the command ship.

The territory didn't want to send the giant beast's body to the Church for research, not to mention that the giant beast also had the territory's technology to grow ghost vines... Even if it wasn't all of it, it wouldn't be a good thing to leak out the ghost vines.

"This is the first time I've seen this thing attack..."

The soldiers had to perform the recovery mission, but at this moment, all their attention was still on the city built by the Church in the distance, watching the flames engulf all the buildings.

Everyone's attention was drawn to the barrage of bullets falling from the sky, and no one noticed the Peregrine interceptor ship that was slowing down.

This place is not far from the banquet hall, but not close either. The distance of 500 meters at least prevents the Peregrine interceptor ship from being hit by its own artillery.

Aircraft will not pass in front of the trajectory of artillery, and some unlucky people may be hit from the air by their own artillery.

The interceptors dispersed, controlled the edge of the square, and surrounded the body of Yunjing.

"It's time to work, don't look at it." The officer scolded: "Open the bottom cargo hold, prepare to drop the live iron net, and pull up the defense line! We have to go down and tie the rope later!"