Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 607 607 Enemy’s Advance

"This is a new weapon used by Mirage soldiers! Hand grenades! It's not our model, and the appearance is very different." Looking at the somewhat familiar equipment, a major among the Tang Army commanders who gathered around the captured weapon boxes grabbed Said a grenade from the Mirage Army.

 The grenade he was holding in his hand was a grenade produced by the Mirage Kingdom. It looked very similar to the first-generation wooden handle grenade used by the Tang Army.

The Tang Army no longer uses that thing, and then handed over the inventory to the troops in Beiling at a low price, half sold and half given away.

Later, Beiling troops also used them on the battlefield, especially in the battle to destroy the Kingdom of Gemelin, which consumed a large number of grenades in stock.

Since that battle, the inventory statistics of wooden handle grenades have been in chaos, because it is impossible to reconcile the battlefield consumption and the number of losses.

I heard that when Beiling began to move, most of the grenades in stock were used for training, but there was still a batch missing.

 In short, there are actually many opportunities for the first-generation grenades produced by Datang Military Industry to be taken away and studied.

Of course, it is actually just research and imitation, and there is no gap in similar grenade technology. The technology of this thing is very simple, and it is easy to produce by workshop technology.

It is not difficult for Cyric, who can produce artillery fuses and even has a large number of factories, to produce grenades, so the Tang army was not panicked after seeing the opponent's grenades.

“It also refers to our wooden handle design.” Another old officer sneered, picked up a grenade that could be used as a hammer, and read the white text on it.

“Cyric, Type 1...won’t they give it a new name?” Another officer complained disdainfully.

"Be careful with this thing when you attack in the future." Looking at the enemy's new weapons in front of him, the major who just spoke looked around a circle of officers, and then reminded: "To summarize, report to the superiors! All soldiers must be alerted Attention! Send the remaining samples to the division headquarters."

In trench warfare, if the opponent unexpectedly starts to use grenades on a large scale, the unprepared Tang Army may suffer a heavy loss.

 In fact, in this battle, Tang Army soldiers were killed by enemy grenades. When attacking a trench, the enemy threw seven or eight such grenades. Caught off guard, the Tang army lost four soldiers and wounded more than a dozen.

"It's really irritating." The old officer carrying a grenade looked at the text on the grenade again, and muttered angrily: "If there is a chance, I will make those **** Cyric **** pay with their blood! "

"That's right! But now we want those goblins who massacred humans to taste our anger!" The officer beside him patted his shoulder and comforted him: "Don't worry! We will pay every debt. They remember!"

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Anpu, in the Tang Army's high command, a group of technical officers were gathering together to talk about the newly discovered new enemy weapons.

These weapons are actually very interesting: the Mirage army used a brand new 50mm caliber artillery on the front line. Its gun mount was improved to allow the barrel to be quickly raised and rotated laterally.

 Simply put, this is a very primitive small-caliber anti-aircraft gun, and its aiming speed has been greatly improved compared to the old 76 mm caliber balloon gun.

However, this artillery is not equipped with an anti-air sight, nor is it equipped with corresponding altitude measurement equipment. At the same time, no artillery shells equipped with fixed-height artillery fuses have been found near the position of this artillery.

In other words, Mirage is trying to create anti-aircraft guns with better performance, but they are still exploring. Their weapons are more like semi-finished products. Although they still have no practical significance, they are more advanced than the weapons they used in the past.

 Similarly, the Maxim heavy machine gun equipped by the Mirage Army has also undergone lightweight improvements. It has eliminated the bulky gun frame and somewhat reduced some weight.

Unfortunately, because there is no way to give up water cooling, the total combat weight of this weapon is still very high, and the Mirage soldiers are too short, which still cannot improve the battlefield mobility of the machine gun team.

 But this improvement does meet the basic requirements of the Mirage troops: their soldiers are short in stature, and lightweight weapons do make sense for them.

 In addition, the news that the Tang Army discovered enemy grenades on the front line has also spread back here, which caused uneasiness among many officers.

“If grenades start to be equipped on a large scale, what about landmines?” Beside the conference table, an officer wearing glasses asked.

“We must be careful about cheap defensive weapons like landmines. If the enemy uses similar weapons in the battle, our casualties may increase again.” Another technical officer said with a heavy face.

