A man of more than 50, dressed in camouflage, with a lot of blood stains on his body, black paint on his face and impatience on his face, was impatient to ask for an artillery observer as soon as he stood in front of the crowd. He spoke quickly as if he were shooting a machine gun.
An artillery observer is actually an artillery scout, or an artillery forward observation post. Whatever you call it, it has the same meaning,
If the artillery commander is the brain of the cannon, the artillery observer is the eye of the cannon.
For those advanced cannons, mainly those with C4I system, the role of artillery is to move your fingers and press the button. What to calculate the trajectory and observe the damage effect is left to the computer. However, for cannons without computers, or artillery before the computer age, all the work must be completed by manpower and human brain.
There is no doubt that an advanced artillery system is very, very expensive. For countries such as Russia and Ukraine, honest, practical and cheap artillery is good, especially for Ukrainian militias, don't think about using computers to replace human brains.
Therefore, after leaving the observer, the cannon can't be accurate.
It is precisely because the status of artillery observers or artillery Scouts is so important that if you can't kill the enemy's artillery, you must kill the enemy's artillery observers. Therefore, in all previous battles with large-scale use of artillery, artillery observers are the targets that the enemy must focus on.
The characteristics of artillery observers determine that they must be deployed forward and close to the enemy as much as possible. They must be able to observe the enemy's movements at all times. No matter where artillery support is needed, they can accurately guide the shells to the right place as soon as possible. In this way, the situation of artillery observers will be very dangerous and the mortality rate will be very high.
Now Gao Yang knows that the original artillery observers of the reinforcements have died. No wonder the artillery fire that was very accurate at the beginning has been inaccurate now, because without the artillery observers, the artillery that is more than ten kilometers behind can only shoot according to the fixed coordinates. He doesn't know what happened in front and the enemy's position has changed. It's strange that he can hit accurately.
Suddenly realized at the same time, Gao Yang's eyes naturally looked at leibrov.
For an old-fashioned artillery team, the role of artillery observers is extremely important. Moreover, artillery observers are technical arms. Although they do the work of scouts, infantry scouts can not replace artillery observers. Now, Gao Yang can take advantage of leibrov.
After seeing leibrov, Gao Yang didn't hesitate. He immediately turned back and shouted to the man, "I'm the commander here. I have an artillery observer."
"Only one?"
The man immediately came forward and said loudly to him, "our artillery, deployed about nine kilometers away from here, has suffered from the enemy's air attack, but the degree of damage is not high, and has maintained most of the combat effectiveness. Now we only lack artillery observers. If there is only one person for so many artillery, it is still too few."
Gao Yang immediately grabbed the walkie talkie and said loudly, "I'm the headquarters. Whoever has artillery observers in his team will report immediately. Repeat, whoever has artillery observers in his team will report immediately. If not, go find it quickly and report immediately after finding it. Over!"
Although it was a reinforcement gun, it hit the same enemy and saved his own life. With artillery observers, who would hide it at this time.
After giving an order on the walkie talkie, Gao Yang immediately shouted to the man, "I'm looking for you. Tell me, how many cannons do you have? Where are they deployed?"
The man stepped forward and pointed to the map on the table, but he was stunned and said loudly: "You can use this map? We have four 2s3 152 self-propelled howitzers and one 2S1 122 self-propelled howitzer. The traveling mechanism is broken and can't move, but it's no problem to fire. There are six 122mm d30 towed guns and four bm21 rockets with 40 tubes, but the Rockets haven't been delivered after they are fired."
Gao Yang was surprised and pleased and said loudly, "it's great to have so many guns. I'll try my best to help you find the observer. In addition, I want to contact your commander and how to contact him."
"Our commander? I am. If you have something to discuss with me, little brother, the artillery observer must find it quickly. We must be fast, or our artillery will become a decoration, which will be unfavorable to the war situation."
Gao Yang nodded and said loudly, "I understand. Now please tell me your next plan. Can your infantry enter the urban area? Our troops are seriously insufficient."
"No, the infantry can't enter the city. We have very few infantry, but there are too few. There are less than 200 people. The rest are all artillery. If we transfer the infantry, the artillery will lose cover. Unless we beat back the enemy or change the front line, we can't enter the city. The range of artillery has determined our range of activities."
Gao Yang thought about what to do next, but at this time he noticed that groliov was staring at the reinforcement leader. After the reinforcement leader and Gao Yang suspended the dialogue, he said at his throat, "do you have water? Give me a drink. My throat is smoking."
When the reinforcement leader asked for water, he also noticed groliov standing next to him. Then he was stunned, stared at groliov with a puzzled expression and looked up and down at groliov.
Looking at each other in pairs, groliov seemed to have determined the identity of the leader. With a surprised look on his face, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the reinforcement leader and said loudly, "cheraev! It's you, IVA of Xinyun, ha ha, it's me!"
Chilayev clapped his hand and shouted, "Yuri! You are Yuri!"
Groliov said excitedly, "I just looked like you and sounded like you, but I haven't seen you for a long time, but I can't recognize it. Besides, you're a helicopter pilot. How did you come here?"
Chilayev said with emotion on his face, "I didn't notice you just now, but I recognized you at a glance. You don't seem to have changed much."
They hugged each other excitedly and patted each other. Then they separated and put each other's arms on each other. Chilayev said excitedly: "Why are you here, too coincident, too good! Ha ha, where's motorov? Since you're here, is he there?"
Groliov said excitedly, "no, motorov is engaged in smuggling now. We haven't seen each other for many years, but we still have contact. How did you come here? You retired?"
"Retired long ago! This time not only I came, but also my son. I don't know if you remember. As I told you, my eldest son rasolov commanded the artillery. When my son told me that he decided to come to Ukraine, I immediately decided to come with him, ha ha!"