The enemy's technology improvement is uncontrollable, and as time goes by, the enemy's technology will definitely become higher and higher.

“Should we change the tactical manual so that soldiers are more aware of landmines and grenades and take better precautions?” The officer holding his chin gave his suggestion.

"Okay, let's reprint a batch of tactical manuals and list some of the enemy's new weapons in as much detail as possible." Chief of General Staff Loew, who presided over the meeting, finally gave the order. As the chief of staff of the army, he must think about the problem from an overall perspective: similar weapons will definitely appear on the battlefield more and more, and the Tang army must be prepared at that time.

"Here! Here's another interesting thing!" As he spoke, a semicircular iron lump was placed on the conference table.

It was a hemispherical iron sheet, hollow inside, with a sunken hole on it, which looked like a bullet hole.

"Steel helmet?" Tang Jun has been fully equipped with M35 steel helmets for a long time, so of course he is no stranger to this stuff. When he saw it, an officer directly called out its name.

"Well, it's a thing from the Mirage." The officer who took out the thing nodded and said, "It was found on the battlefield. The holes in it were made by our snipers, and the person who died was an officer from the Mirage."

Comparing to the exquisite Tang Army M35 helmet, the Mirage helmet on the table in front of me is actually quite rough. Its structure is simpler and it doesn’t even have protruding edges.

It is in the shape of half a sphere, with the edges polished. This thing is not yet commonly equipped with Mirage soldiers, and is only distributed in small quantities by frontline officers.

“In this way, the soldiers can no longer simply look at the helmets to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy.” The officer on the side said with regret on his face.

This is a very important method of identifying friend and foe. Before this, taking a look at whether you are wearing a helmet is an obvious way to judge whether you are an enemy or a friend.

“Give these **** a few more years, are they going to build airplanes?” Recently, they often find some novel gadgets on the battlefield, so a Tang general couldn’t help but complain.

“There is no way, we can’t stop others from copying our homework.” Loew also felt helpless.

Things like steel helmets can be copied just by looking at them casually. As for performance, no one cares.

It doesn't matter if the design is unscientific. Anyway, it is an improvement to be able to issue steel helmets to soldiers. Don't you see, the Qi State has perished, and the soldiers of the Qi State have only worn soft hats?

This means that the appearance cannot be used to build an airplane. If it could be built, Cyric would probably have a serious air force by now...

"It seems that it is time for us to let them know that our weapons cannot be copied casually." A general looked at Loew aside and said, "Your Majesty is not ordering us to speed up the attack. Invest in some new equipment?”

"Okay!" Loew approved the other party's suggestion: "Let the rocket launcher unit have a try, and let our enemies know how powerful we are!"

Far away in the south of Beiyuan City, the Tang Army had just built a simple station, and the train slowly stopped on the platform.

 On the flatbed train, new weapons covered with canvas, which could only be seen as trucks, were transported to the front line.

Until the trains were unloaded, the carriages of these trucks were partially covered with canvas. The soldiers around them could only vaguely see that behind the trucks was a row of shelves pointing diagonally toward the sky, which looked quite strange.

 Soon, these trucks arrived at the area that had been designated long ago. The surrounding security forces were driven further away, and no one knew what weapons these trucks were.

This weapon is still under the highest confidentiality, and the soldiers on the front line do not know that there is a rocket launcher battalion behind them ready for battle.

When the loaders belonging to the rocket launcher unit hung the rockets on the launch track, the world's first rocket launcher was ready for combat.

 The observing infantry generals and test technicians, and even Tiger participated in this actual rocket launcher shooting feast.

With the order, everyone immediately felt the shock brought by this weapon. Smoke filled the entire artillery position, and the blown dust swallowed up all the launch vehicles in an instant.

Watching the smoke pillars pointing diagonally at the sky and gradually receding into the distance, this spectacular sight made everyone watching widen their eyes.

In just a few dozen seconds, a battalion of 24 rocket launchers fired a total of 384 rockets at the predetermined enemy position.

This is almost equal to the ammunition pouring capacity of all the artillery on the southern front of the Tang Army. The instantaneous pouring ability of the rocket launcher is so powerful that it can be seen.

Tiger looked at all this and didn’t know what to say. Six years ago, he was still ecstatic about getting a revolver. But now, he no longer knows what adjectives to use to describe the weapon in front of him.

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